Patents by Inventor Ian Fletcher

Ian Fletcher 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: 20240149766
    Abstract: An assembly is provided with a first layer connected to a second layer to form a bladder, with the first layer defining a first aperture therethrough, and one of the first or second layers defining a second aperture therethough. The third layer is connected to the first layer and positioned between the first and second layers within the bladder. The third layer is movable between a first position covering the first aperture, and a second position spaced apart from the first aperture. A seat assembly is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: David ABDELLA, Joshua HALLOCK, Grzegorz KASPERCZYK, Ian FLETCHER, Samuel BLAIR
  • Publication number: 20240020135
    Abstract: A control surface designer (CSD) module may generate a configuration user interface that lists a plurality of applications and their respective plurality of commands, wherein the configuration user interface includes, for each command of the respective plurality of commands, parameters of specific command instances. The CSD module may receive, via the configuration user interface, selections of commands from different applications in the plurality of applications, and may generate code payloads that correspond to the commands. The CSD module may generate a customized user interface that includes the commands by compiling the code payloads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Ian FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20230124881
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving an unstructured document and defining an area of interest of the unstructured document that visually represents geological formation information. The method also includes extracting a set of vectorized polygons from the area of interest. Additionally, the method includes assigning properties from the unstructured document to each of the vectorized polygons in the set of vectorized polygons. Further, the method includes assigning a coordinate reference frame to the set of vectorized polygons and generating a user-interactive document from the set of vectorized polygons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Ian A. Fletcher, Daniel James David Slidel, Benjamin Patrick Ivko
  • Publication number: 20230054086
    Abstract: THIS invention relates to a wheel cover. More specifically, the invention relates to an advertising wheel cover having a wheel mount for push fitting into a vehicle wheel rim and a display disc rotatably mounted to the wheel mount by bayonet-type connectors. The display disc is off-centre weighted so as to remain in a substantially upright and static orientation relative to the wheel mount, which is rotatable with the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11038936
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a single card solid-state play out server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: GRASS VALLEY CANADA
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20190389343
    Abstract: An air system for a seat includes an air pump, a first air operated task unit, and a second air operated task unit. The air pump is adapted to output a system air volume at a constant flow rate. The first air operated task unit is adapted to receive at least a portion of the system air volume and operate at a first pressure. The second air operated task unit is adapted to receive at least a portion of the system air volume and operate at a second pressure different than the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Fletcher, Douglas Wheeler
  • Patent number: 10498844
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing user interactions with applications. Entry point information may be provided to an application installed on a client computer. Application information may be obtained from a measurement engine based on the provided entry point information. One or more portions of the application information may be selected based on one or more characteristics of the client computer. An application view of the application may be provided for display on the client computer based on the one or more selected portions of the application information. One or more application metrics associated with the application and the one or more selected portions of the application information may be collected. The one or more collected application metrics may be provided to the measurement engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TUNE, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Edward Brown, Lucas Roy Brown, Sina Yeganeh, Ian Fletcher Sefferman, Daniel Ernst Koch
  • Publication number: 20190297129
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a single card solid-state play out server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10367866
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a single card solid-state play out server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Grass Valley Canada
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10180135
    Abstract: An injection molding system, water jet cutting machine or other industrial system has a synthetically controlled variable displacement fluid working machine which outputs hydraulic fluid to one or more fluid consumers, such as rams or hydraulic motors, through hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes and receives hydraulic fluid back from one or more fluid consumers through the same or other said hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes. Individual piston cylinder assemblies can be allocated to different outputs. There may be no valve between the machine and the consumers. A working chamber of the machine can be caused to undergo a motoring cycle to enable the machine to output more power than is received from a motor driving the machine. An accumulator can be used to provide a source of hydraulic compliance. The machine can be controlled using pressure control, flow control, feed forward control or variable power/variable power limit control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Niall James Caldwell, Jeremy Edmondson, Alasdair Ian Fletcher Robertson, Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein
  • Publication number: 20180375946
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing user interactions with applications. Entry point information may be provided to an application installed on a client computer. Application information may be obtained from a measurement engine based on the provided entry point information. One or more portions of the application information may be selected based on one or more characteristics of the client computer. An application view of the application may be provided for display on the client computer based on the one or more selected portions of the application information. One or more application metrics associated with the application and the one or more selected portions of the application information may be collected. The one or more collected application metrics may be provided to the measurement engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Lee Edward Brown, Lucas Roy Brown, Sina Yeganeh, Ian Fletcher Sefferman, Daniel Ernst Koch
  • Publication number: 20180107589
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing user interactions with applications. If a user employs a client computer to interact with a testing environment test events may be provided to a measurement engine based on user interactions, such that, the test events may include device identifiers associated with the client computer. If the user interacts with the application on the client computer separate from the testing environment application events may be provided to the measurement engine based on user interactions with the application, such that, the application events include the device identifiers. The measurement engine may be employed to correlate the test events with the application events based on the device identifiers. Reports associated events and user interaction with the application may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Fletcher Sefferman, Patrick Robert Haig, Adam Douglass Saegebarth
  • Publication number: 20170359397
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a single card solid-state play out server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20170284388
    Abstract: An injection moulding system, water jet cutting machine or other industrial system has a synthetically controlled variable displacement fluid working machine which outputs hydraulic fluid to one or more fluid consumers, such as rams or hydraulic motors, through hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes and receives hydraulic fluid back from one or more fluid consumers through the same or other said hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes. Individual piston cylinder assemblies can be allocated to different outputs. There may be no valve between the machine and the consumers. A working chamber of the machine can be caused to undergo a motoring cycle to enable the machine to output more power than is received from a motor driving the machine. An accumulator can be used to provide a source of hydraulic compliance. The machine can be controlled using pressure control, flow control, feed forward control or variable power/variable power limit control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Niall James CALDWELL, Jeremy EDMONDSON, Alasdair Ian Fletcher ROBERTSON, Uwe Bernhard Pascal STEIN
  • Patent number: 9749370
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a single card solid-state play out server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: GRASS VALLEY CANADA
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Patent number: 9738191
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly in which an impervious insert (41, 141) including a heating element and having a plurality of channels (42, 142) extending from an aperture (44, 144) positioned on a first side of at least one of a seat cushion (22) and a seat back (124) and in which a ventilation system (60) is coupled to a second side of the at least one of the seat cushion and the seat back for drawing air along the plurality of channels through the aperture and through a hole (30, 130) in the seat cushion or seat back for controlling the temperature of the seat assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KONGSBERG AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Langensiepen, Ian Fletcher, Daniel Josefsson
  • Patent number: 9328720
    Abstract: A fluid-working machine for a renewable energy generation device, the fluid-working machine comprising a ring cam and a plurality of working chambers, the ring cam having an annular working surface extending around an axis of rotation of the ring cam, the annular working surface defining a plurality of waves, each working chamber having a piston, each piston in operative engagement with the ring cam working surface, the ring cam and working chambers being mounted to rotate relative to each other, cycles of working chamber volume being thereby coupled to rotation of the ring cam relative to the working chambers, characterized in that the individual waves of the ring cam working surface have an asymmetric profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Niall James Caldwell, Daniil Sergeevich Dumnov, William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Alasdair Ian Fletcher Robertson, Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein, Robert George Fox
  • Publication number: 20150274049
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly in which an impervious insert (41, 141) including a heating element and having a plurality of channels (42, 142) extending from an aperture (44, 144) positioned on a first side of at least one of a seat cushion (22) and a seat back (124) and in which a ventilation system (60) is coupled to a second side of the at least one of the seat cushion and the seat back for drawing air along the plurality of channels through said aperture and through a hole (30, 130) in the seat cushion or seat back for controlling the temperature of the seat assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Kongsberg Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Langensiepen, Ian Fletcher, Daniel Josefsson
  • Patent number: 9002991
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to cloud-based media distribution and management systems, providing pushing of content to regional playout servers geographically dispersed for local rebroadcasting of network based content. Automation may be controlled through a hierarchical system, allowing easy and efficient playlist editing and media control. In another aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a playout server for retrieving or receiving content from a network or cloud based storage, and playing content according to an automated playlist received from a media distribution and management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Miranda Technologies Partnership
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher
  • Patent number: D1017502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Ian Fletcher