Business notebook: 6/4

June 04--ACHIEVEMENTS

--Pat Sullivan has been named president of Dynamic Dies Inc. of Holland.

--Jim Stengle has been named senior vice president, employees benefits business development practice manager at Toledo insurance brokerage Hylant Inc.

--Balance Pan-Asian Grille, a Toledo-based restaurant chain, has been selected as the top Asian Fast Casual Brand by industry website FastCasual.com. Business owners Prakash Karamchandani and HoChan Jang were ranked in the Top 24 Executives category by FastCasual.com.

Business Achievements, with news of management promotions, corporate board appointments, and awards, runs each week. Send announcements by email to [email protected] or by fax to 419-724-6147. Write "Business Achievements" in the message field.

CALENDAR

--Improve your self confidence by attending the next meeting of the Great Eastern Toastmasters at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at ProMedica Bay Park Community Hosptial in Oregon. Open to the public and free. For information, go online to GreateasternTMC.ToastmastersClubs.org or contact Lee Braatz at [email protected].

--Talking Arrowheads Toastmasters meets at noon Wednesday at Maritz CX, 1740 Indianwood Circle, Maumee. Open to the public and free.

--The Toledo Club Toastmasters will meet at 7 a.m. Friday on the fifth floor of the Toledo Club at 14th Street and Madison Avenue, downtown Toledo. Open to the public and free. For more information, go online to toledoclub.toastmastersclubs.org.

Notice of business meetings must be received by The Blade 10 days before the event. Email items to [email protected] or fax to 419-724-6147. Write "Business Calendar" in the message field.

CONVENTIONS

Listings include organizations, headquarters, and number of attendees expected as estimated by Destination Toledo:

--Monday-Wednesday-- Garden Club of Ohio State Convention, Holiday Inn French Quarter, 150, state.

--Friday-Sunday -- Suburban Girls Softball Shootout -- Toledo Tune-up, various properties, 2,400, regional.

TRANSITION

--You-nique Bou-tique, a women's fashion store at 117 N. Main St., Swanton, holds a grand opening party at 1 pm. Friday.

Business Transitions, which include business moves and openings, should be sent by email to [email protected] or by fax to 419-724-6147. Write "Business Transitions" in the message field.

PATENTS

The following U.S. Patents were granted to inventors in Lucas, Fulton, Wood, Lenawee, and Monroe counties and published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office during March and April, 2017. For more information call the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Business Technology Department at 419-259-5209. If you have a patent question, the library offers Ask An Attorney, where you can ask an intellectual property attorney about patents, copyrights, and trademarks each first Thursday of the month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Main Library, 325 N. Michigan St.

#9,592,406: Equipment for producing ultraviolet light. Not assigned. Douglas Gary DeWalt, Ottawa Hills.

#9,603,470: Apparatus for communication, expression, displaying pictures, and greeting. Not assigned. Lijun Gao, Toledo.

#9,560,849: Antibacterial surfactant/microgel formulations, methods of making and methods of using the same. Assigned to: University of Toledo. Yakov Lapitsky, Toledo; Youngwoo Seo, Ottawa Hills, and Kristopher Richardson, Warren, Ohio.

#9,561,115: Expandable intervertebral cage and method of installing same. Assigned to: University of Toledo. Mohammad Elahinia, Toledo; Anand Agarwal, Ottawa Hills; Vijay Goe,; Holland, and Walter Anderson and Cory Chapman, Maumee.

#9,561,445: Mechanism for causing inverted-gyroscopic precession. Assigned to: Pebblebrook Toys Inc., Maumee. Jeffrey N. Cook, Maumee.

#9,562,210: Methods for production of fatty acid alkanolamides FAAAs from microalgae biomass. Assigned to: University of Toledo. Kana Yamamoto, Toledo; Sridhar Viamajala, Sasidhar Varanasi, and Ajith Yapa Mudiyanselage, and Pramod Prasad Poudel, Toledo.

#9,562,539: Method and apparatus for sealing a rotating machine using floating seals. Assigned to: Fluid Equipment Development Co. LLC, Monroe. Jason B. Hunt, Monroe, and Ryan Kitzmiller, Toledo.

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