Patents by Inventor Mark A. Niven

Mark A. Niven 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: 11921567
    Abstract: Temporarily limiting access to a storage device, including: determining that a storage device of a plurality of storage devices in a storage system is operating outside of a defined performance range; determining that the storage device operating outside of the defined performance range may be caused by a rehabilitative action performed on the storage device; and modifying a storage operation issuance policy for one or more storage devices of the plurality of storage devices until a determination that the storage device is operating within the defined performance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, Anthony Niven, Mark Fay, Pushkar Mahesh Shirali, Ronald Karr
  • Publication number: 20060210574
    Abstract: A method of reversing a clinical episode of a disease which is generally considered incurable in a subject. The method includes providing an immune-globulin preparation containing a detectable titre of antibodies to the disease which is generally considered incurable and administering the immune-globulin preparation to the subject. Preferably, the immune globulin preparation is a pool of immune globulin fractions gathered from blood of donors living in an area where the disease is endemic. Further disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and articles of manufacture suited for use in practice of the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Zvi Shimoni, Mark Niven, Shlomo Bulvik
  • Patent number: 5456370
    Abstract: An adjustable tilt construction for a toothbrush display rack. The rear wall of the rack is provided with one or more T slots, each slot receiving one of two parallel flanges of a respective leg, said leg being generally H shaped in transverse cross section over at least a portion of its length. One flange of each leg is shorter than the other, and is asymmetrically located with respect to it so as to yield two different distances from the ends of the shorter flange to respective ends of the longer flange. This leg configuration permits three different leg heights by inserting each leg into a respective slot in three different ways. In turn, this permits three different tilt angles for the display rack. Each leg has at least one end having biased edges which releasably frictionally fit into the T shaped slots on the rear wall of the rack. The leg and slot configuration may also be used on any member to provide height adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis
  • Patent number: 5407085
    Abstract: An adjustable tilt construction for a display rack. The rear wall of the rack is provided with one or more T slots, each slot receiving one of the two parallel flanges of a respective leg, the latter generally H shaped in transverse cross section over at least a portion of its length. One flange of each leg is shorter than the other, and is asymmetrically located with respect to it so as to yield two different distances from the ends of the shorter flange to respective ends of the longer flange. This leg configuration permits three different leg heights by inserting each leg into a respective slot in three different ways. In turn, this permits three different tilt angles for the display rack. The leg and slot configuration may also be used on a table to provide height adjustment, the legs and slots operating in the same manner as in the display rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis
  • Patent number: 5014949
    Abstract: Cards of the type having products encapsulated thereon are supported on a dispenser. A mounting section mounts the dispenser to a mounting surface and the cards are supported on a supporting section of the dispenser via engagement thereof by an aperture in the cards. A connecting section of the dispenser extends from the supporting section to the dispensing section and is shaped so that the dispensing section extends outwardly from and above the supporting section. The geometry of the connecting section and the position of the aperture are such that the product card must be discreetly manipulated from the supporting section to the dispensing section via the connecting section for removal from the dispenser, whereby unauthorized removal or pilfering of product cards from the dispenser is inhibited, as is malicious removal or inadvertent displacement of the cards therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Goldring Display Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Niven
  • Patent number: D322523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Tarkett Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Brooks, Gerald C. Mueller, Mark A. Niven
  • Patent number: D352621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis
  • Patent number: D354410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis
  • Patent number: D362569
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis
  • Patent number: D372381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Harold B. Goldring, Mark A. Niven, Ronald Namaroff, Leslie G. Davis