Patents by Inventor Mark Frank

Mark Frank 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: 20150256589
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to data processing systems and methods for supporting data source integration, such as, for example, real-time web-site modification within a preserved security context by using a substitute an IP address of a desired resource to redirect a request for that resource to a proxy that can provide any such integration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Frank NEWBURN, Saana Pauliina LIIMATAINEN, Robert Lawrence MALLEY
  • Publication number: 20140300506
    Abstract: Statistical movement analysis method that includes defining one or more movement signature types, wherein a movement signature type includes a set of movement parameters and values for the set of movement parameters and receiving data for objects monitored by a radar system at a plurality of times, the data including values acquired for the set of movement parameters. The method also includes discriminating the data for the monitored objects by comparing movement signatures of two or more of the monitored objects for a difference of statistical significance and characterizing the monitored objects based on the movement signatures of the monitored objects. The method also includes identifying one or more of the monitored objects by comparing the received data for a monitored object with the movement signature type to determine if any of the objects monitored by the radar system are moving consistent with the movement signature type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Marcus Alton Teter, Mark Frank Tryon
  • Publication number: 20140301636
    Abstract: An automatic facial action coding system and method can include processing an image to identify a face in the image, to detect and align one or more facial features shown in the image, and to define one or more windows on the image. One or more distributions of pixels and color intensities can be quantified in each of the one or more windows to derive one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions of one or more colors within the window. The one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions can be processed to select image features appearing in the one or more windows and to classify one or more predefined facial actions on the face in the image. A facial action code score that includes a value indicating a relative amount of the predefined facial action occurring in the face in the image can be determined for the face in the image for each of the one or more predefined facial actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort-Ford, Javier Movellan, Ian Fasel, Mark Frank
  • Patent number: 8798374
    Abstract: An automatic facial action coding system and method can include processing an image to identify a face in the image, to detect and align one or more facial features shown in the image, and to define one or more windows on the image. One or more distributions of pixels and color intensities can be quantified in each of the one or more windows to derive one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions of one or more colors within the window. The one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions can be processed to select image features appearing in the one or more windows and to classify one or more predefined facial actions on the face in the image. A facial action code score that includes a value indicating a relative amount of the predefined facial action occurring in the face in the image can be determined for the face in the image for each of the one or more predefined facial actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort-Ford, Javier Movellan, Ian Fasel, Mark Frank
  • Patent number: 8661787
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring a three-way catalyst cooled by a coolant and treating internal combustion engine exhaust by oxidizing HC and CO and reducing NOx is provided to prevent false-fail monitoring. An initial lean kick excursion of fuel-air ratio Phi is provided prior to the first reducing step or interval of the first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Przybyl, William R. Robertson, Mark A. Frank, Kasser A. Jaffri, Ronald L. Hall
  • Publication number: 20130172951
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present concept are directed to external defibrillators that include a utility light for use by one or more rescuers using the defibrillator. In one implementation, an external defibrillator has a housing, an energy storage module for storing an electrical charge, a defibrillation port for guiding the stored electrical charge to a person, and a processor for determining when to guide the electrical charge. The defibrillator also includes a user interface that includes a screen showing indications by light, and a separate utility light coupled to the housing via a light-coupling structure. The utility light is structured to generate and cast a beam of light with a beam divergence angle of no more than 160 degrees in order to illuminate a certain point of the local environment. This illumination capability may help rescuers reach a person in need of medical attention and apply medical assistance to the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jil Cruz, Micha Coleman, Benjamin A. Flugstad, Fred W. Chapman
  • Patent number: 8386034
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present concept are directed to external defibrillators that include a utility light for use by one or more rescuers using the defibrillator. In one implementation, an external defibrillator has a housing, an energy storage module for storing an electrical charge, a defibrillation port for guiding the stored electrical charge to a person, and a processor for determining when to guide the electrical charge. The defibrillator also includes a user interface that includes a screen showing indications by light, and a separate utility light coupled to the housing via a light-coupling structure. The utility light is structured to generate and cast a beam of light with a beam divergence angle of no more than 160 degrees in order to illuminate a certain point of the local environment. This illumination capability may help rescuers reach a person in need of medical attention and apply medical assistance to the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jil Cruz, Micha Coleman, Benjamin A. Flugstad, Fred W. Chapman
  • Publication number: 20120071940
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present concept are directed to external defibrillators that include a utility light for use by one or more rescuers using the defibrillator. In one implementation, an external defibrillator has a housing, an energy storage module for storing an electrical charge, a defibrillation port for guiding the stored electrical charge to a person, and a processor for determining when to guide the electrical charge. The defibrillator also includes a user interface that includes a screen showing indications by light, and a separate utility light coupled to the housing via a light-coupling structure. The utility light is structured to generate and cast a beam of light with a beam divergence angle of no more than 160 degrees in order to illuminate a certain point of the local environment. This illumination capability may help rescuers reach a person in need of medical attention and apply medical assistance to the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jil Cruz, Micha Coleman, Benjamin A. Flugstad, Fred W. Chapman
  • Patent number: 8037797
    Abstract: A method for breaching a minefield comprising the step of deploying a shaped charge array from a vehicle to detonate the minefield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Les H. Richards, Philip L. McDuffie, Christopher Kohl, Thomas G. Ratliff
  • Publication number: 20100086215
    Abstract: An automatic facial action coding system and method can include processing an image to identify a face in the image, to detect and align one or more facial features shown in the image, and to define one or more windows on the image. One or more distributions of pixels and color intensities can be quantified in each of the one or more windows to derive one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions of one or more colors within the window. The one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions can be processed to select image features appearing in the one or more windows and to classify one or more predefined facial actions on the face in the image. A facial action code score that includes a value indicating a relative amount of the predefined facial action occurring in the face in the image can be determined for the face in the image for each of the one or more predefined facial actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Marian Steward Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort-Ford, Javier Movellan, Ian Fasel, Mark Frank
  • Patent number: 7143022
    Abstract: A system and method for integrating a plurality of subcircuit grids in a simulation environment. Upon obtaining a subcircuit layer of a particular granularity for each logical component of an electrical entity (e.g., a semiconductor die in a package and board environment), the nodes of a first subcircuit layer are interconnected to the nodes of a second subcircuit layer using a constraint-based search process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Mark Frank, Jerimy Nelson
  • Publication number: 20060236276
    Abstract: A method is provided for evaluating trace signal coupling in an electronic design (e.g., a package design). In the method, one or more trace signal coupling rules are formulated. One or more trace pairs designed to carry differential signals are then processed to determine whether the inter-trace spacing between the trace pairs violates the trace signal coupling rules. An indicator (e.g., a DRC and/or a report) is generated to identify violated trace signal coupling rules. Processing of the electronic design may be scoped according one or a group of signal nets, or one or a group of levels of the package design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jerimy Nelson, Peter Modauer
  • Publication number: 20060225916
    Abstract: A method for routing vias in a multilayer substrate from bypass capacitor pads is disclosed. One embodiment of a method may comprise arranging a bypass capacitor power pad spaced apart from a bypass capacitor ground pad on a first surface of the multilayer substrate, routing a plurality of power vias from the bypass capacitor power pad to a first redistribution layer spaced from the first surface, and routing a plurality of ground vias from the bypass capacitor ground pad to the first redistribution layer. The methodology may further comprise jogging the plurality of ground vias at the first redistribution layer to the plurality of power vias to provide a power and ground via pattern, and routing the power and ground vias from the first redistribution layer to a second redistribution layer spaced apart from the first redistribution layer based on the power and ground via pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Jerimy Nelson, Mark Frank, Peter Moldauer, Gary Taylor, David Quint
  • Patent number: 7110364
    Abstract: An optical link adjacency discovery protocol is provided. The protocol includes a simple format that includes an identifier field of a local node and facility and an identifier field of an echo node and facility. An announce message, including a source field having an identifier of the local node written therein, is transmitted from the local node that terminates the created link to the far end node that terminates the other end of the optical link. The far end node receiving the announce message then generates an echo message including a source field and an echo field, the source field having an identifier of the second node and resources thereof associated with the link. The echo field of the echo message includes an identifier of the local node and resources thereof associated with the link. An optical network for implementing the optical link adjacency discovery protocol is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tung Quang Le, James Alvah Spallin, Mark Frank Vanderburg
  • Publication number: 20060055022
    Abstract: A method for routing vias in a multilayer substrate is disclosed. One embodiment of a method may comprise providing a multilayer substrate with an internal bond surface having a plurality of internal bond pads and an external bond surface with a plurality of external bond pads. A plurality of power vias and ground vias may be routed from a first redistribution layer between the internal bond surface and the external bond surface to a second redistribution layer between the first redistribution layer and the external bond surface based on a via pattern. The via pattern may comprise routing a power via and a ground via adjacent one another spaced apart at a distance that is substantially equal to a minimum routing pitch associated with the multilayer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Jerimy Nelson, Mark Frank, Peter Moldauer, Karl Bois
  • Publication number: 20060055049
    Abstract: A method for routing vias in a multilayer substrate from bypass capacitor pads is disclosed. One embodiment of a method may comprise arranging a bypass capacitor power pad spaced apart from a bypass capacitor ground pad on a first surface of the multilayer substrate, routing a plurality of power vias from the bypass capacitor power pad to a first redistribution layer spaced from the first surface, and routing a plurality of ground vias from the bypass capacitor ground pad to the first redistribution layer. The methodology may further comprise jogging the plurality of ground vias at the first redistribution layer to the plurality of power vias to provide a power and ground via pattern, and routing the power and ground vias from the first redistribution layer to a second redistribution layer spaced apart from the first redistribution layer based on the power and ground via pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Jerimy Nelson, Mark Frank, Peter Moldauer, Gary Taylor, David Quint
  • Publication number: 20060043537
    Abstract: A method for routing signals in a multilayer substrate is disclosed. One embodiment of a method may comprise providing a multilayer substrate with at least one differential signal line pair aligned along a common plane that is substantially transverse to a top surface of the multilayer substrate, jogging a first differential signal line associated with a differential signal line pair at a first redistribution layer in a direction along the common plane, and jogging a second differential signal line associated with the differential signal line pair at a second redistribution layer along the common plane in a same direction as the first differential signal line to provide a substantially balanced differential signal line pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jerimy Nelson, Peter Moldauer
  • Publication number: 20060024705
    Abstract: Methods are provided for the analysis of gene expression utilizing RNA from hair follicles. Methods are also provided for evaluation of the biological activity of a candidate substance, genetic diagnosis, and evaluation of disease, each involving analysis of gene expression utilizing RNA from hair follicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Centola, Theodore Thederahn, Mark Frank, Richard Cadwell, Igor Dozmorov, Cherie Chappell
  • Publication number: 20060026542
    Abstract: Systems and methods associated with generating node level bypass capacitor models are disclosed. One embodiment of a system may comprise a plurality of bypass capacitor circuit models associated with respective bypass capacitors and a node level model generator. The node level model generator may associate bypass capacitor information for a plurality of bypass capacitors from a data base associated with a multi-layer structure design with respective bypass capacitor circuit models to provide a node level capacitor model for the plurality of bypass capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Mark Frank, Jerimy Nelson
  • Publication number: 20050249479
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a system, apparatus and method for determining the signal coupling coefficient of a via in the design of a substrate are disclosed. One apparatus embodiment comprises a via signal coupling coefficient tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Mark Frank, Jerimy Nelson, Karl Bois