Patents by Inventor Kara Portnell

Kara Portnell 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: 7726046
    Abstract: Clock sandal with a flexible sole plate, a pair of flexible foot retaining straps, a time keeping device and a time keeping device retaining loop. The sole plate includes a thin flexible top layer of material. The sole heal portion includes a hollow cavity which is covered by a hinged top plate. The foot retaining straps are each attached to the left and right heal portion of the sole plate. The straps join to form a single strap that is fixedly connected to the portion of the sole plate that corresponds to the space between the wearer's big toe and second toe. The time keeping device retaining loop is fixedly attached to the single strap at the strap joining location and the time keeping device is frictionally retained within the time keeping device retaining loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Inventor: Kara Portnell
  • Publication number: 20090249655
    Abstract: Clock sandal with a flexible sole plate, a pair of flexible foot retaining straps, a time keeping device and a time keeping device retaining loop. The sole plate includes a thin flexible top layer of material. The sole heal portion includes a hollow cavity which is covered by a hinged top plate. The foot retaining straps are each attached to the left and right heal portion of the sole plate. The straps join to form a single strap that is fixedly connected to the portion of the sole plate that corresponds to the space between the wearer's big toe and second toe. The time keeping device retaining loop is fixedly attached to the single strap at the strap joining location and the time keeping device is frictionally retained within the time keeping device retaining loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventor: Kara Portnell
  • Patent number: 7080416
    Abstract: Bath Caddy with a multi-sectioned, multi leveled tray portion made of rigid material such as injection molded acrylic plastic, the tray sections including a left and right narrow and deep portion and a central wide and shallow portion, the central tray section including a pair of horizontally disposed shaft retaining enclosures, the shaft retainers each capable of slidably holding a first leg of an L shaped rigid tub grasping rod, the second leg of the tub grasping rod sheathed in a flexible plastic tube, and the shaft retaining enclosures each including a threaded aperture allowing a thumb screw to be threaded into the wall of the shaft retaining enclosure and impinge upon the first leg of the tub grasping rod to allow the user to adjust the distance between the second leg of the L shaped rod and the wall of a bathtub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Inventor: Kara Portnell