Patents by Inventor Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan 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).
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Publication number: 20240171791Abstract: A system and method for content aware monitoring of an output of a media channel by a media system is provided herein. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a media assertion schedule comprising a schedule of assertion checks which allow validating that the output of the media channel, by the media system, is synchronized with an expected media channel output; receiving, from a signature generating module, at least one observed signature file; determining that the timestamp data, in each of the at least one received observed signature file, aligns with at least one timecode included in an assertion check in the media assertion schedule; identifying an assertion condition included in the assertion check; and validating the assertion condition using the observed media frame signatures included in each of the at least one received observed signature file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: Evertz Microsystems Ltd.Inventors: Jeremy Blythe, Barnaby Dalton, Robert Beattie, Andrew Duncan
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Patent number: 11974679Abstract: Food orders are divided into components or tasks. Systems and methods of food order preparation communicate instructions for automated actions to devices to carry out the automated actions. A toaster operates to toast a bun according to toaster settings. A bun magazine operates to deliver a bun into the toaster. A condiment dispenser receives the bun from the toaster and operates to dispense at least one portion of at least one condiment onto the bun.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Loren Veltrop, Arshad Baxamusa, Robert Duncan, Jacob Kane, Collin Psenka, Jonathan Sammon, Sathvik Sanagala, Nicole Szewczyk, Andrew Thompson
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Patent number: 11925003Abstract: A computing device includes a heat dissipation component, a heating or cooling apparatus, and a printed circuit board. The heating or cooling apparatus includes a heating or cooling component and a wire, and the heating or cooling component is affixed to a surface of the heat dissipation component. The printed circuit board includes a printed circuit board component, and the heat dissipation component is affixed to the printed circuit board component and configured to heat or cool the printed circuit board component.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Joseph Andrew Vivio, Tyler Baxter Duncan
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Patent number: 11914452Abstract: A user interface system is provided. At least one engine is provided to receive message data from managed infrastructure that includes managed infrastructure physical hardware that supports the flow and processing of information, determine common characteristics of events and produce clusters of events relating to the failure of errors in the managed infrastructure. Membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information. One or more situations is created that is a collection of one or more events or alerts representative of the actionable problem in the managed infrastructure. A situation room is coupled to or includes a dashboard display computer system and a data system, the display computer system configured to generate a dashboard display configured to display situations from the clustered events.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper, Charles Mike Silvey, Andrew John Leonard, Jeffrey Ellison Townsend
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Patent number: 11914084Abstract: For determining whether oil waste at a field testing site is exempt from selected naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste regulations, a measurement apparatus including a detection module that determine radioactivity counts per minute for an oil waste sample is utilized. The measurement apparatus includes an analysis module that uses a first nonlinear transfer function to determine a mass for the oil waste based on a volume of solids determined via BS&W testing. The analysis module uses a second nonlinear transfer function to determine a maximum radioactivity level for the sample which is then normalized to picoCuries/g. The normalized maximum radioactivity level per gram is compared to a NORM exemption level for a selected region and communicated to entities at the field-testing site and optionally to other entities. A system and a method perform the functions of the measurement apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Field Water Testing, LLCInventors: Christopher Lloyd, Andrew Duncan
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Patent number: 11906361Abstract: A scanning device includes: a motion sensor to detect motion imparted to the scanning device; a distance detector to determine a distance between the scanning device and a surface; an infrared detector to capture a temperature of the surface; an image sensor to capture an image of an indicia encoding data on the surface; and a processor configured to store the captured image and temperature, configured to operate the motion sensor to detect motion being imparted to the scanning device when in a low power state, and configured to transition the scanning device out of the low power state in response to such imparted motion by: operating the distance detector to determine the distance to the surface; and determining whether to operate the infrared detector to capture the temperature of the surface and whether to operate the image sensor to capture the image of the indicia, based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L.Inventors: Romano Volta, Valentina Volta, Pietro Todescato, Andrew Duncan, Giuseppe di Bari, Claudio Mazzone, Pierluigi Piletti
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Publication number: 20240025853Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound. N-oxide, salt or composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Andrew Duncan SATTERFIELD, Matthew James CAMPBELL, James Francis BEREZNAK, Guy William WHITTINGHAM, Glynn MITCHELL, Christopher John MATHEWS, James Nicholas SCUTT, James Alan MORRIS, Jonathan Wesley Paul DALLIMORE, Timothy Robert DESSON, Katharine Mary INGRAM, Kenneth LING
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Patent number: 11871057Abstract: A system and method for content aware monitoring of an output of a media channel by a media system is provided herein. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a media assertion schedule comprising a schedule of assertion checks which allow validating that the output of the media channel, by the media system, is synchronized with an expected media channel output; receiving, from a signature generating module, at least one observed signature file; determining that the timestamp data, in each of the at least one received observed signature file, aligns with at least one timecode included in an assertion check in the media assertion schedule; identifying an assertion condition included in the assertion check; and validating the assertion condition using the observed media frame signatures included in each of the at least one received observed signature file.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Evertz Microsystems Ltd.Inventors: Jeremy Blythe, Barnaby Dalton, Robert Beattie, Andrew Duncan
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Patent number: 11787765Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Matthew James Campbell, James Francis Bereznak, William Guy Whittingham, Glynn Mitchell, Christopher John Mathews, James Nicholas Scutt, James Alan Morris, Jonathan Wesley Paul Dallimore
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Publication number: 20230270111Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Andrew Duncan SATTERFIELD, Thomas Paul SELBY, David Andrew TRAVIS, Kanu Maganbhai PATEL, Andrew Edmund TAGGI
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Publication number: 20230184282Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi jackbolt tensioner and methods of using the same. The present invention alleviates some of the problems associated with presently available multi jackbolt tensioners.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Andrew Duncan MCPHEE, Adam Glenn LUTTY
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Patent number: 11634421Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all N-oxides, stereoisomers, and salts thereof, wherein Q1, Q2, R1, R2, Y, J and R7 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Matthew James Campbell, Thomas Martin Stevenson, Andrew Duncan Satterfield
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Patent number: 11589583Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Thomas Paul Selby, David Andrew Travis, Kanu Maganbhai Patel, Andrew Edmund Taggi
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Patent number: 11528906Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Thomas Paul Selby
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Publication number: 20220400300Abstract: A system and method for content aware monitoring of an output of a media channel by a media system is provided herein. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a media assertion schedule comprising a schedule of assertion checks which allow validating that the output of the media channel, by the media system, is synchronized with an expected media channel output; receiving, from a signature generating module, at least one observed signature file; determining that the timestamp data, in each of the at least one received observed signature file, aligns with at least one timecode included in an assertion check in the media assertion schedule; identifying an assertion condition included in the assertion check; and validating the assertion condition using the observed media frame signatures included in each of the at least one received observed signature file.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Evertz Microsystems Ltd.Inventors: Jeremy Blythe, Barnaby Dalton, Robert Beattie, Andrew Duncan
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Patent number: 11518008Abstract: A tensioning apparatus is adapted to simultaneously tension a number of jackbolts of a multi jackbolt tensioner. The tensioning apparatus may be made compact by overlapping gear disks of the spindle gears and further act as a torque multiplier between the other gears of the tensioning apparatus. The tensioning apparatus can be part of a combination with a power transfer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Superbolt, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Duncan McPhee
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Publication number: 20220317318Abstract: For determining whether oil waste at a field testing site is exempt from selected naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste regulations, a measurement apparatus including a detection module that determine radioactivity counts per minute for an oil waste sample is utilized. The measurement apparatus includes an analysis module that uses a first nonlinear transfer function to determine a mass for the oil waste based on a volume of solids determined via BS&W testing. The analysis module uses a second nonlinear transfer function to determine a maximum radioactivity level for the sample which is then normalized to picoCuries/g. The normalized maximum radioactivity level per gram is compared to a NORM exemption level for a selected region and communicated to entities at the field-testing site and optionally to other entities. A system and a method perform the functions of the measurement apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Christopher Lloyd, Andrew Duncan
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Patent number: 11352324Abstract: A method of synthesising a compound of formula (I): (I) from a compound of formula (II): (II) where R8 is either: (i) ProtO3; or (ii) a group of formula (A1) in formula (I) and (A2) in formula (II): (A1), (A2).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: MEDIMMUNE LIMITEDInventors: Arnaud Charles Tiberghien, Andrew Duncan Campbell, Jeremy Parker
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Publication number: 20220132844Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Thomas Paul Selby
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Publication number: 20220128410Abstract: A scanning device includes: a motion sensor to detect motion imparted to the scanning device; a distance detector to determine a distance between the scanning device and a surface; an infrared detector to capture a temperature of the surface; an image sensor to capture an image of an indicia encoding data on the surface; and a processor configured to store the captured image and temperature, configured to operate the motion sensor to detect motion being imparted to the scanning device when in a low power state, and configured to transition the scanning device out of the low power state in response to such imparted motion by: operating the distance detector to determine the distance to the surface; and determining whether to operate the infrared detector to capture the temperature of the surface and whether to operate the image sensor to capture the image of the indicia, based on the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Romano VOLTA, Valentina VOLTA, Pietro TODESCATO, Andrew DUNCAN, Giuseppe di BARI, Claudio MAZZONE, Pierluigi PILETTI