Patents by Inventor Mark Frost
Mark Frost 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: 10405566Abstract: A container (22) includes an oxygen-sensitive beverage, for example a vitamin C-containing beverage. A closure (40) seals the mouth (28) of container (22). The closure includes an oxygen scavenging structure, for example a closure, which comprises a hydrogen generating means and a catalyst for catalysing a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Andrew Elkin, Mark Frost, Steven John Moloney, Andrew Stuart Overend, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Patent number: 10233911Abstract: Among other things, an integrated portable energy conversion mat is to be installed at a pavement surface over which a car or truck is to pass. The mat has a width at least as wide as the distance between the outermost edges of the treads of the tires located at an axle of the car or truck. The mat has a top surface over which the tires of the car or truck are to pass. The mat includes a sealed enclosed space housing and energy conversion system. The energy conversion system includes two sets of channels that extend along a length of the mat and contain hydraulic fluid under pressure. An energy converter converts energy carried by the hydraulic fluid in response to the tires of the car or truck passing over the top surface into electrical energy. An electrical port is coupled to the energy converter and exposed at an outer surface of the mat.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Energy Intelligence, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Shani, Nissim Shani, Michael Hale, Mark Frost
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Patent number: 9550315Abstract: A reservoir assembly (40) comprises a container (4), a support assembly (42) on which the container (4) is mounted and fixed and a rotary electric vibrator device (44) coupled to the support assembly (42). The container holds a shear thinning additive for a plastics material. The reservoir assembly is arranged so that on operation of the device (44), an appropriate frequency and amplitude of vibration is applied to the container (4) and, therefore, its contents. As a result, a liquid dispersion in the container is shear thinned and recovery of dispersion from the container is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Brian Jones, Keith Bell, Andrew Stuart Overend, Mark Frost
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Patent number: 9463887Abstract: A food container (2) includes a rigid thermoformed plastics carton (4) which holds a dry food 6 and is closed by a removable film closure (8). The film (8) incorporates a hydride which is arranged to generate hydrogen on contact with moisture. Additionally, the film (8) is arranged to have relatively high water vapour permeability and relatively low hydrogen gas permeability. In use, water vapour from air surrounding the container (2) passes into the film (8) and reacts with the hydride to generate hydrogen. Due to the relatively low hydrogen permeability of the film (8), the hydrogen is restricted from escaping from the container. Instead, the hydrogen then reacts with any oxygen within the container in a reaction catalysed by a catalyst also associated with the film closure (8), thereby to scavenge oxygen within the container (2) and protect the food (6) from oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Mark Frost, Andrew Stuart Overend, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Publication number: 20160230784Abstract: Among other things, an integrated portable energy conversion mat is to be installed at a pavement surface over which a car or truck is to pass. The mat has a width at least as wide as the distance between the outermost edges of the treads of the tires located at an axle of the car or truck. The mat has a top surface over which the tires of the car or truck are to pass. The mat includes a sealed enclosed space housing and energy conversion system. The energy conversion system includes two sets of channels that extend along a length of the mat and contain hydraulic fluid under pressure. An energy converter converts energy carried by the hydraulic fluid in response to the tires of the car or truck passing over the top surface into electrical energy. An electrical port is coupled to the energy converter and exposed at an outer surface of the mat.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Daniel Shani, Nissim Shani, Michael Hale, Mark Frost
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Publication number: 20140295028Abstract: A container (22) includes an oxygen-sensitive beverage, for example a vitamin C-containing beverage. A closure (40) seals the mouth (28) of container (22). The closure includes an oxygen scavenging structure, for example a closure, which comprises a hydrogen generating means and a catalyst for catalysing a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Andrew Elkin, Mark Frost, Steven John Moloney, Andrew Stuart Overend, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Publication number: 20140113997Abstract: A method of making a sheet structure comprising a first polycarbonate layer which comprises a UV-absorbing compound and a second polycarbonate layer comprises: (i) selecting a liquid formulation comprising a vehicle, for example a trimellitate or low molecular weight acrylic and an UV absorbing additive; and (ii) mixing the liquid formulation with polycarbonate when said first polymeric material is in a molten state, for example in an extruder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Colormatrix Holding, Inc.Inventors: Phillip Winrow, Patrick Brown, Brian Stewart Jones, Mark Frost, Christine Leeming
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Publication number: 20130323129Abstract: A food container (2) includes a rigid thermoformed plastics carton (4) which holds a dry food 6 and is closed by a removable film closure (8). The film (8) incorporates a hydride which is arranged to generate hydrogen on contact with moisture. Additionally, the film (8) is arranged to have relatively high water vapour permeability and relatively low hydrogen gas permeability. In use, water vapour from air surrounding the container (2) passes into the film (8) and reacts with the hydride to generate hydrogen. Due to the relatively low hydrogen permeability of the film (8), the hydrogen is restricted from escaping from the container. Instead, the hydrogen then reacts with any oxygen within the container in a reaction catalysed by a catalyst associated with the carton (4), thereby to scavenge oxygen within the container (2) and protect the food (6) from oxidation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Colormatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Mark Frost, Andrew Stuart Overend, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Patent number: 8552099Abstract: A polymer additive for improving the reheat characteristics of a polymer or polymeric composition comprises an inorganic material which is such that a 2.5 mm thick polyethylene terephthalate plaque incorporating the inorganic material has, when tested, an absorption ratio of less than 0.9, wherein the absorption ratio is either the ratio of A1/A2 or the ratio A1/A3, wherein: A1 is the maximum absorption between 400 nm and 550 nm; A2 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1100 nm; A3 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1600 nm. Preferred inorganic materials are titanium nitride, indium tin oxide and lanthanum hexaboride.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Colormatrix Europe LimitedInventors: Anthony Jarvis, Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Patent number: 8445086Abstract: Polymer compositions, for example of polyethyleneterephthalate bottles or preforms, include a reheat additive which has reducing transmission/increasing absorbance across the IR region as the wavelength increases. The reheat additive may be a titanium nitride, made by a plasma vapor deposition technique. Advantageously, the material may be used at a lower level than hitherto known materials or may be used at the same levels as hitherto but provide a greater reheat effect. Example 3a shown in the figure illustrates the absorbance of a preferred material.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Colormatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Patent number: 8404754Abstract: A process for recycling a coloured thermoplastic material comprising an absorbed disperse dye comprises contacting the optionally comminuted coloured thermoplastic material with a caustic wash and recovering an at least partly colour-modified thermoplastic composition from the caustic wash.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Colormatrix Europe LimitedInventors: Mark Frost, Fuquan Zeng, Victoria Sayer
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Patent number: 8372321Abstract: A part may be manufactured in a desired color from virgin or recycled polymeric material by selection of a color formulation to be used in a first location 4, 6, 8, 10, 12; relaying color information to a centralized match prediction system 16 as regards the desired color and other information concerning a polymeric material which is to be made in the desired color. The system 16 includes a database and associated software and is able to take the color information and predict how to reproduce the colors using an associated color dispense system. A device 30 controls dispense stations 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 which may be conveniently situated at customer sites or the like. The dispense stations dispense colors for use.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Colormatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: David Andrew Chisnall, Mark Frost
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Publication number: 20120225986Abstract: A polymer additive for improving the reheat characteristics of a polymer or polymeric composition comprises an inorganic material which is such that a 2.5 mm thick polyethylene terephthalate plaque incorporating the inorganic material has, when tested, an absorption ratio of less than 0.9, wherein the absorption ratio is either the ratio of A1/A2 or the ratio A1/A3, wherein: A1 is the maximum absorption between 400 nm and 550 nm; A2 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1100 nm; A3 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1600 nm. Preferred inorganic materials are titanium nitride, indium tin oxide and lanthanum hexaboride.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Anthony JARVIS, Mark FROST, Mark RULE
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Patent number: 8211983Abstract: A polymer additive for improving the reheat characteristics of a polymer or polymeric composition comprises an inorganic material which is such that a 2.5 mm thick polyethylene terephthalate plaque incorporating the inorganic material has, when tested, an absorption ratio of less than 0.9, wherein the absorption ratio is either the ratio of A1/A2 or the ratio A1/A3, wherein: A1 is the maximum absorption between 400 nm and 550 nm; A2 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1100 nm; A3 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1600 nm. Preferred inorganic materials are titanium nitride, indium tin oxide and lanthanum hexaboride.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Colormatrix Europe LimitedInventors: Anthony Jarvis, Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Publication number: 20120138187Abstract: A reservoir assembly (40) comprises a container (4), a support assembly (42) on which the container (4) is mounted and fixed and a rotary electric vibrator device (44) coupled to the support assembly (42). The container holds a shear thinning additive for a plastics material. The reservoir assembly is arranged so that on operation of the device (44), an appropriate frequency and amplitude of vibration is applied to the container (4) and, therefore, its contents. As a result, a liquid dispersion in the container is shear thinned and recovery of dispersion from the container is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Brian Jones, Keith Bell, Andrew Stuart Overend, Mark Frost
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Publication number: 20110015325Abstract: A polymer additive for improving the reheat characteristics of a polymer or polymeric composition comprises an inorganic material which is such that a 2.5 mm thick polyethylene terephthalate plaque incorporating the inorganic material has, when tested, an absorption ratio of less than 0.9, wherein the absorption ratio is either the ratio of A1/A2 or the ratio A1/A3, wherein: A1 is the maximum absorption between 400 nm and 550 nm; A2 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1100 nm; A3 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1600 nm. Preferred inorganic materials are titanium nitride, indium tin oxide and lanthanum hexaboride.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Anthony Jarvis, Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Patent number: 7820781Abstract: A polymer additive for improving the reheat characteristics of a polymer or polymeric composition comprises an inorganic material which is such that a 2.5 mm thick polyethylene terephthalate plaque incorporating the inorganic material has, when tested, an absorption ratio of less than 0.9, wherein the absorption ratio is either the ratio of A1/A2 or the ratio A1/A3, wherein: A1 is the maximum absorption between 400 nm and 550 nm; A2 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1100 nm; A3 is the maximum absorption between 700 to 1600 nm. Preferred inorganic materials are titanium nitride, indium tin oxide and lanthanum hexaboride.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Colormatrix Europe LimitedInventors: Anthony Jarvis, Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Publication number: 20100159179Abstract: Polymer compositions, for example of polyethyleneterephthalate bottles or preforms, include a reheat additive which has reducing transmission/increasing absorbance across the IR region as the wavelength increases. The reheat additive may be a titanium nitride, made by a plasma vapour deposition technique. Advantageously, the material may be used at a lower level than hitherto known materials or may be used at the same levels as hitherto but provide a greater reheat effect. Example 3a shown in the figure illustrates the absorbance of a preferred material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Mark Frost, Mark Rule
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Publication number: 20100044897Abstract: A part may be manufactured in a desired colour from virgin or recycled polymeric material by selection of a colour formulation to be used in a first location 4, 6, 8, 10, 12; relaying colour information to a centralised match prediction system 16 as regards the desired colour and other information concerning a polymeric material which is to be made in the desired colour. The system 16 includes a database and associated software and is able to take the colour information and predict how to reproduce the colours using an associated colour dispense system. A device 30 controls dispense stations 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 which may be conveniently situated at customer sites or the like. The dispense stations dispense colours for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: David Andrew Chisnall, Mark Frost
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Publication number: 20090239961Abstract: A process for recycling a coloured thermoplastic material comprising an absorbed disperse dye comprises contacting the optionally comminuted coloured thermoplastic material with a caustic wash and recovering an at least partly colour-modified thermoplastic composition from the caustic wash.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Mark Frost, Fuquan Zeng, Victoria Sayer