Better than a neck pillow

An adjustable platform that sits on an aeroplane seat’s tray table and extends in a Z shape to an ideal pillow height. Also incorporates a charging port and speakers.

(5) ROBERT: Tiffany is my daughter. She is a senior at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California. Steven Jobs went to high school in Cupertino. TIFFANY: That’s awesome.

(6) TIFFANY: Six or seven years ago, my family and I would often travel back and forth from Beijing to here in California. Those trips were really long. So one trip,

when backpack I was on around the food 12, tray, my dad and helped then I put me a prop small my pillow on top. That turned out to be one of the best plane naps I’ve taken. (7) ROBERT: Over the past four or five years we’ve been working on different patents. We internally call this one Jetnap. (8) ROBERT: We wanted to use a commercial-able name, like Jetnap, but for the patent examiner you have to make it more descriptive of exactly what it does. (9) ROBERT: We lived in Beijing for seven or eight years. There was continuous back-and-forth. The patents Tiffany and I came up with were really functional devices like, for example, Sinkunclogger, because all the apartments we rented were clogged. TIFFANY: Gross. ROBERT: It was the experience of living overseas that led Tiffany and me to come up with some of these ideas.

(10) TIFFANY: Last year I took a business class at my school, and my business teacher was really interested in my patents. We took a field trip down to San Jose’s US Patent and Trademark Office, and I helped give a presentation to all the other classmates who were interested in inventing something. (11) TIFFANY: A lot of my classmates, juniors and seniors, they were like, ‘I’ve had a couple ideas, too. How do I initiate this?’ And it was interesting telling them about my process. (12) ROBERT: We started crafting the Jetnap on paper,

and then went to a sheet-metal company. It took about eight months from drafting the document to having finished prototypes. After that, we contacted our patent attorney. (13) TIFFANY: Building different prototypes for these

patents with my dad – that was the fun part. (14) ROBERT: If you look at patent applications,

most of them are done by males. With Tiffany, I felt that I should keep encouraging her to have a mind of discovery, a mind to look into science and technology. I hope future generations encourage more girls and women to invent.