Patents by Inventor Mark Woods

Mark Woods 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).

  • COOKTOP CONTROL PANEL MOUNTING ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20110290783
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a control panel and a control panel mounting bracket which includes a frame shaped for being installed on a surface panel of a domestic appliance. The surface panel has an opening therein for receiving the frame. The frame has an open portion for receiving a control mount adhered over the open portion. The surface panel has a top surface and a bottom surface, and the frame has a main securing member having at least one tab extending therefrom. The tab is bendable along a line off-set from vertical such that when the tab is bent, it bears against the bottom surface of the surface panel to urge the frame against the surface panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geiger, Michael Gerdes, Troy Wilson, Mark Wood, Anthony Zymroz, JR.
  • Method and apparatus for accumulating floating point values
    Patent number: 8060549
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for accumulating arbitrary length strings of input values, such as floating point values, in a layered tree structure such that the order of adds at each layer is maintained. The accumulating utilizes a shared adder, and includes means for directing initial inputs and intermediate result values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Pasternak Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Clark Purcell, Scott Kimura, Mark Wood-Patrick
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SINGLE WIRE STENT
    Publication number: 20110265908
    Abstract: A mandrel for manufacturing a stent from a single wire includes a cylindrical member having a plurality of pins at a proximal end region, a plurality of pins at a distal end region, and a plurality of indentations between the proximal pins and the distal pins. These indentations form a helical pattern on the outer surface of the cylindrical member. The single wire is wrapped around every proximal pin and distal pin on the mandrel by following the indentations in the mandrel. The single wire is slid through the indentation under any crossing section of wire and over the next crossing section of wire in an under-over pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Claude Clerc, Alexander Turovsky, Michael E. Zupkofska, Christopher Dubois, Mark Wood, Gary Jordan
  • SPIRO-OXINDOLE-DERIVATIVES AS SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS
    Publication number: 20110269788
    Abstract: This invention is directed to spiro-oxindole compounds of formulas (I), (II), (III), as stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Cadieux, Mikhail Chafeev, Sultan Chowdhury, Amy Frances Douglas, Jianmin Fu, Jonathan Langille, Shaoyi Sun, Mark Wood
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EVENT SPECTATORS WITH AUDIO/VIDEO SIGNALS PERTAINING TO REMOTE EVENTS
    Publication number: 20110179440
    Abstract: A system and method for providing content for access by a portable device at an event are provided. The system includes an interface to receive signals from a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources are located at an event and remote from the event. The signals define event content and non-event content. The system further includes a processor for processing the received signals to generate combined signals based upon the received signals from the plurality of sources. The system also includes a transmitter for transmitting to a plurality of portable devices at the event the combined signals. The combined signals are configured to allow a user to select content using the portable device receiving the combined signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: IMMERSION ENTERTAINMENT, LLC.
    Inventors: Tazwell L. Anderson, JR., Geoffrey L. Anderson, Mark A. Wood, Robert J. Kniskern, Todd H. Steele
  • SPIRO-OXINDOLE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS
    Publication number: 20110112162
    Abstract: This invention is directed to spiro-oxindole compounds, as stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: XENON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Chafeev, Sultan Chowdhury, Lauren Fraser, Jianmin Fu, Jonathan Langille, Shifeng Liu, Jianyu Sun, Shaoyi Sun, Serguei Sviridov, Mark Wood, Alla Zenova
  • System and method for providing event spectators with audio/video signals pertaining to remote events
    Patent number: 7929903
    Abstract: A system and method for providing content for access by a portable device at an event are provided. The system includes an interface to receive signals from a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources are located at an event and remote from the event. The signals define event content and non-event content. The system further includes a processor for processing the received signals to generate combined signals based upon the received signals from the plurality of sources. The system also includes a transmitter for transmitting to a plurality of portable devices at the event the combined signals. The combined signals are configured to allow a user to select content using the portable device receiving the combined signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Immersion Entertainment, LLC
    Inventors: Tazwell L. Anderson, Jr., Geoffrey L. Anderson, Mark A. Wood, Robert J. Kniskern, Todd H. Steele
  • AUDIO/VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20110083158
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for programming and/or charging one or more audio/video devices such that the audio/video devices will be programmed and charged to receive transmitted audio and video signals associated with an event, allowing a user to use the audio/video device to observe the sights and sounds of the event. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a cart with a docking port for each of a plurality of personal audio/video devices, a charger configured to charge the power source of each personal audio/video display device, and programming logic configured to program each of the personal audio/video devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: IMMERSION ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Tazwell L. Anderson, JR., Mark A. Wood
  • INTEGRATED STENT RETRIEVAL LOOP ADAPTED FOR SNARE REMOVAL AND/OR OPTIMIZED PURSE STRINGING
    Publication number: 20110071613
    Abstract: The present invention includes a braided stent and method of making the same. The braided stent has an integral retrieval and/or repositioning member. The stent includes a first open end, a second open end and a tubular body therebetween. The retrieval and/or repositioning member extends from and is interbraided into the braided tubular body. The retrieval and/or repositioning member includes an elongated portion extending from the first open end and a second section interlooping circumferentially about the first open end such that force exerted on the elongated portion causes radially contraction of the stent end and stent body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Wood, Devon Amos, Paul K. Norton
  • Reconstrainment Band with Reduced Removal Interference
    Publication number: 20110029065
    Abstract: The reconstrainment band includes a hollow generally tubular shaped band having proximal and distal ends and having an exterior surface for engaging a stent and an interior surface for engaging a delivery tube. The exterior surface has at least one fin projecting therefrom along the longitudinal axis of the band. The fin has at least one obtusely shaped surface relative to the longitudinal axis and facing one of the ends. The reconstrainment band is included in a delivery device for intraluminally positioning and deploying a radially distensible stent. Reconstrainment of a partially deployed stent is provided by the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC
    Inventors: Mark Wood, John Damarati, John McWeeney
  • Audio/video entertainment system and method
    Patent number: 7859597
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for programming and/or charging one or more audio/video devices such that the audio/video devices will be programmed and charged to receive transmitted audio and video signals associated with an event, allowing a user to use the audio/video device to observe the sights and sounds of the event. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a cart with a docking port for each of a plurality of personal audio/video devices, a charger configured to charge the power source of each personal audio/video display device, and programming logic configured to program each of the personal audio/video devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Immersion Entertainment, LLC
    Inventors: Tazwell L. Anderson, Jr., Mark A. Wood
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY-INDUCIBLE VARIABLE-ELEMENT ELECTRO-CHEMICAL-NUCLEAR DISRUPTION
    Publication number: 20100316176
    Abstract: A system for remotely-inducing variable-element electro-chemical-nuclear disruption, the system including an energy delivery device that emits a frequency-adjustable electromagnetic non-photonic continuous-wave beam, and a target area located a distance from the energy delivery device with which the continuous-wave electromagnetic beam interacts wherein the energy delivery device accelerates one or more charged particles or ions within the energy delivery device as a charge antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Mark A. Wood
  • Air compressor with removable manifold
    Patent number: 7832991
    Abstract: An air compressor assembly includes a compressor configured to provide a source of compressed air and a manifold assembly removably coupled to the compressor and configured to distribute the compressed air to one or more pneumatic tools. The manifold assembly is configured to be coupled to the compressor via an air conduit when the manifold assembly is detached from the compressor so that the manifold assembly is operable at a location remote from the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wood, Robert Burkholder, Crandall Barbour, Mike L. Davis, Fred M. Morgan, David W. Robenalt, Dave C. Smith, John W. Hardin, J. Cody Stilwell, Gary White, Stephen J. Vos
  • MEDICAL DEVICE POSITIONING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100240954
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a medical device for accessing a patient's body portion and used for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Embodiments of the invention may include a particular endoscopic positioning mechanism for placing an endoscope and an additional treatment device within desired body portions in order to assist in diagnosis and treatment of anatomical diseases and disorders. In particular, a medical device according to an embodiment of the invention may include an outer flexible tube and a positioning mechanism configured for rotating one portion of the flexible tube relative to another portion of the flexible tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: MARK WOOD, Gary J. Leanna
  • Method and apparatus for implementing level of detail with ray tracing
    Patent number: 7791602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to computer graphics applications involving scene rendering using objects modeled at multiple levels of detail. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a ray tracer implementation allows users to specify multiple versions of a particular object, categorized by LOD ID's. A scene server selects the version appropriate for the particular scene, based on the size of the object on the screen for example, and provides a smooth transition between multiple versions of an object model. In one example, the scene server will select two LOD representations associated with a given object and assign relative weights to each representation. The LOD weights are specified to indicate how to blend these representations together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventors: Aaftab A. Munshi, Mark Wood-Patrick
  • Fuel compression system with internal reheat for dew point suppression
    Patent number: 7753975
    Abstract: A system for conditioning a gas. The system includes a compressor for compressing and heating the gas into a hot gas; an airflow device generating an airflow; and a heat exchanger receiving in a first flow path the hot gas and in a second flow path the airflow. Heat is transferred from the hot gas to the airflow to generate a cool gas and hot airflow, and moisture condenses within the cool gas. A moisture separator separates condensed moisture from the cool gas to generate a saturated gas. A reheater receives in one flow path the saturated gas from the moisture separator and in another flow path the hot airflow from the heat exchanger. Heat is transferred in the reheater from the hot airflow to the saturated gas to generate a superheated gas having a temperature above the saturation temperature of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Ingersoll Rand Energy Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Mark Wood, Richard L. Dishman, Jr.
  • Medical device positioning system
    Patent number: 7753843
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a medical device for accessing a patient's body portion and used for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Embodiments of the invention may include a particular endoscopic positioning mechanism for placing an endoscope and an additional treatment device within desired body portions in order to assist in diagnosis and treatment of anatomical diseases and disorders. In particular, a medical device according to an embodiment of the invention may include an outer flexible tube and a positioning mechanism configured for rotating one portion of the flexible tube relative to another portion of the flexible tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wood, Gary J. Leanna
  • EXTRACTION OF HEMP FIBERS
    Publication number: 20100147472
    Abstract: A method of extracting hemp fibers from decorticated hemp bast skin involves pre-treating the decorticated hemp bast skin with an aqueous solution containing di-sodium citrate, tri-sodium citrate or a mixture thereof having a pH of from about 6-13 at temperature of about 90° C. or less; and subsequently treating recovered fiber with a enzyme. Determining the extent of completion of a plant fiber degumming process involves treating degummed fiber with a recombinant pectinase expressed in an organism that produces neither cellulose nor xylanase, to release reducing sugar from any residua pectin on the degummed fiber, and, quantifying the released reducing sugar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Wing L. Sung, Mark Wood, Fang Huang
  • SPIRO-OXINDOLE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS
    Publication number: 20100137299
    Abstract: This invention is directed to spiro-oxindole compounds, as stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: XENON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Chafeev, Sultan Chowdhury, Lauren Fraser, Jianmin Fu, Jonathan Langille, Shifeng Liu, Jianyu Sun, Shaoyi Sun, Serguei Sviridov, Mark Wood, Alla Zenova, Qi Jia, Jean-Jacques Cadieux, Simon J. Gauthier, Amy Frances Douglas, Tom Hsieh, Nagasree Chakka, Zoran Cikojevic
  • SPIRO-OXINDOLE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS
    Publication number: 20100099728
    Abstract: This invention is directed to spiro-oxindole compounds, as stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions, such as pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: XENON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Chafeev, Sultan Chowdhury, Lauren Fraser, Jianmin Fu, Jonathan Langille, Shifeng Liu, Jianyu Sun, Shaoyi Sun, Serguei Sviridov, Mark Wood, Alla Zenova