Patents by Inventor Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts 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).

  • Patent number: 11166894
    Abstract: Described herein is a shampoo composition and methods of using the same, the shampoo composition including a copper chelant, a detersive surfactant, and a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jennifer Mary Marsh, Casey Patrick Kelly, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Publication number: 20210333187
    Abstract: Method and system to measure and monitor the grey water content in a rotating concrete mixer drum mixer truck using a sensor attached to the interior of the concrete mixer drum. By measuring the grey water content before a batching process takes place, the batched water (and cement content and admixture type and content) can be modified in order to maintain expected performance of the batched load in terms of both strength and rheology, or more simply, some or all of the grey water can be discharged from the concrete mixer drum before batching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Roberts, Nathan Tregger, Stephen Klaus
  • Publication number: 20210323241
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include a system for joining components. The system can include a rotating base platform, a plurality of receptacles mounted to the base platform, and a rotating sonotrode platform. A plurality of sonotrodes are mounted to the sonotrode platform. Each sonotrode can correspond to a receptacle. Each sonotrode can move in a reciprocating motion between a release position distant from a corresponding receptacle and a compressing position proximal to the corresponding receptacle. The compressing position occurs at a first angular position of the sonotrode platform. Each sonotrode is energized at the compressing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Robert Watts
  • Patent number: 11142730
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles and processes for making such articles, the articles having perimeters that define shapes able to form a tessellated pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sun-Jan Alan Huang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome
  • Publication number: 20210310336
    Abstract: Provided is a completion string and a multilateral well system. The completion string, in one aspect, includes a first tubing string, the first tubing string defining a first fluid path operable to receive a first fluid obtained from a first wellbore. The completion string, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a second tubing string positioned about the first tubing string, the first tubing string and the second tubing string creating an inner annulus that defines a second fluid path operable to receive a second fluid obtained from a second lateral wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: David Joe Steele, Justin Mark Roberts
  • Publication number: 20210301230
    Abstract: Active agent-containing fibrous structure articles, for example dryer-added fibrous structure articles and/or washing machine-added fibrous structure articles and/or hair care fibrous structure articles, and more particularly to consumable, single use, water-insoluble fibrous structure articles containing one or more active agents and optionally, one or more auxiliary ingredients, methods for making same, and methods for using same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Mark William Hamersky, Mark Robert Sivik, Allesandro Corona, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Gregory Charles Gordon, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20210295271
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a graphical user interface. Embodiments include displaying text input fields corresponding to days of a week. Embodiments include receiving a selection of a first text input field of the text input fields corresponding to a day of the week. Embodiments include displaying, based on the selection of the first text input field, an additional text input field for entering text related to the day of the week. Embodiments include receiving a selection of a second text input field of the text input fields corresponding to another day of the week. Embodiments include displaying, based on the selection of the second text input field, an additional text input field for entering text related to the other day of the week in place of the additional text input field related to the day of the week.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Jennifer Bantrell BENZ, Shawn MURDOCK, Mark Robert VACHON, Timothy MORGAN
  • Patent number: 11127413
    Abstract: A method and system of estimating human perception of audibility of audio alerts in the presence of background noise. In the audibility estimation system, a microphone generates an input signal corresponding to an audio alert. A processor receives the input signal and generates an audibility metric representing human perception of audibility of the audio alert based on a comparison between a background noise estimate and an audio alert estimate, and causes an action to be taken based on the audibility metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Sam Karimian Azari, Mark Robert Every
  • Patent number: 11127414
    Abstract: A method of echo cancellation in hands-free communication is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a receive signal processor, a far-end audio signal; providing the far-end audio signal to: an acoustic echo canceller module as a reference signal, and at least one loudspeaker for playback; determining an external gain value associated with the far-end audio signal, the external gain applied to the far-end audio signal downstream of the receive signal processor and prior to playback from the at least one loudspeaker; adjusting at least one parameter of the acoustic echo canceller module based on the external gain value; receiving playback output of the far-end audio signal from the at least one loudspeaker as an input signal to a microphone; and processing the microphone input signal by the adjusted acoustic echo canceller module to produce an echo-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mohammad Aamir Husain, Michael Andrew Percy, Mark Robert Every, Frank Linseisen
  • Publication number: 20210286933
    Abstract: Dynamic web content personalization may be used to alter a web page such that two different people who view that web page do not see the exact same content on that page. The present disclosure includes techniques that allow a web page to be structured, via underlying source code, so that content can be dynamically generated based on a user transaction history. Further, dynamic content customization can effectively change the layout and functionality of a web page in ways not previously contemplated. For example, different control elements may become accessible based on a particular contextual user profile assigned to a user based on a transaction history. Modular content modules may also have a different appearance for different users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Justin Scott Lowery, Mark Robert Shulman, Adam Dustan, Keith Burns, Carla Lee Capps, Francisco Ulises Garcia Martinez, Sriram Ramakrishnan, Frank Anthony Nuzzi
  • Patent number: 11118243
    Abstract: The invention discloses a measurement apparatus for measuring a volume of a desired solid component in a sample volume of a solid-liquid slurry. The sample volume of the slurry is received into a receptacle and screened to separate out the desired solid component from a remainder of the slurry, whereby the solid component is retained in the receptacle to form a bed therein and the remainder is exhausted. The height of the bed is subsequently measured by a laser being adapted to emit a laser beam into the receptacle, thereby enabling a determination of a volume and/or mass of the solid component retained in the receptacle. The invention further discloses a control system for a leaching plant utilising the measurement apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventors: Teresa Diane Hayward McGrath, Mark Robert Hubble, William John McCallum, William Patrick Staunton
  • Patent number: 11118146
    Abstract: A unitary laundry detergent article that is completely or substantially water-soluble, which contains two or more non-fibrous, surfactant-containing sheets with one or more discrete, surfactant-containing particles located between such sheets. The non-fibrous sheets contain a first surfactant that is relatively less hydrophilic, while the discrete particles contain a second surfactant that is relatively more hydrophilic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hongsing Tan, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Carl David MacNamara
  • Publication number: 20210277618
    Abstract: A bund system for the retention of solid or liquid or pourable waste material; bunds of the bund system comprising retaining structures; the retaining structures including at least one vertical structural element relative a base; the base covering a portion of a ground surface; the bunds maintained in a selected position on the ground surface by interaction of the retaining elements with a mass of compacted material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Robert Edmund CURTIS
  • Publication number: 20210253977
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to compositions comprising a polysaccharide derivative wherein the polysaccharide derivative comprises a polysaccharide substituted with a) at least one sulfate group; b) at least one sulfonate group; c) at least one thiosulfate group; or d) a combination thereof; wherein the polysaccharide is poly alpha-1,3-glucan, poly alpha-1,6-glucan, poly alpha-1,3-1,6-glucan, or a mixture thereof; and the polysaccharide derivative has a degree of substitution of about 0.001 to about 3. The compositions can be useful as anti-deposition and/or anti-graying agents in laundry detergents, and in home, personal care, and industrial applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Zhengzheng HUANG, Helen S M LU, Rakesh NAMBIAR, Jayme L. PAULLIN, Mark Robert SIVIK
  • Patent number: 11091606
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example sanitary tissue products, containing a plurality of filaments that employ one or more filament-forming materials, such as one or more hydroxyl polymers, and one or more hueing agents, present within the filaments such that the fibrous structures exhibit a Whiteness Index of greater than 72 as measured according to the Whiteness Index Test Method described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Jacqueline Besinaiz Thomas, Elaine Marie Suszcynsky-Meister, Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Scot Miracle
  • Publication number: 20210239104
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example dryer-added articles and/or washing machine-added articles and/or hair care articles, and more particularly to consumable, single use, water-insoluble articles containing one or more active agents and optionally, one or more auxiliary ingredients, methods for making same, and methods for using same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Mark William Hamersky, Mark Robert Sivik, Alessandro Corona, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Gregory Charles Gordon, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Publication number: 20210238513
    Abstract: Described herein is a household care composition, which delivers active agents onto fabric, in the form of a water-soluble unit dose article comprising a water-soluble fibrous structure and an encapsulated perfume composition, as well as methods for making the article and methods for treating fabrics using the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Robert SIVIK, Theresa Anne BUEHLER, Frank William DENOME
  • Patent number: 11075775
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices and HA user interface devices for respective users. Each HA user interface device may be configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one of the HA operation devices. The HA system may also include HA hub devices configured to provide communications for the HA user interface devices and the HA operation devices. A cloud server may be configured to communicate with the HA hub devices, determine a needed maintenance operation for a given one of the HA operation devices, and communicate the needed maintenance operation to the given one of the HA operation devices. The cloud server may also be configured to duplicate communicating the needed maintenance operation to others of the HA operation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Mark Robert Adams
  • Publication number: 20210222088
    Abstract: Described herein is a water-soluble unit dose with a particle having a ratio of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate to Alkylethoxylated Sulfate of greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Michael Joseph Dipaola, Rui Shen, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
  • Patent number: D929839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: WOODPECKERS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Robert Heath, Jr., Steven Charles Cross