Patents Examined by Gary C. Hoge
  • Patent number: 12384188
    Abstract: A 3D pop-up card assembly having a base card and a pop-up construct that pops up when the base card is opened. The pop-up construct is attached to the base card using a plurality of hinge elements. Each of the hinge elements has a transition section that leads to an anchor tab. The transition section contains fold lines along which each of the hinge elements can fold. The anchor tab of each hinge element is attached to the base card. When the base card is opened, each hinge element can rotate in unaligned planes, therein applying tension to the pop-up construct as the orientation between the base card and the pop-up construct changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: JAST GIFTS SHENZHEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jen-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12387633
    Abstract: An electric sign device can include a backboard; first and second metal strips attached to the backboard; a plurality of LED assemblies, each LED assembly comprising: a board; first and second metal contacts attached to a first side of the board; first and second magnets attached to the first and second metal contacts, respectively; the first and second metal contacts contacting the first and second metal strips, respectively; a plurality of LEDs disposed on a second side of the board, the plurality of LEDs being electrically connected to the first and second metal contacts; and a carrier having one or more channels or apertures that receive the plurality of LEDs, the carrier being attached to the board; wherein the first and second magnets are magnetically attached to the first and second metal strips, respectively, so that the each LED assembly is magnetically attached to the backboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Inventors: Major Roy Schuetz, Kelly Jo Schuetz
  • Patent number: 12367792
    Abstract: A system for serving legal documents for initiating legal proceedings which includes a repository, the form of a database which is stored on a server (not shown), for receiving and storing legal documents for initiating legal proceedings, a notification means, in the form of a notifier, for notifying a recipient via an agreed digital address (not shown) of receipt by the database of a legal document, and a payment means (not shown) for allowing the recipient to access the legal document free of charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin George Carey, Stephen John Piper
  • Patent number: 12359384
    Abstract: A traffic marker illumination device for improving the visibility of a traffic marker to provide warnings for constructions sites and roadways. The traffic marker illumination device is designed to removably attach to an interior portion of a traffic marker. The traffic marker illumination device generates a light to illuminate the traffic marker based on the geographic position of the traffic marker and surrounding environmental elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Safety X Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Peter A. Reckert, David Alton Chamblee, Tristan Tyler Neal, Bobby Dayle Price
  • Patent number: 12361846
    Abstract: An illuminated street address display assembly for facilitating identification of structures includes a display unit and a remote controller. A pair of display panels is positioned on a housing of the display unit. A power module, a transceiver, and a microprocessor are positioned in the housing. Respective indicia, corresponding to a street address of the structure, is displayed on the display panels. The microprocessor is operationally engaged to the power module, the transceiver, and the display panels and thus is enabled to selectively actuate the display panels to display the indicia so that the street address is visible to a user from a street upon which the structure is sited. The remote controller wirelessly controls at least one operational parameter of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Inventor: Rolando Estrella
  • Patent number: 12350960
    Abstract: A detachable board includes a body, a filling foam, and mounting patches. The body includes a recessed area on the back of the body made by stamping process. The filling foam forms mounting slots with an inner wall and corners of the recessed area rim. During installation, the filling foam and the mounting patches are snuggly fitted in the recessed area. The mounting patch comprises a release film layer, an adhesive layer, and a substrate layer. The substrate layer is in contact with the body of the detachable board, and the adhesive layer is pasted onto a fixed surface for mounting the detachable board onto the fixed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Hitech128 International Limited
    Inventor: Kan Chan
  • Patent number: 12340714
    Abstract: A sign cabinet, comprising: (a) a frame adapted to receive and support one or more graphics, the frame having sections defining a perimeter of the frame; and (b) a light assembly housed within the frame and adapted to illuminate the one or more graphics when located within the frame; wherein the frame is adapted for freestanding and suspended hanging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Keystone Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Evan Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 12329297
    Abstract: A repositionable frame system includes a frame component for holding an image substrate and having a rear face. The system further include a frame mount that is fixedly attached to the rear face of the frame component. The frame mount comprises a first magnetic element. The system also includes a repositionable wall pad for placement on a support surface and configured to detachably couple to the frame mount. The wall pad includes a cross-linked closed cell polyethylene foam having a first face that faces away from the frame mount and an opposite second face that faces the frame mount. The wall pad further includes a removable transfer adhesive layer disposed directly along the first face, a permanent transfer adhesive layer disposed directly along the second face, and a second magnetic element that is magnetically attracted to the first magnetic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Tracer Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Steven M. Spiro, Ryan Kelly
  • Patent number: 12324490
    Abstract: A uniform badge attachment device including a sign assembly, a hinge assembly, and a rod assembly. The sign assembly includes an insignia with indicia of a rank, grade, mark or the like in a front side thereof. The hinge assembly includes a hinge support with a hinge lock attached at the rear side of the insignia, wherein a rod is coupled to the hinge support by means of a pin capable of rotating and secured in a predetermined position by the hinge lock. The rod has a sharpened edge adapted to pierce a layer of garment, thereby the rod and a plurality thereof may pierce the layer of garment allowing the rod to be folded and secured in place by means of the pin and the hinge lock, preventing from falling down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventor: Ron Herring
  • Patent number: 12324992
    Abstract: A scene decoration article includes an outer housing, a cover part, and a driving device. The outer housing is provided with a first inner side wall and a first outer side wall. The first inner side wall surrounds and forms a first accommodating cavity. The first accommodating cavity is used for accommodating liquid. A surface of the first inner side wall is recessed to form an installation inner wall. The cover part is configured for covering the installation inner wall to form a water intake cavity between the cover part and the installation inner wall. The cover part is provided with a first water inlet. The installation inner wall is provided with a first water outlet. The first accommodating cavity, the first water inlet, the water intake cavity, and the first water outlet are in communication with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventors: Qingxin Yu, Lijiao Zhao
  • Patent number: 12327497
    Abstract: A remote control and communication advertising display system and method for displaying advertising content and other related information to traffic outside a commercial space, providing a remote control and communication advertising display having two display units, each having a programmable display and a sensor housing, two wheeled base units having motorized wheel units, and an electronics unit having a rechargeable battery, a power and charge controller, a movement controller, a sensor controller, a communications controller with an RF antenna, and a display controller. The remote control and communication advertising display can move safely under its own power and control using real-time data from sensors, can communicate wirelessly for receiving changing advertising content and optionally for transmitting information gathered from sensors back to the commercial space, and can selectively display updated advertising content based on sensor information and on instructions received wirelessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventors: Gary Pressley, Stacey Steffes
  • Patent number: 12315397
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for organizing items according to various aspects of the present invention may comprise a hanger tag system to convey information relating to an item on a hanger. The hanger tag system may comprise, for example, a mount connected to the hanger and an information medium mounted on the mount, wherein the information medium provides information relating to the item. In various embodiments, the hanger tag system further comprises a connector configured to connect the mount to the hanger. In various embodiments, the information medium comprises a labeling surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Inventor: Capri S. DeModica
  • Patent number: 12315398
    Abstract: A method is provided for tracking and/or locating a delivery item transport equipment label. A delivery-item transport equipment label is scanned. At least one of a first identifier that is attached to a bracket or an RFID chip that is attached to the bracket is scanned to associate the delivery-item transport equipment label with the RFID chip. The RFID chip is scanned during use of a delivery-item transport equipment to which the bracket is attached. A location of the delivery-item transport equipment label is identified based on the scanning of the RFID chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
    Inventor: Clayton C. Bonnell
  • Patent number: 12311693
    Abstract: A placeholder device for quickly providing a visual indication of the location of where to return a file folder from a stack of file folders. The placeholder has a first leaf, a second leaf, and a tab. The second leaf extends from the first leaf in a perpendicular direction to form an L-shape with the first leaf. The tab may be pivotal between an extended position and a generally flattened position along the second leaf. A colored emblem may be attached to the tab of the placeholder an a corresponding colored emblem may be attached to a file folder to match the file folder with the placeholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Inventor: Vincenzo Letizia
  • Patent number: 12296612
    Abstract: A 3D pop-up card assembly having a base card and a foldable figure that pops up when the base card is opened. The foldable figure is attached to the base card using a plurality of paper hinge constructs. Each of the paper hinge constructs has a first tab, a second tab and a transition section. The transition section contains fold lines along which each of the paper hinge constructs can fold. The first tab of each paper hinge construct is attached to the base card. The second tab of each paper hinge construct is attached to the foldable figure. When the base card is opened, each paper hinge construct can rotate in unaligned planes, therein applying tension to the foldable figure as the orientation between the base card and the foldable figure changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Jast Gifts Shenzhen Company Limited
    Inventor: Jen-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12300124
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a rotating light bar and a driving unit. The driving unit is connected to a center point of the rotating light bar, and the rotating light bar is configured to rotate with the center point of the rotating light bar as an axis. The rotating light bar includes light emitting device groups arranged along a width direction of the rotating light bar, each of the light emitting device groups includes light emitting devices arranged along a length direction of the rotating light bar, and the light emitting devices in two adjacent ones of the light emitting device groups are staggered in the length direction of the rotating light bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunni Chen, Fancheng Liu, Guowei Zha, Zhifu Li
  • Patent number: 12293682
    Abstract: A display panel has an inner layer formed of a plurality of flutes, a first outer layer affixed to one side of the inner layer so as to overlie the plurality of flutes, and a second outer layer affixed to an opposite side of the inner layer. The second outer layer also overlies the plurality of flutes. The inner layer and the outer layers are co-extruded together. The plurality of flutes are of a black color. Each of the outer layers is of white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Quan Luu
  • Patent number: 12293680
    Abstract: An inflatable ornament is disclosed, including an inflatable body. The inflatable body is surrounded by a membrane material, an inflatable fan is arranged on the inflatable body, the inflatable body expands after being inflated. A first swinging portion is arranged on the inflatable body, the first swinging portion is connected with the inflatable body, a swinging drive is arranged in the first swinging portion, and the swinging drive drives the first swinging portion to swing. A second swinging portion is connected with the inflatable body, the second swinging portion is connected with the first swinging portion via at least one connecting piece. When the first swinging portion swings, the first swinging portion drives the second swinging portion to swing via the connecting piece. The swinging structure is simple and is not easy to be damaged, thereby reducing the production cost and prolonging the service life of a product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Life Ideas Company LTD
    Inventor: Shouxiong Jing
  • Patent number: 12288484
    Abstract: A material mounting apparatus may include a body having a front side and a back side. One or more body attachment elements may be secured to the back side of the body. One or more connectors may be secured to and extend from the one or more body attachment elements. A material may be placed over the front side of the body. An outer perimeter of the material may extend beyond a perimeter of the body. The outer perimeter of the material may be folded across the perimeter of the body into an adjacent relationship with the back side of the body. The one or more connectors may be secured to the material to retain and/or stretch the material over the material mounting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Laurie Lynn McCarthy-Meyer
  • Patent number: 12283202
    Abstract: A connection assembly for connecting a banner to an upper support line, a lower support line, and a first tensioning line of a banner support system supporting a banner, the connection assembly comprising first and second lateral lines attached to the first tensioning line of the banner support system, an upper support line connection portion connecting the first lateral line to both an upper corner of the banner and the upper support line, the upper support line connection portion being slidably coupled to the upper support line, and a lower support line connection portion connecting the second lateral line to both a lower corner of the banner and the lower support line, the lower support line connection portion being slidably coupled to the lower support line, and the lower support line connection portion being operable to allow the lower corner of the banner to rotate away from the lower support line and to return back toward the lower support line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Colonial Specialty Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Swenson, Jeff Wixon, Bob Chavez