Patents by Inventor David Sharps
David Sharps 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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Publication number: 20240147243Abstract: An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA, Gianpaolo FASOLI, Vinay GANESH, Irene M. GRAFF, Martijn Theo HARING, Ahmer A. KHAN, Franck Farian RAKOTOMALALA, Gordon Y. SCOTT, Ho Cheung CHUNG, Antonio ALLEN, Mayura Dhananjaya DESHPANDE, Thomas John MILLER, Christopher SHARP, David W. SILVER, Policarpo B. WOOD, Ka YANG
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Patent number: 11950101Abstract: An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Vinay Ganesh, Irene M. Graff, Martijn Theo Haring, Ahmer A. Khan, Franck Farian Rakotomalala, Gordon Y. Scott, Ho Cheung Chung, Antonio Allen, Mayura Dhananjaya Deshpande, Thomas John Miller, Christopher Sharp, David W. Silver, Policarpo B. Wood, Ka Yang
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Publication number: 20240107312Abstract: Techniques are described herein for reader initiated provisioning. An example method includes a device detecting a trigger to establish a connection with a second device. The device can receive a first input to verify an identity associated with the second computing device. The device receives from the second device, a first information item comprising identification information based at least in part on the first input. The device receives a comparison result from a server. The device receives a second input to provision a digital access asset onto the second device based on the comparison result. The device transmits, to the second device, the digital access asset based at least in part on the second input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: David E. Brudnicki, Christopher Sharp
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Publication number: 20240104188Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to digital identification credential user interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA, Antonio A. ALLEN, Mayura D. DESHPANDE, Thomas John MILLER, Policarpo Bonilla WOOD, JR., Ho Cheung CHUNG, Gianpaolo FASOLI, Vinay GANESH, Irene M. GRAFF, Martijn Theo HARING, Ahmer A. KHAN, Franck Farian RAKOTOMALALA, Gordon SCOTT, Christopher SHARP, David W. SILVER, Ka YANG
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Patent number: 11905117Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for a load handling system such that direction change of a transporting device is more easily and quickly realised. A transporting device includes an omnidirectional driving unit, and is arranged to transport a container, the container being stored in a facility. The facility is arranged to store the container in a plurality of stacks, a plurality of pathways being arranged in cells so as to form a grid-like structure above the stacks, the transporting device being arranged to operate on the grid-like structure and to be driven in a first direction and/or second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Sean Clark, David Sharp
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Publication number: 20240041726Abstract: Disclosed herein is a foamable composition and a foam, its use, and process for its preparation. The foamable composition comprises: short-chain alcohol(s); a surfactant; a sensation modifying agent; water; and optionally an additive and/or second acceptable surfactant. The composition provides physical stability, an improved foam quality, consumer/sensory benefits and is useful for topical application.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: David SHARP, Duncan COFFEY
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Publication number: 20240025642Abstract: The present invention provides a transporting device for a storage system which maximises storage capacity of the storage system whilst remaining scalable and avoiding overheads. The transporting device includes a frame having a Z-direction track and a tray for supporting the container. The tray includes an X-direction movement unit arranged to move the container in an X-direction, a Y-direction movement unit arranged to move the container in a Y-direction and a Z-direction movement unit arranged to move the tray in a Z-direction by way of interaction with the Z-direction track. The transporting device can include a frame having a Z-direction track and a first movement unit arranged to move the container in an X-direction and/or a Z-direction by with the Z-direction track. A second movement unit is arranged to move the container in a Y-direction and/or a Z-direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Ocado Innovation LimitedInventors: Ben THOMAS, David SHARP, Adam LANCASTER, Sean CLARK, Joseph ZAMMIT, Yongji ZHOU
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Publication number: 20240015349Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Roku, Inc.Inventor: DAVID SHARP
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Publication number: 20230388042Abstract: A wireless communication system having base stations, remotely located terminal units and a base station controller. The base stations and the remotely located terminal units communicate data over operational wireless communication links between them. The base stations include respective in-channel detectors and out-of-channel detectors for detecting radar or other extraneous received signals. The in-channel detectors analyse signals over the operational communication links. The out-of-channel detectors include respective out-of-channel receiver elements that monitor possibly available channels alternative to the respective operational communication link channels. The base station controller registers whether channels are available or not for communication links, and allocates to the base stations respective target channel parameters including frequencies available for operational and alternative communication links.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: David SHARP, Amy STEPHENS, Montague Fraser BARLOW, Adam Nikolai GREEN, Fraser Murray EDWARDS
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Patent number: 11820872Abstract: A method of manufacture of a composite moulding material (1100) comprising a fibrous layer (1102) and a graphene/graphitic dispersion (1104) applied to the fibrous layer (1102) at one or more localised regions (1106) over a surface (1108) of the fibrous layer(1102) in which the graphene/graphitic dispersion (1104) is comprised of graphene nanoplates, graphene oxide nanoplates, reduced graphene oxide nanoplates, bilayer graphene nanoplates, bilayer graphene oxide nanoplates, bilayer reduced graphene oxide nanoplates, few-layer graphene nanoplates, few-layer graphene oxide nanoplates, few-layer reduced graphene oxide nanoplates, graphene/graphite nanoplates of 6 to 14 layers of carbon atoms, graphite flakes with nanoscale dimensions and 40 or less layers of carbon atoms, graphite flakes with nanoscale dimensions and 25 to 30 layers of carbon atoms, graphite flakes with nanoscale dimensions and 25 to 35 layers of carbon atoms, graphite flakes with nanoscale dimensions and 20 to 35 layers of carbon atoms, or grapType: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Applied Graphene Materials UK LimitedInventors: Nigel Ashley Blatherwick, Matthew David Sharp, William Weaver
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Publication number: 20230368207Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to assessing risk and triggering a mitigation action prior to executing an offer based on a level of risk. Risk models are trained with data extracted from past transactions, whereby the risk models are configured to determine levels of risk for potential transactions. A request to make an offer on a listing representing an item is received. In response, the system identifies one or more account attributes associated with the user account and determines a level of risk by applying the one or more account attributes to one or more of the risk models. If the level of risk transgresses a threshold, the system triggers the automatic payment flow prior to executing the offer, which includes causing display of an information request user interface through which payment and shipping information is received. Responsive to receiving the payment and shipping information, the offer is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Shakul Hameed, Scott David Sharp, Om Prakash Kannusami, Alagu Muthuraman
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Patent number: 11814543Abstract: A composition suitable for coating a metallic substrate that is susceptible to corrosion is disclosed. The composition comprises a carrier medium and graphene platelets in which the graphene platelets comprise between 0.002 wt % and 0.09 wt % of the coating, and the graphene platelets comprise one of or a mixture of two or more of graphene nanoplates, bilayer graphene nanoplates, few-layer graphene nanoplates, and/or graphite flakes in which the graphite flakes have one nanoscale dimension and 25 or less layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLIED GRAPHENE MATERIALS UK LIMITEDInventors: William Weaver, Matthew David Sharp, Gaven Johnson
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Patent number: 11764895Abstract: A wireless communication system having base stations, remotely located terminal units and a base station controller. The base stations and the remotely located terminal units communicate data over operational wireless communication links between them. The base stations include respective in-channel detectors and out-of-channel detectors for detecting radar or other extraneous received signals. The in-channel detectors analyse signals over the operational communication links. The out-of-channel detectors include respective out-of-channel receiver elements that monitor possibly available channels alternative to the respective operational communication link channels. The base station controller registers whether channels are available or not for communication links, and allocates to the base stations respective target channel parameters including frequencies available for operational and alternative communication links.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: David Sharp, Amy Stephens, Montague Fraser Barlow, Adam Nikolai Green, Fraser Murray Edwards
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Patent number: 11731376Abstract: A method of manufacture of an object 4 from a fibre and or fabric reinforced composite material 12 comprising at least a first layer of a proof coating 10, a first matrix, and one or more fibre and or fabric reinforcement materials, characterised in that the manufacture steps comprise a) creating a first layer of the proof coating 10, b) laying up a mixture of the fibre and or fabric reinforcement material and the composite matrix form a composite element 12, in which (i) step (a) is performed first with the first layer of the proof coating 10 being applied to a mould 2 or support, followed by step (b) with layup being performed on a surface of the first layer of the proof coating 10 of step (a); or (ii) step (b) is performed first with layup being performed on a mould 2 or support, followed by step (a) with the first layer of the proof coating 10 being applied to at least one surface of the composite element 12 of step (b) characterised in that the proof coating 10 is comprised of a second matrix having dispType: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: APPLIED GRAPHENE MATERIALS UK LIMITEDInventors: William Weaver, Matthew David Sharp, Gaven Johnson, Antony Xavier Gallafent
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Publication number: 20230262290Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a media device upgrading system with a native user interface. An embodiment operates by displaying a native user interface of a media device configured to operate in both a normal mode without an upgrader device and an upgrader mode when an upgrader device is connected to an input port of the media device. It is determined that the upgrader device is connected a command is received via the native user interface. It is determined that the command operates a software component, and the command is provided to the upgrader device. A response to executing the command is received from the upgrader device, and a response is displayed on the native user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Roku, Inc.Inventors: David MENDENHALL, David SHARP, Mark ELY, Jim FUNK, Charles SMITH, Andrew SCHULTZ, Anthony WOOD
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Publication number: 20230235756Abstract: A pneumatic circuit for controlling the activation of a robot with inflatable chambers includes at least one ring oscillator formed from a plurality of valves connected in series to selectively admit fluid pressure to inflate and deflate the chambers. Sequential actuation of the valves induces sequential bending and rotation of combinations of the chambers to effect motion. A switching valve changes the actuation sequence of the oscillator valves to change the direction of motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Dylan DROTMAN, Saurabh JADHAV, Michael T. TOLLEY, David SHARP, Christian CHAN
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Patent number: 11700410Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: ROKU, INC.Inventor: David Sharp
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Patent number: 11673743Abstract: An object handling coordination system includes a plurality of transporting vessels arranged as a three-dimensional cluster of transporting vessels. The plurality of transporting vessels is addressable and the cluster has a self-reconfigurable physical topology. A relocatable transporting vessel is configured to be relocatable within the. A motion control system is configured to determine a path from a start location of the relocatable transporting vessel within the cluster to a destination location within the cluster and arranged to execute movement of the relocatable transporting vessel within the cluster using the determined path.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: David Sharp, Joseph Zammit, Richard Watkins, Michael Campbell
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Patent number: 11665401Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a media device upgrading system with a native user interface. An embodiment operates by displaying a native user interface of a media device configured to operate in both a normal mode without an upgrader device and an upgrader mode when an upgrader device is connected to an input port of the media device. It is determined that the upgrader device is connected a command is received via the native user interface. It is determined that the command operates a software component, and the command is provided to the upgrader device. A response to executing the command is received from the upgrader device, and a response is displayed on the native user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: David Mendenhall, David Sharp, Mark Ely, Jim Funk, Charles Smith, Andrew Schultz, Anthony Wood
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Patent number: 11618831Abstract: A waterborne protective coating system is disclosed that comprises at least one binder, water, and a dispersion of 2D material/graphitic nanoplatelets.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventors: William Weaver, Lynn Chikosha, Adam Austin Bell, Matthew David Sharp