Patents by Inventor Gordon Thomas

Gordon Thomas 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).

  • Patent number: 12235560
    Abstract: Electrochromic device (550) having at least one multi-layer conductor (560,580) with a metal layer (564,584) between a first transparent conductive oxide layer (562,566,582,586) and a second transparent conductive oxide layer (562,566,582,586) and optionally having one or more tuning layers adjacent the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Anshu A. Pradhan, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Robin Friedman, Gordon E. Jack, Dane Thomas Gillaspie
  • Patent number: 12233547
    Abstract: A control system for a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a remote surgeon console having a surgeon input device, and a surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to a surgical instrument, the surgical robot arm operable in a full power mode in which the joints of the surgical robot arm are powered by a first power source and a reduced power mode in which the joints of the surgical robot arm are powered by a second power source, the control system configured to: whilst the surgical robot arm is operating in the full power mode, control the surgical robot arm in a surgical mode by converting movements of the surgeon input device to control signals for moving joints of the surgical robot arm; detect a power failure of the first power source; in response to detecting the power failure, enable the reduced power mode, and transition control of the surgical robot arm from the surgical mode to a standby mode; whilst in the reduc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Patent number: 12210655
    Abstract: Some disclosed methods involve controlling a display system to present one or more restricted access virtual buttons in a secure region. The restricted access virtual buttons may correspond to functionality of the apparatus or functionality of a software application for which access is restricted. Some disclosed methods involve controlling the display system to present one or more unrestricted access virtual buttons in a non-secure region. The unrestricted access virtual buttons may correspond to functionality of the apparatus or functionality of the software application for which access is not restricted. Responsive to the selection of a virtual button displayed in the secure region, some methods involve performing an authentication process and executing the functionality of the device or functionality of a software application for which access is restricted after successful authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Gordon Thomas
  • Patent number: 12201776
    Abstract: An apparatus or kit for a respiratory support system for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient. The apparatus comprising a humidifier chamber in pneumatic communication with a gases source, an inspiratory conduit in pneumatic communication with the humidifier chamber downstream of the humidifier chamber, a filter that is in pneumatic communication with the inspiratory conduit downstream of the inspiratory conduit, and a patient interface for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient, wherein the patient interface is in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter, or is configured to be placed in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Gordon Holyoake, Samantha Dale Oldfield, Alicia Jerram Hunter Evans, Callum James Thomas Spence, Craig Karl White, Dexter Chi Lun Cheung, Matthew Jon Payton, Michael Robert Barraclough, Daniel John Smith, Kevin Blake Powell
  • Patent number: 12186041
    Abstract: A control system for controlling a surgical robot by a surgeon console remote from the surgical robot, the control system being configured to: receive one or more state signal associated with a plurality of instruments, each of the plurality of instruments being attachable to the surgical robot, the one or more state signal indicating a selectability of each of the plurality of instruments for control by the surgeon console, and a control mode of each of the plurality of instruments from a group of modes, the group of modes comprising a manipulation mode in which an instrument of the plurality of instruments is controllable by the surgeon console, and a selection mode in which an instrument of the plurality of instruments is selectable for control by the surgeon console; determine a graphical arrangement of icons for display in dependence on the received one or more state signal, where each icon represents a respective one of the plurality of instruments, and output a display signal to cause the graphical arr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Duncan Robinson, Edward James Wildin Tucker, Gordon Thomas Deane, Luke David Ronald Hares, Rachel Marie Garsed, Rebecca Anne Cuthbertson, Ross Hamilton Henrywood
  • Publication number: 20240419768
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to user devices. In some aspects, a user device may generate, using a fingerprint sensor of the user device, fingerprint information associated with a finger press of a user of the user device. The user device may authenticate the user in association with the fingerprint information. The user device may determine, in association with force information generated by a force sensor of the user device, an amount of force applied to a display screen of the user device by the finger press. The user device may perform, in association with authenticating the user, an action that is associated with the amount of force applied to the display screen. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: Gordon THOMAS
  • Patent number: 12150721
    Abstract: A control system for controlling manipulation of a surgical instrument in response to manipulation of a remote surgeon input device at a remote surgeon's console, the surgical instrument being supported by a surgical robot arm, the surgical instrument comprising an end effector connected to a distal end of a shaft by an articulated coupling, the articulated coupling comprising one or more joints enabling the end effector to adopt a range of attitudes relative to the distal end of the shaft, the control system configured to: receive a command from an input actuated by a user to straighten the surgical instrument; and in response to the received command, to command driving forces to be applied to joint(s) of the articulated coupling to drive the instrument to adopt a predetermined configuration in which the profile of the end effector is most closely aligned with the profile of the distal end of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Luke David Ronald Hares, Gordon Thomas Deane, Edward James Wildin Tucker, Graham John Veitch
  • Publication number: 20240290162
    Abstract: A dispensing unit for personal care products and personal protective equipment includes one or more dispensing assemblies contained within a single housing. The dispensing unit may contain dispensing assemblies that independently dispense two different types of products. Each dispensing assembly includes an actuator that mechanically injects a time delay between dispensings. Products are bundled together with support structures that are removed when the bundles are placed into a dispensing assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Claire Coder, Anne Weigand, Pepin Gelardi, Emma Pearl Wilmer-Shiles, Gordon Thomas, Mark Dalhart, Jesse Klein
  • Publication number: 20240212387
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a controller of a user device having a rollable display device may obtain fingerprint information associated with a user interaction with a contact area of the rollable display device. The controller may obtain touch information associated with the user interaction with the contact area of the rollable display device. The controller may output, based on the fingerprint information and the touch information, actuation information that causes actuation of a display extending component of the rollable display device to change an extension state of the rollable display device. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Gordon THOMAS, Deep BHATIA
  • Patent number: 12017360
    Abstract: A method for controlling a mechanical system having a plurality of components interlinked by a plurality of driven joints, the method comprising: measuring torques or forces about or at the driven joints and forming a load signal representing the measured torques or forces; receiving a motion demand signal representing a desired state of the system; implementing an impedance control algorithm in dependence on the motion demand signal and the load signal to form a target signal indicating a target configuration for each of the driven joints; measuring the configuration of each of the driven joints and forming a state signal representing the measured configurations; and forming a set of drive signals for the joints by, for each joint, comparing the target configuration of that joint as indicated by the target signal to the measured configuration of that joint as indicated by the state signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward John Mottram, Gordon Thomas Deane, Edward Tucker, Graham Veitch, Paul Christopher Roberts
  • Patent number: 11999062
    Abstract: A method for limiting joint velocity of a plurality of joints of a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a robot having a base and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, the method comprising: obtaining joint states for a first group of k joints of the arm, where k>1; for each of the k joints: determining from the obtained joint state a permitted range of motion for that joint; deriving, using the permitted range of motion, a joint velocity limit for that joint; selecting the minimum joint velocity limit of the k joints to be a common joint velocity limit used to limit each of the k joints individually; and calculating drive signals for driving the k joints wherein the velocity of each of the k joints is limited using the common joint velocity limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward John Mottram, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240168460
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include, in at least one aspect, a fully automatic method of converting a generative design into an editable, watertight B-Rep by leveraging the generative solver input and representation to: (1) embed the exact input solid boundary surfaces where the design coincides with the input, (2) approximate everywhere else the design boundary with globally smooth, editable “organic” surfaces, and (3) join all surfaces to form a generative design output B-Rep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Cvetanov Marinov, Peter Hugh Charrot, Suguru Furuta, Nandakumar Santhanam, Justin Nicholas Hallet, Stephen Alan Barley, Jean Alison Flower, Gordon Thomas Finnigan, Siavash Navadeh Meshkat, Iain Edward Henley, Tristan Ward Barback, Maciej Sapun, Marco Amagliani, Pawel Wolski
  • Patent number: 11969228
    Abstract: A control system configured to control manipulation of a surgical instrument in response to manipulation of a remote surgeon input device. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector having opposable first and second end effector elements connected to a shaft by an articulated coupling. The control system receives a command from the surgeon input device to both (i) change the orientation of the end effector, and (ii) open the first and second end effector elements relative to each other. In response to the command to change the orientation of the end effector, the control system determines an angle ? between the longitudinal axis of the articulated coupling and the end effector. In response to the command to open the first and second end effector elements, the control system determines an opening angle ? between the first and second end effector elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Gordon Thomas Deane, Graham John Veitch
  • Publication number: 20240115311
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240050176
    Abstract: A control system for a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a remote surgeon console and an articulated surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to an articulated surgical instrument. The control system comprises a central controller communicatively coupled to and remotely located from an arm controller of the surgical robot arm, the central controller also communicatively coupled to a surgeon input device of the surgeon console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Luke David Ronald Hares, Paul Christopher Roberts, Graham John Veitch, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Patent number: 11886165
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include, in at least one aspect, a fully automatic method of converting a generative design into an editable, watertight B-Rep by leveraging the generative solver input and representation to: (1) embed the exact input solid boundary surfaces where the design coincides with the input, (2) approximate everywhere else the design boundary with globally smooth, editable “organic” surfaces, and (3) join all surfaces to form a generative design output B-Rep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Cvetanov Marinov, Peter Hugh Charrot, Suguru Furuta, Nandakumar Santhanam, Justin Nicholas Hallet, Stephen Alan Barley, Jean Alison Flower, Gordon Thomas Finnigan, Siavash Navadeh Meshkat, Iain Edward Henley, Tristan Ward Barback, Maciej Sapun, Marco Amagliani, Pawel Wolski
  • Patent number: 11882989
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240028768
    Abstract: Some disclosed methods involve controlling a display system to present one or more restricted access virtual buttons in a secure region. The restricted access virtual buttons may correspond to functionality of the apparatus or functionality of a software application for which access is restricted. Some disclosed methods involve controlling the display system to present one or more unrestricted access virtual buttons in a non-secure region. The unrestricted access virtual buttons may correspond to functionality of the apparatus or functionality of the software application for which access is not restricted. Responsive to the selection of a virtual button displayed in the secure region, some methods involve performing an authentication process and executing the functionality of the device or functionality of a software application for which access is restricted after successful authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: Gordon THOMAS
  • Patent number: 11857147
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Patent number: 11826116
    Abstract: A control system for a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a remote surgeon console and an articulated surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to an articulated surgical instrument. The control system comprises a central controller communicatively coupled to and remotely located from an arm controller of the surgical robot arm, the central controller also communicatively coupled to a surgeon input device of the surgeon console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Luke David Ronald Hares, Paul Christopher Roberts, Graham John Veitch, Gordon Thomas Deane