Patents by Inventor Faris Alnakkar

Faris Alnakkar 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: 11608636
    Abstract: An elongate sheet metal body for attachment to the web of a grid tee, the body having a substantially right angle cross-section formed by legs that in use are vertical and horizontal, respectively, the vertical leg having a width adapted to fit against the web between a reinforcing bulb and lower flange of the tee, the horizontal leg having a width at least that of the width of a portion of the flange portion extending from the web to a free edge of the flange, the horizontal leg having at a free edge a plurality of depending lugs spaced uniformly from one another with a common center to center distance, the lugs having a horizontal width sized to fit into U-shaped baffles such that said baffles carried on said lugs have the same center to center distance as the lugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: USG INTERIORS, LLC
    Inventors: Abraham M. Underkofler, Peder J. Gulbrandsen, Eric H. Kremer, Faris Alnakkar
  • Patent number: 10738465
    Abstract: An acoustical baffle system for suspension in an open plenum space comprising a plurality of parallel spaced carriers and a plurality of parallel spaced baffles suspended on and transverse to the carriers, the carriers having pairs of opposed, uniformly spaced grips on their lower faces, pairs of opposed grips being spaced along the carrier at a regular center-to-center distance greater than the spacing between a pair of opposed grips, the baffles having a relatively deep U-shaped cross-section with sides and a bottom between the sides, outwardly directed flanges at upper ends of the sides, the flanges being received in a respective pair of grips on each of a plurality of carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: USG INTERIORS, LLC
    Inventor: Faris Alnakkar
  • Patent number: 10344475
    Abstract: A suspended ceiling system having adjacent superposed suspended rectangular panels displaying a three-dimensional structure formed of elements existing primarily at two closely spaced horizontal planes, the system including a rectangular grid of bolt slot style grid members dividing the ceiling area into rectangular modules, lower panels and upper panels paired with the lower panels at the grid modules, the lower panels being formed of sheet metal having material removed to form individual open areas separated by residual sheet material and to provide a total open area of at least 10%, the upper panels having a variegated surface appearance when viewed through the open areas of the lower panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: USG INTERIORS, LLC
    Inventor: Faris Alnakkar
  • Publication number: 20180313081
    Abstract: An acoustical baffle system for suspension in an open plenum space comprising a plurality of parallel spaced carriers and a plurality of parallel spaced baffles suspended on and transverse to the carriers, the carriers having pairs of opposed, uniformly spaced grips on their lower faces, pairs of opposed grips being spaced along the carrier at a regular center-to-center distance greater than the spacing between a pair of opposed grips, the baffles having a relatively deep U-shaped cross-section with sides and a bottom between the sides, outwardly directed flanges at upper ends of the sides, the flanges being received in a respective pair of grips on each of a plurality of carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Faris Alnakkar
  • Patent number: D682069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: USG Interiors, LLC
    Inventors: James Joseph Lehane, Michael Patrick O'Donnell, Faris Alnakkar, Gregory Ahren