Utah inventors garnered five patents on April 13, 1999, including one patent on a fixture for carrying skis or snowboards on the hood of a car.Jesse R. Lassley, Salt Lake City. Portable snowboard and ski fixture. Assigned to Precision Sports Inc., Salt Lake City. Filed June 3, 1997. Patent 5,893,550.
John E. Worthen, Salt Lake City. Expandable binder (for holding documents). Filed April 23, 1997. Patent 5,893,585.
Drew D. Weaver, Sandy. Cautery medical instrument. Assigned to MegaDyne Medical Products Inc., Draper. Filed May 28, 1997, a continuation of patent 5,697,926, filed Feb. 22, 1994, which is a continuation of application ser. no. 991,974, filed Dec. 17, 1992, now abandoned. Patent 5,893,849.
Leonard J. A. Wood, Wyee, Australia; Simon D. Turner, Summerland Point, Australia; Timothy J. Laros, Marsfield, Australia; Robert C. Emmett, Jr., Salt Lake City. Self-diluting feedwell for thickener dilution. Assigned to Baker Hughes Inc., Houston, Texas. Filed May 21, 1997, a continuation of patent 5,643,463, filed Dec. 6, 1994, which is a division of patent 5,389,250, filed Sept. 26, 1991. Patent 5,893,970.
Michael Dennis Eckart, Blountville, Tenn.; Raymond Lynn Goodson, Sandy. Synthetic laminate structure and method for making same. Assigned to Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tenn. Filed Oct. 31, 1996, a continuation-in-part of patent 5,643,666, filed Dec. 20, 1995. Patent 5,894,048.
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