{"id":5560,"date":"2026-09-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:15:00","slug":"september-30-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5560","title":{"rendered":"September 30, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 30, 1958, U.S. Patent No. D183613 issued to Kenneth E. Joy, on an inflatable building:<\/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\/09\/image-35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-35.png 526w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-35-192x300-1.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He improved the design and received a second patent (U.S. Patent No. D187690) less than two years later: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-36.png 528w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-36-215x300-1.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the late 1950&#8217;s to the late 1970&#8217;s, the world of Architecture was fascinated by the idea of inflatable buildings, for radomes to protect radar installations, pool enclosures, lunar habitats, green houses, and as Mr. Joy was proposing, exhibition halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-37.png 660w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-37-283x300-1.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, 1958, U.S. Patent No. D183613 issued to Kenneth E. Joy, on an inflatable building: He improved the design and received a second patent (U.S. Patent No. D187690) less than two years later: From the late 1950&#8217;s to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5560\">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-5560","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\/5560","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=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}