PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents issued to Arkansans

May 17

Patent 9,339,140 B2. Zester With Scraper Assembly. Issued to Richard S. Smith and Louis Chalfant, both of Hot Springs. Assigned to Smith’s Consumer Products Inc. of Brentwood, Tenn.

Patent 9,339,803 B2. Catalytic Membranes and Applications Thereof. Issued to Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe and Xianghong Qian, both of Fayetteville; Mathias Ulbricht of Berlin and Qian Yang of Essen, Germany. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas and Universitat Duisburg-Essen of Essen, Germany.

Patent 9,340,726 B2. Monodisperse Core-Shell and Other Complex Structured Nanocrystals and Methods of Preparing the Same. Issued to Xiaogang Peng, David Battaglia, Y. Andrew Wang and Yunjun Wang, all of Fayetteville; and Jianqing Li of Los Angeles. Assigned to the board of trustees of the University of Arkansas.

Patent 9,341,384 B2. Endothermic Base-Mounted Heat Pump Water Heater. Issued to Jeremy Lee Babb and Paul D. McKim, both of Fort Smith. Assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co.of Atlanta.

Patent 9,343,930 B2. Segmented Stator Assembly. Issued to Matthew D. Hoffman of Siloam Springs; Robert J. Mantey of Fayetteville; Douglas H. Sudhoff and Bryan L. Paxton, both of Van Buren; and Lorenzo Mazza, Jeffrey L. Davis and Daniel Scott Dorsch, all of Fort Smith. Assigned to Baldor Electric Co. of Fort Smith.

Patent D756,368 S. Unitary Elastomeric Strap for Use with a Tablet Computer. Issued to Ginger Coleman of Lonsdale, James M. Jobin of Hot Springs, Michael Hughes of Arkadelphia and Rusty Smoke of Malvern. Assigned to Alliance Rubber Co. of Hot Springs.

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