Patents Examined by F Griffin Hall
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Patent number: 12156554Abstract: The present invention relates to a disposable safety glove system featuring a plurality of layers of inter-nested gloves that are worn simultaneously by a user. The improved disposable glove system of the present invention allows a user to peel away the outermost layer of gloves to reveal a new and sterile set of gloves. The glove system also features a relatively thick wristband to support the plurality of glove layers, a tab that can be used to easily peel off the outermost glove layer once the same has been used and a new pair of gloves is desired, and a numbering system that alerts the user to how many glove layers remain in the glove stack.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Inventor: Michael Jackson
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Patent number: 12150520Abstract: A running shoe and a flexion plate insert. An upper and an outsole together define an inner volume. A tensioning system selectively constricts the shoe. Trimmable traction formations project from the shoe outsole, and cuttable drainage plugs permit draining of water. A flexion plate exhibiting asymmetric flexion characteristics is selectively retained atop the outsole by engagement of an aperture in the flexion plate with a mounting plug retained within the shoe or by a removable first midsole. The mounting plug and the aperture have eccentric portions that are out of alignment when the flexion plate and the first midsole are aligned and that align when the first midsole and the flexion plate are disposed at a given, non-zero angle. The first midsole can be an upper midsole, and a second, lower midsole can be disposed in a facing relationship with the upper midsole with the flexion plate therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Inventors: David H. Dombrow, Kevin P. Fallon
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Patent number: 12144382Abstract: A personal protection system including a surgical garment that may be mounted to a helmet including an electrically powered assembly, such as a fan. The garment includes a shell adapted for being disposed over the helmet of the personal protection system. The garment also includes a transparent face shield coupled to the shell and an indicia, the indicia being an optically perceivable marking on the garment. The garment may also include a memory, the memory for storing data for regulating the operation of the electrically powered assembly mounted to the helmet. The helmet may also include a sensor for detecting the indicia to selectively allow the actuation of the electrically powered assembly based on the presence or absence of the indicia being positioned adjacent the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Bryan Matthew Ulmer, Brian VanDerWoude, Beau Kidman, David S. Goldenberg
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Patent number: 12137826Abstract: A glove application system includes a glove application module providing a housing that defines an install cavity and an access aperture providing access into the install cavity, a pressure system operable to generate negative pressure in the install cavity, and a glove cartridge assembly mounted to the housing and including a cartridge belt having a plurality of glove cartridges spaced along the cartridge belt, each glove cartridge having a glove releasably secured to the cartridge belt with a fastening system that includes a raised section protruding from the cartridge belt and defining an internal aperture, and a lip laterally protruding from the raised section and sized to receive a wrist bead of the glove, wherein negative pressure generated by the pressure system causes the glove of an aligned glove cartridge to inflate into the install cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Inventor: James Edwin Dally
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Patent number: 12127981Abstract: A goggle includes a frame, a lens, and a roll-off system. The frame has a first lateral end and an opposing second lateral end. The frame defines a lens cavity. The lens is disposed within the lens cavity of the frame. The roll-off system includes a first canister, a second canister, and an actuator mechanism. The first canister is at least partially integrally formed with the first lateral end of the frame. The first canister defines a first interior cavity configured to store a roll of film. The second canister is at least partially integrally formed with the opposing second lateral end of the frame. The second canister defines a second interior cavity configured to receive a strip of film from the roll of film. The actuator mechanism is configured to facilitate selectively dispensing the strip of film from the first canister across the lens to the second canister.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Fox Head, Inc.Inventor: David Leroy Durham
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Patent number: 12127694Abstract: The present application discloses a mannequin. The mannequin includes: a support frame; plates, being configured to enclose the shell of the torso, and comprising driving plates; circumference regulating devices, being configured to support the driving plate and driving it to move; the torso comprising a plurality of regulating regions provided with the driving plates, the plates further comprising driven plates capable of moving together with the driving plates when driven by the driving plates, and at least one of the plurality of regulating regions is provided with the driven plate. Relaxation and contraction of the overall outline of the torso can be achieved simply by controlling the movement of the plates by transmission devices, and the size of the chest, waist, abdomen and hip circumferences of the mannequin can be adjusted, thereby accurately simulating the figure of the human body and achieving high adjustment accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TG3D STUDIO INC. LIMITEDInventors: Ho-Siang Hsieh, Lok Ting Wong, Kao Hing Paul Lee, Ka Ping Tsui
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Patent number: 12127698Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for removing clothing. Specifically, the device may be used to remove a sock from a user's foot. The device may have a handle end, a removing end, and a shaft. A removing head may be configured at the removing end. A first flange may extend from the shaft away from the handle end. A second flange and third flange may be configured on the removing head. The second shaft may extend away from the handle end, and the third flange may extend towards the handle end. The third flange may be configured to catch the user's pant leg to lift the pant leg towards the user's knee. The first and second flanges may be configured to catch the user's sock to remove the sock from the user's foot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Vive Health LLCInventor: Juan Lopez
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Patent number: 12116721Abstract: Proposed is a clothes folding machine, which includes a case, a loading unit disposed at an upper portion of the case and conveying a clothes item gripped by grippers into the case, a folding unit including a longitudinal-line folder folding both sleeves of the clothes item conveyed by the loading unit along longitudinal lines and a transverse-line folder folding the clothes item along transverse lines several times, and an unloading unit disposed at a lower portion of the case and conveying the clothes item folded by the folding unit outside the case.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Aekyung Chae, Keunjoo Kim, Chanwoo Moon, Choongho Lim
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Patent number: 12108826Abstract: Provided is a facial protection apparatus including a main body having an opening area that is opened forward and being wearable by a user, a shield portion covering the opening area formed in the main body and detachably connected to the main body, and an opening/closing portion installed on the main body and opening/closing an insertion path of the shield portion that is inserted in the main body, so as to protect the face of the user against foreign matters during an operation and to have an improved convenience in use.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: OTOS WING.CO., LTD.Inventors: Moon Young Huh, Sung Won Huh
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Patent number: 12109152Abstract: The present disclosure provides a removable eyewear shielding device, an eyewear comprising a removable eyewear shielding device, and methods of uses thereof for reducing eye radiation exposure, reducing ipsilateral brain radiation exposure, reducing FGI-induced lens opacification, reducing cataract development, or protecting an eye or ipsilateral brain from radiation exposure.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Melissa Kirkwood, Jeffrey Guild, Gary Arbique
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Patent number: 12104314Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a garment folding apparatus, i.e., a folding apparatus that serves to fold a garment during a process of conveying the garment. A folding assembly constituting the garment folding apparatus includes a vertical folding layer having a conveyor and configured to vertically fold the loaded garment by using a drive motor, a horizontal folding layer disposed below the vertical folding layer, having a conveyor, and configured to horizontally fold the loaded garment by using a drive motor, and sensor units provided in the vertical folding layer and the horizontal folding layer and configured to detect the garment so as to check whether the garment is loaded, a length of the garment, and whether the garment is folded.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Keunjoo Kim
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Patent number: 12102881Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pair of swimming goggles comprising a glass insert in each goggle lens. Each goggle lens comprises a body constructed form a substrate material and a glass insert received within a lip extending upwardly from around the perimeter of the body. The glass insert may be installed on top of a coating on a substrate material of the goggle lens. The glass insert may comprise a glass plate having an adhesive sheet on an underside thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Form Athletica Inc.Inventors: Dan Eisenhardt, Adam Capelin, Derek Disanjh
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Patent number: 12090367Abstract: Protective eyewear comprising a pair of eye pieces, each defining one of two opposing inner lateral surfaces spaced by a nose bridge. At least one of the inner lateral surfaces comprises a slot for slidably and releasably engaging a locating rib provided on said nose bridge. Said slot comprises a slot locking element and said nose bridge comprises a nose bridge locking element. In a use configuration with the locating rib of the nose bridge engaged within the slot, the slot locking element and the nose bridge locking element cooperate within said slot to releasably secure the locating rib within the slot.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Nathan Tomlinson, Chris Johnson, Thomas Frederick Osman
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Patent number: 12089755Abstract: The present application discloses a mannequin. The mannequin includes: a torso, upper limbs on both sides of the torso and a yawing device used for regulating the lateral swing of the upper limb being arranged at the joint between the upper limb and the torso. An upper limb fixing seat is arranged at the root of the upper limb. The yawing device includes: a yawing bracket hinged with the top of the upper limb fixing seat and a regulating piece with an inner end movable relative to the bottom of the yawing bracket. The outer end of the regulating piece being fixedly connected with the yawing bracket, and the movement of the regulating piece is used to drive the top of the upper limb fixing seat to swing relative to the yawing bracket, such that the upper limb is driven to swing.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: TG3D STUDIO INC. LIMITEDInventors: Ho-Siang Hsieh, Lok Ting Wong, Kao Hing Paul Lee, Ka Ping Tsui
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Patent number: 12070089Abstract: An accessory cuff is configured to reinforce a gown-glove interface to protect a wearer from exposure to potential pathogens or contaminants through vulnerabilities in the gown-glove interface. The accessory cuff includes a body extending from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis. The body has a lumen extending therethrough from the proximal end to the distal end, and a wall surrounding the lumen. The accessory cuff is configured to create a fluid impervious barrier to prevent fluid from entering the lumen when the accessory cuff is sealed at the proximal end and the distal end.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Margaret A. Howell, Marshall R. Dean, Namita A. Mithani
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Patent number: 12070088Abstract: A glove matrix and method of making gloves from a web of material, which leaves no scrap from the web of material. A first sheet of material is overlaid on a second sheet of material forming a web. First and second glove patterns are formed in the web are arranged to be opposite one another in the cross machine direction of the web. A sinusoidal cut can be made in the web in the machine direction to form glove patterns opposite each other in the cross machine direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: INTEPLAST GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Pai-Mei Tseng, Chih Jen Hsu, Jyh-Yao Raphael Li, Kelvin Yang
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Patent number: 12070094Abstract: A robotic mannequin including a frame and shells that are movable with respect to the frame. The plurality of shells has at least one set of articulated shells including at least one first shell and a second shell, kinematically coupled through a first kinematic connection authorizing a rotation. It includes at least one actuator configured to apply a movement of translation to one among at least the first shell, the second shell, or the first kinematic connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: EUVEKA (SAS)Inventors: Audrey Laure Bergenthal, Willy Fourniol
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Patent number: 12070144Abstract: A garment hanger attachment device for hooded garments that includes a main body, a shaped structural member, a swivel hook, a garment hood support, and a hanger attachment mechanism. The user can hang a hooded garment on a traditional clothes hanger, then attach the clothes hanger to the hanger attachment mechanism. Once in place, the hood of the garment can be pulled up to rest on the garment hood support allowing the hood to rest in a natural state. The swivel hook allows the garment hanger attachment device to rotate freely when hung. The shaped structural member is supported by structural cross webbing to prevent torquing or breaking.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Inventor: Scott Stacy Baker
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Patent number: 12064205Abstract: A glove donning system is disclosed herein. The glove donning system presents a pair of inflated gloves for a user to easily don, then resets to present another pair.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Kenton Brett
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Patent number: 12063988Abstract: A wearable airbag device for protecting the hip of a wearer includes an airbag that is formed of a sheet material having flexibility and is adapted to be put on a circumference of the pelvis of the wearer. The airbag is inflatable with an inflation gas. The airbag includes: a mounting portion that is adapted to be disposed at a region to be wrapped around the pelvis at airbag deployment; two protecting portions each of which is configured to extend downward from the mounting portion and cover an outer side of a targeted body part of the wearer at airbag deployment, the targeted body part being left and right trochanters of femurs; and a means for suppressing each of the protecting portions from expanding and floating away from the targeted body part at the lower end at deployment of the protecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihito Yanagisawa, Wataru Miura, Yusuke Kawamura, Kunihiro Aikawa