Patents by Inventor Christopher BANCROFT

Christopher BANCROFT 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: 20230090996
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system for a vehicle having a fuel cell system. The cooling system comprises a first cooling circuit configured to cool a first set of vehicle components and a second cooling circuit configured to cool a second set of vehicle components. The fuel cell system is distributed between the first set of vehicle components and the second set of vehicle components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mauro GIROLDO, Jan MEHRING, Christopher BANCROFT, Martin EGAN, Khizer TUFAIL, Hans Guenter QUIX
  • Patent number: 10188303
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining stroke volume. The apparatus receives an arterial pressure waveform and is arranged to correct a part of the pressure waveform that relates to a heart beat for an influence of an ectopic heart beat, of atrial fibrillation on the pressure waveform or of changes in the pressure waveform's baseline. The apparatus also comprising means arranged to calculate the stroke volume from the corrected waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LIDCO Group PLC
    Inventors: David Marston Band, Terence Kevin O'Brien, Eric Mills, Christopher Bancroft Wolff, James Arthur Douglas
  • Patent number: 9330710
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile robot within a data storage library and to a library including such systems and utilizing such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Spectra Logic, Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Edward Bacom, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Nicholas Aldo Nespeca
  • Publication number: 20150055444
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile robot within a data storage library and to a library including such systems and utilizing such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Edward Bacom, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Nicholas Aldo Nespeca
  • Patent number: 8532817
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile robot within a data storage library and to a library including such systems and utilizing such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Edward Bacom, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Nicholas Aldo Nespeca
  • Publication number: 20130006126
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining stroke volume. The apparatus receives an arterial pressure waveform and is arranged to correct a part of the pressure waveform that relates to a heart beat for an influence of an ectopic heart beat, of atrial fibrillation on the pressure waveform or of changes in the pressure waveform's baseline. The apparatus also comprising means arranged to calculate the stroke volume from the corrected waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: LIDCO Group PLC
    Inventors: David Marston Band, Terence Kevin O'Brien, Eric Mills, Christopher Bancroft Wolff, James Arthur Douglas
  • Publication number: 20120185079
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile robot within a data storage library and to a library including such systems and utilizing such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Edward Bacom, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Nicholas Aldo Nespeca
  • Patent number: 7231250
    Abstract: A method of setting or adjusting a cardiac pacemaker in a patient diagnosed with cardiac asynchrony, which method comprises the steps of: i) implanting cardiac pacing wires into at least the right ventricle and the left ventricle of the heart of the patient, ii) continuously monitoring and recording the cardiac output, nominal stroke volume and/or arterial pressure of the patient on a beat-by-beat basis, iii) continuously monitoring and recording the respiratory cycle of the patient, and iv) adjusting the conduction delay between the electronic impulses to the cardiac pacing wires until a synchronization of respiratory changes with changes in the cardiac output, stroke volume or arterial pressure of the patient is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Lidco Group Plc
    Inventors: David Marston Band, Terence Kevin O'Brien, Christopher Bancroft Wolff
  • Patent number: 6997877
    Abstract: A method for the measurement of post arteriolar pressure in a patient which is determined from information regarding the blood pressure (BP), systemic vascular resistance (R) and cardiac output (CO) by plotting the regression line for the equation BP=R×Q+c where c is the post arteriolar pressure, and determining the value of c from the regression line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Lidco Group PLC
    Inventors: David Marston Band, Terence Kevin O'Brien, Christopher Bancroft Wolff
  • Publication number: 20040254480
    Abstract: A method for the measurement of post arteriolar pressure in a patient which is determined from information regarding the blood pressure (BP), systemic vascular resistance (R) and cardiac output (CO) by plotting the regression line for the equation BP=R×Q+c where c is the post arteriolar pressure, and determining the value of c from the regression line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: David Marston Band, Terence Kevin O'Brien, Christopher Bancroft Wolff
  • Patent number: 6253313
    Abstract: A computer processing system containing a plurality of identical processor elements each of which does not retain execution state information from prior operations. The plurality of identical processor elements operate on a statically compiled program which, based upon detected natural concurrencies in the basic blocks of the programs, provide logical processor numbers and an instruction firing time to each instruction in each basic block. Each processor element is capable of executing instructions on a per instruction basis such that dependent instructions can execute on the same or different processor elements. A given processor element is capable of executing an instruction from one context followed by an instruction from another context through use of shared storage resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Biax Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Edward Morrison, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Frederick George Gluck
  • Patent number: 5765037
    Abstract: A system and method reorder instructions for effecting faster branch execution. A processor element is coupled to receive stored instructions in a first order, and to process the received instructions in a different order, the processing occurring after each stored instruction of a first type is issued, and after a delay time, after each stored instruction of a second type is issued. The delay time is based on a delay value associated with the second type of instructions. In particular, the instructions include branch and non-branch instruction wherein firing time information identifies a time of execution of the branch instruction which is a variable number of instructions cycles prior to a time of execution of a last to be executed instruction in a basic block. Accordingly, branch instructions can be completely executed no later than during the processing of the last to be executed non-branch instruction in the basic block thereby speeding up overall processing of the software program by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Biax Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Edward Morrison, Christopher Bancroft Brooks, Frederick George Gluck