Patents by Inventor James Berard

James Berard 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: 20210308977
    Abstract: A web of uninflated scented air pillows and a method of forming an air pillow filled with scented air. A scented material is applied to a first surface of a sheet of film material. The sheet of film material is formed into a two-ply web of film material with the first surface positioned as an inner surface within that web. A series of uninflated air chambers are formed in the two-ply web of film material, each of the uninflated air chambers bounded transversely and at a bottom edge and having an open upper longitudinal edge. In this manner, each of uninflated air chambers has scented material on an interior surface thereof. Each uninflated air chambers can be inflated and sealed to form an air pillow. The scented material on the inner surface of the inflated air chambers evaporates upon filling and the air within each inflated air pillow becomes scented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: James Berard
  • Patent number: 10682660
    Abstract: A scent sampler has a compressible and expandable housing in which there is a chamber containing a resilient, compressible, absorbent, elastic reservoir for absorbing a scented liquid. The housing is formed from two bin-like members made of a form sustainable material, one inverted relative to and telescopically captured within the other for relative reciprocation. Squeezing of the housing urges the housing members to telescope toward one another thereby reducing the volume and increasing the pressure in the chamber for forcing vapor in the chamber into the ambient environment through an opening in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Scentisphere LLC
    Inventor: James Berard
  • Patent number: 10111511
    Abstract: A fragrance testing station at which shoppers in a store can experience, by applying directly to their skin, a sampling mixture having the scent of a liquid fragrance product and contained in a reservoir mountable on a store fixture and having a roller on the bottom of the reservoir for being coated by the mixture under force of gravity. A high viscosity additive in the sampling mixture prevents leakage from a space between the reservoir and roller. The roller can be rotated for transferring a coating of the sampling mixture to the skin of a shopper for experiencing the scent of the liquid fragrance product in the sampling mixture. Multiple reservoirs may be mounted side by side for comparing different fragrance products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Scentisphere LLC
    Inventor: James Berard
  • Patent number: 9474823
    Abstract: A low dispersion scent sampler for point of sale display has a housing with a front panel to which a label advertising products sold at the point of sale may be affixed. Inside of the housing is a blower connected to a timer control circuit and battery through a pushbutton actuated switch. A scented material is provided in the air flow path from the blower to one or more exhaust ports. When the pushbutton is pressed by a consumer, the blower turns on for a brief period of time to force air over the scented material and then through the exhaust ports for sampling of the scent emitted by the scented material. The on time for the blower is brief to limit exposure to the scent to the space occupied by the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: Scentisphere LLC, Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC
    Inventors: James Berard, Tom Lockwood
  • Publication number: 20150130087
    Abstract: A low dispersion scent sampler for point of sale display has a housing with a front panel to which a label advertising products sold at the point of sale may be affixed. Inside of the housing is a blower connected to a timer control circuit and battery through a pushbutton actuated switch. A scented material is provided in the air flow path from the blower to one or more exhaust ports. When the pushbutton is pressed by a consumer, the blower turns on for a brief period of time to force air over the scented material and then through the exhaust ports for sampling of the scent emitted by the scented material. The on time for the blower is brief to limit exposure to the scent to the space occupied by the consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: James Berard, Tom Lockwood
  • Publication number: 20130334341
    Abstract: A scent sampler has a sponge-like wafer infused with a fragrance liquid within a chamber between two printable panels. A window to the chamber is covered with a thin, flexible, nonresilient film which may be pressed against the wafer for spraying a mist of the fragrance liquid through an opening in the chamber to the ambient environment. The surfaces of the printable panels are covered with a liquid-impervious barrier web to prevent leakage of the fragrance liquid from, and damage to, the printed surfaces within and outside of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SCENTISPHERE LLC
    Inventor: James Berard