Patents by Inventor Mark Vincent

Mark Vincent 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: 20250144480
    Abstract: A golf club head having discreet regions of specific mass relationships, including a lightweight forward portion, to achieve specific mass properties and performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher John Harbert, Joseph Henry Hoffman, Christopher Rollins, Todd P. Beach, Mark Vincent Greaney, Justin D. Kleinert, David Bennett, Charles Chou, Stephen Kraus, Matthew Greensmith, Matthew D. Johnson, Brett Christopher Walker, Garret Clifton Vierhout
  • Patent number: 12239888
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed to golf club having a crown, a sole, a face, and a primary alignment feature hard tooled into the golf club head. In some embodiments the golf club has a primary alignment feature comprising a line delineating a transition between at least a portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with a shade or color of the face. The primary alignment feature is hard tooled into the golf club head with the face of the golf club body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield, Christopher John Harbert
  • Publication number: 20250058182
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a club body including a crown, a sole, a skirt disposed between and connecting the crown and the sole and a face portion connected to a front end of the club body. The face portion includes a geometric center defining the origin of a coordinate system when the golf club head is ideally positioned, the coordinate system including an x-axis being tangent to the face portion at the origin and parallel to a ground plane, a y-axis intersecting the origin being parallel to the ground plane and orthogonal to the x-axis, and a z-axis intersecting the origin being orthogonal to both the x-axis and the y-axis. The golf club head defines a center of gravity CG, the CG being a distance CGY from the origin as measured along the y-axis and a distance CGZ from the origin as measured along the z-axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd P. Beach, John Francis Lorentzen, Bing-Ling Chao, Mark Vincent Greaney
  • Patent number: 12217221
    Abstract: Wireless-enabled kiosk systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with mobile phones and other electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for wirelessly connecting a consumer-operated kiosk with an electronic device to facilitate processing (e.g., purchasing) the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using a wireless link to identify a device, evaluate a device, resolve device issues to enable purchase of the device, locate a device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventors: John Silva, Jeffrey Ploetner, Mark Vincent Bowles, John Andrew Beane, Michael Librizzi, Randal Erman
  • Patent number: 12205081
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for identifying and evaluating an electronic device to facilitate processing (e.g., purchasing) the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a self-service evaluation apparatus and a cashier terminal that identifies and evaluates a device and that facilitates purchase and recycling of the device. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Bowles, Michael Librizzi, Jeffrey Ploetner, John Andrew Beane, Eric Rosser
  • Patent number: 12198108
    Abstract: The system enables one to securely recycle an electronic device in a publicly accessible location. In particular, the embodiment described may be used by a mobile phone owner to submit his/her mobile phone for recycling via an electronic kiosk and receive compensation in some form. The compensation might be dispersed via cash, voucher, credit or debit card, or other magnetic or electronic transaction methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Bowles, Michael Librizzi
  • Patent number: 12182773
    Abstract: A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of a mobile telephone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes an inspection area with at least one camera and a plurality of electrical connectors in order to perform a visual analysis and an electrical analysis of the mobile telephone for determination of a value of the mobile telephone. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor, a display and a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Vincent Bowles
  • Patent number: 12179070
    Abstract: A putter head having an upward-facing surface portion and a diffusely reflecting area of at least 5% of a total upward-facing area, which is also has a low gloss value and preferential CIELab L* value, an alignment feature delineating a transition between a first portion of the upward-facing surface having an area of contrasting shade or color with a shade or color of a portion of the face adjacent the upward-facing surface, and a face with at least a portion adjacent the upward-facing surface having a diffusely reflecting face surface area with a low gloss value and preferential chroma value. The alignment feature may have a preferential contrasting color difference between the first portion of the upward-facing surface and a portion of the face, and preferential CIELab ?L difference value between a portion of the face and the diffusely reflecting surface of the upward-facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Compnay, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
  • Publication number: 20240424364
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a head-shaft connection system, a rear weight fastened to the golf club head proximate the rear end of the club head and proximate the Y-Z plane, and a front weight port or an internal cap connection system for securing the rear weight; in combination with specific windows regarding the moments of inertia and center of gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Reeve Nielson, Nathan T. Sargent, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach, Brian Bazzel, Mark Vincent Greaney, Christian Reber Wester, Craig Richard Slyfield, Matthew David Johnson, Matthew Greensmith, Kraig Alan Willett
  • Publication number: 20240354000
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes mapping hosts in communication with a storage system to compartment constructs that are logical partitions of the storage system, analyzing interoperability of the hosts and the compartment constructs and defining, based on the analysis, risk profiles for applications run on the hosts. Ownership of storage objects to the compartment constructs is assigned based on the risk profiles, where each of the storage objects define a logical partition of one of the hosts and a logical partition of a storage volume of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Narigapalli, Laxmikantha Sai Nanduru, Pritpal S. Arora, James E. Olson, Mark Vincent Chitti
  • Patent number: 12121781
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a club body including a crown, a sole, a skirt disposed between and connecting the crown and the sole and a face portion connected to a front end of the club body. The face portion includes a geometric center defining the origin of a coordinate system when the golf club head is ideally positioned, the coordinate system including an x-axis being tangent to the face portion at the origin and parallel to a ground plane, a y-axis intersecting the origin being parallel to the ground plane and orthogonal to the x-axis, and a z-axis intersecting the origin being orthogonal to both the x-axis and the y-axis. The golf club head defines a center of gravity CG, the CG being a distance CGY from the origin as measured along the y-axis and a distance CGZ from the origin as measured along the z-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd P. Beach, John Francis Lorentzen, Bing-Ling Chao, Mark Vincent Greaney
  • Publication number: 20240316416
    Abstract: A golf club head is provided with an electronic display that is visible to a user of the golf club head when the golf club head is in the address position, such as for displaying one or more images to the user. The electronic display may include a memory, a microprocessor, and a battery, and may be configured to communicate with a user operable electronic device via a wired or a wireless communication protocol. For example, the electronic display may be configured to receive one or more images from the user operable electronic device, to store the one or more images in the memory, and to display the one or more images to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
  • Publication number: 20240316414
    Abstract: A golf club head is provided with an electronic display that is visible to a user of the golf club head when the golf club head is in the address position, such as for displaying one or more images to the user. The electronic display may include a memory, a microprocessor, and a battery, and may be configured to communicate with a user operable electronic device via a wired or a wireless communication protocol. For example, the electronic display may be configured to receive one or more images from the user operable electronic device, to store the one or more images in the memory, and to display the one or more images to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
  • Patent number: 12084959
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a method and process to improve the accuracy of the calculations for true vertical depth and Eastings and Northings pair of a borehole while drilling operations are in progress. The method utilizes continuous survey parameters that are collected while drilling operations are in progress, and that have been collected between two neighboring stationary survey parameters. The stationary survey parameters are assumed to be ground truth and are fused with an invertible solution to a low order polynomial to generate the true vertical depth and an Eastings and Northings pair at each continuous survey location. An objective function can be used to optimize and solve the polynomial. The method can be performed on a well site controller, a geo-steering system, a bottom hole assembly, or other computing system capable of receiving the collected measurements, performing the method steps, and communicating the resultant borehole position parameters to other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Collins, Umut Zalluhoglu, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240293705
    Abstract: A golf club head and golf club having large head dimensions, and large face characteristics, as well as unique mass property attributes driven by relationships not often considered in conventional club head design, to achieve a resistance to squaring the club head during a golf swing that is comfortable to the novice golfer, while increasing stability during off-center impacts and obtaining preferred launch characteristics. This is achieved in part via establishing a club head configuration and associated weight distribution to yield a center of gravity location that results in a preferred magnitude of Delta1 and Delta2 values, CG angle, moments of inertia, and associated ratios, relationships, and club head mass property characteristics influenced by these variables to achieve improved performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, John Francis Lorentzen, Matthew Greensmith, Craig Richard Slyfield
  • Publication number: 20240289753
    Abstract: Software application systems and associated methods for recycling, purchasing, and/or performing other processes with mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, and/or other electronic devices at a kiosk are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods associated with an electronic device to facilitate a consumer-operated kiosk processing (e.g., purchasing) the electronic device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using a mobile app to identify an electronic device, evaluate the electronic device, resolve device issues to enable purchase of the electronic device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Bowles, Randal Erman, Jarrod Hammes, Jeffrey Ploetner, John Silva, Rick Segil
  • Patent number: 12070666
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a head-shaft connection system, a rear weight fastened to the golf club head proximate the rear end of the club head and proximate the Y-Z plane, and a front weight port or an internal cap connection system for securing the rear weight; in combination with specific windows regarding the moments of inertia and center of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Reeve Nielson, Nathan T. Sargent, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach, Brian Bazzel, Mark Vincent Greaney, Christian Reber Wester, Craig Richard Slyfield, Matthew David Johnson, Matthew Greensmith, Kraig Alan Willett
  • Patent number: 12073838
    Abstract: A speech-processing system may provide access to multiple virtual assistants via one or more voice-controlled devices. Each assistant may leverage language processing and language generation features of the speech-processing system, while handling different commands and/or providing access to different back applications. Each assistant may be associated with its own voice and/or speech style, and thus be perceived as having a particular “personality.” Different assistants may be available for use with a particular voice-controlled device based on time, location, the particular user, etc. In some situations, language processing may be improved by leveraging data such as intent data, grammars, lexicons, entities, etc., associated with assistants available for use with the particular voice-controlled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Bobbili, David Henry, Mark Vincent Mattione, Richard Du, Jyoti Chhabra
  • Publication number: 20240265470
    Abstract: A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of an electronic device such as a mobile phone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes electrical connectors and an inspection area with an upper chamber, a lower chamber, a transparent plate and at least one camera in order to perform a visual analysis and an electrical analysis of the electronic device for determination of a value of the electronic device. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor and a display for user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Vincent BOWLES, Thomas L. TULLIE, John Andrew BEANE, Jeff PLOETNER, John MILLER, Neil VESCO
  • Patent number: 12056353
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes logically partitioning a storage system into a plurality of compartment constructs, and mapping hosts in communication with the storage system to the compartment constructs, thereby enabling interoperability among the hosts and the compartment constructs. The interoperability of the hosts and the compartment constructs is analyzed, and the interoperability is based on storage software and/or firmware versions being run by the hosts. The method further includes defining, based on the analysis, risk profiles for applications run on the hosts, and determining, based on the risk profiles, recommendations for assignment and mapping of the hosts with the compartment constructs. Ownership of storage objects is assigned to the compartment constructs based on the recommendations. Each of the storage objects define a logical partition of one of the hosts and a logical partition of a storage volume of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Narigapalli, Laxmikantha Sai Nanduru, Pritpal S. Arora, James E. Olson, Mark Vincent Chitti