Patents by Inventor Mark Sousa

Mark Sousa 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: 20240423354
    Abstract: A brush for applying a cleansing compound with an inner body having a tube portion with outer proximal threads. The tube portion has an opening for filling the tube portion with the cleansing compound and an enclosed bottom having a central guide tooth receptacle and a plurality of discharge holes. The brush has a brush portion including a plate having at least one upstanding standoff, a central guide tooth, and a plurality of depending bristles. The plate has a plurality of dispensing holes and an upstanding collar configured to secure the plate against the enclosed bottom of the inner body. The central guide tooth fits into the central guide tooth receptacle to guide rotation of the brush portion with respect to the inner body. In an open position, the plurality of discharge and dispensing holes are aligned so that the cleansing compound passes into the plurality of depending bristles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KAS PET, LLC
    Inventors: Mark SOUSA, Lindsay JOYCE
  • Patent number: 12078358
    Abstract: A fire pit has a tub with a hollow interior chamber for receiving ash-producing combustibles. The chamber has a perforated bottom portion. A support is adapted to attach to the tub and be removable therefrom without the use of tools. The support has an ash-collecting compartment disposed directly below the perforated bottom portion when the support is attached to the tub. The support is adapted to support the tub when attached thereto, and to receive hot ashes into the compartment which fall through the perforated bottom portion during combustion of the combustibles, so that the ashes can collect and cool within the compartment and then be transported with the removed support for remote disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Sousa
  • Patent number: 11759083
    Abstract: A utensil for cleaning a cooking surface has cleaning head affixed to a distal end of an elongate handle. The head has a base and a porous cover. Submerging the head in a liquid enables the liquid to flow through the porous cover and perforations in the base into chambers within the base. Applying the head having the liquid-filled chambers against the cooking surface enables the liquid to flow from the chambers and through the perforations and continuously dampen the porous cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Sousa
  • Publication number: 20230240473
    Abstract: A multi-purpose cooking grate has a planar perforated grid with a flat grilling side and a pizza-cooking side. The pizza-cooking side includes features to support a pizza-cooking stone such that a vertical distance is maintained there-between, and locators to engage the periphery of the stone so that it is horizontally restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Sousa, Wai Ho
  • Publication number: 20230221000
    Abstract: A fire pit has a tub with a hollow interior chamber for receiving ash-producing combustibles. The chamber has a perforated bottom portion. A support is adapted to attach to the tub and be removable therefrom without the use of tools. The support has an ash-collecting compartment disposed directly below the perforated bottom portion when the support is attached to the tub. The support is adapted to support the tub when attached thereto, and to receive hot ashes into the compartment which fall through the perforated bottom portion during combustion of the combustibles, so that the ashes can collect and cool within the compartment and then be transported with the removed support for remote disposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Sousa
  • Publication number: 20230069993
    Abstract: A utensil for cleaning a cooking surface has cleaning head affixed to a distal end of an elongate handle. The head has a base and a porous cover. Submerging the head in a liquid enables the liquid to flow through the porous cover and perforations in the base into chambers within the base. Applying the head having the liquid-filled chambers against the cooking surface enables the liquid to flow from the chambers and through the perforations and continuously dampen the porous cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Sousa
  • Patent number: 7877844
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a tag to an object. The apparatus may include a body. The apparatus may also include an attachment arm, the attachment arm having a locked position and an unlocked position, and the attachment arm lockably closing to form a first closed loop with the body when the attachment arm is in the locked position. The apparatus may also include a tag loop mechanically coupled to the body. The apparatus may also include a detent arm mechanically engaged with the attachment arm in the locked position of the attachment arm, the detent arm configured so that an application of a force to the detent arm simultaneously unlocks the attachment arm and opens the tag loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: UP Country, Inc.
    Inventors: Alice M. Nichols, Khipra J. Nichols, Mark Sousa
  • Publication number: 20090107420
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a tag to an object. The apparatus may include a body. The apparatus may also include an attachment arm, the attachment arm having a locked position and an unlocked position, and the attachment arm lockably closing to form a first closed loop with the body when the attachment arm is in the locked position. The apparatus may also include a tag loop mechanically coupled to the body. The apparatus may also include a detent arm mechanically engaged with the attachment arm in the locked position of the attachment arm, the detent arm configured so that an application of a force to the detent arm simultaneously unlocks the attachment arm and opens the tag loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Alice M. Nichols, Khipra J. Nichols, Mark Sousa
  • Patent number: D1036911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Sousa, Wai Ho
  • Patent number: D1036918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Sousa, Wai Ho
  • Patent number: D1043132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Sousa
  • Patent number: D1045038
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Sousa