Patents by Inventor Jonathan D. Berger

Jonathan D. Berger 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: 20160219872
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a pesticide dispersed in a composition containing water, a co-solvent, surfactant and propellant. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 9339030
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a pesticide dispersed in a composition containing water, a co-solvent, surfactant and propellant. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Publication number: 20150105258
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a particulate pesticide suspended therein and applicators for dispensing such compositions. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 8980294
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a particulate pesticide suspended therein and applicators for dispensing such compositions. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 8940662
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a particulate pesticide suspended therein and applicators for dispensing such compositions. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 8769865
    Abstract: A rodent management station includes a housing having a base and a lid together at least in part defining an interior space of the housing. The base has a floor panel and an upstanding wall extending up from the floor panel about at least a portion of the circumference thereof. The upstanding wall has an upper edge and at least one gutter disposed in and extending along at least a portion of the upper edge of the upstanding wall to facilitate water drainage from the upstanding wall. The lid is positionable relative to the base between a closed configuration and an opened configuration. The housing has an entry opening through which rodents enter the interior space of the housing. The rodent management station further includes least one of a trap and a bait positionable within the interior space of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling
  • Patent number: 8387304
    Abstract: A rodent management system includes a housing having a base and a lid together at least in part defining an interior space of the housing. The lid is positionable relative to the base between a closed configuration of the station in which the interior space in substantially enclosed, and an opened configuration of the station in which the interior space is accessible for servicing. The housing has at least one entry opening through which rodents enter the interior space of the housing. The base has an inner surface at least in part defining an interior floor of the housing. A bait support is positionable within the interior space of the housing and configured for supporting bait above the floor of the housing. The bait support is further configured for releasable connection with at least one of the base and the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling
  • Patent number: 8387305
    Abstract: A rodent management station includes a housing having a base and a lid together at least in part defining an interior space. The housing has an entry opening and an internal partition structure configured to partition the interior space of the housing into a bait chamber having an entryway spaced from the entry opening. A pathway is defined at least in part by the partition structure and extends away from the at least one entry opening to the entryway of the bait chamber. The partition structure has at least one through-opening therein other than at the bait chamber entryway to provide open communication between the pathway and the bait chamber other than at the bait chamber entryway. The at least one through-opening is sized substantially smaller than the housing entry opening and the bait chamber entryway to inhibit rodents against entering the bait chamber at the at least one through-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling
  • Publication number: 20130012386
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a particulate pesticide suspended therein and applicators for dispensing such compositions. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 8322069
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting and/or controlling subterranean termites. A station at least partially receivable within a cavity has at least one opening therein to provide access by the termites to an interior volume of the station. The apparatus includes an aggregation base attractive to the termites and including at least one void for forming an aggregation site. The apparatus includes a replaceable container received within the interior volume of the station and positioned adjacent the aggregation base. The container has at least one opening in a surface thereof facing the aggregation base to permit the passage of termites from the aggregation base to an interior chamber of the container. The container is sized and shaped such that the container may be removed from the station with minimal disturbance to the aggregation base, thereby preserving any aggregation site formed by the termites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger
  • Patent number: 8225697
    Abstract: A tool includes a hub, at least two opposed fingers depending from the hub, and at least two opposed skirt sections configured different from the fingers. The skirt sections depend from the hub and are disposed adjacent the fingers. The opposed skirt sections have a second transverse distance between lower edges thereof that is greater than a first transverse distance between lower edges of the opposed fingers. The fingers are resiliently moveable relative to the skirt sections. Each of the fingers is circumferentially spaced from the adjacent skirt section by a gap. At least a portion of the gap is formed in the hub. The at least two fingers and the at least two skirt sections are circularly aligned such that each of the fingers and each of the skirt sections lie on a common circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Steven R. Sims, Lee M. White
  • Publication number: 20120149570
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a pesticide dispersed in a composition containing water, a co-solvent, surfactant and propellant. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Patent number: 8061238
    Abstract: A tool for removing a cap from a pest control device includes a hub and at least four fingers depending from the hub in circumferentially spaced relationship with each other to cooperatively define a socket for receiving the cap within the tool. The fingers are resiliently moveable transversely outward relative to the hub upon receiving the cap into the socket whereby the fingers are biased transversely inward against a sidewall of the cap when the cap is received in the socket. A plurality of stops extends from fewer than all of the fingers laterally inward of the socket. The stops are adapted for contacting a top of the cap upon receipt of the cap within the socket such that the fingers and stops cooperate to orient the tool on the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Steven R. Sims, Lee M. White
  • Publication number: 20110259153
    Abstract: A tool includes a hub, at least two opposed fingers depending from the hub, and at least two opposed skirt sections configured different from the fingers. The skirt sections depend from the hub and are disposed adjacent the fingers. The opposed skirt sections have a second transverse distance between lower edges thereof that is greater than a first transverse distance between lower edges of the opposed fingers. The fingers are resiliently moveable relative to the skirt sections. Each of the fingers is circumferentially spaced from the adjacent skirt section by a gap. At least a portion of the gap is formed in the hub. The at least two fingers and the at least two skirt sections are circularly aligned such that each of the fingers and each of the skirt sections lie on a common circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Steven R. Sims, Lee M. White
  • Publication number: 20110041383
    Abstract: A rodent management station includes a housing having a base and a lid that together at least in part define an interior space of the housing. The lid is positionable relative to the base between a closed configuration of the station in which the interior space is substantially enclosed, and an opened configuration of the station in which the interior space is accessible for servicing. The housing has an entry opening through which rodents enter the interior space of the housing. The rodent management station also includes at least one of a trap and a bait positionable within the interior space of the housing. The base includes a floor panel and an inner surface on which rodents move within the interior space. An upstanding rear wall extends upward relative to the floor panel about substantially less than the circumference of the floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling
  • Publication number: 20110016769
    Abstract: A live trap is provided for trapping rodents. The live trap includes a housing having an interior space and at least one opening through which rodents enter the interior space of the housing. A first trap mechanism is provided that is positionable in the live trap for trapping rodents within the live trap. A second trap mechanism is provided that is different from the first trap mechanism and positionable in the live trap for trapping rodents within the live trap. The live trap and trap mechanisms are configured for selective releasable securement of each of the respective first and second trap mechanisms in the live trap to permit interchangeable use of the first and second trap mechanisms in the live trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling
  • Patent number: 7874099
    Abstract: An aggregation base for use within a subterranean cavity for detecting subterranean termites includes an elongate member having longitudinally opposite ends, a circumference, and an outer surface. A void extends longitudinally within the elongate member for forming an aggregation site for the termite. The elongate member is open at least at one end in communication with the void. At least one channel extends circumferentially about at least a portion of the circumference of the elongate member at the outer surface thereof and also extends transversely through the elongate member from the outer surface inward to the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Whitmire Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Steven R. Sims, Jonathan D. Berger, Lee M. White, Jeffery A. Martin, Henry Wayne Moran
  • Publication number: 20100322990
    Abstract: Ready-to-use foamable pesticide compositions that contain a particulate pesticide suspended therein and applicators for dispensing such compositions. Methods for treating pests such as arthropods by contacting pests with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terrence R. Burke, Henry Wayne Moran, Jonathan D. Berger, James H. Cink
  • Publication number: 20100319238
    Abstract: A rodent management station has a housing with an interior space and includes a base and a lid that define at least in part the interior space of the housing. The lid is positionable relative to the base between a closed configuration of the station in which the interior space is substantially enclosed, and an opened configuration of the station in which the interior space is accessible for servicing. The housing has an entry opening through which rodents enter the interior space of the housing. The lid includes a pair of spaced fins and the base includes a pair of spaced slots. Each of the slots are sized and configured for receiving one of the fins in the closed configuration of the station to thereby facilitate alignment of the lid with the base and to inhibit lateral movement of the lid with respect to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann
  • Patent number: D621900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Cink, Jonathan D. Berger, Brian James Mann, Edward Francis Marshall, Henry Wayne Moran, James David Poling