Patents by Inventor Mark A. Roberts

Mark A. Roberts 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: 11905495
    Abstract: Treatment compositions, such as fabric care or dish care compositions, that include poly alpha-1,6-glucan ether compounds, which include poly alpha-1,6-glucans substituted with at least one positively charged organic group, the compounds being characterized by, for example, a degree of substitution of about 0.001 to about 3.0, and optionally, where about 3% or more of the backbone glucose monomer units have branches via alpha-1,2- and/or alpha-1,3-glycosidic linkages. Methods related to making and using such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Carola Barrera, Kristine Lynn Fliter, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Wouter Walravens, Cedric Joseph Volont, Claire Rebecca Yates, Julie Ann Menkhaus, David Good, Gang Si, Ruth Chilton, Michael D. Gagnon, Brandon J. Burkhart, Helen Lu, Weiming Qiu, Kathleen Mary McDonough
  • Patent number: 11904283
    Abstract: A volatiles consuming eductor system for coated scrap metal furnaces with separate delacquering and melt chambers. Motive gas is forced through an inlet into a mixing chamber in a direction opposite a suction port, creating a Venturi that draws gases from the delaquering chamber through the mixing chamber. The motive gas and the drawn gases mix and are forced through a discharge port, ignited, and injected into the melt chamber to help heat the melt chamber. A computer monitors process conditions and controls a regulator that adjusts the motive gas flow in response to those conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GPRE IP LLC
    Inventors: John M. Peterman, Mark A. Roberts, Mark J. Burke
  • Patent number: 11900778
    Abstract: A method for improving safety and property protection in schools comprising fixed and mobile safety and security devices, networked together. A software App provides real-time communication among various devices. The network integrates disparate security devices into a unified system to expand coordination and communication among public safety personnel. The system automatically triggers alarms, cell phone notifications, and warnings, as well as defensive measures, when its sensors or safety devices detect or report threats to public safety and property. Each device in the system is pre-programmed to respond independently while simultaneously sharing its findings with all other devices and security personnel in the network. Deployment of these disparate devices gives security personnel heightened awareness, real-time status of secured and unsecured building entrances, around-the-clock visualization, and faster response times in both indoor and outdoor emergencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: John Thomas Scully, Jr., Lee Bryan, Mark Robert Schneider, Patricia Lynn Scott, Vladimir Kogan
  • Publication number: 20240035233
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11887178
    Abstract: A message management platform receives API payloads including past confirmed transactions carried out by an application builder platform and available item offerings of an application operator. The message management platform launches, at an instant messaging platform, a chat session between an agent and a user, a subscriber to the message management platform and an end-user of the application operator. The message management platform displays, for the agent, at the instant messaging platform, the past confirmed transactions of the user and the available item offerings of the application operator. The message management platform receives a selection of a set of items from the agent based on the chat session with the user and creates a virtual instance of a shopping cart representation. The message management platform generates a materialization link of the shopping cart and transmits the materialization link to the user through the instant messaging platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Stodge Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Douglas Turner, Evan Andrew Romano, Nicole Marie Perry, John Barott Fox, Nathan Patrick Killea, Mark Robert Sullivan, Rohan Bhatia, David Dennison Lacho, Tyler Jameson Reiff, Alexander Nathan Seibel, Steadman Stoness Dinning, Owen David Romano
  • Publication number: 20240031657
    Abstract: A detergent product containing a detergent composition is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 11882118
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include identity verification and management services in which users authenticate their identities during an enrollment process, and may access and modify their identity information via a secure portal. The enrollment process includes collecting various identifying data and biometric data of a user. A live interview portion during the enrollment process is used to check the liveness and verify the collected identifying data and biometric data. Once the user is enrolled, the user's identity can be verified for multiple entities using the same enrolled identity, and the user can manage the specific data used to verify their identity with different entities. This provides users with the ability to use their authenticated/verified identity across various industries, markets, locations, and the like, while keeping their identifying data private. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: artius.iD, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Allen Larson, Dominic John O'Dierno, Mark Robert Johnson
  • Patent number: 11878077
    Abstract: Described herein is a fibrous water-soluble unit dose with an active agent in the form of an acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Mark William Hamersky, Sarah Ann Delaney, Sol Melissa Escobar, Jack Wesley English, III, Min Mao
  • Publication number: 20240011710
    Abstract: A vortex metal insertion system for a metal recycling furnace, the system having a molten metal flow cycling through the furnace and through a vortex bowl in the system. The system includes one or more process sensors in the furnace, an automated molten metal flow adjustment device, and a computer controller. The computer controller reads the sensor(s) and adjusts the adjustment device to control the flow of molten metal through the vortex bowl based on the reading(s). The system has an insertion port through which scrap metal and other materials may be controllably inserted into the molten metal flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: GPRE IP, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Peterman, Mark A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11859338
    Abstract: A package for a single unit dose detergent, the package having an outer shell and an inner structure. The outer shell and the inner structure comprise of a biodegradable material. The inner structure has one or more divided sections enabled to contain one or more single unit dose detergents articles. At least one of the one or more divided sections comprises a protuberance extending from a surface facing an inner surface of the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael David Sanders, Mark Robert Sivik, Ian Oliver Malott
  • Publication number: 20230416647
    Abstract: The need for a liquid hand-dishwashing composition having good phase stability and finished product viscosity which provides improved sudsing volume and longevity when washing in the presence of greasy soil, is met when the composition is formulated with from about 1.0% to about 50% of a sudsing surfactant system and a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Pieter Jan Maria SAVEYN, Mark Robert SIVIK, Evelyne Johanna Lutgarde VAN HECKE
  • Patent number: 11845911
    Abstract: Active agent-containing fibrous structure articles, for example dryer-added fibrous structure articles and/or washing machine-added fibrous structure articles and/or hair care fibrous structure articles, and more particularly to consumable, single use, water-insoluble fibrous structure articles containing one or more active agents and optionally, one or more auxiliary ingredients, methods for making same, and methods for using same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark William Hamersky, Mark Robert Sivik, Allesandro Corona, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Gregory Charles Gordon, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20230399595
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example dryer-added articles and/or washing machine-added articles and/or hair care articles, and more particularly to consumable, single use, water-insoluble articles containing one or more active agents and optionally, one or more auxiliary ingredients, methods for making same, and methods for using same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Mark William Hamersky, Mark Robert Sivik, Alessandro Corona, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Gregory Charles Gordon, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20230399592
    Abstract: Laundry additive compositions that include a metal sequestration agent and that may be characterized by an acidic pH. Related methods of treating a fabric, for example with a wash liquor and a rinse liquor, with such compositions and/or agents. Uses of such laundry additive compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sarah Ann DELANEY, Sol Melissa ESCOBAR, Renae Dianna FOSSUM, Mark Robert SIVIK
  • Patent number: 11839955
    Abstract: A ratchet wrench comprises a handle defining a cavity including a plurality of teeth on an inner periphery thereof, a wheel, a biasing spring ring, and at least one tooth pawl mounted in recesses formed on the outer periphery of the wheel. The wheel is rotatably mounted inside the cavity and the pawls are biased by the spring ring to engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a first direction, and to slide over the teeth engage the plurality of teeth on the inner periphery of the cavity when rotated in a direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Great Star Tools USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenton Michael Solar, Mark Robert Stanley
  • Publication number: 20230390294
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating cancer using an effective amount of a compound represented by the formula: (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an effective amount of an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Also provided are compositions comprising the same compound represented by the formula shown above or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an immune checkpoint inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Robert Bray, Jacqueline M. Mason, Tak Wah Mak, Graham Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20230392099
    Abstract: Laundry additive compositions that include a metal sequestration agent and that may be characterized by an acidic pH. Related methods of treating a fabric, for example with a wash liquor and a rinse liquor, with such compositions and/or agents. Uses of such laundry additive compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Sarah Ann DELANEY, Sol Melissa ESCOBAR, Renae Dianna FOSSUM, Mark Robert SIVIK
  • Patent number: 11835295
    Abstract: A metal furnace header gate system haying a recirculation port in the furnace, a hot gas generator, a gas blower, and a furnace door. The door has an embedded gas manifold and outlet ports that each connect the manifold to a directional nozzle. The blower draws exhaust from the recirculation port into the hot gas generator, which generates additional exhaust and mixes the exhaust gases together. The blower forces this exhaust mixture into the manifold, through the nozzles, and into the furnace. A computer controls the blower and the hot gas generator to regulate the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GPRE IP, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Peterman, Mark A. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11829704
    Abstract: Dynamic web content personalization may be used to alter a web page such that two different people who view that web page do not see the exact same content on that page. The present disclosure includes techniques that allow a web page to be structured, via underlying source code, so that content can be dynamically generated based on a user transaction history. Further, dynamic content customization can effectively change the layout and functionality of a web page in ways not previously contemplated. For example, different control elements may become accessible based on a particular contextual user profile assigned to a user based on a transaction history. Modular content modules may also have a different appearance for different users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Justin Scott Lowery, Mark Robert Shulman, Adam Dustan, Keith Burns, Carla Lee Capps, Francisco Ulises Garcia Martinez, Sriram Ramakrishnan, Frank Anthony Nuzzi
  • Publication number: 20230357962
    Abstract: Fibrous elements containing one or more fibrous element-forming materials and one or more polyethylene oxides, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Mark William Hamersky, Paul R. Mort, III, Jose Manuel Montenegro-Alvarado, Seth Edward Lindberg