Patents by Inventor Mark A. Richard

Mark A. Richard 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: 20240131889
    Abstract: An example of an apparatus to transport utility-scale lithium-ion batteries in a racked and operational state. The apparatus includes a base and an isolation platform. In addition, the apparatus includes an isolator mounted on the base to support the isolation platform. The isolator is to dampen forces exerted on the isolation platform from the base. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a rack mounted onto the isolation platform. The rack is to secure a plurality of lithium-ion batteries to store energy at a utility-scale to be provided to a power distribution network. The plurality of lithium-ion batteries is racked in an operational state during transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NOMAD TRANSPORTABLE POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Edward Bellows, Gregg Richard Noble, Alex David Perkins, Lindsay Edward Gorrill, Paul Brant Coombs, Nan Wu, Jason Jean Martin, Mark Williams Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 11965714
    Abstract: Video sources and inertial sensors are attached to a weapon and to goggles. A computer receives video images from the weapon- and goggles-mounted sources and inertial data from the sensors. The computer calculates a location for an image from the weapon-mounted source within an image from the goggles-mounted source using the inertial sensor data. The sensor-based location is checked (and possibly adjusted) based on a comparison of the images. A database contains information about real-world objects in a field of view of the goggles-mounted source, and is used to generate icons or other graphics concerning such objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventors: John Richard Scales, Michael Harris Rodgers, Mark D. Hose
  • Patent number: 11968423
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine the number of people at a location. An example apparatus includes a configuration changer to change a configuration setting of the base station to cause mobile devices to register with the base station, a registration manager to respond to registration requests received from the mobile devices after the configuration setting is changed by storing device identification information for the corresponding mobile devices, and a counter controller to identify a number of the mobile devices at a location of the base station based on the stored device identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Ranney Harrold Fry, Mark Richard Cave
  • Patent number: 11963792
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods that track various aspects of a person's sleep and environment to optimize one or more aspects of the user's environment and sleep conditions, quality and duration, together or alone, and help make the one or more users maintain and prolong his or her deep sleep status and improve the their sleep duration and quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen, Venkat Easwar, Steven D. Powell
  • Patent number: 11964191
    Abstract: A golf club head is provided with an electronic display that is visible to a user of the golf club head when the golf club head is in the address position, such as for displaying one or more images to the user. The electronic display may include a memory, a microprocessor, and a battery, and may be configured to communicate with a user operable electronic device via a wired or a wireless communication protocol. For example, the electronic display may be configured to receive one or more images from the user operable electronic device, to store the one or more images in the memory, and to display the one or more images to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
  • Publication number: 20240125483
    Abstract: A cooking exhaust hood system, that has an exhaust hood adapted to be located over at least one cooking appliance and an exhaust fan connected to the exhaust hood, with the exhaust fan having a controllable exhaust air flow volume. A camera monitors a surface of the at least one cooking appliance and provide an image signal representing a visual status of the at least one cooking appliance. An image processing controller is connected to an image database and is configured to receive the image signal and to compare the visual status of the at least one cooking appliance based on the image signal to stored images in the image database. The image processing controller then output a cooking appliance status signal. An exhaust fan controller is provided that is connected to the exhaust fan. The exhaust fan controller is configured to receive the cooking appliance status signal and adjusts the exhaust fan accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Ashley, Alan Greer, Gregory Richards
  • Publication number: 20240125076
    Abstract: A rotating linear adjustment bracket (RLAB) for use in providing connective support between construction building materials and a ground mounted pier includes a base plate mounted to a sleeve. The RLAB includes one or more gussets bridging the base to the sleeve to increase its strength. A bracket is then attached to the base plate for connecting various construction materials to the base plate. The bracket can be configured in various sizes and shapes as needed for attachment to the building construction materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Donald Chad McKinney, Mark Richard Pater, David A. Allen
  • Publication number: 20240129580
    Abstract: A method of synchronising audio content arranged to be played by a second device with video content played by a first device, wherein the second device includes a camera, comprises: capturing at least a portion of the video content with the camera; performing image recognition on the captured video content to identify a set time point in the audio content; and commencing playing the audio content from a selected time point in the audio content corresponding to the set time point, such that the audio content is synchronous with the video content. A method of pre-preparing video content for use in such a synchronisation method is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Dominic Sinclair Collins, David John Bomphrey, Mark Richard James
  • Publication number: 20240128594
    Abstract: A wiring harness for a battery and inverter system includes a main cable. It further includes an inverter connector configured to plug the main cable into an inverter module. It further includes a first spur of the main cable terminating in a first-type battery device connector. It further includes a second spur of the main cable terminating in a second type battery device connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Peter H.J. How, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Holveck, Anthony Sagneri, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Randol Aikin, Mark Daniel Goldman, Conrad Xavier Murphy, Kevin Richard Fine, Brian M. Neil
  • Patent number: 11958133
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a method includes selecting a cemented carbide substrate from a plurality of cemented carbide substrates in a substrate inventory. Each of the plurality of cemented carbide substrates have a substantially planar top surface. The method also includes emitting a plurality of laser pulses from a laser towards at least the substantially planar top surface of the cemented carbide substrate to ablate selected regions of the cemented carbide substrate thereby forming the cemented carbide substrate into a selected shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Jones, Benjamin Michael Spencer, Brent Richard Eddy, Mark Pehrson Chapman
  • Patent number: 11960000
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HG Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Alberto Fonts, Carlos Ernesto Fonts, Mark Allen O'Hair, John Richard O'Hair, Richard Dolan Randall
  • Patent number: 11960001
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches testing an autonomous vehicle: shielding a GNSS receiving antenna of the vehicle from ambient GNSS signals while the vehicle is under test and supplanting the ambient GNSS signals with simulated GNSS signals. Testing includes using a GNSS signal generating system: receiving the ambient GNSS signals using an antenna of the system and determining a location and acceleration of the vehicle from the GNSS signals, accessing a model of an augmented environment that includes multi-pathing and obscuration of the GNSS signals along a test path, based on the determined location—generating the simulated GNSS signals to feed to the vehicle, in real time—simulating at least one constellation of GNSS satellite sources modified according to the augmented environment, based on the determined location, and feeding the simulated signals to a receiver in the vehicle, thereby supplanting ambient GNSS as the autonomous vehicle travels along the test path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, plc
    Inventors: Colin Richard Ford, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow, Steve Hickling, Mark Hunter, Guy Buesnel, Neil Bennett, Daniel Martin
  • Patent number: 11956702
    Abstract: A wireless communication network serves User Equipment (UEs) over a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Network Exposure Function (NEF). The wireless communication network comprises a non-3GPP Interworking Function (IWF) and the 3GPP NEF. The non-3GPP IWF receives NEF Application Programming Interface (API) calls that have UE data from the UEs over non-3GPP access nodes. The non-3GPP IWF transfers the NEF API calls that have the UE data to the 3GPP NEF. The 3GPP NEF receives the NEF API calls that have the UE data from the non-3GPP IWF. The 3GPP NEF exposes the UE data to an Application Functions (AF) in response to the NEF API calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Lyle T. Bertz, Robert Keith Butler, Mark Richard Bales
  • Publication number: 20240101038
    Abstract: Apparatus and method to access external vehicle cargo carriers and cargo are disclosed for moving cargo from a vehicle's roof to the vehicle's hood and returning the cargo to the roof for storage. A particular embodiment consists of using existing vehicle external roof-rack mounts and cargo carriers to allow mobile crossbars to deliver the cargo carrier and the cargo to a position at the front of the vehicle. A self-contained control system provides locomotive force to deploy and retrieve the cargo carrier and cargo. A human interface is used to control the apparatus and includes manual checks to ensure safe use. The apparatus can be used without a control system and operated manually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Eugene Liffring, Martin Richard Streich
  • Publication number: 20240106050
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an energy storage mounting system includes an inverter wall bracket mounted to a wall, wherein an inverter is coupled to the inverter wall bracket. The system includes a battery wall bracket to which a battery block is coupled. The battery wall bracket interfaces with an auxiliary bracket that is mounted to the wall, is vertically translatable relative to the auxiliary bracket, and is at least in part ground-supported. The battery block is electrically connected to the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher McCarthy, Tahina Christine Felisca, Peter H. J. How, Scott A. Whitman, Eamon Briggs, Sanchita Sheth, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Daniel Goldman, Kevin Richard Fine
  • Patent number: 11938825
    Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle having a prime mover motively coupled to a drive line; a motor/generator selectively coupled to the drive line, and configured to selectively modulate power transfer between an electrical load and the drive line; a battery pack; a DC/DC converter electrically interposed between the motor/generator and the electrical load, and between the battery pack and the electrical load, the DC/DC converter comprising a DC/DC converter housing; and a covering tray positioned over a plurality of batteries of the battery pack, the covering tray comprising a connectivity layer configured to provide electrical connectivity to terminals of the plurality of batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Nihal Sukhatankar, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Shivaprasad Vithal Goud, Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Matthew Richard Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah Elizabeth Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas Alan Genise, Gary Baker, Tissaphern Mirfakhrai, Elizabeth Jane Mercer, Viken Rafi Yeranosian, Lesley Earl Candler, Nicole Downing, Lalit Murlidhar Patil, Suyog Shekhar Kulkarni, Sunil Kumar Kunche, Rishabh Kumar Jain, Juan Chen
  • Patent number: 11933785
    Abstract: This invention provides minimally invasive methods, reagents, diagnostic and prognostic markers useful for staging, prognosis and surveillance of colorectal cancers, and therapeutic intervention in individuals with colorectal cancers, or individuals who may be susceptible to developing colorectal cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Michael Richard Sussman, Melanie Mae Ivancic, Gregory D Kennedy, William Franklin Dove, Perry Joseph Pickhardt, Mark Reichelderfer
  • Publication number: 20240086502
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of operating a device is provided. The method comprises operating a sensor to capture a data input, individuating an element of the data input, tagging an individuated element with metadata, matching the metadata with an associated permission set, and applying a restricting function defined in the associated permission set to the individuated element during a process flow to produce augmented reality output data restricted as required by the associated permission set. A device is also provided, comprising a sensor, an individuating component to individuate an element of sensor data from the sensor, a tagging component to tag the individuated element, a matching component to match a tag of the individuated element with a permission of a permission set, and a restricting function component to restrict an application's interaction with the individuated element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Michael BARTLING, Derek Del MILLER, Mark Richard NUTTER, Hugo John Martin VINCENT
  • Patent number: 11926866
    Abstract: Methods for detecting on-target and predicted off-target genome editing events by providing a multiplex PCR reaction mixture with an on-target oligonucleotide primer and one or more off-target oligonucleotide primers and then hybridizing the on-target oligonucleotide primer and the one or more off-target oligonucleotide primers to target nucleic acid sequences, followed by cleaving blocking groups from the primers and extending the primers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Dobosy, Caifu Chen, Mark Aaron Behlke, Garrett Richard Rettig
  • Patent number: 11926532
    Abstract: Provided are processes for producing metal oxides, including pigmentary TiO2. In embodiments, a process for producing a metal oxide comprises combining a metal halide and an oxidant in a liquid phase medium under conditions to oxidize the metal halide in the liquid phase medium to produce a metal oxide therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: University of Kansas
    Inventors: Mark Brandon Shiflett, David Richard Corbin, Andrew M. Danby, Bala Subramaniam