{"id":5371,"date":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:39:50","slug":"july-23-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"July 23, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 23, 1996, John J, Norton, received U.S. Patent No. D372,056 on a Toy Castle:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5372\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7051958172493159;width:608px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-55.png 608w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-55-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This patent was assigned to The Little Tikes Company, and was a poplar toy:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57-1024x582.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57-500x284.png 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-57.png 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 23, 1996, John J, Norton, received U.S. Patent No. D372,056 on a Toy Castle: This patent was assigned to The Little Tikes Company, and was a poplar toy:<\/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-5371","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\/5371","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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}