Patents by Inventor Mark James

Mark James 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: 20170137381
    Abstract: The present invention describes a novel process for preparing piperidine-4-carbothioamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco BRÜNJES, Mark James FORD
  • Patent number: 9651409
    Abstract: A pointer assembly includes a guide, a helical drive member supported in the guide, a motor for axially rotating the helical drive member, a follower carried by the helical drive member, and a pointer coupled to the follower and movable relative to the guide for indicating a measured value, wherein axial rotation of the helical drive member in a clockwise rotation causes the follower and the pointer to move in a first direction relative to the guide and axial rotation of the helical drive member in a counterclockwise rotation causes the follower and the pointer to move in a second direction relative to the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Mark James Baker
  • Patent number: 9631876
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a stack of heat exchanger plate pairs that each define an internal volume and include an inlet and an outlet such that a first medium flows from the inlet to the outlet along a flow axis. The inlets together form an inlet header through the heat exchanger plate pairs and the outlets together form an outlet header through the heat exchanger plate pairs. The heat exchanger also includes an array of fins disposed between and in thermal contact with adjacent heat exchanger plate pairs. The array of fins defines flow channels between the adjacent heat exchanger plate pairs such that a second medium flows through the flow channels along the flow axis. One end of the array of fins includes a cut-out area which causes a first portion of the array of fins to be positioned laterally from either the inlet header or the outlet header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Mark James Zima, Prasad Shripad Kadle, Veeraj Chopra, Debangshu Majumdar
  • Patent number: 9622925
    Abstract: A fastening member has inboard and outboard ends, a panel region, an end region, and a stiffening element. The panel region is disposed adjacent to the inboard end and has first and second layers. The first and second layers are joined in a face-to-face orientation. The end region is disposed adjacent to the outboard end and has a fastening element zone and an intermediate zone. The intermediate zone is disposed between the fastening element zone and the panel region adjacent an interface between the panel and end regions. The stiffening element is disposed in the end region and has a stiffness of greater than about 200 N/m. A portion of the stiffening element is disposed between the first layer and the second layer and is joined to the first layer and the second layer. The portion is disposed adjacent to the interface between the panel region and the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark James Kline, Anna Elizabeth Macura, Michael Irwin Lawson, Ronald Joseph Zink
  • Publication number: 20170101359
    Abstract: The present invention describes a novel process for preparing 3-chloro-2-vinylphenol which, owing to the chemoselectivity achieved, also allows direct conversion into (3-chloro-2-vinylphenyl)methane-sulphonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian ERVER, Mark James FORD
  • Publication number: 20170098614
    Abstract: A method for a method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a bottom surface opposite a top surface with circuitry disposed at the top surface. The method further includes forming a first metal layer having a first metal over the bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first metal layer is formed by depositing an adhesion promoter followed by depositing the first metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Mark James Harrison, Martin Sporn
  • Patent number: 9610202
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article that includes a frangible bonding agent for maintaining the absorbent article in a predetermined configuration. The frangible bonding agent may be disposed on a fastening system in order to maintain one or more portions of the fastening system in a particular position during manufacturing but still provide an easy-to-open fastener when used by a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ebrahim Rezai, Jay Tao, Stephen Joseph Lange, Mark James Kline, James David Landgrebe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck
  • Patent number: 9610191
    Abstract: An intrauterine contraceptive system may include a contraceptive intrauterine device, a retrieval thread permanently attached to the intrauterine device and an insertion device for inserting the intrauterine device into a uterus. The system may also include a release thread releasably coupled with the intrauterine device. The intrauterine device may be deployable out of a distal end of the insertion device and may be configured to change from a delivery configuration when housed in the insertion device to a deployed configuration when deployed in a uterus. The retrieval thread and the optional release thread may be at least partially housed within the insertion device during insertion of the intrauterine device into the uterus. The release thread may extend from the intrauterine device through the insertion device to an attachment point at or near a proximal end of the insertion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: CONTRAMED, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Tal, Bob H. Katz, Mark James DeBisschop
  • Publication number: 20170084453
    Abstract: A method, which forms an air-bubble-free thin film with a high-viscosity fluid resin, initially dispenses the fluid resin on an outer region of a semiconductor wafer while the semiconductor wafer is spinning, and then dispenses the fluid resin onto the center of the semiconductor wafer after the semiconductor wafer has stopped spinning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Sandra Zheng, Mark James Smiley, Douglas Jay Levack, Ronald Dean Powell
  • Publication number: 20170081349
    Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a process for preparing certain phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins of the formula (I), and also to certain phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins per se and to their use for the preparation of glufosinate and/or glufosinate salts. The present invention further relates to certain mixtures particularly suitable for preparing the phosphorus-containing cyanohydrins of the formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim RESSEL, Kilian TELLMAN, Mark James FORD, Martin LITTMANN, Friedrich August MUEHLTHAU, Guenter SCHLEGEL
  • Patent number: 9592500
    Abstract: Among other things, in general, a two-stage filtration and extraction assembly is described, as well as methods of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventors: Alan A. Doucette, Mark James Wall
  • Publication number: 20170065122
    Abstract: The profile shape of the vessel body and of handle portion is formed from a single sheet of metal to create a flat by cutting, stamping or blanking. An opening is created in the handle portion to reduce heat propagation. The shape of the pan body is formed by spinning with the flat handle portion. The handle is formed by creating three-dimensional contours in the handle portion of the blank. The neck portion has a flat section adjacent the pan body followed by sections of different curvature. One section of the neck portion has a deeply curved cross-section. That neck portion transitions to the hand grip portion which has a reduced curvature, particularly toward the unattached end of the handle. The neck portion may have a “W” cross sectional shape. The handle grip portion may have a “U” shaped cross-section for comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: Mark James Henry
  • Patent number: 9589131
    Abstract: A computer device includes a download unit which downloads one or more files into a storage device. A file logging unit records a resource locator identifying a source network location of the file, when the file is downloaded, and associates the resource locator with a first fingerprint of the file. A system policy unit stores the resource locator associated with a process control policy relevant to the file. A process control unit is arranged to obtain a second fingerprint of the file upon launching a process in a runtime execution environment, retrieve the resource locator from the file logging unit by matching the second fingerprint with the first fingerprint, retrieve the process control policy from the system policy unit according to the retrieved resource locator, and selectively apply process execution privileges which determine execution of the process in the runtime execution environment according to the retrieved process control policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: AVECTO LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark James Austin
  • Publication number: 20170062725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compositions comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and one or more organic solvents. The composition is solid at a temperature of 25° C. and fluid at a higher temperature and the boiling point of the solvent is at most 400° C. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these compositions as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and OLED devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel compositions, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Mark James, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz, Philip E. May, Lana Nanson, Ruth Effenberger, Edgar Kluge
  • Publication number: 20170051752
    Abstract: A horizontal pumping system has a motor, a suction chamber and a pump driven by the motor. The pump includes a primary stage assembly and a low NPSH stage assembly connected between the primary stage assembly and the suction chamber. The low NPSH stage assembly is external to the primary stage assembly. The low NPSH stage assembly includes a diffuser connected to the pump housing and a low NPSH impeller contained within the diffuser. The diameter of the low NPSH stage assembly is optionally larger than the diameter of the primary stage assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Vishal Gahlot, Colby Lane Loveless, Mark James, Scott Richard Erler
  • Publication number: 20170045488
    Abstract: A soil testing method determines available nutrient levels and effective and economical fertilizer/treatment, based on what nutrients in the soil will actually reach the root of a growing plant. A soil is tested to give a base-line/reference moisture content, and also initial nutrient(s) available to a plant root (if it were growing in that soil when no nutrients have been added) are determined, followed by comparing/correlating said initial available nutrient to nutrient requirements for desired plant growth during one or more periods of time and/or to a yield outcome desired. Various doses of fertilizer(s) or other treatment composition(s) are then added to portions of the soil, and those dosed portions are then tested for available nutrient levels, to determine the effect of said fertilizer(s)/treatment composition(s) on the nutrients that would be available in that particular soil to a plant root if that soil were fertilized with the various doses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Mark James RIESS, Brennan Allan Ingram, Kristopher James Borgman, Robert Gabriel Melanson, Jennifer Ann Chapman, Ivan Rozumny, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170048335
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Chad Gniffke, Robert Wendell Davis, Mark Thomas Lingen, Ryan Smith, Mark James Sutherland, Scott Robert Powell
  • Publication number: 20170027777
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article to be worn about the lower torso of a wearer that facilitates an easy, intuitive change is provided. The disposable absorbent article includes at least one serviceable indicium that facilitates an easy change by providing alignment of the article relative to an anatomical feature of the wearer or by externally highlighting one or more components of the article thereby indicating alignment and fit about the wearer's lower torso.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Luke Robinson Magee, George B. Glackin, III, Christopher J. Hosmer, Naomi S. Korn, James D. Wilson, Mark C. Bates, Mattias Schmidt, Eva Susanne Dominique Thurnay, Joerg Mueller, John C. Costello, Ann Marie Sullivan, Gregg Allen Flender, Donald C. Roe, Mark James Kline, Kenneth Edwin Jewell
  • Publication number: 20170028493
    Abstract: A drilling tool for use in machining a conductive work piece is provided. The tool includes a forward electrode tip that includes an outer radial portion and an inner radial portion that extends from a forward face of the outer radial portion. The tool also includes a dielectric sheath that extends circumferentially about the outer radial portion, and at least one side electrode coupled to the dielectric sheath. When electric current is supplied to the forward electrode tip and the at least one side electrode, material adjacent to the forward electrode tip and the at least one side electrode is removed from the conductive work piece. The forward electrode tip and the at least one side electrode are selectively operable to form a bore hole having a variable geometry that extends through the conductive work piece when the material is removed therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Lee Trimmer, Mark James Cintula
  • Patent number: 9556986
    Abstract: A dielectric fitting (10, 10?, 110) assembly includes a hose (14, 114) connected between two end fittings (12, 121, 112), and a structural reinforcement portion having at least an inner layer (26, 26?,126) formed of a first composite material having a high strength and a second composite material having a high electrical resistance. The first and second composite materials cover the assembly and provide a smooth transition of radial stiffness as the inner layer transitions from a high strength portion to a high electrically resistant portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Heinrich Mueller, Mark James Fahey