Patents by Inventor Stuart John

Stuart John 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: 20110134926
    Abstract: A computer system identifies a source node that is to be connected to a target node, where the target node is connected to the source node using an edge that links a connection region associated with the source node to a candidate connection region of the target node. The computer system identifies candidate connection region constraints that place restrictions on where the candidate connection regions can be positioned on the target node and determines, based on the identified candidate connection region constraints, the position of each candidate connection region relative to the target node. At least two of the candidate connection regions are disconnected so that an edge's connection to the target node can change between the disconnected connection regions. The computer system also visually represents the position of each of the candidate connection regions of the target node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabian Omar Winternitz, Kael R. Rowan, Timothy Garry Dwyer, Stuart John Harding Kent, Lev Borisovich Nachmanson
  • Publication number: 20110074074
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a compliant banding system for use in a marine environment comprising a flexible compliant member and an abaxial relatively rigid strap, both constructed to extend circumferentially around an underlying structure such as a strake or fairing collar. The strap maintains a fixed circumference while the compliant member flexes intermediate the strap and an underlying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: VIV Suppression, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney H. Masters, Cecil M. Brandon, JR., Stuart John Harbert, Kurt D. Vandervort, Bill Griffith
  • Patent number: 7916667
    Abstract: A method for determining an RF link imbalance between an Uplink Path and a Downlink Path of an RF Link formed between a User Equipment (UE) and a Node in a wireless network is provided. The method includes determining the UE receive power levels and the UE transmit power levels for the RF Links at the UE side of the radio interface and identifying one or more RF Links having AvgSumTx+Rx values deviating from the AvgSumTx+Rx values of other RF Links, as one or more RF Links having an RF Link imbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Steven John Payne, Stuart John Irving
  • Patent number: 7910774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to synthetic routes to prepare a compound of the formula wherein R1 is halogen, C1-6halogenalkyl, C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyloxy or C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyl; R2 is halogen, C1-4alkyl or C1-4alkoxy; R3 and R4 are independently branched C3-6alkyl; and R5 is cycloalkyl, C1-6alkyl, C1-6hydroxyalkyl, C1-6alkoxy-C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkanoyloxy-C1-6alkyl, C1-6aminoalkyl, C1-6alkylamino-C1-6alkyl, C1-6dialkylamino-C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkanoylamino-C1-6alkyl, HO(O)C—C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyl-O—(O)C—C1-6alkyl, H2N—C(O)—C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyl-HN—C(O)—C1-6alkyl or (C1-6alkyl)2N—C(O)—C1-6alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as well as key intermediates obtained when following these routes as well as their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Gottfried Sedelmeier, Stuart John Mickel, Heinrich Rueeger
  • Publication number: 20110039629
    Abstract: Golf putting training apparatus (1), for use with a putter (22), comprises a base (10) having a support (11) upstanding therefrom, and a guide (12) carried by said support (11). The guide (12) has an elongate guide surface (18) for the shaft (21) of the putter (22) to be slid along during putting. An indicator (17) extends laterally from the base (10), below the guide surface (18), to provide a golfer (19) with a visual indication of the alignment of the face of the putter head (23) with respect to a golf ball (24) positioned adjacent the indicator (17). In use, the golfer (19) practises a putting stroke by swinging the putter (22) so that the shaft (21) slides along the guide surface (18), whilst using the indicator (17) to align the face of the putter head (23) at an appropriate angle for striking the golf ball (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: THE EASYWAY GOLF COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Stuart John Smith
  • Publication number: 20110010924
    Abstract: Inertial sensor having a body with first and second cavities on opposite sides thereof, a sensing element in the first cavity, electronic circuitry in the second cavity, electrical conductors interconnecting the sensing element and the circuitry, and leads connected electrically to the circuitry and extending from the body for mounting the sensor and making connections with the circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: CUSTOM SENSORS & TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: William Paul Berger, Mark Andrew Collins, Michael Thomas Frazee, Thad W. (Marc) Smith, Robert Albert Anderson, Stuart John Knowles, Victor Dragotti
  • Patent number: 7869722
    Abstract: A toner dam maintenance process and system model the amount of toner mass at a toner cleaner blade, and apply a corrective procedure, such as insertion of a paperless copy into the print job mid-job or immediately prior to cycle out, to replenish the toner mass at the cleaner blade to maintain lubrication and reduce cleaning failure. The modeling includes contributing factors toward toner dam input and output, including untransferred toner, cycle-in/cycle-out bands, untransferred background, and leakage of toner from the cleaner blade. One or several threshold can be reached to cause one or more different corrective actions to take place. The action may be adding or skipping a pitch to insert a corrective maintenance pattern without transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Derek John Milton, Stuart John Handley, Tim Spink, Julian Derek Morrison, Pieter Mulder
  • Patent number: 7845299
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a compliant banding system for use in a marine environment comprising a flexible compliant member and an abaxial relatively rigid strap, both constructed to extend circumferentially around an underlying structure such as a strake or fairing collar. The strap maintains a fixed circumference while the compliant member flexes intermediate the strap and an underlying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: VIV Suppression, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney H. Masters, Cecil M. Brandon, Jr., Stuart John Harbert, Kurt D. Vandervort, Bill Griffith
  • Publication number: 20100274027
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel process, novel process steps and novel intermediates useful in the synthesis of pharmaceutically active compounds, especially renin inhibitors, such as Allskiren. Inter alia, the invention provides a process for the manufacture of a compound of the formula III, wherein R, R1, R2, R3 and PG are as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof. The manufacture comprises (preferably consists of) reacting a compound of the formula I, with a reagent able to transform hydroxy into X where X is for example a leaving group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Stuart John Mickel, Gottfried Sedelmeier, Hans Hirt, Frank Schäfer, Michael Foulkes, Walter Prikoszovich
  • Patent number: 7814427
    Abstract: A designer tool that facilitates design of an object model. The tool takes as input a computer-readable representation of a graph of objects (e.g., classes), and creates automatically one or more diagrams that depict these classes as editable trees showing their relationships and properties. These graphs naturally have a tree-like structure which is exploited by the approach. The design tool system includes a layout component that receives as input one or more of the graphs, and converts the one or more graphs into the editable treelike structure. The system further comprises a presentation component that presents the editable treelike structure as a treelike structure diagram, and facilitates user interaction therewith. The tool can be used for opening, editing and saving existing object model files or to create new ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen John Cook, Gareth Alun Jones, Stuart John Harding Kent, Alan Cameron Wills
  • Patent number: 7789551
    Abstract: A device for blending materials and a bag for use in such devices. The device has at least one paddle for acting on a sample and a carrier against which a sample may be crushed by the paddle. The device is arranged to allow adjustment of the spacing between the paddle and carrier during operation. The bag is suitable for use in such a device but can be used in other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventors: Stuart John Ray, Graham Roger Gibbins
  • Patent number: 7763732
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are indole derivatives of the formula (I) wherein each of the substitutents is given the definition as set forth in the specification and claims. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the indole derivatives and use of the derivatives for the treatment of pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: N.V. Organon
    Inventors: Paul David Ratcliffe, Julia Adam-Worrall, Angus John Morrison, Stuart John Francis, Takao Kiyoi
  • Publication number: 20100140305
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition, for instance an anti deodorant composition, comprising an at least partially dehydrated-aluminium sulphate salt and a carrier liquid. The invention further relates to a method for preparing a composition according to the invention, comprising combining a burnt aluminium salt with the carrier liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Sera Lee/DE N.V.
    Inventors: Andrew Iwan de Beer, Stuart John Campbell
  • Patent number: 7715611
    Abstract: In order to check the authenticity of a banknote or other such document it is printed with two patches of magnetisable ink, and each patch is magnetised to present a multipole sequence of alternating polarity. If the document is folded to bring the two patches together and then rubbed to and fro in the direction of the pole sequences, they will be subject to alternating forces of attraction and repulsion which can be sensed through the fingertips and gives the impression of a physically rippled texture notwithstanding that the patches actually have a smooth surface. The presence or absence of this effect can therefore be used to distinguish between a genuine document bearing such magnetised patches and a counterfeit which may be visually identical but lacks the correct magnetisation. In a variant only one of the patches is printed on the document itself and the other is on a separate “key” device which is rubbed over it to test for the presence of the correct magnetisation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Qinetiq Limited
    Inventors: Stuart John Eaton, Jonathan Geoffrey Gore, Christopher Robert Lawrence, George Jiri Tomka, Adam Daykin
  • Patent number: 7706512
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for voice message editing, particularly a method and apparatus for splicing voicemails sections together. A system, method and computer program product are described for forming a voice message on an interactive voice response system (IVR) spoken by a user including recording a first voice message where the user speaks the first voice message but makes an error in a last portion of the first voice message. A second voice message is recorded where the user speaks the last portion again without the error. Splice points are determined in the first and second voice messages. The first and second voice messages are spliced at the splice points such that the spliced first and second voice message is a continuous voice message including the last portion but not including the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Groeger, Stuart John Hayton, Jamie Lister, Timothy David Poultney
  • Publication number: 20100072862
    Abstract: Inertial sensor having a body with first and second cavities on opposite sides thereof, a sensing element in the first cavity, electronic circuitry in the second cavity, electrical conductors interconnecting the sensing element and the circuitry, and leads connected electrically to the circuitry and extending from the body for mounting the sensor and making connections with the circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: CUSTOM SENSORS & TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: William Paul Berger, Mark Andrew Collins, Michael Thomas Frazee, Thad W. (Marc) Smith, Robert Albert Anderson, Stuart John Knowles, Victor Dragotti
  • Patent number: 7640256
    Abstract: A method of cataloguing a data structure employs the formation of a catalogue data structure which is used to associate data items transformed from data elements present within the data collection with storage addresses of the original transformed data elements. This catalogue data structure may be sorted to facilitate searching through same to detect the presence of search patterns. Such searches may be completed through the formation of a plurality of search queries from a received search pattern sequence where the results of running these search queries may then be subsequently considered in conjunction with a search pattern sequence detection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Real Time Genomics Inc.
    Inventor: Stuart John Inglis
  • Patent number: 7636661
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for improved speech recognition in a telephonically challenging speakerphone in-car environment. The method includes receiving a signal from a microphone representative of speech to be recognized, performing detection of a transition in the signal indicative of switch on of the microphone, and, in response to the detection, performing speech recognition on the signal with reduced contribution from an initial portion thereof. The initial portion may be treated as optional speech, the speech recognition may be performed with a predetermined redundant sound, and a user may be requested to speak the predetermined redundant sound when speech recognition has fallen below a predetermined threshold. Thus, recognition may be made possible when otherwise it would not be possible, recognition match scoring will be increased as the low weighting given by deleted initial sounds will be eliminated and therefore confusion of the recognized phrase will be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Pieter De Leeuw, Steven Groeger, Stuart John Hayton
  • Patent number: 7601108
    Abstract: An user-actuated anterior shoulder stretching device (10) includes a pair of swing arms (32) which are pivoted rearwardly in response to a leg press motion being applied to a sliding footrest assembly (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Inventor: Stuart John Andrews
  • Publication number: 20090129793
    Abstract: A toner dam maintenance process and system model the amount of toner mass at a toner cleaner blade, and apply a corrective procedure, such as insertion of a paperless copy into the print job mid-job or immediately prior to cycle out, to replenish the toner mass at the cleaner blade to maintain lubrication and reduce cleaning failure. The modeling includes contributing factors toward toner dam input and output, including untransferred toner, cycle-in/cycle-out bands, untransferred background, and leakage of toner from the cleaner blade. One or several threshold can be reached to cause one or more different corrective actions to take place. The action may be adding or skipping a pitch to insert a corrective maintenance pattern without transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek John MILTON, Stuart John HANDLEY, Tim SPINK, Julian Derek MORRISON, Pieter MULDER