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).

  • Catalyst preparation method
    Patent number: 10076744
    Abstract: A method is described for preparing a catalyst comprising the steps of (i) preparing a calcined shaped calcium aluminate catalyst support, (ii) treating the calcined shaped calcium aluminate support with water, and then drying the support, (iii) impregnating the dried support with a solution containing one or more metal compounds and drying the impregnated support, (iv) calcining the dried impregnated support, to form metal oxide on the surface of the support and (v) optionally repeating steps (ii), (iii) and (iv) on the metal oxide coated support. The method provides an eggshell catalyst in which the metal oxide is concentrated in an outer layer on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: Mikael Per Uno Carlsson, Jonathan Geoffrey Oliver, Mark Robert Feaviour, David James Birdsall, Samuel Arthur French
  • Modified attachment system for springs in a generator rotor
    Patent number: 10069367
    Abstract: An assembly for use in a rotor of a turbine generator is provided that includes at least one creepage disposed on an upper load surface of copper windings. At least one slot spring is disposed on the creepage, and at least one amortisseur is disposed on the slot spring. A plurality of hollow locking members are disposed within apertures of the creepage, the slot spring, and the amortisseur. At least one slot wedge is disposed on the slot spring and the plurality of hollow locking members. At least one field retaining ring is disposed against one of the end portions of the rotor body and against the slot wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Adam, Mark Roberts
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROLE-BASED COMPUTER SECURITY CONFIGURATIONS
    Publication number: 20180248889
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor operatively coupled to a memory. The processor detects a software application installed on a client computing device, and/or usage data. Detected usage data is associated with a current user of the client computing device and with the software application. The processor identifies a user role for the current user based on the software application and/or usage data. The processor applies a security configuration to the client computing device based on the user role. The security configuration limits access by the current user to a portion of the software application. The processor sends an identifier of the user role to an administrative server for storage in an Active Directory (AD) database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Crimson Corporation
    Inventors: Randy DENINNO, Mark Robert TEMPEL, Travis PETERS, Robert M. JUNCKER
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS
    Publication number: 20180247365
    Abstract: A method of and system for recommending one or more products to a consumer from a plurality of products, the system comprising: a user interface; and a processor configured to: provide a list of questions for the consumer at the user interface, each question having a defined set of answers; calculate a consumer score for each question using the answer chosen by the consumer at the user interface; calculate a recommendation score for each question, using the consumer score; and select the one or more products for recommendation to the consumer based on the recommendation score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Joanne Louise COOK, Myriam FESSI, Mark Robert FLORENCE, Abid IFTIKHAR, Jamie Gordon NICHOL, Stephen Lee WIRE
  • Fibrous elements comprising an acrylamide-based copolymer and fibrous structures employing same
    Patent number: 10060052
    Abstract: Fibrous elements, for example filaments, containing an acrylamide-based copolymer, fibrous structures employing such fibrous elements, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Gary McKee, Gregory Charles Gordon, Joerg Kleinwaechter, Mark Robert Sivik, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Presenting a message in a communication session
    Patent number: 10061467
    Abstract: Techniques for presenting a message in a communication session are described. In at least some embodiments, a message is sent by a participant in a communication session. The message is presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) for the communication session and visually linked to a visual representation of the participant. According to one or more implementations, a number of messages that are presented in a GUI for a communication session is throttled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Devi Brunsch, Jason Thomas Faulkner, Mark Robert Swift
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR IN-CAR COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20180242081
    Abstract: A system and method (referred to as the system) that mitigates feedback in an audio system that adjust voice signals in a vehicle. The system generates transfer function estimates from multiple loudspeakers to multiple microphones and generates maximum forward path frequency-dependent gains based on the transfer function estimates and a frequency-dependent tuning factor for each of the loudspeakers to each of the microphones. The system generates forward path frequency-dependent gains independently that are applied to multiple loudspeaker signals, each of the loudspeaker signals drive one of the loudspeakers, respectively. The forward path frequency-dependent gains are adjusted based on the maximum forward path frequency-dependent gains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Robert Every
  • APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR BONE REPAIR PREPARATION
    Publication number: 20180235798
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for preparing a fractured bone for repair. Preparing the bone may include fracture reduction. Preparing the bone may include holding a fracture in reduction. Preparing the bone may include identifying locations for obtaining access to an interior region of the bone. The apparatus may include structures outside the bone that interact with fragments of the bone. The structures may participate in the reduction. The structures may participate in holding the reduction. The structures may participate in identifying the locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Kyle Taylor, Todd A. Krinke, Alex A. Peterson, Thomas David Magnuson, Steve D. Kruse, Mark Robert Bilitz, Stefan J. Hertel, Michael P. Brenzel, Paul Hindrichs
  • MOUNTING A SENSOR MODULE TO AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180236654
    Abstract: An unmanned ground vehicle includes a main body, a drive system supported by the main body, a manipulator arm pivotally coupled to the main body, and a sensor module. The drive system includes right and left driven track assemblies mounted on right and left sides of the main body. The manipulator arm includes a first link coupled to the main body, an elbow coupled to the first link, and a second link coupled to the elbow. The elbow is configured to rotate independently of the first and second links. The sensor module is mounted on the elbow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Annan Michael Mozeika, Mark Robert Claffee
  • ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL USING VARIABLE STEP-SIZE ADAPTATION
    Publication number: 20180240452
    Abstract: A system and method (referred to as the system) that actively reduces noise in a vehicle. The system generates one or more control output signals to drive multiple loudspeakers; and adapts multiple control coefficients of a control filter based on multiple secondary path transfer functions. The secondary path transfer functions model the acoustic paths between each loudspeaker and multiple microphones. The multiple control coefficients are time varying and frequency dependent and the rate the plurality control coefficients adapt is based on an adaptive step size based on one or more step size criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Robert Every
  • DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180235535
    Abstract: A hand held imaging device for measuring characteristics of hair and scalp, comprising a housing with a high magnification optic for obtaining magnified images of surface characteristics of hair fibres, said high magnification optic comprising a first lens and a first light source, and a low magnification optic for obtaining magnified images of the scalp and hair, said low magnification optic comprising a second lens and a second light source, wherein the high magnification optic has a fixed focal length and a slot for locating hair fibres in frame such that the hair fibres are in focus and wherein the device further comprises a viewing means, selected from an integral viewing means, an external viewing means and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Joanne Louise COOK, Myriam FESSI, Mark Robert FLORENCE, Abid IFTIKHAR, Jamie Gordon NICHOL
  • Method for delivering an active agent
    Patent number: 10045915
    Abstract: A method for delivering one or more active agents to mammalian hair using a nonwoven web of filaments containing one or more hair care active agents that are releasable from the filaments is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • LAUNDRY DETERGENT SHEET WITH MICROCAPSULES
    Publication number: 20180223225
    Abstract: A non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet having friable microcapsules can clean and impart freshness to laundry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Hong Sing TAN, Ming TANG, Mark Robert SIVIK, Frank William DENOME
  • Measurement Apparatus for Measuring a Volume of a Desired Solid Component in a Sample Volume of a Solid-Liquid Slurry
    Publication number: 20180223389
    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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Teresa Diane Hayward MCGRATH, Mark Robert HUBBLE, William John MCCALLUM, William Patrick STAUNTON
  • LAUNDRY DETERGENT SHEET COMPRISING LINES OF FRANGIBILITY
    Publication number: 20180223229
    Abstract: A non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet includes at least one line of frangibility for separating the sheet into smaller sections with different sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Hong Sing TAN, Ming TANG, Mark Robert SIVIK, Frank William DENOME
  • LAUNDRY DETERGENT SHEET WITH PRINTED GRAPHIC PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20180223230
    Abstract: A non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet is completely or substantially water-soluble, with graphic patterns printed thereon. Such graphic patterns include one or more fabric hueing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Hong Sing Tan, Ming Tang, Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome
  • Active Agent-Containing Articles and Product-Shipping Assemblies for Containing the Same
    Publication number: 20180216287
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example fibrous structures, that exhibit consumer acceptable article in-use properties, such as flexibility, article dimensions, and/or dissolvability, and product-shipping assemblies for containing the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Frank William Denome, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Michael Sean Pratt, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Active Agent-Containing Articles that Exhibit Consumer Acceptable Article In-Use Properties
    Publication number: 20180216286
    Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example fibrous structures, that exhibit consumer acceptable article in-use properties, such as article peel strength, flexibility, article dimensions, and/or dissolvability, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Michael Sean Pratt, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • WATER-SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLES COMPRISING WATER-SOLUBLE FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20180216052
    Abstract: Described herein is a household care composition, which delivers active agents onto fabric or hard surfaces, in the form of a water-soluble unit dose article comprising a water-soluble fibrous structure and one or more particles, as well as methods for making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Frank William DENOME, Mark Robert SIVIK, Paul R. MORT, III, Mark William HAMERSKY
  • Bowl lid
    Patent number: D824720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Plum, PBC
    Inventors: Joyce F. Gagnon, Mark Robert Watts, Judy Guo, Alexander Coriano, III, Martin John Kay