Patents by Inventor Mark Kromer

Mark Kromer 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: 20240399519
    Abstract: A handling system for a turbine component and a computerized machining system are provided. A gripper of the system includes a mounting arm operatively coupled to a tool handler of the machining system, a plurality of contact members configured to collectively grasp the turbine component, and a first actuator configured to move at least one of the contact members between a release position in which the contact members receive a part of the turbine component therebetween at a first longitudinal position thereof and a grasp position in which the contact members grasp the part at a second longitudinal position thereof different than the first longitudinal position. The tool handler and/or the turbine component is linearly moved to move the gripper relative to the turbine component between the first longitudinal position and the second longitudinal position. A loading system allowing easier loading/unloading of the turbine component may also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Craig Sarratt, Mark Kromer, Timothy Austin Cadden, Jason Palmer, Martin Otto
  • Publication number: 20230409387
    Abstract: A method for recommending a computer hardware configuration, including: receiving, by a processor, a machine-readable specification of a computing task; extracting, by the processor, a plurality of features from the machine-readable specification of the computing task; supplying, by the processor, the plurality of features to a reinforcement learning model to generate a proposed computer hardware configuration to execute the computing task; and providing, by the processor, the proposed computer hardware configuration to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Vivek GUPTA, Andrea TREVIÑO GAVITO, Mawulolo Koku AMEKO, Wee Hyong TOK, Sean Gromley T. KELLEY, Yanjie HE, Mark KROMER, Abhishek Uday Kumar SHAH, Ehimwenma NOSAKHARE
  • Publication number: 20170267702
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making alkylhalosilanes from an alkyl halide and silicon in the presence of the catalyst package comprising metallic aluminum dispersed throughout a copper catalyst. Also disclosed in some embodiments is a catalyst package comprising metallic aluminum dispersed throughout a copper catalyst. In some embodiments the catalyst package comprises a copper catalyst comprised of a metallic copper/cuprous oxide/cupric oxide granular particulate catalyst and a copper-aluminum alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: SCM Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Kromer BARR
  • Patent number: 8973722
    Abstract: An improved self-adjusting automatic slack adjuster for reducing slack in the brake of a vehicle is provided, in which an easily accessible external operating feature permits the automatic slack adjuster's one-way clutch assembly to be readily disengaged to allow smooth release and retraction of the brake shoes of a vehicle brake without damage to the one-way teeth of the clutch assembly. When the external feature is operated in a brake release direction, the motion of the feature is translated into a motion which axially displaces an output part of the one-way clutch away from an input part of the clutch a distance sufficient to disengage the parts' one-way teeth, thereby disengaging the one-way clutch to permit brake shoe retraction without resistance from the one-way clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC
    Inventors: Mark Kromer, John Louis, Zoltan Tormasi
  • Publication number: 20140209421
    Abstract: An improved self-adjusting automatic slack adjuster for reducing slack in the brake of a vehicle is provided, in which an easily accessible external operating feature permits the automatic slack adjuster's one-way clutch assembly to be readily disengaged to allow smooth release and retraction of the brake shoes of a vehicle brake without damage to the one-way teeth of the clutch assembly. When the external feature is operated in a brake release direction, the motion of the feature is translated into a motion which axially displaces an output part of the one-way clutch away from an input part of the clutch a distance sufficient to disengage the parts' one-way teeth, thereby disengaging the one-way clutch to permit brake shoe retraction without resistance from the one-way clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC
    Inventors: Mark KROMER, John Louis, Zoltan Tormasi
  • Patent number: 7323583
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst that may be used to facilitate the formation of dimethylchlorosilanes. A catalyst in which copper oxide and zinc oxide are in intimate contact and form agglomerated particles allows for the increased selectively of the production of dimethylchlorosilanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: SCM Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kromer Barr, Thomas Matthew Murphy, Michael Glenn Williams
  • Patent number: 7205258
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst that may be used to facilitate the formation of dimethylchlorosilanes. A catalyst in which copper oxide and zinc oxide are in intimate contact and form agglomerated particles allows for the increased selectively of the production of dimethylchlorosilanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: SCM Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kromer Barr, Thomas Matthew Murphy, Michael Glenn Williams
  • Publication number: 20060230309
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to network management in large telecommunications networks. A system and method capable of providing signal consolidation, replication, and correlation at a fault processor in order to allow signal information to remain visible at the fault processor even when communications between the fault processor and subordinate processors to which the signals are arriving have been lost or subordinate processors are offline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Kromer, John Wood
  • Publication number: 20040266618
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst that may be used to facilitate the formation of dimethylchlorosilanes. A catalyst in which copper oxide and zinc oxide are in intimate contact and form agglomerated particles allows for the increased selectively of the production of dimethylchlorosilanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: SCM Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kromer Barr, Thomas Matthew Murphy, Michael Glenn Williams
  • Patent number: 5876609
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a novel process for the hydrolysis of the by-products produced during the manufacture of methyldichlorosilanes comprising combining the by-products with an aqueous medium, optionally comprising a surfactant, at a pH range of at least about 7 and at a temperature of above about 0.degree. C. to produce a solid material in which copper and other metals are retained in a solid phase thereby resulting in a product with a high copper content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Lee White, Sunita Singh Baghel, Luisito Alvarez Tolentino, Mark Kromer Barr, David Cheney DeMoulpied, William Lee Gately, Jan-Willem Goedmakers, Jeffrey David Hallen, Edward Francis Kennedy, Bang Mo Kim, Ray Walton Shade, Matthew David Butts