Patents by Inventor Dennis Michael Herbers

Dennis Michael Herbers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5685428
    Abstract: A unitary package comprising a plurality of individual inner packages juxtaposed with each other at one or more interfaces. At least some inner packages are wrapped in a wrapper and are peripherally disposed along at least first and second outside walls of the unitary package, defining these first and second outside walls. A first sheet of material having at least one line of weakness is juxtaposed with the first outside wall and interconnects all peripherally disposed inner packages by engaging each of them. Preferably, a second sheet of material is juxtaposed with the second outside wall interconnecting all peripherally disposed inner packages. Preferably, both sheets of material have a self-registering pattern of a plurality of lines of weakness running in both mutually perpendicular directions and comparatively closely spaced such that there is a high probability that at least one of these lines is positioned at the interface of the individual inner packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Herbers, John Paul Erspamer, William Paul Dirksing
  • Patent number: D464485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Deborah Taylor Sward, Gene Michael Altonen, Dennis Michael Herbers, James Edward McCay, Lee Frederick Griswold