baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2584303-A (GB)
Title: Combining refunds and shopping
Inventor: VIKTOR KLETZER
IPC: G06Q40/00
Filed: 2019-05-29
Abstract: The application relates to issuing tax refunds for purchases, such as tourist tax free shopping schemes. A personalised payment token and payment amount relating to a purchase by a user are received from a merchant system 111. The user’s identification information and payment information are obtained from a database using the personalised payment token 113. The purchase is settled using the user’s payment information and payment amount 117. A tax refund request for the purchase is initiated using the user’s identification information and purchase information 119, which may be a category of the goods or the amount of tax paid by the user in the purchase. Also claimed is a user registration system which receives user identification information and payment information, allocates a personalised payment token to the user, and stores the user’s identification and payment information in a database in association with the allocated personalised payment token. Also claimed is a merchant system which receives a personalised payment token from a user and transmits this to a server along with a payment amount and either the category of the purchased goods or the amount of tax paid by the user in the transaction.
Patent GB-2576229-A (GB)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: YASUTOMO FURUTA
IPC: G03G15/043
Filed: 2019-06-07
Abstract: An image forming apparatus for correcting slanting of colours in an electrophotographic printer. The apparatus comprising an exposure head (106 figure 1) of light emitting elements 1 – 15 arranged in an intersecting direction with respect to a photosensitive member (102 figure 1) arranged to form an image on the member at a first resolution. A data generating unit 401 configured to generate pixel data corresponding to a second resolution higher than the first resolution associating with positions of the pixel data. a correction unit configured to correct associations between the positions and the pixel data to adjust a position of an image in the intersecting direction. A conversion unit 403 configured to convert the pixel data corresponding to the second resolution to pixel data corresponding to the first resolution, and a drive unit configured to drive the light emitting elements based on the pixel data corresponding to the first resolution
Patent GB-2588634-A (GB)
Title: Stabiliser
Inventor: STEWART WELLENS
IPC: E02D27/42
Filed: 2019-10-30
Abstract: A stabiliser 100 for a signpost the stabiliser comprising: an inner body 110; an outer body 120; a plurality of arms 130 interconnecting the inner and outer bodies for resisting relative movement of the inner and outer bodies; and an abutment portion 140 for abutment with a signpost coupler (fig. 3 330); wherein a space 150 between the bodies is configured for receiving ballast. The stabiliser abutment may form a system for connecting with a signpost abutment, a method of installing the system using excavated material as the ballast material (fig. 8) and a method of forming the stabiliser by extrusion (fig. 9) is also claimed. The stabiliser may be of uniform cross-section, may have a base abutment cap (fig. 4 160).
Patent GB-2581245-A (GB)
Title: Database performance testing utilizing a virtual database and redirected test commands
Inventor: ROBERT WILKINSON
IPC: G06F16/25
Filed: 2019-12-09
Abstract: A method of utilising a virtual database system to perform database equivalent production-level database testing on a backup database, the method comprising: mounting the backup database by the virtual database system; intercepting, with the virtual database system, a test command directed to the production-level database from a database management system, wherein the test command correlates with a test request formulated to derive performance information about the production-level database; executing by the virtual database system the intercepted test command against the backup database; and receiving returned results from the backup database responsive to the test request. The backup may be a snapshot in time of the production-level database. The returned results may comprise baseline performance of the production-level database to assess performance impacts of any prospective changes to the database. Corresponding independent claims are directed to a system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium comprising code.
Patent GB-2581870-A (GB)
Title: Thickening system for a percarbonate-containing colour composition and storage in a multilayer sachet
Inventor: UDO ERKENS
IPC: A61Q5/10
Filed: 2019-12-18
Abstract: A cosmetic product for changing the natural colour of keratinous fibres comprising: at least one package comprising at least on multilayer film which comprises at least one first polymer layer, at least one second polymer later and at least one barrier layer; a cosmetic composition contained in the package comprising at least one oxidizing compound, which is a solid oxidising agent, and at least one thickening agent; and a colour composition contained in the package. The barrier layer may comprise a metal, preferably aluminium. The solid oxidising agent may be a percarbonate salt, perborate salt and/or a percarbamate salt. The thickening agent may be a polysaccharide, preferably a mixture formed from a cellulose gum, a hydroxyethylcellulose and a xanthan gum. The first polymer layer may be formed from polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polyamide or polyvinyl alcohol and the second polymer layer may be formed from polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate. A method for lightening or colouring keratinous fibres wherein the contents of the cosmetic product are mixed with water, applied to the fibres and subsequently washed off.
Patent GB-2592267-A (GB)
Title: Pulse nozzle for filter cleaning systems
Inventor: KATE TAYLOR
IPC: B05B1/26
Filed: 2020-02-24
Abstract: A nozzle for a filter cleaning system has a stub portion 8 having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and a splitter portion 7 positioned downstream of the stub portion. The splitter portion has deflector surfaces 7a, 7b arranged to direct the airflow exiting the stub portion outlet in 3 or more different/separate airstreams A, B, C, each of which airstreams are directed inclined axially outwardly from the axial direction 9 of the airflow exiting the stub portion outlet opening. The various parameters of the splitter nozzle portion can be tailored to provide required jet shape and entrainment characteristics. A beneficial feature of the nozzle designs is that jet entrainment and recombination of flows can be specified for different shaped filters.
Patent GB-2597922-A (GB)
Title: System comprising an electronics module
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN LYNCH
IPC: A61B5/282
Filed: 2020-07-31
Abstract: System 10 comprises module 100, removably mechanically coupled to wearable article 200, forming an e.g. conductive or inductive connection, to receive measurement data. Measurements obtained while they are coupled, e.g. ECG data from the garment 200, orientation data from the module, or location data from a further device 300 is analysed to determine whether an anomaly is present, e.g. incorrect orientation or sub-optimal contact of pads 103 and connection regions 205. If present, a prompt to the user to adjust the mechanical coupling is triggered. The anomaly conditioned may be determined by amplitude of measured data against a threshold, which may be determined based on characteristics of the user, such as age, weight or fitness level. The module 100 may contain all components required for data transmission and processing so the garment 200 only comprises sensors and communication pathways. The garment may be tight-fitting ensuring contact with the skin surface.
Patent GB-2591539-A (GB)
Title: Edge gateway system for secured, exposable process plant data delivery
Inventor: Mark John Nixon
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2020-09-16
Abstract: An edge gateway system for securely delivering data related to the process plant for consumption by external systems, comprising: a field-facing component 300 connected to one or more process plant networks 305 of the process plant, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory memories storing one or more interest lists 315 indicating data that is allowed to be exposed by the field-facing component 300 to the external systems. The exposable data corresponds to respective data content generated by one or more devices of the process plant while the process plant is operating to control an industrial process. The exposable data is the only data of an entirety of process plant data that is allowed to be exposed to the external systems for consumption. The field-facing component 300 obtains the exposable data indicated by the one or more interest lists 315 and sends the obtained data to an edge-facing component of the edge gateway system, thereby making the obtained data available for consumption by the external systems via the edge-facing component.
Patent GB-2605627-A (GB)
Title: Thermal insulation member for a haircare appliance
Inventor: KYLE JAMES CRAWFORD
IPC: A45D20/12
Filed: 2021-04-08
Abstract: A thermal insulation member is described for a heater assembly of a haircare appliance. The member 70 is formed of an elastomeric material and comprises a sleeve, a plurality of ribs 72, 73, and a plurality of studs 74. The ribs and studs project outwardly from a surface of the sleeve, and the ribs project further than the studs. The ribs of the insulation member may be circumferential ribs, which may subtend a central angle between 15 and 45 degrees, and longitudinal ribs. The studs may be located between the ribs, and the ribs may define a channel 77 for receiving electrical cables. The insulation member may comprise annular lip seals 75 at an end of the covering and may have inwardly projecting members 76 that mate with the heater assembly. A haircare appliance comprising the thermal insulation member surrounding the heater, and in turn being surrounded by an outer body is also described.
Patent GB-2597586-A (GB)
Title: Shaped fabric banks and a method of producing a fabric product
Inventor: SHRUTI GROVER
IPC: A41H3/08
Filed: 2021-06-01
Abstract: A method of providing a fabrication kit which enables a non-expert user to produce a finished fabric product and a fabrication kit is provided. The method involves providing a fabric portion or a plurality of portions 6, 7, having been cut with a computer controlled cutting process, and having applied markings 5 and instructions for the amateur user to manipulate and assemble the portion(s) by use of the markings and instructions in combination and further in combination with fixing means to produce the finished fabric product and the method further comprising applying the markings to the portion(s). Also disclosed is a method of applying a fabric portion(s) with two sets of markings allowing an unskilled user to produce two different finished fabric products; wherein, one finished product may be reconfigured into a second finished product. Further disclosed is a shaped fabric blank with pre-determined markings allowing an unskilled user to produce a finished fabric product. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing a plurality of kits cut from a single sheet of fabric.
Patent GB-2595146-A (GB)
Title: Non-metallic compliant sand control screen
Inventor: JUSHIK YUN
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2020-02-17
Abstract: A sand screen apparatus for use in a downhole operation for hydrocarbon recovery includes a non-metallic material and a mechanical retainer. The non-metallic material has a compressed state and an expanded state, and includes a base polymer, and one or a plurality of smart fillers dispersed with a polymeric matrix of the non-metallic material. The mechanical retainer compresses the non-metallic material in the compressed state. The one or the plurality of smart fillers react with the base polymer in the expanded state after exposure to a wellbore condition.
Patent GB-2617530-A (GB)
Title: Inpatient child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) facility for the flexible and responsive provision of mental health care, therapies and services
Inventor: BEVERLY CYRUS
IPC: E04H3/08
Filed: 2021-08-18
Abstract: An inpatient care facility (100) has at least two sub-wards (108a, b, c, d), each comprising a plurality of bedrooms, a first communal area having a first lockable partition wall, and a secure entry / exit. The care facility has a first configuration in which the first lockable partition walls of each of the at least two sub wards are closed and locked such that the sub-wards are separate and access to each respective sub-ward is provided via the secure entry / exit and a second configuration in which the lockable partition walls of each of the at least two sub wards are opened such that the respective first communal areas of each sub-wards are in communication with each other to form a two-sub ward combined ward.
Patent GB-2599787-A (GB)
Title: Metal coil fabrication
Inventor: ALEXIS LAMBOURNE
IPC: H02K15/00
Filed: 2018-02-16
Abstract: A 3D printed metal coil 50 for an electrical machine, the coil having a plurality of turns 80 and being configured to fit within a slot 60 formed by teeth in the machine, where a cross-sectional shape of successive turns varies such that a portion of each turn forms a part of an external surface of the metal coil, the external surface forming an interface with a side of the slot. The cross-sectional shape of the turns may vary for successive turns with the cross-sectional area of the turns remaining constant. Each turn may have a square or rectangular cross-section. A portion of each turn may form an end winding of the coil and have a flat plate-like shape for dissipating heat from the end winding. The cross-sectional shape of the turns may transition from a first cross-section in the slot to the flat plate-like shape at the portion of the turn that forms the end winding of the coil, while the cross-sectional shape of the turns transition from the first cross-section to the flat plate-like shape, a cross-sectional area of the turns remains constant. One or more pockets for thermocouples or other sensors may be provided. Dielectric resin insulation may be provided incorporating spacers physically separating the turns from each other. The coil metal may be copper.
Patent GB-2597185-A (GB)
Title: Compressor
Inventor: WENTAO ZHAO
IPC: F04D29/66
Filed: 2020-04-15
Abstract: A compressor (110), for use alone or as a component part of a turbocharger. The compressor (110) comprises a compressor housing (118) and a compressor wheel (112) mounted in the compressor housing (118). An internal surface (128) of the compressor housing (118) defines an axial inlet (122). The axial inlet (122) comprises an annular groove (150) for reducing compressor noise.
Patent GB-2599045-A (GB)
Title: Prevention of dripping of material for material injection
Inventor: TOYOHIRO AOKI
IPC: H01L21/60
Filed: 2020-05-04
Abstract: An injection apparatus for injection material is disclosed. The injection apparatus includes a tank for storing material. The injection apparatus further includes a head body that has a surface for contacting a substrate and an opening part opened at the surface for discharging the material in fluid-communication with the tank. The injection apparatus further includes a member connected to the opening part, in which the member allows gas to flow into and flow out from the opening part.
Patent GB-2605241-A (GB)
Title: Upgrading a sequence of microservices in a cloud computing environment
Inventor: YINGCHUN GUO
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 2021-12-09
Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable hot upgrading a microservices sequence in a cloud computing environment. More specifically, a next microservice of microservice subsequence in a running sequence is obtained, in response to a message to invoke the microservice or subsequence. The running microservice sequence includes at least one unexecuted microservice or subsequence that is to be hot upgraded. The running microservice sequence is generated based on a sequence that is to be hot upgraded which comprises an ordered list of microservices and/or subsequences. The approach may include determining the status of a next microservice or subsequence. The approach may further include invoking the next microservice or subsequence in the running sequence, in response to the status of the next microservice or subsequence being upgrade-complete.
Patent GB-2605020-A (GB)
Title: Internet of Things power system
Inventor: WEIWEI MIAO
IPC: H04W4/70
Filed: 2022-03-15
Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) power system includes a cloud layer, a channel layer, an edge layer and a terminal layer arranged in sequence from top to bottom. A device mapping set is set in advance for each type of terminal device, an IoT edge agent converts, based on the device mapping set, original power data from terminal device(s) 40 into intermediate power data and sends it to a management platform 20 which may correctly read and understand the intermediate power data and based on the device mapping set form service data in a format required by a service platform(s) 10 so that the multiple service platforms share power data collected once by the terminal device. Terminal devices may request access to the IoT system via the edge device and provide a parameter as part of the request. If the parameter supplied is unreadable the edge device is configured to obtain a readable parameter from the terminal and supply the readable unique parameter and the access request to the management platform. The management platform in considering the request determines whether the unreadable parameter is valid and also whether the readable parameter conflicts with that of another terminal device.
Patent GB-2606840-A (GB)
Title: Wellbore tool assembly
Inventor: MAURO ANTONIO ZAMBRANO PUERTA
IPC: E21B43/26
Filed: 2022-03-16
Abstract: A tool string arrangement 1 for displacement in a deviating wellbore (9, Fig 1) by a wireline operated tractor (2, Fig 1). The tool string arrangement comprises a clean-out arrangement 4 which comprises a rotational motor 40 provided with electrical energy through a wireline 21. The tool string arrangement comprises a perforation arrangement 3 positioned between the wireline operated tractor 2 and the rotational motor 40. Preferably, the clean-out arrangement comprises a debris collector 42 adjacent the rotational motor. A second aspect relates to a method for using the tool string arrangement is described. The method involves displacing the tool string arrangement in the deviating wellbore by the wireline operated tractor; a liner (84, Fig 1) is cleaned of debris until the perforating arrangement is located at the zone of interest; the perforating arrangement is activated, and the tool string arrangement is displaced out of the liner and production tube (83, Fig 1).
Patent GB-2606628-A (GB)
Title: Centralized knowledge repository and data mining system
Inventor: ALPER T ENVER
IPC: G06F16/2455
Filed: 2020-12-09
Abstract: A system for securely and efficiently obtaining data from a process plant and processing that data for consumption by one or more external applications or systems includes receiving event data from various data sources in or associated with a plant via various different data formats and data communication structures at a centralized server or gateway, striping off the communication format structure from the data, placing the data, including metadata associated with the data, into an event stream, and making the data in the event stream available to a processing infrastructure that processes that data in a comprehensive and robust manner for easy consumption by external data mining, data visualization and data analytic systems or applications.
Patent GB-2617393-A (GB)
Title: Garments and methods for detecting one or more characteristics of a wearer
Inventor: JODIE SINCLAIR
IPC: A61B5/0537
Filed: 2022-04-08
Abstract: A garment 2 comprises at least one muscle activity sensor 4 for detecting activity of a muscle at least partially covered by the garment and at least one electrical visual indicator device 14. A controller receives an activity signal from the muscle activity sensor and causes the at electrical visual indicator device to output a visual indication of the detected activity of the muscle. The garment may have two sets of muscle sensors for measuring muscle activity in two different regions e.g. on left and right sides of the body, to determine an indicator of relative performance. Also disclosed is a garment with two electrodes for measuring bioelectrical impedance and a controller to estimate body fat. Also disclosed is a garment with electrodes having a surface provided with a locating structure e.g. an elastomer for increasing the frictional force between the garment and the used to limit movement of the electrode. Further disclosed is a garment which can determine the wearer’s centre of gravity.
Patent GB-2607431-A (GB)
Title: Ultrawideband isolating transformers using mixed-mode thee-port microwave junctions
Inventor: Andrew Stephen Ackland
IPC: H01F27/29
Filed: 2022-04-11
Abstract: An isolating transmission line transformer, ITLT, 20 for connection with data communications equipment, has a first port 1 having two first terminals with respective first terminal conductors 23, and a second port 2 having two second terminals with respective second terminal conductors 26. First and second conductive winding paths, electrically isolated from one another, are respectively connected in series to the first and second ports. A first microwave junction 28 at the first port has a first uniform gap d1 along a predefined section between each of the first terminal conductors and the second conductive winding path; a second uniform gap d2 between end sections of the first terminal conductors; and a third uniform gap d3 where the first terminal conductors transition from the predefined section into a first terminal end section. A second microwave junction may be at the second port. When excited by signals at the first and second ports, waves reflected back from opposite ends of the device to the windings are exactly cancelled. The microwave junctions may have centre taps. The isolating transformer may be ultrawideband.
Patent GB-2609711-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for time authentication
Inventor: STEPHEN HANCOCK
IPC: H04K3/00
Filed: 2022-05-23
Abstract: Users of a mobile user terminals 20 are able to detect whether the timing signals supplied by a GNSS systems are accurate and can be relied upon. Use may be made of existing networks of precisely surveyed GNSS receivers 12 used for dGNSS or RTK positioning techniques to measure GNSS time across a territory or region. The measured GNSS time base signals from each receiver may be fed back to a central server 30 which also receives an accurate time base signal from a trusted third-party time base supplier 40 such as a university or national laboratory which runs an atomic clock, or network of such clocks that are independent of any GNSS system. The server then compares the GNSS time signals from the network of GNSS receivers with the trusted time base and if they substantially match the GNSS timing signals are authenticated. Error in the timing signals can be used to warn third party users that the GNSS time signals are not accurate. The server may also provide the calculated error to users and the necessary correction that needs to be applied to measured GNSS time to obtain accurate UTC time.