Patents by Inventor Mark A. Douglas

Mark A. Douglas 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: 7883008
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that reads card data from a card of a machine user. The card data may be linked in a data store to both a customer's financial account and a cell phone assigned to that customer. The automated banking machine user may provide inputs to the machine via one or more sensors that operate to determine where on a display of the machine at least one eye of the machine user is looking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Dale H. Blackson, Mark A. Douglas, Caren R. Blackson, legal representative
  • Patent number: 5401130
    Abstract: A fluidized bed combustion system (10) particularly suited for use to effect the incineration, i.e., combustion, therewith of wood waste/sludge mixtures that have high moisture and ash content which makes them difficult to burn. The fluidized bed combustion system (10) includes a fluidized bed combustor (12) embodying a fluidized bed (24) composed of bed solids. Air is injected into the fluidized bed (24) through an air distributor (28) to establish a first controlled fluidizing velocity zone and a second controlled fluidizing velocity zone therewithin. Material (42b) is introduced into the fluidized bed combustor (12) above the second controlled fluidizing velocity zone. Bed solids are projected from the first controlled fluidizing velocity zone to the second controlled fluidizing velocity zone whereupon the bed solids rain down upon the material (42b) and effect a covering thereof. The material (42b) is then dried and thereafter combusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Chiu, Michael J. Hargrove, Glen D. Jukkola, Mark A. Douglas, Stuart A. Morrison, Steve Y. Wong
  • Patent number: D602225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard C. Lute, Mark A. Douglas, Roy Mleziva, Donald S. Nelson, Jr., Paul D. Magee, David A. Barker