Patents Examined by Mollie Impink
  • Patent number: 12378065
    Abstract: A container system includes a base including a body having a plurality of dividers defining a plurality of bays for receiving smaller containers therein. A plurality of tongues protrude toward one another from the plurality of dividers. The body includes tine openings for receiving tines to lift and invert the base. A smaller container is receivable in each of the plurality of bays. The smaller containers each include a pair of grooves for receiving two of the plurality of tongues. Each of the smaller containers is supported by a plurality of wheels and has a lid pivotably positioned over an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventor: Derick Foster
  • Patent number: 12378066
    Abstract: The easy lid cover is a new invention created for the purpose of keeping the lids of household or commercial garbage bins free from food, trash, and other dirt. When secured to the lid of a garbage bin, the easy lid cover keeps the lids of garbage bins clean by providing a barrier to the top, bottom, and sides of the lid. The easy lid cover is secured to the lid with flaps positioned at a top edge of the easy lid cover; the flaps are secured around the back of the lid and fastened to a bottom of the easy lid cover. The flaps are spaced apart, providing room for the hinge of a lid if one is present. The easy lid cover can be easily removed and disposed from any sized and shaped garbage bin lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Inventor: Iram Yusuf
  • Patent number: 12364801
    Abstract: A nasal irrigation device communicates an irrigant to a device user and comprises a mechanics module and a reservoir assembly wherein a source of saline comprising a cartridge is disposed within the mechanics module adjacent a lid assembly for piercing the cartridge upon closing of a lid for releasing the cartridge contents into the reservoir assembly. A faux collapsible cartridge for testing operability of a nasal irrigation device comprises a housing including a shaft, a spring biased rod extending from the housing shaft, and a flange depending from a housing wall whereby the rod and flange are disposed to actuate a trigger assembly of the nasal irrigation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: RhinoSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin R Hoke, Robert D. Schilling, Patrick W. Brown, Jeffrey S. Taggart
  • Patent number: 12358707
    Abstract: An interlocking container insert device, method, and system comprising a plurality of interlocking container insert pieces that comprise a plurality of interlocking tabs, a plurality of interlocking cavities, and a body structure. The interlocking tabs may protrude distally from the body structure. The interlocking tabs of all of the pieces may have a tab size and a tab shape that are substantially the same. The interlocking cavities of all of the pieces may have a cavity size and a cavity shape that are substantially the same. The tab shape may be a mirror negative of the cavity shape. The interlocking tabs may interlock with the interlocking cavities. The interlocking container insert pieces may interlock to each other and form an interlocking container insert with a tessellate pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Tradehost Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Hills
  • Patent number: 12344446
    Abstract: A container (1) for consumer goods, the container comprises an outer sleeve (20) and inner tray (10) disposed within the outer sleeve (20), and configured to slide within the outer sleeve (20) between: a first position, in which the interior of the inner tray (10) cannot be accessed by a user; and a second position, in which the interior of the inner tray (10) can be accessed by a user. The container (1) has a locking mechanism for preventing the inner tray (10) from sliding with respect to the outer sleeve from the first position to the second position, when the inner tray (10) is in the first position in the outer sleeve (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Julie Polier, Luiz Andre Rodrigues, Digvijay Singh
  • Patent number: 12337461
    Abstract: A toolbox apparatus for portably storing tools includes a container with a pivoting holder positioned on one side of the container. The pivoting holder is shaped to hold a plurality of elongated tools in vertical orientations when upright and is pivotable rearwardly to tilt the elongated tools downwardly, thus compacting the toolbox apparatus such that the toolbox apparatus may be storied in a shorter space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventor: Dmitry Denenberg
  • Patent number: 12336612
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to refillable, modular containers consisting of a disposable refillable section and a retained section. The refillable section is dislodged from the retained section by pressing a release button which separates the two parts. Proximal to the releasing section is a connectable hinging mechanism by which individual modular containers can be connected and rotated about the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CONCEPT WORKSHOP WORLDWIDE, LLC
    Inventor: Stewart H. Seidler
  • Patent number: 12322626
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignees: PICO & TERA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bum Je Woo, Seok Mun Yoon, Jang Heo, Young Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 12290218
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and a sunscreen container are disclosed. A sunscreen container includes a reservoir for holding a volume of sunscreen and a hand pump in fluid connection with the reservoir. The sunscreen container further includes a moving portion of the hand pump comprising outward facing numerical markings that indicate a volume of sunscreen that is pumped based on a movement of the hand pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Vanessa London
  • Patent number: 12286289
    Abstract: Provided is a packing material that makes it possible to omit an exclusive part for installing a robot on a stand, and to reduce the number of parts of the robot. The packing material for packing the robot has a first support member that supports the robot in a state in which a base of the robot is exposed, and the first support member is provided with grip portions which are held by a worker to lift the robot together with the first support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Shinagawa, Kousuke Imasaka
  • Patent number: 12280908
    Abstract: A packaging block that includes a body section having a aperture defined therein. A hinge defines a first portion of the body section and a second portion of the body section. The first portion is rotatably coupled to the second portion via the hinge. A plurality of selectively removable sections are removably coupled to the body section. The aperture receives at least a portion of an article to facilitate securement of the article during packaging and transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Diamond 6S Management
    Inventor: Dale Malone
  • Patent number: 12280911
    Abstract: A foldable file box includes: a plastic sheet including a bottom wall and two side walls that are foldable relative to the bottom wall to form a U-shaped structure; two side frames interlocking with the bottom wall and the two side walls to form a box structure including a top opening; two hanging rods each including a bottom portion interlocking with the top part of the plastic sheet, and two ends of each hanging rod respectively interlocking with the two side frames; and a top cover interlocking with the two side frames and the two hanging rods to close the top opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ALL STAR HOUSEWARE LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Song
  • Patent number: 12275573
    Abstract: A thermally insulated package for transporting a temperature sensitive payload. The thermally insulated package comprises a payload retention volume for said temperature sensitive payload; at least one layer of insulation surrounding the payload retention volume; an outer casing enclosing the at least one layer of insulation and the payload retention volume; and a recess for accommodating at least one functional device, the recess arranged between the at least one layer of insulation and the outer casing. The recess suitably provides a specific storage volume within the thermally insulated package but outside of the insulation and the payload retention volume for said the functional device, such as a temperature monitoring device, in order to conveniently transport said device with the package and protect said device from physical impacts and environmental factors. A thermally insulated package kit is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: DGP INTELSIUS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jens Mangelsen, Richard Merchant
  • Patent number: 12270512
    Abstract: Disclosed is a corner structure (100) of a liquefied gas storage tank, wherein the corner structure is installed at a corner of a storage tank for loading liquefied gas and supports sealing walls (51, 52) that prevent leakage of the liquefied gas. The corner structure (100) may include: two insulation members (110) arranged on the inner surface of a hull structure so as to be oriented in different directions; and mobile members (130) which are installed on the respective insulation members (110) and to which the sealing walls (51, 52) are joined. The mobile members (130) may be slidably coupled to the insulation members 110, and a plurality of the mobile members (130) may be arranged spaced apart from each other in a straight line on one of the insulation members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA GAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Ho Yim, Hae Chul Han, Young Chul Yang, Heung Seok Seo, Youngkyun Kim, Kyo Kook Jin, Youngkeun Yoon
  • Patent number: 12259091
    Abstract: The discharge direction when the gas in the high-pressure tank is released by the opening of the plug, the high-pressure tank is arranged so as not to overlap with the position of the plug of the other adjacent high-pressure tank, or one end side of the band for fixing the high-pressure tank to the frame is a first connecting portion fixed to the frame via an elastic body, in the adjacent high-pressure tank, the first connecting portions are arranged so as to face each other, the first connecting portions arranged so as to face each other are arranged so as to be aligned in a direction parallel to the axis of the high-pressure tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Ohba, Shinnosuke Sako, Shusuke Inagi
  • Patent number: 12240657
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a paperboard packaging container comprising a tubular paperboard container body, a container bottom and a container lid. The container body comprises a container body abutment edge at the container opening. The container body has an inner surface facing towards an inner compartment in the packaging container and an outer surface facing away from the inner compartment. The container lid comprises a lid collar having an abutment edge adapted for abutting against the container body abutment edge, and a lid plug-in portion. The plug-in portion has a side surface extending in the longitudinal direction and faces the inner surface of the container body, when the container lid is in a closed position. The lid collar is made of the same material as the container body and the lid collar is delimited from the container body by a slit or by weakening means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GPI Systems AB
    Inventors: Henrik Herlin, Simon Holka, Berth-Ola Göthe
  • Patent number: 12221261
    Abstract: A package having a product locking feature can include a product display panel to which a product is secured with a product locking assembly. The product locking assembly can include a locking element and a receiving element, the locking element being one-way insertable into the receiving element in two stages, the first stage being for securing the product display panel to the product and the second stage being further insertion of the locking element into the receiving element after the product is removed from the product display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HASBRO, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew James Piejko-Brown, Ryan Thomas Wilson, Yui Him Ludwig Leung
  • Patent number: 12187070
    Abstract: Provided is a container having a container body, a bail attached to the container body, and a flexible band attached to a rear of the container body. The flexible band has a first end attached to the rear of the container proximate a top of the rear and a second end attached to the rear of the container body proximate a bottom of the rear. The flexible band is movable between a first position spaced a first distance from the rear, a second position spaced a second distance from the rear less than the first distance to allow the container body and the bail to be grasped at the rear without interference by the flexible band, and a third position spaced a third distance from the rear greater than the first distance to provide space for a user's hand between the rear of the container body and the flexible band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Joshua R. Robertson
  • Patent number: 12178778
    Abstract: A system for monitoring access to a contained medication is disclosed. The system includes a server configured to store user information for each of a plurality of registered users. The system also includes a smart container configured to hold a medication. The smart container includes a processor configured to (a) detect a user device of a user in possession of the smart container, (b) determine if the user device is associated with one of the registered users, and (c) if the determination is affirmative, manage a user session with the user device and transmit one or more session messages to the server. The server is configured to store a transaction corresponding to each of the session messages to thereby create a transaction history for the smart container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Moses Vaughan, Christopher M. Myers, Bill Loi Pham
  • Patent number: 12172808
    Abstract: A child-resistant molded-fiber container includes a base, a lid, and a hinge. The base includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface defines a cavity and the lower surface defines a channel surrounding the cavity. The channel is disposed between an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall of the base. The outer sidewall includes a locking member. The lid includes a sidewall having an opening. The hinge rotatably connects the base and the lid, and allows rotation of the lid between an open configuration and a closed configuration relative to the base. In the closed configuration, the sidewall of the lid is disposed around the outer sidewall of the base and conceals the upper surface of the base. In the closed configuration, the locking member of the base extends through the opening of the lid to inhibit movement of the lid to the open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: World Centric
    Inventors: Viktor Jondal, Jesse Menayan, Tyler Harwood, Aseem Das