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Patent GB-2544109-A (GB)
Title: Transaction authorisation
Inventor: LEWIS GRAHAM
IPC: G06Q20/40
Filed: 2015-11-06
Abstract: A method of authorising an electronic transaction where a user device 100 receives a shared secret and a shared secret identifier. On receipt of transaction data from a transaction terminal 102, the user device calculates a hash value from data comprising the shared secret, generates authentication data comprising the hash value and the shared secret identifier, and transmits the authentication data to the transaction terminal. The application further relates to Host Card Emulation (HCE) without a Secure Element (SE), wherein tokenisation is utilised in order to facilitate offline transactions. Tokens are therefore obtained by a first communications link and comprise an indexed link of shared secrets in which each shared secret is associated with a corresponding shared secret identifier. Data provided by these tokens is then hashed in order to provide an EMV compliant Authorisation ReQuest Cryptogram (ARQC) for transmission to a transaction terminal which accepts the ARQC in place of the usual PAN and therefore requires no modification.
Patent GB-2547471-A (GB)
Title: Wheel securing system and method of use
Inventor: ANDREW BRUCE
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 2016-02-19
Abstract: The invention relates to a downhole deployment system for use in oil or gas wells, in particular a wheel securing system for downhole devices (10 figure 1) which may be a housing (14 figure 1) formed from two cylindrical shells (14a, 14b figure 1C). The downhole system comprises at least one wheel 26 and a wheel retaining member 48 having threads (54 figure 2C) to engage the downhole device and mount the at least one wheel to the downhole device. The system also comprises a locking member 50 which may be in the form of a key or pin to engage the wheel retaining member from threadably disengaging the downhole device. The key may be received in a keyway on the wheel retaining member. Later embodiments relate to a downhole deployment device, a method of securing a wheel to a downhole device and a kit of parts for securing a wheel to a downhole deployment device.
Patent GB-2540452-A (GB)
Title: Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) as first stage in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in combination with a digital filter for second or higher-order
Inventor: Ramin Zanbaghi
IPC: H03M3/00
Filed: 2016-04-19
Abstract: A delta-sigma modulation analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) is formed by combining a first stage comprising a VCO and a first order filter, with a second stage comprising a digital loop filter which may be of higher order. In an embodiment, an ADC 400 receives an analogue input signal Vin, forms an analogue error signal between the input signal and the output of the ADC, and integrates the error signal in a first stage circuit VCO 204 comprising a voltage-controlled oscillator and an integrator 404. The first stage circuit VCO 204 implements a first order noise-shaping function. The output of the first stage is quantised by quantiser 406 and passes to the second stage digital loop filter 206 which implements a noise-shaping function of first, second or higher order. A second quantiser 208 receives the output of the digital filter and provides the output of the converter. The output of the first stage may be quantised at a higher resolution than the output of the output of the second stage, improving accuracy of conversion. Higher order noise shaping improves the quality of an ADC by better attenuating noise in the input signal.
Patent GB-2538006-A (GB)
Title: Gene expression profiles associated with sub-clinical kidney transplant rejection
Inventor: DANIEL SALOMON
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2015-05-22
Abstract: By a genome-wide gene analysis of expression profiles of over 50,000 known or putative gene sequences in peripheral blood, the present inventors have identified a consensus set of gene expression-based molecular biomarkers associated with subclinical acute rejection (subAR). These genes sets are useful for diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring of subAR.
Patent GB-2552775-A (GB)
Title: Business cards and flexible digital content
Inventor: Nick Ludlum
IPC: G06Q10/10
Filed: 2016-07-21
Abstract: A method of delivering a service over a digital communications network to a user device is described. The method proposes increased fluidity in the connection between an RFID or NFC business card and the digital content which it is associated with by enabling personalisation and management of the digital content via a content access manager. The method uses a business card with a digital memory, wherein the memory comprises a data structure to enable the user device to access the service when a data connection is established between the business card and the user device. The user device accesses the data structure to perform a query to access the service. In performing the query, user details stored in a memory of the user device are accessed so that accessing the service from the user device is personalised to the user of the device. The nature of the information provided to the user device is therefore dependent upon the content of the query.
Patent GB-2553810-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust particulate filter cleaning method and machine
Inventor: NICK MANNERINGS
IPC: F01N3/023
Filed: 2016-09-15
Abstract: A method to clean a diesel particulate filter (DPF) arranged in an air-cleaning machine having a nozzle. The method comprising positioning 110 the nozzle before a sector of a front face of the DPF and setting a counter 120, blowing 130 an incident air jet toward the front face of the DPF for a given cycle time e.g. 250 milliseconds, measuring 140 a second pressure P2 of a reflected air stream bouncing on the DPF and deflecting toward the nozzle. The method further comprising comparing 150 said second pressure to a predetermined 'clean' threshold P2C then deciding whether: if said second pressure is below the threshold, said sector of the DPF is clean and a new sector is selected 190 or, if said second pressure (P2) is above the threshold, said sector is dirty, the counter is incremented 170 and the cleaning is repeated. If the counter reaches a preset maximum the address of a dirty sector is recorded 180 and a new sector selected. The method may be terminated based on a pass/fail criterion such as a given ratio of clean to dirty sectors. Improves cleaning efficiency.
Patent GB-2543948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to displays
Inventor: Simon Trythall
IPC: H04N5/44
Filed: 2016-10-03
Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a display device generates an image formed by one or more light components having predetermined relative timings. Received image data defines one or more light components of a feature to be displayed as an element in the image. Rate data is received (e.g. from an associated eye tracker system) indicative of a rate of change in display orientation relative to a gaze direction of an eye of the user. A position on the display for displaying each of the one or more light components of the feature is determined, including determining any respective adjustment required (e.g., relative to timing of a reference light component) to a determined position for the light component according to the received rate data and the predetermined relative timings. The second of three light components may be selected as the reference. The display may be a head or helmet mounted display (HMD) showing collimated images, with the method reducing flicker and image smear.
Patent GB-2545334-A (GB)
Title: Driveline modeller
Inventor: BARRY JAMES
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2016-11-18
Abstract: A computer-implemented system for producing a design for a rotating machine assembly comprises a data module 10 configured for receiving data relating to one or more components of the rotating machine assembly and containing the design produced; a user interface module 20 configured for specifying data to be received by the data module and for receiving from a user a type of analysis to be performed on the data (for example finite-element or statistical energy analysis); and an analysis module 30 configured for analysing a performance of the rotating machine assembly according to the type of analysis selected and selected features of the data to be used. The system further includes a recognition module 40 configured for identifying and selecting features of the data be used for the analysis according to the type of analysis selected. The recognition module 10 may comprise a database of functional features of rotating machine components (e.g. Computer Aided Design or CAD solid geometry for generalised shapes including housings, planet carriers or differential cages) and their connections, and parse the data held in data module 10 to identify features contained within its own database of functional features.
Patent GB-2542061-A (GB)
Title: Biometric identification
Inventor: ANDREW GORDON DAVIS
IPC: G06V10/141
Filed: 2015-06-05
Abstract: This invention relates to a method for face recognition on a device, the device configured to illuminate a surrounding area from a first point and a second point, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first image of the user; determining a location of the user relative to the device from the first image; adapting an illumination level of the device based on the location of the user such that illumination from the first point is greater than illumination from the second point; receiving a new image of the user with the adapted illumination level; and performing a face recognition algorithm on the new image of the user to determine the identity of the user.
Patent GB-2550682-A (GB)
Title: Crowd-sourced vehicle setting recommendations
Inventor: Joseph m onorato
IPC: G06Q50/30
Filed: 2017-04-26
Abstract: Driver vehicle setting data 350, is obtained from a plurality of vehicles 305, a vehicle model is identified and a vehicle setting recommendation 375 is generated for the identified vehicle 330 based on the driver vehicle setting data. The data may be crowd-sourced from multiple users in an anonymous manner, such as via a social network server 315 or from a manufacturer 301. The data values can be processed using machine learning to generate and transmit vehicle setting recommendations to other users, such as via a users mobile device 325. The recommendations may be for vehicle settings that the user has not yet activated or vehicle setting values that are frequently used for a particular vehicle. The settings may include a car seat position, mirror positions, steering wheel positions, heating or ventilation settings, lighting preferences or safety settings.
Patent GB-2566116-A (GB)
Title: Temperature monitoring
Inventor: JOHN PAUL LESSO
IPC: G01K7/42
Filed: 2017-09-25
Abstract: Temperature monitoring for integrated circuits is disclosed, comprising temperature monitoring using a locked-loop circuit, e.g. frequency locked loop FLL, phase locked loop PLL or delay locked loop DLL. According to embodiments a locked-loop circuit 200, 600 includes a controlled signal timing module 201, 601, wherein the timing properties of an output signal SOUT, SFB are dependent on a value of a control signal and on temperature. A controller 102, 602 compares a feedback signal SFB output from the timing module to a reference signal SREF and generates a control signal SC to maintain a desired timing relationship. A temperature monitor 202 monitors temperature based on the value of the control signal. For FLLs and PLLs the signal timing module may be a controlled oscillator 201. The temperature monitor may monitor temperature based on the value of the control signal and an indication of the output frequency. The circuit may comprise a frequency divider using a controllably variable division value 105. The division value may be provided to the temperature monitor. Where a controlled oscillator is used, a bias circuit may generate a bias for the oscillator, the bias having a controlled temperature dependence so as to provide a 1st transfer function between output frequency and value of the control signal in a 1st mode and a 2nd transfer function exhibiting less or no temperature dependence in a 2nd mode. The 2nd mode may be used when temperature sensing capability is not required. A switch 501 may select between a closed loop mode and an open loop mode.
Patent GB-2567900-A (GB)
Title: A computer implemented determination method and system
Inventor: Laura Helen Douglas
IPC: G16H50/20
Filed: 2017-10-31
Abstract: Computer implemented medical diagnosis comprising receiving S103 a user input comprising at least one symptom, providing S107 the symptoms to a medical model comprising a probabilistic graphical model comprising probability distributions and relationships between symptoms and diseases; an inference engine 109 to perform Bayesian inference on the probabilistic graphical model; and a discriminative model 113 trained to approximate the probabilistic graphical model using samples from that model, wherein some of the sample data is masked to allow the deterministic model to produce data robust to user providing incomplete symptom information, deriving estimates from the discriminative model of the probability of the user having a disease, inputting S115 the estimates to the inference engine, performing approximate inference on the probabilistic graphical model to obtain a prediction of the probability that the user has the disease, and outputting S117 the probability for display S119. The discriminative model may be a neural network. Also disclosed is a method of training a discriminative model using masked input data to approximate a probabilistic graphical model, and a method of providing a computer implemented medical diagnosis in which the inference engine comprises a GPU and performs Bayesian inference via statistical sampling performed using parallel processing.
Patent GB-2573335-A (GB)
Title: X-ray tube monitoring
Inventor: STUART DUNCAN (DECEASED)
IPC: H05G1/26
Filed: 2018-05-04
Abstract: A power transfer and monitoring system for an X-ray tube includes a transformer, including a primary coil and a secondary coil, a current supply that supplies a sinusoidal current to the transformer, and a current calculation unit. The current calculation unit measures the primary current of the transformer, and synthesises the transformer magnetising current, and subtracts the synthesised transformer magnetising current from the primary current, in generate a value for the filament current. In this way the current through the filament can be corrected for the magnetizing current
Patent GB-2564946-A (GB)
Title: Virtual converged cable access platform (CCAP) core
Inventor: MICHAEL W PATRICK
IPC: H04L12/46
Filed: 2017-02-21
Abstract: A virtualized Cable Modern Termination System (CMTS) for providing high speed data services to a remote physical device (RPD). The virtualized CMTS comprises a core routing engine (CRE) 210 for performing packet switching and routing and one or more core servers (CS) 216 that each perform CMTS functions for the one or more remote physical devices (RPDs). The CRE 210 may comprise one or more core routing engine members. The CRE and the one or more CS are each implemented entirely on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, and the one or more CS each have a set of CPU cores that are dynamically allocated between upstream and downstream traffic.
Patent GB-2578424-A (GB)
Title: Configurable escape room system having one or more elements which are altered based upon user consent
Inventor: THOMAS ANDREW CUTHBERT
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2018-09-27
Abstract: An escape room system 101 comprising at least one escape room 103 having one or more configurable user interactive elements and one or more user monitoring elements 104. Wherein the user monitoring elements are variable between an activated state and a deactivated state. The system further comprising user identification means 108 that associates one or more users with a user profile. Wherein the user identification means is in communication with the configurable user interactive elements and the user monitoring elements. At least one of the characteristics of the user profile comprises user consent information. The user monitoring elements are activated only when the user consent information indicates that the user consents to being monitored within the escape room and for the monitoring data obtained from said monitoring to be transmitted to a remote computing device. Also disclosed is a method of monitoring a user.
Patent GB-2578460-A (GB)
Title: Injection apparatus, method and system
Inventor: JULIAN RICHARD TRINDER
IPC: E21B47/11
Filed: 2018-10-29
Abstract: A downhole injector apparatus 10 for injecting a taggant 18 into a wellbore comprises an injector nozzle outlet 20 and a taggant reservoir 24 communicating with the injector nozzle. The apparatus further comprises a pressure wave generator 26 configured to apply a pressure wave, e.g. an acoustic shock wave, within the reservoir to expel the taggant from the reservoir through the injector nozzle outlet. The pressure wave generator may comprise a piezo-electic or micro-electro mechanical (MEM) actuator, a thermal actuator causing localised phase change to generate a bubble and thus the pressure wave or an electric arc discharge generator. There may be a reflector 30 to focus the pressure wave towards one or more nozzles. The reservoir may be pressure balanced e.g. via a bladder 34 and the taggant retained in the nozzle a meniscus and surface tension which is overcome by the pressure wave. The reservoir may contain plural actuators and have plural nozzles. May be used for downhole telemetry via pulses of taggant which may be within a carrier medium of Newtonian or non-Newtonian fluid e.g. a gel or paste with shear thinning.
Patent GB-2566190-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for setting a system of super conducting qubits having a hamiltonian representative of a polynomial on a bounded integer domain
Inventor: Sahar Karimi
IPC: G06N10/00
Filed: 2017-05-26
Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and media for setting a system of superconducting qubits having a Hamiltonian representative of a polynomial on a bounded integer domain via bounded-coefficient encoding. A polynomial on the bounded integer domain and integer encoding parameters may be obtained. Next, the bounded-coefficient encoding may be computed. Next, each integer variable of the polynomial may be recast as a linear function of binary variables. Next, coefficients of an equivalent binary representation of the polynomial may be computed. Next, a degree reduction may be performed on the equivalent binary representation of the polynomial to generate an equivalent polynomial of a degree of at most two in binary variables. Next, local field biases and coupling strengths may be set on the system of superconducting qubits using the coefficients of the equivalent polynomial of the degree of at most two in binary variables.
Patent GB-2568613-A (GB)
Title: Energy storage device and ionic conducting composition for use therein
Inventor: MARTYN BROWN
IPC: H01M10/0562
Filed: 2019-01-31
Abstract: An energy storage device comprises a melt formed silicate having the formula MvM1wM2xSiyOz wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Al and Mg; M1 is selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, Ti, Mn, Fe, Zr, La, Ce, La, Ta, Nb, V and combinations thereof; M2 is selected from the group consisting of B, Al, Ga, Ge or combinations thereof; V, Y and Z are greater than 0; W and/or X is greater than 0; Y is larger than or equal to X; and MvM1wM2xSiyOz accounts for at least 95 wt% of the composition. The composition may be in the form of fibres of nanowires. An electrolyte matrix comprises 0.5 wt% to 40 wt% of the melt formed silicate composition; 1 to 50 wt% of an electrolytic salt and 30 to 98.5 wt% of electrolytic medium. A silicate composition for use in an energy storage device comprises 4 to 10 wt% Li2O; 18 to 25 wt% ZrO2; 65 to 75 wt% SiO2 and 0 to 13 wt% other components.
Patent GB-2575355-A (GB)
Title: Transfer line, GCMS arrangement and mounting assembly
Inventor: CARL GANG CHEN
IPC: G01N30/72
Filed: 2019-05-31
Abstract: A transfer line 1 for a GCMS arrangement comprises a transfer probe 10 having a probe bore 11 to receive a gas chromatography (GC) column 40, a sealing cap 50 movably mounted at a first end of the transfer probe and a resilient element, such as a spring 60, to bias the sealing cap away from the first end of the transfer probe. The transfer probe may have a sleeve 41 with a copper outer tube and a stainless steel inner tube for good thermal conduction. An auxiliary fluid bore may be provided in the probe. The sealing cap may be retained on the transfer probe by a bayonet fitting 17.
Patent GB-2573224-A (GB)
Title: Air conditioner
Inventor: Kazuki okochi
IPC: F25B1/00
Filed: 2017-02-06
Abstract: An air conditioner according to the present invention is configured with a heat-source-side refrigerant circulation circuit through which a heat-source-side refrigerant circulates and a heat medium circulation circuit through which a heat medium circulates, wherein: a compressor, a first refrigerant flow path switching device, and a heat-source-side heat exchanger are housed in an outdoor unit; an inter-heat medium heat exchanger and a throttle device are housed in a heat exchange unit; and a use-side heat exchanger is housed in an indoor unit, the air conditioner being provided with a refrigerant-circuit-side flow path switching unit that is connected through piping between the outdoor unit and the heat exchange unit, that is removably installed, and that has a second refrigerant flow path switching device for switching the circulation path of the heat-source-side refrigerant in the heat-source-side refrigerant circulation circuit, and provided with a heat-medium-circuit-side switching unit that is connected through piping between the heat exchange unit and the indoor unit, that is removably installed, and that has a heat medium flow path switching device for switching the circulation path of the heat medium in the heat medium circulation circuit.
Patent GB-2586500-A (GB)
Title: Mounting method and apparatus
Inventor: JONATHAN HARRY TOOLEY
IPC: A47B96/06
Filed: 2019-08-22
Abstract: An item of furniture 10, such as a cabinet, cupboard, mirror or shelves, for mounting in a wall cavity 11. The furniture item has a surface 17 that engages with the one surface of the wall 15, and pegs 18 that are moved relative to the main body of the furniture to engage with the other surface of the wall 14, securing the recessed cabinet in a wall. The wall mounted cabinet may have a collar 17 or outward facing flanges as the means to interact with the outer surface of the wall. The cupboard may have slots (30, figure 2) in its side walls for insertion of the fixing pegs behind the wall when the cupboard is in the wall cavity. The slots may allow sliding of the pegs to accommodate mounting in walls with cladding of varying thickness. The pegs may be locked in place to sandwich the wall cladding between the pegs against the inside of the wall and the collar on the outside of the wall.