PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents issued to Arkansans

Feb. 20

Patent 9,894,860 B2. Soybean Variety 01058780. Issued to Floyd Hancock of Stuttgart. Assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC of St. Louis.

Patent 9,894,920 B2. Yeast Fermentation of Rice Bran Extracts. Issued to Navam Hettiarachchy of Fayetteville. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 9,894,925 B2. Application System With Recycle and Related Use of Antimicrobial Quaternary Ammonium Compound. Issued to Gary M. Nolen of Bella Vista, Joe Rheingans of Rogers and Kelly Wayne Beers of Fayetteville. Assigned to Safe Foods Corp. of North Little Rock.

Patent 9,900,777 B2. Systems and Methods for Controlling Mobile Device Use. Issued to Matthew Allen Jones and Marc Ashley Fletter, both of Bentonville; Daniel R. Shields and Robert James Taylor, both of Rogers; and Nicholaus Adam Jones of Fayetteville. Assigned to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville. Patent D810,565 S. Flexible Dispensing Nozzle. Issued to Scott Johnson and Shaji Kulangara Veettil, both of Little Rock; Ronald Brundick of Roland; John Clayton Odom of Benton; and Pranav Bhat and Ashok Dyavarasegowda, both of Bangalore, India. Assigned to Trade Fixtures LLC of Little Rock.

Patent D810,933 S. Compression Torque Device. Issued to Freddy Dwight Chrisman of Little Rock. Assigned to Vascugenix LLC of Little Rock.