{"id":5480,"date":"2026-08-23T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:21:03","slug":"august-22-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"August 22, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 22, 1978, James L. Damascus received U.S. Patent No. D249085 on a Toy Pot:<\/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-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-45.png 544w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-45-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel Industries, Inc., assignee of James&#8217; patent, manufactured the product in the mid &#8217;70&#8217;s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-46.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel also owned U.S. Reg. No. 1090398 on BUSY POT, which expired October. 23, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 22, 1978, James L. Damascus received U.S. Patent No. D249085 on a Toy Pot: Gabriel Industries, Inc., assignee of James&#8217; patent, manufactured the product in the mid &#8217;70&#8217;s: Gabriel also owned U.S. Reg. No. 1090398 on BUSY POT, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5480\">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-5480","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\/5480","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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}