This week in patents: Inflatable socks, wireless charging and more

 This week, the US patent office issued 4,046 patents and published 6,859 patent applications. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we can’t list all four thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the eight most interesting patents. A quadcopter for keeping up with the Jones’ Patent Number – US D747,775 S Fatdoor, a social network for connecting neighbors, has patented design of its quadcopter (named, Skyteboard), which can be cont