Patents by Inventor Jennifer A. Theisen

Jennifer A. Theisen 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).

  • Publication number: 20170196377
    Abstract: A multi-functional display assembly includes a base tray secured to a display shelf and having a front, a back, a right side, a left side, a bottom, an open top and a height. At least one product plate assembly is positioned within the base tray and has a recess for holding a sample product. A transparent cover includes a height that is greater than the height of the base tray and greater than a height of the sample product. The transparent cover is placed over and around the base tray and is secured to the base tray and the at least one product plate assembly when the multi-functional display assembly is in a secured display configuration and is removed from around the base tray when the multi-functional display assembly is in an unsecured display configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski, Glenn M. Christoffel
  • Patent number: 9700155
    Abstract: A multi-functional display assembly includes a base tray secured to a display shelf and having a front, a back, a right side, a left side, a bottom, an open top and a height. At least one product plate assembly is positioned within the base tray and has a recess for holding a sample product. A transparent cover includes a height that is greater than the height of the base tray and greater than a height of the sample product. The transparent cover is placed over and around the base tray and is secured to the base tray and the at least one product plate assembly when the multi-functional display assembly is in a secured display configuration and is removed from around the base tray when the multi-functional display assembly is in an unsecured display configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski, Glenn M. Christoffel
  • Patent number: 9615677
    Abstract: A retail fixture includes a platform having a plurality of openings and a cover having at least one slot where the cover is positioned over the platform such that each of the at least one slots of the cover is aligned with an opening of the platform. A set of spaced-apart nubs extends along at least one opening. A bracket extends across the plurality of openings and is mounted to a bottom surface of the platform. The bracket has channels aligned with the openings. Each channel has a first width proximate the bottom surface and a second width distal from the bottom surface wherein the second width is wider than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Q. Trinh, Robert D. Peota, Judd S. Kivi, Timothy J. Martell, Robert P. Stoltz, Thomas A. Schneider, Alex K. Poniatowski, Jennifer A. Theisen, William Y. Stafford, Daniel Adam Breunig, Kevin Huljich
  • Patent number: 9584753
    Abstract: An interactive display fixture includes an upper component mounted to a back wall and has a front panel. The front panel of the upper component includes at least one opening that surrounds a motion sensing system that is mounted to the back wall. A display table is also mounted to the back wall, located directly below the upper component, and includes a curved upper surface, a front side, a back side and a plurality of recesses having recessed surfaces that are recessed from the curved upper surface and located in proximity to the front side of the display table. The plurality of recesses are sized and shaped to receive respective corresponding sized tester products, which the motion sensing system senses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski
  • Publication number: 20160344971
    Abstract: An interactive display fixture includes an upper component mounted to a back wall and has a front panel. The front panel of the upper component includes at least one opening that surrounds a motion sensing system that is mounted to the back wall. A display table is also mounted to the back wall, located directly below the upper component, and includes a curved upper surface, a front side, a back side and a plurality of recesses having recessed surfaces that are recessed from the curved upper surface and located in proximity to the front side of the display table. The plurality of recesses are sized and shaped to receive respective corresponding sized tester products, which the motion sensing system senses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski
  • Patent number: 9480334
    Abstract: An end display includes a base, an end wall coupled to a rear of the base, a bottom shelf located on the base and secured to the end wall, at least one intermediate shelf spaced apart from the bottom shelf and secured to the end wall and at least one set of dividers. The bottom shelf includes a top having a tiered shelf structure. Each intermediate shelf includes a top having a tiered shelf structure and a bottom having a set of guides. The at least one set of dividers have bottom ends that are mounted to the tiered shelf structure of the bottom shelf and top ends that mate with the set of guides on the bottom of the at least one intermediate shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski
  • Patent number: 9456708
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a merchandiser box and an adapter. The merchandiser box has an exterior bottom surface and an interior space defined by a back, a pair of sides, an interior bottom surface, a top and a front having a window. The interior space supports and displays merchandise. The adapter couples the back of the merchandiser box to a wall of a display fixture such that the exterior bottom surface of the merchandiser box is exposed along its entirety. The adapter includes at least one slot for receiving at least one hook located on an exterior of the back of the merchandiser box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Erin L. Zobel
  • Patent number: 9384684
    Abstract: A shelf-type display module includes a carrier tray assembly including a carrier tray having a top, a bottom, a plurality of tracks and at least one light. The plurality of tracks protrude from the top of the carrier tray and the at least one light is mounted to the bottom of the carrier tray. An insert tray includes a main body having components for holding products for display and components for mating with the plurality of tracks on the carrier tray. The components of the main body that mate with the plurality of tracks on the carrier tray slide along the plurality of tracks from a right side to a left side of the carrier tray or from the left side to the right side of the carrier tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, William Y. Stafford, Erin L. Zobel, Timothy J. Martell, Benjamin Weshler
  • Patent number: 9277832
    Abstract: A display fixture includes a shelf having a tester product receptacle, at least one first tester product assembly and an elongated channel. The at least one first tester product assembly has a base and a cover. The cover includes a hinge component. The base is located in the tester product receptacle of the shelf. The elongated channel is coupled to the shelf and is configured to receive and retain the hinge component of the cover such that the cover is rotatable about a back edge of the base of the at least one first tester product assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Nick Q. Trinh, Benjamin Weshler
  • Patent number: 9245464
    Abstract: A hook-type display module includes a base assembly, a display hook receiving plate and at least one display hook. The base assembly includes a pair of spaced-apart side frame members having distal ends and proximal ends and a front frame member connecting the distal ends of the side frame members. The display hook receiving plate is positioned so as to extend between the spaced-apart side frame members and is located proximate to the proximal ends of the spaced-apart side frame members. The at least one display hook includes a base coupled to the display hook receiving plate and a hook extending from the base to a distal end. The distal end of the hook terminates at a location between the display hook receiving plate and the front frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Erin L. Zobel, William Y. Stafford
  • Patent number: 9217273
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first retail display unit for supporting one or more retail products and a pocket mounted to a side of the first retail display unit. The pocket has a hollow interior and an open end. A gate has a fixed end coupled to the hollow interior of the pocket and a lockable end. The fixed and lockable ends of the gate are located within the hollow interior of the pocket when the gate is in storage and the lockable end of the gate is extended through the at least one open end of the pocket and away from the first retail display unit when the gate is moved into use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Floersch, Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski, Richard A. Sherwood
  • Patent number: D763019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, Alex K. Poniatowski, Vaughan R. Schaub
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    Patent number: D773217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Jennifer A. Theisen
  • Patent number: D823030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, William Y. Stafford, Benjamin Weshler
  • Patent number: D830746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Johnson, Jennifer A. Theisen, Travis M. Poirier
  • Patent number: D832009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, William Y. Stafford
  • Patent number: D841370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Theisen, William Y. Stafford, Benjamin Weshler
  • Patent number: D843756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Johnson, Jennifer A. Theisen, Travis M. Poirier, Joseph R. Stukenberg
  • Patent number: D848768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Johnson, Jennifer A. Theisen, Travis M. Poirier
  • Patent number: D848772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: William Y. Stafford, Jennifer A. Theisen