Patents by Inventor James Nicholas

James Nicholas 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: 20220104492
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas SCUTT, Nigel James WILLETTS
  • Patent number: 11274286
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase polypeptides useful under industrial process conditions for the production of pharmaceutical and fine chemical compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Da Duan, Oscar Alvizo, Jovana Nazor, Harvinder Chagger Maniar, James Nicholas Riggins, Jonathan Vroom, Santhosh Sivaramakrishnan, Hao Yang, Anna Fryszkowska, Mark A. Huffman, Joshua N. Kolev, Iman Farasat, Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo, Deeptak Verma
  • Publication number: 20220073655
    Abstract: A product made by a substantially zero-carbon-emission (ZCE) process for making propylene polymers and copolymers including: converting alkanes to the olefin monomers ethylene, propylene, and butene or combinations thereof, using renewable electric power and scrubbing the stack gases from any fired heaters or boilers to remove carbon dioxide, in an oxidative-coupling of methane plant including the steps of passing alkanes through an ethylene plant while adding oxygen, passing a portion of the polymerization grade ethylene through a 2-butene plant, and passing the 2-butene stream and a portion of the polymerization grade ethylene stream through a propylene plant. The polymerization grade propylene is polymerized to produce isotactic homopolymer polypropylene, or ethylene-propylene random copolymer, or impact-grade polypropylene containing ethylene-propylene rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: James Nicholas Fowler, Deborah Lawrence, Stephen Craig McHaney
  • Patent number: 11264138
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a mental health prediction for a patient. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data captured by one or more sensors characterizing a brain of a patient; determining a network graph from the brain data, wherein: a node of the network graph corresponds to a parcellation in the brain of the patient, and a subset of nodes of the network graph corresponds to a particular functional area of the brain; generating, for each of a plurality of nodes in the network graph, a measure of centrality of the node; generating, for the particular functional area of the brain and using the generated measures of centrality, a health score representing a measure of health of the functional area of the brain; generating a mental health prediction for the patient using the health score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Bradley Allan Fernald
  • Patent number: 11264137
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a mental health prediction for a patient using a centrality ranking of the brain of the patient. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data of a patient, wherein the brain data comprises, for each of a plurality of pairs of parcellations formed from a set of parcellations where each pair comprises a first parcellation and a second parcellation, data characterizing a number of tracts connecting the first parcellation and the second parcellation; determining a network graph from the brain data; generating, for each of a plurality of nodes in the network graph, a measure of centrality of the node; determining a centrality ranking of the plurality of nodes of the network graph according to the respective measures of centrality; generating a mental health prediction for the patient using the determined centrality ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Hugh Monro Taylor
  • Publication number: 20220046923
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas SCUTT, Nigel James WILLETTS, Sean NG
  • Patent number: 11242419
    Abstract: A substantially zero-carbon-emission (ZCE) process for making propylene polymers and copolymers including: converting alkanes to the olefin monomers ethylene, propylene, and butene or combinations thereof, using renewable electric power and scrubbing the stack gases from any fired heaters or boilers to remove carbon dioxide, in an oxidative-coupling of methane plant including the steps of passing alkanes through an ethylene plant while adding oxygen, passing a portion of the polymerization grade ethylene through a 2-butene plant, and passing the 2-butene stream and a portion of the polymerization grade ethylene stream through a propylene plant. The polymerization grade propylene is polymerized to produce isotactic homopolymer polypropylene, or ethylene-propylene random copolymer, or impact grade polypropylene containing ethylene-propylene rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: REXtac, LLC
    Inventors: James Nicholas Fowler, Deborah Lawrence, Stephen Craig McHaney
  • Patent number: 11236311
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. The present invention further provides engineered T7 RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. These variants have been evolved for selective incorporation of the m7G(5?)ppp(5?)m7G cap analog over GTP at the initiation of in vitro transcription. The present invention also provides methods for selective capping of RNA transcripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew G. Miller, Chinping Chng, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, James Nicholas Riggins, Xiang Yi, Jonathan S. Penfield, Gjalt W. Huisman, Jared Davis, Yasushi Saotome
  • Patent number: 11236312
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. The present invention further provides engineered T7 RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. These variants have been evolved for selective incorporation of the m7G(5?)ppp(5?)m7G cap analog over GTP at the initiation of in vitro transcription. The present invention also provides methods for selective capping of RNA transcripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew G. Miller, Chinping Chng, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, James Nicholas Riggins, Xiang Yi, Jonathan S. Penfield, Gjalt W. Huisman, Jared Davis, Yasushi Saotome
  • Patent number: 11238589
    Abstract: The following provides an exemplary method. An image is generated. Scan data generated by the sensing of a subject brain is received and a sequence of volumetric-images are accessed. For at least some of the voxels in at least some of the volumetric images, a change value is determined for the voxel by comparing the current-intensity value of the voxel to the adjacent-intensity value of the comparison voxel. For at least some of the plurality volumetric images, a first-aggregate is determined using at least a mean value of change values of the volumetric image and a second-aggregate is determined using at least a median value of change values of the volumetric image. At least one, but not all, of the volumetric images is determined as invalid as a result of the aggregates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20220022746
    Abstract: A method and system of screening persons boarding an aircraft to detect a febrile condition of each person are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes: detecting an open condition of a door of the aircraft; when the door is in an open condition, detecting a presence of a person entering through the door; thermally and optically imaging the person; determining a febrile condition of the person; and when the person is in a febrile condition, alerting aircraft employees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kempen CLOETE, Erich HOPKINS, James Nicholas OLMSTED, Michael Henry BORFITZ
  • Publication number: 20220005196
    Abstract: The following provides an exemplary method. An image is generated. Scan data generated by the sensing of a subject brain is received and a sequence of volumetric-images are accessed. For at least some of the voxels in at least some of the volumetric images, a change value is determined for the voxel by comparing the current-intensity value of the voxel to the adjacent-intensity value of the comparison voxel. For at least some of the plurality volumetric images, a first-aggregate is determined using at least a mean value of change values of the volumetric image and a second-aggregate is determined using at least a median value of change values of the volumetric image. At least one, but not all, of the volumetric images is determined as invalid as a result of the aggregates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20220005600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining anomalous brain data. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data characterizing brain activity of a patient; for each of a plurality of pairs of parcellations comprising a first parcellation and a second parcellation, processing the brain data to generate a correlation between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; obtaining second connectivity data that characterizes, for each of the plurality of pairs of parcellations, a normal range of correlations between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; identifying one or more of the plurality of pairs of parcellations for which the correlation between brain activity of the first and second parcellations is outside of the corresponding normal range of correlations; and providing data characterizing the one or more identified pairs of parcellations for display to a user on a graphical interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11214236
    Abstract: A method (500) for protection of a vehicle (100), the method comprising: receiving information from a sensor (502); comparing the information with known signatures indicative of a likely attack (504); determining whether a known signature indicative of a likely attack is present (506); and if a known signature indicative of a likely attack is present, placing at least one system of the vehicle into a heightened state of alert (508).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tarik Safir, Gabriel Mitchell, Sam Harris, James Nicholas Murray, Aaron Abentheuer, Betsy Fields Smith
  • Publication number: 20210403435
    Abstract: Use of the compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined herein as herbicides. Compounds of formula (I) are also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas SCUTT, Nigel James WILLETTS, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Swarnendu SASMAL
  • Publication number: 20210390690
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more invalid images characterizing the brain of a patient. One of the methods includes obtaining a data object comprising one or more images characterizing a brain of a patient; processing the data object to determine one or more particular images that are invalid; and providing, for display to a user on a graphical interface, data characterizing i) each particular image and ii) a respective reason that each particular image is invalid selected from a set of possible reasons that an image may be invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Jacob Roberts
  • Patent number: 11180453
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Matthew James Campbell, James Francis Bereznak, William Guy Whittingham, Glynn Mitchell, Christopher John Mathews, James Nicholas Scutt, James Alan Morris, Jonathan Wesley Paul Dallimore
  • Patent number: 11179590
    Abstract: A constant resistance exercise machine for sprint training or adaptation into exercise equipment having cyclical movements, preferably over a distance. The constant resistance exercise machine includes an exercise cable storage and feed reel, a constant tension spring motor, a resistance generating assembly, a flywheel, and an exercise cable. The constant tension spring motor is in operational communication with the exercise cable reel. The flywheel obtains a rotational resistance from the resistance generating assembly. The flywheel is in unidirectional rotational communication with the exercise cable reel via a one-way clutch bearing. The exercise cable is coiled about the exercise cable reel. The exercise cable is of a length that enables complete extraction of the cable from the exercise cable storage and feed reel and wherein the constant tension spring motor is arranged to retract a partially or completely extracted cable back onto the exercise cable reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Paul James Nicholas
  • Patent number: D942489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Nicholas Jones, Stephen O. Lemay, Jay Moon
  • Patent number: D945464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou