baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2529221-A (GB)
Title: Content addressable memory cell and array
Inventor: SAUTTER ROLF
IPC: G11C15/04
Filed: 2014-08-14
Abstract: Content addressable memory cell, (CAM) comprising a first memory cell 108, a first compare circuitry 109, and a first logic circuitry 111, the first logic circuitry comprising a first n-type field effect transistor (n-FET) T16, a first p-type field effect transistor (p-FET) T15, and a first input terminal 128). The first compare circuitry is communicatively coupled to the first memory cell 108 via a first communicative coupling 106, 107 enabling transmitting first data stored in the first memory cell to the first compare circuitry 109, wherein the first input terminal128 is communicatively coupled via a second communicative coupling 110 to the first compare logic 109, wherein a gate of the first n-FET T16 and a gate of the first p-FET T15 are galvanically coupled to the first input terminal. Galvanic coupling includes wiring elements made of heavily/degenerately doped semiconductor, metals, or metal nitrides. Communicative coupling includes galvanic couplings as well as transistors, logical gates, or functional digital blocks, between terminals. Claims are also made to a method of operation, and to implementation of the circuit on a semiconductor wafer. Claims are also made to a Hardware Description Language description for the circuits. Other embodiments include two or three separate CAM circuits co-joined by logic circuits (see 118, 111 figures 9 -11), the CAM circuits also preferably using data masking. Dynamic or clocked logic gates may also be employed.
Patent GB-2530771-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for supporting operations in retail stores
Inventor: STOUT PHILIP ALEXANDER
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2014-10-01
Abstract: A system 200 for supporting product recall events with a retail environment comprises a controlling server 60 coupled to local servers 20, in turn coupled to a plurality of in-store portable devices 30 which may be handheld smart devices or wearable devices such as smart glasses or smart watches. The controlling server 60 receives a recall notification message 51 from a source device 50 and distributes a recall command 52 across a network 40 to local servers 20 which, in turn produce task messages 53 for the in-store portable devices 30. Store assistants withdraw the appropriate defective product from the store shelves and capture the proof by way of a photographic image using the in-store portable device. Evidence messages 54 which may contain images captured by the in-store portable devices 30 are returned via the local servers 20 to the controlling server 60. In this way, a clear audit trail of successful withdrawal of the product is collated, the invention offers a more efficient and cost-effective means of recalling defective products.
Patent GB-2521068-A (GB)
Title: High fidelity restriction endonucleases
Inventor: ZHU ZHENYU
IPC: C12Q1/34
Filed: 2011-02-07
Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for engineering mutant enzymes with reduced star activity where the mutant enzymes have a fidelity index (FI) in a specified buffer that is greater than the FI of the non-mutated enzyme in the same buffer. The restriction endonuclease enzyme is NruI, and the mutations are selected from G75, Q99, G155, or P22/R90. The mutation may be G75A, Q99A, G155A; or P22A and R90A. Also claimed are methods of identifying the FI of the aforementioned NruI restriction enzyme variants, wherein the methods comprise selecting a reaction buffer and DNA substrate with a binding site for NruI, permitting serially diluted NruI variants to cleave the DNA substrate, and determining the FI for the NruI variant.
Patent GB-2525767-A (GB)
Title: Speaker device
Inventor: BROGAN HUGH
IPC: H04R7/04
Filed: 2015-05-01
Abstract: The speaker device includes a body and a speaker panel assembly. The speaker panel assembly is movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration, wherein in the open configuration the speaker panel assembly is displaced relative to the body, and in the closed configuration the speaker panel assembly is retracted into the body. The speaker device may be a smart device. The speaker device may be an accessory configured to receive and to store a mobile device. Many embodiments are discussed, including multiple speaker panels, folding speaker panels and detachable speaker panels.
Patent GB-2525791-A (GB)
Title: Refrigeration-cycle device and method for controlling refrigeration-cycle device
Inventor: TANAKA KOSUKE
IPC: F25B49/02
Filed: 2013-01-31
Abstract: In this refrigeration-cycle device, a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, a pressure-reducing means, and a load-side heat exchanger are connected in that order, forming a refrigerant circulation circuit. The compressor and the heat-source-side heat exchanger are provided in a heat-source-side unit, the load-side heat exchanger is provided in a load-side unit, and the pressure-reducing means comprises a first pressure-reducing device provided in the heat-source-side unit and a second pressure-reducing device provided in the load-side unit. The first and second pressure-reducing devices are connected in series via first connecting tubing interposed between the heat-source-side unit and the load-side unit. Refrigerant flowing through the channel between the first and second pressure-reducing devices is in a gas-liquid two-phase state, and the amounts by which the first and second pressure-reducing devices reduce pressure are controlled so as to make the amount of refrigerant in some of the channels of the refrigerant circulation circuit, including at least the first connecting tubing, equal to a target refrigerant amount.
Patent GB-2532562-A (GB)
Title: Multi-element comparison and multi-element addition
Inventor: DAVID RAYMOND LUTZ
IPC: G06F17/16
Filed: 2015-09-17
Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus 8 to selectively perform multi-element comparison and addition on packed data items such as vectors. The apparatus has non-final reduction stages, each with a non-final intermediate operand forming stage 10 to form intermediate operands from an input vector and intermediate sum values output from a preceding non-final reduction stage. The non-final stages also have carry propagate adders stages 12 to add respective pairs of the intermediate operands to form intermediate sum values. A final reduction stage has a final intermediate operand stage 16 that forms final intermediate operands from intermediate sum values output from the non-final reduction stages. The final stage also has an output adder stage 18 to generate an output by adding the final intermediate operands. The reduction stages may also have a non-final limit value selecting stage 14 active when performing a multi-element comparison, to select in dependence upon the carry values generated by the carry propagate adders stage, limit values that are the larger or smaller value of a pair of elements.
Patent GB-2542849-A (GB)
Title: Cooling and warming protector
Inventor: CHENG-CHUAN YANG
IPC: A61F7/03
Filed: 2015-10-02
Abstract: A protector includes a body 100 having a cooling/warming device 1 and a connection device 2 for connecting the protector to a users body. The cooling/warming device 1 includes a water bag 11, a circulation device 12 and a chip 13 (e.g. a Peltier element), wherein the circulation device 12 is connected to the bag 11 and the chip 13. Liquid is received in the water bag 11 and circulates within the circulation device 12, and the chip 13 changes the temperature of the liquid in the circulation device 12. The temperature of the liquid is set to provide cooling or warming features to the muscles of the user's body. There may be a heat dissipating member (3 figure 2) connected to one side of the chip 13, a motor 14, temperature controller 15, temperature detector 16, a circuit unit 17, and a power source 18. There may also be multiple vibration motors 19 and/or an opening (6 figure 10) which may further comprise a zip (7,8 figure 10).
Patent GB-2529776-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle-mounted antenna device
Inventor: ITO JUN
IPC: H01Q9/42
Filed: 2014-04-21
Abstract: Provided is a vehicle-mounted antenna device having improved S/N characteristics and directivity. The antenna device, built into a hollow body such as a spoiler (2) fixed to a vehicle (1), is provided with a composite antenna element (10) having an antenna length that corresponds to a first frequency band, the composite antenna element (10) being bent and disposed in a substantially planar manner in order to improve the antenna effective capacitance so as to also function as a capacitance antenna that corresponds to a second frequency band. The composite antenna element (10) is disposed so that the planar direction is angled toward the vertical direction with respect to the metal body of the vehicle (1), is placed so as to be offset to either the left or the right of the interior of the hollow body with respect to the direction of vehicle travel, and is grounded to the metal portion of the vehicle in the vicinity of the placement position.
Patent GB-2535863-A (GB)
Title: Prevention of removal of solid state drive from computer housing with data being accessible theron
Inventor: AMY LEIGH ROSE
IPC: G06F21/88
Filed: 2016-01-21
Abstract: This is for a device that protects the storage of a solid state drive 400 or SSD that is disposed within server housing 402. The invention works by having a circuit that will complete in reverse bias, which induces a latch up, if the SSD is removed from its housing without authorisation, i.e. if someone attempts to steal it. This will then erase the data on the SSD, or render the SSD inoperable, or the data inaccessible. The device includes a light or an air sensor a change in which will generate a signal to be provided to a switch 430, which completes the circuit in reverse bias. The circuit may also be completed in response to a button 436 being pressed. The button may be mechanically coupled to the switch. There is also processor 440 that is coupled to the switch to provide commands to either enable or disable it. The processor may also provide a command to complete the circuit automatically.
Patent GB-2537729-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering
Inventor: Justin DeCell
IPC: G06T15/60
Filed: 2016-03-03
Abstract: Graphics processing providing soft shadowing in rendered images. For each pixel corresponding to a visible surface 404 in a pixel frame 410, a ray is cast from the corresponding position on the visible surface 412 towards a light source 402 and occlusions 406 of the rays are determined. For each occluded ray, a distance from the surface point to the occlusion is recorded. For each unoccluded ray 412_3, a search is performed for a nearby occluded ray 412_2 and the distance associated with the unoccluded ray is recorded. For each ray with a recorded distance, a blending region for a blending filter is determined, the blending region is transformed into the frame of pixels and used to determine shadowing for one or more pixels corresponding to the ray. In this way, soft shadows can be applied in a penumbra region by tracing single rays between surface points and a modelled light source. The softness of the shadow is dependent on the distance between the obscuring object and the shaded surface. Preferably, the search for a nearby ray is conducted in a defined search region and the nearest obscured ray is chosen. An occluding object may have an associated texture which determines an attenuation value used to render the shadows.
Patent GB-2548613-A (GB)
Title: Round pole joint
Inventor: ANDREW GOAD
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 2016-03-24
Abstract: A first pole B with a spigot C in the end is joined to the side of a second pole A which has a hole to receive the spigot C. The first pole B has a C-shaped end (e.g. a fish mouth) which, in use, at least partially encircles and abuts the side of the second pole A. Spigot C may be a dowel, rod or other bar inserted into a hole (E, fig 3) in the end of first pole B, which mates with the hole (D, fig 2) in the side of second pole A. A plastic spigot (G, fig 5) and pole may be extruded from one piece. The joint may be further secured by gluing the spigot in place in a hole, and inserting extra dowels of a smaller diameter than dowel C by drilling additional holes H at a perpendicular angle to dowel C through the poles and through dowel C near to its ends. First B, and second A, poles may be joined perpendicularly, or at any other suitable angle.
Patent GB-2540048-A (GB)
Title: Electroplated phase change switch
Inventor: CHRISTIAN R BONHOTE
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2016-06-24
Abstract: An electrical component or non-volatile memory device, comprising of an etch stop layer (e.g chrome) on a substrate and a laminate comprising of alternating layers of conductor 206 and insulator materials 204 over the etch stop layer, whilst a hard mask remains on the upper surface of the laminate layer. Each conductor layer forms a first electrode. A vertical trench 210A, 210B runs vertically between the etch stop layer and the hard mask on surface of the device. Phase change or ovonic threshold switch (OTS) materials 220 are formed on the edge of the conductor layers, whilst a conductive layer 214 forms a second electrode which in use allows selection of the device via the conductive electrode layers and the second electrode 214 which covers the surface of the device array. The conductor material may comprise silicon, molybdenum Mo or Tungsten W, whilst the trench may conform substantially to a vertical hole. The phase change material may also be formed within a recess in the conductor/insulator layer, such that the phase change material is inset into the insulator/conductor wall, and this may form a mushroom or hemispherical side protrusion of the material. The invention also relates to a method of manufacture whereby the phase change material or ovonic threshold switching material is deposited on the sidewall or edge of the conductor by a process of electroplating or electrochemical deposition, and whereby at least a portion of the conductors are connected to an electric network or to an electric potential. Preferably an electrical connection is made between the conductor layers and an external power source through an aqueous bath. The vertical etch defining the vertical stack memory device may involve an anisotropic etch. In addition the recess may involve an isotropic etch of the conductor material.
Patent GB-2536180-A (GB)
Title: Media processing device with enhanced media and ribbon loading and unloading features
Inventor: SHUSHUO WU
IPC: B41J35/28
Filed: 2014-12-16
Abstract: A device for processing media may include a system and method for loading and unloading consumable supplies of a media processing device, and more particularly, a system and method for providing a compact form factor media processing device which provides convenient access to the replaceable components of the media processing device (100). A media processing device (100) may include a base (110) and a lid (120) hingedly attached to the base (110), moveable between a closed position in which the lid is secured to the base, and an open position. A cavity may be defined between the lid and the base, where the cavity is inaccessible when the lid is in the closed position and the cavity is accessible when the lid is in the open position. The media processing device may include a ribbon positioning assembly (220) disposed within the cavity.
Patent GB-2544234-A (GB)
Title: Using representative elemental volume to determine subset volume in an area of interest earth model
Inventor: TRAVIS RAMSAY
IPC: G06T17/20
Filed: 2014-10-14
Abstract: Method for determining a subset volume in a 3D geocellular model of an oil and gas reservoir includes creating a 3D geocellular grid of the reservoir, defining a thick cross section for an area of interest within the 3D geocellular grid, iteratively increasing the volume of the thick cross section by a predetermined number of cells on each side, moving the thick cross section throughout the 3D geocellular grid, and performing a representative elemental volume (REV) analysis based on porosity for the resulting thick cross section. One embodiments allow incorporating REV analysis to determine a subset reservoir model volume which is smaller than the full field model but representative of the petrophysical property distribution in the full field model. This is done so that subset models act as theoretical proxies to the full field models and allow more detailed analysis before building the full field model.
Patent GB-2552406-A (GB)
Title: Laser processing
Inventor: TIMOTHY GERKE
IPC: C03C23/00
Filed: 2014-06-25
Abstract: A transparent material including an internal mark which is visible when illuminated in an illumination direction (l1, Fig.3) and viewed in a viewing direction (V1, Fig.3). The internal mark comprising a plurality of regions 10 defined by smooth, laser-induced refractive index modification. The plurality of regions comprise neighbouring regions spaced apart by a distance S within the range of 2µm to 100µm. The regions are arranged to cause light propagating in the illumination direction to be redirected such that the internal mark is visible when viewed in the viewing direction. The plurality of regions 10 may define first and second layers, wherein neighbouring regions in the first layer are spaced apart by a distance within the range of 2µm to 100µm and wherein neighbouring regions in the second layer are spaced apart by a distance within the range of 2µm to 100µm. Each region 10 may comprises a specularly-reflecting interface or a diffractive region.
Patent GB-2566249-A (GB)
Title: Method for cleaning casings using well fluid
Inventor: JOHN PAUL FRASER
IPC: E21B37/04
Filed: 2017-06-16
Abstract: A tool 1 for cleaning the internal diameter of a casing 12 using well fluid includes a barrier 2 and at least two cleaning elements 5, 7, a chamber in which well fluid is accelerated and a jetting device 6. The cleaning elements may include brushes 5, scrapers 7, magnets, wiper rings or fins. A funnel 8 may divert fluid into the velocity chamber, towards a nozzle 10 of the jetting device 6. The internal profile 9 of the cavity may be rotational, for example a spiral, conical or fin profile, creating a vortex within the body and causing the tool 1 to rotate. An anti-rotational plate 4 may prevent transfer of torque to the plug 2. The nozzles 10 of the jetting device 6 may provide an oscillating or rotational jet. A method of using the tool 1 to clean the casing 12 with well fluid is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2563676-A (GB)
Title: Gripping collar and corresponding tubular joint
Inventor: JEAN THOUVENOT
IPC: F16L25/01
Filed: 2017-06-23
Abstract: This gripping collar (8) for a tubular connection of two tubular elements (4, 6) comprises a collar body (20), having a belt (22), sealing gasket (28) and a first gripping flange (24), and gripping means (30)t. The collar (8) comprises a first and second tooth (50; 52) for biting into the outer coating of each tubular in both tangential and axial directions when moved in a contact direction. The teeth are electrically connected to provide electrical connection between each tubular. There is also a second flange 26 and the gripping means, also for moving the teeth, may be a screw 36 and nut 38. The teeth may be formed on the nut or flange.
Patent GB-2563888-A (GB)
Title: Sub-realms
Inventor: JASON PARKER
IPC: G06F12/14
Filed: 2017-06-28
Abstract: Software processes at a plurality of exception levels have portions corresponding to realms, where a memory region is associated with an owner realm and owner realms, e.g. guest virtual machines VMs, can prevent access to the associated regions to other realms or to processes at more privileged execution levels, e.g. the hypervisor. Realm can be initialised as a full realm 600 which corresponds to a given software process and a sub-realm 602 corresponding to a given address range within the given software process. Sub-realms have the right to exclude their parent full realms from accessing owned memory regions, e.g. pages. This way a portion of a given software is made more secure than other parts. For example, code for checking passwords or other sensitive information in mobile banking can be allocated a sub-realm. Sub-realms cannot initialise their own child realms, simplifying the architecture as additional state registers are not needed.
Patent GB-2566983-A (GB)
Title: Captopril liquid dosage form and delivery system
Inventor: STEPHEN TICKLE
IPC: A61K31/401
Filed: 2017-09-29
Abstract: A container comprising a pharmaceutical dosage form, the dosage form comprising solid and liquid components; the solid component comprising: captopril as active ingredient; and at least one water soluble excipient; the liquid component comprising: water; sodium metabisulphite; at least one sequestrant; and optional further excipients; the container 1 having two separate compartments separated by a breakable barrier, the solid component 10 located in a first compartment 6 and the liquid component (13, Fig. 3) located in a second compartment; the breakable barrier 9 being arranged to be broken by a user to allow the solid component and the liquid component to mix to provide the dosage form for use. The container is engaged with a cap 4 having a tamper-proof seal 5 and a receptacle 6 extending into the container 1. Receptacle 6 has a frangible sealing disc 9 to define a chamber within which the solid component is stored. An upper surface 11 of the cap has a downwardly extending flange 8 which extends to a point 7. When the tamperproof ring and sealing band 12 are removed the cap may be depressed urging projection 7 to rupture the ring and release the solid component into the liquid component.
Patent GB-2566986-A (GB)
Title: Error detection during hybridisation of target double-stranded nucleic acid
Inventor: MATTHEW JAMES HAYES
IPC: C12Q1/6874
Filed: 2017-09-29
Abstract: A series of hybridisations is performed for forming a target double-stranded nucleic acid from initial fragments, where each further hybridisation step hybridises the direct products of a pair of earlier hybridisation steps and wherein at least one further hybridization step, and the corresponding pair of earlier hybridisation steps comprise an error-detecting type of hybridisation step, which includes an error detecting operation to detect whether the hybridised fragments formed in the error-detecting type of hybridisation step comprise at least one erroneous hybridised fragment, and discarding at least part of the erroneous fragment to exclude it from a subsequent further hybridization step. Detecting and removing erroneous fragments throughout the process increases the pool of error-free fragments at each hybridisation step, improving the yield of error free double-stranded nucleic acids. The error detection may be by melting temperature analysis or using enzymatic means. The method can be performed using a linear flow apparatus with multiple thermally controlled reaction sites
Patent GB-2562912-A (GB)
Title: Drilling rig gas trap testing
Inventor: MARTIN STRACHAN YOUNG
IPC: E21B49/08
Filed: 2016-01-25
Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to drilling rig gas trap gas sampling. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of gas sampling. The method include flowing a gas sample from a sample container to a gas trap. The gas trap includes a mud inlet, a mud outlet, and a sample line fluidly connecting the gas trap to a gas detector. The sample container is fluidly and sealably connected to the gas trap. The method includes flowing the gas sample in the gas trap to the gas detector via the sample line. The method includes detecting the gas sample with the gas detector.