Patents by Inventor Kevin Marks
Kevin 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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Patent number: 11971114Abstract: A solenoid adapter for a solenoid valve that permits use of different solenoids with different solenoid bowls is provided. Specifically, a reverse flow solenoid adapter enables use of a reverse flow solenoid with a forward flow solenoid bowl, while a forward flow solenoid adapter enables use of a forward flow solenoid with a reverse flow solenoid bowl. The adapters include a lower section to mount into a valve solenoid bowl, an upper portion including an adapter solenoid chamber to receive a solenoid, and flow-reversing passages that duct a vent passage flow path from the valve solenoid bowl to the adapter solenoid chamber such that the flow path transitions from a flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl to a flow configuration required for the solenoid to function and returns to the flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl as the path circulates back to the valve solenoid bowl.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Rain Bird CorporationInventors: Kevin Mark Irwin, Kevin James Markley, Nicholas James Watts
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Publication number: 20240134656Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring, managing, and maintaining a distributed network of information handling systems. The system includes a first information handling system and a second information handling system. The first information handling system creates a software bundle. The second information handling system receives the bundle from the first information handling system, and executes an executable included in the bundle. The executable changes a configuration of the second information handling system from a first operating state to a second operating state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Jonathan Streete, Kevin Marks
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Publication number: 20240133669Abstract: An apparatus comprises a target to rotate about an axis; an excitation coil to carry an excitation signal; and a first sense coil to carry a sense signal induced by the excitation signal. The first sense coil comprises two or more lobes in one or more planes that are perpendicular to the axis. The two or more lobes comprise a first lobe at a first position relative to the axis and a second lobe at a second position relative to the axis. The second position is substantially the same radial distance from the axis as the first position is from the axis. The second position is at an angular distance of ? from the first position, where ?=180°±?/2, and ? is a measurement range for angular-position sensing (e.g., ?=60°) within a range of 50% to 150% of ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Ganesh Shaga, Kevin Mark Smith, Hwangsoo Choi, Surendra Akkina, Sudhneer Puttapudi
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Patent number: 11957456Abstract: Patient support apparatuses include a frame, support surface, and a controller. The controller provides notification to a user of a service event relating to the patient support apparatus. The controller limits functionality of a component of the patient support apparatus based upon a severity of the service event. The controller may also, or alternatively, detect when a control is activated by a user and, in response to such activation, determine whether the patient support apparatus has been marked for use or marked for servicing. If marked for use, the controller responds in a first manner, and if marked for service, the controller responds in a different manner. In other embodiments, a method is provided for determining an order in which multiple patient support apparatuses should be service. In still other embodiments, the patient support apparatus automatically changes to an unusable configuration when in need of high priority service.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Annie Désaulniers, Kevin Mark Patmore, Thomas Joseph Durlach
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Patent number: 11954614Abstract: A visualization system comprising a persistent memory, storing a dataset, and a non-persistent memory implements a pattern visualizing method. The dataset contains discrete attribute values for each first entity of a first type in a plurality of first entities of the first type and discrete attribute values for each first entity of a second type in a plurality of first entities of the second type for each second entity in a plurality of second entities. The dataset is compressed by blocked compression and represents discrete attribute values in both compressed sparse row and column formats. The discrete attribute values are clustered to assign each second entity to a cluster in a plurality of clusters.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.Inventors: Alexander Y. Wong, Jeffrey Mellen, Kevin J. Wu, Paul Ryvkin, Preyas Shah, Patrick Marks, Niranjan Srinivas
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Patent number: 11912233Abstract: A door interface system for a vehicle door includes a sensor and a visual indicator. The sensor may be a proximity sensor and may be positioned proximate to the visual indicator such that it will detect an object proximate to the proximity sensor. The visual indicator may convey the position of the sensor and/or a status of the vehicle door. The door interface system is configured to control the vehicle door based at least in part on detecting an object proximate the visual indicator.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ZOOX, INC.Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Amy Chong, Andrew Allen Haskin, Kevin Mark Karol, Michael Moshe Kohen, Ishan Sain, Jingyi Zhang
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Patent number: 11897597Abstract: Flap pressure shape biasing is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a flight monitor to determine a movement parameter of an aircraft, the movement parameter corresponding to at least one of a Mach number of the aircraft, an airspeed of the aircraft, or a vertical acceleration of the aircraft, and a spoiler controller to adjust a position of a spoiler of the aircraft to reduce pressure on a flap based on the movement parameter by moving a pressure transition away from the flap.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Kevin Mark Johnsen, Ryan L. Pettit, Heidi M. Haugeberg, Ryley Thies Ohlsen
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Publication number: 20240031485Abstract: A method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party. The method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party and monitoring the communication session for one or more audit triggers. The method comprises detecting the one or more audit triggers. The method comprises, in response to detecting the one or more audit triggers, sending a notification to a client, the notification identifying one or more communication session auditing procedures available for the communication session. The method comprises receiving, from the client in response to the notification, a request to audit the communication session using at least one of the available one or more communication session auditing procedures. The method comprises performing the requested at least one communication session auditing procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Thomas V. Curtin, Kevin Mark Beale, Daniel R. Cropp
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Patent number: 11878095Abstract: A medical probe includes a shaft, an expandable membrane and a probe maneuvering assembly (PMA). The shaft is configured for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient. The PMA is located inside the expandable membrane and includes a first elastic element, which is fitted along a longitudinal axis of the PMA and is configured to expand the membrane by shortening the PMA, and to collapse the membrane by elongating the PMA. The PMA further includes a second elastic element, which surrounds at least a portion of the first elastic element and is configured to deflect the membrane relative to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Christopher Thomas Beeckler, Joseph Thomas Keyes, Kevin Justin Herrera, Alexander David Squires, Kevin Mark Okarski
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Publication number: 20230382165Abstract: A tire-inflation system for a small trailer may include a fluid pressure source mountable to the trailer, and air conduits providing sealed fluid communication between the air pressure source and the small trailer's pneumatic tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Kevin Mark Hennig, Benjamin Tyler Morgan, Thomas C. Musgrave, IV, Jonathan Gravell, James Raymond Snider, Charles Blanton Robertson, Steven R. Miller
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Publication number: 20230362301Abstract: A system comprises an applications server configured to communicatively couple to a softswitch, a resource server, and a database. The applications server is configured to receive, from the softswitch, an indication that a call from a calling party directed to a called number was received and determine, in response to the indication that the call was received, whether to route the call to an available agent or to a speech-enabled intelligent script associated with one of the called number or the calling party. The applications server is configured to instruct the softswitch to route the call to the speech-enabled intelligent script in response to a determination to route the call to the speech-enabled intelligent script. The applications server is configured to instruct the softswitch to route the call to the available agent in response to a determination to route the call to the available agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Thomas V. Curtin, Alena L. Aiken, Kevin Mark Beale, Wayne Paul Waldner, Daniel R. Cropp, Alan D. Tucker
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Publication number: 20230346455Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a medical probe including a tubular shaft, a contact force sensor assembly, a spine retention hub, and an expandable basket assembly. The contact force sensor can include a first bayonet mount portion and the spine retention hub can include a second bayonet mount portion to couple the spine retention hub to the contact force sensor by interlocking with the first bayonet mount portion. The expandable basket assembly can include a plurality of spines and at least one electrode coupled to each of the plurality of spines. Each of the plurality of spines can be configured to bow radially outward from the longitudinal axis when the expandable basket assembly is transitioned from a collapsed form to an expanded form.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark Okarski, Justin George Lichter
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Publication number: 20230346466Abstract: A medical probe is presented including an expandable basket assembly coupled to a distal end of a tubular shaft. The basket assembly includes a cloverleaf cutout structure at its distal end and spines extending proximally from the cloverleaf structure and coupling to the tubular shaft. The cloverleaf structure includes a sinusoidal-like member extending from one spine to an adjacent spine in a direction around the longitudinal axis. Dimensions of the sinusoidal-like member can be configured to provide a lateral stiffness of the expandable basket assembly within a predetermined range and a maximum peak stress during retraction of the expandable basket assembly into an intermediate catheter such that the maximum peak stress is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Justin HERRERA, Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Justin George LICHTER, Kevin Mark OKARSKI
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Publication number: 20230346463Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an electrode for a medical probe having an elongated body. At least a portion of the elongated body can be electrically conductive. The elongated body can define a lumen that extends through the elongated body along a longitudinal axis of the elongated body. The electrode can include a locking stub that extends at least partially into the lumen so that the locking stub is locked to a member inserted into the lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Thanh NGUYEN, Abubakarr BAH, Keshava DATTA
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Publication number: 20230346465Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an irrigation hub for an ablation catheter comprising a cylindrical member extending along a longitudinal axis. The cylindrical member can comprise a proximal end having a first outer diameter and a recess extending inwardly along the longitudinal axis forming an interior portion, a distal end having a second outer diameter, the second outer diameter being less than the first outer diameter, and an irrigation inlet chamber disposed proximate the interior portion and configured to receive fluid from an irrigation supply. The cylindrical member can further comprise a plurality of irrigation openings disposed generally transverse to the longitudinal axis from a distal portion of the irrigation inlet chamber and a flow diverter extending into the distal portion of the irrigation inlet chamber to block fluid flow and redirect fluid flow out of the plurality of irrigation openings in a direction generally transverse relative to the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark OKARSKI
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Publication number: 20230346461Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a spine retention hub for a basket type catheter, which may include a cylindrical member including a plurality of first irrigation openings, a first portion at a distal end of the spine retention hub having a first diameter, a second portion proximate the first portion and having a curved section with a first radius of curvature in a longitudinal direction, and a third portion proximate to the second portion at a proximal end of the spine retention hub, having a third diameter that is approximately three times the first diameter, a plurality of relief lands, and a plurality of brackets. Each bracket may be disposed at the proximal end of the spine retention hub, overlap a portion of a respective relief land, and may be, along with a respective relief land, configured to receive and retain a respective spine section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Abubakarr BAH, Thanh NGUYEN, Keshava DATTA
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Publication number: 20230346464Abstract: A medical probe is presented including an expandable basket assembly coupled to a distal end of a tubular shaft. The basket assembly includes a cloverleaf cutout structure at its distal end and spines extending proximally from the cloverleaf structure and coupling to the tubular shaft. The cloverleaf structure includes a sinusoidal-like member extending from one spine to an adjacent spine in a direction around the longitudinal axis. The sinusoidal-like member meanders around a first, second and third virtual circle such that the first and third virtual circles are approximately the same distance from a longitudinal axis of the medical probe and approximately the same size and the second virtual circle is between the first and second virtual circles, closer to the longitudinal axis, and having approximately 90% of the first open area of the first and third virtual circles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark Okarski, Justin George Lichter
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Patent number: 11792320Abstract: A method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party. The method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party and monitoring the communication session for one or more audit triggers. The method comprises detecting the one or more audit triggers. The method comprises, in response to detecting the one or more audit triggers, sending a notification to a client, the notification identifying one or more communication session auditing procedures available for the communication session. The method comprises receiving, from the client in response to the notification, a request to audit the communication session using at least one of the available one or more communication session auditing procedures. The method comprises performing the requested at least one communication session auditing procedure.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AMERICAN TEL-A-SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Thomas V. Curtin, Kevin Mark Beale, Daniel R. Cropp
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Publication number: 20230301707Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a medical probe comprising a tubular shaft extending along a longitudinal axis of the medical probe. The medical probe further comprises an expandable basket assembly coupled to the distal end of the tubular shaft. The basket assembly comprises a plurality of spines and a plurality of electrodes. The electrode comprises an electrode body that defines a lumen therethrough such that the respective spine extends through the lumen. The basket assembly comprises an electrically insulative jacket disposed between each respective spine and each respective electrode. Each electrode body and electrically insulative jacket comprises a substantially circular cross-sectional shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Keshava DATTA, Abubakarr BAH, Thanh NGUYEN
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Patent number: D1024132Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton