Patents Examined by Jennifer E. Novosad
  • Patent number: 12383057
    Abstract: A four-column shelving unit with knockdown bracing running between the front and rear columns to form an end frame. The shelving unit comprises end frames formed by connecting a front column and a rear column to each other with knockdown bracing. The knockdown bracing may comprise a diagonal knockdown brace, a top knockdown brace, and a bottom knockdown brace. The knockdown bracing transitions from the knockdown state to the assembled state by pivoting on a hinge that connects one end of the bracing to the column. To complete assembly a pivot screw or other connector may be used to secure the unhinged end of the knockdown bracing to the opposite column. In an aspect, the top and bottom knockdown bracing are hinged within a first column, while the diagonal knockdown bracing is hinged within the second column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LL&T INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Beck, Lam Lam Ly
  • Patent number: 12378714
    Abstract: Wall mounted motorized clothes hanging devices including a housing, a rigid beam having a retracted storage position and an extended clothes hanging position, a pair of folding arms between the housing and the rigid beam, and a motorized gear arrangement for deploying the rigid beam between its retracted storage position and its extended clothes hanging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SMART FENCE LTD
    Inventor: Nir Snapir
  • Patent number: 12369731
    Abstract: A slatwall system for installation on a wall structure includes a plurality of identical panels interconnectable with each other one above another in a coplanar slatwall arrangement. Each panel has an accessory slot for mounting an organization accessory to the panel, and a fastener slot for receiving fasteners to secure the panel to the wall structure. A plurality of identical covers are provided. Each cover is detachably mountable to a respective fastener slot for concealing the fastener slot and the fasteners. Each cover is detachable from the fastener slot for accessing the fasteners to permit removal of a respective panel from the wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ENVE Profiles Inc.
    Inventors: James Jonathan Secondino, Paolo Marchesani
  • Patent number: 12369532
    Abstract: A hang harvesting system includes a plurality of stackable pods each including a platform, and a plurality of support shafts extending vertically from the platform. Each of the support shafts defines a plurality of notches configured for suspending a horizontal bar from the support shafts. Top ends of the support shafts of one pod are configured to support a platform of another pod thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: DRIFLOWER, LLC
    Inventor: Todd Chandler Larkins
  • Patent number: 12358584
    Abstract: A bicycle mount system for vertically attaching a bicycle to a wall. The system comprises a wall support member, a bracket member fixedly attached to the upper portion of the wall support member, wherein the bracket member comprises a substantially flat portion for attachment to the wall support member and an arm member for engaging a wheel of the bicycle. An anchor passes through the flat portion of the bracket member and the wall support member to engage the wall. One or more soft fasteners are attached to the back of the wall support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Inventor: Blake Khoury
  • Patent number: 12357113
    Abstract: A display capable of being constructed from panels, shelving, racks, fixtures, endcaps, stands, or other implements. The display may include planar panels capable of being folded and assembled into a serving stadium having a tiered structure for displaying food and other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Inventor: Jeffrey G. Walper
  • Patent number: 12342939
    Abstract: An articulating shelf including a first shelf portion having a first edge and an opposing second edge, a first hinge coupled the first edge of the first shelf portion, a second hinge coupled to the second edge of the first shelf portion, a second shelf portion having a first edge and an opposing second edge, the second edge of the second shelf portion coupled to the second hinge, a rod having a first end and an opposing second end, a rod support having a first end and a second send, the first end of the rod support coupled to the second edge of the second shelf portion and the second end of the rod support coupled to the rod between the first and the second ends of the rod, and an end cap including a plunger configured to extend and retract from the end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel N. Moe
  • Patent number: 12324975
    Abstract: A rack that is designed to be connected to a wall for hanging sport boards that includes a casing, a drawer, several right and left arms with connectors that match corresponding connectors in the casing. The drawer can slide inside and outside the casing and to be contained inside the casing. The right and the left arms are designed to be connected to the casing facing outward and to the right and to the left sides. The arms are designed to receive the sport boards. The inner length of the drawer is equal to or greater than the length of the arms, and the inner width of the drawer is equal to or greater than the width of the arms. The drawer is designed to contain the arms when the rack is not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventors: Lior Zimmerman, Amit Lavion
  • Patent number: 12324510
    Abstract: A ceiling storage rack comprises a rotary shaft, a drive mechanism driving the rotation of the rotary shaft, two pulleys, a placement platform, a first wire group and a second wire group. The rotary shaft is rotatably connected at a side of a ceiling fixing assembly. Two winding portions rotating in synchronization with the rotary shaft are disposed at both sides of the rotary shaft: a first winding portion and a second winding portion. The ceiling storage rack capable of preventing a placement platform from falling down, increasing safety level and avoiding dislocation and entangling of double-strand cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: LOCTEK ERGONOMIC TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Lehong Xiang, Tongwang Shao, He Wang
  • Patent number: 12318909
    Abstract: A support rack and method of manufacture thereof are provided for retaining a power hand tool or a battery pack on a wall surface. The support rack when configured for storing a power hand tool includes a mounting panel for connection to the wall surface, a support panel that extends from the mounting panel, and at least one projecting structure that extends upwardly from the support panel. The projecting structure is customized in shape and size to releasably engage in a close frictional fit with at least one corresponding interface element (aperture or slot) provided on the power hand tool. The support rack is integrally formed as a unitary piece from a plastic material and thus includes no metallic or conductive components configured to provide power or electrical charging to the power hand tool (or battery pack), thereby providing a reliable physical support for same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventor: Matthias Keller
  • Patent number: 12317996
    Abstract: An assembly shelf is configured by stacking a second shelf unit on a first shelf unit. An upper surface of at least one first horizontal frame member which is disposed in an upper part of the first shelf unit and a lower surface of at least one second horizontal frame member which is disposed in a lower part of the second shelf unit are respectively provided with engagement structures that engage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukiya Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12312733
    Abstract: A collapsible stand assembly for drying and storage includes an upper assembly and a lower assembly. The upper assembly is configured to be stacked above the lower assembly. A plurality of first arms extend outward from an upper frame of the upper assembly, and a plurality of second arms extend outward from a lower frame of the lower assembly. A plurality of legs extend outward from the lower frame of the lower assembly. The first and second arms and the legs are collapsible into a compact configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: The Drying Tree, LLC
    Inventor: Jerremy Samuel Hiatt
  • Patent number: 12310515
    Abstract: An article counting and propelling device, including a base, a propelling plate and a counting structure. The counting structure is located at one end of the base and controls the propelling plate to slide and push along the base. The counting structure includes a shell, a cover body, a PCB board, a runner assembly and counting sensing pieces. The runner assembly is connected to the propelling plate through a wire. The counting sensor (grating or magnetic grating sensor) is installed on the PCB board and located above or on both sides of the runner assembly. The cover body closes an accommodating groove and displays the number of the remaining articles on it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Guangdong Hanmo Technology Co, Ltd
    Inventor: Yanfei Ji
  • Patent number: 12310492
    Abstract: A rack assembly includes a column member including a first side surface that includes a plurality of recessed portions provided at a regular interval in an axial direction, and a second side surface that is adjacent to the first side surface, and a beam member including a first part that includes a protruding portion and that faces the first side surface, and a second part that is provided adjacent to the first part and that faces the second side surface, where each of the plurality of recessed portions extends in a normal direction of the second side surface, and the beam member is movable between a first position at which the second part faces the second side surface in a state where the beam member is separated from the column member, and a second position at which the beam member is fixed to the column member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: KAWAJUN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 12310516
    Abstract: A storage system is configured for adjustable suspension from fixed points on a vertical wall, such as from fixed tie-down loops that are rigidly and permanently affixed to the wall of a shipping container. The system includes a plurality of pivotable arms that may have attached thereto shelves or other planar panels and may be variably positioned to provide vertical storage panels, flat work surfaces (such as a desk surface), or upwardly angled support posts, for example, for hanging items such as cables, ropes, pipe sections, and the like. A suspension assembly for the storage system enables hanging suspension of the system at any desired location along the length of the vertical wall, despite the location of the fixed loops from which the system is ultimately suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: WILLIAMS SCOTSMAN, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Pryor, Jodi Shaw, Brian Kavanagh, Lawrence Berger, Gregg Sheddy, Corey Salemi, Jeff Bowers, Matt Mangosing, Michael Elling Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 12310494
    Abstract: Racks for storing elongated objects, such as ladders, lumber, and/or piping, and more specifically, to a freestanding ladder storage rack that may utilized individually or in a series to store objects of varying lengths, sizes, and kinds. A purpose of the invention is to provide an improved storage rack that is adjustable in length and height to provide for optimal storage capacity. In an exemplary embodiment, the storage rack may comprise a plurality of cantilevered, elongated arms having a closed first end removably secured to a vertical frame and an opposite open second end for placing objects thereon. In some instances, the storage rack may include at least one shelf and/or a table accessory when used in series. The plurality of arms, at least one shelf, and table may be adjustable in height along the vertical frame of the storage rack depending on requirements of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Inventor: Michael D. Hornbacher
  • Patent number: 12310495
    Abstract: A shelf support beam for use in a shelving unit to support a shelf. The support beam includes a first end and a second end at opposite longitudinal ends of the shelf support beam between which a structural member extends. The structural member has a C-shaped cross-section and includes a web separating a top flange configured to support the shelf from a bottom flange. The support beam further includes a tab located at each of the first and second ends of the structural member. Each tab includes a pair of securing fingers that are angled relative to a plane disposed perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the shelf support beam such that each securing finger is angled inwardly toward a center of the structural member. The support beam further includes an enforcement tab formed in the web at each of the first and second ends of the structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Edsal Manufacturing Company, LLC
    Inventors: Anusha Chakraborthy, Mitchell E. Bianchin, Rohan Parab
  • Patent number: 12295508
    Abstract: A modular display stand designed to showcase multiple collectibles such as comics, cards, graded comics, books, and other items. The stand features a unique design that allows for variable sizing, easy assembly, and efficient storage. Utilizing magnetic connections, hinged legs, and adjustable wings, the stand provides stability, versatility, and enhanced visibility for displayed items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Daniel Olive, Jason Robert Patry
  • Patent number: 12295507
    Abstract: A wall panel system including a first wall panel, the first panel including at least a first panel hook portion. The system also including a second wall panel having a different configuration than the first wall panel. The second panel includes at least a second panel hook portion and a third panel hook portion opposing the second panel hook portion. The first wall panel is configured to engage with the second wall panel to create a wall panel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Velderman, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Sean Bailey, Steven J. Phillips, Daniel J. White, Thomas Delmont, Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Julian Olyansky, Shalin Chikhalkar
  • Patent number: 12290189
    Abstract: An ornament carousel holder includes a stand body, a turntable which is mounted on the turntable and is capable of being drive to rotate 360° on the turntable, and a hanging assembly connected to the stand body for hanging ornaments such as jewelries, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, danglings, studs, and hoops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen IVAN Houshold Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiao Ting Zhong