Patents by Inventor Andrew Marks

Andrew Marks 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).

  • Publication number: 20180094774
    Abstract: Systems and methods use a glycol solution for inhibiting formation of hydrates in a flowline. The solution forms a mixture with the produced water thereby inhibiting the formation of natural gas hydrates in the flowline. After a period of use, a rich glycol solution forms which is then regenerated by heat in a heating means such as a reboiler located at a receiving facility, resulting in a lean glycol solution suitable for use inhibiting the formation of natural gas hydrates. The concentration of the lean glycol solution is varied based on input parameters selected from operating conditions of the fluid handling system to ensure that a required concentration of the lean glycol solution is met, as determined by a processor. A control means controls the lean glycol concentration using lean glycol temperature, lean glycol concentration and/or a duty of the heating means as a control variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Andrew Mark Titley
  • Patent number: 9936467
    Abstract: A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong
  • Patent number: 9926240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing chemical grade BTX from a mixed feedstream comprising C5-C12 hydrocarbons by contacting said feedstream in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst having hydrocracking/hydrodesulphurization activity. Particularly, a process for producing BTX from a feedstream comprising C5-C12 hydrocarbons is provided comprising the steps of: (a) contacting said feedstream in the presence of hydrogen with a combined hydrocracking/hydrodesulphurization catalyst to produce a hydrocracking product stream comprising BTX; and (b) separating the BTX from the hydrocracking product stream. The hydrocracking/hydrodesulphurization catalyst comprises 0.1-1 wt-% hydrogenation metal in relation to the total catalyst weight. The hydrocracking/hydrodesulphurization catalyst further comprises a zeolite having a pore size of 5-8 ? and a silica (SiO2) to alumina (Al2O3) molar ratio of 5-200. The hydrocracking/hydrodesulphurization conditions include a temperature of 450-580° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Andrew Mark Ward
  • Patent number: 9921248
    Abstract: A method of measuring fluctuations in electric fields is disclosed, the method comprising the step of: placing a Liquid Crystal Device in communication with the electric field, the device having disparate orthogonal polarization sensitivity to an external electric field; utilizing an optical probe beam having a known polarization state to interrogate the liquid crystal of the liquid crystal device to produce a response beam; and analyzing the polarization state of the response beam to provide an indicator of the corresponding fluctuations in the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: ZEDELEF PTY LTD
    Inventors: Zourab Brodzeli, Leonardo Silvestri, Andrew Mark Michie, Vladimir Chigrinov, Eugene Pozhidaev, Francois Ladouceur
  • Publication number: 20180072545
    Abstract: A boom assembly including a boom defining a longitudinal direction pulley rotatably mounted on a pivot pin, the pivot pin having a first end with a first outer surface and a second end with a second outer surface, a pulley frame having a first part for receiving the first outer surface, a second part for receiving the second outer surface, a first hole for receiving a first adjustment rod and a second hole for receiving a second adjustment rod, the boom including a first receiving portion for receiving the first adjustment rod and a second receiving portion for receiving the second adjustment rod, the boom assembly being configured such that adjustment of the first and second adjustment rods causes movement of the pulley in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Mark Jones
  • Patent number: 9918321
    Abstract: A method of operating a multi-band wireless base station to optimize traffic management on the multiple frequency bands. The wireless base station determines Upper Side Lobe Suppression (USLS) levels and network loads on the frequency bands. The wireless base station receives a request from a User Equipment (UE) attachment. When the network loads on the frequency bands exceed corresponding network thresholds, then the wireless base station selects one of the frequency bands having a best one of the USLS levels, and attaches the UE to the selected one of the frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Andrew Mark Wurtenberger
  • Patent number: 9909110
    Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having meganuclease activity are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, yeast, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the meganuclease sequences. Various methods of employing the meganuclease sequences are provided. Such methods include, for example, methods for producing a meganuclease with increased activity at a wide range of temperatures, methods for producing a yeast, plant, plant cell, explant or seed comprising a meganuclease with increased activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Ericka Bermudez, Andrew Mark Cigan, James English, Saverio Carl Falco, Huirong Gao, Lu Liu, Zhan-Bin Liu, Azalea Ong, Sergei Svitashev, Joshua K Young
  • Publication number: 20180047726
    Abstract: A method includes epitaxially depositing source/drains on parallel semiconductor fins having parallel polysilicon gate precursor structures disposed thereon orthogonally to the fins, where two adjacent polysilicon gate precursor structures are joined together and connected at ends thereof by a polysilicon loop portion. The method further includes oxidizing the ends of the polysilicon precursor gate structures, the connecting polysilicon loop portion and any semiconductor nodules that formed on the connecting polysilicon loop portion during the step of epitaxially depositing the source/drains. A structure includes a substrate; a plurality of parallel semiconductor fins disposed on the substrate; a plurality of parallel metal gate structures overlying the plurality of fins and orthogonal to the plurality of fins; and a plurality of source/drain structures disposed on the fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Andrew Mark Greene, Peng Xu
  • Publication number: 20180028958
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dust suppression system for use in a container, and a misting apparatus therefor. In one form, the dust suppression system comprises at least one misting apparatus for contributing to the creation of a mist layer for preventing the escape of the dust from the container, the misting apparatus comprising a means for generating an airflow, and a means for producing a mist in the airflow so that the mist is carried by the airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Mark PELLIZZARI, Daniel Edwin SLOAN, Darren James FRANKLIN, Grant Adrian MCALPINE, Henry MINKUS, Bartosz KUCIEL
  • Patent number: 9882513
    Abstract: An electric propulsion system is described that includes an AC drive circuit, a synchronization circuit, and a control unit. The AC drive circuit includes a plurality of propulsor motors, an AC power bus, and an AC generator that delivers AC electrical power to the AC power bus for simultaneously driving the plurality of propulsor motors. The synchronization circuit is configured to synchronize, with the AC generator, single propulsor motor from the plurality of propulsor motors, at a time. The control unit is configured to maintain synchronicity between the single propulsor motor and the AC generator by engaging the synchronization circuit with the single propulsor motor in response to determining that the single propulsor motor is not synchronized with the AC generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc., Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Michael James Armstrong, Mark Jon Blackwelder, Andrew Mark Bollman
  • Patent number: 9883501
    Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Yongkang Jia, Zhijun Cai, Youn Hyoung Heo, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 9878276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dust suppression system for use in a container, and a misting apparatus therefor. In one form, the dust suppression, system comprises at least one misting apparatus for contributing to the creation of a mist layer for preventing the escape of the dust from the container, the misting: apparatus comprising a means for generating an airflow, and a means for producing a mist in the airflow so that the mist is carried by the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Flinders Ports Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Pellizzari, Daniel Edwin Sloan, Darren James Franklin, Grant Adrian McAlpine, Henry Minkus, Bartosz Kuciel
  • Publication number: 20180027530
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20180027529
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20180027532
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20180027531
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9876618
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting uplink channels for a plurality of uplink component carriers(UL CCs). Based upon a total transmit power exceeding a maximum allowed power, a transmit power is reduced for uplink channel transmissions that comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI); and transmit power is not reduced for one or more other uplink channels that do not include comprise Uplink Channel Information (UCI). The uplink channel transmissions and the one or more other uplink channels are simultaneously transmitted in multiple uplink (UL) component carriers (CCs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Mo-Han Fong, Michael Eoin Buckley, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20180010145
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating male fertility in a plant are provided. Compositions comprise nucleotide sequences, and fragments and variants thereof, which modulate male fertility. Further provided are expression cassettes comprising the male fertility polynucleotides, or fragments or variants thereof, operably linked to a promoter, wherein expression of the polynucleotides modulates the male fertility of a plant. Various methods are provided wherein the level and/or activity of the sequences that influence male fertility is modulated in a plant or plant part. In certain embodiments, the plant is polyploid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: ANDREW MARK CIGAN
  • Patent number: 9862898
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated process to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising crude oil distillation, reforming, dearomatization, fluid catalytic cracking and aromatic ring opening, which process comprises: subjecting crude oil to crude oil distillation to produce naphtha and one or more of kerosene and gasoil; subjecting naphtha to reforming to produce reformer gasoline; subjecting kerosene and/or gasoil to dearomatization to produce a first stream enriched for alkanes and naphthenes and a second stream enriched for aromatics; subjecting the stream enriched for alkanes and naphthenes to pyrolysis to produce a pyrolysis gasoline or to fluid catalytic cracking to produce a FCC gasoline; subjecting the stream enriched for aromatics to aromatic ring opening to produce a ARO gasoline; and subjecting one or more of reformer gasoline, FCC gasoline and ARO gasoline to gasoline treatment to produce BTX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, Sabic Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Ward, Ravichander Narayanaswamy, Vijayanand Rajagopalan, Arno Johannes Maria Oprins, Egidius Jacoba Maria Schaerlaeckens, Raul Velasco Pelaez
  • Publication number: 20180002715
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for regulated expression of a guide RNA/Cas endonuclease system in a plant cell, plant and seed. Compositions and methods are also provided for genome modification of a target sequence in the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ a regulated guide RNA/Cas endonuclease system to provide an effective system for modifying or altering target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: ANDREW MARK CIGAN, SERGEI SVITASHEV