Patents by Inventor Simon James

Simon James 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: 20240082749
    Abstract: An interactive toy comprising a function device for performing user-perceptible, controllable functions. The interactive toy also includes a rechargeable power source and a charging circuit for contactless receipt of electrical energy and for charging the rechargeable power source when the interactive toy is positioned in a charging zone of a contactless charging device. The interactive toy is adapted to determine a charging rate at respective positions relative to the charging device and to generate a user-perceptible output indicative of the determined charging rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Alan DONALDSON, Mark Ross CHAMPKINS, Radost Radoslavova KEREFEYNA, Rasmus Bissenbakker KÆRSGAARD, Yufan Wei WANG, Arun VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Simon Mark JORDAN, Andrew James KNIGHTS, Isobel Jane ASHBEY, Martin Edward BROCK, Rosanna Elizabeth PARRISH, Silviu TOMA, Robert George MILNER
  • Publication number: 20240077951
    Abstract: An input device includes a control surface for a color correction system. The control surface includes a housing with an upwardly facing control panel. The control panel has a proximal edge which is nearest a user and a distal edge that is furthest from a user in normal use. The control panel includes a plurality of controls. The plurality of controls includes: a plurality of trackballs, wherein each trackball comprises a ball and a control ring, said ball cooperating with at least one encoder to generate a multi-dimensional control signal based on motion of the ball, and said control ring cooperating with at least one encoder to generate a one dimensional control signal based on the rotational motion of the ring, wherein the ball of said trackball is mounted concentrically with said control ring; a plurality of control buttons; and a plurality of knobs coupled to respective rotary encoders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Grant David Petty, Simon Milne Kidd, John Anthony Vanzella, Shannon Howard Smith, Andrew James Godin, Benjamin Hill, Lachlan James Karp
  • Patent number: 11921709
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples for an application settings module that provides uniform access to diverse types of data, such as mobile device settings. A client device, such as a mobile device, can be configured through execution of program instructions to access a schema file comprising a definition of a plurality of keypaths, where individual ones of the plurality of keypaths uniquely correspond to one of a plurality of device settings and the keypaths are defined in the schema file in association with a plurality of methods. The client device can identify a function invoked using one of the keypaths to read or write a corresponding one of the device settings, whether stored locally or remote, and, in response to the function being invoked, execute a portion of the methods corresponding to the one of the keypaths in the schema file and return a result to a requesting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins, Lorenzo Blasa, Phillip Riscombe-Burton, Simon Brooks, Neil Broadbent
  • Patent number: 11922466
    Abstract: Among other things, advertisements are received for brands or products of brands. Criteria for placement of the advertisements are received at online retail sites. The online retail sites are controlled independently from one another. Inventory data for the products at the online retail sites is received and stored. Data about propensities of the consumers to favor one or more of the brands or one or more products of the brands, from activities of consumers on the online retail sites, is stored. Activity data about current activities of the consumers on the online retail sites is received. One or more of the advertisements are placed on pages served to the online retail sites based on the placement data, the inventory data, the propensity data, and the activity data. Conversion data is received indicating that consumers engaged in conversion events with respect to products associated with the brands or products of brands being advertised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Jane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld, Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld, Benjamin Aaron Green, Howard Hong, Simon James Roddy, Andrew Michael Livingston, Chunyih Hsu
  • Patent number: 11922306
    Abstract: A machine-learning accelerator system, comprising: a plurality of controllers each configured to traverse a feature map with n-dimensions according to instructions that specify, for each of the n-dimensions, a respective traversal size, wherein each controller comprises: a counter stack comprising counters each associated with a respective dimension of the n-dimensions of the feature map, wherein each counter is configured to increment a respective count from a respective initial value to the respective traversal size associated with the respective dimension associated with that counter; a plurality of address generators each configured to use the respective counts of the counters to generate at least one memory address at which a portion of the feature map is stored; and a dependency controller computing module configured to (1) track conditional statuses for incrementing the counters and (2) allow or disallow each of the counters to increment based on the conditional statuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Harshit Khaitan, Ganesh Venkatesh, Simon James Hollis
  • Patent number: 11911564
    Abstract: The gases temperature supplied to a patient when the patient is undergoing treatment such as oxygen therapy or positive pressure treatment for conditions such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is often measured for safety and to enable controlling of the humidity delivered to the patient. The invention disclosed is related to measurement of properties, particularly temperature (thermistor), of gases flowing through a heated tube, supplying gases to a patient, which utilises the heating wire within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Jon Payton, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Andrew Baden Clark, Christopher Simon James Quill, Peter Geoffrey Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11900145
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transaction management. One of the methods includes, for a first transaction from a plurality of transactions, in response to determining that the first transaction for a corresponding user account at a first entity satisfies the threshold criteria for a corresponding second entity, accessing account data for the corresponding user account, first data for the first entity, and second data for the second entity to complete the first transaction. For a second transaction, in response to determining that the second transaction for a corresponding user account at the first entity does not satisfy the threshold criteria for the corresponding second entity, a determination is made to not access second data for the corresponding second entity, and account data is accessed for the corresponding user account and the first data for the first entity to complete the second transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Jane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld, Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld, Howard Hong, Simon James Roddy, Benjamin Aaron Green, Andrew Michael Livingston, Harry Kainen, Scott Bramble
  • Publication number: 20240042157
    Abstract: The gases temperature supplied to a patient when the patient is undergoing treatment such as oxygen therapy or positive pressure treatment for conditions such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is often measured for safety and to enable controlling of the humidity delivered to the patient. The invention disclosed is related to measurement of properties, particularly temperature (thermistor), of gases flowing through a heated tube, supplying gases to a patient, which utilises the heating wire within the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Jon Payton, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Andrew Baden Clark, Christopher Simon James Quill, Peter Geoffrey Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20240009645
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for a new way to separate biologics using coated pegboards—plastic plates affixed with an array of 96-pegs which align with the wells of a traditional 96-well plate used in bench top experiments. The ends of the pegs are conjugated to various compounds which are able to bind tags on engineered proteins (ex. Ni-NTA would bind a His-Tag on an engineered protein). These pegs extend into plate wells to specifically bind the tagged protein from the cell lysate which contains hundreds of other proteins. The pegboard, now laden with the protein of interest (POI), may then be dipped into sequential buffers to wash away potential non-specifically bound proteins to purify the POI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sylvia SARNIK, Simon James Bradshaw MALLINSON, Peter SMITH, Yannick J. BOMBLE, Hunter Blake HARRINGTON
  • Patent number: 11867367
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solar light kit, comprising: a housing comprising a removably attached solar panel and a removably attached battery; a PCB comprising one or more light sources, the PCB configured to connect to the solar panel and the battery; a lens for diffusing light from the one or more light sources of the PCB, wherein the lens is configured to connect to the housing and the PCB; a plurality of removable fasteners for connecting the lens to one or more of the PCB and housing; and a tool for fastening the plurality of removable fasteners, wherein the housing, the PCB, the lens, the plurality of removable fasteners, and the tool are bundled together unassembled in a kit package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SolarBuddy.org Ltd
    Inventor: Simon James Doble
  • Patent number: 11860758
    Abstract: A system is described that obtains first performance data collected during execution of a first application at a first group of computing devices, determines, based on the first performance data, at least one metric for quantifying performance of the first application, and compares the at least one metric to a corresponding benchmark derived from second performance data collected during execution of one or more second applications at a second group of computing devices. Each of the one or more second applications being different than the first application. The system determines whether the at least one metric is within a threshold amount of the corresponding benchmark, and further determines, determines, based at least in part on the at least one metric is not within the threshold amount of the corresponding benchmark, a fix to the first application and outputs, for presentation at a developer device, an indication of the fix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Fergus Gerard Hurley, Dino Derek Hughes, Olivier Benoit Gaillard, David Renaud Ghislain Chapelier, Johannes Tonollo, Simon James MacMullen, Yevhen Anisimov, Ioannis Ilkos, Benjamin Miles
  • Patent number: 11845014
    Abstract: An interactive modular construction element (100) for a modular construction system (200), the interactive modular construction element (100) comprising a sensor (601) being responsive to a predetermined sensor input and adapted to output a sensor signal (610) corresponding to or representing the predetermined sensor input, a function element (602) adapted to perform at least one controllable function in response to a control signal (611), and a control circuit (603) connected to the sensor (601) to receive the sensor signal (610) and connected to the function element (602) to provide the control signal (611), wherein the control circuit (603) is adapted to provide the control signal (611) in response to the sensor signal (610) thereby controlling the function element (602) in response to the sensor signal (610), wherein the interactive modular construction element (100) comprises an input part (101) and an output part (102), where the input part (101) and the output part (102) are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Benjamin Ma, Henrik Colfach Sørensen, Henrik Engmark Daae, James John Norwood, Jaime Fabregat Vilella, Rasmus Bissenbakker Karsgaard, Simon James Wiscombe, Troels Lange Andersen, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11844375
    Abstract: An atomizer/liquid portion for an electronic smoking device (10) is described and electronic smoking devices. Of the atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14) and the electronic smoking devices, each has a liquid reservoir (34) for storing a liquid, and an atomizer (26) comprising a capillary element (30) and a heating coil (28). The capillary element (30) is configured to capillary draw the liquid from the liquid reservoir (34) towards the heating coil (28). The capillary element (30) comprises different metal meshes (310, 320, 330, 340) differing in capillarity. The different capillary actions result in an overall capillary action which is directed from the ends of the capillary element (30) towards a central portion of the capillary element (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Fontem Ventures B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Biel, Simon James Smith
  • Patent number: 11844877
    Abstract: A nerve regeneration device comprising a bioresorbable conduit and a matrix contained therein having elongate pores aligned with the longitudinal axis of the conduit. The matrix comprises collagen, fibronectin, laminin-1, and laminin-2, wherein the amount, by weight, of laminin-1 or laminin-2 is greater than the amount of fibronectin in the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Integra LifeSciences Corporation
    Inventors: Fergal O'Brien, Alan Hibbitts, Simon James Archibald
  • Publication number: 20230400160
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solar light kit, comprising: a housing comprising a removably attached solar panel and a removably attached battery; a PCB comprising one or more light sources, the PCB configured to connect to the solar panel and the battery; a lens for diffusing light from the one or more light sources of the PCB, wherein the lens is configured to connect to the housing and the PCB; a plurality of removable fasteners for connecting the lens to one or more of the PCB and housing; and a tool for fastening the plurality of removable fasteners, wherein the housing, the PCB, the lens, the plurality of removable fasteners, and the tool are bundled together unassembled in a kit package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: SOLARBUDDY ORG LTD
    Inventor: Simon James DOBLE
  • Publication number: 20230321376
    Abstract: A breathing assistance apparatus is configured with features that improve serviceability of the apparatus. The apparatus can include animations to provide instruction regarding correcting easily-identified fault conditions and to provide instruction regarding routine maintenance routines. The apparatus also can be configured with top level control menus that are obscured in a manner to limit manipulation of the top level control elements by unauthorized users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Samuel Robertson Frame, Christopher Malcolm Crone, Christopher Simon James Quill, Kevin Peter O’Donnell, Jack Che-Wei Hsu, Jae Chul Han
  • Patent number: 11779151
    Abstract: A coffee dose adjustment tool has interchangeable or adjustable blades for adjustment of the coffee fill height within a portafilter dosing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BREVILLE PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon James Chalk, Andrew John Grigor
  • Publication number: 20230309626
    Abstract: The present application relates to an aerosol provision device. The device has a chamber configured to receive a consumable including aerosol-generating material, a body including a portion of the chamber, a mouthpiece through which aerosol generated from the aerosol-generating material is drawn by a user of the device, and a barrier discrete from the mouthpiece and movably coupled to the body. When the device is in a closed state, the barrier inhibits ingress of the consumable into the portion of the chamber and egress of the consumable from the portion of the chamber, and, when the device is in an open state, the barrier allows ingress of the consumable into the portion of the chamber and egress of the consumable from the portion of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jon Peter Frederick SPRATLEY, Francesca Alys STEPHENS, Adam ROBINSON, Simon James COPLEY, Daniel Jerrad MOSS, Andy FINCH
  • Publication number: 20230305256
    Abstract: A fiber routing insert for an optical junction or distribution box, having: a first floor; first guide elements extending, along a spacing direction transversal to the first floor, from the first floor to first ceiling portions, the first guide elements defining a first path on the first floor configured to receive optical fibers, the first path defining a figure-eight fiber locking path; a second floor arranged at a raised position relative to the first floor and spaced apart from the first floor along the spacing direction, the second floor having a splicing area for splicing the optical fibers on the second floor; second guide elements arranged on the second floor, the second guide elements defining a second path on the second floor configured to receive optical fibers, a connecting element configured to guide optical fibers from the first path to the second path, the first ceiling portions define the second floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Prysmian S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nathan PADDICK, Simon James FRAMPTON
  • Publication number: 20230300150
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include assessing trust in a system, and in particular, assessing trust for entities based on a trust score plan. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes identifying, by the computing system, a selected trust score plan from a plurality of trust score plans associated with a network entity in a computer network; storing, by a computing system, information collected about the network entity in the computer network; determining, by the computing system and based on the identified trust score plan and the stored information, a trust score for the network entity; and modifying, by the computing system and based on the trust score for the network entity, operations within the computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Damian O'Neill, Simon James, Hayden Paul Shorter, Kieran Gerald McPeake