Patents awarded

U.S. patents awarded to Arkansans

April 28, 2020

Patent 10,631,506 B2. Soybean Variety 01068838. Issued to Floyd Hancock of Stuttgart. Assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC of St. Louis.

Patent 10,631,521 B2. Cattle Curtain. Issued to Stephen Davis of Amagon.

Patent 10,632,504 B2. Systems and Methods for Sorting Mechanisms at a Terminal. Issued to Nicholaus Adam Jones and Aaron Vasgaard, both of Fayetteville, Matthew Allen Jones of Bentonville, and Robert James Taylor of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,633,061 B2. Inflatable Ride-On Water Toy. Issued to Walter David Dial III of Rogers.

Patent 10,633,143 B2. Lid for a Reusable Plastic Container. Issued to Shawn Morris Hodge of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,634,629 B2. Techniques for Using Oxide Thickness Measurements for Predicting Crack Formation and Growth History in High-Temperature Metallic Components. Issued to Ashok Saxena of Fayetteville, Ralph Edward Huneycutt IV of Kansas City, Mo., and Kee Bong Yoon, Kyung-gi, South Korea. Assigned to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and Chun-Ang University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, in Seoul, South Korea.

Patent 10,635,801 B2. Systems and Methods for Securing Access to Storage and Retrieval Systems. Issued to David G. Tovey and Bruce W. Wilkinson, both of Rogers; John J. O'Brien of Farmington; Brian G. McHale of Chadderton Oldham, Great Britain; Robert L. Cantrell of Herndon, Va., and Donald R. High of Noel, Mo. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,636,034 B2. Authenticated Purchase of Restricted Items. Issued to Ruth A. Boyd and Kellie D. Embree, both of Bentonville, and Meriah D. Montondo of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,636,267 B2. RFID Tag Tracking Systems and Methods in Identifying Suspicious Activities. Issued to Steve P. Jeon of Bentonville and Bruce W. Wilkinson of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,637,200 B2. Circuit Board Bypass Assemblies and Components Therefor. Issued to Brian Keith Lloyd, Gregory B. Walz, Bruce Reed, and Munawar Ahmad, all of Maumelle; Ayman Isaac and Darian R. Schulz, both of Little Rock; Eran J. Jones of Conway; Gregory Fitzgerald of Merrimack, N.H.; Kent E. Regnier of Lombard, Ill.; Brandon Janowiak of Wheaton, Ill.; Javier Resendez of Streamwood, Ill., and Michael Rost of Lisle, Ill. Assigned to Molex LLC of Lisle, Ill.

Patent D882,703 S. UTV Ride-On Toy. Issued to Bill Talios of Fayetteville, John Bisges of Buford, Ga., and David Castrucci of Napa, Cal. Assigned to Dynacraft BSC Inc. of Port Wentworth, Ga.

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