This week, the US patent office issued 5,409 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. 1. eBay makes laundry easier Patent number: US 20160180685 Doing laundry is often voted to be the most frustrating chore and rightly so. Most clothing items include labels with printed information describing a manner in which the item should be laundered. For example, these labels include information such as “wash with like colors,” “do not iron,” or “dry-clean only.” Failure to follow the…
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