PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents awarded to Arkansans

April 14, 2020

Patent 10,617,087 B2. Soybean Cultivar 63111410. Issued to Jason Aaron Long of Forrest City. Assigned to Mertec LLC of West Point, Iowa.

Patent 10,617,088 B2. Soybean Cultivar 76152404. Issued to Jason Aaron Long of Forrest City. Assigned to Mertec LLC of West Point, Iowa.

Patent 10,617,137 B2. Treatment of Meat with Carbonate Salt. Issued to Joshua L. Manley of Springdale, Todd Wills of Augusta and Lasika Shyamalie Senaratne-Lenagala of Wichita, Kan. Assigned to Cargill Inc. of Wayzata, Minn.

Patent 10,617,166 B1. Protective Helmet Attachment. Issued to James C. Summerlin of Little Rock.

Patent 10,617,232 B2. Shelving System Having Stowable Shelves. Issued to Robert James Taylor and Matthew D. Alexander, both of Rogers. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,617,236 B2. Bagging Station with Shopping Bag Holder. Issued to Yurgis Mauro Bacallao of Centerton

and Carolyne Wendel of Pea Ridge. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,618,447 B2. Delivery Vehicle and Systems or Parts Thereof. Issued to Sai Phaneendra Sri Harsha Viswanath Putcha of Bentonville, Christian James Munoz of Centerton and Luke M. Reynolds of Overland Park, Kan. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,618,450 B2. Pneumatic Inflator for Automatically Inflating Inflatable Articles to a Desired Pressure. Issued to Anthony K. Beard of Poyen, Thomas A. Ketzer of Wauconda, Ill., and Thomas C. Keenan of Brentwood, Tenn. Assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC of Glenview, Ill.

Patent 10,618,540 B2. Shopping Cart and Method of Assembling a Shopping Cart. Issued to Yurgis Mauro Bacallao of Centerton. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,618,753 B2. Skate System and Movable Platform. Issued to Stonie Hopkins and Mark Bradley, both of Fort Smith, and Jos den Teuling of Staarten, Netherlands. Assigned to Innovative Logistics Inc. of

Fort Smith.

Patent 10,619,104 B2. Apparatus, System and Method for Providing a Bitumen-Rich Stream from BitumenContaining Materials. Issued to Robert William Palmer of Springdale, Stephen Woodson Craig and David Woodson Craig, both of Little Rock, and Randell Gween Shelton Jr. of Tool, Texas. Assigned to Shingle Resource Recycling LLC of Springdale.

Patent 10,619,383 B2. Tether System. Issued to Yurgis Mauro Bacallao of Centerton. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,619,984 B2. Case Removal Attachment for Automated Ammunition Reloading Systems. Issued to Jason D. Pruett of Blytheville and Jason T. Carter of Manila. Assigned to Ammobot LLC of Blytheville.

Patent 10,620,077 B2. Systems, Devices, and Methods for Detecting Spills. Issued to Steven Jackson Lewis and Kevin Matthew Charles, both of Bentonville, and Matthew Dwain Biermann of Fayetteville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,621,811 B2. System and Method for Storing Third Party Items at Automated Locker. Issued to David Tovey and Bruce Wilkinson, both of Rogers, and Todd Mattingly and Robert Armstrong, both of Bentonville. Assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC of Bentonville.

Patent 10,623,975 B1. Electronics Providing Monitoring Capability. Issued to Steve Garrett of Little Rock; Todd Christiansen of Kaysville, Utah; Mark Wilson of Fallbrook, Calif.; Aaron Allred of Ogden, Utah; Matt Voigt of St. Cloud, Minn.; Kurt Larson and John Young, both of Plymouth, Minn.; Kyle Rodgers of Savage, Minn, and Greg Nash of Minneapolis. Assigned to OptConnect Management LLC of Kaysville, Utah.

Patent D880,852 S. Cup Collar. Issued to Paul Gigliotti of Mountain Home.

Patent D880,856 S. Combined Partial End Width Ramp and Banded Container. Issued to Eric Vollmer and Christopher DeMoss, both of Springdale.

Patent D881,078 S. Hitch Mount Assembly. Issued to Michael S Rebick of Little Rock.