Charles City, IA, United States of America

Dennis A Jendro

This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Seven, Ltd.. Active years: 1994.

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Inventor Profile: Dennis A Jendro. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/inventor/dennis-a-jendro

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

Calculating rank

% Patents Active = 100.0

Average Co-Inventor Count = 11.0

ph-index = 1

Forward Citations = 4(Granted Patents)


Company Filing History:


Years Active: 1994

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1 patent (USPTO):Explore Patents

Title: Dennis A. Jendro and the Newspaper Vending Unit

Introduction

Dennis A. Jendro is an inventor associated with Charles City, Iowa. His listed patent concerns a newspaper vending unit designed to dispense publications one at a time.

Latest Patents

Jendro is credited with 1 patent, titled “Newspaper vending unit.” The invention stores multiple copies of a publication face-to-face and uses a suction cup assembly to move the frontmost copy to a dispensing position. A valve causes the suction cup to release the publication into a delivery chute, while a spring-biased sliding backplate advances the remaining copies.

Career Highlights

The available information associates Jendro with Seven, Ltd. and identifies his work on a mechanism for dispensing individual copies from a stack of publications.

Collaborations

Gregory E. Erlandson and Craig K. Loebig are listed as Jendro’s coworkers. The provided information does not specify their roles in the patent or the vending unit’s development.

Conclusion

Dennis A. Jendro’s listed patent describes a newspaper vending unit that combines suction-based handling with an advancing backplate to dispense publications individually.

Profile summary based on public USPTO records.
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