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Cartoonish patent drawing showing a "creep" avatar attempting to touch a female avatar and being sent on a "bad trip" as punishment.
The worst online safety invention I've seen:
"Protect" women by turning their avatars' underwear into hyperlinks that send online creeps to a "punishment site."
US Patent 12564791
Today in design patents:
D1117623 issued for a system of palletized gas cylinders.
Risky Jenga.
#DesignPatents
Close-up of burned vegetation, still smoking.
View of the Chicago skyline beyond a burned field.
A controlled burn at Montrose point today
A hand holding a long rusted metal spike like object. It says “Ideal” at the top and has several grooves or hooks along its body.
A drawn patent document showing how the tent pin would function. It is black and white
A hand holding a long rusted metal spike like object. It says “PAT 1724688” at the top and has several grooves or hooks along its body.
Weird find in a flower bed around a historic building on site: a Tent Pin designed by Cecil M Wickstrum. The patent is from 1928-29.
Tent poles should be like this now. You can adjust the placement of a tent wall with hooks on the pin. Pretty nifty.
Also it’s heavy as hell and built like a hammer.
hiding behind a judicial ruling from decades ago made by a rural judge. we are the only state that actually has this rule it is ridiculous
it’s beyond time that cycling is not treated as second class transit
it adds fuel to the anti bike fervor and shields poor infra builders
missing you Bean
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Patent drawing of a woman wearing a garment with decorative strips of fabric, some of which are criss-crossed down her arms. It's giving Cleopatra.
"Versatile Wearable Item And Method Of Using A Wearable Item"
US Patent 12557861
Patent drawing of a stick figure wearing heels. They are looking at their phone, which is showing a video of how a stick figure is supposed to walk in heels.
An app that helps you walk in heels.
US Patent 12551139
Today was our weekly neighborhood ICE Out protest day. We are getting a lot of honks from commuters on the way home. We got a few honks from Minneapolis police. Minneapolis firefighters always honk.
This is what every patent sounds like
Patent drawing of a woman emerging from a tanning bed.
Treat COVID with a tanning bed?
US Patent 12551717, issued this week for "Therapy, Treatment, And Process For Photodynamic Inactivation Of COVID-19"
Patent drawing of a headless mannequin torso holding a baby.
A "child care mannequin," patented this week.
US 12551030
US Design Patent No. D11,023 for a "Design for a Statue".
1/3 On this day in 1879, sculptor Auguste Bartholdi received U.S. Design Patent No. D11,023 for a “Design for a Statue”, the design we now know as the Statue of Liberty.
#OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #DesignPatent #StatueOfLiberty
That's messed up
Orphée (1950)
An advertising type electronic sign reading "Emergency Room Minimal Wait"
Cool yeah maybe I'll pop in
Patent drawing of a guitar case with a silhouette of a dog inside.
Pet carrier disguised as a guitar case, patented yesterday.
US 12543699
Patent drawing of a person sitting up in bed, covered by a sheet, and looking out through a single hole, resembling a one-eyed ghost
There's a utility patent, too!
Today in design patents:
D1111564 issued for a blanket with a viewing lens.
WTH.
#DesignPatents
Super? You decide.
Not being depressed is exhausting.
If they ever want to do a sing-along for Bleak Week, this is the way to go.
It's not the biggest or most important part of all this but: The Trump Organization continues to use the #ScheduleA litigation model to extract settlements & default judgments from defendants who are allegedly foreign. E.g., The Trump Organization v. Schedule A, No. 8:25-cv-03053 (M.D. Fla.).
Oh, wow it is. (The patent requires a few extra features like a "strike plate" so it might still be valid.)
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Patent drawing of a man tossing a bean bag onto a panel, which then explodes with a flame effect. Per the patent, it "complies with most all fire safety regulations."
Pyrotechnic cornhole.
US Patent 12533570
Patent drawings of a lanyard and ID tag worn in twelve different positions.
Advanced lanyard technology. Patented this week.
US 12532956
Screenshot showing that CIA files include a 1989 paper about "Consciousness Related Anomalies in Random Physical Systems"
There's lots of crazy ideas in old Foundations of Physics papers and I'd love to know why the CIA was collecting them
Unsettling patent drawing of a man staring out of the page and into your soul, as if in preparation for a feast
US Patent No. 12527495
US Patent No. 223,898 for an "Electric Lamp".
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman.
1/3 On this day in 1880, Thomas Edison received US Patent No. 223,898 for an “Electric Lamp”.
This was not “the first light bulb”. Howeever, it was the set of design choices that made incandescent lighting practical at scale.
#OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Edison