July 18, 2026, Patent of the Day

On July 18, 1967, U.S. Patent No. D208,096, issued to Robert K. Ostrander, Jr., on a Toy Vehicle Station, and assigned to Fisher-Price Toys, Inc.:

Robert was born July 4, 1932, and he died December 30, 2017. Mr. Ostrander earned a Bachelor of Industrial Science Degree from Pratt Institute, and served in the U.S. Army for three years. In 1963, he was hired by Herm Fisher as a designer, he worked on the Little People, the Toy Vehicle Station above, the Jumbo Jet, and the Farm Set, among many other products.

He was the hired as Vice President of Research and Design at Playskool, where her worked until 975, when we he happily returned to Fisher-Price, as Director of Research and Design until 1983.