Patents by Inventor Robert Mark

Robert Mark 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).

  • Infant entertainment device
    Patent number: 7927171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant entertainment device with a movable object. In one embodiment, the infant entertainment device is a toy aquarium. The infant entertainment device includes a drive mechanism that is operably coupled to the movable object to move the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Goszewski, Patrick Ritossa, Robert Sonner
  • Method of integration of a MIM capacitor with a lower plate of metal gate material formed on an STI region or a silicide region formed in or on the surface of a doped well with a high K dielectric material
    Patent number: 7915134
    Abstract: A MIM capacitor is formed on a semiconductor substrate having a top surface and including regions formed in the surface selected from a Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) region and a doped well having exterior surfaces coplanar with the semiconductor substrate. A capacitor lower plate is either a lower electrode formed on the STI region in the semiconductor substrate or a lower electrode formed by a doped well formed in the top surface of the semiconductor substrate that may have a silicide surface. A capacitor HiK dielectric layer is formed on or above the lower plate. A capacitor second plate is formed on the HiK dielectric layer above the capacitor lower plate. A dual capacitor structure with a top plate may be formed above the second plate with vias connected to the lower plate protected from the second plate by side wall spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Chinthakindi, Douglas Duane Coolbaugh, Keith Edward Downes, Ebenezer E. Eshun, Zhong-Xiang He, Robert Mark Rassel, Anthony Kendall Stamper, Kunal Vaed
  • Hospital bed computer system
    Patent number: 7911349
    Abstract: A point-of-care computer system is provided, including a display positioned in a point-of-care location. The point-of-care computer includes hardware coupled to a frame of a hospital bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Zerhusen, Ryan A. Reeder, John D. Vogel, Michael E. Cerimele, Carl W. Riley, Timothy D. Wildman
  • TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110064115
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Hua XU, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A COMPOSITE IMAGE
    Publication number: 20110052093
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a composite image of a scene from a plurality of overlapping elemental images, the apparatus comprising: a selector for selecting one point in one of the plurality of images and another point in a second one of the plurality of images, the first point and the other point being overlaid in the composite image and being of substantially the same point in the scene; a determiner for determining, when the first point and the other point are overlaid, the gradient across the overlap between the first and other elementary image; and an adjuster for adjusting one of the first and second elementary image to minimise the gradient across the overlap. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Mark Stefan PORTER
  • Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals
    Publication number: 20110043271
    Abstract: Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals are described. Such devices and method include use of symmetrical compensation capacitances, symmetrical series capacitors, or symmetrical sizing of the elements of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Tero Tapio Ranta, Shawn Bawell, Robert W. Greene, Christopher N. Brindle, Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Joint de-spreading and frequency correction using a correlator
    Patent number: 7889782
    Abstract: A correlator (140) for de-spreading a spread-spectrum signal includes a state machine (205), a frequency correction look-up table (207), a pseudorandom code generator (209), and a correlator structure (301 and 801). The spread-spectrum signal includes symbols, and each symbol includes a plurality of chips. The correlator structure includes a plurality of taps (309 and 809) at which a coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) operation is performed to determine an offset from a nominal carrier frequency of the spread-spectrum signal and to change a phase of each chip of a received symbol, in order to correct a carrier frequency of the spread-spectrum signal while de-spreading the spread-spectrum signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Gorday, Jorge Ivonnet
  • Agents for preventing and treating disorders involving modulation of the RyR receptors
    Patent number: 7879840
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Marks, Donald W. Landry, Shixian Deng
  • System and method for transmitting a multiple format wireless signal
    Patent number: 7869409
    Abstract: A multi-mode transmitter (301) is adapted to modulate a data packet (200) communicated by a wireless communications signal. The data packet includes a packet header comprising a preamble (201) and a start of frame delimiter (202), and a data payload comprising a payload data length portion (203) and a payload portion (204). The packet header is modulated with a spread spectrum technique. When transmitting a data payload in one mode, the data payload is also modulated with the spread spectrum technique. When transmitting a data payload in another mode, the data payload is modulated with a non-spread spectrum technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Ivonnet, Robert Mark Gorday, Kevin McLaughlin
  • Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals
    Publication number: 20110001542
    Abstract: Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals are described. Such devices and method include use of symmetrical compensation capacitances, symmetrical series capacitors, or symmetrical sizing of the elements of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Tero Tapio Ranta, Shawn Bawell, Robert W. Greene, Christopher N. Brindle, Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals
    Publication number: 20110001544
    Abstract: Devices and methods for improving voltage handling and/or bi-directionality of stacks of elements when connected between terminals are described. Such devices and method include use of symmetrical compensation capacitances, symmetrical series capacitors, or symmetrical sizing of the elements of the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Tero Tapio Ranta, Shawn Bawell, Robert W. Greene, Christopher N. Brindle, Robert Mark Englekirk
  • ORAL CARE COMPOSITION FOR COMBATING DENTINE HYPERSENSITIVITY
    Publication number: 20100322984
    Abstract: The present invention describes oral care compositions comprising certain surface-coated inorganic oxides and their use for treating dentine hypersensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Gareth David Rees, Charles Richard Parkinson, Robert Mark Anderson
  • METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE CONTENT
    Publication number: 20100318467
    Abstract: A method and a system for generating image content. The method and system allow segments of a panoramic scene, to be generated with reduced distortion. The method and system reduce the amount of distortion by mapping pixel data onto a pseudo camera focal plane which is provided substantially perpendicularly to the focal location of the camera that captured the image. A camera arrangement can implement the method and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Jonathan James Stone, David Berry, Simon Dominic Haynes
  • Method of and an apparatus for in situ ultrasonic rail inspection of a railroad rail
    Patent number: 7849748
    Abstract: An ultrasonic railroad rail inspection system, apparatus and method for in situ rail inspection including a wheel assembly containing a fluid-filled tire and an ultrasonic transducer mounted within the wheel assembly. The transducer is supported in the tire such that the ultrasonic beam generated by the transducer has a beam axis that intersects a head of a railroad rail at a position offset from the longitudinal median plane of the rail to the side of the head penetrated by the ultrasonic beam. The ultrasonic beam is reflected by flaws in the rail in the form of echoes. The echoes return to the transducer identifying the location of flaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sperry Rail, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Mark Havira
  • Method for treating inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract
    Patent number: 7842709
    Abstract: A method for treating an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract, for example inflammatory bowel disease, in a subject comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of (S,S)-2- [1-carboxy-2-[3-(3,5-dichlorobenzyl)-3H-imidazol-4-yl]-ethylamino]-4-methylpentanoic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Ore Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Anthony Tartaglia, Thomas Michael Barnes, Robert Mark Coopersmith, Scott Edward Malstrom, David William White, Dominic Picarella
  • APPARATUS WITH PATIENT ADJUSTMENT DEVICE COUPLED TO ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100293711
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an architectural system and a patient adjustment device. The patient adjustment device is coupled to the architectural system and adapted to pull on a patient receiver to move a patient received by the patient receiver and located on a bed relative to the bed to adjust the position of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: David M. Minning, Troy D. Acton, Jon C. Tekulve, Christian H. Reinke, Robert Mark Zerhusen, David C. Newkirk, Jonathan D. Turner
  • Deep trench capacitor and method of making same
    Patent number: 7812388
    Abstract: A trench capacitor and method of forming a trench capacitor. The trench capacitor including: a trench in a single-crystal silicon substrate, a conformal dielectric liner on the sidewalls and the bottom of the trench; an electrically conductive polysilicon inner plate filling regions of the trench not filled by the liner; an electrically conductive doped outer plate in the substrate surrounding the sidewalls and the bottom of the trench; a doped silicon region in the substrate; a first electrically conductive metal silicide layer on a surface region of the doped silicon region exposed at the top surface of the substrate; a second electrically conductive metal silicide layer on a surface region of the inner plate exposed at the top surface of the substrate; and an insulating ring on the top surface of the substrate between the first and second metal silicide layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Wayne Kemerer, Robert Mark Rassel, Steven M Shank, Francis Roger White
  • CLEANING APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20100242212
    Abstract: A cleaning appliance of the canister type includes separating apparatus for separating dirt from a dirt-bearing fluid flow, a chassis for supporting the separating apparatus, and a substantially spherical rolling assembly comprising a fluid inlet for receiving a fluid flow from the separating apparatus and a device for acting on the fluid flow received through the inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Emma Jane Heatley-Adams, Robert Mark Brett Coulton
  • VIRTUAL OBJECT APPEARANCE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20100251185
    Abstract: A method of controlling the appearance of an object in a virtual environment of a computer game, in which the computer game is arranged to move the object within the virtual environment, the method comprising: associating with the object a three-dimensional array of nodes by storing, for each node, data defining a position of that node in a coordinate system for the object; defining a first shape of the object by associating each of a first plurality of locations on the object with a respective predetermined position relative to one or more of the nodes; detecting a collision of the object with an item in the virtual environment; adjusting the position of one or more of the nodes to represent the collision, thereby adjusting the first shape of the object; and outputting an image of the object based on the adjusted first shape of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Codemasters Software Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Mark Pattenden
  • CLEANING APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20100242219
    Abstract: A cleaning appliance of the canister type includes a substantially spherical floor engaging rolling assembly including a fluid inlet for receiving a fluid flow and a device for acting on the fluid flow received through the inlet, and a plurality of floor engaging support members for supporting the rolling assembly as it is manoeuvred over a floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: James DYSON, Peter David Gammack, Emma Jane Heatley-Adams, Robert Mark Brett Coulton