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).

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIOPROCESSING
    Publication number: 20200199504
    Abstract: A bioreactor vessel includes a first compartment configured to receive a suspension comprising cells and a cell culture medium, for use in a cell processing operation, a second compartment for receiving an overflow of the cell culture medium from the first compartment, and an overflow separating the first compartment from the second compartment, the overflow being configured to maintain a level of the cell culture medium in the first compartment
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: GE HEALTHCARE BIO-SCIENCES CORP.
    Inventor: MARK ROBERT TIMMINS
  • Treatment compositions
    Patent number: 10689600
    Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment compositions containing one or more polymers, cationic scavenging agent and an optional structurant as well as methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions provide stability and benefit agent deposition. Such treatment compositions may be used, for example, as through the wash and/or through the rinse fabric enhancers as well as unit dose treatment compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Richard Dykstra, Mark Robert Sivik, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Denise Malcuit Belanger, Nicholas David Vetter, Reinhold Joseph Leyrer, Gledison Fonseca, Volodymyr Boyko, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Identity verification system
    Patent number: 10693872
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for identity management and identity verification is provided in which users authenticate their identities during an enrollment process, and may access and modify their identity information via a secure portal. The enrollment process includes collecting various identifying data and biometric data of a user. A live interview portion during the enrollment process is used to check the liveness and verify the collected identifying data and biometric data. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Q5ID, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Allen Larson, Dominic John O'Dierno, Mark Robert Johnson
  • Water Disintegrable, Foam Producing Article
    Publication number: 20200190446
    Abstract: Water disintegrable, foam producing articles comprise a soluble fibrous structure encasing a particulate effervescent cleaning composition comprising an effervescent agent, a particulate foaming surfactant, an effervescent activator, optionally an effervescent protection agent, and optionally an active agent. Methods of using the articles to clean surfaces are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Alan Edward Sherry, Deepak Ahirwal, Frank William Denome, Zaiyou Liu, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Yousef Georges Aouad, Min Mao
  • MULTILAYER RECYCLABLE ULTRASONICALLY WELDED FILMS
    Publication number: 20200189246
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to multilayer recyclable films for food packaging. In an embodiment, a multilayer packaging film is included with a first polymeric layer, a second polymeric layer, and a third polymeric layer. The first layer and the third layer can directly contact opposite sides of the second layer. The first layer and the third layer can be directly bonded to the second layer via a welding process. The first polymeric layer, the second polymeric layer, and the third polymeric layer can each contain the same thermoplastic polymer. The second polymeric layer can include an amount of a functional additive that is different than the first and third polymeric layers. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Mark Robert Watts, Rasheed Mohammed
  • Process of making a multi-ply fibrous water soluble product
    Patent number: 10683618
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a water soluble product including the steps of: providing a water soluble fibrous parent continuous ply web, the parent continuous ply web extending in the cross direction between an operator edge and drive edge; cutting the parent continuous ply web in the machine direction to provide a first continuous ply web that includes the drive edge and a second continuous ply web that includes the operator edge; superposing the first continuous ply web and the second continuous ply web to form a web stack so that the operator edge and the drive edge are on opposite sides of a centerline of the web stack in the machine direction; and cutting and joining portions of the web stack to form the water soluble product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Sean Pratt, Anthony Edward Reed, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Mark Robert Sivik, Dinah Achola Nyangiro
  • Treatment compositions
    Patent number: 10676693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment compositions containing polymer systems that provide stability and benefit agent deposition as well as methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions may be used for example as through the wash and/or through the rinse fabric enhancers as well as unit dose treatment compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Richard Dykstra, Mark Robert Sivik, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Stephanie Ann Urbin, Alessandro Corona, III, Jocelyn Michelle McCullough, Denise Malcuit Belanger, Kristi Lynn Fliter, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Nicholas David Vetter, Tessa Xuan, Reinhold Joseph Leyrer, Gledison Fonseca, Volodymyr Boyko, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Combined blocks of parts of erasure coded data portions
    Patent number: 10673463
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed including generation of a first erasure coded data portion based on a first data portion of the data object, generation of a second erasure coded data portion based on a second data portion of the data object, formation of a first combined block by combining a first part of the first erasure coded data portion and a first part of the second erasure coded data portion, formation of a second combined block by combining a second part of the first erasure coded data portion and a second part of the second erasure coded data portion, storage of the first combined block in a first storage location, and storage of the second combined block in a second storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Russell Ian Monk, Mark Robert Watkins, Peter Thomas Camble
  • Cross domain desktop compositor
    Patent number: 10671414
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Cross Domain Desktop Compositor (CDDC) that allows separate graphical user interfaces (GUIs) from independent computing domains to be combined and accessed from a single physical use interface. The CDDC provides a unified desktop experience, whilst preventing data leakage between isolated domains, compositing application windows from each separate GUI and providing natural keyboard and mouse interaction with every displayed window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
    Inventor: Mark Robert Beaumont
  • A STORAGE, MIXING AND DISPENSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200164324
    Abstract: A device for storing first and second ingredient materials, mixing the ingredient materials to form an adhesive material and dispensing the adhesive material. The device comprises: a nozzle for dispensing the third material; a first container adapted to store a first ingredient material and mix the first ingredient material with a second ingredient material; a second container disposed within the first container, and moveable between a storage position in which a second ingredient material is stored in the second container and a mixing position in which the second ingredient material is moved to the first container; a mixer that longitudinally extends into the first and second containers; a handle alternatively coupled to the mixer to mix the first and second ingredient materials or to the second container to move the second container to a dispensing position to dispense the third material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Robert Towler
  • Vehicle fleet routing system
    Patent number: 10664770
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for routing vehicles in a vehicle fleet includes a location assignment module comprising computer hardware and a routing module. The location assignment module can be configured to iteratively: determine whether quotas are met for a plurality of territories based at least on locations assigned to individual territories of the plurality of territories, and in response to determining that the quota is unmet for one or more individual territories, assign one or more additional locations to the one or more individual territories having unmet quotas based at least on a proximity of the one or more additional locations to a different reference location associated with each of the one or more individual territories having unmet quotas. The routing module can be configured to generate routes including the locations assigned to the individual territories for vehicles in a vehicle fleet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: William George Looman, Jefferson Ray Tan Hidayat, Katherine Winnie Kok, Mark Robert Dunlop
  • INTERACTIVE REPRESENTATION OF CONTENT FOR RELEVANCE DETECTION AND REVIEW
    Publication number: 20200151220
    Abstract: A content extraction and display process which process may include various functionality for segmenting content into analyzable portions, ranking relevance of content within such segments, and displaying highly ranked extractions in graphical cloud form. The graphical cloud in some embodiments will dynamically and synchronously update as the content is played back or acquired. Extracted elements maybe in the form of words, phrases, audio sequences, non-verbal visual segments or icons as well as a host of other information communicating data objects expressible by graphical display. In some cases, elements of the graphical cloud may include links to external resources such as websites or other resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Robert Cromack, Andrew Mark Jacobson
  • Automated inventory control system using pivotable divider
    Patent number: 10648998
    Abstract: An inventory management system for automatically generating a restocking order or prompting generation of a restocking order includes a storage space, a divider pivotable on the storage space between an upright position in which the divider separates the storage space into a front storage section and a rear storage section and a recumbent position that facilitates access to the rear storage section; and a motion detector module attached to the divider, the motion detector module including a sensor for detecting pivoting of the divider and a radio frequency transmitter in communication with the accelerometer and configured to emit radio frequency signals when the divider is rotated from the upright position to the recumbent position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LogiQuip LLC
    Inventors: Aaron J. Willit, Mark Roberts
  • Web material and method for making same
    Patent number: 10646413
    Abstract: A web material containing one or more active agents and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • PROCESS FOR TREATING A FABRIC AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20200140791
    Abstract: Laundry additive compositions that include a metal sequestration agent and that may be characterized by an acidic pH. Related methods of treating a fabric, for example with a wash liquor and a rinse liquor, with such compositions and/or agents. Uses of such laundry additive compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Sarah Ann DELANEY, Sol Melissa ESCOBAR, Renae Dianna FOSSUM, Mark Robert SIVIK
  • Augmented reality
    Patent number: 10643394
    Abstract: In a device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor is described, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of: generating, based on a plurality of local 3D models, a global 3D model representing a portion of a real-world environment; determining a location of a 3D virtual object in the global 3D model; and generating augmentation data for rendering the 3D virtual object to be seen at a location of the real-world environment corresponding to the location of the 3D virtual object in the global 3D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Henry Yao-Tsu Chen, Brandon V. Taylor, Mark Robert Swift, Austin S. Lee, Ryan S. Menezes
  • COMBINED BLOCKS OF PARTS OF ERASURE CODED DATA PORTIONS
    Publication number: 20200136656
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed including generation of a first erasure coded data portion based on a first data portion of the data object, generation of a second erasure coded data portion based on a second data portion of the data object, formation of a first combined block by combining a first part of the first erasure coded data portion and a first part of the second erasure coded data portion, formation of a second combined block by combining a second part of the first erasure coded data portion and a second part of the second erasure coded data portion, storage of the first combined block in a first storage location, and storage of the second combined block in a second storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Russell Ian Monk, Mark Robert Watkins, Peter Thomas Camble
  • Home automation system including shareable capacity determining hub devices and related methods
    Patent number: 10637680
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system to be used within a structure may include a communications network extending within the structure and HA operation devices within the structure. The HA system may also include HA user interface devices for respective users within the structure and HA hub devices within the structure to provide communications via the communications network for the HA user interface devices and the HA operation devices. Each HA hub device may have a processing capacity associated therewith and determine a shareable processing capacity for sharing with at least one other HA hub device based upon a current processing capacity and at least one of the HA operation devices. Each HA hub device may also communicate the amount of shareable processing capacity to another HA hub device and perform processing operations for the other HA hub device based upon the communicated shareable processing capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Mark Robert Adams
  • TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20200123470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to treatment compositions containing polymer systems that provide stability and benefit agent deposition as well as methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions may be used for example as through the wash and/or through the rinse fabric enhancers as well as unit dose treatment compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Robert SIVIK, Travis Kyle HODGDON, Alessandro CORONA, III, Robert Richard DYKSTRA, Richard Timothy HARTSHORN, Nicholas David VETTER, Tessa XUAN
  • Unit dose article
    Patent number: D882751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sun-Jan Alan Huang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Christopher Lee Haun