Patents Examined by Heather Mangine
  • Patent number: 11684094
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a cooling garment. The cooling garment can include a vest configured to be worn by a wearer. One or more pockets on the vest may be configured to receive one or more icepacks. The one or more pockets may include a stretch material on a front portion of the one or more pockets. The one or more pockets can further include a non-stretch material on a back portion of the one or more pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob R. Arnold, Baron C. Brandt, Alexander J. Dedman, Payton A. Rose, Kevin C. Sze
  • Patent number: 11678717
    Abstract: A plate for an article of footwear includes a substrate, a first strand portion attached to the substrate via first stitching, and a second strand portion disposed on the first layer. The first strand portion includes first segments that each extend between two different locations along the substrate to form a first layer on the substrate. The second strand portion includes second segments that each extend between two different locations along the substrate to form a second layer on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Bartel, Risha Dupre, Emily Farina, Lysandre Follet, Stefan E. Guest, Helene Hutchinson, Sam Lacey, Geng Luo, Rachel M. Savage, Christian Alexander Steinbeck, Adam Thuss, Kristin Yetman
  • Patent number: 11653705
    Abstract: A male undergarment has a pouch on an inside surface of the front section defined by two of fabric flap portions where each fabric flap portion is folded to define two overlying sheets of the fabric with edges of the sheets stitched into the seam and a folded edge spaced from the first seam toward the crease between the inner thigh and the groin of the wearer so that the crease and inner thigh engage the folded edge rather than the seam for improved comfort. A similar folded flap portion can be provided at the junction between the thigh and the groin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Tyler McCombs
  • Patent number: 11617402
    Abstract: A protective face mask has a first panel, a second panel and a plurality of head attachment features. The first panel is configured to cover the facial area below the eyes with a mouth opening for the mouth region to allow the wearer to eat, drink or smoke. The second panel is configured to cover the mouth opening when not used for passing food, drink or smoking. The plurality of head attachment features are located at outer edges of the face mask panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Roy C. Mallady, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11589650
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel non-slip grippy ventilated shoe made of a slip resistant material with a failure mode of from 1 to 50 Newtons/millimeter, and is generally made of a cage-like configuration to provide maximum slip resistance as well as ventilation with minimum structure, just sufficient enough structure to allow the shoe to provide grip on a surface. The shoe is useful in performing floor exercises such as barre, yoga and pilates among other applications such as water sports like surfing where grip is important, or for hospital settings for fall risk patients to alleviate the risk of falling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Stefanie Miller Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 11564423
    Abstract: A nursing garment for use by a nursing woman includes two releasable panels, each panel having opposed ends. At least one of the opposed ends of each panel is selectively releasable thereby exposing at least one breast of the nursing woman. The released panels provide coverage for breastfeeding and pumping activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SheFeeds LLC
    Inventors: Bonnie Jean Korte, Stephanie Julia Brown, Jon Maggs
  • Patent number: 11553745
    Abstract: Described herein are pants containing a zipper extending through the waistband and the entire outseam of each pant leg. The pants have a flange of fabric disposed on the interior of each zipper to prevent direct contact between the zipper and the skin of a person wearing the pants. The pants also include a fabric tab attached at the waistband next to the zipper to cover an exterior portion of the zipper. The pants provide benefits to wearers who have limited mobility, sensitive skin, or a physical impediment, such as a cast, by easing the challenges of applying the pants to the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Befree, LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Puzzo, Joanne DiCamillo
  • Patent number: 11547154
    Abstract: An asphyxiation-safe adjustable bib and placemat provides a bib having a rear surface that supports a bib retainer in one of a plurality of positions so a length of the bib can be adjusted to accommodate a height of a wearer. The bib retainer and a portion of the bib adjacent the bib retainer are inserted into a bib retainer channel of the placemat to secure the bib to the placemat. The bib retainer in the bib retainer channel resists movement of the bib away from the placemat but enables forceful movement of the bib away from the placemat to protect against injury due to asphyxiation if the wearer slips or falls from a chair while using the bib and placemat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Zak Wood
  • Patent number: 11540581
    Abstract: A helmet that includes an outer shell having at least a first outer magnetic member, an inner shell having at least a first inner magnetic member, and padding secured inside the inner shell. The first inner magnetic member is spaced from and opposed to the first outer magnetic member, such that the first inner magnetic member repels the first outer magnetic member. The outer shell is connected to the inner shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TATE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Gerard Eric Morgan, Gerard Earl Morgan, III
  • Patent number: 11540575
    Abstract: A headwear article is described herein. The headwear article includes a main body sized and shaped to receive at least a portion of a wearer's head. The main body includes a fastening mechanism having a pair of segments lining edges of a closable opening in the main body. Each segment of the fastening mechanism has a plurality of magnets and each of the plurality of magnets is configured to attract an opposite magnet located along an opposite edge of the opening to selectively close at least a portion of the opening around a bundle of hair when at least a portion of each of the segments of the fastening mechanism is beside and touching the other segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ponyback Inc.
    Inventor: Stacey Keller
  • Patent number: 11523642
    Abstract: A wearable belt device system and portable hand strap system configured to burp a baby. A belt may be adapted to extend around the waist of a wearer or a torso of a wearer. A compressible mound is placed on the baby's adnominal pressure being delivered in order to release gas contained within the baby. A handheld strap may be configured for wear to fit around a palm of a hand of a wearer. A mound may be affixed to the strap and may be adapted to compress an abdomen of a baby thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Sophia Irene Hartwick
  • Patent number: 11517056
    Abstract: The present invention is trousers that include an inseam panel insert that may be continuous across the crotch and down the inside longitudinal lines of the legs, preventing the need for an actual seam on the inseam of the trousers. The inseam panel insert is connected to the other fabric of the trousers with seams that are disposed away from the traditional inseam location and away from the crotch area. The inseam panel insert has at least one area, and typically two or more, which has an increased, progressively increasing and progressively decreasing width, located between the crotch area and the end of the pant leg. The trousers allow increased flexibility, particularly in the seated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hall, William Tisano
  • Patent number: 11510443
    Abstract: The shower apparel is a garment. The shower apparel is configured for use by a client. The shower apparel is configured for use with a community shower. The shower apparel is worn by the client when the client uses a community shower for cleaning. The shower apparel shields the sensitive parts of the client's body from the view of others in the community shower. The shower apparel incorporates a loin wear and a navel cover. The loin wear shields the loin of the client's body from the view of others in the community shower. The navel cover shields the navel of the client's body from the view of others in the community shower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Tyra Monique Richardson, Herbert Lee Richardson
  • Patent number: 11505839
    Abstract: A stretching apparatus for stretching a pelt on a pelt board, wherein the pelt has a substantially tubular shape defining an inwardly oriented leather side, an outwardly oriented fur side, a nose end, a rear end and a pair of front leg cavities. The pelt board defines a top end for accommodating and fixating the nose end of the pelt, a circumferential wall for facing the inwardly oriented leather side of the pelt and a base end located opposite the top end. The stretching apparatus comprises a holding device for holding the base end of the pelt board, and a stretching device having a pair of stretching members. Each of the stretching members are adapted in order to be inserted into a respective front leg cavity of the pelt and the stretching device is movable in a direction towards the holding device for stretching the pelt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MINKPAPIR A/S
    Inventors: Mogens Fahlgren Andersen, Soren Frolund
  • Patent number: 11497269
    Abstract: An interior surface storage structure for headgear is provided. The structure comprises a headgear, a plurality of contiguous panels disposed in a circular manner around an interior surface of the headgear, each panel separated from its immediately adjacent panel. The structure also comprises at least one pair of contiguous panels covered by fabric at panel edges to form a compartment, a panel edge along a circumference edge of the headgear open and providing access to the compartment. The structure also comprises a binding mechanism positioned at the panel edge along the circumference edge enabling compartment sealing, the binding mechanism concealed by a headband. The headgear alternatively does not have panels on the interior surface and the pocket enclosure is attached to the interior surface and to the circumference edge with binding mechanism concealed. Up to four pocket enclosures are installable on either side and in various configurations of the quadrants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Constandinos Bakouros, Maria Halatsis
  • Patent number: 11497268
    Abstract: A convertible headgear that includes an adjustable strap stored behind a sweatband that may be used to secure the headgear as a cap or mask, and modified rear crown panels that form a ventilation opening to facilitate a clear nasal passage airway when the headgear is worn as a mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBALL CAP, INC.
    Inventor: Paul Yan Shaw
  • Patent number: 11490688
    Abstract: A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a fluid-filled chamber component having a central portion, a plurality of lobes extending outward from the central portion, and a plurality of channels formed between the plurality of lobes. The structure also includes a midsole component inter-fitted with the plurality of lobes of the fluid-filled chamber component and having a plurality of projections extending through the plurality of channels of the fluid-filled chamber component. The midsole component forms a portion of the peripheral side surface of the sole structure. At least a first lobe of the plurality of lobes has an exposed distal end wall and includes a projecting portion that extends further outward from the central portion of the fluid-filled chamber component than the portion of the peripheral side surface of the sole structure formed by the midsole component. The exposed distal end wall also includes a faceted surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Risha Dupre, Steve M. Mathras, Mark C. Miner, Eric S. Schindler
  • Patent number: 11484082
    Abstract: A glasses/cap system for separably coupling glasses to a cap and for securing the glasses to the hat in either a usage orientation or a storage orientation. The coupling components mainly consisting of complementary magnets and ferromagnetic materials located in reciprocal parts of the glasses and cap alone or in combination with push type or bungee type connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Israel Rosario
  • Patent number: 11484097
    Abstract: An upper for an article of footwear includes a base layer, an exterior layer, a first strap, and a second strap. The exterior layer at least partially covers an outer side of the base layer and defines a first aperture and a second aperture both in a forefoot region. Each strap includes a central portion, a front branch, and a rear branch, the front and rear branches disposed between the outer side of the base layer and the exterior layer. The front branch of the second strap crosses the rear branch of the first strap and is disposed forward of the rear branch of the first strap at the lower extent of the base layer. The central portion of the first strap extends through the first aperture and defines a first loop, and the central portion of the second strap extends through the second aperture and defines a second loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Durand
  • Patent number: 11478034
    Abstract: A mechanism to adjust the size of headwear is provided. Two engagement clips attach to either side of an open space on the headwear. A tooth/track connects the two clips. The clips may be adjusted to fit the size of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Jesse Newman