Patents by Inventor Peter Andrew

Peter 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: 9447442
    Abstract: A method for the production of at least one fatty acid and/or oil from a plant cell suspension culture includes (i) maintaining a cell suspension culture of oil-producing plant cells under conditions such that the cultured cells synthesize and secrete at least one fatty acid and/or oil into the cell suspension culture medium; and (ii) extracting the thus secreted at least one fatty acid and/or oil from the cell suspension culture medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NATURALLY SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Whitton, Geoffrey Robert Dixon, William Timothy Merrell
  • Patent number: 9435858
    Abstract: Focusing optical systems and methods for testing semiconductors are disclosed herein. The methods include receiving an image of a probe through a single optical path of a microscope, substantially focusing the microscope on the probe, and determining a vertical height adjustment between the probe and a device under test based upon the focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CASCADE MICROTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Andrews, David Hess
  • Patent number: 9413155
    Abstract: A system for autonomous protection from fires and electrical shock of components used in construction of photovoltaic arrays is disclosed. The system detects conditions that left unattended will result in conflagration of combustible materials and unwanted electrification. The disclosed system provides an active control mechanism that operates to take defective components off line and thus provide protection from fire and electrification hazards that otherwise could arise. The system also provides means for annunciation and notification when actions are taken. The system can be used, for example, to determine that a photovoltaic (PV) module is at risk of conflagration of its flammable structural elements due to intense heat of plasma produced by a direct current (DC) arc at a point in the grid of conductors that collect and carry current from photovoltaic cells exposed to solar irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventors: Kenneth Gerald Blemel, Francis Edward Peter, Kenneth Dominick Blemel, Peter Andrew Blemel
  • Publication number: 20160203093
    Abstract: An interconnect, and method of operation of an interconnect, are provided for connecting a plurality of master devices and a plurality of slave devices. Hazard management circuitry is used to serialise transactions to overlapping addresses. In addition, gating circuitry ensures ordered write observation (OWO) behaviour at an interface to one or more of the master devices, the gating circuitry receiving write address transfers of write transactions and performing a gating operation to gate onward propagation of the write address transfers to the slave devices in order to ensure the OWO behaviour. The gating circuitry performs the gating operation under control of the hazard management circuitry. Hence, for write transactions that are subjected to hazard checking by the hazard management circuitry, this removes the need to implement any other processes to specifically manage OWO behaviour for those write transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew David TUNE, Peter Andrew RIOCREUX, Sean James SALISBURY, Daniel Adam SARA, George Robert Scott LLOYD
  • Publication number: 20160194358
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibacterial compounds, wherein the compounds in some embodiments have broad spectrum bioactivity. The compounds provided herein can in other embodiments overcome the resistance conferred by single amino acid mutations at defined positions of bacterial Signal Peptidases (SPases) and in other embodiments provide for a broad spectrum of antibiotic bioactivity. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Andrew SMITH, Tucker Curran ROBERTS, Robert I. HIGUCHI, Prasuna PARASELLI, Michael F.T. KOEHLER, James John CRAWFORD
  • Publication number: 20160166588
    Abstract: Synthetic ether alkyl-lysophospholipids (APLs) provide an effective treatment for subjects suffering from cholinergic seizures. Among other uses, APLs may be used to treat the effects of epileptic seizures in particular cholinergic seizures caused by exposure to insecticides or chemical warfare nerve agent exposure. Edelfosine, an APL, has been show to be particularly effective in these areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Peter Andrew Ferchmin
  • Patent number: 9369365
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs are presented for creating a unified data stream from multiple data streams acquired from multiple devices. One method includes an operation for receiving activity data streams from the devices, each activity data stream being associated with physical activity data of a user. Further, the method includes an operation for assembling the unified activity data stream for a period of time. The unified activity data stream includes data segments from the data streams of at least two devices, and the data segments are organized time-wise over the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Molettiere, Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Jung Ook Hong, Andrew Cole Axley, James Park
  • Patent number: 9361564
    Abstract: Methods and devices are described, including a near-field communications (NFC) or radio frequency identification (RFID) device comprising an NFC or RFID circuit, an antenna having at least a first terminal, a first rectifier connected to the first terminal of the antenna, a switch between the first rectifier and the NFC or RFID circuit, a voltage detector for detecting a voltage in the device caused by a signal received at the antenna, and a control module for controlling the switch, wherein when the voltage exceeds a threshold magnitude, the control module controls the switch to be in an open state and, after a predetermined time period, determines whether the voltage still exceeds the threshold magnitude and, if the voltage still exceeds the predetermined magnitude, controls the switch to be in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony Lawrence McFarthing, Rainer Herberholz, Peter Andrew Rees Williams
  • Publication number: 20160150033
    Abstract: Applications in a broadcast environment distribute events in real-time to a large number of receivers within specified geographic locations while efficiently sharing bandwidth resources with other applications using the same broadcast network. Applications need not be aware of the other applications sharing the resources, nor of the methods, protocols, and other mechanisms used to actually broadcast the data over the broadcast medium. Server-side applications that serve data, send notifications, or distribute events to specific locations within the network use a broadcast location manager. Client applications that receive such data, notifications, or events use a client location filter to obtain events that are relevant based on the location of the device. The broadcast location manager and client location filter work together to reliably and efficiently transmit data, notifications, and events to specific locations over the broadcast network for all applications involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Amit Khivesara, Xiaofeng Liu, Peter Andrew Mataga, Igor Slepchin, Cary Torkelson, Vinod Valloppillil, Edgar Villanueva
  • Patent number: 9331673
    Abstract: An integrated circuit having an external connection pad and an active circuit for generating signals to be output from the integrated circuit by means of the pad, the integrated circuit including an interface circuit associated with the pad, the interface circuit including a latch coupled between the pad and an output of the active circuit, the latch being capable of operating in a first mode in which the state of the pad follows the state of the output of the active circuit and a second mode in which the state of the pad is held by the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Rees Williams, Barnaby Golder
  • Patent number: 9324995
    Abstract: An apparatus including a substrate and an active material, the substrate including an open interconnected wall structure of electrically conductive material having one or more pores, the open interconnected wall structure providing the substrate upon which the active material is supported, wherein the active material includes an electrically insulating lithium-based compound configured for use in generating and/or storing electrons, and wherein the open interconnected wall structure is configured to act as a charge collector for the generated and/or stored electrons through which an electrical path for the electrons is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Teuvo Tapani Ryhanen, Di Wei, Peter Andrew Matthews, Piers Andrew
  • Publication number: 20160103776
    Abstract: Interconnect circuitry 10 for connecting transaction masters 4, 6, 8 to transaction slaves 12, 14 includes response modification circuitry 18. The response modification circuitry includes shortlist buffer circuitry 28 storing identification for modification target transaction responses. The response modification circuitry 18 uses this identification data to identify among a stream of transaction responses in transit a modification target transaction response. The response modification circuitry 18 then serves to form a modified transaction response to be sent in place of the modification target transaction response to the transaction master 4, 6, 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew David TUNE, Arthur Brian LAUGHTON, Daniel Adam SARA, Sean James SALISBURY, Peter Andrew RIOCREUX
  • Patent number: 9309285
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibacterial compounds, wherein the compounds in some embodiments have broad spectrum bioactivity. In various embodiments, the compounds act by inhibition of bacterial type 1 signal peptidase (SpsB), an essential protein in bacteria. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: RQX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Tucker Curran Roberts, Peter Andrew Smith, Robert I. Higuchi, David Campbell, Prasuna Paraselli
  • Publication number: 20160082195
    Abstract: A medication injector apparatus such as an injection pen. The injection pen includes a resettable, cartridge plunger drive assembly including an axially floating nut, a cartridge plunger engaging screw, and a drive clutch movable with the nut and which when rotated causes the screw to screw through the nut. When a cartridge assembly is mounted to the pen base, the floating nut and drive clutch are shifted proximally such that the drive clutch is in torque transmitting engagement with a rotatable drive member of the pen, such that rotation of that drive member results in drive screw advancement through the nut in the distal direction. When the cartridge assembly is not mounted to the pen base, the floating nut and drive clutch are biased distally to disengage the drive clutch from torque transmitting engagement with the rotatable drive member and to thereby allow the drive screw to be reset proximally through the nut to a position more retracted within the pen base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: William Godwin Atterbury, Mark Gerard Diller, Peter Andrew Gaydos, Shannon Marie-Lynn Hoste, Donna Marie Taylor, Bobby Lee Walters, Steven Michael Madland, Douglas Edward Boyd
  • Patent number: 9287475
    Abstract: A solid state lighting component comprising a layer having high reflectivity and/or scattering properties, the layer positioned about a solid state lighting component, and manufacturing methods of making same is disclosed. A method of increasing the luminous flux of the solid state lighting component, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Andrews, Joseph Clark, Harsh Sundani
  • Publication number: 20160073543
    Abstract: A system and method for zoneable power regulation are provided herein. A system for zoneable power regulation may include a power supply, a blade system, and a controller. One or more blade servers consumes power from the power supply. The controller groups each of the one or more blade servers into one or more zones, and power is consumed by each zone according to a power capping strategy, the power capping strategy including power regulation using a device and by asserting a duty cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Andrew VanNess, Scott T Christensen, Peter Hansen, Victoria Jeanine Doehring
  • Publication number: 20160072690
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer programs are presented for creating a unified data stream from multiple data streams acquired from multiple devices. One method includes an operation for receiving activity data streams from the devices, each activity data stream being associated with physical activity data of a user. Further, the method includes an operation for assembling the unified activity data stream for a period of time. The unified activity data stream includes data segments from the data streams of at least two devices, and the data segments are organized time-wise over the period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Molettiere, Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Jung Ook Hong, Andrew Cole Axley, James Park
  • Patent number: 9278078
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting excitotoxicity by indirectly activating ?4?2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) which indirectly activate synaptic AMPA and NMDA receptors is disclosed. Inhibitors of ?7 nACHRs, such as macrocyclic diterpenoids, more specifically cembranoids or methyllycaconitine (MLA), indirectly activate ?4?2 nAChRs and can be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson Disease, AIDS related dementia and the delayed effects of stroke. They can also be used to treat diseases associated with neuronal impairment, including, but not limited to glaucoma caused by optical nerve damage, delayed effects of epilepsy; and multiple sclerosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Ferchmin, Vesna Ana Eterovic De Ferchmin, Hector Manuel Maldonado, Khalid El Sayed
  • Publication number: 20160063436
    Abstract: A first delivery job is received and placed into a queue to be auctioned to couriers after a first period of time that is determined based on first delivery constraints of the first job. A second delivery job is received before the first period of time expires. The second job is placed into the queue to be auctioned after a second period of time that is determined based on second delivery constraints of the second job if it is determined that the first and second jobs cannot be performed by a single courier within the delivery constraints of both jobs. The jobs are auctioned to couriers as a single item after a third period of time that is determined based on the delivery constraints of both jobs if the first and second jobs may be performed by a single courier within the delivery constraints of both jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Coles, Kane Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20160062890
    Abstract: An interconnect has coherency control circuitry for performing coherency control operations and a snoop filter for identifying which devices coupled to the interconnect have cached data from a given address. When an address is looked up in the snoop filter and misses, and there is no spare snoop filter entry available, then the snoop filter selects a victim entry corresponding to a victim address, and issues an invalidate transaction for invalidating locally cached copies of the data identified by the victim. The coherency control circuitry for performing coherency checking operations for data access transactions is reused for performing coherency control operations for the invalidate transaction issued by the snoop filter. This greatly reduces the circuitry complexity of the snoop filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Sean James SALISBURY, Andrew David TUNE, Jamshed JALAL, Mark David WERKHEISER, Arthur LAUGHTON, George Robert Scott LLOYD, Peter Andrew RIOCREUX, Daniel SARA