Patents by Inventor Simon A. Thomas
Simon A. Thomas 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: 20240142154Abstract: A portable cooler container is provided. The temperature control system cools a chamber of the container to transport temperature sensitive contents via the container. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body selectively displays an electronic shipping label for the portable cooler container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Rahul Mulinti, Jacob William Emmert, Paul Thomas Gurney, Simon David James
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Publication number: 20240141657Abstract: A duct assembly, to house and route utilities for example in floors, walls and overhead spaces, including a plurality of tracks connected together with a plurality of joint bars, where each track includes a bottom side, opposed side walls separated by a central wall and an open top. The assembly includes a shelf support partway along the wall between the bottom side and the open top to support a plurality of middle covers defining a lower chase. The assembly further including a plurality of top covers removably connected to a top of the tracks to define an upper chase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: EZ-Duct, Inc.Inventors: Philip Simon, Timothy N. Thomas, Chad Edens
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Patent number: 11963981Abstract: The present invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which binds a target antigen having a bulky extracellular domain, wherein the CAR comprises a Fab antigen binding domain. The present invention also provides nucleic acid sequences and constructs encoding such a CAR, cells expressing such a CAR and their therapeutic uses.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AUTOLUS LIMITEDInventors: Martin Pulé, Evangelia Kokalaki, Shaun Cordoba, Shimobi Onuoha, Simon Thomas, Biao Ma, Mathieu Ferrari
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Patent number: 11960119Abstract: An optical waveguide adapter assembly comprises a solid core optical waveguide extending between a free end and a coupled end and having a solid waveguiding core with an associated first optical mode field size; a hollow core optical waveguide extending between a free end and a coupled end and having a hollow waveguiding core with an associated second optical mode field size; and an optical mode field adapter extending between a first end and a second end and having a waveguiding core configured to change an optical mode field of a waveguided optical signal substantially between the first optical mode field size at the first end of the optical mode field adapter and the second optical mode field size at the second end of the optical mode field adapter, the first end of the optical mode field adapter joined to the coupled end of the solid core optical waveguide to provide optical coupling between the waveguiding core of the solid core optical waveguide and the waveguiding core of the optical mode field adapterType: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew Thomas Harker, Michael Fake, Simon Bawn
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Publication number: 20240120022Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing protein design. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing an input characterizing a target protein structure of a target protein using an embedding neural network having a plurality of embedding neural network parameters to generate an embedding of the target protein structure of the target protein; determining a predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein based on the embedding of the target protein structure, comprising: conditioning a generative neural network having a plurality of generative neural network parameters on the embedding of the target protein structure; and generating, by the generative neural network conditioned on the embedding of the target protein structure, a representation of the predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Simon Kohl, Jason Yim, Russell James Bates, Catalin-Dumitru Ionescu, Charlie Thomas Curtis Nash, Ali Razavi-Nematollahi, Alexander Pritzel, John Jumper
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Publication number: 20240115311Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
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Patent number: 11955021Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and system (10) for classifying vehicle behaviour, particularly abnormal behaviour of civil aircraft (12). The method may comprise receiving aircraft data from an aircraft (12) which is to be classified; and determining whether the received aircraft data comprises identification information for the aircraft (12). In response to a determination that the received aircraft data comprises identification information, the method may comprise using said identification information to classify the behaviour of the aircraft (12). In response to a determination that the received aircraft data does not comprises identification information, the method may comprise obtaining the position of the aircraft and comparing the obtained position to an expected route for the aircraft to classify the behaviour of the aircraft (12).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLCInventors: Benjamin Thomas Chehade, Markus Deittert, Matthew Neil Joseph, Simon Jonathan Mettrick, Yohahn Aleixo Hubert Ribeiro, Frederic Francis Taylor
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Publication number: 20240091357Abstract: The present invention relates to an engineered immune cell which comprises: (i) a target binding polypeptide comprising a target-binding domain and a first protein interaction domain, and (ii) a localising polypeptide comprising a second protein interaction domain, which binds to the first protein binding domain, and an intracellular retention signal. When the target binding polypeptide binds its target protein and also the localising polypeptide, expression of the target protein at the cell surface is reduced or eliminated because the target protein is retained in an intracellular compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Martin Pulé, Shaun Cordoba, Shimobi Onuoha, Simon Thomas, Thomas Grothier
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Patent number: 11934026Abstract: A method and apparatus for mounting optical components is described. The apparatus is suitable for mounting multiple optical components and comprises a baseplate having opposing first and second surfaces. Recesses or apertures are formed within the baseplate and are located upon the first or second surfaces so as to define thermally activated optic mounting areas. Pillars are then located within the thermally activated optic mounting areas and these provide a means for attaching the optical component to the baseplate. The employment of the recesses or apertures act to significantly reduce the thermal conduction throughout the baseplate. As a result preferential heating can be provided to the one or more thermally activated optic mounting areas while maintaining the baseplate with a desired mechanical strength. The optical mounting apparatus exhibits a high thermal stability thus making the apparatus ideally suited for use within commercial optical system.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: M SQUARED LASERS LIMITEDInventors: Gareth Thomas Maker, Graeme Peter Alexander Malcolm, Simon Munro
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Patent number: 11928964Abstract: A parking availability predictor system provides a prediction of parking availability that meets a user's specified needs. When the user submits a query for parking availability, he can include desired parking criteria such as location, handicapped status, and desired time to begin parking. The system consults a parking occupancy model which gathers current and historical information about parking occupancy, including parking durations and durations of vacancies between occupancies. The model processes the gathered information into a statistical predictor of parking occupancy and vacancy. The system uses the predictor to predict when parking that meets the user's needs will become available. That prediction, including user-suitable parking locations along with the expected start of their vacancies, is then sent to the user in answer to his query.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Nikhil Dama, Laura Frisbie Evans, Christopher Ryan Haberland, Ting Lu, Simon Phillip Stolarczyk, Kristopher Thomas Williams
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Publication number: 20240075066Abstract: The present invention relates to a cell comprising a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and a constitutively active or inducible Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT) molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Martin Pulé, Shaun Cordoba, Simon Thomas, Shimobi Onuoha, Matteo Righi
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Patent number: 11920071Abstract: A luminophore having the general empirical formula X?1?xA?y(Al1+zA?3?z)O4:E? that crystallizes in a tetragonal crystal system. X? may be Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and combinations thereof; A? may be Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and combinations thereof; E? may be Eu, Ce, Yb, Mn, and combinations thereof; 0<x<0.25; y?x; and z=0.5(2x?y).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Daniel Bichler, Simon Dallmeir, Christian Koch, Simon Peschke, Gudrun Plundrich, Philipp Schmid, Christiane Stoll, Johanna Strube-Knyrim, Jutta Thoma, Mark Vorsthove
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Publication number: 20240072118Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the formation of graphene on a silicon substrate, the method comprising: (i) providing a silicon wafer having a growth surface which is free of native oxides, in a reaction chamber; (ii) nitriding the growth surface with a nitrogen-containing gas with the wafer at a temperature in excess of 800° C., to thereby form a silicon nitride layer; and (iii) forming a graphene mono-layer or multiple layer structure on the silicon nitride layer; wherein the method is performed in-situ and sequentially in the reaction chamber. The present invention also provides a graphene-on-silicon layer structure having an intervening silicon nitride layer and free of any intervening native oxide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: PARAGRAF LIMITEDInventors: Sebastian Dixon, Ivor Guiney, Simon Thomas
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Publication number: 20240063289Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a graphene transistor 101, the method comprising: (a) providing a substrate having a substantially flat surface, wherein the surface comprises an insulating region 110 and an adjacent semiconducting region 105; (b) forming a graphene layer structure 115 on the surface, wherein the graphene layer structure is disposed on and across a portion of both the insulating region and the adjacent semiconducting region; (c) forming a layer of dielectric material 120 on a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the semiconducting region 105; and (d) providing: a source contact 125 on a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the insulating region 110; a gate contact 130 on the layer of dielectric material 120 and above a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the semiconducting region 105; and a drain contact 135 on the semiconducting region 105 of the substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: PARAGRAF LIMITEDInventors: Thomas James Badcock, Robert Wallis, Ivor Guiney, Simon Thomas
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Patent number: 11879016Abstract: Provision of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising a disialoganglioside (GD2)-binding domain which comprises •a) a heavy chain variable region (VH) having complementarity determining regions (CDRs) with the following sequences: •b) a light chain variable region (VL) having CDRs with the following sequences: T cells expressing such a CAR are useful in the treatment of some cancers.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: AUTOLUS LIMITEDInventors: Martin Pulé, John Anderson, Simon Thomas
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Patent number: 11868775Abstract: Methods of encoding and decoding are described which use a variable number of instruction words to encode instructions from an instruction set, such that different instructions within the instruction set may be encoded using different numbers of instruction words. To encode an instruction, the bits within the instruction are re-ordered and formed into instruction words based upon their variance as determined using empirical or simulation data. The bits in the instruction words are compared to corresponding predicted values and some or all of the instruction words that match the predicted values are omitted from the encoded instruction.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventors: Simon Thomas Nield, James McCarthy
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Patent number: 11837635Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the formation of graphene on a silicon substrate, the method comprising: (i) providing a silicon wafer having a growth surface which is free of native oxides, in a reaction chamber; (ii) nitriding the growth surface with a nitrogen-containing gas with the wafer at a temperature in excess of 800° C., to thereby form a silicon nitride layer; and (iii) forming a graphene mono-layer or multiple layer structure on the silicon nitride layer; wherein the method is performed in-situ and sequentially in the reaction chamber. The present invention also provides a graphene-on-silicon layer structure having an intervening silicon nitride layer and free of any intervening native oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Paragraf LimitedInventors: Sebastian Dixon, Ivor Guiney, Simon Thomas
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Patent number: D1019149Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: QUIP NYC INC.Inventors: William Thomas May, Simon Enever
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Patent number: D1025472Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Simon Brian McNamee, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton, Clément Bernard Christmann, Wee Guan Tan, Bun Tiong Chua, Min Yu Nicole Chian, Paul Thomas Brittell, Be Seng Lok, Gerald Eng, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Peter David Gammack, Leanne Joyce Garner, Laura Anne Howard
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Patent number: D1025473Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Simon Brian McNamee, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton, Clément Bernard Christmann, Wee Guan Tan, Bun Tiong Chua, Min Yu Nicole Chian, Paul Thomas Brittell, Be Seng Lok, Gerald Eng, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Peter David Gammack, Leanne Joyce Garner, Laura Anne Howard