Patents by Inventor Eric H. Olsen

Eric H. Olsen 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).

  • Patent number: 4915224
    Abstract: The invention provides a container for packaging a flower having a stem communicating with a vial of nutrient, the vial including a lip and a body. The container comprises a generally hollow pedestal including a closed end, an open end opposite said closed end, and a sidewall extending generally obliquely between said closed end and said open end. The pedestal includes a support portion supportable by a support surface. The pedestal further includes an inner surface and an outer surface defined by the closed end and the sidewall. The outer surface includes a flange adapted to support the lip of the vial, with the body of the vial in the hollow of the pedestal, when said support portion is supported by the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: beKind, Inc.
    Inventors: Barbara J. Wulf, Eric H. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4215858
    Abstract: A game apparatus including a plurality of playing blocks arranged in a stacked layered pyramid arrangement and including a bottom layer and an intermediate layer, the intermediate layer supported by the bottom layer and positioned centrally thereon, each of the blocks of the intermediated layer supported by a plurality of blocks of the bottom layer, and the arrangement of the blocks being such as to allow removal of some but not all of the blocks of the intermediate and bottom layers without causing collapse of other blocks. The blocks each have planar faces and each include a recess, and a thin member is positioned in each recess and the thin member generally bisects the recess. The game apparatus also includes a rod having a hook formed in one end, the hook receivable in the recess and engageable with the thin member for removing selected blocks from the pyramid formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Inventor: Eric H. Olsen