Patents by Inventor Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones 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).

  • Displacement sensor
    Patent number: 8729912
    Abstract: A linear capacitance displacement transducer (1) comprising first (2) and second (3) fixed capacitor plate and a dielectric structure (5) moveable longitudinally within a space (4) between the first (2) and second (3) capacitor plates, the dielectric structure (5) being operatively coupled to a moveable element (8). The capacitor plates and the dielectric material may be cylindrical and disposed coaxially and concentrically. The transducer (1) enables a displacement sensor that is capable of monitoring liquid levels in a syringe type drug reservoir (101) with sufficient sensitivity as to allow detection of erroneous drug delivery. The sensor is inexpensive to manufacture and provides reliable performance through robust design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Cellnovo Limited
    Inventors: Joseph John Cefai, Julian Shapley, Neil Thomas, Matthew Powell, Mark Stephen Jones
  • Peanut butter with an organic stabilizer and method for manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 8697173
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel organic peanut butter formulation and method for production. The peanut butter includes an organic, non-hydrogenated palm stearin oil stabilizing agent that reduces or prevents separation of oils from the peanut butter during storage. Peanut butter incorporating the palm oil, methods for manufacturing the peanut butter, and foods incorporating the peanut butter are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Once Again Nut Butter, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Thaler, Sandra Alexander, Elizabeth A. Blatz, Darin Carlin, Peter Carpenter, Lorraine Eurhardt, Mark Galton, Ellen Halbert, Esther Hinrich, David Howe, Stephen Jones, Lloyd Kirwan, Constance Potter, Richard Wilkins, Linda Zangerle
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING THREADS IN A DIVERGENT REGION OF CODE
    Publication number: 20140075160
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for synchronizing threads in a divergent region of code within a multi-threaded parallel processing system. The method includes, prior to any thread entering a divergent region, generating a count that represents a number of threads that will enter the divergent region. The method also includes using the count within the divergent region to synchronize the threads in the divergent region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Jones
  • Systems and methods for tracking and providing workflow information
    Patent number: 8645167
    Abstract: A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: DakoCytomation Denmark A/S
    Inventors: Laura Chirica, Mats Grahn, Stephen Jones
  • CONTINUOUS PROCESS TO MAKE AMINE OXIDE
    Publication number: 20140031591
    Abstract: A continuous process for making amine oxide surfactant comprising the steps of (a) providing the following components; a tertiary amine composition and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide composition, (b) mixing the components from step a) in a mixing device, (c) passing the mixture exiting the mixing device from step b) into an aqueous amine oxide composition comprising from 65 to 80 wt % amine oxide, (d) adjusting the temperature of the amine oxide composition made in step c) to between 40 and 80° C., (e) collecting the amine oxide surfactant; and wherein, for every 1 part of the component mixture from step b) being passed into the aqueous stream in step c), between 8 and 30 parts of the temperature adjusted amine oxide composition from step d) are recycled back to step b) and passed through the mixing device together with the components from step a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Linda PELLENS, Christopher Stephen JONES, Rasim TANBUG, Walter Agnes Louis NUYTS, Diederik Emiel Omer VANHOUTTE, Joey Jay SCHRINER
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR MANAGING PROCESS IMAGE HIJACKS
    Publication number: 20130326618
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of checking the authenticity of an executable process including at least one section. The method includes, when an initial thread of the executable process is created in a suspended state, mapping from storage a copy of the executable process into a spare memory area, where it will not be executed. The method also includes comparing a header of a first section of the executable process with a header of a first section of the copy. The method further includes terminating the executable process when the header of the first section of the executable process and the header of the first section of the copy are not identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: APPSENSE LIMITED
    Inventor: Stephen JONES
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATE COMPILATION OF DEVICE CODE EMBEDDED IN HOST CODE
    Publication number: 20130305233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel solution that supports the separate compilation of host code and device code used within a heterogeneous programming environment. Embodiments of the present invention are operable to link device code embedded within multiple host object files using a separate device linking operation. Embodiments of the present invention may extract device code from their respective host object files and then linked them together to form linked device code. This linked device code may then be embedded back into a host object generated by embodiments of the present invention which may then be passed to a host linker to form a host executable file. As such, device code may be split into multiple files and then linked together to form a final executable file by embodiments of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Michael MURPHY, Sean Y. LEE, Stephen JONES, Girish BHARAMBE, Jaydeep MARATHE
  • TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NESTED PARALLELISM
    Publication number: 20130298133
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing nested kernel execution within a parallel processing subsystem. The technique involves enabling a parent thread to launch a nested child grid on the parallel processing subsystem, and enabling the parent thread to perform a thread synchronization barrier on the child grid for proper execution semantics between the parent thread and the child grid. This technique advantageously enables the parallel processing subsystem to perform a richer set of programming constructs, such as conditionally executed and nested operations and externally defined library functions without the additional complexity of CPU involvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen JONES, Philip Alexander Cuadra, Daniel Elliot Wexler, Ignacio Llamas, Lacky V. Shah, Jerome F. Duluk, JR., Christopher Lamb
  • METHOD OF BLEEDING A HYDRAULIC BRAKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130256071
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of bleeding a hydraulic braking system during vehicle repair includes: receiving a designation of an affected brake component in the hydraulic braking system based on a vehicle diagnostic; and bleeding the affected brake component by actuating a hydraulic pump in the brake system via an in-vehicle control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kim Stephen Jones, Andrew Cookson
  • Single conductive pellets of long glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 8524120
    Abstract: Single pellets of a thermoplastic resin containing long glass fibers and a conductive filler are set forth that enable molded articles made from these pellets to exhibit conductivity and, at the same time, high mechanical properties. These pellets have mechanical properties that are substantially equivalent to non-conductive pellets of a thermoplastic resin containing same loading of long glass and provide conductivity that is substantially equivalent to articles obtained by blending two kinds of pellets, one pellet having a conductive filler and the other pellet one containing long glass fibers. The pellets include a thermoplastic resin, a long fiber reinforcing filler and a conductive additive dispersed in the pellet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Paul Atkinson, Stephen Jones, Michael Kennedy, Domenico La Camera
  • LOCK-FREE FIFO
    Publication number: 20130198419
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique that allows multiple producers and/or consumers to access a first-in first-out sub-system (FIFO) using a “lock-free” mechanism. When two or more producers attempt to push data onto the FIFO simultaneously, only one of the producers succeeds. Similarly, when two or more consumers attempt to pop data from the FIFO simultaneously, only one of the consumers succeeds. However, each producer and consumer is provided with an indication of whether their respective access was successful. Unsuccessful accesses may be retried in the following clock cycle, so that simultaneous accesses are serialized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen Jones, Xiaohuang Huang
  • PARALLEL DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION USING A LOCK-FREE POP-ONLY FIFO
    Publication number: 20130198479
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for dynamically allocating memory using one or more lock-free pop-only FIFOs. One or more lock-free FIFOs are populated with FIFO nodes, where each FIFO node represents a memory allocation of a predetermined size. Each particular lock-free FIFO includes memory allocations of a single size. Different lock-free FIFOs may include memory allocations for different sizes to service allocation requests for different size memory allocations. A lock-free mechanism is used to pop FIFO nodes from the FIFO. The use of the lock-free FIFO allows multiple consumers to simultaneously attempt to pop the head FIFO node without first obtaining a lock to ensure exclusive access of the FIFO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen JONES, Xiaohuang Huang
  • Parallel Dynamic Memory Allocation Using A Lock-Free FIFO
    Publication number: 20130198480
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for dynamically allocating memory using one or more lock-free FIFOs. One or more lock-free FIFOs are populated with FIFO nodes, where each FIFO node represents a memory allocation of a predetermined size. Each particular lock-free FIFO includes memory allocations of a single size. Different lock-free FIFOs may include memory allocations for different sizes to service allocation requests for different size memory allocations. A lock-free mechanism is used to pop FIFO nodes from the FIFO. The use of the lock-free FIFO allows multiple consumers to simultaneously attempt to pop the head FIFO node without first obtaining a lock to ensure exclusive access of the FIFO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen JONES, Xiaohuang Huang
  • Test stand arrangement with simulation model of multi-mass flywheel
    Patent number: 8434352
    Abstract: A test stand arrangement includes at least one electric motor (4) connected to a test specimen for driving and/or loading the test specimen, and a control arrangement for the or each electric motor. In order to be able to create the connection of the drive train and vehicle simulation with the real, vehicle-specific combustion and dynamic behavior of the engine, at least one model for a multi-mass flywheel is implemented in the control arrangement, from which model at least a part of the control requirement for the or each electric motor is calculated and which model contains at least the two masses of the primary and secondary side of the multi-mass flywheel and a substitute model for the or each bow spring, and an algorithm is implemented in the control arrangement that analyzes the model for a multi-mass flywheel by means of an integrated time step method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Dank, Helmut Kokal, Josef Mayrhofer, Stephen Jones, Dirk Denger, Martin Schmidt
  • PARALLEL DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION USING A NESTED HIERARCHICAL HEAP
    Publication number: 20130046951
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for dynamically allocating memory using a nested hierarchical heap. A lock-free mechanism is used to access to a hierarchical heap data structure for allocating and deallocating memory from the heap. The heap is organized as a series of levels of fixed-size blocks, where all blocks at given level are the same size. At each lower level of the hierarchy, a collection of N blocks in the lower level equals the size of a single block at the level above. When a thread requests an allocation, one or more blocks at only one level are allocated to the thread. When threads are finished using an allocation, each thread deallocates the respective allocated blocks. When all of the blocks for a level have been deallocated, defragmentation is performed at that level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventor: Stephen Jones
  • FOLDABLE SUBSTRATES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130040076
    Abstract: Embodiments of foldable substrates and methods for making foldable substrates for a motor vehicle are provided herein. The foldable substrate comprises a first wall that has a first outer surface. The first wall comprises a first natural fiber-resin impregnated blank section that is overmolded with a first quantity of polymeric resin that forms at least a portion of the first outer surface. A second wall has a second outer surface. The second wall comprises a second natural fiber-resin impregnated blank section that forms at least a portion of the second outer surface. The first and second walls are hingedly connected together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: FAURECIA INTERIOR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Jones, Daniel Vander Sluis
  • Cover for a clothes dryer and assembling method thereof
    Patent number: 8371040
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a cover for a dryer. The dryer is adapted, when in operation, to heat a gas stream. The dryer includes a cover mounted to at least one section of an outer wall of the dryer, in particular a rear wall of the dryer. A passage through which the gas stream can flow is formed, at least sectionwise, by the cover. The cover can include a heating unit having at least one heating element such that the gas stream flows around the heating element when the dryer is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: DBK David + Baader GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Köhne, Ian Hopkin, Stephen Jones
  • MULTIPHASE LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20130029895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiphase liquid detergent composition comprising at least one cleaning phase and at least one benefit phase, a surfactant, and a crystalline structurant. The crystalline structurant being substantially present in a non-lamellar phase. The invention also relates to a multiphase liquid detergent composition comprising at least two visually distinct liquid phases, a surfactant, and at least two incompatible or reactive materials. The first incompatible or reactive material is distributed in a first visually distinct phase and a second incompatible or reactive material is distributed in a second visually distinct phase. The present invention further relates to methods of cleaning dishware using such multiphase liquid detergent compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Phillippe Bettiol, Katrien Decraene, Marc Francois Theophile Evers, Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Bjorn Van Overstraete, Robby Renilde Francoise Keuleers, Joanna Margaret Clarke, Roxane Rosmaninho, Raffaele Pinna, Christopher Stephen Jones
  • MULTIPHASE LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20130029894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiphase liquid detergent composition comprising at least two visually distinct liquid phases and a surfactant. At least one of the visually distinct phases has a high shear viscosity between about 100 cps and 15,000 cps at 20° C., a medium shear viscosity between about 5,000 cps and about 60,000 at 20° C., and a low shear viscosity between about 10,000 cps and 500,000 cps at 20° C. The present invention further relates to methods of cleaning dishware using such multiphase liquid detergent compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Katrien Decraene, Marc Francois Theophile Evers, Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Bjorn Van Overstraete, Robby Renilde Francoise Keuleers, Joanna Margaret Clarke, Roxane Rosmaninho, Raffaele Pinna, Christopher Stephen Jones
  • PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A RHEOLOGY MODIFIER CONTAINING COMPOSTITION
    Publication number: 20130025500
    Abstract: A process for the production of a rheology modifier containing composition comprising the steps of: providing a rheology modifier, wherein said rheology modifier is selected from the group consisting of a water swellable polymer, a non-water soluble crystalline polymer, and mixtures thereof; providing a substantially anhydrous water-miscible liquid carrier; and dispersing said rheology modifier in said substantially anhydrous water-miscible liquid carrier to generate a slurry having a viscosity of less than 2000 mPas at 0.1 s?1 and 20° C. when measured using an AR 1000 rheometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen JONES, Nuray YALDIZKAYA, Raffaele PINNA, Jeroen TIDEMAN, Robby Renilde Francois KEULEERS