IP Library Granted Patent US 12,342,911
Granted Patent B1
US 12,342,911 · App. 18/235,470 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Ring with comfort fit interior

Inventor: Gagi Kaplan (Hollywood, FL)
Assignee: CROWN RING INC.
A44C9/0053
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Patent No.
US 12,342,911
App. No.
18/235,470
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

A ring structured to be worn on a digit of a wearer having a body including oppositely disposed open sides, inner and outer surfaces, extending between the opposite open sides. A plurality of surface segments extending along a length of the inner surface, wherein at least a majority thereof include an outer face. A plurality of grooves is formed in the inner surface and extend between and in communication with the open sides, wherein the plurality of grooves is disposed between and define the boundaries of adjacent ones of the surface segments. The outer faces have raised, substantially outwardly curved configurations along the lengths thereof and with the grooves are disposed and configured to facilitate fluid flow along the inner surface, between and through the open sides and between the inner surface of the ring and an outer surface of a digit of the wearer.

Claims (29)

1. A ring structured to be worn on a digit of a wearer, said ring comprising:

a body including oppositely disposed open sides and an inner surface and an outer surface extending between said open sides,

a plurality of surface segments collectively extending along an inner circumference of said body,

a plurality of grooves formed in said inner surface and extending between and in communication with said open sides,

each of said plurality of grooves disposed between and in contiguous relation to adjacent ones of said plurality of surface segments,

said plurality of grooves configured to facilitate fluid flow along said inner surface, between and through said open sides,

at least a majority of said plurality of surface segments including an outer face, each of said outer faces have a substantially outwardly curved configuration extending along a length thereof,

each of said outer faces further including a midportion extending outwardly from opposite end portions of said outer face, and

each of said plurality of grooves including a midsegment disposed adjacent said midportion of adjacently disposed ones of said plurality of surface segments, each of said midsegments having a depth greater than opposite ends of said groove.

2. The ring as recited in claim 1 wherein each of said outer faces include a raised midportion, said raised midportions extending outwardly from said plurality of grooves.

3. The ring is recited in claim 1 wherein said substantially outwardly curved configuration of said lengths of said outer faces extends between and terminates contiguous to a periphery of each of said open sides.

4. The ring is recited in claim 3 wherein said lengths of said outer faces extend transversely to said inner circumference of said body.

5. The ring as recited in claim 1 wherein said depth of said plurality of grooves is about 0.25 inch, along at least a portion of a length thereof.

6. The ring as recited in claim 1 wherein at least a majority of said plurality of grooves include a curved configuration extending along a length thereof, between said open sides.

7. The ring as recited in claim 6 wherein said curved configuration of said at least majority of said plurality of grooves include a substantially common shape.

8. The ring as recited in claim 7 wherein said curved configuration of said at least majority of said plurality of grooves define different, opposite longitudinal sides of adjacent ones of said plurality of surface segments as having a substantially concave configuration and a substantially convex configuration.

9. The ring as recited in claim 8 wherein said concave and convex configurations extend along an entirety of a length of said adjacent ones of said plurality of surface segments, between and in communication with a periphery of each of said open sides.

10. A ring structured to be worn on a digit of a wearer, said ring comprising

a body including oppositely disposed open sides and an inner surface and an outer surface extending between said open sides,

a plurality of surface segments collectively extending along an inner circumference of said body, each of said plurality of said surface segments including an outer face,

a plurality of grooves formed in said inner surface and the extending between and in communication with a periphery of each of said open sides,

each of said plurality of grooves disposed between and in contiguous relation to adjacent ones of said plurality of surface segments, said plurality of grooves including a curved configuration of a substantially common shape,

said plurality of surface segments and said outer faces each including a length extending transversely to said inner circumference of said body and between said open sides,

at least a majority of said outer faces have a substantially outwardly curved configuration extending along said length thereof,

said plurality of grooves and said plurality of surface segments cooperatively disposed and configured to facilitate fluid flow, between and through said open sides, and between said plurality of surface segments and an outer surface of a digit of the wearer, and

said curved configuration of said plurality of grooves defining different, opposite longitudinal sides of adjacent ones of said plurality of surface segments as having a substantially concave configuration and a substantially convex configuration.

11. The ring as recited in claim 10 wherein said substantially outwardly curved configuration of said outer faces extends between and terminates contiguous to said periphery of each of said open sides.

12. The ring as recited in claim 10 wherein each of said outer faces further includes a midportion extending outwardly from opposite ends of said outer face.

13. The ring as recited in claim 10 wherein said concave and convex configurations extend along an entirety of a length of said surface segment, between and in communication with said periphery of each of said open sides.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 3, 2024
From: MERIT DIAMOND CORPORATION
To: CROWN RING INC.
Reel/Frame 067598/0724 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 16, 2024
From: KAPLAN, ABRAHAM
To: MERIT DIAMOND CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066131/0301 →
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