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Patent GB-2567400-A (GB)
Title: Reverse circulation debris removal tool for setting isolation seal assembly
Inventor: JAMEEL U RAHMAN
IPC: E21B37/00
Filed: 2016-10-07
Abstract: A system and method for deployment of an isolation seal assembly wherein an isolation seal assembly is releasably attached to a reverse circulation debris removal tool. The system includes a debris removal tool having a head with an elongated snorkel extending from the head; and an isolation seal assembly attached to the head with a shear device so that the snorkel protrudes past the end of the isolation seal assembly. The isolation seal assembly further includes a tubular with a latch adjacent a first end, an external seal below the latch, and openings formed along tubular between latch and the seal. The debris removal tool is used to engage the isolation seal assembly with a lower completion assembly. The openings in the isolation seal assembly permit the debris removal tool to continue to function after the isolation seal assembly is engaged with the lower completion assembly.
Patent GB-2569083-A (GB)
Title: Measuring invisible lost time in drilling operations
Inventor: ROBELLO SAMUEL
IPC: G05B19/02
Filed: 2016-12-07
Abstract: A method may comprise drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; collecting drill time data for the drilling; converting the drill time data into segmented drill time data; decomposing the segmented drill time data into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) using an empirical mode decomposition; reconstructing the segmented drill time data by combining the IMFs with different weights, thereby producing modified segmented drill time data; and calculating an invisible lost time for the drilling based on the segmented drill time data and the modified segmented drill time data.
Patent GB-2584833-A (GB)
Title: Methods and assemblies for mounting equipment to an aircraft
Inventor: ANDREW GILES PURSEY
IPC: B64C7/00
Filed: 2019-06-10
Abstract: A method of mounting equipment to an aircraft having an empennage comprises mounting equipment to a mounting structure 100 for mounting to the aircraft; removing an access panel from the outer skin of the empennage of the aircraft to reveal an access panel opening into the empennage; and attaching the mounting structure to or within the access panel opening such that at least a portion of the equipment extends beyond the outer skin of the empennage. The shape of the mounting structure at least partly conforms to the shape of the access panel opening. The method also comprises covering the mounting structure and the equipment mounted thereon with a cover and attaching the cover to the mounting structure or the empennage. The equipment may comprise electronic equipment such as sensors or recording equipment and is intended to be mounted to a tailplane and ideally at the top of a T-tail.
Patent GB-2576429-A (GB)
Title: Integrated multi-electrode array and trans-endothelial electrical resistance in organ-on-a-chip microsystems
Inventor: Ben M Maoz
IPC: G01N27/40
Filed: 2018-02-26
Abstract: An organ-on-chip device for monitoring a biological function and including a membrane layer located at an interface region between a top microchannel and the a microchannel. The membrane includes a first type of cells forming a barrier between the top microchannel and the bottom microchannel. The device further includes a top layer having a first plurality of transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) measurement electrodes for enabling direct monitoring of cell function and electrical activity of the first type of cells on the membrane. The device also has a multi-electrode array (MEA) layer with a second plurality of TEER measurement electrodes for enabling direct monitoring of cell function and electrical activity of a second type of cells on the MEA layer.
Patent GB-2585724-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus, systems and methods for oil and gas operations
Inventor: IAN DONALD
IPC: E21B43/017
Filed: 2019-12-11
Abstract: The invention provides a subsea manifold for a subsea production system comprising at least one removable module, and methods of installation and use. The at least one removable is configured to perform a function selected from the group comprising: fluid control, fluid sampling, fluid diversion, fluid recovery, fluid injection, fluid circulation, fluid measurement and/or fluid metering.
Patent GB-2591266-A (GB)
Title: Shuttering system
Inventor: PAUL KISS
IPC: E04G11/36
Filed: 2020-01-23
Abstract: The shuttering system includes a preformed profile made from a sheet material. The profile includes a base 11 for locating on a surface, a wall portion and a lip 10, the base and lip extending on one side of the wall portion and settable material retained by the other side of the wall. The profile may include a number of brace members are attached with metal tabs. The profile may be stepped and include two upright 7, 9wall sections and a horizontal joining 8 portion. The profile 31 may alternatively have a single flat wall portion extending from the base to the li and have two upstanding wall portions 32 which are of a cuboidal form(Figure 11). The profiles may be part of a method where the profiles are peeled off.
Patent GB-2583169-A (GB)
Title: Optical components for imaging
Inventor: THOMAS PIERRE SCHRANS
IPC: G01S7/481
Filed: 2020-02-06
Abstract: A LiDAR transceiver for scanning an environment over a field of view FOV having an azimuthal angular range and a polar angular range. The LiDAR transceiver comprising a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) receiver 7, a PIC transmitter 8, a slab 3, a wedge 2, a lens 6 and a diffractive optical element (DOE) 5. The DOE has a front surface and a back surface and comprises a transmitting region and a receiving region. The receiving region configured to steer the azimuthal component of light incident on the front surface of the DOE by an amount dependent on wavelength and transmit the light from the back surface of the DOE. The receiving region is distributed on opposing sides of the transmitting region, and transmits light from the PIC transmitter along a transmitting optical path through the wedge, through the transmitting region of the DOE to the environment. The light has an emission angle within the azimuthal angular range of the FOV, the azimuthal component of the emission angle being dependent on wavelength of the light. The transceiver receiving light from the environment, directing the light through the receiving region of the DOE and along an optical path through the wedge and through the slab to the PIC receiver. The lens being configured to focus light of the receiving optical path onto the PIC receiver. The DOE configured such that received light is transmitted from the back surface of the DOE at an angle independent of the wavelength.
Patent GB-2579940-A (GB)
Title: Engineered benzylisoquinoline alkaloid epimerases and methods of producing benzylisoquinoline alkaloids
Inventor: CHRISTINA D SMOLKE
IPC: C12P17/18
Filed: 2018-08-03
Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for increasing production of an alkaloid product through the epimerization of a (S)-1-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid to a (R)-1-benyzlisoquinoline alkaloid via an engineered epimerase in an engineered host cell. A (S)-1-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid is contacted with said engineered epimerase. Contacting said (S)-1-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid with said engineered epimerase converts said (S)-1-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid to said (R)-1-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid.
Patent GB-2594933-A (GB)
Title: Container for storing liquids and manufacturing process thereof
Inventor: CHIEN-CHIH HO
IPC: B65D90/501
Filed: 2020-05-06
Abstract: A container 10 for storing liquids includes an inner layer 11 including a storage space B; an outer layer 12; and a plurality of spacers 13 fastened between the inner layer and the outer layer to form a plurality of compartments A, the spacer including a first surface 131 secured to an adhesive layer 111 of the inner layer, the first surface having a plurality of cavities (figure 3A, 13A), and a second surface 132 secured to the outer layer and having a plurality of projections (figure 3B, 11A) complimentarily secured to the cavities. A manufacturing process of the container is also provided, in which pressure and heat are exerted on the adhesive layer and the adhesive layer is melted into the cavities, in order to cure the adhesive as a plurality of projections complementarily secured to the cavities.
Patent GB-2601005-A (GB)
Title: Suction device and tracking device comprising the same
Inventor: JAY WILLIS
IPC: F16B47/00
Filed: 2020-11-17
Abstract: A suction device comprises a suction pad 1. The suction pad 1 has a plurality of spaced substantially parallel flaps 2 that have free ends for contacting an attachment surface 3 in use. The flaps 2 may be flexible and made from an elastomeric material. The flaps 2 may have engagement members such as teeth or hooks. The suction device may be used with a tracking device for fish, other marine creatures or underwater vehicles such as submarines. The tracking device may have a body in the form of a fish. The tracking device may include sensors and a power source that may be a turbine.
Patent GB-2589462-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for identifying location-based information associated with a product on a web page
Inventor: ABDELKADER BENKREIRA
IPC: G06Q10/06
Filed: 2020-11-25
Abstract: A systems and methods for identifying location-based information associated with a product on a web page. The method 300 comprises detecting user navigation by the user of the web page 305, detecting the at least one product on the web page 310 and identifying one or more merchants having the detected at least one product in stock 315. A location of the user is determined 320. Merchants having the detected at least one product in stock and having a location within a predetermined distance of the user location are identified 325. A list of merchants is generated including the merchants having the detected product in stock and location within the predetermined distance of the user location and further including merchants that other users associated with the user have transacted with based on receipt information in one or more customer account databases of the other users 330. A browser extension is executed to display, on the web page associated with the at least one product, the generated list of merchants 335.
Patent GB-2589020-A (GB)
Title: Wireless electronic flow control node used in a screen joint with shunts
Inventor: STEPHEN MICHAEL GRECI
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2019-06-11
Abstract: A completion assembly having a wireless adjustable electronic flow control node disposed along the sand screen base pipe to control flow of a fluid through a shunt tube assembly adjacent a sand screen. Each electronic flow control node includes a valve that can be adjusted by an electric actuator powered by a power harvesting mechanism disposed in a flow path of the completion assembly. A wireless transmitter receives a control signal to control the electric actuator. The control signal may be transmitted to open or close a packing tube or a transport tube of the shunt tube assembly.
Patent GB-2587573-A (GB)
Title: A water pump head
Inventor: YI GAO
IPC: F04D29/70
Filed: 2020-12-14
Abstract: A water pump head comprises a body 1, with a water outlet 1a, an inlet end 1b, an impeller chamber 1c and a mounting opening 1d. The pump head further comprises a filter barrel 2 with filter holes 2a and an annular cuff 2b. The cuff cooperates with an annular groove 1e in the body, and the cuff is secured in the groove with the use of an annular gasket 3 and studs 4. The studs are inserted through first screw holes 2c in the cuff, second screw holes 1f in the body. Through holes are arranged on the annular gasket to also accommodate the studs. Each of the two end surfaces of the annular gasket can be plane, and the two end surfaces of the gasket are closely abutted against the bottom wall of the annular groove and a first end surface of the annular cuff. An annular shoulder can be integrally moulded on an inner side wall of the filter barrel and it can be disposed in axial alignment with the filter barrel and abutted against a first side surface of the inlet end.
Patent GB-2603464-A (GB)
Title: System and method for classification of unstructured text data
Inventor: MARKOS MENTZELOPOULOS
IPC: G06F40/20
Filed: 2021-01-27
Abstract: Classification of unstructured text data relating to a legal query comprising a system with a session interface 212 to receive session data relating to the legal query, a text interface to receive unstructured text data 210 from a user, a text pre-processor 214 to apply one or more text pre-processing functions to the unstructured text data to output a structured numeric representation 216 of the unstructured text data, at least one machine learning classifier 218 to map the structured numeric representation of the unstructured text data to one or more classes 220 within a defined set of classes, and a classifier optimizer to process the session data to generate configuration data for the at least one machine learning classifier, the configuration data indicating a subset of the defined set of classes that are valid given the session data. The machine learning classifier may utilise a token system to track the length of the query and respond to unstructured text data exceeding a minimum word count.
Patent GB-2603959-A (GB)
Title: Methane Oxidation Device
Inventor: FRANCISCO NORRIS
IPC: B01J19/24
Filed: 2021-02-23
Abstract: A methane oxidation device 100 for recovering heat for re-use in oxidation, the methane oxidation device comprises; a methane oxidation unit for oxidising methane; and a heat exchanger 109 for recovering heat for re-use in oxidation. The heat exchanger comprises; an inlet arranged, in use, in fluid communication with a source of methane emissions; an outlet; at least one flow path (111, Fig 4) and at least one counter flow path (112, Fig 4). The at least one flow path fluidly connects the inlet to the outlet, and has at least a portion passing though the methane oxidation unit. The counter flow path is the counter of the flow path, and has at least a portion passing though the methane oxidation unit. In use, the at least one flow path and counter flow path are arranged to permit heat transfer therebetween. The methane oxidation unit may include a catalytic material located within the heat exchanger. The device can be used to reduce methane emissions emitted from livestock, such as cattle.
Patent GB-2595415-A (GB)
Title: Compensation of own voice occlusion
Inventor: ZHANGLI CHEN
IPC: H04R25/00
Filed: 2020-03-12
Abstract: A method of equalising sound in a headset comprising an internal microphone configured to generate a first audio signal, an external microphone configured to generate a second audio signal, a speaker, and one or more processors coupled between the speaker the external microphone, and the internal microphone, the method comprising: while the headset is worn by a user: determining a first audio transfer function between the first audio signal and the second audio signal in the presence of sound at the external microphone; and determining a second audio transfer function between a speaker input signal and the first audio signal with the speaker being driven by the speaker input signal; determining an electrical transfer function of the one or more processors; determining a closed-ear transfer function based on the first audio transfer function, the second audio transfer function and the electrical transfer function; and equalising the first audio signal based on a comparison between the closed-ear transfer function and an open-ear transfer function to generate an equalised first audio signal.
Patent GB-2614537-A (GB)
Title: Conditional disabling of a reverberator
Inventor: ANTTI ERONEN
IPC: H04S7/00
Filed: 2022-01-05
Abstract: An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering in at least two acoustic environments, the apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain information associated with a number of reverberators before determining a subset of said reverberators which are to be initialized. At least one configuration parameter for at least one of the set of reverberator is determined before initializing the set of reverberators based on said configuration parameter. An audio signal is then processed with the initialized set of reverberators to generate late reverberation during rendering of the processed at least one audio signal. In a main embodiment, each acoustic environment comprises a respective reverberator, where each reverberator is selectively activated or deactivated based on a priority level. Such priority levels may be based upon distance, audibility and level of reverberation associated with each acoustic environment.
Patent GB-2613404-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for managing traffic light behaviors
Inventor: MARCO MANDRIOLI
IPC: G08G1/085
Filed: 2022-02-15
Abstract: A processor obtains information corresponding to an area of interest (e.g. junction 100) including road blocks 110, 120, 130, 140, each road block being associated with multiple physical traffic lights configured to control traffic movements therein. It generates a logical traffic light that represents a grouping of the physical traffic lights for each road block and determines a characteristic of each logical traffic light using said information. The characteristic may be a state of the traffic light or a duration of each state. The processor may generate an identifier of the area of interest associated with multiple states each having a duration, identifiers of the road blocks and information of the logical traffic lights. Using a finite state machine, the area of interest – may transition between the states in a state loop and the logical traffic lights may transition into corresponding states. Alternatively, a processor operates a vehicle along a route through an area of interest using traffic light information from such a logical traffic light.
Patent GB-2601672-A (GB)
Title: Bio-ink formulations, bio-printed corneal lenticule, and applications thereof
Inventor: Tuhin Bhowmick
IPC: C12N5/07
Filed: 2020-07-27
Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a xeno-free bio-ink formulation amenable to be printed using a 3D printer. The bio-ink formulation exhibits optimum viscosity in the range of 1690-5300 cP. The present disclosure discloses a bio-printed corneal lenticule obtained from the bio-ink formulation. The bio-printed corneal lenticule as disclosed is of the optimum thickness in the range of 10-500 microns and exhibits transmittance in the range of 80-99%. The present disclosure also discloses a process for preparing the bio-ink formulation as well as for preparing the bio-printed corneal lenticule. Further, the present disclosure discloses a method of treating a corneal defect using the bio-printed corneal lenticule as an implant to treat the corneal defect. The bio-printed corneal lenticule can further be used as a model for in-vitro drug testing and diseases modelling.
Patent GB-2601705-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to a shower base or former tray
Inventor: BRIAN LEE
IPC: A47K3/40
Filed: 2020-02-26
Abstract: A plate 122 for a shower tray 104 which has an aperture 114 for the plate, which can be selectively positioned and where rotation of the plate is then prevented. The plate has a drainage outlet 126 located in a recess and includes engagement means 132, 134 to engage with a drainage assembly 136 located under a shower base assembly. The drainage outlet may be offset from the centre of the plate and the plate may have at least one straight wall. The plate may have a circular upper portion and a lower portion with side walls which prevent rotation of the plate. The tray and the plate may each have N side walls and the plate may be positioned in N-1 positions in the tray. A shower base assembly is also claimed. The tray base of the assembly may have fall lines 110 to direct the flow of water.
Patent GB-2611923-A (GB)
Title: Terrain-based automated detection of well pads and their surroundings
Inventor: TIM SCHMIDT
IPC: G06V20/17
Filed: 2021-05-27
Abstract: Aspects of the invention include includes detecting, using a first machine learning model, a first well pad at a first location based at least in part on a first set of data comprising spectral data describing a gas emission from the first location. Detecting an environmental event within a threshold distance of the well pad. Determining a probability of damage to the first well pad from the environmental event.
Patent GB-2621228-A (GB)
Title: Flexible display device
Inventor: SUNGJIN PARK
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2023-06-09
Abstract: Flexible display with display panel 120 configured to display an image. A first substrate 110 on display panel 120 supports panel 120. First substrate 110 includes a plurality of first portions 112 extending in a first direction and a second portion 111 between the plurality of first portions 112 that is more elastic than the plurality of first portions 112. Each of the first portions 111 includes a flat portion that faces the display panel 120 and a curved portion connected to the flat portion that protrudes away from it. Second portion 111 is more elastic than first portions 112. Optionally, an adhesive unit AD bonds together display panel 120 and substrate 110. First portions 111 may have a semi-cylindrical shape. The flexible display device may be foldable or rollable.
Patent GB-2618244-A (GB)
Title: Optical ophthalmic apparatus and method of focusing image of retina
Inventor: JUHA LIPPONEN
IPC: A61B3/12
Filed: 2021-12-16
Abstract: An image source (100) of an optical ophthalmic apparatus (10) provides a picture (110) and directs light of the picture (110) toward an imaging arrangement (104) of the optical ophthalmic apparatus (10). The imaging arrangement (104) receives light of the picture (110) and forms, together with refraction of an eye (120), an image (112) of the picture (110) on a first image plane (114), and the imaging arrangement (104) locates the first image plane (114) at a known location. The imaging arrangement (104) receives light from a retina (122) of the eye (120) and directs light from the retina (122) to an image detector (106) of the optical ophthalmic apparatus (10), and the imaging arrangement (104) forms, together with refraction of the eye (120), an image (116) of the retina (122) on a second image plane (118). The imaging arrangement (104) forms optical conjugates of the first and second image planes (114, 118) for focusing the image (116) of the retina (122) accurately on an image sensor (106') of the image detector (106) if the image (112) of the picture (110) is simultaneously accurately focused on the retina (122) of the eye (120), and the optical ophthalmic apparatus (10) stimulates the eye (120) to accommodate in order to focus the image (112) of the picture (110) accurately on the retina (122) if the image (112) of the picture (110) is out-of-focus on the retina (122).