Patents by Inventor Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill 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: 20040162919
    Abstract: An improved system and technique for processing a communications session in a data communications system suitably includes the steps of receiving the communications session at a line interface card, embedding the communications session into an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) virtual circuit at the line interface card, transporting the virtual circuit from the line interface card to a processor card via a backplane. The processor card suitably extracts the communications session from the virtual circuit, and processes the communications session as appropriate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Harold K. Williamson, Charles Christopher Hill, Brian A. Carr
  • Publication number: 20030228373
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition for inhibiting microbial growth, which includes a biocide (other than a triamine) and a triamine. The biocide is an oxidizing biocide, a non-oxidizing biocide, or a combination thereof. This composition is particularly effective at preventing the growth of various microorganisms in aqueous solutions, such as industrial waters. The present invention also relates to a method of controlling the growth of microorganisms in an aqueous composition by adding the composition of the present invention to the solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicants: Lonza Inc., Lonza AG
    Inventors: Michael Ludensky, Christopher Hill, Florian Christof Albrecht Lichtenberg
  • Publication number: 20030029812
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for controlling (e.g. inhibiting) the growth of microorganisms or killing microorganisms in an aqueous solution, such as that found in a water treatment facility or papermaking facility. The method includes adding an effective amount of (a) a free halogen-generating biocide, (b) a halogen stabilizer, and (c) a quaternary ammonium compound, a biocidal amine or salt thereof, or mixture thereof to the aqueous solution. The aqueous solution may be water in a recreational facility, an industrial cooling system, a water treatment facility or a water slurry, such as a circulating water slurry, in a papermaking facility. The mixture of the present invention is useful as a slimicide. The quaternary ammonium biocide and/or biocidal amine increase the efficacy of the free halogen-generating biocidal system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: LONZA INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Warren Burns, Christopher Hill, Richard Ashley Sinden, Philip Gerdon Sweeny
  • Patent number: 6209051
    Abstract: In a method for switching between multiple system hosts (154,164,174,184) on a CompactPCI bus (110,120), a hot swap controller (166,186) provides to a special arbiter (820) a high priority request signal and the special arbiter (820) provides to the hot swap controller a grant signal only when the CompactPCI bus is idle. The hot swap controller (166,186) provides to the special arbiter (820) a float signal causing the special arbiter (820) to disable the system host signals, which include one or more grant signals for granting bus access to devices on the CompactPCI bus (110,120), one or more reset signals for resetting the devices, one or more interrupts and one or more clock signals provided to devices. The hot swap controller (166,186) transfers control of the CompactPCI bus (110,120) to a standby system host 154,164,174,184).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Christopher Hill, Edward Greenwood, Mark Lanus
  • Patent number: 6161197
    Abstract: In a method for swapping a system host board (150,160,170,180), when a failure is detected on a first system processor board (150), control of a first CompactPCI bus (110) is transferred from a first system processor board system host (154) to a first bridge board system host(164). In an active/standby configuration, control of a second CompactPCI bus (120) is transferred from a second bridge board system host (184) to a second system processor board system host (174), and control of the devices on the first CompactPCI bus (110) and second CompactPCI bus (120) is transferred from the first system processor (152) to the second system processor (172) without resetting any devices on the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Lanus, Charles Christopher Hill, Anil Gupta
  • Patent number: 5684820
    Abstract: A waveguide laser (10) incorporates a guide (12) and two concave resonator mirrors (14, 16). The guide (12) is of square section with side (2a), and of length L equal to 4a.sup.2 /.lambda., where .lambda. is a laser operating wavelength. The mirrors (14, 16) are phase matched to respective Gaussian intensity profile radiation beams with beam waists at respective waveguide end apertures (20, 22). Each beam waist has a radius w.sub.0 in the range 0.1a to 0.65a to avoid waveguide edge effects and excitation of unwanted high order waveguide modes. The laser (10) has good transverse spatial mode characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of Defence and Evaluation Research Agency
    Inventors: Richard M. Jenkins, Christopher A. Hill
  • Patent number: 4430780
    Abstract: A comingling jet having a body or housing through which a right cylindrical yarn chamber extends and an air entry orifice which intersects and communicates with the yarn chamber so that their axis are perpendicular to one another. An adjustable pin assembly is provided at the entry opening of the yarn chamber to modify the air flow characteristics of the yarn chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: International Machinery Sales, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart B. Sear, Christopher A. Hill
  • Patent number: 3951411
    Abstract: A board game for two or more players simulating the popular conception of espionage. A set of pieces is allotted to each player who must play on an outer part of the board to collect them in order to play on an inner part of the board. The game is played with advantages and forfeits, the object of the game being for each player to capture a selected piece of an opposing player. The board is set out in sectors divided symbolically by barriers which can be bridged to move in an opposing player's sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Inventors: Christopher Hill, Charles Baker, Leonard Blundun