Patents by Inventor Mark Fields
Mark Fields 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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Patent number: 8697554Abstract: Lateral collection architecture for a photodetector is achieved by depositing electrically conducting SLS layers onto a planar substrate and diffusing dopants of a carrier type opposite that of the layers through the layers at selected regions to disorder the superlattice and create diode junctions oriented transversely to the naturally enhanced lateral mobility of photogenerated charge carriers within the superlattice. The diode junctions are terminated at a top surface of the photodetector within an SLS layer of wide bandgap material to minimize unwanted currents. A related architecture disorders the superlattice of topmost SLS layers by diffusing therethrough a dopant configured as a grid and penetrating to a lower SLS layer having the same carrier type as the dopant and opposite that of the topmost layers to isolate pixels within the topmost layers. Ohmic contacts may be deposited on doped regions, pixels, and substrate to provide desired external connections.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLCInventors: William E. Tennant, Gerard J. Sullivan, Mark Field
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Patent number: 8614610Abstract: A waveguide component encapsulation device may include a housing having first and second surfaces, the housing defining a channel extending through the first and second surfaces, a micromachined waveguide component configured to be positioned in the channel, the waveguide component having first and second ends extending outside the channel and beyond the first and second surfaces of the housing by a finite length, and a pair of spacing members configured to align and stabilize the waveguide component within the channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLCInventors: Jonathan Hacker, Chris Hillman, Mark Field, Robert L. Borwick, III
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Publication number: 20130326430Abstract: A web application provides a custom selection for editing text on a gesture or touch screen. The application replaces native browser handles with selection handles to provide consistent user interface experience across platforms. The application also provides a scheme for semantic interpretation of browser gesture or touch events. The application standardizes browser events into a consistent stream of semantic events that are compatible with a plurality of devices and browsers. The application also provides a gesture or touch optimized user interface in the browser. The application determines gesture or touch input and optimizes the user interface according to the type of input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Renu Devi, Barnabas Whitfield, Kyle Ryan, Trevor Harris, Mark Fields, Michael Herzfeld, Louisa Lee
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Publication number: 20130179198Abstract: A method for determining a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, wherein a remote computer receives the collected vehicle operation data from a mobile device and calculates an insurance premium based at least in part on the collected vehicle operation data. A method for determining a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, wherein a server receives collected vehicle operation data, a database stores the collected vehicle operation data, and a rating engine determines a vehicle insurance premium based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Benjamin F. Bowne, Jufeng "James" Peng, Nicholas R. Baker, Duane Lee Marzinzik, Matthew Eric Riley, SR., Nick U. Christopulos, Brian Mark Fields, J Lynn Wilson, Bryan T. Wilkerson, David W. Thurber
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Publication number: 20120267967Abstract: A stator arrangement particularly suitable for use in an air-cooled generator or other such electric machine includes a stator with an outer stator surface, an opening therein defining an inner stator surface, and longitudinally opposed stator end surfaces. Conductive coils are supported by the stator, and include end turns overlying the longitudinally opposed stator end surfaces. In order to block out environmental contaminants and prevent conductive coil shorting, protective barriers are mounted over the end turns and secured to the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Kollmorgen CorporationInventors: Bradley A. Trago, Stephen Mark Fields
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Patent number: 8178863Abstract: Lateral collection architecture for a photodetector is achieved by depositing electrically conducting SLS layers onto a planar substrate and diffusing dopants of a carrier type opposite that of the layers through the layers at selected regions to disorder the superlattice and create diode junctions oriented transversely to the naturally enhanced lateral mobility of photogenerated charge carriers within the superlattice. The diode junctions are terminated at a top surface of the photodetector within an SLS layer of wide bandgap material to minimize unwanted currents. A related architecture disorders the superlattice of topmost SLS layers by diffusing therethrough a dopant configured as a grid and penetrating to a lower SLS layer having the same carrier type as the dopant and opposite that of the topmost layers to isolate pixels within the topmost layers. Ohmic contacts may be deposited on doped regions, pixels, and substrate to provide desired external connections.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLCInventors: William E. Tennant, Gerard J. Sullivan, Mark Field
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Publication number: 20120057839Abstract: A waveguide component encapsulation device may include a housing having first and second surfaces, the housing defining a channel extending through the first and second surfaces, a micromachined waveguide component configured to be positioned in the channel, the waveguide component having first and second ends extending outside the channel and beyond the first and second surfaces of the housing by a finite length, and a pair of spacing members configured to align and stabilize the waveguide component within the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Jonathan Hacker, Chris Hillman, Mark Field, Robert L. Borwick, III
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Publication number: 20110294252Abstract: Lateral collection architecture for a photodetector is achieved by depositing electrically conducting SLS layers onto a planar substrate and diffusing dopants of a carrier type opposite that of the layers through the layers at selected regions to disorder the superlattice and create diode junctions oriented transversely to the naturally enhanced lateral mobility of photogenerated charge carriers within the superlattice. The diode junctions are terminated at a top surface of the photodetector within an SLS layer of wide bandgap material to minimize unwanted currents. A related architecture disorders the superlattice of topmost SLS layers by diffusing therethrough a dopant configured as a grid and penetrating to a lower SLS layer having the same carrier type as the dopant and opposite that of the topmost layers to isolate pixels within the topmost layers. Ohmic contacts may be deposited on doped regions, pixels, and substrate to provide desired external connections.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: William E. Tennant, Gerard J. Sullivan, Mark Field
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Publication number: 20100301309Abstract: Lateral collection architecture for a photodetector is achieved by depositing electrically conducting SLS layers onto a planar substrate and diffusing dopants of a carrier type opposite that of the layers through the layers at selected regions to disorder the superlattice and create diode junctions oriented transversely to the naturally enhanced lateral mobility of photogenerated charge carriers within the superlattice. The diode junctions are terminated at a top surface of the photodetector within an SLS layer of wide bandgap material to minimize unwanted currents. A related architecture disorders the superlattice of topmost SLS layers by diffusing therethrough a dopant configured as a grid and penetrating to a lower SLS layer having the same carrier type as the dopant and opposite that of the topmost layers to isolate pixels within the topmost layers. Ohmic contacts may be deposited on doped regions, pixels, and substrate to provide desired external connections.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: William E. Tennant, Gerard J. Sullivan, Mark Field
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Patent number: 7354244Abstract: A blower for a water heater having a flue defining a flue axis. The blower includes a housing at least partially defining a first chamber and a second chamber and having an inlet opening into the first chamber and an outlet communicating between the second chamber and atmosphere, the inlet being alignable with the flue, a ramp extending through the second chamber and having a surface, the surface being oriented at an acute angle with respect to the flue axis, and an impeller positioned in the second chamber and being operable to draw exhaust from the flue into the first chamber through the inlet and being operable to direct the exhaust through the second chamber and across the surface of the ramp, the surface of the ramp directing the exhaust through the outlet in a direction substantially parallel to the flue axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: AOS Holding CompanyInventors: Michael Robert Hasbargen, John W. O'Neill, Anthony Joseph Coloma, Kevin Mark Field, Darrell Wayne Schuh, Dennis R. Hughes, Jason Robert Abele
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Publication number: 20070191350Abstract: The instant invention relates to a combination, particularly a synergistic combination, of an alpha-2-delta ligand and an atypical antipsychotic, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and their use in the treatment of pain, particularly neuropathic pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2005Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: Pifizer Inc.Inventors: Mark Field, Richard Williams
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Publication number: 20050065176Abstract: The instant invention relates to a combination of an alpha-2-delta ligand and an AChE inhibitor for use in therapy, particularly in the treatment of pain, particularly neuropathic pain. Particularly preferred alpha-2-delta ligands are gabapentin and pregabalin. Particularly preferred ACHE inhibitors are donepezil (Aricept®), tacrine (cognex®), rivastigmine (Exelon®), physostgmine (Synapton®), galantamine (Reminyl), metrifonate (Promem), neostigmine (Prostigmin) and icopezil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Mark Field, Richard Williams
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Publication number: 20050059715Abstract: The instant invention relates to a combination, particularly a synergistic combination, of an alpha-2-delta ligand and a dual serotonin-noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitor (DSNRI) or one or both of a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) and a selective noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitor (SNRI), and pharmaceutically acceptable salths thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and their use in the treatment of pain, particularly neuropathic pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: David Dooley, Mark Field, Richard Williams
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Patent number: 6468495Abstract: A method of removing from a metal salt ionic species contained therein involves contacting the metal salt with an ionic liquid to dissolve the metal salt, the ionic species or both. At least in the case where both the metal salt and the ionic species are dissolved, the resultant ionic liquid composition is treated to separate the ionic species therefrom and subsequently processed to recover the metal salt.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels PLCInventors: Mark Fields, Robert Charles Thied, Kenneth Richard Seddon, William Robert Pitner, David William Rooney
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Patent number: 6379634Abstract: A method of dissolving in an ionic liquid a metal in an initial oxidation state below its maximum oxidation state, characterized in that the ionic liquid reacts with the metal and oxidizes it to a higher oxidation state. The initial metal may be in the form of a compound thereof and may be irradiated nuclear fuel comprising UO2 and/or PuO2 as well as fission products. The ionic liquid typically is nitrate-based, for example a pyridinium or substituted imidazolium nitrate, and contains a Bronstead or Franklin acid to increase the oxidizing power of the nitrate. Suitable acids are HNO3, H2SO4 and [NO+]. Imidazolium nitrates and certain pyridinium nitrates form one aspect of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels PlcInventors: Mark Fields, Graham Victor Hutson, Kenneth Richard Seddon, Charles Mackintosh Gordon
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Patent number: 5786986Abstract: Structure for mounting electronic devices thereon. The structure is fabricated from a plurality of substrates each having a thermally and/or electrically conductive core surrounded by a dielectric material. The substrates can be adherently placed together with the electrically conductive cores providing ground and power planes or the substrates can be mounted together with connectors electrically interconnecting adjacent substrates and spacing the adjacent substrates apart providing a space through which a fluid can flow to extract heat generated by the electronic devices mounted thereon. The conductive cores provide both power and ground planes to the structure and a means for thermally dissipating the generated heat.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark Fielding Bregman, Stephen Leslie Buchwalter, Karl Hermann, Caroline Ann Kovac, Paige Adams Poore, Alfred Viehbeck
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Patent number: 5723837Abstract: A method of purifying a UF.sub.6 gas stream which comprises irradiating the UF.sub.6 gas stream with laser radiation in a vessel in order to selectively convert fluoride impurities in the gas stream to involatile products, removing the purified UF.sub.6 gas stream from the vessel and separately removing the impurities from the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1996Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels plcInventors: Andrew Philip Jeapes, Mark Fields, Gerard Sean McGrady