PATENTS AWARDED

U.S. patents issued to Arkansans

April 22

Patent 9,944,461 B2. Products Storage Racks and Methods of Storing Products. Issued to John M. Reynolds of Springdale; Thomas L. McClarty of Siloam Springs; and Morgan D. Reiner of Keller, Texas; Olivia H. Bozik of Piedmont, S.C., and Richard T. Wilkinson of Chesapeake, Va. Assigned to Walmart Stores Inc. of Bentonville.

Patent 9,945,582 B2. Apparatus and Methods for Pre-Heating Water with Air Conditioning Unit or Heat Pump. Issued to Klint E. Leete, Timothy B. Hawkins and Jeremy L. Babb, all of Fort Smith. Assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. of Atlanta.

Patent 9,945,587 B2. Apparatus and Method for Hybrid Water Heating and Air Cooling and Control Thereof. Issued to Walter R. Lowrimore and Scott D. Winters, both of Alma; Robert L. Long of Fort Smith; and Randy W. Foster of Charleston. Assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. of Atlanta.

Patent 9,946,587 B2. Intelligent Rolling Upgrade for Data Storage Systems. Issued to Benjamin L. Andrews of Little Rock; and Anthony J. Ciaravella, Joseph W. Dain and Nikhil Khandelwal, all of Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

Patent 9,946,807 B2. System, Method and Computer Program Product for Providing Content Based Upon a Representation of the Same. Issued to William M. Abrams of Searcy and Ricky Lee Johnson of Scottsdale, Ariz. Assigned to Vital Source Technologies Inc. of Raleigh, N.C.

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