Patents Assigned to Auckland Uniservices Limited
  • FIRE RETARDANT POLYPROPYLENE
    Publication number: 20140179848
    Abstract: A fire retardant material comprising preferably at least 60% polypropylene having a flexural modulus of 2.8 GPa or above and a fire retardancy rating of UL-94 V-1 or better. The fire retardant material is preferably halogen and glass-fibre free. It may contain a fire retardant agent (e.g. a polymeric APP-crystal phase II type fire retardant fire retardant) and a filler. Also methods for producing such a fire retardant material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Ralph Paul Cooney, Kaluachchl Gamage Karnlka De Silva
  • INTERACTIVE GAMING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140171195
    Abstract: An interactive gaming system for a user suffering tinnitus. The system comprises a game machine configured to provide a game scenario in which the user's performance in the game scenario is based on the user's response to audio cue arrangements comprising a combination of sounds, and where at least one of the sounds has one or more sound characteristics, that are configured based on one or more sound characteristics of the user's perceived tinnitus. The system further comprises an audio delivery device or devices that are driven by the game machine to present the audio cue arrangements to the user in accordance with the game scenario and a user interface in signal communication with the game machine and which is operable by a user to interact with the game scenario by responding to the audio cue arrangements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Grant Donald Searchfield, Kei Kobayashi, Kimberly Wise
  • POLYMERIZATION METHOD AND PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20140155571
    Abstract: Methods of preparing a polyaniline homopolymer or copolymer comprising at least one carboxylic acid group, and homopolymers or copolymers arising therefrom, the methods comprising: preparing a solution of a polyaniline precursor having at least one aromatic amine group and at least one carboxylic acid group (eg. 2-aminobenzoic acid, 3-aminobenzoic acid or 4-aminobenzoic acid) in a solvent selected from aqueous methanesulfonic acid or aqueous ammonia and optionally one or more additional polyaniline precursors (such as aniline); and oxidatively polymerising the polyaniline precursor or precursors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ralph Cooney
  • Lactoferrin
    Patent number: 8703699
    Abstract: A pure lactoferrin polypeptide containing no more than two metal ions per molecule, or a mixture of the polypeptide and a fragment thereof. The polypeptide or the mixture stimulates skeletal growth and inhibits bone resorption. Also disclosed is a method of treating a bone-related disorder with the polypeptide or the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Jillian Cornish, Ian Reginald Reid, Kate Patricia Palmano, Neill Ward Haggarty
  • BIOACTIVE ANILINE COPOLYMERS
    Publication number: 20140105849
    Abstract: Aniline copolymers and the synthesis thereof for use as antimicrobial (antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral material) material for the manufacture of antimicrobial objects, suitable for use in the health, food, packaging, water, paint, wood, textile, poultry, glass, paper, rubber, ceramic, seafood, sports, plastic and agricultural industries. The copolymer may be for example (A): where for example R3=H5—CO2H, —CO2Me, or CO2Et, R is typically H or a C1-C6 alkyl, x is an integer between 1 and 0 and m indicates the degree of polymerization. Preferred copolymers are copolymers of aniline with 3-aminobenzoic acid, 2-amonobenzoic acid and ethyl 3-aminobenzoate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventor: Auckland UniServices Limited
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND PRESENTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20140098103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a networked computer system for retrieving and displaying information, comprising a front-end sub-system and a back-end sub-system. The back-end comprises one or more selectable pipelines for processing the user query, each comprising one or more component software modules selected from a library of modular component software modules having predefined functions or created by a user to cooperate in extracting and processing extracted data, wherein at least one of the one or more pipelines may be customized by modifying either or both of a selection or sequence of the component software modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN HIRSCH, JOHN HOSKING, JOHN GRUNDY
  • Vesiculins
    Publication number: 20140088024
    Abstract: The inventions relate generally to vesiculin peptides and vesiculin peptide chains, and fragments, variants and derivatives thereof, related compositions and formulations and their preparation and use, nucleic acids encoding such vesiculin peptides and vesiculin peptide chains, and fragments, variants and derivatives thereof and related vectors and host cells, hybridomas and antibodies, and methods for the prevention and treatment of conditions, diseases and disorders that would be improved, eased, or lessened by the administration of a composition of the invention, including but not limited to glucose metabolism diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Christina Maree BUCHANAN, Garth James Smith COOPER
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GASTRO-INTESTINAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20140058282
    Abstract: A gastro-electrical activity mapping system and method may comprise a catheter insertable through a natural orifice into the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract and comprising an array of electrodes for contacting an interior surface of a section of the GI tract to detect electrical potentials at multiple electrodes, and comprises a signal analysis and mapping system arranged to receive and process electrical signals from multiple electrodes of the array and spatially map GI smooth muscle electrical activity as an activation time map, a velocity map, or an amplitude map, which may be in the form of contour plots and may be mapped on an anatomical computer model of at least the section of the GI tract and may be animated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Gregory B. O'Grady, Leo K. Cheng, Andrew J. Pullan, Peng Du, Nira Paskaranandavadivel, Timothy R. Angeli, Gianrico Farrugia, Samuel J. Asirvatham
  • INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER PICK UP CIRCUITS
    Publication number: 20140035382
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT) pick-up circuit for receiving power from a primary conductor has a pick-up coil (L2) and a compensation capacitor (C2) so that the pick-up coil (L2) may be resonant at the system operating frequency a switch (S1, S2), and a plurality of reactive elements (L3, C3) whereby when the switch is in one of an on state or an off state the additional reactive elements (L3, C3) are resonant at the operating frequency to reduce power being supplied to an output of the pick-up circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, Daniel James Robertson
  • Actuator
    Patent number: 8638024
    Abstract: The invention provides an actuator for an electric motor and an electric motor including said actuator. The actuator includes one or more body formed from a dielectric elastomer, each body having at least one active region that is directly or indirectly coupled to a drive means. The active regions are arranged such that, in use, actuation thereof causes driven means to move with components in at least first and second directions, preferably within a plane of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices, Limited
    Inventors: Iain Alexander Anderson, Benjamin Marc O'Brien, Thomas Gregory McKay, Todd Alan Gisby, Emilio Patricio Calius, Scott Hayden Walbran, Thomas Swithun Hale
  • Communication apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8639191
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a communication path capable of conveying communication signals, a communication device adapted to receive or generate VHF or UHF communication signals, and a near field antenna associated with the communication device. The near field antenna is provided sufficiently near to the communication path to couple VHF or UHF communication signals to or from the communication device to the communication path. A HID/IPT system and a communication method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventor: John Talbot Boys
  • Substituted Benzamides and Their Uses
    Publication number: 20140024649
    Abstract: Provided herein are Substituted Benzamides, compositions, and method of their manufacture and use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicants: Auckland UniServices Limited, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Amato Giaccia, Edwin Lai, Olga Razorenova, Denise Chan, Michael Patrick Hay, Muriel Bonnet, Connie Sun, Ray Tabibiazar, Po-wai Yuen
  • Vesiculins
    Patent number: 8618051
    Abstract: The inventions relate generally to vesiculin peptides and vesiculin peptide chains, and fragments, variants and derivatives thereof, related compositions and formulations and their preparation and use, nucleic acids encoding such vesiculin peptides and vesiculin peptide chains, and fragments, variants and derivatives thereof and related vectors and host cells, hybridomas and antibodies, and methods for the prevention and treatment of conditions, diseases and disorders that would be improved, eased, or lessened by the administration of a composition of the invention, including but not limited to glucose metabolism diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Christina Maree Buchanan, Garth James Smith Cooper
  • Training Device
    Publication number: 20130338546
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for controlling of movement of limbs of a user in a substantially mirror symmetrical manner, a user's limb or limbs being held in position via support arms, said device comprising a bar (or bars) adapted to move about a point of rotation, said bar (or bars) having a first end and a second end, said ends separated by the point of rotation, a first support arm(s) operatively coupled at or towards one end of said bar and a second support arm(s) operatively coupled at or towards a different end of the bar wherein the first and second support arms are adapted to substantially support and/or hold the limbs of a user of said device, the first and second support arms and the bar (or bars) configured such that, in use, as the bar (or bars) rotate(s) the support arms move in a substantially tandem synchronised manner with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Winston Dean John Byblow, James William Stinear, Raymond Wayne Prikkel
  • Inductively coupled power transfer system
    Patent number: 8581442
    Abstract: An inductively coupled power transfer system has a power pick-up that uses an asymmetrical magnetically permeable core (103, 105, 106, 107). Such cores have been found to provide a significant increase in the output power for given losses and given core volume when transferring power from a primary conductive path (101) to a secondary coil (104) provided on the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic, Dariusz Kacprzak
  • BACTERIAL NITROREDUCTASE ENZYMES AND METHODS RELATING THERETO
    Publication number: 20130295011
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to bacterial nitroreductase enzymes and methods of use thereof: More particularly, although not exclusively, said enzymes have use in non-invasive imaging techniques, monitoring of therapeutic cell populations and gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy. The invention also relates to the use of bacterial nitroreductase enzymes in radioimaging and/or ablation of biological agents and to compositions of use in such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicants: VICTORIA LINK LIMITED, AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Guise, David Francis Ackerley, Amir Ashoorzadeh, Janine Naomi Copp, Jack Urquhart Flanagan, Alexandra Marie Mowday, Adam Vorn Patterson, Gareth Adrian Prosser, Jeffrey Bruce Smaill, Sophie Phillipa Syddall, Elsie May Williams
  • DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER SELF-SENSING USING PLANE APPROXIMATION
    Publication number: 20130285577
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining feedback parameters related to the state of a dielectric elastomer (DE). The method comprises introducing a small-scale oscillation to the voltage difference between electrodes of the DE, monitoring or repeatedly measuring several measurable electrical characteristics of the DE, deriving other relevant data from the measurements, deriving an equation for a plane of best fit through the relevant data when defined as orthogonal axes, and deriving the feedback parameters from coefficients of the plane equation. The method thus provides important feedback regarding the capacitance, leakage current and/or electrode resistance of the DE. Also disclosed are a computer program and a system adapted to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Benjamin Marc O'Brien, Todd Alan Gisby, Iain Alexander Anderson
  • INDUCTIVE POWER RECEIVER APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130285463
    Abstract: A magnetic flux pad (BPP) is provided for receiving magnetic flux. The pad may be used with an inductive power transfer system, and comprises a magnetically permeable core (4) and two substantially flat overlapping coils (2, 3) magnetically associated with the core (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, Mickel Bipin Budhia
  • INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER CONTROL
    Publication number: 20130272044
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT) control method is disclosed for controlling the output of an IPT pick-up. The invention involves selectively shunting first and second diodes of a diode bridge to selectively rectify an AC current input for supply to a load, or recirculate the AC current to a resonant circuit coupled to the input of the controller. By controlling the proportion of each positive-negative cycle of the AC input which is rectified/recirculated, the output is regulated. Also disclosed is an IPT controller adapted to perform the method, an IPT pick-up incorporating the IPT controller, and an IPT system incorporating at least one such IPT pick-up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic, Chang-Yu Huang
  • INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130270921
    Abstract: An IPT system magnetic flux pad includes two substantially planar coils (17) in close proximity to each other above a magnetically permeable core (14). The coils (17) each define a pole area (11, 12) and the distance between one or more adjacent turns of the coils (17) located in a region between the pole areas (11, 12) being different from the distance between one or more adjacent turns of the coils (17) located outside the region between the pole areas (11, 12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic, Mickel Bipin Budhia