Patents by Inventor David A. Yoder

David A. Yoder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260108070
    Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Blair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
  • Publication number: 20260048817
    Abstract: A device can include two or more stanchions each including a hollow interior portion. A device can include two or more spindles, each of the two or more spindles movably arranged within respective ones of the hollow interior portion, the two or more spindles can each including an end portion. A device can include a bar coupled with and extending between the end portion of two adjacent spindles of the two or more spindles. Each of the two or more spindles can be configured to transition between at least a first position including at least a portion of each of the two or more spindles can be received in a respective one of the hollow interior portion and a second position including at least a portion of each of the two or more spindles that can be configured to extend from a respective two or more stanchions further than in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2025
    Publication date: February 19, 2026
    Inventors: Victor B. Garcia, David A. Yoder, Ian Smith, Thomas E. Smead, II, Todd Kleckner
  • Patent number: 12507804
    Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Blair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
  • Publication number: 20240251953
    Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Blair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
  • Patent number: 11992131
    Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Blair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
  • Publication number: 20210298483
    Abstract: An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Blair A. Donat, David A. Yoder
  • Patent number: 9487273
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a relocatable seat and removable and storable seating arrangement for use on a boat is provided. The relocatable seat has a frame, a seat bottom, a seat back, and at least one storage compartment. The removable and storable seating arrangement includes at least one removable support member, which can be stored in the storage compartment when not in use, and at least one removable seat member supported by the support member when in a use position and storable in the storage compartment in a stored position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Pontoon Boat LLC
    Inventors: Trent Allan Eekhoff, Brad Roy Fishburn, Jeremy Scott Warfel, David A. Yoder
  • Patent number: 4495388
    Abstract: A bin level detector and filling switch operates in response to a pulverulent, fluent material spilling over the top of a vertically mounted tube open at both ends. The upper and lower ends of the tube correspond respectfully to the points at which the bin is to stop and start being filled. As the material fills the tube it depresses a movable plate holding a first magnet. A second magnet is oriented with respect to the first magnet with like poles opposite and is mounted outside of the vertical tube and positioned so that movement of the one magnet results in a reciprocal movement of the other magnet. The movement of the second magnet is utilized to operate a control device in response to the level of pulverulent fluent material in the bin. The control device may be an electrical switch that effects or operates the filling mechanism of the bin, an alarm device or some other satellite function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Inventor: David A. Yoder