{"id":5345,"date":"2026-07-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:39:34","slug":"july-20-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"July 20, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 20, 1999, Dennis Olsen received U.S. Patent No. 5,924,732, on an In-Line Skate Sail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-42.png 597w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-42-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Others with a similar disregard for personal safety invented personal sail-powered systems, for example, Budge&#8217;s U.S. Patent No. 3,982,766 on a Wind-Propelled Skateboard:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43.png 581w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-43-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>and Lornenz, U.S. Patent No. 4,130,292, Apparatus for Propelling a Skate Board with Wind Currents:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45.png 559w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-45-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But Olsen&#8217;s idea was to keep the sail above the user&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20, 1999, Dennis Olsen received U.S. Patent No. 5,924,732, on an In-Line Skate Sail: Others with a similar disregard for personal safety invented personal sail-powered systems, for example, Budge&#8217;s U.S. Patent No. 3,982,766 on a Wind-Propelled Skateboard: and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5345\">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-5345","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\/5345","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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}