Patents Examined by Nathan J. Newhouse
  • Patent number: 11787594
    Abstract: A food receptacle having a tray with a base, a perimeter wall extending therefrom, and a tongue extending from the perimeter wall along a longitudinal axis and a cover adapted to cover the tray. Cover has an opening adapted to receive the tongue therethrough, such that the tongue is inserted through the opening when the tray is covered by the cover. Tongue may include a protrudable portion adapted to protrude away from the longitudinal axis. When protruded, the protrudable portion is adapted to abut the cover. When the tray is covered by the cover, the protrudable portion may be protruded over the top panel to prevent the tongue from being withdrawn from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microwave Packaging (S) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Boon Wee Lau
  • Patent number: 11780642
    Abstract: A blank includes a front panel; a wing portion coupled to the front panel by a wing hinge, the wing portion including an attachment panel disposed opposite from the wing hinge, the attachment panel configured to couple to the front panel to at least partially form a cavity between the front panel and the wing portion; a lower telescoping panel coupled to the front panel by a lower telescoping hinge; and an upper telescoping panel coupled to the lower telescoping panel by an upper telescoping hinge, the upper telescoping panel and the lower telescoping panel configured to fold into the cavity in a closed configuration to at least partially enclose the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Shifeng Chen, Greg Sollie, Jamie Waltermire
  • Patent number: 11780641
    Abstract: Unitary blank for forming a container having a body portion with a plurality of fold lines and a cover portion. The body portion with a plurality of fold lines define a plurality of body wall portions, and each body wall portion has an upper edge. A first body wall portion includes a closure tab extending from the upper edge of the first body wall portion. The closure tab includes a closure tab flap portion and a closure tab base portion. The cover portion extends from the upper edge of a second body wall portion. The cover portion includes a cover portion flap score line extending along an upper edge of the cover portion and a release flap. A food container having a body portion and a cover portion is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: PACTIV LLC
    Inventor: Angela E. Learn
  • Patent number: 11780640
    Abstract: A retail-ready container includes internal corner supports. The container is erected from a preassembly formed from a single blank. The blank includes a side panel, a bottom panel, and an auxiliary panel. Each of the side panel and the auxiliary panel include a plurality of sections connected by respective fold lines. The auxiliary panel is folded against the side panel and sections of the auxiliary panel are adhered to corresponding sections of the side panel. Fold lines of the side panel are laterally offset from fold lines of the auxiliary panel so that unfolding of the preassembly yields the container with internal corner supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YORK CONTAINER COMPANY
    Inventors: Troy M. Little, Thomas E. DeCello
  • Patent number: 11772567
    Abstract: An improved modular vehicle accessory clamp for is disclosed. The clamp provides for gross and fine adjustment between the jaws to allow for differences in the width of vehicle roof rack cross bars. The clamp has a first body with a depending jaw and an extension portion and a second body portion also with a depending jaw and a receiving portion that receives the extension of the first body and allows for adjustment of the distance between the jaws. The clamp can be locked to the cross bar. Upper grooves in the clamp allow for easy attachment to vehicle accessories such as rooftop carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Eastern Company
    Inventor: Matthew Schroll
  • Patent number: 11772539
    Abstract: A cupholder adapter configured for use with an existing cupholder on a vehicle is provided. The cupholder adapter includes a cylindrical cupholder having a hollow internal volume, a collar attached to a top portion of the cylindrical cupholder, wherein the collar includes a plurality of tabs extending perpendicularly into the hollow internal volume, and an adapter base coupled to the cylindrical cupholder, wherein the adapter base includes a plurality of legs configured to expand and retract such that the diameter of the adapter base is configured to expand from a minimum diameter to a maximum diameter. The plurality of tabs includes tabs of different lengths and widths which enables and accommodates wide, tall, and narrow beverage containers during vehicle use. The adapter base is configured to install into the recessed cupholder near the console of most vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Benjamin Cook
  • Patent number: 11771189
    Abstract: A shoe tote includes a first and a second shoe sock each with a first and second opposing side walls spaced apart by a bottom portion and a back portion. Each shoe sock has an exterior and an interior portion, designed to receive footwear. Each shoe socks contain a top portion opposing the bottom portion and a front portion opposing the back portion. Each shoe sock contains a closure mechanism. The shoe socks are separated by a strap. The strap has a first terminal end and a second terminal end. The strap further contains a first attachment disposed between the first terminal end of the strap and the first shoe sock. The strap also is comprised of a second attachment disposed between the second terminal end of the strap and the second shoe sock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHOE PAC LLC
    Inventor: James Leaks, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11772841
    Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca Ronchetti, Andrea Giampieri, Marcello Barbieri, Davide Morciano
  • Patent number: 11772842
    Abstract: The present invention is a package having strengthened, reinforced lines of weakness. More particularly, the package, in its fully formed configuration, provides for a self-reinforced package and strengthened, reinforced lines of weakness for stacking and transport wherein the package is resistant to fracture at its lines of weakness due to jostling of its contents against the inside of the package and at its lines of weakness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE HERSHEY COMPANY
    Inventor: James Lagrou
  • Patent number: 11771206
    Abstract: Embodiments of bag having a self-adjustable carrying strap system and methods to manufacture such a bag are generally described herein. Other embodiments that may be described and claimed include a golf bag having a self-adjustable carrying strap system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KARSTEN MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher E. Kalck, John H. Loudenslager
  • Patent number: 11767141
    Abstract: A system for enclosing curved objects includes a first panel may include a first top portion, a first rear portion, a first side portion, a first bottom portion, and a first front portion. A second panel includes a second top portion, a second rear portion, a second bottom portion, and a second front portion. And a third panel includes a third top portion, a third rear portion, a second side portion, a third bottom portion, and a third front portion. The first panel is coupled to the second panel by at least a tab and a slot. And the second panel is coupled to the third panel by at least a tab and a slot. Each top portion is coupled to a respective front portion by a tab and a cut-out aperture. Each panel is positioned at an angle relative to a neighboring panel. The angle may comprise an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Peachtree Packaging, Inc.
    Inventor: John Anton Cannavan
  • Patent number: 11766962
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle storage device 1 that includes: a storage box 2 including a box body 20 having a storage space 21 and having an upward-facing opening 22, and a box peripheral portion 25 disposed at a peripheral edge of the opening 22; and a design panel 3 disposed on an upper side of the storage box 2 and having a window portion 32 facing the opening 22, and a design window frame portion 35 that is disposed at a peripheral edge of the window portion 32 and that faces the box peripheral portion 25. The design window frame portion 35 and the box peripheral portion 25 are slidable relative to each other in a first direction intersecting an up-down direction while engaging with each other. The storage box 2 and the design panel 3 are combined with each other by sliding in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sakakibara, Kohei Yoshida, Yu Hishida
  • Patent number: 11767144
    Abstract: The present invention regards a container comprising a support having a base, a lateral wall and an abutment flap emerging from the lateral wall. The container comprises a closure system movable between a closed condition and open condition, a first coupling portion carried by the closure system and a second coupling portion defined on the abutment flap. The first coupling portion is movable between a first operating position in which it is disengaged from the second coupling portion and a second operating position in which it is engaged with said second coupling portion. The first coupling portion comprises a central body from which a tab emerges that is engageable with the second coupling portion; the first coupling portion defines a removable portion configured for being separated from the closure system following a first opening of the container following an engagement between said first and second coupling portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: I.G.B. S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessio Bressan, Michel Bressan, Alberto Gandolla
  • Patent number: 11759000
    Abstract: A backpack includes an upper cross member having a first end and a second end, and a lower cross member offset vertically from the upper cross member and having a third end and a fourth end. The frame includes a first rail connected to the upper cross member at the first end and the lower cross member inwards of the third end, and a second rail fixed to the upper cross member inwards from the first end and the lower cross member at the third end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CABELA'S LLC
    Inventors: Lucas Humphreys, Ryan Shutts, Laurence Robinson
  • Patent number: 11758998
    Abstract: An adjustable mount usable with backpack having a rear wall and shoulder straps has a base plate attached to the rear wall of the backpack, a cover on the base plate and forming therewith a housing, guide rails in the housing on the base plate and extending in an adjustment direction, and a slide in the housing and movable along the guide rails in the direction between end positions. A support plate outside the housing is attached to the shoulder straps and connected through the cover with the base plate for joint movement therewith in the direction. A control element coupled to the slide is movable between a locking position arresting the slide on the base plate and a release position allowing the slide to move steplessly in the direction on the rails relative to the base plate. The control element is accessible by a wearer of the backpack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUDHAUS GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan Keidel
  • Patent number: 11760429
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a spare tire carrier for a vehicle that can be adjustable for moving the spare tire into different positions. The spare tire carrier can be attached to existing components of a vehicle in order to move the spare tire's position, which can be advantageous for avoiding environmental hazards when off-roading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Lund Motion Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 11760532
    Abstract: A tamper evident carton. The tamper evident carton may include a floor panel; side panels extending about a periphery of the floor panel; corner gussets extending between adjacent side panels, wherein the bottom panel, side panels, and corner gussets may be configurable to form a compartment region; first and second lid flaps extending from an uppermost edge of their respective side panels forming first and second moveable joints, respectively, therebetween, and the first and second lid flaps may each include an interlocking feature, such that the first and second lid flaps may interlock with one another when in a folded closed configuration; third and fourth lid flaps extending from an uppermost edge of their respective side panels forming third and fourth moveable joints, respectively, therebetween, and the third and fourth lid flaps may each include an interlocking feature, such that the third and fourth lid flaps may interlock with one another when in a folded closed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Inno-Pak, LLC
    Inventor: Steven A. Mayer
  • Patent number: 11751671
    Abstract: A pouch or pocket may act as a container and may be used to securely hold objects (e.g., cell phone, keys, wallet, etc.) during athletic activity (e.g., running). The pouch may be a standalone item or integrally formed as part of other items. The pouch may hold the object to be stored in place within the pouch or pocket. The pouch may provide some cushioning or impact force attenuation to protect the object being held within the pouch or pocket. Additionally, the pouch may be attached to a garment, such as running clothes. The pouch includes an outer envelope sealable by a closure and a one-way valve with foam layers located inside the pouch. After the object is placed in the pouch, the closure is closed, and the air within the pouch is expelled via the one-way valve by compressing the foam layers from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Cooper, Austin Orand, Nadia M. Panian, Peter P. Williams, II
  • Patent number: 11747109
    Abstract: A gun holster system includes a body having a front side and a back side forming an upper opening disposed therebetween and forming a lower opening at a lower surface of the body; a strap assembly integrally secured to the body; a first magnet disposed within a thickness of the fastener protrusion; and a second magnet disposed within a thickness of the housing. The strap assembly includes an elongated strap extending from the body; a fastener protrusion extending from a surface of the elongated strap; and a faster housing extending from an outer surface of the back side of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: JM4 Tactical LLC
    Inventor: James Myers
  • Patent number: 11738905
    Abstract: An easy to assemble and store, recyclable assembly of a produce basket with a complementary carrying sleeve, assembled from pre-formed flat components that fold into shape is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Nicola Pacia, Thomas Latzkowski