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: 20260030056
    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: September 29, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek GUPTA, Andrea TREVIÑO GAVITO, Mawulolo Koku AMEKO, Wee Hyong TOK, Sean Gormley T. KELLEY, Yanjie HE, Mark KROMER, Abhishek Uday Kumar SHAH, Ehimwenma NOSAKHARE
  • Patent number: 12455765
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Gupta, Andrea Treviño Gavito, Mawulolo Koku Ameko, Wee Hyong Tok, Sean Gormley T. Kelley, Yanjie He, Mark Kromer, Abhishek Uday Kumar Shah, Ehimwenma Nosakhare
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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