Long Form Description: For this week’s segment of Invent America, Michael King and co-host Rita Crompton welcome Jacob Morrise to discuss “Prototypes: What is the First Step?” Proprietor of the MicroFold Stroller, Morrise is a mechanical product designer having dozens of products brought to market. For more information, please visit http://www.morriseproducts.com. Jacob Morrise has been a mechanical product designer since 2006. As a mechanical designer, dozens of the products he has worked on have gone to market, including doing most of the mechanical design for the first Ring doorbell. In 2018 he started his own design firm so he could get his own products out into the world. As the father of 10 children, he is consistently pushing product designs to help individuals and families. He is currently working on a small folding stroller that is less than 1/3 the size of the smallest folding stroller currently on the market.
Bio: Jacob has been a mechanical product designer since 2006. As a mechanical designer, dozens of the products he has worked on have gone to market, including doing most of the mechanical design for the first Ring doorbell. In 2018 he started his own design firm so he could get his own products out into the world. As the father of 10 children, he is consistently pushing product designs to help individuals and families. He is currently working on a small folding stroller that is less than 1/3 the size of the smallest folding stroller currently on the market.
Rita Crompton, known as “The Inventor Lady,” is an industry expert with decades of experience helping innovators develop their ideas into sellable products. Her knowledge and expertise covers all aspects of the invention process – patents and trademarks, engineering and manufacturing, crowdfunding, marketing and selling, and licensing. Ms. Crompton has helped inventors bring to market everything from full size functioning tractors to baby products – there’s a reason she’s called “The Inventor Lady.”
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