Patents by Inventor William Reeve
William Reeve 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: 11966108Abstract: An LCD display, comprising an active display area, a backlight to illuminate the active display area, and an LCD display stack. The LCD display stack may comprise a substrate, a liquid crystal layer over the substrate, and liquid crystal cover layer. The substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal cover layer define a liquid crystal cell. The LCD display stack has an edge seal extending between the substrate and the liquid cover layer, and extends over the active display area and beyond the active display area to bend around an edge of the backlight, such that the edge seal lies beyond the active display area.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FLEXENABLE TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: William Reeves, Andrew Robert James Russell, James Harding
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Publication number: 20230400736Abstract: A technique, comprising: producing an assembly in preparation for a later process of permanently stretching one or more parts of the assembly; wherein the assembly comprises an amount of liquid crystal material in a region laterally bounded by a lateral barrier; and wherein producing the assembly comprises determining the amount of LC material, based at least partly on one or more parameters of the later stretching process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Flexenable Technology LimitedInventors: May Wheeler, William Reeves
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Publication number: 20230352204Abstract: The invention provides an irradiation system, devices, and methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: John LaViola, William McLaughlin, William Reeves, Robert Conley, Michael Piombino
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Patent number: 11645690Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of delivering a self-directed user experience includes encoding access to an intermediate menu in at least one matrix bar code, developing an intermediate menu that facilitates a self-directed user experience, and presenting the at least one matrix bar code to a user via placement on a product. Further in accordance with this aspect, the method may include directing the user to the intermediate menu via the at least one matrix bar code such that the self-directed user experience is responsive to user interaction with intermediate menu.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: John S. Phillips, Gregory Buckley, William Reeves
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Publication number: 20220276508Abstract: We disclose an optical device comprising an optical stack. The optical stack comprises a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer, and an optical medium located between the first and second substrate layers. The optical stack is bent such that a second portion of the optical stack extends behind a first portion of the optical stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: James Harding, William Reeves
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Publication number: 20220229325Abstract: An LCD display, comprising an active display area, a backlight to illuminate the active display area, and an LCD display stack. The LCD display stack may comprise a substrate, a liquid crystal layer over the substrate, and liquid crystal cover layer. The substrate, the liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal cover layer define a liquid crystal cell. The LCD display stack has an edge seal extending between the substrate and the liquid cover layer, and extends over the active display area and beyond the active display area to bend around an edge of the backlight, such that the edge seal lies beyond the active display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: William Reeves, Andrew Robert James Russell, James Harding
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Patent number: 11314122Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing a cell assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between (i) a polariser component comprising an active film and no more than one support film, and (ii) a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between the polariser component of the assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Flexenable LimitedInventors: William Reeves, Barry Wild, James Harding, May Wheeler
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Patent number: 11249349Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device comprising a stack of at least first and second LC cells in optical series, each of the first and second LC cells comprising two half-cells and LC material contained in a space at least partially defined by spacer structures forming an integral part of one or both half-cells; wherein the arrangement within an active area of the device of the spacer structures in one of the first and second LC cells is different to the arrangement within the active area of the device of the spacer structures in the other of the first and second LC cells; and wherein the difference between the two arrangements comprises an ordered aspect.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Flexenable LimitedInventors: Barry Wild, William Reeves
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Patent number: 11215868Abstract: A technique, comprising: removing a protective film from one side of a polarisation filter component to expose a dichroic doped polymer active film or a layer formed in situ on the dichroic doped polymer active film; and thereafter forming in situ on the side of the polarisation filter component one or more functional layers of a liquid crystal device.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Flexenable LimitedInventors: William Reeves, Barry Wild, James Harding
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Publication number: 20210294163Abstract: We disclose herewith a display device comprising a plurality of pixels. Each pixel comprises a first encapsulation layer; a second encapsulation layer; and a display medium disposed between the first and second encapsulation layers. The first encapsulation layer is disposed above an upper surface of the display medium and the second encapsulation layer is disposed below a lower surface of the display medium. A plurality of electrodes extends laterally through the display medium. The plurality of electrodes is oriented at an oblique angle relative to an axis extending between two opposing edges of the pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: William Reeves, James Harding
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Publication number: 20210240027Abstract: A liquid crystal cell comprising liquid crystal material contained between two plastics film components, wherein the liquid crystal material is interspersed with spacers, wherein (a) the area occupied by spacers is between about 0.25% and about 0.5% of the sum of (a) the area occupied by spacers and (b) the area occupied by the liquid crystal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Barry Wild, William Reeves
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Publication number: 20210109403Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing a cell assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between (i) a polariser component comprising an active film and no more than one support film, and (ii) a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between the polariser component of the assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: William Reeves, Barry Wild, James Harding, May Wheeler
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Publication number: 20210109402Abstract: A technique, comprising: removing a protective film from one side of a polarisation filter component to expose a dichroic doped polymer active film or a layer formed in situ on the dichroic doped polymer active film; and thereafter forming in situ on the side of the polarisation filter component one or more functional layers of a liquid crystal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: William Reeves, Barry Wild, James Harding
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Patent number: 10971641Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprising a unit, which unit comprises: a plurality of resiliently flexible sheet components bonded together, the resiliently flexible sheet components comprising: (i) a first sheet component comprising at least a stack of layers defining an array of pixel electrodes and electrical circuitry for independently addressing each pixel electrodes via addressing conductors outside the array of pixel electrodes; and (ii) a second sheet component bonded to a top surface of the first sheet component; wherein the device further comprises one or more driver chips bonded to the first sheet component in a location underlying the second component and for electrical contact between said addressing conductors and terminals of said one or more driver chips; and wherein the thickness of material in the unit in the region of the one or more driver chips is substantially the same as the thickness of material in the unit in the region of the array.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FLEXENBLE LIMITEDInventors: William Reeves, Sharjil Siddique
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Publication number: 20210061357Abstract: A system and method for expanding a frame of a vehicle at least after partial assembly of the vehicle along an assembly line. The frame includes opposing first and second side rail assemblies that are, during at least initial assembly, in a first configuration that comprises, for each side rail assembly, a removable first insert mechanically coupled to front and rear sections of the side rail assembly. The vehicle can be selectively separated and expanded to a second configuration via the first insert being detached from, and a second insert instead being attached to, one of the front and rear sections. The first and second inserts can be coupled to opposing ends of a rail sleeve that is positioned between the front and rear sections. A supplementary floor pan that can be coupled to additional seat can positioned over the rail sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Gilling Braun, Samuel Ross Lyons, William Reeves, JR., Gregory James Lacock, Justin Thigpen
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Publication number: 20210065272Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of delivering a self-directed user experience includes encoding access to an intermediate menu in at least one matrix bar code, developing an intermediate menu that facilitates a self-directed user experience, and presenting the at least one matrix bar code to a user via placement on a product. Further in accordance with this aspect, the method may include directing the user to the intermediate menu via the at least one matrix bar code such that the self-directed user experience is responsive to user interaction with intermediate menu.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: John S. Phillips, Gregory Buckley, William Reeves
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Publication number: 20210047995Abstract: An airfoil performance monitor comprising a housing mounted on a low pressure face of an airfoil, and defining pitot and static pressure orifices; an airspeed-dependent sensor that senses airflow impinging on the pitot orifices and generates a digital airflow signal indicative of turbulence of the airflow; and a controller that derives a turbulence intensity ratio by filtering turbulence values calculated from the digital airflow signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Marinvent CorporationInventors: John Maris, William Reeve Hicks
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Publication number: 20200409199Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device comprising a stack of at least first and second LC cells in optical series, each of the first and second LC cells comprising two half-cells and LC material contained in a space at least partially defined by spacer structures forming an integral part of one or both half-cells; wherein the arrangement within an active area of the device of the spacer structures in one of the first and second LC cells is different to the arrangement within the active area of the device of the spacer structures in the other of the first and second LC cells; and wherein the difference between the two arrangements comprises an ordered aspect.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Barry Wild, William Reeves
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Patent number: 10796652Abstract: A display device for conformal mounting on a curved surface inclined at an oblique angle relative to a horizontal plane, the display device comprising: a plurality of pixels, a first set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a second set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels, wherein the first set of conductive lines and the second set of conductive lines are arranged to define a shape of each of the plurality of pixels such that the pixels appear, to a viewer, to extend at least one of horizontally or vertically across the display device when the display device is mounted on the curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FLEXENABLE LIMITEDInventors: Barry Wild, William Reeves, James Harding
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Publication number: 20200243794Abstract: We disclose herein a display device comprising a first encapsulation layer, a second encapsulation layer disposed over the first encapsulation layer and spaced from the first encapsulation layer, a display medium disposed between the first and second encapsulation layers and at least one optical device located underneath the first encapsulation layer and the display medium. The at least the first encapsulation layer overlies the at least one optical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Simon Jones, William Reeves