{"id":5215,"date":"2026-06-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:19:30","slug":"june-6-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5215","title":{"rendered":"June 6. 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 6, 1995, Peter and John Kockelman et al., received U.S. Patent No. 5,421,783 on a Human Slingshot Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png 601w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While a human slingshot is not for everyone, it is considerably safer than the human cross bow from U.S. Patent No. 562448:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-1024x609.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-500x297.png 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose that that is the march of progress (or perhaps OSHA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, 1995, Peter and John Kockelman et al., received U.S. Patent No. 5,421,783 on a Human Slingshot Machine. While a human slingshot is not for everyone, it is considerably safer than the human cross bow from U.S. Patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5215\">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-5215","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\/5215","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=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}