Patents by Inventor Simon Hardy

Simon Hardy 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).

  • Publication number: 20250074743
    Abstract: Detection device for a lift with a cabin with at least one cabin door, which is designed to carry out an opening movement and a closing movement when the cabin stops at a floor, to determine the floor when the lift cabin stops at a floor. The detection device has at least one accelerometer to detect the vibration of the cabin door during the opening movement and/or the closing movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Andri von ALLMEN, Simon HARDI
  • Publication number: 20250074742
    Abstract: Detection device for a lift with a cabin with at least one cabin door, which is designed to carry out an opening movement and a closing movement when the cabin stops at a floor, to determine the floor when the lift cabin stops at a floor. The detection device has at least one accelerometer to detect the vibration of the cabin door during the opening movement and/or the closing movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Andri von ALLMEN, Simon HARDI
  • Patent number: 11258606
    Abstract: Security-enhancing devices, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing non-interactive zero knowledge proof (NIZKP) authentication. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a memory and an electronic processor. The memory stores a NIZKP authentication program and a plurality of unique passwords. The electronic processor is configured to receive a first random value from an electronic source, generate a second random value by performing an exclusive disjunction operation on the first random value with a first password of the plurality of unique passwords, perform an extraction operation on the second random value, determine whether the extraction operation performed on the second random value extracted a non-random value from the second random value, and responsive to determining that the extraction operation performed on the second random value extracted the non-random value from the second random value, authenticate communications with the electronic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Simon Hardy-Francis, Cecil Lau, Jacky Cheung, Andrian Sevastyanov, Kate O'Loughlin
  • Patent number: 11223476
    Abstract: Security-enhancing devices, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing non-interactive zero knowledge proof (NIZKP) authentication. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a memory and an electronic processor. The memory stores a NIZKP authentication program and a plurality of unique passwords. The electronic processor is configured to receive a first random value from an electronic source, generate a second random value by performing an exclusive disjunction operation on the first random value with a first password of the plurality of unique passwords, perform an extraction operation on the second random value, determine whether the extraction operation performed on the second random value extracted a non-random value from the second random value, and responsive to determining that the extraction operation performed on the second random value extracted the non-random value from the second random value, authenticate communications with the electronic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Simon Hardy-Francis, Cecil Lau, Jacky Cheung, Andrian Sevastyanov, Kate O'Loughlin
  • Patent number: 11149024
    Abstract: Disclosed are intermediates and methods of synthesizing Compound 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Craig Robert Stewart, Simon Hardy, Andrew Stark, Alexander Hird, Qing Ye, Xiaolan Zheng, Cati Ferrar, Jan Koek, Debasis Hazra
  • Patent number: 9808003
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): wherein the substituents are as defined herein, and wherein the compound of formula (I) is optionally present as an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are thought to be suitable for use as herbicides. The invention therefore also relates to a method of controlling weeds, especially grassy monocotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants, comprising applying a compound of formula (I), or a herbicidal composition comprising such a compound, to the plants or to the locus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Alaric James Avery, John Benjamin Taylor, Russell Colin Viner, Jeffery Steven Wailes, Ian Stuart Cloudsdale, John Kenneth Dickson, Jr., Ian Henry Aspinall, Janice Black, Emma Briggs, Shuji Hachisu, Simon Hardy
  • Publication number: 20160081334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): wherein the substituents are as defined herein, and wherein the compound of formula (I) is optionally present as an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are thought to be suitable for use as herbicides. The invention therefore also relates to a method of controlling weeds, especially grassy monocotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants, comprising applying a compound of formula (I), or a herbicidal composition comprising such a compound, to the plants or to the locus thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Alaric James Avery, John Benjamin Taylor, Russell Colin Viner, Jeffery Steven Wailes, Ian Stuart Cloudsdale, John Kenneth Dickson, JR., Ian Henry Aspinall, Janice Black, Emma Briggs, Shuji Hachisu, Simon Hardy