Patents by Inventor Alan A. Armstrong

Alan A. Armstrong 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: 11998243
    Abstract: A bone fastener comprises a head including a first receiver that defines an implant cavity and a second receiver that defines an implant cavity. The first receiver is connected to the second receiver. A shaft is aligned with the first receiver and configured to engage tissue. A part is disposed within the implant cavity of the second receiver and movable relative thereto in a selected plane of a body. Systems, surgical instruments, spinal constructs, implants and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin Bobbitt, Rex W. Armstrong, David A. Mire, William Alan Rezach
  • Publication number: 20240168576
    Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling displayed content based on user input. The method includes receiving one or more user inputs from a peripheral device operated by a user, the user inputs comprising one or more involuntary user inputs; modifying the user inputs to reduce a contribution of the involuntary user inputs; and adapting the displayed content in dependence on the modified user inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Suganuma Murphy, Calum Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20240149153
    Abstract: A system provides tactile navigation guidance in a video game environment. The system includes: a detection unit configured to detect at least part of surroundings of a player in the game environment and a guidance unit configured to adjust a tension level of at least one variable tension input on a controller. The adjustment is made in dependence on the result of detection by the detection unit so as to indicate to a user at least a subset of the detected surroundings through the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Murphy, Calum Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20240139625
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate images of a computer-generated environment for display to a first user, storage circuitry to temporarily store at least some of the images, where the storage circuitry is configured to temporarily store a respective image in dependence upon one or more storage conditions, receiving circuitry to receive user input data indicative of selection by a first user of a predetermined function for reporting abusive interaction by another user associated with the computer-generated environment, recording circuitry to generate a respective recording in response to the user input data, the respective recording comprising at least some of the images stored by the storage circuitry and output circuitry to output the respective recording
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Eder, Nicola Penny Ann Cavalla, Lawrence Green, Calum Armstrong, Rosario Leonardi, Nima Karshenas, Alan Murphy
  • Publication number: 20240135912
    Abstract: A noise cancellation system comprising an audio identification unit configured to identify audio to which a noise cancellation process is to be applied, an output generation unit configured to generate one or more noise cancellation signals in dependence upon the identified audio, and two or more audio output units each configured to reproduce a respective subset of the generated one or more noise cancellation signals, such that the two or more audio output units are configured to produce different outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Calum Armstrong, Alan Murphy
  • Publication number: 20220306569
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, stable, processable and pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms of 2R,6R-hydrox-ynorketamineor 2S,6S-hydroxynorketamine with high aqueous solubility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Small Pharma Ltd
    Inventors: David PEARSON, Lorraine SHARP, Alan ARMSTRONG, Richard MYERSON, Jonathan HULL, Paul BLANEY, Peter RANDS, Marie LAYZELL, Zelah JOEL
  • Patent number: 11415579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring the rate of reaction between a target molecule and a ligand candidate, ligands of interest identified according to this method and drugs developed from such ligands. The present invention also relates to a method of measuring the rate of reaction between a thiol and a molecule capable of reacting with said thiol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Imperial College Innovations Ltd.
    Inventors: David Julian Mann, Gregory Benedict Craven, Stefan Matthies, Alan Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11377416
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, stable, processable and pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms of 2R,6R-hydroxynorketamine or 2S,6S-hydroxynorketamine with high aqueous solubility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SMALL PHARMA LTD.
    Inventors: David Pearson, Lorraine Sharp, Alan Armstrong, Richard Myerson, Jonathan Hull, Paul Blaney, Peter Rands, Marie Layzell, Zelah Joel
  • Patent number: 11019826
    Abstract: A chip cutting system for use in loading, cutting, and packaging stacks of tortillas. The chip cutting system can include a loader, a vertical loading system, a processing line, a plurality of cutting stations, a sleeving area, an inversion portion, and an output portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ASA Food Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Alan Scherz, Kyle Alan Armstrong, Christopher Michael Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20200157040
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel, stable, processable and pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms of 2R,6R-hydroxynorketamine or 2S,6S-hydroxynorketamine with high aqueous solubility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: SMALL PHARMA LTD
    Inventors: David Pearson, Lorraine Sharp, Alan Armstrong, Richard Myerson, Jonathan Hull, Paul Blaney, Peter Rands, Marie Layzell, Zelah Joel
  • Patent number: 10558523
    Abstract: A computing system includes: storage devices configured to read data sectors; and a data correction engine, coupled to the storage devices, configured to: detect an error data sector among the data sectors, generate soft information from the error data sector, apply a soft bit flipping logic to the error data sector to produce a transformed data sector, and generate a corrected data sector from the transformed data sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CNEX LABS, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Armstrong, Yiren Ronnie Huang, Xiaojie Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190380978
    Abstract: This invention relates to solid oral dosage forms of 2R6R-hydroxynorketamine or prodrugs thereof having Formula Ib, including any pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the foregoing, for use in a therapeutic method for the treatment of a depressive disorder in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SMALL PHARMA LTD
    Inventors: Peter Rands, Marie Layzell, Zelah Joel, Alan Armstrong, Richard Myerson
  • Publication number: 20190324859
    Abstract: The power protection system includes a host driver in the host system and an SSD driver situated in an SSD. In one aspect, the host driver includes a write buffer able to store information during a write operation to an open-channel solid state drive (“OCSSD”). The SSD driver connected to the host driver via a bus includes an SSD double data rate (“DDR”) buffer configured to store a copy of content similar to content in the write buffer and an SSD nonvolatile memory (“NVM”) coupled to the SSD DDR buffer and configured to preserve the data stored in the SSD DDR buffer when a power failure is detected. The SSD driver also includes a power supply, which can be a capacitor, coupled to the SSD DDR buffer for providing power to the SSD DDR buffer when the power is lost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: CNEX Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Armstrong, Javier González González, Yiren Ronnie Huang
  • Publication number: 20190293641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring the rate of reaction between a target molecule and a ligand candidate, ligands of interest identified according to this method and drugs developed from such ligands. The present invention also relates to a method of measuring the rate of reaction between a thiol and a molecule capable of reacting with said thiol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: David Julian Mann, Gregory Benedict Craven, Stefan Matthies, Alan Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10417090
    Abstract: A computing system includes: a data block including data pages and each of the data pages includes data sectors and each of the data sectors include sector data and a sector redundancy; a storage engine, coupled to the data block, configured to: apply a first protection across the data pages, apply a second protection across the data sectors, and correct at least one of the data sectors when a sector correction with the sector redundancy failed with the first protection and the second protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNEX LABS, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Armstrong, Patrick Lee, Yiren Ronnie Huang
  • Patent number: 10402595
    Abstract: A computing system includes: an interface circuit configured to provide access to a data block including an arrangement of multiple individual data; and a processing circuit, coupled to the interface circuit, configured to generate a non-orthogonal protection data corresponding to instances of the individual data along a non-orthogonal direction within the data block for correcting the one or more of the corresponding instances of the individual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CNEX LABS, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Armstrong, Yiren Ronnie Huang, Xiaojie Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190216097
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an embodiment a chip cutting system for use in loading, cutting, and packaging stacks of tortillas. The chip cutting system can include a loader, a vertical loading system, a processing line, a plurality of cutting stations, a sleeving area, an inversion portion, and an output portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Alan Scherz, Kyle Alan Armstrong, Christopher Michael Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10331515
    Abstract: A computing system includes: a data block including data pages and each of the data pages includes data sectors and each of the data sectors include sector data and a sector redundancy; a storage engine, coupled to the data block, configured to: apply a first protection across the data pages includes shifted parities generated, apply a second protection across the data sectors, and correct at least one of the data sectors when a sector correction with the sector redundancy failed by selecting one of the shifted parities for the first protection and the second protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CNEX LABS, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Armstrong, Patrick Lee
  • Publication number: 20190095299
    Abstract: A storage system includes: a control processor, configured to: read user data, calculate error statistics from the user data, and operate a machine learning mechanism configured to identify a bad sector based on the error statistics; and a non-volatile memory array, coupled to the control processor, configured to store the user data; and wherein the control processor is further configured to map out the bad sector, based on the machine learning mechanism, and move the user data to a target sector for enhancing performance of the non-volatile memory array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Xiaojie Zhang, Alan Armstrong
  • Patent number: D1019932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Monash University
    Inventors: Richard Morfuni, Daphne Flynn, Rowan Page, Mark C. Armstrong, Tuncay Alan, Jason Brenker