PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents awarded to Arkansans

Aug. 27, 2019 Patent 10,390,493 B2. Pole Saw Conversion Device to Extend an Operable Reach of a Chain Saw. Issued to Gary Lynn Sinyard of Hope. Patent 10,390,927 B2. Graft Scaffold with Plasmonic Activity, and Methods of Making and Using Same. Issued to Alexandru S. Biris, Karrer Alghazali, and Zeid A. Nima, all of Little Rock. Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 10,391,959 B1. Selectively Deployable School Bus Bumper. Issued to Brad Hathorn of Hindsville.

Patent 10,392,891 B1. Top Pot Assembly. Issued to Grant Pruitt of Fort Smith and Cris Braun of Van Buren. Assigned to Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent 10,392,895 B1. Fluid Containment System and Method. Issued to Grant Pruitt of Fort Smith, Benjamin Micah Spahn of Alma, and Andrew Lloyd Plowman of Charleston. Assigned to Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent 10,395,206 B2. Home Deliveries. Issued to Bruce Walter Wilkinson of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville. Patent 10,395,210 B2. System and Method for Using Stores as Receiving Points for Third Party, e-Commerce Suppliers. Issued to Behzad Nemati of Springdale and Ehsan Nazarian of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville. Patent 10,395,500 B1. Synchronized, Wrist Mounted Perimeter Alarms. Issued to Aleta Miller of Gentry.

Patent 10,397,072 B2. Systems, Devices, and Methods for Incident Management Interactions. Issued to Binod Kumar Gupta of Bentonville and Richard Boyd Marlar of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville. Patent 10,397,786 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 Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.