Patents by Inventor Neil Andrew

Neil Andrew 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: 20220162918
    Abstract: A downhole apparatus (10; 10) for reducing rotational and linear friction between a downhole tool (100; 100) and/or a downhole tool string and the wall of a wellbore (B) includes an annular body portion (12; 12?) configured for location on a mandrel (102; 102?) of the downhole tool (102; 102?) and one or more rib portions (16; 16?) extending radially from the annular body portion (12; 12?), and configured to engage a wall of the wellbore (B), the annular body portion (12; 12?) and the one or more rib portions (16; 16?) are integrally formed. The annular body portion (12; 12?) is elastically reconfigurable between a first configuration in which the annular body portion (12; 12) defines a first inner diameter and a second configuration in which the annular body portion (12; 12?) defines a second inner diameter configuration, the second inner diameter being larger than the first inner diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson
  • Publication number: 20220153818
    Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant human antibody molecules for use in a method of treatment of Acinetobacter infection. The antibodies bind Acinetobacter antigens, for example from Acinetobacter spp. Human antibody encoding genes targeting clinically relevant Candida epitopes have been isolated from single B cells from carefully selected donors and screened with specified types of protein or cell wall extract. The panel of purified, fully human recombinant IgG1 mAbs generated displayed a diverse range of specific binding profiles and demonstrated efficacy in a disease model. The fully human mAbs and derivatives thereof have utility in the generation of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Fiona Marion RUDKIN, Neil Andrew Robert GOW, Louise Ann WALKER
  • Patent number: 11327774
    Abstract: A method for personalizing resource strings within a user interface of a computing device. The method includes accessing a personalization editor via the computing device, and receiving a user modification to a resource string associated with one or more applications. The method also includes storing an original unmodified resource string associated with the resource string, the modified resource string, and the associated applications. The method also includes receiving a request from a first application for a first resource string associated with a specified resource identifier. The method also includes determining if the first resource string has an associated modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database, and displaying the modified resource string based on the first resource string being determined to be associated with the modified resource string stored in the personalized resource string database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhijit Chatterjee, Sanjib Saha, Neil Andrew Brench, Jack Lee Miller, Mithun Sibi Thomas, Andrei V. Nagornyi
  • Patent number: 11306138
    Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant human antibody molecules. The antibodies bind fungal antigens, for example from Candida spp. Human antibody encoding genes targeting clinically relevant Candida epitopes have been isolated from single B cells from carefully selected donors and screened with specified types of protein or cell wall extract. The panel of purified, fully human recombinant IgG1 mAbs generated displayed a diverse range of specific binding profiles and demonstrated efficacy in a disease model. The fully human mAbs and derivatives thereof have utility in the generation of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
    Inventors: Neil Andrew Robert Gow, Fiona Marion Rudkin, Lars-Peter Erwig, Allan Jensen
  • Publication number: 20220076339
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
  • Patent number: 11205226
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
  • Publication number: 20210381527
    Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further comprises a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism comprises a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Steven Eduard PEET, Neil Andrew STEWART, Robert James FRYER, Adam Daniel JOUQUES, Victoria Anne Dorothy GIBSON-ROBINSON, Harriet Rebecca WHITE, Stephen Andrew BAKER, Thomas Greer DUVALL, Jack David COLLINS
  • Patent number: 11173408
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein include an amusement park system that includes an augmented experience system. The augmented experience system is configured to track guest interactions of a plurality of guests of an amusement park with one or more employees of the amusement park, one or more mobile devices, one or more wearable devices, one or more themed devices, or one or more physical objects disposed within a real-world environment of the amusement park. The augmented experience system is also configured to augment the real-world environment of the amusement park based at least in part on data relating to the guest interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Neil Andrew Leiba, Wei Cheng Yeh, Travis Jon Cossairt, Erica Lynn McCay
  • Publication number: 20210308639
    Abstract: Provided is a chemical injection system for connection to a chemical tank and a process line. The system includes a pump box configured to attach to the tank, the pump box including a body defining an interior, a pump assembly disposed within the interior of the body of the pump box, and an injection assembly configured to be fluidly coupled to the pump box. The injection assembly includes an injection lance having a flange and a stem, a first seal abutting a first side of the flange of the injection lance, and a second seal abutting a second side of the flange of the injection lance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: JUSTIN JAMES PIERCE, NEIL ANDREW DEWITT, GARRETT J. PETTY
  • Publication number: 20210269800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new double stranded RNA (dsRNA) structures and their use in gene silencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Andrew SMITH, Ming Bo WANG, Daai ZHANG, Timothy James DORAN, Mark TIZARD, Annapurna Devi ALLU, Ian Kevin GREAVES, Lingling GAO, Jonathan Paul ANDERSON, Robert DE FEYTER
  • Patent number: 11086692
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing multiple wireless devices are disclosed. An exemplary system includes multiple domains each having a particular type of wireless device management system and respective (application programming interface) APIs. API call modules corresponding to each domain enable accessing of the APIs exposed by each of the respective domains. A management console enables compiling of a consolidated list of devices and users from each of the device management systems into a single view. An exemplary method includes querying multiple domains to obtain user information, compiling a consolidated list of users, displaying the consolidated list in a user interface, selecting a user from the consolidated list, and submitting a command to either all or a specific domain for the selected user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Morley, Michael Wayne Dennis, Neil Andrew Billings, Aleksandar Susnjar
  • Patent number: 11074632
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for compiling a virtual transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes acquiring, using at least one visual sensor, first image information including a person. The method further includes identifying the at least one person from the first image information by classifying the person into a class. The method also includes acquiring second image information including the person and an item. The method further includes identifying a behavior of the person relative to the item, and updating, based on the identified behavior, the virtual transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: John David Landers, Jr., Dean Frederick Herring, Brad Matthew Johnson, Ankit Singh, Bobby Lewis Williams, Jr., David John Steiner, Phuc Ky Do, Neil Andrew Girard, Michael Schaefer, Erin Kendall Dorshorst, Craig Walton Turner
  • Publication number: 20210192616
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling operational states of a hardware matching processor includes monitoring, by a circuit breaker, incoming electronic data transaction request messages to the hardware matching processor; dynamically defining a range of values as a function of values included with electronic data transaction request messages received during a rolling lookback window; detecting that an incoming electronic data transaction request message contains a value outside the range of values; transitioning the electronic data transaction processing system into a pre-open state for a predetermined period, thereby preventing the hardware matching processor from matching incoming electronic data transaction request messages; calculating a pre-open value at an end of the pre-open state; and re-opening the electronic data transaction processing system at the calculated pre-open value, thereby allowing the hardware matching processor to match incoming electronic data transaction request messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Alan Millhuff, John Paul Scheerer, Neil Andrew Lustyk, Supreet Dhillon, James Allen Bailey, Julie Holzrichter
  • Publication number: 20210158627
    Abstract: An interactive video game system includes at least one sensor and at least one display device disposed near a play area. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and the at least one display device, wherein the controller is configured to: receive, from the at least one sensor, the scanning data of the player in the play area; generate at least one model from the scanning data of the player; identify an action of the player in the play area based on the at least one model; generate the virtual representation for the player based on the at least one model and the action of the player; and present, on the display device, the virtual representation of the player in a virtual environment, wherein an action of the virtual representation is augmented relative to the action of the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Travis Jon Cossairt, Wei Cheng Yeh, Neil Andrew Leiba, Erica Lynn McCay
  • Publication number: 20210077321
    Abstract: A gown dispenser system has a plurality of gowns, each having a back region, the gowns folded and stacked back region facing up, such that, pulling on the back region of a gown on top of the stack removes that gown from the stack and exposes the back region of the next gown in the stack, an enclosure containing the stack of gowns, the enclosure having an opening exposing the back region of the gown at the top of the stack, enabling a user to grasp the exposed back region and pull the topmost gown from the enclosure, exposing the next gown in the stack. Gowns are drawn from the enclosure one-at-a-time, at need.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: GownUP Inc.
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Louwrens
  • Patent number: 10951540
    Abstract: A provider network provides task capture and execution for tasks performed with respect to resources in the provider network. Task actions performed with respect to resources may be captured based on inputs to a provider network via a network-based service for the provider network in order to generate a recorded task. The recorded task may be stored for subsequent execution. In response to the detection of an execution event for the recorded task, the task actions may be performed as described in the recorded task. In some embodiments, task parameters and execution events may be defined for recorded tasks. Multiple recorded tasks may be linked together to be managed and executed as recorded task workflows. Recorded tasks may also be obtained that were recorded by other clients, or recorded for different provider networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Jacques De Kadt, Andrew James Lusk, James Alfred Gordon Greenfield, Marc John Brooker, Neil Andrew Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10934796
    Abstract: A method for recovering a conduit from a wellbore includes positioning an expander tool having at least one biasing element within the conduit an expander tool and exerting a force against the at least one biasing element to radially expand the conduit to an amount sufficient to fracture solids outside of and in contact with the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Deep Casing Tools, Ltd.
    Inventors: David John Stephenson, Tomasz Jozef Walerianczyk, Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson
  • Patent number: 10916059
    Abstract: An interactive video game system includes at least one sensor and at least one display device disposed near a play area. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and the at least one display device, wherein the controller is configured to: receive, from the at least one sensor, the scanning data of the player in the play area; generate at least one model from the scanning data of the player; identify an action of the player in the play area based on the at least one model; generate the virtual representation for the player based on the at least one model and the action of the player; and present, on the display device, the virtual representation of the player in a virtual environment, wherein an action of the virtual representation is augmented relative to the action of the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Travis Jon Cossairt, Wei Cheng Yeh, Neil Andrew Leiba, Erica Lynn McCay
  • Patent number: D935486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MPW INDUSTRIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Justin James Pierce, Neil Andrew Dewitt, Garrett J. Petty
  • Patent number: D943059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MPW INDUSTRIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Justin James Pierce, Neil Andrew DeWitt, Garrett J. Petty