Patents by Inventor Karen Wertz

Karen Wertz 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).

  • BEVERAGES WITH IMPROVED PARTICLE SUSPENSION PROPERTIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20240090552
    Abstract: Beverages with improved particle suspension properties are disclose, along with methods of making the same. The beverages include a low-acyl gellan gum and insoluble particles. The low-acyl gellan gum undergoes a gel transition that provides adequate gelation to maintain the particles in suspension. The low-acyl gellan gum undergoes the gel transition below a threshold above which the particles and/or a gelled portion of the gum would rise to the top of the beverage via bubbles moving upward through the beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: CAITLIN WERTZ, ABBY CHRISTMAN, KAREN BRIMMER, LIANGJI XU, JAMES BUCHHEIT
  • QUICK-DRY TEXTURED TOWEL
    Publication number: 20120186687
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: J.C. PENNEY PRIVATE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • Quick-dry textured towel
    Patent number: 8156967
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: JC Penney Private Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • QUICK-DRY TEXTURED TOWEL
    Publication number: 20110253248
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: J.C. PENNEY PRIVATE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • QUICK-DRY TEXTURED TOWEL
    Publication number: 20110041948
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: J. C. Penney Private Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz, Cynthia K. Henderson
  • Stripper for round sheathed cable
    Patent number: 7802496
    Abstract: A plier type stripper tool is provide for stripping sheathed cable of the type having a three spaced insulated power conducting wires, a ground wire disposed among the insulated wires and a sheath surrounding the wires. In one embodiment, the stripper tool includes a pair of levers having jaw, boss and handle portions. The stripper tool may further include a pivot joining the boss portions to enable relative movement of the levers about the pivot between open and closed portions. The jaw portions each have blade sections for coactively circumferentially cutting a cable sheath when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Inventors: Philip J. Pisczak, Rick Wilson, Karen Wertz
  • Stripper for Round Sheathed Cable
    Publication number: 20090049696
    Abstract: A plier type stripper tool is provide for stripping sheathed cable of the type having a three spaced insulated power conducting wires, a ground wire disposed among the insulated wires and a sheath surrounding the wires. In one embodiment, the stripper tool includes a pair of levers having jaw, boss and handle portions. The stripper tool may further include a pivot joining the boss portions to enable relative movement of the levers about the pivot between open and closed portions. The jaw portions each have blade sections for coactively circumferentially cutting a cable sheath when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Stride Tool Inc.
    Inventors: Philip J. Pisczak, Rick Wilson, Karen Wertz