{"id":1879,"date":"2017-12-28T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:03:14","slug":"aciniform-the-right-word-for-the-right-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"ACINIFORM &#8211;  The Right Word for the Right Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always rewarding to stumble across the perfect word to describe or claim an invention, and today&#8217;s word from <a href=\"https:\/\/wordsmith.org\/awad\/\">a word a day<\/a>\u00a0has that potential: aciniform, which means shaped like a cluster of grapes.\u00a0 This word has been used in 48 patents, and has been used in the <em>claims<\/em> of four patents.<\/p>\n<p>In claiming a separator for a lithium ion battery, U.S. Patent No. 8,192,873 claimed the ceramic particles forming the separator has having an aciniform shape:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/8192873_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1880\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/8192873_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In describing carbon black, U.S. Patent 9,580,606 (Col. 5, lines 19-23) explained it was an aciniform, prudently adding a parenthetical definition given the vagaries of construing patents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/9580606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1881\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/9580606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always rewarding to stumble across the perfect word to describe or claim an invention, and today&#8217;s word from a word a day\u00a0has that potential: aciniform, which means shaped like a cluster of grapes.\u00a0 This word has been used in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}