Patents Issued in January 3, 2017
  • Vehicle tail lamp
    Patent number: D775750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: George Bucher, Dean Carbis, Steven Gilmore
  • Light-emitting diode vehicle mount
    Patent number: D775751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Metra Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: William H Jones, Jr.
  • Rechargeable device with flashlight and electronic device charger
    Patent number: D775752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: THE NOCO COMPANY
    Inventors: Jonathan Lewis Nook, William Knight Nook, Sr., James Richard Stanfield, Derek Michael Underhill
  • Flashlight
    Patent number: D775753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ANHUI INNO-SIGN INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Bo
  • Light
    Patent number: D775754
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ARTIKA FOR LIVING INC.
    Inventor: Raymond Jepson
  • Slide lamp
    Patent number: D775755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: BOX CLEVER, LLC
    Inventors: Bret Recor, Seth Murray, Matthew Swinton, Hsiao-wei Chang, Wen-pin Tsai
  • Lighting fixture
    Patent number: D775756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: THE URBAN ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Amato, David Dawson, Jonathan Charpia, Joeangel Casanova, Halle Kern, Courteney Salsbury
  • Suspension lamp
    Patent number: D775757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: FLOS S.p.A.
    Inventor: Michael Anastassiades
  • Lighting fixture
    Patent number: D775758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: THE URBAN ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Amato, David Dawson, Jonathan Charpia, Joeangel Casanova, Halle Kern, Courteney Salsbury
  • Solar candle
    Patent number: D775759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: As Seen On PC, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Allen Clarke
  • Horticulture grow light housing
    Patent number: D775760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Reynolds
  • Vehicle fog lamp bezel
    Patent number: D775761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Svensson, Craig S. Metros, Darrell Paul Behmer, Eric Stoddard
  • Electronic smoke device
    Patent number: D775762
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SMISS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jiatai Chen
  • Eyeliner stencil
    Patent number: D775763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventors: Paolo Marchica, Beth Bender
  • Hair dryer
    Patent number: D775764
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Gaël Louis Jacques Prat-Pfister
  • Toothpick
    Patent number: D775765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt
  • Work-vest
    Patent number: D775766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ID SERVICES TAIPEI LTD
    Inventor: Bart Van Noppen
  • Bicycle helmet
    Patent number: D775767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Bell Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Hilgard N. Muller, Nicole Rene Singson, Gregg T. Jacobsen, Daniel Cram
  • Fish tank
    Patent number: D775768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRAL GARDEN & PET COMPANY
    Inventor: Brad L. Mihlbauer
  • Animal interaction device
    Patent number: D775769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CLEVERPET, INC.
    Inventors: Leo Trottier, Daniel Knudsen
  • Dishwasher
    Patent number: D775770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Yoon Yoon, Eun-Kyung Hong, Ji-Kyoung Kim
  • Washing machine
    Patent number: D775771
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kangdoo Kim
  • Cleaner
    Patent number: D775772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyoung-Min Lee, Byeong-Soo Kim, Soo-Hyun Yoon
  • Cleaning article
    Patent number: D775773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark W. Baldwin, Kayo M. Roehm, Peter Ehling, David Yoon, RichardLouie A. Reyes, Daniel A. Streng, Guo Wei Chen, Dariusz Piech, Daniel A. Schaumann, Mark D. Weiser
  • Plastic pallet
    Patent number: D775774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Donald Lee Fellers
  • Nectarine tree named ‘Polar Zee’
    Patent number: PP27520
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree (Prunus persica var. nucipersica). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Tree with a vigorous, upright growth habit. 2. Regular and productive bearer of large size fruit. 3. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 4. Fruit having very good flavor and eating quality with a good balance between acid and sugar. 5. Clingstone fruit with firm, white flesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventors: Gary Neil Zaiger, Leith Marie Gardner, Grant Gene Zaiger
  • Azalea plant named ‘Lazamoropi’
    Patent number: PP27521
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Lazamoropi’, characterized by its medium purple-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, moderately vigorous, semi-upright growth habit, and strong multi-seasonal reblooming, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Edward Lee
  • Azalea plant named ‘Lazamorink’
    Patent number: PP27522
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Lazamorink’, characterized by its semi-double type, deep pink-colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, moderately vigorous, compact, upright-mounded growth habit and strong multi-seasonal reblooming, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Edward Lee
  • Azalea plant named ‘Lazamored’
    Patent number: PP27523
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Azalea plant named ‘Lazamored’, characterized by its medium red-orange colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, moderately vigorous, upright-mounded growth habit and strong multi-seasonal reblooming, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Edward Lee
  • plant named ‘Screen Play’
    Patent number: PP27524
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Ilex plant named ‘Screen Play’, that is characterized by its well-branched, dense, upright plant habit with suitablity for use as a hedge or privacy screen, its vigourous growth habit with plants growing an average of 1.5 m per year in Georgia when young, its large leaves that emerge light green tinged with bronze in color and maturing to a deep green color, its leaves that are glossy and spineless with very finely serrated margins, its berries that ripen to a deep red color in early fall and persist on the plant through the winter, its cold tolerance; remaining evergreen in U.S.D.A Zone 7, and its ease of pollination by ambient pollen when grown in Georgia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ITSAUL PLANTS LLC
    Inventor: Toshihiro Hagiwara
  • plant named ‘BOEKTASPEP2’
    Patent number: PP27525
    Abstract: ‘BOEKTASPEP2’ is a distinctive variety of Capsicum annuum which is characterized by the combination of seedless of near-seedless fruit, a high percentage of fruit possessing no seeds, a large fruit size, fruit with a sweet taste, fruit with a vivid orange color, a unique shape of the fruit, as well as the stability and uniformity of traits through successive cycles of asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Pieter Boekestijn
  • plant named ‘Rocketman’
    Patent number: PP27526
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Russian Sage, Perovskia ‘Rocketman’ with short compact habit of strong erect stems, extended flowering season of large, densely-arranged, lavender-blue flowers and silvery green serrate foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Hurd
  • plant named ‘Cubic Frost’
    Patent number: PP27527
    Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria cultivar named ‘Cubic Frost’ is disclosed, characterized by concentric, geometric rosettes, comprised of many uplifted, slightly undulate, slightly tubular, lilac to lilac pink leaves. The new cultivar Echeveria ‘Cubic Frost’ exhibits robust growth, enabling shorter production intervals. Echeveria ‘Cubic Frost’ is freely offsetting, enhancing propagation intervals, as well as creating attractive clusters. Echeveria ‘Cubic Frost’ prolifically produces plantlets from leaf cuttings, further enhancing propagation in the commercial nursery. The new culitvar ‘Cubic Frost’ is freely flowering, producing a larger flower with an unusual shape. The new variety is an Echeveria, part of the Crassulaceae complex that includes Pachyphytum, Graptopetalum, Sedum, Crassula and others. Echeveria is a popular genus, typically produced as container plants or landscape plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Altman Plants
    Inventor: Renee O'Connell
  • plant named ‘Red Chiffon’
    Patent number: PP27528
    Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Coreopsis named ‘Red Chiffon’ characterized by its sturdy and well-branched plant habit reaching a 45 cm in height and 55 cm in width, its medium sized inflorescences with ray florets that are light yellow in color with a large bright red eye zone, its nearly sterile flowers that exhibit a floriferous and long bloom season that does not require deadheading with bloom commencing in early July until frost in Connecticut, its cold hardiness to at least U.S.D.A. Zone 5, and its resistance to powdery mildew and leaf spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Darrell R. Probst
  • plant named ‘Van Gogh’
    Patent number: PP27529
    Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Heuchera named ‘Van Gogh’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit with small leaves, its leaves that are yellow-green in color with red veins, its abundance of flowering stems extending straight up from the basal rosettes, and its deep pink flowers on dark red flowering stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
  • plant named ‘Pink Pearls’
    Patent number: PP27530
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Heuchera named ‘Pink Pearls’ that is characterized by its compact and mounded plant habit, its leaves that are bronze-orange in color, its very floriferous and long blooming habit, and its large pink flowers on dark magenta flowering stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
  • Mobile phone monitor
    Patent number: RE46259
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Kyun Kim
  • Tub for bathing
    Patent number: RE46260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: KOHLER CO.
    Inventors: Mimi Jiang, Timothy E. Hoh
  • Instruments for expandable corpectomy spinal fusion cage
    Patent number: RE46261
    Abstract: An instrument set for an intervertebral expandable spacer having a pair of co-axial annuluses locked together by an engagement member, the set including an inserter/expander having both a rapid expansion mechanism and a fine tuning expansion mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Sommerich, Glen Arthur Presbrey, Martin Meer, Gerhard Pohl, Katherine Herard Ray
  • Optical imaging system
    Patent number: RE46262
    Abstract: An optical imaging system is provided comprising a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive or negative power; and a fourth lens group having a positive or negative power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Ha Park, Ki-Tae Kim
  • Charge pump system that dynamically selects number of active stages
    Patent number: RE46263
    Abstract: A multi-stage charge pump selects the number of active stages dynamically. In the exemplary embodiment, this is done by having a multi-stage master charge pump section in which the number of active stages is settable and a slave charge pump section that is of the same design as the master section. The master section is used to drive the external load, while the slave section drives an adjustable internal load. The adjustable internal load is set by control logic by comparing the operation of the two sections. The control logic then operates the slave section with a different number of active stages than the master stage in order to determine whether the master stage is using the optimal number of active stages. The control logic can then change the number of active stages accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Marco Cazzaniga, Tz-Yi Liu
  • Verification process for non-volatile storage
    Patent number: RE46264
    Abstract: When erasing non-volatile storage, a verification process is used between erase operations to determine whether the non-volatile storage has been successfully erased. The verification process includes separately performing verification for different subsets of the non-volatile storage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Gerrit Jan Hemink, Shih-Chung Lee, Toru Miwa, Yupin Fong, Jun Wan, Ken Oowada
  • Rotating electric apparatus and method for connecting stator coils thereof
    Patent number: RE46265
    Abstract: Each pair of coils mutually connected in a stator winding is arranged in a fashion that a first coil of each pair of coils has an inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212) led out from an inner-circumferential-side slot position in the direction of a coil end (220) of the stator winding, and that a second coil of each pair of coils has an outer-circumferential-side coil terminal (211) led out from an outer-circumferential-side slot position in the direction of the coil end (220) of the stator winding for connection to the inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212), wherein there is provided a coil terminal connection structure in which the inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212) is connected to the outer-circumferential-side coil terminal (211) across the coil end (220), and joint parts (211a, 212a) thereof are bent close to the coil end (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Kenichi Nakayama, Yasuyuki Saito
  • Charge pump circuit
    Patent number: RE46266
    Abstract: A charge pump circuit includes a first plurality of capacitors, and a first precharge circuit. The first plurality of capacitors are connected in parallel to each other. The first plurality of capacitors receive clock signals to perform sequentially pumping operations which generate a first higher voltage from a power voltage supplied. The first precharge circuit precharges a predetermined number of capacitors in the first plurality of capacitors at the power voltage. The predetermined number is greater than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Longitude Semiconductor S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Matano
  • Dynamic supplemental downforce control system for planter row units
    Patent number: 9532496
    Abstract: A dynamic supplemental downforce control system for a planter row unit. The system includes closed-loop feedback circuit that cooperates with a downforce actuator to dynamically control fluid flow to the downforce actuator to maintain balance between the actual gauge wheel downforce and a desired gauge wheel downforce during planting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Derek A. Sauder, Jeremy J. Hodel
  • Variable precharge accumulator for agricultural header
    Patent number: 9532497
    Abstract: A harvesting header for use with a crop harvesting machine has a feederhouse interface and a header frame providing structural support for the harvesting header. A pivotable connection between the feederhouse interface and the header frame enable the header frame to pivot with respect to the feederhouse interface. At least one hydraulic ram connects between the feederhouse interface and the header frame to pivot the harvesting header on the feederhouse interface. A hydraulic supply provides pressurized hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic ram. An accumulator assembly fluidically connects between the hydraulic supply and the at least one hydraulic ram. The accumulator assembly has a precharge fluid/gas interface between a gas chamber and the hydraulic supply, and a working fluid/gas interface between the gas chamber and the at least one hydraulic ram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Randy Lohrentz, Emmanuel R. Magisson
  • Seeder with lockout clutch
    Patent number: 9532498
    Abstract: A seed planting machine for dispensing seed. The seed planting machine includes a transmission with a lockout clutch having an actuator for shifting the lockout clutch between a first configuration and a second configuration. As such, the lockout clutch, in the first configuration, is operable to cause the seed planting machine to dispense seed in response to a roller mechanism of the seed planting machine rotating in a first direction and to not dispense seed in response to the roller mechanism rotating in a second direction. Furthermore, the lockout clutch, in the second configuration, is not operable to cause the seed planting machine to dispense seed in response to the roller mechanism rotating in either the first or second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith W. Finlayson
  • System and method to monitor gaseous concentrations
    Patent number: 9532499
    Abstract: A gas monitoring system on an agricultural implement such as a tractor or cultivator includes a nutrient applicator to inject chemicals or compounds into the soil. Although the soil generally covers over the chemicals or compounds, there still may be gases released into the atmosphere. The system includes a sensor that detects the gas phase of the chemicals or compounds. The system is also set up to generate an indication when a concentration of the gas passes a threshold. If the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere is too high, an alarm may sound or flash, or the release of the chemicals or compounds is reduced or ceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Noel W. Anderson, Christopher D. Turner, Daniel P. Bruns
  • Digger for rhizomes and the like
    Patent number: 9532500
    Abstract: An apparatus for harvesting rhizomes includes a chassis to move in a field. Coulter disks mounted on a forward end of the chassis break up soil on a top surface of the field. Digger blades aft of the coulter disks scoop clusters of rhizomes from the field with adhered soil. An inclined ramp on the chassis has a live bottom that pushes the rhizome clusters up the ramp in the aft direction including upright posts that force the clusters of rhizomes against depending obstructers extending downward from superstructure bars toward the live bottom. As the clusters encounter the obstructers, the clusters are broken to reduce their size and to loosen and separate soil from the rhizomes. A collector aft of the live bottom collects rhizomes falling from an aft end of the inclined ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Repreve Renewables, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Fulghum, Thomas Logan Fazio, William Travis Hedrick
  • Plant conveyor and method for harvesting plants
    Patent number: 9532501
    Abstract: A conveyor includes a frame, at least two arms at least one of which is movably mounted to the frame, at least two rails wherein each rail is coupled to an end of one of said at least two arms, at least two belts wherein each belt is rotatably mounted on one of said at least two rails such that the belts are capable of engaging plants therebetween and moving the plants along a conveyor axis, and one or more bias members which are configured to bias said at least one movable arm toward the other one of said at least two arms. The conveyor further comprises an expanding mechanism which is configured to exert an outward force on said at least one movable arm upon engagement so that said at least one movable arm move away from another arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser NR Company
    Inventors: Bruce Francis, William Wells, Jimmy Lee Stokes