Inventor: Deloris Gray Wood
Patent number: 5727565
Filing date: May 26, 1995
Issue date: Mar 17, 1998

Between 1995 and 2004 Deloris Gray Wood was awarded at least eight patents for her kissing shield and a game which used the shield. The shield consists of a heart shaped flexible membrane and a frame or holder and is for preventing the exchange of microorganisms between two persons engaged in the act of kissing. I really want to give Ms. Wood the benefit of the doubt and say her heart is in the right place, but this shield completely sterilizes kissing and destroys any passion and spontaneity. The description presents the shield as not only a method to stop the spreading of AIDS and herpes by practicing ‘safe kissing’ but also for casual kissing ‘it can be used especially by a politician who kisses babies’…