Patents Examined by Kyle J. Walraed-Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12173516
    Abstract: A self-aligning jamb jack apparatus with a cylindrical threaded adjustment component that has adjustment component threads on the exterior wall and smooth surface on the interior walls, the cylindrical threaded adjustment component extending through a cylinder with a smooth exterior to a ball, the smooth surface extending through the cylinder and the ball. The jamb jack apparatus also has a platform base with a socket configured to encompass the ball such that the platform base pivots around the ball. The self-aligning jamb jack apparatus is installed in a door or window jamb (or any other appliance) to connect and regulate the space between the jamb and the rough framing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Charles James Spofford
  • Patent number: 12173498
    Abstract: A flashing system for use with an electrical service panel is described. The flashing system includes a flashing assembly extending about a perimeter of the electrical services panel. The flashing assembly includes a support base including a planar outer surface and a flanged connection assembly extending obliquely from the planar outer surface of the support base and defining an opening configured to receive the electrical service panel therethrough. The flanged connection assembly includes an inner surface that is coupled to an outer surface of the electrical service panel for supporting the flashing assembly from the electrical service panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: WJG, LLC
    Inventor: William J. Gilleran
  • Patent number: 12167796
    Abstract: A human support structure has: at least one support against which at least one part of a human body is borne; a base; a first motion transmitting assembly having first and second link members joined to each other and two components for pivoting movement around separate axes and defining a first unit; and a second motion transmitting assembly having third and fourth link members and two components joined together for pivoting movement around separate axes and defining a second unit. The first and second motion transmitting assemblies guide relative movement between the at least one support and the base. The first and second units can be selectively repositioned to change how relative movement between the at least one support and base is guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventor: Aaron DeJule
  • Patent number: 12163552
    Abstract: A method of covering a roof penetration in a roof includes providing a roof mounting device comprising a base, an outer perimeter structure, an open top, an open bottom, and an internal reservoir bound by the outer perimeter structure, and a fastener. The method includes securing the roof mounting device to the roof by applying the fastener to the base and to the roof penetration. The method includes applying a sealant to the internal reservoir until the sealant seals the fastener at the roof penetration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Solsera, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn J. Meine, Carolyn D. Kitchel
  • Patent number: 12163336
    Abstract: An improved mounting block has a base plate portion and a face plate portion. Base plate portion has an outer surface extending outward from a mounting surface and is selectively attachable to the face plate portion. One of the face plate portion and the base plate portion has a plurality of snap fit teeth formed thereon, and the other has a plurality of snap fit receivers, configured to selectively receive the snap fit teeth. Face plate portion may include flange flex grooves formed in an attachment flange, allowing walls to deflect independently from corners, such that the flange flex grooves allow the attachment flange to flex outward from the outer surface. Base plate portion may include alignment ribs extending outward from the outer surface, such that the flange flex grooves formed in the attachment flange interface with the alignment ribs formed on the base plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Pontiac Trail Products, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Maurer, Christopher David Meeks
  • Patent number: 12160094
    Abstract: A method for producing a panel with integrated conductor tracks and electronic components. The panel includes a panel body, wherein the panel body is in particular a sandwich structure, and a membrane. The membrane is connected to the panel body and has integrated conductor tracks and electronic components. At the beginning of the method, an operation for attaching the conductor tracks and the electronic components to the membrane is provided. The subsequent step includes an operation for connecting the membrane, fitted with the conductor tracks and the electronic components, to the panel body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Alois Friedberger, Wolfgang Machunze
  • Patent number: 12152434
    Abstract: A spacer is provided that is shapable into a spacer frame, and during manufacture of an insulating glass unit, can be mounted on the glass panes. The spacer is formed having an inner surface, an outer surface and two lateral surfaces extending at either side of the spacer from the inner surface to the outer surface, and comprises a profiled body. The profiled body comprises two mutually spaced lateral faces running parallel to its longitudinal direction and a base body that extends between the lateral faces and has an outer and an inner face. The profiled body comprises at least in one part of its volume a quantity of particulate desiccant that is embedded in a plastics material. The spacer is coilable about an axis, perpendicularly to the lateral surfaces, and takes a flexurally rigid form in a plane perpendicular to the lateral surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ensinger GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Möller, Klaus Esser, Reimar Olderog, Heinz Raunest, Bernhard Königsberger, Peter Runze, Christian Helfert, Stefan Dierneder, Leopold Mader, Marc Rehling
  • Patent number: 12152392
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to roofing products, for example, suitable for use covering and protecting the roofs of structures. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing product including an upper section and an exposed section. The roofing product includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of zones of roofing granules disposed on the top surface of the substrate. The plurality of zones includes first, second and third zones within the exposed section. The first zone includes a first collection of algae-resistant roofing granules and has a first algae-resistance intensity. The second zone includes a second collection of algae-resistant roofing granules and has a second algae-resistance intensity. The third zone has a third algae-resistance intensity that is different from the first algae-resistance intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED LLC
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Shuang Liu, Robert L. Jenkins, Mark W. Simon
  • Patent number: 12146320
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a formwork system. In one implementation, the formwork system includes aluminum extrusions and aluminum castings. The aluminum castings and the aluminum extrusions can be assembled by being pressed and riveted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apache Industrial Services, INC
    Inventor: Kenneth M. Chevis
  • Patent number: 12146325
    Abstract: Disclosed are moisture resistant engineered hardwood veneer flooring panels. Also disclosed are methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventors: Roman Morris, Chris Andrews, David Hahn
  • Patent number: 12146319
    Abstract: A wall stud member comprising an inner component and an outer component. The inner and outer components are coupled together. In some configurations, the wall stud member forms a web with an outer flange and an inner flange. The wall stud member may be positioned as a part of a wall construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: G. Matt Krause
  • Patent number: 12139872
    Abstract: A foundation for a wind power plant includes a circular or polygonal pedestal divided into several ring sections for carrying a tower and support elements extending radially outward from the pedestal, wherein the ring sections and the support elements are designed as prefabricated concrete elements or are assembled from prefabricated concrete elements, and wherein adjacent support elements are spaced from one another in the circumferential direction, adjacent support elements are each connected with one another by a tangentially extending beam designed as a prefabricated concrete element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HOLCIM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventor: Christian Schuldt
  • Patent number: 12129649
    Abstract: A roof system including a frame, a plurality of roof panels, wherein each roof panel is connected to the frame and is rotatable with respect to the frame, and a holding mechanism for holding a first roof panel among the plurality of roof panels in a closed position, wherein each roof panel among the plurality of roof panels overlaps at least one adjacent roof panel among the plurality of roof panels, and wherein release of the holding mechanism causes each of the roof panels to rotate toward an open position in a sequential manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TECHNOGUARD INC.
    Inventors: Brian T. Fanning, Joseph M. Lloyd, Andre L. Johnson, Alfred B. Cook
  • Patent number: 12123252
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal insulation structure of a door frame in which a moving window (sliding window) constituting a sliding window system is installed, and more particularly, a two-side supporting frame window supporting both sides of a glass window constituting a sliding window system, more particularly, relates to an insulating structure in a side section of a door frame into which the side portion of the sliding window that is moved when closing the sliding window of the supporting frame window type is pocketed, that is, the insulating structure of the side section of the door frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FILOBE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kwang-Seog Lee
  • Patent number: 12116779
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a formwork system. In one implementation, the formwork system includes aluminum extrusions and aluminum castings. The aluminum castings and the aluminum extrusions can be assembled by being pressed and riveted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Apache Industrial Services, Inc
    Inventor: Kenneth M. Chevis
  • Patent number: 12116828
    Abstract: Window and door opening assemblies are disclosed herein that incorporate one or more high-density insulation cores and methods for constructing thereof. The high-density insulation cores are comprised of microcellular polyurethane foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Klein, Jeffrey A. Quillen
  • Patent number: 12116829
    Abstract: Compound fenestration assembly mull joints using joining strips and compound fenestration assemblies using those mull joints are described herein. The joining strips used in the compound fenestration assembly mull joints described herein are configured to improve the strength of the mull joints in which they are used and, therefore, the ability of the resulting compound fenestration assemblies to maintain integrity when subjected to, e.g., wind loads and other forces is improved. The benefits of the mull joints and the compound fenestration assemblies incorporating them as described herein may be enhanced with an increase in the number of adjacent fenestration units (and, therefore, mull joints) in a given compound fenestration assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Andersen Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Hanson, Arik Van Asten
  • Patent number: 12110735
    Abstract: A building aperture cover frame, such as a window frame, having at least one frame profile for framing an insulated glass unit, where the frame profile includes an insulating core of insulating polyurethane foam core material enclosed by a core surface of the insulating core, where the insulating polyurethane foam core material having at least 85% by weight polyurethane, and where the insulating polyurethane foam core material is of a material density of less than 60 kg/m3, such as less than 50 kg/m3, preferably less than 40 kg/m3, a profile shell encapsulating the insulating core and having an inner shell surface facing the core surface, where the profile shell is made of at least 90% by weight polyurethane, and where the profile shell is of a material density of at least 600 kg/m3, such as at least 750 kg/m3, preferably at least 850 kg/m3, and one or more metal reinforcement element(s) located between opposing parts of the inner shell surface and the core surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: VKR HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Steen Langdal Rønnow Micheelsen, Willibrordus Servatius Bouwens, Peter Jean Claude Gadgaard Tønning
  • Patent number: 12107531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a longitudinal profile for a mounting system for solar modules, comprising: at least one stop area which is designed to fasten the longitudinal profile to a transverse profile, wherein the at least one stop area has at least one support surface for support on the transverse profile, at least one head area which is connected to the at least one stop area via at least one connecting portion, wherein the at least one head area has at least one bearing surface for at least one portion of a module frame of the solar module, wherein the at least one head area has at least one engagement projection which is configured as a point of engagement for a fastening device. The present invention further relates to a mounting system comprising such a longitudinal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLETTER INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventor: Cedrik Zapfe
  • Patent number: 12104386
    Abstract: A baluster support sleeve for securing a baluster to a stair includes a body including an outer surface and an alignment wing extending from the outer surface. The alignment wing is designed to secure the baluster support sleeve within an installation hole defined in a stair. A baluster recess is defined through the body and interior walls surround the baluster recess. A lower end of a baluster may be received within the baluster recess. The baluster may be secured within the baluster recess and raised into position within a banister to form a handrail for a stairway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Jared Townsend