{"id":15634,"date":"2013-09-24T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=15634"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:21:56","slug":"those-inventors-patented-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Inventors Patented What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently talked about two very influential inventors in the world of patents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/the-man-with-the-most-patents-dr-nakamats\/\">Dr. NakaMats<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/adding-a-positive-charge-to-the-world-of-patents\/\">Esther Takeuchi<\/a>.\u00a0 They both have many notable patents under their belts for inventions such as the floppy disk and a life-saving implantable defibrillator.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we are going to take a look at a different side of patents; and, sometimes, the grass isn&#8217;t always greener on the other side.\u00a0 These wacky patents show just how creative and crazy some inventors can be!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Comb Over Patent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comb over Patent- <\/strong>Contrary to popular belief, Donald Trump did not invent the comb over. In fact, in 1977, inventors Donald J. Smith and Frank J. Smith received a U.S. patent for a \u201cMethod for Concealing Partial Baldness.\u201d The process is simply explained as first dividing remaining hair into three sections and then carefully combing it across your head. In 2004, the father-son duo won an Ig Nobel Prize in engineering for their 1977 patent. This patent was meant to allow Frank to become the father of the now infamous hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15635 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Pat on the Back Patent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pat-on-the-Back-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15636 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"High Five Patent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/High-Five-Patent.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulatory Patents- <\/strong>There are times in life where we think we deserve a pat on the back or perhaps a high five, but there is no one there to recognize our accomplishments. Two inventors found this to be quite a problem and obtained a patent for their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph R. Piro patented the \u201cPat on the Back Apparatus\u201d on September 2, 1986. This patent was for a self-congratulatory apparatus that would simulate a pat on the back. The proposed invention contained a simulated human hand that was carried on a pivoting arm that would be suspended from a shoulder supported member. The hand would be manually swung in and out of contact with the user\u2019s back, in order to give an amusing or well-deserved pat-on-the-back.<\/p>\n<p>How about a high five? Have you ever been watching a sporting event on TV by yourself and after a great play wished that you could give someone a high five to celebrate? Well, inventor Albert Cohen filed an invention patent for an \u201cApparatus for Simulating a \u2018High Five.\u2019\u201d The description of the patent notes that a \u201chigh five\u201d requires the mutual hand-slapping of two people, so when a person is watching a televised sporting event solo, this invention will allow him\/her to express excitement and perform a \u201chigh five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15637 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Soup Bowl Attraction Patent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Soup-Bowl-Attraction-Patent-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soup Bowl Attraction- <\/strong>As we head into the cold months of fall and winter, there is nothing quite as nice as a hot bowl of soup on a dark, cold day.\u00a0 Two inventors took this warm bowl of soup to a whole new level when William George Adamson and Donald Lewis Updyke Jr. filed U.S. patent, US6168531 B1, for a \u201cSoup Bowl Attraction.\u201d\u00a0 This patent was filed for an entertainment attraction that consists of a bowl-shaped member having a top, bounded by a top rim, a bottom that permits light transmission and sidewalls that are connected to the top rim with a fog generator, producing a layer of fog at the top of the bowl-shaped member.<\/p>\n<p>The 1999 patent was designed to create excitement for children as they get closer and closer to what seems to be a full pot of boiling water. Although the interactive part of the attraction is vague, we can almost be certain that this type of amusement park attraction won\u2019t be appearing at Disney World anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>There are a wide range of patents, from congratulatory patents to a patent for the classic hairstyle of the comb over to an interactive soup bowl attraction.\u00a0 Clearly, patents aren\u2019t just limited to practical inventions. Whether patents are filed in order to better society or are just plain wacky, we can be sure that there will never be a lapse of new innovations in the world of patents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently talked about two very influential inventors in the world of patents, Dr. NakaMats and Esther Takeuchi.\u00a0 They both have many notable patents under their belts for inventions such as the floppy disk and a life-saving implantable defibrillator. Now, we are going to take a look at a different side of patents; and, sometimes, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,793,15,713],"tags":[1405,625,8,94,74,417,1406],"class_list":["post-15634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-2","category-innovative-inventions","category-inventions","category-patents","tag-congratulatory-patents","tag-disney-world","tag-invention","tag-inventions","tag-inventor","tag-patent","tag-u-s-patent"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Those Inventors Patented What? - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. The inventions have sold in Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, Amazon and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Those Inventors Patented What? - Davison\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. The inventions have sold in Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, Amazon and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Davison\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavisonInvent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-24T14:03:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-10T19:21:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"nikki\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Davison\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Davison\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"nikki\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Those Inventors Patented What? - Davison","description":"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. The inventions have sold in Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, Amazon and more.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Those Inventors Patented What? - Davison","og_description":"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. The inventions have sold in Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, Amazon and more.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/","og_site_name":"Davison","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavisonInvent","article_published_time":"2013-09-24T14:03:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-01-10T19:21:56+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"nikki","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Davison","twitter_site":"@Davison","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"nikki","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/"},"author":{"name":"nikki","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#\/schema\/person\/591ebf065dc0d45e5d3c353e7108abe8"},"headline":"Those Inventors Patented What?","datePublished":"2013-09-24T14:03:47+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-10T19:21:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/"},"wordCount":630,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png","keywords":["congratulatory patents","disney world","invention","Inventions","inventor","patent","U.S. patent"],"articleSection":["Innovation","Innovative Inventions","Inventions","Patents"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/","url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/","name":"Those Inventors Patented What? - Davison","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png","datePublished":"2013-09-24T14:03:47+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-10T19:21:56+00:00","description":"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. The inventions have sold in Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, Amazon and more.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comb-Over-Patent-204x300.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/those-inventors-patented-what\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Those Inventors Patented What?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/","name":"Davison","description":"Davison... The family name &quot;Idea People&quot; have trusted for over 25 years.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#organization","name":"Davison Inventions","url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/davison-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/davison-logo.png","width":400,"height":508,"caption":"Davison Inventions"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavisonInvent","https:\/\/x.com\/Davison","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/davison","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/davison_invent","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@davison"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/#\/schema\/person\/591ebf065dc0d45e5d3c353e7108abe8","name":"nikki","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0e5ff11a6ec60030949df61b3484252a4440b21787fcfc1ecca9513bb34e494?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0e5ff11a6ec60030949df61b3484252a4440b21787fcfc1ecca9513bb34e494?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0e5ff11a6ec60030949df61b3484252a4440b21787fcfc1ecca9513bb34e494?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"nikki"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}