{"id":5490,"date":"2026-08-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:22:36","slug":"august-25-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"August 25, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On August 25, 1959, U.S. Patent No. D186,010 issued to William P. O’Brien on a Lawn Sprinkler:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The patent was assigned to the W.D. Allen Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, Illinois, which manufactured this design as well as several other iconic sprinkler designs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On August 25, 1959, U.S. Patent No. D186,010 issued to William P. O’Brien on a Lawn Sprinkler: The patent was assigned to the W.D. Allen Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, Illinois, which manufactured this design as well as several other iconic … Continue reading →<\/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-5490","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\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}