Some people see life in terms of a photograph or a song or a short story; Lemelson sees it in terms of a patent.

有人将生活看成一幅照片、一首歌或者一部短篇小说。在莱梅尔逊眼里，生活就是一项专利接着另一项专利。

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Last year, thanks to deals with Sony, Sanyo, Siemens, and others, Lemelson reportedly earned two hundred million dollars.

去年，由于与索尼、三洋、西门子以及其他公司签署协议，莱梅尔逊据说获利2亿美元。

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Lemelson holds patents on machine-vision systems, an industrial robot, a fax machine, a copy machine, a tape-recorder drive, and a camcorder.

莱默逊有机器视觉系统、一个工业机器人、一台传真机、一台复印机、一台磁带记录器驱动器以及一台便携式摄像机的专利。

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Lemelson died in 1997 at the age of 74, but the foundation that he set up promotes problem-solving through invention and innovation.

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Julia Novy-Hildesley, executive director of the Lemelson Foundation, says honorees have made scientific breakthroughs.

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The Lemelson Foundation has established a center to study invention and innovation at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and conducts national programs and competitions for college-age inventors.

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Lemelson did obtain more than 600 patents, but his most important innovations came in the courtroom.

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Jenner decided to challenge the Lemelson patents in court with a pair of successful legal strategies.

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Lemelson is said to rank third among U.S. inventors behind Edison and Polaroid film inventor Edwin H.

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