Crater Carroll 😢

NASA's 2020 patent on a new method of getting to the Moon. (Designed for probes, not for crewed missions.) US 10696423

stations of the cross, Lower Wacker Drive

"Uplifted Hands Assist Device for Praying Like Moses" Patented today. US 12588778

"The applicant respectfully traverses the rejections. Minor amendments to the claims are made for purposes of clarity."

D10,077 - issued in 1877 for a design for a "milk-jug." #DesignPatents

Shorts with a "beverage pocket" and bottle opener, patented by Wilson Sporting Goods. US 12490790

Pet diaper with a "tail hole." Patented yesterday. US 12575545

The Hormuz memes remind me of how in World War I, the US Navy, working with Thomas Edison, asked inventors to come up with ideas for stopping U-Boats. Immediately, people were like "giant nets!", "electrify the sea!" and the Navy had to tell them to stop.

The nearest Irish pub. I'm good, thanks. ☘️

"Pet Sling Carrier" US Patent 12564275

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

A controlled burn at Montrose point today

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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"Versatile Wearable Item And Method Of Using A Wearable Item" US Patent 12557861

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

Treat COVID with a tanning bed? US Patent 12551717, issued this week for "Therapy, Treatment, And Process For Photodynamic Inactivation Of COVID-19"

A "child care mannequin," patented this week. US 12551030

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

Orphée (1950)

Cool yeah maybe I'll pop in

Pet carrier disguised as a guitar case, patented yesterday. US 12543699

Today in design patents: D1111564 issued for a blanket with a viewing lens. WTH. #DesignPatents

Super? You decide.

Not being depressed is exhausting.

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.).

Pyrotechnic cornhole. US Patent 12533570

Advanced lanyard technology. Patented this week. US 12532956

There's lots of crazy ideas in old Foundations of Physics papers and I'd love to know why the CIA was collecting them

US Patent No. 12527495

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

Watched Gimme Shelter (1970) today and it was unsettling to hear people say basically 'the Hells Angels were just trying to keep order'

That’s Minneapolis hip-hop artist, queer icon, and all around wonderful human being Nur-D. And he ended up at the hospital after this assault.

During a commercial, I pressed the usual button to pause the TV, but instead it added Tampax to my shopping cart. Yay technology.

A glass tube that you break open to get emergency cash. Patented this week by, apparently, the former chancellor of UW-Madison. US 12527383

Everyone welcome Mazeppa, MN

I used to do more posts about sinister new technologies buried in patent filings, but now companies are like "we're excited to announce our sinister new technology."

A motorized hand that oozes lotion from its pores, patented today. US 12520926

Today in design patents: D479105 issued in 2003 for an ice removal tool. #DesignPatents

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1928, Nikola Tesla received U.S. #Patent 1,655,114 for an “Apparatus for Aerial Transportation”. A “helicopter-plane” concept for vertical takeoff, then forward flight. #OTD #PatentHistory #Tesla #AviationHistory

D375,915 - issued in 1996 for a design for a "lump of coal Christmas stocking." #DesignPatents

Elf on a Shelf, but with shoes. US Patent 11986748

Use Christmas tree ornaments as targets for an electronic shooting game. US Patent 11918133

The outtakes from Emmet Otter go hard