Richard Buckminster Fuller was born on July 12, 1895. This month our IP lawyers have updated the Interesting Patents page to honor this great American inventor. Possibly Fuller’s most recognizable patent is directed to Geodesic Building Construction and will be familiar to anyone who’s visited the Epcot theme park. Next, the object of Fuller’s Cartography patent is to provide a sectional map of the world with minimal distortion to boundaries, directions, and distances. Finally, issued in 1940, his patent for a Prefabricated Bathroom describes a prefabricated bathroom that could be “carried by hand through a doorway and up a staircase of the average house.”