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Andrew Charles Renton, Lower Hutt NZ
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20130095705 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS FOR HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION AND/OR RETICULATION - Among other things, an apparatus and method for use with a high-voltage electrical connector are provided. The connector selectively connects a first electrical conductor to a second electrical conductor. The connector may comprise a body portion and a securing portion. The body portion and the securing portion may at least in part define an engaging aperture. A tensioning component may also be present to constrict and/or un-constrict the engaging aperture. The second electrical conductor may be received into or out of the engaging aperture in a direction lateral to the connector. | 04-18-2013 |
Bradley Renton, Pleasanton, CA US
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20100249772 | TREATMENT OF SKIN DEFORMATION - The invention provides a system and method for percutaneous energy delivery in an effective, manner using one or more probes to effect a cosmetic improvement in tissue. | 09-30-2010 |
Christopher M. Renton, Oakville CA
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20100108755 | Beverage Holder Having a Chip Unit for Performing Payment Transactions - A beverage holder apparatus includes a chip unit attached to a beverage holder and adapted to communicate with a chip unit reader to perform a payment transaction to purchase the beverage. The chip unit stores an account identifier associated with a financial account, and transmits the stored account identifier to the chip unit reader to perform the payment transaction. | 05-06-2010 |
Clive Esmond Harwood Renton, Luckington GB
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20100156056 | Machine adaptation - The invention relates to the transmission of power and/or data from/to a stationary part of a machine tool | 06-24-2010 |
David B. Renton, Powell, OH US
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20140277108 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR GRASPING MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AND METHODS OF USE - According to various implementations, a surgical instrument is provided that has two graspers for remotely grasping an organ or tissue in two different locations. The surgeon can manipulate the organ or tissue using the instrument with one hand while using his or her other hand to perform a surgical procedure. Using one instrument also reduces the number of incisions required. This instrument is especially useful in laproscopic procedures and other minimally invasive surgeries. | 09-18-2014 |
Joseph Renton, Orange, CA US
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20100138581 | Universal Docking System - A docking system is presented for an ecosystem where multiple media players provide functionality according to the location of corresponding docking stations. The docking stations have locally encoded media player persona information that depends on the location where the docking station is installed. Once a media player is docked with the docking station, the media player obtains the persona information and configures itself to provide the functionality required for the location. The media player can restrict content as necessary based on the obtained persona information. Other features also can be incorporated within the docking station and media player assemblies to provide for proper airflow, isolation from vibration, or installation by unskilled individuals. A preferred ecosystem employing the disclosed techniques includes an aircraft in-flight entertainment system. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138879 | Entertainment Systems Utilizing Field Replaceable Storage Units - Vehicular entertainment systems where devices in the systems can each utilize a common type of storage units are presented. A vehicular entertainment system can include a media server head unit in communication over a network with a plurality of media players that are installed about the cabin of a vehicle. Media content can be stored on a plurality of field replaceable storage units where each of the storage units can be installed in any one of the players or the server. Each of the storage units can store a substantially identical content set including passenger content, player content, server content, crew content, or other types of content. The server or players can be restricted from accessing content to which they lack rights, possibly based on a location identifier that indicates roles or responsibilities of the players at their installed location. | 06-03-2010 |
20140059184 | Entertainment Systems Utilizing Field Replaceable Storage Units - Vehicular entertainment systems where devices in the systems can each utilize a common type of storage units are presented. A vehicular entertainment system can include a media server head unit in communication over a network with a plurality of media players that are installed about the cabin of a vehicle. Media content can be stored on a plurality of field replaceable storage units where each of the storage units can be installed in any one of the players or the server. Each of the storage units can store a substantially identical content set including passenger content, player content, server content, crew content, or other types of content. The server or players can be restricted from accessing content to which they lack rights, possibly based on a location identifier that indicates roles or responsibilities of the players at their installed location. | 02-27-2014 |
Joseph Renton, Yorba Linda, CA US
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20100008503 | Secure Terminal Data Loader Apparatus and Method for a Mobile Platform - A terminal data loading device on a mobile platform includes a media unit for receiving a transportable media element containing media data and outputting a media signal to a control processor unit. The control processor unit outputs an information signal to a wireline communication unit. The wireline communication unit outputs a wireline signal to a network on the mobile platform. | 01-14-2010 |
20100138582 | ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH LOOPED DAISY-CHAINED NETWORK OF DOCKING STATIONS - An entertainment system comprising a media server networked with a plurality of docking stations is presented. The media server and docking stations can be networked together into a looped daisy-chained network to provide for content distribution to docked media players. The looped daisy-chained network retains connectivity or continuity when media players are undocked or when a connection is broken. In preferred embodiments, the entertainment system can be deployed within an aircraft as an in-flight entertainment system. | 06-03-2010 |
20120116615 | Secure Terminal Data Loader Apparatus and Method for a Mobile Platform - A terminal data loading device on a mobile platform includes a media unit for receiving a transportable media element containing media data and outputting a media signal to a control processor unit. The control processor unit outputs an information signal to a wireline communication unit. The wireline communication unit outputs a wireline signal to a network on the mobile platform. | 05-10-2012 |
20130318272 | Entertainment System with Network of Docking Stations - An entertainment system comprising a media server networked with a plurality of docking stations is presented. The media server and docking stations can be networked together into a looped daisy-chained network to provide for content distribution to docked media players. The looped daisy-chained network retains connectivity or continuity when media players are undocked or when a connection is broken. In preferred embodiments, the entertainment system can be deployed within an aircraft as an in-flight entertainment system. | 11-28-2013 |
Julian Renton, Bradford On Avon GB
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20110226549 | Safety Line Traveller and Support - A traveller for a fall arrest system including a body having a bore and a slot narrower than the bore linking to the bore to the exterior of the body. A load member is connected to the body for pivotal movement relative to the body and suitable for attachment to fall safety equipment. The body has a centre of gravity positioned so that when the traveller is supported on a safety line passing through the bore, the body will be urged by gravity to rotate about the safety line towards a position in which the slot has a predetermined orientation relative to the safety line. | 09-22-2011 |
Julian Elwyn Renton, Wiltshire GB
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20090173578 | PERSONAL HEIGHT RESCUE APPARATUS - There is provided height rescue apparatus comprising a casing which incorporates a bracket for attachment to a harness. The bracket can be releasably attached to a load element which is attached to a safety line which in turn can be attached to a secure anchorage. There is also a release means in the form of a pull cord for releasing the load element from the bracket after a fall and speed control means for controlling the rate of deployment of an elongate element stored within the casing and thus controlling the descent of a user. | 07-09-2009 |
20100282541 | HEIGHT RESCUE APPARATUS - There is provided a height rescue apparatus ( | 11-11-2010 |
20140190770 | Height Rescue Apparatus - There is provided a height rescue apparatus comprising a safety line ( | 07-10-2014 |
Kai Renton, Trondheim NO
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20120161732 | Voltage Regulator Configuration - A voltage regulator is configurable to operate in a linear regulator mode or a buck regulator mode. To operate in the buck regulator mode, the voltage regulator is coupled to an inductor. To determine whether an inductor is coupled to voltage regulator, and thus whether the voltage regulator can be configured in the buck regulator mode, a detection circuit determines whether a regulator output of the voltage regulator resists a change in current driven to the regulator output. | 06-28-2012 |
Nigel J. Renton, London GB
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20110125627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING TRADING ORDERS IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEM USING TRADER LISTS - A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a trader list that is associated with a first trader and that designates one or more other traders. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a trading order from the first trader. The processor is further operable to transmit the trading order to a plurality of traders, wherein the plurality of traders does not comprise any of the one or more designated traders from the trader list. The processor is further operable to prevent the transmission of the trading order to the one or more designated traders. | 05-26-2011 |
20130091048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRADING ORDERS RECEIVED FROM MARKET MAKERS - According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. A first offer for a particular instrument in a particular market is received from a first market maker at a first offer price. A first bid for the same particular instrument in the same particular market is received from a second market maker at a first bid price, the first bid price being higher than or equal to the first offer price. As a result of the first bid price being higher than or equal to the first offer price, the first offer price is automatically increased to a price higher than the first bid price such that a trade is not executed between the first offer and the first bid. In some embodiments, such method may be used to protect market makers from unwanted trades caused by inherent latency in the market makers' pricing engines and/or networks. | 04-11-2013 |
20150088725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TRADING ORDERS RECEIVED FROM MARKET MAKERS - According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. A first offer for a particular instrument in a particular market is received from a first market maker at a first offer price. A first bid for the same particular instrument in the same particular market is received from a second market maker at a first bid price, the first bid price being higher than or equal to the first offer price. As a result of the first bid price being higher than or equal to the first offer price, the first offer price is automatically increased to a price higher than the first bid price such that a trade is not executed between the first offer and the first bid. In some embodiments, such method may be used to protect market makers from unwanted trades caused by inherent latency in the market makers' pricing engines and/or networks. | 03-26-2015 |
Nigel John Renton, London GB
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20140180895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTING A TRADING ORDER OVER A RANGE OF PRICES - According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. A trading order intended for a trading exchange is received from a trader, the trading order having an associated trading order price. A group of distributed trading orders is automatically generated based at least on the trading order price and a set of pre-configured distribution parameters associated with the trading order. The group of distributed trading orders is distributed over a multiple price levels. The generated group of distributed trading orders is automatically submitted to the trading exchange. | 06-26-2014 |
Paul Renton, Toronto CA
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20080234237 | QUINOLONE AND TETRAHYDROQUINOLONE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS HAVING NOS INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention features quinolones, tetrahydroquinolines, and related compounds that inhibit nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly those that selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in preference to other NOS isoforms. The NOS inhibitors of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing various medical conditions. | 09-25-2008 |
20080249302 | SUBSTITUTED INDOLE COMPOUNDS HAVING NOS INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention features inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly those that selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in preference to other NOS isoforms. The NOS inhibitors of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing conditions such as, for example, stroke, reperfusion injury, neurodegeneration, head trauma, CABG, migraine headache with and without aura, migraine with allodynia, central post-stroke pain (CPSP), neuropathic pain, morphine/opioid induced tolerance and hyperalgesia. | 10-09-2008 |
20090131503 | 3,5 - SUBSTITUTED INDOLE COMPOUNDS HAVING NOS AND NOREPINEPHRINE REUPTAKE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention relates to novel 3,5-substituted indole compounds of Formula (I) having nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitory activity together with inhibitory activity at the norepinephrine transporter (NET), to pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions containing them, and to their medical use. | 05-21-2009 |
20090192157 | INDOLE COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR TREATING VISCERAL PAIN - The invention features methods of treating visceral pain or a condition in a mammal caused by the action of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) or by the action of serotonin 5HT1D/1B receptors, by administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an indole compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. The methods of the invention may further comprise the administration of additional therapeutic agent. The invention also features new compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of resolving enantiomeric mixtures. | 07-30-2009 |
20110212947 | SUBSTITUTED INDOLE COMPOUNDS HAVING NOS INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention features inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly those that selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in preference to other NOS isoforms. The NOS inhibitors of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing conditions such as, for example, stroke, reperfusion injury, neurodegeneration, head trauma, CABG, migraine headache with and without aura, migraine with allodynia, central post-stroke pain (CPSP), neuropathic pain, morphine/opioid induced tolerance and hyperalgesia. | 09-01-2011 |
20140051687 | SUBSTITUTED INDOLE COMPOUNDS HAVING NOS INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention features inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly those that selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in preference to other NOS isoforms. The NOS inhibitors of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing conditions such as, for example, stroke, reperfusion injury, neurodegeneration, head trauma, CABG, migraine headache with and without aura, migraine with allodynia, central post-stroke pain (CPSP), neuropathic pain, morphine/opioid induced tolerance and hyperalgesia. | 02-20-2014 |
Robert E. Renton, Boston GB
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20130266722 | OPTICALLY VARIABLE DEVICE WITH DIFFRACTION-BASED MICRO-OPTICS, METHOD OF CREATING THE SAME, AND ARTICLE EMPLOYING THE SAME - A security device includes an optically variable device (OVD) having diffraction-based micro-optics including at least one moiré magnified visual representation of a micro-object. A diffractive structure provides micro-objects with unique optical effects when the OVD is viewed through the micro-object structure from a predetermined relative observation point. In addition to magnifying the micro-objects, the diffractive structure can impart optical effects such as change in observed color, enhanced contrast, animation of the observed visual representation, and change in size or shape of the observed visual representation. The micro-objects and the diffractive structure can be disposed on the same or different portions of a substrate. A method of making OVDs, and an article employing such OVDs are also disclosed. | 10-10-2013 |
Robert Edward Renton, Lincolnshire GB
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20110317271 | OPTICALLY VARIABLE DEVICES, SECURITY DEVICE AND ARTICLE EMPLOYING SAME, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CREATING SAME - An optically variable device (“OVD”) with an integral image system that includes a focusing element and an array of micro-objects which, when viewed through the focusing element, changes in appearance depending on the relative location from which the OVD is observed. A security device including the OVD and methods for creating the OVD are also disclosed. | 12-29-2011 |
20140264168 | SECURITY DEVICE USING LIQUID CRYSTALS - The invention generally relates to optically variable devices, methods of preparation and applications or uses therefor. In particular, the invention includes trigger molecules employed as a dopant for a liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal material contains helical elements having a natural twist. The dopant is effective to change the natural twist of the helical elements when the dopant is addressed with incident light. Suitable dopants are selected from binaphthalene and derivatives thereof. | 09-18-2014 |
Tim Renton, Queensland AU
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20150315854 | ROD HANDLER IMPROVEMENTS - A handler for drill rods, a drill rod support thereof, a method of operation for the handler, and a drill rig employing the handler and the drill rod support is provided. The drill rod support includes a socket configured to receive a portion of a length of a drill rod, and a clamping device disposed within the socket and movable between clamping and release positions with respect to the drill rod. | 11-05-2015 |
William J. Renton, Kent, WA US
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20090295622 | Ground Vehicle Collision Prevention Systems and Methods - The present invention comprises systems and methods for preventing collisions between aircraft and ground vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a proximity detection unit and a transducer proximate to a selected structural portion of an aircraft, the proximity detection unit being operable to emit ranging signals through the transducer and to receive reflected signals through the transducer to determine the position of an object within a ranging area adjacent to the structural portion. The system further includes an alarm device coupled to the proximity detection unit that is responsive to a signal generated by the proximity detection unit. In another embodiment, a method includes determining a distance between the ground service vehicle and a selected structural portion of the aircraft when the vehicle is positioned in a ranging area about the aircraft. The method further includes generating a proximity alarm based upon the distance. | 12-03-2009 |