Patents by Inventor Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens 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).

  • Publication number: 20230286754
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body with an upper blocking portion and leg portions of the body connected to the upper blocking portion at longitudinally spaced apart locations. The leg portions of the body have an initial, undeflected configuration with at least one of the leg portions having a first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The leg portions of the body have an operating configuration with the body in a gap between rollers wherein the at least one of the leg portions has the first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The upper blocking portion has upper contact portions and the leg portions have lower contact portions for contacting the rollers. The body also has outer surface portions intermediate the upper and lower contact portions configured to be in clearance with the rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Publication number: 20230278808
    Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body configured to be supported in a gap of a roller conveyor by upstream and downstream rollers. The body has an upper blocking portion with upper contact portions for slidingly contacting the upstream and downstream rollers above a narrowest portion of the gap. The body further includes a plurality of laterally spaced upstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion and a plurality of laterally spaced downstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion longitudinally spaced from the upstream leg portions. The upstream leg portions have upstream distal end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap. The downstream leg portions likewise have downstream end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 11744365
    Abstract: A drawer release is described. The drawer release includes a handle portion pivotally or rotatably engaged to a fixed portion, and the fixed portion is attached to or connected to a drawer. The handle portion includes at least one engaging member that engages a lever or actuator of a drawer-slide of the drawer to open or release the drawer. The drawer release provides for the one-handed opening of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Austin Hardware & Supply, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Steven Jeffries, Norman Allen Smith
  • Publication number: 20230264676
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting driver demand wheel torque of a vehicle. The driver demand wheel torque may be adjusted as a function of a minimum wheel torque. The minimum wheel torque may be determined according to a plurality of torques that may be evaluated in three different phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Mark Steven Yamazaki, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • Publication number: 20230250076
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Publication number: 20230250075
    Abstract: The embodiments of present invention provide processes and an intermediate for the large-scale preparation of 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide hemisuccinate, and formulations and product forms made by these processes. The embodiments of the present invention further provide for the preparation of lasmiditan acetate, 2,4,6-trifluoro-N-[6-(1-methylpiperidine-4-carbonyl)-2-pyridyl]benzamide acetate salt, and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and/or uses of lasmiditan acetate and formulations thereof in subcutaneous drug delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Aktham Aburub, David Andrew Coates, Scott Alan Frank, Mark Steven Kerr, Roger Ryan Rothhaar, Radhe Krishan Vaid
  • Patent number: 11719899
    Abstract: A high-density networking system includes first networking device(s) coupled to a second networking device. The second networking device has a port row including first ports and a first subset of third ports, and second ports and a second subset of third ports that are each moveable relative to the first ports and the first subset of third ports, with the third ports coupled to the first networking device(s). The second networking device includes a switch device coupling the third ports to its processing system. The switch device in second networking device routes data from the processing system through a network via the first subset of third ports/first networking device(s), determines that data received from the processing system cannot reach the network via the first subset of third ports and, in response, routes data received from the processing system through the network via the second subset of third ports/first networking device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shree Rathinasamy, Maunish Shah, Mark Steven Sanders, Per Henrik Fremrot
  • Patent number: 11713199
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Publication number: 20230230498
    Abstract: In an aspect, an apparatus for procedural training is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive optical data from a sensor in electronic communication with the at least a processor. At least a processor is configured to determine a procedural performance parameter as a function of optical data. At least a processor is configured to compare a procedural performance parameter to a procedural performance threshold. At least a processor is configured to display procedural training feedback through a display unit as a function of a comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: ProTrainings, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Matthew Fox, Scott Christopher Andersen, Jason Edwin Leighton, Mark Steven VanderVoord
  • Patent number: 11704159
    Abstract: An information handling system for instantiating a composed information handling includes hardware computing resources. The hardware computing resources includes a compute resource set that includes computing resources including a processor and a memory, and a hardware resource set including resources distinct from the compute resource set. The information also includes a hardware system control processor adapted to present a portion of the hardware resource set to a compute resource set of the composed information handling system as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Hormuth, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike, William Price Dawkins, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad
  • Patent number: 11698821
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad
  • Patent number: 11693703
    Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes a composed information handling system that provides, at least in part, the computer implemented services and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates a utilization monitor in a system control processor of the composed information handling system; and monitors, using the utilization monitor, a use rate of computing resources of the composed information handling system by a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Elie Antoun Jreij, Gaurav Chawla, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Yossef Saad, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins
  • Patent number: 11683172
    Abstract: A distributed secure communication system includes a first System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to second and third SCP subsystems via a network. The first SCP subsystem identifies the second SCP subsystem, signs a first SCP authentication communication with a first private key to provide a first signed SCP authentication communication that it transmits to the second SCP subsystem. The first SCP subsystem receives a second signed SCP authentication communication from the second SCP subsystem, authenticates the second signed SCP authentication communication using a second public key associated with the second SCP subsystem and, in response, establishes a first secure communication channel with the second SCP subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III
  • Patent number: 11679751
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting driver demand wheel torque of a vehicle. The driver demand wheel torque may be adjusted as a function of a minimum wheel torque. The minimum wheel torque may be determined according to a plurality of torques that may be evaluated in three different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Mark Steven Yamazaki, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • Patent number: 11675625
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining, by a system control processor, a composition request for a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement, and initially allocating only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system, wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by a first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Patent number: 11672399
    Abstract: An autonomous coverage robot includes a chassis, a drive system configured to maneuver the robot, and a cleaning assembly. The cleaning assembly includes a cleaning assembly housing and at least one driven sweeper brush. The robot includes a controller and a removable sweeper bin configured to receive debris agitated by the driven sweeper brush. The sweeper bin includes an emitter disposed on an interior surface of the bin and a receiver disposed remotely from the emitter on the interior surface of the bin and configured to receive an emitter signal. The emitter and the receiver are disposed such that a threshold level of accumulation of debris in the sweeper bin blocks the receiver from receiving emitter emissions. The robot includes a bin controller disposed in the sweeper bin and monitoring a detector signal and initiating a bin full routine upon determining a bin debris accumulation level requiring service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Steven Schnittman, Daniel N. Ozick, Gregg W. Landry
  • Patent number: 11675916
    Abstract: A system for managing composed information handling systems to manage access to data by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems includes a system control processor that instantiates a composed information handling system using a compute resource set that hosts applications and a hardware resource set that stores a portion of the data, associates, using authorization information, storage areas of the at least one hardware resource set with the applications to obtain storage area associations, obtains a data access request from the compute resource set for the portion of the data which is stored in a storage area of the storage areas, makes a determination, based on the storage area associations and an initiator of the data access request, that the initiator of the data access request is not authorized to access the portion of the data, and refuses to service the data access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Yossef Saad, Mark Steven Sanders, Gaurav Chawla, Mukund P. Khatri
  • Publication number: 20230172738
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus and system for performing a sleeve gastrectomy. The apparatus can include a bougie for insertion into an interior of a stomach, the bougie having a proximal bougie end and a distal bougie end, an inflation lumen having a proximal lumen end and a distal lumen end, the inflation lumen extending from the proximal bougie end through the distal bougie end, a fluid delivery system coupled with the proximal lumen end, the fluid delivery system being operably configured to deliver positive pressure in a predetermined positive pressure range into the stomach, and a monitor coupled with the proximal lumen end operably configured for the monitoring of pressure or volume within the stomach. The bougie can be operably configured to define a resection line for the sleeve gastrectomy when the predetermined positive pressure range is achieved within the stomach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Thompson, Mark Steven Ortiz, Saylan James Lukas, Liam Clayton Groom
  • Publication number: 20230165956
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for assessing immune system function and status based on cellular analysis. Methods of the present invention involve obtaining mass properties of immune cells collected in a tissue or body fluid sample from a subject. Such mass properties may include the mass of one or more immune cells and/or changes in mass of such immune cells over a period of time. Such data is then used for determining a status of the subject's immune response, and subsequent diagnosis and treatment of an infection or immunological disease or dysfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens, Anthony Minnah, Madeleine Vacha
  • Patent number: D989708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Luke David Springer, Daniel Scott Davidson, George Smilov, Daniel Mark Stevens, Margaret Eleanor Diaz, David Victor Clark