{"id":5454,"date":"2026-08-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:41:37","slug":"august-14-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5454","title":{"rendered":"August 14, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 14, 1951, Clarence L. Fender received U.S. Patent No. D164227 on a Guitar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-687x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-687x1024.png 687w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-768x1145.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-1030x1536.png 1030w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-1374x2048.png 1374w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-31-scaled.png 1717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Fender went on to get U.S. Patent No. D186,826 on an Electric Guitar in 1959, and U.S. Patent No. D187,001 on a Bass Guitar in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32.png 545w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clarence Leonidas Fender was born on August 10, 1909, was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.  Fender designed the company&#8217;s iconic early instruments: the Fender Telecaster and the Fender Stratocaster, among the most iconic electric guitars; and the Fender Precision Bass.  He also designed the Fender Bassman amplifier.  Ironically, Fender was not a guitarist himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 14, 1951, Clarence L. Fender received U.S. Patent No. D164227 on a Guitar: Fender went on to get U.S. Patent No. D186,826 on an Electric Guitar in 1959, and U.S. Patent No. D187,001 on a Bass Guitar in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5454\">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-5454","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\/5454","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=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}