Patents by Inventor John Marks

John 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).

  • Patent number: 11476605
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an interconnect device and modules and systems that utilize such interconnect device are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the interconnect device can include a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB can include a substrate forming a resiliently deflectable element, a conductive material disposed on the substrate, and an electrical contact disposed on the resiliently deflectable element and electrically coupled to the conductive material. The interconnect device can also include a connector that includes a connecting pin configured to electrically couple with the electrical contact of the resiliently deflectable element of the PCB and cause the resiliently deflectable element to deflect when the element contacts the connecting pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Qorvo Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Mark Tischer, Christopher Jennings Madsen, Roger Paul Mann
  • Publication number: 20220318609
    Abstract: A system and method for enhancing inferential accuracy of an artificial neural network during training includes during a simulated training of an artificial neural network identifying channel feedback values of a plurality of distinct channels of a layer of the artificial neural network based on an input of a training batch; if the channel feedback values do not satisfy a channel signal range threshold, computing a channel equalization factor based on the channel feedback values; identifying a layer feedback value based on the input of the training batch; and if the layer feedback value does not satisfy a layer signal range threshold, identifying a composite scaling factor based on the layer feedback values; during a non-simulated training of the artificial neural network, providing training inputs of: the training batch; the composite scaling factor; the channel equalization factor; and training the artificial neural network based on the training inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: David Fick, Daniel Graves, Michael Klachko, Ilya Perminov, John Mark Beardslee, Evgeny Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20220298176
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and compositions thereof which are useful as inhibitors of plasma kallikrein and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Nikolaos Papaioannou, Jeremy Mark Travins, Sarah Jocelyn Fink, John Mark Ellard, Alastair Rae
  • Patent number: 11446324
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to sol-gel polymer composites that comprise chitosan, a hydrophilic polymer, a polysiloxane, and a gelation agent in a suitable medium. Advantageously, the sol-gel polymer composite can form a durable seal or strong solid in response to one or more physiological stimulus. The disclosure further relates to medical and veterinary uses of the composite, particularly, methods and delivery systems for reducing or preventing the incidence of a mammary disorder in a dairy animal. More particularly, the disclosure includes methods and sol-gel polymer composite compositions for creating a physical barrier on the teat surface or in the teat canal or cistern of a non-human animal for prophylactic treatment of mammary disorders such as mastitis wherein the sol-gel polymer creates a seal in response to one or more physiological stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Zoetis Services LLC
    Inventors: Christina Lee Brown, Derek James Sheehan, John Mark Heimlich, Todd Foster, Jeffrey Ellis Price, Sumitra Rajagopalan, Alexandre Therrien, Oscar Suarez, Nicholas Finn Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11448401
    Abstract: Cooking assemblies, such as cooktop appliances, including methods of operation thereof, are provided. A method of operating a cooktop appliance may include receiving a mode selection signal from a user interface of the cooktop appliance. The method may also include receiving a utensil signal from a cooking utensil positioned on a primary heating element and restricting heat generation at a secondary heating element or transmitting a notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Haler US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: David William Billman, John Mark Chilton
  • Patent number: 11444877
    Abstract: In one example, a processing system including at least one processor may obtain a first packet, determine a first tunnel identifier from a tunnel identifier field and a first source port identifier from a source port identifier field of the header of the first packet, and assign the first packet to a first flow. The processing system may further obtain a second packet, extract a first value from a tunnel identifier field and a second value from a source port identifier field of a header of the second packet, determine that the first value matches the first tunnel identifier and that the second value matches the first source port identifier, and assign the second packet to the first flow in response to the determining that the first value matches the first tunnel identifier and that the second value matches the first source port identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur L. Zaifman, John Mark Mocenigo
  • Publication number: 20220260961
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to virtualize a process control system are described. A described process control system includes a server cluster including one or more servers. When operating, the server cluster provides a virtual workstation or virtual server, a virtual controller to interoperate with the virtual workstation or server and to implement process control operations, and a virtual input/output device to interoperate with the virtual controller and coupled to one or more field devices within the process control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Nixon, John Mark Caldwell
  • Patent number: 11418044
    Abstract: A charger system comprising a charging station including a plurality of nests for chargers is described. Each of the plurality of nests is designed to partially eject the charger when instructed to do so, and further comprises a nest lock to lock in the charger into the nest when not ejecting. The charger system interacting with a user account, enabling a user to request the charger, wherein the charger is ejected from the nest for a valid request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Juize, Inc.
    Inventors: Mukhabbatov Nasim Khokimovich, Alex Freed, John Mark Sutton, Øivind Alexander Slaatto
  • Publication number: 20220250703
    Abstract: A system for controlling vehicle motion is described. The system includes: a first set of sensors coupled with a vehicle, the first set of sensors configured for sensing the vehicle motion; and a vehicle suspension damper coupled with the first set of sensors, the vehicle suspension damper configured for adjusting a damping force therein, the vehicle suspension damper comprising: a primary valve; a pilot valve assembly coupled with the primary valve, the pilot valve assembly configured for metering a flow of fluid to the primary valve, in response to at least the sensing; and an orifice block coupled with the primary valve and comprising a control orifice there through, the control orifice configured for operating cooperatively with the pilot valve assembly in the metering the flow of fluid to the primary valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Everet Ericksen, Robert C. Fox, John Marking
  • Patent number: 11408482
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension damper comprises a cylinder and a piston assembly including a damping piston along with working fluid within the cylinder. A bypass permits fluid to avoid dampening resistance of the damping piston. A fluid path through the bypass is controlled by a valve that is shifted by a piston surface when the contents of at least one predetermined volume is injected against the piston surface which acts upon the valve. In one embodiment, the bypass is remotely operable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: John Marking
  • Patent number: 11407961
    Abstract: A method and an plant for separating wax from a dried wax coated plant material, comprising mechanically processing the plant material in a dry process by using an apparatus adapted for deforming at least the outer surface of the plant material, so that the wax coating is cracked and released from the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material; separating the plant material in a separator into a portion A comprising plant material with a relatively high content of cracked and released wax coating and a relatively low content of the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material, and a portion B comprising respectively a relatively low content cracked and released wax coating and a relatively high content of the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material; liquefying the wax contained in portion A, and separating the liquefied wax from the remaining, partly de-waxed, plant material in portion A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JENA TRADING APS
    Inventors: Per Vinther, John Mark Lawther
  • Patent number: 11411342
    Abstract: A connector for a flat flexible cable includes a housing and a spring clip disposed in the housing. The housing has a main body and a cover. The cover is movable with respect to the main body between an open position and a closed position. The spring clip is resiliently deflectable by the cover. The spring clip is in a first state with the cover in the open position in which the spring clip abuts a conductor exposed through an insulation material of the flat flexible cable with a first contact force. The spring clip is in a second state with the cover in the closed position in which the spring clip abuts the conductor with a second contact force greater than the first contact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: John Mark Myer, Hurley Chester Moll, Forrest Irving Kinsey, Jr., Ryan David Hetrick
  • Patent number: 11402205
    Abstract: A sensor unit mountable on a rotatable element on a platform that is itself movable, and includes an orientation sensor arranged to take measurements that are dependent on the orientation of the sensor unit, a processor arranged to derive a rotational position signal representing the orientation of the rotatable element from the measurements, and a buffer arranged to buffer a series of recent measurements taken by the orientation sensor over a predetermined period of time. The processor derives the rotational position signal making a correction to compensate for the effect of the motion of the platform on the measurements on the basis of the overall series of measurements buffered in the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Salunda Limited
    Inventors: Alan Patrick John Finlay, John Mark Newton, Andrew Henry John Larkins, Mathew William Davis, Grant Nicholls
  • Publication number: 20220235291
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of extracting and refining wax from plant material. Briefly, the method comprises the steps of (a) providing plant by material comprising cuticular wax, (b) disassociating cuticular wax from the plant material, thereby obtaining a sample comprising plant derived cuticular wax and dewaxed plant material in an aqueous suspension, (c) solubilizing the plant derived cuticular wax by increasing the temperature of the sample, (d) separating the suspension into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction comprising melted plant derived cuticular wax, (e) mixing the liquid fraction with a capturing agent, wherein the capturing agent has a boiling point above 85° C. at ambient pressure, (f) separating the mixture into an aqueous fraction and a capture fraction comprising capturing agent and plant derived cuticular wax, (g) recovering the plant derived cuticular wax from the capture fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Per Vinther, John Mark Lawther
  • Patent number: 11386294
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to data harvesting for machine learning model training. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a network data collection system can identify a target data source location from which to harvest data for a machine learning system to utilize during a machine learning model training process. The data can be associated with a plurality of mobile communications devices operating in communication with at least one base station of a mobile communications network that serves the target data source location. The network data collection system can collect the data and provide the data to the machine learning system. The machine learning system, in turn, can create a training data set for use during the machine learning model training process based, at least in part, upon the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur Zaifman, John Mark Mocenigo, Glen Zdroik
  • Publication number: 20220210965
    Abstract: An air-boom spreader has a hopper for containing particulate material, a metering device having a plurality of sluices, a plurality of outlets transversely spaced-apart on a boom in a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel of the spreader, and a plurality of air lines connecting the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets for conveying the particulate material in an air stream from the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets. The spreader has more than twice as many outlets as sluices, and the plurality of outlets has an innermost outlet, an outermost outlet and at least three other outlets between the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet whereby each of the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet are supplied with half as much of the particulate material as each of the at least three other outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Salford Group Inc.
    Inventors: Geof J. GRAY, John Mark AVERINK, Bradley William BAKER, Jesse Abram DYCK, Chad Derek PASMA, Simon GOVEIA, Christopher Michael POPPE, Troy Michael STRAATMAN, Adam Peter LEHMAN
  • Patent number: 11381592
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for automatic collection, analysis and reporting of data relating to a cybersecurity threat. The method may comprise the steps of: presenting an interface through which an executable can be configured and automatically generated; transmitting the executable to a client to enable the client to execute the executable on client systems to automatically collect forensic data; receiving from the client an encrypted data package that includes the forensic data; using a forensic toolset to automatically analyze the forensic data; presenting an option to select one or more of at least two types of output reports designed for different types of readers; inputting the analysis files into an automatic report generator to automatically generate the types of output reports selected by the client; and sending the output reports selected by the client to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: David Benjamin Nides, David Phillip Cartier, Hernan Rael Cortes, Edward L. Goings, Zachariah Sheldon Harris, Brian John Marks, Matthew Lewis Seyer, Andrea Sancho Silgado
  • Patent number: 11376914
    Abstract: A shock absorber including: a first cylinder having an interior, first and second ends and defining an axis, wherein the interior includes a damping fluid chamber and a damping piston movably mounted therein for movement between the first and second ends, wherein the damping piston is mounted on a first end of a shaft, wherein the first end of the shaft is movably retained within the interior of the first cylinder; first and second bypass openings configured for opening into the damping fluid chamber at first and second axially spaced-apart positions; a bypass channel fluidly coupling the first and second bypass openings; a fluid metering valve; and a floating piston dividing a portion of the shock absorber into a gas chamber and the reservoir chamber, wherein the fluid metering valve and the floating piston define the reservoir chamber there between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: John Marking, Vegard Hamso
  • Patent number: 11379945
    Abstract: In a graphics processing unit (GPU), receiving an input image comprising an array of pixels. Each pixel having a gray scale value from a range of N grayscale values. For each particular input patch of pixels of a set of input patches partitioning the input image and in parallel for each particular grayscale value the range, counting the number of pixels in the particular input patch having the particular grayscale value. In parallel for each particular input patch of pixels of a set of input patches partitioning the input image, creating an output image patch as an ordered sequence of N pixels, with the color value of the nth pixel in each corresponding output patch representing the count of pixels in the particular input patch having the nth grayscale value. Combining the output image patches into a single composite output image of N pixels, the pixel value of the nth pixel in the single composite output image corresponding to the count of pixels in the input image having the nth grayscale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: John Mark Richter, Peter Joseph McNerney
  • Patent number: PP34665
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Eutrochium plant named ‘JoJo’ that is characterized by its double sterile flowers that are vibrant pink in color, its upright and relatively compact plant habit, its mature stems that are dark maroon in color, and its free flowering blooming habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KIND EARTH GROWERS LLC
    Inventors: John Mark Courtney, Joseph Henry LaMent