Patents by Inventor Kathryn Butcher Feinstone

Kathryn Butcher Feinstone 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).

  • Resilient universal drain insert
    Patent number: 11873631
    Abstract: An apparatus (100), including: a sheet (102) composed of a resilient material and configured to be flexed and then installed in a trapway of a toilet where the sheet takes on an installed shape in which a resilience of the resilient material biases the sheet outward against the trapway; at least one snare (104) protruding from a first side (142) of the sheet and thereby radially into the trapway once installed and configured to snare select items being flushed down the trapway; and a retention feature (106) extending from the sheet and configured to catch on a perimeter of an inlet of the trapway and thereby aid in holding the apparatus in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Heidi Graham, Kathryn Butcher Feinstone
  • RESILIENT UNIVERSAL DRAIN INSERT
    Publication number: 20220178128
    Abstract: An apparatus (100), including: a sheet (102) composed of a resilient material and configured to be flexed and then installed in a trapway of a toilet where the sheet takes on an installed shape in which a resilience of the resilient material biases the sheet outward against the trapway; at least one snare (104) protruding from a first side (142) of the sheet and thereby radially into the trapway once installed and configured to snare select items being flushed down the trapway; and a retention feature (106) extending from the sheet and configured to catch on a perimeter of an inlet of the trapway and thereby aid in holding the apparatus in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Heidi Graham, Kathryn Butcher Feinstone