Patents by Inventor Neil A. Roberts

Neil A. Roberts 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: 10396411
    Abstract: A traction battery assembly for a vehicle is provided. The traction battery assembly may include a battery cell array having a plurality of battery cells. A thermal plate may be positioned beneath the battery cells and be configured for thermal communication therewith. The thermal plate may define a plurality of channel configurations within the thermal plate. Each of the channel configurations may correspond to one of the battery cells and include an inlet and outlet on a same side portion of the thermal plate. An inlet plenum may be in communication with the inlets and an outlet plenum may be in communication with the outlets. The channel configurations and plenums may be arranged such that fluid exiting the inlet plenum enters the channel configurations via the outlets and fluid exiting the outlets enters the outlet plenum and not into the inlet of another one of the channel configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Amir Jairazbhoy, George Albert Garfinkel, Neil Robert Burrows
  • Patent number: 10382459
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Mark D. Harris, Simon Neil Reed, Kenneth D. Ray, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook
  • Publication number: 20190143836
    Abstract: An exemplary battery assembly includes, among other things, a first thermal exchange plate having a male feature, and a second thermal exchange plate having a female feature. The male and female features are interlockable with one another to limit separation between the first and second thermal exchange plates. An exemplary method includes, among other things, interlocking a male feature of a first thermal exchange plate with a female feature of a second thermal exchange plate to limit separation between the first and second thermal exchange plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Neil Robert Burrows, Amir Amirfazli, John Bilezikjian
  • Publication number: 20190149580
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Ray, Simon Neil Reed, Mark D. Harris, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook, Dmitri Samosseiko
  • Publication number: 20190145097
    Abstract: An exemplary foam insulation board includes a plurality of insulation panels hingeably connected by hinged portions. The foam insulation board has a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration. The hinged portions allow the insulation panels to fold flat against each other in the folded configuration. The plurality of insulation panels includes a first insulation panel and a plurality of additional insulation panels, one of which is adjacent to the first insulation panel. The first insulation panel also includes a starter portion that extends beyond at least the adjacent insulation panel of the additional panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Neil Robert Hettler, Matthew Gawryla
  • Patent number: 10286774
    Abstract: A radiator according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first zone that includes a first fan coverage area and a second zone that includes a second fan coverage area that is different from the first fan coverage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Suriyaprakash Ayyangar Janarthanam, Neil Robert Burrows, Bhaskara Boddakayala
  • Patent number: 10225286
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Ray, Simon Neil Reed, Mark D. Harris, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook, Dmitri Samosseiko
  • Patent number: 10211493
    Abstract: A battery system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery pack, a first sensor at an inlet of the battery pack and a second sensor at an outlet of the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Suriyaprakash Ayyangar Janarthanam, Bhaskara Boddakayala, Neil Robert Burrows
  • Publication number: 20190028438
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew J. Thomas, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Daniel Salvatore Schiappa, Kenneth D. Ray
  • Publication number: 20180318187
    Abstract: An aqueous composition comprising basic aluminium chloride salt of formula Al2OH4.4Cl1.6 to AI2OH4.9CI1.1, calcium chloride at a molar level of 0.020 or greater relative to the aluminium present, and glycine at a molar level of 0.050 or greater relative to the aluminium present, characterised in that the molar ratio of aluminium to the sum of the molar amounts of the calcium chloride and glycine is from 3.9:1 to 6.1:1 and in that the molar ratio of glycine to Al is greater than 1.7:10 and the molar ratio of Ca to Al is less than 0.35:10 or the molar ratio of Ca to Al is greater than 0.35:10 and the molar ratio of glycine to Al is less than 1.7:10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Kevin Ronald FRANKLIN, Neil Robert FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20180324220
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Ray, Simon Neil Reed, Mark D. Harris, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook, Dmitri Samosseiko
  • Patent number: 10122687
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Andrew J. Thomas, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Daniel Salvatore Schiappa, Kenneth D. Ray
  • Publication number: 20180298801
    Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Guy Richard CHANDLER, Neil Robert COLLINS, Ralf DOTZEL, Joerg MUENCH, Paul Richard PHILLIPS, Gudmund SMEDLER, Andrew Peter WALKER
  • Publication number: 20180278631
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Mark D. Harris, Simon Neil Reed, Kenneth D. Ray, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook
  • Publication number: 20180278649
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew J. Thomas, Mark D. Harris, Simon Neil Reed, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Kenneth D. Ray
  • Publication number: 20180276378
    Abstract: Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Ray, Daniel Salvatore Schiappa, Simon Neil Reed, Mark D. Harris, Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss, Andrew J. Thomas, Robert W. Cook, Harald Schütz, John Edward Tyrone Shaw, Anthony John Merry
  • Publication number: 20180257062
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas from a compression ignition engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region comprising palladium (Pd) and a first support material comprising cerium oxide; and a second washcoat region comprising platinum (Pt) and a second support material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Francis CHIFFEY, Neil Robert COLLINS, John Benjamin GOODWIN, Francois MOREAU, Paul Richard PHILLIPS
  • Publication number: 20180201153
    Abstract: An integrated endplate for a battery pack includes an inner wall and an outer wall. The outer wall has a first side adjacent to the inner wall and a second side opposite the first side. The outer wall includes a connector interface protruding from the second side and defining at least one aperture therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: John Sturza, Neil Robert Burrows, Sai K. Perumalla, Rohit Gunna, Hyung Min Baek
  • Patent number: 10022155
    Abstract: Dynamic lumbar spine stabilization device implementations and methods are disclosed, which allow for dynamic fixation of both anterior and posterior vertebral columns simultaneously through the articulation of pairs of curved, overlapping rails for partial flexion and extension or up to full normal flexion and extension while stabilizing at least two vertebrae of the lumbar spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Inventors: Neil Robert Crawford, Phillip Matthew Reyes, Nicholas Theodore
  • Patent number: 9989143
    Abstract: A bevel gear shroud assembly comprises a frustum shaped shroud portion, first and second rib portions and one or more fin portions. The frustum shaped shroud portion has a cut-out sector, the cut-out sector having opposing, radially extending first and second sides. The first and second rib portions project inwardly from an upper base of the shroud frustum and normal to the inner surface of the shroud portion, and are spaced apart from one another to form an annular trough therebetween. The or each rib portion projects inwardly from an inner surface of the frustum shaped shroud portion between the first and second rib portions, and the or each rib portion extends circumferentially around the shroud portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Neil Robert Fomison