{"id":3687,"date":"2024-04-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:46:47","slug":"april-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"April Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April is known for spring rains, and fortunately for us, inventors have our backs with umbrellas of all kinds. An all-time favorite is the combination umbrella\/lightning rod in U.S. Patent No. 4,447,847, which only issued after the inventor, Drulard, successfully appealed the Examiner rejection that the invention lacked utility:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Inventors have provided protection for infants, U.S. Patent No. 849055 provides an umbrella mount for a stroller:<\/p>\n\n\n

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and the aged, U.S. Patent No. 10285893 provides an umbrella mount for a walker:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Even pets are covred (literally). U.S. Patent No. 6871616 provides a pet umbrella:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Inventors have protected us during all of our daily activities. U.S. Patent No. 8556141 provides a backpack with an umbrella:<\/p>\n\n\n

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U.S. Patent No. 639634 provides a bike with an umbrella:<\/p>\n\n\n

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U.S. Patent No. 5609321 provides a golf cart with an umbrella:<\/p>\n\n\n

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U.S. Patent No. 10952487 provides an umbrella for hands-free drinking:<\/p>\n\n\n

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U.S. Patent No. 7967274 provides an umbrella for getting in and out of a car:<\/p>\n\n\n

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U,S, Patent No. D664761 provides an umbrella for watching sports:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Inventors have provided us umbrellas that protect our phones. U.S. Patent No. D822370 protects a cell phone mount for an umbrella::<\/p>\n\n\n

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So, when April showers may come your way, remember that they bring the patents that issue in May (and the rest of the year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April is known for spring rains, and fortunately for us, inventors have our backs with umbrellas of all kinds. An all-time favorite is the combination umbrella\/lightning rod in U.S. Patent No. 4,447,847, which only issued after the inventor, Drulard, successfully … Continue reading →<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}