Patents by Inventor Andrew Hopper
Andrew Hopper 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: 20240165794Abstract: A connection plate for a continuum arm robotic, the connection plate having a collar for connecting to a continuum arm robot and a cut out section from one end and which extends to a plurality of apertures that are present within a face of the connection plate. A continuum arm robot including a robotic arm and a connection plate wherein the robotic arm includes a connection plate that connects to the end of the distal end of the continuum arm robot through a collar, the connection plate having a cut out section that extends from one end into a plurality of apertures that the distal end of the tendons passes through.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventors: Liam D. HARRISON, Ian KENNEDY, Thomas HOPPER, Andrew D NORTON
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Publication number: 20240165795Abstract: An actuator pack for a continuum arm robot, the actuator pack including a plurality of actuator pack sections, with each section having a housing and an interface plate, each section further containing a bank consisting of a plurality actuators that are connected to their own respective drive electronics and the actuators being mounted to the housing or the interface plate and having their drive heads exposed through a hole in the interface plate, and wherein the sections of the actuator pack are configured to coupled together in one state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventors: Liam D. HARRISON, Ian KENNEDY, Thomas HOPPER, Andrew D. NORTON
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Publication number: 20070203952Abstract: A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Anthony Baron, Anders Vinberg, Andrew Hopper, Ashvinkumar Sanghvi, Dileep Kumar, Giedrius Zizys, Nigel Cain, Vij Rajarajan
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Publication number: 20030023458Abstract: A system and method for providing medical care to a patient via a virtual call center, regardless of the patient's location and a medical care agent's location, is disclosed. A patient digital processor allows a patient to provide a patient profile to the medical care system that is received by a medical care digital processor. A medical care agent digital processor allows a medical care agent to provide their characteristics to the medical care digital processor. Upon patient initiation, the medical care processor analyzes the patient profile to determine an appropriate medical care agent to address the patient's medical queries. A connection is then made between the patient digital processor and the medical care agent digital processor to allow “real time” interaction. Additional medical care agents may be added to the connection for additional medical analysis and input.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: Cyber-Care, Inc.Inventors: John Haines, Michael Burrow, John Peifer, Andrew Hopper, Stephen Ratzel
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Patient monitoring station using a single interrupt resource to support multiple measurement devices
Patent number: 6112224Abstract: A patient monitoring system for use in a telemedicine system that allows multiple medical devices to communicate with a control unit via an interface that uses a single interrupt. In architecture, the system can be implemented in hardware, or a combination of hardware and software, and is more particularly implemented as follows: A plurality of medical devices are connected to a control unit via a device interface that uses a single interrupt in the transmission of data from the medical devices to the control unit. When a medical device has data to transmit to the control unit, the medical device transmits data to the device interface, and the device interface uses its single interrupt line in the transmission of data to the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1997Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: John W. Peifer, Andrew Hopper, Michael Burrow, Barry Sudduth, Samir Panchal, Andy Quay, W. Edward Price -
Patent number: 5987519Abstract: The present invention provides a packet-based telemedicine system for communicating video, voice and medical data between a central monitoring station and a patient monitoring station which is remotely-located with respect to the central monitoring station. The patient monitoring station obtains digital video, voice and medical measurement data from a patient and encapsulates the data in packets and sends the packets over a network to the central monitoring station. Since the information is encapsulated in packets, the information can be sent over multiple types or combinations of network architectures, including a Community access Television (CATV) network, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), the Internet, a local area network (LAN), a wide are network (WAN), over a wireless communications network, or over an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. Thus, a separate transmission protocol is not required for each different type of transmission media.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: John W. Peifer, Andrew Hopper, Michael Burrow, Barry Sudduth, Samir Panchal, Andy Quay, W. Edward Price, John R. Searle
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Patent number: 5493283Abstract: A system for locating any mobile body of a plurality thereof within a predetermined environment, wherein each mobile body carries a transmitter (10 to 18), each transmitter producing a unique identifying signal, and a plurality of receivers (20 to 32) located in a corresponding plurality of defined regions in the environment, each receiver incorporating a FIFO buffer memory (28) into which carrier identifying data is inserted and a controller for interrogating the receiver means in turn to link the identification data with location data. (FIG. 1 ). A carrier authentication system is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1994Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Assignee: Olivetti Research LimitedInventors: Andrew Hopper, Roy Want, Roger M. Needham, David J. Wheeler
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Patent number: 5402469Abstract: A system for locating any mobile body or a plurality thereof within a predetermined environment, wherein each mobile body carries a transmitter (10 to 18), each transmitter producing a unique identifying signal, and a plurality of receivers (20 to 32) located in a corresponding plurality of defined regions in the environment, each receiver incorporating a FIFO buffer memory (28) into which carrier identifying data is inserted and a controller for interrogating the receiver means in turn to link the identification data with location data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1992Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: Olivetti Research LimitedInventors: Andrew Hopper, Roy Want, Roger M. Needham, David J. Wheeler