Patents Examined by Gideon R Weinerth
  • Patent number: 12201205
    Abstract: A housing for cosmetic product(s), including at least one base to receive a cosmetic product and a mirror-bearing lid which is articulated with respect to the base by means of a hinge. A spacer plate connected to the base and including at least one through-opening passing through the thickness thereof so as to form a compartment directly surrounding the cosmetic product. The hinge includes a first upper pivot that is as one with the mirror-bearing lid, a pivot pin for the hinge, and a second lower pivot that is connected to the spacer plate so as to form the hinge. The pivots and the pivot pin are removably connectable to each other such that the mirror-bearing lid can be detached from the base and repositioned thereon as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALIPAC
    Inventors: Alim El Hassain, Pierre Dehe
  • Patent number: 12193851
    Abstract: A cover for an endoscope storage tray is provided. The cover comprises a flexibly deformable material substantially impermeable to fluids. The flexibly deformable material is configured to be temporarily secured to the tray so as to cover an endoscope storage compartment of the tray. A one-way valve is attached to the cover that is configured to release air flowing from the endoscope storage compartment of the tray to the cover. Systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Medivators Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jackson, Joshua J. Korth
  • Patent number: 12195263
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a multi-chambered container. In one example, a container comprising a first chamber is positioned between a liquid chamber and a second chamber, a first seal is positioned between the first chamber and the liquid chamber, and a second seal is positioned between the second chamber and the first chamber. By rotating a first external ring of the container that is positioned between the liquid chamber and the first chamber of the container a first liquid tight seal is opened to enable communication between the liquid chamber and the first chamber. The first external ring may be positioned at a first end of the liquid chamber that is opposite a second end of the liquid chamber that includes a drinking opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, GOAT INDUSTRIES LLC
    Inventors: Elias Wisdom, Matthew Jensen, Juan Andres Soria, Roman Scott Stein, Terry Fischer O'Day, Tyler Theodore Brumfield
  • Patent number: 12186271
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments of an apparatus, a device, and methods to transform an infant feeding bottle into an infant gavage feeding apparatus. According to an embodiment, an infant gavage feeding apparatus can include an infant feeding bottle, a gavage milk delivery component, a retaining ring, and a cord component. In another embodiment, infant milk dual-delivery device to transform an infant feeding bottle to an alternate nipple feeding and gavage feeding apparatus includes a gavage milk delivery component, a retaining ring, and a nipple receiving component. The gavage milk delivery component and the nipple receiving component can be positioned in a branched or a stacked configuration. The device can include a flow closure component and a controller to transition the milk flow for a gavage feeding and nipple feeding. The device can include a funnel to allow milk in the nipple to flow back into the infant feeding bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Erin Hoch, Eric C. Gosink
  • Patent number: 12187491
    Abstract: A storage container with various aspects is described herein. The storage container may have cleats or cleat receptacles to interact with other storage containers and/or accessories. The storage container may also include rails for attachment of various accessories. Some versions of the storage container may further include telescopic uprights connected to a handle. Many of the versions of the storage containers may further include wheels for transporting the storage containers and their contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Keter Plastic LTD
    Inventors: Grant T. Squiers, Matthew Vargo, Matthew W. Naiva, George Barton, Christopher S. Hoppe, Scott Earl McKinster, Aaron S. Blumenthal, Michael Stearns, Michael John Caelwaerts, Aaron M. Williams, Samuel A. Gould, Steven W. Hyma, Jason D. Thurner, Yaron Brunner
  • Patent number: 12179991
    Abstract: A packaging assembly that includes a carton and an inner member. The carton includes a first flap located within an inner portion thereof. The inner member is configured to be received in the inner portion of the carton. The inner member has an extension that is configured to engage the first flap to restrict the inner member from being separated from the carton. The free end of the first flap includes a cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WestRock MWV, LLC
    Inventors: Marty Jones, James D. Knotts
  • Patent number: 12179976
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cap including a cavity delimited by a cylindrical side wall and by a discoidal base at a first end of the cap. The latter further includes a circular opening for accessing the cavity, obtained at a second end of the cap opposite the first end. A discoidal dividing wall is housed in the cavity of the cap between the base and the opening. The dividing wall is connected to the side wall along its circular edge to delimit, with the base and a portion of the side wall, a section inside the cap. A tongue protruding outside the cap penetrates the latter through the side wall connects to the dividing wall at an end inside the cap. Applying force to the tongue tending to remove it from the cap tears the dividing wall, opening the section and allowing the enclosed substance to exit the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Daniele Piazza
  • Patent number: 12172807
    Abstract: A vial for fluid products, particularly pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and medical products has a containment body closed by a closing element removable along a predetermined breaking line, and an opening key slidingly fitted onto the closing element and prismatically rotationally engageable with the closing element to remove the closing element from the containment body. The opening key is prismatically engageable with the closing element by inserting prismatic protrusions of the closing element into special recesses of the opening key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BISIO PROGETTI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Bisio
  • Patent number: 12171978
    Abstract: A medical container for accommodating a protein solution formulation, in which the medical container is formed from a cycloolefin polymer, sterilized with high-pressure steam, and suppresses oxidization of amino acid residues in a protein in a protein solution formulation accommodated in the medical container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Kiminami, Koji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Abe, Shigeru Suzuki, Shigeru Tamatsukuri
  • Patent number: 12162649
    Abstract: Various systems for the containment or delivery of a product are provided. The systems allow for the storage of products at low temperatures and include a container closure inserted into a container (10). The container closure may have an elastomeric body (12) and include a material (14) having a negative coefficient of thermal expansion. In other systems, the material having a negative coefficient of thermal expansion may be inserted between the elastomeric container closure and a seal. Other systems may include an insert at least partially embedded within the elastomeric body of a container closure, an actuator having a distal end movably attached to the insert, and a resilient element between the distal end of the actuator and the insert, wherein the resilient material expands radially upon displacing the distal end of the actuator toward the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawton E. Laurence, Alex Lyness, Geoffrey T. Rouin, Christopher Evans
  • Patent number: 12157603
    Abstract: A storage container including one or more of: a first wall configured to be coupled to a support and having bifurcated extensions extending therefrom; a second wall opposed to the first wall and having bifurcated extensions extending therefrom; side walls situated between, and coupled to, the corresponding bifurcated extensions of the first and second walls, the side walls each being configured to fold at a hinge situated between the first and second walls; a bottom wall hingedly coupled to the first wall and configured to prevent the side walls from folding when in a down position; and a cover having proximal and distal ends and a hinge situated therebetween, the cover hingedly coupled to the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Inventor: Mirza Aliahmad
  • Patent number: 12145781
    Abstract: A child resistant container can include a container body, a closed base, an open top, an exterior and a cap assembly configured to couple to the container body for closing the container. A cap assembly can include an inner cap configured to couple to a container body and an outer cap coupled to the inner cap. A first coupler can be coupled to the inner cap and a second coupler can be coupled to the outer cap and configured to optionally engage the first coupler. An outer cap can be configured to rotate relative to an inner cap when the outer cap is in one or more positions and to engage the inner cap when the outer cap is in one or more other positions. A child resistant container can be made from recyclable metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Nicholas Patrick Karll
  • Patent number: 12144446
    Abstract: A beverage container suitable for containing a beverage or beverage vessel, wherein the beverage container includes at least two separate displays, one of which is extendable and retractable. The container may further include a stowage compartment for stowing travel games or other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Michael J. Kretsinger
  • Patent number: 12139298
    Abstract: Plastic container comprises a container body having a bottom portion, a sidewall portion and an upper portion, with a chamber defined therein. The bottom portion includes a support surface and a variable dynamic base portion. The sidewall portion includes a lower circumferential groove ring, an upper circumferential groove ring, and a pair of longitudinal grooves extending longitudinally therebetween to define a front sidewall segment and a rear sidewall segment. The rear sidewall segment comprises a waist groove extending circumferentially between the pair of longitudinal grooves to define an upper rear sidewall segment and a lower rear sidewall segment, wherein one of the upper rear sidewall segment or the lower rear sidewall segment includes two vacuum panels with a rigid longitudinal support therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CO2PAC LIMITED
    Inventors: Sheldon E. Yourist, Raymond A. Pritchett, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12127715
    Abstract: A grip for a cookware handle includes a first side, a second side, a pocket between the first side and the second side, a first aperture in the first side, a second aperture in the second side, and a plug comprising a thumb grip. The plug is configured to retain the grip on a shaft received in the pocket by extending through the first aperture, the shaft, and the second aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jill Hundley, Carl Neess, Steve Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12121167
    Abstract: A vessel, e.g., a bowl, suited for holding water or foodstuff for use as a pet bowl or human kitchen houseware may be. The bowl may have a modular design to allow for different portions of the bowl to have different attributes. The vessel is scaled for use by pets or humans. Generally, this means that an inner surface of the vessel defines a volumetric space of 60 cubic centimeters to 30 liters for holding water or foodstuff. The bowl has a water level, and, at the water level, the surface area of the bowl may be 56 cm to 900 square cm. To facilitate lifting and gripping by one or two human hands of a user, the vessel's outer surface may include one or more graspable elements disposed between the top and bottom of the vessel. Each graspable element is configured to receive one or more fingers of a user so that the user can grasp or otherwise engage the graspable element and lift the bowl from a surface when the bowl is upright on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Old Dog New Tricks LLC
    Inventor: Alan Hardy
  • Patent number: 12102245
    Abstract: A floating beverage holding apparatus includes a c-shaped body, a webbing, and a collapsible fastener. The c-shaped body is an inflatable apparatus and includes a top surface, an outer lateral surface, an inner lateral surface, a bottom surface, a lateral opening, and a central opening. The top surface and the bottom surface are perimetrically connected to each other by the outer lateral surface and the inner lateral surface. The central opening is delineated by a curved section of the inner lateral surface and the webbing is terminally connected onto the curved section of the inner lateral surface to receive a beverage container. The lateral opening is delineated in between a first section and a second section of the inner lateral surface. The collapsible fastener is connected onto the outer lateral surface and extended across the lateral opening to secure a beverage container to the c-shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Justin Rietema
  • Patent number: 12096831
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a basket that converts to a picnic mat is disclosed. The picnic basket includes a planar material comprised of equally sized panels arranged in a three-row by six-column configuration and a support strap system. The support strap system is disposed across a column next to a first edge column wherein the support strap system is centered between the first pocket and the second pocket by folding the column three columns from the first edge column and two columns from the second edge column over the column next to a first edge column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Alicia Collins
  • Patent number: 12089568
    Abstract: A vessel, e.g., a bowl, suited for holding water or foodstuff for use as a pet bowl or human kitchen houseware. The vessel is scaled for use by pets or humans. Generally, this means that an inner surface of the vessel defines a volumetric space of 60 cubic centimeters to 30 liters for holding water or foodstuff. The bowl has a water level, and, at the water level, the surface area of the bowl being 56 cm to 900 square cm. To facilitate lifting and gripping by one or two human hands of a user, the vessel's outer surface includes one or more graspable elements disposed between the top and bottom of the vessel. Each graspable element is configured to receive one or more fingers of a user so that the user can grasp or otherwise engage the graspable element and lift the bowl from a surface when the bowl is upright on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Old Dog New Tricks LLC
    Inventor: Alan Hardy
  • Patent number: 12082728
    Abstract: A cup and/or food holding tray for stable storage and movement of food/beverage containers, having a center cup basin and periphery cup basins about the center cup basin, wherein each cup basin is capable of receiving and securely holding a food/beverage container. The invention further comprises ribbing between adjacent cup basins. The center cup basin and the ribbing provide for increased structural rigidity of the cup holding tray of the invention. The cup basins are defined by multiple planar support walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventors: Evan J. Lampsa, John B. Lampsa