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Summers, GB
David Keith Summers, Cambridge GB
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| 20090004700 | Chemical Induction in Quiescence in Bacteria - Quiescence is induced in cells using indole compounds. Expression continues from extra-chromosomal vectors within the cells during quiescence, while chromosomal expression is suppressed. The cells may be used as factories for the production of large amounts of polypeptides of interest, particularly polypeptides which normally have an adverse effect on cell viability or growth. Expression from an extra-chromosomal vector of interest may be monitored, in view of the reduced background expression from the chromosome. Vector copy number may be amplified. Cell cycles may be synchronized. | 01-01-2009 |
Guy Summers, Newbury GB
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| 20110045818 | Machine to machine communications - In a cellular telecommunications network a method for facilitating communications comprises receiving information elements from a cellular data communications device, said information elements being in a format conforming with a session-based message protocol, each information element including a header portion and a plurality of payload portions; extracting machine information from at least at least one of said payload portions; and generating an output message corresponding to at least one of said payload portions. The cellular data communications device generates information elements using information gathered from one or more information sensing, actuating and/or locating components. | 02-24-2011 |
Huw Summers, Murton GB
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| 20110043804 | MATERIAL ANALYSIS DEVICE BASED ON EDGE-EMITTER SEMICONDUCTOR LASER CHRYSTAL, AND ASSICIATED ANALYSIS TOOL - An edge-emitter semiconductor laser crystal having a receptacle for sample material which can influence the crystal's laser operation. There may be separate zones of laser action within the crystal, creating respective sensing zones in the receptacle. Detection may be achieved by providing photo-diode regions within the crystal, for example. | 02-24-2011 |
Huw Summers, Swansea GB
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| 20110171663 | MICROTRENCH AND TUMOUR PROLIFERATION ASSAY - There is provided a cell culture microtrench being defined on or in a surface of a substrate, wherein the ratio of the width of the microtrench to the maximum length of the short axis of a cell type of interest is about 6 or preferably less, the length of the short axis of the cell type being measured when a cell is in detached or suspended form. There is also provided an array comprising such a microtrench and uses of such microtrenches, including cell-based assays. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120193552 | FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING - A method of measuring fluorescence from a location, the method comprising applying to the location a first fluorescence excitation signal having a first duty cycle, accumulating as a first result fluorescence that emanates from the location in response to the first excitation signal, applying to the location a second fluorescence excitation signal having a second duty cycle, accumulating as a second result fluorescence that emanates from the location in response to the second excitation signal, and comparing the first and second results to provide a comparison result for the location. The invention also relates to apparatus for performing the method. | 08-02-2012 |
Ian Summers, Berkshire GB
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| 20120038681 | TOUCH SCREEN - The present invention provides for a touch screen including control functionality through touch and movement of a digit of a user's hand over a defined path, and arranged to have the path selectively defined by the user's movement of a screen-engagement member and for example to define the location of such as a digit or stylus scroll bar, and to a hand-held electronic device employing the same over the surface of the screen. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120075229 | TOUCH SCREEN, RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND SYSTEM - An exemplary embodiment concerns a touch screen arranged to determine when touched by a user's screen-engagement member and further arranged to identify an identifying characteristic of the engagement member and so as to differentiate between different screen-engagement members and wherein at least one aspect of subsequent operation of the screen is responsive to the identification of the member. | 03-29-2012 |
Ivor John Summers, Wotton-Under-Edge GB
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| 20090095892 | Encoder Error Determination - A rideheight sensing device is described for providing a measure of the separation between the readhead portion and the scale of an encoder. The rideheight sensing device comprises a rideheight sensor that is located at, or is attachable to, the readhead portion of an encoder. The temporary, or permanent, attachment of such a device to the readhead portion of an encoder is also described. In a preferred embodiment, a rotary encoder is described and the rideheight sensing device is used to measure the eccentricity thereof. | 04-16-2009 |
Jane Summers, West Drayton GB
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| 20120225026 | SELF-ADHESIVE FRAGRANCED GELS - The present invention relates to the field of perfumery. It relates more particularly to a gel device which allows for an effective and prolonged evaporation of an active volatile ingredient. The gel device of the present invention includes an active volatile ingredient and a gelling agent of dibutyl lauroyl glutamide and dibutyl ethylhexanoyl glutamide. | 09-06-2012 |
Keith Summers, Ross-On-Rye GB
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| 20120203740 | Method and System for Implementing an Enhanced Database - In one embodiment, a method for storing a snapshot of data in a database includes creating a root indirection set for the snapshot of data and maintaining a deleted pattern in the database. The deleted pattern is not removed from a pattern set for a node in a table of the database when the pattern is deleted in the database. The method includes providing access to the snapshot of data using the created root indirection set, the created root indirection set accessing the deleted pattern. | 08-09-2012 |
Mark Derren Summers, Bristol GB
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| 20080319557 | Program-Controlled Process - A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by means of commands generated by means of off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by means of a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected. | 12-25-2008 |
Neil Summers, Surrey GB
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| 20090023560 | TRAINING AND FITNESS APPARATUS - The present invention provides for exercise apparatus which can comprise general fitness or self-defence training apparatus ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090069160 | ISOMETRIC EXERCISE DEVICE - The invention provides for a hand-held isometric exercise device comprising a handle portion and at least one load cell arranged to receive a load when the device is gripped by the handle portion and urged against the surface, the device having at least one contact portion on the underside thereof for contact with the said surface to transmit the load to the said at least one load cell. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100056347 | Abdominal Exercise Apparatus - The present invention provides for abdominal exercise apparatus arranged generally to be arranged to worn over the user's shoulders and to be secured thereto in a comfortable manner by way of front support portions and back support portion which extend respectively downwardly from central region. Extending laterally and forwardly from the central region are a pair of arms which are arranged to be gripped by a user when wearing the apparatus and to which weights can be releasably mounted so as to control the weight against which the user works when performing an exercise routine. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100056964 | Backrest Device - The invention provides for a backrest device having an upwardly facing convex form defined generally by upper convex surface, and which device is provided at remote ends of the undersurface thereof with feet for the floor-mounting of the device. Engagement formations are provided extending upwardly from the upper convex surface and, in a particular embodiment, each provides for a combination heating/cooling element which can be readily controlled so as to apply a healing and/or cooling effect to the musculature surrounding the human spine, the bony parts of which are readily located within a recess channel extending centrally in the longitudinal direction of the device and between respective rows of engagement formations. | 03-04-2010 |
Neil Summers, Dorking GB
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| 20080234610 | FACIAL WETTING APPARATUS - The present invention provides for a facial wetting apparatus having a substantially concave portion generally contoured to receive a user's face therein and including airway means adapted for communication with a user's mouth for breathing purposes, the device further being arranged to present water to the user's face when received in the device and such that the water presentation can continue and in a readily controlled manner without compromising the user's breathing which continues by way of the airway means. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20100062912 | LEG EXERCISER DEVICE - The present invention provides for a leg exerciser device offering a pair of footplates arranged for inward and outward reciprocal movement along a respective pair of rails and whereby each of the footplates is operatively connected by way of support arms to a variable number of weights so as to increase the resistance offered by apparatus during an exercise routine. The path of travel of each footplate and the configuration of each arm is such that the vertical distance moved by the weights is greater than the vertical distance moved by each footplate during its reciprocal motion along the rails so as to enhance the degree of work undertaking during an exercise routine. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110021325 | EXERCISE APPARATUS - The present invention provides for an exercise apparatus comprising a pair of support-plates such as foot plates arranged for reciprocal motion along adjacent and parallel paths of travel which can be defined by an associated, and preferably gently concave, track serving to present a support surface for supporting the said support-plates and along-which the support-plates move during the reciprocal motion; the support surface further serving to define the paths of travel, and wherein the support surface further defines, at least in part, a slope for the paths of travel and wherein weight means can be provided to be moved by way of the footplate and so as to offer resistance to the movement of plates over the said track. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110183826 | EXERCISE APPARATUS - The present invention provides for exercise apparatus comprising a backrest pivotally coupled in a region of a first end to a support frame and resiliently biased to extend in an at least partially upward direction therefrom, a legrest pivotally coupled in a region of a first end to the said support frame and resiliently biased to extend in an at least partially upward direction the said support being arranged for stable location of the apparatus on a floor, and the apparatus further being arranged to present a seat portion for a user in the region of the said first ends of the backrest and the legrest and so that, when sat on the apparatus, a user can exercise their legs and/or abdomen as required. | 07-28-2011 |
Timothy J. Summers, Nottingham GB
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| 20100064758 | Press tool arrangement - A press tool arrangement for use in hot creep forming, a method of hot creep forming a component of titanium alloy, and a resilient urging arrangement usable at elevated temperatures are described. The press tool arrangement includes a die, a holder member engageable with a blank of material in the die, and a resilient urging arrangement engageable with the holder member to urge same against a blank of material in the die. | 03-18-2010 |