Patents by Inventor Mark A. Litman

Mark A. Litman 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: 20250083106
    Abstract: A system and method for the removal of poly- and/or perfluoroalkyl fluorinated materials contaminants from an aqueous mass uses a system which includes: a) a first chamber for holding the aqueous mass containing a detectable amount of poly- and/or perfluoroalkyl fluorinated materials; b) an anode and a cathode in electronic connection with the aqueous mass in the first chamber; and c) an anionic semipermeable membrane or porous structure between the aqueous mass and the anode. The anionic semipermeable membrane comprises at least 0.0001% by total weight of the anionic semipermeable membrane of a cationic compound adhered to the anionic semipermeable membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Randall Moore, Kevin Jackson, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20250066228
    Abstract: A system and method for the removal of poly- and/or perfluoroalkyl fluorinated materials contaminants from an aqueous mass uses a system which includes: a) a first chamber for holding the aqueous mass containing a detectable amount of poly- and/or perfluoroalkyl fluorinated materials; b) an anode and a cathode in electronic connection with the aqueous mass in the first chamber; and c) an anionic semipermeable membrane or porous structure between the aqueous mass and the anode. The anionic semipermeable membrane comprises at least 0.0001% by total weight of the anionic semipermeable membrane of a cationic compound adhered to the anionic semipermeable membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Randall Moore, Kevin Jackson, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20240389554
    Abstract: Multifunctional protective footwear for canines is provided with a vertical zone, a transition zone and a horizontal zone. At least the horizontal zone, adjacent the pad of a canine's foot contains a combination of at least two fabric materials, a) silicone rubber threads or yarns combined with b) meta- or para-aramids, a) and b) combined within proportions of 5-95% and 95-5% by total fabric weight of the footwear weight respectively. Up to 50% of the total footwear weight may be replaced by other fiber materials, with the combinations of a) and b) constituting the remaining total weight of the footwear as 5-45% and 45-5% by total fabric weight of the footwear weight respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Alan H. Golden, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20240238053
    Abstract: A method of alerting a user to the existence of an anomalous variation in local conditions during use of a thrombus retrieval device in a patient. The method including: inserting a thrombus retrieval device into a blood vessel in a patient having a thrombus within the vessel while a region including the thrombus is under sensed observation. Sensing a signal responsive to at least thrombus variations, the variations being in response to the use of the thrombus retrieval device, sensing the existence of the anomalous variation in the local conditions, with a server receiving data of the sensed anomalous variation in local conditions. The server executes software to identify available procedures to be used after identification of one or more anomalous variations in local conditions related to the sensed anomalous variation in local conditions. The server provides first visual data visible to a human eye identifying the available procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11627838
    Abstract: A beverage container has a housing, a controllable flow restriction element, and at least two liquid storage compartments in the housing. The housing is relatively rotatable with respect to the controllable flow restriction element about a main axis for rotation of the controllable flow restriction element between a closed liquid flow position and an open liquid flow position. The controllable flow restriction element has openings therein within the housing. Rotation of the controllable flow restriction element toward the closed position effects the closed position. Mixing of liquids from the first liquid compartment and the second liquid compartment are effected by rotational movement of the controllable flow restriction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Mark A. Litman, Christy R. Pappas, John Dispenza
  • Publication number: 20230062684
    Abstract: An intravascular thrombus retraction device includes: wires that are compressible into a compact cylindrical form within a catheter and are self-expandable into a wire mesh web with at least some parallel wires forming openings in the wire mesh sufficient to allow fluid passage and small enough to filter particles of at least 0.001 mm, a base of the wire mesh web connected to radial ring-shaped structure supporting and maintaining an opening in the base of the wire mesh and forming a thrombus capture volume, and the radial ring-shaped structure being compressible into the catheter and being self-expandable or expandable by struts when free of compressive forces within the catheter to open up into an open, expanded, radial ring-shaped structure which maintains the opening in the opening in the base of the wire mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sheri Albers, John Kucharczyk, Gregory Latchaw, Johannes van Vaals, Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11549199
    Abstract: A fabric delivers active ingredients to a surface when the fabric includes a moist-vapor porous combination of fabric materials, and the fabric comprises at least 0.5% by total weight of at least one layer of the fabric of a superabsorbent polymer fiber. The superabsorbent polymer fiber contains an absorbed aqueous reservoir of an aqueous solution carrying the active ingredients. The superabsorbent fiber has a coating on its surface of an aqueous penetrable layer through which a liquid in the absorbed aqueous reservoir can migrate or flow, carrying the active ingredients onto an exposed surface of the superabsorbent polymer fiber, so that the active ingredients on the surface of the superabsorbent polymer can react or interact with an environment in contact with the active ingredients on the superabsorbent polymer fiber surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: David A. Gray, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20220298674
    Abstract: A fabric delivers active ingredients to a surface when the fabric includes a moist-vapor porous combination of fabric materials, and the fabric comprises at least 0.5% by total weight of at least one layer of the fabric of a superabsorbent polymer fiber. The superabsorbent polymer fiber contains an absorbed aqueous reservoir of an aqueous solution carrying the active ingredients. The superabsorbent fiber has a coating on its surface of an aqueous penetrable layer through which a liquid in the absorbed aqueous reservoir can migrate or flow, carrying the active ingredients onto an exposed surface of the superabsorbent polymer fiber, so that the active ingredients on the surface of the superabsorbent polymer can react or interact with an environment in contact with the active ingredients on the superabsorbent polymer fiber surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: David A. Gray, Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11436893
    Abstract: A method of executing a sports fantasy wagering event among multiple players executed through player terminals to one or more servers, each of the player terminals comprising: one or more processors; player input controls; a communications component to connect the player terminal to a gaming platform running on the one or more servers; wherein the sports fantasy event is a single player game competing against multiple other single players that is dependent upon verifiable sports event outcomes in sports events; wherein each of the players select individual sports players or sports team performances, even if other ones of the multiple players have selected same individual sports players or sports team performances; and the one or more servers generate an amended point outcome based on reducing numbers of points awarded to each of the multiple players inversely based on numbers of the players having selected any identical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20220237990
    Abstract: A method of executing a sports fantasy wagering event among multiple players executed through player terminals to one or more servers, each of the player terminals comprising: one or more processors; player input controls; a communications component to connect the player terminal to a gaming platform running on the one or more servers; wherein the sports fantasy event is a single player game competing against multiple other single players that is dependent upon verifiable sports event outcomes in sports events; and at least one player at a player terminal places a wager against the one or more servers or under authority of the one or more servers against another player, wagering on a specific single event outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11352715
    Abstract: A fabric delivers active ingredients to a surface when the fabric includes a moist-vapor porous combination of fabric materials, and the fabric comprises at least 0.5% by total weight of at least one layer of the fabric of a superabsorbent polymer fiber. The superabsorbent polymer fiber contains an absorbed aqueous reservoir of an aqueous solution carrying the active ingredients. The superabsorbent fiber has a coating on its surface of an aqueous penetrable layer through which a liquid in the absorbed aqueous reservoir can migrate or flow, carrying the active ingredients onto an exposed surface of the superabsorbent polymer fiber, so that the active ingredients on the surface of the superabsorbent polymer can react or interact with an environment in contact with the active ingredients on the superabsorbent polymer fiber surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: David A. Gray, Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11351465
    Abstract: A method of executing a sports fantasy wagering event among multiple players executed through player terminals to one or more servers, each of the player terminals comprising: one or more processors; player input controls; a communications component to connect the player terminal to a gaming platform running on the one or more servers; wherein the sports fantasy event is a single player game competing against multiple other single players that is dependent upon verifiable sports event outcomes in sports events; the one or more servers generate an amended point outcome based on reducing numbers of points awarded to each of the multiple players inversely based on numbers of the players having selected any identical performance; and 2 players to 10% of players make a side bet to enter a secondary sports fantasy wagering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11302149
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus having electronic input controls therein includes: a player input panel; a video display system; and a gaming processor. The player input panel may have a first input control specific to providing a command to the gaming processor and the player input panel. The command enables a second player input control on the player input panel. This second player input control is specific to alteration of game play so that physical activity at the player panel will enter commands to the gaming controller to execute gaming play without placing any economic value at risk during a demonstration period. The gaming processor allows the demonstration period to continue for only a predetermined time limit or event occurrence that does not result in resolution of a wager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERBLOCK D.D.
    Inventors: Joze Pececnik, Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 11242236
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-compartment container for storing and dispensing separately a plurality of consumable liquids that can be mixed in an accurate and repeatable manner. Each storage compartment within the container encloses a predetermined quantity of a consumable liquid, wherein the first compartment is filled with a first liquid and the other compartments are filled with second and third liquids. The individual storage compartments are structurally merged to form elongated dispensing compartments each with a first end and a second end, wherein a one-way outlet positioned at the first end and a one-way outlet located at the second end permits passage of liquid from the storage compartments into the corresponding dispensing compartments. Upon fully inverting the container, the designated outlet of each dispensing compartment is opened, wherein precise amounts of liquids in the first, second, and third compartments are dispensed at constant volume ratio using gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Phillip LaBarbera, Scott Gold, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20210188614
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-compartment container for storing and dispensing separately a plurality of consumable liquids that can be mixed in an accurate and repeatable manner. Each storage compartment within the container encloses a predetermined quantity of a consumable liquid, wherein the first compartment is filled with a first liquid and the other compartments are filled with second and third liquids. The individual storage compartments are structurally merged to form elongated dispensing compartments each with a first end and a second end, wherein a one-way outlet positioned at the first end and a one-way outlet located at the second end permits passage of liquid from the storage compartments into the corresponding dispensing compartments. Upon fully inverting the container, the designated outlet of each dispensing compartment is opened, wherein precise amounts of liquids in the first, second, and third compartments are dispensed at constant volume ratio using gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip LaBarbera, Scott Gold, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20210097808
    Abstract: A method of executing a sports fantasy wagering event among multiple players executed through player terminals to one or more servers, each of the player terminals comprising: one or more processors; player input controls; a communications component to connect the player terminal to a gaming platform running on the one or more servers; wherein the sports fantasy event is a single player game competing against multiple other single players that is dependent upon verifiable sports event outcomes in sports events; wherein each of the players select individual sports players or sports team performances, even if other ones of the multiple players have selected same individual sports players or sports team performances; and the one or more servers generate an amended point outcome based on reducing numbers of points awarded to each of the multiple players inversely based on numbers of the players having selected any identical performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 10870059
    Abstract: A method of executing a sports fantasy wagering event among multiple players executed through player terminals to one or more servers, each of the player terminals comprising: one or more processors; player input controls; a communications component to connect the player terminal to a gaming platform running on the one or more servers; wherein the sports fantasy event is a single player game competing against multiple other single players that is dependent upon verifiable sports event outcomes in sports events; wherein each of the players select individual sports players or sports team performances, even if other ones of the multiple players have selected same individual sports players or sports team performances; and the one or more servers generate an amended point outcome based on reducing numbers of points awarded to each of the multiple players inversely based on numbers of the players having selected any identical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20200334957
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus having electronic input controls therein includes: a player input panel; a video display system; and a gaming processor. The player input panel may have a first input control specific to providing a command to the gaming processor and the player input panel. The command enables a second player input control on the player input panel. This second player input control is specific to alteration of game play so that physical activity at the player panel will enter commands to the gaming controller to execute gaming play without placing any economic value at risk during a demonstration period. The gaming processor allows the demonstration period to continue for only a predetermined time limit or event occurrence that does not result in resolution of a wager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Joze Pececnik, Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 10713895
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus having electronic input controls therein includes: a player input panel; a video display system; and a gaming processor. The player input panel may have a first input control specific to providing a command to the gaming processor and the player input panel. The command enables a second player input control on the player input panel. This second player input control is specific to alteration of game play so that physical activity at the player panel will enter commands to the gaming controller to execute gaming play without placing any economic value at risk during a demonstration period. The gaming processor allows the demonstration period to continue for only a predetermined time limit or event occurrence that does not result in resolution of a wager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTERBLOCK D.D.
    Inventors: Joze Pececnik, Mark A. Litman
  • Publication number: 20190308359
    Abstract: A nasal dilator and method of making nasal dilators are provided. The dilator may have a composite base element of at least two regions, the base element having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface of the base element having a pressure-sensitive adhesive disposed thereon; the base element further including a spring element which imparts return memory into the base element so that the base element returns towards a planar conformation during use. The spring element has elastic memory effected by differential properties in the at least two regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Liberman Distributing and Manufacturing Co., d/b/a/ Lidco Products ("Lidco")
    Inventors: David A. Gray, Mark A. Litman