Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Bell

Thomas L. Bell 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: 11957208
    Abstract: Footwear and sole structures include structures and properties, e.g., to support urban dance and urban dance moves. Such dance styles include various dance moves and movements that require contact between side edges of the wearer's shoes and the dance floor surface (e.g., made from concrete, asphalt, wood, etc.). Such dance styles also require transition of the body's center of mass along the edge(s) of the foot. Footwear and sole structures in accordance with this technology provide structures and properties to support to support such dance styles and moves, including one or more of: selected materials and/or selected material properties in various areas to promote sliding or gliding along various surfaces and/or other desired interactions with various surfaces; selected sizing and/or dimensional features of components in various areas; various flexion promoting structures and/or characteristics; etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Tinker L. Hatfield, Thomas G. Bell, Rory S. Blanche, Risha Dupre, Christopher Mellick, Kaigin Olafson, Andrew A. Owings, Jeffrey C. Spanks, Caitlin Vultaggio
  • Patent number: 9296404
    Abstract: Embodiments of a conversion kit for a wheelbarrow include a wheelbase and a cross handle. The wheelbase has box frame including a pair of wheels pivotably connected to the frame. The wheelbase mounts to the wheelbarrow handles beneath the wheelbarrow tray. The wheels may be separated by a distance greater than the distance between the pair of handles at the back of the tray. The cross handle mounts to and connects the wheelbarrow handles behind the tray back converting the wheelbarrow into an easily handled cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas L. Bell
  • Patent number: 4406372
    Abstract: A display tray for ring jewelry wherein a plurality of parallel bars each having normally extending ring posts are selectively positionable to enable captive retention of rings placed on the ring posts as the free post ends are locked in abutment to a next adjacent bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Inventor: Thomas L. Bell
  • Patent number: D778521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas L. Bell