Patents by Inventor Mark A. Stuart

Mark A. Stuart 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: 9155505
    Abstract: A sensor device comprises a sensor (1) to be held against the wearer's skin. The sensor (1) is arranged on one side of a housing (2), and the housing is connected to a band (5) for mounting it to a body part, such as an arm or leg. Various stopper devices (10, 14, 20) are arranged on the side of the housing (2) and the band (5) that face the skin. The stopper devices improve static friction, thereby holding the housing (2) in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: BIOVOTION AG
    Inventors: Andreas Caduff, Hans-Joachim Krebs, Gianlucca Stalder, Mark Stuart Talary
  • Publication number: 20150260730
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides prostatitis-associated antigens, and compositions comprising the antigens. The present disclosure provides diagnostic methods, generally involving assaying the level of an immune response specific for a prostatitis-associated antigen in an individual. Kits suitable for use in performing such diagnostic assays are also provided. The present disclosure further provides methods of treating prostatitis, methods of treating prostate cancer, and methods of treating benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Lawrence H. Fong, Yafei Hou, Jason J. Devoss, Mark Stuart Anderson
  • Patent number: 9124666
    Abstract: A system of network proxies distributes data to multiple servers. Each network proxy is associated with a server. A network proxy intercepts a client request for data. If the network proxy determines that the request can be served using a copy of data stored on the local server, rather than the data stored on a remote server, it diverts the request to the local server. If the network proxy determines that the request cannot be served using a data from the local server, the network proxy diverts the request to a remote server storing the primary copy of the data. A server map specifies the locations of the primary copies of data. When a primary copy of data is updated on one of the servers, the associated network proxy propagates the updated data to the other servers. The servers can provide data from files, e-mail services, databases, or multimedia services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Edwin Burman, Kartik Subbanna, Steven McCanne, David Tze-Si Wu, MArk Stuart Day
  • Patent number: 9046529
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides prostatitis-associated antigens, and compositions comprising the antigens. The present disclosure provides diagnostic methods, generally involving assaying the level of an immune response specific for a prostatitis-associated antigen in an individual. Kits suitable for use in performing such diagnostic assays are also provided. The present disclosure further provides methods of treating prostatitis, methods of treating prostate cancer, and methods of treating benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Lawrence H. Fong, Yafei Hou, Jason J. Devoss, Mark Stuart Anderson
  • Patent number: 9003623
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming an inclined-blade blower wheel is provided. A plurality of blades are initially positioned between first and second end caps, and a first engagement member mates with the first end cap, while a second engagement member mates with the second end cap. First and second end motors are configured to independently rotate the first and second engagement members. A crimping roller coupled to a crimping motor contacts and compresses a circumference of the first and second end caps to a plurality of blades. A controller is configured to rotate the first engagement member a predetermined amount with respect to the second engagement member, a then circumferential speed of the first and second end caps and the crimping roller is synchronized, therein fixing a desired longitudinal pitch of the plurality of blades between the first and second end caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Beckett Air Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Joseph Behner, Joseph H. Andulics, Mark Stuart Resar, Stephen Joseph Amerla
  • Patent number: 9006237
    Abstract: Novel fused pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Martin James Inglis Andrews, Mark Stuart Chambers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Giovanni Alessandro Tricarico, Grégory Louis Joseph Bar, Kim Louise Hirst, Olga Raquel Pinto Santos Oliveira Roussel, Juha Andrew Clase
  • Patent number: 8762569
    Abstract: Network devices include proxies and where multiple proxies are present on a network, they can probe to determine the existence of other proxies. Where more than two proxies are present and thus different proxy pairings are possible, the proxies are programmed to determine which proxies should form a proxy pair. Marked probe packets are used by proxies to discover each other and probing is done such a connection can be eventually formed even if some probe packets fail due to the marking. Asymmetric routing can be detected and proxies configured for connection forwarding as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kand Ly, Maksim Ioffe, Alfred Landrum, Mark Stuart Day
  • Publication number: 20140161283
    Abstract: An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending parameter derived from a measure of the signal's noise-like quality. The signal is reconstructed by translating spectral components of the baseband signal to frequencies outside the baseband, adjusting phase of the regenerated components to maintain phase coherency, adjusting spectral shape according to the estimated spectral envelope, and adding noise according to the noise-blending parameter. Preferably, the transmitted or recorded signal also includes an estimated temporal envelope that is used to adjust the temporal shape of the reconstructed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Mead Truman, Mark Stuart Vinton
  • Patent number: 8720061
    Abstract: A method for forming an inclined-blade blower wheel is provided by arranging a plurality of blades about respective circumferences of first and second end caps. The plurality of blades extend longitudinally between the first and second end caps and parallel to an axis defined by respective centers of the first and second end caps. The first end cap is rotated with respect to the second end cap a predetermined amount, therein skewing the plurality of blades at a desired longitudinal pitch between the first end cap and second end cap. The first end cap and second end cap are then rotated in unison while crimping the circumferences of the first end cap and second end cap, therein securing the plurality of blades to the first and second end caps and fixing the desired longitudinal pitch of the plurality of blades from the first end cap to the second end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Beckett Air Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Joseph Behner, Joseph Harry Andulics, Mark Stuart Resar, Stephen Joseph Amerla
  • Patent number: 8706507
    Abstract: In a first aspect, arbitrary shaping of the temporal envelope of noise is provided in spectral domain coding systems without the need of side-information. In the encoding, a filtered measure of quantization error is applied as a feedback signal to the frequency-domain representation of a discrete time-domain signal prior to quantization, so that the filtering parameters of said filtering affect the shaping of quantization noise in the time domain of the quantized frequency-domain representation with unchanged quantization of the discrete time-domain signal when it is inversely transformed from the frequency domain back to the time domain in decoding. This may be accomplished with respect to each of a plurality of frequency bins or groups of bins. In another aspect, frequency-domain noise-feedback quantizing in digital audio encoding is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Stuart Vinton
  • Patent number: 8688844
    Abstract: Transparent network devices intercept messages from non-transparent network devices that establish a connection. Transparent network devices modify these messages to establish an inner connection with each other. The transparent network devices mimic at least some of the outer connection messages to establish their inner connection. The mimicked messages and any optional reset messages are intercepted by the transparent network devices to prevent them from reaching the outer connections. Transparent network devices modify network traffic, using error detection data, fragmentation data, or timestamps, so that inner connection network traffic inadvertently received by outer connection devices is rejected or ignored by the outer connection network devices. Transparent network devices may use different sequence windows for inner and outer connection network traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Stuart Day, Brian Miller, Nitin Gupta, Alfred Landrum, Blanco Zee Leung Lam
  • Patent number: 8613071
    Abstract: Transaction accelerators can be configured to terminate secure connections. A server-side accelerator intercepts a secure connection request that is from a client and that is directed to a server. The server-side accelerator responds to the secure connection request in place of the server, thereby establishing a secure connection between the client and the server-side accelerator. Alternatively, the server-side accelerator monitors the establishment of a secure connection between the client and the server. After the secure connection has been established, the server-side accelerator forwards security information to a client-side accelerator, enabling the client-side accelerator to assume control of the secure connection. As a result of this arrangement, the client-side accelerator is able to encrypt and decrypt data on the secure connection and accelerate it in cooperation with the server-side accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Stuart Day, Case Larsen, Shashidhar Merugu
  • Patent number: 8527264
    Abstract: A method for determining mantissa bit allocation of frequency domain audio data to be encoded, including by performing adaptive low frequency compensation on each frequency band of a set of low frequency bands of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Arijit Biswas, Vinay Melkote, Michael Schug, Grant Allen Davidson, Mark Stuart Vinton
  • Patent number: 8517232
    Abstract: A collapsible garment hanger having a male arm with an integral hinge mechanism mounted onto a partial disc, and a female arm having a hanger hook. The female arm and the male arm are joined at the integral hinge mechanism. The female arm comprises lateral walls to define a channel. The channel is shaped to cooperatively receive the partial disc. The female arm comprises female parts to receive the integral hinge mechanism. The channel receives the partial disk when the male arm and the female arm are in an extended position. The male arm further has an integral connection and a latch. The latch has a first set of teeth, and the female arm further has a second set of teeth. The first set of teeth engages the second set of teeth when the male arm and the female arm are in an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Swissrael, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Stuart Geltzer, Caesar Earle Ciaglia
  • Publication number: 20130211204
    Abstract: A sensor device comprises a sensor (1) to be held against the wearer's skin. The sensor (1) is arranged on one side of a housing (2), and the housing is connected to a band (5) for mounting it to a body part, such as an arm or leg. Various stopper devices (10, 14, 20) are arranged on the side of the housing (2) and the band (5) that face the skin. The stopper devices improve static friction, thereby holding the housing (2) in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Caduff, Hans-Joachim Krebs, Gianlucca Stalder, Mark Stuart Talary
  • Patent number: 8457956
    Abstract: An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending parameter derived from a measure of the signal's noise-like quality. The signal is reconstructed by translating spectral components of the baseband signal to frequencies outside the baseband, adjusting phase of the regenerated components to maintain phase coherency, adjusting spectral shape according to the estimated spectral envelope, and adding noise according to the noise-blending parameter. Preferably, the transmitted or recorded signal also includes an estimated temporal envelope that is used to adjust the temporal shape of the reconstructed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Mead Truman, Mark Stuart Vinton
  • Publication number: 20130097860
    Abstract: A method for forming an inclined-blade blower wheel is provided by arranging a plurality of blades about respective circumferences of first and second end caps. The plurality of blades extend longitudinally between the first and second end caps and parallel to an axis defined by respective centers of the first and second end caps. The first end cap is rotated with respect to the second end cap a predetermined amount, therein skewing the plurality of blades at a desired longitudinal pitch between the first end cap and second end cap. The first end cap and second end cap are then rotated in unison while crimping the circumferences of the first end cap and second end cap, therein securing the plurality of blades to the first and second end caps and fixing the desired longitudinal pitch of the plurality of blades from the first end cap to the second end cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Beckett Air Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Joseph Behner, Joseph H. Andulics, Mark Stuart Resar, Stephen Joseph Amerla
  • Publication number: 20130097831
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming an inclined-blade blower wheel is provided. A plurality of blades are initially positioned between first and second end caps, and a first engagement member mates with the first end cap, while a second engagement member mates with the second end cap. First and second end motors are configured to independently rotate the first and second engagement members. A crimping roller coupled to a crimping motor contacts and compresses a circumference of the first and second end caps to a plurality of blades. A controller is configured to rotate the first engagement member a predetermined amount with respect to the second engagement member, a then circumferential speed of the first and second end caps and the crimping roller is synchronized, therein fixing a desired longitudinal pitch of the plurality of blades between the first and second end caps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Beckett Air Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Joseph Behner, Joseph H. Andulics, Mark Stuart Resar, Stephen Joseph Amerla
  • Publication number: 20130053654
    Abstract: A parameter affecting the absorptivity or the concentration of blood in tissue is measured using a semiconductor light source (7) and a light detector (8). The semiconductor light source (7) is operated at several operating conditions, at which it has different temperatures and therefore different emission spectra. In particular, the operating conditions correspond to different time intervals after switching the light source (7) on, while the light source (7) has not yet reached thermal equilibrium. This allows to perform a spectroscopic measurement using one light source only, which increases accuracy and reduces device cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Caduff, Hans-Joachim Krebs, Mark Stuart Talary, Pavel Zakharov
  • Patent number: D706382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Mark Stuart Charlton