Patents by Inventor Mark Johns

Mark Johns 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: 20240305461
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for decentralized privacy preserving audits comprising receiving by a first local system, from an orchestrator system, instructions to perform a local audit; executing, by the first local system, in response to receiving the instructions to perform the local audit, a first local audit model epoch, wherein executing the first local audit model epoch comprises: analyzing information from one or more data sources from a local data set; receiving first input information from a second local system through a privacy preserving communication framework in response to requesting the first input information; determining whether information from the one or more data sources from the local data set is reconciled based on the first input information; and in accordance with a determination that the information from the one or more data sources from the local data set is not reconciled, executing a second local audit model epoch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng LI, Winnie CHENG, Mark John FLAVELL, Nicholas John HAMER, Rhodri DAVIES, Elizabeth Cornelia BOTHA, Henry HWANGBO, Scott LIKENS
  • Patent number: 12076492
    Abstract: A valve with an internal member is disclosed which allows exhaled carbon dioxide to escape from a breathing circuit when the circuit gas pressure drops below a threshold pressure. The valve operates by occluding one or more ports under a relatively high pressure and opening the one or more ports under a relatively low pressure. The internal member is attached to the body of the valve at two or more locations on the internal member. The internal member moves in a direction perpendicular to the gas flow through the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Mark John Arrowsmith, Andrew John Partington, Sophia Adele Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240287485
    Abstract: The invention relates to modified Dda helicases which can be used to control the movement of polynucleotides and are particularly useful for sequencing polynucleotides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Heron, Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Mark John Bruce, Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Joseph Hargreaves Lloyd, Szabolcs Soeroes, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Christopher Peter Youd
  • Publication number: 20240286829
    Abstract: An automated gate actuator system is provided for use in selectively opening and closing a gate that dispenses proppant from a proppant container during the course of a hydraulic fracturing operation. A lever arm is pivotally mounted for movement to place a drive gear in contact with a driven gear to open and close the gate. The gate may be remotely or autonomously actuated in this manner utilizing an electronic control triggered by human and/or sensor input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Marc Kevin Fisher, Brian Dorfman, Kevin Gray, Cory Snyder, Matthew Oehler, Mark John D’Agostino
  • Publication number: 20240278233
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are configured to detect disease from a biological sample. In one example, a diagnostic system includes a first housing portion defining an injection port, a first chamber configured to contain a first solution, a second chamber configured to contain a second solution, and a second housing portion defining at least one waste chamber configured to receive fluid from at least one of the first chamber or the second chamber. The system also includes a sliding panel comprising a sample chamber configured to contain a biological sample, wherein the sliding panel is positioned between the first housing portion and the second housing portion and configured to move the sample chamber to different positions corresponding to at least the first chamber and the second chamber of the first housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Tianhong Cui, Yang Wang, Peng Zhou, Mark John Osborn, Amber McElroy
  • Publication number: 20240254172
    Abstract: The invention relates to mutant forms of lysenin. The invention also relates to analyte characterisation using the mutant forms of lysenin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Mark John Bruce, Luke McNeill, Ramiz Iqbal Nathani, Pratik Raj Singh, Neil Roger Wood, Stephen Robert Young
  • Publication number: 20240240245
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of loading a motor protein onto a polynucleotide adapter. Also provided are polynucleotide adapters and kits comprising such adapters. The adapters find use in characterising analytes such as polynucleotides in methods in which the polynucleotide moves in respect of a nanopore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc
    Inventors: Andrew John Heron, Mark John Bruce, Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Luke Alexander McNeill, Simon Rafael Villarreal, Samuel John Martin, Rebecca Anne Stafford-Allen
  • Publication number: 20240199711
    Abstract: The invention relates to mutant forms of lysenin. The invention also relates to analyte characterisation using lysenin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Mark John Bruce, James Anthony Clarke, Andrew John Heron, Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace
  • Publication number: 20240172830
    Abstract: A light-emitting system is provided which is removably attachable to headgear for personal illumination to enhance visibility of the user to others. The light-emitting system includes a housing that defines a receiving aperture and is configured to surround a portion of the headgear when the light-emitting system is removably attached to the headgear for use. The light-emitting system further includes at least one lens and a plurality of lighting elements coupled to the annular housing which are configured to selectively generate a halo or at least a partial halo of light that radiates outwardly away from the annular housing through the at least one lens to provide enhanced personal illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: John Maxwell Baker, Andrew Royal, Raymond Walter Riley, Mark John Ramberg, Chad Austin Brinckerhoff, John R. Murkowski, Trent Robert Wetherbee, Alexander Michael Diener, Kristin Marie Will, Kyle S. Johnston, Clint Timothy Schneider, Evan William Mattingly, Keith W. Kirkwood, Jonathan Brandt Hadley
  • Patent number: 11995871
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for repairing a block of pixels in image data that was encoding using a lossy type of compression. In one aspect, it may be determined that a first pixel block within a first frame of image data was encoded using lossy compression, where the first pixel block comprising a plurality of pixels. Next, it may be determined that the plurality of pixels in the first pixel block in a second frame of the image data are below a threshold difference as compared to the plurality of pixels within the first frame of the image data. Responsive to the determining, the first pixel block may be re-encoded in the second frame or a subsequent frame of the image data using lossless compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Allen Brown, Paolo Maggi, Paolo Angelo Angelo Borelli, Paul Hinks, Mark John Keller
  • Patent number: 11967118
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for implementing a hybrid codec to compress and decompress image data using both lossy and lossless compression. In one example encoding process, it may be determined whether a first block of pixels of a frame of image data contains an edge. A type of compression by which to encode the first block may be selected based on that determination. The first block may be compressed using the selected type of compression. At least one second value associated with the first block of pixels may be set to indicate at least oof the compressed value or the type of compression used to compress the first block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Allen Brown, Paolo Maggi, Paolo Angelo Angelo Borelli, Paul Hinks, Mark John Keller
  • Publication number: 20240111218
    Abstract: A method of determining a characteristic of one or more processes for manufacturing features on a substrate, the method including: obtaining image data of a plurality of features on a least part of at least one region on a substrate; using the image data to obtain measured data of one or more dimensions of each of at least some of the plurality of features; determining a statistical parameter that is dependent on the variation of the measured data of one or more dimensions of each of at least some of the plurality of features; determining a probability of defective manufacture of features in dependence on a determined number of defective features in the image data; and determining the characteristic of the one or more processes to have the probability of defective manufacture of features and the statistical parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo TEL, Hermanus Adrianus DILLEN, Marc Jurian KEA, Mark John MASLOW, Koen THUIJS, Peter David ENGBLOM, Ralph Timotheus HUIJGEN, Daan Maurits SLOTBOOM, Johannes Catharinus Hubertus MULKENS
  • Publication number: 20240093584
    Abstract: A proppant container facilitates the transportation of wet sand for use in a hydraulic fracturing operation. The container is mounted in a cradle that tips downward in arcuate motion for discharge or proppant through a top opening The tipping mechanism may be driven by a system of gears or a hydraulic ram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Cory Snyder, Scott Joseph D'Agostino, Marc Kevin Fisher, Matthew Oehler, Kevin Smith, Brian Dorfman, Mark John D'Agostino
  • Patent number: 11929074
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically generating a meeting summary is disclosed herein. Meeting audio is recorded and converted into a text-based transcript. Handwritten meeting notes are converted into notes text. The transcript and notes text are correlated to provide correlated meeting text. Meeting topics are determined from the correlated meeting text. A meeting summary is generated from the meeting topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Benedict Tiong Chee Tay, Mark John Law, Chin Leong Ong, Jonathan Sebastian Yarborough Wood, Li Weixian, Yunguo Chen
  • Publication number: 20240076729
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of characterising a target polynucleotide as it moves with respect to a nanopore using a motor protein. Also provided are polynucleotide adapters and kits comprising such adapters. The methods, kits and adapters find use in characterising polynucleotides, for example in sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Clive Gavin Brown, Mark John Bruce, Daniel Ryan Garalde, James Edward Graham, Andrew John Heron, Etienne Raimondeau, James White, Christopher Peter Youd
  • Patent number: 11920193
    Abstract: Methods of characterizing an analyte using a detector such as a nanopore and an enzyme are provided. One aspect features methods for characterizing a double-stranded polynucleotide using a detector, e.g., without using a hairpin connecting a template and a complement of the double-stranded polynucleotide. Another aspect features methods for characterizing an analyte using a tag-modified nanopore with increased sensitivity and/or higher throughput. Compositions and systems including, e.g., adaptors for attachment to double-stranded polynucleotides and tag-modified nanopores, which can be used in the methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: James Anthony Clarke, James White, Richard Muscat, Jessica Mary May Johnson, Ramiz Iqbal Nathani, Andrew John Heron, Mark John Bruce, Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Domenico Caprotti, David Jackson Stoddart, Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Christopher James Wright, Paul Richard Moody
  • Publication number: 20240060126
    Abstract: The invention relates to improving the movement of a target polynucleotide with respect to a transmembrane pore when the movement is controlled by a polynucleotide binding protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Jonathan Bankes Pugh, Richard George Hambley, Neil Roger Wood, Clive Gavin Brown, James White, Andrew John Heron, Mark John Bruce, Christopher Peter Youd, Rebecca Victoria Bowen
  • Publication number: 20240058691
    Abstract: A control device with a touch screen and motion sensors is held in one hand with the screen facing the user. Preferably, thumb motion of the hand holding the control device on the touch screen sensor of the control device is the input to control the motion and animations of an avatar, wherein the avatar motion is displayed on the control device touch screen or, in an embodiment, on an external display device. An important aspect of the present invention is tilting the control device, causing an angular rotation velocity, which can trigger a game event such as throwing, kicking, shooting or other action of the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Aquimo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark John Jeffery, Robert Sunshin Komorous-King, Manoj Kumar Rana, James S. Frey, Jordan Matthew Blackman
  • Patent number: 11887301
    Abstract: A method and system for generating synthetic images for use in a database is described. The database is used for delineation of features in real images, the method comprising the steps of: providing a delineated image acquired using a first scanner, defining a model related to the generation of synthetic images using a second scanner, processing the delineated image using the model to generate a synthetic image, mapping contours to the synthetic image to form a synthetic image-contour pair; repeating providing, defining and processing steps to generate a plurality of synthetic images and contour pairs for the database; using said database of synthetic images and contour pairs to optimise a contouring algorithm, where the optimised algorithm generates contours for the real images of the same type as the synthetic images; processing one or more further real images to contour and delineate features on the further real image using the algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mirada Medical Limited
    Inventors: Mark John Gooding, Djamal Boukerroui, Daniel Balfour
  • Patent number: 11886155
    Abstract: Distributed industrial process monitoring and analytics systems and methods are provided for operation within a process plant. A plurality of distributed data engines (DDEs) may be embedded within the process plant to collect and store data generated by data sources, such as process controllers. Thus, the data may be stored in a distributed manner in the DDEs embedded throughout the process plant. The DDEs may be connected by a data analytics network to facilitate data transmission by subscription or query. The DDEs may be configured as a plurality of clusters, which may further include local and centralized clusters. The local clusters may obtain streaming data from data sources and stream selected data to a data consumer. The centralized cluster may register the local clusters, receive data therefrom, and perform data analytic functions on the received data. The analyzed data may be further sent to a data consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark John Nixon, Alper Turhan Enver, Noel Howard Bell, Joshua Brian Kidd, Paul R. Muston