Patents by Inventor Russell Beard
Russell Beard 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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Patent number: 12242882Abstract: An example virtualized computing system includes: a host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs); an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server executing in a first VM of the VMs; guest cluster infrastructure software (GCIS) executing in the master server, the GCIS configured to create a set of objects defining a container orchestration cluster, and manage lifecycles of second VMs of the VMs based on state of the set of objects; and guest software executing in the second VMs to implement the container orchestration cluster as a guest cluster of the host cluster, the guest software having components that interface with the GCIS.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: VMware LLCInventors: Zachary James Shepherd, Derek William Beard, George Gregory Hicken, Mark Russell Johnson, Jared Sean Rosoff, Joseph Stephen Beda, Konstantinos Roussos
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Publication number: 20240349856Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that includes a body and a seal, one or both of which is made up of a double layer foil component. The double layer foil component can be a seal component made of a sheet of material folded upon itself and defining a seal, a flap, and a fold. The seal and the flap intersect at the fold and the flap can be pulled away from the seal to form a pull tab useful to peel back the seal and open the bowl. The body can also, or instead, be made of a double layer foil component that forms at least the bowl such that the bottom of the bowl is double-walled. The double-walled bowl exhibits improved strength and can be provided with strengthening features such as ribs, ridges, channels, or grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Patent number: 12053069Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that includes a body and a seal, one or both of which is made up of a double layer foil component. The double layer foil component can be a seal component made of a sheet of material folded upon itself and defining a seal, a flap, and a fold. The seal and the flap intersect at the fold and the flap can be pulled away from the seal to form a pull tab useful to peel back the seal and open the bowl. The body can also, or instead, be made of a double layer foil component that forms at least the bowl such that the bottom of the bowl is double-walled. The double-walled bowl exhibits improved strength and can be provided with strengthening features such as ribs, ridges, channels, or grooves.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11980265Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. A deformable slider supporting a lens is movable via pull-tab or hinge to lift the contact lens out of a lens well. The deformable slider can include a hinge connected to a flexible peel-away top of the blister package or connected to a pull tab that can be pulled to pull taut the deformable slider. A blister package is also provided that includes a hinged shell having a lateral opening opposite the hinge, and a deformable slider that is folded over onto itself and seals both a top chamber and a bottom chamber. By pulling a tongue of the deformable slider, which extends from the lateral opening, the deformable slider can be removed from the closed shell and the closed shell can be opened enabling access to the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Hayley Maynard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11871822Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. A deformable slider supporting a lens is movable via pull-tab or hinge to lift the contact lens out of a lens well. The deformable slider can include a hinge connected to a flexible peel-away top of the blister package or connected to a pull tab that can be pulled to pull taut the deformable slider. A blister package is also provided that includes a hinged shell having a lateral opening opposite the hinge, and a deformable slider that is folded over onto itself and seals both a top chamber and a bottom chamber. By pulling a tongue of the deformable slider, which extends from the lateral opening, the deformable slider can be removed from the closed shell and the closed shell can be opened enabling access to the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Hayley Maynard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11724870Abstract: Contact lens dispensers are provided including a pens dispenser having an interior and a dispensing end. A delivery screw is provided in the interior of the tubular housing. The delivery screw has a thread pitch and a plurality of contact lenses, one contact lens per pitch. Upon actuation of an actuator, each contact lens moves along the thread by a distance of one pitch and a single contact lens is dispensed from the dispensing end of the tubular housing. A case and disposable foil contact lens cartridge are also provided as a re a case and disposable contact lens foil spool, wherein actuation of push-buttons dispense contact lenses ready for immediate application onto an eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11684131Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that can be stacked with other blister packages of the same design. One example of the blister package has a body that includes a dome and a handle. A seal is attached to the top surface of the body and has a seal dome that seals a volume between the outer sidewall of the body dome and the inner sidewall of the seal dome. The handle has a through-hole and the through-hole that accommodates the outer sidewall of the seal dome. Another blister package provided has a handle and a bowl and the handle has a through-hole that accommodates the bowl outer surface. Stacks of blister packages are also provided as is secondary packaging for packaging stacks of tessellating blister packages.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Stephen English, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11419397Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided and has a body and a seal. The body includes a handle and a deformable bowl. The seal seals the deformable bowl at a bowl top opening. The handle includes a lateral portion and an end portion. The end portion curves downwardly to a distal end that terminates at a plane. The bowl is recessed from a top surface of the body and the outer bottom surface of the bowl is arranged substantially on the same plane as the distal end of the handle. The design provides leverage in holding the blister package while a user deforms and inverts the bowl into a dome, presenting a contact lens on top of the dome in position for direct transfer to a person's finger or for application directly on an eye without the need for any finger contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Publication number: 20220142316Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. A deformable slider supporting a lens is movable via pull-tab or hinge to lift the contact lens out of a lens well. The deformable slider can include a hinge connected to a flexible peel-away top of the blister package or connected to a pull tab that can be pulled to pull taut the deformable slider. A blister package is also provided that includes a hinged shell having a lateral opening opposite the hinge, and a deformable slider that is folded over onto itself and seals both a top chamber and a bottom chamber. By pulling a tongue of the deformable slider, which extends from the lateral opening, the deformable slider can be removed from the closed shell and the closed shell can be opened enabling access to the contact lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Hayley MAYNARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Publication number: 20220144532Abstract: Contact lens dispensers are provided including a pens dispenser having an interior and a dispensing end. A delivery screw is provided in the interior of the tubular housing. The delivery screw has a thread pitch and a plurality of contact lenses, one contact lens per pitch. Upon actuation of an actuator, each contact lens moves along the thread by a distance of one pitch and a single contact lens is dispensed from the dispensing end of the tubular housing. A case and disposable foil contact lens cartridge are also provided as a re a case and disposable contact lens foil spool, wherein actuation of push-buttons dispense contact lenses ready for immediate application onto an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Publication number: 20220133007Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. A deformable slider supporting a lens is movable via pull-tab or hinge to lift the contact lens out of a lens well. The deformable slider can include a hinge connected to a flexible peel-away top of the blister package or connected to a pull tab that can be pulled to pull taut the deformable slider. A blister package is also provided that includes a hinged shell having a lateral opening opposite the hinge, and a deformable slider that is folded over onto itself and seals both a top chamber and a bottom chamber. By pulling a tongue of the deformable slider, which extends from the lateral opening, the deformable slider can be removed from the closed shell and the closed shell can be opened enabling access to the contact lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Hayley MAYNARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Publication number: 20220095757Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that can be stacked with other blister packages of the same design. One example of the blister package has a body that includes a dome and a handle. A seal is attached to the top surface of the body and has a seal dome that seals a volume between the outer sidewall of the body dome and the inner sidewall of the seal dome. The handle has a through-hole and the through-hole that accommodates the outer sidewall of the seal dome. Another blister package provided has a handle and a bowl and the handle has a through-hole that accommodates the bowl outer surface. Stacks of blister packages are also provided as is secondary packaging for packaging stacks of tessellating blister packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Stephen ENGLISH, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Patent number: 11267643Abstract: Contact lens dispensers are provided including a pens dispenser having an interior and a dispensing end. A delivery screw is provided in the interior of the tubular housing. The delivery screw has a thread pitch and a plurality of contact lenses, one contact lens per pitch. Upon actuation of an actuator, each contact lens moves along the thread by a distance of one pitch and a single contact lens is dispensed from the dispensing end of the tubular housing. A case and disposable foil contact lens cartridge are also provided as a re a case and disposable contact lens foil spool, wherein actuation of push-buttons dispense contact lenses ready for immediate application onto an eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11253035Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. A deformable slider supporting a lens is movable via pull-tab or hinge to lift the contact lens out of a lens well. The deformable slider can include a hinge connected to a flexible peel-away top of the blister package or connected to a pull tab that can be pulled to pull taut the deformable slider. A blister package is also provided that includes a hinged shell having a lateral opening opposite the hinge, and a deformable slider that is folded over onto itself and seals both a top chamber and a bottom chamber. By pulling a tongue of the deformable slider, which extends from the lateral opening, the deformable slider can be removed from the closed shell and the closed shell can be opened enabling access to the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL HOLDING COMPANY, LPInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Hayley Maynard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11229266Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that can be stacked with other blister packages of the same design. One example of the blister package has a body that includes a dome and a handle. A seal is attached to the top surface of the body and has a seal dome that seals a volume between the outer sidewall of the body dome and the inner sidewall of the seal dome. The handle has a through-hole and the through-hole that accommodates the outer sidewall of the seal dome. Another blister package provided has a handle and a bowl and the handle has a through-hole that accommodates the bowl outer surface. Stacks of blister packages are also provided as is secondary packaging for packaging stacks of tessellating blister packages.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: COOPERVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Stephen English, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Patent number: 11136176Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided. The blister package includes a body defining a handle and a well, a flexible top contacting the body and closing the well, and a lens cradle that includes a lens support bowl. The lens cradle is attached to the inner surface of the flexible top. By peeling away the flexible top, the lens cradle is lifted away from the bottom surface of the well and the lens is raised out of the well, cradled by the lens support bowl, and presented for easy fingertip manipulation by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: CooperVision International LimitedInventors: Sarah Almond, Carlos Ortiz, Gary Hunt, Mike Nelson, Russell Beard, Thomas Harkin, Pauline Gavelle
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Publication number: 20200229561Abstract: A blister package for a contact lens is provided that includes a body and a seal, one or both of which is made up of a double layer foil component. The double layer foil component can be a seal component made of a sheet of material folded upon itself and defining a seal, a flap, and a fold. The seal and the flap intersect at the fold and the flap can be pulled away from the seal to form a pull tab useful to peel back the seal and open the bowl. The body can also, or instead, be made of a double layer foil component that forms at least the bowl such that the bottom of the bowl is double-walled. The double-walled bowl exhibits improved strength and can be provided with strengthening features such as ribs, ridges, channels, or grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Publication number: 20200231367Abstract: Contact lens dispensers are provided including a pens dispenser having an interior and a dispensing end. A delivery screw is provided in the interior of the tubular housing. The delivery screw has a thread pitch and a plurality of contact lenses, one contact lens per pitch. Upon actuation of an actuator, each contact lens moves along the thread by a distance of one pitch and a single contact lens is dispensed from the dispensing end of the tubular housing. A case and disposable foil contact lens cartridge are also provided as a re a case and disposable contact lens foil spool, wherein actuation of push-buttons dispense contact lenses ready for immediate application onto an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Sarah ALMOND, Carlos ORTIZ, Gary HUNT, Mike NELSON, Russell BEARD, Thomas HARKIN, Pauline GAVELLE
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Patent number: D945581Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas) Hygiene Home LimitedInventors: Lucy Baldwin, Russell Beard, Niall McRiner, John Mouatt
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Patent number: D945582Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas) Hygiene Home LimitedInventors: Lucy Baldwin, Russell Beard, Niall McRiner, John Mouatt