Patents Examined by Stanton L. Krycinski
  • Patent number: 12376712
    Abstract: A method for hanging a towel on a towel rod. The method includes folding the towel such that opposing width edges of the towel hangs downwards towards a floor and such that a first towel portion of the towel is turned over to face a second towel portion of the towel, a bent section being defined between the first towel portion and the second towel portion. The method further includes holding a right and a left length edge of the towel and turning the right and the left length edge of the towel upwards away from the floor and positioning the right and the left length edge of the towel over a right and a left side portion of the towel rod. The method enables an intermediate portion of the towel to be suspended on the towel rod, extending across an empty space without any contact with the towel rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Inventor: Melvin S. Hewitt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12364345
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a vertical shelving unit with rails following a curvilinear path protruding into the shelving space and slidingly supporting a lip of a bin. The vertical shelving unit may, for example, include multiple vertical posts (VPs) defining a three-dimensional space. The VPs may, for example, include a set of horizontal support members (HSMs) coupled to the VPs on opposing sides of the space. The HSMs may, for example, be used to couple to the VPs on opposing sides of the space. For example, when a bin is inserted between the opposing sides, a protruding lip of the bin may be supported by the upper most surface of the HSMs. Each of the HSMs may, for example, include an upper HSM connected by a truss structure to a lower HSM. Various embodiments may advantageously provide a modular shelving unit that individually suspends storage bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Kaprock Management LLC
    Inventors: Dylan Tyler Ritchie, Noah Michael Rodebaugh, Matthew Eaton Davis
  • Patent number: 12364256
    Abstract: A fishing rod holder includes a bottom plate, a plurality of blocking plates, and a plurality of clamping components. The plurality of blocking plates and the plurality of clamping components are all arranged on an identical surface of the bottom plate. One clamping component is provided corresponding to one blocking plate. One end of the clamping component is close to the corresponding blocking plate and is movable away from the corresponding blocking plate under an external force. When the end of the clamping component is driven away from the corresponding blocking plate by the external force, the clamping component has a restoration force, so that when the clamping component is driven away from the corresponding blocking plate by the external force, the clamping component approaches the corresponding blocking plate, and a clamping space is formed between the clamping component and the blocking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Inventor: Yuerui Xu
  • Patent number: 12357114
    Abstract: A deck panel for a retail shelving system is provided. The deck panel includes a panel and a region of strengthening ribbing. The panel has a top surface configured for supporting retail merchandise and a bottom surface. The region of strengthening ribbing includes a plurality of ribs extending outward from the bottom surface of the panel. The bottom surface of the panel has a border region that extends around the region of strengthening ribbing on at least three sides. The deck panel may be part of a shelf which may be part of a shelving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventor: Jamie A. Smedley
  • Patent number: 12357112
    Abstract: A theft deterrent system for mounting on a retail shelf that includes a receiver to attach to the retail shelf and a plurality of gates positioned along the receiver. Each gate of the plurality of gates is arranged to swing open from the receiver. A plurality of blockers is arranged in a slidable manner along the receiver. Each blocker provides audible feedback as it slides relative to the receiver. Each blocker prevents a respective underlying gate to swing open from the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SENNCO SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Silas Welsh, Jennifer Pedersen, Ryan G'Fellers, Christopher Marszalek, Andy Reynolds
  • Patent number: 12345063
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a new urn display device (urn pedestal) for displaying an urn during a funeral ceremony. The urn display device includes a base that covers and encloses the burial opening where the urn is placed after the ceremony, provides a safe “floor” for anyone approaching the urn, and a central hole in the base that allows the urn to be passed through the base into a burial opening after the ceremony.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SG Burial Platform LLC
    Inventor: Stephen J. Sabo
  • Patent number: 12336631
    Abstract: A cabinet shelving system includes a first set of shelves and a second set of shelves each having an upper shelf. The first and second set of shelves may be mounted on a cabinet mounting frame. The cabinet mounting frame may be installed in an interior cavity of a cabinet. The cabinet mounting frame may be used to slide the second set of shelves within the interior cavity while the first set of shelves is outside the interior cavity. Each of the first set of shelves and the second set of shelves may be independent slid, using a pair of slide out slides, between inside and outside of the interior cavity. The upper shelf of the first set of shelves and the second set of shelves may slide from outside to inside the interior cavity independent of movement of the first shelf frame and the second shelf frame, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: REV-A-SHELF COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Paul Franklin Chambers
  • Patent number: 12324527
    Abstract: The multi-wheel display assembly includes a lower display portion having a circular configuration in a horizontal plane and an upper display portion having a circular configuration in a horizontal plane that is displaced upwardly from the lower display portion by a plurality of support rods, each display portion including a plurality of planetary and orbital gears each having a peripheral edge and teeth appropriately engaged for rotation of the gear systems. Specifically, the display assembly includes a gearing system with a central drive gear, multiple planetary-gears, and a third layer of orbiting gears that each have a horizontal side wall for holding a display article such as a mug or food item and which remains level even as respective gears revolve. The orbiting gears and the planetary gears are radially arranged along concentric circumferential paths and connected to the central drive gear through complementary rotational movements and complementary gear teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventor: Eran Swears
  • Patent number: 12320135
    Abstract: A rack apparatus may have a plurality of uprights and stanchions coupled to a base, where the uprights and the stanchions may form areas configured to receive and support scaffolding and at least one working component. The base may be configured to be transported by a material handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Bil-Jax, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Ledford, Mark Wagner
  • Patent number: 12318024
    Abstract: A method of providing an art rack includes placing a first base rail and a second base rail, each with a plurality of top apertures on their respective top face at least one side aperture on their respective side. The first base rail and the second base are rail joined by at least one base dowel extending from the side apertures. Storage dowels extend from the top apertures, and a space between the storage dowels is operative to accommodating artwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventor: Darren Alonzo Harris
  • Patent number: 12318026
    Abstract: The modular bed linen hanger and storage system enables one to store and easily transport multiple bed linen items. These items can include sheets, blanks, bedspreads, and pillow cases. This hanger and storage system has multiple panel sections having front and back surfaces. Openings through these panel surfaces allow for inserting items through these openings. After partial insertion of an item, the item can rest in that panel section until needed. Multiple openings in the multiple panel sections enable this hanger storage system to hold and store many bed linen items simultaneously. Rollers attached to the bottom of this hanger and storage system allow more accessible transport of the system when desired. Further, foldable and detachable panel sections enable one to vary the length of the hanger. The foldable panel sections also facilitate easier transport of the hanger and storage system when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventor: Jacqueline Williams
  • Patent number: 12290168
    Abstract: Firearm rack kits for wire shelf systems. The firearm rack kits include a first bracket, a second bracket, and an upper support member. The first bracket and the second bracket are complementarily configured with the wire shelf system to releasably mount to a wire shelf of the wire shelf system. The second bracket is complementarily configured to releasably mount to the wire shelf in a position laterally spaced from the first bracket. The upper support member defines a barrel cutout configured to receive and support a barrel of a firearm. The upper support member is configured to span between the first bracket and the second bracket and to releasably couple to the first bracket and to the second bracket. In some examples, the firearm rack kit includes a floor member. In some examples, the firearm rack kit includes a butt support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Marinus Du Preez Kuyl
  • Patent number: 12285104
    Abstract: A floor to ceiling wine rack post that is capable of holding multiple wine bottles in a substantially parallel manner, i.e., the label of the first wine bottle is visible to a person standing in front of the wine rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: WINE MASTER CELLARS LLLP
    Inventor: Rachel Jensen
  • Patent number: 12286823
    Abstract: A bypass door assembly for a retail display fixture has two or more door panels each with a wheel assembly coupled to a top of the door panel and an adjustable drop rail that extends from a bottom of the door panel, a first coupling member having a first track and a second track for receiving the respective wheel assemblies of a first door panel and a second door panel, and a second coupling member having one or more guides for receiving the adjustable drop rail of one of the two or more door panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Marketing Displays, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory James Kenyon
  • Patent number: 12285102
    Abstract: Load-bearing structure comprising one vertical upright, provided with one longitudinal wall and one fastening opening made along the longitudinal wall; one fastening body, provided with one fastening wall and with one fastening portion made cantilevered on the fastening wall, insertable inside the fastening opening and movable in a sliding manner inside the latter between a fastening configuration, in which it is coupled to the fastening opening, by fastening the vertical upright to the fastening body, and one free configuration, in which it is uncoupled from the fastening opening, freeing the vertical upright from the fastening body. The fastening portion comprises a first fastening element, which extends along a first direction of extension (FDE), and a second fastening element, which extends along a second direction of extension substantially transverse to the FDE, the first and the second fastening element being adapted to fasten to the longitudinal wall in the fastening configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: METALSISTEM S.P.A.
    Inventor: Antonello Briosi
  • Patent number: 12280843
    Abstract: A folding bicycle rack with automatic wheel fixing, including a wall-mounting structure, a bottom frame, and an adjustable positioning assembly including a positioning member and a tilted structure. The wall-mounting structure is vertically fixed on a wall. An end of the bottom frame is in an angularly-restricted rotational connection with a lower end of the wall-mounting structure. The bottom frame is provided with a wheel-receiving groove at least partially running through the bottom frame. The positioning member is arranged at a side of the wheel-receiving groove near the wall, and is fixed in use. The tilted structure is arranged at a side of the wheel-receiving groove away from the wall, and is in an angularly-restricted rotational connection with an end of the bottom frame away from the wall. The positioning member and the tilted structure abut against the tire from opposite sides, respectively to support and limit the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Quzhou T-NINE Trading Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: John Su
  • Patent number: 12274410
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, a cleaner hanger assembly, including a hanger, a charging bottom plate, an accessory frame, a hanger column and a base. The charging bottom plate can be used in cooperation with the hanger, so that a charging operation can be performed while the cleaner is hung on the hanger whether the cleaner is in a hanging state or in a floor-standing state, and the charging bottom plate can also be detached for separate use. The hanger can be connected to the accessory frame to form a wall hanger assembly; or the hanger can be connected to the base by means of the hanger column and the accessory frame is fixed in the middle of the hanger column to form a floor-standing hanger assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Qin, Liang Qiao, Peng Lei, Minghai Liu
  • Patent number: 12268300
    Abstract: Generally, an enclosure and method for assembling an enclosure including a plurality of frame members connected or interconnectable to generate a framework and a plurality of panels fastened or fastenable to the framework. In particular embodiments, enclosure and a method of assembling an enclosure from a kit including prefabricated enclosure sides including interconnectable frameworks fastened to panels configured to overlap adjacent panel edges at the corners upon interconnecting the frameworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Grillnetics LLC
    Inventors: Tyler D. Johansen, Darrell Turman
  • Patent number: 12256839
    Abstract: An assembly is configured for use with a firearm having a trigger guard. The assembly includes a firearm holder comprising a body and a trigger peg. The body includes an internal channel, a plunger lock, and a lock plate comprising a first interlock surface. The trigger peg includes a stem and a trigger flange. The stem is configured for insertion through the trigger guard and into the internal channel, the stem including a second interlock surface configured to mate with the first interlock surface. The trigger flange is sized to not pass through the trigger guard. A method of securing a firearm having a trigger guard is described. The method includes positioning the trigger guard at a body of a firearm holder, inserting a stem of a trigger peg through the trigger guard and into the body of the firearm holder, and locking the trigger peg to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Quality Wood Designs Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Novak, Michael Honermann
  • Patent number: 12252345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reinforcement system and method for supporting stacked containers or boxes, without resulting in damage to the contents and the containers themselves. The system comprises at least one pillar element (1) and at least one end shoulder element (2), where the at least one pillar element (1) is arranged in at least one corner of the stack formed by the containers, and where the at least one end shoulder element (2) is arranged at the lower and upper ends of each of the vertical corners of containers stack, where the pillar element (1) has a smaller dimension as measured by the sum of the containers heights along a vertical corner of the container stack between the terminal shoulder elements (2), so that the boxes or containers absorb part of the load before the pillar element (1) comes into contact with the upper terminal shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Roberto Tomás Stanley Calvo