Patents by Inventor Andrew Simons

Andrew Simons 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: 20120197859
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method, the apparatus including means for obtaining data relating to a website; means for determining a value of the data; and means for retrieving a stored recommendation corresponding to the determined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Andrew Simon Willis
  • Patent number: 8218933
    Abstract: A method of producing a planar substrate having waveguide channels, which method comprises: (i) providing a tube (6) of a substrate material; (ii) depositing silica layers (110) on the inside of the tube (6), the silica layers (110) being doped with a photosensitive material; (iii) drawing the tube (6) so that the cross-sectional size of the tube (109) is reduced; (iv) before or after the reducing of the cross-sectional size of the tube (6), causing the tube (6) to collapse into a flat shape by applying a low pressure to the tube, whereby the deposited silica layers together form a photosensitive silica layer (111); (v) cutting to required lengths the tube (6) which has been collapsed and reduced in cross-sectional size; and (vi) using laser writing to define waveguide channels in the cut lengths of the tube (6) and thereby to produce the planar substrate having the waveguide channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan, Andrew Simon Webb, Corin Barry Edmund Gawith, Peter George Robin Smith, David Neil Payne, Jayanta Kumar Sahu
  • Publication number: 20120153824
    Abstract: A light source is powered by a magnetron and has a quartz crucible having a plasma void with an excitable fill, from which light radiates in use. Two aluminium attachment blocks are attached together and the block is attached to a casing of the magnetron by screws - not shown. The quartz crucible is attached to the block by a Faraday cage, in the form of a perforate metal enclosure secured at its rim to the block. An output formation of the magnetron has a conductive, copper cap fitted in electrical contact with it. The cap is extended by a copper rod. The rod extends through the blocks into a bore in the crucible for coupling microwaves from the magnetron into the crucible. An airspace is provided around the cap in the block. From the cap, the rod extends with negligible air gap in an alumina ceramic tube through the airspace and a boss of the block located in an aperture in an end wall of the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventor: Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20120157450
    Abstract: The invention relates to the compound of formula (I) in a crystalline anhydrate form, pharmaceutical formulations containing them, their use in therapy and processes for preparing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Craig, Salima Zarah Ismail, Ronnie Maxwell Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20120153359
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of forming nickel-silicide. The method may include depositing first and second metal layers over at least one of a gate, a source, and a drain region of a field-effect-transistor (FET) through a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process, wherein the first metal layer is deposited using a first nickel target material containing platinum (Pt), and the second metal layer is deposited on top of the first metal layer using a second nickel target material containing no or less platinum than that in the first nickel target material; and annealing the first and second metal layers covering the FET to form a platinum-containing nickel-silicide layer at a top surface of the gate, source, and drain regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asa Frye, Andrew Simon
  • Publication number: 20120136023
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 2,3,4-substituted 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1]benzothieno[2,3-b]pyridine compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to compositions containing such compounds and to the use of such compounds as inhibitors of HIV replication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Bell, Iain Brian Gardner, Karl Richard Gibson, David Cameron Pryde, Florian Michel Wakenhut
  • Patent number: 8185885
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing recovery data for program code. A first version of an object code module is received. A second version of the object code module is received, the second version being a subsequent version to the first version. A unique identifier is inserted in the second version, wherein the unique identifier indicates a location of recovery data. First difference data representing a difference between the second version and the first version is calculated. The first difference data is stored as the recovery data. The first difference data is stored within the second version of the object code module at the location. The unique identifier indicates a location of the recovery data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Clement, Andrew John Huff, Gordon Douglas Hutchison
  • Publication number: 20120119648
    Abstract: An electrodeless, microwave lamp has a magnetron as a microwave source and an excitable material lucent crucible in whose excitable material a plasma is established. For coupling microwaves from the magnetron into the crucible, an air wave guide coupling circuit is provided, with an output of the magnetron as an input at one quarter lambda from one end and an output at one quarter from the other end as an input to a connection to the crucible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20120102684
    Abstract: A mechanism for clamping first and second stabplates together comprises a pivoted cam member and clamping means for co-operating with the cam member. The mechanism is such that the cam member is displaceable between a first position in which, in co-operation with the clamping means, it clamps the stabplates together and a second position in which it has rotated to be between the stabplates with the stabplates separate from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Simon HAMBLIN, Gareth H. Lewis
  • Patent number: 8164264
    Abstract: A bandpass filter comprises an air filled aluminum chamber having a lid and a cuboid resonant cavity having a central iris. At opposite end nodes of the cavity, perfect electric conductors (PECs) are provided. Threaded tuning projections opposite the PECs and in the iris are provided, whereby the pass band and the transmission characteristics of the filter in the pass band can be tuned to match the input impedance of the band pass filter and the wave guide to the output impedance of a microwave drive circuit. It is mounted on one end of the filter chamber, with an electrodeless bulb in a central cavity directed axially away from the chamber and the radiator in a further cavity set to one side of the central cavity. When the filter is driven, the wave guide resonates driving the bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ceravision Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Neate, Amjid Sadiq
  • Publication number: 20120091892
    Abstract: A plasma crucible has a through bore and two tubes butt scaled on to the end faces of the crucible. One of the tubes is closed prior to the filling of the crucible. The tube is tipped off and worked in a glass lathe to form it to have a flat end. After evacuation, dosing and gas fill, the other tube is tipped off in the similar manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Neate, Barry Preston, Edwin Charles, Amjid Sadiq, Hussein Sonde
  • Patent number: 8097621
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds of formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Bell, David Graham Brown, Kevin Dack, David Nathan Abraham Fox, Ian Roger Marsh, Andrew Ian Morrell, Michael John Palmer, Carol Ann Winslow
  • Publication number: 20120010207
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfonamide derivatives, to their use in medicine, to compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation and to intermediates used in such processes. More particularly the invention relates to a new sulfonamide Nav1.7 inhibitors of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Ar1, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the description. Nav 1.7 inhibitors are potentially useful in the treatment of a wide range of disorders, particularly pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: PFIZER LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Bell, Alan Daniel Brown, Russell Andrew Lewthwaite, Ian Roger Marsh, David Simon Millan, Manuel Perez Pacheco, David James Rawson, Nunzio Sciammetta, Robert Ian Storer, Paul Anthony Stupple, Nigel Alan Swain, Marcel John De Groot
  • Publication number: 20120010183
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfonamide derivatives, to their use in medicine, to compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation and to intermediates used in such processes. More particularly the invention relates to a new sulfonamide Nav1.7 inhibitors of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Het1, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the description. Nav 1.7 inhibitors are potentially useful in the treatment of a wide range of disorders, particularly pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: PFIZER LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Bell, Alan Daniel Brown, Marcel John De Groot, Russell Andrew Lewthwaite, Ian Roger Marsh, David Simon Millan, Manuel Perez Pacheco, David James Rawson, Nunzio Sciammetta, Robert Ian Storer, Nigel Alan Swain, Steven Matthieu Gaulier
  • Patent number: 8089203
    Abstract: A lamp comprises a light source in the form of a light emitting resonator 1, a magnetron 2 and a stub tuner 3. A reflector 4 is fitted at the junction of the light source and the stub tuner, for directing the light in a generally collimated beam 5. The light emitting resonator comprises an enclosure 11 formed of inner and outer envelopes 12,13 of quartz. These are circular cylindrical tubes 14,15, with respective end plates 16,17. A tungsten wire mesh 18, of a mesh size to exhibit a ground plane to microwaves within the resonator, is sandwiched between the tubes and the end plates respectively. Each envelope, comprised of its tube and end plates is hermetic. An earth connection 18? extends from the mesh to the outside of the envelope. The length axially of the enclosure between the wire mesh sandwiched between the end plates is ?/2 for the operating microwave frequency. At one end of the enclosure, a molybdenum drive connection 19 extends to a tungsten disc 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventor: Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20110309744
    Abstract: A lamp 1 comprises an oscillator and amplifier source 2 of microwave energy, typically operating at 2.45 or 5.8 GHz or other frequencies within an ISM band. The source passes the microwaves via a matching circuit 3 to an antenna 4 extending into a re-entrant 5 in a lucent waveguide 6. This is of quartz and has a central cavity 7 accommodating a bulb 8. The bulb is a sealed tube 9 of quartz and contains a fill of noble gas and a microwave excitable material, which radiates visible light when excited by microwaves. The bulb has a stem 10 received in a stem bore 11 extending from the central cavity. The waveguide is transparent and light from the bulb can leave it in any direction, subject to any reflective surfaces. Microwaves cannot leave the waveguide, which is limited at its surfaces by a Faraday cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Barry Preston, Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20110311315
    Abstract: A friction bolt assembly (1) comprises a friction bolt (2) with a pre-formed elongate column (3) of flexible, solid material retained within, and extending along a cavity (4) defined by the body (5) of the friction bolt (2). The body (5) of the friction bolt (2) is generally cylindrical and has a split (6) extending along its length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: DIWIDAG-SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: David W. Evans, Hird Derek Colin, Boychuk Andrew Simon
  • Publication number: 20110285287
    Abstract: A lamp comprises a light source in the form of a light emitting resonator 1, a magnetron 2 and a stub tuner 3. A reflector 4 is fitted at the junction of the light source and the stub tuner, for directing the light in a generally collimated beam 5. The light emitting resonator comprises an enclosure 11 formed of inner and outer envelopes 12,13 of quartz. These are circular cylindrical tubes 14,15, with respective end plates 16,17. A tungsten wire mesh 18, of a mesh size to exhibit a ground plane to microwaves within the resonator, is sandwiched between the tubes and the end plates respectively. Each envelope, comprised of its tube and end plates is hermetic. An earth connection 18? extends from the mesh to the outside of the envelope. The length axially of the enclosure between the wire mesh sandwiched between the end plates is ?/2 for the operating microwave frequency. At one end of the enclosure, a molybdenum drive connection 19 extends to a tungsten disc 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20110245496
    Abstract: Salts of 4-quinazolineamines are described as well as methods of using the same in the treatment of disorders characterized by aberrant erbB family PTK activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Craig, David Malcolm Crowe, Tim Chien Ting Ho, Michael S. McClure
  • Publication number: 20110206856
    Abstract: A method of electrostatic spraying of a polymer surface involves oxidation and treating the oxidised surface with a polyamine and an electroconductivity modifying agent which contains a mono-carboxylic acid of from one to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Sheng LI, Wojciech Stanislaw Gutowski, Wei Dong Yang, Andrew Simon Hastings, Mark Spicer, Con Filippou