Patents by Inventor Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson 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: 9532657Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the field of juvenile products, specifically infant support or nursing pillows, the intent of which is to support an infant in a variety of settings by providing a stable surface upon which to rest. Various embodiments include a generally crescent shaped device, comprised of a resilient fill material surrounded by a fabric shell and having a top and a bottom surface connected by a band of uniform width extending vertically and wholly about the perimeter of the pillow. The top and bottom surfaces are distinctly different in dimension, resulting in the pillow having an asymmetrical cross section, with one side having generally more loft and the other being substantially flat along a plane perpendicular to the perimeter band. A medial region between two extending arms forms a well, for the purpose of receiving a human torso or small child.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: KIDS II, INC.Inventors: Jacob Sclare, Peter Jackson, John Matthew Thomson, Cary Costello
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Publication number: 20160268807Abstract: A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Thomas J. Phillips, Joseph M. Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9407197Abstract: Illustratively, an electrical generator includes a photovoltaic element which converts light produced by a surface into electrical power, the surface located in thermal communication with exhaust gases produced by an exothermic chemical reaction; a heat exchanger which takes at least a majority of thermal energy in the exhaust gases, after the thermal communication, and transfers the thermal energy to air input to the reaction; a catalytic converter, inside the heat exchanger, located to ensure that at least most of the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter and that heat generated by operation of the catalytic converter is transferred to the air input to the reaction; a sensor in the heat exchanger, located to monitor the reaction before the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter; a sensor located to sense after the exhaust gases are communicated into the catalytic converter, whether the catalytic converter is functioning properly.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Green Light Industries, IncInventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9406957Abstract: Representatively, a method of separating carbon from hydrocarbon molecules, the method including: heating hydrocarbon molecules beyond their boiling point; decomposing the heated hydrocarbon molecules to generate elemental or molecular carbon and hydrogen gas; separating at least some of the elemental or molecular carbon from the hydrogen gas; chemically reacting the hydrogen gas to produce heat; and applying some of the heat in carrying out said heating.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: GREEN Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Jason Ryan Babcock, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Publication number: 20160140559Abstract: The present invention provides processing system that comprises an issuer function and a merchant function as part of a card processor. The issuer function is arranged to receive a first authorisation request from a first card scheme administrator associated with a first transaction card, the first authorisation request relating to a card transaction made by a cardholder using the first transaction card at a card acceptor and including a number of data elements. A mapping function is provided in the card processor that is arranged to convert the first authorisation request into a second authorisation request, the second authorisation request relating to a transaction associated with an account held with an institution, wherein the mapping function is arranged to use contents of at least some of the data elements of the first authorisation request to form the second authorisation request.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Thomas Peter Jordan, Philip David Hanson, Jeremy Peter Jackson
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Patent number: 9323299Abstract: A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Green Light Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Peter Jackson, Thomas J. Phillips, Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki
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Patent number: 9317587Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related IR systems, the present inventors recognized researchers often overlook some types of documents, such as legal encyclopedias and treatises that may be useful to them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that automatically search for other types of documents not specifically targeted by user queries. One exemplary system automatically submits a user query for legal opinions to first and second databases, with the first storing legal opinions and the second storing non-opinion documents, such as headnotes from the West Key Number System, articles from American Law Reports, and/or articles from American Jurisprudence.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global ResourcesInventors: Michael Dahn, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson
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Patent number: 9243727Abstract: A high temperature flexible pipe and method of making a high temperature flexible pipe is provided. The pipe can have an inner tubular layer formed of a high temperature thermoplastic, a first reinforcing layer, a second reinforcing layer and an outer sheath. In one aspect, an insulating layer may be provided between the second reinforcing layer and the outer sheath. A method of making a flexible pipe is also provided. The first reinforcing layer is wound around the inner tubular layer and the second reinforcing layer is wound around the first reinforcing layer. An outer sheaf can be formed over the second reinforcing layer. In another aspect, an insulating layer can be formed over the second reinforcing layer before an outer jacket is formed over the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: FLEXPIPE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Conley, Peter Jackson, Blaine Weller
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Patent number: 9226595Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of child containment devices, and specifically to a child containment device including a mechanism for holding a mattress in place on the floor of the containment device. According to an example embodiment, the invention comprises a side wall enclosure formed from one or more sidewall panels and a floor panel coupled to the sidewall enclosure to define a receptacle for receiving an infant or child. The invention further includes a mattress for placement upon the floor panel. A mattress retaining mechanism is coupled to the sidewall enclosure and is configured to hold the mattress in place against the floor panel, such that horizontal and vertical movement of mattress is considerably reduced or eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Kids II, Inc.Inventor: Peter Jackson
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Patent number: 9150876Abstract: The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA).Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignees: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORYInventors: David Peter Jackson, Namiko Satoh Nagasawa, Hajime Sakai, Nobuhiro Nagasawa
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Patent number: 9146202Abstract: Disclosed is an instrument for detecting neutron backscatter from an object including a source of neutrons (12), a neutron detector (14) capable of detecting thermal neutrons and a housing (10) which is impervious to water and having at least one external operating surface (20) for placing adjacent the object, the source and detector being located within the housing in such a way that the distance between the detector and the operating surface(s) is less than 25 mm and the distance between the detector and any other external surface of the housing is at least 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Thomas John Partington, Peter Jackson, Ken Pearson
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Publication number: 20150241572Abstract: The invention discloses a scanning method and apparatus suitable for scanning a pipeline or process vessel in which a beam of gamma radiation from a source is emitted through the vessel to be detected by an array of detectors which are each collimated to detect radiation over a narrow angle relative to the width of the emitted radiation beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Christopher Bowdon, Paul David Featonby, James Stephen Howstan, Peter Jackson, Kenneth James, Emanuele Ronchi
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Patent number: 9102656Abstract: This invention relates to the discovery of novel rosuvastatin analogs. More specifically, the invention relates to novel rosuvastatin analogs which have utility in treating conditions treatable by the inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: RedX Pharma LimitedInventors: Derek Lindsay, Peter Jackson
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Publication number: 20150219485Abstract: An instrument adapted for the determination of fluid levels within a vessel by the comparison of the density of the fluid along the length of the instrument, said instrument comprising: (i) at least one generally linear source array comprising a plurality of sources of penetrating radiation, shielding and collimation means and a source supporting structure for supporting the sources and shielding and collimation means in a linear array (ii) at least one generally linear detector array comprising a plurality of radiation detectors, supported on a detector support structure, capable of detecting radiation emitted by the sources, and (iii) means to position the source and a respective detector array such that (a) radiation emitted from each of the sources is capable of following a linear path from the source, through the vessel and material to at least a respective one of the detectors forming a part of the respective detector array, and (b) the linear axis of the source array and the linear axis of its respectiType: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: Johnson Matthey CatalystsInventors: Paul David FEATONBY, Peter Jackson, Benjamin Metcalfe, Thomas John Partington
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Patent number: 9035259Abstract: An instrument adapted for the determination of fluid levels within a vessel by the comparison of the density of the fluid along the length of the instrument, said instrument comprising: (i) at least one generally linear source array comprising a plurality of sources of penetrating radiation, shielding and collimation means and a source supporting structure for supporting the sources and shielding and collimation means in a linear array (ii) at least one generally linear detector array comprising a plurality of radiation detectors, supported on a detector support structure, capable of detecting radiation emitted by the sources, and (iii) means to position the source and a respective detector array such that (a) radiation emitted from each of the sources is capable of following a linear path from the source, through the vessel and material to at least a respective one of the detectors forming a part of the respective detector array, and (b) the linear axis of the source array and the linear axis of its respectiType: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLCInventors: Paul David Featonby, Peter Jackson, Benjamin Metcalfe, Thomas John Partington
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Patent number: 9006282Abstract: This invention relates to the discovery of novel rosuvastatin and atorvastatin analogues.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Redx Pharma LimitedInventors: Derek Lindsay, Peter Jackson, Stephen Hindley, Inder Bhamra
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Publication number: 20150094474Abstract: The present invention relates to derivatives of compounds which are known to be of use in the field of agriculture. These derivatives are differentiated from the parent active compound by virtue of being redox derivatives of the active compound. This means that one or more of the functional groups in the active compound has been converted to another group in one or more changes one or more of which may be considered to represent a change of oxidation state relative to the groups in the original compound. We refer to these compounds generally as redox derivatives. The compounds are of use as insecticides, herbicides and insect repellents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: William Thompson, Peter Jackson, Derek Lindsay, Thomas Screen, Benjamin Moulton, Christopher Urch
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Publication number: 20150059019Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating an agronomic characteristic of a plant are provided. Methods are provided for modulating the expression of Abph2 sequence in a host plant or plant cell to modulate agronomic characteristics such as altered ear number and increased yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: David Peter Jackson, Stephen M. Allen, Robyn Johnston, Victor Llaca, Fang Yang
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Publication number: 20150047071Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating shoot apical meristem size are provided. Methods are provided for modulating the expression of fea3 sequence in a host plant or plant cell to modulate agronomic characteristics such as altered size and number of organs, including plant seeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORYInventors: Stephen M. Allen, David Peter Jackson, Byoung Il Je, Mai Komatsu, Young Koung Lee, Hajime Sakai
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Publication number: 20150033415Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating shoot apical meristem size are provided. Methods are provided for modulating the expression of Fea4 sequence in a host plant or plant cell to modulate agronomic characteristics such as altered size and number of organs, including plant seeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: E I DuPont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Stephen M. Allen, David Peter Jackson, Mai Komatsu, Michael Pautler, Hajime Sakai, Erik Vollbrecht, Rebecca Weeks