PATENTS AWARDED

Patents awarded to Arkansans

Oct. 13, 2020

Patent 10,800,609 B2. Folding Wing for a Conveyor. Issued to Jason Bellar of Bella Vista and William Mark Propes of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,801,034 B2. Methods of Increasing Resistance of Crop Plants to Heat Stress and Selecting Crop Plants with Increased Resistance to Heat Stress. Issued to Andy Pereira and Ramegowda Venkategowda of Fayetteville. Assigned to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 10,801,296 B1. Tall Flange Rubber Adapter. Issued to Grant Pruitt of Fort Smith and Cris Braun of Van Buren. Assigned to Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent 10,801,297 B1. Swivel Device for Rotating a Bowl. Issued to Grant Pruitt of Fort Smith and Cris Braun of Van Buren. Assigned to Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent 10,803,015 B2. Caching System and Method. Issued to John Randy Frerking of Prairie Grove and Richard Jackson of Bella Vista. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,803,102 B1. Methods and Systems for Comparing Customer Records. Issued to Andrew Benjamin Ray of Bentonville and Nathaniel Philip Troutman of Seattle. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,803,136 B2. Apparatus and Method Enablement of Customer Information Control Systems on a Mainframe Computer. Issued to John R. Frerking of Prairie Grove. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,803,415 B2. Method of Determining Optimal Business Metrics from a Product Mix Constrained by at least Physical Shelf Space and at least One Business Rule. Issued to Daniel Bruce Palmer of Bentonville, Menkes Hector Louis van den Briel of Alexandria, Australia, and Mark Ross Lawrenson of Rockdale, Australia. Assigned to Red Analytics PTY Ltd. of Surry Hills, Australia.

Patent 10,803,435 B2. Method for Self-Checkout with a Mobile Device. Issued to David Martin Nelms and Tim Webb, both of Rogers; Jason Todd of Lowell; Philip Wayne Marbut of Bentonville, and Douglas Jahe Ryner of Cave Springs. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,804,903 B1. Asynchronous Circuit Stacking for Simplified Power Management. Issued to Jia Di, Zhong Chen and Matthew Leftwich, all of Fayetteville, and Andrew Lloyd Suchanek of Albuquerque.

Patent 10,805,459 B1. Call Screening Service for Communication Devices. Issued to Mark Hamilton Botner, Andrew Collin Shaddox, Charles Donald Morgan and Nysia Inet George, all of Little Rock; Collin Michael Turney of Benton; Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy and Samuel Kenton Welch, all of Conway; Daniel Francis Kliebhan of Henderson, Nev., and Robert Francis Piscopo Jr. of Kirkland, Wash. Assigned to First Orion Corp. of Little Rock.

Patent D898,740 S. Card Reader Mount Assembly. Issued to Joe Speagle of Bentonville and Paul Mabry of Fayetteville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

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