Mark G Schultz

US Patent:

6429989, Aug 6, 2002

Filed:

Jun 13, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/592740

Inventors:

Mark D. Schultz - Elmsford NY
Bucknell C. Webb - Ossining NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G11B 509

US Classification:

360 51, 360 7708, 360 7814

Abstract:

A method for writing timing marks on a rotatable storage medium, such as on a disk in a disk drive, includes the steps of: 1) during a rotation of the disk, detecting the passage of at least a portion of a first timing mark located at a radial trajectory at a first radius of the disk, and 2) during the same rotation of the disk, writing a second timing mark at a second radius of the disk. The second timing mark is located at least one of a) where at least a portion of the second timing mark overlaps at least a portion of the radial trajectory of the first timing mark, and b) where the second timing mark is in close proximity to the radial trajectory of the first timing mark. The second timing mark is written based on different parameters such as a measured time interval, a calculated time interval, and a predetermined delay.

US Patent:

6877269, Apr 12, 2005

Filed:

Mar 7, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/383812

Inventors:

Mark A. Schultz - Vista CA, US

International Classification:

A01K097/04

US Classification:

43 55

Abstract:

A live insect container including a plurality of side walls and a bottom wall molded as a unitary structure, to form a hollow base, and having a common, peripheral, upper edge lying in a plane spaced-apart above the bottom wall, a first lid having a lower edge for fastenable sealing contact with the common, peripheral, upper edge of the base and including an upwardly oriented wall having a plurality of adjacent slots formed therethrough for allowing air currents to pass into and out of the container, a second lid formed in the first lid and pivotally openable upward therefrom to form, with the base and the first lid a fully enclosed container, a handle formed in the second lid, convertible from a first, carrying position, to a second, stored position, the second position out of conflict with the second lid during opening of the second lid, at least one hollow tube of terminal length for removable insertion through a one of the lids into the interior of the container, the tube first terminal end extending outside the container, when the tube is fully inserted into the container, and the tube second terminal end located in the interior of the container, and further including a removable end cap for temporarily capping one end of the tube.

US Patent:

7420649, Sep 2, 2008

Filed:

Jul 28, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/567954

Inventors:

David Jay Duffield - Princeton NJ, US
Mark Alan Schultz - Carmel IN, US
Michael Allan Sterling - Woodland Hills CA, US

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne Billancourt

International Classification:

G03B 21/32

US Classification:

352 90, 352 40

Abstract:

A method and a system for identifying a copy of an image sequence which is presented on a screen. At least one identifier distinct from the image sequence can be projected through the screen such that the identifier is displayed using visible light along with the image sequence. The identifier can be presented at periodic intervals and can define a theater location, a date and/or a time. A color and/or an illumination of at least a portion of the image sequence presentation can be measured. Based on the measured illumination and/or color, a projection brightness and/or color can be determined for the identifier. Also, a location on the screen through which the identifier should be projected can be determined.

US Patent:

20070167293, Jul 19, 2007

Filed:

May 30, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/443497

Inventors:

Michael Nally - Ridgewood NJ, US
Mark Schultz - Hackettstown NJ, US

International Classification:

A63B 15/02
A63B 22/02

US Classification:

482054000, 482001000

Abstract:

A control system for an exercise apparatus comprising an increment control array including at least three increment control contact elements, wherein each of the contact elements has a different pre-assigned numerical control increment value and the contact elements can be selectively activated both in an individual and in a combined cumulative manner for controlling one of more operating parameters of the exercise apparatus.

US Patent:

56956541, Dec 9, 1997

Filed:

Feb 5, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/596712

Inventors:

Mark A. Schultz - Vista CA

Assignee:

Lee's Aquarium & Pet Products - San Marcos CA

International Classification:

A01K 6304
F04F 1002

US Classification:

210780

Abstract:

Apparatus for use in draining, cleaning and refilling an aquarium tank including an elongated flexible hose having first and second opposite ends, a tube including an upper distal end for connection to the first end of the flexible hose, and a lower distal end adapted to be immersed in the aquarium tank such that the lower end may be placed near the bottom of the aquarium tank, a first device attachable to the second end of the flexible hose and for connection to a flowing water source for creating a flow of water from the tank through the tube and the flexible hose, and a grille, defined by a chamber and including a plurality of apertures formed in the walls thereof that are narrower than the width of the gravel particles, the grille and chamber attached to the lower distal end of the tube for contact with the gravel for moving the gravel about the floor of the tank such that the gravel particles are forced by the movement to bump and rub against each other outside the tube to dislodge the sediment and impurities that have gathered therewith, and wherein the sediment and impurities are swept by the water flow through the apertures into the chamber, up the tube and through the hose for discard without the entrance of gravel into the tube or hose.