Patents by Inventor Steven A. Marks

Steven A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20230019815
    Abstract: Some implementations of a retaining ring has an inner surface having a first portion formed of multiple planar facets and a second portion that adjoins the first portion along a boundary and includes a frustoconical surface that is sloped downwardly from outside in. Some implementations of the retaining ring have a crenellated or serpentine inner surface, and/or an inner surface with alternating region of different surface properties or different tilt angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Mark Reedy, Simon Yavelberg, Jeonghoon Oh, Steven M. Zuniga, Andrew J. Nagengast, Samuel Chu-Chiang Hsu, Gautam Shashank Dandavate
  • Publication number: 20230019653
    Abstract: A physical access control system enables acceptable portal entry codes upon receiving each physical access request by operating on the elapsed time from a previous physical access request to generate a temporal credential. The controller receives a plurality of physical access requests from a plurality of mobile application devices. Upon authenticating the first access request, the controller eliminates repetition from the space of acceptable successor requests from each mobile application device. Monotonic nonces advance the range of temporal code matches. Entry code generation is decentralized to distributed application devices and is inherently unknowable until a successor access request is initiated by the same application device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: AVI ROITMAN BARDACK, GREGORY ALLEN LLOYD, HSIN-CHENG CHIU, Steven Mark Bryant, Charles Wheeler
  • Publication number: 20230012773
    Abstract: A physical access control system enables acceptable portal entry codes upon receiving each physical access request by operating on the elapsed time from a previous physical access request to generate a temporal credential. The controller receives a plurality of physical access requests from a plurality of mobile application devices. Upon authenticating the first access request, the controller eliminates repetition from the space of acceptable successor requests from each mobile application device. Monotonic nonces advance the range of temporal code matches. Entry code generation is decentralized to distributed application devices and is inherently unknowable until a successor access request is initiated by the same application device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: AVI ROITMAN BARDACK, GREGORY ALLEN LLOYD, HSIN-CHENG CHIU, Steven Mark Bryant, Charles Wheeler
  • Publication number: 20230012259
    Abstract: Prevention of voice misappropriation in voice interaction/response systems. The system relies on telemetry data, including thermal data of components to determine whether a received voice command was made by actual voice. If the voice command is determined to have been made by an actual voice, a response to the command is generated and transmitted, otherwise if the voice command is determined to have likely not been made by an actual voice (e.g., artificial means replicating a voice, such as a laser or the like), no response to the command is transmitted or action taken with respect to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Steven Mark DiMaria
  • Patent number: 11547804
    Abstract: An MRI system (100) is proposed (for generating one or more images of a body-part of a patient under analysis); the MRI system (100) comprises an injector head assembly (155), for injecting at least one medical fluid into the patient, having a clock unit (340) for providing a clock signal with a clock frequency. The MRI system (100) comprises means (420-425; 445-460) for adjusting the clock frequency in response to a manual command and/or to a detection of a degradation of the images. An injector system (155,165) for use in this MRI system (100) is also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding method (500) for managing the injector head assembly (155) is proposed. A computer program (400) for implementing the method (500) and a corresponding computer program product are also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Mark Guy Rolfe, Volker Kremer, Eckhard Buchholtz, Michael Van De Bruck, Gunter Bruckmann
  • Patent number: 11543947
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a multi-device mixed interactivity system are provided. The interactivity system includes paired mixed-input devices for interacting and controlling virtual objects. In operation, a selection profile associated with a virtual object is accessed. The selection profile is generated based on a selection input determined using real input associated with a selection device and virtual input associated with a mixed-reality device. The selection device has a first display and the mixed-reality device has a second display that both display the virtual object. An annotation input for the virtual object based on a selected portion corresponding to the selection profile is received. An annotation profile based on the annotation input is generated. The annotation profile includes annotation profile attributes for annotating a portion of the virtual object. An annotation of the selected portion of the virtual reality object is caused to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Pahud, Nathalie Riche, Eyal Ofek, Christophe Hurter, Steven Mark Drucker
  • Patent number: 11538026
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system and associated processes for sharing cardholder data (CHD) between a merchant that utilizes tokenization and a second merchant that may or may not utilize tokenization. In one embodiment, the merchant, or an employee of the merchant, can use the system and associated processes to reacquire CHD from a tokenization provider system. In one embodiment, the merchant identifies to the tokenization provider system a desire to share CHD, which is associated with a token, with a second merchant. The merchant and/or the tokenization provider system can then invite the second merchant to register with the tokenization provider system. Once registered with the tokenization provider system, the second merchant can access any CHD that the merchant associated with the second merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Shift4 Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin James Cronic, Steven Mark Sommers, John David Oder, II, John David Oder, Steven Calandrelli, Jeremy B. Fried
  • Publication number: 20220387381
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods of reducing certain psychoactive and physiological effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), some of which may be undesirable, while preserving beneficial effects of cannabis in a human in need thereof. The methods described involve administration of therapeutically effective amounts of guineensine. Also, provided are compositions wherein guineensine is part of an herbal composition and is formulated for sublingual delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Rocket Science Oils, LLC
    Inventors: Steven MARK, Erin MARK, Fabio MAGRINI
  • Patent number: 11521623
    Abstract: A system for identifying a speaker in a multi-speaker environment comprises a processor operably coupled with a memory. The system receives a request to identify a first speaker in an audio file. The system splits the audio file into audio snippets based on a probability of each audio snippet comprising one or more utterances being above a threshold percentage. For each audio snippet, the system generates a frequency representation of the audio snippet in a time domain. The system generates a feature vector of numerical values representing voice features associated with one or both of the first speaker and the second speaker. The system determines whether the feature vector corresponds to the target vector labeled with the first speaker. In response to determining that the feature vector corresponds to the target vector, the system determines that one or more utterances in the audio snippet are spoken by the first speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Mark DiMaria
  • Patent number: 11503001
    Abstract: A cryptographically enforced data exchange is disclosed that enables an exchange of customer travel records between a plurality of travel providers while preserving customer privacy. The disclosed system receives customer travel data from publishers, and communicates a portion of the customer travel data to one or more subscribers in response to determining a customer match, without disclosing any protected data elements between the publisher and the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JOURNERA, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin George Iverson, Steven Mark Hoffman, Justin Grudzien, John Sokel
  • Patent number: 11453099
    Abstract: Some implementations of a retaining ring has an inner surface having a first portion formed of multiple planar facets and a second portion that adjoins the first portion along a boundary and includes a frustoconical surface that is sloped downwardly from outside in. Some implementations of the retaining ring have a crenellated or serpentine inner surface, and/or an inner surface with alternating region of different surface properties or different tilt angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Mark Reedy, Simon Yavelberg, Jeonghoon Oh, Steven M. Zuniga, Andrew J. Nagengast, Samuel Chu-Chiang Hsu, Gautam Shashank Dandavate
  • Publication number: 20220302962
    Abstract: One example discloses a near-field interface device, including: a near-field antenna; a physical port configured to be coupled to a computer; a controller coupled to the antenna and the physical port; wherein the controller is configured to translate a near-field signal received from the near-field antenna into an input command generated by a user; and wherein the controller is configured to transmit the input command to the computer through the physical port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Pieter Verschueren, Steven Mark Thoen
  • Publication number: 20220278991
    Abstract: A client application is specified by a target tenant and represented in an OAuth provider, along with a corresponding secret. A source tenant consents to permissions to be executed by the client application on a resource of the source tenant. A target service uses the secret to obtain an access token from an authorization server coupled to the source tenant and uses the access token to obtain access, specified by the permissions, to the resource served by a source service acting on behalf of the source tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Anshul DUBE, Parul MANEK, Steven Mark SILVERBERG, Shankaranand ARUNACHALAM, Jason Craig NELSON, Andrew Burke RYAN, Robert A. LOWE, Ganesh PANDEY
  • Patent number: 11419392
    Abstract: A clasp assembly includes a pair of identical half sections configured to be coupled to one another. Each half section comprises one or more deformable features that are designed to deform during closure to create an interlocking engagement between each half section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation
    Inventors: Haroldo Chavez Galindo, Madeline Boulier, Jeffrey Nguyen, Steven Marks
  • Publication number: 20220222218
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods as disclosed may provide a platform agnostic way to edit content within an enterprise. For example, a platform independent thin client editor may be provided such that this editor can be accessed by users at a variety of computing platforms across the distributed computer network of an enterprise, regardless of the platform from which the thin client editor is being accessed. Moreover, certain embodiments may provide a role based mechanism for controlling the editing of content. Embodiments of such a role based mechanism may allow one editor of a content item to designate a role associated with the content item so that only users associated with that role may be allowed to edit the content item or portion of the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Cole, James Matthew Downs, Steven Mark Cheal, Jack Dwane Gilvin, Jeffrey Michael Doyle
  • Publication number: 20220223157
    Abstract: A system for identifying a speaker in a multi-speaker environment comprises a processor operably coupled with a memory. The system receives a request to identify a first speaker in an audio file. The system splits the audio file into audio snippets based on a probability of each audio snippet comprising one or more utterances being above a threshold percentage. For each audio snippet, the system generates a frequency representation of the audio snippet in a time domain. The system generates a feature vector of numerical values representing voice features associated with one or both of the first speaker and the second speaker. The system determines whether the feature vector corresponds to the target vector labeled with the first speaker. In response to determining that the feature vector corresponds to the target vector, the system determines that one or more utterances in the audio snippet are spoken by the first speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Steven Mark DiMaria
  • Patent number: 11381571
    Abstract: A client application is specified by a target tenant and represented in an OAuth provider, along with a corresponding secret. A source tenant consents to permissions to be executed by the client application on a resource of the source tenant. A target service uses the secret to obtain an access token from an authorization server coupled to the source tenant and uses the access token to obtain access, specified by the permissions, to the resource served by a source service acting on behalf of the source tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Anshul Dube, Parul Manek, Steven Mark Silverberg, Shankaranand Arunachalam, Jason Craig Nelson, Andrew Burke Ryan, Robert A. Lowe, Ganesh Pandey
  • Publication number: 20220190877
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for wireless power transfer are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Lei CHEN, Steven Mark ANLAGE, Tsampikos KOTTOS
  • Publication number: 20220182353
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein manage server connection resets based on domain name server (DNS) information. In one implementation, a firewall may receive a reverse DNS request from a computing system and communicate a request to a DNS security service to determine whether a destination associated with the reverse DNS request is malicious. The firewall further receives a response from the DNS security service that indicates that the destination is malicious and, when the response indicates that the destination is malicious, communicates a reset command to the destination to reset a connection between the destination and the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Davis, Steven Mark Heyns, Paul Cornelius van Gool
  • Publication number: 20220175781
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides regulatable biocircuit systems, effector modules and compositions for cancer immunotherapy. Methods for inducing anti-cancer immune responses in a subject are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael SCHEBESTA, Michelle Lois FLEURY, Kutlu Goksu ELPEK, Elizabeth Jane WEISMAN, Vipin SURI, Dexue SUN, Dan Jun LI, Steven Mark SHAMAH, Michael Joseph BRISKIN, Celeste RICHARDSON, Tariq A. KASSUM, Michelle Lynn OLS, Brian DOLINSKI, Mara Christine INNISS, Emily BRIDEAU, Jennifer Leah GORI, Dhruv Kam SETHI