Wallis, GB
Andrew Wallis, Bath GB
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20150305488 | TUFT FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus ( | 10-29-2015 |
Andrew John Wallis, Wantage Oxfordshire GB
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20130248533 | CLOSURE - This invention relates to an improved closure in the form of an annular component ( | 09-26-2013 |
Christopher John Wallis, Stevenage GB
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20120220779 | Novel Processes - The present invention provides processes useful for preparing 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP) inhibitors and their intermediates. In particular, processes for preparing 3-[3-(tert-butylsulfanyl)-1-[4-(6-ethoxy-pyridin-3-yl)benzyl]-5-(5-methyl-pyridin-2-yl-methoxy)-1H-indol-2-yl]-2,2-dimethyl-propionic acid, the anhydrous Form C polymorph of sodium 3-[3-(tert-butylsulfanyl)-1-[4-(6-ethoxy-pyridin-3-yl)benzyl]-5-(5-methyl-pyridin-2-yl-methoxy)-1H-indol-2-yl]-2,2-dimethyl-propionate, and intermediates useful in said processes are provided. | 08-30-2012 |
David John Wallis, Malvern GB
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20090236542 | OPTICAL INSPECTION - This invention relates to methods of determining physical characteristics of and identifying and locating defects in substrates, such as semiconductor wafers, optical thin films, display screens and the like. The method involve use of PC scanners to image the substrate. In particular PC scanners used in transmission mode imaging allow information about the volume of the substrate to be determined. The method allows determination of characteristics such as layer thickness, curvature and optical constants through use of interferometery techniques and bifrefringence and strain through use of polarised imaging. The methods also relate to stimulating luminescence in the substrate, for example photoluminescence and electroluminescence and scanning the stimulated substrate for luminescence mapping. | 09-24-2009 |
20120018704 | UNIAXIAL TENSILE STRAIN IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device structure comprises an active layer and a buffer layer. The active layer is a quantum well structure. There is a lattice mismatch between the buffer layer and the active layer which places the active layer under biaxial compressive strain. Uniaxial tensile strain is applied to the active layer to reduce compressive strain on the active layer in a second direction but not in a first direction. This favours hole and electron mobility in the first direction, rendering the semiconductor device structure suitable for the formation of both p-channel and n-channel devices. | 01-26-2012 |
20120025168 | STRAIN CONTROL IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device comprises the following elements: an active layer comprising a quantum well structure and a buffer layer beneath the active layer adapted to form a confinement layer for charge carriers in the active layer. The buffer layer is adapted so as not to increase an overall strain in the active layer. The active layer is already strained as a result of a lattice mismatch between the active layer and the buffer layer. Strain in the buffer layer may be controlled by use of a strain control buffer layer and by appropriate choices of material and composition for the buffer layer and for a substrate on which the buffer layer is grown. | 02-02-2012 |
20120025170 | P-TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device comprises an active layer above a first confinement layer. The active layer comprises a layer of α-Sn less than 20 nm thick. The first confinement layer is formed of material with a wider band gap than α-Sn, wherein the band gap offset between α-Sn and this material allows confinement of charge carriers in the active layer so that the active layer acts as a quantum well. A similar second confinement layer may be formed over the active layer. This semiconductor device may be a p-FET. A method of fabricating such a semiconductor device is described. | 02-02-2012 |
20140042558 | METHOD OF FABRICATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The invention relates to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method including: providing a stacked semiconductor structure having a substrate, a buffer layer and one or more device layers; depositing a layer of AlSb on one or more regions of the upper surface of the stacked structure; and oxidising the AlSb layer in the presence of water to form a layer of aluminium oxide on the one or more regions of the upper surface. The semiconductor device is preferably a field effect transistor, and the method preferably includes the additional step of depositing source, drain and/or gate electrodes. In preferred embodiments, the method is controlled so as to avoid exposing the intermediate AlSb structure to the atmosphere and/or the oxidation step is conducted at a temperature between 100° and 300° C. | 02-13-2014 |
Graham Derek Wallis, Hampshire GB
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20100057880 | Method of Routing Messages to Multiple Consumers - A method of routing messages to multiple consumers comprises determining a probability function defining message classification probabilities for each of a plurality of consumer sets, receiving a plurality of messages, classifying each message, storing each message in a queue, receiving notification of a consumer available to process a message, ascertaining the consumer set to which the available consumer belongs, accessing the probabilities for the ascertained consumer set, selecting a message classification according to the accessed probabilities, and transmitting a message, of the selected classification, to the available consumer. | 03-04-2010 |
Graham Derek Wallis, Hants GB
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20120047518 | SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING MESSAGE ORDER - The order of messages in an asynchronous message system is preserved, by generating a message and tagging the generated message with a sequence identifier and a sequence number. The order of messages is further preserved by processing the tagged message by checking a log to determine whether the sequence identifier is in the log, sending the tagged message to a selected consumer if the sequence identifier is not in the log and sending the tagged message to a particular consumer if the sequence identifier is in the log. Still further, the order of messages is preserved by writing an entry to the log having the sequence identifier and the sequence number of the tagged message and a consumer identifier of the selected consumer if the sequence identifier of the tagged message is not in the log. | 02-23-2012 |
Graham Patrick Wallis, Hertfordshire GB
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20110084161 | MISSILE GUIDANCE SYSTEM - In a CLOS missile guidance system, target and missile tracking data e.g. video image data are acquired on a UAV and transmitted to the missile where they are processed to provide guidance control data to the missile. Alternatively the video image data may be transmitted to a command station where the guidance control data is generated and transmitted to the missile, preferably via the UAV. | 04-14-2011 |
Michael J. Wallis, Barrow GB
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20110088261 | METHOD OF MAKING AND JOINING AN AEROFOIL AND ROOT - A ducted fan gas turbine engine aerofoil is made by electron beam welding together at least two metal sheets ( | 04-21-2011 |
Michael J. Wallis, Clitheroe GB
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20100226778 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN AEROFOIL - A method of manufacturing an aerofoil structure capable of being diffusion bonded and superplastically formed to create a substantially hollow cavity within the aerofoil structure, the method comprising: providing two metallic panels ( | 09-09-2010 |
20100226781 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN AEROFOIL - A method of manufacturing an aerofoil structure capable of being diffusion bonded and superplastically formed to create a substantially hollow cavity within the aerofoil structure, the method comprising: providing a metallic plate for forming the aerofoil structure; joining mounting elements to opposing end surfaces of said metallic plate; dividing said plate along a plane extending substantially in a span-wise direction so as to produce two metallic panels each with one of said mounting elements joined thereto; assembling the two metallic panels so that the surfaces of the panels opposite to the surfaces which have been divided are facing each other; and joining the two metallic panels to one another to form the aerofoil structure; wherein the mounting elements are joined to one another to form the root of the aerofoil. | 09-09-2010 |
20100270360 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN AEROFOIL - A method of manufacturing an aerofoil structure to have a portion with an increased erosion resistance, the method comprising: providing one or more titanium elements ( | 10-28-2010 |
20120163983 | DIFFUSION BONDED AND SUPERPLASTICALLY FORMED TURBOMACHINE BLADE - A diffusion bonded and superplastically formed turbomachine blade, the turbomachine blade comprising: a first layer ( | 06-28-2012 |
Michael James Wallis, Clitheroe GB
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20090191381 | Component Structure - Provision of component structures with line core elements are known but enhancing beyond a certain level of stiffness for impact resistance is difficult in view of manufacturing tolerances and bond region ratios. By providing discontinuous core elements | 07-30-2009 |
20150110637 | HOLLOW COMPONENT MANUFACTURE - A method of manufacturing a hollow component, such as a fan blade for a gas turbine engine, includes the steps of: (a) providing first and second panels and a membrane; (b) providing a stop-off material on at least one of the first and second panels and the membrane to define regions where no diffusion bonding is to take place; (c) assembling the panels and the membrane together so the membrane is between the panels; (d) diffusion bonding the panels and the membrane together. The method is such that when assembled in step (c) the membrane does not extend to at least one edge of the first and second panels, so that in that region the first and second panels are diffusion bonded directly to each other. | 04-23-2015 |
Paul S. Wallis, Swansea GB
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20140093703 | LAMINATES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - An incrementally activated laminate that includes an incrementally activated fibrous web and a film having alternating first and second regions and a laminate of the film and an extensible fibrous web. The first region of the film includes a first polymeric composition, and the second regions include an elastic polymeric composition that is more elastic than the first polymeric composition. In the incrementally activated laminate, the distance between midpoints of two first regions separated by one second region is smaller than the activation pitch, and the first regions are not plastically deformed. In the extensible laminate, a tensile elongation at maximum load of the film is up to 250 percent of the tensile elongation at maximum load of the extensible fibrous web. Methods of making the laminates are also described. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093716 | FILM WITH ALTERNATING STRIPES AND STRANDS AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A film comprising stripes alternating with strands is disclosed. In some embodiments, the strands have a core and a sheath. The core is more elastic than both the sheath and the strands. In some embodiments, the film has an elongation of at least 75 percent, the width of the strands is in a range from 100 micrometers to 750 micrometers, and a portion of each strand forms part of at least one major surface of the film. An extrusion die useful for making the film and a method for making the film using the extrusion die are also disclosed. | 04-03-2014 |
Phillip Wallis, Lincolnshire GB
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20110204062 | PRESSURE VESSEL - A pressure vessel | 08-25-2011 |
Richard Frederick Wallis, Gloucestershire GB
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20100027773 | TELEPHONE APPARATUS - A telephone apparatus has a base station ( | 02-04-2010 |
Robert A. Wallis, Winchester GB
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20140100780 | INTELLIGENT ROUTE NAVIGATION - Embodiments relate to providing navigation instructions to a user for reaching a destination via a route planned on a map of a navigation system, said map comprising a plurality of road segments, at least a subset of said road segments comprising an assigned familiarity score. An aspect includes tracking a route taken by a user. Another aspect includes calculating an updated familiarity score of the one or more road segments of the tracked route using at least one of a user-defined updating variable and an updating variable based on at least one dynamically obtained actual travelling condition. Yet another aspect includes storing the updated familiarity score in a data storage of the navigation system. | 04-10-2014 |
Robert J. Wallis, Uk GB
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20130159649 | Selecting a Primary-Secondary Host Pair for Mirroring Virtual Machines - A method for mirroring virtual machines from a primary host to a secondary host. The method includes tracking changes for each of a plurality of memory pages and processor states for one or more primary host virtual machines. Responsive to an occurrence of a checkpoint, the primary host virtual machines are stopped. A determination is made if each of the memory pages is frequently changed. In response to the memory page being frequently changed, the frequently changed memory page is marked as being writeable and copied to a buffer. In response to the memory page being infrequently changed, the infrequently changed memory page is marked as being read only. The one or more primary host virtual machines are resumed. A copy of the memory pages, the buffer and changes to the processor states are transmitted to the secondary host. | 06-20-2013 |
Robert J. Wallis, Cheshire GB
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20150134704 | Real Time Analysis of Big Data - This invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for processing large scale unstructured data comprising: a receiver for receiving streamed input data from live data sources; a pattern generator for deriving emergent patterns in data subsets; a pattern identifier for identifying a repeating pattern and corresponding data subset within the emergent patterns; a compressor for reducing the identified data subset and identified pattern to a compressed signature; and a repository for storing the streamed input data with the compressed signature and without the identified data subset wherein the data subset can be rebuilt if necessary using the compressed signature. | 05-14-2015 |
Robert John Wallis, Stockport GB
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20150052241 | COMPUTER SYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY MONITORING - Embodiments of the inventive subject matter include an apparatus comprising a processor and a computer readable storage medium having computer usable code. The computer usable code can be configured to gather information about a computer system. The computer usable code can be further configured to generate a profile of performance of the computer system based on the information about the computer system. The computer usable code can be further configured to generate a profile of usage of the computer system based on the information about the computer system. The computer usable code can be further configured to analyze the profile of performance of the computer system against the profile of usage of the computer system. The computer usable code can be further configured to determine that productivity of the computer system is inhibited based on the analysis of the profile of performance against the profile of usage. | 02-19-2015 |
20150134815 | COMPUTER SYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY MONITORING - Embodiments of the inventive subject matter include gathering, from a plurality of sensors of a computer system, information about the computer system. Embodiments further include generating a profile of performance of the computer system indicating a state of components of the computer system during use. Embodiments further include generating a profile of usage of the computer system indicating current activities and usage of the computer system. Embodiments further include analyzing the profile of performance of the computer system against the profile of usage of the computer system to determine if the state of the components of the computer system during use is acceptable for the current activities and usage of the computer system. Embodiments further include determining that productivity of the computer system is inhibited based, at least in part, on the analyzing the profile of performance of the computer system against the profile of usage of the computer system. | 05-14-2015 |
Russell Wallis, Witney GB
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20120225437 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING INHIBITORS OF MANNAN-BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASE (MASP) PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF - This disclosure is directed to methods and compositions to inhibit MASP protein activity using small molecule inhibitors. In one aspect, the disclosure is directed to methods for identifying inhibitors of MASP protein activity, including methods of screening capable of inhibiting MASP protein activity. | 09-06-2012 |
Russell Wallis, Oxfordshire GB
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20140364507 | Methods for Identifying Inhibitors of Mannan-binding Lectin-associated Serine Protease (MASP) Proteins and Uses Thereof - This disclosure is directed to methods and compositions to inhibit MASP protein activity using small molecule inhibitors. In one aspect, the disclosure is directed to methods for identifying inhibitors of MASP protein activity, including methods of screening capable of inhibiting MASP protein activity. | 12-11-2014 |
Scott Wallis, Bristol GB
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20150154819 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHECKING AN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR SHOCK ABSORBER - An electronic device checks the pressure of an aircraft landing gear oleo by means of a camera capturing and processing an image of the oleo. An image recognition module processes the oleo image to extract a measure of the amount of extension of the oleo. This measure is then processed together with a measure of oleo temperature to calculate a pressure value representative of the expected pressure of the gas within the oleo, which can then be compared with another measurement of oleo pressure to determine whether the two are consistent or whether the oleo might be under- or over-filled with gas. The electronic device may be in the form of a hand-held smart phone or tablet device appropriately programmed with software. | 06-04-2015 |