Patents by Inventor Mark Upton

Mark Upton 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: 10846990
    Abstract: A gaming machine is configured to play one of a plurality of games. The gaming machine includes a display including a first display area, a second display area, and a third display area. A game controller executes instructions to display on the first display area a carousel of first representations of a plurality of games and display on a second display area second representations of the plurality of games, and, in response to receipt of a first input, display a rotation of the first representations in the carousel in the first display area, display a plurality of selectable denominations in the third display area, and in response to receipt of a second input with respect to a selected representation of the first representations in the carousel, highlight a second representation of the second representations corresponding to the selected representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Publication number: 20190221077
    Abstract: A gaming machine is configured to play one of a plurality of games. The gaming machine includes a display including a first display area, a second display area, and a third display area. A game controller executes instructions to display on the first display area a carousel of first representations of a plurality of games and display on a second display area second representations of the plurality of games, and, in response to receipt of a first input, display a rotation of the first representations in the carousel in the first display area, display a plurality of selectable denominations in the third display area, and in response to receipt of a second input with respect to a selected representation of the first representations in the carousel, highlight a second representation of the second representations corresponding to the selected representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Patent number: 10242534
    Abstract: A gaming machine configured to play one of a plurality of games. The gaming machine includes a display that has a first display area to display a carousel of first representations of a number of the games, and a second display area to display a matrix of second representations of the number of the games. A game controller controls the first display area to display the carousel and the second display area to display the matrix. In response to having received a player input at one display area of the first display area and the second display area, the game controller controls the one display area to highlight one representation in the one display area and highlights a corresponding another one representation in another one of the first display area and the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Publication number: 20170301185
    Abstract: A gaming machine configured to play one of a plurality of games. The gaming machine includes a display that has a first display area to display a carousel of first representations of a number of the games, and a second display area to display a matrix of second representations of the number of the games. A game controller controls the first display area to display the carousel and the second display area to display the matrix. In response to having received a player input at one display area of the first display area and the second display area, the game controller controls the one display area to highlight one representation in the one display area and highlights a corresponding another one representation in another one of the first display area and the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Publication number: 20060213457
    Abstract: A downshot boiler for heating water comprising a first combustion chamber; at least one tube for transporting water, each tube being at least partially located at the first combustion chamber, heating means for heating the first combustion chamber, the heating means comprising a downshot burner, wherein the boiler is adapted to heat the water to a supercritical condition. A method of heating water comprising the steps of transporting the water within at least one tube to a first combustion chamber provided in a downshot boiler and heating the first combustion chamber using a downshot burner such that the water within each tube is heated to a supercritical condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Upton
  • Publication number: 20060124176
    Abstract: A valve apparatus that has a longitudinal axis therethrough comprises a valve seat member, a valve closure member, a fluid flow path, and a screening member. The valve seat member comprises a hollow bore and a first frustoconical contact surface. The valve closure member comprises a body and a second frustoconical contact surface that is adapted to seal against the first frustoconical contact surface. The valve closure member is movable along the longitudinal axis of the valve apparatus. The fluid flow path extends through the bore of the valve seat member and between the valve seat member and the valve closure member. This fluid flow path is closed when the second frustoconical contact surface is sealed against the first frustoconical contact surface. The screening member is attached to at least one of the valve closure member or the valve seat member, and screens particles from fluid passing through the fluid flow path when the valve closure member approaches the valve seat member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: William McIntire, Hau Pham, Joseph Hubenschmidt, Mark Upton
  • Patent number: 6817228
    Abstract: Pumps and valves with movable parts, such as a plunger, typically have seals around the part. The seals may isolate one chamber from another to prevent leakage across the seals. The pressure in one chamber may be different from the pressure in another adjacent chamber, thereby creating a pressure differential across the seal. When the seal is working properly, the pressures in the adjacent chambers remain constant approximately. However, when a seal leaks, pressure will leak across the seal. As such, the chamber with the lower pressure will show an increase in pressure due to seal leakage. Thus, monitoring pressure changes in the chamber with low pressure, or pressure differentials between chambers, serves as an indicator for leakage across the seal and impending seal failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Upton, Joe Hubenschnmidt
  • Publication number: 20030184018
    Abstract: Pumps and valves with movable parts, such as a plunger, typically have seals around the part. The seals may isolate one chamber from another to prevent leakage across the seals. The pressure in one chamber may be different from the pressure in another adjacent chamber, thereby creating a pressure differential across the seal. When the seal is working properly, the pressures in the adjacent chambers remain constant approximately. However, when a seal leaks, pressure will leak across the seal. As such, the chamber with the lower pressure will show an increase in pressure due to seal leakage. Thus, monitoring pressure changes in the chamber with low pressure, or pressure differentials between chambers, serves as an indicator for leakage across the seal and impending seal failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Mark Upton, Joe Hubenschnmidt
  • Patent number: 6120249
    Abstract: A turbine blade with a cooling air flow path specifically directed toward cooling the platform portion of the blade root. Cooling air passages are formed in the blade root platform just below its radially outward facing surface on an overhanging portion of the platform opposite the convex surface of the blade airfoil. Each of these passage extends radially outward from an inlet that receives a flow of cooling air, and then extends through the platform. Cavities are formed in a radially inward facing surface of an over hanging portion of the platform opposite the concave surface of the blade airfoil. An impingement plate directs cooling air as jets into these cavities. A passage is connected to the cavities and directs this cooling air through the overhanging portion of the platform opposite the concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Kent Goran Hultgren, Thomas Walter Zagar, William E. North, Stephen Humphrey Robbins, Graham Mark Upton
  • Patent number: D792905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Patent number: D875109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Upton, Terri I-Ting Chen, Thomas Elson, Stephen Jones-McQueen
  • Patent number: D898753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Upton, Terri I-Ting Chen, Thomas Elson, Stephen Jones-McQueen
  • Patent number: D915429
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Patent number: D969167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton