Patents by Inventor Andrew Starkey

Andrew Starkey 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: 20220183209
    Abstract: Methods, systems 1 and devices such as robots 8, 9 for farming are disclosed. An autonomous monitoring robot is configured to traverse a farm plot and generate, from a sensor set of the monitoring robot, a farm plot data set. The farm plot data set is processed to generate operating instructions for a tending robot. The tending robot is arranged to execute the operating instructions so as to traverse the farm plot and performs tending tasks on it including such as seed-planting, weeding, and applying crop treatments such as fertiliser, fungicide, herbicide or pesticide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SMALL ROBOT COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Benjamin Carl Scott-Robinson, Samuel James Watson Jones, Josey Ross Allnut, Nemo Kenneth James William Harry Scott-Robinson, Andrew Starkey
  • Publication number: 20200329383
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of optimization of a software defined network (SDN) for a network application, the SDN including an SDN controller for configuring a plurality of network components to deliver a network service for the network application, each network component having a measurable metric for each of a plurality of characteristics of the component relating to a performance of the component, the method including accessing, for each network component, a measure for each of the metrics to classify the component for a characteristic corresponding to the metric according to a fuzzy logic classification scheme; defining a plurality of configurations of network components suitable for providing the network service; and selecting a configuration of the network components to provide the network application based on an optimization function optimizing the network components in terms of classifications of each network component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Starkey, Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder, Anthony Conway