Millar, GB
Alan Millar, Cheshire GB
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20110095176 | Mass Spectrometer - A method of searching for potentially unknown metabolites of pharmaceutical compounds is disclosed. The accurate mass of a pharmaceutical compound will generally be known and can be rendered in the form of an integer nominal mass or mass to charge ratio component and a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component. Possible metabolites are searched for on the basis of having a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component which is substantially very similar to the decimal mass or mass to charge ratio of the parent pharmaceutical compound. | 04-28-2011 |
Andrew Peter Millar, Hampshire GB
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20090057150 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR - An electrochemical gas sensor is disclosed which comprises a gas sensing electrode and a counter electrode disposed within a housing, the housing having an aperture for gas ingress, the gas sensing electrode and counter electrode being separated by a region containing electrolyte, and means for connecting the gas sensing electrode and the counter electrode to a sensing circuit. An electrolyte-absorbing element is disposed inboard of the aperture, between the housing and the gas sensing electrode, in order to absorb electrolyte passing through the gas sensing electrode whilst maintaining a gas path through the electrolyte-absorbing element. | 03-05-2009 |
Caroline Millar, Bramley GB
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20090069061 | PROTECTIVE HOUSINGS FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A housing for an apparatus for portable wireless transmission, the apparatus for portable wireless transmission having an antenna element arranged to be able to resonate at a particular highest resonant operating frequency to send/receive transmissions substantially in a significant radiating direction. The housing comprises one or more metal piece areas arranged to, when assembled with the apparatus for the portable wireless transmission, be located over the antenna element in a significant radiating direction in electrical isolation from an electrical ground of the apparatus. The metal piece area(s) comprise a plurality of metal pieces arranged with the housing to be substantially electrically isolated from surrounding metal with dimensions having effective lengths of at most five-tenths of a wavelength for the highest resonating operating frequency of the antenna element. | 03-12-2009 |
20100127605 | CASING WALL FOR AN APPARATUS - A casing wall for an apparatus, the casing wall comprising including a chassis and casing wall elements integrated into the chassis, the casing wall elements each including a surface exposed to a user, the chassis defining a continuum between the integrated casing wall elements to provide structural rigidity to the casing wall. | 05-27-2010 |
Caroline Millar, Bramely GB
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20090295736 | DEVICE HAVING AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GEMSTONE KEYMAT - A key includes a key body made of sapphire and a supporting body made of a silicone elastomer. The key body is bonded through a physical vapour deposition layer to the supporting body. | 12-03-2009 |
Caroline Elizabeth Millar, Bramley GB
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20120251776 | Method of Treating a Layer of Material and the Product Formed by the Method - An apparatus including a layer of natural, textured material including a first side and a second side; and cured adhesive impregnated into the layer of natural, textured material from the first side but not from the second side. | 10-04-2012 |
Caroline Elizabeth Millar, Surrey GB
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20110159216 | Colored Metal - A colored metal composite including a metal matrix; and colored particles distributed throughout the metal matrix AND/OR a method including providing metal powder as a first phase of a composite; providing colored particles to form a second phase of the composite; mixing the metal powder and colored particles; and sintering the metal powder around the colored particles to form a metal matrix that has colored particles distributed throughout. | 06-30-2011 |
Damon Paul Millar, London, Greater London GB
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20150364937 | POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A power distribution system for distributing electrical power to battery-powered electrical devices, in particular mobile telephones, comprises at least one power connector for connection to an electrical device of a user whereby to replenish the battery of that device in response to a requirement from the user for battery charging and a locking mechanism configured selectively to connect the power connector to a source of electrical power only in response to receipt of an authorisation signal. The locking mechanism comprises a receiver configured to receive the authorisation signal from a remote server via a telecommunications network. | 12-17-2015 |
David Millar, Birmingham GB
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20140004081 | Re-Directed Immunotherapy | 01-02-2014 |
20150183875 | IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC MOLECULES AND USES - The invention provides molecule comprising: (i) a targeting moiety capable of directly or indirectly targeting to unwanted cells, and (ii) a further moiety that has a masked immune cell binding region so as to prevent binding of the further moiety to an immune cell, wherein the masked immune cell binding region is capable of being selectively unmasked when the molecule is in the vicinity of the unwanted cells so as to allow binding of the further moiety to an immune cell. | 07-02-2015 |
20150250868 | Re-Directed Immunotherapy - The invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a condition characterised by the presence of unwanted cells, the agent comprising: (i) a targeting moiety that is capable of targeting to the unwanted cells; and (ii) a T cell antigen, wherein the T cell antigen can be released from the targeting moiety by selective cleavage of a cleavage site in the agent in the vicinity of the unwanted cells. | 09-10-2015 |
20150297745 | Agents and Methods - The invention provides an agent comprising: (i) a T cell antigen, and (ii) a binding partner for any of CD22, CD23, CD30, CD74, CD70, CD43, CD44, CD47, CD54, CD58, CD62L, CD95, HLA-DR, CD59, CD55, wherein, following binding of the agent to a cell that expresses any of CD22, CD23, CD30, CD74, CD70, CD43, CD44, CD47, CD54, CD58, CD62L, CD95, HLA-DR, CD59, CD55, the agent is internalised and the T cell antigen is presented on the surface of the cell in a form that can be recognised by a T cell. | 10-22-2015 |
Fiona Catherine Millar, Essex GB
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20140326759 | MEDICINAL AEROSOLS AND METHODS OF DELIVERY THEREOF - The replacement of chlorofluorohydrocarbon propellants in medical aerosols is of the utmost importance to the pharmaceutical industry. A number of formulations have been investigated. | 11-06-2014 |
Keith Millar, Haywards Heath GB
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20140013349 | Content Insertion in Adaptive Streams - A method including providing a first content item for consumption, the first content item having a content placement opportunity at which a second content item can be consumed, dividing the first content item into a plurality of chunks, the placement opportunity being temporally disposed after a first one of the chunks and/or before a second one of the chunks, after a first point where the first chunk is operative to finish being rendered and/or before a second point where the second chunk is operative to start being rendered, and encoding the chunks yielding a plurality of encoded chunks, wherein the encoding includes performing, for each one of the chunks of the first content item encoding the audio/video frames of the one chunk at a first audio/video quality, and repeating encoding of the audio/video frames of the one chunk at a second audio/video quality. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 01-09-2014 |
20140052983 | Known Plaintext Attack Protection - A Headend system including a encoder to encode input data yielding a plurality of data packets, each of the packets having a header and a payload, a post encoding processor to identify ones of the data packets having a payload with a suspected known plaintext, and modify at least some of the identified packets, and an encryption processor to encrypt at least some of the data packets yielding encrypted data packets. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 02-20-2014 |
Keith Millar, West Sussex GB
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20090028331 | Scrambled Digital Data Item - A method of decrypting a scrambled digital data item at a client is disclosed, the method including: receiving actual control messages at the client, wherein each actual control message includes control word generating information for generating a control word associated with the actual control message; storing the actual control messages at the client; receiving the scrambled digital data item at the client independently of the actual control messages, wherein the scrambled digital data item includes a plurality of segments of scrambled digital data, each segment of scrambled digital data being associated with one of the actual control messages and being scrambled with the control word associated with the one of the actual control messages, and wherein the scrambled digital data item further includes a plurality of reference control messages, each segment of scrambled digital data comprising one of the reference control messages, each of the reference control messages including a control message reference value identifying the actual control message associated with the segment of scrambled digital data; and decrypting the scrambled digital data item using the plurality of actual control messages. | 01-29-2009 |
Keith Millar, W.sussex GB
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20150261600 | RECONCILING REDUNDANT COPIES OF MEDIA CONTENT - A system can include a reconciliation engine configured to evaluate metadata in a given manifest file of a plurality of manifest files generated for redundant copies of a given media asset. The metadata describes a condition of a given chunk of media content in one of the redundant copies of the given media asset. The system can also include a manifest modification function configured to modify the given manifest file for the given chunk of media content in response to the reconciliation engine detecting that the given chunk of media content is damaged based on the evaluation of the metadata associated with the given chunk of media content in the given manifest file. | 09-17-2015 |
Keith Millar, W. Sussex GB
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20120116855 | Receiving and Recording of Content and of Timing Information - A method of receiving content at a user unit is disclosed. The method includes: receiving at the user unit a transmission stream, the transmission stream including: (a) a content item followed by a following content sub-item set, the following content sub-item set including one or more following content sub-items, and (b) following start time data indicating a following start point of the following content sub-item set, wherein the following start time is received in advance of the following start point during reception of the content item. The method further includes continuing to receive the following start time data periodically throughout reception of the following content sub-item set. Related methods are also disclosed. | 05-10-2012 |
20120272286 | SPLICING OF CONTENT - A Headend system including a video codec to encode a video sequence yielding an encoded video sequence having video packets, a multiplexer, a signal generator to receive a notification of a splice point, analyze at least some of the encoded video packets based on the notification in order to find a random- access-point-packet, the random-access-point being a point from which to start decoding the encoded video sequence by the rendering device so that the video sequence may be rendered for output from the splice point, create a timing signal estimating a location of the random-access-point-packet in the encoded video sequence, and output the timing signal to the multiplexer or transmission equipment. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 10-25-2012 |
Matthew Millar, Thame GB
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20080222520 | Event-Sensitive Content for Mobile Devices - Computer program products, methods and systems for accepting content that defines an event handler. The content is provided to a media player configured to render the content. The event handler is configured to receive an event from an operating system on which the media player runs, the operating system executing on a mobile device having an integrated display and an integrated telephone. The content is presented by the media player on the display. The event is received from the operating system and providing the event to the event handler. And the presentation of the content is modified by the media player based on processing of the event by the event handler. | 09-11-2008 |
Matthew Millar, Oxfordshire GB
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20110016391 | SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION - The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for user interface navigation. | 01-20-2011 |
20150205628 | Embedding Content in Java Archives - The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for embedding content in Java archives. | 07-23-2015 |
Matthew Millar, London GB
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20090019369 | SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION - The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for user interface navigation. | 01-15-2009 |
Nicola Millar, Cambridge GB
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20080316605 | Spectacles With Embedded Segmented Display Comprising Light Guide End - An optical device, such as spectacles or goggles, has a segmented display ( | 12-25-2008 |
Robert Peter Millar, Edinburgh GB
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20100234303 | AGENTS, METHODS AND USES - The present invention relates to agents, compositions and methods for use in medicine. In particular, the invention relates to agents related to GnRH peptides. | 09-16-2010 |
Robert Peter Millar, North Berwick GB
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20090136527 | Retro-inverso gonadotropin-releasing hormone peptide and vaccine composition - The invention describes a retro-inverso (RI) gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) peptide which is capable of eliciting an immune response directed against GnRH, the peptide having the amino acid sequence GPRLGYSWHX, wherein the amino acids are D-amino acids and X is any amino acid. More particularly, X is E, Q, P or G, and even more particularly, X is E or Q. Thus, a preferred amino acid sequence for the peptide is GPRLGYSWHE. The peptide may optionally include one or more additional D-amino acids at its N- or C-terminus, for example a cysteine residue or a series of linker amino acids, such as a plurality of glycine amino acid residues. Thus, a second preferred amino acid sequence for the peptide is GPRLGYSWHEC, which includes a cysteine residue at the C-terminus for conjugation purposes. The invention also describes a vaccine composition for use in controlling fertility, heat, contraception and/or treating sex hormone-related diseases, and a method for controlling and or treating fertility and sex hormone-related diseases. | 05-28-2009 |
20110046068 | Compound, Use and Method - The present invention relates to the use of an antagonist of kisspeptin in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a condition induced and/or worsened by kisspeptin activity in an individual. The invention also provides certain defined peptide molecules, which may act as an antagonist of kisspeptin, which are of use in treating a condition induced and/or worsened by kisspeptin activity in an individual. In addition, the invention provides methods of identifying and/or using antagonists of kisspeptin and/or the defined peptides, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. | 02-24-2011 |
20150057430 | COMPOUND, USE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to the use of an antagonist of kisspeptin in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a condition induced and/or worsened by kisspeptin activity in an individual. The invention also provides certain defined peptide molecules, which may act as an antagonist of kisspeptin, which are of use in treating a condition induced and/or worsened by kisspeptin activity in an individual. In addition, the invention provides methods of identifying and/or using antagonists of kisspeptin and/or the defined peptides, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. | 02-26-2015 |
Ross W. Millar, Kent GB
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20100089271 | NOVEL EXPLOSIVES - This invention relates to the field of novel explosives, compositions and munitions comprising the same, as well as methods of synthesis and their use. The invention particularly relates to the field of explosives which are switchable between two different liquid crystalline states, and which possesses a general formula below. | 04-15-2010 |
Samuel John Millar, Evesham GB
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20120135107 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A LEAVENED, MECHANICALLY DEVELOPED BREAD DOUGH - The present invention relates to a method of preparing a leavened bread dough, said method comprising the following sequence of processing steps: | 05-31-2012 |
Stuart J. Millar, Maybole GB
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20110065544 | ELECTROHYDRAULIC TORQUE TRANSFER DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED CLUTCH AND ACTUATOR UNIT - A power transmission device includes a housing, a rotatable input member and a rotatable output member supported in the housing by a pair of bearings. A friction clutch is operable to selectively transmit a requested magnitude of torque between the input member and the output member. The clutch is axially positioned between the bearings. An actuator is operable to provide an actuation force to the friction clutch to generate the requested magnitude of torque. | 03-17-2011 |
William James Trevor Millar, Ballyclare Antrim GB
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20110174536 | FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - In the formation of a fiber reinforced composite material component produced by a resin transfer infusion process such as to have an electrically conductive surface layer for lightning strike protection wherein the component is to be drilled and countersunk to receive an electrically conductive fastener, a localized part of the electrically conductive mesh is deformed so as to be relocated in the countersunk recess thus to ensure electrical contact with the fastener when inserted and to eliminate any gap between the mesh and the fastener, thus determining the electrical conductive integrity of the mesh to avoid arcing in the event of lightning strike attachment. | 07-21-2011 |
William James Trevor Millar, County Antrim GB
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20100163178 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLOSE TOLERANCE FORMING OF AREAS IN FIBER REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITE COMPONENTS - An apparatus and method for forming a fiber reinforced resin composite component by a resin transfer infusion (RTI) process in which a preform is laid up on a hard base tool and a bagging blanket is applied as a flexible upper tooling. Edge and/or other regions of the preform are superimposed by localized control plates which, together with spacer pins passing through the preform, serve to determine localized dimensional accuracy in the component without the need for hard upper tooling throughout. | 07-01-2010 |
20100193114 | Apparatus and Method for Forming Fibre Reinforced Composite Structures - A method and apparatus for forming a fibre reinforced composite structure comprising at least two components, a hard base tool presenting a first tool face, a second tooling element presenting a second tool face to locate the second component against the first component. Components are of a dry fibrous form and are to be injected with a liquid resin. A flexible bagging blanket forms with the tools a sealed enclosure into which the resin is injected to form the structure by resin transfer infusion. To maintain the relative dispositions of the components without the need for elaborate mandrel plates, control rods are inserted at least partially through the two components to act as fasteners and to maintain the relative disposition of the components during resin injection. After injection the assembly is cured and the control rods may remain in situ or be removed from the structure. | 08-05-2010 |