Patents by Inventor James A. Robertson

James A. Robertson 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: 10575131
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. One embodiment involves pairing a client device with a wearable device, capturing a first client location fix at a first time using the first application and location circuitry of the client device. The client device then receives content from the wearable device, where the content is associated with a content capture time and location state data. The client device then updates a location based on the available data to reconcile the different sets of location data. In some embodiments, additional sensor data, such as data from an accelerometer, is used is used to determine which location data is more accurate for certain content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Antoine Ménard, Tamer El Calamawy
  • Publication number: 20200051318
    Abstract: In a ray tracer, to prevent any long-running query from hanging the graphics processing unit, a traversal coprocessor provides a preemption mechanism that will allow rays to stop processing or time out early. The example non-limiting implementations described herein provide such a preemption mechanism, including a forward progress guarantee, and additional programmable timeout options that can be time or cycle based. Those programmable options provide a means for quality of service timing guarantees for applications such as virtual reality (VR) that have strict timing requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Greg MUTHLER, Ronald Charles BABICH, JR., William Parsons NEWHALL, JR., Peter NELSON, James ROBERTSON, John BURGESS
  • Patent number: 10560898
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
  • Patent number: 10472587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing industrial products from plant lipids, particularly from vegetative parts of plants. In particular, the present invention provides oil products such as biodiesel and synthetic diesel and processes for producing these, as well as plants having an increased level of one or more non-polar lipids such as triacylglycerols and an increased total non-polar lipid content. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to combinations of modifications in two or more of lipid handling enzymes, oil body proteins, decreased lipid catabolic enzymes and/or transcription factors regulating lipid biosynthesis to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content and/or mono-unsaturated fatty acid content in plants or any part thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for extracting lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Kyle Reynolds, Qing Liu, Benjamin Aldo Leita
  • Patent number: 10443079
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desatorase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Stanley Suresh Robert, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Xue-Rong Zhong, James Robertson Petrie, Allan Graham Green
  • Publication number: 20190300894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
  • Publication number: 20190286546
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a server creates a reproduction environment of a particular condition of a particular device, the reproduction environment having a device under test (DUT) representative of the particular device, and also being seeded with features regarding the particular condition. The server generates a plurality of models for reaching a target state of the particular condition, each of the plurality of models having differing actions. According to the techniques herein, the server then iteratively refines a minimal model based on the actions of the plurality of models and whether those actions during testing of the DUT get closer to or further from the target state. In response to determining that the minimal model can no longer be further refined during the iterative refining, the server then stores the minimal model as a solution model indicating a given minimal set and order of actions required to reach the target state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Jay Kemper Johnston, Magnus Mortensen, David C. White, JR., Michael James Robertson
  • Patent number: 10410409
    Abstract: An ultrasound system and method are described for acquiring standard views of the fetal heart simultaneously with real-time imaging. A matrix array probe is manipulated until a first standard view such as a 4-chamber view is acquired. The first standard view image is matched to its corresponding plane in a fetal heart model. From the matched plane of the heart model, the orientations of the other standard views are known from the geometrical relationships of structures within the heart model. This orientation information is used to control the matrix array probe to automatically scan the planes of all of the standard views simultaneously in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: James Robertson Jago, Alasdair Dow, Antoine Collet Billon, Lisa Kay Pumphrey
  • Patent number: 10368844
    Abstract: An ultrasound system with a matrix array (500) probe (10) operable in the biplane mode is used to assess stenosis of a blood vessel by simultaneously displaying two color Doppler biplane images (60a, 60b) of the vessel, one a longitudinal cross-sectional view (60a) and the other a transverse cross-sectional view (60b). The two image planes intersect along a Doppler beam line (68) used for PW Doppler. A sample volume graphic (SV) is positioned over the blood vessel at the peak velocity location in one image, then positioned over the blood vessel at the peak velocity location in the other image. As the sample volume location is moved in one image, the plane and/or sample volume location of the other image is adjusted correspondingly. Spectral Doppler data (62) is then acquired and displayed from the sample volume location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: James Robertson Jago, Keith William Johnson, Ashraf Saad, David Allen Hull
  • Publication number: 20190203125
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 10335386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED PTY LTD
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
  • Publication number: 20190194572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
  • Publication number: 20190185871
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to vegetative plant parts, such as from a Sorghum sp. and/or a Zea mays plant, which comprise a total fatty acid (TFA) content which comprises fatty acids esterified in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG) and fatty acids in the form of lipids other than TAG, wherein the vegetative plant parts comprise greatly increased levels of TFA, for example a TFA content of about 5% (w/w dry weight). The present invention also relates to the use of the vegetative plant parts as a feedstuff, and/or to produce a feedstuff, for animal consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: XueRong Zhou, Qing LIU, Anna EL TAHCHY, Srinivas BELIDE, Madeline Claire MITCHELL, Uday Kumar DIVI, Thomas VANHERCKE, James Robertson PETRIE, Surinder Pal SINGH, Allan Graham GREEN
  • Publication number: 20190142383
    Abstract: An ultrasound system is quickly set up for 3D imaging of target anatomy by clicking on a quick-launch key. The system uses a system input, such as characteristics of a 2D reference image to determine the 3D setup configuration. Based upon the system input, macro instructions can be selected and executed to set up the system for a 3D exam of the target anatomy in a selected mode, with clinically useful 3D images and the appropriate 3D controls enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Anup Agarwal, James Robertson Jago, Robert Randall Entrekin, Jimmy Ray Brown, Barbara Bannister
  • Patent number: 10290076
    Abstract: A system and method for image registration includes tracking (508) a scanner probe in a position along a skin surface of a patient. Image planes corresponding to the position are acquired (510). A three-dimensional volume of a region of interest is reconstructed (512) from the image planes. A search of an image volume is initialized (514) to determine candidate images to register the image volume with the three-dimensional volume by employing pose information of the scanner probe during image plane acquisition, and physical constraints of a pose of the scanner probe. The image volume is registered (522) with the three-dimensional volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Samuel Kadoury, Jochen Kruecker, James Robertson Jago, Bradford Johns Wood, Antoine Collet-Billon, Cecile Dufour
  • Publication number: 20190125301
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image, for example, breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a probe, a sensor attached to the probe and operatively associated with a position tracking system, a processor configured to receive probe position data from the position tracking system. The user interface may be configured to provide instructions for placement of the probe at a plurality of anatomical landmarks of a selected breast of the subject and receive user input to record the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks. The processor may be configured to determine a scan area based on the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks and generate a scan pattern for the selected breast. The processor may be further configured to monitor movement of the probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: James Robertson JAGO, Julia DMITRIEVA, Gary Cheng-How NG, Thomas Shu Yin TANG
  • Publication number: 20190100485
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosahexaenoic acid, and/or docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Nuseed Pty Ltd, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
  • Patent number: 10246641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: THE COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Singh, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 10246718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: THE COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
  • Publication number: 20190097472
    Abstract: A powered joint having a first joint component and second joint component in which the first joint component has multiple degrees of rotational freedom with respect to the second joint component, the powered joint including one or more power transmission coils associated with the first component; a plurality of power receiving coils associated with the second component; a sensor which determines the orientation of the second component with respect to the first component; and a control circuit for selectively connecting one of the plurality of power receiving coils to a power receiving circuit based on information received from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Fady Mishriki, Lawrence Bernardo dela Cruz, Daniel James Robertson, John Kinnear Terry, Saining Ren