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Brian Docherty, Sketty GB
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| 20110253782 | LOADED DUMMY TRACK RUNNING ALONGSIDE THE CARD DATA LINES CARRYING DUMMY DATA - Dummy data wires or PCB tracks are employed that run close to and parallel with the wires or tracks that carry the actual data between the card and the microprocessor. These dummy data tracks or wires are driven with dummy random data at a similar data rate to that used on the real data track(s) or wire(s). As the dummy tracks or wires are close to the “real” data tracks or wires and the dummy data is random, attempts to capacitively sense the actual data will be disrupted. To counter this method of detection the dummy data track may be connected to loads (resistive, capacitive or both) to ensure that current flows when dummy data is applied to the tracks. The loads may be selected such that the current flows are similar to those in the real data track. This is achieved by determining the terminating impedances on the real data track and using similar values on the dummy data tracks. Or, the strategy may be to ensure that the current flow in the dummy data tracks are much higher than the real data track current, in which case the total magnetic field will be dominated by the dummy data and the “real” signal will be “drowned out” by the dummy data signals. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110253786 | USE OF A WIDEBAND RADIO RECEIVER WITHIN THE DEVICE TO DETECT TRANSMISSIONS FROM A PARASITIC SHIM OR OTHER UNOFFICIAL CIRCUITRY IMPLANTED WITHIN THE TERMINAL - A card reader terminal is provided with circuitry to detect wireless transmission of data from the card terminal from illicit transmitting equipment within the terminal in the form of a “shim” or otherwise. The detector circuit is connected to an A/D input of a microprocessor. Voltage level at the input may be measured rather than just treating it as digital input where the voltage level would be taken by the processor as either ON (signal present) or OFF (signal not present). Where the microprocessor (or other processing electronics) used does not have an analog to digital converter input, an external analog to digital circuit may be used. The terminal can determine the level of radio signal activity in its vicinity before a card is entered into the card slot, the level after the card is inserted and the level during the time the terminal is exchanging data with the card. If there is an abrupt increase in signal level when the card is inserted or when data exchange commences, the processor can ensure that the PIN is not sent to the card and can prevent all further transactions until the radio signal is no longer present. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110253788 | MONITORING CURRENT LEVEL AND CURRENT INTO AND OUT OF THE ICC READER POWER CONTACTS TO DETECT A PARASITIC SHIM - The present invention detects the current flowing through the contacts of the smart card reader due to the presence of a “shim”. Small value resistors are connected in series with either the Power connection or the Ground connection, or both. Values are typically 47 milliohms to 100 milliohms. The use of such small values ensures that little voltage is dropped across the resistors and that the card is therefore adequately powered. With no card present, the current through these resistors should be zero and therefore the voltage across the resistors will also be zero. Amplifier circuits are employed to monitor and amplify the voltage across the resistors and in the “PayPod” design the amplifier outputs are connected to analogue to digital inputs on the microprocessor. Where the microprocessor (or other processing electronics) used has no analogue to digital inputs, separate analogue to digital circuits may be used. The microprocessor may then monitor the current flowing into the power supply contacts of the card reader. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255253 | PROTECTIVE SERPENTINE TRACK FOR CARD PAYMENT TERMINAL - A multi-layer Printed Circuit Board (PCB) holds a number of sections of serpentine track on two or more internal layers of a multi-layer PCB. The sections are connected in series with resistors between each section. One end of each of the resistors a connection to an analogue to digital converter is made. In its simplest form, each of the serpentine track is produced on a separate internal layer of the PCB. The outer layers are typically ground planes. Attempts to drill through the PCB are likely to short the ground plane to one or more of the internal serpentine tracks, which will alter the voltages on the analogue to digital connections. Shorting out sections of serpentine track with a view to then drilling through undetected are made very difficult in this scheme since shorting any tack to the ground plane or any track to any other track or breaking any track will be detected by changes to the voltages on the connections to the analogue to digital converter inputs. | 10-20-2011 |
Edward Docherty, Inverness GB
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| 20090027040 | OPEN CIRCUIT DELAY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYTE MEASUREMENT - System, circuits, and methods to reduce or eliminate uncompensated voltage drop between an electrode of an electrochemical cell usable for analyte measurement. In one example, a system is provided that includes a test strip, a reference voltage circuit, an operational amplifier connected to the reference voltage circuit to provide a predetermined fraction of a reference voltage substantially equal to the test voltage applied to the first line, the operational amplifier having an output configured for one of a connected or disconnected state to the first line, and a processing circuit connected to the output of the operational amplifier and the first line such that, during a disconnected state between the output and the first line, the processing circuit remains in connection with the first line. In another example, a method of measuring an electrochemical reaction of an electrochemical cell is provided that includes applying a test voltage to the first electrode and connecting the second electrode to ground; uncoupling the first electrode from the output of the circuit while allowing electrical communication from the first electrode to the processor; and coupling the first electrode to the output to measure a test current generated in the electrochemical cell without an uncompensated voltage drop. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090029479 | TEST STRIP AND CONNECTOR - An analyte test strip is provided that includes a generally planar substrate and a plurality of conductive areas disposed on the substrate to define five distinct conductive portions comprising at least five contact lands defining respective vertices of a polygon, and in which two contact lands are located in a single conductive portion. System and method utilizing the test strip are also described. | 01-29-2009 |
Euan Docherty, Alford GB
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| 20100147537 | MULTILATERAL EXPANDABLE SEAL - A system for sealingly engaging multiple downhole tubulars that includes a first downhole tubular comprising an end for receiving a second downhole tubular; a guide assembly disposed on an end of the second tubular; and a swellable seal disposed on an outer surface of the guide assembly, wherein after the first tubular receives the second tubular, the swellable seal is activated to form an expanded circumferential seal between the first tubular and the second tubular is disclosed. | 06-17-2010 |
Francis G. Docherty, Calgary CA
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| 20080262393 | Radiant Therapeutic Heating Apparatus - A radiant therapeutic heating apparatus may include a radiant heat generating layer having a plane surface including an infrared radiator adapted to radiate heat evenly from its surface, a pair of flexible electrically insulating and radiation-permeable layers located adjacent and covering opposite sides of the layer, a thermal insulation layer disposed against and covering one of the electrically insulating layers, and a sealed radiation permeable envelope enclosing the heating apparatus. The flexible heat generating layer may include a fiberglass material impregnated with a resistive material, which material may provide a surface temperature, when current is conducted therethrough, of no greater than about 54 degrees Celsius. Current limiting thermostats may be provided to prevent energy and temperature spikes. A stiffening element may help protect the components, and may orient portions of a user's body (such as, e.g., but not limited to, the wrist for repetitive strain injuries) in a therapeutic position. The heating apparatus may be used on animals such as, e.g., but not limited to, mammals, including pets, humans, horses and/or other living beings and/or creatures. The apparatus may be oriented as a blanket, and may incorporate, e.g., a rheostat, high-low, analog, digital, or other power control switch. It may be used for warming kennels, for treating hypothermia, for relieving neck, shoulder and/or back pain. It may be used for pre- post- and during, operative care. It may be combined with other therapy such as, e.g., massage and/or vibration. | 10-23-2008 |
Gordon Docherty, Kings Heath GB
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| 20080262269 | Monodonor Phosphonite Ligands - The invention provides the use of a metal complex, which is a complex of one or more metal atoms or ions with one or more ligands, as a catalyst in an organic transformation selected from hydrogenation of carbon-heteroatom double bonds, hydroformylation, dialkylzinc additions to aldehydes, hydrocarboxylation, allylic substitution, oxidation, epoxidation, dihydroxylation, Diels-Alder cycloadditions, dipolar cycloadditions and rearrangement reactions, wherein one or more of the ligands is a ligand of formula (1), wherein the bridge group is an organic functional group, and the R group is a substituted phenyl group, wherein the R group has only one substituent at the ortho position, and wherein a carbon atom of the R group bonds the R group to the P atom. Also provided are monodonor ligands of formula (1) wherein the bridge group is an unsubstituted or substituted binaphthyl group and the R group is a substituted phenyl group, wherein the substituents are selected from halogen, nitro, alkynyl and sulfonic acid groups and unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, aryl, amino and vinyl groups, and wherein the R group has only one substituent at the ortho position, and wherein a carbon atom of the R group bonds the R group to the P atom. | 10-23-2008 |
Gordon Docherty, West Midlands GB
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| 20100015024 | PRODUCTION OF BISPHOSPHINES - Bisphosphines are prepared by reacting a phosphine with a dihalide in the presence of an acid; characteristically, bisphosphonium compounds are initially formed and then converted into the bisphosphines. | 01-21-2010 |
Gordon Finlay Docherty, Kings Heath GB
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| 20080200729 | Preparation of Aryl Phosphines - A method of making an aryl phosphine is provided. The method comprises reacting an organophosphine of general formula (1): HPXY with a substituted aryl compound in the presence of a catalyst, a base, a ligand and an iodine containing co-catalyst. In formula (1) X and Y can be the same or different and are cycloalkyl; substituted alkyl; primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl; and heterocyclic moieties; and one of X and Y can optionally be hydrogen. | 08-21-2008 |
John C. Docherty, Winnipeg CA
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| 20100286529 | NEAR INFRA RED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING FOR VISUALIZATION OF BLOOD VESSELS DURING ENDOSCOPIC HARVEST - Endoscopic identification and dissection of a blood vessel in tissue during endoscopic harvest can be enhanced by injecting a bolus of ICG into the bloodstream, illuminating the target vessels with excitation light capable of exciting fluorescence in the ICG, and locating the vessel to be harvested by observing the ICG fluorescence. Moreover, collapsed blood vessel may be harvested by inserting an endoscope into the collapsed blood vessel, injecting into the collapsed blood vessel a bolus containing ICG to re-inflate the blood vessel, illuminating the target vessels with excitation light capable of exciting fluorescence in the ICG; and locating the re-inflated blood vessel by observing the ICG fluorescence. | 11-11-2010 |
John M. Docherty, Richmond Hill CA
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| 20100196453 | BIPHASIC LIPID-VESICLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATING CERVICAL DYSPLASIA BY INTRAVAGINAL DELIVERY - A biphasic lipid vesicle composition for treating cervical displasia by intravaginal delivery. The composition includes a suspension of lipid-bilayer vesicles having entrapped therein, an oil-in-water emulsion, human interferon alpha-2b and L-methionine, the composition having an interferon alpha-2b specific activity of between about 1-10 MIU (million international units) per gram composition, and between 0.01 to 0.5 weight percent L-methionine. In the treatment method, the composition is administered at a dose of between about 1-20 MIU interferon alpha-2b, and this dose is administered at least 3 days/week, for a period of at least 4 weeks. | 08-05-2010 |
Kevin Edward Docherty, Glasgow GB
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| 20110157599 | Uses of Electromagnetic Interference Patterns - Various uses of visible light interference patterns are provided. Suitable interference patterns are those formed by diffraction from patterns of apertures. Typical uses disclosed herein relate to spatial metrology, such as a translational and/or angular position determination system. Further uses include the analysis of properties of the light itself (such as the determination of the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation). Still further uses include the analysis of one or more properties (e.g. refractive index) of the matter through which the light passes. Part of the interference pattern is captured at a pixellated detector, such as a CCD chip, and the captured pattern compared with a calculated pattern. Very precise measurements of the spacing between maxima is possible, thus allowing very precise measurements of position of the detector in the interference pattern. | 06-30-2011 |
Michael E. Docherty, Boca Raton, FL US
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| 20080272107 | Table Heater Heat Distribution Cone - In one embodiment the instant invention combines a table and a heater in one product having a deflector cone under the table top. This embodiment resembles a small table with a table top surface and combines the usable table top surface with a heating element, which may use propane as a fuel source. There may be one or more deflector cones stacked on each other, and they may be made from heat-reflecting material. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080272108 | Bistro Table Heater Combination with 360 Degree Heat Source - In one embodiment the instant invention combines a table and a heater in one device. The heater allows heat to escape laterally beneath the table to warm the lower extremities of a user. The heater may use propane as a fuel source, and the fuel source may be self-contained and mountable adjacent to the heater. The device may be mounted on wheels so as to be portable. The table may have several deflectors below it and above the heater so that the table does not get hot. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080272109 | Bistro Table Heater with Heat Guard Rail - In one embodiment the instant invention combines a table and a heater in one device. The heater contains a heating element, which may use propane as a fuel source. The fuel source of the invention may be self-contained so that the heater is portable. The table may have several deflectors below and above the heater it so that the table does not get hot. The invention may also have a heat guard rail attached to the table and extending away from the table to guard against users inadvertently touching the heating area of the invention. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080285258 | Gas Light-Post Heater - In one embodiment the instant invention combines a post having a light at its top and a heater in its middle. In one embodiment, the post has a cabinet below the heater. The cabinet may contain the fuel source of the invention so that the heater may be easily portable. In one embodiment, a wind shield protects the heater so that the heat source will not be extinguished. In one embodiment, the light and the heater have separate controls and are separately operable. | 11-20-2008 |
Mike Docherty, Boca Raton, FL US
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| 20080234074 | Basketball backboard target - A static aiming target for perfecting basketball bank shots appears to move horizontally and vertically along a backboard as a player moves back and forth across the court and towards and away from the backboard. This apparent movement of the aiming target is produced by visual aiming regions which allow for predetermined viewing of portions of the aiming target as a function of a player's position on the court. In each case, a player shoots for the aiming target in order to complete a proper bank shot. | 09-25-2008 |
Paul Docherty, Richmond, TX US
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| 20100185396 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING SEISMIC IMAGING VELOCITIES - A method for adjusting an isotropic depth image based on a mis-tie volume is provided. The method generally includes obtaining an isotropic velocity volume for a geophysical volume, obtaining an isotropic depth image of the geophysical volume, obtaining time-depth pairs at downhole locations in the geophysical volume, generating mis-tie values based on the time-depth pairs and the isotropic velocity volume, assigning uncertainties to the mis-tie values, generating a smoothest mis-tie volume that satisfies a target goodness of fit with the mis-tie values. Adjustment of the isotropic depth image may be achieved based on the mis-tie volume or a calibration velocity obtained from the mis-tie volume. | 07-22-2010 |
Wendy Docherty, Calgary CA
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| 20080262393 | Radiant Therapeutic Heating Apparatus - A radiant therapeutic heating apparatus may include a radiant heat generating layer having a plane surface including an infrared radiator adapted to radiate heat evenly from its surface, a pair of flexible electrically insulating and radiation-permeable layers located adjacent and covering opposite sides of the layer, a thermal insulation layer disposed against and covering one of the electrically insulating layers, and a sealed radiation permeable envelope enclosing the heating apparatus. The flexible heat generating layer may include a fiberglass material impregnated with a resistive material, which material may provide a surface temperature, when current is conducted therethrough, of no greater than about 54 degrees Celsius. Current limiting thermostats may be provided to prevent energy and temperature spikes. A stiffening element may help protect the components, and may orient portions of a user's body (such as, e.g., but not limited to, the wrist for repetitive strain injuries) in a therapeutic position. The heating apparatus may be used on animals such as, e.g., but not limited to, mammals, including pets, humans, horses and/or other living beings and/or creatures. The apparatus may be oriented as a blanket, and may incorporate, e.g., a rheostat, high-low, analog, digital, or other power control switch. It may be used for warming kennels, for treating hypothermia, for relieving neck, shoulder and/or back pain. It may be used for pre- post- and during, operative care. It may be combined with other therapy such as, e.g., massage and/or vibration. | 10-23-2008 |