Patents by Inventor Christopher Marks

Christopher 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: 20180207581
    Abstract: Dry pumps are used to pump a variety of gas mixtures from the semiconductor industry. The present invention provides a liquid ring pump located between the dry pump and an abatement device to remove soluble corrosive materials prior to the exhaust gases entry to the abatement device, the work fluid exhausted from the liquid ring pump being separated from the gas prior to entry to the abatement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Bailey, Clive Marcus Lloyd Tunna, Jack Raymond Tattersall, Ingo Stephen Graham, Michael Roger Czerniak, Gary Peter Knight, Darren Mennie, Duncan Michael Price, Derek Martin Baker, Andrew James Seeley
  • Patent number: 10031302
    Abstract: An optical communication cable and related method is provided. The cable includes a cable body and a plurality of optical transmission elements surrounded by the cable body. The cable includes a reinforcement layer surrounding the plurality of optical transmission elements and located between the cable body and the plurality of optical transmission elements. The reinforcement layer includes an outer surface and a channel defined in the outer surface that extends in the longitudinal direction along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The cable includes an elongate strength element extending in the longitudinal direction within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Lei Ji, Eric Raymond Logan, Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin, Christopher Mark Quinn
  • Publication number: 20180203930
    Abstract: A system and apparatus is described for directing a search engine web crawler's web view to refresh the top-level container that is currently displaying the content presented by a remote computer with the new content that a navigational link, within a remote desktop, remote application window, or remote graphical windowing user session, points to. Links can be modified so as to be recognizable by the remote machine as unique from traditional hyperlinks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Mark Balz
  • Publication number: 20180193370
    Abstract: The present inventors provides one or more of a tiacumicin compound, a stereo-isomer thereof, a polymorph thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof for use in the oral treatment of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) or Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) in a patient according to a dosage regimen comprising: (1) administering to the patient in an initial course of treatment 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound twice a day; (2) monitoring the efficacy of the initial course of treatment in the patient by means of monitoring changes of one or more indicators of CDI or CDAD; (3) assessing whether there is a positive change of the one or the more of the indicators; and (4) switching to an intermittent course of treatment by administering to the patient 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound every other day if the one or the more of the indicators of CDI or CDAD are positively changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd.
    Inventors: Andreas Johannis KARAS, Christopher Mark LONGSHAW, Leticia DELGADO-HERRERA, Bernhardt George ZEIHER
  • Publication number: 20180193046
    Abstract: The present invention provides enhanced ESWL efficacy for therapeutic and operational outcomes. Device behavior and performance data is measured in-situ and analyzed for both intra-procedure and inter-procedure breadth of regard such that both therapy optimization and maintenance optimization engines are provided an accurate and current assessment of ESWL system and device state and performance. This feedback and control provides the ability to compensate in real time for the current patient therapy and offline for future patient therapy for machine/therapy idiosyncrasies and realize continuous calibration of system/devices to the performance required for maximum ESWL patient efficacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew James Griffis, Christopher Mark Gleason
  • Patent number: 10009551
    Abstract: An image processor merges images from a plurality of cameras including applying spatially-varying gains over images from individual cameras to obtain a consistent effective where the images are stitched together despite the cameras possibly having different camera exposures. The image processor can adjust the camera exposures to improve stitching results. In addition to gain modification, the image processor can also modify the images for other artifacts, such as veiling glare and make those less visible at the seams of images. The image processor also can take into account constraints on gain changes and optimize camera parameters to minimize stitching artifacts. Using a cost function, the image processor can optimize for constraints on camera exposure that would otherwise result in camera exposure differences that would themselves cause visible artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Stevens Adcock, Ilya Vladimirovich Brailovskiy, Ilia Vitsnudel, Ian David Skidmore, Philip James Taylor
  • Patent number: 9979369
    Abstract: An audio peak limiter apparatus which calculates a smoothed sequence of gains for application to a sequence of blocks of samples of an audio signal. The apparatus sometimes calculates a candidate gain, to replace a too-large smoothed gain, such that applying the candidate gain would produce no scaled sample whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined limit. The apparatus sometimes calculates and stores a final gain to replace the too-large smoothed gain (where the final gain can be obtained e.g. by dividing the to-be-replaced smoothed gain by a prior smoothed gain and multiplying the result by the corresponding prior final gain), if it is determined that the candidate gain is not less than the immediately previous final gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Luke Appleton, Christopher Mark Tubb, William Thomas Rowley, Imankalyan Mukherjee
  • Publication number: 20180136984
    Abstract: A system provided at nodes within a network of nodes enabling the nodes to migrate activities to other nodes within its communication range to provide load balancing across the network. The other nodes having power and processing capabilities and capacity enabling them to undertake the migrated activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Mark PAOLA, Milosch MERIAC, Remy POTTIER
  • Publication number: 20180137958
    Abstract: Increasing the chromium content of an electrical steel substrate to a level greater than or equal to about 0.45 weight percent (wt %) produced a much improved forsterite coating having superior and more uniform coloration, thickness and adhesion. Moreover, the so-formed forsterite coating provides greater tension potentially reducing the relative importance of any secondary coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Jerry William Schoen, Kimani Tirawa Partin, Christopher Mark Wilkins
  • Patent number: 9974001
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in an ad hoc network, comprising: a node transmitting an extended allowable hold time value to a further node; the node changing its transmission behavior such that the further node stops receiving transmission from the node for an extended period, for example by pausing transmission at least in the direction of the further node; and the further node treating the link to the node as intact during the extended allowable hold time. The transmitting of the extended allowable hold time value may be performed earlier than a next routine transmission of routine allowable hold time value would have been sent. The method may further comprise the node being instructed to maintain topology information for an extended time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Dearlove, Alan Manuel Cullen, Peter Noble Hudson, Rania Hamdi Eissa
  • Patent number: 9964942
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and a method for continuously measuring cementitious board during the continuous manufacture thereof can be used in connection with the manufacture of various cementitious products, including gypsum wallboard, for example. Embodiments of a system and a method for continuously measuring cementitious board during its continuous manufacture can be used online in a continuous manufacturing process to effectively determine the degree to which cementitious slurry has set (e.g., expressed as percent hydration) at a predetermined location, such as, near a cutting station, for example. A height measuring system can be used to determine the relative amount the cementitious board sags as it passes over an unsupported span disposed between the forming station and the cutting station and to correlate the measured sag distance with a value of percent hydration of the cementitious slurry of that particular portion of the cementitious board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: Robert Nelson, Christopher Mark Pauly, Charles Whittington, Andrew Rowe
  • Publication number: 20180115292
    Abstract: An audio peak limiter apparatus which calculates a smoothed sequence of gains for application to a sequence of blocks of samples of an audio signal. The apparatus sometimes calculates a candidate gain, to replace a too-large smoothed gain, such that applying the candidate gain would produce no scaled sample whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined limit. The apparatus sometimes calculates and stores a final gain to replace the too-large smoothed gain (where the final gain can be obtained e.g. by dividing the to-be-replaced smoothed gain by a prior smoothed gain and multiplying the result by the corresponding prior final gain), if it is determined that the candidate gain is not less than the immediately previous final gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Nicholas Luke Appleton, Christopher Mark Tubb, William Thomas Rowley, Imankalyan Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 9934555
    Abstract: Image filter values can be obtained by applying a high-frequency or edge-detection image filter to an image to extract a level of image detail. The image can be divided into blocks of a predetermined size and the image filter values of the pixels in a block can be used to obtain a density value associated with the level of image detail for the block. For blocks where the density value exceeds a threshold amount, a degree of blur may be applied based on the density value. Thus, the image can be rendered so that only some of the blocks of the image are blurred while other blocks do not have blur applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Paola, Bradley Lawrence Hinkel, Jason Chern Hooi Chionh, William Nathan John Hurst
  • Publication number: 20180085268
    Abstract: A way of safely lifting or lowering a person of limited physical strength or coordination, using a system of bladders an outer membrane and a supply of product, gas, liquid or otherwise. By using a small portable lifting or lowering device, comprising of a series of bladders with fail safes encased in an outer membrane, peace of mind and mobility can be given to people of limited physical strength. The fear of falling and not being rescued can cause people to move into a different assisted living home. With this system of lifting, the fear of falling would be greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Mark North
  • Publication number: 20180056419
    Abstract: Electrodes for and methods of electrical discharge machining are provided. For example, a method for forming a feature in a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component comprises repeatedly advancing an electrode into and retracting the electrode from the CMC component until a desired depth is reached, where the electrode has a head end, a tip end, and a shaft extending from the head end to the tip end. The shaft has a first side and a second side each recessed inward such that the head end and the tip end are wider than the shaft. A method for forming a feature in a CMC component also may include feeding a dielectric fluid into the feature utilizing the recessed sides. In some embodiments, electrodes may include a shaft extending from a head end to a tip end and a central plane, where the shaft is recessed widthwise toward the central plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yuefeng Luo, Allan R. Bridges, Christopher Alan Panczyk, Jason Crumb, Christopher Mark Andrew Philp
  • Publication number: 20180052930
    Abstract: System, method, and apparatus for providing and using a centralized Link Metadata System to identify if navigational links are pop-out links, is provided. The present invention offers a Link Metadata System, available on the Internet, of metadata associated with any given, specific Internet domain and URL or URI path combination. Software browsing user agents on remote window servers are then configured with the ability to request metadata from the Link Metadata System indicating that a link is a pop-out link. Upon receiving metadata, the user agent determines whether to perform navigation as normal or perform the pop-out link functionality of reloading the remote client web browser's top level container with the content provided at the link's destination URL or URI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Mark Balz
  • Patent number: 9881720
    Abstract: Increasing the chromium content of an electrical steel substrate to a level greater than or equal to about 0.45 weight percent (wt %) produced a much improved forsterite coating having superior and more uniform coloration, thickness and adhesion. Moreover, the so-formed forsterite coating provides greater tension potentially reducing the relative importance of any secondary coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: AK Steel Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry William Schoen, Kimani Tirawa Partin, Christopher Mark Wilkins
  • Patent number: 9874516
    Abstract: Wide-angled incoherent millimeter or sub-millimeter electromagnetic waves from an extended active source are used to probe substrates and their protective coatings or outer layers, such as paint or thermal insulation. The incoherent waves provide dispersion and angular variation with respect to angular incidence to the substrate. Illumination of the substrate permits differentiation between un-corroded and corroded sections of the sample because reflectivity, emissivity and/or transmissivity from the substrate or protective coating various according to its homogeneousness. A detector/camera is arranged to identify and resolve differences in detected power within an observed frequency range of the area under test, with this contrast in power being relative to either adjacent areas or anticipated reference levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SubTeraNDT Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Mann, Joseph Peter Dunne
  • Publication number: 20170343752
    Abstract: An optical communication cable and related method is provided. The cable includes a cable body and a plurality of optical transmission elements surrounded by the cable body. The cable includes a reinforcement layer surrounding the plurality of optical transmission elements and located between the cable body and the plurality of optical transmission elements. The reinforcement layer includes an outer surface and a channel defined in the outer surface that extends in the longitudinal direction along at least a portion of the length of the cable. The cable includes an elongate strength element extending in the longitudinal direction within the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Lei Ji, Eric Raymond Logan, Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin, Christopher Mark Quinn
  • Patent number: D807260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Mark Young