Patents by Inventor Mark Alan

Mark Alan 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: 20250064205
    Abstract: A mobile workstation can include a head unit assembly. A worksurface can be coupled to the head unit assembly and configured to translate with respect to the head unit assembly between an open configuration and a closed configuration. A glide can be rotatably coupled to the head unit assembly and engaged with the worksurface. The glide can include a latch configured to translate with respect to a glide body of the glide. The mobile workstation can include a worksurface opening mechanism having a locking configuration and an unlocking configuration. The worksurface opening mechanism can include a latch release handle moveably coupled to the head unit assembly. Movement of the latch release handle can transition the worksurface opening mechanism between the locked configuration and the unlocked configuration. A release assembly can selectively engage with the first latch. A lift system can bias the worksurface away from the head unit assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan Kottman, Michael Anthony Apolloni, John Kenneth Blomstrom
  • Patent number: 12236343
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for efficiently processing large amounts of data when performing complex neural network operations, such as convolution and pooling operations. Given cascaded convolutional neural network layers, various embodiments allow for commencing processing of a downstream layer prior to completing processing of a current or previous network layer. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by utilizing a handshaking mechanism or asynchronous logic to determine an active neural network layer in a neural network and using that active neural layer to process a subset of a set of input data of a first layer prior to processing all of the set of input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Alan Lovell, Robert Michael Muchsel
  • Publication number: 20250057130
    Abstract: A segment for use in a trawl system having a cable and a longitudinal axis. The segment has a segment body and at least one passage extending from an inner side to an outer side of the body for receiving the cable of the trawl system. The segment body is hydrodynamically shaped such that the segment is urged away from the longitudinal axis when the segment is pulled through water by the cable. A trawl net system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Marc Eric d'Entremont, Thomas Kinsey, Mark Alan de Jonge
  • Publication number: 20250063313
    Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Patrik KENNES, Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Paul Michael CARTER, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, Jonathan DIOLASO, Scott Matthew IBBOTSON, Irene Tsimos DIOLASO
  • Patent number: 12223309
    Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically upgrading an application are disclosed. A processor creates a dynamic machine learning (ML) model; trains the dynamic ML model and scans for SDK upgrade for the application against the dynamic ML model by implementing ML algorithm for predictions. The processor executes the SDK upgrade in response to detecting that the training of the dynamic ML model is completed to trigger the processor to perform the following automated processes: implement the ML algorithm against the trained dynamic ML model to generate predictive results data for deprecated reference corresponding to the application; evaluate the predictive results data to determine whether there is a match for the deprecated reference; and when it is determined that there is a match for the deprecated reference, automatically replace code and upgrade the application to newer version of the programming language specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Kumar Rao Krishnagi, Matthew J Porter, Mark Alan Wells, Jerome Joseph, Sharmila Prakash, Satvika Eda
  • Publication number: 20250040497
    Abstract: A plant irrigation device includes a support that surrounds a plant and provides an opening through which the plant extends. A drip tube is attached to the support and connectable to a water source. The drip tube has a series of spaced apart apertures or water emitters along a length thereof permitting water to exit the drip tube and into the ground surrounding the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Stingray Watering System, LLC
    Inventors: Lance James Lortscher, Mark Alan Christl
  • Publication number: 20250043511
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and optionally Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 12216660
    Abstract: A particular option selection may be provided by an online service platform (OSP) to a client regarding one or more predefined services that the OSP can be configured to perform. These may include automatic activities option selection(s) that may trigger the OSP to automatically start one or more activities upon one or more thresholds being crossed. The OSP may apply digital rules to the dataset(s) of the client to determine whether or not to automatically start or stop activities, including producing respective resources, upon a threshold being crossed, to determine a requested resource and then push, send, or otherwise cause to be transmitted a notification regarding the produced resource or other activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikki Nash, Gregory T. Kavounas, Stefan Kim, Aaron Lee Robles, Robert Erdman, Mark Alan Withers, Tim Diekmann
  • Patent number: 12210195
    Abstract: A method of terminating an optical fiber having an inner core with a fiber optic connector including a ferrule having a micro-bore and an end face with a mating location is disclosed. The method includes determining a bore bearing angle of a bore offset of the micro-bore in the ferrule; determining a core bearing angle of a core offset of the inner core in the optical fiber; orienting the ferrule and the optical fiber relative to each other to minimize the distance between the inner core and the mating location; heating the ferrule to an processing temperature above room temperature; and coupling the optical fiber to the micro-bore of the ferrule. The size of the micro-bores and optical fibers may be selected to maximize the number of interference fits in a population of ferrules and optical fibers while minimizing failed fittings between the ferrules and optical fibers in the populations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Raisa Rose Boben, Woraphat Dockchoorung, Riley Saunders Freeland, Klaus Hartkorn, Mark Alan McDermott, Aislin Karina Sullivan, Pushkar Tandon, Mateusz Tomasz Zujewski
  • Publication number: 20250027813
    Abstract: Configurations for light source modules and methods for mitigating coherent noise are disclosed. The light source modules may include multiple light source sets, each of which may include multiple light sources. The light emitted by the light sources may be different wavelengths or the same wavelength depending on whether the light source module is providing redundancy of light sources, increased power, coherent noise mitigation, and/or detector mitigation. In some examples, the light source may emit light to a coupler or a multiplexer, which may then be transmitted to one or more multiplexers. In some examples, the light source modules provide one light output and in other examples, the light source modules provide two light outputs. The light source modules may provide light with approximately zero loss and the wavelengths of light may be close enough to spectroscopically equivalent respect to a sample and far enough apart to provide coherent noise mitigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan Arbore, Thomas C. Greening, Yongming Tu
  • Patent number: 12206032
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detector includes an InP substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface; a first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the first surface and configured to absorb a first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a set of one or more buffer layers stacked on the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and configured to absorb at least some of the first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the set of one or more buffer layers and configured to absorb a second set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; and an immersion condenser lens formed on the second surface and configured to direct electromagnetic radiation through the InP substrate and toward the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and the second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Alan Arbore, Matthew T. Morea, Miikka M. Kangas, Romain F. Chevallier, Tomas Sarmiento
  • Patent number: 12199694
    Abstract: At least some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method. In some examples, the method includes receiving 2-line data in an embedded Universal Serial Bus (eUSB) format. The method further includes encoding the 2-line data into a single signal. The single signal comprises a first symbol corresponding to a first state change of the 2-line data and a second symbol corresponding to a second state change of the 2-line data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Suzanne Mary Vining, Gary Chard, Win Naing Maung, Mark Alan McAdams
  • Publication number: 20250010038
    Abstract: A method of assembling a rapid-exchange catheter, includes providing a tubular sheath that is flexible and includes a proximal section, a mid-shaft section and a distal section, the tubular shaft defining a first lumen that extends through the proximal section, the mid-shaft section, and the distal section; providing a rapid exchange segment defining a second lumen that extends from an entry port to an exit port thereof, and having a stub portion formed at an angle with respect to the second lumen; and coupling the tubular sheath and the rapid exchange segment such that the distal section of the tubular sheath and the stub portion of the rapid exchange segment are mated to each other in a lengthwise direction at an angle such that a longitudinal axis of the first lumen and a longitudinal axis of the second lumen are laterally offset from each other by an offset distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan Hamm, Albert Harold Dunfee
  • Publication number: 20250011953
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrolyte comprising H+ or OH? and precursors used to make a hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst, an oxygen evolution electrocatalyst, a bifunctional hydrogen/oxygen evolution electrocatalyst, or any combination thereof for use in in situ catalyst synthesis, deposition and/or utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph Mohammad BARFOROUSH, Kristen Taylor HIETALA, Mark Alan DAUGHERTY
  • Publication number: 20250003911
    Abstract: A sensor system for a spacecraft comprising: atomic oxygen sensors including graphite strips to provide resistances that increase as the graphite strips ablate away when exposed to atomic oxygen, the atomic oxygen sensors configured to generate first sensor signals indicative of the resistances and, correspondingly, atomic oxygen fluence to which the atomic oxygen sensors are exposed; thermistors to generate second sensor signals indicative of temperature; sensor circuits that are identically configured to each other and that include first sensor circuits to convert the first sensor signals to digitized first signals and second sensor circuits to convert the second sensor signals to digitized second signals; and a controller to process the digitized first signals and the digitized second signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan HAGER, Hannah OSGOOD DEAN, Melody Renee HAWKINS
  • Publication number: 20250002418
    Abstract: A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: mixing particles of an inorganic material with a liquid vehicle and a binder material to form a liquid-particulate-binder stream; mixing the liquid-particulate-binder stream with an atomizing gas, directing the liquid-particulate-binder stream into an atomizing nozzle thereby atomizing the particles into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of the liquid vehicle, he binder material, and the particles; conveying the droplets toward the plugged honeycomb body by a gaseous carrier stream, wherein the gaseous carrier stream comprises a carrier gas and the atomizing gas; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the deposited agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Fei Xia, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Patent number: 12180653
    Abstract: Provided are woven papermaking fabrics having a web contacting surface having protuberances formed from woven warp and shute filaments. The protuberances, which may be oriented in the machine direction (MD) converge, merge, or diverge and may be arranged to form a pattern. In certain instances, the protuberance may comprise a first MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about 0.5 to about 15 degrees, a second MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about ?0.5 to about ?15 degrees wherein the first and second protuberances converge at a convergence area to form a third MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about ?15 to about 15 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin
  • Patent number: 12182723
    Abstract: A method includes accessing web browsing history for a plurality of users, generating embedding vectors based on the web browsing history for websites, and selecting a model configured to receive embedding vectors and output probability of a conversion events. Further, the method includes calculating a probability of a conversion event for the various websites using the model, selecting a subset of websites from the various websites based on websites having associated probabilities greater that a predetermined probability threshold, and receiving an indication that an impression has been displayed to a user when the user visits a website from the subset of websites, obtaining a plurality of conversion rates, each conversion rate is determined for each website from the subset of websites based on a number of conversion events associated with the plurality of visitation events, and updating the model parameters of the model using the obtained plurality of conversion rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Dstillery, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Jerard Kaufman, Amelia Grieve White, Christopher Allen Jenness, Mark Alan Jung, Melinda Han Williams
  • Patent number: 12168851
    Abstract: Disclosed are woven papermaking fabrics having a textured sheet contacting surface with machine and cross-machine direction topography. The machine direction (MD) topography may be imparted by substantially MD oriented protuberances comprising a warp strand supported by a shute strand. The cross-machine direction (CD) topography may be imparted by substantially CD oriented protuberances comprising a shute strand supported by a warp strand. The CD protuberances may extend continuously in the CD and intersect the MD oriented protuberances to form discrete pockets there between. The pockets may have a variety of shapes and size depending on the MD and CD oriented protuberance. In certain instances the pockets may be rectilinear and have a pocket depth greater than 1.0 mm and a pocket angle greater than 28 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventors: Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin
  • Patent number: D1056813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Brian David Digman, Mark Alan Csepe, Craig Desbry English