Patents Examined by Chun Cheung
  • Patent number: 9650194
    Abstract: A tamper evident label flap positioned to cover an opening in a package. The label flap includes a base layer having a top surface and a bottom surface. A top layer is attached to the base layer by an adhesive layer. A tamper evident structure is located in at least one designated area between the base layer and the top layer. The tamper evident structure includes a first ink layer applied to the base layer and a second ink layer applied to the first ink layer. The first ink layer and the second ink layer are held together in a weaker bond than a bond between the top layer and the base layer. When the label flap is initially pulled from the package, the first ink layer and the second ink layer separate and define a visible permanent de-lamination which signifies the package has been opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: HFM Packaging, LTD.
    Inventor: Scott Hetherton
  • Patent number: 9635965
    Abstract: Containers having a fitment have been used to store food product. Oftentimes the product contained within the container is easier for a user to consume if a utensil such as a spoon is used. The present disclosure is directed towards an assembly for mounting to a container. The assembly includes a fitment with a passage. The spoon is at least partially disposed within the passage of the fitment. The spoon may be attached to the fitment, and covered by a protective cover. The protective cover may include a first half and a second half. The protective cover can be secured with a safety seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Pouch Pac Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: R. Charles Murray
  • Patent number: 9629432
    Abstract: A portable food container includes a first container for receiving a food item and having a first end with an opening, a second end, and a sidewall connecting the first and second ends. A closure of the first container is releasably securable to the opening. A second container has an open configuration and a closed configuration, and defines a first cell for receiving a food item, a second cell for receiving the first container, and a port for receiving a portion of the first container. When the second container is in the closed configuration and the first container is located in the second cell, the first container opening is substantially aligned with the port to receive the closure. The closure secures the second container in the closed configuration when the first container is located in the second cell and the closure is secured to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: WikiFoods, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Edwards, Laurent Robert Adrien Milon
  • Patent number: 9629495
    Abstract: A beverage brewing package includes a cup and a filter bag. The filter bag is supported in an interior region formed in the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Darin C Koestring, Ryan Dewig, Milan C Maravich
  • Patent number: 9630314
    Abstract: A socket holder is provided, including a main body having at least one receiving slot for a socket to be arranged therein and at least one restriction portion. Each receiving slot has a first end portion, a second end portion opposite to the first end portion and a slot opening. Each restriction portion has a first arm portion extending from the first end portion substantially toward the second arm portion and a second arm portion transverse to the first arm portion and extending toward a wall of the receiving slot. Wherein, when the socket is arranged in the receiving slot, the first and second arm portions protrude into a sleeve opening of an end of the socket to restrictedly abut against an inner wall thereof, and the second end portion restrains the other end of the socket from swinging toward the slot opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Inventor: Yu-Hua Ou
  • Patent number: 9617060
    Abstract: A container with a vented intermediate section, a base section, and a cover section. When the cover section is pivoted in the closed position a cover enclosure is formed between the intermediate section and the cover section, as are container receiving cavities. Interior vents fluidly couple the container receiving cavities with the cover enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Highland Packaging Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Hanna
  • Patent number: 9616165
    Abstract: A glucose sensor product maintains the sterility of the glucose sensor while allowing gaseous manufacturing by-products to be vented from the inside of the glucose sensor package. An exemplary glucose sensor product includes a plastic package tray and a glucose sensor assembly in the plastic package tray. The glucose sensor assembly includes an electrochemical sensor with glucose oxidase enzyme, a sensor base formed at least in part from plastic, a sensor mounting pedestal formed at least in part from plastic, and a sensor introducer formed at least in part from plastic. The glucose sensor product also includes a microbial barrier material coupled to the plastic package tray to seal the glucose sensor assembly in the plastic package tray. The microbial barrier material maintains sterility of the glucose sensor assembly while venting substances outgassed from the plastic package tray, the sensor base, the sensor mounting pedestal, and the sensor introducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Allan Larson, Rajiv Shah
  • Patent number: 9610126
    Abstract: Instrument containers for use in sterilizing, storing, transporting, and/or presenting medical instruments, such as dental and surgical instruments, are disclosed. The instrument containers may include, an instrument tray; a cover; and a plurality of openings formed in the instrument tray and cover. The instrument containers may be flexible containers, wherein the cover can be snap-fitted onto the instrument tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Practicon, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradley P. Griffin
  • Patent number: 9611067
    Abstract: The system for shipping bottles is provided; the system contains a plurality of corrugated members that interleave to form a plurality of bottle holding cavities. The system utilizes an insulative pad formed of a textile pad disposed within a polymer film sleeve. The insulative pad is disposed around the bottle holding cavities. A textile pad has chopped fibers selected from the group polyester, nylon, acrylic, cotton, polypropylene, denim and combinations thereof is coupled to an interior surface being attached to the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Inventor: Chad A. Collison
  • Patent number: 9603781
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to sterile packaging kit of components to be used to clean an area of a patient's skin, and more particularly to a sterile kit for cleaning a patient's skin area in the surgical field, following a surgical procedure. The kit, in its most basic form, comprises an outer envelope containing at least one dry towel and at least one wetted towel in its own pouch, separated from the dry towel. The kit may further include a heating element which efficiently transfers heat to the wetted towel. The cleaning kit may also provide sterile bandages for use in covering closed surgical incisions, after postop cleaning of the skin the surgical field, using the wetted and dry towel of the kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Coviden LP
    Inventors: Ricardo Alexander Gomez, Sandy Lawrence Heck, Eric William Conley
  • Patent number: 9603425
    Abstract: A case incorporates a built-in stand for an electronic device, such as an electronic tablet computer, which the case houses. The case protects the electronic device and allows a user to view and access the device without removing it from the case. The built-in stand is adjustable and allows for multiple viewing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Incase Designs Corp.
    Inventors: Markus Diebel, Hyun Hong
  • Patent number: 9592354
    Abstract: Dosage forms containing pharmaceutical compositions for use in devices to produce a spray or mist delivery of the compositions include dosage blister compartments and a dispensing blister compartment, wherein crushing of the compartments delivers the compositions in a desired spray pattern. Certain dosage forms include a plurality of dosage chambers each containing a component or a portion of a pharmaceutical composition, the contents of which are mixed or combined just prior to or during administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mystic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Sullivan, Jeffrey Nelson
  • Patent number: 9578940
    Abstract: A protective case for receiving and retaining a portable electronic device is provided. The case comprises dampening features disposed in at least two corners of the case to protect the electronic device from inadvertent impact and the resultant forces. Various embodiments of the case comprise multi-materials designs and features that allow utilize of various controls and features of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Thule Organization Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew A. Burgess, Ken O'Rourke
  • Patent number: 9573270
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a main body, a back cover and a supporting portion. The main body has a first end formed with a hanging portion and t a second end. The back cover is pivoted to the second end and is closable or expendable relative to the main body to make an inner surface thereof selectively cover or uncover one said side face of the main body. The supporting portion is movably disposed between the main body and the back cover. When the back cover is closed, the supporting portion is received between the main body and the back cover; and when the back cover is expended, two ends of the supporting portion are positionably disposed on the main body and the back cover respectively and the main body and the back cover are positioned relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Yu-Hua Ou
  • Patent number: 9565911
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates generally to various embodiments of holders and packaging for giving gifts. In particular, the invention relates to various gift card holders that hold a gift card and enhance the presentation and gift giving experience for recipients and gift givers alike. The holders and packing also permit a gift card disposed therein to be visible, scanned, accessed, or otherwise activated without removing the gift card from the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Gift Card Impressions, LLC
    Inventors: Brett R. Glass, Nicole E. Glass
  • Patent number: 9567121
    Abstract: A bundled object is obtained in which a plurality of overlapped articles is sufficiently strongly bundled and it is also easy to release the bundling. A bundled object 1 is configured to include a body-to-be-bundled 3 which is made by overlapping a plurality of articles 2 and has four marginal portions 3a each extending a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction, and a strip-shaped plastic tape 4 which bundles the body-to-be-bundled 3 by winding around the body-to-be-bundled 3 once so as to pass over the four marginal portions 3a. Then, both end portions 4a and 4b other than a winding portion of the plastic tape 4 are overlapped on each other at a position away from the body-to-be-bundled 3 and close to one marginal portion 3a, and the overlapped tape both end portions 4a and 4b are welded to each other at a plurality of welded portions H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Aya
  • Patent number: 9566380
    Abstract: A description of a bottle container assembly for use by patients for daily handling of glass insulin ampules and/or a variety of prescription medications and small medicine bottles. The container assembly is designed for frequent daily use at home, work or travel. It is constructed to address the safe handling, use and safe storage of medicines and in particular the storage of a variety of glass ampules containing insulin or other hypodermic solutions. The invention provides a safe, suitable and reusable container assembly to hold various insulin ampules replacing the fragile cardboard boxes they are shipped in by the manufacturers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Inventor: Robert K. Tcholakian
  • Patent number: 9555308
    Abstract: A bag includes a main storage compartment and a plurality of accessory storage compartments. The accessory storage compartments are generally separated from the storage space of the main storage compartment and might be used to stow various items, such as athletic balls, shoes, towels, uniforms, sports drinks, sports supplements, and the like. One type of accessory storage compartment includes a ball-bag stowage compartment for storing a ball bag. Another type of accessory storage compartment includes a shoe-stowage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventors: Hrag Nassanian, David Sagan
  • Patent number: 9555925
    Abstract: A stacking apparatus including a stacking sleeve comprising walls and a top side, and a sleeve-pallet comprising a platform configured to support goods. The stacking sleeve being configured to surround goods on a first sleeve-pallet and support a second sleeve-pallet on the top side. The stacking sleeve may further comprise braces and access holes. The stacking sleeve may be configured to enable nesting of a second sleeve-pallet supported by the stacking sleeve. The platform of the sleeve-pallet may be further configured to support a stacking sleeve. The sleeve-pallet may further comprise a securing structure to secure a stacking sleeve supported by the platform. The platform of the sleeve-pallet may be further configured to nest in a stacking sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Joseph Marchek, Abraham Israel Jimenez
  • Patent number: 9554632
    Abstract: Cases for portable electronic devices are described including multiple alignment elements (e.g. slugs, magnets or physical securing means) embedded in a panel, such as the back panel of the case. Various accessories, such as stands, cord spools, mounts, communication devices, speakers, displays, etc., may also have multiple corresponding alignment elements (e.g. magnets, slugs or cooperative physical securing means) in them that allow the accessories to be semi-securely attached to the case in a plurality of specific positions and/or orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Derek Tarnow, Ariel Fischer, Vivekanand Jayaraman, Scot Herbst