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).
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Publication number: 20240034972Abstract: A cover for a lagoon is provided. The cover includes an expandable membrane; a plurality of stretchable members coupled to the expandable membrane and configured to compress the expandable membrane; and a plurality of restraining members coupled to the expandable membrane and configured to limit expansion of the expandable membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: BENNAMANN SERVICES LTDInventor: Christopher Mark MANN
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Publication number: 20240035309Abstract: A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Jon Marc Luebeck, Anthony Pettigrew, Matthew Hill, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
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Patent number: 11880894Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for recommending ecosystem credit tokens based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, field data comprising geospatial boundaries of one or more field are received. One or more methodology is accessed. For each of the one or more fields, one or more farming practice is accessed, wherein each farming practice comprises a location and time. For each of the one or more fields, for each crop production period, an ecosystem attribute is generated by applying one or more ecosystem attribute quantification methods to each spatially and temporally unique set of one or more farming practices. Selection of one or more program is optimized for each field based on the set of selected programs being compatible within the field and production period.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INDIGO AG, INC.Inventors: Eleanor Elizabeth Campbell, Jacob S. McDonald, Aaron J. Goodman, Michael J. Salib, Elisabeth F. Baldo, Keith F. Ma, Daniel Michael Stack, Erich J. Treischman, Melissa Motew, Samuel J. Peters, Christopher K. Black, Ram B. Gurung, Charles D. Brummitt, Brian D. Segal, David P. Smart, Ashok A. Kumar, Barclay Rowland Rogers, Maria Belousova, Jyoti Shankar, Christopher Mark Harbourt, Ronald W. Hovsepian, Amit R. Menipaz, Joseph Weeks, Samantha Horvath
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Publication number: 20240017883Abstract: Methods and apparatus for removably or irremovably interconnectable building block containers such as those capable of initially storing consumable items such as food and drink. After consumption of the food or drink, the cavity containing same may be cleaned and/or refilled with consumable or non-consumable items. The building block containers are utilized as building block toys and may be manufactured or otherwise designed to be collectable. In one aspect, the container connectors are nearly identical such that any one connector may mate with any other connector. In another aspect, the connectors are nearly identical but the orientations of each connector vary to allow mating to occur when the connectors are properly oriented. In another aspect, the container is a cube juice box with connectors on all four corners of all six sides of the container. A frame for holding a juice container may also be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: ChangeBox IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Christopher Mark Marschall, Paul Dowd, Christopher Miller, Robert Marvin
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Publication number: 20240020775Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for recommending farming practices based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, field data comprising geospatial boundaries of one or more field are received. Management event data comprising one or more management events within the one or more fields is received. For each management event, a management event boundary defining geospatial boundaries is received, and one or more management zones is determined based on the management event boundaries. One or more ecosystem attribute quantification method is applied to each of the one or more management zones to generate one or more ecosystem attributes of the one or more management zones. One or more ecosystem attribute is selected for each management zone. An ecosystem credit token or portion thereof is generated for each selected ecosystem attribute. The ecosystem credit token is associated with a quantity of raw agricultural product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Eleanor Elizabeth Campbell, Jacob S. McDonald, Aaron J. Goodman, Michael J. Salib, Elisabeth F. Baldo, Keith F. Ma, Daniel Michael Stack, Erich J. Treischman, Melissa Motew, Samuel J. Peters, Christopher K. Black, Ram B. Gurung, Charles D. Brummitt, Brian D. Segal, David P. Smart, Ashok A. Kumar, Barclay Rowland Rogers, Maria Belousova, Jyoti Shankar, Christopher Mark Harbourt, Ronald W. Hovsepian, Amit Menipaz, Joseph Weeks, Samantha Horvath
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Patent number: 11866359Abstract: Embodiments of a method of cold-forming a glass article are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the method includes bending a glass sheet over the chuck such that a first major surface of the glass sheets conforms to a bending surface of the chuck. In one or more embodiments, the method includes adhering a frame to the second major surface of the glass sheet such that at least one spacer is positioned between the glass sheet and the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Jeffrey Michael Benjamin, Jeffrey John Domey, Peter Knowles, Khaled Layouni, Christopher Mark Schweiger, Christopher Lee Timmons, Arlin Lee Weikel
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Publication number: 20240004548Abstract: Systems and methods of determining whether to initiate a pull of an accumulated data transfer amount are described. An accumulated data transfer amount for a periodic data transfer scheduled to be pushed at a future date is determined. A determination is made of whether an overall data amount in a storage location is expected to be greater at a date on or after the scheduled future date if a pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is performed before the scheduled future date than if a pull operation is not performed and the accumulated data transfer amount is sent at the scheduled future date. When the overall data amount in the storage location is expected to be greater at the scheduled future date if the pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is performed, a pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Jonathan Joseph PRENDERGAST, Christopher Mark JONES, Thomas Osman KELLY
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Patent number: 11858351Abstract: A glass article is provided with a cover glass sheet having first and second major surfaces. The second major surface has a first region with a first curve of a first radius of curvature, and a second region that is different than the first region. A frame's support surface has a third region of a first frame material and a fourth region of a different, second frame material. The second major surface faces the support, and the third region includes a second curve that complements the first curve while the fourth region complements the second region. A first adhesive is between the third region and the first region. A second adhesive is disposed between the fourth region and the second region. The first adhesive has a first Young's modulus, and the second adhesive comprising a second Young's modulus that is different than the first Young's modulus.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Francis Alonzo, Atul Kumar, Jinfa Mou, Christopher Mark Schweiger
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Patent number: 11859410Abstract: A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Jon Marc Luebeck, Anthony Pettigrew, Matthew Hill, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
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Patent number: 11846120Abstract: A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A battery assembly is removable from the housing when the lock assembly is in first position and fixed to the housing when the lock assembly is in a second position. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Matthew Hill, Anthony Pettigrew, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
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Patent number: 11846450Abstract: A tankless electric water heater system including a heating chamber having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, a heating element connected to the heating chamber, a first temperature sensor disposed near the first end of the heating chamber, a second temperature sensor disposed near the second end of the heating chamber, a flow sensor configured to detect a flow of water and disposed near the heating chamber, and a controller connected to the first and second temperature sensors, the flow sensor, and the heating element. The controller is configured to have a set point temperature, to detect temperature and flow data from the first and second temperature sensors, and the flow sensor, and to provide as output a power setting to the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Christopher Mark Hayden, Eric Robert Jurczyszak, Sergiu Gabriel Mihu, Richard Joseph Corcoran, Jens Bolleyer, Jeffrey Dean Hankins
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Patent number: 11839903Abstract: A vacuum pumping system which comprises a plurality of vacuum pumping arrangements for evacuating a flammable gas stream and exhausting the gas stream through an exhaust outlet. A housing houses the vacuum pumping arrangements and forms an air flow duct for an air flow for mixing with the exhaust gas stream output from the exhaust outlet in a mixing region in the housing. An airflow generator generates an air flow through the air flow duct to cause mixing of air with the flammable gas stream to a percentage of the flammable gas in the air flow lower than the lower flammability limit of the flammable gas. An airflow sensor senses the flow of air for determining if the air flow is sufficient to dilute the flammable gas to lower than said percentage.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Edwards LimitedInventors: Christopher Mark Bailey, Michael Roger Czerniak
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Publication number: 20230392581Abstract: There is provided an energy capture system. The system may comprise one or more rotor blades or solar panels and a compressor. The compressor is configured to be driven by the one or more rotor blades or solar panels to draw gas and to compress the gas, thereby producing a compressed material. The system further comprises a pressure receiver coupled to an output of the compressor and configured to receive the compressed material from the compressor. The system further comprises an energy recovery unit coupled to the pressure receiver and configured to receive the compressed material from the pressure receiver. The energy recovery unit is configured to generate mechanical and/or electrical energy using the compressed material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: BENNAMANN SERVICES LTDInventors: Christopher Mark MANN, Tom Richard TAYLOR, Thomas William BRADSHAW, Edward Richard Yorke GLEADOWE
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Publication number: 20230394452Abstract: Configuring data transfers based on electronic messages. A system includes a communication module, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to: receive, from a client device, an authentication credential and associate the authentication credential with a client record. The processor identifies, based on delegated access to query a message account at a message server, a resource request message associated with the message account using a defined criteria. The processor obtains, based on the resource request message, a resource parameter to define a proposed resource transfer to a recipient entity. The processor generates and transmits, to the client device, a transfer request alert based on the proposed resource transfer for display at the client device. In response to receiving, from the client device, a selection of a selectable option, the processor allocates a resource to the recipient entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Christopher Mark JONES, Marc CHALIFOUX, Sara KNECHTEL
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Publication number: 20230392968Abstract: A level sensing monitor adapted to be partially disposed in a reservoir containing waste material to determine the level of material contained within the reservoir includes an inlet positioned on a lower end of the monitor adapted to be positioned near a bottom of the reservoir, a pressure transducer positioned on an upper end of the monitor distal from the inlet, a substantially airtight hollow pipe coupled between the inlet and the transducer such that the transducer will reside above an upper level of the reservoir, and a wiring enclosure housing a wiring cable for communicating readings from the transducer, with the wiring enclosure vented to ambient air to provide a source of ambient pressure to the pressure transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Steve HENDRICKS, Christopher A. MARK, Todd STEINBRUECK
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Publication number: 20230383907Abstract: Storage systems and methods of manufacturing and using the same. A storage tank is provided with an inner vessel, an outer vessel, and a support system between the vessels. The support system may comprise a repeating pattern of openings that effectively lengthens the heat path between the inner and outer vessels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: BENNAMANN SERVICES LTDInventors: Christopher Mark MANN, Tom Richard TAYLOR, Luke James MANN, Thomas William BRADSHAW
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Patent number: 11830089Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for maintaining a collection of ecosystem credit tokens based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, an ecosystem attribute target profile for the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed. The target profile comprises a set of ecosystem characteristics, quantities of one or more ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of one or more ecosystem characteristics. A set of ecosystem credit tokens is accessed, wherein each ecosystem credit token data record comprises one or more of: a validated and verified management event, a methodology, an ecosystem attribute, a boundary, an ecosystem impact, an ecosystem credit, and an ecosystem attribute quantification method. A current profile of the collection of ecosystem credit tokens is determined, wherein the profile comprises the set of ecosystem characteristics within the collection, quantities of ecosystem characteristics, and permanence of ecosystem characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.Inventors: Eleanor Elizabeth Campbell, Jacob S. McDonald, Aaron J. Goodman, Michael J. Salib, Elisabeth F. Baldo, Keith F. Ma, Daniel Michael Stack, Erich J. Treischman, Melissa Motew, Samuel J. Peters, Christopher K. Black, Ram B. Gurung, Charles D. Brummitt, Brian D. Segal, David P. Smart, Ashok A. Kumar, Barclay Rowland Rogers, Maria Belousova, Jyoti Shankar, Christopher Mark Harbourt, Ronald W. Hovsepian, Amit R. Menipaz, Joseph Weeks, Samantha Horvath
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Publication number: 20230375228Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a tankless liquid heater system for detecting buildup on a heating element, including: a chamber; at least one heating element to heat liquid in the chamber; at least one sensor to detect data associated with identifying buildup on the at least one heating element; and at least one device to: receive the data detected by the at least one sensor; determine, based on the data, an amount of the buildup on the at least one heating element; and adjust an operation of the at least one heating element based on the amount of the buildup on the at least one heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Rheem Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Christopher Mark Hayden, Harsha Satyanarayana, Sean Nolan, Divakar Mantha, Eric Jurczyszak, Sergiu Mihu
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Publication number: 20230367475Abstract: Systems and methods of determining whether to initiate a pull of an accumulated data transfer amount are described. An accumulated data transfer amount for a periodic data transfer scheduled to be pushed at a future date is determined. A determination is made of whether an overall data amount in a storage location is expected to be greater at a date on or after the scheduled future date if a pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is performed before the scheduled future date than if a pull operation is not performed and the accumulated data transfer amount is sent at the scheduled future date. When the overall data amount in the storage location is expected to be greater at the scheduled future date if the pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is performed, a pull of the accumulated data transfer amount is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Jonathan Joseph PRENDERGAST, Christopher Mark JONES, Thomas Osman KELLY
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Patent number: D1006102Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: LEGERE REEDS LTD.Inventors: Ronald James Thatcher, Christopher Mark Kortschot, Mark Timothy Kortschot, Christopher John Pearen, David Chotenovsky