Patents by Inventor Mark A. Smith

Mark A. Smith 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: 20240115738
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), including for patients with class I CFTR mutations. The methods may involve administration of a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) that includes an AV.TL65 capsid protein and a polynucleotide that includes an F5 enhancer and a tg83 promoter operably linked to a CFTR?R minigene, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mark SMITH, Katherine EXCOFFON, Shen LIN, Madhupriya MAHANKALI, Eric YUEN, Roland KOLBECK, Matthew GLATFELTER
  • Patent number: 11951746
    Abstract: A device (1) for controlling user access to at least one container (4) for dispensing printing material housed by a printing apparatus (5), the device (1) comprising an openable and closable barrier (2) corresponding to the container (4) and a lock for locking the barrier (2) in a closed position. The lock is overlapped by at least a portion of the barrier (2) both when the barrier (2) is in the closed position and when the barrier (2) is in an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: James R. Pryde, Mark Smith, Robert Hargreaves
  • Publication number: 20240113974
    Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. Method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on client; retrieving reputation data associated with host name from a local cache on client; and determining a policy based on host name and the reputation data. Based on determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to host name to produce blocked attempted network flows. Method also includes sending attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on client; transmitting the attempted network flow metadata from the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel; and producing an anomaly report from the transmitted attempted network flow metadata. The anomaly report includes at least one of anomalies, cohorts, trends, location boundaries, detected network security issues, detected compromised clients and/or optimized network usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MOBILE SONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph T. SAVARESE, Steven HECKT, Michael E. BRYANT, Eric C. MCNEILL, Carter SMITH, Elizabeth KIHSLINGER, Thomas Gunther HELMS, Camilla KEENAN-KOCH, Joseph G. SOUZA, Paul HOOVER, S. Aaron STAVENS, Christian E. HOFSTAEDTER, Jonathan SCOTT, Erik OLSON, James Scott SIMPKINS, Stephen Gregory FALLIN, John Harvey HILLOCK, Eivind NAESS, Michael Lee SNYDER, David Michael MIRLY, Marius LEE, Glenn Patrick ARANAS, Norman C. HAMER, Tridib DUTTA, Andrew James HOOVER, Thomas A. SWEET, Mark ANACKER, An PHAN
  • Publication number: 20240108902
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting/transitioning operation of a medical prosthesis, such as an auditory prosthesis, from a first or initial group of settings to a second or target group of settings. The adaptation in the operation of the medical prosthesis from the first group of settings to the second group of settings occurs over a period of time and in a series of individualized (recipient-specific) incremental steps. That is, the adaptation process occurs in incremental steps that are set based on attributes/characteristics of the recipient of the specific medical prosthesis so that the adaptation is made as unobtrusive to the recipient as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Zachary Mark Smith
  • Patent number: 11945082
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for locating a pair of components relative to one another using complex surfaces. One component has a complex surface, where the complex surface is smoothly contoured. Another component is shaped to be connected with the first component. A fixture locates the first component relative to the second component. The fixture includes a locator with a complex surface region shaped to mate with the complex surface of the one component to locate the fixture relative to that component. The fixture includes another locator to locate the fixture relative to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Skurkis, Tyson W. Brown, Mark A. Smith, Miguel A. Saez, John P. Spicer
  • Patent number: 11946096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imaging template hybridisation for estimating cluster numbers prior to solid phase amplification and sequencing. More particularly, an initial round of imaging is carried out at the single molecule template hybridisation stage which allows a general estimation of cluster numbers prior to clusters being formed. Amplification of the signal allows single molecule imaging to be carried out using standard sequencing imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
    Inventors: Isabelle Marie Julia Rasolonjatovo, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Vincent Peter Smith, Roberto Rigatti
  • Publication number: 20240102605
    Abstract: A multi-legged equipment support, components thereof, and associated methods. The equipment support comprises a stand and an equipment holder. The stand includes a hub and multiple legs pivotable with respect to the hub. The legs are pivotable outward from stowed positions to preset operational pivoted positions. The user can select a preset operational pivoted position in which outward pivoting of a leg will stop based on moving an actuator between preset locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: AOB Products Company
    Inventors: Brian Steere, Michael Cottrell, Timothy S. Kinney, James Tayon, Jason Nickerson, Justin Burke, Anthony Vesich, Dennis W. Cauley, JR., Mark Dalton, Kyle Smith
  • Publication number: 20240102644
    Abstract: An audio filtering and power extraction apparatus for filtering out audio signal and extracting power from a combined signal and direct-current power line, with an input configured to couple to a combined signal and direct-current power line, a filtering extractor system functionally coupled to the input, a DC sensing switch circuit, and a second order low-pass filter functionally coupled to the DC sensing switch circuit, the second order low-pass filter including, an inductor, a capacitor and resistor in series with each other, and an output functionally coupled to an output of the filtering extractor system and through which output extracted power is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Swarm Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Neil HART, Paul Mark Michalczuk, Jesse Alden Smith
  • Publication number: 20240105171
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling access in a multi-assistant speech processing system are described, where a first assistant system may use components of a second assistant system as data processing components. Runtime operational data and user input data related to the first assistant may be kept separate from the processing data and input data related to the second assistant by propagating a first account ID, for user inputs directed to the first assistant, through the processing pipeline, and using a second account for user inputs directed to the second assistant. A mapping between the first account ID and the second account ID may be accessible to a select number of system components. Handoffs between the two assistants are handled in a manner where data related to one assistant is not accessible by the other assistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ramya Chaganti, Mark Lawrence, Ryan McCrate, Melanie C. B. Gens, Andrew Smith, Raja Bose, Zexiong Yan, Jyoti Chhabra
  • Patent number: 11939871
    Abstract: An abradable material for a rub strip of a gas turbine engine component includes a polymer matrix, and an organic or inorganic filler distributed through the matrix, wherein the abradable material has a compression spring rate profile including: less than 50,000 lb/in at ?65° F., less than 35,000 lb/in at room temperature, and less than 35,000 lb/in at 200° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry E. Muenchow, Georgios S. Zafiris, Raymond P. Martina, Jr., John Harner, Imad Hanhan, Darin S. Lussier, Scott A. Smith, Mark W. Costa, Michael R. LaFavor
  • Publication number: 20240093584
    Abstract: A proppant container facilitates the transportation of wet sand for use in a hydraulic fracturing operation. The container is mounted in a cradle that tips downward in arcuate motion for discharge or proppant through a top opening The tipping mechanism may be driven by a system of gears or a hydraulic ram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Cory Snyder, Scott Joseph D'Agostino, Marc Kevin Fisher, Matthew Oehler, Kevin Smith, Brian Dorfman, Mark John D'Agostino
  • Patent number: 11935972
    Abstract: Tri-layer semiconductor stacks for patterning features on solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described herein. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A semiconductor structure is disposed above the substrate. The semiconductor structure includes a P-type semiconductor layer disposed directly on a first semiconductor layer. A third semiconductor layer is disposed directly on the P-type semiconductor layer. An outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer is laterally recessed from an outermost edge of the first semiconductor layer by a width. An outermost edge of the P-type semiconductor layer is sloped from the outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer to the outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer. A conductive contact structure is electrically connected to the semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kieran Mark Tracy, David D. Smith, Venkatasubramani Balu, Asnat Masad, Ann Waldhauer
  • Patent number: 11931492
    Abstract: A system and method for balancing flows of renal replacement fluid is disclosed. The method uses pressure controls and pressure sensing devices to more precisely meter and balance the flow of fresh dialysate and spent dialysate. The balancing system may use one or two balancing devices, such as a balance tube, a tortuous path, or a balance chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
    Inventors: Michael E. Hogard, Donald D. Busby, Robert W. Childers, Yuanpang Samuel Ding, Katherine M. Holian, Mark E. Jablonski, Thomas D. Kelly, Shincy J. Maliekkal, Rodolfo G. Roger, Donald A. Smith, Atif M. Yardimci, Ying-Cheng Lo
  • Publication number: 20240083177
    Abstract: An inkjet printer has a print assembly and a print material feed system comprising a first circulation circuit and a second circulation circuit, the first circulation circuit fluidly coupled between the second circulation circuit and the print assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Dennis Taff, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Stephen Mark Smith, Geoffrey Kenneth Love
  • Patent number: 11926555
    Abstract: Glass-ceramics exhibiting a Vickers indentation crack initiation threshold of at least 15 kgf are disclosed. These glass-ceramics may be ion exchangeable or ion exchanged. The glass-ceramics include a crystalline and amorphous phases generated by subjecting a thin precursor glass article to ceramming cycle having an average cooling rate in the range from about 10° C./minute to about 25° C./minute. In one or more embodiments, the crystalline phase may comprise at least 20 wt % of the glass-ceramics. The glass-ceramics may include ?-spodumene ss as the predominant crystalline phase and may exhibit an opacity?about 85% over the wavelength range of 400-700 nm for an about 0.8 mm thickness and colors an observer angle of 10° and a CIE illuminant F02 determined with specular reflectance included of a* between ?3 and +3, b* between ?6 and +6, and L* between 88 and 97.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lionel Joel Mary Beunet, Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte, Allan Mark Fredholm, Qiang Fu, Anne Paris, Sophie Peschiera, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20240077282
    Abstract: An anti-cant indicator assembly, components thereof, and associated methods. The anti-cant indicator assembly indicates the orientation of a weapon with respect to vertical. The anti-cant indicator assembly includes a mount configured to mount to the weapon, a level including a vial containing a bubble and a pivot connection connecting the level to the mount. The pivot connection is configured to permit movement of the level with respect to the mount about the pivot connection between an operational position in which the bubble can be referenced by the user for indicating orientation of the weapon with respect to vertical, and a stowed position different from the operational position. The pivot connection can include a retainer configured to releasably retain the level in at least one of the operational position or the stowed position. The level can be selectively movable with respect to the mount to calibrate the anti-cant indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: AOB Products Company
    Inventors: Mike Lindsay, Michael Cottrell, James Tayon, Timothy S. Kinney, Mark Dalton, Brian Steere, Justin Burke, Kyle Martin, Dennis W. Cauley, JR., Anthony Vesich, Ryan Varnum, Seth Wheeler, Brett Eckelkamp, Matthew Kinamore, Curtis Smith
  • Patent number: 11919365
    Abstract: A method of operating a vehicle climate system when an ambient temperature is below a threshold temperature is provided. In response to an ambient temperature being less than a threshold temperature, a controller is adapted to operate a blower motor at a voltage that depends on whether the vehicle is in charge sustain mode or charge deplete mode. In response to an ambient temperature being greater than a threshold temperature, the controller is adapted to operate the blower motor at a voltage that does not depend on whether in the charge sustain or charge deplete modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jasbir Jaglan, William Stewart Johnston, Alan Douglas Wallington, Curtis Mark Jones, Chris George Oehring, Mark G. Smith
  • Patent number: 11924959
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a PCB, a CPU, a power distribution hat, and a heat sink. The PCB includes a first power contact on a first surface of the PCB and a first ground contact on a second surface of the PCB. The CPU includes a substrate and is affixed and electrically coupled to the first surface of the PCB by a first surface of the substrate. A second surface of the substrate includes a second power contact and a second ground contact. The power distribution hat couples the first power contact with the second power contact. The heat sink couples the first ground contact with the second ground contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sandor Farkas, Mark Smith, Bhyrav Mutnury
  • Publication number: 20240073634
    Abstract: A method of at least partially fitting a hearing prosthesis device to a recipient, including obtaining access to a sensory prosthesis that has been used to evoke a sensory percept using a first focusing regime for a temporal period corresponding to at least acclimation to the first focusing regime and adjusting a control setting of the prosthesis to increase focusing relative to that which is the case with respect to the first focusing regime, wherein the action of adjusting the control setting includes purposely adjusting the control setting to have focusing that is effectively less focused than a maximum focus possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wendy POTTS, Sara Ingrid DURAN, Zachary Mark SMITH
  • Patent number: PP35692
    Abstract: A new garden type Chrysanthemum plant named ‘CIFZ0100’ particularly distinguished by its medium size plant with mound plant habit, a medium size decorative flower with bronze flower color, and a natural season response in early to mid-September.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith