Patents by Inventor Mark W. Wilson
Mark W. Wilson 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).
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Patent number: 11882975Abstract: A dishwasher may utilize a multi-level dishwasher rack that in some instances may be reconfigurable into different configurations to optimize the rack for different types and/or combinations of utensils. A movable divider may be used in some instances to selectively expose a deep portion of a rack, and a drawer may be used in some instances to provide access utensils stored underneath a divider. A movable portion of a bottom of a rack may also be used in some instances to provide different support surfaces in the rack at different elevations. A tubular spray element or another rotatable spray tube may also be positioned relative to a multi-level dishwasher rack in some instances to facilitate concentrated washing of different facing surfaces of different utensils stored in the rack.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Garen Gibbs
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Patent number: 11808264Abstract: A compressor has an inlet port and a discharge port. The discharge port communicates into a resonator chamber. The resonator chamber includes a first stage resonator array and a second stage resonator array downstream of the first stage resonator array with a connecting passage intermediate the first and second resonator array. Each of the resonator arrays includes a pair of spaced resonator arrays sub-portions, with each of the sub-portions including a plurality of cells extending into a housing member, and have a bottom wall and an open outer wall communicating with the flow passage, with a plurality of orifices extending into each of the cells. The orifices have a smaller diameter than a hydraulic diameter of the cells.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Ramons A. Reba, Duane C. McCormick, David M. Rockwell, Mark W. Wilson
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Patent number: 11800963Abstract: A method and dishwasher utilize one or more tubular spray elements that are both rotatable about longitudinal axes thereof and discretely directable by one or more tubular spray element drives between a plurality of rotational positions about the longitudinal axes thereof. Thus, through the provision of discretely directable tubular spray elements, fluid such as wash fluid and/or pressurized air may be focused in a wash tub, in many cases providing more efficient resource usage in the dishwasher.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Patent number: 11717134Abstract: A method and a dishwasher utilize a dock detection system to determine when a connector of a spray device is docked to a docking port provided on a manifold of the dishwasher. A dock detector is coupled to the docking port and is electrically coupled to a controller of the dishwasher through electrical conductors that extend along the manifold, thereby enabling a dishwasher controller to detect when spray devices are coupled to the manifold, e.g., to optimize a wash cycle to use a particular spray device docked to the docking port.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Mark W. Wilson, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Publication number: 20230235938Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet with one or more food compartments and one or more doors closing the food compartments and an ice maker located in the cabinet to produce ice. The ice maker includes a mold body for forming ice, the mold body having multiple cups, where each cup has an opening for receiving water to be frozen within the cup. The mold body is divided into at least a first zone and a second zone and the ice maker including at least a first heater and a second heater configured to provide heat to the first and second zones of the mold body, respectively, and a controller configured to harvest ice from the first zone independently of the second zone by actuating the first heater to provide heat to the first zone of the mold body to facilitate a release of ice from the first zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Vinayak Naik, Mark W. Wilson, Eric L. Scalf
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Patent number: 11709008Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet with one or more food compartments and one or more doors closing the food compartments and an ice maker located in the cabinet to produce ice. The ice maker includes a mold body for forming ice, the mold body having multiple cups, where each cup has an opening for receiving water to be frozen within the cup. The mold body is divided into at least a first zone and a second zone and the ice maker including at least a first heater and a second heater configured to provide heat to the first and second zones of the mold body, respectively, and a controller configured to harvest ice from the first zone independently of the second zone by actuating the first heater to provide heat to the first zone of the mold body to facilitate a release of ice from the first zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Vinayak Naik, Mark W. Wilson, Eric Scalf
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Publication number: 20230065565Abstract: A dishwasher may utilize a multi-level dishwasher rack that in some instances may be reconfigurable into different configurations to optimize the rack for different types and/or combinations of utensils. A movable divider may be used in some instances to selectively expose a deep portion of a rack, and a drawer may be used in some instances to provide access utensils stored underneath a divider. A movable portion of a bottom of a rack may also be used in some instances to provide different support surfaces in the rack at different elevations. A tubular spray element or another rotatable spray tube may also be positioned relative to a multi-level dishwasher rack in some instances to facilitate concentrated washing of different facing surfaces of different utensils stored in the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Garen Gibbs
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Patent number: 11493256Abstract: A refrigerator and method utilize a pair of tandem evaporators to provide cooling for both a compartment and an ice making system of a refrigerator. An upstream evaporator in the pair of tandem evaporators provides cooling for a compartment such as a freezer, fresh food, flexible cooling, or quick cooling compartment, while a downstream evaporator is in fluid communication with the upstream evaporator to receive a portion of the air cooled by the upstream evaporator and further cool the received portion for use in cooling one or more components of the ice making system.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Eric Scalf, Mark W. Wilson
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Patent number: 11490779Abstract: A dishwasher may utilize a multi-level dishwasher rack that in some instances may be reconfigurable into different configurations to optimize the rack for different types and/or combinations of utensils. A movable divider may be used in some instances to selectively expose a deep portion of a rack, and a drawer may be used in some instances to provide access utensils stored underneath a divider. A movable portion of a bottom of a rack may also be used in some instances to provide different support surfaces in the rack at different elevations. A tubular spray element or another rotatable spray tube may also be positioned relative to a multi-level dishwasher rack in some instances to facilitate concentrated washing of different facing surfaces of different utensils stored in the rack.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Garen Gibbs
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Publication number: 20220338972Abstract: In vivo positionable filtration devices are provided that filter one or more therapeutic agents in blood flowing in a blood vessel. The filtration devices include an elongated member and a filtering component coupled to the elongated member. The elongated member and the filtering component are dimensioned for positioning within a blood vessel of a human or non-human animal. Further, the filtering component includes a filtration material to filter the one or more therapeutic agents from blood. Methods of in vivo filtration of one or more therapeutic agents are also provided. The methods include positioning a filtration device in a blood vessel of a body of a human or non-human animal, and administering a therapeutic agent upstream from the target tissue site to direct flow of the therapeutic agent to the target tissue site and then to the filtration device. The filtration device is positioned downstream from a target tissue site.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Steven W. Hetts, Anand S. Patel, Mark W. Wilson
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Publication number: 20220313056Abstract: A dishwasher and method for making and/or using the same utilize one or more walking tubular spray elements that may be used to effectively increase the spray coverage area of the tubular spray elements through rotation and/or movement of the walking tubular spray elements in directions other than about the longitudinal axes thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Joel Boyer, Bassam Fawaz, Mark W. Wilson, Robert M. Digman, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Patent number: 11406485Abstract: In vivo positionable filtration devices are provided that filter one or more therapeutic agents in blood flowing in a blood vessel. The filtration devices include an elongated member and a filtering component coupled to the elongated member. The elongated member and the filtering component are dimensioned for positioning within the blood vessel of a human or non-human animal. Further, the filtering component includes a filtration material to filter the one or more therapeutic agents from the blood. Methods of in vivo filtration of the one or more therapeutic agents are also provided. The methods include positioning a filtration device in the blood vessel of a body of the human or non-human animal, and administering a therapeutic agent upstream from a target tissue site to direct flow of the therapeutic agent to the target tissue site and then to the filtration device. The filtration device is positioned downstream from the target tissue site.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Steven W. Hetts, Anand S. Patel, Mark W. Wilson
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Publication number: 20220099349Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet with one or more food compartments and one or more doors closing the food compartments and an ice maker located in the cabinet to produce ice. The ice maker includes a mold body for forming ice, the mold body having multiple cups, where each cup has an opening for receiving water to be frozen within the cup. The mold body is divided into at least a first zone and a second zone and the ice maker including at least a first heater and a second heater configured to provide heat to the first and second zones of the mold body, respectively, and a controller configured to harvest ice from the first zone independently of the second zone by actuating the first heater to provide heat to the first zone of the mold body to facilitate a release of ice from the first zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Vinayak Naik, Mark W. Wilson, Eric Scalf
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Patent number: 11255549Abstract: A venting appliance for use with a cooking appliance including a cooktop with at least one cooking element disposed thereon, where the venting appliance may include: a housing configured to be positioned above the cooktop; a repositionable vent arm coupled to and extending below the housing; and a controller coupled to the repositionable vent arm and configured to determine that a first cooking element among at least one cooking elements is active, and in response thereto, automatically reposition the vent arm to be closer to the first cooking element.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Eric Scalf, Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson
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Publication number: 20210401257Abstract: A dishwasher may utilize a multi-level dishwasher rack that in some instances may be reconfigurable into different configurations to optimize the rack for different types and/or combinations of utensils. A movable divider may be used in some instances to selectively expose a deep portion of a rack, and a drawer may be used in some instances to provide access utensils stored underneath a divider. A movable portion of a bottom of a rack may also be used in some instances to provide different support surfaces in the rack at different elevations. A tubular spray element or another rotatable spray tube may also be positioned relative to a multi-level dishwasher rack in some instances to facilitate concentrated washing of different facing surfaces of different utensils stored in the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Garen Gibbs
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Patent number: 11147430Abstract: A dishwasher utilizes multiple rack-mounted corner sprayers disposed in corners defined between a side wall and front and rear walls of a dishwasher rack to direct fluid inwardly from the corners to wash utensils supported by the rack. The corner sprayers are in fluid communication with one another by a fluid channel that extends along the side wall of the rack, and an inlet port coupled to the first corner sprayer conveys fluid to each of the corner sprayers.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Mark W. Wilson, Robert M. Digman, Joel Boyer
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Publication number: 20210293444Abstract: A system and method to moderate an airflow in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, including an evaporator portion disposed in a housing, the evaporator portion including at least one blower disposed within a plenum in airflow communication with a first heat exchanger, the plenum including at least one plenum wall, a vortex control device operably coupled to the at least one plenum wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Mina Adel Zaki, Julian Winkler, Lee G. Tetu, Mark W. Wilson
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Publication number: 20210267430Abstract: A method and dishwasher utilize one or more tubular spray elements that are both rotatable about longitudinal axes thereof and discretely directable by one or more tubular spray element drives between a plurality of rotational positions about the longitudinal axes thereof. Thus, through the provision of discretely directable tubular spray elements, fluid such as wash fluid and/or pressurized air may be focused in a wash tub, in many cases providing more efficient resource usage in the dishwasher.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Patent number: 11058279Abstract: A method and dishwasher utilize one or more tubular spray elements that are both rotatable about longitudinal axes thereof and discretely directable by one or more tubular spray element drives between a plurality of rotational positions about the longitudinal axes thereof. Thus, through the provision of discretely directable tubular spray elements, fluid such as wash fluid and/or pressurized air may be focused in a wash tub, in many cases providing more efficient resource usage in the dishwasher.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Robert M. Digman, Mark W. Wilson, Timothy Martin Wetzel
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Publication number: 20210199114Abstract: A compressor has an inlet port and a discharge port. The discharge port communicates into a resonator chamber. The resonator chamber includes a first stage resonator array and a second stage resonator array downstream of the first stage resonator array with a connecting passage intermediate the first and second resonator array. Each of the resonator arrays includes a pair of spaced resonator arrays sub-portions, with each of the sub-portions including a plurality of cells extending into a housing member, and have a bottom wall and an open outer wall communicating with the flow passage, with a plurality of orifices extending into each of the cells. The orifices have a smaller diameter than a hydraulic diameter of the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Ramons A. Reba, Duane C. McCormick, David M. Rockwell, Mark W. Wilson