41.   Now Quaker Oats Co. has won a patent for an animated breakfast cereal.

42.   Now a San Diego pharmaceutical company has won a patent for what it calls the first new diabetes drug since the discovery of insulin.

43.   Now Justine Reynolds of Chester, N.J., has won a patent for a method of applying cosmetics.

44.   One such inventor is Alexander Pollock, a Detroit inventor who won a patent for a musical rocking chair.

45.   Peter Bohacek and Dieter Schulz won the patent on behalf of the Mitel Knowledge Corp. in Kanata, Calif.

46.   Recently, a Pennsylvania husband-and-wife inventing team won a patent for a condom that changes color when it is ruptured in any way.

47.   Scott Hannah, of Bellevue, Wash., and David Yanda, of Manitowoc, Wis., won a patent for making fat-free frozen french fries.

48.   Scott E. Hartman, a product developer for the L.A. Dreyfus Co. in South Plainfield, N.J., has won a patent for an environmentally friendly chewing gum.

49.   Scientists at Oncormed pulled ahead of the other contenders by winning a patent last summer.

50.   Several other inventors have won patents using hydrogen to power small engines.