Patents by Inventor Peter Milne
Peter Milne 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: 20240095983Abstract: Various techniques facilitate the development of an image library that can be used to train and/or validate an automated visual inspection (AVI) model, such an AVI neural network for image classification. In one aspect, an arithmetic transposition algorithm is used to generate synthetic images from original images by transposing features (e.g., defects) onto the original images, with pixel-level realism. In other aspects, digital inpainting techniques are used to generate realistic synthetic images from original images. Deep learning-based inpainting techniques may be used to add, remove, and/or modify defects or other depicted features. In still other aspects, quality control techniques are used to assess the suitability of image libraries for training and/or validation of AVI models, and/or to assess whether individual images are suitable for inclusion in such libraries.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Al Patrick Goodwin, Joseph Peter Bernacki, Graham F. Milne, Thomas Clark Pearson, Aman Mahendra Jain, Jordan Ray Fine, Kenneth E. Hampshire, Aik Jun Tan, Osvaldo Perez Varela, Nishant Mukesh Gadhvi
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Patent number: 11931509Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for providing drive pressure ventilation of a patient. The disclosure describes a novel breath type that provides a spontaneous breath type that allows for the calculation of drive pressure that does not require invasive monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Gardner Kimm, Cynthia Miller, Gary Milne, Gail Upham, Richard Nakai, Peter Doyle, Warren Sanborn
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Publication number: 20140258383Abstract: There is provided a server for serving a cross domain trade mark application interface. The server is adapted to serve, in response to a cross domain request from a browser application, interface markup language data, the interface markup language data defining at least a portion of the trade mark application interface, the trade mark application interface comprising at least one input field for inputting trade mark application data, the trade mark application data representing at least a trade mark representation; and receive, from the browser application via the network interface, the trade mark application data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventor: Nicholas Peter Milne
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Patent number: 8606346Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue by illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the first beam that passed through the volume, generating a first image signal from the portions of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume after the illuminating and detecting, illuminating the volume with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam that passed through the volume during the illuminating with the second beam, generating a second image signal from the portions of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second image signals. The difference image signal provides information of changes in X-ray attenuation by localized regions of tissue within the volume due to the application of heat.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: University of MiamiInventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David S. Robinson, Peter Milne, David B. Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Publication number: 20120101375Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the first beam that passed through the volume, generating a first image signal from the portions of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume after the illuminating and detecting, illuminating the volume with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam that passed through the volume during the illuminating with the second beam, generating a second image signal from the portions of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second image signals. The difference image signal provides information of changes in X-ray attenuation by localized regions of tissue within the volume due to the application of heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: University of MiamiInventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David S. Robinson, Peter Milne, David B. Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Patent number: 8099147Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting the portions of the first beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue, generating a first X-ray image signal from the portions of X10 rays of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume of tissue after the illuminating and after the detecting, illuminating the volume of tissue with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue during the illuminating with the second beam of X-rays, generating a second X-ray image signal from the portions of X-rays of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second X-ray image signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: University of MiamiInventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David S. Robinson, Peter Milne, David B. Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Publication number: 20090052610Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting the portions of the first beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue, generating a first X-ray image signal from the portions of X10 rays of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume of tissue after the illuminating and after the detecting, illuminating the volume of tissue with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue during the illuminating with the second beam of X-rays, generating a second X-ray image signal from the portions of X-rays of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second X-ray image signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: University of Miami Office of Technology TransferInventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David S. Robinson, Peter Milne, David B. Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Publication number: 20050096537Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting the portions of the first beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue, generating a first X-ray image signal from the portions of X10 rays of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume of tissue after the illuminating and after the detecting, illuminating the volume of tissue with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam of X-rays that passed through the volume of tissue during the illuminating with the second beam of X-rays, generating a second X-ray image signal from the portions of X-rays of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second X-ray image signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2003Publication date: May 5, 2005Inventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David Robinson, Peter Milne, David Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Patent number: 6684097Abstract: A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the first beam of X-rays, generating a first X-ray image signal from the detected X-rays of the first beam, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume of tissue after the illuminating and after the detecting, illuminating the volume of tissue with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam of X-rays, generating a second X-ray image signal from the portions of X-rays of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second X-ray image signals. The difference image signal provides information of changes in X-ray attenuation by localized regions of tissue within the volume of tissue due to the application of heat.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: University of MiamiInventors: Jean-Marie Parel, Fabrice Manns, David S. Robinson, Peter Milne, David B. Denham, Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
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Patent number: 6455776Abstract: A wire management grommet has a plate which is removably supported by support means in an aperture of a work top so that it can be at least partially rotated about an axis defined by the support means out of a plane of the work top and removed and replaced in an inverted operative position in which bevelled side walls of the aperture and plate respectively define substantially parallel side walls of wire receiving channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Peter Milne Furniture Makers Ltd.Inventor: Peter Milne
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Patent number: 5840965Abstract: Purified terephthalic acid is prepared by a process of subjecting an aqueous solution of crude terephthalic acid to hydrogenation to reduce impurities, crystallizing this solution to produce a slurry of purified terephthalic acid in an aqueous liquor, and carrying out an integrated separation washing process.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: John Arthur Turner, Eric Hindmarsh, David Parker, Ian Peter Milne
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Patent number: 5741927Abstract: A process for the purification of terephthalic acid is disclosed. A slurry containing crystals in an impurity-containing mother liquor under elevated pressure and temperature conditions is processed to separate the crystals from the mother liquor. The processing comprises highly efficient separation and washing of the crystals under the elevated temperature and pressure conditions in a unit (32) to produce a mass of crystals having a low level of contamination. The washed crystals are reslurried in aqueous medium (vessel 40) and transferred to a secondary separation unit (34) operating under lower pressure and temperature conditions, the transfer being effected by flashing down (in vessel 44) to the lower pressure. The filtrate (41) from unit (34), and optionally wash liquor used in unit (34), is used to establish a recirculating flow whereby the aqueous medium used for reslurrying the crystals prior to pressure let-down is repeatedly re-used.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: David Parker, John Arthur Turner, Ian Peter Milne
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Patent number: 5698734Abstract: Purified terephthalic acid is prepared by a process of subjecting an aqueous solution of crude terephthalic acid to hydrogenation to reduce impurities, crystallizing this solution to produce a slurry of purified terephthalic acid in an aqueous liquor, and carrying out an integrated separation washing process using a centrifuge having washing facilities.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1996Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: John Arthur Turner, Eric Hindmarsh, David Parker, Ian Peter Milne
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Patent number: D251836Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1976Date of Patent: May 15, 1979Assignee: Richmond Marine LimitedInventor: Peter A. Milne