{"id":5351,"date":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:03:15","slug":"july-21-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"July 21, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 21, 2026, Chad P. Budreau received U.S. Patent No. 5,131,832 on a Heated Ice Cream Scoop Apparatus:<\/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-46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-46.png 550w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-46-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The scoop employs a disposable butane lighter as the heat source to heat the scoop to facilitate dispensing the ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad was not the only inventor to repurpose a butane cigarette lighter.  Jerald and Joseph Bovino used a butane lighter as the heat source for their Fly Tackle Steamer (U.S. Patent No. 4,401,102):<\/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\/2026\/07\/image-47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5353\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6404647620397103;width:520px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-47.png 565w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-47-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>James Rose repurposed a lighter to provide the heat for his hot air tool for Heat-Shrink Tubuing (U.S. Patent No. 5,476,089:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"812\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-48.png 535w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-48-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 21, 2026, Chad P. Budreau received U.S. Patent No. 5,131,832 on a Heated Ice Cream Scoop Apparatus: The scoop employs a disposable butane lighter as the heat source to heat the scoop to facilitate dispensing the ice cream. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5351\">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-5351","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\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}