Patents by Inventor Patricia Kennedy

Patricia Kennedy 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: 20170251843
    Abstract: A multi-purpose napkin and bib device is disclosed. The device can convert from a napkin configuration to a bib configuration by pulling one or more drawstrings and from a bib configuration back to a napkin configuration by stretching out the bib body by grasping a portion of the bib body near the drawstrings and pulling so that one or more of the drawstrings is drawn back into a bib housing. The device can be worn and secured to a user using the drawstrings. The device can include an integral pouch, a crumb catcher, can be converted into a flag, or can be assembled using other specialized features or materials as discussed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Patricia Kennedy, Muncie Reitknecht
  • Patent number: 7665659
    Abstract: A display includes a visual aspect and, in certain embodiments, a sampling aspect. The visual aspect displays items of visual interest to a consumer. Product samples are associated with the sampling aspect for dispensing to a consumer such that the consumer may sample the product. Upon depletion of the product samples, the display retains value as a visual display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian J. Gillespie, Patricia A. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20080010146
    Abstract: A marketing tool for marketing a product and informing a consumer of at least one product feature is provided. The marketing tool includes a feature representation aspect that demonstrates a feature of the product to a consumer through the use of a material that is representative of the feature of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Brian J. Gillespie, Patricia A. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20080008986
    Abstract: A display for two or more products having two or more three-dimensional visual aspects providing visual information about two or more products. The visual aspect has a first visual product, a second visual product, a first sampling aspect for the first visual product, a second sampling aspect for the second visual product, product samples associated with both the first and the second sampling aspects, and a dispenser for dispensing the product samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Brian Gillespie, Patricia Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20080006692
    Abstract: A display includes a visual aspect and, in certain embodiments, a sampling aspect. The visual aspect displays items of visual interest to a consumer. Product samples are associated with the sampling aspect for dispensing to a consumer such that the consumer may sample the product. Upon depletion of the product samples, the display retains value as a visual display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Brian J. Gillespie, Patricia A. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20030106898
    Abstract: A refuse container contains at least one door which may be easily pushed toward an open position in which the door rotates into an interior of the container. The door returns to a closed position under the force of a closing mechanism which may be a spring. However, the closing of the door is slowed by a damping mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC
    Inventors: Patricia Kennedy, Craig K. Rogers, Robert J. Tokash
  • Patent number: D349599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: The Rockport Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Patricia A. Kennedy