PATENTS AWARDED

Patents awarded to Arkansans

May 19, 2020

Patent 10,654,397 B2. Boat Motor Support System. Issued to Rick Huddleston of Yellville. Assigned to White River Marine Group LLC of Springfield, Mo.

Patent 10,654,616 B2. Data Connector Assembly for a Movable Platform and Actuating Attachment. Issued to Mark Bradley, Stonie Hopkins, Jefferson Maldonado, Doug Hutchens and Jerry Wade, all of Fort Smith. Assigned to Innovative Logistics Inc. of Fort Smith.

Patent 10,654,665 B2. System and Method for Automatically Restocking Items on Shelves Using a Pneumatic Pipe System. Issued to Behzad Nemati of Springdale and Ehsan Nazarian of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,655,142 B1. Molecular Markers Linked to Disease Resistance in Soybean. Issued to Ainong Shi of Fayetteville; Harikrishnan Ramasubramaniam of Bay; Becky Welsh Breitinger of Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Zhanyou Xu of Slater, Iowa; Roger L. McBroom of Clinton, Ill., and Harish T. Gandhi of Medchal Mandal, India. Assigned to Syngenta Participations AG of Basel, Switzerland.

Patent 10,655,768 B2. Breakaway Connector. Issued to Spencer A. Jones of Conway; Jordan Mykleby and Vance Clement, both of Fayetteville, and David Eddy of Indianapolis. Assigned to Site Saver Inc. of Fayetteville.

Patent 10,656,266 B2. System and Methods for Estimating Storage Capacity and Identifying Actions Based on Sound Detection. Issued to Matthew Allen Jones of Bentonville, Aaron James Vasgaard and Nicholaus Adam Jones, both of Fayetteville, and Robert James Taylor of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,657,341 B2. System, Apparatus and Method for Sequencing Objects Having RFID Tags on a Moving Conveyor. Issued to Bruce W. Wilkinson of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,657,372 B2. Systems and Methods for Identifying and Displaying Optimal Locations for a Garden. Issued to Suman Pattnaik and Steven Jackson Lewis, both of Bentonville, and Matthew Dwain Biermann of Fayetteville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,657,489 B2. Overstock Inventory Management System. Issued to Nicholaus Adam Jones of Fayetteville; Marc Ashley Fletter and Matthew Allen Jones, both of Bentonville, and Daniel R. Shields and Robert James Taylor, both of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,657,491 B2. Merchandise Event Monitoring via Wireless Tracking. Issued to Thomas E. Stiefel of Bentonville, Nicholaus Adam Jones of Fayetteville, and Bruce W. Wilkinson of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,659,528 B2. Cloud Enabled Cognitive Radio Adhoc Vehicular Networking with Security Aware Resource Management and Internet of Vehicles Applications. Issued to Sachin Sharma, Muhammad Awan and Seshadri Mohan, all of Little Rock. Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent D884,430 S. Food Product Tray. Issued to Daniel R. Underkoffler of Centerton and Jesse A. Collins of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent D884,449 S. Knife Sharpener with Four Sharpening Slots. Issued to Louis Chalfant of Hot Springs and Ricky L. Dukes of Knoxville, Tenn. Assigned to Smith’s Consumer Products Inc. of Hot Springs.

Patent D884,460 S. Conduit Bracket. Issued to Daniel Bryce Culp of Hindsville and Kenny Lee Williams Jr. of Elkins.

Patent D884,827 S. Fishing Jig Head. Issued to Alex Dickerson of Alma and Chad Warner of Muldrow, Okla. Assigned to Plastic Research and Development Corp. of Fort Smith.

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