Patents by Inventor Mark Bruce

Mark Bruce 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: 11978918
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an energy storage mounting system includes an inverter wall bracket mounted to a wall, wherein an inverter is coupled to the inverter wall bracket. The system includes a battery wall bracket to which a battery block is coupled. The battery wall bracket interfaces with an auxiliary bracket that is mounted to the wall, is vertically translatable relative to the auxiliary bracket, and is at least in part ground-supported. The battery block is electrically connected to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher McCarthy, Tahina Christine Felisca, Peter H. J. How, Scott A. Whitman, Eamon Briggs, Sanchita Sheth, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Daniel Goldman, Kevin Richard Fine
  • Patent number: 11973205
    Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage component. It further includes heat generating electronics. It further includes a fluid circulator that transfers fluid between the energy storage component and the heat generating electronics. The circulator is controlled to alternatively transfer fluid from the battery to the heat generating electronics or from the heat generating electronics to the energy storage component based at least in part on a thermal state of the energy storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Bozhi Yang, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Tahina Christine Felisca, Kevin Richard Fine, Mark Daniel Goldman, Mark Holveck, Erica Viola Lewis, Conrad Xavier Murphy, Ian Gregory Spearing
  • Patent number: 11972783
    Abstract: In one general embodiment, a data storage product includes a magnetic recording tape having written thereon at least two servo tracks extending along a longitudinal axis of the tape. Each servo track has a timing-based servo (TBS) pattern comprising a series of servo frames arranged to enable lateral positioning of a magnetic head relative to the servo tracks as well as tape dimensional stability (TDS) compensation via head skew. Each frame comprises a sequence of pairs of leading and trailing servo stripes. Midpoints between the servo stripes in each pair, at all points having a same relative lateral height on the tape, are located along a virtual median line oriented at an angle ? from perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tape, the angle ? being greater than 1 degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nhan Xuan Bui, Kevin Bruce Judd, Simeon Furrer, Mark Alfred Lantz
  • Patent number: 11965183
    Abstract: The invention relates to modified Dda helicases which can be used to control the movement of polynucleotides and are particularly useful for sequencing polynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Heron, Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Mark Bruce, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Joseph Hargreaves Lloyd, Szabolcs Soeroes, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Christopher Peter Youd
  • Publication number: 20240128594
    Abstract: A wiring harness for a battery and inverter system includes a main cable. It further includes an inverter connector configured to plug the main cable into an inverter module. It further includes a first spur of the main cable terminating in a first-type battery device connector. It further includes a second spur of the main cable terminating in a second type battery device connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Peter H.J. How, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Holveck, Anthony Sagneri, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Randol Aikin, Mark Daniel Goldman, Conrad Xavier Murphy, Kevin Richard Fine, Brian M. Neil
  • Publication number: 20240116795
    Abstract: A glass transport system configured to mitigate or stop damaging glass leaks by incorporating silica-containing structural components or introducing silica-containing materials to the advancing glass leak flow to cause the molten glass to interact with silica in the silica-containing material and increase the viscosity of the molten glass sufficiently to slowdown or stop the flow of the glass leak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: MITCHELL BRUCE HALLER, JASON ARTHUR HOWLES, MARK EDWIN LEE MACK
  • Publication number: 20240106050
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an energy storage mounting system includes an inverter wall bracket mounted to a wall, wherein an inverter is coupled to the inverter wall bracket. The system includes a battery wall bracket to which a battery block is coupled. The battery wall bracket interfaces with an auxiliary bracket that is mounted to the wall, is vertically translatable relative to the auxiliary bracket, and is at least in part ground-supported. The battery block is electrically connected to the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher McCarthy, Tahina Christine Felisca, Peter H. J. How, Scott A. Whitman, Eamon Briggs, Sanchita Sheth, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Mark Daniel Goldman, Kevin Richard Fine
  • Patent number: 11938560
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various methods and apparatus for characterizing an additive manufacturing process. A method for characterizing the additive manufacturing process can include generating scans of an energy source across a build plane; measuring an amount of energy radiated from the build plane during each of the scans using an optical sensor; determining an area of the build plane traversed during the scans; determining a thermal energy density for the area of the build plane traversed by the scans based upon the amount of energy radiated and the area of the build plane traversed by the scans; mapping the thermal energy density to one or more location of the build plane; determining that the thermal energy density is characterized by a density outside a range of density values; and thereafter, adjusting subsequent scans of the energy source across or proximate the one or more locations of the build plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: R. Bruce Madigan, Lars Jacquemetton, Glenn Wikle, Mark J. Cola, Vivek R. Dave, Darren Beckett, Alberto M. Castro
  • Patent number: 11939359
    Abstract: The invention relates to mutant forms of lysenin. The invention also relates to analyte characterisation using the mutant forms of lysenin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Lakmal Jayasinghe, Mark Bruce, Luke McNeill, Ramiz Iqbal Nathani, Pratik Raj Singh, Neil Roger Wood, Stephen Robert Young
  • Publication number: 20240092016
    Abstract: This invention teaches a quality assurance system for additive manufacturing. This invention teaches a multi-sensor, real-time quality system including sensors, affiliated hardware, and data processing algorithms that are Lagrangian-Eulerian with respect to the reference frames of its associated input measurements. The quality system for Additive Manufacturing is capable of measuring true in-process state variables associated with an additive manufacturing process, i.e., those in-process variables that define a feasible process space within which the process is deemed nominal. The in-process state variables can also be correlated to the part structure or microstructure and can then be useful in identifying particular locations within the part likely to include defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek R. Dave, R. Bruce Madigan, MArk J. Cola, Martin S. Piltch
  • Patent number: 11931956
    Abstract: This invention teaches a multi-sensor quality inference system for additive manufacturing. This invention still further teaches a quality system that is capable of discerning and addressing three quality issues: i) process anomalies, or extreme unpredictable events uncorrelated to process inputs; ii) process variations, or difference between desired process parameters and actual operating conditions; and iii) material structure and properties, or the quality of the resultant material created by the Additive Manufacturing process. This invention further teaches experimental observations of the Additive Manufacturing process made only in a Lagrangian frame of reference. This invention even further teaches the use of the gathered sensor data to evaluate and control additive manufacturing operations in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek R. Dave, David D. Clark, Matias Roybal, Mark J. Cola, Martin S. Piltch, R. Bruce Madigan, Alberto Castro
  • Publication number: 20240085336
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various system and methods for monitoring photons emitted by a heat source of an additive manufacturing device. Sensor data recorded while monitoring the photons can be used to predict metallurgical, mechanical and geometrical properties of a part produced during an additive manufacturing operation. In some embodiments, a test pattern can be used to calibrate an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek R. Dave, Mark J. Cola, R. Bruce Madigan, Alberto Castro, Glenn Wikle, Lars Jacquemetton, Peter Campbell
  • Publication number: 20240041846
    Abstract: Combinations of a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist and a beta 2 agonist for inhaled administration via the nose or mouth, compositions thereof, and methods of using them are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Darrell BAKER, Mark BRUCE, Glenn CRATER, Brian NOGA, Marian THOMAS, Patrick WIRE
  • Patent number: 11845780
    Abstract: The invention relates to mutant forms of lysenin. The invention also relates to analyte characterisation using lysenin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Mark Bruce, James Anthony Clarke, Andrew John Heron, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace
  • Publication number: 20230338229
    Abstract: A respiration-assistance apparatus or method can include or use a lifting element such as to cyclically push, pull, or lift, toward a superior direction of the subject, at least one subject region during an inhalation portion of a respiration cycle of the subject. A cyclical member can couple the lifting element to a fixed reference. Abdominal or ribcage compression can be provided. A multi-action or other cam can be used, such as together with a reciprocating element. Examples can be configured for use with a wheelchair, a bed, a vacuum or suction affixation element, a wearable garment, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Bruce Radbourne
  • Patent number: 11755612
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures for data ingestion in an environment having a distributed data storage system. A request to import data into the environment. The data to be imported from an external source through an application programming interface (API). The request is analyzed to determine if the request corresponds to a request to import a large data load. The data is staged if the request is for the large data load. Data management jobs are created to cause the data to be stored in one or more nodes of the distributed data storage system. The data management jobs are transmitted to corresponding nodes in the distributed data storage system. The jobs are executed asynchronously to cause the data to be stored in the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Jaffery Tajuddin, Samarpan Jain, Reuben Cornel, Siddhi Mehta, Brian Esserlieu, Jan Asita Fernando, Jonathan Mark Bruce, Jay Hurst
  • Patent number: 11739377
    Abstract: The invention relates to improving the movement of a target polynucleotide with respect to a transmembrane pore when the movement is controlled by a polynucleotide binding protein. The invention also relates to improved transmembrane pores and polynucleotide binding proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Jonathan Bankes Pugh, Richard George Hambley, Neil Roger Wood, Clive Gavin Brown, James White, Andrew John Heron, Mark Bruce, Christopher Peter Youd, Rebecca Victoria Bowen
  • Patent number: 11723832
    Abstract: A respiration-assistance apparatus or method can include or use a lifting element such as to cyclically push, pull, or lift, toward a superior direction of the subject, at least one subject region during an inhalation portion of a respiration cycle of the subject. A cyclical member can couple the lifting element to a fixed reference. Abdominal or ribcage compression can be provided. A multi-action or other cam can be used, such as together with a reciprocating element. Examples can be configured for use with a wheelchair, a bed, a vacuum or suction affixation element, a wearable garment, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Bruce Radbourne
  • Publication number: 20230212535
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new method of characterising a target polynucleotide. The method uses a pore and a Dda helicase. The helicase controls the movement of the target polynucleotide through the pore. The invention also relates to modified Dda helicases which can be used to control the movement of polynucleotides and are particularly useful for sequencing polynucleotides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Mark Bruce, Andrew John Heron, Ruth Moysey, Szabolcs Soeroes, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, James White
  • Publication number: 20220338558
    Abstract: A control system for use within an adaptive support garment is discussed herein. The control system can include a lace spool, a ratchet mechanism, an actuator, and a control circuit. The lace spool can include a lace groove adapted to accumulate a portion of a lace cable coupled to a support structure within the adaptive support garment. The ratchet mechanism can be configured to control rotation of the lace spool during operation of the control system. The actuator can be adapted to control engagement of the ratchet mechanism. The control circuit electrically can be coupled to the actuator and can be configured to operate the actuator to engage or disengage the ratchet mechanism. In operation, rotation of the lace spool controls an effective length of the lace cable to provide adaptive support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy P. Hopkins, Bobby LeGaye, Mark Bruce, Peter Williams, Austin J. Orand