Patents by Inventor Mark Allen

Mark Allen 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: 12249774
    Abstract: A wireless microphone system utilizes an antenna structure that supports dual frequency bands. With some embodiments, the wireless microphone system comprises a first apparatus (for example, a wireless transmitter) and an attached second apparatus (for example, an attached microphone), where the chassis of the first apparatus and the housing of the second apparatus support the antenna structure through an electrical connector (for example, through an outer shell of a Cannon (XLR) connector) between the two apparatuses. The chassis and the housing may support first and second halves of a dipole antenna, respectively. The first apparatus supports first and second electrical circuits that are operational within a first and second frequency band, respectively, and that connect to first and second input ports of a combining circuit (for example, a diplexer filter). The output port of the combining circuit connects to the housing through the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Adem Celebi, Mark Allen Kenkel, Tracy Wang, Zhen Ma
  • Patent number: 12243112
    Abstract: A crop prediction system performs various machine learning operations to predict crop production and to identify a set of farming operations that, if performed, optimize crop production. The crop prediction system uses crop prediction models trained using various machine learning operations based on geographic and agronomic information. Responsive to receiving a request from a grower, the crop prediction system can access information representation of a portion of land corresponding to the request, such as the location of the land and corresponding weather conditions and soil composition. The crop prediction system applies one or more crop prediction models to the access information to predict a crop production and identify an optimized set of farming operations for the grower to perform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: David Patrick Perry, Geoffrey Albert von Maltzahn, Robert Berendes, Eric Michael Jeck, Barry Loyd Knight, Rachel Ariel Raymond, Ponsi Trivisvavet, Justin Y H Wong, Neal Hitesh Rajdev, Marc-Cedric Joseph Meunier, Casey James Leist, Pranav Ram Tadi, Andrea Lee Flaherty, Charles David Brummitt, Naveen Neil Sinha, Jordan Lambert, Jonathan Hennek, Carlos Becco, Mark Allen, Daniel Bachner, Fernando Derossi, Ewan Lamont, Rob Lowenthal, Dan Creagh, Steve Abramson, Ben Allen, Jyoti Shankar, Chris Moscardini, Jeremy Crane, David Weisman, Gerard Keating, Lauren Moores, William Pate
  • Patent number: 12235939
    Abstract: A server computing device receives authentication request messages formatted according to a first message format from a party via a computing device of a user involved in a transaction, translates the messages into modified authentication request messages formatted according to a second message format, and transmits the modified authentication request messages to an authorization computer. The server computing device may augment the modified authentication request messages by including data gathered from the received authentication request messages describing the user, user's computing device, and/or network path between the server computing device and user's computing device, as well as risk scores generated based upon the received authentication request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Mark Allen Nelsen, Craig O'Connell, Karl Newland, Douglas Fisher
  • Patent number: 12233979
    Abstract: A sealed speaker enclosure for a bass speaker that is hand-insertable and removable from a hard-side motorcycle saddlebag. The body of the enclosure complements the interior space of the saddlebag making sealing contact with the interior walls of the saddlebag. The bass speaker faces the motorcycle side of the saddlebag within the shock absorber tower indentation overlapping and opening. A speaker grill overlays the opening in the shock absorber tower indentation of the saddlebag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ROCKFORD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Talfryne Jones, Jr., Richard James Agins, III, Bryce Edward Steidler, Brian Michael Von Pasecky, Mark Allen Fisher
  • Patent number: 12235351
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HG Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Alberto Fonts, Carlos Ernesto Fonts, Mark Allen O'Hair, John Richard O'Hair, Richard Dolan Randall
  • Patent number: 12220862
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for building a product by additive manufacturing and creating hollow volumes without including build supports in the hollow volume for the layers above the hollow volume. An additive manufacturing cell includes a material handling device, a printer a material delivery system and an energy source to feed the sheets, print on the sheets, apply a powder on the printed sheets, build a hollow volume into the sheets and consolidate the sheets into a product with a contiguous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Raffaello Ardanese, James Joseph Deininger, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Mark Allen Leavitt
  • Patent number: 12210092
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The radar system (e.g., the CW radar system) is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HG Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Alberto Fonts, Carlos Ernesto Fonts, Mark Allen O'Hair, John Richard O'Hair
  • Publication number: 20250030453
    Abstract: A wireless microphone system may be configured to compensate for a radio frequency (RF) loss incurred in a wired communication path. The system may comprise a receiver configured to receive an downlink RF signal from a wireless microphone, and a transmission line accessory configured to receive an uplink test signal. The RF test signal may be generated from an RF source and may be measured by the transmission line accessory to determine configuration information for an adjustable RF gain circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Kenkel, Scott R. Anderson, Steven M. Grad, Jon Caleb Halverson
  • Patent number: 12201922
    Abstract: A method for operating a chromatography setup of a bioprocess installation with a plurality of chromatography columns, each with a column inlet and a column outlet, and a valve switching cassette with a group of inlet ports, a group of outlet ports, a group of column-in ports and a group of column-out ports. It is prosed, that a first liquid stream of concentrated buffer is introduced into a first internal liquid line via a first inlet port and that a second liquid stream of diluent is introduced into a second internal liquid line via a second inlet port, that in a dilution process, the array of valve units is switched as to create a third liquid stream by merging the first liquid stream and the second liquid stream at a merging location within the valve switching cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Chromatography Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Pelella, Jason Forte, Mark Allen Pagkaliwangan
  • Patent number: 12195960
    Abstract: A panel assembly includes a vertical panel, an overhang panel and a curved transition panel disposed between the vertical panel and the overhang panel. A fabric layer may be applied to one or more of the various panels by way of a stay being engaged with fabric layer and inserted through an opening in the one or panels. A light assembly may be secured to the panel assembly with a mounting portion. A hook assembly includes vertical and horizontal flanges, with a magnet coupled to the horizontal flange and a hook connected to the vertical flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: John Mark Allen, William B. Bennie, Brian Bultsma, Rachel L. Dekker, Michael John Feldpausch, Anbazhagan Gandhi, James D. Houda, Trevor A. Knauf
  • Publication number: 20250011534
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to crystallizable shrinkable films and thermoformable film(s) or sheet(s) comprising blends of polyester compositions which comprise residues of terephthalic acid, neopentyl glycol (NPG), 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM), ethylene glycol (EG), and diethylene glycol (DEG), in certain compositional ranges having certain advantages and improved properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Mark Allen Peters, Jacob Edward Napierala, Rondell Paul Little, JR., James Carl Williams, James Wesley Peer
  • Publication number: 20250013498
    Abstract: A system and method for managing arbitration and command fetching in a data communication system are provided. The method includes determining that a number of command requests is greater than or equal to a minimum fetch threshold or a number of resources to receive the command requests is greater than or equal to a resource threshold, and transmitting the command requests in response to the number of the command requests being greater than or equal to the minimum fetch threshold or the number of resources to receive the command requests being greater than or equal to the resource threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie WU, Vasili ZHDANKIN, Mark Allen GAERTNER
  • Publication number: 20250011533
    Abstract: The polyester compositions of the invention are useful in the manufacture of shrinkable films. The shrinkable films of the invention are comprised of polyester compositions comprising certain combinations of glycols and dicarboxylic acids in particular proportions which provide a lower level of shrinkage while having a melting temperature to accommodate modern sorting and recycling technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Mark Allen Peters, Huamin Hu, Marc Alan Strand, Jacob E. Napierala
  • Publication number: 20250001812
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a tire comprising a tread, at least one carcass ply, a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewalls, wherein each sidewall of the pair of sidewalls extends between the tread and a respective bead portion of the pair of bead portions. At least one sidewall of the pair of sidewalls comprises a first circumferential sidewall layer and a second circumferential sidewall layer extending along an axially inner side of the first sidewall layer, between the first sidewall layer and an adjacent carcass ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael DiMonte, Michael Thomas Driscoll, Steven Wayne Mutch, Stephen Gilbert Aldrich, Katy Avon Fetty, Mark Allen Grund, Nihat Ali Isitman, Justin Francis Sarff
  • Publication number: 20250007918
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for multitenancy SSD access control. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include determining capabilities of a storage device for supporting multitenancy based on a physical function message from the storage device, identifying a tenant of a host, the host being communicatively connected with the storage device, negotiating an access contract between the tenant and the storage device, where the negotiating includes sending an access descriptor of the tenant to the storage device, the access descriptor indicating a requested level of access to the storage device, receiving, from the storage device, an access grant based on the negotiating, the access grant including an access allocation for the tenant based on the access descriptor, and enabling the tenant to access the storage device based on configuring the tenant with a virtualized computing environment in accordance with the access allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Lee HELMICK, Mark Allen GAERTNER, Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie WU, Siamak ARYA, Vipin Kumar AGRAWAL, Vasili ZHDANKIN, Sumanth JANNYAVULA VENKATA
  • Publication number: 20240423524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for improved mapping and/or ablation of a tissue. The device may generally include an elongate body and a distal assembly affixed to the elongate body that includes a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping region and a selectively conductive ablation region that is conductive of high-frequency current and substantially non-conductive of low-frequency current. Alternatively, the device may generally include a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping or ablation region and a region that is coated with an electrically insulated but thermally conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mark T. Stewart, Mark Allen Benscoter, Jon Virgil Evans, Timothy G. Laske, Gonzalo Martinez
  • Publication number: 20240429251
    Abstract: A GmAPD FPA having increased tolerance optical overstress includes a limit resistor that is monolithically integrated into each pixel in the FPA, and which limits the magnitude of the current entering the read out integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Allen ITZLER, Brian PICCIONE, XUDONG JIANG, KRYSTYNA SLOMKOWSKI
  • Patent number: 12176966
    Abstract: A wireless microphone system comprises system equipment (for example, rack-mounted equipment including receivers/transceivers, distribution amplifier), one or more transmission line accessories, and a transmission line network connecting the accessories with the system equipment. The transmission line accessory compensates for downlink RF losses on transmission lines between accessories and between an accessory and system equipment. Compensation parameters for the transmission line accessory is determined by the system equipment by generating an uplink RF test signal by an RF source at the system equipment. The RF source may be varied over a plurality of frequencies to determine the compensation parameters over the plurality of frequencies. The system equipment subsequently instructs the transmission line accessory to configure an adjustable RF gain circuit (and also possibly a compensation filter) accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Kenkel, Scott R. Anderson, Steven M. Grad, Jon Caleb Halverson
  • Publication number: 20240417287
    Abstract: A method of treating a quantity of water that includes a first level of a contaminant and is discharged from a process includes mixing the water with an effluent having a second level of the contaminant to produce a condensate having a third level of contaminant, the second level being greater than the first level. The method further includes passing the condensate through a reverse osmosis system to produce a permeate having a fourth level of the contaminant and a concentrate having a fifth level of the contaminant that is greater than the fourth level. The method also includes oxidizing the concentrate in an electro-oxidation system to generate the effluent and directing the effluent to a point upstream of the reverse osmosis system to perform the mixing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Allen Clark, Bryan J. Kumfer, Chad L. Felch
  • Publication number: 20240410252
    Abstract: A friction reduction tool configured for selective activation downhole in response to a variation in a media flow's operating condition. A valve assembly and an activation assembly are both positioned downstream of a power assembly, which is configured to rotate a rotating valve segment of the valve assembly with media flow through the tool. The activation assembly is configured to transition from a first position to a second position with the media flow operating condition variation. In the first position, the activation assembly provides a bypass flow path around the valve assembly for at least a portion of the media flow, thereby preventing the valve assembly from generating any significant pressure pulse with rotation of the rotating valve segment. In the second position, the bypass flow path is closed such that all or a majority of the media flows through the valve assembly, thereby generating a significant pressure pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Rival Downhole Tools LC
    Inventors: Gunther HH von Gynz-Rekowski, Mark Allen Reeves