Patents by Inventor Simon Alexander
Simon Alexander 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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Patent number: 11936529Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for managing a network of nodes with delta processing. A network with a plurality of connected nodes can be stored, the nodes representing entities of the network. One or more deltas to the network that indicate updates to the connections among the plurality of nodes can be received. The deltas can be added to a queue. The connections between the nodes of the network can be updated using a delta from the queue. The network can be processed after updating the connections between the nodes to generate a vector for a given node. One or more paths for the given node can be identified based on the generated vector.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Paul Woodward, Simon Alexander Tucker, Stephen Michael Ginns
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Patent number: 11931140Abstract: Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific preoperative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau
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Patent number: 11928523Abstract: A multi-tile processing unit in which the tiles in the processing unit may be divided between two or more different external sync groups for performing barrier synchronisations. In this way, different sets of tiles of the same processing unit each sync with different sets of tiles external to that processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITEDInventors: Simon Knowles, Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson, Alan Alexander, Stephen Felix, Richard Osborne, David Lacey, Lars Paul Huse
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Publication number: 20240016186Abstract: The invention generally relates to a process for preparing a crispy coated extruded plant-based food product. More specifically the invention relates to a process for preparing a crispy coated extruded plant-based food product with a fibrous appearance and good juiciness and tenderness properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: REINHOLD WILLY BETZ, SIMON ALEXANDER HUTSCHENREUTER, KEVIN KURZ, MARTIN MICHEL, PATRICK PIBAROT, MARK AMBUHL, JOCHEN WEISS, KURT HERRMANN, HANNES WENZEL
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Patent number: 11786310Abstract: Systems and methods are provided in which local tissue diagnostic measurements are correlated with archival local tissue diagnostic data from prior tissue analyses to supplement diagnostic measurements with tissue analysis data from prior tissue analyses having similar local tissue diagnostic data. The tissue analysis data may include information such as pathology data, outcome data, and diagnosis data. The archived local tissue diagnostic data and the tissue analysis data may be stored in a database, and employed for a wide variety of methods, involving preoperative, intraoperative, and/or postoperative phases of a medical procedure. Methods and systems are also provided for displaying, on a medical image shown in a user interface, hyperlinked reference markers associated with tissue analyses, where the reference markers are shown at locations corresponding to local tissue analyses, and where associated diagnostic data and/or tissue analysis may be viewed by selecting a given reference marker.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventors: Cameron Piron, Gal Sela, Monroe M. Thomas, Simon Alexander, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Michael Wood, Alex Panther, Joshua Richmond, Wes Hodges, David Gallop
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Patent number: 11717376Abstract: A system and method for dynamic validation, registration correction for surgical navigation during medical procedures involving confirmation of registration between previously registered virtual objects, in a common coordinate frame of a surgical navigation system and an operating room, and intra-operatively acquired imaging during the medical procedure in the common coordinate frame. The method involves displaying intra-operatively acquired imaging of the surgical field, containing the real objects corresponding to the previously registered virtual objects, with the real objects being tracked by a tracking system.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Synaptive Medical Inc.Inventors: Gal Sela, Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Stephen McFadyen, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop
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Publication number: 20230206314Abstract: A system for assisting users in listing items for sale in an electronic marketplace is disclosed. A video is received from a user device associated with a user, the video including a video stream depicting a plurality of items to be listed for sale in the electronic marketplace. Respective images depicting respective items among the plurality of items are obtained from the video stream, and respective attributes of the respective items among the plurality of items are extracted from the video. Respective listings for sale of the respective items are generated based at least in part on the respective attributes of the respective items among the plurality of items, and the respective listings for sale of the respective items are displayed to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: eBay Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Periyathambi, Tomer Lancewicki, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Ryan Reeves, Senthil Kumar Padmanabhan, Daniel Stein, Luther S. Boorn, Baohao Liao, Simon Alexander Becker, Sivan Elkis, Saral Bharathi Sukumar Jeyaseelan
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Patent number: 11636602Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing a labeling task. The technique includes generating a multi-scale representation of an image as input to a machine learning model. The technique also includes performing one or more operations that apply the machine learning model to the multi-scale representation of the image to produce a semantic segmentation comprising predictions of labels for regions of pixels in the image. The technique further includes outputting, in a user interface, the semantic segmentation for use in assisting a user in specifying the labels for the pixels in the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SCALE AI, INC.Inventors: Daniel HavĂr, Chiao-Lun Cheng, Elliot Branson, Nathan Herman, Nathan Hayflick, Simon Alexander Hewat, Suchir Balaji, Shariq Hashme
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Publication number: 20230034308Abstract: A management system for a baling operation includes a vehicle configured to form one or more bales of agricultural material. A computing system is configured to determine bale data including at least a number of bales produced by the vehicle, receive, from one or more sensors, vehicle data related to operation of the vehicle as the one or more bales are formed, and store the vehicle data. An electronic device is communicatively coupled with the computing system and is configured to receive the number of bales produced by the vehicle, receive the vehicle data related to the operation of the vehicle as the one or more bales are formed, and generate one or more bale characteristics based on the number of bales and the vehicle data related to the operation of the vehicle as the one or more bales are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Peter Charles Caddick, Simon Alexander Francis Nichol
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Publication number: 20220386891Abstract: Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific preoperative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron PIRON, Michael WOOD, Gal SELA, Joshua RICHMOND, Murugathas YUWARAJ, Monroe M. THOMAS, Wes HODGES, Simon ALEXANDER, David GALLOP, Alex PANTHER, Nishanthan SHANMUGARATNAM, William LAU
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Patent number: 11473594Abstract: A compressor has a rotor assembly having an impeller for generating an airflow through the compressor, a stator core assembly for causing rotation of the impeller, and a diffuser assembly for acting on the airflow generated by the impeller. The diffuser assembly has a first diffuser stage and a second diffuser stage. The first and second diffuser stages are separate components connected to one another by a fastener.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Mark Andrew Johnson, Simon Alexander Locke, Matthew John Childe, Cathal Clancy, Vadivel Kumaran Sivashanmugam, Nora Er-Rouhly, Lukasz Andrzej Kowalczyk, Alan Glynn Sanderson, Thomas Richard Stafford, Sarah Elizabeth Elson, Alexander Thomas Wells, Jim Ray Lluisma
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Patent number: 11449470Abstract: In various aspects, a method, system and computer program product provides for concurrent changes to data of a document or a file by a plurality of users at a plurality of user devices. The documents or file may be rendered in JavaScript™ Object Notation (JSON) format. The documents may be patched or changed by employing new functional operations for applying metadata for elements of the arrays associated with the document or file, and to merge changes from made among the various users. The disclosure provides for maintaining and producing new versions of the document or the file, the changes controlled so that data of the arrays are merged atomically and the updates do not fail permitting simultaneous changes to the document or file by multiple users.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TIBCO Software Inc.Inventors: Joshy Mannacherry Augustine, Simon Alexander Morgan, Howard Spencer Phillips
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Patent number: 11412951Abstract: Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific pre-operative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SYANPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau
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Publication number: 20220177854Abstract: The invention relates to an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector producer cell comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding AAV rep and cap genes, helper virus genes, and a DNA genome of the AAV vector; the AAV rep gene comprising an intron, the intron comprising a transcription termination 5 sequence with a first recombination site located upstream and a second recombination site located downstream of the transcription termination sequence; and the nucleic acid sequences all integrated together at a single locus within the AAV vector producer cell genome. The invention also relates to methods for producing the AAV vector producer cell lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Simon Alexander CHANAS, Conrad VINK
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Publication number: 20220151702Abstract: Systems and methods involving a control and processing system interfaceable with a device, a tracking system, and a data storage device, the control and processing system having a processor configured by a set of instructions storable in relation to a nontransient memory device to: identify the at least one device, via the tracking system operating with at least one of an electromagnetic system and a radiofrequency (RF) system, during a medical procedure; obtain an image of a region of interest associated with the medical procedure; process the image to identify a context measure associated with a current state of the medical procedure; obtain a parameter for adaptively configuring the device during the medical procedure, the parameter customizable based on the context measure, the parameter providable for the device according to a prioritized list, and the device reverting to a default configuration when another device is removed from the region of interest; and configure the device according to the parameteType: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Stephen McFadyen, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop
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Publication number: 20220087711Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively and intraoperatively configuring an automated arm used during a medical procedure. The automated arm is configured to position and orient an end effector on the automated arm a desired distance and orientation from a target. The end effector may be an external video scope and the target may be a surgical port. The positions and orientations of the end effector and the target may be continuously updated. The position of the arm may be moved to new locations responsive to user commands. The automated arm may include a multi joint arm attached to a weighted frame. The weighted frame may include a tower and a supporting beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal SELA, Joshua RICHMOND, Murugathas YUWARAJ, Stephen MCFADYEN, Alex PANTHER, Nishanthan SHANMUGARATNAM, William LAU, Monroe M. THOMAS, Wes HODGES, Simon ALEXANDER, David GALLOP
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Publication number: 20220079442Abstract: Insertable imaging devices, and methods of use thereof in minimally invasive medical procedures, are described. In some embodiments, insertable imaging devices are described that can be introduced and removed from an access port without disturbing or risking damage to internal tissue. In some embodiments, imaging devices are integrated into an access port, thereby allowing imaging of internal tissues within the vicinity of the access port, while, for example, enabling manipulation of surgical tools in the surgical field of interest. In other embodiments, imaging devices are integrated into an imaging sleeve that is insertable into an access port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau, Monroe M. Thomas, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop
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Patent number: 11272984Abstract: Systems and methods are provided in which devices that are employed during a medical procedure are adaptively configured during the medical procedure, based on input or feedback that is associated with the current state, phase or context of the medical procedure. In some example embodiments, the input is obtained via the identification of one or more medical instruments present within a region of interest, and this input may be employed to determine configuration parameters for configuring the device. In other example embodiments, the input may be based on the image-based detection of a measure associated with the phase or context of the medical procedure, and this input may be employed to adaptively control the device based on the inferred context or phase of the medical procedure. In other embodiments, images from one imaging modality may be employed to adaptively switch to another imaging modality.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Stephen McFadyen, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop
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Patent number: 11253153Abstract: Insertable imaging devices and use methods thereof in minimally invasive medical procedures. Some insertable imaging devices are introduced and removed from an access port without disturbing or risking damage to internal tissue. Some insertable imaging devices are integrated with an access port, thereby allowing imaging of internal tissues within a vicinity of the access port, while enabling manipulation of surgical tools in the surgical field of interest. Some insertable imaging devices are integrated into an imaging sleeve that is insertable into an access port. Some insertable imaging devices perform imaging within an access port, wherein the imaging is based on one or more imaging modalities, including, but are not limited to, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, optical imaging, such as hyperspectral imaging and optical coherence tomography, and electrical conductive measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau, Monroe M. Thomas, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop