{"id":5463,"date":"2026-08-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:08:30","slug":"august-19-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5463","title":{"rendered":"August 19, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 19, 1969, Francis B. Cutright received U.S. Patent No. D215,030 on a Guitar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-35.png 549w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-35-191x300.png 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bud, as he was known, actually had at least once of these guitars constructed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">v<\/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-36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36.png 366w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-36-141x300.png 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He must have liked butterflies, because in addition to his guitar design, one of his albums was named The Mad Butterfly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Butterfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Butterfly.jpg 705w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Butterfly-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Butterfly-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 19, 1969, Francis B. Cutright received U.S. Patent No. D215,030 on a Guitar: Bud, as he was known, actually had at least once of these guitars constructed: v He must have liked butterflies, because in addition to his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5463\">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-5463","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\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}