Patents by Inventor Mary Ellen Hathorn

Mary Ellen Hathorn 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 for Storing Sandals and Other Loose Items
    Publication number: 20120223031
    Abstract: A method for storing and displaying footwear including, without limitation, flip-flops and thong-type sandals, as well as other loose items, is provided. An elongate central body, such as a length of ribbon or other similar structure, having a number of upwardly facing hooks - typically combined in pairs - arrayed along the length of the central body, is suspended from a support. Sandals and other loose items are hung on the hooks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Mary Ellen Hathorn
  • Method for storing sandals and other loose items
    Patent number: 8177075
    Abstract: A method for storing and displaying footwear including, without limitation, flip-flops and thong-type sandals, as well as other loose items, is provided. An elongate central body, such as a length of ribbon or other similar structure, having a number of upwardly facing hooks—typically combined in pairs—arrayed along the length of the central body, is suspended from a support. Sandals and other loose items are hung on the hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Mary Ellen Hathorn
  • Method for storing sandals and other loose items
    Publication number: 20110120961
    Abstract: A method for storing and displaying footwear including, without limitation, flip-flops and thong-type sandals, as well as other loose items, is provided. An elongate central body, such as a length of ribbon or other similar structure, having a number of upwardly facing hooks—typically combined in pairs—arrayed along the length of the central body, is suspended from a support. Sandals and other loose items are hung on the hooks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: Mary Ellen Hathorn
  • Apparatus for storing sandals and other loose items
    Publication number: 20090071917
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing and displaying footwear including, without limitation, flip-flops and thong-type sandals, as well as other loose items, is provided. An elongate central body, such as a length of ribbon or other similar structure, has a number of upwardly facing hooks—typically combined in pairs—arrayed along the length of the central body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: Mary Ellen Hathorn