Patents by Inventor Mark Erb

Mark Erb 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: 20230372179
    Abstract: The present invention features a configurable self-massaging device. In some embodiments, the device may comprise a base component having a leg support pole extending from the base component at an angle. The device may further comprise a main pole extending vertically from the base component. The device may further comprise one or more massage components. Each massage component may comprise a cushion, a vibration component attached to the cushion, wherein actuating the vibration component may cause vibration of the cushion, and an attachment component configured to secure the massage component to a point on a pole. A massage component attached to the main pole may allow for massaging of a user's hands, wrists, back, buttocks, chest, face, neck, and head. A massage component attached to the leg support pole may allow for massaging of a user's legs and feet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Erb, Randy Webb
  • Publication number: 20230372193
    Abstract: A configurable self-massaging device. The device may comprise a base component having a leg support pole extending from the base component at an angle. The device may further comprise a main pole extending vertically from the base component. The device may further comprise one or more massage components. Each massage component may comprise a cushion, a vibration component attached to the cushion, wherein actuating the vibration component may cause vibration of the cushion, and an attachment component configured to secure the massage component to a point on a pole. A massage component attached to the main pole may allow for massaging of a user's hands, wrists, back, buttocks, chest, face, neck, and head. A massage component attached to the leg support pole may allow for massaging of a user's legs and feet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Erb, Randy Webb
  • Patent number: 11285358
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a gripping handle that tightens to a hand when pulling force is applied and loosens from the hand when pulling force is not applied. The gripping handle may comprise a dowel, a first and second loop, an attachment point, and a flexible connector running from the attachment point, through the first loop, along the dowel, through the second loop, and back to the attachment point. A portion of the flexible connector running along the dowel may loop over a hand gripping the dowel and may tighten to the hand when the dowel is pulled on. The flexible connector may loosen from the hand when the dowel is no longer being pulled. The present invention additionally features an exercise device comprising the gripping handle attached by a cord running through a pulley component to a weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Publication number: 20210353995
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a gripping handle that tightens to a hand when pulling force is applied and loosens from the hand when pulling force is not applied. The gripping handle may comprise a dowel, a first and second loop, an attachment point, and a flexible connector running from the attachment point, through the first loop, along the dowel, through the second loop, and back to the attachment point. A portion of the flexible connector running along the dowel may loop over a hand gripping the dowel and may tighten to the hand when the dowel is pulled on. The flexible connector may loosen from the hand when the dowel is no longer being pulled. The present invention additionally features an exercise device comprising the gripping handle attached by a cord running through a pulley component to a weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Publication number: 20200237599
    Abstract: An automated system used for physical therapy, more particularly a motorized system of exercising a user's legs at variable cycles. The system utilizes a unique system of wheels connected to a motor and attached to a series of elongated components which facilitate the movement of a user's legs. The system of the present invention can provide users with increased mobility and enhanced circulation. The system may be useful for individuals recovering from an injury, individuals who are overweight, or individuals with diabetes. The system may also be used for exercises to provide leg extension and improve leg strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Publication number: 20200138661
    Abstract: An automated system used for physical therapy, more particularly a motorized pulley system of exercising a user's arms and legs at variable paddle cycles and variable paddle depths. The system utilizes a unique system of strings operatively looped through a pulley system and attached to a series of elongated components which are connected to a motor and which facilitate the movement of a user's arms and legs. The system of the present invention can provide users with increased mobility and enhanced circulation. The system may be useful for individuals recovering from an injury, individuals who are overweight, or individual with diabetes. The system may also be used for exercises to provide arm and leg extension and improve arm and leg strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Patent number: 10561562
    Abstract: An automated physical therapy system comprising two leg components, each of said leg components optionally moving alternatively above and below a base plane, thereby simulating a swimming motion in the legs of a user. The system provides a unique hemodynamic effect, i.e. blood from one of the user's legs above the base plane is displaced by gravity into the rest of the body, while blood from the user's other leg disposed below the base plane is displaced in that leg by gravity. Said hemodynamic effect is advantageous because the net hemodynamic effect is zero, i.e. blood displaced into the rest of the user's body is roughly equivalent to blood displaced into the user's other leg, allowing use of the system by users who are at risk if a large amount of blood is displaced in the user's heart or other internal organs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Patent number: 8590969
    Abstract: Dynamic furniture having platforms in dynamic attachment to an actuator assembly that in turn is in dynamic attachment to a base. Use of motional platforms supported by a motional actuator assembly permits an article of the furniture to conform to the many and varied body positions a user wants, and allows a user to more easily change body positions while remaining within the furniture, and in medical scenarios may obviate most needs to transfer a patient from one article of furniture to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Exciting Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Erb, Mark Erb
  • Patent number: 8500203
    Abstract: Dynamic furniture having platforms in dynamic attachment to an actuator assembly that in turn is in dynamic attachment to a base. Use of motional platforms supported by a motional actuator assembly permits an article of the furniture to conform to the many and varied body positions a user wants, and allows a user to more easily change body positions while remaining within the furniture, and in medical scenarios may obviate most needs to transfer a patient from one article of furniture to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Exciting Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Erb, Mark Erb
  • Patent number: 8485994
    Abstract: A physical therapy system featuring a leg portion and at least one arm portion, wherein the leg portion comprises a base with two half cylinders, each divided into two portions that can pivot via hinges operatively connected to motors, wherein the two half cylinders can also pivot about their first ends via a first central motor, and wherein the arm portion comprises a base with a half cylinder divided into two portions that can pivot via a hinge operatively connected to a motor, wherein the half cylinder can also pivot about its first end via a second central motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Erb
  • Publication number: 20130009436
    Abstract: Dynamic furniture having platforms in dynamic attachment to an actuator assembly that in turn is in dynamic attachment to a base. Use of motional platforms supported by a motional actuator assembly permits an article of the furniture to conform to the many and varied body positions a user wants, and allows a user to more easily change body positions while remaining within the furniture, and in medical scenarios may obviate most needs to transfer a patient from one article of furniture to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Scott ERB, Mark ERB
  • Publication number: 20110080028
    Abstract: Dynamic furniture having platforms in dynamic attachment to an actuator assembly that in turn is in dynamic attachment to a base. Use of motional platforms supported by a motional actuator assembly permits an article of the furniture to conform to the many and varied body positions a user wants, and allows a user to more easily change body positions while remaining within the furniture, and in medical scenarios may obviate most needs to transfer a patient from one article of furniture to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Scott Erb, Mark Erb