Although the world has not beaten a path to their door, over 4400 patents have been issued by the USPTO for what mundane product?
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door of innovation and is frequently taken literally, with more than 4,400 patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for new mousetraps, with thousands more unsuccessful applicants, making them the "most frequently invented device in U.S. history". The popular modern snap-trap version of the mousetrap was invented in Lititz, Pennsylvania, by John Mast in 1899, several years after the Emerson misquote had become popular. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a phrase attributed to Ralph
The 4400 has become pregnant between her disappearance and return. The first-season finale, "White Light", reveals that the 4400 were abducted not by aliens, but by humans from the Earth's future, that Kyle Baldwin was to be their "messenger", and that they were returned to avert a catastrophe. By the second season, it is revealed that all 4400 have a fictional neurotransmitter, promicin, in their brains, which gives them their powers. The government, afraid of what this large group would do with such power, had secretly been dosing all of the 4400 with a promicin inhibitor, which had worked on most, but