Patents by Inventor Ian David

Ian David 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: 20180282301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use in therapy
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen John ATKINSON, Emmanuel Hubert, Lee Andrew HARRISON, Thomas HAYHOW, David HOUSE, Matthew J. LINDON, Alexander G. PRESTON, Jonathan Thomas SEAL, IAN David WALL, Robert J. WATSON, James Michael WOOLVEN
  • Patent number: 10087753
    Abstract: Measuring the amount of individual gases in drilling fluids in real-time may be performed with optical computing devices that are calibrated in real-time or periodically with gas analysis devices to provide more accurate gas content measurements. In some instances, one or more drilling or completion parameters may be altered in response thereto the concentration or change in concentration of individual gases in drilling fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ian David Campbell Mitchell, Mathew Dennis Rowe
  • Publication number: 20180276075
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing data storage. A first log structured array stores data in a storage device. A second log structured array in the storage device stores metadata for the data in the first log structured array, wherein the second log structured array storing the metadata for the first log structured data storage system is nested within the first log structured array, and wherein the first and second log structured arrays comprise separate instances of log structured arrays. Address space is allocated in the second log structured array for metadata when the allocation of address space is required for metadata for data stored in the first log structured array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Henry Esmond Butterworth, Ian David Judd
  • Patent number: 10082134
    Abstract: A vacuum pumping system comprises a plurality of vacuum pumping arrangements for evacuating an enclosure and an auxiliary vacuum chamber for evacuation by at least one first vacuum pumping arrangement. The vacuum pumping system has a first state for evacuating the enclosure and a second state for conserving power consumed by the system. In a first stage of the second state the first vacuum pumping arrangement is arranged to evacuate an exhaust of at least one second vacuum pumping arrangement and in a second stage the exhaust of the first pumping arrangement is arranged to be evacuated by the auxiliary vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Ian David Stones, Malcolm William Gray, Iain David Port
  • Publication number: 20180267699
    Abstract: A computing device and method for providing a user interface for summarizing and presenting information regarding dynamic provisioning and deployment of media processing resources, in a manner that is easy and intuitive and analogizes well to conventional physical media processing deployment. Users are not required to understand hypervisor configuration or virtual machine deployment, or switch through various layers and screens to find configuration information or controls, a process that may be particularly slow, complex, and difficult to learn, particularly for media and broadcast engineers unfamiliar with virtualization technologies. Instead, the present user interface improves efficiency of use of the computing environment for media processing, by providing deployment information in a format similar to physical processing deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Ian David FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20180258044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use in therapy
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen John ATKINSON, Helen Elizabeth AYLOTT, Anthony William James COOPER, Emmanuel Hubert DEMONT, Lee Andrew HARRISON, Thomas George Christopher HAYHOW, Matthew J. LINDON, Alexander G. PRESTON, Jonathan Thomas SEAL, Ian David WALL, Robert J. WATSON, James Michael WOOLVEN
  • Patent number: 10042680
    Abstract: An electronic device may maintain separate OS domains associated with security permissions. The OS domain may implement separate corresponding clipboard services. A clipboard agent or clipboard mediator service may receive a clipboard data request from a first application. The clipboard agent may determine which OS domain has most recently processed a store command associated with storing data in a corresponding clipboard service of the OS domain. The clipboard agent associated with the OS domain that most recently stored content may determine whether to send the data from the corresponding clipboard service based at least in part on permissions associated with the OS domain. Security of the clipboard access may be enforced on a per domain basis. Access to clipboard content may be mediated at the time of the request without a need to share data prior to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jonas Major, Ian David Peters, Glenn Daniel Wurster, David Francis Tapuska
  • Publication number: 20180195779
    Abstract: Disclosed is a subsystem for a vapor-compression system having a compressor (14) and a condenser (22) and including a storage assembly (46) fluidly communicable with a compressor inlet (14a) of the compressor (14) for flow of refrigerant. The storage assembly (46) receives and stores refrigerant in a storing configuration, and releases refrigerant stored therein to the compressor inlet (14a) of the compressor (14) in a releasing configuration. The subsystem further includes a flow-directing assembly (38) in fluid communication with the storage assembly (46) for flow of refrigerant, and fluidly communicable with a condenser inlet (22a) of the condenser (22) and a compressor outlet (14b) of the compressor (14). The flow-directing assembly (38) is configured to direct refrigerant from the compressor outlet (14b) to the storage assembly (46) in a first flow configuration, and direct refrigerant from the compressor outlet (14b) to the condenser inlet (22a) in a second flow configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Ian David Nankivell
  • Publication number: 20180187030
    Abstract: The present invention discloses polythiol compositions containing polythiol molecules having both thiol groups and intermolecular sulfide groups. Processes for producing such polythiol compositions also are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Michael S. Matson, Colin Cameron, Anthony Colin Wright, Ian David Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10009551
    Abstract: An image processor merges images from a plurality of cameras including applying spatially-varying gains over images from individual cameras to obtain a consistent effective where the images are stitched together despite the cameras possibly having different camera exposures. The image processor can adjust the camera exposures to improve stitching results. In addition to gain modification, the image processor can also modify the images for other artifacts, such as veiling glare and make those less visible at the seams of images. The image processor also can take into account constraints on gain changes and optimize camera parameters to minimize stitching artifacts. Using a cost function, the image processor can optimize for constraints on camera exposure that would otherwise result in camera exposure differences that would themselves cause visible artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Stevens Adcock, Ilya Vladimirovich Brailovskiy, Ilia Vitsnudel, Ian David Skidmore, Philip James Taylor
  • Patent number: 10001465
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for measuring the gas content in drilling fluids in real time using optical computing devices. One system includes a flow path circulating a drilling fluid into and out of a borehole during drilling operations, a first optical computing device arranged at or near an outlet of the borehole and having a first integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the drilling fluid as it exits the borehole and generate a first output signal corresponding to a concentration of a gas present in the drilling fluid at the outlet of the borehole, and a signal processor communicably coupled to the first optical computing device and configured to receive the first output signal and determine the concentration of the gas present in the drilling fluid at the outlet of the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian David Campbell Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10002049
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing data storage. A first log structured array stores data in a storage device. A second log structured array in the storage device stores metadata for the data in the first log structured array, wherein the second log structured array storing the metadata for the first log structured data storage system is nested within the first log structured array, and wherein the first and second log structured arrays comprise separate instances of log structured arrays. Address space is allocated in the second log structured array for metadata when the allocation of address space is required for metadata for data stored in the first log structured array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Esmond Butterworth, Ian David Judd
  • Publication number: 20180156034
    Abstract: Measuring the amount of individual gases in drilling fluids in real-time may be performed with optical computing devices that are calibrated in real-time or periodically with gas analysis devices to provide more accurate gas content measurements. In some instances, one or more drilling or completion parameters may be altered in response thereto the concentration or change in concentration of individual gases in drilling fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Ian David Campbell MITCHELL, Mathew Dennis ROWE
  • Patent number: 9989458
    Abstract: According to some embodiments a method of measuring the refractive index profile of a consolidated glass body having a cylindrical surface comprises the steps of: (a) forming an image of a slit behind the glass body; (b) optionally pre-scanning the cylindrical surface of the test glass body or a reference glass body and analyzing the data within a fixed window to determine the likely location of the zero-order, un-diffracted beam while ignoring other diffracted beams; (c) optionally adjusting the optical power to improve the intensity of the data within the fixed window in order to improve the analysis; (d) predicting the trajectory of the zero-order beam through the preform based on the sampling location xi (incidence position) of the light impinging on the cylindrical surface and the location at which the zero-order beam impinges on the detector; (e) measuring the cylindrical surface of a glass body while using the estimated location of the zero-order beam and adjusted optical power to set the center of a f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Ian David Cook, Norman Henry Fontaine, Qi Wu, Jacques Gollier
  • Publication number: 20180141847
    Abstract: A method of continuous processing of flexible glass ribbon having a thickness of no more than 0.35 mm using a glass processing apparatus is provided. The method includes providing the glass processing apparatus having at least three processing zones including a first processing zone, a second processing zone and a third processing zone. The flexible glass ribbon is continuously fed from the first processing zone, through the second processing zone to the third processing zone. Rate of the flexible glass ribbon is controlled through each of the first processing zone, second processing zone and third processing zone using a global control device. The second processing zone has a conveyance path for the flexible glass ribbon through a cutting zone having a radius of curvature of from about 100 inches to about 400 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Robertson Dewhurst Booth, Douglas Edward Brackley, Scott Winfield Deming, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Gautam Narendra Kudva, Dale Charles Marshall, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Kathleen Elizabeth Morse, Ian David Tracy
  • Patent number: 9978060
    Abstract: In a payment-enabled smartphone, a shared cardholder verification method (CVM) applet serves a number of mobile payment cardlets. The shared CVM applet validates CVM information input by a user of the smartphone and in response issues a CVM token. The CVM token is passed to a particular one of the mobile payment cardlets that is selected for a current transaction. The selected mobile payment cardlet submits the CVM token back to the shared CVM applet for verification. Upon verifying the CVM token, the shared CVM applet enables the selected mobile payment cardlet to perform the current transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Ian David Alan Maddocks, Simon Phillips, Jonathan James Main
  • Patent number: 9944803
    Abstract: The present invention discloses polythiol compositions containing polythiol molecules having both thiol groups and intermolecular sulfide groups. Processes for producing such polythiol compositions also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Michael S. Matson, Colin Cameron, Anthony Colin Wright, Ian David Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20180101830
    Abstract: A method and device for digital payment transactions is provided. A method for encoding data for use in a digital payment transaction between a cardholder and a merchant includes generating, by a cardholder electronic device, dynamic magnetic stripe data associated with a digital payment card of a digital wallet application stored in a data storage module of the cardholder electronic device, retrieving merchant-related data stored in the data storage module of the cardholder electronic device, and encoding, by the cardholder electronic device, the generated dynamic magnetic stripe data and the retrieved merchant-related data in a machine-readable visual code for use in the digital payment transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Ian David Alan Maddocks, Syam Sasidharan Nair
  • Patent number: 9919381
    Abstract: A method for cutting a flexible glass ribbon includes directing the flexible glass ribbon to a flexible glass cutting apparatus including a laser. The flexible glass ribbon includes a first broad surface and a second broad surface that extend between a first edge and a second edge of the flexible glass ribbon. A laser beam is directed from the laser onto a region of the flexible glass ribbon. A crack is formed through the flexible glass ribbon using the laser beam. The crack is propagated along the flexible glass ribbon using the laser beam and a local mechanical deformation in the flexible glass ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Anatoli Anatolyevich Abramov, Chester Hann Huei Chang, Todd Benson Fleming, Eric Lee Miller, Ian David Tracy
  • Patent number: 9890634
    Abstract: Measuring the amount of individual gases in drilling fluids in real-time may be performed with optical computing devices that are calibrated in real-time or periodically with gas analysis devices to provide more accurate gas content measurements. In some instances, one or more drilling or completion parameters may be altered in response thereto the concentration or change in concentration of individual gases in drilling fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ian David Campbell Mitchell, Mathew Dennis Rowe