Patents by Inventor Kenneth Wade

Kenneth Wade 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).

  • Perceptible flickering reduction
    Publication number: 20070164714
    Abstract: Embodiments of reducing perceptible flicker are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Nicholson, David Smith, Kenneth Wade
  • Determining power applied
    Publication number: 20060284949
    Abstract: Embodiments for determining power applied are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: David Smith, Kenneth Wade
  • Determining an energy delivered to a fluid
    Publication number: 20060250434
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose determining an energy delivered to a fluid using a measurement of power supplied to a dryer and an efficiency value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: David Smith, Kenneth Wade
  • Determining a difference between a level of power to be supplied and an estimate
    Publication number: 20060080052
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a device to provide an estimate of supplied power circuitry configured to direct a level of power to be supplied to a load and configured to determine a difference between the level of the power and the estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: David Smith, Kenneth Wade
  • Metallacarboranes
    Patent number: 6492570
    Abstract: The invention provides a polynuclear compound comprising two or more metal-hapto-3-capped nidocarborane groups. Also provided is the use of such a compound as a catalyst in a chemical reaction such as a hydrogenation or oxidation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels PLC
    Inventors: Nigel Dennis Tinker, Kenneth Wade, Thomas Gibson Hibbert
  • Decorative packaging films
    Patent number: 4780364
    Abstract: A decorative packaging film comprises a base film of a synthetic polymeric material (an olefinic polymer) containing a highly light absorbent pigment, for example carbon black, and at least one surface layer of a second synthetic polymeric material, which is light transmittable and which contains a solid particulate material, for example calcium carbonate, having a particle size of from 0.1 to 10 microns and present in an amount from 1 to 40% by weight, the combination having been stretched to cause the formation of voids in the surface layer or layers at the sites of the particles of the particulate material. The appearance of the film varies from an intense opalescence to a lustrous metallic appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: BCL Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Wade, Keith Pye