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Claire Ansell, Cheshire GB
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20090093658 | Process to Blend a Mineral and a Fischer-Tropsch Derived Product Onboard a Marine Vessel - Process to blend a mineral derived hydrocarbon product and a Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon product by providing in a storage vessel of a marine vessel a quantity of mineral derived hydrocarbon product and Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon product such that initially the mineral derived hydrocarbon product is located substantially above the Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon product, transporting the combined products in the marine vessel from one location to another location, also referred to as the destination, and obtaining a blended product at arrival of the marine vessel at its destination. | 04-09-2009 |
20110284117 | FUEL COMPOSITIONS - A system comprising a liner at an interior of the pipe; at least one dry fiber tri-axial braid layer exterior to the liner, the tri-axial braid layer comprising a plurality of axial fibers, a plurality of clockwise fibers, and a plurality of counterclockwise fibers. | 11-24-2011 |
Claire Ansell, Chester GB
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20080244966 | FUEL COMPOSITIONS - Use of a Fischer-Tropsch derived fuel component, in a fuel composition, is provided reducing the tendency of the composition to dissolve metals; increasing its thermal stability; reducing the concentration of a metal deactivator, antioxidant or detergent additive in the composition; or increasing the storage stability of the composition. The composition is preferably a diesel fuel composition. | 10-09-2008 |
Iain Ansell, Newmarket GB
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20110190780 | SURGICAL RETRIEVAL APPARATUS - A method of retrieving a tissue specimen comprising inserting a surgical retrieval apparatus through an opening in a patient's skin, the surgical retrieval apparatus including a support member and a retrieval bag extending from the support member and having an opening to receive the tissue specimen. A net is introduced into the retrieval bag and placed over the tissue specimen. The net and retrieval bag are removed from the patient's body to remove the tissue specimen. | 08-04-2011 |
20120143007 | THORACIC PORT WITH CHANGING ELASTICITY - A surgical access assembly for positioning within an opening in a tissue to provide access to a patient's body for insertion of surgical instrumentation therethrough. The surgical access assembly includes a body portion defining a longitudinal axis and a passageway and having a proximal portion and a distal portion. At least a portion of the distal portion is configured to transition from a more flexible, first configuration for passage into a patient's body and a more rigid, second configuration to securely maintain the distal portion within the patient's body. | 06-07-2012 |
Iain Ansell, Harston GB
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20130151162 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - Drug delivery devices are described that include sensors and processing circuitry that can detect operating events, such as flow rates and drug delivery, in various types of inhalers, such as dry powder inhalers, metered dose inhalers, nasal inhalers and nebulisers. The information determined by the processing circuitry can be used to provide feedback to the user or can be stored or transmitted for subsequent analysis. This information can be used to improve clinical trials by providing information about the way in which the inhalers under test are being used. | 06-13-2013 |
Iain Ansell, Suffolk GB
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20110319719 | THORACIC ACCESS PORT - A surgical access assembly having a body including a leading end, a trailing end, and first and second body members extending between the leading and trailing ends. The leading end, trailing end and first and second body members define a passageway therethrough for receipt of surgical instrumentation. First and second flexible wing members extend proximally from the body. A flexible member is attached to the body and extends proximally therefrom. | 12-29-2011 |
20140046337 | SURGICAL RETRIEVAL APPARATUS - A method of retrieving a tissue specimen comprising inserting a surgical retrieval apparatus through an opening in a patient's skin, the surgical retrieval apparatus including a support member and a retrieval bag extending from the support member and having an opening to receive the tissue specimen. A net is introduced into the retrieval bag and placed over the tissue specimen. The net and retrieval bag are removed from the patient's body to remove the tissue specimen. | 02-13-2014 |
Jayne Ansell, Loxwood GB
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20110092455 | Method and Composition for the Control of Arthropods - The present invention relates to the use of certain siloxanes and mixtures thereof in the control of arthropods such as insects and arachnids, and in particular ectoparasites, such as head lice. | 04-21-2011 |
Keith H. Ansell, London GB
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20090156457 | METHODS AND MEANS FOR SCREENING FOR RHOMBOID ACTIVITY - This invention relates to methods of screening for rhomboid modulating compounds using a substrate polypeptide has a core domain comprising a rhomboid cleavable TMD sequence linked to an upstream tag sequence. The core domain sequence is not susceptible to cleavage by non-rhomboid proteases so products of rhomboid dependent proteolysis products may be detected by determining the presence of the tag sequence. Rhomboid modulating compounds identified by the present methods may be useful in a range of therapeutic applications. | 06-18-2009 |
Oliver Ansell, Bristol GB
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20140352889 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A SEMICONDUCTOR WORKPIECE - An apparatus for processing a semiconductor workpiece includes a first chamber having a first plasma production source and a first gas supply for introducing a supply of gas into the first chamber, a second chamber having a second plasma production source and a second gas supply for introducing a supply of gas into the second chamber, a workpiece support positioned in the second chamber, and a plurality of gas flow pathway defining elements for defining a gas flow pathway in the vicinity of the workpiece when positioned on the workpiece support. The gas flow path defining elements include at least one wafer edge region protection element for protecting the edge of the wafer and/or a region outwardly circumjacent to the edge of the wafer, and at least one auxiliary element spaced apart from the wafer edge region protection element to define the gas flow pathway. | 12-04-2014 |
Oliver Ansell, Berkeley GB
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20100230049 | APPARATUS FOR CHEMICALLY ETCHING A WORKPIECE - Apparatus for chemically etching a workpiece includes a chamber for receiving a process gas and having a pumping port for extracting exhaust gases, and a workpiece support located in the chamber upstream of the pumping port. The chamber further includes a sub-chamber located upstream of the pumping port and downstream of the workpiece support, and the sub-chamber includes a window and an excitation source, adjacent the window, for creating a plasma in a sample of the exhaust gases to create an optical emission which can be monitored through the window. | 09-16-2010 |
Oliver James Ansell, Berkeley, Gloucestershire GB
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20130137195 | ETCHING APPARATUS AND METHODS - A method of etching the whole width of a substrate to expose buried features is disclosed. The method includes etching a face of a substrate across its width to achieve substantially uniform removal of material; illuminating the etched face during the etch process; applying edge detection techniques to light reflected or scattered from the face to detect the appearances of buried features; and modifying the etch in response to the detection of the buried feature. An etching apparatus for etching substrate across its width to expose buried is also disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
Oliver James Ansell, Berkeley GB
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20140174658 | ETCHING APPARATUS AND METHODS - A method is for etching the whole width of a substrate to expose buried features. The method includes etching a face of a substrate across its width to achieve substantially uniform removal of material; illuminating the etched face during the etch process; applying edge detection techniques to light reflected or scattered from the face to detect the appearances of buried features; and modifying the etch in response to the detection of the buried feature. An etching apparatus for etching substrate across its width to expose buried is also disclosed. | 06-26-2014 |
Peter Ansell, Watford GB
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20120293420 | DISAMBIGUATING INTENTIONAL AND INCIDENTAL CONTACT AND MOTION IN MULTI-TOUCH POINTING DEVICES - An input device has both a touch sensor and a position sensor. A computer using data from the input device uses the relative motion of a contact on a touch sensor with respect to motion from a position detector to disambiguate intentional from incidental motion. The input device provides synchronized position sensor and touch sensor data to the computer to permit processing the relative motion and performing other computations on both position sensor and touch sensor data. The input device can encode the magnitude and direction of motion of the position sensor and combines it with the touch sensor data from the same time frame, and output the synchronized data to the computer. | 11-22-2012 |
20120299837 | IDENTIFYING CONTACTS AND CONTACT ATTRIBUTES IN TOUCH SENSOR DATA USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL FEATURES - A touch sensor provides frames of touch sensor data, as the touch sensor is sampled over time. Spatial and temporal features of the touch sensor data from a plurality of frames, and contacts and attributes of the contacts in previous frames, are processed to identify contacts and attributes of the contacts in a current frame. Attributes of the contacts can include, whether the contact is reliable, shrinking, moving, or related to a fingertip touch. The characteristics of contacts can include information about the shape and rate of change of the contact, including but not limited to a sum of its pixels, its shape, size and orientation, motion, average intensities and aspect ratio. | 11-29-2012 |
20140327641 | DISAMBIGUATING INTENTIONAL AND INCIDENTAL CONTACT AND MOTION IN MULTI-TOUCH POINTING DEVICES - An input device has both a touch sensor and a position sensor. A computer using data from the input device uses the relative motion of a contact on a touch sensor with respect to motion from a position detector to disambiguate intentional from incidental motion. The input device provides synchronized position sensor and touch sensor data to the computer to permit processing the relative motion and performing other computations on both position sensor and touch sensor data. The input device can encode the magnitude and direction of motion of the position sensor and combines it with the touch sensor data from the same time frame, and output the synchronized data to the computer. | 11-06-2014 |
Peter John Ansell, Cambridge GB
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20140204013 | PART AND STATE DETECTION FOR GESTURE RECOGNITION - Part and state detection for gesture recognition is useful for human-computer interaction, computer gaming, and other applications where gestures are recognized in real time. In various embodiments a decision forest classifier is used to label image elements of an input image with both part and state labels where part labels identify components of a deformable object, such as finger tips, palm, wrist, lips, laptop lid and where state labels identify configurations of a deformable object such as open, closed, up, down, spread, clenched. In various embodiments the part labels are used to calculate a center of mass of the body parts and the part labels, centers of mass and state labels are used to recognize gestures in real time or near real-time. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205138 | DETECTING THE LOCATION OF A KEYBOARD ON A DESKTOP - Methods and systems for detecting the location of a keyboard on a desktop. The method includes receiving an image of the desktop with the keyboard situated thereon and analyzing the image of the desktop to identify an area of the image corresponding to the keyboard. In one example, the image of the desktop is a depth image and analyzing the image of the desktop includes identifying an image element of the depth image that forms part of the keyboard, identifying first and second corners of the keyboard from the identified image element and determining the area of the image corresponding to the keyboard based on the first and second corners. | 07-24-2014 |
20140208274 | CONTROLLING A COMPUTING-BASED DEVICE USING HAND GESTURES - Methods and system for controlling a computing-based device using both input received from a traditional input device (e.g. keyboard) and hand gestures made on or near a reference object (e.g. keyboard). In some examples, the hand gestures may comprise one or more hand touch gestures and/or one or more hand air gestures. | 07-24-2014 |
Peter John Ansell, Watford GB
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20120131513 | Gesture Recognition Training - Gesture recognition training is described. In an example, a gesture recognizer is trained to detect gestures performed by a user on an input device. Example gesture records, each showing data describing movement of a finger on the input device when performing an identified gesture are retrieved. A parameter set that defines spatial triggers used to detect gestures from data describing movement on the input device is also retrieved. A processor determines a value for each parameter in the parameter set by selecting a number of trial values, applying the example gesture records to the gesture recognizer with each trial value to determine a score for each trial value, using the score for each trial value to estimate a range of values over which the score is a maximum, and selecting the value from the range of values. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131514 | Gesture Recognition - Gesture recognition is described. In one example, gestures performed by a user of an input device having a touch-sensitive portion are detected using a definition of a number of regions corresponding to zones on the touch-sensitive portion, each region being associated with a distinct set of gestures. Data describing movement of the user's digits on the touch-sensitive portion is received, and an associated region for the data determined. The data is compared to the associated region's set of gestures, and a gesture applicable to the data selected. A command associated with the selected gesture can then be executed. In an example, comparing the data to the set of gestures comprises positioning a threshold for each gesture relative to the start of the digit's movement. The digit's location is compared to each threshold to determine whether a threshold has been crossed, and, if so, selecting the gesture associated with that threshold. | 05-24-2012 |
20130197918 | TRANSFERRING DATA VIA AUDIO LINK - Transferring data via audio link is described. In an example a short sequence of data can be transferred between two devices by encoding the sequence of data as an audio sequence. For example, the audio sequence may be a sequence of tones which vary in dependence on the encoded data. The sequence of data may be encoded by a first device and transmitted using a loudspeaker associated with the first device. At least one mobile communications device can be used to capture the audio sequence, for example using a microphone, and to decode the sequence, retrieving the data encoded therein. In some examples the encoded data may comprise a shortened URL or other information which can be used to control one or more aspects of the capture device. | 08-01-2013 |
Steven M. Ansell, Vancouver CA
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20080200417 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ENCAPSULATION OF CHARGED THERAPEUTIC AGENTS IN LIPID VESICLES - Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%. | 08-21-2008 |
20120114831 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ENCAPSULATION OF CHARGED THERAPEUTIC AGENTS IN LIPID VESICLES - Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%. | 05-10-2012 |