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: 20240199103
    Abstract: A handle assembly is for transporting a structure. The handle assembly includes a retention member configured to be secured to the structure, a coupling apparatus coupled to the retention member and configured to couple the retention member to the structure, and a handle coupled to the retention member and configured to allow the structure to be transported when the retention member is coupled to the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Derek Ryan Bindbeutel, Christopher Mark Hayden, Anthony Hurgoi, Harsha Satyanarayana, Thanh Hoang Dao
  • Patent number: 12004529
    Abstract: A fat composition comprises: greater than 70% by weight stearic acid; from 5% to 20% by weight oleic acid; and from 1% to 10% by weight palmitic acid; said percentages of acids referring to acids bound as acyl groups in glycerides in the fat composition and being based on the total weight of C8 to C24 fatty acids; and greater than 40% by weight of StStSt triglycerides and greater than 10% by weight of PSt2 triglycerides based on total triglycerides present in the composition, and a weight ratio of PSt2:StStSt triglycerides of less than 0.5, wherein P is palmitic acid and St is stearic acid. The fat may be used in a marinade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BUNGE LODERS CROKLAAN B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Mark De Lima, Jun Ma, Karin Alicia Theron
  • Publication number: 20240183198
    Abstract: 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. A force sensor is in electrical communication with the controller configured to measured when a force exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Kuenzi, Anthony Pettigrew, Matthew Hill, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
  • Patent number: 11994729
    Abstract: An optical cable is provided. The optical cable includes an outer cable body jacket and a plurality of optical fiber subunits. The optical fibers within each subunit are stranded relative to each other and are located within a thin subunit jacket. A plurality of unstranded optical fiber subunits are located within the cable jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley Jerome Blazer, Harold Edward Hudson, II, Christopher Mark Quinn, David Alan Seddon, Kenneth Darrell Temple, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11993148
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to vacuum forming methods, apparatuses and resulting displays that represent improvements in various key areas. The methods, for example, greatly improve manufacturing throughput through reduced curing times. The methods further facilitate improved control of glass shape to a targeted shape and improved control of bond line thickness, which result in improved survivability and long-term reliability, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter Knowles, Christopher Mark Schweiger, Christopher Lee Timmons, Arlin Lee Weikel
  • Publication number: 20240159428
    Abstract: A portable bath tub water heater is provided that includes a water pump and a heating element to heat water in a bath tub, wherein the portable bath tub water heater is configured to recirculate bath tub water using inlet and outlet tubes at least partially submerged in the water. The portable bath tub water heater is configured to be disposed on and/or nearby the bath tub in any number of different ways. After usage, the portable bath tub water heater may be purged of any remaining water and stored for future use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Hayden, Harsha Satyanarayana, Sherri Burkett, Thanh Hoang Dao, Keith James Monks, Anthony Hurgoi
  • Publication number: 20240159427
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for wirelessly charging a water heater device are presented. A system for wirelessly charging a water heating device, the system comprising: the water heating device, wherein the water heating device comprises a water heating element; a wireless power transmitter configured to: receive a first electrical current from a first power source; and generate a magnetic field, an ultrasonic wave, a microwave, a wireless power transmission, or a laser pulse based on the first electrical current; and a wireless power receiver configured to: generate a second electrical current based on the magnetic field, the ultrasonic wave, the microwave, the wireless power transmission, or the laser pulse; and provide the second electrical current to the water heating element or to a second power source of the water heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Harsha Satyanarayana, Christopher Mark Hayden
  • Patent number: 11981565
    Abstract: One or more embodiments relates to compositions, method of using and methods of producing a gas mixture. The method includes supplying a composition LaxSryCozMwO3, where x ranges from 0.5 to 1, y ranges 0.0 to 1-x, z ranges from 0.1 to 1.0, and M is a dopant or dopants where w ranges from 0.0 to 1-z; and energizing the composition directly using electromagnetic energy to heat the composition to a temperature above 700° C. The method further includes contacting the composition with a reactant gas mixture comprising methane and an oxidant forming a product gaseous mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Douglas R Kauffman, Jonathan W Lekse, Christopher Mark Marin, Eric J Popczun
  • Publication number: 20240150459
    Abstract: Provided are methods for clinical treatment of hematological malignancies, such as relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or lymphoma using an anti-LAG-3 antibody. Particular malignancies include, e.g., chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Andres A. GUTIERREZ, Joseph GROSSO, Christopher Mark HILL, Mark J. SELBY, Katherine LEWIS
  • Publication number: 20240134850
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to techniques for converting a natural language utterance to a logical form query and deriving a natural language interpretation of the logical form query. The techniques include accessing a Meaning Resource Language (MRL) query and converting the MRL query into a MRL structure including logical form statements. The converting includes extracting operations and associated attributes from the MRL query and generating the logical form statements from the operations and associated attributes. The techniques further include translating each of the logical form statements into a natural language expression based on a grammar data structure that includes a set of rules for translating logical form statements into corresponding natural language expressions, combining the natural language expressions into a single natural language expression, and providing the single natural language expression as an interpretation of the natural language utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Xu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Nitika Mathur, Philip Arthur, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Gioacchino Tangari, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Vishal Vishnoi, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent
  • Publication number: 20240114938
    Abstract: An encapsulation method is disclosed for the capture of natural flavors within a clean-label derived from a malt comprising at least partially germinated whole grain seed, pulses, legumes, false grains or flour derived therefrom. Moreover, a spray dryable malted rice composition is disclosed that has rice present at an amount that is at least about 30% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Paragon Flavors, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew SILLICK, Christopher Mark GREGSON
  • Patent number: 11946286
    Abstract: 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. A force sensor is in electrical communication with the controller configured to measured when a force exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Kuenzi, Anthony Pettigrew, Matthew Hill, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20240104394
    Abstract: Provided are computing systems, methods, and platforms that automatically produce production-ready machine learning models and deployment pipelines from minimal input information such as a raw training dataset. In particular, one example computing system can import a training dataset associated with a user. The computing system can execute an origination machine learning pipeline to perform a model architecture search that selects and trains a machine learning model for the training dataset. Execution of the origination machine learning pipeline can also result in generation of a deployment machine learning pipeline configured to enable deployment of the machine learning model (e.g., running the machine learning model to produce inferences and/or optionally other tasks such as re-training and/or re-tuning the model).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Amy Skerry-Ryan, Quentin Lascombes de Laroussilhe, Ronald Rong Yang, Carla Marie Riggi, Chansoo Lee, Jordan Arthur Grimstad, Christopher Mark Lamb, Joseph Michael Moran, Nihesh Anderson Klutto Milleth, Noah Weston Hadfield-Menell, Volodymyr Shtenovych, Ziqi Huang, Sagi Perel, Michael David Gerard, Mehadi Seid Hassen
  • Publication number: 20240102807
    Abstract: Raw sensor data from a device of a user is collected. Trips from the sensor data are identified as raw trip data. Metadata for the trips is identified, linked to the trips, and maintained separately from the trip data. The trips are staged, and the corresponding trip data normalized when obtained from a storage or memory location. Normalized trip data is piped or made accessible to feature enhancing applications (apps), each app associating one or more features and events with a given trip. The features and events are maintained for the trips in event and feature level of detail tables. The tables are processed by consuming apps for purposes of updating user-level attributes associated with the user. In an embodiment, custom apps process the raw trip data to add additional features and events, which are directly integrated and updated in the tables for access by the consuming apps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Joseph Allan Plattenburg, Christopher Mark Leight
  • Patent number: 11942247
    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: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry William Schoen, Kimani Tirawa Partin, Christopher Mark Wilkins
  • Patent number: 11933284
    Abstract: A vacuum exhaust system includes a plurality of turbo pumps that evacuate a plurality of vacuum chambers. A plurality of chamber valves are positioned between the turbo pumps and the plurality of vacuum chambers. A plurality of branch channels are each connected to a corresponding exhaust of the plurality of turbo pumps and a main channel is formed from a confluence of the branch channels. A booster vacuum pump is connected to the main channel. A backing vacuum pump is connected to an exhaust of the booster vacuum pump. A plurality of bypass channels, each having a valve, provide a fluid communication path between at least some of the plurality of vacuum chambers and the booster vacuum pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Nigel Paul Schofield, Christopher Mark Bailey, Michael Andrew Galtry, Andrew David Mann
  • Patent number: 11924152
    Abstract: Users of personalized messaging systems can encounter message fatigue, thereby reducing the efficacy of a message on its intended recipient. Message fatigue can result in wasted computational resources and bandwidth as messages transmitted over a network to the user's client device are not acted upon at the client device. For applications involving desired user interactions and responses, personalized messaging can be a tool to achieve user engagement targets. The systems and methods presented herein may address several of the technical challenges with personalized messaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Click Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Gao, Michael Brandon Ng, Christopher Mark Jordan, Victor Gao, Adam Berger
  • Publication number: 20240068275
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Hill, Anthony Pettigrew, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20240071365
    Abstract: Disclosed are example embodiments of systems, method, and devices for generating audio assets. The example method includes receiving an input including at least one of audio, text, video, Java Script Object Notation (JSON), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Really Simple Syndication (RSS). The example method includes receiving configuration inputs including at least one of configure language, gender, and persona. The example method includes preparing for processing based on the at least one of configure language, gender, and persona. The example method includes processing the input based on the configuration inputs, the processing including at least one of transcribing, translating, brand safety, enrichment, generating custom Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), and including generating an audio clip. The example method includes delivering the audio clip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Chad Edward Steelberg, Ryan Scott Steelberg, Sean Patrick King, Corey Denard Hill, Christopher Mark Doe
  • Patent number: D1022025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LEGERE REEDS LTD.
    Inventors: Ronald James Thatcher, Christopher Mark Kortschot, Mark Timothy Kortschot, Christopher John Pearen, David Chotenovsky