PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents issued to Arkansans

Feb. 2

Patent 9,247,696 B2. Soybean Cultivar UA5612. Issued to Pengyin Chen, John C. Rupe, Donald G. Dombek and Robert T. Robbins, all of Fayetteville; and Terrence L. Kirkpatrick of Emmet. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 9,247,697 B2. Soybean Cultivar UA 5213C. Issued to Pengyin Chen, John C. Rupe, Donald G. Dombek and Robert T. Robbins, all of Fayetteville; and Terrence L. Kirkpatrick of Emmet. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 9,248,415 B2. Systems and Methods for Maximizing Dissolved Gas Concentration of a Single Species of Gas from a Mixture of Multiple Gases. Issued to Gregory Scott Osborn of Fayetteville. Assigned to board of trustees of the University of Arkansas; and BlueInGreen LLC of Fayetteville.

Patent 9,249,646 B2. Managed Pressure Cementing. Issued to Don M. Hannegan of Fort Smith; Cesar Pena and Said Boutalbi, both of Houston; David Pavel of Kingwood, Texas; Michael Brian Grayson of Sugar Land, Texas; Todd Douglas Cooper of The Woodlands, Texas; Timothy P. Dunn of Fulshear, Texas; and Frank Zamora Jr. of San Antonio. Assigned to Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC of Houston.

Patent 9,249,866 B2. Belt Tensioner for a Power Transmission Belt System. Issued to Anthony Eugene Lannutti of Fayetteville. Assigned to Dayco IP Holdings LLC of Troy, Mich.

Patent 9,251,488 B2. Apparatus and Method of Determining a Likelihood of Task Completion from Information Relating to the Reading of RFID Tags. Issued to Nicholaus A. Jones of Fayetteville, Abu Rasel of Bentonville and Bruce W. Wilkinson of Rogers. Assigned to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville.

Patent D748,499 S. Package for Wax Melts. Issued to Burton Hanna of Fayetteville.

Patent D748,565 S. Lift for Utility Vehicle. Issued to Stacy Lee Brown of Stephens.

Patent D748,770 S. Three-Column Wax Melt. Issued to Burt Hanna of Fayetteville.

Patent PP26,367 P3. Nectarine Tree Named “Amoore Sweet.” Issued to John Reuben Clark of Fayetteville. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

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