Patents Examined by Amir Klayman
  • Patent number: 12188740
    Abstract: A cocking system for retracting a string carrier on a crossbow that is substantially silent during operation. The cocking system includes a string carrier with a catch that is moveable between a closed position that engages a draw string, and an open position that releases the draw string. The string carrier slides along a center rail between a released configuration and a retracted position that locates the draw string in a drawn configuration. A trigger is positioned to move the catch from the closed position to the open position to fire the crossbow when the string carrier is in the retracted position. The cocking system includes a retaining mechanism that retains the string carrier in the retracted position while permitting a draw string to disengage and fire an arrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Ravin Crossbows, LLC
    Inventor: Craig Thomas Yehle
  • Patent number: 12179084
    Abstract: A releasable net system using a releasable net attachment mechanism is provided. The releasable net system includes two or more upright structures with lateral support structures extending therebetween, and at least one net configured with the lateral support structures to form a net wall. The at least one net is attached to the lateral support structures using one or more releasable attachment mechanisms that are adapted to break under a predetermined load. In this way, the releasable attachment mechanisms may release the net from the support structures under environmental load conditions (high winds, snow, freezing rain) prior to the collapse of the support structures. The system may be used with outdoor netting systems such as those used for errant ball containment at golf driving ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph C. Engel
  • Patent number: 12134016
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a basketball backboard system and methods of assembly. The backboard system reduces and simplifies the number of steps for a user to take in assembling the system for play. The basketball system comprises a base, a vertical support assembly including a pole, a backboard extension arm, a backboard, and a rim. In some embodiments, the user only has to complete five attachments to fully assemble the system, including securing the vertical support assembly to the base, securing the backboard extension arm to the pole, mounting the backboard to the extension arm, and mounting the rim to the backboard. It is further contemplated that the system will be convenient to package, as the vertical support assembly may be designed to fully nest within the base to reduce product volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Russell Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hall, Randy C Peterson, Louis Polk, Louis Polk, IV, Benjamin Simms, Ronald White
  • Patent number: 12128284
    Abstract: A sport exercise device; for use with a sport stick, the sport stick having a head and a shaft. The device comprises a face, edge and attachment means. In one approach, the edge is adapted and arranged to surround the stick's head. The attachment means allows attachment of the device's face to hold an independently provided weight with respect to the head. The attachment means may allow attachment of the device's face to close the stick's net sufficient to prevent out-passage of a ball within the net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Gregory Harold Webster
  • Patent number: 12115424
    Abstract: A game assembly and method of game play with an adjustable assembly including a tennis racket, a net supported on a handle, and a game ball. The net and the tennis racket are interconnected to form a backboard and hoop for receiving the game ball. The assembly may be wall mountable with adhesive strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mia Pink Zamansky, Noah Franklin Zamansky
  • Patent number: 12102899
    Abstract: A sports rebounding and goal apparatus for receiving a moving object, such as a ball, or puck having a base frame with elongated base members, an upper frame connected to the base frame and having elongated supports and upper frame members pivotally connected to the base frame. A first lock pivotally joins the supports and is selectively actuatable between a locked configuration to fix relative movement between the elongated supports and an unlocked configuration to allow folding movement of the supports relative to each other and relative to the first lock. Elongated cross members are pivotally connected to the upper frame and slidingly connected to base frame. A second lock pivotally connects at least one of the cross members and is selectively actuatable between a locked configuration to fix relative movement between the cross members and an unlocked position to allow drawing together of the cross members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Coulter, Lucas Ferrari
  • Patent number: 12090415
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crane machine, including a first driving unit, a gripping device, a movable rope, and a fixed rope. The first driving unit includes a first motor, a first transmission shaft, a fixed wheel, and a movable wheel; the fixed wheel is fixedly connected to the first transmission shaft, and the movable wheel is movably connected to the first transmission shaft. The fixed wheel is arranged with a first limiting portion, and the movable wheel is arranged with a second limiting portion; in a first state, the first limiting portion is spaced apart from the second limiting portion, and the fixed wheel rotates relative to the movable wheel; in a second state, the first limiting portion abuts against the second limiting portion, causing the fixed wheel to drive the movable wheel to rotate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Canqi Yan
  • Patent number: 12090378
    Abstract: A basketball hoop structure is described herein. The basketball hoop structure includes a frame, a rim, a backboard and a fixing arrangement having an elongated trough. The hoop structure may be fixed onto a support tube of a trampoline. The support tube includes two slits and a locking hole. The trough includes two locking plates and a locking pin. When the basketball hoop structure is fixed to the support tube, the locking plates are inside the slits of the support tube and the locking pin is inside the locking hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Joel Sallinen
  • Patent number: 12076632
    Abstract: A throwing mechanism is provided. A basketball holder is located at a first portion of a catapult arm at a first side of a pivot, and a spring is attached to a second portion of said catapult arm located at a second side of the pivot. A motor is cycled to cause a ram mounted to one or more linkages connected to the motor to contact the second portion of said catapult arm for pivoting the catapult arm into a second position where the first portion is secured by an engagement arm located rearward of the catapult arm, and subsequently contact the engagement arm to release the catapult arm for pivoting movement into a first position by forces exerted by the spring to launch the basketball located at the first portion of said catapult arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Shoot-A-Way, Inc.
    Inventor: John G. Joseph
  • Patent number: 12078445
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a rotatable member configured for rotation about a first rotatable member axis. A cable anchor is attached to the rotatable member and rotatable with respect to the rotatable member about an anchor axis. The anchor axis is offset from the rotatable member axis. The bow can further comprise a power cable anchored to said cable anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MCP IP, LLC
    Inventors: Mathew A. McPherson, Gary L. Simonds
  • Patent number: 12061071
    Abstract: A portable target stand system includes a pair of legs, wherein each leg has a body with a front edge and a receiver slot positionally alignable with each other. The system also includes a member having a plate that has a pair of leg slots that slidably receives one of the leg bodies. Each receiver slot slidably receives the member and a cross lap joint is formed between each leg slot and a corresponding one of the receiver slots provided by each leg. The member may consist of a torso target member, a swinger target member, a paper adapter member, or a dummy adapter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: JL CREATIVE GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: John B. Lovell, III, William E. Temple, Joseph L. Allison
  • Patent number: 12042706
    Abstract: A hockey stick apparatus may include a hollow shaft structure having a proximal end and a distal end, and a blade structure coupled to the proximal end of the hollow shaft structure. The blade structure may include a top edge spaced apart from a bottom edge by a blade height, a heel spaced apart from a toe by a blade length, a front face spaced apart from a back face by a blade thickness. The blade thickness may vary along the blade height, and the top portion of the blade may have a greater blade thickness than a blade thickness of the bottom portion, and a stiffened top portion of the blade may have a first stiffness and a flexible bottom portion of the blade may have having a second stiffness, and the second stiffness may be less than the first stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Bauer Hockey, LLC
    Inventors: Edouard Rouzier, Martin Chambert
  • Patent number: 12029951
    Abstract: A hockey stick apparatus may include a molded blade structure coupled to the proximal end of a hollow shaft structure. The molded blade structure can include: a top edge spaced apart from a bottom edge by a blade height, a heel spaced apart from a toe by a blade length, a front face spaced apart from a back face, and an optional slot defining an aperture extending through front face and the back face. A stiffness of the blade may vary along the blade height by changing the shape of the blade and changing a quadratic momentum of the cross-section along the blade height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bauer Hockey, LLC
    Inventors: Edouard Rouzier, Martin Chambert
  • Patent number: 11998821
    Abstract: A training system for developing tackle technique and tackle follow-up technique includes a combination on a field of a first padded tackling training apparatus for targeted training at a first level corresponding to a relatively low body height, a second padded tackling training apparatus for targeted training at a second level corresponding to a medial body height; and a third padded tackling training apparatus for targeted training at a third level corresponding a relatively high body height facilitates coaching of improved technique for tackling and follow-up technique in contact sports, particularly in American football. The system and apparatus enables technique at a targeted tackling height to be coached and has features to facilitate follow-up actions and thereby providing more effective and safe tackling at a range of targeted heights for use in game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Richard John Gray
  • Patent number: 11982508
    Abstract: A crossbow string guides that include upper and lower helical power cable journals on opposite sides of a draw string journal. A separation between first and second axis of the string guides in a drawn configuration is about 5 inches to about 10 inches and the draw string in the drawn configuration comprises an included angle of less than about 25 degrees. First and second pairs of power cables wrap and unwrap at least 300 degrees around, the respective first and second upper and lower helical power cable journals as the draw string moves between a released configuration to a drawn configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ravin Crossbows, LLC
    Inventor: Craig Thomas Yehle
  • Patent number: 11975250
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lacrosse stick having a continuous juncture-handle portion and a flexible head portion molded to the juncture-handle portion, and a method for making the lacrosse stick. The juncture-handle portion may include first and second fork members extending from a throat member in a forward direction, a handle portion extending from the throat member in a rearward direction, and a first tab reinforcing member extending from the handle portion, through the throat member, and to the first fork member, and defining a first tab protruding beyond a distal forward end of the first fork member. The throat member, first and second fork members, and handle portion may be integrally formed of a first composite layup material, with the first tab reinforcing member formed of a stiffer second composite layup material. The head portion may include a first sidewall portion molded over the first tab reinforcing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wm. T. Burnett IP, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Gowan, Thomas Acchione, Austin Scott Brown
  • Patent number: 11957993
    Abstract: A toy vehicle suspension operable to lift and lower the vehicle chassis of the toy vehicle. In particular embodiments, the vehicle suspension transmits sufficient forces to the wheels of the toy vehicle to enable the wheels to hop off the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Namero, LLC
    Inventors: Alaric R. Egli, Matthew R. Jackson, Darin Oreman, Jeroen de Vries
  • Patent number: 11953284
    Abstract: A modular quiver system and method of use may include, first, a base portion configured to be attachable to a bow and configured to removably hold a first arrow, and second, a detachable portion configured to removably hold a plurality of second arrows and configured to be removably attachable with the base portion by hand without the use of any tools, regardless whether or not the base portion is attached to the bow, and regardless whether arrows are in the quiver. A quick-release bracket system allows the modular quiver system to be removed from and attached with a bow in different predetermined positions without the use of any tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUICK DRAW LLC
    Inventor: Steven William Davis
  • Patent number: 11918858
    Abstract: A mechanical apparatus for human balance training includes a cross bar whose center is attached to a pivotable protrusion extending from a leg having a base. The apparatus also includes a slidable sheath surrounding a portion of the leg proximate to the pivotable protrusion. The slidable sheath has a plurality of allowed positions relative to the leg, each position limiting tilt of the cross bar to a respective angular range. In some embodiments, each allowed position limits tilt of the cross bar by controlling an extent by which the pivotable protrusion extends out from the sheath. In some embodiments, the sheath is threaded relative to the leg and the allowed positions are a continuous range adjusted by twisting the sheath relative to the leg. In some embodiments, the allowed positions are predefined locking positions. Each locking position limits tilt of the cross bar to a respective predefined angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Balance T, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Agrawal, Michael C. Schubert
  • Patent number: 11890518
    Abstract: A bat handle weight includes a body having a transverse hole with a bat end opening sized to allow a bat handle end to be inserted into the transverse hole. The transverse hole tapers inward at an opposite end from the bat end opening to be narrower than the bat handle end, but wider than the bat handle. The bat handle weight is placed on the bat by placing the bat handle end into the bat end opening, and then rotating the body of the bat handle weight relative to the bat, where the inward tapered portion of the transverse hole bears against the top of the bat handle end, and the user's hand will bear against the outside of the bat handle weight when grasping the bat by the handle, thereby securing the bat handle weight on the bat so that the bat can be swung without the bat handle weight coming off the bat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Ritend Bat Weight LLC
    Inventor: Harold Edward Lindemann, II