Patents by Inventor Mark Paul

Mark Paul 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: 20230002540
    Abstract: Disclosed are low-viscosity foamable polyurethane-forming compositions containing a polyol composition having monomeric and higher polyol components and optionally a polyhydroxylated aromatic compound; a polyisocyanate or latent polyisocyanate component or a combination thereof; a blowing agent; and optionally a cyclic carbonate having one or more hydroxyl groups. The monomeric and higher polyols each contain three or more hydroxyl groups, the higher polyol containing residues of the monomeric polyol and optionally residues of the polyhydroxylated aromatic compound, the residues being linked by one or more carbonate and/or ether groups. The Disclosed foamable polyurethane-forming compositions may contain the polyol compositions disclosed; an isocyanate functional component; and a blowing agent. The foamable compositions afford high strength, heat-resistant, low to moderate density foamed-polyurethane compositions useful in a variety of applications including construction, vehicle and packaging applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Brett Tyler Sherren, Benjamin G. Freestone, Mark Paul Kujawski, Natalie Roby, Michael Jeffrey Krause, Andrew John Tennant
  • Publication number: 20230005576
    Abstract: A computer that analyzes data is described. During operation, the computer may access the data in the memory. Then, the computer may transform the data into a spatial representation. For example, for biological data, the transformation may be based at least in part on a predefined relationship between the biological data and corresponding spatial locations in a genome. Moreover, the computer may selectively normalize the transformed data to obtain normalized transformed data. Notably, the selective normalization may use different normalization ranges based at least in part on expression levels in a type of biological sequencing. Next, the processor may convert the normalized transformed data into an output image. Furthermore, the processor may analyze the image using an image-analysis technique (such as a pretrained neural network) to determine a classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Santiago Gabriel Miriuka, Mark Paul Ramondt
  • Publication number: 20220413320
    Abstract: Contact lenses are provided with tints that enhance performance and are shaped to permit wearing by individuals who are unfamiliar with contact lens handlings. With suitable contact lens shapes, applying and removing the contact lenses is simple, and providing tints on a contact lens permits using more transmissive tints than would be needed for spectacles or goggles. In addition, using tinted contact lenses avoids some of the physical limitations and problems associated with spectacles and goggles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Performance Vision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Wayne Reichow, Karl Citek, Bret James Andre, Mark Paul Andre
  • Patent number: 11505387
    Abstract: A cover sheet to be secured to the tray of a container is described. The cover sheet includes a first layer and a second layer. An adhesive layer is provided between the first and second layers. The first layer has a first cut line that extends across a corner of the cover sheet between a first edge and a second edge to define a tab portion of the first layer. The second layer has a second cut line that extends from the first edge to the second edge or a third edge to define a removable strip of the second layer. Removing the removable strip and the adhered tab portion exposes the adhesive layer on a securing portion of the first layer that can be used to secure the cover sheet to the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MEDI-Clear Ltd
    Inventors: Mark Paul Hogan, Steven Brian Watt
  • Publication number: 20220219428
    Abstract: A multi-layer product as a seal includes a cover layer having an adhesive layer and a backing layer with a release layer. The cover layer has a first part including one or more releasable portions, each having an associated patch. The backing layer has a pre-formed line of separation that extends across the seal from the first edge to the second edge and separates the backing layer into a first part and a second part. The second part of the backing layer includes at least one removable portion at an edge thereof. Each removable portion is defined by one or more pre-formed lines of separation. The cover layer has a second part including at least one flap portion each of which is substantially coincident with a respective one of the removable portions and defined by one or more pre-formed lines of separation in the second part of the cover layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: MEDI-Clear Ltd
    Inventor: Mark Paul HOGAN
  • Patent number: 11375997
    Abstract: A surgical suture apparatus for passing a double-ended surgical needle forwards and backwards includes a main body, a first jaw element and a second jaw element, each including a holding device to hold a needle-end of the surgical needle. The first jaw element and second jaw element are movable with respect to each other between a take-over position, where a surgical needle can be passed between the first holding device and the second holding device, and an open position. The surgical apparatus further includes an operating device to operate the first holding device and the second holding device to alternately hold the first needle-end by the first holding device and the second needle-end by the second holding device, where the first jaw element is detachably mounted on the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mellon Medical B.V.
    Inventor: Mark-Paul Franciscus Maria Vrancken Peeters
  • Patent number: 11309627
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless charging loop antenna. The wireless charging loop antenna includes an extracorporal planar loop antenna and an intracorporal planar loop antenna. The intracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed inside a body, and the extracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed on a skin outside the body. The extracorporal planar loop antenna includes an extracorporal antenna substrate, an extracorporal loop radiation patch, paired connection radiation patches and a patch capacitor. The extracorporal loop radiation patch is provided with at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The patch capacitor is disposed at one of the at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The extracorporal loop radiation patch and the paired connection radiation patches form a circuit. The extracorporal loop radiation patch, the paired connection radiation patches and the patch capacitor are all on a same surface of the extracorporal antenna substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eng Gee Lim, Jingchen Wang, Zhao Wang, Mark Paul Leach, Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20220045421
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless charging loop antenna. The wireless charging loop antenna includes an extracorporal planar loop antenna and an intracorporal planar loop antenna. The intracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed inside a body, and the extracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed on a skin outside the body. The extracorporal planar loop antenna includes an extracorporal antenna substrate, an extracorporal loop radiation patch, paired connection radiation patches and a patch capacitor. The extracorporal loop radiation patch is provided with at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The patch capacitor is disposed at one of the at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The extracorporal loop radiation patch and the paired connection radiation patches form a circuit. The extracorporal loop radiation patch, the paired connection radiation patches and the patch capacitor are all on a same surface of the extracorporal antenna substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Eng Gee LIM, Jingchen WANG, Zhao WANG, Mark Paul LEACH, Yi HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220017718
    Abstract: A polymer composite contains tubular particles, which contain at least one resin with fibres embedded. The tubular particles have an average length in the range of 0.5 mm to 60 mm and an average wall thickness in the range of 0.0005 mm to 30 mm, whereas the fibers have an average diameter in the range of 0.0005 mm to 5.0 mm. A process can be used to prepare the polymer composite containing tubular particles. The polymer composite can be used as a cushioning material, which can be formed into a cushioning article such as a shoe sole, a furniture cushion, a bed mattress, an automotive seat cushion, a flooring substrate, an outdoor/walking surface, a mat, a pad, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Brad J. Martin, Mark Paul Kujawski
  • Patent number: 11219450
    Abstract: A surgical suture apparatus for passing a double-ended surgical needle forwards and backwards includes a first and second jaw element, and an operating device to operate a first holding device in the first jaw element and a second holding device in the second jaw element to alternately hold a first needle-end by the first holding device and a second needle-end by the second holding device. The first jaw element and second jaw element are movable with respect to each other between a take-over position and an open position. The operating device includes a switch device movable between a first operating position, in which a needle is held by the first holding device, and a second operating position, in which the needle is held by the second holding device, and an activation device configured to move the switch device between the first operating position and the second operating position. The activation device includes a spring and a release device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Mellon Medical B.V.
    Inventor: Mark-Paul Franciscus Maria Vrancken Peeters
  • Publication number: 20210404259
    Abstract: An underground drill comprising a frame, a drill carriage, an anchor assembly, a multi-axis input device, an electronic controller, and a mode selector. The drill carriage and the anchor assembly are operably connected to the frame. The electronic controller is configured to receive input from the multi-axis input device and produce a corresponding output signal. The mode selector has an anchor mode, wherein the output signal actuates the anchor assembly, and a drill mode, wherein the output signal actuates the drill carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Sartori, Mark Paul Manteufel, Lee Evan von Lehe
  • Publication number: 20210395101
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to ruthenium promoter catalyst compositions. The ruthenium promoter catalyst compositions comprise ruthenium metal species, an oxide support material, and a promoter species independently selected from the group consisting of La, Rb, Y, Yb, K, Cs, and Ba, or hydroxides, nitrates or oxides thereof. The present disclosure also relates to various methods, processes, systems, membranes and/or reactors, which can utilise the ruthenium promoter catalyst compositions, for example in ammonia synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Sarbjit Singh Giddey, Danielle Frances Kennedy, Aniruddha Pramod Kulkarni, David Alexander, Khoa Pham, Gary Mark Paul
  • Patent number: 11162115
    Abstract: Systems, networks, methods, compositions and recombinant hosts for biosynthesizing hydrocarbons from a feedstock, such as gas, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INV Nylon Chemicals Americas, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Brett Foster, Leonard Keith Pattenden, Jonathan David Rand, Ana Teresa dos Santos Brito Mendes Roberts, Andrew Shaw, Mark Paul Taylor
  • Publication number: 20210323744
    Abstract: A cover sheet to be secured to the tray of a container is described. The cover sheet includes a first layer and a second layer. An adhesive layer is provided between the first and second layers. The first layer has a first cut line that extends across a corner of the cover sheet between a first edge and a second edge to define a tab portion of the first layer. The second layer has a second cut line that extends from the first edge to the second edge or a third edge to define a removable strip of the second layer. Removing the removable strip and the adhered tab portion exposes the adhesive layer on a securing portion of the first layer that can be used to secure the cover sheet to the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: MEDI-Clear Ltd
    Inventors: Mark Paul HOGAN, Steven Brian WATT
  • Publication number: 20210236118
    Abstract: A needle-suture combination includes a needle having a first needle end and a second needle end opposite to the first needle end, and a suture connected to the needle between the first needle end and the second needle end. Each of the first needle end and the second needle end includes a needle point and a locking groove to receive a locking element of a needle holder. The first needle end and the second needle end each include a needle end stop surface between the groove and the needle point, where the needle end stop surface is arranged to cooperate with a needle channel stop surface of a needle channel of a needle holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Mark-Paul Franciscus Maria Vrancken Peeters
  • Publication number: 20210237511
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a moldable reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane and a non-pneumatic wheel made therefrom, a process for preparing the same and an non-pneumatic wheel obtained therefrom which exhibits a high modulus, low creep, and high fatigue life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Paul KUJAWSKI, Mihai MANITIU, Raymond A. NEFF, Clayton BOHN, Jr., Steven M. CRON, Damon Lee CHRISTENBURY, Rayn Michael GAYLO, Timothy Brett RHYNE
  • Publication number: 20210206932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of activating an organic coating to enhance adhesion of the coating to a further coating and/or to other entities comprising applying a solvent and a surface chemistry and/or surface topography modifying agent to the organic coating. The invention also relates to a coated substrate having an activated coating, wherein the adhesion of the coating to a further coating and/or other entities has been enhanced by application of a solvent and a surface chemistry and/or surface topography modifying agent to the coating. The invention further relates to an activation treatment for an organic coating to enhance adhesion of the coating to a further coating and/or to other entities comprising a solvent and a surface chemistry and/or surface topography modifying agent and a method for the preparation of the activation treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Stuart Arthur BATEMAN, Ranya Simons, Dong Yang Wu, Patrick James McMahon, Alexander Bilyk, Douglas Henry Berry, Seana B. Kobak, James F. Kirchner, Lori Clarice Straus, Mark Paul Johnson
  • Patent number: 11021294
    Abstract: A seal that forms part of a container for storing and dispensing consumer products is provided. The container can be used for the packaging of pills, tablets or capsules, or as a multi-cavity container for organizing and storing mixed medication for subsequent dispensation according to a predefined dosage regimen. The seal includes a cover film and a barrier film. The cover film has pre-formed lines of separation defining a removable portion per cavity. The barrier film is secured to the cover film by a layer of peelable adhesive and has pre-formed lines of separation defining the periphery of a barrier patch per removable portion. The cover film includes a tamper-indicating line of separation close to an edge of the cover film that is designed to tear if an attempt is made to peel the cover film away from the tray to expose one or more of the cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MEDI-Clear Ltd
    Inventor: Mark Paul Hogan
  • Publication number: 20210155390
    Abstract: A seal for use with a container for storing and dispensing consumer products is described. The seal includes a cover layer having pre-formed lines of separation defining one or more releasable portions, an adhesive layer on the cover layer, and one or more patches on the adhesive layer. Each patch is associated with a respective one of the releasable portions 6 and consists of a hot melt polymer. The hot melt polymer can be applied to the adhesive layer using a suitable coating or spraying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: MEDI-Clear Ltd
    Inventor: Mark Paul HOGAN
  • Patent number: 10934470
    Abstract: Compositions and methods of using of such compositions to, for example, inhibit of the formation of gas hydrate agglomerates are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: introducing a low-dosage hydrate inhibitor additive into a fluid, wherein the low-dosage hydrate inhibitor additive comprises a quaternary or tertiary ammonium cation moiety, a lipophilic tail, and a sulfonate anion moiety; and exposing the low-dosage hydrate inhibitor additive to a temperature above about 200° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Multi-Chem Group, LLC
    Inventors: Qiang Lan, Deepak Monteiro, Mark Paul Ceglio, II, Erick J. Acosta, Pushkala Krishnamurthy