Patents by Inventor James McLean

James McLean 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: 11960546
    Abstract: A processor may analyze one or more unread messages. The one or more unread messages may be from one or more respective conversations. The processor may generate, from the analyzing, an ambiguous strings model. The processor may summarize, via utilization of the ambiguous strings model, the one or more unread messages. The processor may genericize the ambiguous strings model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam John Gibbons, Seumas McLean Goddard, Shivani Joshi, James Kirk, Daphne Coates
  • Patent number: 11944260
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including a vacuum motor configured to draw an air flow through an air flow path of the vacuum cleaner; a dirt separator having dirt, receptacle; a display screen; and a controller configured to control images displayed on the screen. The dirt receptacle has a closed configuration in which it can receive dirt separated from the air flow, and an open configuration in which dirt contained in the dirt receptacle can be emptied therefrom. The controller is configured to display video instructions on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Kristian Richard Thomas King, Nathan Lawson McLean, Andrew James Holden, Edward James Baldry
  • Publication number: 20230334182
    Abstract: A computer device performs operations for managing registry access. The computing device can determine a set of registry access rules relevant to the user process. The computing device can perform an evaluation of a registry operation requested by the user process using the set of registry access rules. The computing device can determine an action based on the evaluation. The action can include one of blocking the registry operation in relation to a particular key in a registry of the operating system, and enabling access to a particular key in the registry of the operating system to perform the requested registry operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: John Goodridge, Ian James McLean
  • Patent number: 11776260
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: WHIFFAWAY LTD, ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Patent number: 11755453
    Abstract: In response to receiving a selection of an option to discover uninstrumented entities within a monitored environment, information retrieved from monitoring agents currently installed on instrumented entities within a system is analyzed to discover additional entities within the system that are connected to the instrumented entities. Each of these discovered entities is analyzed to determine whether a monitoring agent is able to be installed within the entity; if installation is possible, such installation is automatically performed (or a guided manual installation is implemented utilizing an interface). After a monitoring agent is installed within a discovered entity, information is retrieved from that monitoring agent may be used to discover additional entities within the system that are connected to that discovered entity. In this way, an iterative discovery of all entities within a system may be performed. Results of this iterative discovery may be presented via an interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK Inc.
    Inventors: Tigran Najaryan, Aunsh Bharat Chaudhari, Morgan James McLean, Yiqing Pei
  • Patent number: 11720712
    Abstract: A computer device performs operations for managing registry access, including monitoring a user process on the computer device. The computing device can determine a set of registry access rules relevant to the user process. The computing device can perform an evaluation of a registry operation requested by the user process using the set of registry access rules. The computing device can determine an action based on the evaluation. The action can include one of blocking the registry operation in relation to a particular key in a registry of the operating system, and enabling access to a particular key in the registry of the operating system to perform the requested registry operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Avecto Limited
    Inventors: John Goodridge, Ian James McLean
  • Patent number: 11519713
    Abstract: An exemplary system for generating an image(s) of a sample(s) can include, for example, an imaging arrangement that can include a superluminescent diode (SLD) configured to generate a radiation(s) to be provided to the sample(s), and a spectrometer configured to (i) sample an A-line sampling rate of at least about 200 kHz, (ii) receive a resultant radiation from the sample(s) based on the sampling rate, and (iii) generate information based on the resultant radiation, and a computer hardware arrangement configured to generate the image(s) of the sample(s) based on the information received from the spectrometer. The imaging arrangement can be an interferometric imaging arrangement, which can be an optical coherence tomography imaging (OCT) arrangement. The computer hardware arrangement can be further configured to facilitate a plurality of b-scan acquisitions of the sample(s) and facilitate the b-scan acquisitions in order to generate the image(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Christine Hendon, Richard Ha, Diana Mojahed, Hanina Hibshoosh, James McLean
  • Patent number: 11502673
    Abstract: Devices and methods for determining and indicating a source of power based on a characteristic of received power are disclosed. According to an aspect, a device includes a power line interface configured to receive power from multiple power lines. The device also includes a comparator module configured to compare one or more characteristics of the received power from the plurality of power lines. The comparator module is also configured to determine whether the received power on the power lines are from the same source based on the comparison. Further, the device includes a user interface configured to indicate whether the received power on the power lines are from the same source based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: Corneliu Ilie Calciu, Robert Wolford, James Mclean, Gavril Ioan Florian, Radu Iorga
  • Publication number: 20220348593
    Abstract: Tricyclic PI3k inhibitor compounds of Formula I with anti-cancer activity, anti-inflammatory activity, or immunoregulatory properties, and more specifically with PI3 kinase modulating or inhibitory activity are described. Methods are described for using the tricyclic PI3K inhibitor compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis or treatment of mammalian cells, organisms, or associated pathological conditions. Formula I compounds include stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The dashed lines indicate an optional double bond, and at least one dashed line is a double bond. The substituents are as described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jennafer Dotson, Robert Andrew Heald, Timothy Heffron, Graham Elgin Jones, Sussie Lerche Krintel, Neville James McLean, Chudi Ndubaku, Alan G. Olivero, Laurent Salphati, Lan Wang, BinQing Wei
  • Publication number: 20220328921
    Abstract: Batteries, battery components, and related methods and apparatus for mitigating a thermal runaway event of a battery are disclosed. Examples disclosed herein include a battery including an enclosure defining a cavity, the enclosure including a first end wall and a second end wall opposite the first end wall, a battery cell disposed in the cavity of the enclosure, a load spreader disposed in the cavity of the enclosure, the load spreader spaced from the first end wall, the battery cell disposed between the load spreader and the second end wall of the enclosure, the load spreader at least partially compressing the battery cell between the load spreader and the second end wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher James McLean, Arun Sivan, Charles Aguilar, Conor Gillespie
  • Publication number: 20220261504
    Abstract: A computer device performs operations for managing registry access, including monitoring a user process on the computer device. The computing device can determine a set of registry access rules relevant to the user process. The computing device can perform an evaluation of a registry operation requested by the user process using the set of registry access rules. The computing device can determine an action based on the evaluation. The action can include one of blocking the registry operation in relation to a particular key in a registry of the operating system, and enabling access to a particular key in the registry of the operating system to perform the requested registry operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: John Goodridge, Ian James McLean
  • Patent number: 11366931
    Abstract: A computer device performs operations for managing registry access, including monitoring a user process on the computer device and, in response, establishing a set of registry access rules relevant to the user process. Each registry operation requested by the user process is evaluated and, in response, an appropriate action determined. Such action suitably includes at least one of: blocking the registry operation in relation to a particular key in a registry of the operating system, and enabling access to a particular key in the registry of the operating system to perform the requested registry operation. In particular, the operations may be performed using a registry filter driver in a kernel mode of an operating system of the computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventors: John Goodridge, Ian James McLean
  • Publication number: 20220191984
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210396661
    Abstract: An exemplary catheter can be provided, which can include, for example a source fiber(s) configured to (i) receive a near infrared spectroscopic (NIRS) radiation, and (ii) provide the NIRS radiation to a portion(s) of a sample(s), a detection fiber(s) configured to receive a return radiation from the sample(s) that can be based on the NIRS radiation that was provided to the portion(s) of the sample(s), and an ablation electrode(s) configured to ablate the sample(s) based on the return radiation. The source fiber(s), the detection fiber(s), and the ablation electrode(s) can be integrated into the single sheath. The ablation electrode(s) can be a radiofrequency ablation electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: CHRISTINE HENDON, RAJINDER SINGH-MOON, JAMES MCLEAN, SOO YOUNG PARK
  • Patent number: 11153945
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC, WHIFFAWAY LTD
    Inventors: Brandon Feil, Anthony G. Wilcox, Arindam Chakraborty, Glen Trickle, James McLean, Sebastian Marshall, Paul Johnston
  • Publication number: 20210239450
    Abstract: An exemplary system for generating an image(s) of a sample(s) can include, for example, an imaging arrangement that can include a superluminescent diode (SLD) configured to generate a radiation(s) to be provided to the sample(s), and a spectrometer configured to (i) sample an A-line sampling rate of at least about 200kHz, (ii) receive a resultant radiation from the sample(s) based on the sampling rate, and (iii) generate information based on the resultant radiation, and a computer hardware arrangement configured to generate the image(s) of the sample(s) based on the information received from the spectrometer. The imaging arrangement can be an interferometric imaging arrangement, which can be an optical coherence tomography imaging (OCT) arrangement. The computer hardware arrangement can be further configured to facilitate a plurality of b-scan acquisitions of the sample(s) and facilitate the b-scan acquisitions in order to generate the image(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: CHRISTINE HENDON, RICHARD HA, DIANA MOJAHED, HANINA HIBSHOOSH, JAMES MCLEAN
  • Publication number: 20190330235
    Abstract: Tricyclic PI3k inhibitor compounds of Formula I with anti-cancer activity, anti-inflammatory activity, or immunoregulatory properties, and more specifically with PI3 kinase modulating or inhibitory activity are described. Methods are described for using the tricyclic PI3K inhibitor compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis or treatment of mammalian cells, organisms, or associated pathological conditions. Formula I compounds include stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The dashed lines indicate an optional double bond, and at least one dashed line is a double bond. The substituents are as described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jennafer Dotson, Robert Andrew Heald, Timothy Heffron, Graham Elgin Jones, Sussie Lerche Krintel, Neville James McLean, Chudi Ndubaku, Alan G. Olivero, Laurent Salphati, Lan Wang, BinQing Wei
  • Publication number: 20190251294
    Abstract: A computer device performs operations for managing registry access, including monitoring a user process on the computer device and, in response, establishing a set of registry access rules relevant to the user process. Each registry operation requested by the user process is evaluated and, in response, an appropriate action determined. Such action suitably includes at least one of: blocking the registry operation in relation to a particular key in a registry of the operating system, and enabling access to a particular key in the registry of the operating system to perform the requested registry operation. In particular, the operations may be performed using a registry filter driver in a kernel mode of an operating system of the computer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: John Goodridge, Ian James McLean
  • Patent number: 9970742
    Abstract: There is provided an electrical pulse splitter (EPS) for an explosives system (10), the explosives system comprising an electrical pulse generator (EPG), the electrical pulse splitter (EPS), and first and second explosive charges (Ch1, Ch2) having respective first and second electrical initiators (D1, D2), The electrical pulse splitter (EPS) is configured to receive a primary electrical pulse from the electrical pulse generator (EPG), and to output first and second electrical pulses to the first and second electrical initiators (Ch1, Ch2) respectively. The second electrical pulse is output a length of time after the first electrical pulse is output, and the electrical pulse splitter is powered by the primary electrical pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Stephen James McLean, Gary John Searle
  • Publication number: 20170233407
    Abstract: Tricyclic PI3k inhibitor compounds of Formula I with anti-cancer activity, anti-inflammatory activity, or immunoregulatory properties, and more specifically with PI3 kinase modulating or inhibitory activity are described. Methods are described for using the tricyclic PI3K inhibitor compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis or treatment of mammalian cells, organisms, or associated pathological conditions. Formula I compounds include stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The dashed lines indicate an optional double bond, and at least one dashed line is a double bond. The substituents are as described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Jennafer Dotson, Robert Andrew Heald, Timothy Heffron, Graham Elgin Jones, Sussie Lerche Krintel, Neville James McLean, Chudi Ndubaku, Alan G. Olivero, Laurent Salphati, Lan Wang, BinQing Wei