Patents Examined by Marcos Javier Rodriguez Molina
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Patent number: 12384594Abstract: A container lid comprising a frustum shaped sidewall, a chuck shoulder formed between an upper edge of the sidewall and a seaming panel, and at least one translative motion guide feature extending radially inward from the sidewall. A bottom (lower) edge of the sidewall can be closed by a bottom wall or rolled creating an open design. The frustum shaped sidewall and size of the translative motion guide features is designed to enable nesting of multiple container lids/caps. The lid is seamed to a container body. The lid and cap each include sealing surfaces designed to engage with one another creating a gas and liquid impervious seal, preferably capable of retaining pressure within a container. Alternatively, the translative motion guide feature can be integral with a frustum shaped container body, such as a cup.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Inventors: Daniel A. Zabaleta, Dennis Stammen, Steven Todd Albright
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Patent number: 12378047Abstract: The present application provides a ventable package capable of releasing pressure upon the application of heat or internal pressure. The ventable package may include a container and a lid. The lid may include a sealing layer attached to the container and a foil layer attached to the sealing layer. The sealing layer may include one or more slits therein such that, upon the application of heat or internal pressure, the foil layer separates from the sealing layer about the one or more slits to release the pressure therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventor: Piaras De Cleir
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Patent number: 12365510Abstract: A spout for a container filled with a pourable product. The spout comprises at least a collar having a pouring outlet configured to allow an out-pouring of the pourable product and a lid assembly having a coupling ring rotatably arranged around the collar and a lid hinged to the coupling ring and angularly movable around a respective hinge axis. The lid is controllable between at least a closing configuration, an open configuration and an intermediate configuration. The spout comprises an interaction device partially associated to the collar and partially associated to the lid.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Angelo Sorbara, Rocco De Paola, Franco Cani, Tiziano Viani, Martina Linguiti, Luca Gori
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Patent number: 12330845Abstract: A packaging box blank and packaging box configured from the packaging box blank enables a shipper to package substantially planar articles for shipment and includes a base box portion, a pair of opposed side wall flap portions, and a pair of opposed top flap portions. The side wall flap portions extend from laterally opposed side wall attachment portions and the top flap portions extend from top flap attachment portions. The side wall flap portions are firstly folded to cover opposed lateral portions of a substantially planar article received in anterior adjacency to the base box portion. The top flap portions are secondly folded to cover opposed longitudinal portions of the article thereby enclosing the article for shipment. Particularly configured top and bottom corner extensions absorb impact at corners of the packaging box for providing damage resistance thereto as shipped articles move through package delivery systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Movie Mars, Inc.Inventors: Gregory T. Tost, Daniel E-Lee Yen, Brian E. Marzano
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Patent number: 12318023Abstract: A packaging assembly is provided with a product package. A plurality of retail products is supported upon the product package in an array for transportation. A plurality of dividers is connected to the product package and extends between sequential retail products for separation of the sequential retail products during shipping, wherein the dividers are removable.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.Inventors: Yasmeen Gabrielle Coan, William Matthew Hicks
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Patent number: 12290191Abstract: A beverage container includes a main body portion for accommodating a beverage and a lid portion provided on the upper portion of the main body portion, the lid portion includes a beverage opening portion (312) for discharging the beverage and a beverage opening and closing portion side sealing material (324) for opening and closing the beverage opening portion (312) from the lower side of the beverage opening portion (312), the lid portion further includes a gas opening portion (313) provided separately from the beverage opening portion (312) and for taking outside air into the main body portion in a case where the beverage accommodated in the main body portion is discharged and a gas opening and closing portion side sealing material (325) for opening and closing the gas opening portion (313) from the lower side of the gas opening portion (313).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Snow Peak, Inc.Inventor: Lisa Yamai
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Patent number: 12275559Abstract: A modular storage system of connectable, heavy-duty storage boxes, crates, rolling carts and/or dollies, work surfaces, organizers, trays, accessories is provided for internal and external item storage and organization and convenient access for use and transport, that is expandable, customizable and readily adaptable. Storage boxes have different sizes by length, width and/or height and have universal box-to-box connection system for stacking and connection to mounting accessories. Boxes have removable, customizable organization inserts (e.g., dividers, storage trays, bins, alignment trays for bins, and bins of different sizes). Box lid rib grid with bosses and undercuts expands internal organization, including cooperation with dual purpose dividers and accessories. Boxes have external mounting accessories to expand external organization. Different housing modes are provided including wall mount systems for wall or side of a truck or van, and different transport modes are provided (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Makita U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Andrew Camp, Marc Tappeiner, Jeremy Allan, Ethan W. Franklin, Cameron Putnam, John Grant, Amin Dahrehsobh, Kenneth Hefley, Keisuke Kato, Brent Withey, Austin Donoghue, Nathan Santos, Justin Guthrie, Edward Mark Harris
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Patent number: 12275558Abstract: A modular storage system of connectable, heavy-duty storage boxes, crates, rolling carts and/or dollies, work surfaces, organizers, trays, accessories is provided for internal and external item storage and organization and convenient access for use and transport, that is expandable, customizable and readily adaptable. Storage boxes have different sizes by length, width and/or height and have universal box-to-box connection system for stacking and connection to mounting accessories. Boxes have removable, customizable organization inserts (e.g., dividers, storage trays, bins, alignment trays for bins, and bins of different sizes). Box lid rib grid with bosses and undercuts expands internal organization, including cooperation with dual purpose dividers and accessories. Boxes have external mounting accessories to expand external organization. Different housing modes are provided including wall mount systems for wall or side of a truck or van, and different transport modes are provided (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Makita U.S.A., Inc.Inventors: Andrew Camp, Marc Tappeiner, Jeremy Allan, Ethan W. Franklin, Cameron Putnam, John Grant, Amin Dahrehsobh, Kenneth Hefley, Keisuke Kato, Brent Withey, Austin Donoghue, Nathan Santos
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Patent number: 12269670Abstract: The invention concerns a transport container for transporting a delicate object, comprising a casing which is divided in a length direction into casing segments (1), provided with at least two upright edges (6) situated spaced apart from one another in a width direction extending transversely to the length direction and divided into edge segments corresponding to the casing segments, wherein two adjacent casing segments together with the corresponding edge segments are foldable about a common rotational axis situated in the plane of the casing, wherein the edge segments are, thanks to a folded structure, rigid in at least one direction perpendicular to the plane of the corresponding casing segments.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: ROLLOR I.P. B.V.Inventors: Teun Kornelis van der Laan, Alina Kaiser, Peter Hoogland
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Patent number: 12252309Abstract: A binder box is used for shipping and distribution of shelf tags. The binder box has a number of apertures which permit the use of binders to secure sheets with shelf tags within the binder box. The binder box permits the sheets to be flipped as the shelf tags are removed. The sheets of tags can be organized such that the tags can be placed in spatial sequence within a store and/or organized by sections of the store.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: GRANDVILLE PRINTING CO.Inventors: Dennis M. Kucharczyk, Anthony S. Trevino
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Patent number: 12240655Abstract: A dispensing lid assembly having a lid portion that seals off the opening of the container but for an aperture and a centrally disposed interface void. The lid portion provides an integrated, external measuring spout in communication with the aperture. A dial portion may be rotatably coupled to the lid portion so that they rotate independent of each other. The dial portion is operatively associated with a diaphragm disposed under the lid portion so that rotation of the dial portion selectively moves the diaphragm between an open configuration and a closed configuration closing off the aperture and fluidly disconnecting the compartment of the container from the external measuring spout.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Inventors: Goktug Duman, Jorge Luis Garcia
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Patent number: 12226097Abstract: A suturing device includes a body configured to be inserted into a surgical site of a patient. A suture retainer is positioned within the body and configured to receive a suture so that an end of the suture extends from the body and is accessible within the surgical site of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Inventor: George Swope Munday
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Patent number: 12214951Abstract: A case includes a first shell to encapsulate a portion of a collectible. The first shell includes a planar first end having a recessed first edge. A wall is attached to the planar first end at the first edge of the planar first end and surrounds the portion of the collectible. A shoe tree includes a foot-shaped portion for insertion into the collectible and supporting the collectible. An end portion is attached to the foot-shaped portion and rests against the wall, wherein the first shell is configured to support the shoe tree. A second shell seals the case and includes a planar second end to be placed on a lip of the wall, wherein the collectible is configured to be encapsulated by the case. The planar second end has a recessed edge to align with the recessed first edge to enable the case to be stacked on a counterpart case.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SGCC Inc.Inventor: John Hovig Dolmayan
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Patent number: 12208943Abstract: A package for a pharmaceutical product and method of assembly is described that includes a subassembly with a body including a main panel and legs depending downwardly from opposite edges of the main panel, and a sheet of plastic having opposite ends fixed to the body with the sheet of plastic at least partially extending over the main panel. The sheet of plastic is configured to be tensioned over and deformed around one or more primary containers to hold the one or more primary containers in place relative to the main panel of the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventors: James Nakamura, Todd J. Manley, Trevor Raymond Lowe, Jasmine Malvar, Kenneth Tan
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Patent number: 12187506Abstract: Spinnable packages and package assemblies for products are provided. Spinnable packages include a base having a plate with a top surface and an opposed bottom surface, and a protrusion extending from the top surface of the plate. The packages also include a wheel configured to removably secure a plurality of products, the wheel having an aperture extending therethrough, wherein the wheel and the base are sized and shaped such that the wheel is spinnably mountable on the base when the protrusion is positioned in the aperture, such that the wheel is spinnable about a longitudinal axis of the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Sanford, L.P.Inventors: Randel Kert Canlas, Kaila Madison Sparkman, Richard M. Good, III
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Patent number: 12162650Abstract: A storage box that includes a container, a lid and a circular seal. The lid includes a bottom part, a top part, a bottom cog-wheel part with sloping teeth, a spring, a snap part with stopping members, two lever bodies, a top cog-wheel with sloping pushing teeth, and a push button handle. The bottom part includes an indent for containing the spring and oriented holes for the snap part snaps. The top part includes the top button handle, the top cog-wheel part, the two lever bodies, and the bottom cog-wheel. The spring is positioned inside the indentation, the top part is assembled on the bottom part, the bottom cog-wheel is connected to the top cog-wheel in a way that enables a rotational movement between them and disables a relative vertical movement. The lid is in a retracted close position or in an extended open position.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Inventor: Michael Peretz Ben-Asher
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Patent number: 12133535Abstract: A banana crown cover is engageable to a banana bunch for extending the shelf life of the bananas in the banana bunch. An interior cavity of a body of the crown cover is surrounded by a sidewall of elastomer material. An annular ring, formed of elastomer material, forms a seal around said banana bunch when the crown of the banana bunch is positioned into the interior cavity and protects it from communication of gases to the crown, which cause ripening.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Inventor: Sean Adler
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Patent number: 12127658Abstract: A container is provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The container may include a container part in which an accommodation space configured to accommodate contents is formed, a middle body configured to communicate with the accommodation space and coupled to the container part to surround at least a portion of the container part, an inner cover rotatably connected to the middle body to open or close the accommodation space, and an outer cover rotatably connected to the middle body to open or close the middle body.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: KOLMAR KOREA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyung Sang Kim, Chang Soo Lee, Koo Sup Ahn, Jong Hyun Park, Hye Jin Jung, Hee Yoon Kim, Eun Ji Jeong
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Patent number: 12129079Abstract: A resealable airtight storage jar assembly that includes a portable jar body defining ajar opening, an inner cap member with an internal sidewall extending from an upper wall and an inner cap sidewall extending from the upper wall and defining a threaded configuration corresponding to a threaded configuration defined on a sidewall of the portable jar body, wherein the inner cap member is operably configured to have a hermetically sealed position covering the jar opening. The jar assembly also includes an outer cap member with a lip radially extending from a sidewall thereon and to restrict longitudinal movement of the inner cap member thereover. The jar assembly also includes an elastomeric gasket coupled to the inner cap member and operably configured to seat over and seal the jar body defining the jar opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Rodawg Holdings LLCInventor: Zachary B. Gordon
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Patent number: 12102603Abstract: A transparent bottle for holding a liquid includes a bottle body that includes a front wall, a rear wall and a first side wall and a second side wall that extend between the front wall and the rear wall. The first side wall includes a central portion and a front faceted portion that extends between the central portion and the front wall. The front faceted portion is curved relative to the central portion and is separated from the central portion by a front outer transition line and is separated from the front wall by a front inner transition line. A bottom that extends between the front wall, the rear wall and the first and second side walls. The bottom provides a base structure for supporting the bottle in an upright, standing position. A shoulder extends inward from the bottle body and a neck extends outward from the shoulder toward a mouth.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Elliott Michael Van Skaik, Dennis Lee Maclam, Luis Peraza