{"id":5366,"date":"2026-07-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:32:19","slug":"july-24-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5366","title":{"rendered":"July 24, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On July 24, 1990, Thomas Manix received U.S. Patent No. 4,943,252 on an Avalanche Flotation Ball:<\/p>\n\n\n

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It not clear what kind of Freedom to Practice studies that Q Branch conducts, but just nine years later they provisioned Jame Bond 9 years later in The World is Not Enough, James an (Pierce Brosnan) and Elektra (Sophie Marceau) used a very similar device provided by Q to survive an avalanche:<\/p>\n\n\n

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On July 24, 1990, Thomas Manix received U.S. Patent No. 4,943,252 on an Avalanche Flotation Ball: It not clear what kind of Freedom to Practice studies that Q Branch conducts, but just nine years later they provisioned Jame Bond 9 … Continue reading →<\/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-5366","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\/5366","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=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}