# Marvin C. Stone — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Marvin C. Stone has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the Modern Paper Drinking Straw Was Invented](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/375962/drinking-straw-stone) — granted 1888
  A 19th-century patent for a paper tube coated in wax, designed to replace natural rye grass straws for drinking beverages.

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