Patents by Inventor Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones 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).

  • Patent number: 11426474
    Abstract: A light emitting device which inactivates microorganisms is disclosed. The light emitting device may include a flexible light emitting layer emitting a light; and a transparent or translucent layer over the flexible light emitting layer. The light may travel through and exit an exterior surface of the transparent or translucent layer, creating an exiting light. The exiting light exiting the transparent or translucent layer may have at least a portion thereof having a wavelength in a range of 380 to 420 nanometers, and may disinfect the exterior surface of the transparent or translucent layer. The light emitting device may be used alone to create a self-disinfecting high touch surface, e.g., on a door, or may be shaped to mate with other structure to create a disinfecting high touch surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Vyv, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Jones, Colleen Costello, Cori Winslow, Robert Barron, William Grambo, Jorel Lalicki
  • Patent number: 11395858
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multiple light emitter device which inactivates microorganisms. The device includes at least two light emitters and at least one light-converting material arranged to convert at least a portion of light from the light emitters. Any unconverted light emitted from the light emitters and converted light emitted from the at least one light-converting material mixes to form a combined light, the combined light being white. In one aspect, the light emitters include at least one blue light emitter and at least one violet light emitter. In another aspect, the light emitters include one blue light emitter and one emitter within the range of approximately yellow to infrared light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Vyv, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Barron, Cori Winslow, Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11369881
    Abstract: A method of predicting a game objective completion time for a particular game objective for a particular user includes, for the particular user, determining a game objective completion time decile for a preceding predetermined number of other game objectives completed by the particular user, deriving a representative completion time decile from a plurality of game objective completion time deciles for the particular user, and identifying a time band classification of the particular user using the representative completion time decile for the particular user as input to a generated time band classification; and outputting predicted game objective completion time data for the particular game objective for the particular user based upon the identified time band classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer, Paul Terence Mulligan, Andrew John Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11366562
    Abstract: A channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform is provided for presentation to a channel owner. A request is received, via the channel GUI, to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation. In response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option, the online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and the channel GUI is modified, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Renato Verdugo, Kiley McEvoy, Shannon Butler, Paul Heider, Molly Nix, Nicholas Jones, Eric Mayers
  • Publication number: 20220177142
    Abstract: Environmental control systems, airflow interleavers, and methods. The environmental control systems include an airflow interleaver and mix manifold comprising a mixing chamber. The airflow interleaver comprises a first airflow guide structure configured to guide a second airflow towards a central axis of the mixing chamber and a second airflow guide structure configured to guide a first airflow away from the central axis. The methods include channeling first and second airflows to the mix manifold, mixing the first and second airflows, which includes guiding the first airflow away from the central axis and guiding the second airflow towards the central axis. The airflow interleavers include a tubular body, and a plurality of converging airflow guides and a plurality of diverging airflow guides extending from the tubular body and collectively being configured to interleave first airflow streams flowing from the tubular body with second airflow streams flowing external to the tubular body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Jones, William C. Haas
  • Patent number: 11338210
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing contextual game guidance are described herein. An example method includes determining based on contextual information regarding an application an objective of the user; automatically deriving based on the contextual information and the objective contextual guidance to assist the user; generating a user interface having the contextual guidance; and transmitting the user interface to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Warren Benedetto, Landon Noss, Adil Sherwani, Nitin Mohan, Matthew Ito, Xifan Chen, Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer, Paul Edridge, Andrew John Nicholas Jones, Simon Andrew St. John Brislin, Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan, Charles Wayne Denison, II, Matthew Stewart Bloom-Carlin, Derek Andrew Parker
  • Patent number: 11333895
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include (1) a diffractive optical element (DOE) stack including one or more DOEs, where the DOE stack generates, in response to incoming light received at a first side of the DOE stack, structured light from a second side of the DOE stack opposite the first side, (2) a primary light source that emits the incoming light toward the first side of the DOE stack, and (3) at least one photodetector that detects light emitted from an edge of each of at least one of the DOEs of the DOE stack, where the edge is located between the first side and the second side of the DOE stack. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonatan Ginzburg, Mark Timothy Sullivan, Benjamin Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11325047
    Abstract: A system for identifying a user of a controller includes a controller having one or more sensors configured to detect interaction with the controller by the user and a transmitter configured to transmit telemetry data based on outputs of one or more of the sensors, a user profile unit configured to obtain user profile data for one or more user profiles, where each user profile corresponds to a respective user and the user profile data for a user profile comprises data indicative of one or more characteristic interactions by the user with the controller, and a user profile selection unit configured to select a user profile from the one or more user profiles in dependence upon a degree of match between one or more properties of the transmitted telemetry data and the data of each respective user profile, and configured to modify an output of the system responsive to the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Anderson, Mohammad Mansoor Nusrat, Sashikanth Reddy Dareddy, Andrew John Nicholas Jones
  • Publication number: 20220098858
    Abstract: A gypsum product has a first polymeric additive and a second polymeric additive distributed therein, wherein the first polymeric additive is a synthetic polymer and the second polymeric additive is starch. It has been found that the combination of starch and a synthetic polymer may result in one or more of the following advantages in the manufacture and performance of gypsum products: increased strength; greater ease of manufacturing due to the increased fluidity of stucco slurries containing both additives; and increased resistance to hygroscopic expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Laura Brooks, Nicola Jupp, Joanna Sparkes, Adam Richardson, Nicholas Jones, Jan Rideout
  • Publication number: 20220081982
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a body, a propulsion system configured to move the body in a forward direction and in a reverse direction, and a reusable sealing and isolation element connected to the body and configured to be deployed so as to selectively seal and isolate sections or stages in a wellbore when the apparatus is disposed in the wellbore. The reusable sealing element may be selectively employed to isolate, and de-isolate, a portion of the wellbore, such as in connection with a perforation process for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stanley Jonathan Blois, Daniel R. Green, Alvaro Garcia, Ian Graham Janke, Gareth Nicholas Jones, Cullen Keyes
  • Publication number: 20220073208
    Abstract: Air distribution nozzles, aircraft that include air distribution nozzles, and methods of utilizing air distribution nozzles are disclosed herein. The air distribution nozzles include an elongate inlet chamber, an elongate outlet chamber, and an elongate slot that extends between, and fluidly interconnects, the elongate inlet chamber and the elongate outlet chamber. The air distribution nozzles also include a suction inlet chamber that extends from a suction inlet port to the elongate inlet chamber. The suction inlet port opens into the suction inlet chamber. The air distribution nozzles further include a motive fluid inlet port that extends into the elongate inlet chamber. The air distribution nozzles also include a sensor port that extends into the suction inlet chamber. The air distribution nozzles further include an elongate outlet port that extends from the elongate outlet chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Jones, William C. Haas, Timothy Douglas Pattee
  • Publication number: 20220062211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a therapeutically effective amount of cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) in the treatment of epilepsy. In one embodiment the CBDA is used in the treatment of generalised seizures, preferably tonic-clonic seizures. Preferably the CBDA used is in the form of a botanical drug substance in which the CBDA content is greater than 60%, and most preferably, it is a highly purified extract of cannabis such that the CBDA is present at greater than 95%, through 96% and 97% to most preferably, greater than 98% of the total extract (w/w) and the other components of the extract are characterised. In particular the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or tetrahydrocannabinol acid (THCA) have been substantially removed. Alternatively, the CBDA may be synthetically produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Colin STOTT, Nicholas JONES, Robin WILLIAMS, Benjamin WHALLEY
  • Publication number: 20220053696
    Abstract: A lawn mower grass catcher having a monocoque container which is downwardly tapered from the rear end of the container to its front end, the rear end being open and larger in size than the front end. A front wall closes off the front end. A single continuous sheet of material forms a flat top wall, a curved side wall, and a flat bottom wall. The curved side wall is configured as a series of adjacently aligned, frustrum shape segments. This side wall extends downward from the top wall which is fixedly attached directly to the front wall and a flat side wall. The curved side wall is fixedly attached directly to the front wall and the bottom wall. The container of the grass catcher has a plurality of hole patterns. These hole patterns, in combination with the unique shape of the container, facilitate air flow through the grass catcher and thus the flow of loose grass clippings through and into the grass catcher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholas Jones
  • Publication number: 20220009832
    Abstract: A method of preparing a gypsum-based product comprises the steps of mixing calcined gypsum with polymer particles and water to provide a slurry. The polymer particles comprise principally polyvinyl acetate, and have a particle size distribution, measured using laser diffractometry, such that particles having a diameter of 4.5 ?m or less provide at least 90% of the total particle volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kirsty Walton, Nicholas Jones, David Cutler, Nicola Jupp, Laura Brooks
  • Publication number: 20210383745
    Abstract: An apparatus for efficiently driving visual displays via light-emitting devices may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a buck driver circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, wherein the buck driver circuit includes an inductor, and (3) a boost circuit electrically coupled between the buck driver circuit and a power source, wherein the boost circuit includes an additional inductor. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yuming Liu, Xiaobei Li, Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang, Sam Sarmast, Phillip Freeman King, Benjamin Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11147783
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a therapeutically effective amount of cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) in the treatment of epilepsy. In one embodiment the CBDA is used in the treatment of generalised seizures, preferably tonic-clonic seizures. Preferably the CBDA used is in the form of a botanical drug substance in which the CBDA content is greater than 60%, and most preferably, it is a highly purified extract of cannabis such that the CBDA is present at greater than 95%, through 96% and 97% to most preferably, greater than 98% of the total extract (w/w) and the other components of the extract are characterised. In particular the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or tetrahydrocannabinol acid (THCA) have been substantially removed. Alternatively, the CBDA may be synthetically produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GW Research Limited
    Inventors: Colin Stott, Nicholas Jones, Robin Williams, Benjamin Whalley
  • Patent number: 11145242
    Abstract: An apparatus for efficiently driving visual displays via light-emitting devices may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a buck driver circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, wherein the buck driver circuit includes an inductor, and (3) a boost circuit electrically coupled between the buck driver circuit and a power source, wherein the boost circuit includes an additional inductor. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yuming Liu, Xiaobei Li, Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang, Sam Sarmast, Phillip Freeman King, Benjamin Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: D931905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: D942489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Nicholas Jones, Stephen O. Lemay, Jay Moon
  • Patent number: D945464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou