Patents by Inventor James Mcinnes
James Mcinnes 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).
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Patent number: 10486091Abstract: A continuous belt screen assembly and system used for filtering fluid for various municipal and industrial purposes. The assembly includes a pair of spaced, endless belts, lifters, and screen panels. Each lifter is operably mounted to the pair of belts for lifting of solid waste out of the fluid in the channel. Each of the screen panels can be interposed between lifters and secured in place by opposing slots defined by the lifters. The endless belts can include toothed drive links, with the ends of the teeth extending with the ends of the drive links to define an involute profile. The lifters can include a sleeve portion for receiving a pivot shaft and a paddle portion extending from the sleeve portion, terminating at a free end that can be contoured to have teeth. The lifters can be a flexible material configured to deflect.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Aqseptence Group, Inc.Inventors: Grant Christopher Adamson, Ross Van Someren, Steven Gregory Bailey, Michael James Mcinnes
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Patent number: 10402309Abstract: A microcontroller may include a processor and at least one memory device storing (a) program code of a program defining a plurality of dominator arcs based on logical relationships among basic blocks (instructions) in the program code; and (b) a set of instrumentation points consisting of a subset of the program code basic blocks that correspond with the plurality of dominator arcs, each instrumentation point being located in a respective dominator arc. A code coverage implementation program (e.g., IDE or compiler) may be configured to instrument each instrumentation point in the program code with execution tracking instruction(s) to store or generate execution recording information.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Joseph Drzewiecki, James McInnes
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Publication number: 20180322033Abstract: A microcontroller may include a processor and at least one memory device storing (a) program code of a program defining a plurality of dominator arcs based on logical relationships among basic blocks (instructions) in the program code; and (b) a set of instrumentation points consisting of a subset of the program code basic blocks that correspond with the plurality of dominator arcs, each instrumentation point being located in a respective dominator arc. A code coverage implementation program (e.g., IDE or compiler) may be configured to instrument each instrumentation point in the program code with execution tracking instruction(s) to store or generate execution recording information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Drzewiecki, James McInnes
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Publication number: 20160114268Abstract: A continuous belt screen assembly and system used for filtering fluid for various municipal and industrial purposes. The assembly includes a pair of spaced, endless belts, lifters, and screen panels. Each lifter is operably mounted to the pair of belts for lifting of solid waste out of the fluid in the channel. Each of the screen panels may be interposed between lifters and secured in place by opposing slots defined by the lifters. The endless belts may include toothed drive links, with the ends of the teeth extending with the ends of the drive links to define an involute profile. The lifters may include a sleeve portion for receiving a pivot shaft and a paddle portion extending from the sleeve portion, terminating at a free end that may be contoured to have teeth. The lifters may be a flexible material configured to deflect.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Grant Christopher Adamson, Ross Van Someren, Steven Gregory Bailey, Michael James Mcinnes
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Publication number: 20150332389Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lot.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: VOYAGER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Willem Damen, James A. McInnes
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Publication number: 20140122285Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lot.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: VOYAGER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: WILLEM DAMEN, JAMES A. McINNES
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Patent number: 8595087Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lots.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Voyager Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Willem Daman, James A. McInnes
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Patent number: 8200547Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lots.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Voyager Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Willem Daman, James A. McInnes
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Publication number: 20110145087Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lots.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Willem Daman, James A. McInnes
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Publication number: 20110133067Abstract: A system for use in a well includes an optical cable for positioning in the well. An optical sensor is optically coupled to the optical cable, where the optical sensor has a capillary tube and an optical fiber in the capillary tube. The capillary tube also includes a first sealed region containing a metallic material that is in liquid form at a downhole temperature in the well. A joint mechanism may attach the optical sensor to the optical cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Sugiyama, James McInnes, Colin Wilson
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Patent number: 7865420Abstract: An auction system and method, which identifies at least one lot to be auctioned, having a plurality of units within the lot and associated auction parameters; transmits a remaining quantity of units within the lot from a central server to a plurality of remote locations; receives bid identifications for remaining units within the lot at the contemporaneous offering price from the plurality of remote locations; and decrements the offering price over time. The decrement may be adaptive to a bid activity pattern, and the bid activity pattern may be stored in a database. A local server may be provided to communicate between the central server and remote locations while changing the format of the information communicated. The packets preferably include compressed information, and preferably include quantity remaining information for a plurality of auction lots.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Voyager Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Willem Daman, James A. McInnes
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Patent number: 7787504Abstract: In an optical supply arrangement, a laser source (10) provides transmitted laser light down an optical supply line (12, 14). A first coupler (16), remote from the laser source (10) along the optical supply line (14), taps off a small proportion of the transmitted laser light to be returned along the optical supply line (14) to a photo detector (26) driving a monitor (28) and a controller (30). If the monitor (28) detects that the photo detector (26) is experiencing a loss of return laser light, possibly due to a break in the optical supply line (14), the monitor (28) causes the controller (30) to extinguish the laser source (10) in less time than escaping laser light can cause damage to property, person or eyesight. A first embodiment has the transmitted light on a transmission fiber optic (12) and the return laser light on a separate return fiber optic (24). A second embodiment has the return laser light being sent back down the transmission fiber optic (12).Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Derek Nigel Leggett, James McInnes
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Publication number: 20080104373Abstract: An improved scheduling technique for software pipelining is disclosed which is designed to find schedules requiring fewer processor clock cycles and reduce register pressure hot spots when scheduling multiple groups of instructions (e.g. as represented by multiple sub-graphs of a DDG) which are independent, and substantially identical. The improvement in instruction scheduling and reduction of hot spots is achieved by evenly distributing such groups of instructions around the schedule for a given loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2008Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Allan Martin, James McInnes
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Publication number: 20070288911Abstract: An improved scheduling technique for software pipelining is disclosed which is designed to find schedules requiring fewer processor clock cycles and reduce register pressure hot spots when scheduling multiple groups of instructions (e.g. as represented by multiple sub-graphs of a DDG) which are independent, and substantially identical. The improvement in instruction scheduling and reduction of hot spots is achieved by evenly distributing such groups of instructions around the schedule for a given loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Allan Martin, James McInnes
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Patent number: 7251038Abstract: An apparatus for sensing data from a remote optical sensor 16 has its frequency stabilised by balancing the outputs of narrow band filter 28 30, spaced about a desired frequency 36 positioned at about the 3 db down points 40 of a broad band light source 10 using voltage control, current control or temperature control to vary the frequency of the wide band light source 10. Difference between the outputs through the two narrow band filters 28 30 can be used to drive an amplifier 48 to correct the frequency of the broad band light source. The outputs through the two narrow band filters 28 30 can be converted 52 to binary numbers and fed to a microprocessor 56 which is used, via analog conversion 60, to drive the amplifier 48. The broad band light source 10 can be pulse modulated 68 to provide temporally separate light pulses 92 94 through each of the narrow band filters 28 30, measured at separate times.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: James Mcinnes, Maxwell R. Hadley, Arthur H. Hartog, Yuehua Chen, Timothy Jeffreys
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Publication number: 20070157404Abstract: An oral hygiene device having an ultrasound transducer 22 and an acoustic waveguide 24 facilitating the transmission of ultrasonic acoustic energy to fluids in the oral cavity is disclosed. Preferred ultrasound operating parameters for operation in aqueous environments and in dental slurries are disclosed. Devices may incorporate a drive motor 16 for oscillating a device head 23, acoustic waveguide 24 and one or more bristle tuft(s) 26 at sonic frequencies, and preferred sonic operating parameters are also provided. Multi-element piezoelectric transducer assemblies 30, 40, and various control and communications features are disclosed. Oral hygiene devices disclosed herein achieve improved plaque and stain removal from the teeth as well as interproximal and subgingival regions, while enhancing the user experience, massaging the gums, stimulating dental tissue, and disrupting biofilm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: ULTREO, INC.Inventors: Gerald BREWER, James McINNES, Daniel BAYEH, Frederick BENNETT, Richard TAYLOR, David BALLARD, George BARRETT
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Publication number: 20070088937Abstract: Under the present invention, a branch target address corresponding to a target instruction to be pre-fetched is predicted based on two values. The first value is a “predictor value” that is known for the branch target address. The second value is the address of the branch instruction from which the target instruction is branched to within the program code. Once these two values are provided, they can be processed (e.g., hashed) to yield an index value, which is used to obtain a predicted branch target address from a cache. This technique is generally implemented for branch instructions such as switch statements or polymorphic calls. In the case of the former, the predictor value is a selector operand, while in the case of the latter the predictor value is a class object address (in JAVA) or a virtual function table address (in C++).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2005Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Roch Archambault, R. Hay, James McInnes, Kevin Stoodley
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Publication number: 20070079455Abstract: An oral hygiene device having an ultrasound transducer 22 and an acoustic waveguide 24 facilitating the transmission of ultrasonic acoustic energy to fluids in the oral cavity is disclosed. Preferred ultrasound operating parameters for operation in aqueous environments and in dental slurries are disclosed. Devices may incorporate a drive motor 16 for oscillating a device head 23, acoustic waveguide 24 and one or more bristle tuft(s) 26 at sonic frequencies, and preferred sonic operating parameters are also provided. Multi-element piezoelectric transducer assemblies 30, 40, and various control and communications features are disclosed. Oral hygiene devices disclosed herein achieve improved plaque and stain removal from the teeth as well as interproximal and subgingival regions, while enhancing the user experience, massaging the gums, stimulating dental tissue, and disrupting biofilm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: ULTREO, INC.Inventors: Gerald Brewer, James McInnes, Daniel Bayeh, Frederick Bennett, Richard Taylor, David Ballard, George Barrett
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Publication number: 20070011836Abstract: An oral hygiene device having an ultrasound transducer 22 and an acoustic waveguide 24 facilitating the transmission of ultrasonic acoustic energy to fluids in the oral cavity is disclosed. Preferred ultrasound operating parameters for operation in aqueous environments and in dental slurries are disclosed. Devices may incorporate a drive motor 16 for oscillating a device head 23, acoustic waveguide 24 and one or more bristle tuft(s) 26 at sonic frequencies, and preferred sonic operating parameters are also provided. Multi-element piezoelectric transducer assemblies 30, 40, and various control and communications features are disclosed. Oral hygiene devices disclosed herein achieve improved plaque and stain removal from the teeth as well as interproximal and subgingival regions, while enhancing the user experience, massaging the gums, stimulating dental tissue, and disrupting biofilm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Applicant: Second Act Partners, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Brewer, James McInnes, Daniel Bayeh, Frederick Bennett, Richard Taylor, David Ballard, George Barrett
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Publication number: 20060191086Abstract: A power toothbrush (10) is disclosed having a handle (15), battery (12), ultrasonic drive circuit (14), motor (16), control unit (18), and toothbrush head (20). The toothbrush head includes bristles (26) and a waveguide (24) that is operatively connected to an ultrasonic transducer (22). The waveguide facilitates the transmission of acoustic energy into the dental fluid to achieve improved cleaning and stain removal and improved cleaning in interproximal and subgingival regions. In one embodiment an ultrasound transducer module (30) includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements (32, 34) that may be mechanically connected in series, and electrically connected in parallel. One or more contacts (36) connect the elements, and a waveguide structure (50). An impedance matching layer (38) may be provided between the waveguide and the ultrasonic transducer module. The waveguide may be formed from an relatively soft material, for example, a polymer having a hardness between 10 and 65 Shore A.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Inventors: Pierre Mourad, James McInnes, George Barrett, David Ballard, Gerald Brewer, Frederick Bennett