Patents by Inventor Derek Peter

Derek Peter 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: 20240086624
    Abstract: A digital display of an active window is provided. An application, separate from the application providing the digital display, is capable of identifying an artifact in the active window of the digital display without a priori knowledge or an application programming interface to the application providing the digital display. The artifacts may be alpha-numeric artifacts or non-alpha-numeric artifacts. The active window may be examined in multiple dimensions including 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions or more. Alpha-numeric artifacts, once identified, are pre-processed to remove anti-aliasing to allow for processor optical recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Charles N. Corfield, Stephen L. Bulick, E. Peter Fox, Adam M. Ornstein, Derek C. Smith
  • Patent number: 11585052
    Abstract: A milling machine may have a frame, first and second ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a front end of the frame, and third and fourth ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a rear end of the frame. Each vertically adjustable leg column includes a hydraulic cylinder connecting the frame and the associated ground engagement member. A milling drum is attached to the frame between the front and rear ends. At least one pair of the leg columns connected to the front end of the frame or the leg columns connected to the rear end of the frame includes an accumulator associated with each of the at least one pair of leg columns, a fluid conduit fluidly connecting a bore end of each of the hydraulic cylinders to the associated accumulator, and a control valve disposed in the fluid conduit and configured to control a flow of fluid between the hydraulic cylinders and the associated accumulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Peter Nieuwsma, Nicholas James Argenziano, Jason William Muir, Timothy Jay Lindholm
  • Patent number: 11408136
    Abstract: A rotary mixer includes a frame. The rotary mixer also includes a milling enclosure supported by the frame. The milling enclosure includes a side plate. The rotary mixer further includes a rotor disposed within the milling enclosure. The rotary mixer includes at least one vibration device coupled to the milling enclosure. The at least one vibration device is arranged to induce vibrations in at least one component of the milling enclosure for resisting accumulation of debris on the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew-David S. Frantz, Derek Peter Nieuwsma, Nathaniel S. Doy, Dustin William Sondreal, Jason W. Muir
  • Publication number: 20210301481
    Abstract: A milling machine may have a frame, first and second ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a front end of the frame, and third and fourth ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a rear end of the frame. Each vertically adjustable leg column includes a hydraulic cylinder connecting the frame and the associated ground engagement member. A milling drum is attached to the frame between the front and rear ends. At least one pair of the leg columns connected to the front end of the frame or the leg columns connected to the rear end of the frame includes an accumulator associated with each of the at least one pair of leg columns, a fluid conduit fluidly connecting a bore end of each of the hydraulic cylinders to the associated accumulator, and a control valve disposed in the fluid conduit and configured to control a flow of fluid between the hydraulic cylinders and the associated accumulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR PAVING PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Derek Peter NIEUWSMA, Nicholas James ARGENZIANO, Jason William MUIR, Timothy Jay LINDHOLM
  • Publication number: 20190314574
    Abstract: Percutaneous therapy or drug delivery devices are described herein. The device can include one or multiple lumens inside a cannula or catheter body. The device can include features for reducing or preventing backflow or reflux of infusate along the device insertion track, such as one or more bullet noses, over tubes, and/or micro-tips. The device can be used in any of a variety of treatment methods, including to inject cancer therapy medicinal products directly into pulmonary tumors or tumors located in other regions of the body. The device can include features to keep the distal tip secure during patient respiration or during other patient movement, and can reduce the incidence of reflux during therapy delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Katelyn Perkins-Neaton, Gregory Eberl, Morgan Brophy, Andrew East, PJ Anand, Deep Arjun Singh, Loredana Guseila, Jon Freund, Derek Peter
  • Patent number: 10041215
    Abstract: A milling machine has a frame, a rotor, a mixing chamber with a front door and a rear door, and a controller. The controller is in communication with the frame, the rotor, the front door, and the rear door, and configured to operate the milling machine in a travel mode and a work mode. When the travel mode is actuated, the controller raises the rotor to a predetermined position, closes the front door and the rear door, and raises the frame to a predetermined height. When the work mode is actuated, the controller lowers the frame to a predetermined height, lowers the rotor to a predetermined position, and opens the front door and the rear door to predetermined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jason William Muir, Brian Joe Schlenker, Matthew-David S. Frantz, Derek Peter Nieuwsma
  • Publication number: 20180023260
    Abstract: A milling machine has a frame, a rotor, a mixing chamber with a front door and a rear door, and a controller. The controller is in communication with the frame, the rotor, the front door, and the rear door, and configured to operate the milling machine in a travel mode and a work mode. When the travel mode is actuated, the controller raises the rotor to a predetermined position, closes the front door and the rear door, and raises the frame to a predetermined height. When the work mode is actuated, the controller lowers the frame to a predetermined height, lowers the rotor to a predetermined position, and opens the front door and the rear door to predetermined positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jason William Muir, Brian Joe Schlenker, Matthew-David S. Frantz, Derek Peter Nieuwsma
  • Publication number: 20160259630
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for enabling sharing and/or collaboration on visual model-based applications. Visual model-based applications can be represented using an internal representation, which can be edited and read in a visual modeling environment, or using a visual representation, which visually depict the model-based application in a visually intuitive way. A model share server can receive internal representations of visual model-based applications and convert them into visual representations for display on a hosted webpage, or for display on an external webpage or document. The model share server can also generate visual representations in such a way that preserves key words or text for indexing by a search engine crawler, which facilitates searching of visual model-based applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Derek Peter ROOS, Derckjan KRUIT, Roald KRUIT, Johannis DEN HAAN, Andrej KOELEWIJN, Marinus Cornelis WESTSTRATE, Erik Bastiaan Robbert VAN DE POL, Meinte BOERSMA, Arjan Ferdinand BLOK
  • Publication number: 20080220267
    Abstract: A glyceride compound comprising a first aliphatic group and a first substituent group bonded to said first aliphatic group. The first substituent group has the formula —O(CH2CH2O)nP where n is 1 to 14 and P is a polymerisable group. An aqueous emulsion of the glyceride can be used in an emulsion polymerisation reaction to yield a polymer resin, which can then be mixed with a suitable base material, such as wood strands, to produce a composite material, such as Oriented Strand Board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicants: KEELE UNIVERSITY, ADVANCE ENTERPRISES LTD
    Inventors: James Alan Stephen Howell, Con Robert McElroy, Robert Heathcote, Derek Peter Taylor
  • Patent number: 7217409
    Abstract: A method for treating respiratory disorders comprises administering to a patient a pharmaceutical aerosol formulation comprising: (i) a compound of formula (I) or a salt or solvate thereof, wherein: n represents an integer 1 to 6; N represents an integer 1 to 15; R1 represents —(CO)xC1-9 alkyl or —(CO)xC1-9 fluoroalkyl, which fluoroalkyl moiety contains at least 1 fluorine atom and not more than 3 consecutive perfluorocarbon atoms wherein x represents 0 or 1; and R2 and R3 independently represent C1-3alkyl or hydrogen, (ii) at least one medicament, and (iii) at least one propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Edgar Looker, Christopher James Lunniss, Alison Judith Redgrave, Derek Peter Reynolds
  • Patent number: 6913930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved analytical method and apparatus therefor, in particular to a method and apparatus for continuous titration in which at least one parameter of at least one compound in a test mixture may be monitored as the composition of the mixture is continuously varied. The method comprises the steps of continuously mixing at least two component fluid streams to form a test mixture stream and passing the test mixture stream through a spectrophotometric detection zone, with the volume to volume ratio of at least two of the component streams forming the test mixture stream continuously and linearly varied with time by alteration of the relative proportions of the component streams forming the test mixture, while the total volume of the test mixture stream remains constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher David Bevan, Alan Peter Hill, Derek Peter Reynolds
  • Patent number: 6759805
    Abstract: A circular filament lamp comprises a filament supported within an envelope which comprises a tube formed as the major part of a circle. The ends of the tube terminate in pinch seals through which extend current carrying assemblies connected to the filament. The pinch seals overlap one another circumferentially of the lamp, and are offset from one another on either side of a plane containing the axis of the filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Francis Gerard de Cort, Derek Peter Hurst
  • Publication number: 20040067202
    Abstract: There are provided according to the invention compounds of the formula (I) or a salt or solvate thereof, wherein: n represents an integer 1 to 6; N represents an integer 1 to 15; R1 represents (CO)xC1-9alkyl or (CO)xC1-9fluoroalkyl, which fluoroalkyl moiety contains at least 1 fluorine atom and not more than 3 consecutive perfluorocarbon atoms wherein x represents 0 or 1; and R2 and R3 independently represent C1-3alkyl or hydrogen. There are also provided pharmaceutical aerosol formulations employing said compounds as suspension stabilising agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Brian Edgar Looker, Christopher James Lunniss, Alison Judith Redgrave, Derek Peter Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20040056584
    Abstract: A circular filament lamp comprises a filament supported within an envelope which comprises a tube formed as the major part of a circle. The ends of the tube terminate in pinch seals through which extend current carrying assemblies connected to the filament. The pinch seals overlap one another circumferentially of the lamp, and are offset from one another on either side of a plane containing the axis of the filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Francis Gerard de Cort, Derek Peter Hurst
  • Publication number: 20040023405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved analytical method and apparatus therefor, in particular to a method and apparatus for continuous titration in which at least one parameter of at least one compound in a text mixture may be monitored as the composition of the mixture is continuously varied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher David Bevan, Alan Peter Hill, Derek Peter Reynolds
  • Patent number: 6469426
    Abstract: An incandescent lamp element comprises an envelope and a filament (10) supported therein by a plurality of spaced supports. The filament comprises a helical coil of wire with sections (20, 21) having at least two different pitches. The first sections (20) have a pitch which enables the filament to be operated at a required colour temperature, and the second sections have a pitch which enables the filament to be supported by the supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Derek Peter Hurst, Paul Anthony Grazier, Anthony John Perrin, Kantilal Dhanjibhai Mistry, Francis Gerald Decort