Patents by Inventor Thomas Alexander Ford

Thomas Alexander Ford 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).

  • Sleep management method and system for improving sleep behaviour of a human or animal in the care of a carer
    Patent number: 8398538
    Abstract: A sleep management method and system for use by a carer to improve the sleep behavior of a child in their care by monitoring one or more objective parameters relevant to sleep quality and providing one or more recommendations for behavioral programs and/or actions to the carer via a portable user interaction device such as a mobile phone. Such a system can also be adapted for use in looking after adults and animals such as domestic pets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Pamela Ann Dothie, Thomas Alexander Ford
  • SLEEP MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SLEEP BEHAVIOUR OF A HUMAN OR ANIMAL IN THE CARE OF A CARER
    Publication number: 20110015467
    Abstract: A sleep management method and system for use by a carer to improve the sleep behaviour of a child in their care by monitoring one or more objective parameters relevant to sleep quality and providing one or more recommendations for behavioural programs and/or actions to the carer via a portable user interaction device such as a mobile phone. Such a system can also be adapted for use in looking after adults and animals such as domestic pets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Pamela Ann DOTHIE, Thomas Alexander Ford
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A USER'S SLEEP
    Publication number: 20110015495
    Abstract: A sleep management method and system for improving the quality of sleep of a user which monitors one or more objective parameters relevant to sleep quality of the user when in bed and receives from the user in waking hours via a portable device such as a mobile phone feedback from objective test data on cognitive and/or psychomotor performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Pamela Ann DOTHIE, Thomas Alexander FORD
  • SENSOR FOR SENSING AN ANALYTE AND COMBINATION OF THE SENSOR AND AN OPTICAL READER
    Publication number: 20100194410
    Abstract: A sensor array for detecting the content of a fluid sample comprises first and second electrodes having connections for a drive signal. The first electrode is coated with a layer of a first material having optical properties which change according to the electrical charge passing through it or the potential across it. Sensor sites are defined by islands of a second material such that the charge passing through or the potential across the second material, in response to the drive signal, varies according to the fluid sample composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Alexander FORD, Antony Robert Glauser