Patents by Inventor Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas 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: 11584741
    Abstract: The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to crystalline forms of 4-(5-(4,7-dimethylbenzofuran-2-yl)-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzoic acid (referred to herein as “BHBA-001”), which, inter alia, is a (selective) retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR?) (e.g., RAR?2) agonist. The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such crystalline forms, and the use of such crystalline forms and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, to (selectively) activate RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), to cause or promote neurite development, neurite outgrowth, and/or neurite regeneration, and in the treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), that are ameliorated by the activation of RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), etc., including, e.g., neurological injuries such as spinal cord injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: King's College London
    Inventors: Ronnie Maxwell Lawrence, Edwin Aret, Alan David Borthwick, Jane Theresa Brown, Jonathan Patrick Thomas Corcoran, Maria Beatriz De Castro Vasconcelos Goncalves, Sarkis Barrett Kalindjian
  • Publication number: 20230046745
    Abstract: A pilot burner for a combustor includes an inner conduit configured to deliver a fuel, and an outer conduit concentric with the inner conduit and configured to deliver air. An inner wall defines an inner plenum, and a partition wall is radially outward of the inner wall and defines an intermediate plenum with at least a portion of the inner wall. Exit passages fluidly couple the inner plenum to the intermediate plenum. An outer wall defines an outer plenum with at least a portion of the partition wall. A crossover section includes passages fluidly coupling the inner conduit to the outer plenum, and passages fluidly coupling the outer conduit to the inner plenum. An end plate includes openings to direct fuel, air for combustion, and air for cooling from the respective plenums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Monaghan, Holger Matthias Luebcke, Andre Theuer, Nico Biagioli
  • Patent number: 11576289
    Abstract: An electromagnetic protection sheath made of textile (10) is formed by conductive filaments extending in a first direction (X) and non-conductive filaments interlaced with the conductive filaments. Use in particular for shielding cables in aeronautical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERAL MOGUL SYSTEMS PROTECTION
    Inventors: Rafik Abdelmoula, Patrick Thomas, Lucia Della Putta, Thierry Rodrigues, Amelie Simoens
  • Publication number: 20230019360
    Abstract: A method for processing video data, comprising: receiving raw video data, representative of a plurality of frames; detecting, using the raw video data, one or more regions of interest in a detection frame that belongs to the plurality of frames, for example using a region proposal network; performing a cropping process on a portion of the raw video data representative of the detection frame, based on the regions of interest, so as to generate cropped raw video data; performing image processing on the cropped raw video data, including demosaicing, so as to generate processed image data for the detection frame; and analyzing the processed image data, for example using an object detection process, to determine information relating to at least one of said one or more regions of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Nicholas WHATMOUGH, Patrick Thomas HANSEN
  • Patent number: 11556527
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed herein allow simple specification of searches of values within regions and efficient implementation of such searches. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of complex query construction for finding objects having a particular value, including a minimum or a maximum value, in one of a set of regions, and the efficient implementation of the searches specified by such search operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Dianne Ramsahai
  • Publication number: 20230008703
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image content. Additional embodiments include identifying second equipment from second user-generated input, and adjusting the second aggregated image content with a second equipment image resulting in third aggregated image content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Leffler, Amanda Jean Peterlin, Jeffrey Patrick Thomas, Richard Raley, Alicia Shewring
  • Patent number: 11553302
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han
  • Patent number: 11537271
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for facilitating a comparison of content in a user interface are described. Two or more open browser interfaces of a browser are identified, each of the two or more open browser interfaces containing an item description of one or more items. The browser interfaces include at least one of a tab of the browser or a window of the browser. One or more features related to each of the one or more items from at least two of the item descriptions are extracted or identified. The comparison for a plurality of items is generated based on the extracted or identified one or more features. The comparison of the plurality of items is displayed within at least one of the browser interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Patrick Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220394423
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han
  • Publication number: 20220350710
    Abstract: Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Publication number: 20220342950
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problems inherent in the searching based on an entire block of text. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that may address the problem of complex query construction and efficient and effective implementation for finding objects based on a block of text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Michael James Dent
  • Patent number: 11449564
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problems inherent in the searching based on an entire block of text. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that may address the problem of complex query construction and efficient and effective implementation for finding objects based on a block of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Michael James Dent
  • Publication number: 20220259517
    Abstract: A method for producing a high viscosity, low volatiles blown stripped oil blend is provided. The method may include the steps of: (i) obtaining an oil blend of corn stillage oil and soybean oil having a weight ratio of corn stillage oil to soybean oil of from about 1:2 to 3:1; (ii) heating the oil blend to at least 90° C.; (iii) passing air through the heated oil blend to produce a blown oil having a viscosity of at least 50 cSt at 40° C.; and (iv) stripping the blown oil from step (iii) to reduce an acid value of the blown oil to less than 5.0 mg KOH/gram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael John HORA, Patrick Thomas MURPHY, John Carl TOLFA
  • Patent number: 11416345
    Abstract: Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Patent number: 11401265
    Abstract: The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to certain bicycloheteroaryl-heteroaryl-benzoic acid compounds of the following formula (for convenience, collectively referred to herein as “BHBA compounds”), which, inter alia, are (selective) retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR?) (e.g., RAR?2) agonists. The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, to (selectively) activate RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), to cause or promote neurite development, neurite outgrowth, and/or neurite regeneration, and in the treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), that are ameliorated by the activation of RAR? (e.g., RAR?2), etc., including, e.g., neurological injuries such as spinal cord injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Alan David Borthwick, Mark Trevor Mills, Jane Theresa Brown, Jonathan Patrick Thomas Corcoran, Maria Beatriz De Castro Vasconcelos Goncalves, Sarkis Barret Kalindjian
  • Publication number: 20220204490
    Abstract: The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapy. More specifically, the present invention pertains to certain substituted 4-[5-(benzofuran-2-yl)-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl]benzoic acid compounds (collectively referred to herein as BOBA compounds), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising those compounds, for use in a method of treatment or prevention of neuropathic pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: King's College London
    Inventors: Jonathan Patrick Thomas CORCORAN, Maria Beatriz DE CASTRO VASCONCELOS GONCALVES
  • Patent number: 11339347
    Abstract: A method for producing a high viscosity, low volatiles blown stripped oil blend is provided. The method may include the steps of: (i) obtaining an oil blend of corn stillage oil and soybean oil having a weight ratio of corn stillage oil to soybean oil of from about 1:2 to 3:1; (ii) heating the oil blend to at least 90° C.; (iii) passing air through the heated oil blend to produce a blown oil having a viscosity of at least 50 cSt at 40° C.; and (iv) stripping the blown oil from step (iii) to reduce an acid value of the blown oil to less than 5.0 mg KOH/gram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael John Hora, Patrick Thomas Murphy, John Carl Tolfa
  • Publication number: 20220156255
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of query construction for finding objects that include some number (N) of a set of terms (M). Moreover, embodiments as disclosed herein may efficiently implement the searches specified by such subset operators using a subset process that combines results from a set of term processes where only one term process may be needed for each search term (or search term variant).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, David Alan Tausky
  • Publication number: 20220156292
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for using searchable aggregate indices associated with non-aggregated value storage. In one method, a search system stores metadata values for each of a plurality of objects in a storage unit. The metadata values are stored in corresponding value storage locations that are associated with an identifiable metadata fields. An aggregate index is provided which includes a dictionary of terms that are contained in metadata values associated with a designated set of the metadata fields. The aggregate index is searched for one or more specific search terms, and one or more of the metadata values are retrieved from the value storage locations in response to the search, where the individual metadata fields associated with the retrieved metadata values are identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Publication number: 20220158506
    Abstract: A charging system for a peripheral device, such as a stylus, including orientation control. The charging system includes charging circuitry and magnets. The magnets are configured so that they attract the peripheral device to an engagement surface when it is in a first orientation relative to the engagement surface so that charging circuitry in a peripheral device portion couples with charging circuitry in a charger portion. The magnets are configured so that they also repel and rotate the peripheral device when it is in a second orientation relative to the engagement surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas GAULE, Jazmine Ama HOYLE, Yauhen RADZIKEVICH, Anthony James HEWETT, Scott Jeffrey KORN, Ketan R. SHAH, Katherine Margaret BAILEY, Woo Ram LEE, Wenzhao ZHANG, Nicolas Jean-Claude SCHMITT, Ibrahim Iskender KUSHAN, Jay Michael FASSETT, James Alec ISHIHARA