Patents Examined by Jennifer E. Novosad
  • Patent number: 11800939
    Abstract: Modular sweep detectors, systems, and methods for securing items of merchandise from theft and are provided. In one example, a modular sweep detector includes a housing configured to engage a pusher of a pusher device and a sensor configured to engage a biasing member of the pusher device. The biasing member is configured to be biased in response to movement of the pusher. The sensor is configured to detect movement of the pusher for determining if a predetermined number of items of merchandise have been removed from the pusher device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Grant, Gary A. Taylor, David N. Berglund
  • Patent number: 11793589
    Abstract: A surgical stand may include a vertical pole portion with a securing clamp junction holding a horizontal pole in a fixed position with respect to the vertical pole, and the horizontal pole includes a plate interface including a number of securing mechanisms for holding surgical instruments against the plate interface, and a number of rings disposed along the horizontal pole on both sides of the plate interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Samuel Saleeb
  • Patent number: 11786907
    Abstract: A column tube holder includes: a first side rail extending vertically; a second side rail extending vertically; a first shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail; a second shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail, the second shelf disposed below the first shelf; and a third shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail, the third shelf disposed below the second shelf. The column tube holder is composed of a conductive material, an anti-static material, and/or a static dissipative material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MERCY BIOANALYTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Sedlak, Joseph Charles Sedlak, Laura Teresa Bortolin, Daniel Parker Salem
  • Patent number: 11771243
    Abstract: A mattress display unit includes a housing with a plurality of carriages mounted on rollers that are slidable into and out of the housing, and a platform for each carriage adapted to support a bed spring or mattress, wherein the platform further includes gas springs to allow the platform to move from a vertical position to a horizontal position with the application of relatively little external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Metal Dynamics, Ltd.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11765996
    Abstract: A hang harvesting system includes a plurality of stackable pods each including a platform, and a plurality of support shafts extending vertically from the platform. Each of the support shafts defines a plurality of notches configured for suspending a horizontal bar from the support shafts. Top ends of the support shafts of one pod are configured to support a platform of another pod thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: DRIFLOWER, LLC
    Inventor: Todd Chandler Larkins
  • Patent number: 11751702
    Abstract: A shelving display formed from a corrugated material which includes a back wall panel, a first side wall panel, a second side wall panel and a front wall panel having a plurality of shelves hingedly attached to the front wall panel. The shelving display includes a pull down panel that is connected to each of the plurality of shelves. The display is easily assembled in two-steps on site. In a first step, the panels are unfolded from a flat state to have a rectangular cross-sectional shape. In the second step, the pull down panel is used to pull the shelves into position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Menasha Corporation
    Inventor: Chad M. Lilja
  • Patent number: 11753762
    Abstract: A clothesline that folds, collapses, and converts into a decorative trellis when the clothesline is not being used as a conventional outdoor clothesline to dry clothes or air freshen items. The decorative clothesline trellis may be wall-mounted such that when fully collapsed, the clothesline presents as a wall-mounted decorative trellis of various and possibly interchangeable decorative styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Melbia L Jackson
  • Patent number: 11751701
    Abstract: A display system comprises a sleeve with a plurality of apertures defined therethrough, and a plurality of support inserts arranged in a stack within the sleeve, wherein at least one of the support inserts is aligned with one or more of the apertures to provide a shelf accessible through the one or more of the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: WestRock Shared Services, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas E. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 11744388
    Abstract: A product display system includes a product-support structure with a plurality of cabinets, a plurality of spacers, a base tray, and a cover plate. The cabinets and spacers are inserted into a cavity in the base tray in an alternating pattern around a peripheral wall of the base tray and the cover plate is placed on a top end of the spacers and cabinets, opposite the base tray. The product display system includes a display header that is slidable along a vertical axis with respect to the product-support structure. The display header includes an elongated header tube which includes sidewall panels. The product display system can include one or more elastic members that connect the display header to the product-support structure and bias the display header to an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: WESTROCK CONTAINER, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Pratsch
  • Patent number: 11744409
    Abstract: The oral care products organizer comprises a housing, a tablet holder, a drawer, and a drawer insert. The oral care products organizer is a device for organizing and storing oral care products. As non-limiting examples, the oral care products may comprise one or more toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, dentures, and a plurality of denture cleansing tablets. The tablet holder may store the plurality of denture cleansing tablets. The dentures may be stored in the drawer insert within the drawer. The housing may store the one or more toothbrushes and the tablet holder under a cap that protects the one or more toothbrushes from exposure. The drawer may be inserted into a drawer aperture at the bottom of the housing for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Anthony Bingham
  • Patent number: 11744387
    Abstract: A shelving system includes a shelving unit with at least one open sidewall that provides access to an interior of the shelving unit and one or more inserts that can be selectively connected to and disconnected from an interior of the unit in order to compartmentalize the interior of the unit. This enables a user to separate, sort and store items in the interior in an orderly fashion. The at least one open sidewall also serves to display the items stored in the unit. The shelving unit can be attached to a supporting wall in order to be located at desirable height to facilitate storage and display of the items stored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DIAM UK LTD
    Inventors: Eamonn Kerr, James Miller, Howard Gaskin
  • Patent number: 11744362
    Abstract: A storage enclosure includes a first support member spaced from a second support member. The first support member includes a first rotating shelf support and the second support member includes a second rotating shelf support. A third support member is spaced from a fourth support member. The third support member includes a first fixed shelf support and a second fixed shelf support and the fourth support member includes a third fixed shelf support and a fourth fixed shelf support. A shelf includes a first end connected to the first rotating shelf support and the second rotating shelf support and a second end. The shelf is positionable in a first configuration and a second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: George Floarea, Radu Dragos Sotir, Chris Wisniewski
  • Patent number: 11744366
    Abstract: An adjustable deck shelf assembly has repositionable components to enable the assembly to be secured to variably dimensioned and assembled deck railings. A shelf is secured to a hinged shelf support board with a removable locking shaft in a mechanical interference fit to permit removal and storage of the shelf and assembly. Hinged truss shelf supports secured to support legs can be deployed to support the shelf and retracted for storage. An adjustable deck shelf/seat assembly incorporates variable-height outriggers attached to truss shelf supports and a variable-height shelf support board to enable the assembly to be arranged as a shelf or as a seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Peter E. Wiggin
  • Patent number: 11737587
    Abstract: A wall panel system including a first wall panel, the first panel including at least a first panel hook portion. The system also including a second wall panel having a different configuration than the first wall panel. The second panel includes at least a second panel hook portion and a third panel hook portion opposing the second panel hook portion. The first wall panel is configured to engage with the second wall panel to create a wall panel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Velderman, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Sean Bailey, Steven J. Phillips, Daniel J. White, Thomas Delmont, Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Julian Olyansky, Shalin Chikhalkar
  • Patent number: 11737586
    Abstract: A merchandise display stand includes a pair of brackets for carrying a panel having advertising indicia on a first end thereof. A plurality of spaced-apart upright supports extend vertically, and a channel extends across a horizontal support that spans the spaced-apart upright supports. The channel defines an upper and lower flange. The upper and lower flange define a space therebetween for selectively receiving a power cord. Each bracket defines a pair of shoulders on a second end thereof. Each of the shoulders is configured for engaging with a respective flange to receivably engage each of the brackets with the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ImageWorks Display and Marketing Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Hart Welker, David Scott Ireland
  • Patent number: 11737585
    Abstract: A racking system and methods of assembling a racking system is provided. The racking system includes one or more adjustably positionable backing walls that may be positioned at different distances from a front end of a corresponding shelf. Dividers may be provided to be positioned adjacent the one or more backing walls to divide a product display zone into separate zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie Aaron Smedley, Gabriel Garduno, Billy Mertz
  • Patent number: 11730286
    Abstract: A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes using a trackless pusher mechanism that travels along a surface on which product is placed. A plurality of thin dividers separate the product into rows. The dividers may be formed separately and attached and secured by being inserted into a plurality of grooves arranged along the lower surface and the forward and rear support posts of the product dispensing tray. The dividers are configured to self-adjust by laterally shifting within the grooves when the product is moved forward by the pusher to being loaded by an operator to allow the product to be positioned in a tight fitting manner to maximize the amount of product that can be accommodated horizontally across the tray. In addition, the dividers may have a bottom wall spaced from the surface with a support column that is inserted into an elongated pocket to provide the structural support for the divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen N. Hardy
  • Patent number: 11707143
    Abstract: A display includes a riser and a cap where articles, such as jewelry elements and their holders, can be placed. The riser has a riser base and a riser side and the cap includes a cap side and a cap platform, wherein the cap side is in at least one of sliding and removable engagement with the riser side. In an alternative embodiment, the riser has a riser guide coupled with the riser side or the riser base, and the display further includes a drawer. The drawer has a drawer top, a drawer side, a drawer side guide coupled with the drawer side, and a drawer top guide. The cap has a cap platform and, at least one of a groove in the cap platform and a cap platform wide coupled with the cap platform. The groove and/or the cap platform guide is in at least one of sliding and removable engagement with the drawer top guide. In yet another embodiment, the display further includes removable light fixtures having light emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BOX BROKERS, INC.
    Inventors: James E. Porterfield, Larry Johnson
  • Patent number: 11700957
    Abstract: A spectacle frame securing device for securely displaying of a product, such as a spectacle frame or glasses, relative to a display board with a display surface includes at least one display unit including a frame or chassis for arranging thereof relative to the display surface, a product holder for holding of the product during displaying thereof, and a lock-in assembly. The lock-in assembly includes a lock-in member movable between an opened position and a closed position, for locking in of the product in the holder when the lock-in member is in the locked position and transfer means for transferring of a movement to the lock-in member from drive means for the purpose of moving between the opened position and the closed position. Each of the at least one display unit is separately arrangeable relative to the display surface arrangeable of the display board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Top Vision Group
    Inventor: Omar Tegel
  • Patent number: 11700940
    Abstract: A combination shelf includes at least four column units, at least two storage layers, and multiple clips. The column unit consists of two parallel, vertical poles on the left and right, and multiple connections connecting the left and right vertical poles. The clip has a vertical groove with a wing located on both sides at the lower halves of the front and rear ends of the groove opening. The grooves of the clips can be embedded by the vertical poles. The front and rear ends of both sides of the storage layer each offers an outward-opening U-shaped fastener. The front and rear edges of the lower half of the fastener each has a top pusher. The fasteners of the storage layer can each cover the exterior of the clips of the column units. The inner faces of the two top pushers each presses the two wings. By fitting together the corresponding bevels of the top pushers and the two wings, the clips and the fasteners press each other and therefore clamping the vertical pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PROTREND CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Henry Chen