Patents by Inventor Jonathan Marks

Jonathan 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: 9169513
    Abstract: A method including (a) providing an amplification reagent including an array of sites, and a solution having different target nucleic acids; and (b) reacting the amplification reagent to produce amplification sites each having a clonal population of amplicons from a target nucleic acid from the solution. The reacting can include simultaneously transporting the nucleic acids to the sites at an average transport rate, and amplifying the nucleic acids that transport to the sites at an average amplification rate, wherein the average amplification rate exceeds the average transport rate. The reacting can include producing a first amplicon from a nucleic acid that transports to each of the sites, and producing subsequent amplicons from the nucleic acid or from the first amplicon, wherein the average rate at which the subsequent amplicons are generated exceeds the average rate at which the first amplicon is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Min-Jui Richard Shen, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Kathryn M. Stephens, Mostafa Ronaghi, Kevin Gunderson, Bala Murali Venkatesan, M. Shane Bowen, Kandaswamy Vijayan
  • Publication number: 20150290060
    Abstract: Patient support apparatuses, such as beds, cots, stretchers, recliners, operating tables, and the like include wireless mesh network transceivers that enable them to communicate with each other, and other devices, via mesh networks and/or ad hoc networks. One or more additional wireless transceivers are included, such as WiFi transceivers, that enable direct communication with a healthcare facility network, such as an Ethernet. The mesh network communication between patient support apparatuses and other devices is used for any one or more of: extending the communication range of the existing IT infrastructure, efficiently routing data to the healthcare facility network, determining location of the patient support apparatuses and devices, transporting patient data from one patient support to the next as the patient moves, and for other aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Hayes, Aaron Douglas Furman, Christopher John Hopper, John P. Geer, Joshua Elmer Mix, David Terrance Becker, Jonathan Mark Greenbank
  • Patent number: 9133062
    Abstract: Methods of firing a cordierite green body to form a fired cordierite body. The green body comprises cordierite-forming raw materials and organic material, the body having a core portion and a skin portion. The green body is pre-heated to a pre-heat temperature that is less than a thermal decomposition temperature of the organic material. The green body is maintained at the pre-heat temperature for a period of time sufficient to minimize a temperature differential between the core portion and the skin portion. The green body is heated to a low firing temperature in a firing atmosphere sufficient to reduce a content of the organic material and to substantially remove chemically bound water from hydrous alumina. The green body is heated to a high firing temperature in a firing atmosphere sufficient to reduce the content of the organic material prior to a substantial removal of chemically bound water from clay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Castilone, Sriram Rangarajan Iyer, Mark Allen Spetseris, Jonathan Mark Stalker
  • Publication number: 20150233707
    Abstract: A method for determining the shape of an object comprising the steps of: illuminating the object by projecting a structured light pattern generated by a plurality of projector pixels onto the object; forming an image from a plurality of camera pixels of the object; determining the intensity distribution of the image, on a pixel by pixel basis; identifying on a pixel by pixel basis a projector pixel corresponding to a camera pixel; adjusting the intensity of the structured light pattern on a pixel by pixel basis in dependence on the intensity distribution of the image to produce an intensity adjusted structured light pattern; using the intensity-adjusted structured light pattern to determine the shape of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: PHASE VISION LTD
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Huntley, Charles Russell Coggrave
  • Publication number: 20150231006
    Abstract: Patient care devices, such as person support apparatuses and thermal control units, include one or more internal high speed networks, such as an Ethernet, for transmitting data between internal nodes or modules. A lower speed network may also be included with the Ethernet for redundantly transmitting some, but not all, types of data. Devices external to the patient care device can be granted limited access to the internal high speed network. Such devices may connect to the high speed network to utilize one or more user interfaces of the patient care device and/or to piggyback onto the patient care device's connection to an external local area network (e.g. a hospital LAN), or the patient care device's connection to yet another device. Some nodes may include web servers for serving up web pages of diagnostic information relevant to that node. The web servers are accessible via an external web browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Christopher J. Cummings, Jonathan Mark Greenbank, Michael Joseph Hayes
  • Publication number: 20150225787
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for sequencing a polynucleotide molecules. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of polynucleotide molecules attached to a surface, wherein a first portion of each polynucleotide molecule is attached to a first location of the surface and a second portion of each polynucleotide molecule is attached to a second location of the surface, the relative proximity of the first and second locations being correlated with the probability that the first and second portions are paired, separating the first and second portions of the polynucleotide molecules on the surface, determining the sequences of the first and second portions of the polynucleotide molecules and comparing the relative proximities and the sequences to determine which first and second portions are paired and to determine the sequence of the target polynucleotide molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Roberto Rigatti, Niall Anthony Gormley, Boutell Jonathan Mark
  • Publication number: 20150224906
    Abstract: The trailer 10 is a trailer 10 for a folding camper wherein an accommodation space is arranged to be folded out of the trailer 10 at a final destination. The present invention provides a modular hoist 40 which is stored within a hoist storage compartment 50 mounted on the trailer 10. The modular hoist 40 can be mounted to and secured to the trailer 10 and it can then be used to raise and lower the auxiliary equipment to or from upper securement rails 20, 22. In use, a motorbike or other auxiliary equipment is initially secured within a transportation frame 60 on the ground adjacent to the trailer 10. This may comprise locating the wheels of the motorbike in or on a bogey 62 and then securing an upper frame 66 and straps 68 to a lower frame 61. Once secured, attachment means 49 located on the end of a flexible hoist member 48 can be secured to the upper frame 66. Once secured, the modular hoist 40 can then be operated to raise the auxiliary equipment and the transportation frame 60 to the required height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Harrison, Stuart Ross Boden Barrow, Jeremiah Ileri Fashe, Matthew John Rowley
  • Publication number: 20150213450
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for detecting potentially fraudulent activity in a remote financial transaction system. The system comprises a client computing device configured for data communication with a financial services server via a data communications network. The client computing device is further configured to display a web page for receiving transaction information from a user and to communicate the received transaction information to the financial services server via the data communications network in order to effect the financial transaction. The method comprises, when transaction information is communicated to the financial services server by the client computing device, the client computing device additionally communicating meta data relating to the configuration of the web page to a configuration data server via the data communications network. The method further comprises the configuration data server comparing the received meta data to a stored template of meta data for the web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: John Petersen, Patrick Carroll, Jonathan Mark Alford, Daniel Thornhill
  • Publication number: 20150203486
    Abstract: A series of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives of formula (I), being potent modulators of human TNFa activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorders; and oncological disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Bentley, Daniel Christopher Brookings, Julien Alistair Brown, Thomas Paul Cain, Praful Tulshi Chovatia, Anne Marie Foley, Ellen Olivia Gallimore, Laura Jane Gleave, Alexander Heifetz, Helen Tracey Horsley, Martin Clive Hutchings, Victoria Elizabeth Jackson, James Andrew Johnson, Craig Johnstone, Boris Kroeplien, Fabien Claude Lecomte, Deborah Leigh, Martin Alexander Lowe, James Madden, John Robert Porter, Joanna Rachel Quincey, Laura Claire Reed, James Thomas Reuberson, Anthony John Richardson, Sarah Emily Richardson, Matthew Duncan Selby, Michael Alan Shaw, Zhaoning Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150203910
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for pairwise sequencing of a double-stranded polynucleotide template, which methods result in the sequential determination of nucleotide sequences in two distinct and separate regions of the polynucleotide template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
    Inventors: Geoffrey Paul Smith, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Colin Lloyd Barnes, Roberto Rigatti, Niall Anthony Gormley, David Bentley, Tobias William Barr Ost, Vincent Peter Smith, Graham John Worsley, Eric Hans Vermaas
  • Publication number: 20150206516
    Abstract: A pick for use with stringed musical instruments is disclosed. In some embodiments the pick is characterized by a roughened texture on the front and back substantially planar surfaces of the narrowed bottom portion of a substantially teardrop shaped body for the purpose of altering the tonal properties produced as it moves against strings that are strummed or picked. In further embodiments the roughened textured picking portion is combined with a separate second picking portion that is substantially smooth and useable to produce a conventional sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Jonathan Mark Thompson
  • Publication number: 20150197799
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of molecular biology and more specifically to methods for capturing and amplifying target polynucleotides on a solid surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
    Inventors: Roberto Rigatti, Niall Anthony Gormley, Allen E. Eckhardt, Jonathan Mark Boutell
  • Patent number: 9079148
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for creating an array of features on a surface based on content transferred from a plurality of beads to the surface. Nucleic acid content can be transferred using a method including the steps of (a) providing a surface having one or more primer oligonucleotides attached to the surface; (b) providing a pool of beads, wherein beads in the pool have a plurality of templates attached thereto, the plurality comprising multiple copies of a single nucleic acid template sequence; (c) arraying the beads onto the surface by hybridizing the templates to the primer oligonucleotides; and (d) extending the primers to produce copies of the templates attached to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Roberto Rigatti, Geoffrey Paul Smith, Jonathan Mark Boutell
  • Publication number: 20150191482
    Abstract: A series of imidazo[1,2-?]pyrazine derivatives, being potent modulators of human TNF? activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorder; and oncological disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Bentley, Daniel Christopher Brookings, Julien Alistair Brown, Thomas Paul Cain, Laura Jane Gleave, Alexander Heifetz, Victoria Elizabeth Jackson, Craig Johnstone, Deborah Leigh, James Madden, John Robert Porter, Matthew Duncan Selby, Zhaoning Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150166548
    Abstract: Heterocyclic compounds and salts according to formula (I), which are pyrimidinone derivatives, described herein exhibit human neutrophil elastase inhibitory properties, and useful for treating diseases or conditions in which HNE is implicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lilian ALCARAZ, Jonathan Mark Sutton, Elisabetta Armani, Carmelida Capaldi
  • Patent number: 9048552
    Abstract: A connector (100) for making an electrical connection between two plates (110, 120) that are mechanically secured to one another, the connector comprising a first socket (50) for fixing to a first plate (110), a second socket (60) for fixing to a second plate (120), and a connector pin (150), the first and second sockets both comprising an aperture (55, 65) for receiving the connector pin (150), wherein the connector further comprises a first spring (161) for contacting between the connector pin and the first socket, and a second spring (162) for contacting between the connector pin and the second socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Eyles, Paul Gillie, Daniel Bodio
  • Publication number: 20150142783
    Abstract: Techniques and structures for providing a multitenant environment having both a relational database and a non-relational database. A database query is received with at least one server computing device providing a multitenant environment having a relational database system and a non-relational database system, the database query in a format corresponding to the relational database system. The query is parsed with the at least one server computing device to find one or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system. One or more components of the query directed to data stored in the non-relational database system are converted to one or more scans of the non-relational database system. Results from the query of the relational database system and results from the one or more scans of the non-relational database system are collected. The results from the query and the results of the one or more scans to a combined result are combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens, James Taylor
  • Publication number: 20150142844
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms to manage data. A relational database environment having at least a relational database storage device is coupled with a server entity. Data stored in the relational database is stored in a custom object, which is one or more custom database tables that allow a customer/tenant/organization to store information unique to the customer/tenant/organization. A non-relational database environment having at least a non-relational database storage device is also coupled with the server entity. Data stored in the non-relational database is immutable. A single user interface and search language is utilized by the server entity to provide access to both the relational database environment and the non-relational database environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens
  • Publication number: 20150142846
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for completing a database query. A time to complete a synchronous query in response to receiving an original database query is estimated by a database management system provided by one or more computing devices. A synchronous database query corresponding to the original database query is performed with the database management system if the estimated time to complete the synchronous query is less than a pre-selected threshold time. One or more asynchronous queries corresponding to the original database query are performed with the database management system if the estimated time to complete the synchronous query is greater than the pre-selected threshold time. A result, whether from a synchronous query or one or more asynchronous queries, is stored in an object within a non-relational database system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Eli Levine, Jonathan Mark Bruce
  • Publication number: 20150142736
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for managing data in a relational database environment and a non-relational database environment. Data in the relational database environment that is static and to be maintained beyond a preselected threshold length of time is identified. The data is copied from the relational database and stored in the data the non-relational database. Access to the data is provided from the non-relational database via a user interface that accesses both the relational database and the non-relational database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Bruce, Eli Levine, Simon Toens, Ian Varley