Patents Examined by Kyle R Grabowski
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Patent number: 10711458Abstract: A wall construction panel 1 for the setting up of walls for exhibition stand construction includes four frame elements 2, 3, 4, each of which having a groove and being connected to a rectangular frame with a peripheral frame groove pointing to the frame inside. The frame groove is formed by the grooves of the frame elements 2, 3, 4 and a panel 5 is inserted into the frame groove. Two of the four frame elements 2, 3, 4 are configured as frame elements 2, 3 extending in a vertical direction Y, one of which is configured as a pillar element 2 and the other one as an edge element 3. Two others of the four frame elements 2, 3, 4 are configured as framework elements 4 extending in a horizontal direction X where each of the framework elements 4 bears with a horizontal end on the pillar element 2 and the edge element 3 is placed with a first horizontal section 31 between the framework elements 4 and projects with a second horizontal section 32 horizontally over the framework elements 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Syma Intercontinental AGInventor: Kurt Züllig
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Patent number: 10703125Abstract: Method for binding a bundle (5) of leaves (1) in a binding back (7), whereby the bundle (5) is placed in the binding back (7) with an edge (2) of the leaves (1) and fastened therein, characterised in that for the binding use is made of a bundle (5) of leaves (1) of which a strip (4) of each of the leaves (1) has been separately double folded beforehand along the same line to form a fold line (3) that extends parallel to and at a distance (A) from the aforementioned edge (2).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: UNIBIND LIMITEDInventor: Guido Peleman
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Patent number: 10703128Abstract: A security document includes a first ink layer and a second ink layer. The first ink layer includes a first color in a first color zone and a second color in a second color zone offset from the first color zone in a first direction, and a first blended color including a mixture of the first and second colors in a first blended color zone between the first color zone and the second color zone. The second ink layer includes a third color in a third color zone and a fourth color in a fourth color zone offset from the third color zone in a second direction, and a second blended color including a mixture of the third and fourth colors in a second blended color zone between the third color zone and the fourth color zone. The first direction is different than the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventor: Frantz Mercier
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Patent number: 10703126Abstract: An optical security device suitable for securing or authenticating high security or high value articles of manufacture when affixed thereto, is provided. The inventive security device produces optically variable effects when viewed from varying points of view and is made up of a microstructured layer having image icon elements that have at least one pigmented material. The microstructured layer is arranged relative to an arrangement of focusing elements such that at least portions of the image icon elements are observable through at least portions of the arrangement of focusing elements, thereby providing at least one synthetic image that demonstrates a color-transition effect as points of view from which the optical security device is viewed are changed.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Benjamin E. Bleiman, Samuel M. Cape, Paul F. Cote, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Gregory R. Jordan, Scott K. Palm
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Patent number: 10704325Abstract: Disclosed is a motor assembly for a motor unit for driving a shaft for rolling a blind, the assembly including a rotary motor and an output shaft connected to the rotary motor in order to transmit the torque supplied by the rotary motor to the rolling shaft, the output shaft including a first socket for receiving a drive member of the rolling shaft of a roller blind. The output shaft also includes a second socket, separate from the first socket, for securing a non-roller blind to the rolling shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SAInventors: Ronan Georgeault, Stephane Thumerel, Frederic Volle
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Patent number: 10688821Abstract: The invention relates to an insert for a passport booklet data sheet, formed by a multilayer complex having at least a first layer and a second layer having a hinge that has a folding zone where the insert is intended to be sewn or stapled into a passport booklet, said second layer having, in combination, at least one layer of plastics material and at least one metal reinforcing layer that together form an extension which extends a certain distance beyond said folding zone of the hinge, so as to reinforce the resistance of said data sheet to being ripped out and torn with respect to the passport booklet, characterized in that said layer of plastics material and said metal reinforcing layer extend over the entire surface area of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SMART PACKAGING SOLUTION (S.P.S.)Inventors: Olivier Brunet, Anne Ripert, Pascal-Daniel Michau
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Patent number: 10689904Abstract: The present disclosure provides an adjusting device for a curtain cord and a retractable curtain. The adjusting device for a curtain cord comprises a mounting base for fixedly connecting to the lower end of the curtain body, the mounting base is provided with a first threading hole for the cord to pass through, the mounting base is provided with a mounting groove thereon, the first threading hole is provided on the groove wall of the mounting base, and the adjusting device further comprises a stopper for winding and fixing the cord, a winding hole is provided throughout in the middle of the stopper for the cord to pass through, the stopper is detachably jammed within the mounting groove, and a gap for accommodating the cord wound on the outer surface of the stopper is located between the groove wall of the mounting groove and the stopper.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Suzhou Hongren Window Decorations Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jiehren Huang
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Patent number: 10682879Abstract: A credential with one or more security features is disclosed. The disclosed credential includes a windowed security feature. The windowed security feature is taught to include a mirror element positioned in proximity with a transparent window and a first photo-luminescent feature positioned relative to the transparent window and the mirror element such that the mirror element enhances a luminescence of the first photo-luminescent feature when viewed and illuminated through the transparent window.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventor: Brett Barton Erickson
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Patent number: 10675904Abstract: A method for creating an identification document that includes: defining a debossed region on a surface of a card blank, the debossed region having a pre-determined pattern being indented into the card blank; and applying, as part of a lamination process, an overlay on the surface of the card blank to cover the defined debossed region such that an air gap is formed on the card blank's surface during the lamination process and is sealed and removed after the lamination process, and that a tactile pattern thus created on the surface of the overlay substantially duplicates the pre-determined pattern of the defined debossed region.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Ashley S. R. Tiguy, Daoshen Bi, Robert Jones
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Patent number: 10675908Abstract: A binder including a front cover including a front cover exterior layer, a front cover interior layer, a front cover base plate between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover interior layer, an exterior pocket formed between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover base plate, and an interior opening formed through the front cover interior layer and the front cover base plate to the exterior pocket. Methods of manufacturing the binder are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.Inventors: Dale Loree, Jim Warner
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Patent number: 10647148Abstract: An anti-counterfeiting medium includes a recording medium, a polarizer layer arranged on a part of the recording medium. The polarizer layer is formed thereon with a low extinction-ratio area that forms an image portion where a polarizer exhibits an extinction ratio lower than in a portion other than the low extinction-ratio area of the polarizer layer. The recording medium is formed thereon with an image portion that is a part of the recording medium and has a nature different from that of a portion other than the part of the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mihoko Okawa, Hideki Ochiai, Koji Ichikawa, Yuki Kotegawa
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Patent number: 10647147Abstract: A anti-counterfeiting medium includes a support substrate, an OVD forming layer, and a latent image layer in this order. The latent image layer has plural regions with optical axes of a birefringent material aligned in directions different from each other. The OVD forming layer includes an uneven-structure-forming layer is made up of a first region and a second region, and a reflecting layer. The first region is a region made up of a flat part and plural convexities or concavities. The second region is configured by a flat part. Each of the plural convexities and concavities has a 0.3 to 5 ?m long side dimension and short side dimension and height or depth of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozue Umeda, Mihoko Okawa
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Patent number: 10639925Abstract: An optically variable security element having an areal motif region provided in a depiction region with a plurality of reflective, planar facets. Each planar facet is characterized by an inclination angle against the plane of the areal motif region, which inclination angle has, as inclination components, a parallel component parallel to a target curve in a center position, and a normal component perpendicular to the target curve in the center position. For the planar facets in the depiction region, a first of the two inclination components are chosen dependent on the distance of the respective facet from the target curve, and a second of the two inclination components being chosen in a predetermined spreading range independently of the distance of the respective facet from the target curve.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Christian Fuhse
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Patent number: 10625535Abstract: A ringed binder with moveable platforms is disclosed. The ringed binder including a center support section; a first platform connected to the center support section and configured to move between a lowered position and a raised position; and a second platform connected to the center support section and configured to move between a lowered position and a raised position.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Inventor: Michael Furick
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Patent number: 10625532Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element (16) for security papers, value documents and the like, having a microoptical moiré-type magnification arrangement for depicting a moiré image (84) having one or more moiré image elements (86), having a motif image that includes a periodic or at least locally periodic arrangement of a plurality of lattice cells (24) having micromotif image portions (28, 28?, 28?), for the moiré-magnified viewing of the motif image, a focusing element grid (22) that is arranged spaced apart from the motif image and that includes a periodic or at least locally periodic arrangement of a plurality of lattice cells having one microfocusing element (22) each, wherein, taken together, the micromotif image portions (28, 28?, 28?) of multiple spaced-apart lattice cells (24) of the motif image each form one micromotif element (50) that corresponds to one of the moiré image elements (86) of the magnified moiré image (84) and whose dimension is larger than one lattice cell (24) of tType: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Wittich Kaule, Michael Rahm
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Patent number: 10625536Abstract: A document case is provided that includes a document holder having a front side and a back side, at least the front side having openings for viewing a document when inserted into the document holder, and a cover being pivotally connected to a side wall of the document holder, the cover having one or more openings that coordinate with the openings on the document holder to visualize a portion of the document within the document holder. The document case can also include one or more tiles sized to fit into the one or more openings of the cover and/or holder to cover a portion of the document exposed through the respective opening or openings.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Inventor: Konstantinos Martinos
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Patent number: 10618337Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible and durable bookbinding and to methods for making bound books. More specifically, the present invention relates to books that may withstand substantial and repeated perpendicular flexure along their spine. Among other advantages, these books demonstrate improved resistance to wear and tear and normal usage to remain intact.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: WOODPECKER LABORATORIES, LLCInventor: Zachary Rome
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Patent number: 10618338Abstract: A concealment device comprising an opaque, removable, reusable sheet of static cling material sized to match up with a notary book having a plurality of pages, the sheet having an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface configured to secure to the notary book pages by static cling. A combination of a notary book having a plurality of pages and a concealment device comprising an opaque, removable, reusable sheet of static cling material sized to match up with the notary book, the sheet having an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface configured to secure to the notary book pages by static cling. A method of utilizing a notary book comprises the steps of providing a notary book and placing the concealment device thereon.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: NNA Services, LLCInventor: Steven Bastian
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Patent number: 10605407Abstract: A protective housing for a testing, measuring or production device has a protective element, which seals a housing opening and is held and guided by guide devices and can be moved into an open position by a drive device. The guide devices have arched sections which are outwardly curved forward and extend backwards in a straight line on an upper side of the protective housing. The protective element includes two flexurally stiff rectangular plates, which have straight longitudinal sides and a curve approximating the arched sections and are connected to each other on a longitudinal side via a hinge. The guide devices include a number of guide elements guided on a guide rail, wherein a respective guide element is arranged on the hinge and further guide elements are arranged on both sides of the hinge. The drive device drives the rearmost guide element via two traction transmissions, which have traction mechanisms running parallel to the straight section of the guide devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbHInventor: Christian Muth
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Patent number: 10596933Abstract: A method is provided for mounting a backrest structure (1) of a vehicle rear seat. The method includes the following steps: arranging a bearing bush (15) on a cylindrical bearing pin (11) provided in a lower lateral corner segment of a backrest structure (1), inserting the bearing bush (15) into a cut-out (17) of a body-side backrest bearing (2a, 2b), pivoting the backrest structure (1) inserted into the backrest bearing (2a, 2b) forward about a bearing axis (12) of the bearing pin (11) until a blocking segment (22b, 122b) of the bearing bush (15) locks in and/or engages behind a blocking element (22a, 122a) of the backrest bearing (2a, 2b). A pivot support of a fold-over backrest structure (1) of a vehicle rear seat is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Adient Luxembourg Holding S.à r.l.Inventors: Adolf Vogt, Lars Kramm, Ulrich Becker