{"id":5180,"date":"2026-03-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:59:59","slug":"march-1-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"March 1, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 1, 1988, U.S. Patent No. 4,728,061 issue to Caldwell Johnson, Maxime Faget, and David Bergeron on a Spacecraft Operable in Two Alternative Flight Modes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-697x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-768x1128.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-1046x1536.png 1046w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-1394x2048.png 1394w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-scaled.png 1743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The patent was owned by Space Industries, Inc., which was formed by one of the co-inventors, Maxime Faget, for the purpose of building a privately owned space station called the Industrial Space Facility (ISF). Faget was a retired chief of engineering and operations at NASA.  The company lobbied the United States government to be an anchor tenant in the proposed space station, and the Reagan Administration requested funding from Congress, which was never approved.  The company merged with Calspan Corporation, which in turn merged with General Dynamics Corporation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 1, 1988, U.S. Patent No. 4,728,061 issue to Caldwell Johnson, Maxime Faget, and David Bergeron on a Spacecraft Operable in Two Alternative Flight Modes. The patent was owned by Space Industries, Inc., which was formed by one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5180\">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-5180","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\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}