Patents by Inventor Mark Rule
Mark Rule 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).
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Publication number: 20240067815Abstract: Post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PCR-PET) flake is treated with chelant to reduce discoloration and generation of non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) upon melt-processing for use in making thermoplastic articles from the PCR-PET flake.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc., Avient CorporationInventors: Mark Rule, David Rosendale, Joshua Otten
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Patent number: 11829671Abstract: A printing device is disclosed. For example, the printing device includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive selections for settings of a print job, save the selections as a print queue, and generate a machine readable code that contains the selections for the print queue.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Christopher W. Wend, Mark A. Rule
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Publication number: 20230297305Abstract: A printing device is disclosed. For example, the printing device includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive selections for settings of a print job, save the selections as a print queue, and generate a machine readable code that contains the selections for the print queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Barry K. Ayash, Christopher W. Wend, Mark A. Rule
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Publication number: 20230221902Abstract: A processor of a printing apparatus obtains and maintains the media type of print media located in a media storage component of the printing apparatus. The processor also accesses a reference file containing different printing speed limits for different media types. The reference file can be maintained in an electronic storage component of the printing apparatus. The processor uses the reference file to determine an appropriate printing speed limit for a printing engine of the printing apparatus that corresponds to the media type of the print media in the media storage component. Further, a user interface of the printing apparatus can display an overspeed indicator, and/or the processor can stop the printing from occurring, based on a job-set printing speed of the printing engine being above the printing speed limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Randy R. Sprague, Mark A. Rule
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Patent number: 11681477Abstract: A processor of a printing apparatus obtains and maintains the media type of print media located in a media storage component of the printing apparatus. The processor also accesses a reference file containing different printing speed limits for different media types. The reference file can be maintained in an electronic storage component of the printing apparatus. The processor uses the reference file to determine an appropriate printing speed limit for a printing engine of the printing apparatus that corresponds to the media type of the print media in the media storage component. Further, a user interface of the printing apparatus can display an overspeed indicator, and/or the processor can stop the printing from occurring, based on a job-set printing speed of the printing engine being above the printing speed limit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Randy R. Sprague, Mark A. Rule
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Patent number: 11640271Abstract: A system and method are provided which enable overriding a custom color callout in a print job. Provision is made for a user to associate a unique ID with a custom color callout in a print job, e.g., during generation of the print job or at the printer. The custom color callout provides for a part of the print job to be rendered with a specific custom colorant, e.g., by identifying the name of the custom colorant. The unique ID is associated, in memory, with a custom colorant station of a print engine, independent of any custom colorant that may be housed in the custom colorant station. The method further includes identifying the custom colorant station of the print engine associated with the unique ID and sending the print job in a format for printing to the print engine for printing the part of the print job with a first custom colorant housed in the identified custom colorant station.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Mark Rule, David B. Montfort
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Publication number: 20220413775Abstract: A system and method are provided which enable overriding a custom color callout in a print job. Provision is made for a user to associate a unique ID with a custom color callout in a print job, e.g., during generation of the print job or at the printer. The custom color callout provides for a part of the print job to be rendered with a specific custom colorant, e.g., by identifying the name of the custom colorant. The unique ID is associated, in memory, with a custom colorant station of a print engine, independent of any custom colorant that may be housed in the custom colorant station. The method further includes identifying the custom colorant station of the print engine associated with the unique ID and sending the print job in a format for printing to the print engine for printing the part of the print job with a first custom colorant housed in the identified custom colorant station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry Ayash, Mark Rule, David B. Montfort
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Patent number: 11021591Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for making compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives and polymer compositions that comprise compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives. The invention also relates to compositions produced by these processes, and articles formed from polymer compositions of this invention. The barrier additives provide passive barriers to gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide minimizing transit of such molecules through sidewalls of polymer articles containing the barrier additives.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Mark Rule
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Patent number: 10934417Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for making compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives and polymer compositions that comprise compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives. The invention also relates to compositions produced by these processes, and articles formed from polymer compositions of this invention. The barrier additives provide passive barriers to gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide minimizing transit of such molecules through sidewalls of polymer articles containing the barrier additives.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Mark Rule
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Publication number: 20190071559Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for making compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives and polymer compositions that comprise compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives. The invention also relates to compositions produced by these processes, and articles formed from polymer compositions of this invention. The barrier additives provide passive barriers to gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide minimizing transit of such molecules through sidewalls of polymer articles containing the barrier additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventor: Mark RULE
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Publication number: 20180002496Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for making compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives and polymer compositions that comprise compatibilized high aspect ratio barrier additives. The invention also relates to compositions produced by these processes, and articles formed from polymer compositions of this invention. The barrier additives provide passive barriers to gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide minimizing transit of such molecules through sidewalls of polymer articles containing the barrier additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Mark RULE
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Patent number: 9701459Abstract: A container 22 includes a shell 24 made from a polymer, for example PET, and incorporating a catalyst, for example a palladium catalyst. A closure 40 incorporates a plug which includes a source of hydrogen, for example a hydride. In use, with container 22 including a beverage and closure 40 in position, the headspace in the container will be saturated with water vapor. This vapor contacts the hydride associated with plug 42 and as a result the hydride produces molecular hydrogen which migrates into the polymer matrix of shell 24 and combines with oxygen which may have entered the container through its permeable walls. A reaction between the hydrogen and oxygen takes place, catalyzed by the catalyst, and water is produced. Thus, oxygen which may ingress the container is scavenged and the contents of the container are protected from oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Mark Rule, Ronald J. Valus, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Patent number: 9611081Abstract: A closure 40 for a container body includes a liner 46 which incorporates a hydrogen generating device comprising a hydride which generates hydrogen on contact with moisture. The liner may be an interference fit within the body 42. The liner 46 and other liners described may include control means for controlling passage of moisture to the hydrogen generating means and/or sealing means for sealing the closure to a container. In use, with the closure secured to a container, water vapor passes into liner 46 and contacts the hydride which generates hydrogen. A reaction between hydrogen and oxygen which has passed into the container takes place, catalysed by a catalyst, and water is produced. Thus, oxygen is scavenged.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Ronald James Valus, Mark Rule, Andrew Stuart Overend, Christine Leeming, Steven Burgess Tattum, James Stuart Leeming
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Patent number: 9604478Abstract: Beam strength and curl characteristics of sheets of print media change based not only on paper weight, but also on environmental conditions, such as humidity. Printers herein include a printing engine positioned to receive sheets of print media from a storage container. Sheet transport elements are positioned to transport the sheets from the storage through the printing engine. A sensor contacts one of the sheets, and the sensor detects a beam strength and curl characteristics signature profile of the sheet tested. Then, a processor (that is electrically connected to the sensor and the sheet transport elements) adjusts how the sheet transport elements contact the sheets (adjusts the angle, speed of, and force applied by, the sheet transport elements) based on the beam strength and curl characteristics signature profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David B. Montfort, Barry K. Ayash, Mark Rule
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Patent number: 9556322Abstract: The present invention provides fluid compositions comprising at least one hydrophobic liquid, at least one inorganic pigment, and at least one compatibilization agent comprising at least one phosphate monoester.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Mark Rule
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Patent number: 9542137Abstract: Devices and methods for an image shift template. Information defining a document and a first print job is received into a printer. The first print job comprises instructions for printing the document and document finishing instructions. The finishing instructions are analyzed and areas of the pages of the document that will be unusable after a finishing operation according to the instructions are identified. Selection is received to print an image shift template on the document. The image shift template comprises x- and y-axes associated with the document and indication of the areas of the pages of the document that will be unusable after the finishing operation. A second print job is created comprising instructions for printing the pages of the document with the image shift template superimposed on the pages. The pages of the document including the image shift template are printed, according to the second print job.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Mark A. Rule, James E. Quigley
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Patent number: 9511909Abstract: A closure (40) includes a body (42) with a threaded portion (44) for engaging the closure with a container. Inwards of portion (44) is a liner (46) comprising a hydrogen generating device, wherein the liner includes one layer (48) which incorporates a hydride dispersed in a polymeric matrix and, on opposite sides of layer (48) are arranged PET layers (50, 52). Layer (50) acts as a control layer to control the rate of passage of water vapour from the beverage in the container to the hydride containing layer (48) and thereby control generation of hydrogen by the hydrogen generating device. In use, water vapour passes through layer (50) and contacts the hydride associated with layer (48) which results in production of molecular hydrogen which combines with oxygen. Thereafter, a reaction between the hydrogen and oxygen takes place, catalysed by a catalyst associated with the container thereby to scavenge the oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: COLORMATRIX HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Adrian John Carmichael, Andrew Stuart Ovenrend, Mark Rule, Ronald James Valus, Christine Leeming, James Stuart Leeming, Steven Burgess Tattum
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Publication number: 20160185933Abstract: The present invention provides fluid compositions comprising at least one hydrophobic liquid, at least one inorganic pigment, and at least one compatibilization agent comprising at least one phosphate monoester.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: ColorMatrix Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Mark RULE
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Patent number: 9376277Abstract: A sheet supply device has a bottom contacting or resting on an external surface. The sheet supply device stores sheets of media and supplies the sheets of media to a processing device. The sheet supply device comprises a controller device, a platform supporting the sheets of media, and a foot-activated user input device positioned at the bottom of the sheet supply device adjacent the external surface. The platform moves upward (in a first direction away from the external surface) to supply the sheets of media to the processing device, and the platform moves downward (in a second direction toward the external surface) to allow the sheets of media to be loaded onto the platform. Operation of the foot-activated user input device causes the compartment to open and/or the platform to move downward (in the second direction).Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Kevin J. St. Martin, Mark A. Rule
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Publication number: 20150199158Abstract: Devices and methods for an image shift template. Information defining a document and a first print job is received into a printer. The first print job comprises instructions for printing the document and document finishing instructions. The finishing instructions are analyzed and areas of the pages of the document that will be unusable after a finishing operation according to the instructions are identified. Selection is received to print an image shift template on the document. The image shift template comprises x- and y-axes associated with the document and indication of the areas of the pages of the document that will be unusable after the finishing operation. A second print job is created comprising instructions for printing the pages of the document with the image shift template superimposed on the pages. The pages of the document including the image shift template are printed, according to the second print job.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Barry K. Ayash, Mark A. Rule, James E. Quigley