Patents by Inventor Richard A. Grant

Richard A. Grant 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: 20110029316
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Grant, Pedro E. McGregor
  • Patent number: 7827035
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Grant, Pedro McGregor
  • Patent number: 7819029
    Abstract: There is also provided an apparatus for use on an automated pipette machine for transmitting pressure changes produced by a pump on the machine to a pipette nozzle. The apparatus comprises a housing defining a chamber a first conduit and a second conduit. The first conduit extends into the chamber and has a first opening positioned in the chamber. The first conduit is fluidically connectible to the nozzle. The second conduit extends into the chamber and has a first opening positioned in the chamber. The second conduit is fluidically connectible to the pump. The first opening of the first conduit is positioned above the first opening of the second conduit. The chamber defines at least a selected volume between the height of the first opening of the first conduit and the height of the first opening of the second conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Stemcell Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Angus, Fred Davis, Adam Donath, Richard Grant, Dirk Kurpershoek
  • Patent number: 7814805
    Abstract: A pipette nozzle is provided for use on a movable arm on an automated pipette machine. The pipette nozzle includes a body defining a passage therethrough and having at least two seating surfaces provided on the body. The first seating surface is configured to receive and sealingly mate with a first size of pipette tip in a manner such that the first end of the passage is in fluid communication with the first size of pipette tip. The second seating surface is configured to correspondingly receive, sealingly mate and provide passage first end fluid communication with a second size of pipette tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Stemcell Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Angus, Fred Davis, Adam Donath, Richard Grant, Dirk Kurpershoek
  • Patent number: 7746634
    Abstract: The rear panel of an electronics enclosure includes one or more heat exchangers. The rear panel can be cooling door configured to provide access to the cables and equipment located within the electronics enclosure. Such access can be provided by swinging the door open on hinges like a standard door. In the case where there are multiple heat exchangers, the door can be configured into segments, one segment per heat exchanger, and each segment includes hinges so as to be opened independently from the other segments. In some embodiments, each segment swivels open like a standard door. In other embodiments, each segment is configured to swivel up or down about a horizontal axis. In still other embodiments, each segment is configured to be disconnected from the electronics enclosure and moved out of the way, in which case each heat exchanger is connected using either flexible tubing that can be bent out of the way or quick disconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: James Hom, Hae-won Choi, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Douglas E. Werner, Norman Chow, Adrian Correa, Brandon Leong, Sudhakar Gopalakrishnan, Richard Grant Brewer, Mark McMaster, Girish Upadhya
  • Patent number: 7715194
    Abstract: A cooling system is used to cool heat generating devices within a personal computer. The cooling system has a first fluid loop and an expandable array of one or more second fluid loops. For each of the second fluid loops, heat generating devices transfer heat to fluid flowing through corresponding heat exchanging devices in the loop. Heat is transferred from the fluid in each second fluid loop to a thermal bus of the first fluid loop via a thermal interface. The second fluid loop can be a pumped fluid loop or can include a heat pipe. Within the first fluid loop, a fluid is continuously pumped from the thermal bus to a fluid-to-air heat exchanging system and back to the thermal bus. Heat transferred to the thermal bus from the first fluid loop is transferred to the fluid in the second fluid loop passing through the thermal bus. The heated fluid is pumped through the fluid-to-air heat exchanging system where the heat is transferred from the fluid to the ambient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Grant Brewer, Norman Chow, James Hom
  • Patent number: 7660117
    Abstract: A duct work assembly is coupled to an end of an electronics enclosure that houses one or more heat generating devices, such as electronics servers. The duct work assembly includes individual duct guides that each have a deformable end, which is configured to locally deform around the electrical connection lines extending from the rear of one or more electronics servers. The deformable end can be made of bristles, as in a brush, or foam that includes slits and/or holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas E. Werner, James Hom, Hae-won Choi, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Richard Grant Brewer
  • Publication number: 20090249223
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer devices, and computer software for providing an asynchronous online viewing party are provided. One embodiment comprises a system for providing an online viewing party. One such system comprises: a server operatively coupled to a database for supporting the online viewing party, the database comprising: content to be asynchronously provided to participants of the online viewing party; and time-based events provided by one or more of the participants, the time-based events associated with the content and linked to corresponding locations in the content; and a user interface configured to interface with the server, the user interface comprising logic configured to display the content and the time-based events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan David Barsook, David Christian Ehlers, Jason Richard Grant, Khai Tuan Tran, David John Watson, Nicklas Lee Wilson
  • Publication number: 20090225513
    Abstract: A cooling door assembly includes a frame and a cooling door coupled to the frame. The cooling door includes one or more heat exchangers. The frame is configured to mount to the back of a server rack or other electronics enclosure in such a manner that the cooling door opens to allow access to the electronics servers within the server rack while maintaining a fluidic connection to an external cooling system. The frame is coupled to the external cooling system and the cooling door includes swivel joints configured to provide a fluid path between the cooling door and the frame. In this manner, the frame remains in a fixed position, while the cooling door is configured to rotate relative to the frame so as to open and close, while maintaining the fluid path through the swivel joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Adrian Correa, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, James Hom, Gregory Shiomoto, Norman Chow, Brandon Leong, Richard Grant Brewer, Douglas E. Werner, Mark McMaster
  • Publication number: 20090225514
    Abstract: A cooling door assembly includes a frame and a cooling door coupled to the frame. The cooling door includes one or more heat exchangers. The frame is configured to mount to the back of a server rack or other electronics enclosure in such a manner that the cooling door opens to allow access to the electronics servers within the server rack while maintaining a fluidic connection to an external cooling system. The frame is coupled to the external cooling system and the cooling door includes swivel joints configured to provide a fluid path between the cooling door and the frame. In this manner, the frame remains in a fixed position, while the cooling door is configured to rotate relative to the frame so as to open and close, while maintaining the fluid path through the swivel joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Adrian Correa, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, James Hom, Gregory Shiomoto, Norman Chow, Brandon Leong, Richard Grant Brewer, Douglas E. Werner, Mark McMaster
  • Publication number: 20090225515
    Abstract: A thermal bus enables the use of multiple separate heat pipe assemblies instead of using a single heat pipe assembly spanning the distance from heat source to cold plate. The use of a thermal bus can decrease the orientation effects as well as decrease the travel length of any single heat pipe assembly. In addition, the use of multiple heat pipe assemblies enables each individual heat pipe assembly to be optimized to meet localized heat transfer characteristics between each heat source, the thermal bus, and the cold plate. Such optimization can include the use of differently sized heat pipes, wick structures within the heat pipe, and working fluid used within the heat pipe. The thermal bus provides an intermediate thermal transfer from one heat pipe assembly serially coupled to another heat pipe assembly, thereby enabling multiple serially coupled heat pipe assemblies to transfer heat from a given heat source to the cold plate at the edge of the electronics board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: James Hom, Richard Grant Brewer, Hae-won Choi
  • Publication number: 20090204071
    Abstract: Medicament devices include a sealed medicament dose container comprising a cell based medicament that is stored at a temperature less than about ?40 degrees Celsius, then thawed into a liquid prior to administration and a medicament dose cartridge configured and sized to snugly hold the dose container therein during extraction of the liquid medicament. Related dose containers, retainers and extraction/dispensing systems are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Argos Therapeuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Grant, Christopher John Leigh-Lancaster, Andrew Zipsin, Timothy Peele, Ian S. Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20090046423
    Abstract: The rear panel of an electronics enclosure includes one or more heat exchangers. The rear panel can be cooling door configured to provide access to the cables and equipment located within the electronics enclosure. Such access can be provided by swinging the door open on hinges like a standard door. In the case where there are multiple heat exchangers, the door can be configured into segments, one segment per heat exchanger, and each segment includes hinges so as to be opened independently from the other segments. In some embodiments, each segment swivels open like a standard door. In other embodiments, each segment is configured to swivel up or down about a horizontal axis. In still other embodiments, each segment is configured to be disconnected from the electronics enclosure and moved out of the way, in which case each heat exchanger is connected using either flexible tubing that can be bent out of the way or quick disconnects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: James Hom, Hae-won Choi, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Douglas E. Werner, Norman Chow, Adrian Correa, Brandon Leong, Sudhakar Gopalakrishnan, Richard Grant Brewer, Mark McMaster, Girish Upadhya
  • Publication number: 20090044928
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing cracking of a liquid system includes an enclosure and one or more compressible objects immersed in the enclosure. According to the present invention, the enclosure is configured to cause a fluid to begin to freeze at a location in the enclosure, and for freezing to advance towards the one or more compressible objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Girish Upadhya, Richard Grant Brewer, Mark McMaster
  • Publication number: 20090046430
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a re-configurable duct work assembly for a server rack or other electronics enclosure. Heat generating devices are positioned within the electronics enclosure and heat exchangers are coupled to the heat generating devices via the duct work. The duct work is positioned within a plenum between the back of the electronics servers and the heat exchangers. The interior of the electronics enclosure is conceptually segmented into heat zones. The duct work is used to selectively direct heated air to the heat exchangers. In some embodiments, the heated air output from a single heat zone is directed by the duct work to a corresponding single heat exchanger. In other embodiments, the heated air output from a group of adjacent heat zones is combined within a single duct work guide that directs the combined heated air to a corresponding number of adjacent heat exchangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Richard Grant Brewer, Hae-won Choi, James Hom, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Douglas E. Werner
  • Publication number: 20090046429
    Abstract: A duct work assembly is coupled to an end of an electronics enclosure that houses one or more heat generating devices, such as electronics servers. The duct work assembly includes individual duct guides that each have a deformable end, which is configured to locally deform around the electrical connection lines extending from the rear of one or more electronics servers. The deformable end can be made of bristles, as in a brush, or foam that includes slits and/or holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Douglas E. Werner, James Hom, Hae-won Choi, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Richard Grant Brewer
  • Patent number: 7485172
    Abstract: A method of providing gas to a system which separates from a pressurized supply gas, product gas, includes conditioning the supply gas by both cooling and drying the supply gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Honeywell Normalair-Garrett (Holdings) Limited
    Inventors: Richard James Axe, Richard Grant Hunt
  • Publication number: 20090024391
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to route those voice initiated inputs to the required applications or processes. The use of an intelligent context based parser allows the system to intelligently determine what processes are required to complete a task which is initiated using natural language. A single window environment provides an interface which is comfortable to the user by preventing the occurrence of distracting windows from appearing. The single window has a plurality of facets which allow distinct viewing areas. Each facet has an independent process routing its outputs thereto. As other processes are activated, each facet can reshape itself to bring a new process into one of the viewing areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: EASTERN INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Grant, Pedro E. McGregor
  • Publication number: 20090007703
    Abstract: A pipette nozzle is provided for use on a movable arm on an automated pipette machine. The pipette nozzle includes a body defining a passage therethrough. At least two seating surfaces are provided on the body, including a first seating surface and a second seating surface. The first seating surface is configured to receive and sealingly mate with a first size of pipette tip in a manner such that the first end of the passage is in fluid communication with the first size of pipette tip. The second seating surface is configured to receive and sealingly mate with a second size of pipette tip in a manner such that the first end of the passage is in fluid communication with the second size of pipette tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: StemCell Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Angus, Fred Davis, Adam Donath, Richard Grant, Dirk Kurpershoek
  • Publication number: 20080295618
    Abstract: A pipette nozzle is provided for use on a movable arm on an automated pipette machine. The pipette nozzle includes a body defining a passage therethrough. At least two seating surfaces are provided on the body, including a first seating surface and a second seating surface. The first seating surface is configured to receive and sealingly mate with a first size of pipette tip in a manner such that the first end of the passage is in fluid communication with the first size of pipette tip. The second seating surface is configured to receive and sealingly mate with a second size of pipette tip in a manner such that the first end of the passage is in fluid communication with the second size of pipette tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: StemCell Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Angus, Fred Davis, Adam Donath, Richard Grant, Dirk Kurpershoek