Patents by Inventor Simon Douglas
Simon Douglas 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: 11945579Abstract: A UAV having a manual gimbal including a camera, and a flight mode selector configured to select both a flight mode and manually establish a camera position as a function of the selected fight mode. A controller responds to a position of the gimbal or selector to establish the flight mode. The flight mode is selected from several available modes, for example, a horizontal flight mode, a 45-degree flight mode, and a vertical (aerial) flight mode. The flight mode selector is mechanically coupled to the gimbal and establishes a pitch angle of the gimbal, and thus the camera angle attached to the gimbal.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Nielsen, Russell Douglas Patton
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Publication number: 20240086542Abstract: In various examples there is a computing device comprising: a first microcontroller comprising a first immutable bootloader and first mutable firmware. The first immutable bootloader uses a unique device secret burnt into hardware of the computing device in order to generate an attestation of the first mutable firmware. The computing device has a second microcontroller. There is second mutable firmware at the second microcontroller. There is a second immutable bootloader at the second microcontroller which sends a measurement of the second mutable firmware to the first immutable bootloader whenever the second microcontroller restarts, such that the first microcontroller is able to include the measurement in the attestation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Stavros VOLOS, Colin DOAK, Simon Douglas CHAMBERS, David RUGGLES, Richard NEAL, Cedric Alain Marie FOURNET, Kapil VASWANI, Balaji VEMBU
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Patent number: 11853429Abstract: In various examples there is a computing device comprising: a first microcontroller comprising a first immutable bootloader and first mutable firmware. The first immutable bootloader uses a unique device secret burnt into hardware of the computing device in order to generate an attestation of the first mutable firmware. The computing device has a second microcontroller. There is second mutable firmware at the second microcontroller. There is a second immutable bootloader at the second microcontroller which sends a measurement of the second mutable firmware to the first immutable bootloader whenever the second microcontroller restarts, such that the first microcontroller is able to include the measurement in the attestation.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stavros Volos, Colin Doak, Simon Douglas Chambers, David Ruggles, Richard Neal, Cédric Alain Marie Fournet, Kapil Vaswani, Balaji Vembu
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Patent number: 11624280Abstract: A polymer sheet adapted to attach to a material body such as a ceiling of a geological cavity and provide protective cover. The sheet comprises: a webbing portion defining a plurality of primary openings; and two margin portions extending along opposite edges of the sheet on either side of the webbing portion along a length of the sheet, each margin portion defining a plurality of secondary openings, wherein the margin portions are angled relative to the webbing portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: COREX PLASTICES (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTDInventors: Simon Douglas Whiteley, Edward Philip Bacon
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Patent number: 11625061Abstract: Two clocks, a fast clock and a slow clock are provided for clocking a processing unit. A plurality of frequency settings, referred to as gears, are defined for the two clock. Each of these gears indicates a maximum frequency for the fast clock and a minimum frequency for the slow clock, such that the gap between the two frequencies may be kept to a manageable level so as to reduce transients upon switching between the two clocks. The system switches between the gears as required. In response to a determination to increase the frequency of the clock signal, a higher gear is selected at which the maximum and minimum frequencies defined for that gear are higher than the previous selected gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITEDInventors: Simon Douglas Chambers, Stephen Felix, Ian Malcolm King
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Publication number: 20230020838Abstract: In various examples there is a computing device comprising: a first microcontroller comprising a first immutable bootloader and first mutable firmware. The first immutable bootloader uses a unique device secret burnt into hardware of the computing device in order to generate an attestation of the first mutable firmware. The computing device has a second microcontroller. There is second mutable firmware at the second microcontroller. There is a second immutable bootloader at the second microcontroller which sends a measurement of the second mutable firmware to the first immutable bootloader whenever the second microcontroller restarts, such that the first microcontroller is able to include the measurement in the attestation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Stavros VOLOS, Colin DOAK, Simon Douglas CHAMBERS, David RUGGLES, Richard NEAL, Cédric Alain Marie FOURNET, Kapil VASWANI, Balaji VEMBU
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Patent number: 11360884Abstract: A memory management system, such as a virtual memory manager that manages a virtual memory space that includes volatile memory (e.g. DRAM) and non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) creates a reserved portion of memory in the volatile memory for at least one user application in one embodiment, and that reserved portion can also store content that it restricted to read only permission within the non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francois Barbou-Des-Places, Joseph Sokol, Jr., Simon Douglas
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Publication number: 20220019257Abstract: Two clocks, a fast clock and a slow clock are provided for clocking a processing unit. A plurality of frequency settings, referred to as gears, are defined for the two clock. Each of these gears indicates a maximum frequency for the fast clock and a minimum frequency for the slow clock, such that the gap between the two frequencies may be kept to a manageable level so as to reduce transients upon switching between the two clocks. The system switches between the gears as required. In response to a determination to increase the frequency of the clock signal, a higher gear is selected at which the maximum and minimum frequencies defined for that gear are higher than the previous selected gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Simon Douglas CHAMBERS, Stephen FELIX, Ian Malcolm KING
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Publication number: 20210310355Abstract: A polymer sheet adapted to attach to a material body such as a ceiling of a geological cavity and provide protective cover. The sheet comprises: a webbing portion defining a plurality of primary openings; and two margin portions extending along opposite edges of the sheet on either side of the webbing portion along a length of the sheet, each margin portion defining a plurality of secondary openings, wherein the margin portions are angled relative to the webbing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Simon Douglas WHITELEY, Edward Philip BACON
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Patent number: 11078789Abstract: A polymer sheet adapted to attach to a material body such as a ceiling of a geological cavity and provide protective cover. The sheet comprises: a webbing portion defining a plurality of primary openings; and two margin portions extending along opposite edges of the sheet on either side of the webbing portion along a length of the sheet, each margin portion defining a plurality of secondary openings, wherein the margin portions are angled relative to the webbing portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: COREX PLASTICS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTDInventors: Simon Douglas Whiteley, Edward Philip Bacon
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Publication number: 20210200668Abstract: A memory management system, such as a virtual memory manager that manages a virtual memory space that includes volatile memory (e.g. DRAM) and non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) creates a reserved portion of memory in the volatile memory for at least one user application in one embodiment, and that reserved portion can also store content that it restricted to read only permission within the non-volatile memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Francois Barbou-Des-Places, Joseph Sokol, JR., Simon Douglas
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Patent number: 10942844Abstract: A memory management system, such as a virtual memory manager that manages a virtual memory space that includes volatile memory (e.g. DRAM) and non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) creates a reserved portion of memory in the volatile memory for at least one user application in one embodiment, and that reserved portion can also store content that it restricted to read only permission within the non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francois Barbou-Des-Places, Joseph Sokol, Jr., Simon Douglas
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Patent number: 10851624Abstract: In one aspect, the method comprises providing a perforating gun assembly having a first group of shaped charges on first longitudinal portion of the assembly and a second group of shaped charges on a second longitudinal portion of the assembly. The orientations of the first and second groups are rotationally offset from one another around a longitudinal axis of the perforating gun assembly. The method comprises locating the perforating gun assembly in a wellbore with the first group of shaped charges adjacent a wall of the wellbore at a perforation location, and detonating the shaped charges to form a first perforation channel in the wellbore with a defined first fracture initiation point. The perforating gun assembly is translated in the wellbore to locate the second group of shaped charges oriented towards a defined second fracture initiation point, at a desired axial position with respect to the first fracture initiation point.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Delphian Ballistics LimitedInventor: Simon Douglas Eardly Allison
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Publication number: 20200178478Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a kit for forming a plant support. The kit may comprise: a plurality of polymer ring strips, each formable into a respective ring; a plurality of polymer stake sleeves, each sleeve defining an elongate channel to receive a stake therethrough and each sleeve defining a plurality of slots sized to receive at least a portion of a respective ring strip therethrough, the slots being defined at spaced locations along a sleeve length of each sleeve; and a plurality of polymer stakes, each stake being sized to fit through the elongate channel and having a stake length greater than the sleeve length, wherein each stake has a first end and an opposite second end, and wherein a lengthwise rigidity of the stake is sufficient to cooperate with the sleeves and ring strips to form the plant support when the first ends of the stakes are submerged in soil along with at least a portion of the sleeves.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Timothy Austin BURUMA, Robert Andrew BURUMA, Simon Douglas WHITELEY, Edward Philip BACON
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Publication number: 20190203598Abstract: A polymer sheet adapted to attach to a material body such as a ceiling of a geological cavity and provide protective cover. The sheet comprises: a webbing portion defining a plurality of primary openings; and two margin portions extending along opposite edges of the sheet on either side of the webbing portion along a length of the sheet, each margin portion defining a plurality of secondary openings, wherein the margin portions are angled relative to the webbing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Simon Douglas WHITELEY, Edward Philip BACON
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Patent number: 10171977Abstract: A communication network and a power converter cabinet including a control unit, a power switch, a sensor and wherein the first communication point is connected to the control unit inside the power converter cabinet, and the second communication point is connected to the power switch, and a sensor inside the power converter cabinet. The communication network includes: a first antenna configured to wirelessly transmit/receive in the mm-wave frequency band, and a second antenna configured to receive/transmit wirelessly in the mm-wave frequency band, wherein the first and second communication points are configured to set up a communication link with multiple propagation paths, to send data between different active devices inside the power converter cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Pal Orten, Batool Talha, Simon Douglas Round, Anne Vallestad
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Patent number: 10056943Abstract: The present application is concerned with a system for transmitting and/or receiving the control and sensing signals between the control units and the power electronic components. One system according to the present application comprises: a transceiver adapted to modulate the communication signal on a communication signal frequency band, and a coupler connected to the power conductor and adapted to couple the modulated communication signal to the power conductor. The present application also concerns a method for transmitting and receiving the control and sensing signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.Inventors: Dacfey Dzung, Didier Cottet, Simon Douglas Round
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Publication number: 20180216446Abstract: In one aspect, the method comprises providing a perforating gun assembly having a first group of shaped charges on first longitudinal portion of the assembly and a second group of shaped charges on a second longitudinal portion of the assembly. The orientations of the first and second groups are rotationally offset from one another around a longitudinal axis of the perforating gun assembly. The method comprises locating the perforating gun assembly in a wellbore with the first group of shaped charges adjacent a wall of the wellbore at a perforation location, and detonating the shaped charges to form a first perforation channel in the wellbore with a defined first fracture initiation point. The perforating gun assembly is translated in the wellbore to locate the second group of shaped charges orientedtowards a defined second fracture initiation point, at a desired axial position with respect tothe first fracture initiation point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventor: Simon Douglas Eardly ALLISON
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Publication number: 20180091931Abstract: A communication network and a power converter cabinet including a control unit, a power switch, a sensor and wherein the first communication point is connected to the control unit inside the power converter cabinet, and the second communication point is connected to the power switch, and a sensor inside the power converter cabinet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Pal ORTEN, Batool TALHA, Simon Douglas ROUND, Anne VALLESTAD
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Publication number: 20170357450Abstract: A memory management system, such as a virtual memory manager that manages a virtual memory space that includes volatile memory (e.g. DRAM) and non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) creates a reserved portion of memory in the volatile memory for at least one user application in one embodiment, and that reserved portion can also store content that it restricted to read only permission within the non-volatile memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Francois Barbou-Des-Places, Joseph Sokol, JR., Simon Douglas