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Negan just killed a major character on "The Walking Dead" or Jack just suffered a major heart attack on "This Is Us", which commercial should follow such an emotional scene? Choose right and you've connected with the viewer on a deep, emotional level. Choose wrong and your product may be seen as incongruent, in bad taste, or worse, simply forgotten. 
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Of the 4,070 patents that issued today, these two stand out:

Shortest pendency: 116 days (0.3 years) US10,178,908B1
Longest pendency: 5,296 days (14.5 years) US 10,179,935 B2

​US 10,178,908 B1, Storage rack, was filed last September, 9/19/2018, and lists Chun-hsien Tseng as the sole inventor with Chin JWU Enterprise CO assignee. From the abstract, "A hexagon storage rack includes a top wall, a bottom wall, two upper side walls, and two lower side walls"

US 10,179,935 B2, Markers for detection of gastric cancer, was filed 7/16/2004. A little over a week later, John Kerry will tap John Edwards as his running mate for his Presidential campaign. Invented by Parry John Guilford and Andrew John Holyoake of Dunedin, NZ, assigned to Pacific Edge LTD, the '935 patent tests for GTM gene family proteins as a marker for gastric tumors.

"You're driving too fast", "Don't turn here, the next one", "I think you missed a pothole back there", "We can walk to the curb from here" - All helpful suggestions from people not tasked with driving the car. How will an autonomous driving system interact, process, weigh and respond to  passenger preferences?

Enter US10173667B2, Occupant based vehicle control. Just granted last week, 1/8/2019, and filed 6/19/2017, this ELWHA LLC patent monitors a vehicles' occupants and modifies the driving experience.