ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,070, issued on Feb. 3.

"Teaching aid" was invented by John Michael Gianangeli (Saint Clairsville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teaching aid for those learning to tell time and learn the alphabet of a language. The teaching aid includes an interactive touchscreen alphabetic display. The present invention may assist in teaching the alphabet through providing a tactile-interactive medium, the touchscreen alphabetic display, for a user to select specific alphabetic characters and be provided visual feedback in the form of an image associate or corresponding with each selected alphabetic character. The teaching aid also provides a...