{"id":612921,"date":"2009-12-22T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:14:39","slug":"va-tech-to-commercialize-student%e2%80%99s-patented-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612921","title":{"rendered":"Va Tech to commercialize student\u2019s patented toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another innovation with a holiday spin. A palm-sized modular toy that was created by a fourth-year industrial design student in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech has been awarded a design patent and is available for licensing through Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP). Created by Kelly Harrigan of Manassas, VA, the toy took the top prize last year in a competition for wooden game or design objects for ages 3 to 99 hosted by Swiss toymaker Naef Spielzeug. Harrigan layered the wooden shapes of her toy with a type of ceramic magnet called ferrite &#8211; thus, the toy&#8217;s name &#8220;Ferra.&#8221; The modular design &#8220;allows for smooth movement between pieces and the opportunity to create several configurations,&#8221; Harrigan adds. When laser cut, the toy can be produced with little material waste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/toy_as_dog.jpg\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5574\" title=\"toy_as_dog\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/toy_as_dog-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/toy_links.jpg\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5575\" title=\"toy_links\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/toy_links-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/559618\/?sc=dwtr;xy=5011369\" >Newswise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another innovation with a holiday spin. A palm-sized modular toy that was created by a fourth-year industrial design student in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech has been awarded a design patent and is available for licensing through Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP). Created by Kelly Harrigan of Manassas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zrP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}