Patents by Inventor Kenneth Stephen McGuire

Kenneth Stephen McGuire 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).

  • FLEXIBLE SHIPPING PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING
    Publication number: 20200024051
    Abstract: A shipping package and method of making a shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The method includes providing one or more sheets of flexible material, joining the sheet(s) to form an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers, and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Mark Mason Hargett, Susana E Borrero, James T Boesken, Benjamin G Hesford, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Philip Andrew Sawin
  • FLEXIBLE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20200024054
    Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Joseph Craig Lester, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • SHAPED FLEXIBLE SHIPPING PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING
    Publication number: 20200024056
    Abstract: A shipping package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped and one or more expansion chambers. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E. Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare, James T. Boesken, Jason M. Earl, Jun You, Benjamin G. Hesford
  • FLEXIBLE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20200024058
    Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The package also includes an external wrap surrounding at least a portion of the package to provide a relatively planar outwardly-facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Jacob Clare, Joseph Craig Lester, Susana E Borrero, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Flexible Shipping Package
    Publication number: 20200024050
    Abstract: A package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped, one or more expansion chambers and an article retrieval feature. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Joseph Craig Lester, Stephen Michael Truesdell
  • FLEXIBLE PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20200024053
    Abstract: Package having a flexible inner sheet having a first surface and a second surface. The package has an article reservoir for accepting an article to be shipped. The expansion chambers can be inflated or otherwise expanded to provide structure to the package and to protect the article in the article reservoir. The inner sheet of the package includes a shrinkable material that can be activated to immobilize articles disposed in the article reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Susana E Borrero, Benjamin G Hesford, Jun You, Jason M Earl, Anthony Ogg, Stephen Michael Truesdell, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Flexible containers with bottom support structure
    Patent number: 10457457
    Abstract: Flexible containers with structural support frames including bottom support structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Methods of making flexible containers
    Patent number: 10414523
    Abstract: Methods of making non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Charles John Berg, Jr., Lee Mathew Arent, Andrew Paul Rapach, Jun You
  • Flexible containers with removable portions
    Patent number: 10266328
    Abstract: Flexible containers having removable portions, such as tear tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lee Mathew Arent, Joseph Craig Lester, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Andrew Paul Rapach
  • Flexible containers with venting structure
    Patent number: 10183785
    Abstract: Flexible containers with structural support frames including dispensing and venting structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Lee Mathew Arent
  • Flexible containers and methods of forming the same
    Patent number: 10131468
    Abstract: A method of forming a flexible container can include folding a web or sheet to define one or more gussets in one or more regions of the flexible container. The gusset can be a continuous gusset or can be an interrupted gusset, having a seal disposed in the gusset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kory Adam Gunnerson
  • FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS WITH GRAPHICS OF RIGID CONTAINERS
    Publication number: 20180257836
    Abstract: Flexible containers with graphics illustrating rigid containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGUIRE, Lee Mathew ARENT, Victoria Anne BORCHERT, Joseph Craig LESTER, Benjamin Jacob CLARE, Philip Andrew SAWIN
  • Methods of making flexible containers
    Patent number: 10040581
    Abstract: Methods of making non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Charles John Berg, Lee Mathew Arent, Andrew Paul Rapach, Jun You
  • Flexible containers with product dispensing visibility
    Patent number: 10017300
    Abstract: Flexible containers with product dispensing visibility. The containers may include: a multiple dose product volume; a structural support frame that supports the product volume in a stand-up orientation; a dispenser; and a flow channel in fluid communication with the product volume and the dispenser. The flow channel may be made from flexible materials forming a sealed leg of a gusset. Fluent product may flow from the product volume, through the flow channel, and out the dispenser when the container is externally compressed. The sealed leg of the gusset has a first side and a second side. The first side of the sealed leg of the gusset has opaque decoration that overlays substantially all of the flow channel, and the second side of the sealed leg of the gusset has one or more non-opaque portions that overlay the flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Charles John Berg, Jr.
  • Flexible containers
    Patent number: 10005261
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You
  • Flexible container for fluent products
    Patent number: D843849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Kory Adam Gunnerson, Mark Armstrong
  • Flexible container for fluent products
    Patent number: D850929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Kory Adam Gunnerson, Mark Armstrong
  • Flexible container for fluent products
    Patent number: D852643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Kory Adam Gunnerson, Mark Armstrong
  • Flexible container for fluent products
    Patent number: D852644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Kory Adam Gunnerson, Mark Armstrong
  • Flexible container for fluent products
    Patent number: D852645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Lee Mathew Arent, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Kory Adam Gunnerson, Mark Armstrong