Patents by Inventor Neil Andrew
Neil Andrew 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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Patent number: 11767859Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further comprises a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism comprises a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Steven Eduard Peet, Neil Andrew Stewart, Robert James Fryer, Adam Daniel Jouques, Victoria Anne Dorothy Gibson-Robinson, Harriet Rebecca White, Stephen Andrew Baker, Thomas Greer Duvall, Jack David Collins
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Patent number: 11739731Abstract: This invention relates to a vortex station and method for producing a vortex similar to one of a group consisting of dust-devils and waterspouts. The apparatus comprises a ground platform forming a base for the vortex station, a plurality of vanes to direct an air flow into a vortex station and about the vortex station in a substantially swirling manner, at least one wind turbine disposed near the centre of said vortex station, in a path of a concentrated air flow, wherein the movement of the air in the vortex station is such that an atmospheric buoyancy vortex is created in the centre of the vortex station, a supply of a working fluid (e.g. water) to the vortex station at or near the centre of the vortex station such that the air is of a saturated condition or an at least partially saturated condition with the working fluid (e.g. water), the working fluid (e.g. water) supplied at a sufficient quantity or amount so as to assist with maintaining buoyancy and stability of a vortex created.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Auckland Uniservices LimitedInventor: Neil Andrew Hawkes
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Publication number: 20230226458Abstract: An amusement park attraction system including a ride vehicle comprising an input device, and a control system configured to determine a parameter value associated with a force imparted on the input device. The parameter value includes a value of the force imparted on the input device, a value of a deformation caused by the force imparted on the input device, or both. The control system is also configured to control movement of the ride vehicle of the amusement park attraction system based on the parameter value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Grace Catheryn Haynes, Michelle Smith, John David Smith, Neil Andrew Leiba, Doug Joseph
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INLET ASSEMBLY FOR AN ABATEMENT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF CONVEYING AN EFFLUENT TO AN ABATEMENT CHAMBER
Publication number: 20230213186Abstract: An inlet assembly for an abatement apparatus includes: an effluent stream conduit configured to convey an effluent stream along a major direction of flow within the effluent stream conduit; an inlet nozzle fluidly coupled with the effluent stream conduit and configured to convey the effluent stream received from the effluent stream conduit to an abatement chamber of the abatement apparatus; and a baffle interposed between the effluent stream conduit and the inlet nozzle, the baffle being shaped and configured to redirect flow of the effluent stream from the effluent stream conduit into the inlet nozzle by inhibiting effluent stream flow along the major direction of flow into the inlet nozzle. A line-of-sight flow from the effluent stream conduit into the inlet nozzle is prevented by the baffle and the effluent stream instead follows a non-line-of-sight or diversionary path from the effluent stream conduit into the inlet nozzle, which improves DRE.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Gemma Haf Jones, Alageswaren Reddi Balsamy Radiar, Neil Andrew Maddock, Gareth David Stanton -
Patent number: 11682172Abstract: An interactive video game system includes at least one sensor and at least one display device disposed near a play area. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and the at least one display device, wherein the controller is configured to: receive, from the at least one sensor, the scanning data of the player in the play area; generate at least one model from the scanning data of the player; identify an action of the player in the play area based on the at least one model; generate the virtual representation for the player based on the at least one model and the action of the player; and present, on the display device, the virtual representation of the player in a virtual environment, wherein an action of the virtual representation is augmented relative to the action of the player.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Travis Jon Cossairt, Wei Cheng Yeh, Neil Andrew Leiba, Erica Lynn McCay
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Publication number: 20230173439Abstract: Provided is a chemical injection system for connection to a chemical tank and a process line. The system includes a pump box configured to attach to the tank, the pump box including a body defining an interior, a pump assembly disposed within the interior of the body of the pump box, and an injection assembly configured to be fluidly coupled to the pump box. The injection assembly includes an injection lance having a flange and a stem, a first seal abutting a first side of the flange of the injection lance, and a second seal abutting a second side of the flange of the injection lance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: MPW Industrial Services Group, Inc.Inventors: Justin James Pierce, Neil Andrew Dewitt, Garrett J. Petty
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Patent number: 11596911Abstract: Provided is a chemical injection system for connection to a chemical tank and a process line. The system includes a pump box configured to attach to the tank, the pump box including a body defining an interior, a pump assembly disposed within the interior of the body of the pump box, and an injection assembly configured to be fluidly coupled to the pump box. The injection assembly includes an injection lance having a flange and a stem, a first seal abutting a first side of the flange of the injection lance, and a second seal abutting a second side of the flange of the injection lance.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: MPW INDUSTRIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.Inventors: Justin James Pierce, Neil Andrew Dewitt, Garrett J. Petty
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Patent number: 11593881Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
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Publication number: 20220275381Abstract: The present invention relates to new double stranded RNA (dsRNA) structures and their use in modulating flowering in plants. The present invention also relates to methods of modulating the time of plant flowering.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Jonathan Paul ANDERSON, Ming Bo WANG, Neil Andrew SMITH, Christopher Andrew HELLIWELL, Stephen Mark SWAIN
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Patent number: 11405409Abstract: Examples include threat-aware copy data management. Responsive to a request to back up data, a threat level may be determined. Where the threat level is determined to be less than a threat level threshold, a data port between a first and second network domain may be opened. Conversely, the request may be denied where the threat level is determined to be at or greater than the threat level threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Neil Andrew Fleming, Alastair Michael Slater
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Patent number: 11382804Abstract: A gown dispenser system has a plurality of gowns, each having a back region, the gowns folded and stacked back region facing up, such that, pulling on the back region of a gown on top of the stack removes that gown from the stack and exposes the back region of the next gown in the stack, an enclosure containing the stack of gowns, the enclosure having an opening exposing the back region of the gown at the top of the stack, enabling a user to grasp the exposed back region and pull the topmost gown from the enclosure, exposing the next gown in the stack. Gowns are drawn from the enclosure one-at-a-time, at need.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: GownUP Inc.Inventor: Neil Andrew Louwrens
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Publication number: 20220204595Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant human antibody molecules. The antibodies bind fungal antigens, for example from Candida spp. Human antibody encoding genes targeting clinically relevant Candida epitopes have been isolated from single B cells from carefully selected donors and screened with specified types of protein or cell wall extract. The panel of purified, fully human recombinant IgG1 mAbs generated displayed a diverse range of specific binding profiles and demonstrated efficacy in a disease model. The fully human mAbs and derivatives thereof have utility in the generation of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEENInventors: Neil Andrew Robert Gow, Fiona Marion Rudkin, Lars-Peter Erwig, Allan Jensen
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Publication number: 20220162918Abstract: A downhole apparatus (10; 10) for reducing rotational and linear friction between a downhole tool (100; 100) and/or a downhole tool string and the wall of a wellbore (B) includes an annular body portion (12; 12?) configured for location on a mandrel (102; 102?) of the downhole tool (102; 102?) and one or more rib portions (16; 16?) extending radially from the annular body portion (12; 12?), and configured to engage a wall of the wellbore (B), the annular body portion (12; 12?) and the one or more rib portions (16; 16?) are integrally formed. The annular body portion (12; 12?) is elastically reconfigurable between a first configuration in which the annular body portion (12; 12) defines a first inner diameter and a second configuration in which the annular body portion (12; 12?) defines a second inner diameter configuration, the second inner diameter being larger than the first inner diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventor: Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson
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Publication number: 20220153818Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant human antibody molecules for use in a method of treatment of Acinetobacter infection. The antibodies bind Acinetobacter antigens, for example from Acinetobacter spp. Human antibody encoding genes targeting clinically relevant Candida epitopes have been isolated from single B cells from carefully selected donors and screened with specified types of protein or cell wall extract. The panel of purified, fully human recombinant IgG1 mAbs generated displayed a diverse range of specific binding profiles and demonstrated efficacy in a disease model. The fully human mAbs and derivatives thereof have utility in the generation of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Fiona Marion RUDKIN, Neil Andrew Robert GOW, Louise Ann WALKER
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Patent number: 11327774Abstract: A method for personalizing resource strings within a user interface of a computing device. The method includes accessing a personalization editor via the computing device, and receiving a user modification to a resource string associated with one or more applications. The method also includes storing an original unmodified resource string associated with the resource string, the modified resource string, and the associated applications. The method also includes receiving a request from a first application for a first resource string associated with a specified resource identifier. The method also includes determining if the first resource string has an associated modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database, and displaying the modified resource string based on the first resource string being determined to be associated with the modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Abhijit Chatterjee, Sanjib Saha, Neil Andrew Brench, Jack Lee Miller, Mithun Sibi Thomas, Andrei V. Nagornyi
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Patent number: 11306138Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant human antibody molecules. The antibodies bind fungal antigens, for example from Candida spp. Human antibody encoding genes targeting clinically relevant Candida epitopes have been isolated from single B cells from carefully selected donors and screened with specified types of protein or cell wall extract. The panel of purified, fully human recombinant IgG1 mAbs generated displayed a diverse range of specific binding profiles and demonstrated efficacy in a disease model. The fully human mAbs and derivatives thereof have utility in the generation of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEENInventors: Neil Andrew Robert Gow, Fiona Marion Rudkin, Lars-Peter Erwig, Allan Jensen
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Publication number: 20220076339Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
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Patent number: 11205226Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
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Publication number: 20210381527Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further comprises a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism comprises a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Steven Eduard PEET, Neil Andrew STEWART, Robert James FRYER, Adam Daniel JOUQUES, Victoria Anne Dorothy GIBSON-ROBINSON, Harriet Rebecca WHITE, Stephen Andrew BAKER, Thomas Greer DUVALL, Jack David COLLINS
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Patent number: D943059Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MPW INDUSTRIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.Inventors: Justin James Pierce, Neil Andrew DeWitt, Garrett J. Petty