Patents by Inventor Robert Bard

Robert Bard 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: 20190142664
    Abstract: A device for assisting a medical walker user in transitioning from a sitting position to a standing position as the medical walker user attempts to access the medical walker because the device incorporates a platform base which becomes stabilized by placing the weight of the medical walker user on the platform base which in turn stabilizes the medical walker via each automatic movement restrictor assembly (AMRA) attached to the platform base because each AMRA automatically engages/captures each of the medical walker's two front axles as the medical walker's two front wheels impact each of the two AMRAs additionally such that the device will automatically move from a position of engagement with the medical walker's two front axles to a position of disengagement with the medical walker's two front axles when the medical walker along with the medical walker's two front wheels leave/exit the device's AMRAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Bard, Eleanor H. Bard, Conne G. Bard, Douglas Aaron Bard, Joshua Alan Bard
  • Publication number: 20070199946
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing various sized drinking containers (cups, mugs, glasses etc.) thus helping to prevent the spilling of liquid drinks from various sized drinking containers onto a desk (or table) top or desk (or table) top protector surface area. The apparatus itself can be placed or even secured anywhere on the desk (or table) top or desk (or table) top protector surface area so that the drinking container can be placed for easy access. More specifically, when the apparatus is employed to secure the drinking container, the stability of the drinking container, with or without its contents, is increased as follows; the apparatus extends the distance from the center of gravity of the secured drinking container and its contents further outward to the outboard edge of the apparatus and even further when the apparatus itself is secured to the desk (or table) top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Robert Bard, Douglas Bard
  • Patent number: 4294379
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a flexible, collapsible trash liner. A rigid upward vented trash receptacle receives a flexible, collapsible, trash liner and includes along the side walls of the upward vented trash receptacle a plurality of axially aligned and peripherily positioned hollow tubes which are interior to or part of (molded into) the vented trash receptacle's internal walls and open at both ends which terminate approximately 1" interior to the top and bottom of the upward vented trash receptacle. The hollow tubes allow ambient air to be drawn from the top of the tubes to the bottom of the tubes to reduce the vacuum created in the vacant space immediately below the flexible, collapsible trash liner as it is removed from the upward vented trash receptacle and thus facilitate removal of the flexible, collapsible trash liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Inventor: Robert A. Bard