Patents by Inventor James A. Devine

James A. Devine 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: 20240139608
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing, modifying, and/or outputting workout content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Craig D. BOLTON, Julie A. ARNEY, Edward CHAO, Lynne DEVINE, Victoria E. HINN, Daniel S. KEEN, Julia K. NICHOLS, James P. OCHS, Jennifer D. PATTON
  • Patent number: 11957169
    Abstract: Vapor provision apparatus including a reservoir housing defining a reservoir for liquid, a liquid transport element for transporting liquid from the reservoir to a vaporizer for vaporization and a channel for the liquid transport element, wherein the channel has a sidewall at least partly defined by a section of the reservoir housing; wherein the liquid transport element comprises a first portion arranged to deliver liquid to the vaporizer and a second portion extending along the channel, wherein the channel has a cross-section that corresponds with the cross-section of the second portion of the liquid transport element in the channel, and wherein the section of the reservoir housing that defines the sidewall of the channel has one or more openings to provide fluid communication between the liquid transport element in the channel and liquid in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11937646
    Abstract: A vapor provision system including a vapor generation chamber, a reservoir containing liquid, a vaporizer located in the vapor generation chamber and a liquid transport element arranged to transport liquid from the reservoir through an opening in a wall of the vapor generation chamber to the vaporizer, wherein the liquid transport element in the vapor generation chamber has a cross-sectional area which is greater than that of the opening, and wherein the liquid transport element in the vapor generation chamber abuts the wall surrounding the opening to help prevent leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11937637
    Abstract: An aerosol source for a vapor provision system includes a vapor-generating element; a reservoir for holding source liquid, the reservoir being bounded by a wall having an opening therein; and a liquid transport element including a first portion arranged to receive liquid from the reservoir via the opening, a second portion peripheral to the first portion, and a third portion arranged to deliver liquid from the first portion to the vapor-generating element; wherein at least part of the second portion is compressed against a section of the wall around the opening, in use, to provide a sealing effect around at least part of the first portion to promote movement of liquid towards the vapor-generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 10975222
    Abstract: The invention provides a plasticiser composition which comprises: (a) a first plasticiser which is one or more compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a straight or branched chain alkyl moiety comprising from seven to twelve carbon atoms; and (b) a second plasticiser which is a citrate ester; a plasticised polymer formulation comprising a polymer and the plasticiser composition; a plastics article comprising the plasticised polymer formulation; and a method for the preparation of the plasticiser composition to provide a plasticised polymeric formulation which can be stored for up to five weeks with an increase of viscosity of less than 300%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Altro Limited
    Inventors: Edward James Devine, Richard John Peace, Shireen Bobat
  • Publication number: 20190194420
    Abstract: The invention provides a plasticiser composition which comprises: (a) a first plasticiser which is one or more compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a straight or branched chain alkyl moiety comprising from seven to twelve carbon atoms; and (b) a second plasticiser which is a citrate ester; a plasticised polymer formulation comprising a polymer and the plasticiser composition; a plastics article comprising the plasticised polymer formulation; and a method for the preparation of the plasticiser composition to provide a plasticised polymeric formulation which can be stored for up to five weeks with an increase of viscosity of less than 300%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Edward James Devine, Richard John Peace, Shireen Bobat
  • Patent number: 8415955
    Abstract: An electrical test device including at least one transducer to detect a status of a circuit under test, and at least one indicator located remotely from the at least one transducer to display the status of the circuit under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Control & Electrical Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Christopher James Devine
  • Patent number: 8078737
    Abstract: A SIP server can be deployed in a two-tier architecture, including an engine tier for processing of SIP communications and a state tier for maintaining the state associated with these communications. The state tier can include RAM-based replicas that provide data to the engines. Some of the SIP session state can be moved to the database in order to reduce the memory requirements of the state tier. Upon determining that a transaction boundary has been reached where the session state is steady, the state replica can save the data to the database. A hint can be received from the engine tier by the state replica indicating that the state data is ready to be saved. Subsequently, the data can be removed from the state tier by nulling out the bytes of actual data, while preserving the primary key, locking and timer information so as not to impact latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ioannis Cosmadopoulos, Vinod Mehra, Paul James Devine, Reto Kramer
  • Patent number: 7895475
    Abstract: An instrumentation service is described that uses dye injection and filtering in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server environment. The instrumentation service can provide a flexible mechanism for selectively adding diagnostic code to the SIP application server and the various applications running on it. It can allow flexible selection of locations in the server and application code, at which instrumentation code can be added. The process of adding diagnostic code can be deferred to the time of running the server at the deployment site. The instrumentation service further allows flexible selection of diagnostic actions, which can be executed at selected locations. In various embodiments, the execution of diagnostic code can be dynamically enabled or disabled while the server is running. Also, the behavior of diagnostic code executed at such locations can be dynamically changed while the server is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mihir Arvind Kulkarni, Rajendra Inamdar, Rao Nasir Khan, Jaroslaw Wilkiewicz, Paul James Devine
  • Publication number: 20100033190
    Abstract: An electrical test device including at least one transducer to detect a status of a circuit under test, and at least one indicator located remotely from the at least one transducer to display the status of the circuit under test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL CONTROL & ELECTRICAL PTY LTD
    Inventor: Christopher James Devine
  • Publication number: 20090239505
    Abstract: A system and method for delivering messages and/or multimedia content using a short message services (SMS) telecommunication network. Mobile devices are coupled to the telecommunication network. A sender may distribute the message using a mobile device to a recipient on another telecommunication network. In one embodiment, a message is requested using a unique pairing identifier and the message is streamed to the recipient. The message may include a multimedia content, and may be based on a demographic trait of the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, David Barnes Still, JR., Chintamani Patwardhan, Paul James Devine, Ajav Arora, Ankit Nautiyal, Sumesh Menon
  • Publication number: 20090019312
    Abstract: An instrumentation service is described that uses dye injection and filtering in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server environment. The instrumentation service can provide a flexible mechanism for selectively adding diagnostic code to the SIP application server and the various applications running on it. It can allow flexible selection of locations in the server and application code, at which instrumentation code can be added. The process of adding diagnostic code can be deferred to the time of running the server at the deployment site. The instrumentation service further allows flexible selection of diagnostic actions, which can be executed at selected locations. In various embodiments, the execution of diagnostic code can be dynamically enabled or disabled while the server is running. Also, the behavior of diagnostic code executed at such locations can be dynamically changed while the server is running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mihir Arvind Kulkarni, Rajendra Inamdar, Rao Nasir Khan, Jaroslaw Wilkiewicz, Paul James Devine
  • Publication number: 20090006598
    Abstract: A SIP server can be deployed in a two-tier architecture, including an engine tier for processing of SIP communications and a state tier for maintaining the state associated with these communications. The state tier can include RAM-based replicas that provide data to the engines. Some of the SIP session state can be moved to the database in order to reduce the memory requirements of the state tier. Upon determining that a transaction boundary has been reached where the session state is steady, the state replica can save the data to the database. A hint can be received from the engine tier by the state replica indicating that the state data is ready to be saved. Subsequently, the data can be removed from the state tier by nulling out the bytes of actual data, while preserving the primary key, locking and timer information so as not to impact latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ioannis Cosmadopoulos, Vinod Mehra, Paul James Devine, Reto Kramer
  • Publication number: 20050201032
    Abstract: A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) device is connected in parallel with the circuit breaker of e.g., a power-conditioning circuit. Such an arrangement allows pre-charging of the capacitors in the circuit while the circuit is switched off, so that a current surge is avoided when the circuit is powered on. In the event of overcurrent due to a circuit fault, the PTC device will switch to a high-resistance state, which will protect the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: James Devine, Jeffrey Menegus, John Olivieri
  • Patent number: 5836867
    Abstract: An endoscope coupler apparatus and method includes a sealed chamber and a lens assembly movable within the chamber for optically adjusting an image to be received by a video camera. The optical adjustment may be, for example, a focus adjustment or a zoom or orientation adjustment, etc. In a preferred embodiment, spaced permanent drive magnets located in an outer rotatable frame situated outside of the chamber are magnetically coupled with respective permanent driven magnets secured to an inner rotatable frame within the sealed chamber. The outer frame is rotatable but not longitudinally movable about the chamber and rotates the drive magnets and, therefore, the driven magnets. The inner frame is secured to a rotatable cylindrical housing which engages a lens assembly. Rotation of the driven magnets and the cylindrical housing moves the lens assembly longitudinally in response to rotation of an adjustment ring attached to the outer frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Linvatec Corporation
    Inventors: Craig J. Speier, Arthur James Devine
  • Patent number: 5033531
    Abstract: Molten iron is cast into a mould through a filter located in the runner system of the mould using a filter comprising a body having a plurality of cells, at least some of the cells having their walls at least partially coated with a first layer of wax and a second layer of an inoculant, such as graphite, calcium silicide or ferrosilicon, for the iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Foseco International Limited
    Inventors: Charles Fisher, Hugh Kind, James Devine, Michael J. Gough, Ian N. Delaney
  • Patent number: 4960126
    Abstract: A pulse oximeter and method of determining the oxygen saturation level of a patient's blood wherein a heartbeat related signal is used, as a reference to guide the averaging of optical pulse waveforms. The oximeter and method assign different weighting to different optical pulses based upon the amplitude of new pulse waveforms and the degree of similarity between it and the preceding waveform. A composite, averaged pulse waveform is then used in computing oxygen saturation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Criticare Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Conlon, James A. Devine, James A. Dittmar
  • Patent number: 4924860
    Abstract: A water trap for a gas analyzer includes self-sealing filters formed of a porous polymer that includes a cellulose extract that causes the polymer to become impermeable on contact with water. The water trap in this way automatically protects the gas analyzer from liquid contamination. Preferably, the gas analyzer monitors a pressure parameter of a pneumatic line connected to the water trap and provides an indication that the water trap should be replaced in the event this pressure parameter indicates an abnormal operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Criticare Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Larsen, James A. Devine, Michael T. Larsen
  • Patent number: 4345469
    Abstract: An air tunnel device is provided for use in combination with a thermohygrter of the type where the change of resistance of the probe in response to changes in the ambient atmosphere is used to measure the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere. The device includes a housing which defines an air passageway therethrough, a probe support for mounting the probe of the thermohygrometer so that the probe is exposed to the air passagement in the housing and a fan mounted in the housing below the probe support for drawing air into the air passageway and thus providing air flow at a constant velocity past the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James A. Devine, Jose A. Miletti
  • Patent number: D882462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventors: Dana Gehman, Karrie Platfoot, James Devine