Patents by Inventor Steven J. Barger

Steven J. Barger 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: 20220348374
    Abstract: A method of designing a package configured to securely accommodate one of two or more differently shaped objects. The method comprises: establishing a predetermined orientation for each of the two or more differently shaped objects relative to common axes; identifying dimensionally common points of the two or more differently shaped objects; and developing a design for a package configured to constrain the two or more differently shaped objects at the identified dimensionally common points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Steven J. Barger
  • Patent number: 5975305
    Abstract: A unit dose spoon having a bowl portion, a recessed handle portion communicating with the bowl portion. An upwardly extending pedestal is mounted in the recessed handle portion and is provided with an upwardly extending cutting blade on the top surface thereof A container is integrally hinged to the free end of the handle portion and contains a unit dose of fluid such as a medicine, which is sealed in the container by a rupturable plastic cover. When the container is folded forwardly toward the handle portion and pushed downwardly toward the pedestal, the blade thereon punctures the plastic cover to allow the fluid to flow from the container into the recessed handle portion and into the bowl portion. The unit dose spoon is formed of molded plastic and is disposable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Comar, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven J. Barger