{"id":984,"date":"2016-07-04T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2016-07-04T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T02:09:10","slug":"plausibility-vs-enablement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Plausibility vs. Enablement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Patent No. 8,330,305 covers protecting devices from impact damage. The patent claims\u00a0detecting that the portable device will impact a surface, and, if the risk of damage to the portable device from the impact exceeds a damage threshold; altering the orientation of the portable device so that the\u00a0air bag will impact the surface first, and deploying the airbag before the device impacts the surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/8330305.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-985 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/8330305.jpg\" alt=\"8330305\" width=\"623\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/8330305.jpg 623w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/8330305-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The embodiment shown appears to be a cell phone, and it is hard to imagine that a reasonably sized cell phone could contain both an airbag and a system that could reorient the cell phone in a ~42 inch drop from the hands of a user. \u00a0In 7200 words and a dozen figures, the disclosure seems to barely meet the plausibility threshold, let alone enablement required under 35 USC 112(a).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Patent No. 8,330,305 covers protecting devices from impact damage. The patent claims\u00a0detecting that the portable device will impact a surface, and, if the risk of damage to the portable device from the impact exceeds a damage threshold; altering the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=984\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enablement"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}