PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. Patents issued to Arkansans

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Patent 9,089,143 B2. Reciprocating poultry chiller auger. Issued to Andrew

C. Estes of Russellville. Assigned to Cooling & Applied Technology, Inc., of Russellville.

Patent 9,089,149 B2. Poultry chiller with multi-blade long-pitch auger. Issued to Jeremy B. Estes of London and Michael E. Miller of Hattieville. Assigned to Cooling & Applied Technology, Inc., of Russellville.

Patent 9,092,679 B2. RFID reader location self-discovery. Issued to Nicholaus Adam Jones of Fayetteville and Alvin Scott Taulbee of Springdale. Assigned to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., of Bentonville.

Patent 9,092,778 B2. Bank account protection method utilizing a variable assigning request string generator and receiver algorithm. Issued to Jeffrey S. Gibson of Tyronza. Assigned to Varsgen, LLC, of Memphis,.

Patent 9,092,958 B2. Alarm processing systems and methods. Issued to John-Paul Joseph Brueggen of Little Flock and Alex Michael Shipman of Rogers. Assigned to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., of Bentonville.

Patent 9,094,013 B2. Single component sleep-convention logic (SCL) modules. Issued to Scott C. Smith of Rogers, Jia Di and Ron Foster, both of Fayetteville, Jerry Frenkil of Concord, Mass., and Aaron Arthurs of Springdale. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and Nanowatt Design LLC of Fayetteville.

Patent D735,012 S. Octagonal pole with reinforcing members. Issued to Charles Henry Cowie of Fayetteville. Assigned to Marshalltown Company, Marshalltown, Iowa.

Patent PP25,746 P3. Grape plant named ‘Gratitude’; Latin Name: Vitis labrusca L.×Vitis Vinifera L.; Varietal Denomination: Gratitude. Issued to John Reuben Clark and James N. Moore, both of Fayetteville. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.

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