Patents by Inventor Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas 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: 20200305792
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable device operable to determine an orientation of the wearable device, when placed on a body. The wearable device comprises a plurality of electrode pairs located at different positions. At least two of the plurality of electrode pairs are configured to receive a signal transmitted from a reference device using the body as a transmission medium. The wearable device also comprises a processor configured to determine a property associated with the signal received at the at least two electrode pairs, compare the determined property to a corresponding reference property and determine, from the comparison, whether the wearable device is in the predetermined orientation on the body. The determined property is indicative of an orientation of the wearable device with respect to the reference device and the corresponding reference property is indicative of a predetermined orientation for the wearable device on the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ashoka Sathanur VISWESWARA, Mohammed MEFTAH, Mark Thomas JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20200306052
    Abstract: Inflatable orthopedic implants and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for deploying such implants within an intervertebral space for use in spinal fusion surgery, other intervertebral surgical procedures, or other surgical procedures. The inflatable intervertebral implant can include a hollow inflatable body that can be configured in a compact state for insertion into a target intervertebral space between a pair of adjacent vertebral bodies. Once the vertebral bodies are separated or distracted, e.g., using one or more inflatable distractors, the hollow body of the inflatable implant can be inflated with bone cement or other curable material. When the curable material hardens, the inflated implant can form a rigid intervertebral support structure (e.g., a fusion cage) capable of maintaining the vertebral distraction and thereby enabling removal of the distractors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Joern Richter, J. Riley Hawkins, Thomas Gamache, Sean Hamilton Kerr, Mark Thomas Fulmer
  • Patent number: 10790662
    Abstract: An electrical power distribution system includes a number of alternating current (AC) power output ports to transmit electrical power at a first fixed AC voltage level to a corresponding number of AC power loads. An AC bus coupled to the AC power output ports, and to couple to an AC power grid, transmits electrical power at a second fixed AC voltage level. A DC bus transmits electrical power at a first fixed DC voltage level. A number of AC power input/output (I/O) adapters are coupled to the AC bus and the DC bus, each including a bidirectional AC-to-DC (AC/DC) converter to receive and convert the electrical power transmitted on the AC bus at the second fixed AC voltage level to the electrical power at the first fixed DC voltage level for transmission to the DC bus, and to receive and convert the electrical power transmitted on the DC bus at the first fixed DC voltage level to the electrical power at the second fixed AC voltage level for transmission to the AC bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Katerra, Inc.
    Inventors: Bahman Sharifipour, Mark Thomas
  • Patent number: 10786020
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for placing nose wires in a facemask production line. A supply of individual pre-cut nose wires are supplied to a dispenser in the production line. With the dispenser, the nose wires are metered at a defined spacing and orientation onto a running carrier web that is conveyed past the dispenser. The carrier web and nose wires deposited thereon are conveyed to a folding station wherein a binder web is folded over an edge of the carrier web such that the nose wires are encapsulated between the binder web and the carrier web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Craig Harris, Joseph P. Weber, Ajay Y. Houde, David Lamar Harrington, Mark Thomas Pamperin
  • Publication number: 20200302337
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for an adaptive oracle-trained learning framework for automatically building and maintaining models that are developed using machine learning algorithms. In embodiments, the framework leverages at least one oracle (e.g., a crowd) for automatic generation of high-quality training data to use in deriving a model. Once a model is trained, the framework monitors the performance of the model and, in embodiments, leverages active learning and the oracle to generate feedback about the changing data for modifying training data sets while maintaining data quality to enable incremental adaptation of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: SHAWN RYAN JEFFERY, Nick PENDAR, Mark Thomas DALY, Matthew DELAND, David Alan JOHNSTON
  • Publication number: 20200293639
    Abstract: A method for ensuring that an individual is authorized to conduct an activity is provided. The method includes conducting, using a processor, an authentication transaction with authentication data captured from an individual desiring to conduct an activity, and determining whether the captured authentication data is legitimate when the individual is successfully authenticated. Moreover, the method includes determining the individual is authorized to conduct the activity when the captured authentication data is legitimate, and conducting, using the processor, a subsequent authentication transaction with authentication data captured from the individual at a subsequent time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas GRISSEN, Michael PEIRCE, Richard Jay LANGLEY, Jason Chris BELONCIK, Mark Thomas KANE
  • Patent number: 10775955
    Abstract: A design application allows an end-user to define an engineering problem, and then synthesizes a spectrum of design options that solve the engineering problem. The design application then generates various tools to allow the end-user to explore that spectrum of design options. The design application allows the end-user to compare various attributes of each design option, and to filter the spectrum of design options based on those attributes. In response to end-user selections of certain design options, the design application identifies other similar design options, and then displays these design options to the end-user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Bergin, Mark Thomas Davis, Erin Marie Bradner, Ken Hung
  • Patent number: 10772417
    Abstract: An oral cleaning device comprises a body which carries a set of projections. An actuator device is associated with one or more of the projections in the form of an electroactive polymer structure for adjusting a position of the associated one or more projections. This enables dynamic control of the cleaning function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Valentina Lavezzo, Milica Kovacevic Milivojevic, Eduard Gerard Marie Pelssers, Daan Anton Van Den Ende, Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Cornelis Petrus Hendriks, Mark Thomas Johnson, Roland Alexander Van De Molengraaf
  • Publication number: 20200283405
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I: pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, deuterated derivatives of any of the foregoing, and metabolites of any of the foregoing are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, methods of treating cystic fibrosis using the same, and methods for making the same are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy Alcacio, Minson Baek, Peter Grootenhuis, Sara Sabina Hadida Ruah, Robert M. Hughes, Ali Keshavarz-Shokri, Rachel McAuley-Aoki, Jason McCartney, Mark Thomas Miller, Fredrick Van Goor, Beili Zhang, Corey Anderson, Thomas Cleveland, Bryan A. Frieman, Haripada Khatuya, Pramod Virupax Joshi, Paul John Krenitsky, Vito Melillo, Fabrice Jean Denis Pierre, Andreas P. Termin, Johnny Uy, Jinglan Zhou, Alexander Russell Abela, Brett Bradley Busch, Prasuna Paraselli
  • Publication number: 20200278536
    Abstract: There is provided a method (500) of treating an optical waveguide. The method comprises applying (502) the volume of ferrofluid to the optical waveguide, and applying (504) a magnetic field to the volume of ferrofluid to move the volume of ferrofluid at least partially along a length of the optical waveguide. A personal care device and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Marius Iosif BOAMFA, Rieko VERHAGEN, Martin JURNA, Kiran Kumar THUMMA, Bastiaan Wilhelmus Maria MOESKOPS, Mark Thomas JOHNSON
  • Patent number: 10758534
    Abstract: The present invention features a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, W, X, Y, Z, n, o, p, and q are defined herein, for the treatment of CFTR mediated diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. The present invention also features pharmaceutical compositions, method of treating, and kits thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Miller, Corey Anderson, Vijayalaksmi Arumugam, Brian Richard Bear, Hayley Marie Binch, Jeremy J. Clemens, Thomas Cleveland, Erica Conroy, Timothy Richard Coon, Bryan A. Frieman, Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis, Raymond Stanley Gross, Sara Sabina Hadida-Ruah, Haripada Khatuya, Pramod Virupax Joshi, Paul John Krenitsky, Chun-Chieh Lin, Gulin Erdogan Marelius, Vito Melillo, Jason McCartney, Georgia McGaughey Nicholls, Fabrice Jean Denis Pierre, Alina Silina, Andreas P. Termin, Johnny Uy, Jinglan Zhou
  • Patent number: 10761443
    Abstract: A charge transport molecule contains four radical polymerizable functional groups of the general structure exemplified below: where R1 and R2 contain a spacer group and a radical polymerizable functional group, R3 and R4 are hydrogen atoms, and R5 and R6 contain a spacer group and a radical polymerizable functional group wherein the spacer group of R1, R2, R5 and R6 is an ethyl group and the radical polymerizable functional group of R1, R2, R5 and R6 is an acrylate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Weimei Luo, David Glenn Black, Mark Thomas Bellino
  • Patent number: 10762449
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, systems and techniques for retrieving complex data from multiple data sources corresponding to a current cost of consumable materials and a current cost of labor used to provide a service. Once retrieved, the system may determine a total current cost of the consumable materials and a total current cost of the labor. Furthermore, the system may use the total current cost of the consumable materials and the total current cost of the labor to determine an overall current cost of the service. The system may simultaneously provide an overall current cost of multiple services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Mathew Norman Swanson, Timothy Scott Byers, Mark Thomas LaVoie, Stephen Skylar Soom, Stephanie Cecelia Filice
  • Patent number: 10748089
    Abstract: A method, medium, and system to receive a planned flight schedule and an actual flight schedule; determine root cause disturbances for the actual flight schedule based on the planned flight schedule and the actual flight schedule; evaluate a robustness of the planned flight schedule based on an execution of a simulation-based model to generate a set of quantitative metrics for the planned flight schedule; generate a record of the root cause disturbances and a record of the set of quantitative metrics for the planned flight plan; evaluate a robustness of a test flight schedule based on an execution of the simulation-based model and the determined root cause disturbances applied to the simulation-based model to generate a set of quantitative metrics for the test flight schedule; and generate a record of the set of quantitative metrics for the test flight plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hongwei Liao, David So Keung Chan, James Kenneth Aragones, Mark Thomas Harrington
  • Patent number: 10738030
    Abstract: The present disclosure features a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, W, X, Z, n, p, and Rings A and B are defined herein, for the treatment of CFTR mediated diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. The present disclosure also features pharmaceutical compositions, method of treating, and kits thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Brian Bear, Jeremy Clemens, Thomas Cleveland, Timothy Richard Coon, Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis, Bryan A. Frieman, Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Haripada Khatuya, Paul J. Krenitsky, Mark Thomas Miller, Alina Silina, Johnny Uy, Jinglan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200251647
    Abstract: An actuator member has a body formed of a composite material of electroactive material (EAM) particles and a compliant matrix material. The composite material of the body is materially structured such that it incorporates one or more continuous material paths extending between a first and second major surface of the actuator body, each path including at least one EAM particle, and wherein all material of the path has an electrical resistivity equal to or less than that of the EAM particle(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Eduard Gerard Marie Pelssers, Daan Anton Van Den Ende, Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Achim Hilgers, Mark Thomas Johnson
  • Publication number: 20200246829
    Abstract: The invention provides an ultrasound transducer device comprising an electroactive polymer (EAP) element coupled atop a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) element, wherein the two elements are controlled to vibrate concurrently at a common frequency by application to each of a drive signal of the same AC frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Sergei Shulepov, Peter Dirksen, Mark Thomas Johnson, Daan Anton Van Den Ende
  • Patent number: 10729270
    Abstract: A jug and lid for a juicer includes a cylindrical upper portion having an upper rim, with the upper rim having a first opening for receiving a discharge spout, the first opening having a pouring spout, and the lid having a cylindrical body that fits within the upper portion. The body includes a pouring channel and a second opening alienable with the first opening. The body further has an exterior surface that carries a stepped circumferential seal that seals an interior of the jug when the first and second openings are not aligned, and the openings are alignable in a filling orientation upon rotation of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: BREVILLE PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Thomas, Samuel Adeloju, Richard Hoare, Stephen John McClean
  • Patent number: D894826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Fountain, JaeHo Choi, Edward Anthony Hackett
  • Patent number: D897523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Sean Joel Babbage, Peter Geoffrey Hawkins, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Jason Allan Klenner, Mark Thomas O'Connor, Milanjot Singh Assi