baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2579371-A (GB)
Title: Steering column assembly
Inventor: MICHAEL APPLEYARD
IPC: B62D1/185
Filed: 2018-11-29
Abstract: A steering column assembly 208 for a vehicle, for example an autonomous vehicle, has a first elongate guide portion, a second portion 50 movably mounted relative to the guide portion and means for attaching a steering wheel 200 to the guide portion or to second portion 50. The guide portion has at least two elongate, parallel guide edges 38. Second portion 50 has at least two rollers spaced along the guide portion and shaped complementarily to, and engaged with, a first guide edge 38. Second portion 50 also has at least two further rollers 39 spaced along the guide portion and shaped complementarily to, and engaged with, a second guide edge 38. The arrangement may allow for retracting and deploying assembly 208 to and from a stowed position and may allow movement with little or no play.
Patent GB-2578795-A (GB)
Title: Skin patch
Inventor: JAMES MAYO
IPC: A61B5/145
Filed: 2018-12-07
Abstract: A skin patch (10, fig.1), for measuring a biometric parameter of a bodily fluid, comprises a hydrophilic sensing bead (24, fig.3) and a sensor including at least one electrode 30 embedded within the hydrophilic sensing bead. The sensor is configured to obtain data relating to the concentration of the hydrophilic sensing bead relating to the parameter. A transport section for transporting a bodily fluid contacts the hydrophilic sensing bead, and may be configured to control the rate at which the fluid is transported to the sensor. The transport section may comprise a plurality of capillary channels. A communication unit includes an input section communicating with the sensor via a connector, and an output section is configured to output the obtained data. When the fluid contacts the bead, the bead may be configured to equilibrate with the fluid. An equilibrate means may be provided to control the rate of equilibration. The bead may comprise a hydrogel 28. The sensor may be a potentiometric sensor and an amperometric sensor. The patch may be configured to undergo temperature calibration. A removal section may be provided for expelling the fluid and may comprise capillary channels.
Patent GB-2566411-A (GB)
Title: Arrayed distributed temperature sensing using single-photon detectors
Inventor: DANIEL JOSHUA STARK
IPC: G01H9/00
Filed: 2016-08-26
Abstract: In some embodiments, a method and apparatus, as well as an article, may operate to determine downhole properties based on detected optical signals. An optical detection system can include a fiber optic cable having a sensing location to generate a reflected measurement signal representative of measurement parameters. The optical detection system can further include a light source to transmit a measurement signal to cause the sensing location to provide the reflected measurement signal. The optical detection system can further include an optical detector comprising a single]photon detector (SPD) for detecting the reflected measurement signal received over the fiber optic cable. The optical detection system can further include a housing for enclosing the optical detector and to optically shield the optical detector, the housing including an aperture for passage of the fiber optic cable. Additional apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Patent GB-2584881-A (GB)
Title: Multiple vacuum chamber exhaust system and method of evacuating multiple chambers
Inventor: Declan Scanlon
IPC: H01L21/67
Filed: 2019-06-19
Abstract: A vacuum exhaust system for evacuating a plurality of chambers 10 located within a clean room comprises a plurality of branch process gas channels 14 configured to connect to each chamber, and a shared process channel 16 formed from a confluence of the branch process channels. The system further comprises a plurality of branch pumpdown channels 30 configured to connect to each chamber, and a shared pumpdown channel 32 formed from a confluence of the branch pumpdown channels. The process channel may comprise high vacuum molecular flow pumps 12, and a lower vacuum viscous flow pump 20. A plurality of valves 18, 38 may be provided. The system preferably comprises a control module 50 to generate control signals for controlling a pressure in the process channel and reducing fluctuations in the pressure. The control signals may be in response to current or future activity in a chamber, and may control a valve, a vacuum pump speed, or the flow of purge gas.
Patent GB-2588828-A (GB)
Title: Balustrade
Inventor: TRISTAN PARSONS
IPC: E04F11/18
Filed: 2019-11-11
Abstract: A balustrade arrangement comprises a plurality of slats 120 of monolithic toughened glass arranged in series substantially along a lateral direction. The slats each have a width in the lateral direction up to 300 mm from a first lateral side to a second lateral side of a slat. Adjacent slats are spaced apart from each other by a spacing gap of at least 6 mm, the spacing gap being smaller than the width of the slats. The slats are arranged so that, when one slat is removed from the balustrade to form a breakage gap between adjacent remaining slats, the width of the breakage gap in the lateral direction is at most 500 mm. The slats are supported at a lower end using a clamping arrangement comprising bolts 132 extending through the spacing gaps between the slats. Also disclosed is a balcony incorporating such a balustrade and a method for the installation of such a balustrade.
Patent GB-2590359-A (GB)
Title: A system and method for erecting a temporary retainer in a trench
Inventor: RICHARD DAVID LONGSTAFF
IPC: E02D17/08
Filed: 2019-12-02
Abstract: A system and a method for erecting a temporary retainer in a trench comprising: a rigid frame 110 comprising mounting means 120 for mounting rigid sheets 500, 510 for forming the temporary retainer when braced, on opposite edges of the frame so that the sheets extend at least below the frame; hanging means 130 coupled to the frame, for hanging one or more retainer braces 310 below the frame; wherein the one or more retainer braces are configured to be placed in a bracing configuration or a non-bracing configuration, wherein the bracing configuration maintains a determined separation between the rigid sheets when the rigid sheets are braced within a trench; wherein the frame comprises lifting means to enable lifting of the mounted rigid sheets and the one or more retainer braces in the non-bracing configuration together. The braces and frames may be expandable, the braces may press against waler beams 320 and the frame may have legs.
Patent GB-2579499-A (GB)
Title: System and methods for measuring values of perception variables
Inventor: DANIEL PROTZ
IPC: G06N5/04
Filed: 2018-07-13
Abstract: A method and system are described for generating a quantified perception profile of a predetermined stimulus. The method may be used in colorimetry or flavor quantization. Flavor descriptors are selected from database for the particular product and presented pairwise in all possible pair combinations to each of a plurality of tasters via user-devices. For each flavor descriptor pair, users select one of the descriptors which is perceived to be more intense than the other. The results of the selections are captured at host and mapped by normalizing means as intensity values into a flavor descriptor space in database to create a quantized flavor profile. Normalizing means performs a weighting on each descriptor selection result. Filtering means detects anomalous or inconsistent selection responses and issues adaptive control instructions.
Patent GB-2579160-A (GB)
Title: Predicting table of contents pointer value responsive to branching to subroutine
Inventor: MICHAEL KARL GSCHWIND
IPC: G06F9/448
Filed: 2018-09-18
Abstract: Predicting a Table of Contents (TOC) pointer value responsive to branching to a subroutine. A subroutine is called from a calling module executing on a processor. Based on calling the subroutine, a value of a pointer to a reference data structure, such as a TOC, is predicted. The predicting is performed prior to executing a sequence of one or more instructions in the subroutine to compute the value. The value that is predicted is used to access the reference data structure to obtain a variable value for a variable of the subroutine.
Patent GB-2581655-A (GB)
Title: Sytems and methods to establish digital chain of custody
Inventor: William James Watt
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2018-10-25
Abstract: Systems and methods to maintain digital chain of custody of containers and products loaded therein are described. A container may be verified, and products to be loaded into the container may be identified. Video data may be captured throughout the loading process, and the video data, together with product information, may be combined to generate a digital container model. Further, a monitoring device may be included within the container to gather data during shipment. During shipment, the digital container model may be provided to and reviewed by a recipient of the container. Upon arrival of the container, monitoring data of the monitoring device may also be reviewed by the recipient. Based on reviews of the digital container model and the monitoring data, digital chain of custody may be established and maintained for all or a portion of the products in the container from loading to arrival.
Patent GB-2593550-A (GB)
Title: Means for reducing virus self infection
Inventor: HUGH-PETER GRANVILLE KELLY
IPC: G08B21/24
Filed: 2020-05-05
Abstract: Reducing the chance of viral infection of a user by deterring hand-to-face or hand-to-mouth contact comprises wearable warning device 27, 28 mounted on a user. The warning device emits a warning signal when it detects the proximity of a human body part to a head of the user. The warning signal may be visual or audible and emitted by buzzer/vibrator 32 or LED 33. The warning device may include a detector for detecting the proximity of an object to the head, mouth, or face of the user and emit the warning signal if the detected proximity is less than an adjustable threshold separation. The warning device may feature Doppler, infra-red, capacitive, inductive, magnetic, or Hall effect sensor 29. The detector may include magnetic antenna 25. The device may feature counter 36 for counting the number of warning signals emitted. The device may include a switch to allow a user to silence the warning signal for a predetermined amount of time.
Patent GB-2580579-A (GB)
Title: Protecting cognitive systems from gradient based attacks through the use of deceiving gradients
Inventor: TAESUNG LEE
IPC: G06N3/08
Filed: 2018-10-29
Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for providing a hardened neural network. The mechanisms configure the hardened neural network executing in the data processing system to introduce noise in internal feature representations of the hardened neural network. The noise introduced in the internal feature representations diverts gradient computations associated with a loss surface of the hardened neural network. The mechanisms configure the hardened neural network executing in the data processing system to implement a merge layer of nodes that combine outputs of adversarially trained output nodes of the hardened neural network with output nodes of the hardened neural network trained based on the introduced noise. The mechanisms process, by the hardened neural network, input data to generate classification labels for the input data and thereby generate augmented input data which is output to a computing system for processing to perform a computing operation.
Patent GB-2597260-A (GB)
Title: Electromagnetic field receiver
Inventor: FRASER BURTON
IPC: H04B10/00
Filed: 2020-07-16
Abstract: Conventional RF receivers use metallic conductors as antennas. This invention relates to a method of controlling a Rydberg-atom based RF receiver 20 which instead includes an optical receiver. The invention is applicable to receiving amplitude, frequency or phase modulated RF signals from a RF transmitter 10. The RF receiver 20 comprises a first optical transmitter 23 which transmits a probe signal to an optical receiver 27 (such as a photodetector) via a transmission medium 21. The transmission medium may be an optical fibre with a cavity containing Rubidium-85 vapour. A second transmitter 25 transmits a coupling signal via the transmission medium at a coupling frequency. The coupling frequency is set to induce an Electromagnetic Induced Transparency, EIT, effect such that an incident electromagnetic field at the transmission medium causes a detectable change in power of the probe signal at the optical receiver. The method comprises: varying an intensity value or coupling frequency of the coupling signal; monitoring the resultant variation in the change in power of the probe signal; and setting the intensity value and/or coupling frequency of the coupling signal so as to increase the change in power of the probe signal.
Patent GB-2586184-A (GB)
Title: Server-provided visual output at a voice interface device
Inventor: KENNETH MIXTER
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2017-11-17
Abstract: A server system communicatively coupled to an electronic device with one or more microphones, a speaker and an array of indicator lights, where a voice input from the electronic device is obtained while operation of the array of indicator lights is being controlled by first visual output instructions based on an operating state of the electronic device. The operating state of the electronic device includes operating states of applications executing thereon, wherein the first visual output instructions are stored at the electronic device and are configured to control operation of the array of indicator lights based on operating state of the electronic device. It is then determined whether the voice input satisfies one or more criteria and, in accordance with that determination, providing a response to the voice input and second visual output instructions. The response to the electronic device and the second visual output instructions is transmitted, thereby enabling the electronic device to change operation of the array of indicator lights to respond to the second visual output instructions instead of the first visual output instructions.
Patent GB-2600709-A (GB)
Title: Valve apparatus
Inventor: PETER BARNES MOYES
IPC: E21B34/10
Filed: 2020-11-04
Abstract: Valve apparatus and methods for controlling flow downhole. Valve apparatus 210 including a valve cartridge 212 axially moveable within a housing, the valve cartridge comprising first 220 and second cartridge 222 portions, the valve cartridge having a first configuration in which the first and second cartridge portions are moveable together and a second configuration in which the first and second cartridge portions are relatively moveable; an internal force element 236 energisable from an initial condition to an activated condition; a valve member 214 mounted within the valve cartridge and rotatable from a closed position to an open position in response to relative movement between the first and second cartridge portions; and an operation arrangement co-operable with the valve cartridge, the housing and the internal force element to energise the internal force element from the initial condition to the activated condition and reconfigure the valve cartridge from the first configuration to the second configuration in response to a trigger event acting on the valve cartridge, the operation arrangement actuable by the internal force element in the activated condition to cause relative movement between the first and second cartridge portions of the valve cartridge in the second configuration and rotation of the valve member from the closed position to the open position.
Patent GB-2588001-A (GB)
Title: Evaluation of an instability using imaging and modeling following arthroplasty
Inventor: CHRISTINA ESPOSITO PARKER
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 2019-06-13
Abstract: A computing device uses a plurality of images of arthroplasty to measure implant position. A virtual three-dimensional model is generated using at least some of the plurality of images. Moreover, the computing device configured in accordance with the present application simulates, as a function of the virtual three-dimensional model, movement at the site. As a function of the simulating, the computing device determines occurrence, location and type of impingement, and identifies, using the determined location and type of the impingement, a plurality of surgical plans for treating the impingement, wherein each of the surgical plans has a respective degree of treatment effectiveness and a respective degree of invasiveness. Further, the computing device selects one of the surgical plans in accordance with the selected plan's predetermined respective degree of effectiveness and in accordance with the selected plan's predetermined respective degree of invasiveness.
Patent GB-2589219-A (GB)
Title: Dual-airbag inflatable boat
Inventor: XIAORONG DING
IPC: B63B7/08
Filed: 2019-05-15
Abstract: A duel- airbag inflatable boat comprising an upper airbag(1) and a  lower airbag (2). The upper airbag (1) and the lower airbag (2) are fixedly connected to each other by means of a connecting portion (3) and a cavity (4) is formed therebetween.  The upper airbag (1) comprises a cockpit hole (18) and a first air nozzle (17) disposed on a surface. The cockpit hole (18) is communicated with the cavity (4). The first air nozzle (17) is used for inflating  and deflating the upper airbag (2) te inflatable boat facilitates the balance and stability of a human body on the water surface and improves the safety factor.
Patent GB-2590244-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for object storage and retrieval
Inventor: Paul Edward Durkee
IPC: G07F11/62
Filed: 2019-07-12
Abstract: Described in detail herein is an autonomous object storage and retrieval system. In one embodiment, an object storage and retrieval system includes a computing system hosting a service application and in communication with a database and storage towers configured to store and dispense physical objects. Each storage tower is in communication with the computing system and has an octagonal prism-shaped housing. Each storage tower includes, a shelving unit disposed within the housing, the shelving unit configured to one or more of the physical objects, a controller, a transport apparatus, an input device, an interactive display, and a repository. The computing system can transmit instructions to the first storage tower to render the status of the first physical object on the interactive display of the storage tower.
Patent GB-2587592-A (GB)
Title: Maintenance of computing nodes concurrently in a number updated dynamically
Inventor: ANTONIO DI COCCO
IPC: G06F9/455
Filed: 2019-06-28
Abstract: A method for maintaining a computing system comprising a plurality of computing nodes is disclosed. The method comprises causing an application of a maintenance activity concurrently on a maintenance subset of the computing nodes not exceeding a limit number, monitoring one or more status indicators of the computing system during the application of the maintenance activity and updating the limit number according to the status indicators. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also disclosed. Moreover, a corresponding control computing machine is disclosed.
Patent GB-2603919-A (GB)
Title: Hand brush for cleaning hands
Inventor: AARON THOMAS WELLS
IPC: A46B13/04
Filed: 2021-02-18
Abstract: A hand brush 101 for cleaning hands, comprising a housing 103,105, tank 111 for storing water and spray 117 for dispensing water, a chamber for storing soap 149 and a pump 119 for dispensing soap. The hand brush further comprises a brush head 109, where in use the brush head is powered so as to be moveable relative to the housing in order to facilitate cleaning. A motor 129 and oscillating gear 133 may be provided to provide an oscillating motion to the brush head. Magnetic plates 163, 171 may be provided on the device and brush head respectively so as to allow the brush head to be removably attached from the device.
Patent GB-2604183-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft system
Inventor: Simon John Cozens
IPC: B64C25/30
Filed: 2021-02-26
Abstract: An aircraft system comprising a controller configured, during a take-off procedure, to initiate, prior to receiving a command to retract a landing gear, automatic opening of a landing gear bay door from a closed position towards an open position, on the basis of a determination, made when a speed of the aircraft is determined by the controller to be equal to or greater than a first threshold speed, that a one engine inoperative condition is met. The controller may be configured to initiate the automatic opening of the bay door based on the determination, when the determination occurs when the speed of the aircraft is determined to be less than or equal to a second threshold speed, and inhibit the automatic opening of the landing gear bay door when the determination that the engine inoperative condition is met occurs when the aircraft speed is greater than the second threshold speed.
Patent GB-2593610-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and methods for biasing of power amplifiers
Inventor: KUNAL DATTA
IPC: H03F1/56
Filed: 2020-01-08
Abstract: Apparatus and methods for biasing power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier includes a bipolar transistor having a base biased by a bias network having a reactance that controls an impedance at the transistor base to achieve substantially flat phase response over large dynamic power levels. For example, the bias network can have a frequency response, such as a high-pass or band-pass response, that reduces the impact of power level on phase distortion (AM/PM).
Patent GB-2601212-A (GB)
Title: System and method for efficient recovery of valuable metals from tin secondary raw materials
Inventor: XINGCHENG SONG
IPC: C22B25/06
Filed: 2020-09-23
Abstract: A system and method for efficient recovery of valuable metals from tin secondary raw materials. The system comprises a batching system (1), a rotary smelting furnace (4), a vacuum furnace (5), a fuming furnace (6) and a flue gas processing system (7) which are arranged in a unified site. A material mixing hopper (3) of the batching system (1) is connected to the rotary smelting furnace (4) by means of a feeding mechanism (12). The rotary smelting furnace (4) is directly or indirectly connected to the vacuum furnace (5), the fuming furnace (6) and the flue gas processing system (7), respectively. The rotary smelting furnace (4) is connected to the vacuum furnace (5) by means of an alloy ingot transferring device (14). The rotary smelting furnace (4) is connected to the fuming furnace (6) by means of a slag transferring device (15). Smoke vents of the rotary smelting furnace (4) and the fuming furnace (6) are connected to the flue gas processing system (7). According to the system and method, the tin secondary raw materials with complex components can be efficiently recovered, the valuable metals such as tin, lead, bismuth, indium, silver, and copper contained in the tin secondary raw materials are fully recovered and utilized, the process is short, the operation is simple, the operation cost is low, the valuable metal recovery rate is high, and the energy saving and environmental protection effects are good.