The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock
This prospectus will introduce The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™, a newly patented technology available for licensing. As educational products continue to evolve, so do the tools available to help young children develop foundational academic skills. Early childhood is a critical period for developing skills such as letter recognition, vocabulary, reading readiness, counting, and understanding time. In 2024, approximately 58.8% of U.S. children ages 3 to 4 were enrolled in school, while 53.5% of children ages 5 to 6 were enrolled in nursery school or kindergarten, demonstrating the significant number of young children actively participating in early educational environments. Research has found that educational technology can support learning among young children when it is intentionally designed around educational objectives. A meta-analysis of educational apps, for example, found a positive overall effect on achievement among preschool through third-grade children. Despite the availability of books, flashcards, digital applications, and other educational toys, parents and educators can benefit from engaging tools that combine multiple foundational skills into a single, interactive learning experience.
The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ is an educational device designed to provide children with an engaging, hands-on method for learning the alphabet and telling time in a single compact unit. The device combines an interactive touchscreen alphabet display with a clock display on the same child-facing surface, allowing children to select letters and receive corresponding words and images while also practicing time using a movable analog clock and simultaneous digital time display. Educators can operate controls positioned on the rear of the device without turning the child-facing display away from the child, making the device well suited for guided instruction in classroom or home environments. The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ is a great addition to aid in a child’s development by providing a single, interactive learning experience that can help them solidify key knowledge and skills as they grow.
Special Features
Provides an interactive teaching aid that combines touchscreen alphabet instruction with hands-on analog and digital time instruction in a single educational device.
Features an interactive touchscreen alphabet display with alphabetic characters arranged around a circular control region
Allows children to select individual letters to engage with corresponding educational content
Displays a corresponding image and word for the selected letter to reinforce letter recognition, vocabulary, and visual learning
Supports both uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters to assist with foundational letter recognition
Integrates an alphabet learning display and clock display on the same child-facing surface for convenient multi-skill learning
Features an analog clock with movable hour, minute, and second hands to provide hands-on practice with telling time§
Provides simultaneous analog and digital time displays to help children associate traditional clock positions and modern clock numerals with numerical time
Includes controls for manually adjusting the clock hands, allowing educators or children to demonstrate different times
Incorporates educator-facing controls on the rear of the device, allowing adults to operate or adjust functions without turning the display away from the child
Contains an integrated speaker to provide an interactive audiovisual learning experience
PRODUCT FEATURES & BENEFITS
PRODUCT DETAILS
The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ is an educational teaching device designed to help children learn the alphabet and develop foundational time-telling skills through an interactive, hands-on learning experience. This product incorporates an interactive touchscreen alphabetic display that allows a child to select individual letters and receive visual feedback corresponding to the selected character. By connecting each alphabetic character with an associated word and image, this teaching aid creates an engaging way for children to practice letter recognition while building vocabulary and reinforcing the relationship between letters, words, and visual representations. This product also incorporates a clock display, allowing alphabet and time instruction to be provided through a single educational tool.
The alphabet portion of The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ uses a circular arrangement of alphabetic characters around a central visual area, providing an intuitive interface for young children to interact with. When a child selects a particular letter, the device can display a corresponding image and word associated with that character, providing immediate visual reinforcement of the selected letter. The alphabet display may accommodate uppercase and lowercase characters and may be adapted for different languages or alphabetic systems. This interactive approach provides a tactile learning experience in which children actively participate in selecting and exploring letters rather than simply viewing static instructional material.
The integrated clock provides a second hands-on learning experience within the same device. The clock can display time in both analog and digital formats, helping children understand the relationship between the position of clock hands and the corresponding numerical representation of time. The analog clock includes movable hour, minute, and second hands that can be manually adjusted to demonstrate different times. This allows an educator or child to physically manipulate the clock hands and observe how changes to the analog display correspond with the digital time display. By combining hands-on manipulation with simultaneous visual feedback, the teaching aid can be used to demonstrate and practice a variety of time-telling concepts.
The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ is also designed to support guided instruction by providing controls on the rear, educator-facing portion of the device. These controls allow an educator to operate or adjust the teaching functions without having to turn the child-facing surface away from the student. An integrated speaker can further enhance the learning experience by providing audio in conjunction with the visual and tactile elements of the device. The teaching aid includes an internal power source and battery compartment for convenient operation and incorporates a pivoting, foldable stand that allows the unit to be positioned upright for use in a classroom, learning environment, or home setting.
In addition to its educational functionality, The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ incorporates a compact housing and component arrangement intended to bring the various electronic, display, clock, control, and power components together within a single device. The design can utilize separately manufactured and assembled components, providing a modular approach to production. This configuration can simplify assembly and support scalable manufacturing while allowing the educational functions to be integrated into a relatively compact unit. The combination of interactive alphabet instruction, hands-on analog and digital clock learning, educator-oriented controls, audiovisual capability, and a practical foldable design makes The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ a versatile educational tool for teaching foundational skills through active participation.
Materials needed to produce The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™:
ABS plastic enclosure (various colors like blue and pink)
Touchscreen
Microcontroller/small computer
Memory/software containing the alphabet and images
Digital clock functionality
Analog clock hands
Clock mechanical hand-control mechanis
Four control buttons
Speaker
Battery compartment and batteries
PCB/wiring/connectors
Rear folding stand and hinge
The The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™ can elevate your product portfolio to new heights. We are seeking a long-term arrangement with a company to manufacture, market, and/or distribute this new technology based on the acquisition of the intellectual property rights . Contact us below
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Patent Information
12,542,070
Inventor Highlight
Mr. John Gianangeli is a U.S. veteran, artist, designer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Raised in a small town in Ohio, he graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he developed his skills in logo and blueprint design as well as oil painting, pen and ink, watercolor, and airbrush art. He spent 45 years working in the home improvement industry, bringing together creativity, design expertise, and practical problem-solving. Today, John is the owner of Giovanni's Bakery and Grill in his hometown of Bellaire, Ohio, while continuing his work as an innovator and inventor for products such as The Alphabet Wheel with Learning Clock™.
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