Patents Examined by Rakesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 12293624
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for dispensing articles includes a dispensing outlet, laterally opposed, elongate first and second guide walls defining a singulating channel therebetween, a dispensing path extending through the singulating channel to the dispensing outlet, and a drive system. The drive system includes a belt and a belt actuator operable to drive the belt. The dispensing apparatus is configured to convey articles on the belt in a dispensing direction along the dispensing path toward the dispensing outlet to be dispensed. The singulating channel is configured to singulate the articles as the articles are conveyed along the dispensing path and through the singulating channel toward the dispensing outlet to be dispensed. The first guide wall extends laterally across the singulating channel at an oblique angle to vertical to overhang at least a portion of the singulating channel and engage articles conveyed along the singulating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: PARATA SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Paul Bouchelle, Mark I. Perisich, Eric X. Bonpain, Michael Richard Floyd
  • Patent number: 12279723
    Abstract: A wipe dispenser for use in metering out consistent doses of a composition onto a disposable wipe includes a mixing and dispensing assembly. The assembly has a vessel holding a first liquid for the composition and a first pump to convey the first liquid. A bottle having a second pump to convey a second liquid of the composition is stored within the bottle. A funnel arrangement is in downstream communication with the first pump and second pump. The funnel arrangement includes a mixing chamber for mixing the first and second liquids and a dispensing funnel in communication with and downstream of the mixing chamber. A wipe can be pulled through the dispensing funnel and wetted with a mixture of the first liquid and second liquid from the mixing chamber. A push bar attached to the funnel arrangement can selectively apply the force to actuate the first pump and second pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Thomas Dobizl, Joseph Steven Bons, Sarah Elise Johnson, Ariel Brier Chatman Kleczewski
  • Patent number: 12275575
    Abstract: A child resistant container comprising a blister and a sleeve. The blister comprises a plurality of compartments arranged radially around a centrally disposed hub. Each compartment defines a cavity for holding contents. The container is a “dial pack” type container in that the blister can be rotated with respect to the sleeve to expose each cavity in turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd LaMont McDonald, Robert Timothy Lynn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12268656
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medication dispensing system comprised of a medication dispensing device and a keyed and associated medication cartridge. The device includes a housing containing a cartridge carrier, designed with a specific connector to align with the medication cartridge. The device also includes an authentication mechanism that works in conjunction with an activator mechanism. When operated, the activator mechanism causes the cartridge carrier to move the medication cartridge between a stored position and a dispensing position, where it can be compressed to safely and efficiently dispense medication to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ASPARGO LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Demurjian, Ravi Sawhney, Lance Hussey, Michael Kulick, Brian Weingarth, Josh Probst, Rajvir Logani, Cary Chow, Christianna Bethel, Craig Steel, Michael Schuffert, John Vernon
  • Patent number: 12272201
    Abstract: A system of the present disclosure has a housing that has at least one vertical channel for housing a plurality of medicine bottles laterally stacked in the channel, the channel has a first gate positioned above a trough and positioned such that when open, the first gate is beneath a first of the plurality of medicine bottles. Further, the channel has a second gate positioned above the first gate and positioned such that when open, the second gate is beneath a second of the plurality of medicine bottles, the second of the plurality of medicine bottles atop the first of the plurality of medicine bottles. The housing further comprising a trough for catching falling medicine bottles. The system further has a processor that sends a signal to a first servo motor coupled to the first gate at a predetermined time, the servo motor opening the first gate and allowing the first of the plurality of medicine bottles to fall into the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Barbara Coatney
  • Patent number: 12262828
    Abstract: A shoe cover dispenser device for installing a plurality of shoe covers includes a frame, an installation assembly installed on the frame, and the locking assembly installed on the frame and is capable of locking the installation assembly, so that the installation assembly can facilitate the installation of the shoe covers on or the removal of the shoe covers from the installation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OTO Industry (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liang Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 12247431
    Abstract: A system for opening and closing a door within a cabinet is provided. The system includes a motor in communication with a controller to automatically open and close a door. A first plate fixed to the motor shaft to rotate with rotation of the motor shaft, the plate comprises a slot disposed therein. A first leg extends from a door that extends through the slot. A second leg extends from the door. A first sensor moves based upon rotation of the motor shaft, wherein the first sensor can detect relative motion between the motor shaft and the door, wherein when the motor shaft is rotated in the second direction and the first sensor detects relative motion between the motor shaft and the door, the first sensor sends a signal to the controller, wherein upon receipt of the signal the first sensor discontinues sending the second signal to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CARTER-HOFFMANN LLC
    Inventors: Carol Lessard, Kelly Michalko
  • Patent number: 12233538
    Abstract: A shaft-like component supply device has a form in which a component supply pipe and an outer cylinder are intersected at an acute angle and coupled. A supply rod holds and advances a shaft-like component at a distal end and releases the shaft-like component at a target location. Meanwhile, component transfer from the outlet hole of the component supply pipe to the distal end of the supply rod is performed by the attraction force of a magnet. The supply rod includes an inner shaft mounted with a magnet and a hollow shaft. A first drive device that advances and retracts a holding piece and a second drive device that pulls back the magnet of the inner shaft in a direction away from the distal end of the supply rod are coupled to a single holding member mounted near a distal end part of an outer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Shoji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12234080
    Abstract: The invention is a compact glove dispenser and gloving device that sanitarily dispenses and dons disposable gloves on hands and is designed for ease of use, low complexity, and low cost. Individual gloves are packaged with glove palm and fingers folded with the open cuff facing the flat surface of the packaging, held open and in place by a frame made of thin material. Multiple glove packets are positioned in cartridges in a storage area, oriented for mechanical transporting to dedicated left and right gloving areas. Once in the gloving area, the glove cuff is held open, presented to the user who pushes hands through the packaging, donning the glove in a single motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Cecily Alexandra Morrow
  • Patent number: 12205719
    Abstract: Described herein is an integrated health management system, and method that includes a pre-packaged tablet delivery apparatus configured to deliver pre-packaged tablets to a user. The delivery apparatus comprising an alignment guide, a processor modulated differential drive used for the directional control of the pre-packaged tablets, a sensor for sensing a location and an orientation of the pre-packaged tablet, a cutter mechanism, and cutter mechanism control logic. The sensed location and orientation of the pre-packaged tablet is used to modulate the differential drive. The cutter mechanism control logic is configured to monitor the sensed pre-packaged tablet location and orientation, then initiate a cutting sequence responsive to at least one of the predetermined configuration within the processor and the dynamic configuration responsive to determining an optimal sensed location and orientation. The control logic generates and logs a message into the distributed database responsive to the cutting sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Big Sky Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Hunt, Dan Stone, Eric Paul, Dan Preston, Rigel Correa, Jessica Milanio, Lindsey Atkinson, John Gibson, Benjamin Cheek, John Friar, Lucas Cheek
  • Patent number: 12202656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container for accommodating one or more objects, with the container having a main body and a lid, with the main body having a bottom as well as side walls forming a border structure pointing towards the lid, with the container having a connecting edge via which the main body and lid are pivotably connected to one another, wherein the container is provided with a unfoldable figure which is reversibly transferable from a compressed flat state to a three-dimensional expanded state, and means for producing visual and/or acoustic effects, wherein the container has a foldable insert sheet that has at least five sections arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction, the 1st section covering the inner side of the lid, the 2nd and 5th sections, laid one on top of the other, being placed into the main body and the 3rd and 4th sections, laid one on top of the other, resting against the inside of the side wall opposite the connecting edge, wherein between the bottom and the 2nd a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: JAST Gifts Shenzhen Company Limited
    Inventor: Jen-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 12193479
    Abstract: A bead delivery disk, system and method of delivering flavor beads to a tobacco rod or tow including a bead source, a bead delivery disk in communication with the bead source, including a central disk portion having front and back sides and a first central thickness, an inner annular rim around the central disk portion, the inner annular rim having a second thickness less than said first thickness, a series of pockets spaced around the inner annular rim and multiple vacuum transmission apertures located on one side of the disk, each aperture communicating with at least one of the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Dwight David Williams, Charles David Howe
  • Patent number: 12180769
    Abstract: A system for opening and closing a door within a cabinet is provided. The system includes a motor in communication with a controller to automatically open and close a door. A first plate fixed to the motor shaft to rotate with rotation of the motor shaft, the plate comprises a slot disposed therein. A first leg extends from a door that extends through the slot. A second leg extends from the door. A first sensor moves based upon rotation of the motor shaft, wherein the first sensor can detect relative motion between the motor shaft and the door, wherein when the motor shaft is rotated in the second direction and the first sensor detects relative motion between the motor shaft and the door, the first sensor sends a signal to the controller, wherein upon receipt of the signal the first sensor discontinues sending the second signal to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CARTER-HOFFMANN, LLC
    Inventors: Carol Lessard, Kelly Michalko
  • Patent number: 12175842
    Abstract: A vending machine is adapted for dispensing a pre-packaged food product provided in a refrigerated enclosure housed in the vending machine. The vending machine includes an oven including a housing defining a cavity for receiving the pre-packaged food product. The housing has a sidewall with a sidewall opening providing access to the cavity. A side door is mounted to the sidewall for closing and opening the sidewall opening. A drive mechanism is connected to the side door and adapted to mechanically move the side door of the oven between a closed position and an opened position. The drive mechanism includes a sensing device adapted to determine whether the side door is in one of the closed position and the opened position. A door frame is mounted to the sidewall and has a guide track. The side door is movably received in the guide track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOMATED RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: James Edward Deaton, Linda H. Wu, John C. Serieka, Lynn Warren Hamrick, Sean Raymond Lucas, William Warrenburg, Brent Joseph Clafferty
  • Patent number: 12150917
    Abstract: Method for generating user interface that indicates medication changes in medication starts with a processor detecting a medication change event. Processor retrieves medication information based on the medication change event including images of two medications. Processor generates color difference output using a color neural network, image of first medication and second medication. Color difference output comprises information on a difference in hue, saturation or color distribution. Processor generates medication appearance difference output using medication appearance neural network, image of first medication and second medication. Medication appearance difference output comprises information on a difference in shape, segmentation or form. Processor generates a differential record using the color difference output and medication appearance difference output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Myers, Danielle L. Smith, Daniel McConnell
  • Patent number: 12144470
    Abstract: A method for loading a stack of interfolded paper units into a dispenser includes inserting a stack of interfolded paper units into an interior volume of the dispenser through a dispenser opening. The dispenser has a lid having a dispensing aperture, as well as a movable platen that has a paper-engaging surface, and which is urged upwardly toward the dispenser opening. A bottom wall of the dispenser is disposed opposite the dispenser opening, and a lock of the dispenser is selectively engageable with the platen. The stack is placed on the platen and a downward force is exerted on the top surface of the stack to thereby push the platen downward until the platen has been engaged by the lock and has reached a locked position in which the paper-engaging surface has an oblique orientation relative to the bottom wall of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Magnus Falk, John P. Devlin, Peter McNulty, Jeffrey Mekler, Nathan Rollins
  • Patent number: 12137845
    Abstract: A box for dispensing pre-cut wiping material. The box includes: a body delimiting a space for receiving the wiping material, which can be unwound in a strip on a front side of the body; a lid hinged on a rear side of the body; and a roller which is pivotably mounted on the front side of the body, which includes at least two sections of different diameters, including a first diameter and a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, and which is provided to support the strip with the lid mounted thereon. The sections of different diameters are configured to pull the strip with a speed differential, so as to tear the strip at a pre-cut line, when a user pulls on the strip from the front side of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Maurice Granger
  • Patent number: 12134524
    Abstract: A system includes a hollow shaft, a drum, an absolute encoder, a driving mechanism, a conveyor belt, a photoelectric sensor, and a controller. A structural optimization design method of the drum is provided on the basis of theoretical calculation of a seeding track of the drum-type seed-metering device, a theoretical model of a conveying position of a tray and a seed-metering angle is built with the aim of continuously sowing grains to the center of each hole, the conveying position of the tray and a rotating position of suction holes on the drum are monitored in real time on a seedling raising line, and a difference value between the actual position of the suction holes and the theoretical seed-metering angle and a change rate of the difference value are calculated and serve as input parameters to design a fuzzy controller of the rotation speed of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhan Zhao, Yue Zhou, Jing Zhou
  • Patent number: 12122588
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a blade dispenser includes a body portion; and a lid portion slidable relative to the body portion to move the blade dispenser between a closed configuration and an extended configuration. The lid portion comprises a first lid portion having a first blade chamber and a second lid portion having a second blade chamber. The first lid portion and the second lid portion are coupled by a hinge portion configured to permit the first lid portion to pivot relative to the second lid portion to move the blade dispenser from the extended configuration to an open configuration. In the open configuration blades may be removed from or inserted into both the first blade chamber and the second blade chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Cole Thomas Sanders, Gregory Tropea, Matthew Alan Seibert
  • Patent number: 12115131
    Abstract: This invention provides a blister pack dosage form container, comprising an advanceable blister pack holder, comprising a series of access portals sized to accommodate pass-through of at least one dosage form contained within a multi-dosage form containing blister pack located within said holder proximally therethrough upon engagement of an appropriate depilling structure, wherein said advanceable blister pack holder optionally accommodates upright positioning of said dosage forms and said depilling structure displaces said dosage form laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dosentrx Ltd.
    Inventor: Ilan Paz