Patents Assigned to Boveda, Inc.
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Publication number: 20230285894Abstract: Slurries and methods of making slurries for modifying and extending relative humidity control ranges. The slurries may include a saturated aqueous salt and one or more other reagents selected to provide a controlled modifiable narrow range of relative humidity. The saturated aqueous salt may be one or more of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, potassium citrate, sodium formate, and/or magnesium chloride, and the one or more other reagents may be one or more of a lactate salt, glycerol, and/or an acetate salt, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: Tina O'Shea, Robert L. Esse, Jonathan W. DeVries, Brian Rice
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Patent number: 11673731Abstract: The present disclosure, in one embodiment, relates to an injection molded container for holding a product, wherein the container is configured to house a humidity control product that may regulate the relative humidity of the inner body of the container such that the product housed therein may be kept at an optimal humidity.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: Sean A. Knutsen, Robert L. Esse, Brian Rice
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Publication number: 20230088606Abstract: Devices and methods for controlling humidity including an aqueous saturated solution of a salt and/or a sugar in combination with an additive in which all components of the saturated solution are food grade. The device may or may not include a container, such as a flexible pouch, encasing the aqueous saturated solution and/or an absorbent pad. The pouch or other container may be made of a material which is moisture permeable and liquid impermeable, for example, and the aqueous saturated solution further comprises a thickening agent. In some embodiments, the components of the aqueous saturated salt solution are separately contained in different compartments of the device container, and a user may activate the device to mix the components together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Boveda Inc.Inventors: Tina M. O'Shea, Justin W. Lilley, John T. Nguyen, Robert L. Esse, Jonathan W. DeVries, Brian Rice
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Publication number: 20220267078Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a humidity control device having a capsule and a humidity control agent arranged within the capsule. The capsule may have a sidewall arranged between a pair of end portions, and at least one end portion may be an endcap coupled to the sidewall. Further, the capsule may have at least one vapor permeable and liquid impermeable surface. The humidity control device may be configured to control relative humidity within an enclosure to a particular level or to within a particular range. The humidity device may be sized and configured to control humidity within a relatively small and/or uniquely shaped enclosure, such as a container for a single cigar or rolled cannabis product, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Boveda Inc.Inventors: Brian Rice, Robert L. Esse, David Egberg
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Patent number: 11358778Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a humidity control device having a capsule and a humidity control agent arranged within the capsule. The capsule may have a sidewall arranged between a pair of end portions, and at least one end portion may be an endcap coupled to the sidewall. Further, the capsule may have at least one vapor permeable and liquid impermeable surface. The humidity control device may be configured to control relative humidity within an enclosure to a particular level or to within a particular range. The humidity device may be sized and configured to control humidity within a relatively small and/or uniquely shaped enclosure, such as a container for a single cigar or rolled cannabis product, for example.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Boveda Inc.Inventors: Brian Rice, Robert L. Esse, David Egberg
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Patent number: 10913585Abstract: A container assembly configured to maintain a predetermined humidity for storing a product therein. The container assembly includes a container having a body with a body wall and a mouth opening into a storage cavity and a cap having a top wall. The cap is selectively mountable over the mouth of the container to substantially enclose the storage cavity in a mounted configuration. A sidewall extends substantially perpendicularly from one of the body wall and the top wall. The sidewall defines an opening and a compartment and has an opening edge adjacent the opening. A moisture control material is positioned within the compartment. A sealing membrane has a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion is secured to the sidewall proximate the opening edge. The sealing membrane is configured to allow moisture flow therethrough to maintain the predetermined humidity in the storage cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: DRUG PLASTICS & GLASS COMPANY, INC., BOVEDA, INC.Inventors: Lissa Biesecker Longacre, Frederick N. Biesecker, II, Douglas S. Camomile, Bruce T. Cleevely, Alex M. Warmkessel, Robert Esse, Timothy H. Bohrer, Brian Rice, Kyle A. Moll, Eric Weller
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Patent number: 10909607Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring and providing humidity control for an asset within a closed environment such as a storage container, with transmission of sensed humidity levels to at least one server that stores current and historical humidity levels and comprises a processor and stored executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may recommend an optimal humidity controller to use for the asset, determine when the recommended humidity controller requires replacement and predictively recommend an optimal replacement humidity controller based on at least historical humidity data and trending thereof, execution of a sales transaction, that may be pre-scheduled based on asset type, asset size and/or historical data, for the optimal replacement humidity controller, and providing the proper replacement humidity controller to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: BOVEDA INC.Inventors: Rolf W. Biernath, Jason L. Schmitz, Robert L. Esse, Sean A. Knutsen, Brian Rice
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Patent number: 10737856Abstract: A container assembly configured to maintain a predetermined humidity for storing a product therein. The container assembly includes a container having a body with a body wall and a mouth opening into a storage cavity and a cap having a top wall. The cap is selectively mountable over the mouth of the container to substantially enclose the storage cavity in a mounted configuration. A sidewall extends substantially perpendicularly from one of the body wall and the top wall. The sidewall defines an opening and a compartment and has an opening edge adjacent the opening. A moisture control material is positioned within the compartment. A sealing membrane has a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion is secured to the sidewall proximate the opening edge. The sealing membrane is configured to allow moisture flow therethrough to maintain the predetermined humidity in the storage cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: DRUG PLASTICS & GLASS COMPANY, INC., Boveda, Inc.Inventors: Lissa Biesecker Longacre, Frederick N. Biesecker, II, Douglas S. Camomile, Bruce T. Cleevely, Alex M. Warmkessel, Robert Esse, Timothy H. Bohrer, Brian Rice, Kyle A. Moll, Eric Weller
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Publication number: 20200207534Abstract: Humidity controlled product methods and packages produced by providing a package material having an interior surface and providing a plurality of humidity control devices in a continuous strip, separating a humidity control device from the strip, adhering the humidity control device to the interior surface of the product package material, and forming the package material into a product package or a product package component with the separated humidity control device adhered to an interior space within the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Boveda Inc.Inventors: Robert L. Esse, Brian Rice
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Publication number: 20200188845Abstract: Slurries and methods of making slurries for modifying and extending relative humidity control ranges. The slurries may include a saturated aqueous salt and one or more other reagents selected to provide a controlled modifiable narrow range of relative humidity. The saturated aqueous salt may be one or more of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, potassium citrate, sodium formate, and/or magnesium chloride, and the one or more other reagents may be one or more of a lactate salt, glycerol, and/or an acetate salt, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: Tina O'Shea, Robert L. Esse, Jonathan W. DeVries, Brian Rice
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Publication number: 20200039723Abstract: The present disclosure, in one embodiment, relates to an injection molded container for holding a product, wherein the container is configured to house a humidity control product that may regulate the relative humidity of the inner body of the container such that the product housed therein may be kept at an optimal humidity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: Sean A. Knutsen, Robert L. Esse, Brian Rice
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Patent number: 10220992Abstract: A container assembly configured to maintain a predetermined humidity for storing a product therein. The container assembly includes a container having a body with a body wall and a mouth opening into a storage cavity and a cap having a top wall. The cap is selectively mountable over the mouth of the container to substantially enclose the storage cavity in a mounted configuration. A sidewall extends substantially perpendicularly from one of the body wall and the top wall. The sidewall defines an opening and a compartment and has an opening edge adjacent the opening. A moisture control material is positioned within the compartment. A sealing membrane has a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion is secured to the sidewall proximate the opening edge. The sealing membrane is configured to allow moisture flow therethrough to maintain the predetermined humidity in the storage cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: DRUG PLASTICS & GLASS COMPANY, INC., Boveda Inc.Inventors: Lissa Biesecker Longacre, Frederick N. Biesecker, II, Douglas S. Camomile, Bruce T. Cleevely, Alex M. Warmkessel, Robert Esse, Timothy H. Bohrer, Brian Rice, Kyle A. Moll, Eric Weller
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Patent number: 10201612Abstract: A humidity control device for use in maintaining the desired humidity of a closed environment, e.g., a container, while also decreasing headspace oxygen, the device including a water vapor and oxygen permeable pouch, an aqueous salt solution containing humidity controlling salts in combination with salts of ascorbic acid or isomers thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: David C. Egberg, Robert L. Esse
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Patent number: 10055781Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring and providing humidity control for an asset within a closed environment such as a storage container, with transmission of sensed humidity levels to at least one server that stores current and historical humidity levels and comprises a processor and stored executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may recommend an optimal humidity controller to use for the asset, determine when the recommended humidity controller requires replacement and predictively recommend an optimal replacement humidity controller based on at least historical humidity data and trending thereof, execution of a sales transaction, that may be pre-scheduled based on asset type, asset size and/or historical data, for the optimal replacement humidity controller, and providing the proper replacement humidity controller to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Boveda Inc.Inventors: Jason L. Schmitz, Robert L. Esse, Sean A. Knutsen
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Patent number: 9750811Abstract: A humidity control device for use in maintaining the desired humidity of a closed environment, e.g., a container, while also decreasing headspace oxygen, the device including a water vapor and oxygen permeable pouch, an aqueous salt solution containing humidity controlling salts in combination with salts of ascorbic acid or isomers thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: David C. Egberg, Robert L. Esse
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Publication number: 20150328584Abstract: A humidity controlling packet comprising a laminated liquid absorbing blotter material treated with a humidity controlling aqueous solution of defined water activity and laminated within a barrier permeable to water vapor, but impermeable to the humidity controlling liquid solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: BOVEDA, INC.Inventors: David C. Egberg, Robert L. Esse
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Patent number: 8748723Abstract: A humidity control device for use in maintaining the desired humidity for wood musical instrument, art objects and museum artifacts, the device including a water vapor permeable pouch and a saturated aqueous solution having a suitable humidity control point for use with these objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Boveda, Inc.Inventors: David C. Egberg, Robert L. Esse