{"id":32,"date":"2015-12-22T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:14:57","slug":"frustoconical-the-right-word-for-the-right-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Frustoconical &#8211; the Right Word for the Right Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another unusual pair of words that are common only in a patent attorney&#8217;s lexicon are frustoconical and frustopyramidal, meaning\u00a0 truncated cone and truncated pyramid, respectively.\u00a0 Frustoconical appears in the claims fo 8432 patents since 1976, frustopyramidal in only 80 patents since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to describe the shape of a truncated cone, frustoconical is exactly what you need to use.\u00a0 Even though the work is obscure, it is doubtful that it is any harder for a lay person to understand than &#8220;truncated cone&#8221; than frustoconical.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"frustoconical\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical-500x270.jpg 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frustoconical.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Patent No. 8,534,460, Fig. 2 showing a &#8220;tapering frustoconical sidewall 32&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another unusual pair of words that are common only in a patent attorney&#8217;s lexicon are frustoconical and frustopyramidal, meaning\u00a0 truncated cone and truncated pyramid, respectively.\u00a0 Frustoconical appears in the claims fo 8432 patents since 1976, frustopyramidal in only 80 patents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=32\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-vocabulary"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}