{"id":4883,"date":"2025-08-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:48:43","slug":"august-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"August 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 1, 1972, James B. Swett received U.S. Patent No. 3,680,828 on a Mold for Congealable Comestibles:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png 544w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>James Swett was a prolific inventor, designing a large number of consumer products, including this mold:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4886\" style=\"width:378px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png 628w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-478x300.png 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> But the more remarkable thing about this patent is the patent lawyers&#8217; turn of phrase &#8220;congealable comestible.&#8221;  Who doesn&#8217;t remember the TV commercials exhorting &#8220;There&#8217;s always room for congealable comestibles&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 1, 1972, James B. Swett received U.S. Patent No. 3,680,828 on a Mold for Congealable Comestibles: James Swett was a prolific inventor, designing a large number of consumer products, including this mold: But the more remarkable thing about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4883\">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-4883","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\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}