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Patent GB-2575231-A (GB)
Title: Improved Bermuda roof tile
Inventor: PHILIP MASON
IPC: E04D1/16
Filed: 2018-04-18
Abstract: There is disclosed a mix and method for manufacturing cementitious roofing tiles which resemble traditional Bermuda "slate" tiles. The mix comprises crushed glass making up 15% to 60% of the total composition weight; a hydraulic cement binder; a fine aggregate sand; another aggregate selected from limestone, scoria, perlite, vermiculite, hemp, expanded shale and slate; and an alkali-silica reaction suppressant.
Patent GB-2575513-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method of mapping a virtual environment
Inventor: ANDREW SWANN
IPC: H04N13/271
Filed: 2018-07-13
Abstract: Mapping a virtual environment, comprising: obtaining a sequence of video images S1310; obtaining a corresponding sequence of virtual camera positions (used to create the video images) S1320; obtaining a corresponding sequence of depth buffer values used whilst creating the video images S1330; obtaining mapping points in each video image, of the sequence of video images, which corresponds to predetermined pairs of depth buffer values S1340 and relative image positions (i.e. giving a 3D location of each mapping point within each image), where the depth buffer value gives a distance from the virtual camera position, and the relative image position gives a location in the 2D plane of the image with respect to the center of the image S1342. The mapping may involve recording the sequence of video images, and associating recordings of all of the following: the sequence of virtual camera positions; the sequence of depth buffer values; the mapping points. Mapping may involve obtaining one or more additional map datasets generated in the same manner. The application relates to mapping virtual environments of a video game, possibly to create walk-through or tutorial videos for the computer game.
Patent GB-2565439-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for generating workflows for analysing large data sets
Inventor: DADABHAI T SINGH
IPC: G06F8/34
Filed: 2015-11-12
Abstract: A method is proposed for designing a computational process for performing a computational task such as a next generation sequencing task. A user who wishes to instigate the workflow for analysing a dataset is presented with a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising plurality of areas representative of respective associated data analysis algorithms, each of the algorithms being characterized by one or more numerical parameters. Default values have been defined for some or all of the numerical parameters, and one of more of the parameters of each algorithm may be modified using the GUI. The GUI allows the user to select and combine a plurality of the icons (e.g. by drag and drop operations) and set one or more of the modifiable parameters, to form a workflow comprising the corresponding algorithms.
Patent GB-2566178-A (GB)
Title: Method of operation of a fail-safe solid state relay
Inventor: DAVID MARTIN STUCKEY
IPC: H03K17/28
Filed: 2017-06-05
Abstract: A method for operating a fail-safe programmable solid-state relay, the method comprising the steps of performing a set of self-tests at an initial start-up and cyclically during the powered state of the solid-state relay, wherein a self-test comprises continuously detecting and comparing a state of the at least one switch with an expected state therefor and wherein if any self-test within the set detects an unexpected state, substantially simultaneously therewith a failure flag is set in a non-volatile memory and the at least one switching circuits are set to a safe or default state; setting an integrity flag and an integrity count flag within the memory when all self-tests in the set are passed; and reading the failure flag from the memory at any subsequent start-up, wherein if the failure flag is not set, the integrity count flag is read and a set of self-tests is performed.
Patent GB-2579561-A (GB)
Title: Electrosurgical instrument
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER PAUL HANCOCK
IPC: A61B18/18
Filed: 2018-12-03
Abstract: An electrosurgical instrument is provided with a microwave radiating tip portion for tissue ablation using microwave energy and electroporation in a minimally invasive manner. The instrument comprises a rod shaped radiating tip portion 204 with a distal needle tip 214 and a proximal coaxial transmission line 212 having an inner conductor 216, an outer conductor 222 and a dielectric 218 separating the conductors. The rod-shaped radiating tip portion has a diameter less than a diameter of a coaxial cable 202 to which it is attached. The distal needle tip comprises a rigid dielectric sleeve 220 surrounding an elongate conductive element 226 which terminates at an exposed active electrode 228, the elongate conductive element being configured to operate as a half wavelength transformer. The active electrode is axially spaced from a return electrode 238 that is electrically conducted to the end of the outer conductor of the proximal coaxial transmission line. The radiating tip portion may be dimensioned to be suitable for insertion into a pancreas via a surgical scoping device. Tumours within the pancreas may be treated using ablation and/or electroporation treatment for both curative as well as palliative reasons.
Patent GB-2568180-A (GB)
Title: Robotic put wall
Inventor: MATTHEW R WICKS
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 2017-08-29
Abstract: A material handling system automatically each picking orders using a put wall. A controller determines whether any of more than one removable intermediate holders in a put wall that are within the reach of a first robotic arm contain one or more articles that are ready for transporting away from the put wall. The controller directs the first robotic arm to: (i) engage the selected removable intermediate holder, (ii) move the selected removable intermediate holder to an empty order container, and (iii) reorient the selected removable intermediate holder to transfer the one or more articles from the selected removable intermediate holder to the empty order container. In one or more embodiments, the articles can be placed in the put wall by conveying donor totes to an each picking robotic arm that places picked articles into an end effector of a second robotic arm.
Patent GB-2582377-A (GB)
Title: Super-long thermal insulation steel jacket pipe and machining process thereof
Inventor: SHUJUN ZHANG
IPC: F16L59/14
Filed: 2019-03-22
Abstract: A super-long thermal insulation steel jacket pipe, comprising a working steel pipe 1 and an outer steel pipe 2, wherein the outer steel pipe is sleeved outside the working steel pipe, an annular cavity 3 formed by a gap is reserved between the working steel pipe and the outer steel pipe; a support frame is disposed between the working steel pipe and the outer steel pipe; the annular cavity is a vacuum cavity, two ends of the outer steel pipe are tightened, a tightened part of the outer steel pipe is sealed with an outer wall of the working steel pipe through several seal rings 4, and the annular cavity is further filled with a phase-change material; the support frame is a spiral annular support frame 5 or a C-shaped support frame (6 Fig 2); when the support frame is the spiral annular support frame, the spiral annular support frame is sleeved on an outer peripheral side of the working steel pipe, and is not in contact with the working steel pipe, and when the support frame is the C-shaped support frame, several C-shaped support frames wind the outer peripheral side of the working steel pipe at intervals.
Patent GB-2584091-A (GB)
Title: Safety communication module
Inventor: PO HUAN LEE
IPC: H04W12/00
Filed: 2019-05-20
Abstract: A communication module 10, for secure communication, includes a master chip 11, an encryption chip 12 and a (preferably wireless) communication chip 13. The encryption chip is connected to the master chip over a serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus. The master chip’s AUX-ANT and MAIN_ANT pins are used to connect the master chip and the communication chip. The master chip and the encrypted chip may be additionally connected using an inter integrated circuit (I2C) or a general-purpose input/output (GPIO). The SPI bus includes a MOSI pin, a MISO pin, a CLK pin and a CS pin. The communications module may also include a subscriber identity module (SIM) 14. The communication module may be connected to a smart device such as a smart lock using a UART. This facilitates encrypted communication over a public internet with the smart lock. The communication module may also connect to an “electric facility” (20, Fig. 1), such as a mobile phone or PC, and to an “electric appliance” (30, Fig. 1), such as a smart watch. Distribution of encryption / decryption keys may involve wireless communication between the communication module and a cryptographic authentication server (CAS).
Patent GB-2584287-A (GB)
Title: Temperature controlled battery pack
Inventor: SANJAY GUPTA
IPC: H01M10/615
Filed: 2019-05-28
Abstract: A battery pack apparatus comprises a container 101 with a lid 102 filled with vertically and horizontally stacked battery modules 200, fully submerged in a two-phase dielectric liquid. The stacked batteries create vertical ducts through which bubbles formed in the dielectric liquid are forced upwards creating a vertical flow. The heated liquid and bubbles cool at the top of the container and is returned to a trough at the base of the container via a condenser. The container may be connected to one or more heaters. Electronics associated with the batteries (chargers, controllers) may also be submerged in the liquid. The dielectric liquid may also be a fire extinguisher in the event of a thermal runaway.
Patent GB-2584889-A (GB)
Title: Ampoule closure
Inventor: MARTIN VOLLEN
IPC: B65D41/22
Filed: 2019-06-19
Abstract: A closure 10 for an ampoule, the closure comprising: a cap portion 12 arranged to engage with a broken neck of an opened ampoule; a skirt portion 11 extending from the cap portion, the skirt portion being arranged to grip the sides of an ampoule; and a rigid support structure 20 removably attached to the cap portion, the rigid support structure comprising a support flange 21 and a handling projection 22 extending from the support flange. The removable rigid support structure provides rigidity to the closure during application of the closure to an ampoule and, in the case of closures with a rollable/foldable skirt portion (Figure 3), also provides rigidity to the closure during the assembly process by facilitating the rolling/folding of the skirt portion from the second position into the first position. The rigid support structure also helps to keep the cap portion aseptic during handling. A channel 13 comprising a Luer connector 24 may extend through the cap portion to form a fluid connection with the ampoule, and which may be sealed by a projection 29 on the support portion.
Patent GB-2578507-A (GB)
Title: Graphics processing
Inventor: FRODE HEGGELUND
IPC: G06T15/40
Filed: 2019-08-28
Abstract: A graphics processing system and method in which at an earlier stage it is determined whether a subsequently received primitive to be rasterised covers a previously received primitive, so some fragment processing operations need not be performed for the preceding primitive. If some operations are not needed for the earlier polygon metadata for the previous polygon is stored 202 to indicate this. At a later processing stage 206, prior to performing fragment processing steps for the previous primitive, the metadata for the previous primitive is queried 208 to identify fragment processing steps which do not need to be performed. The system or method can prevent at least some processing for primitives for which the metadata indicates some processing steps are not needed. The metadata may indicate that only some specific fragment processing steps should be prevented for the primitive while others should still be performed.
Patent GB-2587423-A (GB)
Title: Integration of smart home and vehicle systems
Inventor: Lauren Dickerson
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2019-09-30
Abstract: A method of controlling a smart home system 140 comprising interconnected devices in a home environment 100. The method includes receiving smart home data from one or more devices e.g. 112, 114 of the smart home system, receiving vehicle data from one or more devices of a vehicle 160 associated with the smart home system, determining occupancy status of the home environment based on the smart home data and the vehicle data, and controlling devices in the smart home system based on the determined occupancy status. Smart home data may comprise data based on image and motion sensors, status signals indicative of whether windows or doors are closed, lock statuses, utility consumption or flow or leak statuses. Vehicle data may be based on seat sensors, cameras, wireless activation devices, insertion of an ignition key, engine activation or geolocation. Determining occupancy status may comprise determining possible occupancy indications, home occupation probabilities, or occupant number estimation. Controlling smart home systems may comprise controlling heating, ventilation, security systems, energy management, lights or monitoring devices. Methods for integrating smart home and vehicle systems to support their functionality are also disclosed, including smart home notifications, security applications, and vehicle charging applications.
Patent GB-2589957-A (GB)
Title: Sealing assembly for acousitc doors and method of installing the same
Inventor: GUO DING SHAN
IPC: E06B7/22
Filed: 2020-09-08
Abstract: A sealing assembly for a door with top, bottom and side frames, with door panels 19 connected via hinges, seals and gaskets on the frame 14 and panel 19 perimeter and where enclosed regions 25, 27 are formed between the seals 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and with a lock which keeps the gaskets and seal compressed when the door is closed. The panels may have astragal brackets attached on opposite sides at an end distal to the hinges and which may contain further seals. There may be five seals. The seals my have a bulb section 28 and teardrop section 24. The seals may be attached via brackets 40 or may be located in recesses 38. The lock may comprise a roller which rolls across a plate. The seals may be made of rubber and the frames and panels secured by welding or flush bolts. A method of installation is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2600389-A (GB)
Title: DCDC converters
Inventor: BARTOSZ GAJDA
IPC: H02M3/158
Filed: 2020-10-14
Abstract: A circuit portion 2 comprises a DC-DC converter 4 that provides current to one of a plurality of loads S0, S1, S2 at a time. A controller 14 detects when a voltage across an under-supplied load of the plurality of loads S0, S1, S2 is below a first threshold. Channel logic circuitry 10 provides current from the converter 4 to the under-supplied load in response to the controller 14 detecting that the voltage is below the first threshold. A voltage regulator 30a, 30b, 30c provides current to the under-supplied load when the voltage is below a second threshold. The DC-DC converter may be a single-input multiple-output DC-DC buck converter. The voltage regulator may be arranged in parallel with the DC-DC converter.
Patent GB-2587122-A (GB)
Title: Printable coating on a substrate
Inventor: DEVIN C MCELRATH
IPC: B41M5/00
Filed: 2019-03-29
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a printed absorbent article and a process for making a printed absorbent article. Specifically, the printing onto the outer cover of an absorbent article may be accomplished by using a hydrophobic substrate and applying aqueous ink containing pigments to an ink receptive coating that has a thickness of about 0.1 millimeters or less and a base weight of at least 2 gsm wherein the coating absorbs liquid from the ink at a contact angle at or about zero degrees at which time the ink is printed onto the hydrophobic substrate at a printing speed of at least 500 feet per minute.
Patent GB-2592137-A (GB)
Title: Advanced wheelchair
Inventor: ANDREW MACKAY SLORANCE
IPC: A61G5/04
Filed: 2021-02-01
Abstract: The manually propelled wheelchair has a chassis for a seat, a pair of rear wheels for manual propulsion, a pair of front wheels 610 and a drive system that includes a motor 670 applying torque to one of the front wheels 610 to assist in the propulsion of the wheelchair. Each front wheel 610 may be steerable and a differential torque may be applied to the front wheels 610 to adjust their direction as part of a remote control of the wheelchair when a load is absent from the seat. The drive system may provide powered braking. A load sensor may determine a loading of the front wheels 610. Also provided is a front wheel unit for mechanical attachment to a wheelchair with a motor 670 to apply variable or pre-set torque to a mounted wheel 610 where an angle of attack of the wheel 610 is variable with respect to the wheelchair.
Patent GB-2591058-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and methods to manage wellbore fluid properties
Inventor: Kevin Gregory Kleingueti
IPC: E21B49/08
Filed: 2015-06-10
Abstract: A method 400 comprising receiving a sample of mud from a fluid supply system 410 with a known volume and initial properties, adding one or more additive materials in known concentrations to the sample 420 to generate a new fluid, mixing and conditioning the new fluid 430, sending the mixed and conditioned new fluid to an automatic mud measuring equipment to test fluid properties of the mixed and conditioned new fluid 440, generating data for modeling 450 and creating new samples to maintain real time fluid properties models 460.
Patent GB-2594627-A (GB)
Title: Compatible low crystalline silica spacers
Inventor: PAUL JOSEPH JONES
IPC: C09K8/60
Filed: 2019-02-01
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to spacer fluids for use in subterranean operations and, more particularly, in certain embodiments, to spacer fluids that include a spacer additive comprising a solid scouring material and a biopolymer gum while being essential free of clay. An example method may comprise spacer fluid comprise water and a spacer additive. The spacer additive may comprise a solid scouring material and a biopolymer gum, wherein the solid scouring material comprises crystalline silica in an amount of about 5 wt. % or less, and wherein the spacer fluid is essentially free of clay. The example method may further comprise and introducing the spacer fluid into a wellbore to displace at least a portion of a first fluid in the wellbore.
Patent GB-2613329-A (GB)
Title: Valve Actuation Systems
Inventor: RUPERT WILKINSON
IPC: F16K31/64
Filed: 2021-08-18
Abstract: Actuation system for a valve assembly, comprising an actuation unit for driving rotation of a valve operating member, and a remote actuation device coupled to the actuation unit at a distance by an actuation cable which is operable to engage the actuation unit to drive rotation of the operating member, actuation system further including an environmentally sensitive actuator for operating the actuation cable. The remote actuation device may include a resettable manual input button for operating the cable independently of activation of the environmentally sensitive actuator. The remote actuation device may comprise a spring for biasing a trigger coupled to an end of the cable, the actuator holding the trigger against the bias. When the actuator is activated the spring is free to bias the trigger to operate the cable. The actuator may operate the cable in response to an emergency, such as cases of heat, fire, smoke, pressure, vibration, humidity, flood, freezing. The actuator may comprise a resettable bimetallic element or a sacrificial element. The actuator may comprise a heat activated bulb or fuse. The system may be used with emergency control quarter-turn ball valves on domestic gas supply lines.
Patent GB-2596667-A (GB)
Title: Physical resource block bundling in multi-TRP operation
Inventor: YUSHU ZHANG
IPC: H04L5/00
Filed: 2020-03-19
Abstract: Wireless communication systems can include multiple Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs). Systems, devices, and techniques for control signaling of Precoding Resource block Group (PRG) size configuration for multi-TRP operations are described. A described technique includes determining, by a User Equipment (UE), a PRG size based on a downlink control information (DCI) message that provides scheduling information for a physical ?downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving, by the UE, a group of PDSCH transmissions from multiple TRPs that are transmitted in accordance with the DCI message; and decoding, by the UE, one or more of the PDSCH transmissions based on the PRG size.
Patent GB-2615057-A (GB)
Title: Inkjet ink set
Inventor: NIGEL GOULD
IPC: C09D11/40
Filed: 2021-11-05
Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink set comprises four or more aqueous inkjet inks, each ink comprising a pigment and water, wherein the inkjet ink set includes a blue and/or cyan ink, a yellow ink, a magenta ink, and a black ink. The total amount of copper present in the inks of the ink set combined is ≤10000 ppm. Typically, the combined inks of the ink set comprise ≤3000 ppm nickel, ≤10000 ppm zinc, ≤5000 ppm chromium, ≤5000 ppm lead, ≤100 ppm molybdenum, ≤100 ppm cadmium, ≤100 ppm mercury, ≤100 ppm selenium, and ≤100 ppm arsenic. The inks of the ink set may be free of heavy metals. Each inkjet ink preferably comprises an organic solvent, e.g. a biodegradable solvent selected from glycerol, (poly)ethylene glycol, and (poly)propylene glycol. A method of inkjet printing the inkjet ink set onto a substrate and drying the ink is also disclosed. The substrate may be compostable.
Patent GB-2606253-A (GB)
Title: Image synthesis using one or more neural networks
Inventor: MING-YU LIU
IPC: G06V10/82
Filed: 2022-01-27
Abstract: A method comprises using one or more neural networks to generate one or more representations 218 of one or more objects based, at least in part, upon one or more structural features and one or more appearance features for the one or more objects. The object may be a person and the structural features may be representative of their face and body whereas the appearance features may relate to their body pose, facial expression, or style of hair or clothing. The features may be extracted from input structure and appearance representations 202, 204 or sampled from a stored distribution of features. The method may generate 3D models or images. The representations may be created using a generative adversarial network (GAN). The features may be transformed using a slot attention transformer prior to use. Corresponding apparatuses and computer programs are also claimed.
Patent GB-2602423-A (GB)
Title: Battery water pump control method, battery controller and battery
Inventor: Wenshan Hua
IPC: H01M8/0612
Filed: 2020-09-30
Abstract: A battery water pump control method, a battery controller and a battery. The battery comprises a battery controller and a battery water pump. The method comprises steps that when the battery water pump is in an open-loop control state, the battery controller obtains an open-loop expected control value of the battery water pump according to a first expected water flow of the battery water pump. The battery controller obtains a first control coefficient corresponding to the battery water pump according to the first expected water flow and the mapping relation between the expected water flow and the control coefficient, the battery controller determines an open-loop actual control value of the battery water pump according to the open-loop expected control value of the battery water pump and the first control coefficient, the battery controller controls the water flow of the battery water pump by utilizing the open-loop actual control value. When the battery controller controls the water flow of the battery water pump in the open-loop control mode, control precision can be improved.