baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2509106-A (GB)
Title: An item of furniture assembled from flat panel components
Inventor: RAAD ROBIN ANDREW
IPC: A47C3/04
Filed: 2012-12-20
Abstract: An item of furniture comprising a first panel member 4 which can be bent to define a support structure and a second panel 14 which can be attached to the first panel 4 such that it is perpendicular to the surface of the support panel which it is attached to. The item may be a chair suitable for use with children. Attachment 8 may be facilitated by hinges, clips, brackets, screws, hook and loop systems or tension cables. The second pane 14 may rest on top of and be support by the attachment means. The panels may be provided with creases to assist with folding. The device may be arranged to stack or be connected to another piece of furniture. The device may be positioned at a different angle to provide a different function.
Patent GB-2509138-A (GB)
Title: Dental component with screw fixation
Inventor: HAUS ADRAIN
IPC: A61C8/00
Filed: 2012-12-21
Abstract: A dental component 10 for attachment to a dental implant 46, the dental component comprising a ceramic component body 12, wherein the component body comprises a screw channel 60 passing through the component body and forming a first opening 62a at a first end 64a and a second opening 62b at an apical end 64b, and a screw seat 68 proximal to the apical end of the screw channel for seating the head 70 of a screw 72 for the fixation of the dental component to the dental implant, wherein the longitudinal axis 92a of the screw channel at the first end does not match the longitudinal axis 92b of the screw channel at the apical end and a metal adapter 14 removable attachable to the component body, wherein the metal adapter 14 comprises a bore 28 passing through the metal adapter 14 and forming a coronal opening 30a and an apical opening 30b. A method of attaching a dental component is also described.
Patent GB-2509968-A (GB)
Title: Garment with a flexible transparent pouch
Inventor: THAIN ALEXANDER
IPC: A41D13/00
Filed: 2013-01-21
Abstract: An article of clothing or garment such as a sports shirt comprises a pouch suitable to receive an object such as a race number card. The pouch comprises a flexible transparent and waterproof front sheet bonded to a rear sheet, and may be permanently or in some embodiments removably attached to the article of clothing. The pouch may be mounted to the garment by stitching, heat bonding adhesive or hook and loop tape. The pouch may have a closure means in the form of a flap with a releasable fastening. The use of such a pouch enables the displaying of an article on a garment without damage to the article of clothing.
Patent GB-2498873-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced data write for multi-level cell (MLC) memory using moving baseline data encoding
Inventor: BANDIC ZVONIMIR Z
IPC: G06F12/02
Filed: 2013-01-28
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing enhanced performance for multi-level cell (MLC) memory using threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding. A voltage baseline of a prior write is identified, and a data write uses the threshold-voltage-drift or resistance-drift tolerant moving baseline memory data encoding for data being written to the MLC memory responsive to the identified voltage baseline. The identification of the baseline may include reading MLC memory cells before performing the data write or may include a predefined parameter information on the MLC memory cells. Performing the data write may also include using a run-length limited (RLL code). The method may also involve periodically writing reference cells at specific voltage levels. Also the invention includes apparatus 100 for implementing data write for a multi-level cell (MLC) including a controller 106, a moving baseline memory data encoding controller 112, and memory MLC devices 114 which may be Phase Change Memory (PCM) devices or Multi-level (MLC) NAND Flash memory devices 114.
Patent GB-2511764-A (GB)
Title: Pole for show jumping
Inventor: PRESCOTT LEE ANTHONY
IPC: A63K3/04
Filed: 2013-03-12
Abstract: A pole 10, for use as a cross beam in a show jumping obstacle, comprises a continuous extruded length defining an external wall 14 and an internal profile structure 11/12. The internal structure preferably includes a tubular shape capable of receiving an insert element 15 that can add weight to the pole as needed to meet show jump requirements. An end cap 16 may be provided which includes protrusions 17 to be received by the internal profile structure, such that an interference fit to secure the end cap is possible.
Patent GB-2507361-A (GB)
Title: Screen cleaner and method
Inventor: FISHER GEORGE WILLOX
IPC: B07B1/55
Filed: 2013-03-12
Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning screen panels comprises a washing enclosure 1 including a screen loading zone 8 and a screen washing zone 9 in communication with the screen loading zone 8. The apparatus also includes at least one screen carriage (42, fig 3) formed and arranged for mounting at least one screen panel 12 thereon and for transporting a said screen panel 12, edge first, into the screen washing zone 9 and reversing to return a said screen panel 12 to the screen loading zone 8. The screen washing zone 9 has screen washing jets (30, fig 1c) mounted for washing both faces of a screen panel 12 mounted on the carriage (42, fig 3). A method of cleaning is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2514326-A (GB)
Title: A fibre optic chemical sensor that is insensitive to the influence of interfering parameters
Inventor: JAMES STEPHEN WAYNE
IPC: G02B6/02
Filed: 2013-03-26
Abstract: A device comprising two or more optical fibre long period gratings (LPGs), where physically adjacent LPGs are separated by a length of optical fibre that does not contain an LPG, coated with a porous material 10. The device is an optical fibre chemical sensor based upon cascaded LPGs that is insensitive to interfering parameters such as temperature, strain and surrounding refractive index. The transmission spectrum of in-series LPGs is characterised by a channelled spectrum that lays within the envelope of the typical LPG resonance bands. The porous coating over the section of optical fibre separating the LPGs is infused with a functional chemically sensitive material 9, such that only the section of fibre separating the LPGs will be sensitive to the analyte of interest, causing a change in the phase of the channelled spectrum within the resonance band envelope.
Patent GB-2501991-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of liver cancer
Inventor: CONNER JOE
IPC: A61K35/66
Filed: 2013-05-10
Abstract: Herpes simplex strain HSV1716 for use in a method of treating hepatocellular carcinoma, the method comprising administration of HSV1716 and simultaneous or sequential inter-arterial administration of doxorubicin to the hepatic artery or oral administration of sorafenib. Also claimed is an oncolytic herpes virus for use in a method of treating primary liver cancer by intravenous or intr-arterial administration of an oncolytic herpes simplex virus; a pharmaceutical composition comprising an oncolytic herpes simplex virus and either doxorubicin or sorafenib.
Patent GB-2515032-A (GB)
Title: Guide for an injection device
Inventor: BITAR AHMAD
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 2013-06-11
Abstract: A guide 200 for contacting an injection device 110 with a user has a first end 210 adapted to engage a housing 112 of the injection device 110 and a second end 220 adapted to engage the surface of a user's skin and permits movement of the housing 112 towards the users skin. The guide may be a solid, with a flared portion or cylindrical with stabilizing protrusions (250, figure 4b), or formed as a frame. The internal surface may have a housing stop or ridge and may form a friction fit with the housing or comprise a ratchet mechanism (350, figure5a & 5b) which may be in two parts to enable incremental movement of the housing. Two arms (440, figure 6) may be resiliently biased towards the centre of the guide to pinch skin tissue to secure the guide in position.
Patent GB-2505999-A (GB)
Title: Method of Encouraging Rebate Redemption by Offering Action Plan on Survey Completion
Inventor: SHELTON SUZANNE CROFTS
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2013-07-15
Abstract: A method of encouraging energy efficient behavior and promotion of uptake of utility rebate offers comprising providing a customer from a customer database including customer contact information with a survey and, based on the results, sending the customer an action plan including a rebate offer. The customers may be sorted into populations or categorized based on the survey results to allow relevant rebate offers to be sent. When rebates are redeemed the database may be updated and an updated action list generated and sent to the customer. Customers who have not completed a survey may be reminded by email. A predictive modeling system may be used.
Patent GB-2501208-A (GB)
Title: OBM resistivity image enhancement using principal component analysis with first moment estimation
Inventor: ZHAO JINSONG
IPC: G01V3/20
Filed: 2012-04-13
Abstract: Method and apparatus for estimating a resistivity property of an earth formation in a borehole with oil-based drilling fluid. The method may include estimating the resistivity property using a sensitivity of a real part of a measured impedance to a reactance of a gap between a resistivity sensor and a borehole wall. The real component and the quadrature component of resistivity measurements made by a two-terminal imaging tool in a borehole having an oil-based mud are affected by the tool standoff. It is shown that the sensitivity of the real part of the resistivity measurement to the reactance of the gap can be estimated from the time derivatives of the two components of the measurements. This makes possible a principal component analysis of the data to give an improved image of the formation resistivity.
Patent GB-2523292-A (GB)
Title: Alcoholic beverage
Inventor: LEVY ANDRE JACQUES
IPC: C12G3/06
Filed: 2013-10-23
Abstract: The present invention relates to a vodka spirit drink produced from a raw material comprising apples. Preferably the raw material contains only apples. In another embodiment is a method of producing a vodka spirit drink comprising juicing apples to produce apple juice, adding yeast to the apple juice mixture and leaving to ferment, separating the apple wine produced by the fermentation process and distilling the apple wine to produce a distilled ethanol product. The distillation process is repeated until the desired ethanol content is reached, the product filtered and diluted with water to produce vodka with the required alcoholic strength. Vodka prepared in this way may have a different taste to apple flavoured vodka wherein apple flavourings are added to vodka produced from cereals and/or potatoes.
Patent GB-2520283-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum booster
Inventor: CAINE JON EDWARD
IPC: F04B5/00
Filed: 2013-11-14
Abstract: A vehicle engine has an air intake providing a manifold vacuum P2, a throttle 3 and an ambient air supply 4. Instead of a vacuum pump, a passive vacuum booster system is provided to supply the vacuum reservoir 6. In this system a piston pump 10 is operated by the differential pressure between the manifold vacuum P2 and ambient P1, in order to produce a higher vacuum P3 in the reservoir 6. To this end the booster pump has large and small chambers 12, 14 with a common piston arrangement 13, 15. The smaller chamber 14 empties the reservoir 6 via an arrangement of check valves 32, 34, and the piston reciprocates under the control of a valve arrangement 20, possibly with additional electronic control.
Patent GB-2507432-A (GB)
Title: Flue Enclosure support
Inventor: EBBS DAVID STUART
IPC: E04F17/02
Filed: 2010-06-30
Abstract: A flue enclosure support 1 is securable, in use, to a flue 4 for supporting a flue enclosure 2 at a predetermined distance from the flue. Preferably, the flue enclosure support comprises a spacing element 7 having a first end for abutting the flue and, at the opposite end, a supporting surface or engagement means 5 for supporting the flue enclosure at a predetermined distance from the flue. The flue enclosure support may also comprise a strap 9, which is securable around the flue.
Patent GB-2524044-A (GB)
Title: CMOS Image sensor
Inventor: STEFANOV KONSTANTIN
IPC: H01L31/08
Filed: 2014-03-12
Abstract: Â A CMOS image sensor 101 comprises an active layer 11 of a first conductivity type arranged to be reversed biased and a pixel 20 comprising a photosensitive element comprising a well 22 of a second conductivity type and a well 21 of the first conductivity type containing active CMOS elements for reading and resetting the photosensitive element, the CMOS image sensor further comprises a doped buried layer 111 of the second conductivity type in the active layer beneath the well of the first conductivity type. The buried layer is arranged to extend a depletion region below the well of the second conductivity type also below the well of the first conductivity type thus reducing parasitic current. The doped buried layer may be electrically floating. The width of the buried layer may be greater than the width of the first conductivity type well.
Patent GB-2524068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to optical data insertion devices
Inventor: SALISBURY RICHARD
IPC: H04N5/33
Filed: 2014-03-13
Abstract: A reflection barrier 30 is suitable for use with an optical insertion device of the type comprising a projector 23 operable to insert additional optical data into a capture aperture of an optical system so as to provide a combined image. The barrier has a primary filter 32 adapted to cover the capture aperture of the optical system, the primary filter has an aperture or cutaway portion 31 aligned with the light emitted by the projector into the capture aperture. The reflection barrier may be used in a thermal imaging device. The filter is arranged to minimise the reflected light so as not to draw attention to the user of the device. Lens spacer (33, figure 3) may also be provided to reduce the reflection of light from the projector.
Patent GB-2509634-A (GB)
Title: Maintaining multiple target copies
Inventor: BEEKEN CHRISTOPHER BARRY EDGAR
IPC: G06F11/14
Filed: 2012-09-21
Abstract: Provided are techniques for maintaining instant virtual copies. A request to perform an instant virtual copy operation to create an instant virtual copy from a first volume to a new volume is received. It is determined that the first volume has not been modified since a last instant virtual copy operation has been performed. It is determined whether an intermediate volume and an intermediate map have already been created. In response to determining that the intermediate volume and the intermediate map have not already been created, the intermediate volume and the intermediate map are created, the intermediate volume is made dependent on the first volume in a dependency chain based on the intermediate map, and the new volume is made dependent on the intermediate volume in the dependency chain.
Patent GB-2513024-A (GB)
Title: Compositions and kits for molecular counting
Inventor: FU GLENN K
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 2013-02-27
Abstract: A method for quantifying a nucleic acid in an original sample wherein the nucleic acids in the original sample are tagged with oligonucleotides to form a plurality of labelled-nucleic acid molecules, the treating the sample with a uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG), amplifying these treated labelled nucleic acid molecules and quantifying a nucleic acid molecule in the sample. The method may produce a plurality of labelled amplicons with a unique tag identifier regions. Alternatively claimed is a clonal amplification method comprising stochastically labelling a plurality of molecules with a plurality of oligonucleotide tags, wherein the plurality of molecules comprises at least two different sequences, the plurality of tags comprises at least 2 different oligonucleotide sequences, the labelled molecules are amplified to produce labelled amplicons, the labelled amplicons are amplified by nested PCR to produce a plurality of nested PCR amplified labelled amplicons and detecting said plurality of nested PCR labelled amplicons.
Patent GB-2513753-A (GB)
Title: Consolidating disparate cloud service data and behavior based on trust relationships between cloud services
Inventor: SRIVASTAVA ANURAG
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2013-01-17
Abstract: A method for consolidating cloud service data and behaviors can begin with the compilation of user/service membership data that associates requesting entities with subscribed cloud services by a trusted cloud service consolidator. A federated trust library housing inter-service trust information for the cloud services contained in the user/service membership data can be created. In response to a service request from a requesting entity, trusted secondary cloud services can be identified for the requesting entity. Identification of the trusted secondary cloud services can be based upon trust factors synthesized from data contained in the federated trust library. Data satisfying the service request and associated behaviors from each trusted secondary cloud service can then be consolidated into a unified data structure. A behavior can be an executable action supported by a trusted secondary cloud service. The unified data structure can be conveyed to the requesting entity in a service response.
Patent GB-2518952-A (GB)
Title: Electrical power generation
Inventor: CANFIELD KURT
IPC: H01L35/28
Filed: 2014-07-30
Abstract: Apparatus for generating electrical power from the decay heat of nuclear fuel elements and/or of nuclear fuel waste, or from another low temperature heat source using the principle of the Seebeck or other power generation effects. Also disclosed is a method of generating electrical power comprising: providing a nuclear fuel flask, crate or container 1 containing nuclear fuel or waste 9 generating heat, the flask separating the nuclear material from the external environment; placing the flask in a water-filled cooling pond or air-cooled repository; providing thermoelectric junction comprised of an n-type semiconductor 16 and a p-type semiconductor 17 connected by conducting members 15; and providing the electrical power from the thermoelectric junction for use. The thermoelectric junction/Seebeck Effect device may also comprise a junction of dissimilar metals/alloys. The thermoelectric junction may be one of a plurality of junctions which can be connected in either series or parallel. The thermoelectric junction may form part of the wall, lid and/or base of the flask.
Patent GB-2518973-A (GB)
Title: Pore pressure measurement in low-permeability and impermeable materials
Inventor: BADRI MOHAMMED
IPC: E21B49/00
Filed: 2013-05-20
Abstract: Systems and methods are described for calculating pore pressure in a porous formation such as shale gas having substantially disconnected pore spaces. In some described examples, an NMR logging tool with at least two depths of investigation (DOIs) is used. The deeper DOI can be used to sample the shale gas that has not been perturbed by the drilling process, for example, and contains the gas at connate pressure. The shallow DOI can be used to sample shale gas that has been perturbed, and has lost at least part of its gas content. The micro cracks that have been formed in the shallow location (closer to the borehole) allow for injection of gas into the formation at known pressures while measuring the NMR response. The connate pore pressure can then be calculated for the deeper location based on the NMR response to the known pressure increase.
Patent GB-2531010-A (GB)
Title: Incineration of waste
Inventor: IAN HIBBITT
IPC: F23G5/16
Filed: 2014-10-07
Abstract: A method for incinerating waste, and apparatus for carrying out the method, the method comprising two steps. The first step is contacting, in a pre-combustion chamber 7, a first waste stream and oxygen-containing gas having insufficient oxygen for complete combustion to occur, thereby producing a partially combusted waste stream. The second step is contacting, in an incinerator chamber 13, the partially combusted waste stream and oxygen-containing gas, thereby causing the partially combusted waste stream to completely combust. The first waste stream may comprise nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds, amines and/or amides, and may be a fluid, preferably a liquid. In another aspect, a gas feed means 8 for feeding oxygen-containing gas to a combustion zone of the pre-combustion chamber is configured to atomise a waste stream fed to the combustion zone.
Patent GB-2536907-A (GB)
Title: Controlling power to a load with signals along a power line
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN MERRICK
IPC: H05B37/02
Filed: 2015-03-30
Abstract: A circuit, system and method for controlling electrical power to a load 102 such as a plurality of light-emitting diodes, wherein the circuit 100 has a controller 104 with power supply input nodes 106, 108 and a controller data input node 110. Two power supply input terminals 112, 114 supply electrical power to the circuit. A digital control signal preprocessing unit 118 couples one of the power supply input terminals to the controller data input node. The digital control signal pre-processing unit has a capacitor C1 arranged to block voltage biasing resulting from power supplied across the electrical power supply input terminals from being supplied to the controller data input node and is arranged to generate positive and negative voltage impulses in response to corresponding rising and falling edges of a digital control signal received at the power supply input terminals and to generate a revised version of the digital control signal without the voltage biasing.
Patent GB-2537818-A (GB)
Title: Handheld devices and systems
Inventor: DONALD WILLIAM GATHERER
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2015-04-20
Abstract: A handheld device, the device comprises a band for attaching the device to one or more digits of a user; and a tether, which is connected to said band, for attaching the device to the wrist of the user, wherein the band incorporates a unit comprising one or more of the following: one or more sensors, a light source, and camera. Also claimed is a handheld system with a handheld device with a band attached to one or more digits with one or more of a sensor, light source and camera, a computer on the wrist of the user and a tether for connecting the device to the computer. The sensors may be used for medical tested, e.g. for glucose levels, pH or temperature of an area of a patient. The camera may be used for amateur filmmaking.
Patent GB-2525099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to multifunction authentication systems
Inventor: OMAR RALPH MAHMOUD
IPC: G06F21/33
Filed: 2010-09-06
Abstract: This application relates to a ticket authentication system. Preferred embodiments are applied to lottery tickets. At a remote device (e.g. a sales terminal) a user is presented with a chart which maps a plurality of graphic, non-alphanumeric symbols 48 to reference numbers 50 or grid positions. The user selects one or more of the symbols to be his symbol key and submits the reference numbers / grid positions corresponding to the selected symbols to the remote device. The user also enters transaction-specific information such as lottery numbers, and the date of the transaction. All of this data is transmitted in encrypted form to a central server, which returns an authentication identifier which is printed on the users ticket. On redemption, the user is authenticated using both the authentication identifier and the symbol key. The chart is varied periodically and therefore the central server must use the date of the initial transaction to correctly translate between reference numbers / grid positions and the symbol key. The system uses anonymous tickets.