Patents by Inventor Steve Marks

Steve Marks 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).

  • Patent number: 11468466
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Publication number: 20210027330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Patent number: 10679237
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Publication number: 20150332306
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to a social-financial platform. In certain embodiments, sponsor-members, consumer-members, and beneficiary members are part of a social-financial platform in which purchases made by consumer-members at merchant sponsor-members result in automatic rebates being paid to and allocated between the consumer member and one or more beneficiary-members. Also disclosed is a monolithic financial structure for carrying out rebate allocation automatically and instantaneously, and for transferring funds between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: PayForward, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Marks, Armando Rand, James Saltmar, Armen Santourian, Ronnie Silos
  • Patent number: 6015476
    Abstract: The invention is embodied in a magnetically enhanced plasma reactor for processing a semiconductor workpiece, including a reactor enclosure defining a vacuum chamber, a wafer support for holding the workpiece inside the chamber, a plasma power source for applying plasma source power into the chamber, a first plurality of electrically conductive elongate filaments, each being of a finite length, distributed about a periphery of the chamber enclosure, each of said filaments extending at least generally in an axial direction relative to the chamber. The plurality of filaments is capable of permitting different currents through different ones of at least some of the filaments in accordance with a distribution of currents among the filaments corresponding to a desired magnetic field configuration. Respective current sources are preferably connected to deliver respective currents to different ones of the plurality of filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross D. Schlueter, Steve Marks