Patents by Inventor Nicholas Buck

Nicholas Buck 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).

  • FASTENING ASSEMBLY FOR A CLOSURE MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20240423332
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure than includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupling device may be included as part of a slide fastener assembly having two slider tapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew A. Owings, Nicholas Buck, Peter V. Nikiforova, Shawn M. Close, Jeffery B. Kennedy
  • Releasable coupling device
    Patent number: 12016436
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure than includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupling device may be included as part of a slide fastener assembly having two slider tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew A. Owings, Nicholas Buck, Adam Whiton
  • Releasable Coupling Device
    Publication number: 20220378157
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure than includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupling device may be included as part of a slide fastener assembly having two slider tapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew A. Owings, Nicholas Buck, Adam Whiton
  • Releasable coupling device
    Patent number: 11432622
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure than includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupling device may be included as part of a slide fastener assembly having two slider tapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew A. Owings, Nicholas Buck, Adam Whiton
  • RELEASABLE COUPLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210289893
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure than includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupling device may be included as part of a slide fastener assembly having two slider tapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew A. Owings, Nicholas Buck, Adam Whiton
  • Modification of traditional propeller shaft tunnel on a vessel hull
    Patent number: 9975617
    Abstract: An aquatic vessel may include contra-rotating propellers and a hull mold with a keel pad sectional extended from a hull planing surface to a location on the hull mold at which a propeller shaft exits a propeller shaft tunnel at an aft transom edge of the hull mold and at a forward portion of the keel pad sectional, with sides of the propeller shaft tunnel formed into directional ports to increase a flow of water into the propeller shaft tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Inventor: Nicholas Buck-Niehaus
  • Modification of traditional propeller shaft tunnel on a vessel hull
    Patent number: 9969472
    Abstract: A hull mold of an aquatic vessel may include a keel pad sectional extended from a hull planing surface to a location on the hull mold at which a propeller shaft exits a propeller shaft tunnel at an aft transom edge of the hull mold and/or at a forward portion of the keel pad sectional, with sides of the propeller shaft tunnel formed into directional ports to increase a flow of water into the propeller shaft tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Inventor: Nicholas Buck-Niehaus