Patents by Inventor Mark A. Hopkins

Mark A. Hopkins 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).

  • Publication number: 20240328837
    Abstract: A method for installing a sensor assembly in a fire hydrant includes sequentially feeding components of the sensor assembly through an aperture in an upper standpipe of the fire hydrant. The components of the sensor assembly include a sensor unit, a conduit coupled with the sensor unit and extending away therefrom, and a series of rigid tubes surrounding the conduit and arranged in an end-to-end manner. The conduit is fed through the aperture along with the series of rigid tubes, and at least one of the series of rigid tubes has a length greater than a diameter of an interior of the fire hydrant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SILVERSMITH, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Pearson Smith, John P. Smith, Kevin Janka, Michael Rose, Mark Hopkins
  • Patent number: 12038306
    Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a sensor unit including a generally rigid sensor housing and at least one electronic sensor component, a conduit coupled with the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor housing, and a rigid support structure supporting a portion of at least one of the conduit or the sensor housing at a first end adjacent the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor unit to a length of at least about 6 feet. The rigid support structure configured to maintain the sensor unit within an internal structure for monitoring using the electronic sensor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SILVERSMITH, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Pearson Smith, John P. Smith, Kevin Janka, Michael Rose, Mark Hopkins
  • Publication number: 20230052748
    Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a sensor unit including a generally rigid sensor housing and at least one electronic sensor component, a conduit coupled with the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor housing, and a rigid support structure supporting a portion of at least one of the conduit or the sensor housing at a first end adjacent the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor unit to a length of at least about 6 feet. The rigid support structure configured to maintain the sensor unit within an internal structure for monitoring using the electronic sensor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SILVERSMITH, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Pearson Smith, John P. Smith, Kevin Janka, Michael Rose, Mark Hopkins
  • Publication number: 20180170075
    Abstract: A hot fuse printer system includes a feeder module adapted to spool a continuous substrate and cut the substrate to a desired length; a sheeting module adapted to feed the cut substrate to a printer module, which includes a hot fuser unit adapted to print on the cut substrate. The feeder module may include at least one sensor configured to determine a length of the substrate. The feeder module, the sheeting module and the printer module are each operatively connected to a controller which is configured to cause the feeder module to cut the substrate in a desired location, the sheeting module to feed the cut substrate to the printer module, and the printer module to print onto the cut substrate in a desired manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce EISENTRAUT, James DOMBESKI, Mark HOPKINS
  • Publication number: 20170336743
    Abstract: A fuser unit for a hot fuse printer system includes a heating roller having a heating element which does not extend the entire length of the roller. The roller may include at least two heating elements, one of which heats a first heating zone and the other which heats a second heating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Mark HOPKINS, James DOMBESKI, Bruce EISENTRAUT
  • Patent number: 9579429
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a surgical cassette with compliant clamping zones to provide more uniform loading. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a surgical cassette includes a clamping portion that is configured to deform to conform to non-uniform load profile applied to the cassette. The clamping portion can include ribs that are sized and made of a suitable material such that the ribs will deflect predictably in the elastic region and flow plastically when the material yield point is exceeded. The use of ribs creates discrete small load areas that will deflect and distort predictably and non-catastrophically at high loads. This allows for the absorption of accumulated tolerances between the clamping mechanism and cassette (e.g., the non-parallelism between the clamping mechanism and cassette) while still providing a distributed load on the cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: David Williams, David Domash, Jeffrey Jikang Chun, Mark A. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 9560959
    Abstract: Control of scanning images during ophthalmic surgery may be performed with a scanning controller that interfaces to an optical scanner used with a surgical microscope. A scan control device may receive user input, including hands-free user input, for controlling an overlay image of scanning data that is overlaid on optical image data viewed using the surgical microscope. A selected location for optical scanning may also be displayed and controlled using the scanning controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Mark Hopkins, Robert Sanchez, Ryan Takakawa, Lingfeng Yu, Hugang Ren
  • Patent number: 9505505
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical system for filling a syringe with a retinal tamponading gas is disclosed. The system includes a surgical console having a user interface, a computer, first and second bottles containing pressurized retinal tamponading gases, and a port for fluidly coupling to an automatic gas filling consumable including a syringe. A user selects a particular retinal tamponading gas via the user interface, and the system fills the syringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Mark A. Hopkins, John C. Huculak, Denis P. Turner
  • Patent number: 9360282
    Abstract: Armour for a vehicle comprises ceramic plates (3, 4) with a spall covering (5) on a front surface of the ceramic plate (3), the ceramic plate (4) being bonded at a rear surface thereof to a stiff support plate (2), a plastically deformable layers (9, 10) arranged behind the support plate (2), and spacing means (7) defining a front substantially planar space (11) between the support plate (2) and the plastically deformable layer (9) and a rear substantially planar space (14) arranged to be located between the plastically deformable layer (10) and a vehicle hull (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: NP Aerospace Limited
    Inventors: Roger T. A. Medwell, Christopher Davies, Michael Dalzell, Mark A. Hopkins-Brown
  • Patent number: 9241830
    Abstract: A system for a pneumatically-powered vitrectomy machine includes an output port, a venting valve, a venting manifold, a pressure transducer, and a controller. The output port provides pressurized gas to a vitrectomy probe. The venting valve is located close to the output port. The venting manifold fluidly connects the venting valve to a venting port. The venting port vents pressurized gas from the venting manifold. The pressure transducer is located near the output port. The pressure transducer is configured to read a pressure of a gas near the output port. The controller is adapted to receive information about the pressure and activate the venting valve. When the information received from the pressure transducer indicates a fault condition, the controller directs the venting valve to open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Argelio Olivera, Mark Hopkins, Denis Turner
  • Publication number: 20150114211
    Abstract: Armour for a vehicle comprises ceramic plates (3, 4) with a spall covering (5) on a front surface of the ceramic plate (3), the ceramic plate (4) being bonded at a rear surface thereof to a stiff support plate (2), a plastically deformable layers (9, 10) arranged behind the support plate (2), and spacing means (7) defining a front substantially planar space (11) between the support plate (2) and the plastically deformable layer (9) and a rear substantially planar space (14) arranged to be located between the plastically deformable layer (10) and a vehicle hull (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: ROGER T.A MEDWELL, CHRISTOPHER NMI DAVIES, MICHAEL NMI DALZELL, MARK A. HOPKINS-BROWN
  • Patent number: 8960772
    Abstract: A heavy goods vehicle has a dropped frame that includes an upper skin, a lower skin and lateral beams between the skins. The frame is self-supporting. In a vehicle independent real wheel motors are provided. The vehicle may be a diesel-electric hybrid. The dropped body is suitable for delivery and collection vehicles, and particularly refuse vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dennis Eagle Limited
    Inventors: Roger Michael Lane, Jonathan Alan Sayers, Mark Hopkins, David Anthony Collins, Paul Mark Bridden
  • Publication number: 20140230956
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical system for filling a syringe with a retinal tamponading gas is disclosed. The system includes a surgical console having a user interface, a computer, first and second bottles containing pressurized retinal tamponading gases, and a port for fluidly coupling to an automatic gas filling consumable including a syringe. A user selects a particular retinal tamponading gas via the user interface, and the system fills the syringe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: MARK A. HOPKINS, JOHN C. HUCULAK, DENIS P. TURNER
  • Patent number: 8746290
    Abstract: A surgical console having bottles containing retinal tamponading gases and an automatic gas filling module disposed therein for filling an automatic gas filling consumable is disclosed. The automatic gas filling module includes a pair of gas shutoff valves and a regulator connected in series with a port for connection to the automatic gas filling consumable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Mark A. Hopkins, John C. Huculak, Denis P. Turner
  • Patent number: 8694303
    Abstract: A method for tuning translation parameters in statistical machine translation based on ranking of the translation parameters is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes sampling pairs of candidate translation units from a set of candidate translation units corresponding to a source unit, each candidate translation unit corresponding to numeric values assigned to one or more features, receiving an initial weighting value for each feature, comparing the pairs of candidate translation units to produce binary results, and using the binary results to adjust the initial weighting values to produce modified weighting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Language Weaver, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hopkins, Jonathan May
  • Publication number: 20140095402
    Abstract: The Applicant has developed a system and method for extracting a large amount of raw emotional features from candidate audio responses and automatically isolating the relevant features. Relative rankings for each pool of candidates applying for a given position are calculated and candidates are grouped by predictive scores into broad categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: HIREIQ SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Merrill, Robert Forman, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Hegebarth, Ben Olive
  • Publication number: 20140062143
    Abstract: A heavy goods vehicle has a dropped frame that includes an upper skin, a lower skin and lateral beams between the skins. The frame is self-supporting. In a vehicle independent real wheel motors are provided. The vehicle may be a diesel-electric hybrid. The dropped body is suitable for delivery and collection vehicles, and particularly refuse vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Roger Michael Lane, Jonathan Alan Sayers, Mark Hopkins, David Anthony Collins, Paul Mark Bridden
  • Patent number: 8602669
    Abstract: Hybrid printer feeder mechanism, using a commercial printer of any type, such as LED, ink jet, thermal or dot matrix, allowing both single sheet fed input and alternately, continuous and variable width printable medium feedstock, including automated feed and cutting control, with minimal integration of the print engine and feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Imaging Systems Group Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hopkins, James Dombeski, Bruce Eisentraut
  • Patent number: 8600728
    Abstract: Training and translation using trees and/or subtrees as parts of the rules. A target language is word aligned with a source language, and at least one of the languages is parsed into trees. The trees are used for training, by aligning conversion steps, forming a manual set of information representing the conversion steps and then learning rules from that reduced set. The rules include subtrees as parts thereof, and are used for decoding, along with an n-gram language model and a syntax based language mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Kevin Knight, Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Daniel Marcu, Ignacio Thayer
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    Patent number: D699914
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Norwalk Wilbert Vault Company, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Hopkins Bates, Craig Steven Neal