{"id":5407,"date":"2026-08-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:44:56","slug":"august-6-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5407","title":{"rendered":"August 6, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 6, 1968, Fred C. Sproul received U.S. Patent No. D211861 on a housing tract:<\/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\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"809\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 519w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-192x300.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was an interesting use of design patents, and may have been intended to protect parts of the Mesa Margarita neighborhood of Oceanside, California, which Sproul helped develop:<\/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\/08\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-3.png 319w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-3-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sproul also received another design patent for a housing tract (U.S. Patent No. D220903):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4.png 564w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-4-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and a utility patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,427,645) , which no doubt for double patenting reasons, disclaims the term beyond the expiration of his earlier &#8216;861 patent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png 520w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5-189x300.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 6, 1968, Fred C. Sproul received U.S. Patent No. D211861 on a housing tract: This was an interesting use of design patents, and may have been intended to protect parts of the Mesa Margarita neighborhood of Oceanside, California, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5407\">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-5407","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\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}