{"id":2691,"date":"2020-02-29T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2020-02-23T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T21:23:57","slug":"leap-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Leap Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though 2020 is a leap year, there will be no leap patents this year because patents only issue on Tuesdays, and February 29 is a Saturday.  The last leap patent issued February 29, 2000, and our next opportunity for a leap patent will not occur until February 29, 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/6029260.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/6029260.jpg 399w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/6029260-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption>U.S. Patent No. 6,029,269, the last leap patent to issue, covered a Ballistic-Resistant Helmet and method for Producing the Same.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Leap patents also issued in 1972, 1944, 1916, and 1876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though 2020 is a leap year, there will be no leap patents this year because patents only issue on Tuesdays, and February 29 is a Saturday. The last leap patent issued February 29, 2000, and our next opportunity for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2691\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}