U.S. patents issued to Arkansans
Feb. 7
Patent 9,560,838 B1. Artificial Structure for Attracting Fish. Issued to David King and Ray Stewart, both of Springdale.
Patent 9,560,980 B2. Automatic Selection of Electrode Vectors for Assessing Risk of Heart Failure Decompensation Events. Issued to Sandra B. Charlton of Little Rock and James J. Sims of Fayetteville. Assigned to Medtronic Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn.
Patent 9,561,681 B2. Foldable Greeting Card and Tissue Box Cover. Issued to Rick Magley of Siloam Springs. Assigned to Crayola LLC of Easton, Pa.
Patent 9,563,475 B2. Merging Connection Pools to Form a Logical Pool of Connections During a Preset Period of Time Thereby More Efficiently Utilizing Connections in Connection Pools. Issued to Rispna Jain of Bentonville and Anoop Gowda Malaly Ramachandra of Mysore, India. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp.of Armonk, N.Y.
Patent 9,563,793 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 9,564,695 B2. Torque Sleeve for Use with Coaxial Cable Connector. Issued to Jeff G. Hammons and Charles Darwin Davidson Jr., both of Little Rock, and Glen David Shaw of Conway. Assigned to PerfectVision Manufacturing Inc. of Little Rock.
Patent D778,377 S. Yoga Balance Board. Issued to Kathryn M. Daniel and Jesse S. Daniel, both of Bella Vista.