Patents by Inventor Alan Wilson

Alan Wilson 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: 20150378004
    Abstract: A symbiotic radar and communication system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of base stations in communication with a wider communication network, each base station being configured to transmit and receive communication signals to and from a plurality of user terminals. The system performs communication data processing and radar data processing on received signals so that target object reflections contained therein can be resolved. Preferably, initial radar data processing is performed at each base station which embeds time and position information into the data and communicates it to a central radar server, the central server combining the received data from several of the base stations into a single range resolution profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
    Inventors: Alan Wilson-Langman, Michael Raymond Inggs, Amit Kumar Mishra
  • Publication number: 20150294076
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing biological samples, such as dried human blood serum, to determine a disease state such as colorectal cancer (CRC). Using dried samples may hold potential for enhancing localized concentration and/or segmentation of sample components. The method may comprise illuminating at least one location of a biological sample to generate a plurality of interacted photons, collecting the interacted photons and generating at least one Raman data set representative of the biological sample. A system may comprise an illumination source to illuminate at least one location of a biological sample and generate at least one plurality of interacted photons, at least one mirror for directing the interacted photons to a detector. The detector may be configured to generate at least one Raman data set representative of the biological sample. The system and method may utilize a FAST device for multipoint analysis or may be configured to analyze a sample using a line scanning configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: CHEMIMAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick Treado, Shona Stewart, Heather Kirschner, Ryan Priore, Alan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20150199625
    Abstract: Techniques for representating, managing and storing data related to an organization are provided. An identity management system is disclosed that is configured to manage, represent and store data related to an organization. The identity management system reads data pertaining to an organization from a directory and generates a data model of the organization. The identity management system performs operations to manage the data related to an organization using the data model. The operations include adding logical organizations to the data model and defining user-membership policies associated with entities and logical organizations in the data model. The operations may further include identifying policies to be applied to the users of the organization. In some embodiments, the operations include re-assigning a logical organization and its associated user membership policies to different entities within in the data model while maintaining user-membership policies associated with the logical organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Achyut Ramchandra Jagtap, Gregory Alan Wilson, Jyoti Arora, Shaliesh Kumar Mishra
  • Publication number: 20150199535
    Abstract: Techniques for representating, managing and storing data related to an organization are provided. An identity management system is disclosed that is configured to manage, represent and store data related to an organization. The identity management system reads data pertaining to an organization from a directory and generates a data model of the organization. The identity management system performs operations to manage the data related to an organization using the data model. The operations include adding logical organizations to the data model and defining user-membership policies associated with entities and logical organizations in the data model. The operations may further include identifying policies to be applied to the users of the organization. In some embodiments, the operations include re-assigning a logical organization and its associated user membership policies to different entities within in the data model while maintaining user-membership policies associated with the logical organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Wilson, Achyut Ramchandra Jagtap, Jyoti Arora
  • Publication number: 20150199500
    Abstract: Different types of soft-lockout policies can be associated with different organizations (or groups) in an identity management system. Each soft-lockout policy can indicate different parameters such as a number of login attempts allowed and an amount of time that a user account will be locked-out if the maximum allowed attempts are exceeded unsuccessfully. Users can be associated with the different organizations. For each user, the soft-lockout policies for the organization with which that user is associated are applied to that user when that user attempts to log in. Thus, different groups of users can be handled with different security behaviors regarding unsuccessful login attempts. If, for example, a user were to become moved from one organization to another, then the soft-lockout policies associated with the user's new organization would become applicable to that user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Achyut Ramchandra Jagtap, Gregory Alan Wilson, Shailesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 9035773
    Abstract: A tag includes an integrated circuit thereon, including memory, antenna means for RF transmission of data acquired by the integrated circuit, a sensor sensing environmental conditions to which the sensor is subjected, the sensor providing signals based on the environmental conditions to the integrated circuit, a thermistor device of increasing the accuracy of the tag by confining on-board calculation data to a resistance domain and leaving conversion of the data to a temperature domain for an external device once the data is retrieved from the tag's memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: ADVANCED ELECTRONIC TRACKING
    Inventors: Michael Petersen, Alan Wilson, Dean Brotzel
  • Patent number: 8879274
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing an electrical component, involving bonding a thin metal foil to an insulating substrate and thereby forming a component blank, and laser machining at least the metal foil of said component blank to produce at least one trench for defining one or more foil tracks, said trench being at least equal in depth to the thickness of the foil so as to prevent current flow across the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: The Commonwealth of Australia—Department of Defence
    Inventors: Alan Wilson, Peter Vincent, Richard Muscat
  • Publication number: 20140209182
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of manufacturing a rupture disk and specifically of forming a score on a rupture disk. The method of the present invention includes the rotating of a rupture disk blank relative to an electrical discharge machining or “EDM” cutting wire and the simultaneous moving of the EDM cutting wire toward the axis of the disk while maintaining the wire in a selected position such as generally parallel to the disk peripheral skirt or flange. The rotation of the disk and the movement of the EDM wire can be precisely controlled with the motion system of a commercially available EDM machine. With the present invention, a precise score is cut a partial distance through the disk thickness and preferably on the convex side of the dome, near the transition from the dome to the flange and in a generally “c” shaped pattern. The formed score creates a pattern of weakness so that the disk will open in either of the forward or reverse buckling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Patent number: 8733383
    Abstract: An overpressure indicating disk apparatus for indicating an overpressure condition in a pressurized system includes a body having end portions, a bore, and a reverse buckling disk having an annular peripheral portion and a concave convex dome portion. The annular portion surrounds the dome. The first end portion is attached and in pressure communication to the pressurized system. The pressure in the bore is the same pressure as the pressure of the pressurized system. The annular peripheral portion is mounted to the body. An indicating component/ring is affixed to the body and disk. A central tab is mounted inside the ring. The concave side faces the central tab. The convex side faces the pressure inside the bore. When the pressure in the bore exceeds a preselected maximum pressure value, the disk reverses to engage and displace the central tab thereby indicating visually that an overpressure condition exists within the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20140093147
    Abstract: A method for analyzing organ samples using hyperspectral imaging comprising illuminating an organ sample to generate interacted photons, collecting the interacted photons and passing the interacted photons through a tunable filter. The filtered interacted photons are detected to generate a hyperspectral image. A brightfield image is generated and associated with the hyperspectral image. Spectra from locations of interest are extracted and analyzed to assess a characteristic of the organ sample. A system may comprise an illumination source to illuminate an organ sample and generate interacted photons, a collection optics for collecting the interacted photons and a tunable filter to filter the interacted photons. A detector is configured to detect the filtered photons and generate at least one hyperspectral image. The detector may also be configured to generate at least one brightfield image representative of the organ sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Chemlmage Corporation
    Inventors: Shona Stewart, Patrick Treado, Heather Kirschner, Alan Wilson, Ryan Priore, Jeffrey Cohen, Serena Augustine
  • Patent number: 8687459
    Abstract: Methods of operating a memory device and memory devices are provided. For example, a method of operating a memory array is provided that includes a synchronous path and an asynchronous path. A Write-with-Autoprecharge signal is provided to the synchronous path, and various bank address signals are provided to the asynchronous path. In another embodiment, the initiation of the bank address signals may be provided asynchronously to the assertion of the Write-with-Autoprecharge signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Wong, Alan Wilson, Christopher K. Morzano
  • Patent number: 8671550
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of manufacturing a rupture disk and specifically of forming a score on a rupture disk. The method of the present invention includes the rotating of a rupture disk blank relative to an electrical discharge machining or “EDM” cutting wire and the simultaneous moving of the EDM cutting wire toward the axis of the disk while maintaining the wire in a selected position such as generally parallel to the disk peripheral skirt or flange. The rotation of the disk and the movement of the EDM wire can be precisely controlled with the motion system of a commercially available EDM machine. With the present invention, a precise score is cut a partial distance through the disk thickness and preferably on the convex side of the dome, near the transition from the dome to the flange and in a generally “c” shaped pattern. The formed score creates a pattern of weakness so that the disk will open in either of the forward or reverse buckling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Patent number: 8622071
    Abstract: A rupture panel of three layers employs a lower layer (e.g. foam) that is adhesive, a middle layer (e.g. metallic) and a hold down layer. The middle layer has a weakened portion (scoring, openings, for example) that defines the panel burst pressure. A part of the lower layer does not connect to the middle layer. That part that does not connect to the middle layer adheres to the hold down layer. The hold down layer can be in the form of a ring with an open center, the weakened portion of the middle layer occupying a position within the open center of the hold down layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20130234879
    Abstract: Systems and methods involve generating a baseband signal, up-converting the baseband signal to a radar signal frequency, filtering a lower sideband of the up-converted signal, and transmitting the filtered up-converted signal. Systems and methods also involve receiving a return signal, down-converting the return signal using a signal having a frequency offset from the up-converted signal, filtering the upper sideband of the down-converted return signal, and producing a baseband return signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Alan Wilson-Langman, Kenneth J. Ryerson, Walter Rothe
  • Patent number: 8484755
    Abstract: A microprobe, measurement system and method are disclosed. The microprobe includes a probe tip mounted at a meeting point of a plurality of flexures. The probe tip is moveable upon flexing of one or more of the flexures, each flexure further comprising one or more actuators controllable to flex the flexure and one or more sensors arranged to sense flexing of the flexure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
    Inventors: Richard Leach, Ben Hughes, Alan Wilson
  • Patent number: 8387647
    Abstract: An overpressure indicating disk apparatus for indicating an over pressure condition in a pressurized system includes a body having first and second end portions and a bore, the first end portion configured for attachment to the pressurized system and in pressure communication therewith so that the pressure in the bore is the same pressure as the pressure of the pressurized system. A reverse buckling disk having an annular peripheral portion and a concave convex dome portion is provided. The annular peripheral portion surrounds the dome. The disk annular peripheral portion is mounted to the body, closing the bore at the first end portion. An indicating component or ring is affixed to the combination of a body and reverse buckling disk. The indicating ring has an annular peripheral portion that aligns generally with the annular peripheral portion of the reverse buckling rupture disk. A movable central tab portion is mounted inside the indicating component or ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Patent number: 8322360
    Abstract: A rupture panel of three layers employs a lower layer (e.g. foam) that is adhesive, a middle layer (e.g. metallic) and a hold down layer. The middle layer has a weakened portion (scoring, openings, for example) that defines the panel burst pressure. A part of the lower layer does not connect to the middle layer. That part that does not connect to the middle layer adheres to the hold down layer. The hold down layer can be in the form of a ring with an open center, the weakened portion of the middle layer occupying a position within the open center of the hold down layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20110303665
    Abstract: A rupture panel of three layers employs a lower layer (e.g. foam) that is adhesive, a middle layer (e.g. metallic) and a hold down layer. The middle layer has a weakened portion (scoring, openings, for example) that defines the panel burst pressure. A part of the lower layer does not connect to the middle layer. That part that does not connect to the middle layer adheres to the hold down layer. The hold down layer can be in the form of a ring with an open center, the weakened portion of the middle layer occupying a position within the open center of the hold down layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Oklahoma Safety Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20110216621
    Abstract: Methods of operating a memory device and memory devices are provided. For example, a method of operating a memory array is provided that includes a synchronous path and an asynchronous path. A Write-with-Autoprecharge signal is provided to the synchronous path, and various bank address signals are provided to the asynchronous path. In another embodiment, the initiation of the bank address signals may be provided asynchronously to the assertion of the Write-with-Autoprecharge signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: Micron Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Wong, Alan Wilson, Christopher K. Morzano
  • Patent number: D682667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Inventor: Garth Alan Wilson