Patents by Inventor Alex James

Alex James 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: 20190155416
    Abstract: A multi-stage capacitive sensor is provided having a layered structure, including a user-contact surface, a first capacitive sensor for the user-contact surface, a second capacitive sensor which is spaced apart from the first capacitive sensor in a direction away from the user-contact surface, and a conductive member. The conductive member is positioned between the first and second capacitive sensors, and is engaged with the first circuit substrate and spaced apart from the second capacitive sensor. In a preferred embodiment, under the application of a force at the user-contact surface, the conductive member is deflected relative to the second capacitive sensor to alter a distance therebetween to create a detectable change in a capacitance at the second capacitive sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Alan Roger MOREY, Alex James COWCHER
  • Publication number: 20190136178
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for generating biological tissues that are configured for folding into a pre-determined three-dimensional form. The present disclosure utilizes contractile cells for folding a biological tissue into a three-dimensional shape. The methods include disposing a pattern of contractile cells on a surface that includes fibers actuated by the contractile cells and folding of the surface by the action of the contractile cells on the fibers. Tissues generated using the methods and systems of the present disclosure are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Zev Jordan Gartner, Alex James Hughes
  • Patent number: 10267795
    Abstract: Electrophoretic separation devices and methods for using the same are provided. Aspects of the devices include a polymeric separation medium that includes a plurality of microwells. Also provided are methods, systems and kits in which the subject devices find use. The devices and methods find use in a variety of different electrophoretic separation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Amy E. Herr, Alex James Hughes, Elly Sinkala, Todd A. Duncombe, Kevin A. Yamauchi, Julea Vlassakis, Chi-Chih Kang, Zhuchen Xu, Robert Lin
  • Patent number: 10248572
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for operating a virtually indexed, physically tagged cache. The apparatus has processing circuitry for performing data processing operations on data, and a virtually indexed, physically tagged cache for storing data for access by the processing circuitry. The cache is accessed using a virtual address portion of a virtual address in order to identify a number of cache entries, and then physical address portions stored in those cache entries are compared with the physical address derived from the virtual address in order to detect whether a hit condition exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Jose Gonzalez Gonzalez, Alex James Waugh, Adnan Khan
  • Patent number: 10216218
    Abstract: An apparatus includes control circuitry configured to receive a first N-bit count value in a first domain, and to determine an M-bit increment indicating value based on the first N-bit count value and a reference value, where M<N. Boundary circuitry is configured to provide the M-bit increment indicating value to a second domain. In the second domain, updating circuitry configured to update a second N-bit count value based on an increment represented by the M-bit increment indicating value provided by the boundary circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: Alex James Waugh
  • Patent number: 10198360
    Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus comprising: processing circuitry to speculatively execute an instruction referencing a virtual address. Lookup circuitry receives the virtual address from the processing circuitry. The lookup circuitry comprises storage circuitry to store at least one virtual address and page walking circuitry to perform a page walk on further storage circuitry, in dependence on the virtual address being unlisted by the storage circuitry, to determine whether a correspondence between a physical address and the virtual address exists. The lookup circuitry signals an error when the correspondence cannot be found and, in response to the error being signaled, the storage circuitry stores an entry comprising the virtual address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: Alex James Waugh
  • Publication number: 20190002152
    Abstract: The side wall, extending below a shoulder of the thermoplastic bottle, has a gripping portion formed substantially in the middle of the bottle body and includes a first line and a second line each defined in a vertical symmetry plane. The second line has a second point at minimal distance ds2 between the side wall and the central axis, while the first line has a first point at minimal distance ds1 between the first line and the central axis. For these particular points in the gripping portion: •ds2<ds1•hs1<hs2 A thick portion is provided at and above the second point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Frédéric CHIVRAC, Alex James ORCHARD, Jean-Paul BESSON
  • Publication number: 20190002143
    Abstract: An automated wrapping technique for vehicle components is disclosed. A component to be wrapped is secured to a fixture, which in turn is coupled to an actuator. A grabber arm grabs a length of wrap from a feed roll. The grabber arm removes the backing and spreads the wrap over the component. The actuator pushes the component upward until the wrap contacts the component surface. An applicator may concurrently smooth the wrap and evacuate trapped air. The wrap may be cut around the periphery of the component, and hemmed. A controller provides instructions to automate the wrapping mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jon Paul GUNNER, Alex James Hamade, Narender Shankar Lakshman, Stuart Paul Macey
  • Publication number: 20180339456
    Abstract: Techniques for flexible, on-site additive manufacturing of components or portions thereof for transport structures are disclosed. An automated assembly system for a transport structure may include a plurality of automated constructors to assemble the transport structure. In one aspect, the assembly system may span the full vertically integrated production process, from powder production to recycling. At least some of the automated constructors are able to move in an automated fashion between the station under the guidance of a control system. A first of the automated constructors may include a 3-D printer to print at least a portion of a component and to transfer the component to a second one of the automated constructors for installation during the assembly of the transport structure. The automated constructors may also be adapted to perform a variety of different tasks utilizing sensors for enabling machine-learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Robert CZINGER, Broc William TenHOUTEN, David Charles O'CONNELL, Jon Paul GUNNER, John Russell BUCKNELL, Alex James HAMADE, David Brian TenHOUTEN
  • Publication number: 20180272546
    Abstract: A safety cutting device includes a slidable insert that moves longitudinally within a cavity of a housing. The slidable insert has a cutting blade attached and moves within the housing from a safe position in which the blade is covered to an exposed position for cutting. The safety device has a release button positioned near an anterior end of the housing. A biasing member automatically retracts the blade when the release button is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Branden D. Rosenhan, Benjamin Grover, Timothy R. Nieman, Andrew S. Hansen, Micah James Frerck, Alex James Drew
  • Patent number: 10061728
    Abstract: A device for selecting requests to be serviced in a data processing apparatus has an arbitration stage for selecting an arbitrated request from a plurality of candidate requests and a hazard detection stage for performing hazard detection to predict whether the arbitrated request selected by the arbitration stage meets a hazard condition. If the arbitrated request meets the hazard condition, the hazard detection stage returns the arbitration request to the arbitration stage for a later arbitration and sets a hazard indication for the returned request. Also, the hazard detection stage controls at least one other arbitration request to be returned if it conflicts with a candidate request having the hazard indication set. This approach prevents denial of service to requests that were hazarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: Alex James Waugh
  • Publication number: 20180241825
    Abstract: Methods of migrating clients from a first server to a second server are described. The first server sends a message to the second server identifying a set of clients to be migrated, serializes the state of one or more objects associated with the set of clients and transmits the serialized state to the second server. The first server then instructs each client in the set of clients to establish a connection to the second server such that each client is connected in parallel to both the first and second servers with the connection to the first server as a primary connection and the connection to the second server as a secondary connection and when the clients are connected to the second server, the first server instructs the clients to disconnect from the first server and switch the primary connection to be the connection with the second server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Charles Bolton, Colin Richard Gulliver, David Robert Allmond, Richard Michael Semmens, Robert Stothard, Alex James Neves, John Paul Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20180229698
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to perform brake sweeping procedures on vehicle brakes are described herein. An example apparatus includes a controller to determine when a vehicle has made a turn, compare an angle at which the vehicle has turned to an angle threshold, and schedule a brake sweeping procedure based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Salmon, Alex James, Bang Kim Cao, Donald A. Perlick
  • Publication number: 20180225214
    Abstract: Apparatus and a corresponding method of operating a hub device, and a target device, in a coherent interconnect system are presented. A cache pre-population request of a set of coherency protocol transactions in the system is received from a requesting master device specifying at least one data item and the hub device responds by cause a cache pre-population trigger of the set of coherency protocol transactions specifying the at least one data item to be transmitted to a target device. This trigger can cause the target device to request that the specified at least one data item is retrieved and brought into cache. Since the target device can therefore decide whether to respond to the trigger or not, it does not receive cached data unsolicited, simplifying its configuration, whilst still allowing some data to be pre-cached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Phanindra Kumar MANNAVA, Bruce James MATHEWSON, Jamshed JALAL, Klas Magnus BRUCE, Michael FILIPPO, Paul Gilbert MEYER, Alex James WAUGH, Geoffray Matthieu LACOURBA
  • Publication number: 20180225216
    Abstract: Data processing apparatus comprises a data access requesting node; data access circuitry to receive a data access request from the data access requesting node and to route the data access request for fulfilment by one or more data storage nodes selected from a group of two or more data storage nodes; and indication circuitry to provide a source indication to the data access requesting node, to indicate an attribute of the one or more data storage nodes which fulfilled the data access request; the data access requesting node being configured to vary its operation in response to the source indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Michael FILIPPO, Jamshed JALAL, Klas Magnus BRUCE, Alex James WAUGH, Geoffray LACOURBA, Paul Gilbert MEYER, Bruce James MATHEWSON, Phanindra Kumar MANNAVA
  • Patent number: 10015260
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive sensor data from a vehicle sensor. The processor is also configured to determine an existence of a condition for which information display has been designated. The processor is further configured to determine a non-vehicular device predesignated for receipt and display of the information and responsive to the condition determination, transfer the information to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Donald A. Perlick, Jerry Alex James, Howard Churchwell
  • Publication number: 20180111625
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to extricate a vehicle from a stuck condition, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a command to place a vehicle in a stuck mode. The stuck mode corresponds to an autonomous control mode of the vehicle. The method further includes autonomously controlling the vehicle in the stuck mode to attempt to extricate the vehicle from a stuck condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Alex James, Donald A. Perlick, Thomas Salmon, Bang Kim Cao
  • Patent number: 9913559
    Abstract: An improved hopper for a pellet grill that permits a first type of flavored pellet to be cleared from the hopper of a pellet grill so that a second type of flavored pellet may be loaded into the hopper for cooking and smoking. The disclosed hopper can also have a viewing window formed in its side for establishing how much, if any, of a pellet material is currently loaded into the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: CABELA'S LLC
    Inventors: H.R. Polter, Heath Aaron Darveau, Renee Irene Dorcey, Alex James Mousel
  • Publication number: 20170362719
    Abstract: A method for the substantially complete conversion of hydrogenous matter to higher value product, the method comprising: (i) subjecting the hydrogenous matter to a substantially complete deconstruction process in which an aqueous phase containing a multiplicity of deconstructed compounds is produced; and (ii) contacting the aqueous phase with an anode of a microbial electrolysis cell, said anode containing a community of microbes thereon which oxidatively degrade one or more of the oxygenated organic compounds in the aqueous phase to produce protons and free electrons at the anode, wherein the protons and free electrons are transported to the cathode to produce hydrogen gas or a valuable reduced organic compound at the cathode upon application of a suitable cell potential across the anode and cathode. The invention is also directed to an apparatus for practicing the method described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Abhijeet P. BOROLE, Alex James LEWIS
  • Publication number: 20170293567
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises processing circuitry to process data access operations specifying a virtual address of data to be loaded from or stored to a data store, and proxy identifier determining circuitry to determine a proxy identifier for a data access operation to be processed by the data access circuitry, the proxy identifier having fewer bits than a physical address corresponding to the virtual address specified by the data access operation. The processing circuitry comprises at least one buffer to buffer information (including the proxy identifier) associated with one or more pending data access operations awaiting processing. Address translation circuitry determines the physical address corresponding to the virtual address specified for a data access operation after that data access operation has progressed beyond said at least one buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Richard F. BRYANT, Kim Richard SCHUTTENBERG, Lilian Atieno HUTCHINS, Thomas Edward ROBERTS, Alex James WAUGH, Max John BATLEY