Patents by Inventor Mark E. Howard
Mark E. Howard 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).
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Publication number: 20240115946Abstract: A game system operates by: receiving character attribute selection data to be associated with a game character, wherein the character attribute selection data indicates a unique subset of a set of character attributes of a character attribute database; generating, based on the character attribute selection data, display data associated with the game character; facilitating, based on the display data associated with the game character, generation of a player token NFT associated with the game character; and preventing use of the unique subset of character attributes of the character attribute database in generating other game characters. Facilitating play of a game when the player token NFT is validated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Galiant Arts, LLCInventors: Mark Meyers, Bruce E. Stuckman, John W. Howard, Brian G. Howard, Gregory Meador
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Publication number: 20150250638Abstract: A sling for the arm incorporates first and second side panels each having a lower peripheral contour shaped to approximate a lower arm shape. An elastic bottom panel is attached to the first and second side panels at the lower peripheral contour.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: Mark E. Howard
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Patent number: 7914563Abstract: A heat transfer pad includes a bladder and a pad port. The bladder has an outside perimeter, an inner face and an outer face enclosing a bladder interior. The pad port has a tubing segment with a proximal end which extends through the outside perimeter of the bladder into the bladder interior. A port seal is formed by bonding the inner and outer faces of the bladder to the proximal end of the tubing segment at a port bond point distal to the outside perimeter of the bladder in the bladder interior. The proximal end of the tubing segment is maintained unbonded to the inner and outer faces of the bladder between the port seal and the outside perimeter of the bladder, thereby defining a strain relief section of the bladder which resists occlusion of the pad port.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
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Publication number: 20080288033Abstract: A heat transfer pad includes a bladder and a pad port. The bladder has an outside perimeter, an inner face and an outer face enclosing a bladder interior. The pad port has a tubing segment with a proximal end which extends through the outside perimeter of the bladder into the bladder interior. A port seal is formed by bonding the inner and outer faces of the bladder to the proximal end of the tubing segment at a port bond point distal to the outside perimeter of the bladder in the bladder interior. The proximal end of the tubing segment is maintained unbonded to the inner and outer faces of the bladder between the port seal and the outside perimeter of the bladder, thereby defining a strain relief section of the bladder which resists occlusion of the pad port.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
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Patent number: 7244239Abstract: A shoulder stabilizing restraint which includes a pillow and a forearm wrap. The pillow has an arcuately-configured posterior face for engaging an anterior quadrant of a torso on a first side of a user. The pillow also has a flat forearm engagement face for engaging a forearm on the first side of the user. The forearm engagement face is preferably converges with the posterior face at a posterior/lateral convergence which is positionable proximal to a lateral border of the torso on the first side of the user. The forearm wrap is fastenable to the pillow to retain the forearm in engagement with the forearm engagement face and the shoulder joint at a positive external rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventor: Mark E. Howard
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Patent number: 7163521Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provide for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
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Patent number: 7108664Abstract: A continuous passive motion device is provided having specific application to rehabilitative treatment of the elbow or shoulder. The device includes a motorized winch displacable in a first or second direction, a cord suspended from the winch by a variable extension length, which increases when the winch is displaced in the first direction and decreases when the winch is displaced in the second direction, and an arm harness associated with the cord. An arm of a patient is suspended from a suspension point on the cord and the motorized winch is activated to alternately displace the winch in the first and second directions, thereby providing a plurality of repetitive treatment cycles. Each treatment cycle moves the suspension point and correspondingly the elbow or shoulder from a lower treatment limit to an upper treatment limit and back to the lower treatment limit.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
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Patent number: 6893414Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes of a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provides for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
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Publication number: 20040260231Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes of a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provides for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: Breg, Inc.Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
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Publication number: 20040087880Abstract: A continuous passive motion device is provided having specific application to rehabilitative treatment of the elbow or shoulder. The device includes a motorized winch displacable in a first or second direction, a cord suspended from the winch by a variable extension length, which increases when the winch is displaced in the first direction and decreases when the winch is displaced in the second direction, and an arm harness associated with the cord. An arm of a patient is suspended from a suspension point on the cord and the motorized winch is activated to alternately displace the winch in the first and second directions, thereby providing a plurality of repetitive treatment cycles. Each treatment cycle moves the suspension point and correspondingly the elbow or shoulder from a lower treatment limit to an upper treatment limit and back to the lower treatment limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
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Publication number: 20040030281Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes of a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provides for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Breg, Inc.Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
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Publication number: 20030091586Abstract: Peptides derived from shark immunoglobulin preparations are used to prepare compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, for inhibiting retrovirus replication in susceptible cells. The peptide preparations are useful for inhibiting diseases associated with retroviral infection, such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The peptides also inhibit growth of tumor cells, especially sarcomas and leukemias.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventor: Mark E. Howard
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Publication number: 20020037326Abstract: Peptides derived from shark immunoglobulin preparations are used to prepare compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, for inhibiting retrovirus replication in susceptible cells. The peptide preparations are useful for inhibiting diseases associated with retroviral infection, such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The peptides also inhibit growth of tumor cells, especially sarcomas and leukemias.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 1998Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventor: MARK E. HOWARD
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Publication number: 20010043928Abstract: Serum preparations obtained from sharks are used to prepare compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, for inhibiting retrovirus replication in susceptible cells. Thus, the serum preparations are useful for inhibiting diseases associated with retroviral infection, such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The serum concentrates are also used to inhibit growth of tumor cells, especially sarcomas and leukemias.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventor: Mark E. Howard
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Patent number: 5112045Abstract: A kinesthetic diagnostic and rehabilitation device enables the user to measure the extent of kinesthetic impairment resulting from a bodily injury, particularly an injury to the lower limbs, and also enables the user to rehabilitate the injury. The device is provided with a rigid platform resting atop an unstable support. The ability of the patient to maintain a fixed position on the platform as a function of the instability of the support enables quantification of the patient's kinesthetic impairment. The device further provides rehabilitative exercise.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Breg, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Bradley R. Mason, Mark E. Howard