Patents by Inventor Adrian Michael

Adrian Michael 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: 20170361559
    Abstract: A method of erecting a carton from a blank, including: engaging the blank with a punch head against which the carton is formed, folding side portions of the blank against the punch head to form sides of the carton; folding outer portions of the side portions of the blank away from the punch head and against an external side of the carton; folding end portions of the blank against the punch head to form end portions of the carton; folding outer portions of the end portions of the blank away from the punch head and against an external end of the carton; and securing corner gussets formed between the side and end portions against sides or ends of the carton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Grant Antony Crackett, Adrian Michael Dalgleish, Paul Merkel, Leighton Markham
  • Patent number: 9840047
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus and method for transporting contact lenses through dipping baths (2, 3, 4) for e.g. rinsing, extraction, coating or loading purposes. The lenses are individually accommodated in respective containers (5) which are capable of enabling a flow of treatment fluid (S) into and out of the container (5). During their automatic transport through the dipping baths (2, 3, 4) the containers (5) are held in carriers (6). Lifters (9) are provided for automatically lowering and raising the carriers (6) in a reciprocating manner along their travel through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4). The reciprocating lowering and raising of the containers (5) is accomplished such, that a portion of each container which accommodates a contact lens remains immersed in the treatment fluid (S) which is contained in the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) while the container (5) suspended from the carrier (6) is advanced through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) from a starting end to a leaving end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Roger Biel, Katrin Sylke Struckmeier, Adrian Michael Woodward, Stephen George Fleck
  • Patent number: 9819803
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of joining a user to a conference call event an interface associated with a time management software application is displayed. The interface displays information relating to the conference call event including a date for a conference call which is subject of the conference call event and a start time of the conference call. While displaying the interface, a menu offering one or more options is displayed; these one or more options include an option to join the conference call. When an indication of a selection of the option to join the conference call is received, information associated with the conference call is located; this information includes a telephone number for a conference call bridge. A connection with the conference call bridge using the telephone number is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Logan, Rohit Rocky Jain, Eric Allan Fritzley, Christopher Labrador, Michael Patrick McAndrews
  • Publication number: 20170089234
    Abstract: This invention relates to an oil reservoir system for an engine comprising: an oil container which includes an oil reservoir, which is in fluidic communication with an oil circulation system of an engine, a ventilated headspace and an oil filter located at the interior of said oil container. The invention also relates to a method for deaeration of an oil of an oil reservoir which is in fluidic communication with an oil circulation system of an engine. Furthermore, the invention relates to a vehicle comprising the oil reservoir system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Dawson, Steven Paul Goodier, Gary Howard, Adrian Michael Woodward
  • Publication number: 20170089235
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a dock for a replaceable fluid container for an engine, the fluid container having: a fluid reservoir; and at least one fluid port having a coupling adapted to couple with a fluid circulation system associated with the engine; the dock having: a fastening mechanism configured to cooperate with the container such that, as the container is inserted into the dock, the fastening mechanism acts first to seat the fluid container in the dock but in an undocked condition and then, as the container is inserted further into the dock, acts to bring the fluid container into an engaged condition in which the fluid container is docked with a docking interface of the dock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Dawson, Steven Paul Goodier, Gary Howard, Adrian Michael Woodward
  • Publication number: 20170081072
    Abstract: A packaging for foodstuff, including a base blank adapted to be erected into a carton for containing the foodstuff therein, the base blank including a liner paper that forms an internal surface of the carton and which has a release coating applied thereto; a lid blank adapted to form a lid that is securable to the carton so as to enclose the foodstuff within the carton, the lid blank including a liner paper that forms an internal surface of the lid which has a release coating applied thereto such that at least a part of the lid blank remains uncoated to permit bonding of the lid to an uncoated surface of the carton, wherein, the release coating is contactable with the food stuff and capable of providing clean release therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Adrian Michael Dalgleish
  • Publication number: 20170008653
    Abstract: Provided is a process for thermoforming a gas and liquid permeable layer (10) of thermoplastic material having an average thickness of less than 1.0 mm, the process comprising the steps of bringing the layer of thermoplastic material, at a temperature below that required for thermoforming, into contact with a mould (16) at a temperature above that of a thermoforming temperature of the thermoplastic material; pressing the mould into contact with the layer of thermoplastic material, the contact between mould and thermoplastic material causing heat to transfer from the mould to the thermoplastic material and raising the temperature of the thermoplastic material to a thermoformable temperature; such pressing thereby causing thermoforming of the thermoplastic material to conform to the shape of the mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventor: Adrian Michael Woodward
  • Patent number: 9525779
    Abstract: A method of managing communications services begins with a communications platform receiving a request for a communications service to be provided to a communications device by a source other than the communications platform. The communications platform determines an authorization of the communications device to receive the communications service. The authorization comprises a permission of the communications device to receive the communications service during a lifetime of a communications session maintained with the communications device. The communications network authorizes delivery of the communications service to the communications device during the lifetime of the communications session, in accordance with the authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Labrador, Brian Alexander Oliver, Douglas Michael Gisby, Susan Elizabeth Simon Daniels, Brian Edward Anthony McColgan, Adrian Michael Logan, Eric Allan Fritzley, Nicholas Patrick Alfano, Richard John George
  • Patent number: 9469065
    Abstract: Provided is a process for forming a sheet of thermoplastic material into a three-dimensional shape, the process comprising the steps of (i) forming the sheet at a temperature below its glass transition temperature to produce a first formed shape in the sheet, followed by (ii) raising the temperature of the first formed shape (20) to above its glass transition temperature whilst a male former (12), having at least a portion of its profile being substantially the same as that of the first formed shape (20), is positioned to substantially align at least a portion of its profile with that of the first formed shape (20), thereby restricting the first formed shape from shrinking back towards its original sheet form, followed by (iii) further forming the first formed shape (20) at a temperature below that of the glass transition temperature, to form a second formed shape (24), followed by (iv) raising the temperature of the second formed shape (24) to above its glass transition temperature whilst a male former (16),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzanne Emma Axe, Adrian Michael Woodward
  • Patent number: 9396346
    Abstract: A method is provided for use on an electronic device having a display, a communication component, a memory, and a processor coupled to the display, the communication component, and the memory. The memory stores data in a first sandbox and data in a second sandbox, the first sandbox being a secure sandbox and having a shadow data component, the shadow data component storing a subset of the data stored in the first sandbox. The method comprises, in response to a request, providing the data stored in the first sandbox when the first sandbox is in an unlocked mode and providing the data stored in the shadow data component when the first sandbox is in a locked mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Snow Willis, Jean-Philippe Lespinasse, Francois Leroux, Jasvir Jhaj, Praveena Asokan, Earl John Wikkerink, Alan Edward Falloon, Alan Geue, David Alan Inglis, Benton Hei Wah Lam, Christopher Scott Travers, Adrian Michael Logan, John William Cassidy
  • Patent number: 9354767
    Abstract: A multi-document application that includes a multi-document interface that includes a view area that displays one document at a time and includes a tab group element that displays tabs, each tab having a control that permits a corresponding document to be visualized in the view area. When a new document is opened in the multi-document application, the multi-document interface adds a new tab to the tab group element to represent the newly opened document. The user may configure the hiding criteria that is used to determine which tabs are hidden when there are too many tabs to be visualized in the tab group element, the sorting criteria for ordering the tabs that are visualized and/or the type of navigation control that may be used to change the subset of the tabs that are visualized in the tab group element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Radames Saul Cruz Moreno, Adrian Michael Collier, Pradyumna Siddhartha
  • Patent number: 9346569
    Abstract: A process for sequentially forming a plurality of enclosed containers (32) comprising a product, the process involving passing a continuous web (10), comprising a strip of container material having two opposing edges (4, 6), to a folding station (12), whereupon each open container is sequentially formed by folding the web, to bring into contact two contiguous edge portions (9a, 9b) from only one edge of the web, then sealing the two edges together to form a portion of the web into an open container, depositing the product onto the web so that it is held within the open containers, and then sealing the open containers to form the enclosed containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas David Reid Ford, James Robert Stirling Howarth, Adrian Michael Woodward
  • Publication number: 20160134572
    Abstract: Methods and devices for transmitting message attachments from a messaging server to a mobile device. The mobile device identifies if any of the attachments are of a first type and requests transmission, from the messaging server, of the identified attachments of the first type, if any. The device determines the remaining transmission capacity by subtracting the collective size of the message body received and the identified attachments of the first type, if any, from the initial data limit. Based on the remaining transmission capacity, the device determines that at least one of the one or more attachments, other than the identified attachments, has a size smaller than the remaining transmission capacity, and based on that determination, requests transmission of said at least one of the one or more attachments from the messaging server to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Michael LOGAN, Maxwell William BYRD, Ritwaj RATAN, Ronesh PURI, David Andrew BROWN
  • Patent number: 9300615
    Abstract: Methods and devices for generating an action item based on an email message are described. In one embodiment, a processor-implemented method is described. The method includes: receiving an email message via a communication subsystem; determining that the received email message includes a follow up flag that indicates that an action is required regarding the email message; and in response to determining that the received email message includes a follow up flag that indicates that an action is required regarding the email message, creating an action item based on the received email message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Joshua Roland Lessard, Peter Henry Mage, Stephen Kwok Sun Wong, Adrian Michael Logan
  • Publication number: 20160057286
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of joining a user to a conference call event an interface associated with a time management software application is displayed. The interface displays information relating to the conference call event including a date for a conference call which is subject of the conference call event and a start time of the conference call. While displaying the interface, a menu offering one or more options is displayed; these one or more options include an option to join the conference call. When an indication of a selection of the option to join the conference call is received, information associated with the conference call is located; this information includes a telephone number for a conference call bridge. A connection with the conference call bridge using the telephone number is initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Logan, Rohit Rocky Jain, Eric Allan Fritzley, Christopher Labrador, Michael Patrick McAndrews
  • Patent number: 9223825
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a processor-implemented method is described. The processor implemented method includes: associating a first notebook with one or more predetermined constraints; receiving input associating a data object with a notebook; and when the notebook associated with the data object is the first notebook, applying the one or more predetermined constraints associated with the first notebook to the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Adrian Michael Logan, Stephen Kwok Sun Wong, Joshua Roland Lessard
  • Publication number: 20150363602
    Abstract: A method is provided for use on an electronic device having a display, a communication component, a memory, and a processor coupled to the display, the communication component, and the memory. The memory stores data in a first sandbox and data in a second sandbox, the first sandbox being a secure sandbox and having a shadow data component, the shadow data component storing a subset of the data stored in the first sandbox. The method comprises, in response to a request, providing the data stored in the first sandbox when the first sandbox is in an unlocked mode and providing the data stored in the shadow data component when the first sandbox is in a locked mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Edward Snow WILLIS, Jean-Philippe LESPINASSE, Francois LEROUX, Jasvir JHAJ, Praveena ASOKAN, Earl John WIKKERINK, Alan Edward FALLOON, Alan GEUE, David Alan INGLIS, Benton Hei Wah LAM, Christopher Scott TRAVERS, Adrian Michael LOGAN, John William CASSIDY
  • Patent number: 9108368
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus and method for transporting contact lenses through dipping baths (2, 3, 4) for e.g. rinsing, extraction, coating or loading purposes. The lenses are individually accommodated in respective containers (5) which are capable of enabling a flow of treatment fluid (S) into and out of the container (5). During their automatic transport through the dipping baths (2, 3, 4) the containers (5) are held in carriers (6). Lifters (9) are provided for automatically lowering and raising the carriers (6) in a reciprocating manner along their travel through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4). The reciprocating lowering and raising of the containers (5) is accomplished such, that a portion of each container which accommodates a contact lens remains immersed in the treatment fluid (S) which is contained in the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) while the container (5) suspended from the carrier (6) is advanced through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) from a starting end to a leaving end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Roger Biel, Katrin Sylke Lorenz, Adrian Michael Woodward, Stephen George Fleck
  • Publication number: 20150209819
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus and method for transporting contact lenses through dipping baths (2, 3, 4) for e.g. rinsing, extraction, coating or loading purposes. The lenses are individually accommodated in respective containers (5) which are capable of enabling a flow of treatment fluid (S) into and out of the container (5). During their automatic transport through the dipping baths (2, 3, 4) the containers (5) are held in carriers (6). Lifters (9) are provided for automatically lowering and raising the carriers (6) in a reciprocating manner along their travel through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4). The reciprocating lowering and raising of the containers (5) is accomplished such, that a portion of each container which accommodates a contact lens remains immersed in the treatment fluid (S) which is contained in the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) while the container (5) suspended from the carrier (6) is advanced through the dipping bath (2, 3, 4) from a starting end to a leaving end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Roger Biel, Katrin Sylke Struckmeier, Adrian Michael Woodward, Stephen George Fleck
  • Publication number: 20150151902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of infusion packets, the process comprising: • (a) providing a first sheet of thermoplastic material (2) which is porous or non- porous; • (b) thermoforming portions of the first sheet into a three-dimensional shape; • (c) providing a second sheet of material; • (d) dosing an infusible substance into the thermoformed portions of the first sheet or onto the second sheet; • (e) sealing the first and second sheets together to form pockets containing the infusible substance such that each pocket includes at least one thermoformed portion of the first sheet; • (f) severing the pockets at the seals to form infusion packets each having a chamber containing the infusible substance,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER
    Inventor: Adrian Michael Woodward