baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2590184-A (GB)
Title: Composition for use as a surface and method of use and/or manufacture thereof
Inventor: GLENN MELVIN
IPC: C09D121/00
Filed: 2020-11-10
Abstract: A composition suitable for use as a surface coating comprises cork and/or rubber particles and a solvent-based resin carrier. The carrier may be a styrene-acrylic resin, a styrene-butadiene rubber resin, an acrylated rubber resin, or other solvent-based rubber resin. Typically, the composition is nonaqueous and is liquid and/or pourable. The composition may comprise 10-80 wt.% cork and/or rubber particles, which may have an average diameter of ≤5 mm. The rubber may comprise recycled rubber. The composition may also include one or more colorants, especially titanium dioxide, as well as a further solvent or thinning agent, such as white spirit, petroleum spirit, mineral spirit, mineral turpentine, or a petroleum hydrocarbon. The composition may be a surface coating composition for walls, masonry, construction boards, or panels. Another aspect provides a method of manufacturing the composition. A construction board or panel having the composition on an exterior surface thereof is further claimed.
Patent GB-2587738-A (GB)
Title: Addressable assets in software development
Inventor: JOACHIM CHRISTOPH ANTE
IPC: G06F8/71
Filed: 2019-05-14
Abstract: A method for tracking game asset locations is disclosed. Content is created for an application using a first asset. The first asset includes asset data that describes at least a part of the content associated with the asset. The asset data is placed within one or more files within a location within one or more memories. A catalog associated with the application is created on the server. A catalog entry is created for the first asset. The catalog entry includes an address that uniquely identifies the first asset. A request is received from the application for asset data associated with the first asset, the request including the address. The address and the catalog are used to determine location data associated with the address. The determined location data is used to retrieve the asset data at the determined location. The retrieved asset data is returned to the application.
Patent GB-2603928-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method
Inventor: JITESH PANKAJKUMAR PATEL
IPC: B62D15/02
Filed: 2021-02-19
Abstract: A control system 1300 arranged to control the motion of a motor vehicle (1000, Figure 1) in response to a motion control signal received from a remote device 1900. The control system 1300 is arranged to perform a verification cycle in which the control system 1300 is configured to transmit a verification request signal to the remote device 1900 and listen for a verification request reply signal transmitted from the remote device 1900 in response to the verification request signal transmitted. A remote device state signal is transmitted from the remote device 1900 providing remote device state information indicating in which predefined state the remote device 1900 is currently operating. The verification request signal comprises information that includes operation information indicative of an operation to be performed, dependent on the remote device state information. The control system 1300 is configured to determine whether information comprised by the verification request reply signal received from the remote device 1900 includes operation result information that corresponds to the expected result of the operation defined the operation information provided in the verification request signal.
Patent GB-2608141-A (GB)
Title: Support apparatus
Inventor: JULIAN WARTH
IPC: E04F21/18
Filed: 2021-06-23
Abstract: Apparatus for supporting a sheet adjacent a lower side of a ceiling joist structure is provided. The apparatus comprises an elongate body securable to the lower side of the ceiling joist structure. An upper side of the body is mountable in use to the lower side of the ceiling joist structure and defines a mounting plane. The apparatus further comprises an elongate arm mounted to the body. The arm comprises a support part which extends along the body and a guide part which extends away from the mounting plane at a free end of the arm. The arm is moveable with respect to the body between a retracted position in which the guide part defines a receiving region for receiving an edge of the sheet between the guide part and the mounting plane, and an extended position in which the support part extends horizontally away from the body and is spaced from the mounting plane to provide a support for the sheet while it is permanently secured to the joist structure.
Patent GB-2609483-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for recognizing and classifying restricted road signs for a vehicle automation system
Inventor: ASHISH DHIMAN
IPC: G06V20/58
Filed: 2021-08-05
Abstract: A method of recognizing restriction road signs (601-607,Fig.6), comprising: determining, based on shape, the presence of a road sign in an image; segmenting an image of only the road sign 300 into a plurality of predefined image regions 301, 303; identifying a presence or absence of a predefined pattern in the predefined image regions; if the pattern is present, and depending on position of the predefined pattern, the traffic sign is determined to be a height or width restriction sign; if the pattern is not present, potential characters are determined and the sign is classified as weight or speed sign based on the number of valid character candidates. The predefined sign shape may be circular. The predefined pattern to be detected may be a notch (arrow) 301. The validity of the character candidate is determined from the aspect ratio of each character. The sign is determined to be a speed sign when the number of valid characters is equal or less than two. The sign is determined to be a weight sign when the number of valid characters is greater than three and a predefined character (t) is present. Machine learning models may be used to detect the traffic sign shape, predefined pattern and character candidates.
Patent GB-2596943-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for determining grid cell count for reservoir simulation
Inventor: SHIVANI ARORA
IPC: G01V99/00
Filed: 2019-04-25
Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable storage media for optimizing a determination of a number of grid cell counts to be used in creating the geocellular grid of an earth, geomechanical or petro-elastic model for reservoir simulation. These may involve determining at least one processing time for a simulation; determining a grid cell count to be used in creating a geocellular grid for the simulation based on the at least one processing time and a number of processors to be used for creating the model; creating the geocellular grid using the grid cell count, and generating a model for the simulation using the geocellular grid.
Patent GB-2611531-A (GB)
Title: Enabling branch recording when branch recording configuration values satisfy a predetermined condition
Inventor: MICHAEL JOHN WILLIAMS
IPC: G06F11/34
Filed: 2021-10-05
Abstract: An apparatus comprises reset circuitry to perform a cold reset and a warm reset which resets a subset of state that is reset in the cold reset, and branch recording circuitry to perform branch recording to store information about processed branch instructions. The branch recording circuitry determines whether warm and cold branch recording configuration values held in at least one register (138, 140 in Figure 1) satisfy a predetermined condition (e.g. are not equal), and if not then branch recording is disabled. Branch record storage circuitry is configured to make the information about the processed branch instruction available for diagnostic analysis. The cold reset comprises resetting both of the warm and cold branch recording configuration values, and the warm reset comprises resetting the warm branch recording configuration value and leaving the cold branch recording configuration value unchanged.
Patent GB-2601242-A (GB)
Title: Flexible conductor element
Inventor: JUSTUS SPEICHERMANN
IPC: H01B7/06
Filed: 2021-11-16
Abstract: Evaluation The contractable flexible conductor element has a plurality of electrical conductors (12, 14, 16, fig 1) arranged parallel to one another and a plastic sheathing (20) whereby the electrical conductors are electrically insulated from one another and the environment. In some circumstances the cable may be over-long for a particular use and need shortening to avoid potential damage due to sagging, for example. The electrical conductors and the plastic sheathing have a common length-compensating portion 30, 34 over which a plastic sleeve 32, 36 is provided. The sleeve radially contracts under the action of heat and radially surrounds the length-compensating portion and secures the length-compensating portion in the longitudinal direction in the contracted state.
Patent GB-2597234-A (GB)
Title: Distributed acoustic sensor with trackable plug
Inventor: PAUL M OSBORNE
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2019-08-02
Abstract: A downhole well system can use a fiber optic cable that can be positioned downhole along a length of a wellbore. The well system may include a top plug, a bottom plug, or both that are used to contain a cement slurry during a cementing operation. The movement of the top plug and bottom plug may cause acoustic noise along the downhole portion of the casing. A reflectometer may detect the acoustic noise from strain in the fiber optic cable and determine a location of the top plug or bottom plug downhole.
Patent GB-2603615-A (GB)
Title: Carbon dioxide sorbent
Inventor: ALAN BOOTLAND
IPC: B33Y80/00
Filed: 2021-12-03
Abstract: A process for removing carbon dioxide from a gas mixture containing hydrogen e.g. a synthesis gas by contacting the gas mixture with a shaped sorbent comprising a plurality of layers of photopolymerized resin e.g. with urethane, acrylates and photoinitiator, containing particles of a molecular sieve carbon dioxide sorbent e.g. Zeolite 13X or 5A. The particle size may be less than half the layer thickness but no less than a fifth. The shaped sorbent may be foamed, and may be made by 3d-printing, e.g. additive layer manufacturing. The sorbent may be a flow-through sorbent, and may include layers of 10-300 microns and may operate at 10-200 degrees Celsius and 1 to 100 bars. The adsorption may be performed by pressure, vacuum, or temperature swing. The synthesis gas may be derived from electrolysis or a process converting a carbon-containing fuel, and may contain 1-50% CO2 by volume, and may contain some methane and water vapour. The shaped sorbent may be made in layers 26 from adsorbent mixture 24 with polymerization from a vat or reservoir 10 and built onto build platform 22. The use of 3d-printing is designed to take advantage of the ability to make the sorbent in a desired shape.
Patent GB-2604011-A (GB)
Title: Security device and method of manufacture thereof
Inventor: LAWRENCE COMMANDER
IPC: B42D25/36
Filed: 2021-12-08
Abstract: A security device 10 comprises a substrate 12; a relief structure 20 on a first side 12a of the substrate; and a colour filter 30. The relief structure being a reflective or refractive light-redirecting relief structure configured to redirect light from a light source L to thereby project a caustic image CI. The colour filter is configured to overlap in use at least part of the relief structure and comprises one or more at least semi-transparent materials. At least one of the materials transmitting only a subset of visible light wavelengths corresponding to a respective non-white colour. The caustic image projected by the security device exhibits one or more colour(s) when the security device is illuminated with white light. The security device may be configured such that the caustic image projected by the security device when illuminated with white light exhibits a multi-tonal and/or multi-coloured appearance. The light transmitted by the colour filter varies in colour and/or tone between laterally offset regions of the colour filter.
Patent GB-2613842-A (GB)
Title: Heater assembly for a hand-held appliance
Inventor: ANDREW CHRISTOPHER FORBES
IPC: H05B3/28
Filed: 2021-12-16
Abstract: A heater assembly 10 for a hand-held appliance such as a hair care appliance includes a ceramic heater substrate 101 having a heated region 101a that includes electrical heater elements and an unheated region 101b adjacent thereto. The assembly includes a heat sink 102 for dissipating heat from the heater elements, wherein a part 102a of the heat sink extends from the heated region of the substrate. The assembly further includes electronic control devices 103 for controlling electrical energy supply to the heater elements, and which are mounted at the unheated region of the substrate. The assembly also includes heat dissipation means to dissipate heat from the heater elements to maintain the unheated region at a lower temperature than the heated region. The heat dissipation means may include a further part 102b of the heat sink that extends from the unheated region of the substrate. Alternatively, a separate heat sink, thermal link or thermal mass may be provided at the unheated region or the unheated region may have a reduced thermal conductivity compared to that of the heated region to provide thermal isolation therebetween.
Patent GB-2612145-A (GB)
Title: Attachment for working machine
Inventor: NINAD NITIN KULKARNI
IPC: B66F9/18
Filed: 2021-12-21
Abstract: A pipe handling attachment 2 for a working machine such as an excavator 100 figure 1a) is configured to support a pipe (124 figure 2b) and comprises a mounting component 4 to couple the pipe handling attachment 2 to a working machine 100, a boom 6 having a first support arrangement 8 for supporting a first portion of a pipe, and a second support arrangement 10, spaced apart from the first support arrangement 6 by a variable distance (D figure 3), for supporting a second portion of said pipe and a manually operated adjusting mechanism 12 to adjust the distance between the first and second support arrangements 6, 8. The boom 6 may be telescopic with an outer stationary arm (14 figure 4b) and inner moving arms (16 figure 4b) and the adjusting mechanism 12 may include pulley wheels (22, 28 figure 8) mounted on outer stationary arm (14 figure 4b) and coupled to a ring (30 figure 8) on inner moving arm (16 figure 4b) by cables (24, 38 figure 5) which can be wound onto the pulley wheels (22, 28 figure 8) to extend and retract the inner moving arms (16 figure 4b). The support arrangement 8, 10 may be pivotably coupled to the inner moving arms (16 figure 4b). Third and fourth support arrangements 58,60 may be provided, each including a hook (82 figure 3) to support a rope, cable, belt and/or chain for supporting a pipe.
Patent GB-2610260-A (GB)
Title: Three-jaw chuck holding reliability detection device and judgment method
Inventor: HAITAO LI
IPC: B23Q17/20
Filed: 2022-05-19
Abstract: The three-jaw chuck holding reliability detection device includes a three-jaw chuck 1. Both sides of each of the three jaws of the chuck are symmetrically provided with circumferential-direction detection dial indicators 2 and end surface-direction detection dial indicators 3 through fixing supports 5 respectively. Each end surface-direction detection dial indicator may be installed at one side close to an end surface of a workpiece 4. The judgement method using a three-jaw chuck holding reliability detection device includes the steps of: 1) installing and debugging circumferential-direction and end surface-direction detection dial indicators; 2) removing a standard workpiece and then holding a to-be-machined workpiece; 3) observing the change in readings of the dial indicators and then analyzing the result; 4) if no scrap iron exists, starting machining, if scrap iron exists repeating step 2) and step 3) until the scrap iron is cleaned up. Step 1) further includes installing and fixing twelve fixing supports to the jaws, holding a standard workpiece in the chuck, fixing six end surface-direction dial indicators with the fixing supports and adjusting measuring probes, and fixing six circumferential-direction dial indicators with the fixing supports and adjusting measuring probes.
Patent GB-2606899-A (GB)
Title: Textured surfaces of expanding metal for centralizer, mixing, and differential sticking
Inventor: MICHAEL LINLEY FRIPP
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2020-02-28
Abstract: Provided is an expandable metal centralizer for use in a wellbore. The expandable metal centralizer, in one aspect, includes a downhole tubular positionable on a downhole conveyance in a wellbore. In accordance with this aspect, the expandable metal centralizer additionally includes one or more wellbore centralizing elements radially extending from the downhole tubular, wherein at least one of the downhole tubular or the one or more wellbore centralizing elements comprises a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis.
Patent GB-2606951-A (GB)
Title: Metal seal weld-on connector for conductor casing
Inventor: PRAMOD KUMAR GUPTA
IPC: F16L15/00
Filed: 2021-01-20
Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved weld-on connector to achieve high tensile strength, burst pressure and collapse pressure. The present invention relates to the metal seal weld-on connector for conductor casing with different types of sealings and several other designed features to provide an improved strength for the threaded connection.
Patent GB-2613425-A (GB)
Title: Methods, apparatus and systems for biometric processes
Inventor: WILLIAM E SHERWOOD
IPC: G07C9/37
Filed: 2022-08-09
Abstract: A method in a biometric authentication system, generating an acoustic stimulus for application to a user’s ear; receiving an audio signal representing a response of the user’s ear canal to the acoustic stimulus; adapting an ear canal response estimate of the user’s ear canal to the acoustic stimulus to reduce an error between the audio signal and the ear canal response estimate; calculating one or more quality metrics, the quality metrics comprising one or more of: an ear canal response estimate quality metric comprising one or more energy characteristics of the ear canal response estimate; an error quality metric derived from the error; an audio response quality metric comprising one or more statistical characteristics of the audio signal; and determining a validity of the audio signal for use in a biometric process based on the quality metrics.
Patent GB-2613071-A (GB)
Title: Autonomous driving mode engagement
Inventor: ADAM JESSE MILLER
IPC: B60W60/00
Filed: 2022-01-12
Abstract: A method and system for ensuring a smooth transition between manual and autonomous driving modes, comprising the steps of: polling 802 at least one autonomous vehicle operation task to determine health information associated with driving a vehicle in autonomous driving mode in an environment while the vehicle is operated in manual driving mode in the environment; comparing 804 the health information to a respective threshold, wherein the respective threshold is adaptive based on a current operational state of the vehicle in the manual driving mode; setting 806 a transition indicator based on the comparison, the transition indicator signifying an availability of a smooth transition from the manual driving mode to the autonomous driving mode; and rejecting 808 a transition from the manual driving mode to the autonomous driving mode in response to the transition indicator indicating a smooth transition is unavailable.
Patent GB-2613687-A (GB)
Title: Aquaculture system and method
Inventor: LEE TANNER
IPC: A01K63/04
Filed: 2022-10-12
Abstract: An aquaculture system, which may be a recirculating system, having a plurality of cells 1, 2, 3, 4 defined within a containment, where each cell holds a body of water which is rotatable within the cell. Each cell is in fluid communication with at least one other adjacent cell. There is at least one inlet for receiving water in each cell, and outlet apertures 6-9 or weirs for removing waste from aquatic organisms and water. The cells may be polygonal, circular, or quatrefoil in shape. There may be four cells, in a longitudinal or square arrangement. The inlets may be a plurality of nozzles to provide flow to rotate the water. The nozzles may be aligned in a horizontal or vertical array and may be angled. Water in a cell may be rotatable in the opposite direction to the water in an adjacent cell.
Patent GB-2618866-A (GB)
Title: A food processing apparatus as well as its container cover and its container
Inventor: JESSE CHOW
IPC: A47J43/044
Filed: 2022-11-16
Abstract: A container cover assembly (2, fig.2) for a food processing apparatus, with a cover body 21, several holding pieces 22 and an operating piece 24. The cover body has a stirring shaft opening 218. The holding pieces are connected to the cover body and can be moved by sliding linearly. A holding piece has a holding part 221 inserted into the stirring shaft opening. The operating piece is also movably connected with the cover body. At least one of the holding pieces and the operating piece has a supporting slope 241, so when in the pathway of the operating piece, the holding piece abuts the operating piece to keep the holding pieces away from the stirring shaft opening. The cover assembly may have several resilient pieces 23 connected with the holding pieces. The holding part may be arranged with a knife bevel (222, fig. 7). The holding pieces may be symmetrical with the operating piece. A hood may cover the holding pieces. The cover body may have multiple guide rails 219 to embed and correspond with guide grooves (229, fig.7) on the holding pieces.
Patent GB-2610750-A (GB)
Title: Utilizing coherently attached interfaces in a network stack framework
Inventor: Dimitrios Syrivelis
IPC: G06F13/20
Filed: 2021-04-30
Abstract: Embodiments for implementing an enhanced network stack framework in a computing environment. A plurality of network buffers coherently attached between one or more applications and a network interface may be shared while bypassing one or more drivers and an operating systems using an application buffer, a circular buffer and a queuing and pooling operation.
Patent GB-2618874-A (GB)
Title: Rapid charging arrangement
Inventor: PAUL SALKELD
IPC: B60L53/30
Filed: 2022-12-16
Abstract: A mass transit rapid charging system comprising a conductive portion 51 such as a rail and a safety arrangement which activates the conductor when the vehicle is present, wherein charging is carried out in excess of 500kW, perhaps as high as 750kW. The safety system may detect the weight of the vehicle, and maybe a signal from the vehicle. The conductive portion may be located below the vehicle and may be contacted by a shoe 41, which contact may activate the safety system. The conductor 51 may be 3 to 5 metres long, and the ends may have a ramp 55. There may be a second conductor 52 and second shoe 42 arranged next to the first 41, 51. The charging arrangement may be on a concrete slab, and that slab may include railway tracks. The concrete slab with the charging arrangement may be prefabricated or may be a kit of parts.