Snow joke

Worrying news that the flow of innovation might be slowing down: last week Ignacio Marc Asperas of Melville, New York was given a patent for the perfect snowman by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The details are contained in the 25 pages of Apparatus for Facilitating the Construction of a Snow Man/Woman, which specifies the sort of gloves and hat he should use, as well as the size of the big balls of snow that make the body. If you want to avoid paying royalties this winter, it is patent 8,011,991 B2.