baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2552626-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for oxygenation and/or CO2 removal
Inventor: Samantha Dale Oldfield
IPC: A61M16/16
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: Described is an apparatus for oxygenation and/or CO2 clearance of a patient, comprising: a flow source or a connection for a flow source for providing a gas flow, a gas flow modulator, a controller to control the gas flow, wherein the controller is operable to: receive input relating to heart activity and/or trachea gas flow of the patient, and control the gas flow modulator to provide a varying gas flow with one or more oscillating components with a frequency or frequencies based on the heart activity and/or trachea flow of the patient.
Patent GB-2567636-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for imaging an organ
Inventor: BENJAMIN JOHN IRVING
IPC: G06T7/10
Filed: 2017-10-17
Abstract: First and second medical scans, taken at different timepoints, each comprising an image of a visceral organ, are acquired 610, 620; at least a part of the organ in the first and second images is parcellated into non-overlapping subregions based on image content 630, 650; the first and second medical scans are aligned 640; a metric is evaluated for subregion(s) in the first image and the corresponding subregion(s) in the second image 660; a difference between the metric values is calculated, providing a measure of a change that has occurred in the subregion, between the first and second timepoints 670. The difference may be compared to a threshold of change and the first or second medical scan may be displayed with an overlay showing subregions for which the metric has exceed the threshold of change (Fig.11). The difference may be evaluated for all subregions; and the values may be plotted on either a graph or spatial plot (Fig.13-15).
Patent GB-2565611-A (GB)
Title: Bio-electronic interface
Inventor: BENJAMIN TEMPLETON PAUL
IPC: A61N1/36
Filed: 2018-01-10
Abstract: A bio-electronic interface comprising: a plurality of micro-scale tissue engagement structures 200 coupled to a substrate 220, where each tissue-engagement-structure 200 comprises one or more guides to guide the growth of a plurality of cells 222; and one or more interface elements associated with each of the tissue-engagement-structures 200 to couple to one or more of the cells 222. The bio-electronic interface may be a neural interface, where cells 222 are neurons, or are neurons in a neuronal cell culture, where the guides guide the growth of neurites of the neurons. The guides may comprise one or more cavities 208 within the tissue-engagement-structures 200. The guides may comprise striations within the cavities 208. The tissue-engagement-structures 200 may be needle like and/or may be composed of degradable material. Also a method of manufacturing a bio-electronic interface that includes providing a substrate 220 and forming a plurality of micro-scale tissue-engaging-structures 200 to guide the growth of a plurality of cells 222. The method preferably comprises applying cells, or a cell culture comprising the cells 222, to the substrate 220, which may take place during the formation of the micro-scale tissue-engagement-structures 200. The interface elements are described as being electrodes or optrodes.
Patent GB-2579759-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for evaluating network performance of an aggregated connection
Inventor: PATRICK HO WAI SUNG
IPC: H04L47/2416
Filed: 2017-09-12
Abstract: Methods and systems for transmitting data packets of a data session through a selected connection at a network node. The network node determines number of possible connections. When data packets belong to a new data session, a connection is selected to be the selected connection based on connection selection criteria. Further data packets belonging to the data session will be transmitted through the selected connection. A connection selection criteria include selecting a connection with the lowest latency among all connections. Evaluation packets based on the first data packet of the new data session are used to evaluate latency.
Patent GB-2574453-A (GB)
Title: Control system for a steering system of a vehicle
Inventor: NICK SOLOMON
IPC: B62D6/02
Filed: 2018-06-07
Abstract: A control system for a vehicle steering system is provided, with controllers configured to compare a deceleration time value, namely a predicted duration until the vehicle speed reaches zero, to a target time value (typically the time taken to steer the wheels to a neutral position) and to output a signal to control a steering angle of a steered wheel 103, 106 based on the comparison so that the steered wheel is in a straight ahead position (for example within 3.5 degrees of being parallel with longitudinal axis 1001) by the time the vehicle speed is zero. The system may avoid the need for dry steering, and is particularly useful for use with vehicles with rear wheel steering.
Patent GB-2562388-A (GB)
Title: High-density completion brines
Inventor: Marcur Robert DAvidson
IPC: C09K8/84
Filed: 2016-11-23
Abstract: High density brine compositions may be formulated including water and at least one rare earth nitrate salt, where the at least one rare earth salt is present in an amount effective for the high density brine composition to have a density in the range of about 8.5 to about 21 pounds per gallon (about 1020 to about 2500 kg/m3). Suitable rare earth nitrate salts include, but are not necessarily limited to, lanthanum nitrate (La(N03)3), cerium nitrate (Ce(N03)3), scandium nitrate, and/or yttrium nitrate. Alkaline earth metal salts such as, but not limited to, calcium bromide (CaBr2), and alkali metal salts and metal salts may also be used with the rare earth nitrate salt(s). In one non-limiting embodiment the high density brines have an absence of zinc and cesium salts. These high density brine compositions may be suitably used for completion fluids in hydrocarbon recovery operations.
Patent GB-2570018-A (GB)
Title: Prosthesis
Inventor: NATE MACABUAG
IPC: A61F5/01
Filed: 2018-09-14
Abstract: A prosthesis 10 (e.g. for an arm or leg) includes: (i) a flexible sleeve 12 for receiving a residual limb therein, (ii) a constrictor 14 on the flexible sleeve for reducing the periphery of the flexible sleeve and tightening the sleeve around the limb, (iii) a rigid mount 16a, 16b, secured to the sleeve and spaced axially along the sleeve from the constrictor, defining a cavity extending axially from the sleeve for receiving a portion of the limb, (iv) a tool 18 (e.g. a pen, an artificial hand, an electrical tool etc.), (v) a connector (22, 26) for securing a first portion of the tool to the mount, and (vi) a fulcrum defined by the rigid mount and tool when the tool is secured to the mount by the connector, about which the tool is pivotable relative to the mount between: (a) a retained condition, in which a second portion of the tool abuts the mount and the tool is held securely on the mount; and (b) a spaced condition, in which the second portion of the tool is spaced from the mount and may be released from the mount. A magnet/magnets (30, 32 Fig 2) on the tool or mount biases the second portion of the tool towards the mount and within the retained condition.
Patent GB-2577522-A (GB)
Title: A blend, coating, methods of depositing the blend, heating device and applications therefore
Inventor: JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS
IPC: H05B3/16
Filed: 2018-09-27
Abstract: A blend for cold spray or solid-state deposition comprising: at least one ductile or malleable metal 18; particles 20 comprising either one or more metals 12 and/or one or more metalloids 14 together with compounds thereof 16, or one or more metal or metalloid compounds 16. A method of depositing the blend by cold-spray deposition is provided. Also disclosed is an ohmically resistive coating comprising a layer which has been deposited on a surface of a substrate, the layer having thickness of between 2 and 300 microns and comprising: one or more ductile or malleable metals selected from copper, gold, lead, aluminium, platinum, nickel, zinc, magnesium, iron, manganese, chromium, titanium, vanadium, niobium, indium, terbium, strontium, cerium and lutetium; and particles comprising one or more electrically resistive metal oxide, carbide, silicide, di-silicide, nitride, boride or sulphide, and wherein the malleable metals bond the particles to the surface of the substrate. A heating device having a heating element comprising the ohmically resistive coating is disclosed, as are a vehicle and building comprising the heating element. A method of heating a space using the heating device is provided.
Patent GB-2566625-A (GB)
Title: Containers with tamper indicative hatch for sample removal
Inventor: PORAN IFTAH
IPC: B65D85/34
Filed: 2017-12-05
Abstract: Disposable containers with a tamper indicative hatch for sample removal, methods of manufacturing and using the same are described; the containers are configured with a closure essentially obstructing the hatch, so that upon opening the hatch, the container bears a visually apparent indication that the closure has been subjected to tampering and opening.
Patent GB-2580066-A (GB)
Title: Fastening means
Inventor: KEITH CULMER
IPC: E04F11/18
Filed: 2018-12-20
Abstract: Fastening means for releasably attaching at least one part of an object10 to a surface 15 comprises first and second component parts 12, 18. The first component 12 includes means for secure attachment of the first component to a surface. One of the first and second components includes an externally screw-threaded portion 16 and the other of the first and second components includes a complementary internally screw threaded portion 24. A part of the object is shaped to pass through an aperture in the second component 18. In use, a further part 28’ of the object is clamped between the first and second components. The further part 28’ is preferably a clamping plate. The second component 18 may be freely rotating with respect to the object. Also defined is an assembly including the fastening means and an object, and methods of releasing and removing an object from a surface using the fastening means.
Patent GB-2574913-A (GB)
Title: Small molecule modulators of human STING, conjugates and therapeutic applications
Inventor: MONALI BANERJEE
IPC: C07K5/08
Filed: 2018-12-21
Abstract: A compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, wherein C is a compound of Formula (II): Wherein L1 and L2 are linkers; T is a targetting moeity; a is 1-5; b is 1-10; z is 1-5; X1-3 is CR1-3 respectively or N; Q is C=O, S=O, SO2 or CR4R5; Y and L are as herein defined; R1-11 arer as herein defined. T may comprise an antibody, an antibody fragment, a nucleic acid based molecule, a carbohydrate, an optionally modified peptide or small molecule. T may be configured to target a tumour antigen. Compounds of formula (I) are conjugates of small molecule modulators of the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) protein and may be used to treat diseases such as cancer and microbial infections. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) are also disclosed. Compounds of Formula (III); (C-L1)-L2a are also disclosed wherein such compounds are suitable for preparing a compound of Formula (I), wherein C and L1 are as defined above, and L2a is L2-LG wherein LG is a leaving group, or L2 as define above, except that the linker comprises a terminal double bond.
Patent GB-2571016-A (GB)
Title: Binocular image analysis-based asphalt road surface damage detection system
Inventor: YUCHUAN DU
IPC: G01N21/88
Filed: 2017-12-30
Abstract: A binocular image analysis-based asphalt road surface damage detection system, comprising five sub-systems for crack development degree detection model establishment, information collection, information analysis, information transmission and information distribution. Specifically, road surface damage information detection is performed by means of a mobile platform, a processing end, a temperature measurement-type infrared thermal imaging instrument, an ordinary image collector, a vibration sensor, image processing technology, edge cloud computing technology, an embedded system, system integration technology and real-time positioning technology.
Patent GB-2570835-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for providing depth information
Inventor: KAMYAR ABHARI
IPC: A61B90/00
Filed: 2016-10-21
Abstract: Methods and systems for outputting depth data during a medical procedure on a patient. Depth data is outputted, representing at least one of relative depth data and general depth data. Tracking information about the position and orientation of a medical instrument and depth information about variations in depth over a site of interest are used. Relative depth data represents the depth information relative to the position and orientation of the instrument. General depth data represents the depth information over the site of interest independently of the position and orientation of the instrument.
Patent GB-2584300-A (GB)
Title: Detection of biomarkers
Inventor: GEORGE HANNA
IPC: G01N33/68
Filed: 2019-05-29
Abstract: A method for diagnosing a subject suffering from cancer, or a pre-disposition thereto comprising detecting, in a bodily sample from a test subject, the concentration of a signature compound resulting from the metabolism of at least one sugar (e.g. glucose, sorbitol, mannose, lactose), and/or at least one amino acid or a precursor thereof, and/or at least one polyol (e.g. glycerol) present in a composition previously administered to the subject. The sugar is present in the composition at a concentration of more than 20,000mg/100ml, the amino acid or a precursor thereof is present in the composition at a concentration of at least 500 mg/ml, and the polyol is present in the composition at a concentration of more than 30,000mg/100ml. The method further comprises comparing this concentration with a reference for the concentration of the signature compound in an individual who does not suffer from cancer. In particular, an increase or decrease in the concentration of the signature compound compared to the reference, suggests that the subject is suffering from cancer (e.g. oesophageal, gastric or metastasised cancer), or has a pre-disposition thereto, or provides a negative prognosis of the subject’s condition.
Patent GB-2585702-A (GB)
Title: A method of obtaining x-ray images
Inventor: STEVE WELLS
IPC: A61B6/02
Filed: 2019-07-12
Abstract: Functional information of a first moving object e.g. the lungs obscured by a second stationary object e.g. the body, is obtained with relatively low radiation dosage using an x-ray imaging apparatus comprising a panel 30 having an array of individually energisable x-ray emitters, a detector 40 and a processor 50. The array and the detector remain stationary relative to one another and the first object. A first set of x-ray emitters in the panel is energised over a first period of time and the detected x-rays are used to create a first set of images for tomosynthesis showing the structure of the first object: a second set of x-ray emitters in the panel are energised over a second period of time and the detected x-rays are used to create a second set of images of the first object. The number of emitters used in the second period is less than the number used in the first period.
Patent GB-2585956-A (GB)
Title: Switchgear with improved heat pipe cooling
Inventor: SHASHANK MISHRA
IPC: H02G5/10
Filed: 2019-08-27
Abstract: A switchgear 1 comprises a housing attached to a frame 2 and a switching device 3 attached to the frame. Conductors 4, such as busbars, are connected to the switching device and lead out of the housing, and at least one heat pipe 5 is coupled to one of the conductors. A first end of the heat pipe comprises a first connector 6 connected to the busbar and a second connector 7 connected to the housing or the frame. The electrical resistivity of the connectors is above 1000 Ωm and the thermal conductivity of the conductors is above 5 W/mK. The first and/or second connectors may be made of ceramics and/or a thermally conductive polymer. The first connector may be screwed or clamped to the busbar. The second connector may be screwed or clamped to the housing or the frame. The heat pipes allow heat from the busbar to be transferred to the housing or the frame, which are comparatively massive to the busbars and act as a heat sink. Since the connectors are insulating, an arc flash from a busbar to a heat pipe will not transfer a hazardous voltage to the housing or the frame.
Patent GB-2579744-A (GB)
Title: Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, control methods therefor, program, and computer-readable storage medium
Inventor: TOMOAKI HOKYO
IPC: H04B5/00
Filed: 2014-09-10
Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus 101 comprising: a detection unit 209 configured to detect a receiver 103; an identification means configured to identify one or more wireless power transmission (WPT) methods supported by the receiver 103; a determination means configured to determine which WPT method, out of at least a first and second WPT methods to use to charge the receiver 103, where the second WPT method has a larger total transmissible power amount than the first; and a power transmission unit 205 configured to transmit power to the receiver 103 using the method determined by the determination means. Also disclosed is a power transmitting apparatus 101 which instead comprises: a detection unit 209; a negotiation means to determine a parameter of the receiver 103; an identification means, configured to identify a WPT method supported by the receiver 103 from a plurality of WPT methods before the negotiation means performs the negotiation; and a power transmission unit 205 configured to transmit power based on the negotiated parameter. Further disclosed is a power transmitting apparatus 101 combining both sets of features.
Patent GB-2584952-A (GB)
Title: Torque application tool
Inventor: ANDY BALL
IPC: B25B23/159
Filed: 2020-04-06
Abstract: The torque tool 2 is for applying torque to a workpiece. The tool includes a drive shaft (26, Figure 3) connected to a first component 18 having a rotatable output 32 such that rotation of the drive shaft rotates the rotatable output. A second component 20 is fixedly arranged relative to the first component. A beam transducer 22 extends lengthwise axially between, and is coupled to, the two components. The first component is arranged such that a reaction force experienced by the rotatable output, in use, tends to turn the first component relative to the second component. The transducer beam resists which causes it to bend. A bending measurement means (50, Figure 4), or sub-system is arranged to measure the bending of the transducer beam. The measurement means may include at least one strain gauge. The first component may be a gearbox. An end of the beam transducer may be partially rounded (42, Figure 3) and received in an aperture or slot 30 in one of the components. A temperature sensor may be used to provide a temperature measurement within the tool, and it may be arranged on the beam transducer.
Patent GB-2582720-A (GB)
Title: Method of making a polymer article and resulting article
Inventor: DIING YAW CHIENG
IPC: C09D119/02
Filed: 2012-02-29
Abstract: A polymer article formed from a cured carboxylated nitrile latex, wherein a first compound containing carbodiimide groups; a second compound containing carboxylated groups; and a pH adjustor consisting of ammonium hydroxide; are reacted together to form a cured carboxylated nitrile latex being free of any one of a crosslinking agent containing sulphur; zinc oxide; stearic acid; and an accelerator; wherein the first compound comprises at least one of a mono-carbodiimide, di-carbodiimide, tri-carbodiimide, tetra-carbodiimide, oligo-carbodiimide and poly-carbodiimide; and wherein the second compound comprises at least one of modified natural rubber latex, synthetic polymers based on acrylonitrile, butadiene, isoprene, styrene, chloroprene, ethylene, vinyl chloride and copolymers, blends and mixtures thereof. The accelerator may comprise carbamates, thiazoles, thioureas, sulphenamides, xanthates, guanidines or their derivatives. Preferably, the latex polymer article may also comprise a pigment, an antioxidant and an antiozonant. The nitrile latex polymer article is preferably a thin wall article, most preferably selected from a glove, finger cot, condom, balloon, bladder bag, catheter, tubing, rubber band, tourniquet, elastic band, diaphragm, dental dam and sheath.
Patent GB-2586099-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus and method for person detection, tracking and identification utilizing wireless signals and images
Inventor: SAMARJIT DAS
IPC: H04W4/029
Filed: 2020-07-27
Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a wireless transceiver to communicate packet data with a mobile device associated with one or more persons in a vicinity of the wireless transceiver; a camera to capture image data of one or more persons in the vicinity; and a controller in communication with the wireless transceiver and the camera, the controller configured to: receive a plurality of packet data from the mobile device, including at least amplitude information associated with a wireless channel communicating with the wireless transceiver; determine camera motion representing motion of the person(s) utilizing the image data and a packet motion representing motion of the person(s) utilizing the packet data; identify each of the one or more persons in response to the camera motion and the packet motion e.g. by comparison of camera and packet motion; and output information associated with each of the one or more persons in response to the identification. Inertial movement data may be received from the mobile device. An angle of arrival of one or more persons may be estimated in response to packet data.
Patent GB-2599652-A (GB)
Title: Masked-vector-comparison instruction
Inventor: JACOB EAPEN
IPC: G06F9/30
Filed: 2020-10-06
Abstract: A masked vector comparison instruction specifies a source vector operand 52 comprising a plurality of source data elements, a mask value 54, and a comparison target operand 56. In response to this instruction, an instruction decoder controls processing circuitry to: for each active source data element of the source vector operand, determine whether it satisfies a comparison condition, based on a masked comparison (60 in Figure 4) between one or more compared bits of that element and one or more compared bits of the comparison target operand, the mask value specifying a pattern of compared bits and non-compared bits; and generate a result value 50 indicative of which of the source data elements of the source vector operand, if any, is an active source data element satisfying the comparison condition. This instruction is useful for variable length decoding operations, e.g. with Huffman encoded data (Figures 2 and 7).
Patent GB-2600682-A (GB)
Title: Device obfuscation
Inventor: GIULIO GIACONI
IPC: H04W52/00
Filed: 2020-10-27
Abstract: A power consumption signature of a device connected to a network is obscured or disguised by: identifying a power consumption of the device; determining an adjustment to the amount of network traffic associated with the device to adjust the power consumption to an adjusted power consumption, such that the power consumption signature of the device is less detectable. The adjustment may be based on a predetermined relationship between power consumption and network traffic for the device. The power consumption may be padded or artificially inflated by increasing the network traffic without affecting the operation of the device. The device may be an internet of things (IoT) device. The network traffic may be increased with dummy packets. The method makes the device less detectable or undetectable to appliance load monitoring (ALM) to increase privacy.