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).

  • Patent number: 10494221
    Abstract: A method and associated system are provided for splicing a reserve nose wire to a running nose wire in a facemask production line, wherein the running nose wire is supplied continuously from a supply roll. Prior to depletion of the running nose wire, the supply roll is moved from an operating location to an intermediate location that is further from the production line while continuing to supply the running nose wire from the supply roll. The supply roll is then moved from the intermediate location back towards the production line while decelerating the supply roll to a stop, thereby creating an accumulation of the running wire functionally between the supply roll and the production line. With the supply roll at a stop, the running nose wire is continuously supplied from the accumulation and a leading end of a reserve roll of nose wire is spliced to the running nose wire at a location upstream of the accumulation where the running nose wire is at a standstill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Craig Harris, Joseph P. Weber, Ajay Y. Houde, David Lamar Harrington, Mark Thomas Pamperin
  • Publication number: 20190357830
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus for a wearable or insertable device (100, 200, 400, 600) with microneedles (106, 206, 306, 406, 606) that may be simultaneously used for radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting, communication, and transdermal fluid delivery and collection are disclosed. Such a device may comprise a substrate (102, 202, 302, 402, 602) that may be affixable/insertable into tissue (107, 607) of a patient, radio frequency circuitry (120, 220, 420, 620) disposed on the substrate, that may generate/process a signal with a frequency that may be modulated to carry information, and microneedles (106, 206, 306, 406, 606) extending from at least one surface of the substrate, where one or more microneedles define a micro-fluidic channel (130, 230, 430, 630) that fluidly couples the tissue with a conduit (132) of the substrate, and where one or more microneedles may be electrically coupled with the radio frequency circuitry and radiate/process electromagnetic waves based on the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ashoka Sathanur VISWESWARA, Javier ESPINA PEREZ, Mark Thomas JOHNSON, Mohammed MEFTAH
  • Patent number: 10481512
    Abstract: An improved organic photoconductor drum used in an electrophotographic image forming device and method to make the same is provided. The organic photoconductor drum contains a protective overcoat. The protective overcoat is prepared from a curable composition including a charge transport molecule containing four radical polymerizable hydrophilic functional groups containing an oxygen atom of the general structure shown below: where R1 and R2 contain a spacer group and a radical polymerizable hydrophilic functional group containing an oxygen atom, R3 and R4 are a non-radical polymerizable functional group, and R5 and R6 contain a spacer group and a radical polymerizable hydrophilic functional group containing an oxygen atom. The curable composition may also contain at least one curing agent. This organic photoconductor drum has excellent wear resistance without negatively altering the electrophotographic properties, thus protecting the organic photoconductor drum from damage and extending its service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: David Glenn Black, Mark Thomas Bellino, Weimei Luo
  • Patent number: 10478580
    Abstract: Nasal cannula assemblies for providing respiratory therapy to patients are provided. A nasal cannula assembly can include a cannula, an optional manifold, a gas supply tube, and a securement mechanism. Securement mechanisms can include headgear straps, cheek pads, or an adhesive nose strip. A nasal cannula assembly can also include a lanyard, lanyard clip, and/or lanyard connector to help support the weight of a main gas delivery conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Jason Allan Klenner, Milanjot Singh Assi, Mark Thomas O'Connor, Callum James Thomas Spence, Caroline Geraldine Hopkins, Neil Gray Duthie, Craig Karl White, Alicia Jerram Hunter Evans, Brent Ian Laing, Sooji Hope Clarkson, Laurence Gulliver
  • Publication number: 20190349672
    Abstract: An acoustic assembly may include acoustic emitting devices attached to an enclosure. The acoustic assembly may further include an acoustic horn for influencing sound emitted by one or more of the acoustic emitting devices. For example, the acoustic horn may influence a beamwidth of sound emitted by one of the acoustic emitting devices. As a further example, the acoustic horn may influence a first beamwidth of a first acoustic emitting device and a second beamwidth of a second acoustic emitting device in a crossover region between the first acoustic emitting device and the second acoustic emitting device. The acoustic horn may include a waveguide attached to at least one integrator. The at least one integrator may include at least one plug and at least one lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jacques SPILLMANN, Steven Patrick RIEMERSMA, Mark Thomas DELAY
  • Patent number: 10471819
    Abstract: In a hybrid transmission, a traction motor is mounted between a dry clutch module and a manual gearbox. A slave cylinder is mounted within the rotor of the traction motor to reduce axial length. The rotor is fixedly coupled to an engine crankshaft. The stator may be cooled by circulating engine coolant through the housing. The stator and the rotor may be cooled by spraying transmission fluid into a sealed motor cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Anatole Frait, Mark Thomas Weston, Kyle Mattinson, Stanley L. Bower, Keith A. Devereaux, Kevin Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 10470287
    Abstract: Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current/high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: PHOENIX LLC
    Inventors: Arne Kobernik, Carl Sherven, Casey Lamers, Chris Seyfert, Evan Sengbusch, Gabriel Becerra, Jin Lee, Logan Campbell, Mark Thomas, Michael Taylor, Preston Barrows, Ross Radel, Tye Gribb
  • Patent number: 10470288
    Abstract: Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current/high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: PHOENIX LLC
    Inventors: Arne Kobernik, Carl Sherven, Casey Lamers, Chris Seyfert, Evan Sengbusch, Gabriel Becerra, Jin Lee, Logan Campbell, Mark Thomas, Michael Taylor, Preston Barrows, Ross Radel, Tye Gribb
  • Publication number: 20190334358
    Abstract: A charging cradle includes: a cradle housing having a base portion, and a socket portion configured to interchangeably receive (i) a mobile device, (ii) a battery pack for the mobile device, and (iii) the mobile device in combination with the battery pack; the socket portion including: a shared base surface having disposed thereon a set of shared charging contacts; a first set of guide surfaces extending from the shared base surface and defining a first socket configured to receive the mobile device and, in the absence of the battery pack, to engage the shared charging contacts with a first set of contacts on the mobile device; and a second set of guide surfaces extending from the shared base surface and defining a second socket configured to receive the battery pack and engage the shared charging contacts with a second set of contacts on the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Fountain, JaeHo Choi, Edward Anthony Hackett, Edward M. Voli, Carl A. Thelemann
  • Publication number: 20190328353
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for performing ultrasound and pressure measurements, wherein furthermore a related transducer unit and a related processor unit are concerned. Particularly a system is provided to measure blood pressure and flow in combination with a simple imaging modality, based on a single EAP sensor-actuator. A key aspect of embodiments in this regard is the electronics to switch between the different modalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Cornelis Petrus HENDRIKS, Achim Rudolf HILGERS, Daan Anton VAN DEN ENDE, Mark Thomas JOHNSON, Franciscus Johannes Gerardus HAKKENS
  • Patent number: 10462453
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel (24), a light blocking arrangement for selectively blocking light which is directed to a lateral output direction from the display panel and an array of lenses (27). The display has a privacy mode in which the light blocking arrangement blocks laterally directed light output from the display device and a public mode in which the light blocking arrangement allows light to pass which is directed to a lateral output direction. The light blocking arrangement comprises a stack of layers (80), each layer comprising a pattern of light blocking arrangement portions of two different types (90,92) such that in the stack of layers, the portions align to form light blocking members, each light blocking member being aligned with an respective lens. The repeating pattern of the light blocking members has a pitch which is double the lens pitch. This enables the light blocking arrangement to be manufactured more easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Achim Gerhard Rolf Koerber, Bart Kroon, Mark Thomas Johnson
  • Patent number: 10455966
    Abstract: An accessory for a stick mixer comprises a coupling portion with an optional internal gearbox. In one embodiment, a leg assembly further comprises nested inner and outer legs. The inner leg carries a first array of openings and the outer leg carries a second array of openings. The inner and outer legs rotate relative to one another to produce third array of openings having variable sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BREVILLE PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Thomas, Greg Upston
  • Patent number: 10459238
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display comprises a pixelated display panel comprising an array of single color pixels or an array of sub-pixels of different colors and a view forming arrangement comprising an array of lens elements. The pixels form a hexagonal grid, and the lenses also repeat in a hexagonal grid. A vector p is defined which relates to a mapping between the pixel grid and the lens grid. Regions in the two dimensional space for this vector p are identified which give good or poor banding performance, and the better banding performance regions are selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin, Bart Kroon, Mark Thomas Johnson, Eibert Gerjan Van Putten
  • Publication number: 20190327553
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed for a waveguide for a loudspeaker, the waveguide including a first and second outer shell coupled to one another, and a first and second inner shell coupled to one another and positioned within an air gap between the first and second outer shells, a plurality of sound paths being formed between an exterior surface of the first inner shell and an interior surface of the first outer shell and between an exterior surface of the second inner shell and an interior surface of the second outer shell, each of the plurality of sound paths having an equal path length in a plurality of planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jacques Spillmann, Steven Patrick Riemersma, Mark Thomas DeLay
  • Publication number: 20190325569
    Abstract: A system, according to various embodiments, receives images such as photographs and videos from one or more portable computing devices associated with one or more individuals (e.g., construction workers or landscapers) while the portable computing devices are in a particular position within a particular location at a particular time. The system determines a virtual position within a 3-D representation of the particular location that generally corresponds to the particular position and combines the images with the 3-D representation to generate an enhanced 3-D representation of the particular location. This may allow, for example, owners of a particular property to track and quickly understand construction and landscaping work that has been done on their property and to easily contact those individuals regarding that work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Thomas
  • Patent number: 10453654
    Abstract: Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current/high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: PHOENIX LLC
    Inventors: Arne Kobernik, Carl Sherven, Casey Lamers, Chris Seyfert, Evan Sengbusch, Gabriel Becerra, Jin Lee, Logan Campbell, Mark Thomas, Michael Taylor, Preston Barrows, Ross Radel, Tye Gribb
  • Publication number: 20190319459
    Abstract: A switch has a first input to couple to an AC electrical power source, a second input to couple to a DC electrical power source, and an output to couple to an electrical power load. A control module transmits a signal to the electrical power load to determine whether the electrical power load uses AC electrical power or DC electrical power, and receives in response thereto an indication that the electrical power load uses one of AC electrical power and DC electrical power. The control module then transmits a signal to the switch to configure the switch to receive electrical power from one of the AC electrical power source and the DC electrical power source and transmit the received electrical power to the electrical power load, responsive to the received indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Brathwaite, Jumie Yuventi, Bahman Sharifipour, Mark Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190319456
    Abstract: An apparatus includes switch that has a first input coupled to an AC electrical power source, a second input coupled to a DC electrical power source, and an output coupled to an electrical power termination point. The apparatus further includes a control module coupled to the switch, and in communication with the electrical power termination point or an electrical power load coupled to the electrical power termination point to receive an indication that the load operates on or according to one of AC electrical power and DC electrical power. The control module transmits a signal to the switch to cause the switch to receive electrical power from one of the AC electrical power source and the DC electrical power source and transmit the received electrical power to the electrical power termination point, responsive to the received indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Brathwaite, Jumie Yuventi, Bahman Sharifipour, Mark Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190315221
    Abstract: In a hybrid transmission, a traction motor is mounted between a dry clutch module and a manual gearbox. A slave cylinder is mounted within the rotor of the traction motor to reduce axial length. The rotor is fixedly coupled to an engine crankshaft. The stator may be cooled by circulating engine coolant through the housing. The stator and the rotor may be cooled by spraying transmission fluid into a sealed motor cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Anatole Frait, Mark Thomas Weston, Kyle Mattinson, Stanley L. Bower, Keith A. Devereaux, Kevin Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 10441357
    Abstract: A cutting head for a device for cutting hair is disclosed. The cutting head has an optical system configured to direct a laser beam along an optical axis across a cutting zone within the cutting head. The optical system has a variable focus lens configured to control the position of the focal point of the laser beam along the optical axis within the cutting zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bastiaan Wilhelmus Maria Moeskops, Mark Thomas Johnson, Rieko Verhagen