Celebrity Patents: Kanye West Shutter Shade Glasses Patent D590,868



You’ve probably seen the shutter shades glasses made famous by Kanye West. Now you can own them too!

If you watch MTV or watched the Grammy™ awards, you’ve seen the shutter shade glasses Kanye West has been sporting recently. Well it turns out after some investigation, we were able to find out that the design on these glasses has a patent.

Donald Wilkerson of Shutter Shades Inc., has patented the 2.0 design of the shutter shades. US design patent D590,868 shows what Shutter Shades is touting as their new sleeker glasses model. The patent titled, “Sunglasses without lenses but having six horizontal slats crossing the field of vision of each eye,” lives up to it’s name since there isn’t much to the glasses except 6 horizontal slats and a lack of any lens. Yet, this hasn’t stopped them from being all the rage with the youth of America.

You don’t have to be a music mogul to wear a pair of Shutter Shade glasses. For as little as $19.99 you too can dress like a hipster. Just visit www.shuttershadesonline.com and pick out your pair.

For anyone that might not be familar with the glasses, check out the video below which shows Kanye West sporting the now famous glasses in his "Stronger" music video.

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June 14, 2011