baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2548066-A (GB)
Title: Downhole fluid characterization methods and systems employing a casing with a multi-electrode configuration
Inventor: MARK W ROBERSON
IPC: G01V3/26
Filed: 2015-02-13
Abstract: A method that includes deploying a casing with a multi-electrode configuration over a dielectric layer in a downhole environment. The method also includes collecting electromagnetic (EM) measurements using the multi-electrode configuration, and processing the EM measurements to obtain a characterization of fluids in an annulus between the casing and a borehole wall. A related system includes a casing deployed downhole, the casing having a multi-electrode configuration and a dielectric layer between the casing and the multi-electrode configuration. The system also includes a controller for directing collection of EM measurements using the multi-electrode configuration, and a processor that processes the EM measurements to obtain a characterization of fluids in an annulus between the casing and a borehole wall.
Patent GB-2566097-A (GB)
Title: Measuring device
Inventor: MICHAEL DAWSON
IPC: G01B3/10
Filed: 2017-09-05
Abstract: A measuring device for use in a sport such as golf, to ensure compliance with a rule of the sport, comprises a peg 18 for fixing a reference position; and at least one distance indicator 20 for indicating a distance from the reference position. The direction of the distance indicator is adjustable with respect to the reference position. The peg may be suitable for insertion into the ground. The device may comprise two distance indicators set at a predetermined angle with the peg located in between. The angle may be 90 or 180 degrees, selectable via an angle selector 16. The angle selector may be biased by a spring and comprise protrusions for ensuring only pre-configured angles can be chosen. The distance indicators may be pivotable and/or telescopically slidable extensions. The distance indicators may be rigid or flexible. Flexible indicators may be retractable by a spring loaded mechanism or a handle. Also claimed is a method of ensuring compliance with a rule of a sport (e.g. placement of a golf ball), comprising fixing a reference position and indicating a distance from the reference position using a distance indicator whose direction is adjustable with respect to the reference position.
Patent GB-2559497-A (GB)
Title: Functional wall tie
Inventor: BENJAMIN WILLIAMS
IPC: E04B2/44
Filed: 2015-08-04
Abstract: A wall tie 1 comprises a fibre reinforced polymer elongate body 3. The body is in the form of a rod comprising longitudinal fibres dispersed in a cured polymer resin. At least one end of the body has an overmoulded end portion 5. The body may have a fibre content of at least 50%, 55-80% or 60-70% by weight. At least a portion of the body may include surface features such as ribs, threads or sand to enhance the bond between the body and the end portion. The end portion may be formed from a polymer material such as polypropylene, a polyamide or polycarbonate, and may be fibre reinforced, with the length of reinforcing glass fibres being in the range 1-10mm. Also claimed is a method of manufacturing a wall tie and a mould tool for proving an overmould on an elongate body.
Patent GB-2560863-A (GB)
Title: Bioinformation display device
Inventor: RIE OSAKI
IPC: G16H50/30
Filed: 2017-02-08
Abstract: A bioinformation display device is provided with a pulse wave acquiring unit, an index derivation unit, a determination unit (S320, S350, S360), and a display control unit (S330, S340, S370-S400, S420). The pulse wave acquiring unit acquires a pulse wave signal obtained by measuring a pulse wave of a test subject along a time axis. The index derivation unit derives respiratory function indexes which are a plurality of indexes representing states of respiratory function of the test subject. The determination unit determines whether at least one of the derived plurality of respiratory function indexes is in a prescribed range prescribed in advance as a range of threshold values representing a deterioration in the health condition of the test subject. When at least one of the plurality of respiratory function indexes is in the prescribed range, the display control unit displays progress information indicating progress of the plurality of respiratory function indexes since attaining of the prescribed range by the at least one of the plurality of respiratory function indexes.
Patent GB-2575989-A (GB)
Title: A safety and arming unit for a munition
Inventor: Laurence Turner
IPC: F42C15/40
Filed: 2018-07-30
Abstract: Safety and arming device for munition, comprising a separation detector for generating a separation signal when the device separates from a delivery platform; a freefall detector for generating a freefall signal on detection of freefall of the device for a first time period after separation; a roll manoeuvre detector for generating a roll manoeuvre detection signal on detection of a roll manoeuvre for a second time period following the first; and a munition firing signal generator for generating a firing signal in the presence of all of the separation, freefall and roll manoeuvre signals. The separation detector may comprise an electrical component for connecting to the delivery platform, the detector detecting an electrical characteristic of the component, wherein the characteristic has a first condition when connected and a second characteristic when not connected to a delivery platform. The separation signal may be generated on detection of change in the characteristic from the first to the second condition. The freefall detector may comprise an accelerometer to detect freefall. The roll manoeuvre detector may comprise a roll manoeuvre timer which operates on completion of a freefall phase to define a roll-rate window.
Patent GB-2562680-A (GB)
Title: Method and machine for producing sterile solution product bags
Inventor: GRANT ANTHONY BOMGAARS
IPC: B65B43/60
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: A method of providing filled product bags of sterile and particulate-free fluid includes securing a product bag to one of a plurality of movable cradles, wherein the product bag has a bladder, a stem fluidly connected to an opening of the bladder, and a filter disposed in-line with the stem. After securing the bag, an inlet of the stem is connected to an outlet of a nozzle assembly and at least partially filling the product bag with a fluid through a nozzle of the nozzle assembly to create a filled product bag, wherein filling the product bag includes passing the fluid through the filter and into the bladder. After filling, the stem of the filled product bag is sealed at a location below the filter. The stem is cut at a location above the seal and below the filter. The method including performing an integrity test on the filter, removing the filled product bag from the cradle, and depositing the filled product bag into a first bin for rejected bags if the filter fails the integrity test and a second bin for accepted bags if filter passes the integrity test.
Patent GB-2578445-A (GB)
Title: A system for analysis of wastewater
Inventor: TERRY WILLIAMS
IPC: C02F9/00
Filed: 2018-10-26
Abstract: A system 100 for analysis of wastewater in a wastewater treatment system comprises at least one laboratory unit 102, 202, 302, 402 having at least one sample collection loop 108, 208, 308, 408 for sampling the wastewater W, at least one sensor for monitoring a property of the wastewater W in the sample collection loop 108, 208, 308, 408, transmission means for transmitting data relating to the property of the wastewater W as measured by the at least one sensor, and a control unit 502 located remotely from the at least one laboratory unit 102, 202, 302, 402. The control unit 502 is operatively in communication with the at least one laboratory unit 102, 202, 302, 402 and is configured to receive data relating to the property of the wastewater W as measured by the at least one sensor. The laboratory unit and/or control unit may be mobile and may comprise an ISO container sized unit. The sensor may comprise a total organic carbon, conductivity, phosphate, nitrate, pH, temperature, ammonium, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, turbidity and suspended solids, total nitrogen, alkalinity, or ultraviolet transmission sensor.
Patent GB-2580602-A (GB)
Title: Holographic display system and method
Inventor: ANDRZEJ KACZOROWSKI
IPC: G03H1/26
Filed: 2019-01-14
Abstract: There is provided a system and method for generating holograms using standard image processing hardware with reduced computational complexity. A holographic image display system comprises a processor receiving image data at an input and producing output hologram data based on the image data, wherein the image data comprises three-dimensional (3d) image data that is separable into a plurality of two-dimensional (2d) image layers at different image planes, wherein the processor is configured to (a) perform a space-frequency transform 410, such as a Fourier transform on each image layer, (b) apply a focus factor 415 to each transformed image layer, (c) apply a pseudo-random phase factor 420 to each transformed image layer, and (d) sum the transformed image layers 425 to form a holographic sub-frame 430. Steps (c) and (d) are repeated for a plurality of iterations, applying a different pseudo-random phase factor to the transformed image layers in each iteration to form a plurality of holographic sub-frames. The holographic sub-frames are displayed on a spatial light modulator (SLM) with the holographic sub-frames in rapid temporal succession to generate a holographic image. Also disclosed is a related holographic image display system wherein each 2d image layer is separated into a plurality of sub-images prior to transform processing of the sub-images which are subsequently recombined. By applying a pseudo-random phase factor to each image layer after it has been transformed, a large number of holographic sub-frames can be generated without the need to perform a Fourier transform for each sub-frame.
Patent GB-2568183-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for identifying pests in crop-containing areas via unmanned vehicles
Inventor: Robert L Cantrell
IPC: G06Q50/02
Filed: 2017-08-31
Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems of identifying at least one pest in a crop-containing area include an unmanned vehicle including a visible light video camera configured to detect a pest in the crop-containing area and to capture first pest detection data and an infrared video camera configured to detect a pest in the crop-containing area and to capture second pest detection data. A computing device including a processor-based control circuit and configured to communicate with the unmanned vehicle is configured to receive the first pest detection data and the second pest detection data via the network from the UAV, and, in response to receipt of the first and second pest detection data from the UAV, the control circuit of the computing device is configured to combine the first and second pest detection data to create a combined pest detection data, which in turn enables the control circuit of the computing device to determine an identity of the pest based on the pest identity data and the combined pest detection data.
Patent GB-2568633-A (GB)
Title: Gas sensor
Inventor: PERNILLA ANDERSSON
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 2016-09-21
Abstract: A gas sensor comprises a support structure with a cavity (6), a sensing element (1) sensitive to a gas and arranged in the cavity (6), and a filter (3) spanning the cavity (6). The filter (3) is a size selective filter.
Patent GB-2574126-A (GB)
Title: Self-orienting selective lockable assembly to regulate subsurface depth and positioning
Inventor: DOUGLAS GLENN DURST
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2017-02-27
Abstract: A well tool to be oriented and secured in a wellbore without the external application of torque, and a well system incorporating the same. After installation of orientation casing and universal latch coupling casing, the self-orienting selective lockable latch well tool is run downhole to the target depth, picked up to free the internal locking mechanism, and then loaded with downhole stress to engage the locking mechanism.
Patent GB-2576069-A (GB)
Title: Drive for a door or window sash
Inventor: BENJAMIN WOERNER
IPC: E05F3/10
Filed: 2019-05-29
Abstract: The drive 10 comprises a piston 16 slidably guided in a housing 12, a spring 14, an output shaft 20 and a rack-and-pinion gear 18 with an out-of-round pinion 22 with teeth 24 and counter-teeth 26 on the piston side, wherein a tooth pair is designed such that when opening the sash a rising line of action results, which runs horizontally in the direction of displacement of the piston, and wherein the effective lever arm length of the pinion teeth decreases upon opening of the sash up to a first opening angle, then after a second angle the length increases with an increasing opening angle. The line of action may be produced by a profile shift varying when rolling over the curve. The pinion and piston each have an asymmetrical tooth and the output shaft is provided with an undercut. The piston may be hollow with internal toothing.
Patent GB-2580467-A (GB)
Title: Database access, monitoring, and control system and method for reacting to suspicious database activities
Inventor: Binh Chau
IPC: G06F21/62
Filed: 2019-09-19
Abstract: A database access, monitoring, and control system and method monitor database access, detect suspicious database activities, and react to suspicious database activities by initiating one or more control functions. In at least one embodiment, suspicious database activities include activities related to a number of rows of data retrieved in response to one or more queries within a predetermined threshold window of time. Data retrieval row count above a predetermined threshold that represents an anticipated maximum request for legitimate users can indicate a suspicious database activity. In at least one embodiment, the database access, monitoring, and control system and method detects suspicious database activities even if a data requestor has thwarted other security measures or if the data requestor has authorized access but is potentially accessing data inappropriately.
Patent GB-2579699-A (GB)
Title: Tile region protection
Inventor: IAN KING
IPC: G09G5/00
Filed: 2018-12-04
Abstract: A graphics processing system and associated method for performing tile-based rendering of a scene that includes safety-critical elements are disclosed. The system is configured to receive data related to protected tiles, including security-related information, and to non-protected tiles. A fragment processing engine 320 is configured to, in a fragment processing phase, process twice in succession the crucial tiles so as to generate first and second outputs. Subsequently, for each protected tile, a check unit 314 compares both outputs, raising a fault signal if they do not match. The fragment processor processes only once tiles not depicting safety-related information. The system may be configured to store only the first safety-critical output, together with the non-critical one, while discarding the second critical output. The system may employ several fragment processors (Fig.4). The verification unit may generate characteristic signatures for the outputs of the fragment processing phase for comparison. The system may comprise multiple processing units and buffers.
Patent GB-2587429-A (GB)
Title: Wingtip device for an aircraft
Inventor: Enzo cosentino
IPC: B64C23/06
Filed: 2019-09-30
Abstract: An aircraft wing tip device 101 comprising a main aerofoil 110 having a first portion 111 with local dihedral angle increasing monotonically from less than +20 degrees at inboard location to more than +50 degrees in outboard direction. A second portion 113 outboard of the first potion has a local dihedral angle decreasing monotonically from more than +50 degrees at inboard location to less +20 degrees in outboard direction. The device may have a planar transition intermediate portion 112 and substantially horizontal tip. The curved wing tip device may be an S-shaped swanlet, resembling skewed or stretched apart letter S or sigmoidal shape. A strut or supporting structure 120 (e.g. secondary aerofoil structure) may brace the wingtip under or beneath the main aerofoil portion, forming a closed loop wingtip defining an airfow channel 140. The brace may comprise an actuator (e.g. cable systems) for twisting, elastically deforming, altering, flexing or morphing the wingtip main aerofoil shape between first and second geometric configurations. The first wingtip configuration may have higher fuel efficiency during take-off. The second wingtip configuration may be optimised for cruise fuel efficiency.
Patent GB-2580534-A (GB)
Title: Nickel-cobalt material and method of forming
Inventor: GORDON TAJIRI
IPC: C25D5/50
Filed: 2019-12-09
Abstract: A method of forming a component with an amorphous or nanometre-scale microstructure by electrodepositing a nickel-cobalt alloy which further comprises phosphorous, boron or manganese, a nickel-phosphorous alloy, a nickel-boron alloy or a cobalt-phosphorous alloy and then heat treating at a temperature where precipitation of P, B or Mn occurs but below the temperature at which grain growth occurs in the alloy, for example heat treatment at a temperature in the range 600-750 K. Components made using this method can have a fracture toughness in the range 10-70 MPam½, an ultimate tensile strength in the range 1000-1500 MPa and a Vickers hardness greater than 400 Hv, the microstructure comprising intragranular twinning.
Patent GB-2594328-A (GB)
Title: Secure ultrasound system
Inventor: DAVID HUGHES
IPC: G08C17/02
Filed: 2020-04-24
Abstract: An ultrasonic device 10 has at least one (flexible) ultrasonic transducer, an on-board processor and a communications system. In use, the transducer detects ultrasonic signals; the processor determines data therefrom and the communications system communicates the data to an external processing system 15, e.g. a smartphone or laptop etc. The device 10 may be attached to a human 12, animal or inanimate object for non-destructive testing. The data may be encrypted or encoded before it is transmitted or stored. Encryption may combine the data with metadata. Storage or transmission may use a distributed ledger, blockchain or directed acyclic graph. A hash of the data may be generated. The external processing system 15 may further encrypt or encode the received data.
Patent GB-2597508-A (GB)
Title: Entropy calculation for certainty-based classification networks
Inventor: MBOU EYOLE
IPC: G06N7/00
Filed: 2020-07-24
Abstract: An entropy calculation for certainty-based classification networks is provided. An integer operand p is received. A remainder portion of the integer operand p is determined based on a range reduction operation. A scaled integer operand is determined based on the integer operand p. An index for a data structure, such as, for example, a look-up table (LUT), is determined based on the remainder portion of the integer operand p and a parameter N associated with the data structure. A data structure value in the data structure is looked up based on the index. A scaled entropy value is generated by adding the data structure value to the scaled integer operand. An entropy value is determined based on the scaled entropy value, and the entropy value is output.
Patent GB-2597766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to configuration for non-line of sight links
Inventor: Yinan Qi
IPC: H04W64/00
Filed: 2020-08-04
Abstract: A method of identifying non-line of Sight, NLOS, links between entities (gNBs and UEs), comprising: determining if the link is NLOS and signalling from a first entity to a second entity, a result of the determination by means of a parameter indicative of NLOS, wherein the result can be one of a hard or soft confidence. A hard confidence indicates either Line of Sight or Non-Line of Sight, and a soft confidence includes a numerical value indicative of a difference between an angle of arrival and an angle of departure. The determination is based on the use of a positioning reference signal, wherein, in a Downlink case, the positioning reference signal is PRS and in an Uplink case, the positioning reference signal is SRS. The result is further communicated to a location server. A plurality of gNBs each measure an Angle of Arrival, AoA, from the UE, and are divided into at least one subset and each subset determines an Ambiguity Area, which if smaller than a threshold then all the links associated with the plurality of gNBs in the subset are determined to be Line of Sight, otherwise at least one link in the subset is NLOS.
Patent GB-2599393-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for sputter deposition
Inventor: MICHAEL EDWARD RENDALL
IPC: H01J37/34
Filed: 2020-09-30
Abstract: A reactive ion source of a sputter deposition system 100 comprises an electrically powered antenna 116, wherein the antenna 116 has a substantially elongate shape. A housing 118 is provided which at least partially surrounds the antenna 116, an inlet 126 for supplying a reactive gas into the housing, and an outlet 128 from the housing configured such that reactive ions can pass through it. The antenna 116 is configured to apply an electromagnetic field to the reactive gas such that a plasma B is formed that comprises reactive ions. Magnetic assembly 108 is also provided to accelerate and focus the ions of the plasma such that the plasma and reactive ins maintain their directionality and geometry.
Patent GB-2608107-A (GB)
Title: Mapping multi-dimensional coordinates to a 1D space
Inventor: TIJMEN SPREIJ
IPC: G16Z99/00
Filed: 2021-06-18
Abstract: Data processing, comprising: receiving (1) N input bit-strings (S, V, and U), each comprising co-ordinates of N points in n ≥ 2 dimensions, each bit-string comprising: first portion (3 x 7 block) wherein first portions are same size as one another (i.e. 7), wherein each bit has corresponding bit position from least (right) to most (left) significant within bit-string; wherein circuit capable of accommodating different size co-ordinates (i.e. 7, 10, and 12), whereby coordinates only occupy some of bit positions with actual coordinate data, located in least significant bit positions (right) while non-data bits are located in most significant bit positions (left); producing grouped bit-string (2) from input bit-strings, where bits and non-data bits are grouped according to original bit position; demultiplexing grouped bit-string (3) into n=1…N bit-strings and send each to respective n-coordinate channels comprising (4): grouped bit-strings have n data bits and N-n non-data bits per group, and all other groups filled with null bits, which are unshifted; wherein each N-coordinate channel packs down respective demultiplexed bit-string into packed bit-string by removing non-data bits, and removing same number of bits per group from null bits; wherein further shifting (5) packed bit-strings to align them, and combining shifted bit-strings into combined output bit-string.
Patent GB-2595784-A (GB)
Title: Drive transfer
Inventor: THOMAS BATES JACKSON
IPC: A61B34/30
Filed: 2016-07-29
Abstract: A surgical drive assembly is locatable on a distal end of a surgical robot arm for transferring drive between the robot arm and an instrument attachable to the robot arm, the drive assembly comprising: a drive assembly interface and a drive assembly interface element 920 which is movable relative to the drive assembly interface, the drive assembly interface element comprising a strengthening and/or stiffening portion 921 for resisting bending of the drive assembly interface element 920.