Patents by Inventor Kristin A. Uttech

Kristin A. Uttech 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: 6017075
    Abstract: A thermoformed thermoplastic truck bedliner has a bottom wall with parallel front-to-back ribs which overlies the floor of a truck cargo bed. Two side walls extend upwardly on opposite sides of the bottom wall and are joined at a front wall. Ribs of a normal height define the load support surface of the bedliner bottom wall, while regions of parallel ribs which are lower in height than the normal ribs define cargo containment regions. The intersection of the reduced height ribs with the normal height ribs defines ridges which restrain escape of cargo in the front-to-back direction, while the bedliner side walls and elevated height protrusions on normal height ribs adjacent to the cargo containment regions restrain side-to-side displacement of the cargo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Penda Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip L. Emery, Timothy E. Williams, Kristin A. Uttech