Patents by Inventor Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks 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).

  • Patent number: 11852289
    Abstract: A device includes a wearable portion and a support portion. The wearable portion includes an elongate member and a coupler connected to the elongate member. The elongate member is formed in a loop such that the elongate member is positionable around a neck of a user with the coupler positioned on a torso of the user. The support portion includes an attachment member, an arm, and a retainer. The arm extends from a first end to a second end. The first end is coupled to the attachment member. The retainer is coupled to the second end of the arm and is configured to retain a personal electronic device. The attachment member is releasably attachable to the coupler such that with the attachment member attached to the coupler the device supports the personal electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Freedom and Clarity, LLC
    Inventors: Christy Barilotti, Ryan P. Langeveld, Meredith Brooks Ingrassia
  • Publication number: 20220074543
    Abstract: A device includes a wearable portion and a support portion. The wearable portion includes an elongate member and a coupler connected to the elongate member. The elongate member is formed in a loop such that the elongate member is positionable around a neck of a user with the coupler positioned on a torso of the user. The support portion includes an attachment member, an arm, and a retainer. The arm extends from a first end to a second end. The first end is coupled to the attachment member. The retainer is coupled to the second end of the arm and is configured to retain a personal electronic device. The attachment member is releasably attachable to the coupler such that with the attachment member attached to the coupler the device supports the personal electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: FREEDOM AND CLARITY, LLC
    Inventors: Christy Barilotti, Ryan P. Langeveld, Meredith Brooks Ingrassia
  • Patent number: 8920209
    Abstract: A toy apparatus having a lower base, an upper base and a doll cover for the upper base where the lower base and the upper base attach and detach with an easy twisting motion. The lower base encloses a flywheel on a shaft, and a passageway for a rack and includes a cover with an outside screw thread. The upper base is either empty or encloses three switches, a sound generator, a light source, a controller printed circuit board, and a battery chamber and includes a cover with an inside screw thread that mates with the screw thread of the lower base. The toy apparatus has two primary play modes, a first mode where the lower base, the upper base and the cover are connected and a user uses the rack to spin the flywheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Dean Carley, Sean Carmine Isabella
  • Patent number: 8820305
    Abstract: Several variations of a toy projectile launcher apparatus for discharging EVA balls. The apparatus includes a housing, a barrel portion, a grip portion, a trigger, a ram movable in the housing, a carriage also movable in the housing, a negator spring, handles for cocking the apparatus, and a lever pivotally mounted to a shaft in the housing just behind a ball to be discharged. In operation, a user pulls a handle rearward to move the ram and carriage and extend the spring. Pulling the trigger disengages the ram to impact the lever causing the lever to slap the ball to cause discharge of the ball. The lever and the shaft may be moved from side to side to cause the ball to be discharged straight ahead or curved to the left or right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert James Victor, Meredith Brooks
  • Patent number: 8596254
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing, a projectile launching assembly including a launching tube and a launching spring, a trigger and a cocking assembly. The apparatus also includes a magazine container for storing a stack of projectiles and having a projectile receiving opening to enable loading of projectiles into the magazine container without removing the magazine container from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Kevin C. Dakan
  • Publication number: 20130102223
    Abstract: A toy apparatus having a lower base, an upper base and a doll cover for the upper base where the lower base and the upper base attach and detach with an easy twisting motion. The lower base encloses a flywheel on a shaft, and a passageway for a rack and includes a cover with an outside screw thread. The upper base is either empty or encloses three switches, a sound generator, a light source, a controller printed circuit board, and a battery chamber and includes a cover with an inside screw thread that mates with the screw thread of the lower base. The toy apparatus has two primary play modes, a first mode where the lower base, the upper base and the cover are connected and a user uses the rack to spin the flywheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Dean Carley, Sean Carmine Isabella
  • Publication number: 20130074818
    Abstract: Several variations of a toy projectile launcher apparatus for discharging EVA balls. The apparatus includes a housing, a barrel portion, a grip portion, a trigger, a ram movable in the housing, a carriage also movable in the housing, a negator spring, handles for cocking the apparatus, and a lever pivotally mounted to a shaft in the housing just behind a ball to be discharged. In operation, a user pulls a handle rearward to move the ram and carriage and extend the spring. Pulling the trigger disengages the ram to impact the lever causing the lever to slap the ball to cause discharge of the ball. The lever and the shaft may be moved from side to side to cause the ball to be discharged straight ahead or curved to the left or right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Robert James VICTOR, Meredith Brooks
  • Patent number: 8402958
    Abstract: The wheel also includes an opening in the third portion leading to a chamber in a hollow support of the wheel. A spring-biased knob is mounted on a shaft that also mounts the wheel. Both the knob and the wheel have axially align protrusions that may engage each other to allow the wheel to be rotationally adjusted to correct any jam or misalignment of the darts stored on the wheel. A flexible arm and a pusher structure are also included with the magazine apparatus and are connected to a constant force spring, where the flexible arm and a portion of the constant force spring are lodged in the chamber of the hollow support during a dart loading process of the wheel, and the constant force spring uncoils when the wheel is rotated during the loading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Victor, Raymond Aaron Mead, Robert L. Brown, Fred D. Eddins, Meredith Brooks, Douglas C. Weiler
  • Publication number: 20120125304
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing, a projectile launching assembly including a launching tube and a launching spring, a trigger and a cocking assembly. The apparatus also includes a magazine container for storing a stack of projectiles and having a projectile receiving opening to enable loading of projectiles into the magazine container without removing the magazine container from the housing. This is accomplished by the apparatus having a horizontal panel operatively connected to the magazine container's upper portion and movable between a first position where the panel is retracted and does not block the projectile receiving opening and a second position where the panel blocks the projectile receiving opening during a cocking cycle of the cocking assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Kevin C. Dakan
  • Publication number: 20110041823
    Abstract: A toy dart magazine apparatus that includes a housing divided into a drum portion and a clip portion, and a wheel structure rotatably mounted to the drum portion. The wheel has four portions, two spaced apart portions having peripheral recesses for receiving the darts and storing them until they are “fired” by a launcher to which the dart magazine apparatus is mounted. A third portion having a smooth circumference and a smaller diameter than the two recess bearing portions wherein the third portion separates the two spaced apart portions. The fourth portion of the wheel has a larger diameter than the two recess bearing portions and is positioned adjoining one of the two recess bearing portions for aligning the darts relative to the wheel. The wheel also includes an opening in the third portion leading to a chamber in a hollow support of the wheel. A spring-biased knob is mounted on a shaft that also mounts the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Robert Victor, Raymond Aaron Mead, Robert L. Brown, Fred D. Eddins, Meredith Brooks, Douglas C. Weiler