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).

  • Patent number: 10162954
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a display; memory that stores biometric information and account information for at least one account; a biometric sensor that senses biometric information; authentication circuitry that authenticates sensed biometric information at least in part via a comparison to stored biometric information; display circuitry that renders account information to the display responsive to authentication of sensed biometric information; selection circuitry that selects one of said at least one account associated with account information rendered to the display; and a field generator that generates an output session that outputs at least one magnetic field that represents account information for the selected one of said at least one account. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Davis, Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Publication number: 20180337378
    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: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Charles Stephens, Joseph Robert Matecki
  • Publication number: 20180337374
    Abstract: A battery tray for an electric vehicle includes a battery support structure that has a floor and a perimeter wall extending around a peripheral portion of the floor to border a battery containment area. A plurality of cross members are coupled with the perimeter wall at opposing sides of the battery support structure, where the cross members extend laterally across the battery containment area. A cover is engaged with an upper portion of the perimeter wall of the battery support structure. The cover, the floor, and/or the cross members may include a retention element that is integrally formed therewith and that is configured to engage a component that is disposed in the battery containment area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Matecki, Mark Charles Stephens, Jeffrey McHenry, Matthew Kuipers
  • Publication number: 20180337377
    Abstract: A battery tray for an electric vehicle includes a tub component that has a floor portion and a perimeter wall portion that integrally extends upward around a peripheral edge of the floor portion to border a battery containment area of the tub component. The tub component may include a plurality of cross member portions that integrally interconnect with the floor portion and the perimeter wall portion so as to span laterally across the battery containment area to divide the battery containment area into separate compartments. A support structure of the battery tray may have an elongated member coupled at an exterior side of each of opposing longitudinal sections of the perimeter wall portion of the tub component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Charles Stephens, Joseph Robert Matecki, Bob Brady, Matthew Kuipers, Paul Michael Roehm
  • Patent number: 10134383
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Stern, Mark Charles Beutnagel, Alistair D. Conkie, Horst J. Schroeter, Amanda Joy Stent
  • Patent number: 10097614
    Abstract: A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo PC International
    Inventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • Publication number: 20180286118
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a custom cranial remodeling device comprises generating a three-dimensional digital data file for the subject at a clinic by capturing a three-dimensional data file representative of the head of the infant by utilizing apparatus operating to capture three-dimensional data representative of the head. The apparatus is located at the clinic. The method further comprises utilizing a processor to process the three-dimensional digital data file to produce a device file comprising the shape for the custom cranial remodeling device and manufacturing the custom cranial remodeling device at the clinic by utilizing an additive manufacture device located at the clinic to operate with the three-dimensional digital data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CRANIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: TIMOTHY R. LITTLEFIELD, JEROLD N. LUISI, GEORGE E. KECHTER, MARK CHARLES THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20180281314
    Abstract: Apparatus provides point of service to manufacture a custom cranial remodeling device for correction of cranial deformity of a subject. The apparatus comprises capture apparatus disposed at a physical location for capturing three dimensional digital data of the head of the subject and generating a three-dimensional digital data file representative of the head and an additive manufacture device located at the physical location. The apparatus further comprises a processor that operates to process the three-dimensional digital data file to produce a device file comprising the shape for the custom cranial remodeling device. The processor provides the device file to the additive manufacture device. The said additive manufacture device operates to utilize the device file to manufacture the custom cranial remodeling device at the physical location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CRANIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: TIMOTHY R. LITTLEFIELD, JEROLD N. LUISI, GEORGE E. KECHTER, MARK CHARLES THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20180280186
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an article of headwear for a subject is provided. The method comprises: generating a three-dimensional digital data file for the subject at a clinic by capturing a three-dimensional data file representative of the head by utilizing apparatus located at the clinic operating to capture three-dimensional data representative of the head; utilizing a processor to process the three-dimensional digital data file to produce a device file comprising the shape for the article of headwear; and manufacturing the article of headwear at the clinic by utilizing an additive manufacture device located at the clinic to operate with the three-dimensional digital data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CRANIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: TIMOTHY R. LITTLEFIELD, JEROLD N. LUISI, GEORGE E. KECHTER, MARK CHARLES THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20180281315
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for point of service manufacture of custom headwear for a subject. The apparatus comprises capture apparatus disposed at a physical location for capturing three dimensional digital data of the head of the subject and generating a three-dimensional digital data file representative of said head; an additive manufacture device located at the physical location; and a processor. The processor operates to process the three-dimensional digital data file to produce a device file comprising the shape for the custom headwear and to provide the device file to the additive manufacture device. The additive manufacture device operates to utilize the device file to manufacture the custom headwear at the physical location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CRANIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: TIMOTHY R. LITTLEFIELD, JEROLD N. LUISI, GEORGE E. KECHTER, MARK CHARLES THOMAS
  • Patent number: 10043197
    Abstract: An ad server logs web traffic regarding web page traffic by users. The web traffic is analyzed to determine web activity indicating that a user is being paid to fake legitimate web traffic. These users are referred to as abusive users. The web traffic is also analyzed to determine web activity indicating that a web page is artificially boosting its own traffic in order to earn undeserved advertising revenue. These web pages are referred to as honeypot web pages. Scores are determined for both users and web pages, where the scores indicate the likelihood that the associated user or web page is an abusive user or a honeypot web page, respectively. The ad server uses these scores to determine an amount to bid on future impressions to those users and web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Rocket Fuel Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jared Benisch, Mark Charles Torrance, Ari Seth Levenfeld
  • Patent number: 10037546
    Abstract: An ad server logs web traffic regarding web page traffic by users. The web traffic is analyzed to determine web activity indicating that a user is being paid to fake legitimate web traffic. These users are referred to as abusive users. The web traffic is also analyzed to determine web activity indicating that a web page is artificially boosting its own traffic in order to earn undeserved advertising revenue. These web pages are referred to as honeypot web pages. Scores are determined for both users and web pages, where the scores indicate the likelihood that the associated user or web page is an abusive user or a honeypot web page, respectively. The ad server uses these scores to determine an amount to bid on future impressions to those users and web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Rocket Fuel Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jared Benisch, Mark Charles Torrance, Ari Seth Levenfeld
  • Patent number: 10033718
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for pairing a base and a detachable device. A query module queries a detachable device in response to the detachable device connecting to a base. The detachable device provides a display for the base if the detachable device and base are connected. A determination module determines if the detachable device is paired with the base. A credential module obtains a pairing credential for a pairing in response to the determination module determining that the detachable device is unpaired with the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso, Bin Li, Sheng Wang
  • Publication number: 20180186227
    Abstract: A battery support structure for a vehicle includes a plurality of side reinforcement members and front and rear reinforcement members. The plurality of side reinforcement members are configured to extend longitudinally relative to an associated vehicle frame, and the front and rear reinforcement members are configured to extend laterally relative to the associated vehicle frame. A plurality of module nodes are attached between adjacent ends of the side reinforcement members and the front and rear members to together form a containment wall that generally surrounds a battery containment area. The plurality of module nodes comprise corner sections of the containment wall, such that a length of the side reinforcement members or the front and rear reinforcement members is selected to provide a desired respective length or width of the battery containment area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Charles Stephens, Joseph Robert Matecki, Ed C. Pendergrass
  • Patent number: 9996850
    Abstract: The safe pixel is code embedded in a web page that is executed when the web page is accessed by a user agent. When the safe pixel is executed, the safe pixel collects information about the device and invokes the execution of one or more abuse detection functions. Each abuse detection function implements a different technique for estimating the likelihood of abusive behavior being the cause of the safe pixel being executed. The safe pixel transmits in a reporting message the local information and the results of the abuse detection function executions to a traffic server. The traffic server analyzes the reporting message to make a determination of the validity of the action that caused the safe pixel being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Rocket Fuel Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jared Benisch, Mark Charles Torrance, Aleksei Statkevich
  • Patent number: 9978360
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting and correcting abnormal stress patterns in unit-selection speech synthesis. A system practicing the method detects incorrect stress patterns in selected acoustic units representing speech to be synthesized, and corrects the incorrect stress patterns in the selected acoustic units to yield corrected stress patterns. The system can further synthesize speech based on the corrected stress patterns. In one aspect, the system also classifies the incorrect stress patterns using a machine learning algorithm such as a classification and regression tree, adaptive boosting, support vector machine, and maximum entropy. In this way a text-to-speech unit selection speech synthesizer can produce more natural sounding speech with suitable stress patterns regardless of the stress of units in a unit selection database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark Charles Beutnagel, Alistair D. Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
  • Publication number: 20180110954
    Abstract: Ventilator apparatus includes a pump (41) connected to supply pressurised air both to an air reservoir (23) and to an oxygen concentrator (70) that supplies pressurised oxygen to an oxygen reservoir (24). The outlet (50) of the air reservoir (23) is connected to the inlet of a breathing circuit (30) via an entrainment device (56) so that pressurised air from the reservoir entrains atmospheric air. The outlet (84) of the oxygen reservoir (24) is connected via oxygen tubing (99) to the patient end of the breathing circuit (30). A patient valve (90) at the patient end (93) of the breathing circuit (30) opens to allow the patient to exhale via openings (97) in the valve. The oxygen supply is switched to supply oxygen to the breathing circuit (30) during the expiratory phase so that oxygen in the circuit is inhaled during a subsequent inhalation phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: SMITHS MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Anthony Lucio Belisario, Paul James Leslie Bennett, Robert James Burchell, Mohammad Qassim Mohammad Khasawneh, Mark Charles Oliver
  • Publication number: 20180095062
    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: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Charles PETERMAN, Merwan BENHABIB, Carlos Atico ARIZA, Samuel Louis KLEINMAN
  • Patent number: 9936578
    Abstract: A shielded electronic module is formed on a substrate. The substrate has a component area and one or more electronic components attached to the component area. One set of conductive pads may be attached to the component area and another set of conductive pads may be provided on the electronic component. The conductive pads on the component area are electrically coupled to the conductive pads of the electronic component by a conductive layer. A first insulating layer is provided over the component area and underneath the conductive layer that may insulate the electronic component and the substrate from the conductive layer. A second insulating layer is provided over the first insulating layer that covers at least the conductive layer. In this manner, the conductive layer is isolated from an electromagnetic shield formed over the component area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Thong Dang, Mohsen Haji-Rahim, Mark Charles Held
  • Patent number: 9926169
    Abstract: A winder may include a body, a spindle, and a manually actuated winding mechanism. The spindle may be coupled to the body and constructed and arranged to be rotatable with respect to the body and to be removably coupled to at least one spool. The manually actuated winding mechanism may be coupled to the spindle and constructed and arranged to rotate the spindle and the at least one spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Charles Feffer