Patents by Inventor Mark A. Wood

Mark A. Wood 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: 20240409392
    Abstract: A partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly is made in a fully automated assembly machine. A first foam rail is introduced into the assembly machine and glued to upper and lower substrate webs. A first string of pocketed springs is then glued to a side surface of the first foam rail between upper and lower substrate webs and glued to the upper and lower substrate webs. Additional strings are joined together to create a pocketed spring interior. A second foam rail is then introduced into the assembly machine and glued to an outer string and to the upper and lower substrate webs to create a core. Third and fourth foam rails are glued to the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: John R. Newman, Mark G. Meyer, Randall A. Wood, John J. Brunnert
  • Publication number: 20240400536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula (I) comprising a mitochondrial targeting group linked to a group capable of releasing hydrogen sulphide for use in the treatment of the human or animal body or tissues and cells derived therefrom and to the use in the treatment of plants and to novel related compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew WHITEMAN, Roberta TORREGROSSA, Mark WOOD
  • Publication number: 20240390577
    Abstract: Drug delivery device, drug delivery system, and system components are provided including configuration of a container, reservoir or barrel for medium or fluid and a pump mechanism or driving components for advancing a plunger to dispense the medium or fluid from the reservoir or barrel, and/or for filling the reservoir or barrel with the medium or fluid, where the pumping mechanism or driving components are disposed such that individual and/or overall dimensions of the pump mechanism or the driving components can be reduced compared to conventional designs. A provided system can include a syringe-style drug container, reservoir, or barrel containing a medium or fluid which can be dispensed by a pumping mechanism configured to advance a plunger/stopper disposed inside the barrel via cable, or a ribbon, connected to the plunger/stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro PIZZOCHERO, Mark WOOD
  • Patent number: 12150722
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to surgical robot positioning systems and devices that aid in the gross positioning of surgical devices during surgical procedures. For example, a gross positioning system for use with a robotic surgical device may include a positioning body, a yaw mechanism operably coupled to the positioning body at a yaw rotational joint, a pitch mechanism operably coupled to the positioning body at a pitch rotational joint, and a plunge mechanism operably coupled to the pitch mechanism, where the plunge mechanism is configured to slide and to be coupleable to the robotic surgical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Virtual Incision Corporation
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Nathan Wood, Rachael Wagner, Parker Durham, Lou Cubrich, Jay Carlson, Mark Reichenbach, Robert M. Cicerchia, Carsten Horn
  • Publication number: 20240355130
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for vehicle registration number recognition, the method comprising obtaining a vehicle registration number to be recognised and a plurality of authorised vehicle registration numbers, and comparing the vehicle registration number to be recognised with the plurality of authorised vehicle registration numbers, wherein comparing comprises: identifying the number of characters in common between the vehicle registration number to be recognised and each of the plurality of authorised vehicle registration numbers; determining whether the number of characters in common between the vehicle registration number to be recognised and each authorised vehicle registration number is above a pre-determined threshold but less than all characters; and in the event that the number of characters in common between the vehicle registration number to be recognised and at least one authorised vehicle registration number is above the pre-determined threshold, sending a signal that the vehicle registration
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: M2M TECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Mat SUNDERLAND, Tim WOOD, Mark SMITH
  • Publication number: 20240329705
    Abstract: Techniques for system power control based on a battery's thermal limit and impedance are described. In certain examples, a system includes: a hardware processor that includes a continuous boost power mode; and a power management circuit to couple to a battery, wherein the power management circuit is to: determine heat dissipation for the battery over time when the hardware processor is in the continuous boost power mode, and control power provided to the hardware processor in the continuous boost power mode without exceeding a limit of the heat dissipation over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki Matsumura, Kirk Jardin, Shirley Arnold Jayachandran, David Woods, Mark Sprenger, Tod Schiff, Jagadish Singh
  • Patent number: 12097653
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a length of lined pipe inserts a radially contracted liner pipe into an outer host pipe. Injector needles are inserted through an end of the outer pipe into an annular gap between the pipes. Adhesive is injected between the pipes at locations inboard of the end of the outer pipe. After withdrawing the injectors, at least a portion of the liner pipe is expanded to close the gap and to bond the pipes together via the injected adhesive. Shims can be inserted into the gap between the pipes. A portion of the liner pipe inboard of the shims can be expanded radially while the shims constrain local radial expansion of an outboard portion of the liner pipe to maintain the gap for accommodating the injectors. Withdrawing the shims after injecting the adhesive allows radial expansion of the outboard portion to close the gap between the pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBSEA 7 LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Robert Smithson, Graham Wood
  • Publication number: 20240314093
    Abstract: An electronic message computing system tracks new activity items that reflect activities that have not yet been seen by the user. A. generative artificial intelligence (AI) model generates a digest summary that is provided to the user the next time the user accesses the electronic message system. The digest summary summarizes new activity. The generative AI model also generates importance summaries that summarize the importance of a particular activity to the user, and content summaries that summarize the content of an activity item (such as an electronic mail message). The electronic messaging system also assigns a priority to each new activity item and provides the summaries, along with a priority, to a client computing system. The client computing system conducts a user experience, navigating the user through the new activity items, based upon the priority assigned by the electronic message computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kuleen Haresh MEHTA, Anton Oguzhan A. Andrews, Poonam Ganesh HATTANGADY, Michael Francis Palermiti, II, Caleb Whitmore, Erich Jose Martino Pena, Alan Mark THOMAS, Matthew David WOOD
  • Publication number: 20240299650
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device has a syringe barrel-type reservoir with plunger, and plunger driver assembly comprising double-acting, telescoping lead screws that is located behind and outside of the barrel. Simultaneously and counter-rotating sleeve screw and center screw telescope out of a nested configuration of the plunger driver assembly and into the reservoir at a rate of double their individual and equal pitch and lead parameters when the sleeve screw is rotated. A threaded nut and gear anchor disposed on an end of the barrel receive the sleeve screw and the threaded nut causes the sleeve screw to translate and rotate in response to motor operation. A distal end of the center screw can be keyed to a plunger pusher for anti-rotation constraint when the motor is imparting rotation on the threaded nut and sleeve screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro PIZZOCHERO, Mark WOOD, Muzaffer Yalgin OZSECEN, Timothy BLUM, Eric HASSENPFLUG, Cory BAKER, Jeffrey HELD
  • Publication number: 20240305610
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing cybersecurity functionality to computer implemented inventions such as Internet of Thing (IoT) systems and object devices, and more specifically, to an improved cybersecurity system, method and capabilities for the protecting IoT and similar devices through non-discriminatory vendor/supplier independent distribution of secure predetermined IoT syndication data to unidentified and non-registered IoT devices, through the use of a passive data distribution technology and out-of-band, system-to-device distribution channel and no peer-to-peer stateless relationship with the receiving device and using Quality of Service (QoS) and enabling the determination as to whether there is any suspicious activity occurring and prohibiting the IoT device from taking any customer-defined action without have a separately provided authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Datacast Labs LLC
    Inventors: Mark Wood, Claudia Bitner, Art Deacon, Elysa Jones, Matt Walton
  • Patent number: 12084339
    Abstract: A partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly is made in a fully automated assembly machine. A first foam rail is introduced into the assembly machine and glued to upper and lower substrate webs. A first string of pocketed springs is then glued to a side surface of the first foam rail between upper and lower substrate webs and glued to the upper and lower substrate webs. Additional strings are joined together to create a pocketed spring interior. A second foam rail is then introduced into the assembly machine and glued to an outer string and to the upper and lower substrate webs to create a core. Third and fourth foam rails are glued to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company.
    Inventors: John R. Newman, Mark G. Meyer, Randall A. Wood, John J. Brunnert
  • Publication number: 20240296730
    Abstract: A method and system for collecting context information in response to prediction of an emergency event. A cloud-based computing system could determine that an emergency event is predicted to impact a customer premises at an upcoming time. Responsive to that determination, and before the upcoming time, the cloud-based computing system could then cause or more on-premises computing devices at the customer premises to collect and report context information, such as a count of people present at the customer premises and/or an operational state of one or more utilities or other systems at the customer premises, that may assist in responding to the emergency event. Further, the cloud-based computing system could select a given such device at the customer premises to function as a coordinating device to work with one or more other devices at the customer premises to collect and report the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Sunil Ramesh, Charles Brian Pinkerton, Mark Robins, Anthony Wood
  • Publication number: 20240285865
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device has a syringe barrel-type reservoir with plunger and plunger driver assembly comprising a spiral zipper-driven pump mechanism. A flexible band in the spiral zipper-driven pump mechanism is transformed from a collapsed, nested configuration to an extended configuration by controllably unfurling and recoiling the band into a spiral column of interlocking revolutions of the band. The column has sufficient stiffness to impart translational motion to a plunger along a longitudinal reservoir axis that is precisely controllable by rotation of gears by a motor. The collapsed, non-extended configuration of the spiral zipper-driven pump mechanism reduces reservoir and fluid delivery device length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Dana COTE, Mark WOOD
  • Publication number: 20240269385
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device (110) comprising an integrated vial connector system (180) disposed in a fluid path (124) between a reservoir (122) and an insertion mechanism (116). Additionally, a fluid delivery device (210) and an external fill device (294) wherein when the external fill device (294) engages the fluid delivery device (210), a main drive gear (234) is disengaged and a leadscrew (236) is engaged for filling the fluid delivery device (210) with the medicament. Also, a vial adapter (280) comprising an elastomer (282) that engages an outer diameter of a cannula (217) in an insertion mechanism (216) to provide a sealing surface, wherein the vial adapter (280) engages the fluid delivery device (210) and the vial (202) to fill the fluid delivery device (210) with medicament while maintaining a sealed interface. In addition, a vial adapter (380) for engaging a filling station (284) to fill a fluid delivery device (210).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Dana COTE, J. Richard GYORY, Mark WOOD, Nicholas ANDERSON
  • Publication number: 20240269378
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medication delivery system comprising: a container for a medium: a plunger disposed in the container; and a lead screw axially fixed with respect to the container and in threaded engagement with the plunger, where the lead screw is disposed inside of the container, and the rotation of the lead screw causes axial displacement of the plunger with respect to the container. A patch pump comprising the medication delivery system and a medicament delivery device comprising the medication delivery system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Eric SUN, Richard J. GYORY, Mark WOOD, Dana COTE, Tieying JIANG, Alessandro PIZZOCHERO, Randy MOSHER
  • Patent number: 12054381
    Abstract: A partially foam encased pocketed spring assembly is made in a fully automated assembly machine. A first foam rail is introduced into the assembly machine and glued to upper and lower substrate webs. A first string of pocketed springs is then glued to a side surface of the first foam rail between upper and lower substrate webs and glued to the upper and lower substrate webs. Additional strings are joined together to create a pocketed spring interior. A second foam rail is then introduced into the assembly machine and glued to an outer string and to the upper and lower substrate webs to create a core. Third and fourth foam rails are glued to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: John R. Newman, Mark G. Meyer, Randall A. Wood, John J. Brunnert
  • Publication number: 20240245784
    Abstract: The invention provides conjugates that comprise a targeting moiety, a nucleic acid, and optional linking groups as well as synthetic intermediates and synthetic methods useful for preparing the conjugates. The conjugates are useful to target therapeutic nucleic acids to the liver and to treat liver diseases including hepatitis (e.g. hepatitis B and hepatitis D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James HEYES, Richard J. HOLLAND, Alan D. MARTIN, Mark WOOD
  • Patent number: 12043833
    Abstract: The invention provides certain nucleic acids (e.g., double stranded siRNA molecules), as well as conjugates that comprise a targeting moiety, a double stranded siRNA, and optional linking groups. Certain embodiments also provide synthetic methods useful for preparing the conjugates. The conjugates are useful to target therapeutic double stranded siRNA to the liver and to treat liver diseases including hepatitis (e.g. hepatitis B and hepatitis D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Heyes, Richard J. Holland, Adam Judge, Amy C. H. Lee, Alan D. Martin, Nicholas Michael Snead, Emily P. Thi, Mark Wood, Xin Ye
  • Publication number: 20240183641
    Abstract: A floating barrier system has a plurality of connected floating barrier units. Capture net segments are positioned on the floating barrier units by support post members, forming a barrier to vessel passage. Lanyards attach the ends of the capture net segments to the floating barrier units. Upon a vessel striking the capture net segments with sufficient force, the capture nets detach from the support post members and/or pull the support post members over, and the forces from the vessel are transferred via the lanyards to the floating barrier unit. The vessel is prevented from fully passing over the floating barrier unit, thus itself forming a barrier to passage by other vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Erick Knezek, Matthew Marcy, David Delleart, Mark Wood, William Newton Seelig, Eric Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11980739
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device has a syringe barrel-type reservoir with plunger, and plunger driver assembly comprising double-acting, telescoping lead screws that is located behind and outside of the barrel. Simultaneously and counter-rotating sleeve screw and center screw telescope out of a nested configuration of the plunger driver assembly and into the reservoir at a rate of double their individual and equal pitch and lead parameters when the sleeve screw is rotated. A threaded nut and gear anchor disposed on an end of the barrel receive the sleeve screw and the threaded nut causes the sleeve screw to translate and rotate in response to motor operation. A distal end of the center screw can be keyed to a plunger pusher for anti-rotation constraint when the motor is imparting rotation on the threaded nut and sleeve screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Pizzochero, Mark Wood, Muzaffer Yalgin Ozsecen, Timothy Blum, Eric Hassenpflug, Cory Baker, Jeffrey Held