Patents by Inventor Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke 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: 20140245612
    Abstract: A razor having a removable carrier for attaching one or more glide members which fits between the razor handle and cartridge head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Ian Good, Sean Peter Clarke, Anthony William Shorey
  • Patent number: 8825594
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are directed at maintaining and retrieving presence metadata. One example method includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document file, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The method also includes writing the transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache, wherein the presence of another transition ID in the cache indicates that a document has switched from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. An example system includes a processing unit operative to receive a document, the document including short-term check out metadata indicating an editing session has begun, ping a cache to determine if another transition ID is stored in the cache, and send a transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache to switch from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Skaria, Naresh Kannan, Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Christopher J. Antos, Mark Rolland Knight, Andrew G. Carlson, Don Adam Hedgpeth, Mitesh Pankaj Patel, Andrew Sean Watson, Jonathan B. Bailor, Elena Petrova
  • Publication number: 20140231653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flow cell that can be used to improve the linear detection range of a radio-detector. The flow cell of the present invention is simple and cost-effective to set up and provides technical advantages over methods known in the prior art, as set out in more detail hereunder. The present invention also provides a method to determine the RCP of a radioactive composition making use of said flow cell, and a HPLC system comprising said flow cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Alan Peter Clarke, Thanushan Rajanayagam, Roger Paul Pettitt, Robert F. Chisholm
  • Patent number: 8782903
    Abstract: A shaving razor blade unit including a housing having a primary guard at a front of the housing and a primary cap at an upper surface at a back of the housing. One or more primary shaving blades are positioned between the primary guard and the primary cap. A trimming blade is mounted at the back of the housing and has a cutting edge. A trimming comb guard is located at the back of the housing. The trimming comb guard has a plurality of projections along a length of the trimming comb guard defining a plurality of open slots extending generally perpendicular to the cutting edge. The open slots have a minimum width of about 0.20 mm to about 0.49 mm for allowing the free passage of hair during shaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Sean Peter Clarke, Paul Leslie Warrick, Trevor John Whelan
  • Patent number: 8745877
    Abstract: The invention features a razor for dispensing a fluid during shaving. The razor includes a handle, a razor cartridge, and a fluid dispensing member joined to the cartridge. The handle includes a cavity for housing a fluid and a manually-actuated pump to displace the fluid from the cavity through a supply channel to an opening at the proximal end of the handle. The razor cartridge includes a cartridge connecting structure attached to the housing, at least one blade positioned in the housing, and an aperture that extends from the rear surface to the front surface of the housing. The fluid dispensing member has a dispensing channel with an opening at a supply end and an opening at a dispensing end. The supply end is configured to engage the opening in the supply channel. The dispensing end projects outwardly and extends to or adjacent to the aperture in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Andrew Anthony Szczepanowski, James Leo Salemme, Graham John Simms, Christopher James Wattam, Sean Peter Clarke
  • Patent number: 8744999
    Abstract: As changes are made to a document, each change may be assigned an extended identifier comprising a globally unique identifier (GUID) component and an integer component. Upon determining that the same GUID component is used in identifiers for multiple changes, the GUID component may be mapped to a range of indices. Each index of the range of indices may then be used to represent the same GUID component in each extended identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Peter Clarke, David Charles Oliver, Brent James Van Minnen, Miko Arnab S Bose
  • Patent number: 8726519
    Abstract: A wet shaving cartridge is provided having a housing having a guard located at a front end of the housing and a cap located at a rear end of the housing. The cartridge further has two or more elongate blades located between the guard and cap and extending in a direction substantially parallel to a length of the guard, wherein edges of the respective blades lie in a shaving plane extending between the guard and the cap. A shaving aid retention member is located in the cap. The retention member has a base arranged to receive a shaving aid and a front wall located at a side of the retention member adjacent the blades. The front wall extends from the base of the retention member towards the shaving plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Sean Peter Clarke, Mathias Gester, Michael Joseph Kwiecien
  • Patent number: 8663389
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for depositing III-V material is provided. The apparatus includes a reactor partially enclosed by a selectively permeable membrane 12. A means is provided for generating source vapors, such as a vapor-phase halide of a group III element (IUPAC group 13) within the reactor volume 10, and an additional means is also provided for introducing a vapor-phase hydride of a group V element (IUPAC group 15) into the volume 10. The reaction of the group III halide and the group V hydride on a temperature-controlled substrate 18 within the reactor volume 10 produces crystalline III-V material and hydrogen gas. The hydrogen is preferentially removed from the reactor through the selectively permeable membrane 12, thus avoiding pressure buildup and reaction imbalance. Other gases within the reactor are unable to pass through the selectively permeable membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew Peter Clarke
  • Publication number: 20140059515
    Abstract: A system for automating at least a portion of a communication application development cycle using a communication virtual machine that automatically interfaces with an existing network system and provides an engine for executing designed application models over the existing network system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    Inventors: Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Steve Luis, Peter Clarke, Chi Zhang, Evangelos Christidis, Raju Rangaswami
  • Publication number: 20140030386
    Abstract: The apparatus (100) includes a die head (118) for extruding a main comestible material to form an extrudate body. A plurality of nozzles (160, FIG. 7) is located within the die head for introducing a comestible fluid into the extrudate body to form a plurality of filled capillaries. A control system (182) is capable of selectively connecting at least one of the nozzles to any one of at least two different fluid filling sources (150A, 15 OB). The control system may be capable of connecting each of the nozzles independently to different fluid sources or the nozzles may be arranged into two or more groups of flu idly interconnected nozzles that can each be independently switched between different fluid sources. The apparatus can be used to form products in which the fillings in the capillaries are varied or in which an image is formed in cross section. The apparatus can also be used to switch production between products having different fillings without stopping extrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: CADBURY UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Sarah Marshall, Clive R T Norton
  • Patent number: 8578325
    Abstract: A system for automating at least a portion of a communication application development cycle using a communication virtual machine that automatically interfaces with an existing network system and provides an engine for executing designed application models over the existing network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: The Florida International University Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Steve Luis, Peter Clarke, Chi Zhang, Evangelos Christidis, Raju Rangaswami
  • Patent number: 8572030
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for synchronizing file partitions utilizing a server storage model in a client-server computer network. Edits to content of an electronic document may be received at a client computer. The content may be included in a first partition of a file stored on a server computer. The first partition may include a first stream which includes the electronic document content. The file may include multiple partitions with each partition including one or more streams. The client computer may generate metadata in a second partition of the file. The metadata may be associated with the edits to the electronic document content in the first partition. The second partition may then be individually synchronized with the server computer to store the metadata. The first partition may then be individually synchronized with the server computer to store the edits made to the electronic document content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Peter Clarke, Miko Arnab S. Bose, Xuelei Sun
  • Publication number: 20130280372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a confectionery product including an extruded body portion; and a plurality of capillaries the extruded body portion, in which the body portion includes a mixture of confectionery compositions, particularly, a hard candy composition and a chewing gum composition. The invention also relates to a process of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Sarah Marshall, Clive Richard Thomas Norton, Hideki Sakanishi, Devang Sutaria, Matthew Beam, Petros Gebreselassie
  • Publication number: 20130198155
    Abstract: As changes are made to a document, each change may be assigned an extended identifier comprising a globally unique identifier (GUID) component and an integer component. Upon determining that the same GUID component is used in identifiers for multiple changes, the GUID component may be mapped to a range of indices. Each index of the range of indices may then be used to represent the same GUID component in each extended identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simon Peter Clarke, David Oliver, Brent James Van Minnen, Miko Arnab S. Bose
  • Publication number: 20130171299
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a confectionery composition comprising an at least partially convoluted or rolled sheet of a confectionery material having at least one capillary disposed therein, wherein the composition has a longitudinal axis which extends along the convolutions or axis of rolling and the at least one capillary runs parallel, perpendicular or at an inclined angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the product. The present invention also relates to a method of production of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Sarah Marshall, Clive Richard Thomas Norton
  • Publication number: 20130171295
    Abstract: A confectionery product comprises an extruded body portion having a plurality of conduits disposed therein. The extruded body portion is substantially transparent, the conduits contain a visually contrasting material, and different conduits comprise different colored substances and/or comprise substances which may vary in colour along the length of the conduits. The visually contrasting material in the conduits can comprise a reflective material and/or a luminescent material and/or a material which is able to change colour upon variations in pH and/or temperature. Methods of producing the confectionery product are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Sarah Marshall, Peter Clarke, Devang Sutaria, Miles Van Niekerk
  • Publication number: 20130115338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a consumable product comprising an extruded body portion, the body portion being formed with a plurality of capillaries disposed therein, wherein the capillaries have a non-uniform cross section along their length. The present invention also provides a method of producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Clive Richard Thomas Norton, Sarah Marshall, Simon Bradbury
  • Publication number: 20130108740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a consumable biscuit product comprising an extruded biscuit portion, the body portion being formed with one or more channels disposed therein, wherein the one or more channels contain a substance which is different from the substance of the body portion and wherein at least one of the channels does not extend along the full length of the body portion. The present invention also provides a method of production of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Sarah Marshall, Clive Richard Thomas Norton
  • Patent number: 8429826
    Abstract: A shaving cartridge has a housing with at least one blade having a blade edge. A first guard is in front of the blade. The first guard has a plurality of projections defining a plurality of open slots extending generally transverse to the blade edge. Each slot has a leading end portion for receiving hairs and a trailing end portion for feeding the hairs to the blade. The projections are stepped with a height of the projections that define the leading end portion of the slots that is less than a height of the projections that define the trailing end portion of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Sean Peter Clarke
  • Publication number: 20130101649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a confectionery product comprising an extruded body portion, the body portion having a plurality of capillaries disposed therein, one or more of the capillaries being at least partially filled with a fill material which is a different material from that of the extruded body portion, the fill material and optionally the body portion comprising various active and/or reactive components. Some embodiments are designed to provide sequential release profiles. The invention also relates to a process for the manufacture of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Clarke, Sarah Marshall