Patents by Inventor Mark Stephens

Mark Stephens 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: 10955238
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for a frame that is configured to rotate a workpiece around an axis of rotation. The apparatus has a measurement device, and a known fixture that is supported by the frame. A processor is configured to execute stored computer instructions to initially-calibrate the measurement device to the axis of rotation, to employ the initially-calibrated measurement device to obtain an initial-calibration value of the known fixture, to store the initial-calibration value in a digital memory, to subsequently use the initially-calibrated measuring device to obtain an in-process automatic recalibration (IPAR) value of the known fixture, and to compare the IPAR value to the initial-calibration value to calculate a compensation value indicating positional error of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Joshua Philip Jones, Mark Stephen Nowell, Kelcy Jake Foster
  • Patent number: 10957786
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a field effect transistor includes forming a fin on a substrate, forming source and drain electrodes on opposite sides of the fin, forming a gate stack on a channel portion of the fin between the source and drain electrodes, forming gate spacers on extension portions of the fin on opposite sides of the gate stack, removing at least portions of the gate spacers to expose the extension portions of the fin, and hydrogen annealing the extension portions of the fin. Following the hydrogen annealing of the extension portions of the fin, the channel portion of the fin has a first width and the extension portions of the fin have a second width greater than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon Goo Hong, Borna J. Obradovic, Mark Stephen Rodder
  • Publication number: 20210055418
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, JoongYong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Publication number: 20210053424
    Abstract: The principles and embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to complexly curved laminates made from a complexly curved substrate and a flat substrate, such as automotive window glazings, and methods of cold forming complexly-curved glass products from a curved substrate and a flat substrate. In one or more embodiments, the laminate includes first complexly-curved glass substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second complexly-curved glass substrate with a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface with a thickness therebetween; and a polymer interlayer affixed to the second convex surface and third surface, wherein the third surface and fourth surface have compressive stress values respectively that differ such that the fourth surface has as compressive stress value that is greater than the compressive stress value of the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: William Keith Fisher, Mark Stephen Friske, Steven Luther Moyer, Paul George Rickerl
  • Patent number: 10930768
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a field effect transistor includes forming a fin on a substrate, forming source and drain electrodes on opposite sides of the fin, forming a gate stack on a channel portion of the fin between the source and drain electrodes, forming gate spacers on extension portions of the fin on opposite sides of the gate stack, removing at least a portion of the gate spacers to expose the extension portions of the fin, and thinning the extension portions of the fin. Following the thinning of the extension portions of the fin, the channel portion of the fin has a first width and the extension portions of the fin have a second width less than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon Goo Hong, Borna J. Obradovic, Kang-ill Seo, Mark Stephen Rodder
  • Patent number: 10914315
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a combustor section, a compressor section, and a turbine section. A high pressure compressor is arranged upstream of the combustor section. A fan section has an array of twenty-six or fewer fan blades. A low pressure compressor is counter-rotating relative to the fan blades and downstream from the fan section. The airfoil outside of the compressor section is rotatable relative to an engine static structure. The airfoil includes pressure and suction sides extending from a 0% span position to a 100% span position. A relationship between a leading edge angle and span position that defines a curve with at least one of a decreasingly negative slope or a positive slope from 80% span to 100% span. The leading edge angle is defined by a tangential plane normal to an engine axis and a line tangent to a camber mean line at the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward J. Gallagher, Lisa I Brilliant, Joseph C. Straccia, Stanley J. Balamucki, Mark A. Stephens, Kate Hudon
  • Patent number: 10909296
    Abstract: A method for designing a system on a target device includes generating a solution for the system. A solution for a module of the system identified by a user is preserved. The preserved solution for the module is implemented at a location on the target device identified by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Wheeler, Gordon Raymond Chiu
  • Patent number: 10905594
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a reduced-pressure abdominal treatment system for treating an open abdominal cavity is provided. In some embodiments, the reduced-pressure abdominal treatment system has an open-cavity treatment device for providing reduced-pressure treatment to an abdominal cavity; a deep-tissue closure device for applying a closing force on a deep-tissue wound; and a surface-wound closure subsystem for providing a closing force on a surface wound. The method of manufacturing may also include providing a reduced-pressure supply subsystem. A method of treatment using a reduced-pressure abdominal treatment system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: David George Whyte, Colin John Hall, Mark Stephen James Beard, James Joseph Sealy, Keith Patrick Heaton, Ian James Hardman, Christopher Guy Coward
  • Publication number: 20210017205
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new fluoro-pyridinone hydroxamic acid phosphates and boronates of Formulae I, II and III wherein Q is selected from the group consisting of —P(O)(OH)2, —P(O)(OH)(O?M+), —P(O)(O?M+)2 and —P(O)(O?)2M2+; M+ at each occurrence is a pharmaceutically acceptable monovalent cation; and M2+ is a pharmaceutically acceptable divalent cation and their use as LpxC inhibitors and, more specifically, their use to treat bacterial infections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Tamim Fehme Braish, Matthew Frank Brown, Ye Che, Richard Andrew Ewin, Timothy Allan Johnson, Michael Joseph Melnick, Justin Ian Montgomery, Mark Stephen Plummer, Loren Michael Price, Usa Reilly, Daniel Uccello
  • Patent number: 10890195
    Abstract: A compressor airfoil of a turbine engine that has a geared architecture includes pressure and suction sides and extends in a radial direction from a 0% span position to a 100% span position. The airfoil has a relationship between a trailing edge angle and span position that defines a curve with a non-negative slope from 0% span to 20% span corresponding to a non-decreasing trailing edge angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward J. Gallagher, Lisa I. Brilliant, Joseph C. Straccia, Stanley J. Balamucki, Mark A. Stephens, Kate Hudon
  • Patent number: 10887443
    Abstract: The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TikTok Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Knight, Michael Ian Lamb, Robert John Lewis, Stephen William Pocock, Philip Anthony Sant, Mark Peter Sullivan, Christopher John Evans
  • Publication number: 20200391103
    Abstract: A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario GALASSO, Wesley E. ALLINGER, David M. HAUGEN, Robert David KASWEN, Mark Stephen FITZSIMMONS
  • Patent number: 10867127
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating tables from print-ready digital source documents. A document is received and one or more text fragments are identified on a rendered page of the document. A wrapping region collection is generated, comprising one or more wrapping regions. A tabular, narrative and label score is generated for each wrapping region. A block type is assigned to each wrapping region based on the scores. A wrapping region group and a block set are generated. One or more tables are generated based on text fragments corresponding to one of the one or more blocks. The text fragments are organized into corresponding fields of the one or more tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: DATAWATCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Kyre, Jeffrey Lucas Eldridge, Austin Alexander Spears, Samuel Allen Hudock
  • Patent number: 10864707
    Abstract: Laminated structures comprise a metal sheet including a first face and a second face with a thickness of from about 0.5 mm to about 2 mm extending between the first face and the second face. The laminated structure further includes a first chemically strengthened glass sheet including a thickness of less than or equal to about 1.1 mm and a first interlayer attaching the first chemically strengthened glass sheet to the first face of the metal sheet. In further examples, methods of manufacturing a laminated structure comprise the steps of laminating with a metal sheet and a first chemically strengthened glass sheet together with an interlayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gordon Charles Brown, Jeffrey Scott Cites, William Keith Fisher, Mark Stephen Friske, Chunhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 10868193
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second GAA FETs spaced apart by an inter-channel spacing. Each of the GAA FETs includes a horizontal nanosheet conductive channel structure, a gate material completely surrounding the horizontal nanosheet conductive channel structure, source and drain regions at opposite ends of the horizontal nanosheet conductive channel structure, source and drain contacts on the source and drain regions. A width of the horizontal nanosheet conductive channel structure of the first GAA FET or the second GAA FET is smaller than a maximum allowed width. The semiconductor device also includes a gate contact on the gate material in the inter-channel spacing between the first and second GAA FETs. The gate contact is spaced apart by a distance from each of the source and drain regions of the first and second GAA FETs in a range from a minimum design rule spacing to a maximum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rwik Sengupta, Mark Stephen Rodder, Joon Goo Hong, Titash Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20200376367
    Abstract: A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario GALASSO, Wesley E. ALLINGER, David M. HAUGEN, Robert David KASWEN, Mark Stephen FITZSIMMONS
  • Publication number: 20200376368
    Abstract: A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario GALASSO, Wesley E. ALLINGER, David M. HAUGEN, Robert David KASWEN, Mark Stephen FITZSIMMONS
  • Patent number: 10853566
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for creating tables using auto-generated templates. Reports including lines of text to be extracted into tables are received. An auto define input is received to auto-generate the tables corresponding to the reports. Groups of lines are identified from among the lines of text in the reports. A detail group and relevant groups are selected and identified from among the groups of lines. A final detail group is created by merging the detail group with at least a portion of the relevant groups. Append groups are identified from among the groups of lines not included in the final detail group. Templates corresponding to the final detail group and the append groups are generated. Text is extracted from the reports based on the templates. Tables are generated using the text extracted from the reports, by assigning the text from the text fragments to entries in the tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DATAWATCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark Stephen Kyre
  • Patent number: 10843531
    Abstract: The principles and embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to complexly curved laminates made from a complexly curved substrate and a flat substrate, such as automotive window glazings, and methods of cold forming complexly-curved glass products from a curved substrate and a flat substrate. In one or more embodiments, the laminate includes first complexly-curved glass substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second complexly-curved glass substrate with a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface with a thickness therebetween; and a polymer interlayer affixed to the second convex surface and third surface, wherein the third surface and fourth surface have compressive stress values respectively that differ such that the fourth surface has as compressive stress value that is greater than the compressive stress value of the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: William Keith Fisher, Mark Stephen Friske, Steven Luther Moyer, Paul George Rickerl
  • Publication number: 20200364605
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving an electronic message. In response to determining that the electronic message includes an express indication from a user that a classification applies or does not apply, the method comprises identifying message attributes of the electronic message that correspond to policy attributes of a machine learning policy and determining values of the policy attributes based on the identified message attributes. The method additionally comprises providing information to a machine learning trainer adapted to train the machine learning policy based on the information. The information comprises the values of the policy attributes and information indicating the classification that applies or does not apply to the electronic message, where such information is based on the express indication that the user included in the electronic message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: David Gorham, Michael Don Wigley, Mark Stephen DeMichele