Patents by Inventor Mark Christopher Thompson

Mark Christopher Thompson 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: 20220218069
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a shoe that may be transformed from a high heel shoe to a low heel shoe. The shoe may include three parts: a removable stelo, a removable high heel attachment, and the corresponding attachment systems integrated into the base shoe sole. The removable high heel attachment may be a standard heel of any design, width and height that has a locking system comprising a threaded post located at the heel base. When the stelo and heel attachment are attached, the shoe may be a high heel shoe. When they are removed, the shoe may be a low heel shoe, or flat shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Haley Pavone, Seiji Alexander van Bronkhorst, Tyler Elise Unbehand, Daniel William Peter, Mark Christopher Thompson, David Sheldon Perry, Carina Mary Hamel, Robert Hart Ringer
  • Patent number: 11311077
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a shoe that may be transformed from a high heel shoe to a low heel shoe. The shoe may include three parts: a removable stelo, a removable high heel attachment, and the corresponding attachment systems integrated into the base shoe sole. The removable high heel attachment may be a standard heel of any design, width and height that has a locking system comprising a threaded post located at the heel base. When the stelo and heel attachment are attached, the shoe may be a high heel shoe. When they are removed, the shoe may be a low heel shoe, or flat shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Pashion Footwear, Inc.
    Inventors: Haley Pavone, Seiji Alexander van Bronkhorst, Tyler Elise Unbehand, Daniel William Peter, Mark Christopher Thompson, David Sheldon Perry, Carina Mary Hamel, Robert Hart Ringer
  • Patent number: 10358790
    Abstract: A soil spreading scraper device has a cutting blade to cut soil from the ground and a rotating impeller member for spreading the cut soil as the frame is displaced forwardly. The impeller member includes a main disc body and a plurality of impeller blades on the main disc body which are pivotal relative to the body between a working position in which the blade body extends in a direction of the impeller axis away from the main disc body and a deflected position in which the blade body extends in a circumferential direction of the disc body in a trailing relationship relative to the pivot axis of the blade body. An actuating assembly resists displacement of the blade body into the deflected position until pressure on the paddle exceeds a prescribed holding force. A spring biases the body to return to the working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Elmer's Welding & Manufacturing LTD.
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20190014860
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a shoe that may be transformed from a high heel shoe to a low heel shoe. The shoe may include three parts: a removable stelo, a removable high heel attachment, and the corresponding attachment systems integrated into the base shoe sole. The removable high heel attachment may be a standard heel of any design, width and height that has a locking system comprising a threaded post located at the heel base. When the stelo and heel attachment are attached, the shoe may be a high heel shoe. When they are removed, the shoe may be a low heel shoe, or flat shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Haley Pavone, Seiji Alexander van Bronkhorst, Tyler Elise Unbehand, Daniel William Peter, Mark Christopher Thompson, David Sheldon Perry, Carina Mary Hamel, Robert Hart Ringer
  • Patent number: 10125472
    Abstract: A ditch forming implement, for use with a working vehicle, has a frame for towing connection to the working vehicle and which supports a rotatable impeller member thereon for spreading soil in a laterally outward direction relative to a forward path of the implement. A driven pulley wheel is fixed to a rear of the impeller member for rotation together relative to the frame. A drive shaft assembly operatively transfers rotational drive from a power take-off of the working vehicle to a driven pulley wheel on the frame, to be subsequently transferred to the driven pulley wheel by a drive belt connected between the driven and drive pulley wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Dynamic Ditchers Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 9943131
    Abstract: Footwear assembly comprising a foot bed in an interior area defined by an upper and positioned atop a sole assembly, wherein the foot bed has a plurality of air holes through the forefoot and/or arch portions, and has air channels connected to the air holes. A compressible convex pump in the foot bed's heel portion faces the sole assembly and is movable between expanded and compressed positions. In the expanded position, the pump supports a portion of the heel portion apart from the sole assembly to define an air chamber coupled to the air channels. Movement of the pump member from the expanded position to the compressed position causes the air chamber to collapse and forces air from the air chamber through the air channels and upwardly through the air holes into the interior area of the upper, wherein the pump member is biased toward the expanded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LaCrosse Footwear, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan James Foust, Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 9739033
    Abstract: A rotary ditcher attachment is selectively mounted onto the bottom of an excavator implement. The rotary ditcher attachment has an attachment frame including a mounting bracket for releasable mounting onto a tool mount on the boom of the excavator implement. A rotary disc assembly on the attachment frame includes a rotor supported for rotation relative to the attachment frame about a disc axis, and a plurality of blades supported on the rotor for cutting into the ground as the rotor is rotated. A drive motor for driving rotation of the rotor relative to the attachment frame is supported on the attachment frame so as to be releasable from the boom together with the attachment frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20170022685
    Abstract: A soil spreading scraper device has a cutting blade to cut soil from the ground and a rotating impeller member for spreading the cut soil as the frame is displaced forwardly. The impeller member includes a main disc body and a plurality of impeller blades on the main disc body which are pivotal relative to the body between a working position in which the blade body extends in a direction of the impeller axis away from the main disc body and a deflected position in which the blade body extends in a circumferential direction of the disc body in a trailing relationship relative to the pivot axis of the blade body. An actuating assembly resists displacement of the blade body into the deflected position until pressure on the paddle exceeds a prescribed holding force. A spring biases the body to return to the working position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20160153170
    Abstract: A ditch forming implement, for use with a working vehicle, has a frame for towing connection to the working vehicle and which supports a rotatable impeller member thereon for spreading soil in a laterally outward direction relative to a forward path of the implement. A driven pulley wheel is fixed to a rear of the impeller member for rotation together relative to the frame. A drive shaft assembly operatively transfers rotational drive from a power take-off of the working vehicle to a driven pulley wheel on the frame, to be subsequently transferred to the driven pulley wheel by a drive belt connected between the driven and drive pulley wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20160138241
    Abstract: A rotary ditcher attachment is selectively mounted onto the bottom of an excavator implement. The rotary ditcher attachment has an attachment frame including a mounting bracket for releasable mounting onto a tool mount on the boom of the excavator implement. A rotary disc assembly on the attachment frame includes a rotor supported for rotation relative to the attachment frame about a disc axis, and a plurality of blades supported on the rotor for cutting into the ground as the rotor is rotated. A drive motor for driving rotation of the rotor relative to the attachment frame is supported on the attachment frame so as to be releasable from the boom together with the attachment frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 7676960
    Abstract: The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjustable elements in response to a signal from a sensor to modify the performance characteristic of the article of footwear. The intelligent system adjusts the performance characteristics of the article of footwear without human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: adidas International Marketing B.V.
    Inventors: Christian DiBenedetto, Mark A. Oleson, Charles Roth, Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 7506460
    Abstract: The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjustable elements in response to a signal from a sensor to modify the performance characteristic of the article of footwear. The intelligent system adjusts the performance characteristics of the article of footwear without human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: adidas International Marketing B.V.
    Inventors: Christian DiBenedetto, Mark Arthur Oleson, Charles Roth, Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 7188439
    Abstract: The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjustable elements in response to a signal from a sensor to modify the performance characteristic of the article of footwear. The intelligent system adjusts the performance characteristics of the article of footwear without human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: adidas International Marketing B.V.
    Inventors: Christian DiBenedetto, Mark Arthur Oleson, Charles Roth, Mark Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20040177531
    Abstract: The invention is directed to intelligent systems for articles of footwear that adjust automatically in response to a measured performance characteristic. The intelligent systems include one or more adjustable elements coupled to a mechanism that actuates the adjustable elements in response to a signal from a sensor to modify the performance characteristic of the article of footwear. The intelligent system adjusts the performance characteristics of the article of footwear without human intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Adidas International Marketing B.V.
    Inventors: Christian DiBenedetto, Mark Arthur Oleson, Charles Roth, Mark Christopher Thompson