Patents by Inventor Mark CHARLES

Mark CHARLES 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).

  • Resistance alleles in soybean
    Patent number: 10544470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting and/or producing a soybean plant or germplasm having iron deficiency chlorosis tolerance. A soybean plant, part thereof and/or germplasm, including any progeny and/or seeds derived from a soybean plant or germplasm identified, selected and/or produced by any of the methods of the present invention is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Mark Charles Hamilton, Harish Gandhi, Ainong Shi, Craig Lynn Davis, Thomas Joseph Curley, Jr., Baohong Guo
  • Sensor with a photovoltaic cell power source
    Patent number: 10541342
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a system, including: a sensor unit, comprising: a sensor that captures data; a memory storing data captured by the sensor; a photovoltaic cell operatively coupled to the sensor and the memory; the photovoltaic cell formed as a transparent layer; a display operatively coupled to the photovoltaic cell; a communication component that communicates the data captured by the sensor to a device; and a device that receives the data captured by the sensor via the communication component. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Philip John Jakes
  • MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF ANALYTES IN LIQUID SAMPLES USING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
    Publication number: 20200003744
    Abstract: A hand-held microfluidic testing device is provided that includes a housing having a cartridge receiving port and a cartridge for input to the cartridge receiving port. An optical detection system in the housing is capable of providing an illuminated electric field useful for Raman spectroscopy. The cartridge may have a sample well. The sample well is loaded with a mixture of water containing the analyte, Raman-scattering nanoparticles and a calibration solution. The calibration solution contains an analogue of the analyte differing in its Raman response, for example an isotope of the analyte. Optionally, a chemical compound capable of increasing interaction between the analyte and the nanoparticles may be added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Charles PETERMAN, Merwan BENHABIB, Carlos Atico ARIZA, Samuel Louis KLEINMAN
  • Systems and methods to control directional drilling for hydrocarbon wells
    Patent number: 10519718
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods to control directional drilling in borehole drilling for hydrocarbon wells are disclosed. An actual toolface orientation measurement value and an actual downhole torque on bit (DTOB) or actual downhole weight on bit (DWOB) measurement value for a drill string positioned in a borehole are determined. Responsive to a comparison of target measurement values and actual measurement values, error values are determined. A control command for one or more of a top drive, a drawworks, and a mud pump responsive to the DTOB or DWOB error value and the toolface orientation error value is determined. Additionally, one or more of the top drive, the drawworks, and the mud pump are operated responsive to the control command thereby to correct a toolface orientation of the drill string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Reza Banirazi-Motlagh, Mark Charles Penn, Anthony Pink, Joseph Kyle Smith
  • Nail or claw trimmer for use with pets
    Patent number: 10512246
    Abstract: An improved trimmer is structured to be held in the palm of a user's hand. The trimmer has a grinding drum that is advantageously structured to be situated in a palmar region of the user's hand that can be said to extend from the palm and to be generally bounded by the fingertips. When the trimmer is held in the palmar region, the thumb and certain fingers can support the trimmer, and other fingers that are not necessarily employed in supporting the trimmer are usable to operate a control switch of the trimmer. The control switch controls operation of a drive motor that is connected with a grinding drum which provides abrasive surfaces that are engageable with the animal nail or claw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Jack William Renforth, Ann Hanson, Mark Charles Kitchens, Regis Marie-Jean Wandres
  • BIOMETRIC ACCOUNT CARD
    Publication number: 20190370446
    Abstract: A card can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to: decrypt a private key of a payor stored in memory of the card, where the private key is associated with digital cryptocurrency; use the decrypted private key to generate a signed message to transfer the digital cryptocurrency to an address of a payee; and output the signed message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Activity powered band device
    Patent number: 10492594
    Abstract: A method provides a band, including: placing an energy harvesting mechanism within a deformable band; the energy harvesting mechanism being placed to transform deformation of the deformable band into stored energy; and providing a connection element to the energy harvesting mechanism; said connection element offering a coupling of the stored energy of the deformable band to a device. In an embodiment, a force is applied to deform a deformable band along a length dimension of the deformable band. The force acts to move an energy harvesting mechanism of the deformable band such that the energy harvesting mechanism transforms deformation of the deformable band into stored energy. The stored energy may be used, e.g., to collect information using a sensor of said deformable band. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Debra Kay Kobs-Fortner, Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Polarized battery tray for a vehicle
    Patent number: 10483510
    Abstract: A battery tray for a vehicle includes two tray components or pieces that attach or mate together, such as with one tray component over or within the other tray component, to form sealed and separate battery containment areas. The lower tray component that has a panel portion and a pair of elongated reinforcement members integrally protruding upward from opposing edges of the panel portion. Also, the upper tray component has a panel portion and a cross members that integrally extend across its panel portion. The upper tray component is disposed at an upper surface of the panel portion of the lower tray component with the cross members extending between the elongated reinforcement members and defining a battery containment area between each of the cross members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Shape Corp.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Stephens, Joseph Robert Matecki
  • Measuring concentration of analytes in liquid samples using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
    Patent number: 10444216
    Abstract: A hand-held microfluidic testing device is provided that includes a housing having a cartridge receiving port and a cartridge for input to the cartridge receiving port. An optical detection system in the housing is capable of providing an illuminated electric field useful for Raman spectroscopy. The cartridge may have a sample well. The sample well is loaded with a mixture of water containing the analyte, Raman-scattering nanoparticles and a calibration solution. The calibration solution contains an analog of the analyte differing in its Raman response, for example an isotope of the analyte. Optionally, a chemical compound capable of increasing interaction between the analyte and the nanoparticles may be added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ONDAVIA, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Peterman, Merwan Benhabib, Carlos Atico Ariza, Samuel Louis Kleinman
  • ALDEHYDE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS USING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
    Publication number: 20190277765
    Abstract: A hand-held microfluidic testing device is provided that includes a housing having a cartridge receiving port and a cartridge for input to the cartridge receiving port. An optical detection system in the housing is capable of providing an illuminated electric field useful for Raman spectroscopy. The cartridge may have a sample well. The sample well is loaded with a mixture of water containing the analyte, Raman-scattering nanoparticles and a calibration solution. The calibration solution contains an analogue of the analyte differing in its Raman response, for example an isotope of the analyte. Optionally, a chemical compound capable of increasing interaction between the analyte and the nanoparticles may be added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Charles PETERMAN
  • Unattended Railcar Motion Control System
    Publication number: 20190248389
    Abstract: A method and mechanism for initiating an emergency stop for an unattended railcar is disclosed. The method may include using a trip arm placed alongside the railway tracks at a designated stop point that may contact a portable trip-cock lever arm that extends out beyond the perimeter of the railcar if the railcar reaches the stop point as it moves along the track. The trip-cock lever arm may be attached to a valve that is connected to the pneumatic brake system of the unattended railcar. As the trip-cock lever arm rotates, the valve may open to release the air pressure in the pneumatic brake system causing the brakes to engage the wheels causing the railcar to stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Charles Engelland, Trevor Michael Greer, David Alexander Shaw
  • BICYCLIC COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20190233377
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), methods of synthesizing compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), and methods of using compounds of Formulae (I) and (II) as an analgesic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin Duane Bunker, Chuangxing Guo, Mark Charles Grier, Chad Daniel Hopkins, Joseph Robert Pinchman, Deborah Helen Slee, Peter Qinhua Huang, Mehmet Kahraman
  • Device notification adjustment dependent on user proximity
    Patent number: 10367950
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: detecting a received communication at a device; detecting, using a device orientation sensor, orientation data relating to device orientation; the orientation data being associated in time with the received communication; determining, using the orientation data, a value for a magnitude of a notification of the received communication; and adjusting, using a processor of the device, the magnitude of the notification of the received communication according to the value. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Douglas Warren Robinson, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki
  • Data transmission and control over power conductors
    Patent number: 10312969
    Abstract: A system for controlling a subsea device comprises a complimentary set of data communication interfaces operatively coupled to an electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller via a power conductor which defined data pathway between the subsea device and the remotely disposed device controller. A data transceiver is operatively coupled to the electronically interrogatable component and the remotely disposed device controller via the complimentary set of data communication interfaces over the power conductor. In configurations, control and/or telemetry or other data may be unidirectionally and/or bidirectionally transmitted between the electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Frances Kerins, Mark Charles Philip
  • Bicyclic compounds
    Patent number: 10308609
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), methods of synthesizing compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), and methods of using compounds of Formulae (I) and (II) as an analgesic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Zeno Royalties & Milestones, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Duane Bunker, Chuangxing Guo, Mark Charles Grier, Chad Daniel Hopkins, Joseph Robert Pinchman, Deborah Helen Slee, Qinhua Huang, Mehmet Kahraman
  • BATTERY TRAY FLOOR ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20190100090
    Abstract: A vehicle battery tray has a floor assembly with elongated tray sections that attach together at edge portions of adjacent tray sections of the elongated tray sections to form a floor structure that supports vehicle batteries contained in the vehicle battery tray. The elongated tray sections may have substantially consistent cross-sectional shapes that extends along a length of the tray sections. A thickness of the tray sections at a central area of the floor structure may be greater than a thickness of another one of the elongated tray sections at an outboard area of the floor structure, such as to withstand an equal or greater transverse bending moment than the outboard area of the floor structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Matecki, Mark Charles Stephens, Helen Weykamp
  • Adaptive and static keep alive message detection and simulation
    Patent number: 10251130
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: in a low power mode of an electronic device, examining, using a network component, an application specific network connection; in response to the examining, using the network component to consult a policy to determine a communication on behalf of the specific application to be sent over the application specific network connection; and sending, using the network component, the communication on behalf of the specific application without waking one or more main processors of the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Zhengcao Jin
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED VOICE MODELS ACROSS CLOUD AND DEVICE FOR EMBEDDED TEXT-TO-SPEECH
    Publication number: 20190088249
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for intelligent caching of concatenative speech units for use in speech synthesis. A system configured to practice the method can identify, in a local cache of text-to-speech units for a text-to-speech voice an absent text-to-speech unit which is not in the local cache. The system can request from a server the absent text-to-speech unit. The system can then synthesize speech using the text-to-speech units and a received text-to-speech unit from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin J. STERN, Mark Charles BEUTNAGEL, Alistair D. CONKIE, Horst J. SCHROETER, Amanda Joy STENT
  • VEHICLE BATTERY TRAY WITH TUBULAR PERIPHERAL WALL
    Publication number: 20190081298
    Abstract: A battery tray for supporting batteries at a lower portion of a vehicle frame includes a floor plate and a perimeter wall disposed around the of the floor plate to substantially surround a containment area for storing vehicle battery cells. The perimeter wall includes a tubular member that extends along a periphery of the floor plate to form a perimeter wall around a containment area for storing vehicle battery cells. The perimeter wall is attached at an upper surface of the floor plate, such that the containment area may be generally bounded horizontally by the perimeter wall and at the bottom by the floor plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Matecki, Mark Charles Stephens
  • PIPE HANDLER AND PIPE LOADER FOR A WELL RIG
    Publication number: 20190003271
    Abstract: For wellbore operations, a pipe handler moves pipe up to a rig floor. A pipe loader moves pipe from a presented position into alignment with well center. The pipe handler moves pipe up to a slanted presented position. The slanted presented position can be adjusted by manipulating the drive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jason Peter CLARKE, Douglas Andrew HUNTER, Daniel Harvard KUSLER, Mark Charles TAGGART