Patents Assigned to Design Partners, LLC
  • Patent number: 9942998
    Abstract: An electronic mobile device holder includes a first support member and a second support member coupled together to carry an electronic mobile device. The first support member includes a first slot and the second support member includes a second slot. The first slot couples to the second support member and the second slot couples to the first support member to couple the first support member to the second support member to provide a platform that carries the electronic mobile device. The electronic mobile device holder can be disassembled and inserted into a card slot of a wallet or a card slot of an electronic mobile device case for convenient storage and carrying. The electronic mobile device holder enables hands-free viewing of a screen of a mobile electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Flight Level Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: John Mayes, George R. McDermand
  • Patent number: 8011148
    Abstract: Components for use in the assembly and installation of a modular decking system, comprised of structural free floating piers which distributes loads of deck pad to ground, piers have a pad bearing surface and four uniformly placed receiver blocks which interlock with corresponding recesses at four pad corners, an interlocking cam passes through pad recesses at deck surface and locks to piers by rotating cam with custom designed tool. The system is designed to be assembled without permanent fasteners to allow for expansion, reconfiguration or relocation, or addition of traditional and contemporary deck accessories that engage and interlock with the piers, pads and cams. One ideal manufacturing method of one or any of the system components is compression molded post-consumer and/or industrial thermo-plastic waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: We Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick J. Bertke, John M. Van Leeuwen, Michael P. Weaver
  • Publication number: 20090311086
    Abstract: A quick coupler for attaching implements, such as buckets or other tools, to heavy equipment, such as backhoes and excavators, which includes two recesses or channels for receiving a pair of machine pins of an implement. A hydraulic piston actuates a first locking lever to enclose one of the pair of machine pins in one recess and a second locking lever to enclose the other one of the pair of machine pins in the other recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Steig, JR., Richard A. Thompson, Robert K. Hawkins, Wilson A. Jones
  • Patent number: 7594776
    Abstract: A quick coupler for attaching implements, such as buckets or other tools, to heavy equipment, such as backhoes and excavators, which includes two recesses or channels for receiving a pair of machine pins of an implement. A hydraulic piston actuates a first locking lever to enclose one of the pair of machine pins in one recess and a second locking lever to enclose the other one of the pair of machine pins in the other recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Steig, Jr., Richard A. Thompson, Robert K. Hawkins, Wilson A. Jones