Patents by Inventor Mark A. Strayer

Mark A. Strayer 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).

  • Publication number: 20050202714
    Abstract: A desk including a plurality of panels and a power harness. The plurality of panels includes at least two substantially vertical panels supporting at least one substantially horizontal panel. The plurality of panels includes at least one panel having first and second opposing sides and an aperture extending through the first and second sides, wherein the at least one of the plurality panels having the aperture is at least one of the at least one substantially horizontal panel and the at least two substantially vertical panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicant: O'Sullivan Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Strayer
  • Patent number: 6923684
    Abstract: A power harness including an electrical cord extending from a housing for delivering electrical power to at least-one externally accessible downstream power port at least partially contained in the housing. The power harness also includes a plurality of externally accessible USB ports each at least partially contained in the housing, the plurality of USB ports including first and second upstream USB ports and a plurality of downstream USB ports. The power harness also includes circuitry interconnecting associated ones of the upstream and downstream USB ports such that accessed ones of the plurality downstream USB ports communicate with: (1) an accessed one of the first and second upstream USB ports when only one of the first and second upstream USB ports is accessed; and (2) a predetermined one of the first and second upstream USB ports when both of the first and second upstream USB ports are accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: O'Sullivan Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Strayer
  • Publication number: 20050079769
    Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure A power harness including an electrical cord extending from a housing for delivering electrical power to at least one externally accessible downstream power port at least partially contained in the housing. The power harness also includes a plurality of externally accessible USB ports each at least partially contained in the housing, the plurality of USB ports including first and second upstream USB ports and a plurality of downstream USB ports. The power harness also includes circuitry interconnecting associated ones of the upstream and downstream USB ports such that accessed ones of the plurality downstream USB ports communicate with: (1) an accessed one of the first and second upstream USB ports when only one of the first and second upstream USB ports is accessed; and (2) a predetermined one of the first and second upstream USB ports when both of the first and second upstream USB ports are accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: O'Sullivan Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Strayer
  • Patent number: 5672130
    Abstract: A basketball system having has a ballasted base, an adjustable support system comprising two pole sections, a backboard, a hoop structure, and a net. They include an upper pole section and a lower pole section, and may be operated either telescopically or non-telescopically. The base has a first socket that receives the lower pole section, and a second socket is sized to receive the upper pole section when the system is operated in the non-telescoping mode. The hoop structure is provided with a neck flange for attaching the hoop structure to a recess in the upper telescoping pole section. The net is attached to the hoop structure by a net retention hoop on which the net is threadedly engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Fisher-Price, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. O'Connell, Mark A. Strayer
  • Patent number: D514518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: O'Sullivan Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Strayer
  • Patent number: D493426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: O'Sullivan Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Strayer
  • Patent number: D349135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: The Little Tikes Company
    Inventor: Mark A. Strayer
  • Patent number: D367568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: The Little Tikes Company
    Inventor: Mark A. Strayer
  • Patent number: D368937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: The Little Tikes Company
    Inventors: Kevin R. Aker, Michael S. Jaeb, Mark A. Strayer
  • Patent number: D370036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: The Little Tikes Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Jaeb, Mark A. Strayer