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    Cybersecurity meets innovation at America’s Innovation Agency! Bring your leadership, technical expertise, and passion to the USPTO as a Supervisory IT Cybersecurity Specialist. Protect American innovation, and apply now: bit.ly/4xayvXN
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    Aug 28
    Sara Blakely used branding, along with utility and design patents, to protect her undergarment products and build recognition for her company Spanx and Sneex. Blakely’s trading card is part of our new America’s 250 Innovator Trading Card series. uspto.gov/kids/inventors…
    Image of the Freedom 250 Sara Blakely Inventor Trading Card.
    U.S. Patent 6,276,176. Aug. 21, 2001. Sheet 1 of 2. Fig. 1.  Shapewear patent model.
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  • @uspto
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    Aug 28
    Today is National Red Wine Day. Aging wine takes time and is often done in oak barrels. In 2024, Elyashiv Drori secured U.S. Patent No. 11,866,680 for a wine aging system that replaces oak barrels with steel tanks but retains the oak aging benefits.
    Image of pouring red wine, Patent model for Apparatus and Method for Aging Wine. Patent no. 11,866,680. Date of Patent: Jan. 9 2024.
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    Aug 26
    Registration is now open for the 2027 National Application Drafting Competition (NPADC) sponsored by America’s Innovation Agency. Learn more and register online on our NPADC webpage: bit.ly/4gxQlgy
    Photo of NPADC.
    Photo of NPADC Trophies and Certificates.
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    Aug 26
    Eric Fossum made cameras much smaller, cheaper, and more powerful thanks to his invention of the “camera-on-a-chip” (the CMOS active pixel sensor). Fossum’s trading card is part of our new America’s 250 Innovator Trading Card series: uspto.gov/kids/inventors…
    Image of the Freedom 250 Eric Fossum Inventor Trading Card.