1/3 #OnThisDay in 1935, Charles Darrow received U.S. #Patent No. 2,026,082 for a “Board game apparatus”, the game the world knows as Monopoly. #OTD #PatentHistory #Monopoly

#OnThisDay in 1931, Emanuel Goldberg received U.S. #Patent No. 1,838,389 for a “Statistical Machine”, an electromechanical, photoelectric microfilm selector that could automatically locate and retrieve indexed documents. A key ancestor of modern search. #OTD #PatentHistory

Chewing Gum: On this day in history, 156 years ago, December 28, 1869, dentist William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was granted a patent for his “Improved Chewing-Gum,” which utilized a method of dissolving rubber in naphtha and alcohol before adding other ingredients. (1/5)

#OnThisDay in 1886, Josephine Cochrane received U.S. #Patent No. 355,139 for a “Dish-washing machine”. Frustrated that her delicate dishes kept getting damaged, she engineered a hand-powered washer that actually worked, the first successful dishwasher. Innovation starts at home. #PatentHistory

#OnThisDay in 1897, Hosea W. Libbey received U.S. #Patent No. 596,273 for an “Electric Bicycle”. Ahead of its time, it showed how electric power could make everyday travel easier and cleaner, a step toward modern e-mobility. #PatentHistory #BicycleHistory #ElectricBicycle #eBike

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

Today and tomorrow in design patents: #DesignPatents

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

VEF #Minox is the nicest #Christmas gift that will bring joy to its user forever, because VEF MINOX cameras can be carried anywhere and everywhere without any hassle, just like a box of matches or a pocket knife. VEF MINOX is the smallest and most convenient camera in the world. Price: 248 Lats.

1/3 Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Wishing you a season filled with warm lights, cherished ornaments, and a Christmas tree at the heart of it all. 🎄✨ #Christmas #ChristmasTree

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1919, Alice H. Parker, an African American woman inventor from Morristown, New Jersey, received U.S. Patent No. 1,325,905 for a “Heating Furnace”. #OTD #PatentHistory #BlackInventors #WomenInventors #BlackHistory

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1891, Seth Wheeler received U.S. #Patent No. 465,588 for the “Toilet paper roll”. #PatentHistory #USPTO

The term "klaxon" apparently was coined from the Ancient Greek word "klazō" which means "I shriek." It looks like their trademark registration in the US died back in the 1990s. The word "klaxon" in English is now just used to refer to a loud warning horn. tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=7...

My husband and I noticed a few interesting IP things while researching the meaning of the word "klaxon" the other day! Klaxon was originally a trademark owned by The Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Company for patented signal horns; its use dates back to 1908. patents.google.com/patent/US923...

#OnThisDay in 1839, Frederick Barnard of Philadelphia received U.S. #Patent No. 1,439 for a “mode of constructing portable houses for emigrants”. An early concept of a prefabricated house, also called a “prefab”. #OTD #PatentHistory

#OnThisDay in 1938, U.S. #Patent No. 2,141,059 was granted to Vladimir Zworykin for his “Television System”, the #Iconoscope. It was a photoelectric pickup tube that converted images into electrical signals and helped make fully electronic TV practical. #OTD #PatentHistory #TelevisionHistory

#OnThisDay in 1871, Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, received U.S. #Patent No. 121,992 for an “Improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for Garments”. Even literary legends file patent applications. #OTD #PatentHistory #USPTO

#OnThisDay in 1901, a young, struggling physicist named Albert Einstein formally applied for a job as a #PatentExaminer at the Swiss Patent Office. #OTD #PatentHistory

#OnThisDay in 1979, U.S. #DesignPatent D253,711 was issued to G. Christiansen and J. Knudsen for the iconic “Toy figure”, better known as the #LEGO minifigure! This little yellow guy revolutionized play and has starred in billions of adventures since. #OTD #PatentHistory #Minifigure #ToyHistory

#OnThisDay in 1903, the Wright brothers lifted off at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk and proved that controlled, powered, sustained flight was possible. Twelve seconds and roughly 120 feet later, the trajectory of modern technology had changed. #OTD #AviationHistory #WrightBrothers

#OnThisDay Dec 16 1884: Minneapolis machinist William H. Fruen obtains the 1st US Patent for a device which discharges liquid uniformly when a coin is inserted. In 1894 he founds Glenwood-Inglewood Springs, a major Midwest water supplier until the 1990s. Today @utepilsbrewing.com stands on the site.

Innovation is a top EU priority. A compulsory patent licensing scheme could facilitate rapid use of patents during crises while preserving innovation incentives through patent protection. Vote: 16 Dec Read ↓ #EPlenary @juri.europarl.europa.eu @woelken.eu

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1844, Richard Richards of Lynn, Massachusetts received U.S. #Patent No. 3,857 for a leather sole-cutting machine. #OTD #PatentHistory #ShoeHistory

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1930, U.S. #DesignPatent No. D82,802 issued to Walter E. Disney for the ornamental design of a “Toy or Similar Article” featuring an early Mickey Mouse figure. #OTD #PatentHistory #WalterDisney #Disney #MickeyMouse

16th of December 1775. Englishman Richard Arkwright receives a patent for his carding machine for use in cotton mills

Next up in the #HowOldAmI series: Pillsbury’s® brand flour has been around for an unbelievably long time. There is no date in this image that tells you when it was registered, but can you guess when it was first used in the U.S.? Hint: the date is *before* 1900 #trademarks #pillsbury

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1836, the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., burned in what became known as the Great Patent Fire. The blaze destroyed all 9,957 patent records and roughly 7,000 patent models, wiping out much of the early U.S. patent archive. #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #USPTO

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1903, U.S. Patent No. 747,322 was granted to Pattillo Higgins for a “Spudding and pipe-driving machine”. #OTD #PatentHistory #OilHistory #Spindletop

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1903, U.S. #Patent No. 746,971 was granted to Italian immigrant Italo Marchiony (aka Italo Marchioni) for a “Mold” designed to make ice cream cones.

#OTD in 1937 🧵👇 New York World’s Fair of 1939, Theme Center. Patent designs, W. K. Harrison et al., 14 December 1937. ‘A sphere and an obelisk of fantastic proportions will compose the dominant architectural theme of the New York World’s Fair of 1939. The sphere will house ➡️

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1948, U.S. #Patent No. 2,455,992 was granted to Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann for the “Cathode-ray tube amusement device”, often considered the first video game. #OTD #PatentHistory #VideoGameHistory #GamingHistory

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1892, Nikola Tesla received U.S. #Patent No. 487,796 for a “System of electrical transmission of power”. #OTD #PatentHistory #Tesla #ElectricHistory

This Day in #History 1882 US Patent Office grants patent #268503 for the exclusive right to make, use, or sell "animal-shaped buildings" to James V. Lafferty of Philadelphia. Shown here: the Elephantine Colossus in Coney Island, NY

“These vents for traps played a large, albeit, as experience has shown, pointless role in all countries for many years and are now considered completely obsolete (except in America and England.” -Otto Spiegelberg, 1916 in Gesundheit-Ingenieur

#OnThisDay in 1899, U.S. #Patent No. 638,920 was granted to George Franklin Grant for his “golf-tee”, a wooden spike with a rubber cup that helped shape the modern tee shot and how every round of golf starts. #OTD #PatentHistory #BlackInventors #BlackHistory #GolfHistory

#OnThisDay in 1964, German #Patent No. 1 294 248 was granted to Gebhard Weigele and Johann Sulzberger for an “Automatic washing system for passing vehicles”, an early fully automatic car-wash tunnel. A classic case of everyday hassle turning into patented innovation. #OTD #PatentHistory #DPMA

A system for suspending your laptop overhead. Patented yesterday. US 12490828

#OnThisDay in 1845, British #Patent No. 10,990 was granted to Robert William Thomson for “An improvement in carriage wheels, which is also applicable to other rolling bodies”, the first pneumatic tyre. His “aerial wheel” cushioned carriages on air, decades before Dunlop. #OTD #PatentHistory

#OnThisDay in 1998, German #Patent DE 35 04 734 C2 was granted to Jens Frahm and his team at @mpi-nat.bsky.social. It marked a key step toward real-time #MRI, turning slow static scans into live moving images inside the human body. A landmark in medical imaging. #OTD #PatentHistory

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1884, U.S. #Patent No. 308,990 was granted to Levant M. Richardson for roller skates with ball bearings. 🛼✨ #OTD #PatentHistory #RollerSkates

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1891, U.S. #Patent No. 464,801 was granted to Samuel O’Reilly for the first electric tattoo machine, a breakthrough that transformed tattooing from a manual craft into a modern art form. #OTD #PatentHistory #Tattoo #TattooMachine

#OnThisDay in 1909, U.S. #Patent No. 942,699 was granted to Leo Baekeland, a Belgian-American chemist, for Bakelite, the world’s first fully synthetic plastic. A breakthrough that launched the modern plastics industry and reshaped 20th-century manufacturing. #OTD #PatentHistory #Bakelite

1/3 #OnThisDay in 1880, U.S. #Patent No. 235,199 was granted to Alexander Graham Bell for the Photophone, a device that transmitted sound using a beam of light. #OTD #PatentHistory #TelecomHistory

Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride: On this day in history, 116 years ago, December 7, 1909, Belgian-born chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland was granted a United States Patent for Bakelite (polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride), the world’s first synthetic plastic. (1/5)

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1971, U.S #Patent No. 3,626,466 was granted to Latvian-American inventor Alexander Liepa (Aleksandrs Liepa), a researcher at @pg.com, for a “Molding device for preparing chip-type products”. #OTD #PatentHistory #Pringles

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1905, German #Patent No. 179200 was granted to Gerard Philips, a co-founder of Philips, for a “Process for increasing the useful life of electric incandescent lamps”. This was the first patent ever obtained by Philips. #OTD #PatentHistory #Philips

1/4 #OnThisDay in 1994, #Ukraine 🇺🇦 signed the Budapest Memorandum with Russia, the UK and the US. Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in return for promises to respect its sovereignty and borders and to provide support if its security was threatened.

1/2 #OnThisDay in 1987, German #Patent DE 29 25 656 was granted to Otmar Pilsak for the first car navigation system. #OTD #PatentHistory

1/3 #OnThisDay in 1969, African American inventors Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert L. Brown, received U.S. #Patent No. 3,482,037 for a “Home security system utilizing television surveillance”. #OTD #PatentHistory #BlackInventors #BlackHistory

#OnThisDay in 1907, Nikola Tesla received a #patent for his “Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy”. A visionary step toward wireless power transmission, long before our modern world caught up. Tesla didn’t just imagine the future, he patented it. #OTD #Tesla #PatentHistory