Patents by Inventor Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240141257Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a water-soluble unit dose article. The present invention also contemplates a process for making a premix.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Wouter WALRAVENS, Karel Jozef Maria DEPOOT, Mark Robert SIVIK, Antonio QUINTIERI, Kristine Lynn NIEHAUS, Katrien VAN ROEY, Helen LU, Michael D. GAGNON, Ilkka Ilari KRUUS
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Publication number: 20240147107Abstract: Various implementations include earphone cushions and related headsets. In some aspects, an earphone cushion includes: a body having: a compressible front surface configured to engage or surround an ear of a user, an outer side surface including a compressible component and at least one rigid component, a compressible inner side surface, and a rear surface including at least one rigid component; and a cover having an outside radiating surface for contacting the ear of the user, the cover at least partially surrounding the body and including a portion that is mechanically grounded to the at least one rigid component of the outer side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Mark Raymond Blewett, Liam Robert Kelly
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Publication number: 20240141842Abstract: A method for controlling a dual fuel engine system includes determining a gas flow target for an internal combustion engine of the dual fuel engine system, where the gas flow target is based on a gas power target of the internal combustion engine, a thermal efficiency estimate of the internal combustion engine, and a lower heating value (LHV) within the internal combustion engine. The method also includes adjusting the gas flow target based on at least one of a measured gas temperature or a measured gas injector pressure and determining at least one base gas injector command based on the adjusted gas flow target, a gas substitution rate estimate, and a gas substitution rate target. The method further includes determining, based on the at least one base gas injector command, a gas injector command for at least one engine bank.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Cummins Power Generation Inc.Inventors: Travis Alva Anderson, Axel O. zur Loye, Mark A. Rosswurm, Paul Daniel Borisuk, Shashank Bishnoi, Matthew W. Isaacs, Jason A. Gore, Atin Tandon, Jamie Robert John Sleigh
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Patent number: 11970821Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
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Patent number: 11970789Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
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Publication number: 20240130641Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Steve Masterson, J. Michael Dobbles, Michael Robert Mensinger, Sean T Saint, Apurv U Kamath, James H Brauker, James Patrick Thrower
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Publication number: 20240131271Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
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Publication number: 20240132206Abstract: A drive system for a rotorcraft includes first and second gearbox assemblies and a lubrication assembly. The lubrication assembly includes first and second lubrication systems and a valve connected between the first and second lubrication systems such that when the valve is in a first position, a test mode of operation of the lubrication assembly is enabled and when the valve is in a second position, a normal mode of operation of the lubrication assembly is enabled. The lubrication assembly also includes a valve control unit operable to instruct the valve to selectively move between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Douglas Robert Mueller, Jason DeWitt McPeak, Mark Alan Przybyla
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Patent number: 11963596Abstract: The invention relates to a hair styling device, and in particular to a hair straightener. The hair styling device (10; 210) has a first arm (12; 212) and a second arm (14; 214), the first and second arms being moveable relative to one another between a closed or operative condition and an open or inoperative condition. The first member (12; 212) has a first heating panel (16; 116; 216) and the second member (14; 214) has a second heating panel (18; 118; 218). The heating panels (16, 18; 116, 118; 216, 218) are corrugated to increase the length of the path the hair must take between the heating panels. The first and second heating panels are spaced apart in the operative condition so as not to press or clamp the hair therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JAPHAM GROUP LIMITEDInventors: Alfredo Debenedictis, Janusz Lucien Holland, Mark Christopher Hughes, Martin Malcolm Harris, James Robert Nelson
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Patent number: 11968793Abstract: An insulating enclosure is disclosed, including: an opening in a side of the insulating enclosure, wherein the opening provides a conductor within a conduit passage into an interior of the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductor is to carry current from the inverter module, wherein a conductive sheath of the conduit is mechanically connected to the insulating enclosure via the opening; and a conductive liner, wherein the conductive liner provides a ground plane for components within the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductive liner covers at least a portion of the side of the insulating enclosure, and wherein the conductive liner is electrically connected to the conductive sheath of the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Robert Bannick, Peter H. J. How, Charles Ingalz, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Mark Daniel Goldman
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Patent number: 11965147Abstract: A laundry care or dish care composition can include a poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative, wherein the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative includes: (i) a poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone of glucose monomer units, wherein greater than or equal to 40% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages, and wherein from 0% to less than 30% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages, and optionally at least 5% of the backbone glucose monomer units have branches via alpha-1,2 and/or alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages; and (ii) at least one organic group linked to the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone through a linkage moiety; wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone has a weight average degree of polymerization of at least 5; and wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative has a degree of substitution of linkage moiety of from 0.20 to 1.00.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Kristine Lynn Fliter, Neil Thomas Fairweather, Gang Si, David Good, Zheng-Zheng Huang, Helen Lu, Douglas Adelman
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Patent number: 11964944Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds for treating apicomplexan parasite related disorders, methods for their use; cell line and non-human animal models of the dormant parasite phenotype and methods for their use in identifying new drugs to treat apicomplexan parasite related disorders, and biomarkers to identify disease due to the parasite and its response to treatment.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: The University of Chicago, J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., The University of Sheffield, Institute for Systems Biology, The University of Leeds, The University of Strathclyde, The Government of the United StatesInventors: Rima McLeod, Martin McPhillie, Colin W. G. Fishwick, Hernan Alejandro Lorenzi, Kai Wang, Taek-Kyun Kim, Yong Zhou, Leroy E. Hood, Ying Zhou, Kamal El Bissati, Mark Hickman, QiGui Li, Craig Roberts
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Publication number: 20240128695Abstract: An approach for facilitating mechanical and electrical connection of electric machines and electrical components in an electrical system using connectors with quick connect/disconnect electrical connectors is disclosed. Each quick connect/disconnect electrical connector can be placed on the end of an electrical power distribution cable that connects with an electric machine or electrical component. The electric machines and electrical components and the electrical power distribution cables can have hollow coolant passages formed therein to receive cooling fluid from a cooling device for direct cooling of the electric machines, electrical components and the electrical power distribution cables.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: MATTHEW ROBERT MARTIN, JOHN RUSSELL YAGIELSKI, PHILIP MICHAEL CIOFFI, MARK EDWARD DAME, WEI ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240115195Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide compliance management tools such as for respiratory pressure therapy. In some versions, a respiratory pressure therapy system may include one or more processors, such as of a data server, configured to communicate with a computing device and/or a respiratory pressure therapy device. The respiratory pressure therapy device may be configured to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to a patient for a session. The computing device may be associated with the patient. The processor(s) may be further configured to compute a therapy quality indicator of the session from usage data relating to the session. The therapy quality indicator may be a number derived from contributions of a plurality of usage variables for the session in the usage data. The processor(s) may be further configured to present, such as by transmitting, the therapy quality indicator to the computing device. The therapy quality indicator may promote patient compliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: ResMed inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Peter ARMITSTEAD, Mark David BUCKLEY, Michael Waclaw COLEFAX, Susan Robyn LYNCH, Dion Charles Chewe MARTIN, Gregory Robert PEAKE, Dinesh RAMANAN, Jamie Graeme WEHBEH, Natalie ZOTELO
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Publication number: 20240116369Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generation of lower-frequency tactile energy (e.g., vibration) of a vehicle system based on audio signals. In one example, a method may include acquiring an audio signal from an audio system, generating a motor input command, and applying the motor input command to at least a first traction motor and a second traction motor to create a resultant vibrational force.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mark McCarthy, John Marshall Dodson, II, Alexander Petniunas, Alan Robert Dona, Jason Konopa, Brian Schabel, Mark Lynn Clapper
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Publication number: 20240118537Abstract: Provided herein is a photonic integrated circuit and methods for controlling a photonic integrated circuit that can utilize the resonant frequency of one or more components of the photonic integrated circuit to enhance the response of the circuit. At least one component of the photonic integrated circuit can be driven by an electrical signal whose frequency is substantially equal to the mechanical resonance frequency of the component such that the response of the optical component is increased. The component of the photonic integrated circuit can include a phase shifter that can impart a phase shift on a received optical signal. By driving the phase shifter with an electrical signal that is equal to the mechanical resonance frequency of the optical phase shifter, less power can be required to impart a desired phase shift on a received optical signal. The optical components can be implemented using piezoelectric cantilevers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: The MITRE Corporation, Sandia National Laboratories, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Mark DONG, Gerald Neal GILBERT, Matthew Scott EICHENFIELD, Dirk Robert ENGLUND
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Publication number: 20240120694Abstract: 1. An inverter device is disclosed, including; an enclosure comprising a plurality of sides; an antenna port in a first side of the plurality of sides; and an antenna pass through module comprising: an exterior connector assembly comprising a plurality of pins and a base, wherein the plurality of pins are operable to be connected to respective ones of a plurality of antennas, wherein the plurality of pins passes through the antenna port to an exterior of the enclosure, wherein the base of the exterior connector assembly is sealed against the first side on an interior of the enclosure to provide ingress protection; and an interior antenna circuit configured to: terminate connections from a plurality of transceivers within the interior of the enclosure; and select antenna signals from at least the plurality of pins on the exterior connector assembly to route the plurality of transceivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Steven Nicholas Grolle, Peter H.J. How, Charles Ingalz, Stephen Robert Bannick, Andrew Diao, Mark Daniel Goldman
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Publication number: 20240121908Abstract: An insulating enclosure is disclosed, including: an opening in a side of the insulating enclosure, wherein the opening provides a conductor within a conduit passage into an interior of the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductor is to carry current from the inverter module, wherein a conductive sheath of the conduit is mechanically connected to the insulating enclosure via the opening; and a conductive liner, wherein the conductive liner provides a ground plane for components within the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductive liner covers at least a portion of the side of the insulating enclosure, and wherein the conductive liner is electrically connected to the conductive sheath of the conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Stephen Robert Bannick, Peter H.J. How, Charles Ingalz, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Mark Daniel Goldman
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Patent number: 11951194Abstract: Described are effervescent dissolvable solid structures comprising effervescent agglomerated particles which enhance the consumer experience and can improve dissolution of the structure. Also described are processes for the Dissolvable Solid Structure comprising effervescent agglomerated particles. Also described are methods for making the effervescent agglomerated particle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventors: Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Jason Donald McCarty, Eric Paul Granberg, Andreas Josef Dreher, Michael Sean Pratt, Mark William Hamersky
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Patent number: D1023781Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sun-Jan Alan Huang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Christopher Lee Haun