PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. Patents Issued to Arkansans

Nov. 5

Patent 8,572,794 B2. Oral-care brushing implement. Issued to Dilcia Yamileth Pate of Rogers.

Patent 8,573,293 B1. Dual rubber cartridge. Issued to Grant Pruitt of Fort Smith and Cris Braun of Leander, Texas. Assigned to Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent 8,573,363 B2. Apparatus for guiding a vehicle onto a service lift using a machine vision wheel alignment system. Issued to Donald A. Healy and Carl W. Pruitt, both of Conway. Assigned to Snap-on Inc. of Kenosha, Wis.

Patent US 8,574,337 B2. Renewable resource-based metal-containing materials and applications of the same. Issued to Tito Viswanathan of Little Rock. Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent US 8,574,879 B2. Methods for increasing the production of ethanol from microbial fermentation. Issued to James L. Gaddy, Dinesh K. Arora, Ching-Whan Ko, John Randall Phillips, and Edgar C. Clausen, all of Fayetteville, Carl V. Wilkstrom of Benton and Rahul Basu of Bethlehem, Pa. Assigned to Ineos Bio Limited of Lisle, Ill.

Patent US 8,575,310 B2. Bioactive pentapeptides from rice bran and use thereof. Issued to Navam S. Hettiarachchy of Fayettville. Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent US 8,576,394 B2. Methods of fabricating surface enhanced raman scattering substrates. Issued to Alexandru S. Biris, Little Rock; ; Ilker S. Bayer of Champaign, Ill.; and Abhijit Biswas and Lloyd A. Bumm, both of Norman, Okla. Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.