Patents by Inventor Neil WELLS

Neil WELLS 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: 11966605
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for managing superblocks, including a non-volatile storage including a superblock and a controller configured to notify a host of a size of the superblock to a host, determine a stream that aligns with the superblock, write data corresponding to the stream to the superblock, and determine that writing the data correspond to the stream has completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Wells, Neil Buxton, Nigel Horspool, Mohinder Saluja, Paul Suhler
  • Patent number: 11914898
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein relate to creating a namespace in response to determining that a sum of namespace sizes of a plurality of namespaces is less than a first threshold for the point of thin-provisioning. A write command and data are received from a host. The write command and the data are received in response to determining that a sum of namespace utilization of the plurality of namespaces is less than a second threshold. The data is compressed and stored in the created namespace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Wells, Neil Buxton
  • Patent number: 11450227
    Abstract: Musical rhythm, is taught using a sequenced rhythm pattern, wherein a user's strike within a time window around each note maintains suppression of audible output. If a strike falls outside the time window, output resumes. FIG. 2 shows a smartphone/tablet app. Pad 13 is struck in harmony with a rhythmic pattern on display 1. Means 3 to 11 adjust app parameters. Means 2 control rhythm. A display preferably shows current and past states of the system during a session (e.g. metronome suppressed, metronome non-suppressed, strike detected in time window, strikes outside time window), as well as time remaining in the current session, as either a ‘clock’ or ‘pie chart’ type, or rectilinear ‘bar’ type, the ‘time remaining’ segment of the display being progressively replaced by sections e.g. of differing colour or texture corresponding to the current state, with the ‘time past’ segments displaying the past states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEATBALANCE LTD.
    Inventor: Neil Wells
  • Publication number: 20220208019
    Abstract: Musical rhythm, is taught using a sequenced rhythm pattern, wherein a user's strike within a time window around each note maintains suppression of audible output. If a strike falls outside the time window, output resumes. FIG. 2 shows a smartphone/tablet app. Pad 13 is struck in harmony with a rhythmic pattern on display 1. Means 3 to 11 adjust app parameters. Means 2 control rhythm. A display preferably shows current and past states of the system during a session (e.g. metronome suppressed, metronome non-suppressed, strike detected in time window, strikes outside time window), as well as time remaining in the current session, as either a ‘clock’ or ‘pie chart’ type, or rectilinear ‘bar’ type, the ‘time remaining’ segment of the display being progressively replaced by sections e.g. of differing colour or texture corresponding to the current state, with the ‘time past’ segments displaying the past states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Neil WELLS
  • Patent number: 3933392
    Abstract: A safety wheel rim for use with pneumatic tires has a removable band which is securable so as to obstruct the mouth of the well used to receive the beads of a tire when fitting the tire onto the rim. The band can thus be locked against radial expansion regardless of the position of the tire beads so that the beads cannot accidentally enter the well in the event of deflation of the tire while travelling. The well may be offset from the median plane of the rim and also spaced from the bead-retaining flanges. Examples of the securing means for the band shown are an inflation valve stem which is screw-threaded through the outer of overlapping ends of the band and which cannot be inflated unless the band is secured, and screws arranged to tighten the band circumferentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1976
    Assignee: Avon Rubber Company Limited
    Inventor: William Neil Wells