PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents awarded to Arkansans

Sept. 24, 2019

Patent 10,420,322 B2. Apparatus and Method for Providing Aerial Animal Food Delivery. Issued to Nathan G. Jones of Bentonville and Donald R. High of Noel, Mo. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,420,409 B1. Nail Clipper. Issued to Wayne C. Crolley of Bryant. Patent 10,422,474 B2. Self-Locking Clip Mechanism and Mobile Device Holder Incorporating the Same. Issued to Yurgis Mauro Bacallao of Centerton. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,422,723 B2. Fixture and Method of Testing Vehicle Wheel Vibration. Issued to Henry Lee Renegar and Timothy Wayne Hood, both of Fayetteville, and Chris Reynolds of Farmington. Assigned to Superior Industries International Inc., of Southfield, Mich. Patent 10,423,811 B2. Garment Including RFID Reader. Issued to Alvin S. Taulbee of Springdale and Jeremy R. Tingler and Steven J. Lewis, both of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,423,910 B2. Retail Inventory Supply Chain Management. Issued to Ryan Lee and Todd D. Mattingly, both of Bentonville, Joseph Blackner of Bella Vista, and Santos Cerda of Jr. of Centerton. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,423,921 B2. Delivery Reservation Apparatus and Method. Issued to Bruce W. Wilkinson of Rogers and Todd D. Mattingly of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,423,935 B2. Systems and Methods of Analyzing Recycled Products to Detect Trends and Adjust Inventory Based on the Trends. Issued to Matthew A. Jones of Bentonville and Nicholaus A. Jones of Fayetteville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville. Patent 10,424,130 B2. System and Methods for Drone-Based Vehicle Status Determination. Issued to John Jeremiah O’Brien of Farmington, Nathan Glenn Jones of Bentonville, Donald High of Noel, Mo., and Chandrashekar Natarajan of San Ramon, Calif. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,424,856 B2. Routing Assembly and System Using Same. Issued to Brian Keith Lloyd, Gregory Walz and Bruce Reed, all of Maumelle, Ayman Isaac of Little Rock, and Gregory Fitzgerald of Merrimack, N.H. Assigned to Molex LLC of Lisle, Ill. Patent 10,424,878 B2. Cable Connector Assembly. Issued to Brian Keith Lloyd, Gregory Walz and Bruce Reed, all of Maumelle, Ayman Isaac of Little Rock, Dino McLaughlin Jr. of Vilonia, and Gregory Fitzgerald of Merrimack, N.H. Assigned to Molex LLC of Lisle, Ill. Patent 10,424,950 B2. USB Controller ESD Protection Apparatus and Method.

Issued to Zhong Chen of Fayetteville, Ralph Braxton Wade III of McKinney, Texas, and Ming Xiao of Shenzhen, China. Assigned to Texas Instruments Inc., of Dallas, Texas.

Patent D860,618 S. Spiked Foot Tread. Issued to Aaron Keller of Little Rock.