Patents by Inventor Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson 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: 20240068344Abstract: A blender power unit (BPU) for use in fracturing jobs. The BPU comprises a transformer having an input and an output and configured to receive electrical power via the input at a first voltage to output electrical power via the output at a second voltage; a motor power bus coupled to the output of the transformer; a motor starter bus; at least one motor soft starter having an input coupled to the motor power bus and having an coupled to the motor starter bus; a plurality of electric power relays coupled to the motor power bus and configured to supply electric power from the motor power bus to a load when in a closed state; and a plurality of start electric power relays coupled to the motor starter bus and configured to supply electric power from the motor starter bus to a load when in a closed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Bruce Carl LUCAS, Carlos Alfredo Vallejo GORDON, Mark A. HUDSON, Glenn Howard WEIGHTMAN, Jose L. MALDONADO, Austin Carl SCHAFFNER, John Harold Fischer, Tyler NOLEN
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Publication number: 20230087664Abstract: A device configured to provide a value indicative of fluorescent emission from a substrate 5 having a test region is provided. The device comprises an electromagnetic radiation source configured to emit excitation radiation towards the test region to excite fluorescent emission from a fluorescent material in the test region. The electromagnetic radiation source is configured such that a variation in intensity of the excitation radiation across the test region is less than 15%. The device further comprises a sensor configured to capture a primary 10 image of the fluorescent emission, and a controller configured to modify the primary image based on calibration data and to use the modified image to obtain the value indicative of the fluorescent emission.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: John Polden, Mark Hudson, Sanjoy Chakraborty, Abhishek Ambekar, Clive Styler, Euan Morrison, Paulo Pinheiro, Ross Jones
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Device for receiving and analysing a sample with drop-by-drop solution release from a sealed capsule
Patent number: 11150243Abstract: A device for receiving and analysing a sample, wherein the analysing involves use of a solution. The device comprises: a sample receiving portion for receiving a sample to be analysed; and a solution capsule having a sealed configuration in which the solution capsule is sealed and a release configuration in which contents of the solution capsule are released via a flow path that provides fluid communication between the solution capsule and the sample receiving portion. The device further comprises a bistable release mechanism comprising an actuator wherein the bistable release mechanism releases only in the event that a force applied to the actuator reaches a threshold force and wherein actuation of the actuator results in one-way conversion of the solution capsule from the sealed configuration into the release configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: INTELLIGENT FINGERPRINTING LIMITEDInventors: Jonathan Johnson, Mark Hudson -
Publication number: 20210003599Abstract: A method of analysing a skin-print comprises: receiving a skin-print on a substrate; performing a quantity test to obtain a quantity score for the skin-print; performing a chemical analysis of the skin-print to detect for the presence of one or more chemical species and thereby provide a chemical test result; and storing or transmitting the chemical test result together with the quantity score.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Mark Hudson, Paul Wilson, David Andrew Russell, Jeremy Nigel Burgess Walker
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Publication number: 20200371037Abstract: A method of determining volume of a deposited skinprint uses an apparatus comprising: a primary electromagnetic radiation source; an electromagnetic radiation detector; and a translucent waveguide comprising a first surface providing a waveguide interface coincident with a skinprint receiving region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Paul Wilson, Benjamin Gordon, Mark Hudson, Jeremy Nigel Burgess Walker
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Patent number: 10675222Abstract: A drug dispenser assembly comprising: a drug dispenser for dispensing a drug in a dispense event; and a skinprint analyser configured to receive a skinprint, preferably a fingerprint, of a user. The skinprint analyser is further configured: to perform a verification test regarding the identity of the skinprint; to conduct a chemical analysis for the presence of a metabolite in the skinprint; and to produce data indicative of results of the verification test and the chemical analysis. The drug dispenser assembly further comprises an actuator configured to actuate a dispense event in the event that the results of one or both of the verification test and the chemical analysis meet one or more predetermined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: INTELLIGENT FINGERPRINTING LIMITEDInventors: Mark Hudson, Ulrich Tacke, Antti Törmänen, David Russell
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Patent number: 10617397Abstract: A sample capture and transport unit comprises a housing defining a substrate chamber for containing a sample-capture substrate. The housing comprises at least a first part and a second part which are movable relative to one another ? i) from a first closed configuration in which the substrate chamber is inaccessible; ? ii) to a first open configuration in which access to the substrate chamber is enabled to allow capturing of a skin-print on a sample-capture substrate contained within the substrate chamber; and subsequently ? iii) into a second closed configuration in which the substrate chamber is again inaccessible. The unit further comprises a retaining mechanism for retaining it in the second closed configuration. The retaining mechanism is disablable to permit movement of the unit out of the second closed configuration. A sample can be obtained at a first location, secured for transport and analysed at a second location.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: INTELLIGENT FINGERPRINTING LIMITEDInventors: Mark Hudson, Nicholas Earl, Daniel Peterson Godfrey, John Dunton
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Publication number: 20190263507Abstract: A system for moving an aircraft door from an open position towards a closed position. The system includes an aircraft door actuator, an input receiving primary power from a primary power supply to power movement of the aircraft door from the open position towards the closed position, a secondary power supply to power the aircraft door actuator to move the aircraft door from the open position towards the closed position, and a controller configured to cause the secondary power supply to power the aircraft door actuator to cause the aircraft door actuator to move the aircraft door from the open position towards the closed position, on the basis of a determination that insufficient primary power is available from the primary power supply via the input to move the aircraft door from the open position towards the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Mark HUDSON, Matthew GADD, Trevor BRIGHTON, Graham KING, Oliver MCCAMBRIDGE, Yann NICOLAS
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Publication number: 20190254930Abstract: A drug dispenser assembly comprising: a drug dispenser for dispensing a drug in a dispense event; and a skinprint analyser configured to receive a skinprint, preferably a fingerprint, of a user. The skinprint analyser is further configured: to perform a verification test regarding the identity of the skinprint; to conduct a chemical analysis for the presence of a metabolite in the skinprint; and to produce data indicative of results of the verification test and the chemical analysis. The drug dispenser assembly further comprises an actuator configured to actuate a dispense event in the event that the results of one or both of the verification test and the chemical analysis meet one or more predetermined conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Mark Hudson, Ulrich Tacke, Antti Törmänen, David Russell
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Patent number: 10254277Abstract: A method of analyzing a skin-print provided on a first surface of an optically transparent substrate. The method comprises the steps of exposing the skin-print on the first surface of the optically transparent substrate to one or more reagents selected to bind with one or more metabolites present in the skin-print; transmitting electromagnetic radiation onto the skin-print through the optically transparent substrate using a radiation source to thereby produce an optical signal of said one or more reagents and/or said one or more metabolites; and detecting an optical image of the optical signal through the optically transparent substrate using a sensor. Also a skin-print analysis apparatus and a reagent cartridge for use in carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: INTELLIGENT FINGERPRINTING LIMITEDInventors: Nicholas Earl, Daniel Peterson Godfrey, John Dunton, Mark Hudson, David Russell
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Patent number: 10241091Abstract: An example system includes at least one acoustic sensor configured to generate at least one acoustic data signal indicative of an acoustic signal generated by a thermal spray system comprising a flowstream, a computing device, and an acoustic data signal processing module operable by the computing device to determine an ignition attribute of the thermal spray system by analyzing at least a pre-ignition window of the acoustic data signal received by the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce PLC, Turbine Surface Technologies Limited, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityInventors: Michael Cybulsky, Raymond J. Sinatra, Roy Peter McIntyre, Taylor K. Blair, Gary Pickrell, Romesh Batra, Mark Hudson
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Publication number: 20180031552Abstract: A device for receiving and analysing a sample, wherein the analysing involves use of a solution. The device comprises: a sample receiving portion for receiving a sample to be analysed; and a solution capsule having a sealed configuration in which the solution capsule is sealed and a release configuration in which contents of the solution capsule are released via a flow path that provides fluid communication between the solution capsule and the sample receiving portion. The device further comprises a bistable release mechanism comprising an actuator wherein the bistable release mechanism releases only in the event that a force applied to the actuator reaches a threshold force and wherein actuation of the actuator results in one-way conversion of the solution capsule from the sealed configuration into the release configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Jonathan Johnson, Mark Hudson
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Patent number: 9816924Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of amphipathic polymers to enhance lateral flow and reagent mixing on assay devices. More specifically, the invention relates to use of an amphipathic polymer in assay methods including a device for determining the concentration of lipids in blood serum or plasma.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: L3 Technology LimitedInventors: Anthony Nicholls, Laura Garcia, Mark Hudson, Gareth Jones, David Clarke
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Patent number: 9804091Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of surfaces that exhibit different surface energies wherein the difference in surface energies is configured to disrupt capillary laminar flow of a fluid travelling between the two surfaces. The invention further relates to the use of such surfaces in assay methods including a device utilising same.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: L3 Technology LimitedInventors: Anthony Nicholls, Laura Garcia, Mark Hudson, Gareth Jones, David Clarke
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Publication number: 20170307605Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for analysing a sample comprising from 0.1 pg to 1 ?g of analyte, and more specifically to a lateral flow device and a method for testing the presence of very low amounts of drugs or drug meta bolites in a sample. The present invention also relates to a method of dissolving a bodily fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Mark Hudson, Jonathan Johnson, David Russell, Stephan Goetz, Tanya Stuchinskaya
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Publication number: 20170209343Abstract: A drug dispenser assembly comprising: a drug dispenser for dispensing a drug in a dispense event; and a skinprint analyser configured to receive a skinprint, preferably a fingerprint, of a user. The skinprint analyser is further configured: to perform a verification test regarding the identity of the skinprint; to conduct a chemical analysis for the presence of a metabolite in the skin-print; and to produce data indicative of results of the verification test and the chemical analysis. The drug dispenser assembly further comprises an actuator configured to actuate a dispense event in the event that the results of one or both of the verification test and the chemical analysis meet one or more predetermined conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Mark Hudson, Ulrich Tacke, Antti Törmänen, David Russell
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Publication number: 20160356747Abstract: An example system includes at least one acoustic sensor configured to generate at least one acoustic data signal indicative of an acoustic signal generated by a thermal spray system comprising a flowstream, a computing device, and an acoustic data signal processing module operable by the computing device to determine an ignition attribute of the thermal spray system by analyzing at least a pre-ignition window of the acoustic data signal received by the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Rolls-Royce PLCInventors: Michael Cybulsky, Raymond J. Sinatra, Roy Peter McIntyre, Taylor K. Blair, Gary Pickrell, Romesh Batra, Mark Hudson
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Publication number: 20160274093Abstract: A method of analysing a skin-print provided on a first surface of an optically transparent substrate. The method comprises the steps of exposing the skin-print on the first surface of the optically transparent substrate to one or more reagents selected to bind with one or more metabolites present in the skin-print; transmitting electromagnetic radiation onto the skin-print through the optically transparent substrate using a radiation source to thereby produce an optical signal of said one or more reagents and/or said one or more metabolites; and detecting an optical image of the optical signal through the optically transparent substrate using a sensor. Also a skin-print analysis apparatus and a reagent cartridge for use in carrying out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Nicholas Earl, Daniel Peterson Godfrey, John Dunton, Mark Hudson, David Russell
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Publication number: 20160199044Abstract: A sample capture and transport unit comprises a housing defming a substrate chamber for containing a sample-capture substrate. The housing comprises at least a first part and a second part which are movable relative to one another • i) from a first closed configuration in which the substrate chamber is inaccessible; • ii) to a first open configuration in which access to the substrate chamber is enabled to allow capturing of a skin-print on a sample-capture substrate contained within the substrate chamber; and subsequently • iii) into a second closed configuration in which the substrate chamber is again inaccessible. The unit further comprises a retaining mechanism for retaining it in the second closed configuration. The retaining mechanism is disablable to permit movement of the unit out of the second closed configuration. A sample can be obtained at a first location, secured for transport and analysed at a second location.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Mark Hudson, Nicholas Earl, Daniel Peterson Godfrey, John Dunton
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Publication number: 20130344581Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of amphipathic polymers to enhance lateral flow and reagent mixing on assay devices. More specifically, the invention relates to use of an amphipathic polymer in assay methods including a device for determining the concentration of lipids in blood serum or plasma.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: L3 TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Anthony Nicholls, Laura Garcia, Mark Hudson, Gareth Jones, David Clarke