baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2534899-A (GB)
Title: Double ended vascular filter
Inventor: CHRISTIAN DELA
IPC: A61F2/01
Filed: 2015-02-04
Abstract: An implantable vascular filter includes a support element 12, a first flexible filtering element 22 and first and second coupling elements 18, 20 at first and second ends of the support element for coupling to a retrieval device. The first flexible filtering element has a first end attached to the support element and a second free end, and is able to be configured into any of a radially expanded filtering configuration, a first collapsed configuration, and a second collapsed configuration. The first filtering element is biased into the filtering configuration when in a deployed condition, and is collapsible from the filtering configuration into either of the first collapsed configuration or the second collapsed configuration. The filter may include a second filtering element 24. The filtering elements may be in the form of wire coils when in the filtering configuration and may be straight or elongate when collapsed.
Patent GB-2533975-A (GB)
Title: Antibiofilm compositions
Inventor: MAHESH SAMBASIVAM
IPC: A61Q17/00
Filed: 2015-02-05
Abstract: An antibiofilm composition comprising at least one quorum sensing inhibitor, at least one iron-chelating agent and at least one antimicrobial agent. The quorum sensing inhibitor may be selected from the set of nitro-pyridine N-oxide, pyridine N-oxide, polypyridine N-oxide, and its copolymers, synthetic or natural peptides, sulphur based compounds such as S-phenyl-L-cysteine sulfoxide and diphenylsulphide, meta-bromo-thiolactone. The iron-chelating agent may be selected from EDTA, HEDTA, DTPA, phytic acid, citric acid, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, galatonic acid and their salts, esters, acid chlorides, anhydrides, sodium pyrophosphate, pyridoxal isocotinoyl hydrazine, oxachelin or curcumin. The antimicrobial may be selected from silver, copper, zinc and their salts, silver sulfadiazine, iodine, povidone-iodine, cedexomer-iodine, chlorohexidine gluconate, chloramine T, quaternary ammonium salts, PHMB or ceragenin. The composition may further comprise at least one extra-cellular polymer disrupting agent, such agents may be xylitol, lactoferrin, citric acid or a surfactant. The antibiofilm composition may be used as a component of a wound cleaner composition, which further comprises optionally a surfactant or an agent that disrupts an extra-cellular polymer substance. A wound dressing is also provided comprising a wound contacting article and the antibiofilm composition provided applied to the wound contacting article.
Patent GB-2525279-A (GB)
Title: Railway vehicle driving device
Inventor: AYATA MASATAKA
IPC: B60L11/18
Filed: 2015-02-10
Abstract: A railway vehicle driving device includes a first power converter 1 for driving a three-phase motor 3 by converting DC power input from overhead wiring 2 into three-phase AC power. A power storage device 7 is installed on the vehicle and is capable of charging and discharging DC power. A second power converter 4 controls the current flowing between the power storage device and the first electric power converter and is characterized in that while the first electric power converter is in a power running operation or a regenerative operation, the second electric power converter switches an operation mode of the power storage device to at least two or more operation modes among three operation modes: a charging mode, a discharge mode, and a stop mode, depending on least one of a voltage of the overhead wiring and an input voltage of the first electric power converter.
Patent GB-2535742-A (GB)
Title: A three dimensional scanning apparatus and method
Inventor: CHARLES RITCHIE
IPC: H04N13/02
Filed: 2015-02-25
Abstract: A 3D scanning apparatus 1 comprising an image capturing master module 10 and one or more image capturing slave modules 11 that are removably and adjustably placed at or about the master module 10 in a cooperative relationship to create a larger system. The apparatus may also include cameras 21 that can be moveably mounted on the controller 10 and the or each sub module 11. The scanner system may also include a control arrangement to control the cameras automatically. Each capturing unit 10, 11 may also include a light source for illuminating the object to be scanned, this may involve shining light away from the object and using a reflective panel to direct diffuse light towards the object. Also claimed is a related kit and method.
Patent GB-2521070-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 MluI, and the mutations are E112 and R132. The mutations may be E112A and R132A. Also claimed are methods of identifying the FI of the aforementioned MluI restriction enzyme variants, wherein the methods comprise selecting a reaction buffer and DNA substrate with a binding site for MluI, permitting serially diluted MluI variants to cleave the DNA substrate, and determining the FI for the MluI variant.
Patent GB-2523272-A (GB)
Title: Broach style anti rotation device for connectors
Inventor: RAYNAL JEFFREY ALLEN
IPC: F16L15/08
Filed: 2013-11-04
Abstract: A broach-style anti-rotation device for connected tubular members (106; 108) is described. In embodiments, the broach tool (144) is inserted into a slot (118) in an outer diameter surface of the pin (102), and teeth (146) of the broach, which have successively greater height when moving from the front to the tail of the broach, cut a slot (160) in a surface of the box (104). Sidewalls of the broach and its teeth engage shoulders of each slot to prevent the rotation of the tubular members relative to each other.
Patent GB-2531114-A (GB)
Title: Extrusion molding apparatus
Inventor: RYOTA TAKAHASHI
IPC: B29C48/96
Filed: 2015-07-27
Abstract: An extrusion molding apparatus 10 includes: a container 13 that a container 13 into that a kneaded material 12 containing inorganic adsorbent 11 having radionuclides adsorbed thereon is thrown; a mold cavity 14 of a specified shape provided on a wall surface of the container 13; an extrusion unit 16 that is provided inside the container 13 to extrude the kneaded material 12 out of the container 13 through the mold cavity 14; and a hydrogen removal unit 17 that is provided in the container 13 to recombine hydrogen gas 23 generated inside the container 13 and to remove the hydrogen gas 23.
Patent GB-2545169-A (GB)
Title: Prodrug
Inventor: PAUL LOADMAN
IPC: A61K47/65
Filed: 2015-12-01
Abstract: The present invention harnesses the elevated expression of membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases (MT-MMPs) by human solid tumours as compared to normal tissues to provide a systemically inactive prodrug which is selectively activated in the tumour micro-environment. The present invention provides a prodrug which is a conjugate of a taxane and a selective MT-MMP cleavable delivery vehicle having the aminoacid sequence Arg-Ser-aa1-Gly-Hof-aa2-aa3 wherein aa1-aa3 are any amino acid and Hof is homophenylalanine.
Patent GB-2545208-A (GB)
Title: Protecting vaults
Inventor: Nicolas Mizen
IPC: E04B1/66
Filed: 2015-12-08
Abstract: A vault can be made damp proof by arranging a waterproof membrane 6 adjacent to an internal surface 50 of the vault using a structure of spaced elongate elements 15 to retain it. Preferably, elements 15 are flexible plywood planks which curve to follow the arched or domed vault surface (fig.1,54), with straight, vertical portions along vertical walls with studwork inserted in-between. The structure may be braced against the floor, the internal vault surface or a horizontal rail of the structure with elements joined by glue or screws. An upper portion of the membrane may be held using adjustable props (fig.1,11) braced against a straight upper strip 9 running along the vault apex; the upper strip may have parallel rebates 10, for receiving the curved strips 15. Additional membrane sections, attached to the upper membrane, may be used to cover vertical surfaces. A floor membrane may be provided, with an upstanding membrane (fig.1,3) around the lowermost parts of the internal surface taped to the waterproof membrane covering the vault ceiling or walls. Plasterboard may be attached to the framework, and flooring laid over the floor membrane. The apparatus used in the method is also claimed.
Patent GB-2540831-A (GB)
Title: A Practice apparatus
Inventor: SUSAN GRAY
IPC: G09B19/00
Filed: 2016-02-05
Abstract: An apparatus for practicing the application of eyelash extensions or makeup. It comprises a face section 3 and a support portion 12, wherein the support portion comprises a contact surface for a subordinate structure, such as a table, and a face section support; and the face section comprises a plurality of eye zones; wherein the eye zones comprise a plurality of displaceable parts, such as moveable eyelids 25 (Fig. 5b) and eyes 40 (Fig. 9), and removable eyelashes 26, 24 (Fig. 4). Another option is to have the face section 3 provided on a disembodied mannequin head, and adjustment of the head relative to the support could be allowed by use of a ball-joint. There may also be levers 4 at the sides of the head to displace the eyes 40 (Fig. 9) vertically.
Patent GB-2547201-A (GB)
Title: Cyber security
Inventor: Maha Kadirkamanathan
IPC: G06F21/56
Filed: 2016-02-09
Abstract: This application is for a method for detecting abnormal, or anomalous, behaviour in a computer system. It works by creating a model of normal behaviour for each user on the system so that if the users behaviour deviates from the model too much it can alert the system to investigate a potential breach in security. At step S1 it receives input data from various sources, then at step S2a it uses that data to derive second order metrics. At step S2b it groups data of the same type together using a network spectral partitioning (nsp) algorithm. At step S3 it will analyse the second order metrics, and at step S4 the system computes an anomalous behaviour parameter that indicates the likelihood, or probability, of the behaviour being anomalous. Finally, at step S5 the system determines whether or not to take further action based on this calculated probability, i.e. if the probability is above or below a given threshold.
Patent GB-2541765-A (GB)
Title: Growing systems and methods
Inventor: LARS SVERKER TURE LINDBO
IPC: B65G1/04
Filed: 2016-04-15
Abstract: A growing system is described where living organisms such as plants may be cultivated or maintained in stackable containers 10. Above the stacks 12 runs a grid network of tracks on which load handling devices 30 run. The load handling devices take containers from the stacks and deposit them at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit them at stations where goods may be picked out. The containers may be provided with one or more of the following services: power, power control, heating, lighting, cooling, sensing means, data logging means, growing means, water and nutrients. The provision of these services within individual containers rather than across the system as a whole, allows for flexibility in storage whilst reducing cost and inefficiency and enables multiple crops to be grown in a single area.
Patent GB-2538392-A (GB)
Title: Ranging using current profiling
Inventor: BURKAY DONDERICI
IPC: E21B47/022
Filed: 2013-12-30
Abstract: Systems and methods provide a mechanism to provide enhanced features for well ranging. Various embodiments may include generating a current profile for a target well, acquiring magnetic signals at a second well, and determining ranging to the target well with respect to the second well using the magnetic signals and the current profile. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Patent GB-2540049-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in the fashion industry
Inventor: Martin Michael Shoben
IPC: B25F1/04
Filed: 2016-06-28
Abstract: Apparatus 2 for use in the fashion industry comprises a head portion 4, first and second arms 6, 8. A first pivot 10 which pivotally connects a first end portion 12 of the first arm 6 to the head portion 4 and a second pivot 14 which pivotally connects a first end portion 16 of the second arm 8 to the head portion 4. The apparatus 2 being such that the first and second arms 6, 8 are pivotable about the first and second pivots 10, 12 between an open position in which the first and second arms 6, 8 extend in a diverging manner away from the head portion 4, and a closed position in which the first and second arms 6, 8 extend over the head portion 4 and parallel to each other in a substantially compact arrangement. The head portion 4 comprises third and fourth arms 18, 20; the third and fourth arms 18, 20 pivot about a third pivot 22 and contain a pattern notcher. Preferably the tool elements are for use in the fashion industry and may be a tracing wheel, bradawl, pattern drill, seam unpicker, screwdriver or thread cutter.
Patent GB-2538181-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the authentication of physical entities
Inventor: Vladimir Falko
IPC: G07D7/2033
Filed: 2016-01-26
Abstract: An authentication device (20) comprises one or more flakes of a substantially two- dimensional material (14). The one or more flakes of the substantially two- dimensional material (14) have an operative area configured to emit, by non- resonant photoluminescence, electromagnetic radiation with a property that varies with position in the operative area.
Patent GB-2542681-A (GB)
Title: Out of stock item tracking at retail sales facilities
Inventor: Nicholaus Adam Jones
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2016-07-28
Abstract: A method 400 for locating an out of stock item at a retail sales facility comprises receiving an indication 410 that at least one product at the facility is out of stock on a sales floor. An inventory management device determines that the product is not located on the sales floor 420 and is not located in a stock room of the facility 460. The inventory management device then predicts a location of the product based on at least one inventory management factor 1-10 associated with the retail sales facility and at least one worker task event 11-18 associated with the product. An indication of a perceived location of the least one product.is output to a worker at the retail sales facility. Inventory management factors can include, miss rings 1, shipping errors 2, and bin inaccuracies 5, for example. The indicated area may include a truck unloading area, an un-binned area, a claims area, a pick cart, an area near a shelf on the sales floor or the last known bin location.
Patent GB-2539813-A (GB)
Title: A post support device
Inventor: PAUL DAVID HAYMAN
IPC: E02D27/42
Filed: 2015-01-22
Abstract: A support device adapted to support the base of a post or pile above the base of a foot hole excavated in preparation for pouring concrete having a lower tier adapted to contact the base of the foot hole and provide a support surface and an upper tier adapted to provide a post or pile supporting platform. The lower tier and the upper tier are separated by one or more support walls that define a region beneath the base of the post or pile to be filled with concrete.
Patent GB-2553759-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in supporting computer tablets & laptops
Inventor: STEPHEN ALEXIS ATKINSON
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2016-08-17
Abstract: A support for a portable computer 200 comprising a column locatable on a surface and a first mount 110 supported by the column. The first mount removably receives the portable computer and is slidable relative to the surface to adjust the height of the portable computer. The portable computer may be a PC, tablet or other electronic device and may allow a user to comfortably stand (fig. 7) or sit (fig. 8) during use of the computer. The first mount may be a shelf that is foldable between a stowed and open position and there may be a second mount 120 suitable for supporting e.g. a keyboard 410 or mouse.
Patent GB-2553377-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for operating a tipper
Inventor: Maarten Hertog
IPC: B60P1/28
Filed: 2016-09-06
Abstract: A method of operating a tipper 1 comprising a tipper body 8 pivotably moveable with respect to a frame 8 with a hydraulic cylinder 14 disposed therebetween and actuatable to pivot the tipper body 8. A loading parameter relating to the load through the hydraulic cylinder 14 is monitored during tipping. Based on at least the loading parameter, it is determined whether the hydraulic cylinder 14 is at risk of buckling and, if it is determined that the hydraulic cylinder 14 is at risk of buckling, an output is generated in response. Also described is a system for achieving the method comprising a hydraulic cylinder load monitoring module (52, figure 3) arranged to monitor a loading parameter relating to the load through the hydraulic cylinder 14 and a buckling risk determining module (56, figure 3) arranged to determine whether the hydraulic cylinder 14 is a risk of buckling and generate an output if this if it is determined that the hydraulic cylinder 14 is at risk of buckling.
Patent GB-2557892-A (GB)
Title: A node and method for stage production management
Inventor: ASHRAF NEHRU
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2016-09-12
Abstract: A digital stage production management system and method wherein the design and coordination of a stage productions such as show, musical, play, pantomime or the like, may be managed digitally in a virtual and/or simulated environment in a computer system. Multiple stage components such as lighting, choreography, prop and object placement, etc, that typically participate in a stage production are digitally simulated so that the people or teams responsible for different aspects of a show may work on them independently of the other teams and in a remote location. This avoids the need for each part of the process to be carried out in the real world on the stage, making stage production management less resource intensive, for example since each component can be managed simultaneously.
Patent GB-2554658-A (GB)
Title: Coated fiber manufacture
Inventor: Andrew Simon Webb
IPC: G02B6/02
Filed: 2016-09-30
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coated glass fibre containing at least one optical grating has the steps of drawing a glass fibre from a drawing tower, providing a phase mask 25 to generate an interferometric pattern, providing a laser 24, transversely exposing said glass fibre to light from said laser through said phase mask 25, writing an optical grating on said glass fibre with said transverse exposure, and coating said glass fiber with a protective coating layer. The protective coating layer may comprise polyimide. The transverse exposure may comprise transversely exposing the fibre to a light pulse from the laser 24, through the phase mask. The laser 24 may be arranged to provide pulses of UV or IR radiation in the range of nanoseconds. The optical grating may be a fibre Bragg grating. The method may further comprise the step of curing the polyimide with an infrared source. A coated glass fibre and apparatus for carrying out the method of manufacture are also described.
Patent GB-2554731-A (GB)
Title: Piston pump having push rod assembly and stopping assembly
Inventor: JAN M KREYE
IPC: F04B53/14
Filed: 2016-10-07
Abstract: A piston pump has a push rod 202 biased by a spring 214, and a stopping assembly which limits extension of the push rod 202, by engagement of the push rod 202 with stop member 204. One or both of the contacting faces has protruding structures 302 which define groves between them. When the push rod contacts the end stop, fluid is able to flow outwards in the grooves, which limits the pressure pulse created in the fluid at a radially inner position. This reduces the pressure pulses experienced by rod seal 216, and hence the amount of fluid which leaks past the seal.
Patent GB-2553155-A (GB)
Title: Communication systems and methods
Inventor: ALEXANDRA VASILEVNA ROGACHEVA
IPC: E21B47/16
Filed: 2016-10-25
Abstract: A communication system and methods for deployment in proximity to an abandoned well 200, the well having a metallic well structure 202 within. The downhole apparatus 222 is positioned within the well below the metallic well structure, the downhole apparatus being configured to wirelessly transmit data signals for propagation via the metallic well structure. At least one receiver 226 is deployed at the top of the well in order to receive the data signals from the metallic well structure. The systems and methods may allow use of data collected from an abandoned well, in which a sensor is positioned in the open hole section 210, or a well having a discontinuous metallic well structure. In some examples, there is described a communication system that is configured to be deployed in an abandoned well having a discontinuous metallic well structure that may be severed below a ground region.
Patent GB-2546160-A (GB)
Title: Method and system to support order collection using a geo-fence
Inventor: ABBY SCHOLEY
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2016-12-01
Abstract: A system and method comprises an electronic device 60, a computer network 200 and an in-store device 30a/30b. The electronic device places an order for goods through the computer network and selects an intended collection location/point 17 where the goods may be picked up. The device forms a geo-fence R around or near the collection location, and monitors the geo-fence. The geo-fence is triggered when the device is proximate to the collection location, and the device then generates a trigger message. The computer network stores the order in a database, and in response to receiving the trigger message, generates a pre-alert message. The in-store device, in response to receiving the pre-alert message and the order details, displays the order details or otherwise outputs a pre-alert notification. This method allows a store or shop employee to ready the order as the customer approaches the collection location but before the customer arrives. This is aimed to reduce any delay to the customer. The geo-fence may initially be dormant, and may wake at a later period after which the device begins monitoring the relevant area.
Patent GB-2549567-A (GB)
Title: Physical watch hands for a computerized watch
Inventor: BRETT LIDER
IPC: G04B19/04
Filed: 2016-12-22
Abstract: A computerized watch 310 includes a cover that forms an outer surface of the computerized watch and a screen 312 configured to output graphical information for display. A set of physical watch hands 314A,B are positioned between the cover and the screen and configured to present a time of day. One or more computer processors and a memory cause the one or more computer processors to determine if the computerized watch is operating in a time display mode. The hands are manipulated such that they present the time of day by obscuring a portion of a display region of the screen when the watch is in time display mode, and manipulated such that they do not obscure the screen when not in time display mode. The hands are preferably retractable and are withdrawn from the display area.