Patents by Inventor Marlaine Gail Mills

Marlaine Gail Mills 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).

  • Method and support for supporting packages only at their edges during steam sterilization
    Patent number: 6018931
    Abstract: A method and a support for supporting a package in a steam sterilizer, featuring support members configured and positioned to support only at least a portion of at least two opposed side edges, but not a side face, of the package. A diamond shape is particularly preferred for the support members as, when rotated at an angle, its facets provide line contact with appropriate side edges of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David Clarence Byram, Gregory Scott Duncan, Marlaine Gail Mills, James Malcolm Peck, Kenneth Kurt Pricer