Patents by Inventor Adrian Roberts
Adrian Roberts 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: 8582054Abstract: Some implementations include a liquid crystal display with focused illumination. For example, a light source emitting a plurality of discrete colors may be focused onto a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixels and each pixel may have regions corresponding to the colors emitted by the light source. Light of each color can be focused onto the regions of the pixels corresponding to that color.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
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Publication number: 20130219383Abstract: Various embodiments enable installable applications that are to be used on a local client machine to utilize an application cache manifest file that resides remotely, on the web, to define various resources that are to be updated and available offline after the installable application has been deployed on the local client machine Whenever the content of the manifest file is updated on the web, the installed application automatically updates its local application cache resources and allows the installed application to use those resources offline. This is done without having to install a new update of the application or burden the user with having to navigate to a location to obtain the updated content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Israel Hilerio, David Vaughn Winkler, Daniel R. Thornton, Matthew R. Cox, Karen Elizabeth Parker Anderson, Jesse D. McGatha, Adrian Robert Bateman
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Publication number: 20130118897Abstract: An anode and backfill steel protector combination for inserting into at least one cavity which is mechanically formed in steel reinforced concrete. The anode and the backfill steel protector combination comprises an anode for insertion into the at least one cavity with the anode comprising a sacrificial metal element less noble than steel and a backfill which comprises a viscous and pliable ionically conductive material for insertion into the at least one cavity. The backfill is packaged within a cartridge and the cartridge is a cartridge for use with a cartridge which facilitates injecting the backfill from the cartridge into the at least cavity formed in the concrete. The backfill in a cartridge has a shelf life of at least 2 days.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Gareth GLASS, Nigel DAVISON, Adrian ROBERTS
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Publication number: 20130118916Abstract: A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable fo supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven fromt eh sacrificial metal [1] to the steel [10] using a power source [5] converting oxygen and water [14] into hydroxyl ions [15] on the steel and drawing chloride ions [16] into the porous material [2] around the anode such that corroding sites are moved from the steel to the anode restoring steel passivity and activating the anode. Cathodic prevention is them applied. This is preferably sacrificial cathodic prevention that is applied by disconnecting the power source and connecting the activated sacrificial node directly to the steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2013Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Gareth GLASS, Adrian Roberts, Nigel Davison
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Patent number: 8349166Abstract: A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete. The anode system comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable of supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven from the sacrificial metal (1) to the steel (10) using a power source (5) for converting oxygen and water (14) into hydroxyl ions (15) on the steel and drawing chloride ions (16) into the porous material (2) around the anode such that corroding sites are moved from the steel to the anode restoring steel passivity and activating the anode. Cathodic prevention is then applied. This is preferably a sacrificial cathodic prevention which is applied by disconnecting the power source and connecting the activated sacrificial node directly to the steel.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventors: Gareth Glass, Adrian Roberts, Nigel Davison
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Patent number: 8337677Abstract: The installation and use of embedded sacrificial anodes to protect reinforced concrete may be improved. In one example a cavity [2] is formed in the concrete [3] and a puttylike backfill [4] is placed in the cavity and a compact discrete anode comprising a sacrificial metal element [1] is inserted into the backfill and a space is provided into which the backfill may move when subjected to a pressure arising from the formation of voluminous sacrificial meal corrosion products and a high current is passed from the anode to the steel in the concrete to arrest steel corrosion and activate the anode in the backfill. The space may be provided by venting the backfill to space outside the cavity through an opening [5] or by including a void space within the backfill [6] or a void space within the cavity [7].Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Inventors: Gareth Glass, Nigel Davison, Adrian Roberts
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Patent number: 8334786Abstract: Apparatus for the wireless transmission of data, and preferably also of power, across a space between a length of production tubing and a surrounding casing in a petrochemical well, includes a pair of inductively-coupled coils, a first of which is located on the exterior of the production tubing generally coaxially therewith, and the second of which is located on the interior of the casing generally coaxially therewith. This may be used in particular as part of a system for transmitting power and data to/from a sensor monitoring the pressure and/or other environmental conditions within the “B” annulus B of a sub-sea well.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Qinetiq LimitedInventors: Adrian Robert Bowles, Stuart John Eaton, Timothy Rupert Charles Jarman, Michael William Hopkins
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Patent number: 8163526Abstract: A method for increasing production of ethanol in an ethanologenic cell using an autoinducer molecule, for example, AI-2.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: The University of DurhamInventors: Adrian Robert Walmsley, Maria Ines Borges-Walmsley, Jung Woo Yang
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Publication number: 20120069270Abstract: Some implementations include a liquid crystal display with focused illumination. For example, a light source emitting a plurality of discrete colors may be focused onto a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixels and each pixel may have regions corresponding to the colors emitted by the light source. Light of each color can be focused onto the regions of the pixels corresponding to that color.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventor: Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
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Patent number: 8133041Abstract: A high pressure pump for use in the injection of liquid chemicals into subsea oil or gas wells, and intended to be positioned in the subsea environment adjacent to the wellhead, comprises a piezoelectric actuator (19) for reciprocating a plunger (22) which acts to compress and expand the effective volume of a pumping chamber (29) having a valved inlet (15) connected to a source of the liquid and a valved outlet (16) to lead the liquid to the well. The device has a minimum of moving parts and in particular avoids the need for any rotating parts and attendant high performance bearings and seals.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Qinetiq LimitedInventors: Jeremy Leonard Clive Ludlow, Jonathan Geoffrey Gore, Adrian Robert Bowles, Mark Gregory Maylin, Richard Carson McBride, Abdul-Salam Kaddour, Ahmed Yehia Amin Abdel-Rahman
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Patent number: 8085364Abstract: A liquid crystal display with focused illumination is described. In an example, a light-source emitting a plurality of discrete colors is focused onto a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixels and each pixel has regions corresponding to the colors emitted by the light-source. Light of each color is focused onto the regions of the pixels corresponding to that color.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
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Patent number: 8082509Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating a list of virtual collaboration facilities associated with an authenticated user, and detecting selection of one of the virtual collaboration facilities on the list. An authenticated user can request a key to be issued to allow an unauthenticated user to gain access to the selected virtual collaboration facility.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Garry S. Orsolini, Adrian Robert Pell, Kevin Hutler
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Publication number: 20110303530Abstract: The installation and use of embedded sacrificial anodes to protect reinforced concrete may be improved. In one example a cavity [2] is formed in the concrete [3] and a puttylike backfill [4] is placed in the cavity and a compact discrete anode comprising a sacrificial metal element [1] is inserted into the backfill and a space is provided into which the backfill may move when subjected to a pressure arising from the formation of voluminous sacrificial meal corrosion products and a high current is passed from the anode to the steel in the concrete to arrest steel corrosion and activate the anode in the backfill. The space may be provided by venting the backfill to space outside the cavity through an opening [5] or by including a void space within the backfill [6] or a void space within the cavity [7].Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Gareth GLASS, Nigel DAVISON, Adrian ROBERTS
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Publication number: 20110187293Abstract: An illuminator for a flat-panel display comprises a tapered slab waveguide 1 co-extensive with the display, a light source 2-4 arranged to inject light into an edge of the waveguide so that it emerges over the face of the waveguide, and means for scanning the light injected into the wedge so that different areas of the panel are illuminated in turn. Preferably the light source is a set of rows of LEDs, each row injecting light at a different range of angles so that it emerges over different areas of the waveguide 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventor: Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
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Publication number: 20110168571Abstract: A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete. The anode system comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable of supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven from the sacrificial metal (1) to the steel (10) using a power source (5) for converting oxygen and water (14) into hydroxyl ions (15) on the steel and drawing chloride ions (16) into the porous material (2) around the anode such that corroding sites are moved from the steel to the anode restoring steel passivity and activating the anode. Cathodic prevention is then applied. This is preferably a sacrificial cathodic prevention which is applied by disconnecting the power source and connecting the activated sacrificial node directly to the steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Gareth GLASS, Adrian ROBERTS, Nigel DAVISON
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Publication number: 20110163890Abstract: Apparatus for the wireless transmission of data, and preferably also of power, across a space between a length of production tubing and a surrounding casing in a petrochemical well, includes a pair of inductively-coupled coils, a first of which is located on the exterior of the production tubing generally coaxially therewith, and the second of which is located on the interior of the casing generally coaxially therewith. This may be used in particular as part of a system for transmitting power and data to/from a sensor monitoring the pressure and/or other environmental conditions within the “B” annulus B of a sub-sea well.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: QINETIQ LIMITEDInventors: Adrian Robert Bowles, Stuart John Eaton, Timothy Rupert Charles Jarman, Michael William Hopkins
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Patent number: 7944428Abstract: An illuminator for a flat-panel display comprises a tapered slab waveguide 1 co-extensive with the display, a light source 2-4 arranged to inject light into an edge of the waveguide so that it emerges over the face of the waveguide, and means for scanning the light injected into the wedge so that different areas of the panel are illuminated in turn. Preferably the light source is a set of rows of LEDs, each row injecting light at a different range of angles so that it emerges over different areas of the waveguide 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
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Patent number: 7909982Abstract: A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable of supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven from the sacrificial metal [1] to the steel [10] using a power source [5] converting oxygen and water [14] into hydroxyl ions [15] on the steel and drawing chloride ions [16] into the porous material [2] around the anode such that corroding sites are moved from the steel to the anode restoring steel passivity and activating the anode. Cathodic prevention is then applied. This is preferably sacrificial cathodic prevention that is applied by disconnecting the power source and connecting the activated sacrificial anode directly to the steel.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Inventors: Gareth Glass, Adrian Roberts, Nigel Davison
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Publication number: 20110053236Abstract: A method for increasing production of ethanol in an ethanologenic cell using an autoinducer molecule, for example AI-2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: University of DurhamInventors: Adrian Robert Walmsley, Maria Ines Borges-Walmsley, Jung Woo Yang
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Publication number: 20100225467Abstract: Apparatus for detecting failure of a protective barrier between a first object and a second object is provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter assembly for transmitting an alternating electrical signal through the first object and a receiver assembly, wherein the receiver assembly is configured to receive the alternating electrical signal through the second object upon breach of the protective barrier. In a preferred embodiment, the first object is a patient undergoing surgery and/or medical treatment, the second object is a healthcare worker such as a surgeon and the protective barrier is a glove such as a surgical glove. The transmitter and/or receiver assemblies typically include transmitter or receiver electronics and signal connections, and optionally, the electronics and connections can together form integral transmitter and/or receiver assemblies. A return path can be provided for the transmitted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: QinetiQ LimitedInventors: Adrian Robert BOWLES, Timothy Rupert Charles JARMAN, Bernard Robert MONEY