Patents by Inventor Mark Curtis

Mark Curtis 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: 20200129256
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a hand controller apparatus for controlling a tool in a robotic surgery system can include a body with a proximal end and a distally located interface end configured to be coupled to an input apparatus configured to control the tool. The hand controller apparatus can also include a control lever attached to a pivot joint proximate a side surface of the body and extending along the body and away from the proximal end, the control lever being laterally moveable relative to the side surface of the body about the pivot joint. The hand controller apparatus can additionally include a lateral movement detector configured to magnetically or inductively detect a lateral movement of the control lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Brandon Michael Kelly, Michael Darter Collins, Zachary Kevin Durand, William Jacob Ward, Mark Curtis Rector
  • Patent number: 10426561
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a hand controller apparatus for controlling a tool in a robotic surgery system can include a body with a proximal end and a distally located interface end configured to be coupled to an input apparatus configured to control a surgical tool. The hand controller apparatus can also include a control lever attached to a pivot joint proximate a side surface of the body and extending along the body and away from the proximal end, the control lever being laterally moveable relative to the side surface of the body about the pivot joint. The hand controller apparatus can additionally include a lateral movement detector configured to magnetically or inductively detect a lateral movement of the control lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Titan Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Michael Kelly, Michael Darter Collins, Zachary Kevin Durand, William Jacob Ward, Mark Curtis Rector
  • Patent number: 10177451
    Abstract: Wide band adaptive beam forming methods and systems are provided. The beam forming methods can include receiving signals at multiple antenna elements and digitizing samples of the received signals for some period of time. The samples are divided into sub-channels according to frequency, and interferers are identified as signals appearing across at least some minimum number of the sub-channels. After removing signals not identified as interferers from the collected signal information, that information is used to calculate weights for forming a beam having a null at the identified location of the interferer. The beam forming systems include multiple element antennas having arms in the form of a spiral, and processing hardware for performing adaptive beam forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventors: Mara S. Baraban, Jacob A. Sauer, Mark Curtis Leifer, Stanton B. McMillan
  • Patent number: 10132271
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for a network of cogenerations systems. In some cases, each system includes at least one cogeneration plant and at least one host facility, where the systems in the network are under the control of a common control system that optimizes a result for the network as a whole. In some cases, each cogeneration system in the network has an individual profile that is used by the control system for controlling that individual cogeneration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Concentric Power, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Mark Curtis
  • Publication number: 20180236174
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel nesting plunger tip that can be installed onto a loose syringe plunger to create a syringe package that allows dispensing and abrupt stoppage of dispensing by creating negative pressure inside the syringe. This negative pressure can be achieved because the nesting plunger tip seats inside the syringe stopper and holds onto the stopper firmly when the plunger is pulled back, which creates negative pressure on the material in the syringe by pulling back on it. The nesting plunger tip can also be left off the plunger and the plunger can then be taken out of the syringe to allow a pneumatic dispensing adapter to be attached to provide positive or negative air pressure behind the syringe stopper. The nesting plunger tip allows a single syringe with plunger to be used for either manual hand dispensing or pneumatic dispensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Curtis Archambeault, Aaron James Tufgar
  • Publication number: 20160366929
    Abstract: A method of customizing a vaping composition enables the customization of liquid flavorings and a liquid vaping base to create a custom vaping composition. A volumetric concentration ratio between flavoring and vaping base is designated for a mixing bottle along with a flavor combination. At least one discrete quantity of liquid flavoring is expelled from each of the desired dispensers holding the liquid flavoring into the mixing bottle. An unmeasured quantity of liquid vaping base is expelled from a continuous dispenser into the mixing bottle until the designated volumetric concentration ratio between flavoring and vaping base is reached for the mixing bottle. The mixing bottle is then agitated to form a homogeneous vaping composition between the unmeasured quantity of liquid vaping base and the at least one discrete quantity of liquid flavoring from each of the desired dispensers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Curtis Akers, Chaz Curtis Akers
  • Publication number: 20160356243
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for a network of cogenerations systems. In some cases, each system includes at least one cogeneration plant and at least one host facility, where the systems in the network are under the control of a common control system that optimizes a result for the network as a whole. In some cases, each cogeneration system in the network has an individual profile that is used by the control system for controlling that individual cogeneration system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Mark Curtis, Riyaz Mohammed Shipchandler
  • Patent number: 9453477
    Abstract: The invention includes systems and methods for power cogeneration. In certain embodiments the cogeneration systems include one or more units that are modularized; in some of these embodiments, the modules contain components that are integrated and ready for use with a control system that optimizes a result for the cogeneration plant. In some cases, the cogeneration system is part of a network of cogeneration systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Concentric Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Mark Curtis, Riyaz Mohammed Shipchandler
  • Patent number: 9388766
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for a network of cogenerations systems. In some cases, each system includes at least one cogeneration plant and at least one host facility, where the systems in the network are under the control of a common control system that optimizes a result for the network as a whole. In some cases, each cogeneration system in the network has an individual profile that is used by the control system for controlling that individual cogeneration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: CONCENTRIC POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Mark Curtis, Riyaz Mohammed Shipchandler
  • Patent number: 9361593
    Abstract: A system and method for using business services within a customer relationship management (CRM) application. Business services are objects that encapsulate and simplify the use of some set of functionality. The CRM application includes an object manager that manages business objects as well as business services. Business objects are associated with data stored in the application database. Business services operate or act upon business objects to achieve a particular goal. Business services include methods that can be invoked and properties that maintain information about the state of a process during execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Ambrose, Mark Curtis Hastings, Atul Suklikar
  • Patent number: 9245854
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for an electronic package incorporating shielding against emissions of electromagnetic interference (EMI). According to an integrated circuit structure, a substrate is on a printed circuit board. An integrated circuit chip is on the substrate. The integrated circuit chip is electrically connected to the substrate. An EMI shielding unit is on the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. The EMI shielding unit comprises a lid covering the integrated circuit chip and portions of the substrate outside the integrated circuit chip. A fill material can be deposited within a cavity formed between the lid and the substrate. The fill material comprises an EMI absorbing material. A periphery of the lid comprises a side skirt, the side skirt circumscribing the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. EMI absorbing material is on the printed circuit board, and a portion of the side skirt is embedded in the EMI absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Brodsky, Timothy W. Budell, Samuel R. Connor, Mark Curtis Hayes Lamorey, Janak G. Patel, Peter Slota, Jr., David B. Stone
  • Patent number: 9149272
    Abstract: A suture passer guide that includes an elongate member having a longitudinal axis and defining a first proximal opening and a first distal opening. The first proximal and distal openings are substantially aligned with one another such that a suture passer can be extended through the first proximal and distal openings at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the elongate member. The suture passer guide can be configured to be passed through a central lumen of an endoscopic port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: CooperSurgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Sherts, Kerry Blair, Robert D. Auerbach, Mark Curtis, James Young
  • Patent number: 8952503
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for an electronic package incorporating shielding against emissions of electromagnetic interference (EMI). According to an integrated circuit structure, a substrate is on a printed circuit board. An integrated circuit chip is on the substrate. The integrated circuit chip is electrically connected to the substrate. An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding unit is on the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. The EMI shielding unit comprises a lid covering the integrated circuit chip and portions of the substrate outside the integrated circuit chip. A fill material can be deposited within a cavity formed between the lid and the substrate. The fill material comprises an EMI absorbing material. A periphery of the lid comprises a side skirt, the side skirt circumscribing the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. EMI absorbing material is on the printed circuit board, and a portion of the side skirt is embedded in the EMI absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William L. Brodsky, Timothy W. Budell, Samuel R. Connor, Mark Curtis Hayes Lamorey, Janak G. Patel, Peter Slota, Jr., David B. Stone
  • Publication number: 20150033554
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for an electronic package incorporating shielding against emissions of electromagnetic interference (EMI). According to an integrated circuit structure, a substrate is on a printed circuit board. An integrated circuit chip is on the substrate. The integrated circuit chip is electrically connected to the substrate. An EMI shielding unit is on the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. The EMI shielding unit comprises a lid covering the integrated circuit chip and portions of the substrate outside the integrated circuit chip. A fill material can be deposited within a cavity formed between the lid and the substrate. The fill material comprises an EMI absorbing material. A periphery of the lid comprises a side skirt, the side skirt circumscribing the integrated circuit chip and the substrate. EMI absorbing material is on the printed circuit board, and a portion of the side skirt is embedded in the EMI absorbing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: William L. Brodsky, Timothy W. Budell, Samuel R. Connor, Mark Curtis Hayes Lamorey, Janak G. Patel, Peter Slota, JR., David B. Stone
  • Publication number: 20140355256
    Abstract: An illuminated coat device is worn so that while in the dark, the wearer may be visible and distinguishable. The device may include a coat with a trim, a plurality of lighting attached to the trim of the coat, a plurality of straps attached to a first side of the coat at a secure end, and wrapped around the wearer and removably attached to a second side of the coat. A power pack attached to the coat provides the power for the lighting to illuminate, as well as hold a switch that adjusts the intensity of the illumination of the plurality of lighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventor: Shawn Mark Curtis
  • Patent number: 8858270
    Abstract: A battery pack comprising: at least one battery including at least one electrode and at least one terminal in electrical connection with the electrode; a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising at least one layer having an electrical circuit in electrical connection with the at least one battery, the PCB including at least one PCB interconnect for electrical connection with the at least one battery; and at least one battery-pack interconnect in electrical connection with the at least one PCB interconnect and the at least one terminal of the battery. The PCB interconnect comprises a PCB-interconnect aperture formed therein and having an electrically conductive inner surface structured to receive the battery-pack interconnect for direct electrical connection between the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Pavlinsky, Mark Curtis Brown, Anthony Joseph Malgioglio
  • Publication number: 20120190252
    Abstract: A battery pack comprising: at least one battery including at least one electrode and at least one terminal in electrical connection with the electrode; a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising at least one layer having an electrical circuit in electrical connection with the at least one battery, the PCB including at least one PCB interconnect for electrical connection with the at least one battery; and at least one battery-pack interconnect in electrical connection with the at least one PCB interconnect and the at least one terminal of the battery. The PCB interconnect comprises a PCB-interconnect aperture formed therein and having an electrically conductive inner surface structured to receive the battery-pack interconnect for direct electrical connection between the two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Robert J. Pavlinsky, Mark Curtis Brown, Anthony Joseph Malgioglio
  • Patent number: 7817259
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for measuring spatial characteristics of a test object with stacked features. First and second measurement assemblies for measuring opposing first and second planar features, respectively, of a test object, by directing light beams into a gap between the features to measure a position and a static attitude of each feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Jacob Smith, John George Gerogeorge, Sham Sunder Nayar, Mark Curtis Fahrendorff, Shawn Stephen Silewski
  • Patent number: 7810539
    Abstract: Tools for compacting composite parts are disclosed. These tools are used while layers of composite material, such as tows or laminae, are being deposited onto a fabricating surface, such as a mold or other forming tool. The compacting tool is typically divided into a series of narrow segments, each segment able to advance or retreat individually so as to conform to the surface of a composite part being formed. Pressurized fluid, such as air or hydraulic fluid, or non-pressurized internal bladders with incompressible fluid, are used to evenly apply pressure to the segments in order to compact the material with which the tool and the segments are in contact. The compacting tool thus helps eliminate voids and helps the material conform to the desired shape on the forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Ingersoll Machine Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter L. Mischler, Mark Curtis Tingley, Klaus Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 7761288
    Abstract: Systems and methods for software development in which the development of a base product proceeds concurrently with the internationalization and localization of the base product to produce multiple language versions of the product for polylingual simultaneous shipment to customers wherein one or more of the multiple languages can be uploaded by the customer in a single installation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen P. Parnell, Hans Eric Emanuel Kedefors, Atsushi Kaneko, Daniel Salzer, Jayant Kulkarni, Mark Curtis Hastings, Nikolai Tsepalov, David A Murphy, Giona Lorenzo Jorge