PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. Patents Issued to Arkansans Feb. 11 Patent 8,646,457 B2. Medical Hand and Arm Protection Apparatus and Method of Protection. Issued to Fereshteh K. Maynard of Conway, Jeffery B. Wilkerson of Little Rock and Victoria L. Eskew of Benton. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 8,646,759 B2. Microbubble Therapy Method and Generating Apparatus. Issued to Jeffrey L. Cunningham of Cabot, Eric Jackson of Conway and Remo C. Jacuzzi of Little Rock. Assigned to Jason International Inc. of North Little Rock.

Patent 8,647,512 B2. Use of Magnetic Carbon Composites From Renewable Resource Materials for Oil Spill Clean Up and Recovery. Issued to Tito Viswanathan of Little Rock. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 8,647,851 B2. Methods for Increasing the Production of Ethanol From Microbial Fermentation. Issued to James L. Gaddy, Dinesh K. Arora, Ching-Whan Ko, John Randall Phillips, Carl V. Wikstrom and Edgar C. Clausen, all of Fayetteville; and Rahul Basu of Bethlehem, Pa. Assigned to Ineos Bio Limited of Lisle, Ill.

Patent 8,648,282 B2. Cooking Apparatus and Method. Issued to Jorge Garcia of Rogers. Assigned to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville.

Patent D699,412 S. Combined Broom and Dustpan. Issued to Chad Smith of Rogers.

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