Patents by Inventor Anthony Atkinson
Anthony Atkinson 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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Patent number: 10928885Abstract: Power reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method includes executing a voltage characterization service for a processing device of a computing apparatus to determine at least one supply voltage for the processing device, the voltage characterization service comprising a functional test that exercises the processing device at iteratively adjusted voltages in context with associated system elements of the computing apparatus. During execution of the voltage characterization service, the method includes monitoring for operational failures of at least the processing device, and responsive to the operational failures, determining at least one resultant supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Patent number: 10338670Abstract: Voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of determining operating voltages for a processing device includes executing a voltage adjustment process to determine at least one input voltage for the processing device lower than a manufacturer specified operating voltage. During the voltage adjustment process, the method includes applying incrementally adjusted input voltages to the processing device, operating the processing device according to a functional test that exercises the processing device in context with associated system elements of a computing assembly, and monitoring for operational failures of at least the processing device during application of each of the incrementally adjusted input voltages.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Publication number: 20190171278Abstract: Power reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method includes executing a voltage characterization service for a processing device of a computing apparatus to determine at least one supply voltage for the processing device, the voltage characterization service comprising a functional test that exercises the processing device at iteratively adjusted voltages in context with associated system elements of the computing apparatus. During execution of the voltage characterization service, the method includes monitoring for operational failures of at least the processing device, and responsive to the operational failures, determining at least one resultant supply voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Patent number: 10310572Abstract: Thermal reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In a first example, a method of operating a voltage control system for a processing device includes operating the processing device in a computing assembly at a selected performance level, the processing device supplied with at least one input voltage at a first voltage level. The method includes monitoring thermal information associated with the computing assembly, and when the thermal information indicates a temperature associated with the computing assembly exceeds a threshold temperature, adjusting the at least one input voltage level supplied to the processing device to a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level and continuing to operate the processing device at the selected performance level.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Patent number: 10248186Abstract: Power reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method includes receiving a voltage characterization service over a communication interface of the computing apparatus as transferred by a deployment platform remote from the computing apparatus. The method includes executing the voltage characterization service for a processing device of the computing apparatus to determine at least one input voltage for the processing device lower than a manufacturer specified operating voltage, the voltage characterization service comprising a functional test that exercises the processing device at iteratively adjusted voltages in context with associated system elements of the computing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Patent number: 10209726Abstract: Secure voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of controlling operating voltages for a processing device includes initializing a security portion of the processing device after application of input voltages to the processing device as supplied by voltage regulation circuitry according to voltage identifiers (VIDs) established for the processing device. The method includes, in the security portion, generating adjusted input voltages based on at least the VIDs and authenticated voltage offset information stored according to a digitally signed security process, and instructing the voltage regulation circuitry to supply the adjusted input voltages to the processing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Publication number: 20180257922Abstract: A system for dispensing beverage, particularly cask ale, the system comprising: a pump configured for drawing cask ale by suction from a supply into a pump inlet and delivering cask ale from a pump outlet under sustained pressure; a flow regulator having an inlet for receiving cask ale under sustained pressure from the pump outlet, and a flow regulator outlet for delivering cask ale under a dispense pressure; and a dispense conduit for receiving cask ale under dispense pressure from the flow regulator outlet and turbulating and dispensing cask ale via the dispense outlet. Dispense methods and a valve nozzle are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Michael Samuel Thomas Watts, Ian Tinsley Frost, Michael Anthony Flavin, Leon Antony Farrel, Philip Anthony Atkinson
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Publication number: 20170357298Abstract: Thermal reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In a first example, a method of operating a voltage control system for a processing device includes operating the processing device in a computing assembly at a selected performance level, the processing device supplied with at least one input voltage at a first voltage level. The method includes monitoring thermal information associated with the computing assembly, and when the thermal information indicates a temperature associated with the computing assembly exceeds a threshold temperature, adjusting the at least one input voltage level supplied to the processing device to a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level and continuing to operate the processing device at the selected performance level.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Publication number: 20170357311Abstract: Power reduction and voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method includes receiving a voltage characterization service over a communication interface of the computing apparatus as transferred by a deployment platform remote from the computing apparatus. The method includes executing the voltage characterization service for a processing device of the computing apparatus to determine at least one input voltage for the processing device lower than a manufacturer specified operating voltage, the voltage characterization service comprising a functional test that exercises the processing device at iteratively adjusted voltages in context with associated system elements of the computing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Publication number: 20170357279Abstract: Secure voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of controlling operating voltages for a processing device includes initializing a security portion of the processing device after application of input voltages to the processing device as supplied by voltage regulation circuitry according to voltage identifiers (VIDs) established for the processing device. The method includes, in the security portion, generating adjusted input voltages based on at least the VIDs and authenticated voltage offset information stored according to a digitally signed security process, and instructing the voltage regulation circuitry to supply the adjusted input voltages to the processing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Publication number: 20170357310Abstract: Voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of determining operating voltages for a processing device includes executing a voltage adjustment process to determine at least one input voltage for the processing device lower than a manufacturer specified operating voltage. During the voltage adjustment process, the method includes applying incrementally adjusted input voltages to the processing device, operating the processing device according to a functional test that exercises the processing device in context with associated system elements of a computing assembly, and monitoring for operational failures of at least the processing device during application of each of the incrementally adjusted input voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Garrett Douglas Blankenburg, Peter Anthony Atkinson, Robert James Ray, Andres Felipe Hernandez Mojica, Samy Boshra-Riad, Erng-Sing Wee, Brian Keith Langendorf
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Patent number: 9469858Abstract: A thermophilic microorganism comprising a modification that prevents sporulation, wherein the modification inactivates the native spo0A gene.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: TMO RENEWABLES LIMITEDInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Kirstin Eley, Roger Cripps
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Publication number: 20150239725Abstract: A system (2) for dispensing beverage, particularly cask ale, the system (2) comprising: a pump (4) configured for drawing cask ale by suction from a supply (6) into a pump inlet (18) and delivering cask ale from a pump outlet (26) under sustained pressure; a flow regulator (12) having an inlet (32) for receiving cask ale under sustained pressure from the pump outlet (26), and a flow regulator outlet (34) for delivering cask ale under a dispense pressure; and a dispense conduit (14) for receiving cask ale under dispense pressure from the flow regulator outlet (34) and turbulating and dispensing cask ale via the dispense outlet (48). Dispense methods and a valve nozzle are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: WICKWAR BREWING COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Michael Samuel Thomas Watts, Ian Tinsley Frost, Michael Anthony Flavin, Leon Antony Farrel, Philip Anthony Atkinson
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Patent number: 8932841Abstract: A thermophilic microorganism is modified to permit the increased production of ethanol, wherein a first modification is the inactivation of the lactate dehydrogenase gene and a second modification upregulates the pyruvate dehydrogenase gene.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: TMO Renewables LimitedInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Roger Cripps, Brian Rudd, Kirstin Eley, Steve Martin, Paul Milner, Claire Mercier
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Patent number: 8852906Abstract: A thermophilic micro-organism comprising a modification that increases amylase expression and starch hydrolysis compared to wild-type, wherein the modification is insertion of a heterologous amylase gene.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: TMO Renewables LimitedInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Roger Cripps, Kirstin Eley, Brian Rudd, Martin Todd
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Publication number: 20140080190Abstract: A thermophilic microorganism comprising a modification that prevents sporulation, wherein the modification inactivates the native spo0A geneType: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: TMO RENEWABLES LIMITEDInventors: ANTHONY ATKINSON, KIRSTIN ELEY, ROGER CRIPPS
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Patent number: 8541222Abstract: Modified microorganisms are prepared by inactivation of the endogenous lactate dehydrogenase gene. The microorganisms are deposited under NCIMB Accession Nos. 41277, 41278, 41279, 41280 or 41281.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: TMO Renewables LimitedInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Roger Cripps, Ann Thompson, Kirstin Eley, Mark Taylor, David Leak, Brian Rudd, Simon Baker
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Patent number: 8486687Abstract: A thermophilic microorganism comprising a modification that prevents sporulation, wherein the modification inactivates the native spo0A gene.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: TMO Renewables LimitedInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Roger Cripps, Kirstin Eley
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Publication number: 20130059355Abstract: A thermophilic micro-organism comprising a modification that increases amylase expression and starch hydrolysis compared to wild-type, wherein the modification is insertion of a heterologous amylase gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: TMO RENEWABLES LIMITEDInventors: ANTHONY ATKINSON, Roger Cripps, Kirstin Eley, Brian Rudd, Martin Todd
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Patent number: 8143038Abstract: A thermophilic micro-organism comprising a modification that increases amylase expression and starch hydrolysis compared to wild-type, wherein the modification is insertion of a heterologous amylase gene.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: TMO Renewables LimitedInventors: Anthony Atkinson, Roger Cripps, Kirstin Eley, Brian Rudd, Martin Todd