Patents by Inventor Dennis W. Hamill
Dennis W. Hamill 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).
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Publication number: 20240107984Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interactive fetching for one or more participants, such as pets. In one implementation, a projectile, such as a ball, is received in a receiver and transported through an opening into a feeder of a randomizer. One of a plurality of chutes is randomly selected using gravity, and the projectile is transported from the feeder into the selected chute. The chute generates a smooth roll along a ramp to a port, from which the projectile is ejected along an ejection path for the participant to retrieve.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Kit Morris, John Vanderveen, Smith Newnam, Christopher Owens
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Patent number: 11812728Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interactive fetching for one or more participants, such as pets. In one implementation, a projectile, such as a ball, is received in a receiver and transported through an opening into a feeder of a randomizer. One of a plurality of chutes is randomly selected using gravity, and the projectile is transported from the feeder into the selected chute. The chute generates a smooth roll along a ramp to a port, from which the projectile is ejected along an ejection path for the participant to retrieve.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Kit Morris, John Vanderveen, Smith Newnam, Chris Owens
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Publication number: 20230240264Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: IFETCH, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Patent number: 11490595Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: IFETCH, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20200137981Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Patent number: 10524454Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20190174720Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Patent number: 10231437Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20190069519Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20190008120Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interactive fetching for one or more participants, such as pets. In one implementation, a projectile, such as a ball, is received in a receiver and transported through an opening into a feeder of a randomizer. One of a plurality of chutes is randomly selected using gravity, and the projectile is transported from the feeder into the selected chute. The chute generates a smooth roll along a ramp to a port, from which the projectile is ejected along an ejection path for the participant to retrieve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Kit Morris, John Vanderveen, Smith Newnam, Chris Owens
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Patent number: 10117419Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20160262351Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Patent number: 9345946Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Publication number: 20130228138Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Hamill Partners LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Lee Elizabeth Hamill, Grant Patrick Hamill, Katie Marcella Hamill, Lucy Rejahl Hamill
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Patent number: D719706Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Sunny Kim, Robert Von Letscher, Kit Morris
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Patent number: D797385Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Smith Newnam, Nick Poteracki, Kit Morris
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Patent number: D802856Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Nick Poteracki, Kit Morris, Smith Newnam
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Patent number: D804110Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: iFetch, LLCInventors: Dennis W. Hamill, Deborah Lynn Hamill, Kit Morris, John Vanderveen, Chris Owens, Smith Newnam