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).

  • Patent number: 9875726
    Abstract: According to an implementation of the present specification there is provided an apparatus for creating a hybrid image. The apparatus comprises: a first light source configured to emit a first light in a first direction; a reflector disposed to intercept the first light and configured to at least partially reflect the first light in an output direction to produce a reflected first light. The apparatus also comprises a second light source configured to emit a second light, the reflector configured to at least partially transmit the second light in the output direction to produce a transmitted second light. The apparatus also comprises an input terminal configured to receive an input used to control one or more of the first light source and the second light source. The hybrid image comprises a combination of the reflected first light and the transmitted second light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Inventors: Neil Andrew Foster, Gregory Scott Mardon
  • Patent number: 9861537
    Abstract: A gown dispenser system has a plurality of hospital 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, and an interface mechanism attached to the enclosure, enabling the enclosure to be suspended on a substantially vertical surface, with the opening facing outward from the substantially vertical surface. Gowns are drawn from the enclosure one-at-a-time, at need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Louwrens
  • Patent number: 9834991
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) includes a traction member in the form of a roller (24) configured for mounting on a body (12) so as to permit rotation of the roller (24) relative to the body (12). The roller (24) is mountable on the body (12) so as to define a skew angle relative to a longitudinal axis (26) of the body (12). In use, the roller (24) engages a wall of a borehole or bore-lining tubular and the roller (24) urges the apparatus (10) along the wall of the borehole or bore-lining tubular on rotation of the as the roller (24) rotates on the body (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Paradigm Drilling Services Limited
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson
  • Patent number: 9836975
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for implementing an exception to a parking restriction, the exception being a parking area defined by one or more coordinates, includes monitoring an area including the parking area; detecting a vehicle in the monitored area; determining whether the detected vehicle is positioned within the parking area; and determining whether the vehicle has permission to park in the parking area. The parking area is not marked on the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Grid Smarter Cities Limited
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Herron
  • Publication number: 20170308942
    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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    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
  • Fan
    Patent number: 9797411
    Abstract: A ceiling fan includes an annular nozzle having an inner wall, an outer wall extending about the inner wall, an air inlet for receiving an air flow, an air outlet for emitting the air flow, and an interior passage located between the inner and outer wall for conveying the air flow to the air outlet. The inner wall defines a bore through which air from outside the nozzle is drawn by the air flow emitted from the air outlet. A support assembly supports the nozzle on a ceiling and includes a ceiling mount for mounting the ceiling fan on a ceiling, an arm having a first end connected to the ceiling mount, and a body connected to a second end of the arm and the annular nozzle. The body is pivotable relative to the arm about a pivot axis to move the annular nozzle between a raised and lowered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: James Dyson, Neil Andrew Stewart, Rodney James Brown
  • Patent number: 9797413
    Abstract: A fan assembly for generating an air flow within a room includes an annular casing which defines an interior passage. The interior passage includes an air inlet, and houses, downstream from the air inlet, an impeller and a motor for driving the impeller to draw an air flow through the air inlet and into the fan assembly. The interior passage also has an air outlet from which at least a portion of the air flow is emitted from the fan assembly. The annular casing defines a bore about which the interior passage extends and through which a secondary air flow from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air emitted from the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Neil Andrew Stewart, Mark James Adkin, David Andrew Tibbetts
  • Publication number: 20170281431
    Abstract: A gown dispenser system has a plurality of hospital 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, and an interface mechanism attached to the enclosure, enabling the enclosure to be suspended on a substantially vertical surface, with the opening facing outward from the substantially vertical surface. Gowns are drawn from the enclosure one-at-a-time, at need.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Louwrens
  • Publication number: 20170268268
    Abstract: An enclosure assembly with concealed hinge system comprises a quadrilateral cabinet and a cover that is configured to swivel along a sidewall of the quadrilateral cabinet. The swiveling action of the cover with respect to the quadrilateral cabinet is enabled by the use of a first pair of hinges and at least one second hinge. The first pair of hinges is welded onto the corners of the sidewall, and the at least one second hinge is welded onto the sidewall between the first pair of hinges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Rehanul Hasan, Neil Andrew Baird, Amit Shirish Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20170236491
    Abstract: According to an implementation of the present specification there is provided an apparatus for creating a hybrid image. The apparatus comprises: a first light source configured to emit a first light in a first direction; a reflector disposed to intercept the first light and configured to at least partially reflect the first light in an output direction to produce a reflected first light. The apparatus also comprises a second light source configured to emit a second light, the reflector configured to at least partially transmit the second light in the output direction to produce a transmitted second light. The apparatus also comprises an input terminal configured to receive an input used to control one or more of the first light source and the second light source. The hybrid image comprises a combination of the reflected first light and the transmitted second light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Neil Andrew FOSTER, Gregory Scott MARDON
  • Publication number: 20170213658
    Abstract: A pin assembly is for a charging ram assembly of an electrical switching apparatus. The charging ram assembly has a biasing element, a ram member structured to bias the biasing element, and a plate member. The pin assembly includes a pin member structured to extend through the biasing element and the plate member, the pin member having an end portion; a first collar member and a second collar member coupled to the end portion; and a securing apparatus including a retaining member coupled to the first collar member and the second collar member in order to prevent the pin member from moving with respect to the first collar member and the second collar member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: ANDREW LAWRENCE GOTTSCHALK, NEIL ANDREW BUZZARD
  • Publication number: 20170190737
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. The compounds, compositions, and methods provided are useful for the treatment of virus infections, particularly hepatitis C infections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Caroline Aciro, David Kenneth Dean, Neil Andrew Dunbar, Adrian John Highton, Petr Jansa, Kapil Kumar Karki, Andrew John Keats, Linos Lazarides, Richard L. Mackman, Simon N. Pettit, Karine G. Poullennec, Adam James Schrier, Dustin Siegel, Victoria Alexandra Steadman
  • Publication number: 20170144281
    Abstract: An electronic click wrench comprises a handle for applying torque through a shaft to a working head. The shaft includes torque sensing means for calculating the torque applied to a workpiece by the working head, and a trigger mechanism for sending a haptic feedback to a user by triggering a small movement of the handle relative to the working head when a set point torque is reached. The trigger mechanism comprises a permanent magnet that is normally anchored by magnetic attraction to a pole piece so as to resist separation when a force is applied through the handle, and an electromagnetic means actuable to reduce or cancel that magnetic attraction so as to permit separation of the pole piece and permanent magnet, thus generating the haptic feedback. Operation of the electromagnet may oppose the flux of the permanent magnet through the pole piece. Alternatively operation of the electromagnet may divert the flux of the permanent magnet away from the pole piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Neil Andrew McDonald, Peter William Everitt, Adrian James Duffin, Himang Virendra Sharma, Daniel Thomas Ahearn, Simon Philip Jelley
  • Patent number: 9533280
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compositions useful in adsorption and reactive processes comprising an adsorbent powder, such as a zeolite, and a binder mixed to form an agglomerate having a porosity of 0.30??p?0.42 and a N2 pore diffusivity Dp?3.5×10?6 m2/s and wherein the mean particle diameter of the crystalline zeolite powder is 10 ?m or less; the mean particle diameter of the binder is 0.10 dA or less, and the binder concentration is 10% or less expressed on a dry weight basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark William Ackley, Philip Alexander Barrett, Neil Andrew Stephenson, Eustathios S. Kikkinides
  • Patent number: 9534610
    Abstract: A fan assembly for generating an air flow within a room includes an impeller and a motor for driving the impeller to draw an air flow into the fan assembly, and a casing having an interior passage with a scroll section having a cross-sectional area that decreases from a scroll inlet section to a scroll outlet section. The scroll inlet section has an inlet port for receiving the air flow and the scroll outlet section has an outlet port for returning a first portion of the air flow to the scroll inlet section. The scroll section includes an air outlet for emitting a second portion of the air flow from the casing. The casing defines a bore through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air emitted from the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Neil Andrew Stewart, Mark James Adkin, David Andrew Tibbetts
  • Patent number: 9512175
    Abstract: Provided are compounds of Formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. The compounds, compositions, and methods provided are useful for the treatment of virus infections, particularly hepatitis C infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: Gilead Sciences, Inc., Selcia Ltd.
    Inventors: Caroline Aciro, Jean Yves Chiva, David Kenneth Dean, Neil Andrew Dunbar, Adrian John Highton, Petr Jansa, Kapil Kumar Karki, Andrew John Keats, Linos Lazarides, Richard Mackman, Simon Neil Pettit, Karine G. Poullennec, Adam James Schrier, Dustin Scott Siegel, Victoria Alexandra Steadman
  • Patent number: 9486732
    Abstract: Adsorbent compositions useful in adsorption and separation processes are made using silicone-derived binding agents. The adsorbent compositions are made from crystallite aluminosilicate particles bound with silicone-derived binding agents, and optionally small amounts of a clay binder, to form agglomerated crystallite particles and are calcined to volatilize the organic components associated with the silicone-derived binding agents. The agglomerated crystallite particles have superior pore structures and superior crush strengths at low binder concentrations and exhibit enhanced N2 adsorption rates and capacities when used in air separation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Alexander Barrett, Steven John Pontonio, Persefoni Kechagia, Neil Andrew Stephenson, Kerry C. Weston
  • Publication number: 20160321182
    Abstract: An apparatus has a cache configured to store entries which correspond to blocks of addresses having one of a plurality of sizes as selected by a control device. When the control device has not yet indicated which size to use, cache access circuitry assumes a default size which is greater than at least one of the plurality of sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Roko GRUBISIC, Hakan PERSSON, Neil Andrew JAMESON
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20160238039
    Abstract: Described is a fan assembly comprising a body comprising an air inlet, an air outlet, and means for generating an air flow through the body. The body has a lower body section and an upper body section capable of rotation relative to the lower body section. The fan assembly also comprises a nozzle for emitting the air flow, and a filter upstream from the air inlet, wherein the upper body section has a seat for supporting the filter such that the filter rotates relative to the lower body section when the upper body section is caused to rotate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Neil Andrew STEWART, Steven Eduard PEET
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20160238025
    Abstract: Described is a fan assembly comprising a body comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a means for generating an air flow through the body. The fan assembly also comprises a nozzle mountable on the body for receiving the air flow from the body and for emitting the air flow, wherein the body and the nozzle have cooperative inclined surfaces configured to assist alignment of the nozzle on the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Neil Andrew STEWART