Patents by Inventor Ian A. Smith

Ian A. Smith 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: 20230260310
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system for creating a structured content object comprises a database configured to store unstructured content and a control system configured to segment the unstructured content into a plurality of elements, analyze, via a plurality of models, each of the plurality of elements, wherein each of the models is trained for a different type of content, generate, for each of the plurality of elements, confidence scores, generate, for each of the plurality of elements, bounding boxes, determine, based on the confidence scores for each of the plurality of elements, a type of content, determine a reading order, create, based on the confidence scores, the bounding boxes, and the types of content, tags including (i) the confidence scores, (ii) the bounding boxes, and (iii) the types of content for each element of the plurality of elements, and create, based on the tags, the structured content object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Muralidharan Rangarajan, Sanjeev Kalyanaraman, Ian A. Smith, Ranajit Mitra, Shahid Ul Islam
  • Patent number: 7026280
    Abstract: The invention relates to neuroactive peptides or analogues thereof, having at least one of the biological activities of angiotensin IV, and which comprise the sequence Leu-Val-Val-Tyr-Pro-Trp-Thr-Gln-Arg-Phe, to methods of modulating neuronal activity, and to pharmaceutical composition thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology
    Inventors: Frederick A. O. Mendelsohn, Siew Yeen Chai, Ingrid Moeller, Peter G. Aldred, Ian A. Smith, Rebecca A. Lew
  • Patent number: 6709527
    Abstract: A process for treating impure cane-derived sugar juice comprises subjecting, in a clarification stage, the juice to microfiltration/ultrafiltration to decrease the levels of suspended solids, organic non-sugar impurities and/or color therein. The resultant clarified sugar juice is sequentially passed through an ion exchange stage by bringing the juice into contact with a strong acid cation ion exchange resin in the hydrogen form, and thereafter into contact with an anion ion exchange resin in the hydroxide form. A purified sugar solution is withdrawn from the ion exchange stage, and concentrated to produce a syrup. The syrup is subjected to primary crystallization in a primary crystallization stage, to produce refined white sugar and primary mother liquor. The primary mother liquor is subjected to secondary crystallization in a secondary crystallization stage, to produce impure crystallized sugar and white strap molasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Ufion (Pty) Limited
    Inventors: Wolfgang L. Fechter, Peter A. Brewer, Gerrit Van De Pypekamp, Ian A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20020147129
    Abstract: The invention relates to neuroactive peptides or analogues thereof, having at least one of the biological activities of angiotensin IV, and which comprise the sequence Leu-Val-Val-Tyr-Pro-Trp-Thr-Gln-Arg-Phe, to methods of modulating neuronal activity, and to pharmaceutical composition thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: FREDERICK A. O. MENDELSOHN, SIEW YEEN CHAI, INGRID MOELLER, PETER G. ALDRED, IAN A. SMITH, REBECCA A. LEW