Patents by Inventor Andrew Howes
Andrew Howes 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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Publication number: 20240090394Abstract: Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MJNN LLCInventors: Gage Goodspeed Coffin, Michael Peter Flynn, Nicholas Kalayjian, Alan Colbrie Schoen, Andrew Keith James, Arvind Sankaran, Alexandre Le Roux, Nadav Sahar Hendel, Anna Olson, Michael Bennett Hamilton, Theodore Howe St. George, Loren Raymond Pilorin
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Publication number: 20230270112Abstract: A method of disinfecting or preventing infection of a gaseous environment by, a liquid of, or a solid surface of one of an enveloped virus, a non-enveloped virus, or a mixture thereof, the method including the step of treating the gaseous environment, liquid, or solid surface with a composition including an effective amount of one or more cucurbituril isomers, derivatives thereof, and variants thereof or, for preventing infection of a solid surface, including the step of producing the solid surface from a composition including an effective amount of one or more cucurbituril isomers, derivatives thereof, and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: AQDOT LIMITEDInventors: Roger COULSTON, Andrew HOWE
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Patent number: 11576846Abstract: A dispersion stabiliser precursor composition including one or more of cucurbituril, a variant or a derivative thereof, and one or more oil-in-water macromolecular amphiphilic emulsifier, wherein the composition is in the form of a free flowing powder; and an oil-in-water emulsion composition including one or more of cucurbituril, a variant or a derivative thereof, and one or more oil-in-water macromolecular amphiphilic emulsifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: AQDOT LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin Cheesman, Roger Coulston, Andrew Howe, Jennifer Efua Kwansima Quansah, Michael Pedder
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Publication number: 20220313861Abstract: A method for reducing malodour includes the step of providing a solid composition including one or more cucurbiturils and derivatives and/or analogues thereof suspended in and/or bound by a thermoplastic and/or a thermosetting polymer medium, wherein the source of the malodour is external.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: AQDOT LIMITEDInventors: Andrew HOWE, Benjamin Thomas CHEESMAN, Tim Chan SEEM, Michael PEDDER, Nicolas ESSELIN, Roger COULSTON, Johannes Gerardus DE ROOIJ
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Patent number: 11232166Abstract: A networked page access and addressing method to generate web pages responsive to requested client requests parses addresses of incoming requests into at least two logical segments: a first likely to represent a category and a second likely to represent a product. By generating hash values for the first segment, it can be compared against hashes in the internal directory to identify a local category corresponding to the represented in the address. If so, a local address can be generated by combining with the second segment with an identifier of that local category. Information from the data record at that local address can used to form a web page responsive to the request.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Andrew Howe, Thomas E. Jones, Curt Walker
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Publication number: 20210402882Abstract: This invention relates to a vehicle power coupling apparatus for a vehicle. The apparatus has a pickup coil arrangement for receiving an alternating magnetic field applied to the vehicle for generating power to operate the vehicle. The apparatus further has a shield for shielding a region including the pickup coil arrangement from an interior of the vehicle where a user of the vehicle may be present when the vehicle is in operation, and the shield includes at least one hole therein for providing access to one or more components of the vehicle for working on the one or more components. Additional aspects of the invention relate to receiving an alternating magnetic field and converting the alternating magnetic field into electrical power for recharging a vehicle and/or for providing motive power to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Andrew Nicholas DAMES, Andrew HOWE, Timothy Sweyn NORRIS
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Patent number: 10967740Abstract: This invention relates to a wireless vehicle recharging apparatus for an energy storage element of a vehicle. The apparatus has at least one drive unit arrangement coupled to at least one drive coil arrangement disposed for generating a magnetic field extending from the drive coil arrangement, and includes a corresponding vehicle-mounted pickup coil arrangement coupled to a power conditioning circuit arrangement for receiving the extending magnetic field. The drive unit arrangement is operable to excite the drive coil arrangement at a fundamental frequency and the drive coil arrangement is implemented to be substantially devoid of ferromagnetic components for providing a path for the extending magnetic field. Additional aspects of the invention relate to vehicle power coupling apparatus including pickup coil arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Inventors: Andrew Nicholas Dames, Andrew Howe, Timothy Sweyn Norris
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Publication number: 20210022968Abstract: A dispersion stabiliser precursor composition including one or more of cucurbituril, a variant or a derivative thereof, and one or more oil-in-water macromolecular amphiphilic emulsifier, wherein the composition is in the form of a free flowing powder; and an oil-in-water emulsion composition including one or more of cucurbituril, a variant or a derivative thereof, and one or more oil-in-water macromolecular amphiphilic emulsifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: AQDOT LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin Cheesman, Roger COULSTON, Andrew HOWE, Jennifer Efua Kwansima QUANSAH, Michael PEDDER
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Publication number: 20200233919Abstract: A networked page access and addressing method to generate web pages responsive to requested client requests parses addresses of incoming requests into at least two logical segments: a first likely to represent a category and a second likely to represent a product. By generating hash values for the first segment, it can be compared against hashes in the internal directory to identify a local category corresponding to the represented in the address. If so, a local address can be generated by combining with the second segment with an identifier of that local category. Information from the data record at that local address can used to form a web page responsive to the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Andrew Howe, Thomas E. Jones, Curt Walker
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Publication number: 20180201139Abstract: This invention relates to a wireless vehicle recharging apparatus for an energy storage element of a vehicle. The apparatus has at least one drive unit arrangement coupled to at least one drive coil arrangement disposed for generating a magnetic field extending from the drive coil arrangement, and includes a corresponding vehicle-mounted pickup coil arrangement coupled to a power conditioning circuit arrangement for receiving the extending magnetic field. The drive unit arrangement is operable to excite the drive coil arrangement at a fundamental frequency and the drive coil arrangement is implemented to be substantially devoid of ferromagnetic components for providing a path for the extending magnetic field. Additional aspects of the invention relate to vehicle power coupling apparatus including pickup coil arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Andrew Nicholas DAMES, Andrew HOWE, Timothy Sweyn NORRIS
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Publication number: 20180132477Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transportable observation station, having: a base; an observation platform; at least one jointed arm, having a first end and a second end, said jointed arm having: one or more extending joints for flexing and extending the jointed arm; one or more raising joints, operatively coupled to the base and the first end of the at least one jointed arm, for raising and lowering the at least one jointed arm; and a first controller module, mounted on the observation platform for controlling the raising, lowering, flexing and extending of the jointed arm; wherein the observation platform is operatively coupled to the second end of the jointed arm by a coupling, configured so that the observation platform remains substantially parallel to the base while the jointed arm is being raised, lowered flexed, or extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: ADC Custom Products, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Yelle, Steve Deringer, Cyndi Schneider, Alexander Niemi, Andrew Howe, Kevin Juedes, Jeremy Wierzba
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Publication number: 20180032356Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product may generate and/or utilize a three-dimensional computer simulation model of a core plug suitable for use in a computer-implemented general purpose reservoir simulator. Simulation studies may be performed on the simulation model to establish a water base case for the simulation model, and to establish one or more Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) chemical properties and further validate the simulation model.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Shi Su, Marie Ann Giddins, Danila Kuznetsov, Paul Naccache, Andrew Clarke, Edmund J. Fordham, Laurence Hawkes, Andrew Howe, Jonathan Mitchell, John Staniland
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Patent number: 9862277Abstract: An inductive power transfer system (10) for roadways includes at least one drive unit arrangement (50) coupled to at least one drive coil arrangement (40) disposed along a roadway (20) for generating a magnetic field extending upwardly from the roadway (20), and at least one vehicle (30) including a corresponding pickup coil arrangement (60) coupled to a power conditioning circuit arrangement (80, 200) for receiving the extending magnetic field for providing power to operate the at least one vehicle (30). The at least one drive unit arrangement (50) is operable to excite, for example at resonance, the at least one drive coil arrangement (40) at a fundamental frequency (f0) of at least 30 kHz, preferably at least 50 kHz, more preferably at least 100 kHz, and most preferably at least 140 kHz. The at least one drive coil arrangement (40) is implemented to be substantially devoid of ferromagnetic components for providing a path for the extending magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventors: Andrew Nicholas Dames, Andrew Howe, Timothy Sweyn Norris
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Patent number: 9587168Abstract: An alkylaromatic sulfonate is disclosed wherein the alkyl group contains a distribution of alkyl chain lengths which comprise greater than 15 weight percent and up to about 35 weight percent of C30 to C58. Also disclosed is a process for preparing an alkylaromatic sulfonate and its use in recovering crude oil from a subterranean hydrocarbon containing formation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLCInventors: Curt B. Campbell, Andrew Howes, Terri Denslow
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Patent number: 9435192Abstract: An electrochemical sensor of a downhole tool positionable in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is provided. The downhole tool has a flowline to receive downhole fluid. The electrochemical sensor includes a bulkhead carried by the downhole tool, a membrane exposed to the downhole fluid in the flowline, and an electrochemical cell supported by the bulkhead about the membrane. The electrochemical cell includes a plurality of cell sensors, at least one cell electrode, and a sensing solution. The plurality cell sensors include an analyte sensor, a temperature sensor, and a pH sensor. The sensing solution is reactive to certain analytes in the downhole fluid to generate electrical signals measurable by the plurality of cell sensors whereby parameters of chemicals in the downhole fluid may be measured.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Nathan S. Lawrence, Andrew Meredith, Kay McGuinness, Markus Pagels, Timothy G. J. Jones, Andrew Howe, Richard Ferguson
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Publication number: 20150246614Abstract: An inductive power transfer system (10) for roadways includes at least one drive unit arrangement (50) coupled to at least one drive coil arrangement (40) disposed along a roadway (20) for generating a magnetic field extending upwardly from the roadway (20), and at least one vehicle (30) including a corresponding pickup coil arrangement (60) coupled to a power conditioning circuit arrangement (80, 200) for receiving the extending magnetic field for providing power to operate the at least one vehicle (30). The at least one drive unit arrangement (50) is operable to excite, for example at resonance, the at least one drive coil arrangement (40) at a fundamental frequency (f0) of at least 30 kHz, preferably at least 50 kHz, more preferably at least 100 kHz, and most preferably at least 140 kHz. The at least one drive coil arrangement (40) is implemented to be substantially devoid of ferromagnetic components for providing a path for the extending magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Andrew Nicholas Dames, Andrew Howe, Timothy Sweyn Norris
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Publication number: 20150122487Abstract: An electrochemical sensor of a downhole tool positionable in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is provided. The downhole tool has a flowline to receive downhole fluid. The electrochemical sensor includes a bulkhead carried by the downhole tool, a membrane exposed to the downhole fluid in the flowline, and an electrochemical cell supported by the bulkhead about the membrane. The electrochemical cell includes a plurality of cell sensors, at least one cell electrode, and a sensing solution. The plurality cell sensors include an analyte sensor, a temperature sensor, and a pH sensor. The sensing solution is reactive to certain analytes in the downhole fluid to generate electrical signals measurable by the plurality of cell sensors whereby parameters of chemicals in the downhole fluid may be measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Nathan S. Lawrence, Andrew Meredith, Kay McGuinness, Markus Pagels, Timothy G. J. Jones, Andrew Howe, Richard Ferguson
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Patent number: 8912683Abstract: A smart responsive electrical load (10) is operatively connectable to an electricity supply network (20). The smart responsive electrical load (10) comprises an electrical power-consuming device (30) and a control arrangement (40) for controlling a supply of electrical power from the network (20) to the device (30). The control arrangement (60, 110, 150, 160, 170) is operable to impose a variable time delay (tp) before supplying electrical power to the device (30) after a request for power to be provided to the device (30). The variable time delay (tp) is a function of a state of the network (20), for example its frequency (f) and/or its voltage amplitude (V). Optionally, the device (30) is a battery charger, for example for use with a rechargeable electric vehicle. Beneficially, the smart responsive load (10) is supplied with electrical power from a population of micro-generation devices (500) operable to provide supply network response.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Open Energi LimitedInventors: Andrew Dames, Kimon Roussopoulos, Tim Norris, Andrew Howe
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Publication number: 20140090838Abstract: An alkylaromatic sulfonate is disclosed wherein the alkyl group contains a distribution of alkyl chain lengths which comprise greater than 15 weight percent and up to about 35 weight percent of C30 to C58. Also disclosed is a process for preparing an alkylaromatic sulfonate and its use in recovering crude oil from a subterranean hydrocarbon containing formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.Inventors: Curt B. Campbell, Andrew Howes, Terri Denslow
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Publication number: 20120185108Abstract: A system employs a method of determining a level of potential responsive-load electrical power network service susceptible to being provided by one or more power consuming devices (100). The method includes: (a) determining operating characteristics of power consuming devices; (b) developing a parameterized numerical model of operation of the power consuming devices based upon the determined operating characteristics; (c) developing an operating regime using the numerical model and a set of operating rules for the devices for providing responsive-load electrical power network service; (d) applying the operating regime to each of the devices; and (e) monitoring operating characteristics of the power consuming devices (100) after installation for verifying their responsive-load electrical power network service. Optionally, the devices are operable to function autonomously to provide their responsive-load electrical power network service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Andrew Howe, Katie Bloor, Joseph Warren