Who Deserves The Credit ?

Meanwhile ,
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is developing a multilegged robot that walks like a scorpion ,
and engineers in Finland have allready developed a six-legged tractor that can climb over obstacles the way a giant insect would.

Other researchers have designed fabric with small flaps that imitate the way pinecones open and close.
A car manufacturer is developing a vehicle the imitates the surprising low-drag design of the boxfish.
And other researchers are probing the shock-absorbing properties of abalone shells, with the intention of makeing lighter , stronger body armor.

So many good idea have come from nature that researchers have
established a database that allready catalogs thousands of different biological systems.

Scientists can search their database to find "natural solutions to their design problems, " says The Economist,
The natural systems held in this database are Known as..
" biological patents."
Normally, a patient holder is the person or company that legally registers a new idea or machine.