{"id":3803,"date":"2024-06-20T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:28:50","slug":"june-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"June 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The movie <em>Jaws<\/em> premiered forty-nine years ago today.   U.S. Patent No. 4602384, which issued July 29, 1986, on an Aquatic Attack Protection Suit and Material Therefor may have been inspired by the 1975 movie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-690x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-690x1024.png 690w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-768x1140.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-1035x1536.png 1035w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-17-1380x2048.png 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years earlier in 1982 Jeremiah Sullivan received U.S. Patent No. 4356569 on an Armored Skin Diving Suit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-697x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-768x1128.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-1045x1536.png 1045w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-19-1394x2048.png 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it really <strong><em>skin<\/em><\/strong> diving if you are wearing armor?  Inventors Nelson and Rosetta Fox took the concept further in their 1989 U.S. Patent No. 4833729 on a Shark Protector Suit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"905\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-20.png 613w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-20-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, shark protection technology predates Jaws.  In 1966 Donal Prasser received U.S. Patent No. 3284806 on a Protective Garment that essentially employed chainmail to ward off sharks and other predators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-18.png 612w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-18-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The publicity for Jaws warned &#8220;You&#8217;ll Never Go In The Water Again.&#8221; But once again, inventors have our backs.  They have protected us from sharks (but what&#8217;s going to protect us from shark suits? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie Jaws premiered forty-nine years ago today. U.S. Patent No. 4602384, which issued July 29, 1986, on an Aquatic Attack Protection Suit and Material Therefor may have been inspired by the 1975 movie: A few years earlier in 1982 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3803\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","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\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}