On February 26, 1947, W.T. Graham was granted a patent for a Vibrating plow, which is sold worlwide to this day. Graham and Hoeme (partners)…
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This Day in Patent History - On February 25, 1902 John Holland was granted a patent for a submarine
On February 25, 1902 John Holland (an Irish engineer) was granted a patent for a submarine. Holland developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned…
This Day in Patent History - On Februay 24, 1931, Parker Pen patented the iconic desk sets for supporting fountain pens
On Februay 24, 1931, Parker Pen patented desk sets for supporting fountain pens. Pen receptable used to be a standard feature of all work desks.…
This Day in Patent History - On February 23, 1897, Nikola Tesla received a patent for electrical condensers and coils
On February 23, 1897, Nikola Tesla received a patent for electrical condensers and coils. The features of the patent: 1. Improvements of condensers, transformers, self-induction…
Google filed patent for generating a 3D audio CAPTCHA
Google filed patent for generating a 3D audio CAPTCHA (“completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart”). It is difficult to break…
eBay has patented kiosk for receiving and delivering packages
eBay has been working to establish an offline platform to support its online ecommerce platform. Continuing in that direction, this week eBay filed a patent…
Google is reinventing the keyboard
Google is reinventing the keyboard. Google’s patent discloses a new keyboard format that is specially suited for two-thumb typing which is becoming a popular text-entry…
Google filed a patent for a sealed solid state battery to be deployed in their smart contact lens
Google filed a patent for a sealed solid state battery to be deployed in their smart contact lens. The electrodes and electrolyte are solid state…
Disney's 3D Printing Technology
Disney patents system to get a high quality, 3D printed copies of a scanned object. User scan an object with a 3D scanner, which generates…
Facebook patented imposter account detection system
Facebook improves its imposter account detection system. To create connections with users, a requesting user communicates a connection request to a target user. As disclosed…