PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents issued to Arkansans

June 6

Patent 9,668,601 B1. Glove Dispensing Device. Issued to Joe E. Rogers and David Onstead, both of Jonesboro. Assigned to Glove Assist Inc. of Jonesboro.

Patent 9,670,447 B2. Microfabricated Polymeric Vessel Mimetics. Issued to Chandan Das of Little Rock; Ashley A. Jaeger of North Bethesda, Md.; Thomas J. Pohida of Monrovia, Md.; Michael M. Gottesman and Nicole Y. Morgan, both of Bethesda, Md; Randall H. Pursley of Gaithersburg, Md.; and Philip G. McQueen of Silver Spring, Md. Assigned to the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Patent 9,670,764 B2. Heterogeneous Proppant Placement in a Fracture with Removable Channelant Fill. Issued to Timothy M. Lesko of Conway; James Ernest Brown of Sugar Land, Tex.; Dean M. Willberg of Salt Lake City, Utah; Ivan Vitalievich Kosarev and Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev, both of Moscow, Russia; Jonathan Abbott of Bucharest, Romania; and Alexander Burukhin of Novosibirsk, Russia. Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. of Sugar Land, Tex.

Patent 9,671,007 B2. Low Noise Pulley. Issued to Kevin G. Dutil and and Robert James Crist, both of Bentonville; James Kevin Lindstrom of Springdale; Zachary Fittro of Rogers; Jeffrey A. Swane of Nixa, Mo.; and Donald B. Brown of Fayetteville. Assigned to Dayco IP Holdings LLC of Troy, Mich. Patent 9,671,096 B2. TV Remote Control Lighting. Issued to Doug Odom of Conway.

Patent 9,672,469 B2. Apparatus and Method to Increase Accuracy in Individual Attributes Derived from Anonymous Aggregate Data. Issued to Terry Talley, Derek Leonard and Adam Zimmerman, all of Conway. Assigned to Acxiom Corp. of Conway.

Patent D788,448 S. Key Chain. Issued to Billy Pennington of Little Rock. Patent D788,872 S. Gun Support Assembly. Issued to Bobby R. Staton of Sheridan.