Patents by Inventor Ian Charles

Ian Charles 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: 20190368632
    Abstract: An event monitoring solenoid, system, and method are provided. Such a solenoid includes a housing with a coil acting upon an armature of the solenoid. The solenoid also includes an event monitoring module situated locally within the solenoid. The event monitoring module is operable to monitor one or more operational states of the solenoid. The event monitoring module is also operable to wirelessly transmit information relating to these one or more operational states to a remote user application. A system constructed in accordance with this invention includes the solenoid, a device connected to the solenoid, and the remote user application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: TLX Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Charles Stumpe, Brett G. Berger, Patrick Thomas Schwobe
  • Publication number: 20190358372
    Abstract: Embodiments of negative pressure wound therapy systems, apparatuses, and methods for operating the systems and apparatuses are disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a negative pressure source, a connector port, at least one switch, and a controller. The negative pressure source is connected through the connector port to either (i) a wound dressing having a canister configured to store fluid aspirated from the wound or (ii) a wound dressing without a canister between the connector port and the wound dressing. The controller determines, based on a signal received from the at least one switch, whether the canister is positioned in the fluid flow path and adjusts one or more operational parameters of negative pressure wound therapy based on the determination. The switch is activated by the connection of either the canister or canisterless wound dressing to the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ben Alan Askem, Anthony Jonathan Bedford, Kevin Bendele, Ali Khishdoost Borazjani, Nicola Brandolini, Ian Charles Culverhouse, Otteh Edubio, James Maxwell Eelbeck, Matt Ekman, Matthew Keith Fordham, Philip Gowans, Michael James Hayers, Mark Richard Hesketh, James Daniel Homes, Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt, Mark Edward Jones, William Kelbie, Reece Knight, David Mcleod, Nisha Mistry, Samuel John Mortimer, Fatoona Mosa, Matthew Murphy, Michael Paton, Neil Harry Patrick, Louis della-Porta, Felix Clarence Quintanar, Lee Michael Rush, Carl Dean Saxby, Hannah Bailey Sidebottom, Daniel Lee Steward, Catherine Thaddeus, Simon Tyson, David Ronald Upton, William Jacob Ward, Nicholas Warrington
  • Patent number: 10465115
    Abstract: The invention relates to cinnamic acid derivatives of formula S wherein the radicals have the meaning indicated in claim 1, to a process for their preparation and their use as self assembling photoalignment agent in liquid crystal mixtures. The invention further relates to a process for the fabrication of a liquid crystal (LC) display device with homogeneous alignment by photoaligning a liquid crystal mixture with positive or negative dielectric anisotropy comprising one or more compounds of formula S and optionally a polymerizable compound, to the liquid crystal mixture comprising the self assembling photoaligning agent and optionally the polymerizable compound and to the LC display produced by said process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Kevin Adlem, Alex Davis, Hassan Arasi, Joseph Sargent, Rachel Tuffin, Ian Charles Sage
  • Publication number: 20190281973
    Abstract: A furniture system has a longitudinally extending member (2), a component (4) comprising a mounting member (10) and a component mounting system for mounting the component (4) on the longitudinally extending member (2). The component mounting system includes a support member (7), a clamp member (11) and a fixing member (12). In use, the support member (7) is adapted to be located between the component (4) and the longitudinally extending member (2). The fixing member (12) extends through the clamp member (11) and the support member (7) to engage with the component mounting member (10). Engaging the fixing member (12) with the component mounting member (10) causes the clamp member (11) to engage with an engagement formation (24) on the longitudinally extending member (2) to clamp the support member (7) between the longitudinally extending member (2) and the component (4) to mount the component (4) on the longitudinally extending member (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Zoeftig Group Limited
    Inventors: Ian Charles Coates, Simon Lewis Bilton
  • Publication number: 20190275167
    Abstract: The disclosure features pharmaceutical compositions formed from prodrug dimers for the extended delivery of a drug and for the treatment of a disease or condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Charles PARRAG, Matthew Alexander John STATHAM, Kyle BATTISTON, Dimitra LOUKA, Hans Christian FISCHER, J. Paul SANTERRE, Wendy Alison NAIMARK
  • Publication number: 20190247311
    Abstract: The disclosure features dexamethasone prodrug dimers of dexamethasone and pharmaceutical compositions thereof useful for, e.g., the extended release of a drug and for the treatment of a disease or condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Charles PARRAG, Matthew Alexander John STATHAM, Kyle BATTISTON, Dimitra LOUKA, Hans Christian FISCHER, J. Paul SANTERRE, Wendy Alison NAIMARK
  • Patent number: 10348836
    Abstract: Methods of migrating clients from a first server to a second server are described. The first server sends a message to the second server identifying a set of clients to be migrated, serializes the state of one or more objects associated with the set of clients and transmits the serialized state to the second server. The first server then instructs each client in the set of clients to establish a connection to the second server such that each client is connected in parallel to both the first and second servers with the connection to the first server as a primary connection and the connection to the second server as a secondary connection and when the clients are connected to the second server, the first server instructs the clients to disconnect from the first server and switch the primary connection to be the connection with the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Charles Bolton, Colin Richard Gulliver, David Robert Allmond, Richard Michael Semmens, Robert Stothard, Alex James Neves, John Paul Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20190159161
    Abstract: To determine a location of a client device in a wireless network having at least first and second network devices, with known locations, one of the network devices transmits a message to the other network device and the other network device responds with an acknowledgement message. A client device receives the message and the acknowledgement message as well as respective times indicating actual times at which the message and the acknowledgement message were processed by one of the first and second network devices. The client device determines its location based on the times at which it received the message and the acknowledgement message and the difference between the actual processing times. This location may be refined by determining an angle between the client device and at least one of the network devices having multiple antennas and being configured for steered beam communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar KAKANI, Benjamin Tarlow, Erik David Lindskog, Raja Banerjea, Hong Wan, Ian Charles Blair
  • Patent number: 10219241
    Abstract: To determine a location of a client device in a wireless network having at least first and second network devices, with known locations, one of the network devices transmits a message to the other network device and the other network device responds with an acknowledgement message. A client device receives the message and the acknowledgement message as well as respective times indicating actual times at which the message and the acknowledgement message were processed by one of the first and second network devices. The client device determines its location based on the times at which it received the message and the acknowledgement message and the difference between the actual processing times. This location may be refined by determining an angle between the client device and at least one of the network devices having multiple antennas and being configured for steered beam communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CSR Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar Kakani, Benjamin Tarlow, Erik David Lindskog, Raja Banerjea, Hong Wan, Ian Charles Blair
  • Publication number: 20190002763
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device wherein a liquid crystal mixture having positive dielectric anisotropy or negative dielectric anisotropy is interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, the liquid crystal mixture comprising liquid crystal molecules, a self assembling photoalignment agent, a polymerisable compound, and wherein said LC mixture is photoaligned by irradiation with linearly polarised ultraviolet light and then cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Kevin ADLEM, Alex DAVIS, Rachel TUFFIN, Mark GOEBEL, Graziano ARCHETTI, Rocco FORTTE, Karl SKJONNEMAND, Ian Charles SAGE
  • Publication number: 20180371318
    Abstract: The invention relates to cinnamic acid derivatives of formula S wherein the radicals have the meaning indicated in claim 1, to a process for their preparation and their use as self assembling photoalignment agent in liquid crystal mixtures. The invention further relates to a process for the fabrication of a liquid crystal (LC) display device with homogeneous alignment by photoaligning a liquid crystal mixture with positive or negative dielectric anisotropy comprising one or more compounds of formula S and optionally a polymerisable compound, to the liquid crystal mixture comprising the self assembling photoaligning agent and optionally the polymerisable compound and to the LC display produced by said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Kevin ADLEM, Alex DAVIES, Hassan ARASI, Joseph SARGENT, Rachel TUFFIN, Ian Charles SAGE
  • Patent number: 10160930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-rheological fluid comprising particles of at least one inorganic or organic material suspended in a polar liquid crystalline medium, the use of such electro-rheological fluid in an haptic device, an haptic device itself, a method of the production of such haptic device and the use of such haptic device in electro-optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Siemianowski, Rachel Tuffin, Roger Kemp, Ian Charles Sage
  • Patent number: 10152866
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for hazard detection are described. A hazard detection device may include a printed circuit board. The hazard detection device may further include a chassis that provides a housing for components of the hazard detection device; a smoke chamber that is mid-mounted; a carbon monoxide sensor that is mounted with the circuit board; and a speaker assembly that partially encircles the mid-mounted smoke chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mark Kraz, Adam Mittleman, Nicholas Unger Webb, Andrew W. Goldenson, Ian Charles Smith, Daniel Adam Warren, Mikko Sannala
  • Publication number: 20180241825
    Abstract: Methods of migrating clients from a first server to a second server are described. The first server sends a message to the second server identifying a set of clients to be migrated, serializes the state of one or more objects associated with the set of clients and transmits the serialized state to the second server. The first server then instructs each client in the set of clients to establish a connection to the second server such that each client is connected in parallel to both the first and second servers with the connection to the first server as a primary connection and the connection to the second server as a secondary connection and when the clients are connected to the second server, the first server instructs the clients to disconnect from the first server and switch the primary connection to be the connection with the second server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Charles Bolton, Colin Richard Gulliver, David Robert Allmond, Richard Michael Semmens, Robert Stothard, Alex James Neves, John Paul Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20180237696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a material combination comprising a first fluid comprising a liquid crystal material, and an electrically insulating second fluid substantially not miscible with the first fluid, and to an optical device using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Rachel TUFFIN, Owain Llyr PAARI, Philip BAKER, Carl BROWN, Ian Charles SAGE
  • Patent number: 10039073
    Abstract: To determine a location of a client device in a wireless network having at least first and second network devices, with known locations, one of the network devices transmits a message to the other network device and the other network device responds with an acknowledgement message. A client device receives the message and the acknowledgement message as well as respective times indicating actual times at which the message and the acknowledgement message were processed by one of the first and second network devices. The client device determines its location based on the times at which it received the message and the acknowledgement message and the difference between the actual processing times. This location may be refined by determining an angle between the client device and at least one of the network devices having multiple antennas and being configured for steered beam communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar Kakani, Ben Tarlow, Erik Lindskog, Raja Banerjea, Hong Wan, Ian Charles Blair
  • Patent number: 10014882
    Abstract: An electronic object is configured for rapid prototyping of a wireless communication transceiver. The electronic object comprises hardware and software components. An identification module is configured for automatically conveying the electronic object's identity to at least one other electronic object in the transceiver. A signal processor performs object-specific signal processing, which is one of a plurality of component transceiver functions performed by a transceiver. An interface provides access to the electronic object's resources by other electronic objects via physical and logical entry points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Genghiscomm Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Robi Sen, Ian Charles Starnes, Steve Shattil
  • Patent number: 9926718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible coupling comprising a lower assembly (10) having a spigot member (20), and an upper assembly (60) having a recess adapted to receive the spigot member, thereby allowing articulation of the upper assembly (60) with respect to the lower assembly (10) in any direction. A complementary indexing means is adapted to circumferentially align the lower assembly (10) and the upper assembly (60), and a single resilient member (65) interconnects the lower and upper assemblies, wherein the lower and upper assemblies are urged into mutual engagement against said articulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: JMB Manufacturing Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Ian Charles Brodie
  • Publication number: 20180020669
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for inhibiting microbial growth, inhibiting biofilm formation or development, disrupting existing biofilms, reducing the biomass of a biofilm, and methods for sensitizing a biofilm and microorganisms with the biofilm to an antimicrobial agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Charles, Alber Dagmar
  • Publication number: 20180014270
    Abstract: To determine a location of a client device in a wireless network having at least first and second network devices, with known locations, one of the network devices transmits a message to the other network device and the other network device responds with an acknowledgement message. A client device receives the message and the acknowledgement message as well as respective times indicating actual times at which the message and the acknowledgement message were processed by one of the first and second network devices. The client device determines its location based on the times at which it received the message and the acknowledgement message and the difference between the actual processing times. This location may be refined by determining an angle between the client device and at least one of the network devices having multiple antennas and being configured for steered beam communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar KAKANI, Benjamin TARLOW, Erik David LINDSKOG, Raja BANERJEA, Hong WAN, Ian Charles BLAIR