Patents by Inventor Philip Frank

Philip Frank 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).

  • EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT FOR SOFT-SWITCHED WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTERS
    Publication number: 20170302110
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitter includes an inverter in which a voltage varies in response to a resonant network and circuitry configured to (A) measure a characteristic indicative of a load seen by the wireless power transmitter, (B) determine a duty cycle of the inverter based upon the characteristic, and (C) switch the inverter with the determined duty cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Stanley Riehl, Hasnain Akram, Philip Frank Tustin
  • Head-mounted display device with stress-resistant components
    Patent number: 9766461
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) device has a chassis, a display assembly, and various sensors and electronics, where the display assembly, sensors and electronics are mounted to the chassis and enclosed within a sealed protective visor, and where the display assembly is mounted to the chassis only through a central location that is aligned with a center-point between the user's eyes, thereby decoupling the display assembly from most mechanical and thermal stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Riccomini, Philip Frank, Errol Mark Tazbaz, Andriy Pletenetskyy
  • Detergent composition
    Patent number: 9752103
    Abstract: Detergent compositions are described having more than one enzyme, in particular having a multi-enzyme co-particle as well as methods of making and using such detergents. The compositions also have low levels of zeolite and phosphate builders and a moisture sink to minimize interaction between enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven George Patterson, Philip Frank Souter
  • CLOSED LOOP CURRENT CONTROL IN A WIRELESS POWER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170222469
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing closed loop current control in a wireless power transmitter. The method comprises adjusting a transmitter coil current generated by the wireless power transmitter based, at least in part, on first feedback reported by at least one wireless power receiver and second feedback based on a measurement of the transmitter coil current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Frank Tustin, William Plumb, Patrick Stanley Riehl
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175044
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including inorganic bleach, enzymes and a cleaning agent selected from the group consisting of cleaning surfactants, soil suspending polymers and mixtures thereof and from 0.01% to 5% by weight of the composition of a perfume and wherein the composition has a cleaning index of at least 60 and a care index of at least 4 as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Lynn Michelle CAMPBELL
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175049
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including from greater than 10% to 50% by weight of the composition of an inorganic bleach and a cleaning agent selected from the group consisting of cleaning surfactants, soil suspending polymers and mixtures thereof and wherein the composition is free of bleach catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Euan Campbell STRACHAN
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175046
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a powder composition including an effervescent system and wherein the detergent composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 5% by weight of the composition of a perfume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Nigel Patrick SOMERVILLE-ROBERTS
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING AN AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20170175054
    Abstract: A process for making a neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing unit-dose product including the step of making a powder having a density greater than 1000 Kg/m3 and wherein the product has a volume of from about 5 to about 25 ml.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Nigel Patrick SOMERVILLE-ROBERTS, Elena ALDA RODRIGUEZ
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175045
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a pH regulator system and a cleaning agent selected from the group consisting of cleaning surfactants, soil suspending polymers and mixtures thereof wherein the weight ratio of the pH regulator system to the cleaning agent is from 3:1 to 1:1 system and wherein the detergent composition includes from 0.01% to 5% by weight of the composition of a perfume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175035
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a nitrogen containing compound selected from the group consisting of imidazoles, pyrazoles, benzothiazoles, benzimidazoles, indoles, benzotriazoles, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Colin URE
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING A DETERGENT POWDER
    Publication number: 20170175040
    Abstract: A process for making a powder for use in a neutral or acidic detergent product wherein the powder includes: i) major ingredients present in the powder composition in a level of from about 20 to 35% by weight of the powder; and ii) minor ingredients present in the powder composition in a level of less than 10% by weight of the powder; and the process includes the step of spraying the powder with an organic liquid having a melting point below 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Nigel Patrick SOMERVILLE-ROBERTS, Elena ALDA RODRIGUEZ
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170175055
    Abstract: A neutral or acidic automatic dishwashing detergent composition including a perfume wherein the perfume includes at least one ester-including perfume raw material having the following formula: wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from: i) unbranched linear alkyls or alkenyls; and ii) branched linear alkyls or alkenyls wherein if the branching is in an alpha or beta position the branching is CH3 or a pendant cyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Nigel Patrick SOMERVILLE-ROBERTS, Philip Andrew CUNNINGHAM, Martin James PEACOCK, Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK
  • Cleaning compositions comprising amylase variant reference to a sequence listing
    Patent number: 9670436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising variants of an alpha-amylase and methods of treating surfaces such as textiles with aqueous liquor comprising such compositions, especially at low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michelle Jackson, Philip Frank Souter, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Svend Kaasgaard, Jens Oebro, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Allan Svendsen, Annette Helle Johansen, Michael Skjoet, Carsten Andersen, Lars Beier, Esben Peter Friis, Miguel Duarte Guilherme Pereira Toscano, Mads Bjoernvad, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Liv Spaangner Christiansen
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION WITH SILICATE COATED BLEACH
    Publication number: 20170121645
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing detergent composition containing a coated bleach particle and one or more of an enzyme particle or an amino-acid based builder, wherein the composition has increased stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Michelle JACKSON, Euan John MAGENNIS
  • AUTOMATIC DISHWASHING DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170081614
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising: a. at least 0.1 mg of active protease per gram of composition, wherein the protease is a variant of a protease that has at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1. wherein said variant comprise variations in one or more of the following positions: 32, 33, 48-54, 58-62, 94-107, 116, 123-133, 150, 152-156, 158-161, 164, 169, 175-186, 197, 198, 203-216 as compared with the protease in SEQ ID NO:1; and b. at least 0.05 mg of an active low temperature amylase per gram of composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Philip Frank SOUTER
  • WATER SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLE COMPRISING AN AVERSIVE AGENT
    Publication number: 20170066999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water soluble unit dose articles coated with aversive agent, methods of their manufacture and methods of their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Miguel BRANDT-SANZ, Florence Catherine COURCHAY, David Xavante CUMMING, Regine LABEQUE, Philip Frank SOUTER
  • WATER-SOLUBLE ARTICLES COMPRISING A FILM WITH AN AVERSIVE AGENT
    Publication number: 20170067003
    Abstract: Water-soluble articles that include a water-soluble or water-dispersible film, where the film includes an aversive agent. Processes of making such articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Regine LABEQUE, Miguel BRANDT-SANZ, David Xavante CUMMING, Florence Catherine COURCHAY
  • UNIT DOSE ARTICLES COMPRISING AVERSIVE AGENTS AND METHODS RELATED THERETO
    Publication number: 20170067001
    Abstract: Water-soluble unit dose articles that include aversive agents. Processes of forming such unit dose articles, including where a first water-soluble substrate used to form the article includes the aversive agent, and where a second water-soluble substrate used to form the article does not substantially include the aversive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Regine LABEQUE, David Xavante CUMMING, Florence Catherine COURCHAY
  • FILMS AND UNIT DOSE ARTICLES COMPRISING AVERSIVE AGENTS, AND USES AND METHODS RELATED THERETO
    Publication number: 20170066996
    Abstract: Films having an aversive agent, where the films are characterized by a certain average thickness. Unit dose articles including such films. Methods of making and using such films and unit dose articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Regine LABEQUE, Philip Frank SOUTER, Miguel BRANDT-SANZ, David Xavante CUMMING, Florence Catherine COURCHAY, Aram Armand DEDEYAN
  • WATER SOLUBLE UNIT DOSE ARTICLE COMPRISING AN AVERSIVE AGENT
    Publication number: 20170067000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water-soluble unit dose articles comprising multi-layer films comprising an aversive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Miguel BRANDT-SANZ, Florence Catherine COURCHAY, David Xavante CUMMING, Regine LABEQUE, Philip Frank SOUTER