Patents by Inventor Edward Carothers

Edward Carothers 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).

  • Tag or label with laminated thin, flat, flexible device
    Patent number: 5982284
    Abstract: A tag or label includes first and second sheets having facing sides. A thin, flat, flexible device is disposed between the facing sides of the first and second sheets and has opposing flat surfaces meeting at a perimeter surrounding the device. An adhesive fixes the facing sides of the first and second sheets to the opposing flat surfaces of the device and to one another except in an adhesion-free region, where the adhesion-free region is a frame-shaped adhesion-free region surrounding the perimeter of the device or a polygon-shaped adhesion-free region inside the perimeter of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: John Baldwin, Edward Carothers, Terrell Hill, Peter Kuzma