The answer to last weeks was Marlon Brando. The “hint” provided was the Mr. Brando refused his Oscar for best actor, to allow you to make the field of potential inventors smaller.

This week, the subject of the Patent Puzzler is basketball in honor of the NCAA college tournament.

The sport of basketball is widely watched around the world. The inventor was James Naismith. Obviously, the “puzzler” could have revolved around this fact, however, we are going to concentrate on another aspect of the game. Naismith invented the game in 1891. The question for this week is when was the patent for the basketball (as we know it) issued?

1892 1895 1900 1921 or 1934

Bonus points for what company was assigned the patent…..

Remember……the puzzles are meant to be fun and informative….not easy. We will give the answer in the next blog post on Monday. The answer will surprise you….even if consider yourself an expert on puzzles, patents or general knowledge.