Patents by Inventor Oliver James
Oliver James 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).
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Publication number: 20240139982Abstract: A razor blade including: a substrate having a tip portion including a tip region, a blade body including a base, and first and second outer sides disposed opposite a split line of the substrate, in which the first and second outer sides converge at a tip, the first outer side comprises a first coating disposed substantially thereon and extending from the tip region toward the base, and a first portion of the second outer side is substantially free of any coating, the first portion extending from the tip region toward the base or being spaced apart from the tip region and the base. Also provided is a method of coating the razor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, John Lawrence Maziarz, Bin Shen, Ronald Richard Duff, JR., Joe David Lussier, Oliver Heinz Claus, Joseph Allan DePuydt
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Publication number: 20240115810Abstract: The present disclosure relates to medicament injection devices. An injection device includes: a movable dosage programming component comprising a rotary encoder system having a predefined angular periodicity, a sensor arrangement including a first optical sensor configured to detect movement of the movable dosage programming component relative to the sensor arrangement during dosing of a medicament, wherein the first optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a first frequency, a second optical sensor configured to detect movement of the rotary encoder system relative to the second optical sensor wherein the second optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on the detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Michael Schabbach, Anthony Paul Morris, Ronald Antony Smith, Brian Charles Molyneux, Paul Richard Draper, Craig Ashley Mason, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Daniel Edward Clark, David Aubrey Plumptre, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Richard James Thomas, Felix Kramer, Beat Wyss, Philipp Müller
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Publication number: 20240091452Abstract: A drug delivery system for injecting a medicament includes a housing, a container configured to receive a medicament including a stopper configured to move within the container and a closure, a needle in fluid communication with the container, a spacer configured to be engaged with the stopper, a first plunger, a first spring configured to bias the first plunger in an axial direction, second plunger disposed about the first plunger, a second spring configured to bias the second plunger in an axial direction. The first plunger is configured to move the spacer and the container relative to the housing via the first spring to establish fluid communication between the container and the patient needle, and the second plunger is configured to move the spacer and the stopper relative to the container via the second spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Oliver Charles Gazeley, David Aubrey Plumptre, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Gareth James Lewis, James Alexander Senior
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Publication number: 20240089844Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate providing slice attribute information to a user equipment (UE) for one or more slice types with which the user equipment is allowed to establish one or more session(s). In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a network element, a registration request for connection of a UE to a mobile network; performing an authentication for connection of the UE to the mobile network; and upon successful authentication, providing, by the network element, a registration response to the UE, wherein the registration response identifies one or more network slice types with which the UE is authorized to establish a session and the registration response identifies one of: attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types or network location information from which attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types is to be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava, Oliver James Bull
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Publication number: 20240076720Abstract: Provided herein are methods, systems, and compositions for determining a base in a polynucleotide. In various aspects, the methods, systems, and compositions presented herein are useful for performing 4-base, 5-base, or 6-base sequencing of polynucleotide molecules, for example, from liquid biopsy samples or wherein the base is a low frequency mutation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Shankar BALASUBRAMANIAN, Jens FULLGRABE, Walraj Singh GOSAL, Joanna Dawn HOLBROOK, Sidong LIU, David MORLEY, Oliver NENTWICH, Tobias OST, Michael STEWARD, Albert VILELLA, Nicolas James WALKER, Shirong YU, Helen Rachel BIGNELL, Rita Santo SAN-BENTO
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Publication number: 20240064023Abstract: In one embodiment, a device identifies, for an existing digital identifier, a public key, a sequence number, and a signature. The device forms a new digital identifier that includes the public key, the sequence number, and the signature identified by the device for the existing digital identifier. The device signs the new digital identifier with a new signature using a private key. The device uses the new digital identifier to prove legitimacy of data associated with the new digital identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Oliver James BULL, Louis Gwyn SAMUEL
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Patent number: 11910299Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate providing slice attribute information to a user equipment (UE) for one or more slice types with which the user equipment is allowed to establish one or more session(s). In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a network element, a registration request for connection of a UE to a mobile network; performing an authentication for connection of the UE to the mobile network; and upon successful authentication, providing, by the network element, a registration response to the UE, wherein the registration response identifies one or more network slice types with which the UE is authorized to establish a session and the registration response identifies one of: attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types or network location information from which attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types is to be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava, Oliver James Bull
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Patent number: 11910491Abstract: A first data plane is established between a user equipment device and a gateway device, wherein the user equipment device comprises a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) user equipment device, and wherein the first data plane comprises a 3GPP data plane. A second data plane is established between the gateway device and an anchor device, wherein the second data plane comprises a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) data plane. Mobility management is performed for the user equipment device via communications between the gateway device and the anchor device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Sangram Kishore Lakkaraju, Vimal Srivastava, Oliver James Bull
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Patent number: 11880358Abstract: In one embodiment, a device receives, from a requestor, a query function that queries a dataset and an intended use schema associated with the query function. The device determines, using a policy ruleset, whether the intended use schema falls within an available schema for the dataset. The device executes the query function on the dataset to form a result data, when the intended use schema falls within the available schema for the dataset. The device provides the result data to the requestor.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Trevor George Smith, Oliver James Bull, Gaétan Feige
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Patent number: 11870641Abstract: An enterprise controller of an enterprise network sends to a service gateway of a service provider network a request for network slice information about network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network. Responsive to the sending, the enterprise controller receives from the service gateway the network slice information including identifiers of and properties associated with the network slices. Responsive to receiving a request for the network slice information from a network device at a border of a forwarding plane of the enterprise network, the enterprise controller sends the network slice information to the network device to cause the network device to perform configuring network traffic in the forwarding plane with identifiers of ones of the network slices that match the network traffic, and to perform forwarding the network traffic configured with the identifiers to the data plane of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Oliver James Bull, Rex Emmanuel Fernando, Anand Oswal, Kausik Majumdar, Darren Russell Dukes, Sanjay Kumar Hooda
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Publication number: 20230416117Abstract: An air recovery system, comprising: a) a water source that is capable to delivering a water source to the atmospheric tank. b). an atmospheric tank assembly that provides a heat exchanger to heat the water source inside the copper tubing and condenses the hot water vapor back into water. c) Two vacuum tank assemblies that receives hot water and under both a vacuum pressure and a temperature provides hot water vapor. d). Two CP-150 CLAWVAC vacuum pumps that remove the hot water vapor for the respective vacuum tanks. e). The water purification CP-150 CLAWVAC vacuum pump delivers the hot water vapor to the atmospheric tank and provides water. f).The air recovery vacuum tank assembly delivers the hot water vapor to the atmosphere. g).Both vacuum tank assemblies are connected to a solar water collector. H).Both vacuum tank assemblies are connected to a salt recovery system. i).The portable brine tank container connects to the water purification salt recovery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventor: Oliver James Groves
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Publication number: 20230391605Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a carbonated beverage comprising soda and at least one additive, the carbonated beverage dispenser comprising a compensator, the compensator comprising: an outer body defining a compensator chamber, an inlet, and an outlet, an inner body arranged within the compensator chamber and between the inlet and the outlet, wherein a gap is defined between the inner body and the outer body for regulating the flow rate of soda passing between the inlet and the outlet, and a control element configured to receive a user input from a user and to control the size of the gap in dependence on said user input, wherein, for a given user input, the control element moves the inner body relative to the control element to a first extent and the outer body relative to the control element to a second extent, the first extent being non-equal to the second extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Fevertree LimitedInventors: Andrew James STRATTON, Oliver James BATLEY, Joshua Aleksander DE GROMOBOY DABROWICKI, Patryk GAWLINSKI
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Publication number: 20230327041Abstract: A mesa-type avalanche photodiode comprising a first mesa of n-type material, a second mesa having an active region, and a third mesa of p-type material, wherein the second mesa includes a p-type sidewall formed by Zn diffusion for suppressing sidewall leakage current.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Oliver James PITTS, Alexandre W. WALKER
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Publication number: 20230292122Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless wide area (WWA) access network and an enterprise private WWA access network. In one example, a method is provided that may include generating, by an authentication node, authentication material for a user equipment (UE) based on the UE being connected to a public WWA access network, wherein the public WWA access network is associated with a mobile network operator, and the authentication node and the UE are associated with an enterprise entity; obtaining, by the authentication node, an indication that the UE is attempting to access a private WWA access network associated with the enterprise entity; and providing, by the authentication node, the authentication material for the UE, wherein the authentication material facilitates connection establishment between the UE and the private WWA access network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Oliver James Bull, Louis Gwyn Samuel, Mark Grayson
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Patent number: 11722938Abstract: A technique performed by a client on a device includes detecting one or more wireless networks in range of the device, where the one or more wireless networks support connection over at least two frequency bands; controlling the device to connect to the one or more wireless networks over at least one of the two frequency bands; and controlling the device to switch connections among different ones of the at least two frequency bands based on levels of service provided by the different ones of the at least two frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: William Kenneth Logan, Oliver James Jauncey
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Patent number: 11708203Abstract: A unit-dose packaging for a product comprising a chain of blister packs, the chain of blister packs being arranged in an alternating manner and having foldable regions between each blister pack in the chain of blister packs, characterised in that after use of the product, a chain of emptied blister packs forms a concertina fold, wherein all the blisters are of the same shape in the chain of blister packs such that the repeating units of the chain of blister packs are linked in such a way that their cavities fit into each other when stacking in an alternating way.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Oliver James Boulton, Nurani Dharmaraj Krishnaprakash Iyer
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Patent number: 11706619Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless wide area (WWA) access network and an enterprise private WWA access network. In one example, a method is provided that may include generating, by an authentication node, authentication material for a user equipment (UE) based on the UE being connected to a public WWA access network, wherein the public WWA access network is associated with a mobile network operator, and the authentication node and the UE are associated with an enterprise entity; obtaining, by the authentication node, an indication that the UE is attempting to access a private WWA access network associated with the enterprise entity; and providing, by the authentication node, the authentication material for the UE, wherein the authentication material facilitates connection establishment between the UE and the private WWA access network.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Oliver James Bull, Louis Gwyn Samuel, Mark Grayson
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Publication number: 20230188413Abstract: An enterprise controller of an enterprise network sends to a service gateway of a service provider network a request for network slice information about network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network. Responsive to the sending, the enterprise controller receives from the service gateway the network slice information including identifiers of and properties associated with the network slices. Responsive to receiving a request for the network slice information from a network device at a border of a forwarding plane of the enterprise network, the enterprise controller sends the network slice information to the network device to cause the network device to perform configuring network traffic in the forwarding plane with identifiers of ones of the network slices that match the network traffic, and to perform forwarding the network traffic configured with the identifiers to the data plane of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Oliver James Bull, Rex Emmanuel Fernando, Anand Oswal, Kausik Majumdar, Darren Russell Dukes, Sanjay Kumar Hooda
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Publication number: 20230184207Abstract: A thermal energy storage system comprising a working fluid to store and transfer thermal energy between a heat source and a thermal load and a vessel to store the working fluid. The vessel has an interior region and a floating separator piston in the interior region to separate a hot portion from a cold portion of the working fluid. There is a first manifold thermally coupled to an output of the heat source and to an input of the thermal load and fluidly coupled to the interior region of the vessel and a second manifold thermally coupled to an input of the heat source and an output of the thermal load and fluidly coupled to the interior region of the vessel. There is a controller configured to maintain the working fluid in a liquid state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Jonathan Lynch, Troy McBride, Joel Stettenheim, Per Erik Kristoffer Edstrom, Leif Kilkenny Johnson, Oliver James Brambles
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Patent number: D1024686Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Huski LimitedInventors: Meika Diane Huesser, Simon James Huesser, Oliver James McDermott, Haydn Andrew Jack