Patents by Inventor Mark A. Stevens

Mark A. Stevens 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: 11683172
    Abstract: A distributed secure communication system includes a first System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to second and third SCP subsystems via a network. The first SCP subsystem identifies the second SCP subsystem, signs a first SCP authentication communication with a first private key to provide a first signed SCP authentication communication that it transmits to the second SCP subsystem. The first SCP subsystem receives a second signed SCP authentication communication from the second SCP subsystem, authenticates the second signed SCP authentication communication using a second public key associated with the second SCP subsystem and, in response, establishes a first secure communication channel with the second SCP subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III
  • Patent number: 11679751
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting driver demand wheel torque of a vehicle. The driver demand wheel torque may be adjusted as a function of a minimum wheel torque. The minimum wheel torque may be determined according to a plurality of torques that may be evaluated in three different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Mark Steven Yamazaki, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • Patent number: 11675625
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining, by a system control processor, a composition request for a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement, and initially allocating only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system, wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by a first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Patent number: 11672399
    Abstract: An autonomous coverage robot includes a chassis, a drive system configured to maneuver the robot, and a cleaning assembly. The cleaning assembly includes a cleaning assembly housing and at least one driven sweeper brush. The robot includes a controller and a removable sweeper bin configured to receive debris agitated by the driven sweeper brush. The sweeper bin includes an emitter disposed on an interior surface of the bin and a receiver disposed remotely from the emitter on the interior surface of the bin and configured to receive an emitter signal. The emitter and the receiver are disposed such that a threshold level of accumulation of debris in the sweeper bin blocks the receiver from receiving emitter emissions. The robot includes a bin controller disposed in the sweeper bin and monitoring a detector signal and initiating a bin full routine upon determining a bin debris accumulation level requiring service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Steven Schnittman, Daniel N. Ozick, Gregg W. Landry
  • Patent number: 11675916
    Abstract: A system for managing composed information handling systems to manage access to data by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems includes a system control processor that instantiates a composed information handling system using a compute resource set that hosts applications and a hardware resource set that stores a portion of the data, associates, using authorization information, storage areas of the at least one hardware resource set with the applications to obtain storage area associations, obtains a data access request from the compute resource set for the portion of the data which is stored in a storage area of the storage areas, makes a determination, based on the storage area associations and an initiator of the data access request, that the initiator of the data access request is not authorized to access the portion of the data, and refuses to service the data access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Yossef Saad, Mark Steven Sanders, Gaurav Chawla, Mukund P. Khatri
  • Publication number: 20230172738
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus and system for performing a sleeve gastrectomy. The apparatus can include a bougie for insertion into an interior of a stomach, the bougie having a proximal bougie end and a distal bougie end, an inflation lumen having a proximal lumen end and a distal lumen end, the inflation lumen extending from the proximal bougie end through the distal bougie end, a fluid delivery system coupled with the proximal lumen end, the fluid delivery system being operably configured to deliver positive pressure in a predetermined positive pressure range into the stomach, and a monitor coupled with the proximal lumen end operably configured for the monitoring of pressure or volume within the stomach. The bougie can be operably configured to define a resection line for the sleeve gastrectomy when the predetermined positive pressure range is achieved within the stomach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Thompson, Mark Steven Ortiz, Saylan James Lukas, Liam Clayton Groom
  • Publication number: 20230165956
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for assessing immune system function and status based on cellular analysis. Methods of the present invention involve obtaining mass properties of immune cells collected in a tissue or body fluid sample from a subject. Such mass properties may include the mass of one or more immune cells and/or changes in mass of such immune cells over a period of time. Such data is then used for determining a status of the subject's immune response, and subsequent diagnosis and treatment of an infection or immunological disease or dysfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens, Anthony Minnah, Madeleine Vacha
  • Patent number: 11661283
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body with an upper blocking portion and leg portions of the body connected to the upper blocking portion at longitudinally spaced apart locations. The leg portions of the body have an initial, undeflected configuration with at least one of the leg portions having a first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The leg portions of the body have an operating configuration with the body in a gap between rollers wherein the at least one of the leg portions has the first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The upper blocking portion has upper contact portions and the leg portions have lower contact portions for contacting the rollers. The body also has outer surface portions intermediate the upper and lower contact portions configured to be in clearance with the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 11654875
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine, friction brakes, a drivetrain, and a controller. The electric machine is configured to recharge a battery during regenerative braking. The friction brakes are configured to apply torque to wheels of the vehicle to slow the vehicle. The controller is programmed to, in response to and during an anti-locking braking event, generate a signal indicative of a total torque demand to brake the vehicle based on a difference between a desired wheel slip ratio and an actual wheel slip ratio, adjust a regenerative braking torque based on a product of the signal and a regenerative braking weighting coefficient, adjust a friction braking torque based on a product of the signal and a friction braking weighting coefficient, and further adjust the regenerative braking torque based on a closed-loop control of an estimated regenerative braking torque feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yixin Yao, Yanan Zhao, Mark Steven Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230137090
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-tri-fluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Publication number: 20230122362
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the described technology provide an apparatus for testing an electrochemical system. The apparatus may comprise a testing module electrically coupled to the electrochemical system. The testing module may comprise a discharge circuit configured to draw current from the electrochemical system at a plurality of different rates. The discharge circuit may be configured to continuously draw current from the electrochemical system once a test of the electrochemical system is commenced. The apparatus may also comprise a measurement module which may be configured to measure voltage across terminals of the electrochemical system and current drawn from the electrochemical system during the test. The apparatus may also comprise a processor. The processor may be configured to compensate at least in part the measured voltage for voltage drift which was generated by continuously drawing current from the electrochemical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tina SHOA HASSANI LASHIDANI, Gregory John FUNK, Mark Steven RICHTER, April Petrovna Zoom O'DWYER, Tarek Lawrence WARD, Yat Shun (Damien) YU, Kevin Norman HADDEN, Alex James LIM, Marvin MESSING
  • Publication number: 20230119020
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods and systems for assessing a cellular response to a treatment modality, such as potential drug candidate, by comparing normalized single-cell measurements of cellular properties without the need of a calibration step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens
  • Patent number: 11629601
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a turbomachine is provided. The rotor blade includes a platform, an airfoil extending from the platform, and a cooling circuit extending within the platform and the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of cooling passages defined by a plurality of ribs. The plurality of ribs includes an offset rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Steven Honkomp, William Scott Zemitis, Melbourne James Myers, Jacob Charles Perry, II
  • Patent number: 11630707
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad
  • Publication number: 20230105694
    Abstract: A device access control system includes a first computing system that is coupled to a second computing system via a network, and that includes a device access controller subsystem coupled to devices, a central processing subsystem, and a device access control manager subsystem. The device access control manager subsystem identifies first application(s) configured for provisioning by the central processing subsystem and second application(s) configured for provisioning by the second computing system, configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the central processing subsystem access to a first subset of the devices to allow the central processing subsystem to provide the first application(s), and configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the second computing system access via the device access control manager subsystem to a second subset of the devices to allow the second computing device to provide the second application(s) using the second subset of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla
  • Publication number: 20230098268
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Publication number: 20230102975
    Abstract: A system and method create a framework for personalized sleep hygiene self-experiments to allow users to derive their own discoveries on how the self-experiment has affected their sleep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yash Parag MOKASHI, Monica H BUSH, Jeffrey SHEBETICH, Mark Steven ALOIA, Rim HELAOUI
  • Publication number: 20230102050
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker is provided for a roller conveyor having rollers for conveying an object in a downstream longitudinal direction. The rollers include adjacent rollers having a longitudinally extending gap therebetween and at least one of the rollers has an annular groove for receiving a drive member. The gap blocker includes a body configured to be supported in the gap by the adjacent rollers and an upper blocking portion of the body to extend across the gap. The body further includes a locating member configured to extend into the annular groove and inhibit lateral movement of the body in the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: D984880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Medical Components, Inc.
    Inventors: John William Timko, Mark Steven Fisher
  • Patent number: D989708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Luke David Springer, Daniel Scott Davidson, George Smilov, Daniel Mark Stevens, Margaret Eleanor Diaz, David Victor Clark