Patents by Inventor Mark A. Pilgrim

Mark A. Pilgrim 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: 11084680
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for taking flexible sheets off a delivery belt, such as from a scanner or copier, and restacking them in the order and orientation (face) they were originally scanned in. This requires flipping over such sheets by use of a spindle wheel with a plurality of fingers defining slots therebetween for receiving the sheets and reversing their face (flipping). By knowing the speed of the delivery belt and using a continuously spinning spindle wheel it is possible to avoid the effects of momentum on the fingers which distorts their position during stopping and starting action. Instead, the spindle wheel is in constant rotation but the speed of rotation is adjusted from a first speed, then a second tapering speed, to a third speed which is adapted to ensure that the slot between fingers is accurately presented to the leading edge as it enters the slot and does not get rejected by an accidental encounter with a finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Imaging Business Machines LLC
    Inventors: Mark Pilgrim Widener, Eddie L. Groom, Robert Babanats
  • Patent number: 8602331
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for size reduction of a material. The method includes the steps of: feeding material through a feed assembly into a cyclone chamber, the cyclone chamber having an elongate cylindrical conduit having a frusto-conical section; adding at least one viscosity modifying agent into the cyclone chamber; and providing a cyclonic fluid stream within the cyclone chamber. The apparatus includes: a cyclone chamber having an elongate cylindrical conduit having a frusto-conical section; a device for creating a cyclonic fluid stream within the cyclone chamber, such that the frusto-conical section of the cyclone chamber terminates in an opening forming the inlet to the device; an air inlet tube in fluid connection with the cyclone chamber at the opposite end of the frusto-conical section; and a feed assembly for feeding material into the cyclone chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Musse Singapore Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Paul Hitchcock, Wayne Pearce, Mark Pilgrim
  • Publication number: 20110114766
    Abstract: A method for size reduction of a material comprising the steps of: feeding material through a feed assembly into a cyclone chamber, the cyclone chamber having an elongate cylindrical conduit having a frusto-conical section; adding at least one viscosity modifying agent into the cyclone chamber; and providing a cyclonic fluid stream within the cyclone chamber. The invention also includes an apparatus for carrying out size reduction of a material comprising: a cyclone chamber having an elongate cylindrical conduit having a frusto-conical section; a device for creating a cyclonic fluid stream within the cyclone chamber, such that the frusto-conical section of the cyclone chamber terminates in an opening forming the inlet to the device; an air inlet tube in fluid connection with the cyclone chamber at the opposite end of the frusto-conical section; and a feed assembly for feeding material into the cyclone chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Ronen Hazarika, Paul Hitchcock, Wayne Pearce, Mark Pilgrim
  • Patent number: 7895570
    Abstract: Accessible role and state information may be included in hypertext markup language documents by encoding an accessibility definition into a class attribute. The accessibility definition corresponds with an object of a hypertext markup language document and comprises role information and state information if state information is applicable to the corresponding role information. A script is associated with the hypertext markup language document and is configured for parsing at least a portion of the hypertext markup language document to identify the accessibility definition. The script further maps the role information and the state information in the accessibility definition to corresponding namespaced role and state attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Becky J. Gibson, Daniel A. Gisolfi, Laurent Hasson, Aaron M. Leventhal, Mark A. Pilgrim
  • Patent number: 7844637
    Abstract: A method, data processing system and computer program product for maintaining/updating managing keyboard navigation using a linked list. In particular, a Dynamic Tree Control Linkage (DTCL) utility creates a doubly linked list with list nodes having assigned values based on a tree control structure UI component. Each list node of the doubly linked list corresponds to a visible tree item of the tree structure UI component. Responding to a keyboard event signal, the DTCL utility finds a current list node corresponding to a first current tree item. The DTCL utility finds a next (i.e. previous or subsequent) list node corresponding to a next tree item. The DTCL utility detects a list node exists. The DTCL utility detects whether the next list node is associated with a null value. When the next list node is associated with a non-null value, the next tree item is identified. The DTCL utility returns an identification of the next tree item representing a second current tree item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Becky J. Gibson, Daniel A. Gisolfi, Laurent Hasson, Mark A. Pilgrim
  • Publication number: 20090077123
    Abstract: A method, data processing system and computer program product for maintaining/updating managing keyboard navigation using a linked list. In particular, a Dynamic Tree Control Linkage (DTCL) utility creates a doubly linked list with list nodes having assigned values based on a tree control structure UI component. Each list node of the doubly linked list corresponds to a visible tree item of the tree structure UI component. Responding to a keyboard event signal, the DTCL utility finds a current list node corresponding to a first current tree item. The DTCL utility finds a next (i.e. previous or subsequent) list node corresponding to a next tree item. The DTCL utility detects a list node exists. The DTCL utility detects whether the next list node is associated with a null value. When the next list node is associated with a non-null value, the next tree item is identified. The DTCL utility returns an identification of the next tree item representing a second current tree item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: BECKY J. GIBSON, Daniel A. Gisolfi, Laurent Hasson, Mark A. Pilgrim
  • Publication number: 20070157077
    Abstract: Accessible role and state information may be included in hypertext markup language documents by encoding an accessibility definition into a class attribute. The accessibility definition corresponds with an object of a hypertext markup language document and comprises role information and state information if state information is applicable to the corresponding role information. A script is associated with the hypertext markup language document and is configured for parsing at least a portion of the hypertext markup language document to identify the accessibility definition. The script further maps the role information and the state information in the accessibility definition to corresponding namespaced role and state attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Becky Gibson, Daniel Gisolfi, Laurent Hasson, Aaron Leventhal, Mark Pilgrim