Patents Issued in March 9, 2021
  • Patent number: 10939668
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a mosquito fitness tester are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes: a rotatable enclosure comprising an enclosed cavity; a powertrain to rotate the rotatable enclosure in one or more axes; and one or more sensors to monitor one or more insects in the enclosed cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Prachar, Robert Sobecki
  • Patent number: 10939669
    Abstract: A rack system including a plurality of cages, wherein each cage comprises a respective plurality of outside surfaces, a plurality of housing areas, each housing area corresponding to a respective one cage of the plurality of cages, each housing area comprising a respective plurality of inside surfaces of the rack system and arranged to support at least a portion of one of the respective plurality of outside surfaces of its corresponding one cage, and a plurality of coaxial piezoelectric cables, each coaxial piezoelectric cable corresponding to a respective one cage of the plurality of cages and at least indirectly coupled to its corresponding one cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Signal Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Lhamon, Anuj Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10939670
    Abstract: A beehive including a plurality of hive bodies including a base hive body and at least one upper hive body. There are a plurality of frames positioned in each hive body with a pinning device coupled to a hive body. The hive body has a plurality of holes spaced along a side of the hive body. The pinning device is inserted through at least one of the holes to contact a frame inside the hive body to thereby inhibit shifting of the frame relative to the hive body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Key Partners Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Wallace Edward Gibson
  • Patent number: 10939671
    Abstract: A self-harvesting sustaining feed system includes a tank for housing fish, a frame located above the fish tank, one or more plant floats which float atop water within shelves held by the frame, and an insect tray for housing larvae. Temporary temperature changes in the insect tray cause the larvae within the insect tray to migrate out and fall into the fish tank below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: M2M COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Gary De Andre Taylor
  • Patent number: 10939672
    Abstract: A experimental device is specifically an annular water tank formed by a first arc-shaped water tank, a first special-shaped water tank, a second arc-shaped water tank and a second special-shaped water tank which are sequentially connected head to tail, and the outer perimeter is 70 m to 110 m, wherein the inner walls of both the first special-shaped water tank and the second special-shaped water tank are flat, both of the widths between the outer walls and the inner walls are gradually increased from the two ends to the middle, and water flow pushing equipment which are capable of enabling the maximum water flow velocity in the experimental device to reach a preset value are respectively placed in the first special-shaped water tank and the second special-shaped water tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Qiuwen Chen, Yuqing Lin, Jianyun Zhang, Liuming Hu, Yuxin Zhang, Lei Tang, Tiesheng Guan, Yong Gao, Wei Jiang
  • Patent number: 10939673
    Abstract: Non-human animals, and methods and compositions for making and using the same, are provided, wherein said non-human animals comprise a humanization of an endogenous cluster of differentiation (CD) gene, in particular a humanization of a CD47 gene. Said non-human animals may be described, in some embodiments, as having a genetic modification to an endogenous CD47 gene so that said non-human animals express a CD47 polypeptide that includes a human portion and a non-human portion (e.g., a murine portion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Cagan Gurer, Ella Ioffe, Alexander Mujica, Gavin Thurston
  • Patent number: 10939674
    Abstract: A fishing reel designed to retain rotational functionality under load. The reel has a spool and spinner head assembly. A first pin arm is pivotally mounted to a plate portion of the spinner head assembly. A plate facing surface of the first pin arm has at least a portion that defines a planar surface from the first pivot end to the first pin arm for providing deflection resistance. A first pick-up pin selectively extends the first pin arm through a first pick-up pin orifice in a wall portion of the spinner head assembly. A first pick-up sleeve is rotationally mounted on the first pick-up pin for engaging fishing line when fishing line is wound onto said spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: W.C. BRADLEY/ZEBCO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Kent L. Zwayer, Kyle O'Dell, Mike Mao
  • Patent number: 10939675
    Abstract: A turkey call device is disclosed in this invention. The turkey call device includes a striker that has a wedge-shape taper ending in a flat striking tip and a counter-balancer. The tip is made of a harder material than some of the materials in rest of the striker. The combination of elements enables this turkey call device to be easier to use and produce more consistent turkey-like sounds than conventional turkey call devices in the market today.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Terry Franklin Betker
  • Patent number: 10939676
    Abstract: A modular platform system includes a base module and at least one extension module. One side of the base module has a recess for receiving a connector on one side of the extension module to connect the extension module to the base module. The extension module may include a recess for receiving a connecting member on a second extension module to connect the second extension module to the extension module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Summit Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Edward Harter, Tony Ryan Cronk, Matthew Jason Harmeyer, Edgard Eugene Herran
  • Patent number: 10939677
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antibacterial cryogel, its preparation method, and its use for disinfecting water. The invention further relates to an antibacterial porous hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Xiao Hu, Siew Leng Loo, Anthony G. Fane, Teik Thye Lim, William B. Krantz
  • Patent number: 10939678
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to adjuvant compositions and related methods for reducing herbicide volatility. The adjuvant- and herbicide-containing herbicide compositions are generally aqueous and include a volatile growth regulator herbicide and a monosaccharide adjuvant. When the compositions are applied to a target area to control a herbicide-sensitive target plant in the area with the herbicide, the monosaccharide adjuvant reduces volatile transport of the herbicide, thus reducing damage to other (non-target) sensitive plants, whether inside or outside of the target area of application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Donald Penner
  • Patent number: 10939679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for inhibiting the growth of microbes on live plants using compositions comprising a carboxylic acid of Formula (I) or salt thereof: wherein R is H, Ph, Ar, or a C1-C60 alkyl. The present invention also relates to live plant products contacted with compositions comprising a carboxylic acid of Formula (I) or salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Niacet Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Rijneveldshoek, Kelly Brannen, Stanley Sojka
  • Patent number: 10939680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide composition comprising a first compound, belonging to the aryloyxphenoxyproprionate family, and a second compound, belonging to the cyclohexanedione family. Said composition is characterized in that the first compound and the second compound are present in said composition at a ratio varying from 1:1.5 to 1:4. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling at least one weed capable of developing in a crop field for a plant to be cultivated with said composition of the invention. Finally, the use of the herbicide composition for treating a dicot crop is also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ARYSTA LIFESCIENCE SAS
    Inventors: Aurelien Guichard, Christophe Sepulchre de Conde
  • Patent number: 10939681
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having excellent control efficacy against pests, especially Lepidoptera pests. A compound represented by formula (1) has excellent control efficacy against pests, especially Lepidoptera pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Ikehara, Norio Kimura
  • Patent number: 10939682
    Abstract: Pesticidally active bi- or tricyclic heterocycles with sulphur-containing substituents, stereoisomers and tautomeric forms thereof that can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Andrew Edmunds, Michel Muehlebach, Andre Stoller, Olivier Loiseleur, Anke Buchholz, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Roger Graham Hall, Daniel Emery, Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Long Lu, Yaming Wu, Aurelien Bigot, Ruifang Chen
  • Patent number: 10939683
    Abstract: Disclosed are insecticidal compositions and associated methods that comprise an insecticide, C2-4 alkylene carbonate, C2-6 polyalkylene glycol, and a block co-polymer of C2-5 polyalkylene glycol and C3-6 polyalkylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CLARKE MOSQUITO CONTROL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Laeticia Leroy Rene-Boisneuf, Yemi Susan Bullen-McClain, Rajeev Vaidyanathan, William Carl Jany
  • Patent number: 10939684
    Abstract: A quaternary ammonium sulfonamide compound of formula (I): wherein R=(II), C1-C3 linear or branched alkyl, R1 and R2 are the same or different and selected from C1 to C18 linear or branched alkyl, R3 and R4 are the same or different and selected from C1 to C4 linear or branched alkyl, CF3, OR5 where R5 is C1 to C8 linear or branched alkyl or polyethylene oxide, l is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, m is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17, n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18, wherein the aryl groups of R may be substituted or unsubstituted, X=halogen, and Y=(III) wherein R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are the same or different and selected from C1 to C6 linear or branched alkyl and the benzophenone is selected from the group consisting of substituted benzophenone and unsubstituted benzophenone, process for preparing the compound and antimicrobial surface coating compositions of the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NANO SAFE COATINGS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Daniel Foucher, Gideon Wolfaardt, Alexander Gabriel Caschera, Aman Ullah Khan, Kamlesh Mistry, Evan Lindsay Gilmore Ronan, Lukasz Porosa
  • Patent number: 10939685
    Abstract: Provided herein are secretory compositions/cocktails derived from a novel, extremophilic fungal species cultured, isolated, characterized and sequenced herein. Said novel, extremophilic fungal species may be exploited to produce a secretory compositions/cocktails which comprise a unique mixture of thermo-tolerant, stable enzymes capable of digesting cellular and genetic material in its surroundings under extreme temperatures. Such secretory compositions/cocktails may be useful as cleaning and sterilization solutions against biofilm, urine, yeast, bacterial, or viral contamination. Other uses include, but are not limited to, urea removal, fertilizer wastewaters, wastewater reclamation for life support systems in space, pH control, source of ammonia and carbon dioxide, starch digestion, biofuel production, as pharmaceuticals, and medical treatments such as wounds, skin disorders, or nail disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David A. Sinclair, Kyle S. Landry
  • Patent number: 10939686
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of controlling pathogenic fungi comprising applying sabadilla oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: McLaughlin Gormley King Company
    Inventors: Robert A. Suranyi, Darrick David Unger
  • Patent number: 10939687
    Abstract: A method for forming pieces of food dough and an apparatus thereof is able to cut the food dough continuously extruded through a nozzle along the shape of the hole of the nozzle without causing deformation, and to locate pieces of the food dough on a conveyor without causing deformation. The apparatus for forming pieces of food dough comprises an extruding device and a cutting device, wherein the extruding device comprises a nozzle to continuously extrude food dough downward, and the cutting device comprises a cutting blade to cut the food dough into the pieces of food dough, a moving mechanism to move the cutting blade forward from an initial position, then to move the cutting blade downward, and then to return the cutting blade to the initial position, and a carrying-out conveyor, which is disposed below the nozzle and moves in the direction that the cutting blade moves forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzo Tokuhara, Masaaki Tanoi, Masaki Hosoya, Kazuyoshi Onoguchi
  • Patent number: 10939688
    Abstract: The use of a granulated xanthan gum comprising, relative to 100% by mass of the granulated xanthan gum: xanthan gum granules having a degree of hardness of 2 N or higher and lower than 8 N in an amount of 5% by mass or higher; and xanthan gum granules having a degree of hardness of 8 N or higher in an amount of 20% by mass or lower makes it possible to provide a granulated xanthan gum and a thickening composition comprising the granulated xanthan gum which undergo suppressed formation of unmixed lumps in a wide variety of water-containing foods such as water, teas, refreshing beverages, dairy beverages, soups, and thick liquid foods, even when the xanthan gum concentration is 50% by mass or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MATSUTANI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Morimoto, Masaki Gouro, Tomokazu Okazaki
  • Patent number: 10939689
    Abstract: The proposed apparatus relates to equipment for producing confectionery products and can be used at public catering and commercial enterprises for preparing candy floss. It includes a housing, a base with an electric motor having a shaft, a spinning head, a shell having a cover and propeller, and a diffusor secured on the base and having vertically bent vanes on its internal surface. The propeller is attached to the spinning head mounted on the shaft. The apparatus is equipped with rubberized supports for an extractor arranged on the housing. The diffusor has air intake openings in its lower part. The shell is made in the form of a ring having longitudinal slots. A spiral tubular heating element abuts the inside of the ring. The slots may repeat the shape of coils of the heating element. The proposed design makes it possible to considerably increase productivity of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Mikhail Valerievich Korin
  • Patent number: 10939690
    Abstract: A method for producing a collagenous material in particle form, includes: extracting a collagen- and fat-containing animal raw material using an aqueous extraction solution; optionally separating at least one part of the aqueous phase from the extraction residue; separating the extraction residue into a collagenous solid phase, an aqueous phase, and a fat phase; mixing at least one part of the collagenous solid phase with at least one part of the aqueous phase; at least partly drying the mixed phases; and comminuting the dried phases in order to obtain the collagenous material in particle form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Gelita AG
    Inventors: Thomas Meisner, Arend Willem Sloot
  • Patent number: 10939691
    Abstract: Feeding equine animals involves obtaining an equine feed combined with a yeast fermentation product such as a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product, and feeding the feed to the equine animal such that ingestion causes the equine animal to improve performance, including a mitigated inflammatory response or an increased immune in function. The feed may contain about 0.1 to 1.0 percent of the yeast fermentation product by weight of the feed. A formulated feed ration for the equine animal may include grain- and forage-based feed and a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product in an amount of about 5 grams to about 40 grams per head per day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC
    Inventor: Kelly Vineyard
  • Patent number: 10939692
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition for use in culturing aquatic animals that includes one or more ?-aspartyl dipeptides, or oligomers thereof, or salts thereof, wherein each of said ?-aspartyl dipeptides comprises a ?-L-aspartyl moiety as the first amino acid residue. The invention further relates to use of this composition as feed or feed additive for aquatic animals and as a method for culturing aquatic animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Cysal GmbH
    Inventors: Ahmed Sallam, Martin Krehenbrink, Dimitar Kalkandzhiev
  • Patent number: 10939693
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing forage material includes crushing a mass of rice peeling and hulling bran into a powder with a grain size of 0.2 to 0.5 mm, hydrothermally processing the rice peeling and hulling bran powder for 1.5 to 2.0 hours at a temperature of between 110 and 120° C., and a pressure of 1 to 2 atmospheres, adding a culture of Trichoderma lignorum 19 in an effective amount proportional to the weight of the rice peelings, hulls and bran mass and maintaining same in an airtight hopper for 24-48 hours to effect a microbial process of saturation and accumulation of protein mass, and thereafter drying at a temperature of 50 to 60° C. until the moisture content is 13 to 14.5 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Amanulla Asadullaevich Sultanxodjaev, Abror Abduraxmanovich Dadaxodjaev
  • Patent number: 10939694
    Abstract: A drink water treatment composition comprises a first edible, water-soluble salt that has a weight, e.g., between about 15% and about 25% by weight of the composition, and a second edible, water-soluble salt that has a weight, e.g., between about 65% and about 75% by weight of the composition and in admixture with the first edible, water-soluble salt. The composition can also include a third edible, water-soluble salt that has a weight, e.g., between about 5% and about 10% by weight of the composition and in admixture with the first and second edible, water-soluble salts. The mixture of edible, water-soluble salts is packaged in an effective amount to be mixed and dissolved in a reference amount of drinking water to re-mineralize the drinking water for human ingestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: THIRD WAVE WATER LLC
    Inventors: Taylor Minor, Charles R. Nick
  • Patent number: 10939695
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition in form of a flowable texture for preparing a food product, to a process for preparing a food product, and to the use of the composition for preparing a food product. In particular, the invention relates to a flowable composition comprising a first starch which is gelatinized and a second starch which is an un-gelatinized starch for preparing savoury food products such as bouillons, condiments, seasonings, sauces, gravies, stews, pan-fried dishes or soups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Elena Sharma, Sanyasi Gaddipati, Fritz Wilhelm Nueckel, Paulina Gorecka, Catherine Barbier, Lara Harttung
  • Patent number: 10939696
    Abstract: A juice pressing machine and methods for pressing juice from a foodstuff includes embodiments having a removable pressing chamber and one or more filters which may be assembled and loaded with macerated foodstuff to form thin layers separated by a pressing plate. Once a juicing operation has been completed, the pressing chamber can be removed from the machine for emptying the pressed filters and solids contents therein. The empty pressing chamber may then be rinsed if needed and reattached to the machine for a subsequent pressing operation with newly filled filter(s). The platen may also be easily removed from the machine for cleaning as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Goodnature Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Wettlaufer, Eric Wettlaufer
  • Patent number: 10939697
    Abstract: A method of produce washing using a short-term wash device. The method of produce washing includes processing a product through the short-term wash device followed by a wash device, applying a short-term wash treatment using the short-term wash device to the product such that the short-term wash treatment remains on the product for a pretreatment time that lasts until the product reaches the wash device, and applying a wash treatment using the wash device to the product such that the wash treatment rinses the short-term wash treatment from the product defining the end of the pretreatment time, wherein the pretreatment time is set at or below a damage threshold time beyond which the short-term wash treatment damages the product beyond a damage threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SMARTWASH SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: James M. Brennan, Danny Elmer Lindstrom, Christopher Michael McGinnis, Eric Child Wilhelmsen
  • Patent number: 10939698
    Abstract: A frosted cereal product includes a cereal base and a frosting on the cereal base. The frosting is a composition containing a sugar, in an amount of at most 90% by weight (dry matter of the frosting), and a raw starch, in an amount of at least 10% by weight (dry matter of the frosting); the weight ratio between the cereal base and the frosting lies between 1:0.05 and 1:2; and the frosting consists of 1 to 5 layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Veerle De Bondt
  • Patent number: 10939699
    Abstract: In order to reliably ensure the association of smoking products and the results of analysis with the tobacco products and guard against mistakes or data losses, there is provided a smoking machine whose structural components such as the smoke trap, a smoke trap component and/or a tobacco product magazine that is being used are provided with respective identity elements in which items of information specific to the structural component are contained and from which items of information are readable and/or into which items of information are insertible. A method of smoking tobacco products in a smoking machine comprises the storage of information about the respective structural components of the smoking machine and/or the processes of writing-into and reading-out the results of measurements and/or analysis into these identity elements as well as the process of linking to a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BORGWALDT KC GMBH
    Inventor: Nils Rose
  • Patent number: 10939700
    Abstract: Provided are materials for making a hand rolled smoking article having a novel sheet. The sheet can include a rectangular portion and an irregular shaped portion. The sheet can be manufactured from tobacco leaf or foil, homogenized tobacco paper, or conventionally available rolling paper. The sheet can be filled with a filler material and rolled to form a cigar or cigarette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Daniel S. Sinclair, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10939701
    Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter or filter element including a longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material of circumference 14 to 17 mm which includes a channel which extends longitudinally from an end of the core; wherein the core further includes a plasticiser in an amount of 17 to 19% by weight of the tobacco smoke filtering material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ESSENTRA FILTER PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT CO. PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Ahmad Fashihul Lisan, Roy Alingalan, Sulistyo Widodo, Antony Mccormack
  • Patent number: 10939702
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery devices comprise a control device that includes a battery, a control component, and an outer housing that defines receiving chamber, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece portion, a tank that contains a liquid composition, and a heater configured to heat the liquid composition. The cartridge and the control device each include at least one connector configured to provide a magnetic and an electrical connection between the cartridge and the control device such that the cartridge can be removably and operatively received into the cartridge receiving chamber of the control body, wherein the at least one connector of the cartridge is located on the mouthpiece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Jacob Novak, III, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Steven Michael Schennum, Thomas Michael McKeon, Zachary Hy Burchman
  • Patent number: 10939703
    Abstract: An exemplary heating assembly includes a liquid conducting and heating body and an inductive coil corresponding to the liquid conducting and heating body. The liquid conducting and heating body includes a micro-porous ceramic main body and a metallic powder evenly distributed in the ceramic main body. The inductive coil is configured for generating high frequency magnetic field in response to an alternating current, so that eddy current and heat are generated in the liquid conducting and heating body. The liquid conducting and heating body is configured for absorbing tobacco liquid and heating the tobacco liquid to form aerosol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Shuyun Hu
  • Patent number: 10939704
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol-generating substrate including tobacco; and a capacitor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the dielectric material including a porous substrate material and a liquid sorbed into the porous substrate material. There is also provided an aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating article in combination with an aerosol-generating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Tony Reevell
  • Patent number: 10939705
    Abstract: Provided herein is a portable aerosol device including, in some embodiments, a mouthpiece, a cartridge, and a shell configured for inserting the cartridge into the shell. Regarding the cartridge, the cartridge can include a tank configured to hold a vaporizable material, a wick and a heating element for vaporizing the material, an air path to the wick and the heating element, an aerosol path from the wick and the heating element, and a battery configured to power the portable aerosol device. The air and aerosol paths can be at least partially positioned in a space between the tank and the battery. Regarding the shell, the shell can include an air intake hole, a viewing window, a closed end, and an insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TMA Labs LLC
    Inventors: Tomiei Kuwa, Mark Hoashi, Vardan Kushkyan, Gayk Mikaelyan
  • Patent number: 10939706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include a housing and a cartridge including an atomizer and a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition. The cartridge may be configured to move relative to at least a portion of the housing between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. Related assembly methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven L. Worm, David Glen Christopherson, Raymond Charles Henry, Jr., Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Jason L. Wood, Alan Curtis Billings
  • Patent number: 10939707
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery device comprises a control body having an outer housing, an electrical energy source located within the housing, a control component operatively connected to the electrical energy source, a heating assembly operatively connected to the control component, and an aerosol source member that includes an aerosol generating component configured to be positioned proximate the heating assembly. The heating assembly comprises a series of heating members, and each heating member is independent and distinct and configured to heat a segment of the aerosol source member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Hejazi, Rajesh Sur
  • Patent number: 10939708
    Abstract: An underwire for use in a brassiere, and the associated brassiere, the underwire including a generally arcuate base member having a first end, a central segment, and a second end, and a spiral boning member fixedly attached to the base member, where the spiral boning member has a greater flexibility than a flexibility of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: S&S Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Matthew Fink
  • Patent number: 10939709
    Abstract: The invention provides a generally X-shaped utility garment comprising two main straps that form an ‘X-shape’ on a wearer's back and a cross-strap above the X shape to stabilize the garment on the wearer's body. The garment, referred to herein as a strapvest, provides a plurality of pockets and/or receptacles for carrying items the wearer needs to access easily. Its receptacles can be detachable, and a user can select which receptacles to have on the strapvest according to the wearer's immediate needs. It can be adjustable in size to fit a wide range of wearers, and can be adapted to carry many different types of items that are needed for work or recreation, by a combination of built-in pockets and other built-in carriers and optional modular receptacles that can be detachably mounted on the straps of the strapvest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Larry Haynes
  • Patent number: 10939710
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a body protection product such as a wetsuit that does not require a troublesome and time-consuming step such as machine sewing, does not cause discomfort for the wearer, and does not result in a loss to the degree of freedom in terms of design. [Solution] A wetsuit (10), in which a highly stretchable and elastic sheet-shaped fabric is draped so as to match the concave and convex features of the body shape of a wearer and a plurality of fabric pieces (11) are prepared, an adhesive (3) is applied to the draping surfaces of the fabric pieces (11), and the draping surfaces are then pressed against each other and joined without stitching, whereby a three-dimensional clothing base (1) is formed. Next, an adhesive (4) is applied to the surface of the clothing base and stretching is performed, whereby the surface of the clothing base is covered by a stretchable covering material (2) formed to match the shape of the clothing base (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Nouvelle Vague International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oku, Katsushige Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10939711
    Abstract: Systems including noise suppression devices for personal impact protection systems are provided. One such system includes an inflator having an inflator discharge port; a flexible permeable inner tube configured to receive gas from the inflator via the inflator discharge port; and a flexible outer tube surrounding the inner tube and configured to receive gas from the inner tube, the outer tube including one or more outer tube discharge ports. Another such system includes an inflator having an inflator discharge port; a flexible non-permeable tube configured to receive gas from the inflator via the inflator discharge port; and a permeable gas diffuser element disposed in or adjacent to the tube, the diffuser element being configured to receive gas from the inflator via the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ACTIVE PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Drew Lakatos, David Perry, David Schoon, Wamis Singhatat, Jon Wenderoth
  • Patent number: 10939712
    Abstract: A helmetless support and ventilation system for use with surgical hoods and gowns, including a flexible band, a plurality of front offsets connected to the flexible band, an offset extension such that the plurality of front offsets is connected to the offset extension and the offset extension is located away from the flexible band, a plurality of faceplate attachment extensions, wherein each of the plurality of faceplate attachment extensions is connected to the offset extension, a plurality of support faceplate attachments, such that each of the plurality of support faceplate attachments are connected to each of the plurality of faceplate attachment extensions, and a ventilation system located within a surgical gown and a surgical hood for providing filtered, ventilation air within the surgical gown and the surgical hood, wherein the ventilation system is retained by shoulders of a wearer of the ventilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Mark McBride, Philip H Salvatori, John Roughneen, Carola Romero, Nathan Satter
  • Patent number: 10939713
    Abstract: Personal protective devices have a carrying bag, such as a purse, and a separate bullet resistant vest or penetration resistant (to stab wounds) vest comprises at least one neck sling and at least one torso strap. The bullet/penetration resistant vest is dimensioned to removably fit within the carrying bag. The carrying bags are configured to provide a “ready state” wherein a bullet resistant shield and neck sling are within the carrying bag while at least a connector attached to the end of a deployable torso strap(s) is outside of the carrying bag. The carrying bag has at least one slot designed to allow the torso strap(s) to be pre-fed from the interior of the carrying bag to a position exterior of the carrying bag. In this “ready state”, the majority of the torso strap is maintained within the interior of the carrying bag. The neck sling and torso straps are deployable to secure the vest to a wearer's torso in the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy Walsh, Kostyantyn Fedkin
  • Patent number: 10939714
    Abstract: The present invention is a wall mountable apparatus that receives one or more baseball styled caps for compact storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: John Paul Giles
  • Patent number: 10939715
    Abstract: A hair covering to protect styled, typically long, hair from the effects of excessive wind. The hair covering is made of lightweight fabric such as thin nylon often used for windbreaker jackets, and thus the hair covering is termed a hair windbreaker. The hair windbreaker is especially beneficial for women with long hair, especially those who have just had an expensive salon styling and do not wish to muss their hair up. The hair windbreaker has an adjustably-sized head opening and may have an adjustably-sized hair opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GBM Health, Inc.
    Inventor: Heather Karr Johnson
  • Patent number: 10939716
    Abstract: An adjustable hat bill having a first link and a second link. The first link has a first link male member, and it defines a first link female receiving area. The second link defines a second link female receiving area. The first link male member is located within the second link female area, and the second link is capable of some rotation about the male member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Daniel Toro
  • Patent number: 10939717
    Abstract: Provided is an article of wearing apparel having a decorative illuminable assembly. The wearing apparel includes a crown section, a bill section attached at one end to a bottom edge of the crown section, a decorative illuminable assembly secured to the crown section, a charging port integrated with the crown section, and a weatherproof port cover. The decorative illuminable assembly has a design shape, at least one light emitting diode, and a power switch which connects the at least one light emitting diode with a rechargeable battery. The charging port is configured to allow charging of the of the rechargeable battery via electronic connection of a mobile device charger. In an embodiment, the article of wearing apparel is a baseball cap and the charging port is positioned centrally on a frontward facing portion of the crown section when the bill section is facing the front of a wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Jana Shepherd