Patents Examined by Gary C. Hoge
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Patent number: 12207623Abstract: A carrier assembly for a pet tag and an electronic tracking component includes a front cover, a retainer ring and a rear cover engaged with each other, with the retainer ring between the front cover and the rear cover. The retainer ring is movable, relative to the front cover and the rear cover, between a release position and a retention position, wherein, in the retention position of the retainer ring, the rear cover is retained adjacent the front cover and retainer ring for holding an electronic tracking device in the second recess, wherein, in the release position of the retainer ring, the rear cover is released to enable the rear cover to be separated from the front cover and retainer ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.Inventors: Byron K. Grice, Michael J. Schmidt
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Patent number: 12201228Abstract: A picture frame comprising a picture carrier portion and a frame portion, the picture carrier portion to carry a picture member; the frame portion comprising frame members with: an outer side member hingedly connected at a first hinge connection to the picture carrier portion; a back member hingedly connected at a second hinge connection to the outer side member, and an inner side member hingedly connected at a third hinge connection to the back member, wherein in an assembled position: the outer side member forms an outer side of the frame, the back member forms a back of the frame, and; the inner side member forms an inner side of the frame, wherein a connection system is arranged to lock the inner side member to the picture carrier portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventors: Edward Glen Morrish, John Morrish, Mark Peter Morrish
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Patent number: 12207426Abstract: An exterior display system can be configured and arranged around a structure. The exterior display system includes a mechanical supporting structure configured and arranged about the exterior surface of the structure. This mechanical supporting structure can include various supporting structures and/or mounting structures which are configured and arranged to form a mechanical lattice framework. An electronic visual display device can be connected to the mechanical lattice framework to form the exterior display system. The electronic visual display device can include multiple electronic visual display panels which are connected to the mechanical lattice framework. Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs), also referred to electronic LED disc assemblies, that are configured and arranged in a series of one or more rows and/or a series of one or more columns.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Alex Luthwaite, Miguel Fontgivell Ariño, Jonathan Lawrence Mallie, Aric Gabriel Braselton, Nicholas Craig Reynolds, Maria Charlotta Knutsson-Hall, Cawsie Jijina
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Patent number: 12205496Abstract: A wire labeling kit is configured to provide functional and ownership information for a wire. The wire labeling kit has a top body further comprising a top body top side and a top body bottom side. A text field surface is arranged on the top body top side. A notched cavity is formed onto the top body bottom side. A bottom body further has a plurality of bottom protrusions which mate with the notched cavity. The top body is detachably coupled to the bottom body around the wire such that a wire label can be placed on the text field surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventor: Terry Solomon
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Patent number: 12201201Abstract: Disclosed is a holder for TSA-approved locks, the multi-purpose protective holder comprising a holder body, a TSA-approved and recognised logo window provided on at least one of either a front face and a back face of the holder body for exposing a TSA-approved and recognised logo; a code zone provided on one side of the holder body to expose code dials; and a keyhole zone provided at the underside of the holder body to expose a keyhole and a TSA key number, wherein the holder body is further attached with a card case body including a card case bottom wall and a card case top wall. The holder as disclosed may facilitate customs officials in identifying the TSA-approved and recognised logo so as to avoid the circumstances of removing the lock by force, causing damage due to misidentification; besides, it is convenient for a passenger to place an information card in the card case to record names/usages of the items inside the luggage as well as personal information.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventor: Robert Adamberry
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Patent number: 12190755Abstract: A visual display system creates various visual and audible effects from the motion of light particulate matter, such as beads. The system makes use of a variable flow air array generation device that facilitates a variable flow air array within the chamber. The device includes three or more array sections and a controller. The array sections each contribute distinct but coordinated air flows that coalesce with each other into forming the variable flow air array within the chamber. The controller controls each of the array sections. The variable flow air array generated by the device agitates, fluidizes, suspends, or floats at least some of a plurality of beads in the chamber creating a dynamic display of beads within the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Airflow Kinetics, LLCInventor: Gordon Sharp
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Patent number: 12187060Abstract: A composition for producing a laser-inscribable identification tag for attachment to an assembly to be identified includes: a polymeric plastic; and a filler. The filler comprises graphene particles, barium particles, and/or barium sulfate particles. In an embodiment, the polymeric plastic includes polypropylene, polyethylene, PVC, TPU, TPE, TPV, PP/PA, polyketone, PA, ABS, PET, and/or PMMA.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Manuela Paus, Michael Peter, Patrick Oster
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Patent number: 12175893Abstract: The present invention relates to a designer home décor messaging system including a pair of designer soft textile articles for decoration and providing a way of communication between two users. A first article of the set has a printed customized question phrase, and a second article has at least one and potentially two response phrases corresponding to the question phrase. The first article can be displayed to ask the question and a panel of the second article can be displayed to respond to the question. The second article can be flipped to respond to the question with a different response. The phrases can be in any language, font, style and design. The system can also be in the form of covers for the articles having customized phrases.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Inventor: Apryll Wallis
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Patent number: 12168599Abstract: A liquid dispenser having immersive motion graphics is provided and includes a base portion, a display portion, a liquid supply portion and an electrical control portion, where the display portion is disposed in an accommodating space formed by the base portion, such that when the electrical control portion controls the liquid supply portion to inject a liquid into a target object located in the accommodating space, the electrical control portion simultaneously controls the display portion to display a motion graphic in the accommodating space to generate an interaction between the motion graphic and the liquid. Therefore, consumers can be informed of rich beverage information and be provided with an immersive experience via the display of the motion graphic.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: AQUIVIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Chang, Daniel Hill
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Patent number: 12162302Abstract: The invention concerns a 3D pop-up card having a foldable base card which has an inner side and an outer side, the base card being foldable along a fold and being reversibly transferable from a folded, closed state to an unfolded, open state, wherein a foldable figure is fixed to the inner side of the base card and the foldable figure unfolds autonomously into a three-dimensional structure when the base card is transferred into an open state, wherein the base card is double-layered, the layer which is on the inside in the closed state having at least one slit on each of the two sides of the fold the base card and the foldable figure being connected to one another via L-shaped connecting pieces, and the first leg of an L-shaped connecting piece engaging in a slit and the second leg of an L-shaped connecting piece being attached to the foldable figure.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: JAST Gifts Shenzhen Company LimitedInventor: Jen-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 12159555Abstract: A smart device for the promotion of shelf products exhibited in consumer commercial settings may utilize sound, motion, light, and smell when a consumer is proximate a shelf. The smart may consist of a motion transmission system (T) installed in a box (1), a modular universal gripping system (32), an integrated electronic circuit board (35) on which control and command components are installed; an electronically controlled magnet lamp (24), a smell dispenser (28), an audio system (A) consisting of a loudspeaker (34) and an audio amplifier (37), a motion sensor (29), and communication means (C) for bidirectional transmission/reception of the commands for operation parameters. Operation parameters may be keyed to a consumer's characteristics, reports on the traffic in front of the shelf where the device is installed, and the number of interactions with the consumer. This information may be uploaded on the web platform and provided as a report.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Tokinomo Marketing SAInventor: Mircea Ioan Vlad Cluve
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Patent number: 12157600Abstract: Disclosed is a device for application of a sticker or decal on a surface difficult to position or align. Also disclosed is a method of using a device for application of a sticker or decal on a surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Inspection Purpose, LLCInventors: Kevin Kennedy, Joseph Maryovich
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Patent number: 12148326Abstract: A display method for an electronic label having a display area is disclosed. The display method includes the following steps. A plurality of visual contents to be displayed are predefined, wherein each of the visual contents has a first state and a second state corresponding to a first state display subpage and a second state display page respectively. The display area is divided into a plurality of first sub-areas for displaying the plurality of first state display subpages respectively. A second sub-area operable for selection of a specific one from the plurality of first state display subpages is provided in each of the first sub-area in response to a first instruction of a user. The display area is caused to display the second state display page corresponding to the specific first state display subpage in response to a second instruction of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: M2COMMUNICATION INC.Inventors: Hsin-Yu Huang, Su-ching Huang, Kuo-Chih Chang
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Patent number: 12148325Abstract: An assembly and/or an edge configuration of a wristband is described herein. In some implementations, a wristband may include a first end portion formed from a first perforated cut in a sheet of material. The first end portion is disposed on a first end of the wristband. The wristband may include a second end portion formed from a second perforated cut in the sheet of material. The second end portion may be disposed on a second end of the wristband that is opposite the first end. The wristband may include a strap portion formed from a percentage cut in the sheet of material. The strap portion may be disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Lee Nuttall, Derek Bosanko
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Patent number: 12148324Abstract: Provided here are mobile way-finder signs having changeable panels that are internally illuminated. Internal illumination may be caused by battery-powered LED light bulbs. The sign may include a base, an inner frame, an outer frame, a changeable panel, and a retainer. The sign may include a power toggle switch and interior LEDs and wiring within the inner or outer frames. The sign may include a rechargeable battery pack located under the base in a snap-in holder, and heavy-duty black polyurethane wheels.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: The Valet Vault, LLCInventors: Zachary Robertson Wojohn, Richard Grant Henry
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Patent number: 12138955Abstract: The current invention may include an improved canvas wrap frame mount having an upper and a lower display support that may be secured along the top and bottom surfaces of a canvas wrap picture by a plurality of low profile adjustable couplers. In another embodiment, the invention may include an extendable canvas wrap frame mount having an upper and a lower display support that may be independently expandable along the length of a leading edge of a canvas wrap.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Inventor: Cody Vedvig
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Patent number: 12136359Abstract: A carton closure label is provided. The carton closure includes a first layer having a first adhesion value and a perforated portion extending at least substantially across a dimension of the first layer. The carton closure also includes a second layer removably coupled with the first layer, the second layer having a second adhesion value that is less than the first adhesion value.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventor: Diogo Ferreira
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Patent number: 12125418Abstract: A method of making signs includes printing selected visual content on a surface of material. Punch holes along at least two outer edges of the material. Orient U-stake at an x-axis of the material and thread the leg portions of the stake through the holes. Fold the material over the U-stake along the x-axis of the material, the folding dividing the material into parts, a first part and a second part, and orients the first part and the second part such that a first side of the first part adjacent to a first side of the second part, after the folding, comprise no printed visual content, and a second side of the first part and a second side of the second part comprise outer surfaces and comprise the visual content. Secure the first part to the second part.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Fujifilm North America, Imaging DivisionInventor: Devin Perpetua
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Patent number: 12125416Abstract: An adhesive label for a multi-part container having a threaded member and a container body includes a first, sheet-like label portion adapted to be attached to the threaded member of the container, and a second label portion adjacent the first label portion and adapted to be attached to the container body of the container. The second label portion has a comb-like structure with strip-shaped fixing elements such that the adhesive label couples the threaded member to the container body relative to a condition applied to the container and opposes movement of the threaded member relative to the container body.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Nadine Oetzel, Stefan Krauss, Kerstin Klingen, Andreas Hofenauer, Tanja Messmer, Robert Unglert
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Patent number: 12121166Abstract: A digital photo frame, comprising a display monitor (10), a frame body (20), and a back cover (30), wherein the display monitor (10) is arranged at the front surface of the frame body (20), and the back cover (30) is arranged at the rear surface of the frame body (20), wherein the digital photo frame also comprises an ambient light strip (40), wherein the ambient light strip (40) is disposed around the frame body (20), and corresponding to the ambient light strip (40), a translucent cover strip (50) is arranged on the frame body (20), and correspondingly the light emitted by the ambient light strip (40) is projected outward through the translucent strip (50).Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN ELECTRON TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheng Zhuang, Yonghong Li