Separable, Striplike Plural Articles Patents (Class 206/820)
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Patent number: 12150841Abstract: One example embodiment includes a pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape includes a fabric. The fabric includes a weave of fibers, where the fibers include an elastic fiber covered by a covering material. The fabric also includes a first end and a second end, where the second end is opposite the first end. The fabric further includes one or more rounded corners. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape also includes a longitudinal cut in the fabric. The longitudinal cut passes through at least a portion of the fabric and extends from the first end to a predetermined distance from the second end. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape also includes adhesive on a first surface of the fabric, where the adhesive is configured to adhere the fabric to a human body.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: KT Health, LLCInventor: Reed Quinn
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Patent number: 12137822Abstract: A racking system and methods of assembling a racking system includes one or more adjustably positionable backing walls that may be positioned at different distances from a front end of a corresponding shelf. Dividers may be provided to be positioned adjacent the one or more backing walls to divide a product display zone into separate zones.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.Inventors: Jamie Aaron Smedley, Gabriel Garduno, Billy Mertz
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Patent number: 12139282Abstract: A process for producing a blister strip is provided. The blister strip contains two or more different formulations of powdered medicament for inhalation. The blister strip has a base in which blister cavities are formed. A first set of cavities each contain a first medicament formulation and are covered by a first lid material. A second set of cavities each contain a second medicament formulation and are covered by a second, separate lid material.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: VECTURA DELIVERY DEVICES LIMITEDInventors: Roger Clarke, Darryl Cotton, Andreas Meliniotis
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Patent number: 12116167Abstract: A system for marking a container includes a wrap comprising an adhesive backend. The wrap is configured to wrap around a container. The system also includes a tab configured to adhere to the container and protrude away from the container. The wrap and the tab comprise indicia for identifying the container or the contents of the container.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Inventor: James Labonski
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Patent number: 12084328Abstract: A mover control method includes decision processing and control processing. The decision processing is the processing of determining whether or not a mover that is carrying an object thereon is going to deviate from a traveling route, through which the mover, as well as the object, is allowed to pass. The control processing (first control processing) is the processing of controlling the mover based on a result of the decision processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Seigo Takayama, Takaaki Imanaka, Kentaro Murata
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Patent number: 12071270Abstract: A tray for receiving sausages is provided. The tray includes cells which are adapted to substantially match the shape of sausages or other soft materials. The tray may be vacuum sealed to cause a relatively uniform top surface suitable for stacking. The tray may be sealed without pre-freezing the sausages and without causing significant deformation to said sausages upon thawing. The tray may be loaded in an automated manner without the use of robotic arms placing individual sausages into the tray.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Inventor: Alessandro Girimonte
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Patent number: 12043463Abstract: A cover sheet for a multi-compartment package for dispensing plural items is disclosed. The package includes plural individual sealed compartment units which are releasably secured to each other. Each compartment unit includes a flanged base from which a chamber depends. The chamber holds an item to be dispensed and is surrounded by a flange. The cover sheet, includes respective closure members releasably secured to each other by frangible lines. Each closure member is configured to be adhesively secured to the flange of each compartment unit. Each closure member includes plural arcuate tamper-evident cuts therein located adjacent respective corners of the closure member to initiate a tear upon attempted removal of the closure member from the flange of its associated compartment unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Medi-Dose, Inc.Inventors: Robert Braverman, Donald A. Lawson
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Patent number: 12017818Abstract: A food containment assembly includes a first cup with a first sealing flange and a second cup with a second sealing flange. The second cup is separate from and disposed adjacent to the first cup. A seal sheet is adhered to the first sealing flange and the second sealing flange, and the seal sheet forms a hinge to allow rotation of the second cup with respect to the first cup. The seal sheet includes a first slit disposed proximate the hinge and a second slit proximate the hinge, wherein tearing the seal sheet along the first slit allows access to contents of the first cup and tearing the seal sheet along the second slit allows access to contents of the second cup and the hinge remains intact.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: DAISY BRAND, LLCInventors: Ryan Adame, Matthew Nichols, Vincent Taylor, Christine Horan, Gregg Flender, Julia Sharpe
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Patent number: 12016126Abstract: The current disclosure describes carrier tape systems, which include a cover tape having adhesion areas and non-adhesion areas which are substantially free of adhesive. Methods for supplying semiconductor devices to an apparatus, which in operation, places the semiconductor devices at desired locations are also described. Methods of forming a semiconductor device carrier system are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Sheng Chiu, Pei-Haw Tsao, Tsui-Mei Chen, Shih-Hsing Lin, Li-Huan Chu
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Patent number: 11987439Abstract: Cleanup kits including both wet wipes and dry wipes. In accordance with a first example, a cleanup kit includes a first dispenser containing wet wipes and having a first accessible opening to allow the wet wipes to be dispensed therethrough. The cleanup kit also includes a second dispenser containing dry wipes and having a second accessible opening to allow the dry wipes to be dispensed therethrough. The cleanup kit also includes a carrying handle projecting upwardly from the first and second dispensers and heat sealed to both the first dispenser and the second dispenser to couple the first and second dispensers together. The first and second dispensers are discrete dispensers having separate housings and separate lids.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: UNITED LABORATORIES, INC.Inventor: Eric D. Frazier
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Patent number: 11986055Abstract: A pair of separable shoe covers formed into a web of polymeric material having an outer and inner sheet portions is disclosed herein. The web may be spooled into a roll of separable shoe covers. First and second seals are formed widthwise across the outer and inner sheet portions and form forward and rearward portions of respective shoes of a pair. First and second perforations are formed widthwise across the outer and inner sheet portions can separate an individual shoe cover in part. A third perforation forms a separable boundary of respective shoe covers of the pair. The user may tear a shoe cover away from the web by tearing along the perforation lines. The user may then deploy the shoe cover by separating the outer and inner sheet portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: INTEPLAST GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Pai-Mei Tseng, Jyh-Yao Raphael Li
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Patent number: 11958711Abstract: A stack of laminar material for forming packages, the stack including full panels having a predetermined total length and formed with transverse creases along which the full panels are folded in accordion-like pleats. The stack includes at least one longitudinal cut on each full panel to form at least two transversely adjacent stacks of partial panels having respective partial widths, which are less than the total width. The at least one cut is incomplete, so that each partial panel of a respective stack and the partial panel of the stack adjacent thereto will have at least one connecting section therebetween, having a predetermined minimum length, for holding the partial panels of the adjacent stacks together, to thereby keep the adjacent stacks substantially aligned while facilitating the separation of each of the partial panels as they are unwound by a pulling action from each adjacent stack.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: PANOTEC S.R.L.Inventor: Giuseppe Capoia
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Patent number: 11959686Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein, and an ice-maker disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice-maker includes a cold-air hole for receiving cold air, an upper tray having a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers defined therein, a lower tray pivotably disposed below the upper tray, wherein the lower tray has a plurality of lower chambers defined therein respectively connected to the upper chambers by pivoting, wherein each of the lower chambers and each of the upper chambers connected with each other define an ice chamber for forming spherical ice therein, a driver for pivoting the lower tray, and at least one shield formed on an outer face of the upper tray and corresponding to at least one of the ice chambers respectively, thereby to reduce the cold-air from invading the at least one corresponding ice chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yonghyun Kim, Jinil Hong, Hyunji Park, Seunggeun Lee
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Patent number: 11951490Abstract: Diffuser of an active liquid agent, for the treatment of a fluid environment, be it at the gaseous or liquid state, of the type including a container (1) of the active agent, closed by grid element apt to maintain in position the active agent and to allow the emanation of fluids of the same, the grid element being covered by a barrier film, peelable at the time of the first use to make operative the grid element, wherein the container (1) is closed by a single multilayer film (2, 3a, 3b) including at least one external barrier layer (3a) and at least another inner sealing layer (2) apt to maintain in position the active agent and to form the grid element, at the time of the first use of the container, following the simultaneous removal of the barrier film and of predefined portions of the sealing layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ZOBELE HOLDING S.P.A.Inventors: Fabio Marchetti, Stefano Deflorian, Franco Zobele
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Patent number: 11944519Abstract: Tapes and methods including an unbacked construction of at least one liquid layer adhesive that has been at least one of dried and cured. Occlusive tissue dressings, tapes and methods including an elastomeric drape and, for backed drapes and some unbacked drapes, a liquid component, at least partially cross-linked at least after one of drying and curing, suitable for application at a dressing-to-skin interface in order to create a substantially air-tight seal. The same or a different liquid component may be applied by a user at a tube-to-dressing interface of an elastomeric drape to create a similar air-tight seal around the tube, if not occlusively sealed during its manufacture. Featured are unbacked tapes, a drape with liquid sealant component, a liquid layered drape with liquid sealant component, and a liquid layered drape.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: WORLDWIDE INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE, INC.Inventor: Danielle R. Zurovcik
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Patent number: 11912908Abstract: An air-permeable adhesive sheet has air permeability in a thickness direction thereof and including an adhesive agent layer having first through holes extending in the thickness direction, wherein at least one surface of the adhesive agent layer forms an adhesive surface, the through holes have an average opening diameter of 1.0 to 50 ?m and an average interval of 5 to 400 ?m, and a variation in air permeability in the thickness direction is 22% or less as represented by a coefficient of variation of an air permeability measured according to Method B for air permeability measurement (Gurley method) specified in JIS L 1096: 2010, with an effective measurement area as a predetermined value selected from 0.5 to 2.0 mm2. The air-permeable adhesive sheet is a sheet capable of obtaining good characteristics such as air permeability even when being made into a sheet having a small area.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime Yamamoto, Hiroki Kigami, Marie Aizuka
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Patent number: 11904585Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive system comprising a fabricated structure having alternating regions that are unpatterned and patterned along its longitudinal length. Patterned regions have at least one subregion with a non-linear cut relative to the transverse direction across the width of the structure. The geometry, location of the subregion(s), number of nonlinear cuts, and other parameters allow tuning as well as pinpoint programming of the adhesive properties either along the entire width and length or the strip or just at pinpointed subregions of the strip. Such tuning can include not only adhesive strength, but its adhesive strength in certain peeling directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: lowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Michael D. Bartlett, Dohgyu Hwang
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Patent number: 11897645Abstract: A packaging machine includes an indexing mechanism (210), a base (220), and a clamping arrangement (250). The indexing mechanism moves a web (10) of preformed bags along a path of travel. The base (220) is downstream of the indexing mechanism (210) along the path of travel and supports an engagement member (240) that includes a finger (242) having a beveled end (244). The clamping arrangement (250) supports a gripper (271) that includes a beveled surface (274) and a gripping surface (272). The base (220) further includes an engagement recess (222). The engagement member (240) is positioned within the engagement recess (220) and the beveled end (274) of the gripper (271) is capable of being disposed within the engagement recess. The indexing mechanism is configured to reverse index the web when the beveled end (274) of the gripper (271) is disposed within the engagement recess (222) so that the finger (242) and the gripper (271) are inserted into the top of one of the bags.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)Inventor: David Romo
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Patent number: 11819395Abstract: A strip having a weakened region that defines first and second segments on either side thereof. The first and second segments include corresponding first and second sanitary napkins.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Egal Pads Inc.Inventor: Thomas E. Devlin
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Patent number: 11807432Abstract: A shipping and dispensing construct for engaging a plurality of product holding containers. The shipping and dispensing construct can comprise a plurality of panels comprising a front panel, a bottom panel, and a back panel. One or more panels of the plurality of panels is for being attached to attachment features of the respective product holding containers of the plurality of product holding containers. Dispensing features can be for removal of a respective product holding container from the shipping and dispensing construct. The dispensing features can be in one or more panels of the plurality of panels.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventors: Sharon Weaver, Ronald E. Hajek, Dana Exner
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Patent number: 11793251Abstract: A medical gown includes a main body having a neck edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. The first side edge may extend from the neck edge. The second side edge may extend from the neck edge, opposite the first side edge. The neck edge may define a neck engagement feature between the first and second side edges. The medical gown may further include a first strap feature coupled with the main body and defining a first loop with the first side edge. The medical gown may further include a second strap feature coupled with the main body and defining a second loop with the second side edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: EXPEDONN LLCInventor: Anoop Kumar Holalakere Sreenivasa Rao
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Patent number: 11787612Abstract: An improved sealant packaging and method for use with sealing joints and cracks in pavement and parking lots is provided. Liquid sealant material is poured by volume into a container draped with a sheet. Container is cooled so that the sealant becomes a solid block, with the sheet adhered to the sides of the sealant block such that the sheet forms a container for the sealant. The sheet also acts a release liner for easily removing the sealant block from the container. Two or more contained blocks are stacked together, forming a package of two or more blocks self-sealed by sheets. When the package is placed in a melting kettle, heat migrates through the spaces between the individual sealant blocks and allows the smaller sealant blocks to melt quickly and evenly. Sheet and film melt with sealant material and are incorporated therein to form the final sealant product.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Crafco, Inc.Inventors: Thomas D. Splinter, Stephen Patrick Giersch
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Patent number: 11786620Abstract: A cleaning-disinfecting system may be utilized for one or both of cleaning and/or disinfecting medical devices. The cleaning-disinfecting system may be a portable battery-powered medical device washer-disinfector. The systems, devices, or methods may be specifically designed for use at home or other contexts and can wash and disinfect single or multiple medical devices simultaneously. The cleaning-disinfecting system may automatically reprocess medical devices placed within the cleaning-disinfecting system. The cleaning-disinfecting system may store medical devices after reprocessing without exposing the medical devices to potential contamination from the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: CathBuddy, Inc.Inventors: Souvik Paul, Daniel Wollin, Marjorie Nelson
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Patent number: 11753221Abstract: A connected tie strap, including: integrated fixing tie straps or labeled tie straps, and main rib boards, wherein the main rib boards are perpendicular to the length direction of the integrated fixing tie straps or the labeled tie straps; a shunt is disposed between the fixed heads of the integrated fixing tie straps or labels of the labeled tie straps and the main rib boards; also included is an auxiliary rib board, wherein the auxiliary rib is perpendicular to the length direction of the integrated fixing tie straps or the labeled tie straps; the main rib boards and/or the auxiliary rib is further provided thereon with interval positioning holes or interval positioning post, two ends of the main rib boards and/or the auxiliary rib also being respectively provided with positioning holes and/or positioning posts.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SHENZHEN SWIFT AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiuyi Xu
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Patent number: 11746814Abstract: A strip of fastening elements having receiving elements and fastening elements received in the receiving elements is provided, the fastening elements each defining a fastening direction that is the same for all fastening elements, wherein the receiving elements are arranged in at least one row, which defines a transport direction, the at least one strip including a frontmost receiving element and a rearmost receiving element, wherein the fastening direction and the transport direction enclose an acute angle, wherein the strip of fastening elements has a support element for supporting the frontmost receiving element counter to the fastening direction and/or a counter-support element for supporting the rearmost receiving element in the fastening direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventor: Stefan Miescher
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Patent number: 11725430Abstract: An apparatus for use with a vehicle door having a latch includes a striker member configured to engage the latch, and a bumper positioned relative to the striker member such that if the door is moved to the closed position, the bumper absorbs the impact with the striker to avoid damage and excess sound. The apparatus enables the vehicle door to remain open without the vehicle's interior light or ignition key reminder chime being activated.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventor: Austin Ray Fenby
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Patent number: 11724849Abstract: A packaging method and packaging material are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect, a method for forming, filling, sealing and flash freezing a liquid extract or concentrate in a continuous ribbon format is described. The packaging material uses a continuous ribbon of a cold-formed foil base with multiple pockets arrayed in a pattern and a heat-sealed foil cover. Following sealing, the continuously formed strip of product is passed through a freezing medium, optionally perforated alongside the pockets to facilitate separation of individual pockets from a sheet, and then cut to size for convenient and space efficient final packaging, storage and transportation.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: COMETEER, INC.Inventor: Douglas Martin Hoon
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Patent number: 11708203Abstract: A unit-dose packaging for a product comprising a chain of blister packs, the chain of blister packs being arranged in an alternating manner and having foldable regions between each blister pack in the chain of blister packs, characterised in that after use of the product, a chain of emptied blister packs forms a concertina fold, wherein all the blisters are of the same shape in the chain of blister packs such that the repeating units of the chain of blister packs are linked in such a way that their cavities fit into each other when stacking in an alternating way.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Oliver James Boulton, Nurani Dharmaraj Krishnaprakash Iyer
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Patent number: 11672962Abstract: The invention relates to a tube with an application tip for liquid or pasty material, in particular pharmaceutical. The tube has a tube body with an end which can be closed or has already been closed and with an outlet end. The outlet end of the tube has a tube neck with an outlet opening. Furthermore, the tube according to the invention has an application tip which is elongated in the longitudinal direction of the tube, is connected to the outlet end of the tube, and has an inner channel which connects an inlet opening and an application opening. A closure which closes the application opening is moulded onto the application opening of the application tip. The application tip has a gripping means.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Bayer Animal Health GmbHInventors: Jörg Habig, Wilfried Hinxlage
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Patent number: 11566829Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein and an ice maker disposed in the freezing compartment. The ice maker includes a cold-air hole for receiving cold air, an upper tray made of an elastic material, wherein the upper tray is positioned to be exposed to the cold-air flowing from the cold-air hole, a lower tray made of an elastic material, wherein the lower tray is coupled to the upper tray to define a plurality of spherical ice chambers therebetween, a driver for pivoting the lower tray to open the spherical ice chambers, at least one thermally-insulating portion formed at a top face of the upper tray and corresponding to at least one of the ice chambers respectively, wherein the at least one thermally-insulating portion is constructed to prevent the cold-air from invading the at least one corresponding ice chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yonghyun Kim, Hyunji Park, Jinil Hong, Seunggeun Lee
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Patent number: 11560269Abstract: A packaging system for packaging granular food items for shipment includes a plurality of granular food item bags, each granular food item bag having a side surface. A folder has at least one crease with a first half having a first inner surface on one side of the crease and a second half having a second inner surface on an opposing side of the at least one crease. The side surface of each granular food item bag is attached to the first inner surface of the first half of the folder and the granular food item bags are arranged in and N×M array on the first inner surface of the first half of the folder. The folder is then folded along the at least one crease so the second inner surface of the second half of the folder is folded over the granular food item bags attached to the first inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: THE SPICE HOUSE LLCInventors: Daniel Yates, Charlie Mayer, David Grossman
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Patent number: 11519441Abstract: A tree fastener assembly includes a cap, a base, a strap that connects the cap with the base, and a stem that extends from the base. A plurality of first wings extend radially outward from the stem.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Scott M. Liebelt, Sean A. Tomaselli
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Patent number: 11505357Abstract: A food product package for containing a shingled stack of food product slices is provided including a package bottom and a non-planar periphery, the package bottom having walls oriented to be substantially the same geometry as the shingled stack of food product slices.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Sargento Foods Inc.Inventors: Todd Purkey, Jeff Karp
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Patent number: 11490725Abstract: A package for an oral care implement. The package may have an exposed outer surface, a package portion forming a first portion of the exposed outer surface, and a reusable cap forming a second portion of the exposed outer surface. The package portion may define a first cavity and the reusable cap may define a second cavity. The package portion may be formed by a backer panel and a cover panel that are coupled together to define the first cavity. The reusable cap may have a flange that is sandwiched between the backer panel and the cover panel to secure the reusable cap to the package portion. A personal care implement may be disposed within the package so that a first portion of personal care implement is located within the first cavity and a second portion of the personal care implement is located within the second cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Robert Moskovich, Douglas Hohlbein
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Patent number: 11472598Abstract: Systems and methods to encode sounds in association with containers, as well as systems and methods to recognize encoded sounds associated with containers, are described. The containers may include various structures to encode sounds. Responsive to opening of containers, the various structures may emit the encoded sounds. An audio capture device may receive the encoded sounds, and a computing device may process the encoded sounds to identify audio signatures within the encoded sounds. The audio signatures may be matched with known audio signatures to identify the containers and/or information associated with the containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Walterio Wolfgang Mayol Cuevas
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Patent number: 11428254Abstract: A fastener system includes a fastener or nail for mounting objects on a surface and a corresponding plug for filling a hole left when the nail is removed from the surface. The nail and plug are formed of an engineering plastic, and may be formed from recycled materials. In embodiments, the nail and plug are joined by an arm which is easily broken away. In embodiments, the fastener and plug each have a plurality of flanges which provide strength and grip the surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: DUBROSKY & TRACY PATENT SERVICE CORP.Inventors: Gerhard Fildan, Karl Wanzenböck
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Patent number: 11401069Abstract: Described are systems, methods, and apparatus for injecting dunnage into a container after an item has been placed in the container and the container has been sealed or otherwise closed. A dunnage injection apparatus is configured to penetrate a surface of the sealed container and expel gas and dunnage into an interior space of the container. The gas fills the expelled dunnage forming gas-filled pouches of dunnage that fill voids within the interior space of the container and secure and protect the item within the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Toby Ge Xu, Jon Stuart Battles, Martin Peter Aalund
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Patent number: 11358822Abstract: A pad of dispensable adhesive tape segments is shown and described. The pad includes a protective envelope and a number of tape segments. The tape segments are arrayed such that detachable pull tabs for each are exposed for grasp. The envelope may include a strip folded over onto itself and adhered in place. The envelope is pulled open and may be adhered to an environmental surface. Tape segments have adhesive of weaker adherence than the adhesive of the envelope so that when pulled by a pull tab, each tape segment preferentially releases from the next, but the envelope maintains adherence to the environmental surface. Adhesive lined tabs initially holding the envelope closed may also be used for adherence to the environmental surface. Preferably used for medical tape, the envelope is waterproof to maintain sterility of tape segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventor: Parsig Chouljian
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Patent number: 11358771Abstract: A multi-compartment package for dispensing plural items is disclosed. The package includes plural individual sealed compartment units which are releasably secured to each other. Each compartment unit includes a flanged base from which a chamber depends. The chamber holds an item to be dispensed and is surrounded by a flange. A closure member, in the form of a respective portion of a frangible cover sheet, is adhesively secured to the flange of each compartment unit. Each closure member includes plural tamper-evident cuts therein located adjacent respective corners of the closure member to initiate a tear upon attempted removal of the closure member from the flange of its associated compartment unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Medi-Dose, Inc.Inventors: Robert Braverman, Donald A. Lawson
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Patent number: 11351088Abstract: A disposable container for containing a patient-customized medicinal fluid as a flowable material, which is adapted to dispense and seal the flowable material, the disposable container including: a plurality of container portions adapted to form spaces containing the flowable material; a bonding portion extended from tops of the container portions in such a manner as to come into contact with a surface of a film protecting the flowable material from the outside; and discharge portions extended from undersides of the container portions in such a manner as to be separable from the containing portions to discharge the flowable material to the outside, wherein the bonding portion connects the container portions with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: RMEDICA CO., LTD.Inventors: Seong Ryul Cho, Il Seob Shin, Koung Un Park, Yun Ji Hong
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Patent number: 11332644Abstract: The invention is directed to masking tapes comprising reference lines that facilitate the use of adjacent edges or other linear features to place masking tape edges on irregular or curved boundaries between surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Inventor: Mark Uniat
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Patent number: 10946545Abstract: A web includes a curvilinear line of weakness. The curvilinear line of weakness includes a plurality of perforations. Each of the plurality of perforations is separated by a bond area. Each of the plurality of perforations has a perforation length and each bond area has a non-perforation length.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kathryn Christian Kien, Deborah Sue Slovut, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
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Patent number: 10750829Abstract: A method of making a steaming apparatus for an article of footwear includes providing a set of sheets and applying a series of welds and cuts to the sheets. The resulting steaming apparatus can have a steaming chamber adjoined to a plurality of wing portions. The apparatus also includes provisions for securing the article of footwear within the steaming chamber such that a majority of the upper is subjected to steam. Articles of footwear may be placed in the steaming system to help customize the articles of apparel for a user's fit and comfort.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: William M. Dieter
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Patent number: 10661544Abstract: An application method of applying a film F having a main portion 71, an extended portion 72 connected to a first end 71x of the main portion 71, and an extended portion 73 connected to a second end 71y opposing the first end 71x in the main portion 71 to a base material by an application device having an application mechanism, including the steps of: pressing the extended portion 72 using the application mechanism; applying the main portion 71 to the base material by moving the application mechanism that presses the extended portion 72 from the extended portion 72 to the extended portion 73 via the main portion 71; and stopping the application mechanism moved to the extended portion 73 and separating the application mechanism from the extended portion 73.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Kubota, Taishi Tokunaga, Takayoshi Fujino, Katsunori Sakai, Hiroki Wakamatsu
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Patent number: 10479000Abstract: According to the method for manufacturing a sample storage device and to the sample storage device of the present invention, a pattern forming mold having an engraved pattern part on the upper surface thereof is used to form a charging chamber sidewall on a first light-transmitting substrate, and a second light-transmitting substrate is adhered to the first light-transmitting substrate where the charging chamber sidewall is formed, and thus the sample storage device can be conveniently manufactured in large quantities.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Inventor: Seung Kook Yu
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Patent number: 10472104Abstract: A method of fabricating coffee pods at a point of sale location using a coffee pod dispensing device with shell less, expandable coffee pods. The fabrication is initiated by tactile input from a control panel that determines the parameters of the coffee pods to be fabricated and generates the operational signals for the dispensing device. Fabrication there after progresses sequentially through a series of operations that involves the loading of the coffee pods onto a pod advancing means which then takes the coffee pods through the steps of expansion, filling, sealing and delivery. To accomplish this the pods are compressible pods arranged in a linear array that allows for pleated or stacked storage in a pod loading means within the device's enclosure, as well as continuous feed capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Inventors: Kurt Allen Jenkins, Edward Francis Burress, Darryl Ingvard Jensen, James Bernard Jensen, Eugene J. Wallace
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Patent number: 10457431Abstract: A point of sale coffee pod dispensing device for use with shell less, expandable coffee pods. The compressible pods are arranged in a linear array that allows for pleated or stacked storage in a pod loading means within the device's enclosure, as well as continuous feed capabilities. The pod advancing means moves the pods from a pod loading station to the pod delivery station, there between sequentially passing through stations for pod expanding, coffee filling, and sealing. An operating system allows input of signals for the operation of the device based on tactile input from a control panel on the device's housing that determines the parameters of the coffee pods to be fabricated.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Inventors: Darryl Ingvard Jensen, Edward Francis Burress, Kurt Allen Jenkins, James Bernard Jensen
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Patent number: 10449012Abstract: A device for the transportation and temporary storage of a medical instrument including an instrument bag material substantially impermeable to bodily fluids, the bag having a bag opening. A label has a first portion adhered to an external surface of the bag adjacent to the bag opening and has a second portion disposed beyond the bag opening and which has a lower surface at least part of which is adhesive. The first portion of the label includes a pocket for receiving a sachet or data carrier. The second portion of the label includes a tamper-evident portion which exhibits a first visual appearance when first adhered to a surface of the bag, and which exhibits a second visual appearance after it has been adhered to and then removed from a surface of the bag, and subsequently adhered to the same surface of the bag.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: TRISTEL PLCInventors: Benjamin Alexander Martin, Julija Shabanova, Esther Jansen
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Patent number: 10399757Abstract: A packet includes a front panel and a back panel defining an internal volume therebetween. The front panel and the back panel include a first edge having a plurality of first recesses formed therein. A nozzle provides a path of fluid communication from the internal volume, through the first edge, to an exterior of the packet. A consumer product is disposed within the internal volume. A cap is configured to prevent the consumer product from flowing from the internal volume, through the nozzle, and to the exterior of the packet.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventor: Frank Hom
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Patent number: 10358260Abstract: The present invention relates to container comprising at least two compartments (2a, 2b), each compartment comprising a base (3a, 3b) and one more walls (4a, 4b) extending from the base, wherein the compartments are detachable from each other along a breakline (9) comprising a plurality of recesses (6). The present invention also relates to a method for producing the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: LINPAC PACKAGING LIMITEDInventors: Alan Davey, Ben Elkington, James Thomas Philip Rowson