Patents by Inventor Mark Armstrong

Mark Armstrong 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).

  • Mobile kiosk system
    Patent number: 8280775
    Abstract: A restaurant system includes an electronic kiosk having opposed first and second sides. A first display is situated on the first side for use by the customer and a second display is situated on the second side for use by a bartender. One aspect of the restaurant system includes a mobile kiosk system that includes a rail having distal and proximate ends and extends therebetween. The electronic kiosk includes a base that extends adjacent the rail. Inductive or conductive electrical components transmit an electrical current to power a processor, input device, and output device of the kiosk. The base is movable only along the rail between the rail distal and proximate ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Armstrong
  • Gripping mat
    Patent number: 8251340
    Abstract: A mat having a resiliently deformable mat portion and a securing element provided thereon for securing an item attached thereto against movement and relative to the mat portion is provided. The mat is arranged to grip a support surface on which the mat portion is laid, in use, by formation of at least a partial vacuum between the mat portion and the support surface upon deformation of the mat portion. The mat comprises a projection arranged to urge the item away from the mat when held by the mat, thereby to create a deformation in the mat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Wallet
    Publication number: 20120180917
    Abstract: A moulded wallet formed using at least two layers of plastics materials includes a first part having a free end and a fixed end, and a second part having a free end and a fixed end. The fixed ends cooperating to form a pivot bridge about which the first and second parts pivot between a first folded state and a second open state. A first of the layers of plastics materials includes a semi rigid plastics and a second includes a softer plastics which is less rigid than the first layer said plastics materials. Each of the first and second parts include an outer face and an inner face, the inner face at least partially formed of the semi rigid plastics. The semi rigid plastics co operates with the soft plastics material to define at least one compartment in each of the first and second parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Armstrong, Henri Spaile
  • Drinking vessel with teat
    Patent number: 8181800
    Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a nipple for a feeding bottle or a soother comprises a base portion, a teat portion, an areola portion and a flex region allowing flexing of the teat portion towards and away from the areola portion. According to a second embodiment, a nipple for a feeding bottle or soother is provided with a helical flow formation on the inner face of the teat, which allows continuous flow of liquid even when the teat is collapsed via the helical flow path which allows extension at the teat, in particular rotational or torsional extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Arnold Rees, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Systems and Methods for Sending an Electronic Mail Communication at a Selected Time Based on the Recipient's Time Zone
    Publication number: 20110252107
    Abstract: Methods and systems for sending an email so recipients receive it at a selected time in respective time zones. Information about recipients may determine times zones. Information may include zip code, IP address, or identification of a server or service provider serving a recipient. Information may be based on a recipient's activity such as determination of a time zone in which more emails are received than any other, or having a highest weighted average (based on frequency of email receipt and recent history). The email is sent so recipients receive it at the selected time in the respective time zone. Recipients may be grouped by time zones. After sending the email to the recipients, open/click rates of the email by the recipients by the determined time zones may be determined and displayed on a time zone map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: THE ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Chestnut, Mark Armstrong, Chadwick Morris
  • CMOS fabrication process utilizing special transistor orientation
    Patent number: 7888710
    Abstract: Complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistors are formed on a silicon substrate. The substrate has a {100} crystallographic orientation. The transistors are formed on the substrate so that current flows in the channels of the transistors are parallel to the <100> direction. Additionally, longitudinal tensile stress is applied to the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Armstrong, Gerhard Schrom, Sunit Tyagi, Paul A. Packan, Kelin J. Kuhn, Scott Thompson
  • Air freshener
    Patent number: 7854393
    Abstract: A clip on type air freshener device having a housing with openings in walls thereof permitting air flow through a cavity in the housing. A bottle that holds a supply of fragrance bearing liquid is mounted on the housing and has a wick with a portion thereof projecting into the cavity in the housing. An open ended sleeve is mounted on housing in axial alignment with such projecting wick portion and is adjustably moveable axially along the wick selectively in one position to completely cover the wick projecting portion and in another position leave at least a major portion thereof exposed to air flow through said housing openings. The wick cover is exposed through an opening in the housing giving the user a visual indication as to the amount of wick exposed for evaporation of the fragrance during usage of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ashland Licensing and Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Anna DiBello, Mark Armstrong, Henri Spaile, David Petarcic, Ed Kopinski
  • Systems and Methods for Determining and Sending a Preferred of Two Electronic Mail Communications
    Publication number: 20100312840
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining and sending a preferred of two electronic mail communications or messages (emails) to a group to increase likelihood of its review. Information for conducting a test between two emails, referred to as A email and B email, is collected. The information may identify a particular group, and segments A and B of the group. The information may provide content for the emails and include differentiation information between the emails. Determination information on how to select one of the emails as the preferred email and when to select the preferred email may be collected. The information is used to send the A email to the segment A, to send the B email to the segment B, to determine the preferred email between the A email and the B email, and to send the preferred email to at least a portion of the particular group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: THE ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Chestnut, Mark Armstrong, Chadwick Morris
  • Restaurant kiosk
    Patent number: D625304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventor: Mark Armstrong
  • Baby bottle with handles
    Patent number: D626246
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Arnold Rees, Ian Webb, Tom Cotton, Mark Armstrong
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Drinking cup
    Patent number: D642866
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Jackel International Limited
    Inventors: Paul Schofield, Ian Webb, Mark Armstrong, Tom Cotton
  • Positive airway pressure delivery device
    Patent number: D659235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Mark Bertinetti, Perry David Lithgow, Rohan Neil Primrose, Phoebe Katherine Hill, Richard Llewelyn Jones, Dimitri Marco Maurer, Alexander Virr, Hargopal Verma, Dan Kao, Henri Spaile, Nicholas Andrew Earl, Mark Armstrong, Justin Peter Wagemakers, Kenneth Lam, Bazil Yuen-fung Tung, Saad Nasr, Ian Malcolm Smith
  • Packaging
    Patent number: D666089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Mark Armstrong, Dale Mark Nicholls, Terry Xu, Johnny Xu, Ronald Menno Victor Wienia
  • Packaging
    Patent number: D671400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Mark Armstrong, Dale Mark Nicholls, Terry Xu, Johnny Xu, Ronald Menno Victor Wienia