Patents by Inventor Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee

Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee 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: 11964883
    Abstract: A solar still that collects and focuses sunlight to convert to steam filthy water and condense the steam in a versatile multipurpose cube casing; the solar still's cube casing is also a building block to build horizontal or vertical structures while simultaneously purifying water; the Gigacubes solar still also builds floating structures, all while cleaning itself with the sun's heat, storing the clean water, heating air or water, and seamlessly interfacing with additional blocks; it performs these tasks while purifying water, providing flotation to a community, and cleaning itself; the Gigacubes solar still also grows plants and entire gardens with soil to provide a low maintenance source of local organic fresh produce in areas that would not otherwise be hospitable to plants on account of being devoid of clean or fresh water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11920340
    Abstract: The Invention is a series of blocks and block areas with interfaces and dimensions that enable them to be assembled into a wide range of useful 3D objects. The blocks, poles, spheres, and their interfaces can build a wide range of useful constructions in the manner similar to how an alphabet describes a wealth of human experience. With knobs, screws, hooks, snaps, magnetic interfaces and combinations of these interfaces, the pieces of the Invention pull themselves together with the strength needed in a particular circumstance. They can also be easily disassembled to form new constructions as needed. The blocks, and their interfaces, are modular and they can in turn build modular objects and constructions, like modular homes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11873135
    Abstract: The Invention is a collection of snap, knob and other interfaces on basic shapes comprised of cubes, boxes and cups (cylinders) that fit together in versatile ways to empower builders with compact pieces. The basic shapes can fit into themselves a variety of different ways to make their constructions stronger, to make them store in a more compact and strong manner, or to occupy more space or hold food or liquids. The snaps, knobs and hooks, and the basic shapes of the pieces themselves, are all designed to maximize versatile utility that can be made with flexible pieces (like rubber or flexible plastic), rigid materials (like ceramics, cast iron or glass), and combinations of flexible and rigid materials. The combinations can also be made at different strengths because the hardness of the interfaces can be adjusted to have a secure fit, a loose fit, or a moderately strong fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11788272
    Abstract: The StaxMax Smooth Cube is a puzzle that can assemble secure structures with flat surfaces without tools. It is a puzzle, the purpose of which is to disassemble the cube and assemble it together with other cubes into smooth structures. The Invention does this with a skeletal piece into which other panel pieces are assembled to form a smooth flat cube. The assembled smooth flat cube is locked shut with a snapping mechanism inside the cube that is activated with a magnet through the firm outer flat surface of the cube. The smooth cubes are unlocked and disassembled with the magnets of other smooth cubes. The panel pieces that snap into the backbone piece to form a smooth flat cube also serve to secure the flat cube to other flat cubes when they are disassembled and assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11786806
    Abstract: The Alphacube invention is a collection of modular shapes that form cubes, each letter of the alphabet and that are a twisty cube puzzle that can be solved for each letter of the alphabet. The pieces can both build structures and communicate verbal messages. They are a toy, puzzle, and an educational tool to teach literacy in a fun and engaging way. The pieces can also be assembled into artistic shapes or into basic shapes that describe animals and simple things like a small hole on a flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11761206
    Abstract: The Invention is a panel of modular pieces that can be assembled into a series of different useful objects that include a chair, table, wall, car chassis and a series of additional items that efficiently accomplish desired outcomes without the need for tools, nails or significant additional pieces. One side of the panel is fully flat to allow for smooth outward facing surfaces on constructions, while the other side has holes that can be used to affix knobs, secure the panels to each other to secure them in a manner that accomplishes a useful purpose with modular poles, snaps, hinges and bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11613886
    Abstract: The Pixel Block builds a wide range of useful constructions such as tables, chairs, and houses, with the modularity in three-dimensional space to make a universe of objects with a versatility similar to that of a pixel on a computer screen. It has a basic cylindrical shape that is as long as it is wide and deep to occupy a basic cube space. It is a versatile and useful geometric building block comprised of snaps, screws, nobs, magnetic forces, and combinations of these interfaces to assemble into constructions comprised of multiple copies of the Invention. On one end of the cylinder is a protruding screw that is also a hook and a snap, that can fit into itself and into each of five other sides of the cylinder. Once assembled into a shape, the Invention can be locked in place with spheres or with cylinders inside the Invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11565192
    Abstract: The Letter Cubes are block to make buildings that do not just make a statement with their rooms, walls and the like, but also make verbal statements with the blocks themselves. It has a series of three-dimensional fonts made with metal, plastic, ceramic, glass, recycled materials and other materials that magnetically, with knobs, hooks, snaps and tubes (and combinations of these and other interfaces) assemble into walls, buildings and other structures that communicate messages. These alphabets also have a series of related pieces that include numbers, punctuation and additional knobs, beams and panels that enable construction of a wide range of buildings, toys, structures and objects that are artistic, toys, games and that are otherwise useful as boxes, chairs, tables, etc. The invention comes in its own box that is assembled further to the same logic as the alphabets so it does not have packaging waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Patent number: 11559154
    Abstract: The Invention is a standard set of round, cylindrical and spherical pieces that form objects to hold other objects and food, to transport things and to build modular elegant and beautiful constructions. For example, the Invention's pieces can be used as spherical flowerpots that are arranged along a walkway with flowers, and those same flowerpots can be stacked to support a flowerpot a few feet off the ground. Furthermore, the flowerpots can be stacked to form columns that vines grow on. Pieces can be made exponentially larger and smaller, and features on pieces can also be made exponentially larger and smaller, while maintaining compatibility within the system of Invention pieces. For example, the stacked boxes that are FIG. 33 can be elongated to stack in a manner that forms the pattern of a standard brick wall's interlocking pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220042308
    Abstract: The Invention is a panel of modular pieces that can be assembled into a series of different useful objects that include a chair, table, wall, car chassis and a series of additional items that efficiently accomplish desired outcomes without the need for tools, nails or significant additional pieces. One side of the panel is fully flat to allow for smooth outward facing surfaces on constructions, while the other side has holes that can be used to affix knobs, secure the panels to each other to secure them in a manner that accomplishes a useful purpose with modular poles, snaps, hinges and bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220042300
    Abstract: The StaxMax Smooth Cube is a puzzle that can assemble secure structures with flat surfaces without tools. It is a puzzle, the purpose of which is to disassemble the cube and assemble it together with other cubes into smooth structures. The Invention does this with a skeletal piece into which other panel pieces are assembled to form a smooth flat cube. The assembled smooth flat cube is locked shut with a snapping mechanism inside the cube that is activated with a magnet through the firm outer flat surface of the cube. The smooth cubes are unlocked and disassembled with the magnets of other smooth cubes. The panel pieces that snap into the backbone piece to form a smooth flat cube also serve to secure the flat cube to other flat cubes when they are disassembled and assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220041331
    Abstract: The Invention is a collection of snap, knob and other interfaces on basic shapes comprised of cubes, boxes and cups (cylinders) that fit together in versatile ways to empower builders with compact pieces. The basic shapes can fit into themselves a variety of different ways to make their constructions stronger, to make them store in a more compact and strong manner, or to occupy more space or hold food or liquids. The snaps, knobs and hooks, and the basic shapes of the pieces themselves, are all designed to maximize versatile utility that can be made with flexible pieces (like rubber or flexible plastic), rigid materials (like ceramics, cast iron or glass), and combinations of flexible and rigid materials. The combinations can also be made at different strengths because the hardness of the interfaces can be adjusted to have a secure fit, a loose fit, or a moderately strong fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220041468
    Abstract: A solar still that collects and focuses sunlight to convert to steam filthy water and condense the steam in a versatile multipurpose cube casing; the solar still's cube casing is also a building block to build horizontal or vertical structures while simultaneously purifying water; the Gigacubes solar still also builds floating structures, all while cleaning itself with the sun's heat, storing the clean water, heating air or water, and seamlessly interfacing with additional blocks; it performs these tasks while purifying water, providing flotation to a community, and cleaning itself; the Gigacubes solar still also grows plants and entire gardens with soil to provide a low maintenance source of local organic fresh produce in areas that would not otherwise be hospitable to plants on account of being devoid of clean or fresh water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220040565
    Abstract: The Alphacube invention is a collection of modular shapes that form cubes, each letter of the alphabet and that are a twisty cube puzzle that can be solved for each letter of the alphabet. The pieces can both build structures and communicate verbal messages. They are a toy, puzzle, and an educational tool to teach literacy in a fun and engaging way. The pieces can also be assembled into artistic shapes or into basic shapes that describe animals and simple things like a small hole on a flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220042298
    Abstract: The Invention is a series of blocks and block areas with interfaces and dimensions that enable them to be assembled into a wide range of useful 3D objects. The blocks, poles, spheres, and their interfaces can build a wide range of useful constructions in the manner similar to how an alphabet describes a wealth of human experience. With knobs, screws, hooks, snaps, magnetic interfaces and combinations of these interfaces, the pieces of the Invention pull themselves together with the strength needed in a particular circumstance. They can also be easily disassembled to form new constructions as needed. The blocks, and their interfaces, are modular and they can in turn build modular objects and constructions, like modular homes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220040590
    Abstract: The Letter Cubes are block to make buildings that do not just make a statement with their rooms, walls and the like, but also make verbal statements with the blocks themselves. It has a series of three-dimensional fonts made with metal, plastic, ceramic, glass, recycled materials and other materials that magnetically, with knobs, hooks, snaps and tubes (and combinations of these and other interfaces) assemble into walls, buildings and other structures that communicate messages. These alphabets also have a series of related pieces that include numbers, punctuation and additional knobs, beams and panels that enable construction of a wide range of buildings, toys, structures and objects that are artistic, toys, games and that are otherwise useful as boxes, chairs, tables, etc. The invention comes in its own box that is assembled further to the same logic as the alphabets so it does not have packaging waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220039572
    Abstract: The Invention is a standard set of round, cylindrical and spherical pieces that form objects to hold other objects and food, to transport things and to build modular elegant and beautiful constructions. For example, the Invention's pieces can be used as spherical flowerpots that are arranged along a walkway with flowers, and those same flowerpots can be stacked to support a flowerpot a few feet off the ground. Furthermore, the flowerpots can be stacked to form columns that vines grow on. Pieces can be made exponentially larger and smaller, and features on pieces can also be made exponentially larger and smaller, while maintaining compatibility within the system of Invention pieces. For example, the stacked boxes that are FIG. 33 can be elongated to stack in a manner that forms the pattern of a standard brick wall's interlocking pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220042307
    Abstract: The Invention is primarily a series of panels that are coasters, or cubes that can be assembled into coasters, that can also be assembled into a really wide range of useful objects like homes, tables, walls, boxes and much more. The panels have smooth surfaces, surfaces with a series of interfaces, and the edges of the panels have interfaces that snap, hook, hold together magnetically, screw and assemble with these interfaces and combinations of these interfaces. The panels, and blocks and other constructions built with the pieces, are locked when spheres are inserted into them and they are locked and reinforced when poles are inserted into them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
  • Publication number: 20220042299
    Abstract: The Pixel Block builds a wide range of useful constructions such as tables, chairs, and houses, with the modularity in three-dimensional space to make a universe of objects with a versatility similar to that of a pixel on a computer screen. It has a basic cylindrical shape that is as long as it is wide and deep to occupy a basic cube space. It is a versatile and useful geometric building block comprised of snaps, screws, nobs, magnetic forces, and combinations of these interfaces to assemble into constructions comprised of multiple copies of the Invention. On one end of the cylinder is a protruding screw that is also a hook and a snap, that can fit into itself and into each of five other sides of the cylinder. Once assembled into a shape, the Invention can be locked in place with spheres or with cylinders inside the Invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee