Device and method for teaching phonics using a touch detecting interface

This invention describes a device for teaching phonics using physical tiles. Each tile has a letter or letter combination and a surface you can touch. These tiles are placed onto an electronic board, which identifies them and sends this information to a speaker or screen to help teach sounds. The claims specify that the tiles must also have raised, feelable shapes like letters or lines.

Why it matters: Since 2018, the cost of embedded electronics and sensors for detecting physical objects has significantly decreased. This makes manufacturing the interactive interface and custom tiles more economically viable for a consumer product.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: ModerateCustom tiles, electronic interface, software logic.

3 AI reinvention directions for this patent

See all three

AI gives you a few directions you could take this. Pick one, and we check whether your version is different enough to patent, then write the filing.

Reinvent this with AI

Where this one came from

Every morning we go through millions of abandoned patents and pick out 15 worth your time. This was one of today’s.

This one

+10