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).

  • Amino pyridine derivatives as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors
    Patent number: 10112926
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard Bellenie, Graham Charles Bloomfield, Ian Bruce, Andrew James Culshaw, Edward Charles Hall, Gregory John Hollingworth, James Neef, Matthew Spendiff, Simon James Watson
  • HIGH SPEED ACTUATION SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTRACTING AND RETRACTING A RETRACTABLE WHEEL ASSEMBLY OF AN AMPHIBIAN
    Publication number: 20180304709
    Abstract: A high speed actuation system for protracting and retracting a retractable wheel and/or track drive assembly of an amphibian includes an actuator, at least one retractable wheel and/or track drive assembly comprising at least one wheel and/or track drive supported directly or indirectly by a suspension assembly and movable between a protracted and retracted positions, an energy source for providing power to the actuator, and a controller that controls in amount the power provided by the energy source to the actuator such that the time of actuation to retract the at least one retractable wheel and/or track drive assembly from a protracted position to a retracted position, or to protract the at least one retractable wheel and/or track drive assembly from a retracted position to a protracted position, is less than 5 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Alan Timothy GIBBS, Simon James LONGDILL
  • Shutter assembly for an automated teller machine
    Patent number: 10109160
    Abstract: A dispenser shutter assembly for an automated teller machine and an associated method of preventing damage to a shutter operating mechanism of the dispenser shutter assembly. The dispenser shutter assembly includes: a frame member; a shutter plate; and a shutter operating mechanism that includes a motor assembly including a drive shaft mounting a worm gear and attached to the frame member by a pivotable mounting. The worm gear is moveable out of engagement with the worm segment by pivoting the motor assembly away from the frame member about the pivotable mounting. When the shutter plate is subject to an external force for moving the shutter plate to open a shutter from a closed position, the external force thereby applied to the worm gear by the worm segment moves the worm gear about the pivotable mounting out of engagement with the worm segment thereby preventing damage to the shutter operating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dave Blower, Simon James Forsdyke, Luke Tombs
  • Explosive composition
    Patent number: 10081579
    Abstract: An explosive composition comprising a liquid energetic material and sensitizing voids, wherein the sensitizing voids are present in the liquid energetic material with a non-random distribution, wherein the liquid energetic material comprises (a) regions in which the sensitizing voids are sufficiently concentrated to render those regions detonable and (b) regions in which the sensitizing voids are not so concentrated and wherein the explosive composition does not contain ammonium nitrate prill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: ORICA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD
    Inventors: John Cooper, Ian John Kirby, Richard Goodridge, Vladimir Sujansky, Simon James Ferguson
  • Diarylethene compounds and uses thereof
    Patent number: 10072023
    Abstract: A compound according to Formula IA and IB, reversibly convertible under photochromic and electrochromic conditions between a ring-open isomer A and a ring-closed isomer B is provided. For substitutent groups, Z is N, O or S; each R1 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, or halo; each R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, a polymer backbone, alkyl or aryl; or, when both R2 together form —CH?CH— and form part of a polymer backbone; each R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, thioalkyl or aryl; each R4 is aryl; and each R5 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, thioalkyl or aryl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Switch Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Robin Branda, Jeremy Graham Finden, Simon James Gauthier, Ali Hayek, Kyle Andrew Hope-Ross, James Daniel Senior, Andreea Spantulescu, Serguei Sviridov
  • Amino pyrazine derivatives as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors
    Publication number: 20180243297
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard Bellenie, Graham Charles Bloomfield, Ian Bruce, Andrew James Culshaw, Edward Charles Hall, Gregory John Hollingworth, James Neef, Matthew Spendiff, Simon James Watson
  • Electronic smoking device with additive reservoir
    Publication number: 20180242637
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic smoking device (10) and an additive reservoir (162). In order to be able to supply additive to liquid atomized by the electronic smoking device (10) at the user's choice, the electronic smoking device (10) comprises an additive inlet conduit (44) and the additive reservoir (162) comprises an additive outlet opening (72) that can be brought into communication with the additive inlet conduit (44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Fontem Holdings 1 B.V.
    Inventors: Vaclav Borkovec, Neha Daryani, Simon James Smith, Henry Matthew Lawrence Fletcher
  • Electronic smoking device
    Publication number: 20180242638
    Abstract: An electronic smoking device (10) is provided that comprises a power supply/atomizer portion (12), a replaceable liquid reservoir portion (14), a liquid reservoir portion detection element (50) that is moveable between a first position and a second position, and an activation element (54) that is adapted to be operated by the liquid reservoir portion detection element when the latter is moved from the first position to the second position. The liquid reservoir portion comprises a cavity (46) and an engaging element (48) that partially blocks an opening of the cavity. The engaging element is adapted to engage with the liquid reservoir portion detection element during a process of coupling the portions (12, 14) so that the liquid reservoir portion detection element is moved toward the second position, thereby operating the activation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Fontem Holdings 2 B.V.
    Inventors: Sophia Godfrey, Simon James Smith
  • Recommendation engine
    Patent number: 10062098
    Abstract: A computer method and system provide means for recommending an organization to a user. The system includes a database of business relationships between organizations. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria. The organizations may be displayed based on the relevance of the selected organization and the similarity of organizations connected to the selected organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: 0934781 B.C. Ltd
    Inventors: Ali Davar, Simon James Hewitt, David Robert Thompson
  • Switching materials, and compositions and methods for making same
    Patent number: 10054835
    Abstract: A switching material comprising one or more than one polymers and an electrolyte comprising a salt and a solvent portion comprising one or more solvents; and one or more compounds having electrochromic and photochromic properties dispersed homogeneously through the switching material; and wherein the switching material is transitionable from a light state to a dark state on exposure to UV light and from a dark state to a light state with application of an electric voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SWITCH MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Robin Branda, Glen Ramsay Bremner, Jeremy Graham Finden, Simon James Gauthier, Bronwyn Hilary Gillon, Andrew Koutsandreas, Veronica Elizabeth Marshman, Matt Andrew Pilapil, Jonathan Ross Sargent, James Daniel Senior, Karthik Vikram Siva Shanmugam
  • Search and rank organizations
    Patent number: 10049372
    Abstract: A computer method and system provide means for outputting data about organizations to a user. The system includes a database of business relationships between organizations. A user may search for first organizations according to search criteria. The method will select a set of first organizations that match the criteria. The user may select preferred values of second organizations connected to the first organizations. Using the preferred values, the method will reselect and rank the first organizations for display on the user's computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: 0934781 B.C. Ltd
    Inventors: Ali Davar, Simon James Hewitt, Maziyar Hamdi
  • CUTTING BIT ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20180223661
    Abstract: A cutting bit assembly for a mining machine includes a holder having a first surface, a second surface, and a bore extending therebetween, and a bit having a first end and a second end. The bit further includes a tip, a shank, and a shoulder positioned between the tip and the shank. The shank is positioned in the bore of the holder and defines a shank axis. The shoulder engages the first surface of the holder. The shank includes a projection adjacent the second end. The cutting bit assembly also includes a retainer having a groove and a resilient member. The groove engages a portion of the projection. The resilient portion engages the second surface of the holder and biases the retainer along the shank axis and away from the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Randy Arnold, James E. Folkerts, John R. Frederick, John Hallberg, James Krellner, David Meade, Bulent Tiryaki, Charles Simon James Pickles, Peter Robert Bush, Christopher John Howard Wort, Serena Bonetti, Bernd Heinrich Ries, Markus Kilian Scharting
  • Force-compensated gradient coil
    Patent number: 10036788
    Abstract: A cylindrical superconducting magnet system for use in magnetic resonance imaging has axially aligned primary superconducting coils that are situated within an outer vacuum chamber (OVC). A thermal radiation shield surrounds the primary superconducting coils within the OVC. A primary gradient coil assembly is axially aligned with the primary superconducting coils and is situated radially within the primary superconducting coils. The cylindrical superconducting magnetic system also includes a secondary gradient coil assembly, that is radially situated outside of the primary superconducting coils and that is mechanically attached to the primary gradient coil assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Limited
    Inventor: Simon James Calvert
  • Selective BACE1 inhibitors
    Patent number: 10011610
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: David Michael Remick, Simon James Richards, Adam Jan Sanderson
  • A POWERTRAIN FOR AN AMPHIBIAN
    Publication number: 20180178893
    Abstract: The present invention provides, with reference to FIG. 1, a power train for an amphibian operable in land and marine modes. The power train comprises a prime mover having an integral speed change transmission, at least a first land propulsion unit, at least a first marine propulsion unit, and a power transmission unit. The prime mover is arranged to drive the at least first land propulsion unit through/via the integral speed change transmission in the land mode, and the prime mover is arranged to drive the at least first marine propulsion unit through/via the power transmission unit in both the marine mode and the land mode. The present invention also relates to an amphibian comprising such a powertrain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Alan Timothy Gibbs, Simon James Longdill
  • Amino pyrazine derivatives as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors
    Patent number: 10004732
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform, which are useful for the treatment of diseases mediated by the activation of PI 3-kinase gamma isoform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Richard Bellenie, Graham Charles Bloomfield, Ian Bruce, Andrew James Culshaw, Edward Charles Hall, Gregory John Hollingworth, James Neef, Matthew Spendiff, Simon James Watson
  • AMPHIBIAN
    Publication number: 20180170133
    Abstract: The present invention provides, with reference to Figure, a retractable single front wheel and/or track drive assembly for an amphibian comprising a single front wheel and/or track drive. The retractable single front wheel and/or track drive assembly comprises an actuator, a suspension assembly movable between a protracted position and a retracted position, and a single front wheel and/or track drive. When the suspension assembly is protracted then the suspension assembly supports and/or holds the single front wheel and/or track drive in a ground engaging position for use on land, and the front single wheel is moved forward and upwards on retraction. The present invention also provides a retractable single rear wheel and/or track drive assembly for an amphibian. The present invention further provides an amphibian comprising the retractable single front and/or rear wheel and/or track drive assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Alan Timothy Gibbs, Simon James Longdill
  • BREATHING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180161536
    Abstract: A breathing assistance apparatus and method of controlling a breathing assistance apparatus is disclosed. Particularly, the breathing assistance apparatus is controlled such that it has a drying cycle to enable drying of the tubing that supplies gases to a user and prevent the harbouring of pathogens within the tube. The drying cycle is preferably operated automatically by internal controllers in the apparatus. However, it may be manually activated by pressing a button on the apparatus. The drying cycle is preferably activated at the end of a user's treatment session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Jon Payton, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Christopher Simon James Quill, Ian Douglas Makinson, Emily Joy Drake, Craig Karl White, Virigina Louise Owen
  • Multi-stage turbocharger system
    Patent number: 9995207
    Abstract: A turbocharger system comprises a first relatively small high-pressure (HP) turbocharger and a second relatively large low pressure (LP) turbocharger. The turbine of the LP turbocharger is connected in series downstream of the turbine of the HP turbocharger. A first exhaust bypass flow passage provides a bypass flow path around the HP turbine. A second exhaust bypass flow passage provides a bypass flow path around the LP turbine. A rotary valve is located at a junction of the first and second bypass flow passages and a first exhaust gas flow passage. The rotary valve comprises a valve rotor which is rotatable selectively to permit or block flow to the LP turbine and to permit or block flow to the first and second bypass paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Cummins Turbo Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Lee J. Robinson, Daniel M. Acker, Akram Ghassan Khatib, Nandha Kumar Manoharan, Simon James Davis
  • Set of earbuds
    Patent number: D825523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: I.AM.PLUS, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Adams, Chandra Rathakrishnan, Duncan Burns, Tom Arbisi, Simon James