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Gift Map

I am in the process of designing and patenting the 'Gift Map'. This is an invention I came up with for creatively presenting gift cards to someone. A couple of years ago, having absolutely no idea what to give my wife on her birthday, I decided to buy gift cards. I bought five of them, but did not want to just tuck them in her card. After some serious brain-storming, I drew a map of the town and attached the gift cards to it where those stores were located. She loved it.

Officially, for the purpose of a patent, a gift map is a computer generated, not to scale, map of a genuine geographical location, such as a county, city, or town. This roughly 12X28 map, folded accordion style, contains multiple gift cards with monetary value for various businesses. The gift cards are positioned on the map with a temporary adhesive, relevant to their actual locations in that specific geographical region. In less technical terms- a gift map is just a regular folded map with five gift cards attached to it- designed in a unique and fun-looking style.........

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