Flyers/Promotional material It certainly was a giant leap, Staccatos were the worlds first and only asymmetrical drums. Putting the invention and its inventor in a unique position as the only person to have done this, not only in the U.K. but throughout the world. Being granted full world wide patents in 1978. The product received world-wide sales and has now become an icon, seen in many many music videos around the world to this day. A far more familiar site on U.K. television than the clock-work radio, yet Pat has never received acknowledgement from the British media as an inventor/designer/artist, Almost in the Divinci mould.