Patents by Inventor Scott A. Marino

Scott A. Marino 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: 20110004833
    Abstract: A user may review a web-based document (including, but not limited to, at least one of a regulation and a notice of changes to a regulation) and determine that the web-based document indicates that some action must be taken. By utilizing a script or a task management system, a user may create a task that is to be added to a task management system to address the action that must be taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Russell Shanahan, Scott Marino, Steve Valette
  • Publication number: 20100192083
    Abstract: A system and method for the automatic identification of transportation regulatory violations on a unit-load device based on using selectable regulatory rule sets. An enforcement inspector may enter data during an inspection (e.g., during a roadside inspection) on regulated hazardous materials. Violations are identified at the detail level and at a higher level for consolidation reporting. Regulations can be cross-indexed for fast review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lang, Russell Shanahan, Scott Marino, Steve Valetta
  • Patent number: 5596275
    Abstract: Pulsed NMR system for industrial measurements comprising sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay (FID) curves (C), from which fast Gaussian, slower modified Gaussian or preferably slower Gaussian, and exponential components are determined using a Marquardt-Levenberg iteration technique, and using regression techniques to correlate the FID curve components to the physical quantities of the target nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ronald J. Tache, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5530350
    Abstract: Pulsed NMR system for industrial measurements comprising sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay curves (C), from which Abragam, Gaussian, and exponential components are determined using a Marquardt-Levenberg iteration technique, and using regression techniques to correlate the curve components to the target nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5519319
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system, and related method, develops two or more regression equations or models for a particular polymer property of interest (e.g., melt index or MI) during a calibration procedure using known samples of a material. The polymer material can be, for example, a plastic (e.g., polyethylene, polypropylene, or polystyrene) or a rubber (e.g., ethylene propylene rubber). Regression models for one or more discrete (i.e., two-valued) variables also are developed during calibration, and these models allow a prediction to be made about which of the two or more property (e.g., MI) models should be used for any particular sample of unknown material. The prediction obtained from the discrete variable model indicates which of the two or more models will produce the most accurate estimation of the property of interest for the unknown sample. The best model is thus selected, and then it is used to estimate the property of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ronald J. Tache, David R. Day, Christian I. Tanzer, Tadd B. Hughes, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5408181
    Abstract: A pulsed nmr analysis system for polymers materials extracted from industrial processes at a mobility enhancing temperature (at or above glass transition temperature for amorphous polymers, at the crystalline transition temperature for crystalline and semi-crystalline polymers). The sample is measured via nmr techniques and results correlated to viscosity and melt index or melt flow (which are related to average molecular weights). The nmr system (in or out of resonance) includes: sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay curves (C), from which components functions are determined using linear or non-linear regression techniques to correlate the curve components to the target nuclei and to flow rates in plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, David R. Day, Christian I. Tanzer, Scott A. Marino, Ronald J. Tache, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5367260
    Abstract: A pulsed NMR analysis system and process comprising an air curtain (137), sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay curves (C) , from which components functions are determined using linear or nonlinear regression techniques to correlate the curve components to the target nuclei and to flow rates in plastic including MI and FRR for polyethylene and MF for polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ronald J. Tache, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5319308
    Abstract: A pulsed NMR analysis system and process comprising sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay curves (C), from which components functions are determined using non-linear regression techniques to correlate the curve components to the target nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ronald J. Tache, Ajoy Roy
  • Patent number: 5302896
    Abstract: Pulsed NMR system for industrial measurements comprising sample throughout system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay curves (C), from which Abragam, Gaussianand exponential components are determined using a Marquardt-Levenberg iteration technique, and using regression techniques to correlate the curve components to the target nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino, Ajoy K. Roy
  • Patent number: 5302897
    Abstract: Pulsed NMR system for industrial measurements comprising sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) and user system controls (104) to establish digitized free induction decay (FID) curves (C), from which fast Gaussian, slower modified Gaussian and exponential components are determined using a Marquardt-Levenberg iteration technique, and using regression techniques to correlate the FID curve components to the physical quantities of the target nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Tache, Ajoy Roy, Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino
  • Patent number: 5015954
    Abstract: Magnestic resonance system for industrial purposes comprising sample throughput system (P, LI, V1, V2) magnetic field adjustment (120, 124) and thermal adjustment (134-138 and 142-146). The resonance is established by a coil (100), excited by a transceiver (104) and interacting with the sample and the magnetic field at resonance to establish received and digitized free induction decay curve forms (C) which are synthesized into bound (Gaussian) and unbound (exponential) components--pairing simplified high speed computation means with repetitive test sequence and thermal controls that systematically minimize errors to assure reliable determination of target nuclei quantities in successive samples from an industrial process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Auburn International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Dechene, Thomas B. Smith, Scott A. Marino