Businessman earns design patent.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Anchorage entrepreneur Courtney Larsen was awarded a fourth design patent for his line, Eternally Classic Jewelry. The award, presented in December 2009, caps nearly three years of effort to secure fights to his design. The wedding ring design symbolizes two pairs of hands clasped in marriage. Ten pairs of parallel lines represent the 10 intertwined fingers of each spouse.

Larsen designed his own wedding band in 2005 and found a jeweler to manufacture it. Larsen used architectural design principles he acquired while studying to earn a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah. He also used 3-D...