Patents by Inventor Darren Mark

Darren Mark 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).

  • Patent number: 10772429
    Abstract: A novel sling assembly and corresponding method of stretching sling fabric are disclosed. The assembly preferably comprises a chassis with opposing rails connected by a cross bar. A sling frame having opposing stretch bars connected by a stretchable fabric is disposed over the chassis in a pre-assembled position. A cam lock is inserted into a key hole cut into at least one of the rails; the cam lock is then rotated away from the central axis of the key hole. An engagement member extending from at least one of the stretch bars is then inserted into the key hole. The sling fabric may now be stretched by rotating the cam lock toward the central axis of the key hole to move the engagement member along the key hole until the fabric is taut. The taut fabric is held in place by the engaged cam lock, whereby the assembly is kept in its stretched, fully assembled position. The invention's unique structure thus advantageously makes sling fabric replacement convenient, quick, and without the need for special tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Holbrook, Darren Mark
  • Publication number: 20190364844
    Abstract: An animal protection apparatus includes a body with a collar to secure around an animal's body and neck; a padded base attached to the body; and a net positioned under the padded base; the net and padded base can fold around the animal's body and can be used to lift and carry the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Darren Mark Teren
  • Publication number: 20190262324
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyridine and pyrazine derivatives which restore or enhance the function of mutant and/or wild type CFTR to treat cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, respiratory tract infections, lung carcinoma, xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sire, or constipation (IBS, IBD, opioid induced). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives are also encompassed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Urs BAETTIG, Kamlesh Jagdis Bala, Emma Budd, Lee Edwards, Catherine Howsham, Glyn Alan Hughes, Darren Mark LE GRAND, Katrin Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10341731
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for view-selection feedback for a visual experience are described. These techniques and apparatuses enable writers, directors, and other story creators to create or alter visual experiences based on feedback provided by view selections made during visual experiences. This feedback can be analyzed to determine portions of a visual experience that users focused on, wanted to see more of, were not interested in, found difficult to understand, and so forth. With this feedback, visual experiences, such as live-action movies and animated shorts, can be created or improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Baback Elmieh, Jan J. Pinkava, Douglas Paul Sweetland, Brian M. Collins, Darren Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20190159610
    Abstract: A device is provided which assists the positioning of wall mounted articles in their preferred orientation and stabilizing them to prevent them moving. The device comprises female and male components, each of which include mating features and magnetic elements that facilitate aligning, mating and attracting the female and male components together when the device is assembled. In a method of using the device to position and stabilize an article, such as a framed picture, on a generally vertically oriented structure, such as a wall, each of the female and male components is affixed to a respective one of the back of the article and the wall such that their mating features are exposed and align and mate with one another, and the magnetic elements attract one another, thereby holding the components together, as well as holding the article to the generally vertically oriented structure in a preferred orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Darren Mark Maynard
  • Patent number: 10183025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David Beattie, Urs Baettig, Darren Mark Le Grand, Andrew Stuart Lister, Jeffrey McKenna, David William Pearce, David Andrew Sandham, Oliver Ross Steward, Christopher Thomson
  • Patent number: 10150878
    Abstract: The present invention describes a pigment dispersion and a printing ink and coating employing the pigment dispersion. The pigment dispersion includes a pigment, binder and solvent. The pigment dispersion has a mean particle size less than about 120 nm. The printing ink or coating includes the pigment dispersion in addition to a solvent. The printing ink or coating has a solid binder to pigment ratio greater than about 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Darren Mark Ortalano, Laura Picraux, Lisa Clapp, Paul A. Merchak, Russell J. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 10117858
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyridine and pyrazine derivatives which restore or enhance the function of mutant and/or wild type CFTR to treat cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, respiratory tract infections, lung carcinoma, xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sire, or constipation (IBS, IBD, opioid induced). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives are also encompassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Urs Baettig, Kamlesh Bala, Emma Budd, Lee Edwards, Catherine Howsham, Glyn Alan Hughes, Darren Mark LeGrand, Katrin Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10056114
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for small-screen movie-watching using a viewport. These techniques enable viewers to experience movies and other media programs using a small screen as a viewport to the movie rather than dramatically compressing or cropping the movie to fit the small screen. A viewer may select whatever portion of the movie imagery he or she desires to experience through the small screen at a size sufficient to perceive details of plot elements and an environment in which the plot elements interact. Thus, the viewer may follow plot elements central to the plot while also exploring the environment that provides context for these plot elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Colby Nipper
    Inventors: Darren Mark Austin, Baback Elmieh, Douglas Paul Sweetland, Brian M. Collins, Mark Jason Oftedal, Jan J. Pinkava
  • Publication number: 20180021345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David BEATTIE, Urs BAETTIG, Darren Mark LE GRAND, Andrew Stuart LISTER, Jeffrey MCKENNA, David William PEARCE, David Andrew SANDHAM, Oliver Ross STEWARD, Christopher THOMSON
  • Patent number: 9779480
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling view-driven consumption of frameless media. These techniques and apparatuses provide frameless media and enable a user to engage with the frameless media by orienting a viewing device within the world created by that frameless media. This orienting by the user drives what the user sees in this world and when the user sees it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Darren Mark Austin, Baback Elmieh, Douglas Paul Sweetland, Brian M. Collins, Jan J. Pinkava
  • Patent number: 9766786
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for visual storytelling on a mobile media-consumption device are described. These techniques and apparatuses enable a user to view events central to the story while also viewing context for the story. By so doing, a user may enjoy the story as the story's author intended without sacrificing a user's ability to engage with the story's context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Baback Elmieh, Darren Mark Austin, Brian M. Collins, Mark Jason Oftedal, Jan J. Pinkava, Douglas Paul Sweetland
  • Patent number: 9763957
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David Beattie, Urs Baettig, Darren Mark Legrand, Andrew Stuart Lister, Jeffrey McKenna, David William Pearce, David Andrew Sandham, Oliver Ross Steward, Christopher Thomson
  • Publication number: 20170178690
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for small-screen movie-watching using a viewport. These techniques enable viewers to experience movies and other media programs using a small screen as a viewport to the movie rather than dramatically compressing or cropping the movie to fit the small screen. A viewer may select whatever portion of the movie imagery he or she desires to experience through the small screen at a size sufficient to perceive details of plot elements and an environment in which the plot elements interact. Thus, the viewer may follow plot elements central to the plot while also exploring the environment that provides context for these plot elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Mark Austin, Baback Elmieh, Douglas Paul Sweetland, Brian M. Collins, Mark Jason Oftedal, Jan J. Pinkava
  • Patent number: 9630945
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I) (I) that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in the treatment of an ATX-dependent or ATX-mediated disease or condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Vikki Furminger, Owen Rhys Hughes, Darren Mark Le Grand, Emily Stanley, Christopher Thomson
  • Publication number: 20170071919
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyridine and pyrazine derivatives which restore or enhance the function of mutant and/or wild type CFTR to treat cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, respiratory tract infections, lung carcinoma, xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sire, or constipation (IBS, IBD, opioid induced). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives are also encompassed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Urs BAETTIG, Kamlesh BALA, Emma BUDD, Lee EDWARDS, Catherine HOWSHAM, Glyn Alan HUGHES, Darren Mark LEGRAND, Katrin SPIEGEL
  • Patent number: 9589597
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for small-screen movie-watching using a viewport. These techniques enable viewers to experience movies and other media programs using a small screen as a viewport to the movie rather than dramatically compressing or cropping the movie to fit the small screen. A viewer may select whatever portion of the movie imagery he or she desires to experience through the small screen at a size sufficient to perceive details of plot elements and an environment in which the plot elements interact. Thus, the viewer may follow plot elements central to the plot while also exploring the environment that provides context for these plot elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Darren Mark Austin, Baback Elmieh, Douglas Paul Sweetland, Brian M. Collins, Mark Jason Oftedal, Jan J. Pinkava
  • Publication number: 20170007614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in diseases and disorders mediated by autotaxin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Darren Mark Legrand, Vikki Furminger, Christopher Thomson, Owen Rhys Hughes, Emily Stanley
  • Patent number: RE46757
    Abstract: The present invention provides pyridine and pyrazine derivatives which restore or enhance the function of mutant and/or wild type CFTR to treat cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, respiratory tract infections, lung carcinoma, xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sire, or constipation (IBS, IBD, opioid induced). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives are also encompassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Urs Baettig, Kamlesh Jagdis Bala, Emma Budd, Lee Edwards, Catherine Howsham, Glyn Alan Hughes, Darren Mark Legrand, Katrin Spiegel
  • Patent number: D856729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Holbrook, Darren Mark