Patents by Inventor Oliver Paul

Oliver Paul 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: 20240115810
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240089592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically tuning camera parameters in a video analytics system to optimize analytics accuracy. A camera captures a current scene, and optimal camera parameter settings are learned and identified for the current scene using a Reinforcement Learning (RL) engine. The learning includes defining a state within the RL engine as a tuple of two vectors: a first representing current camera parameter values and a second representing measured values of frames of the current scene. Quality of frames is estimated using a quality estimator, and camera parameters are adjusted based on the quality estimator and the RL engine for optimization. Effectiveness of tuning is determined using perceptual Image Quality Assessment (IQA) to quantify a quality measure. Camera parameters are adaptively tuned in real-time based on learned optimal camera parameter settings, state, quality measure, and set of actions, to optimize the analytics accuracy for video analytics tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kunal Rao, Sibendu Paul, Giuseppe Coviello, Murugan Sankaradas, Oliver Po, Srimat Chakradhar
  • Publication number: 20230391187
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle fluid delivery system comprising (a) a housing defining a first cavity, wherein the housing includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side and the second side being separated by a continuous side wall extending around their peripheries, and wherein the housing is adapted to be removable from a vehicle, (b) a fluid reservoir positioned in the first cavity of the housing, (c) a fluid port coupling disposed on the first side of the housing and providing fluid access to the fluid reservoir, and (d) a fluid barrier external to and contiguous with the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ross Alexander Dewhurst, Oliver Paul Taylor
  • Patent number: 11614008
    Abstract: An agricultural machine, comprising is disclosed, wherein the machine comprises a body frame; a cutting system mounted on the body frame; a drive system mounted on the body frame; a power unit, mounted on the body frame, adapted to provide power to the drive system and/or the cutting system; and a fluid distribution system adapted to provide fluid to the power unit. The fluid distribution system further comprises a dock and a replaceable fluid container adapted to contain fluid to be supplied to the power unit the dock being adapted to retain the replaceable fluid container in fluid communication with the fluid distribution system so as to supply fluid from the replaceable fluid container via the fluid distribution system to the power unit. A method of facilitating an oil change in an agricultural machine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CirculOil Limited
    Inventors: Krishan Arora, Oliver Paul Taylor
  • Patent number: 11556321
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for deploying a plurality of microservices across a service infrastructure having a plurality of resources is provided. The present invention may include determining at least one dependency of the plurality of microservices. The present invention may include for each resource of the plurality of resources, determining an outage distribution descriptive of an availability of the resource with respect to time. The present invention may include based on the outage distribution associated with each resource and the at least one dependency of the plurality of microservices, determining a deployment configuration of the plurality of microservices across the resources of the service infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver Paul Masters, Alexander John Naylor, Samuel Christopher Smith, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Publication number: 20220268185
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system of maintaining a predetermined working quantity of fluid in a reduced volume sump of a motor or vehicle. The method includes recurrently determining a quantity of fluid in the sump and comparing the determined quantity of fluid to the predetermined working fluid quantity. In response to identifying a deviation between the determined quantity of fluid and the predetermined working fluid quantity, the method includes sending a control signal to a fluid pumping system to transfer fluid between the sump and a fluid container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ross Alexander Dewhurst, Oliver Paul Taylor
  • Patent number: 11239996
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for performing weighted partial matching under homomorphic encryption in a computing environment. Selected data may be encoded and encrypted into an encrypted query for comparison using private set intersection (PSI) under homomorphic encryption (HE). An encrypted score may be determined according to data blocks of the selected data and a set of weights for each of the data blocks of the selected data to identify matches between the data and the encrypted query. The encrypted score may be decrypted and decoded to identify matches between the encrypted query with the selected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Paul Masters, Hamish C Hunt, Flavio A Bergamaschi, Enrico Steffinlongo
  • Patent number: 11151981
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for a sound system. Speech recognition is performed on input audio data comprising speech input to a sound system. Speech recognition is additionally performed on at least one instance of output audio data comprising speech reproduced by one or more audio speakers of the sound system. A difference between a result of speech recognition performed on the input audio data and a result of speech recognition performed on an instance of corresponding output audio data is determined. The quality of the reproduced speech is determined as unsatisfactory when the difference is greater than or equal to a threshold. A corrective action may be performed, to improve the quality of the speech reproduced by the sound system, if it is determined that the speech quality of the reproduced sound is unsatisfactory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor-Teece, Andrew James Dunnings, Oliver Paul Masters
  • Publication number: 20210293164
    Abstract: An agricultural machine, comprising is disclosed, wherein the machine comprises a body frame; a cutting system mounted on the body frame; a drive system mounted on the body frame; a power unit, mounted on the body frame, adapted to provide power to the drive system and/or the cutting system; and a fluid distribution system adapted to provide fluid to the power unit. The fluid distribution system further comprises a dock and a replaceable fluid container adapted to contain fluid to be supplied to the power unit the dock being adapted to retain the replaceable fluid container in fluid communication with the fluid distribution system so as to supply fluid from the replaceable fluid container via the fluid distribution system to the power unit. A method of facilitating an oil change in an agricultural machine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Krishan Arora, Oliver Paul Taylor
  • Publication number: 20210194668
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for performing weighted partial matching under homomorphic encryption in a computing environment. Selected data may be encoded and encrypted into an encrypted query for comparison using private set intersection (PSI) under homomorphic encryption (HE). An encrypted score may be determined according to data blocks of the selected data and a set of weights for each of the data blocks of the selected data to identify matches between the data and the encrypted query. The encrypted score may be decrypted and decoded to identify matches between the encrypted query with the selected data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Paul MASTERS, Hamish C. HUNT, Flavio A. BERGAMASCHI, Enrico STEFFINLONGO
  • Patent number: 11003572
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach captures usage data corresponding to multiple users accessing a codebase that includes multiple code lines. The approach uses the captured usage data to compute a code line usage weighting for at least one of the code lines. The approach also computes a code line test coverage score for at least one code line based on at least one current software test program that tests the codebase. The approach compares the code line usage weighting against the code line test coverage score and flags the code line based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor-Teece, Samuel Christopher Smith, Oliver Paul Masters, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Publication number: 20210110812
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for a sound system. Speech recognition is performed on input audio data comprising speech input to a sound system. Speech recognition is additionally performed on at least one instance of output audio data comprising speech reproduced by one or more audio speakers of the sound system. A difference between a result of speech recognition performed on the input audio data and a result of speech recognition performed on an instance of corresponding output audio data is determined. The quality of the reproduced speech is determined as unsatisfactory when the difference is greater than or equal to a threshold. A corrective action may be performed, to improve the quality of the speech reproduced by the sound system, if it is determined that the speech quality of the reproduced sound is unsatisfactory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor-Teece, Andrew James Dunnings, Oliver Paul Masters
  • Patent number: 10972548
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring deployment of a distributed system across a plurality of machines of a network. The method may include obtaining network information describing network communication characteristics between a plurality of machines of a network. The method may also include obtaining inter-container communication information describing at least one characteristic of communication between pairs of machines of the plurality of machines for a predetermined time period. The method may also include determining a cost function, the cost function mapping a potential container deployment configuration to an expected communication time, based on the network information and the inter-container communication. The method may also include processing the cost function with an optimization algorithm. The method may also include, in response to the processing, identifying a container deployment configuration having an associated cost that meets a cost requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor, Oliver Paul Masters, Samuel Christopher Smith, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Publication number: 20210073109
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach captures usage data corresponding to multiple users accessing a codebase that includes multiple code lines. The approach uses the captured usage data to compute a code line usage weighting for at least one of the code lines. The approach also computes a code line test coverage score for at least one code line based on at least one current software test program that tests the codebase. The approach compares the code line usage weighting against the code line test coverage score and flags the code line based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor-Teece, Samuel Christopher Smith, Oliver Paul Masters, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Publication number: 20210072965
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for deploying a plurality of microservices across a service infrastructure having a plurality of resources is provided. The present invention may include determining at least one dependency of the plurality of microservices. The present invention may include for each resource of the plurality of resources, determining an outage distribution descriptive of an availability of the resource with respect to time. The present invention may include based on the outage distribution associated with each resource and the at least one dependency of the plurality of microservices, determining a deployment configuration of the plurality of microservices across the resources of the service infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Oliver Paul Masters, Alexander John Naylor, Samuel Christopher Smith, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Publication number: 20210075866
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring deployment of a distributed system across a plurality of machines of a network. The method may include obtaining network information describing network communication characteristics between a plurality of machines of a network. The method may also include obtaining inter-container communication information describing at least one characteristic of communication between pairs of machines of the plurality of machines for a predetermined time period. The method may also include determining a cost function, the cost function mapping a potential container deployment configuration to an expected communication time, based on the network information and the inter-container communication. The method may also include processing the cost function with an optimization algorithm. The method may also include, in response to the processing, identifying a container deployment configuration having an associated cost that meets a cost requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor, Oliver Paul Masters, Samuel Christopher Smith, Andrew James Dunnings
  • Patent number: 10690025
    Abstract: A replaceable fluid container for an engine or a vehicle, comprising: a fluid reservoir, at least one fluid port adapted to couple with a fluid circulation system; and an actuator, configured to be operated between a first condition and a second condition, wherein the actuator is configured, in the first condition, to enable the fluid container to be inserted into and/or held in a dock, in a seated but undocked condition, and inhibit docking of the fluid container to the dock; and wherein the actuator is further configured, when operated from the first condition to the second condition with the fluid container being in the seated but undocked condition, to enable the fluid container to dock in an engaged condition with the dock, associated docks and associated methods of supplying a fluid to a vehicle or an engine and of decoupling a fluid container from a fluid circulation system of a vehicle or an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Castrol Limited
    Inventors: Steven Paul Goodier, Oliver Paul Taylor, Peter Stuart Brett, Mike Fairs, Piers Sebastian Harding, Christopher Dawson
  • Patent number: 10690026
    Abstract: A replaceable fluid container for an engine or a vehicle, comprising: a fluid reservoir, at least one fluid port adapted to couple with a fluid circulation system; and an actuator, configured to be operated between a first condition and a second condition, wherein the actuator is configured, in the first condition, to enable the fluid container to be inserted into and/or held in a dock, in a seated but undocked condition, and inhibit docking of the fluid container to the dock; and wherein the actuator is further configured, when operated from the first condition to the second condition with the fluid container being in the seated but undocked condition, to enable the fluid container to dock in an engaged condition with the dock, associated docks and associated methods of supplying a fluid to a vehicle or an engine and of decoupling a fluid container from a fluid circulation system of a vehicle or an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Castrol Limited
    Inventors: Steven Paul Goodier, Oliver Paul Taylor, Peter Stuart Brett, Mike Fairs, Piers Sebastian Harding, Christopher Dawson
  • Publication number: 20200173606
    Abstract: A power unit replaceable fluid container, the power unit being in fluid connection with a fluid distribution system, is disclosed. The container comprises a generally cuboid housing adapted to contain a fluid, the housing having a continuous outer wall, a base portion closing one end of the outer wall and a lid portion situated opposite the base portion and closing a second end of the outer wall to form a container. An indent is provided in the base portion and a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet situated within the indent. The indent in the base portion is sized to receive and accommodate a removable manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Rik Alewijnse, Oliver Gilkes, Oliver Paul Taylor
  • Patent number: 10666166
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including a fixed electrode, a movable electrode and an elastic support. The movable electrode faces the fixed electrode and is movable relative to the fixed electrode. The elastic support supports the movable electrode to be movable in an elastic direction of the elastic support. Either one of the fixed electrode or the movable electrode is an electret electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Goda, Oliver Paul