Patents by Inventor Stephen John Platt
Stephen John Platt 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: 10553413Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITEDInventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Publication number: 20180308673Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Patent number: 9953814Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITEDInventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Publication number: 20170148615Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Patent number: 9412570Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Micromass UK LimitedInventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, David Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Patent number: 9043162Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring data from a mass spectrometer and its transmission to a computer system including a data acquisition engine, a network interface and a throughput optimization module which includes a ring buffer and a protocol stack. A compression engine may be provided between the acquisition engine and the ring buffer. The ring buffer is configured as a number of segments containing portions of memory matching the size of data words from the acquisition engine. When a segment is full of data corresponding to the words, or is partially full and has received data containing an end of scan marker, the number of words in the segment is written into a header word in the segment and the data in that segment are moved to the protocol stack. Subsequent data is received by the next segment in the buffer.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Micromass UK LimitedInventors: Peter Gerard Spreadbury, Stephen John Platt
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Publication number: 20150090872Abstract: A hardware module which operatively carries out a method of compressing mass spectral data, the method comprising: receiving a first signal output from an ion detector of a mass spectrometer; processing the first signal to a digital signal at an output being data frame types representative of the first signal output; temporarily storing the data frame types in a memory block and reading a data frame from the memory block and determining its data frame type and according to its data frame type compressing the data frame according to one or more compression algorithms to generate a compressed data output stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Stephen John Platt, Keith George Richardson, Darrell Williams, Richard Denny
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Publication number: 20120136586Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring data from a mass spectrometer and its transmission to a computer system including a data acquisition engine, a network interface and a throughput optimization module which includes a ring buffer and a protocol stack. A compression engine may be provided between the acquisition engine and the ring buffer. The ring buffer is configured as a number of segments containing portions of memory matching the size of data words from the acquisition engine. When a segment is full of data corresponding to the words, or is partially full and has received data containing an end of scan marker, the number of words in the segment is written into a header word in the segment and the data in that segment are moved to the protocol stack. Subsequent data is received by the next segment in the buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: MICROMASS UK LIMITEDInventors: Peter Gerard Spreadbury, Stephen John Platt