Patents by Inventor MARK BRIAN

MARK BRIAN 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: 20130232754
    Abstract: A door lock striker alignment check fixture includes a check fixture body having a tapered region engageable with a striker receiving slot of a door latch mechanism. The check fixture body defines an elongated slot for receiving a door striker. The door lock striker alignment check fixture further includes a flange fixedly attached to the check fixture body, and which is engageable with an exterior surface of a vehicle door coupled to the door latch mechanism. The flange includes a contact surface that contacts the exterior surface of the vehicle door and which faces an insertion direction of the tapered region with respect to the striker receiving slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: CHARLES CUTTING, MARK BRIAN
  • Patent number: 8525083
    Abstract: A hot water heater and method that includes power consumption reporting to enable consumers to better understand and control the energy usage and/or efficiency of the hot water heater. Monitoring energy consumption of an electric hot water heater having at least one electrical load that is selectively activated by a controller of the hot water heater includes sensing the amount of time the at least one electrical load is activated multiplying the amount of time by a known value corresponding to a power rating of the electrical load to determine energy consumed, and displaying on a display device an indicator corresponding to the energy consumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jay Andrew Broniak, Joseph Mark Brian
  • Publication number: 20130226338
    Abstract: The present application provides an automated beverage dispenser using a number of cups and a number of lids. The automated beverage dispenser may include a lid stack with the number of lids, a lidding mechanism, and a positioning device for maneuvering the lidding mechanism so as to remove one of the number of lids from the lid stack and to attach the lid to one of the number of cups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Sean Pickett, Kenneth Andrew Nicoll, Mark David Rob, Andrew Mark Angus, Mark Brian Dockrill, Ravisha Sellahewa, Stephen Houghton, Scott Alexander Anderson
  • Publication number: 20130220480
    Abstract: The present application provides an automated beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage and ice into a cup. The automated beverage dispenser may include an ice dispensing station with an ice auger and a weight sensor, a beverage dispensing station, and a control device. The control device instructs the ice auger to fill the cup with a predetermined amount of ice and instructs the beverage dispensing station to fill the cup with a predetermined amount of the beverage in response to a weight of the cup as determined by the weight sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Angus, Kenneth Andrew Nicoll, Mark David Rob, Sean Pickett, Mark Brian Dockrill, Ravisha Sellahewa, Stephen Houghton, Scott Alexander Anderson
  • Patent number: 8505769
    Abstract: A lid covering an interior of a medical waste receptacle base including a cover for covering the interior of the base. The cover has an opening for passing medical waste through it. The lid includes a chute for directing medical waste into the interior of the base and a closure for blocking the opening operatively connected to the cover for movement between an open position and a closed position. The lid includes a skirt operatively connected to the closure. The skirt sweeps medical waste on the chute toward the waste receptacle base interior as the closure moves from the closed position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Mark Brian Finnestad
  • Publication number: 20130074362
    Abstract: A system comprises a blower for moving a volume of air. A motor is operable for controlling the blower. A cooling unit is operable for cooling bearings of the blower during operation. An intake conduit is configured for passing heated air from a plenum space atop of a paint spray booth enclosure to the blower. A delivery conduit delivers the heated air to a plurality of locations within the paint spray booth enclosure. A plurality of air knifes are joined to the delivery conduit at the plurality of locations to deliver a laminar flow of the heated air into the paint spray booth. A plurality of comb devices, each joined to a one of the plurality of air knifes, are configured to disrupt the laminar flow to produce a turbulent flow in which an object within the paint spray booth enclosure is surrounded by the turbulent flow of heated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Brian Lesicka
  • Publication number: 20130073997
    Abstract: A resource consumption user interface is disclosed comprising one or more user input features for selecting a start time and an end time for monitoring at least one resource consumption task from a plurality of resource consumption tasks that contribute to a total resource consumption in a given environment, wherein the plurality of resource consumption tasks are associated with one or more appliances that operate in the given environment. The resource consumption user interface also comprises one or more user output features for presenting information about the selected resource consumption task, beginning at the selected start time, and updating the presented information until the selected end time is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph Mark Brian, David C. Bingham, Rich Merwarth
  • Publication number: 20130073059
    Abstract: A resource consumption user interface is disclosed comprising one or more user input features for selecting a start date and an end date for defining a selected time range over which to determine resource consumption associated with at least one resource consumption task from a plurality of resource consumption tasks that contribute to a total resource consumption in a given environment. The plurality of resource consumption tasks are associated with one or more appliances that operate in the given environment. The start date and the end date are selectable for any desired time range over a given time duration. The resource consumption user interface also comprises one or more user output features for presenting information associated with the at least one resource consumption task, wherein the presented information represents accumulated information beginning at a time on the selected start date and ending at a time on the selected end date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph Mark Brian, David C. Bingham, Rich Merwarth
  • Patent number: 8397933
    Abstract: A lid covering an interior of a medical waste receptacle base. The lid includes an intermediate waste repository connected to the cover. The repository is moveable between a holding position adapted for holding waste segregated from the receptacle base interior, and a dumping position adapted for biasing waste by gravity into the receptacle base interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Mark Brian Finnestad
  • Patent number: 8393488
    Abstract: A method of medical waste disposal comprising (a) positioning an open end of a container relative to a hood assembly such that the hood assembly substantially covers the open end of the container; (b) depositing medical waste in the container through a passage defined by the hood assembly until the container is at least partially full; (c) placing a lid over the open end of the container such that the open end is substantially closed; (d) disposing of the container; (e) sterilizing the hood assembly; and (f) repeating step (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien AG
    Inventors: John C. Japuntich, Mark Brian Finnestad, Anton M. Smudde
  • Publication number: 20130051777
    Abstract: A hot water heater includes a tank for storing water, one or more heating elements for selectively applying heat to the water in the tank, and a controller for controlling the heating elements, operative to automatically self-program control of the hot water heater to reduce energy consumption of the hot water heater based on usage data. The controller is operative to execute a learning algorithm that tracks usage data of the hot water heater based on one or more parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph Mark Brian, Michael Thomas Beyerle, Jay Andrew Broniak, David C. Bingham
  • Publication number: 20130052252
    Abstract: A hard coated confectionary product having a consumable, soft, high solids chewy core fortified with heat sensitive medicaments and vitamins with the core encapsulated in a hard consumable coating and a method for making the fortified confectionary is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Anthony John Bell, Shawna Dee Eddy, Mark Brian Jones, Richard C. Zulman
  • Patent number: 8376306
    Abstract: An anti-rattle track fastener assembly for attaching a fixture to a vehicle that has a track formed therein. The track includes upper walls that form a longitudinally-extending slot. Spaced-apart segments extend from the upper walls into the slot to provide undercut areas in the slot positioned under the segments. Spaced-apart openings are positioned between the segments. The fastener assembly includes a stud that extends from the fixture and is dimensioned to be received within the slot for engaging the spaced-apart segments. The fastener also includes an eccentrically-mounted cam movable between a first position and a second position. When the cam is in the first position, the stud can engage the spaced-apart segments with clearance, and when the cam is in the second position, the stud can tightly engage the spaced-apart segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: BE Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Brian Dowty
  • Publication number: 20130039145
    Abstract: Presented herein is a mixing apparatus to mix liquid and solids, solids and solids, liquids and liquids or combinations thereof into a homogenous solution in a sealed container shaken in a side to side, up and down, and/or orbital pattern with a warming plate to heat the contents to a desired temperature or for a specific time period with a decreased risk of foreign contaminants in accordance with prescribed instructions for preparing a mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: EAZY ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Felicia Lynne Pollaro, Mark Brian Docherty
  • Publication number: 20130038122
    Abstract: A renewable energy management system includes a load center that enables current flow into a renewable energy system generated from one or more sources and facilitates consumption of generated energy by one or more devices in the renewable energy system, and a smart meter that tracks energy flow in and out of the load center to measure energy consumption and energy production for the renewable energy system. The system also includes an energy manager in communication with the smart meter and at least one of the devices, wherein the energy manager signals the at least one of the devices to function as an energy storage device for storing excess renewable energy generated by the renewable energy system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Jay Andrew BRONIAK, Joseph Mark Brian
  • Patent number: 8360516
    Abstract: A passenger seat includes a rigid frame, a seat pan supported by the frame and movable relative to the frame, a leg rest pivotally attached to a forward end of the seat pan, a seat back pivotally attached to a rearward end of the seat pan, and a single actuator linked to the leg rest such that extension of the actuator causes the leg rest to pivot forward, the seat pan to move forward, and the seat back to recline. A method of adjusting the passenger seat includes activating the actuator such that extension of the actuator causes the leg rest to pivot forward, the seat pan to move forward, and the seat back to recline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Brian Dowty, Tracy N. Pence
  • Publication number: 20130019312
    Abstract: Training defense of a computer network. The system includes an enterprise asset subsystem to be defended. The enterprise asset subsystem runs operating system, support services, and application programs. The system also includes a neutral subsystem that is in communication with the enterprise asset subsystem and is used to set up and run at least one exercise scenario, and score performance of enterprise asset defenders in defending the system against exploits. Exploits are launched by an exploitation subsystem communication with the enterprise asset subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Mark Brian Bell, Scott Cruickshanks Kennedy, Carleton Royse Ayers, II, Brian Whyte, Kay Myers
  • Patent number: 8346886
    Abstract: A computer system comprises a server. The server, in turn, comprises one or more master instances of an operating system (OS). The OS comprises a set of computer program files to operate a computer. The server also includes a version-managing program maintaining the one or more master operating systems. The computer system also includes a number of client computers each of which is configured to operate using one of the one or more master operating systems as read-only files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Richard Blandford, John Ross Dennis, Alexander Tobias Larsson, David Hugh Malcolm, Mark Brian McLoughlin, Seth Aaron Nickell, Havoc Pennington, Brian Stevens, Owen Wayne Taylor
  • Patent number: 8333292
    Abstract: A lid for covering an interior of a medical waste receptacle base. The lid includes a cover having a generally circular opening. The opening including an upper rim surrounding an upper central axis and a lower rim surrounding a lower central axis that is non-co-linear with the upper central axis. The lid includes a generally circular closure sized for blocking the opening. The lid includes a guide extending along the cover. In the open position, the closure is at least partially out of alignment with the opening. In the closed position, a center axis of the closure is aligned with the upper central axis to block the opening. The closure is moveable from the closed position to a locked position in which the center axis of the closure is coincident with the lower central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Mark Brian Finnestad
  • Patent number: 8300748
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that allows egress pointer smoothing data by evaluating the average fill of an elastic store. For one embodiment of the invention, an elastic store implements a plurality of independent FIFOs, each FIFO having a write pointer and a read pointer, the write pointer including a marking pointer field and valid flag field. An incoming byte is received to a location within a traffic memory and the write pointer is used to instruct the traffic memory to indicate that the incoming bit has been received to the location. The valid flag field is set to indicate that the value at the location is currently valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Flextronics International USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Brian Carson