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NEW YORK (AP) - Owen Baser is at an age when most people are enjoying retirement.
Unlike most, at 75, Baser is just getting started in his career as an inventor. He's selling what he says is the first new type of door handle in more than 200 years — a design for those with physical difficulties.
That follows the trend among inventors in the past two years — a focus on safety-oriented, medical, computer technology and environmentally-friendly innovations, according to Jeffrey Dollinger, chief development officer of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Recent hall of fame inductees include Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Vint Cerf, one of the key architects of the Internet.
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