baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2484042-A (GB)
Title: Patient-adapted and improved orthpedic implants, designs and related tools
Inventor: BOJARSKI RAYMOND A
IPC: A61F2/38
Filed: 2010-06-23
Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed relating improved articular models, implant components, and related guide tools and procedures. In addition, methods and devices are disclosed relating articular models, implant components, and/or related guide tools and procedures that include one or more features derived from patient-data, for example, images of the patient's joint. The data can be used to create a model for analyzing a patient's joint and to devise and evaluate a course of corrective action. The data also can be used to create patient-adapted implant components and related tools and procedures.
Patent GB-2503878-A (GB)
Title: Generating interstitial scripts for video content, based on metadata related to the video content
Inventor: HALL NICHOLAS ASHTON
IPC: H04N21/235
Filed: 2012-07-09
Abstract: A computer implementable method for generating interstitial material for video content involves the following steps. Firstly, at least one instantiated script is generated by inserting metadata 520 related to the video content into at least one script template 510. Next, the instantiated scripts are scored 540 according to a predefined set of weights to produce scored scripts; the weights may include geographic and demographic viewer preferences such as gender and age. Finally a selection 550 is made from the instantiated scripts according to their score. The sentence structure and grammar 560 of the scripts may be assessed. The selected script is rendered 580, which can involve mixing 590 audio with video material. The method may be used to automate the process of creating continuity announcements before and after TV programmes are aired. Related apparatus and are also described.
Patent GB-2503890-A (GB)
Title: Switched mode power supply having interference suppression capacitors
Inventor: WILSON MARTIN
IPC: H02M3/158
Filed: 2012-07-10
Abstract: A switched mode power supply comprises at least one switch 109 and at least one inductor 106 where the switch is arranged to connect one end of the inductor to one of a plurality of input voltages V1, V2. The other end of the inductor provides a supply output 112. A capacitor 116 is connected in parallel with the inductor and a damping resistor may be connected in series with the capacitor. The value of capacitance may be determined in dependence upon a desired frequency of suppression at the supply output. A plurality of switches and inductors may be provided to give a common output, where each inductor has a capacitor connected in parallel. The invention relates to the reduction of signals of unwanted frequencies in switched mode power supplies, particularly used for envelope tracking applications for radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
Patent GB-2496493-A (GB)
Title: An actuator for raising a vehicle bonnet in the event of a collision
Inventor: RICK ULRICH
IPC: B60R21/38
Filed: 2012-10-24
Abstract: A motor vehicle body encompasses a front hood or bonnet 1 with an outer skin 6 and a stiffening layer 7 arranged under the outer skin and attached thereto, and an actuator 12 for lifting up the front hood during an accident, which is accommodated in a recess 10 in the stiffening layer. The recess may be located at a rear edge of the hood, and may comprise a cut out section of the stiffening layer. The actuator may comprise an inflatable elastic membrane similar to an airbag, and it may expand in such a way that the rear side is more expandable so that it covers a lower region of an adjacent windscreen (figure 8). The actuator raises the hood in the event of a collision so that said hood is further spaced from any underlying structures. By locating the actuator in a recess in the stiffening layer it reduces the effect it has on placing other fixtures in proximity to the rear edge of the hood.
Patent GB-2500800-A (GB)
Title: Hand held blower with heater
Inventor: COURTNEY STEPHEN BENJAMIN
IPC: A45D20/12
Filed: 2013-03-19
Abstract: A hand held appliance such as a hairdryer comprises a body 12, a fluid flow path 20 extending through the body 12 from a first fluid inlet 12a to a first fluid outlet 12b. A further primary fluid flow path 30 extends from a second fluid inlet 30a through to a second fluid outlet 40. A heater 46 is provided in the primary fluid flow path 30 and has a length extending in an axial direction of the body 12. The heater is preferably annular or tubular in shape. Fluid flowing through the primary flow path 30, drawn by the fan 160, is heated by the heater 46. It then exits the annular outlet 12b and sucks fluid through the tubular housing 18 along the fluid flow path 20 through a process of entrainment.
Patent GB-2513300-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum pumping and abatement system
Inventor: STANTON GARETH DAVID
IPC: F23G7/06
Filed: 2013-04-04
Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum pumping and abatement system 10 for evacuating processing gas from a process chamber 12 and removing noxious substances from the processing gas. The system comprises a vacuum pumping arrangement 14 for evacuating processing gas from a process chamber, a source of compressed air 16 for purging the vacuum pumping arrangement during evacuation and a burner 22 for receiving processing gas and compressed air from the vacuum pumping arrangement and removing noxious substances therefrom by burning the processing gas in oxygen wherein at least some of the oxygen that supports combustion is derived from the compressed air from source 16.
Patent GB-2499143-A (GB)
Title: Computer system
Inventor: KIM SUNGHO
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2010-11-12
Abstract: In order for a plurality of virtual machines installed on a physical computer to operate in the same operation mode, the present invention switches a main system and a subsystem of each virtual machine. A computer system has a plurality of computer nodes, and each computer node has a plurality of virtual computers and a control base unit controlling the virtual computers. Each virtual computer constitutes a multiplexing group with another virtual computer operating on another computer node different from its own computer node, with either one operating as the main system and the other operating as the subsystem. The control base unit controls whether each virtual computer is operating as either the main system or the subsystem, and monitors the respective states of each virtual computer. The control base unit, when it has detected in its own node a failure of the virtual computer operating as the main system virtual computer, determines in accordance with predetermined rules whether to also switch the other virtual computers operating on its own computer node from main system virtual computers to subsystem virtual computers along with the virtual computer in which the failure occurred.
Patent GB-2501830-A (GB)
Title: Platform and application independent system and method for networked file access and editing
Inventor: DORMAN GRIFFIN
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2012-11-01
Abstract: Platform and application independent system and method for networked file access and/or editing are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for identifying an application locally available for use on the device, to edit the file via an operating system of a device through which the request is initiated and automatically launching the application on the device or passing an identifier of the file to the application, such that the file is opened and thus available for edit using the application without a prior prompt to store the file on the device. The automatic launching of the application can occur without the prior prompt to request a user to specify a local directory in which to store the file.
Patent GB-2505329-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for medical data collection and display
Inventor: MATSUNAGA ATSUSHI
IPC: G16H10/60
Filed: 2011-09-27
Abstract: A marker placement device, such as a modified coring gun, is used to place one or more markers into the formation. The marker placement device uses explosive charges to fire one or more marker assemblies into a borehole wall. A marker assembly includes a driver assembly which is adapted to be fired from the placement device and a marker which is releasably secured to the driver with frangible shear members.
Patent GB-2506527-A (GB)
Title: Cordless electric iron with blower
Inventor: JENNINGS MARK RICHARD
IPC: D06F75/14
Filed: 2013-09-09
Abstract: The iron 1 is a portable apparatus for the controlled delivery of fluid for the conditioning and drying of e.g. fabric. The iron may include resistive and thermic shielding and be pliant upon impact. An electrical energy source 2 such as a rechargeable accumulator or battery may be included to energise a driver member 3. The driver member enables a blower 4 such as a centrifugal pump, a scroll pump or a roots-type compressor to produce a gas flux or flow and channel it through a dispensing soleplate structure 5. A second fluid/flux dispensing means 8 includes a piston 10 and occluding valve 11. The second dispensing means may be used for containment and release of sanitizer or conditioner.
Patent GB-2522179-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to rope descenders
Inventor: BELL ROBERT GEORGE
IPC: A62B1/14
Filed: 2013-11-14
Abstract: A descender 1 for controlled descent of a person down a rope comprises a rope entry guide 6 and a rope exit, an eccentrically mounted swivellable/pivotable cam lock 4 having a rope braking surface operable to releasably lock the rope in position against the entry guide in response to movement of the rope towards the exit, and means to adjustably unlock the cam lock, said unlock means including a swivellable handle 3 connected to an inner drive cam 8. The inner drive cam has bearing surfaces which co-operate with the cam surfaces of an outer drive cam 11 within or on the body of the cam lock, the arrangement being such that the reaction forces applied to the inner cam via the handle are transmitted to the cam surfaces of the outer cam to thereby provide a mechanical advantage for causing the cam lock to open to thereby release the rope.
Patent GB-2506303-A (GB)
Title: Increasing power efficiency of turbo mode operation in a processor
Inventor: BURNS JAMES S
IPC: G06F1/26
Filed: 2012-06-20
Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor has multiple cores to execute threads. The processor further includes a power control logic to enable entry into a turbo mode based on a comparison between a threshold and value of a counter that stores a count of core power and performance combinations that identify turbo mode requests of at least one of the threads. In this way, turbo mode may be entered at a utilization level of the processor that provides for high power efficiency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Patent GB-2506066-A (GB)
Title: Zero sign-on authentication
Inventor: HOGGAN STUART A
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2012-06-27
Abstract: A method of facilitating zero sign-on access to media services depending on trust credentials. The trust credentials may be cookies, certificates, and other data sets operable to be stored on a device used to access the media services such that information included therein may be used to control the zero sign-on capabilities of the user device.
Patent GB-2525574-A (GB)
Title: Method for searching a database
Inventor: BLOCK PER
IPC: G06Q50/20
Filed: 2014-01-13
Abstract: A method of searching a plurality of records (e.g. academic publications, patent publications), where the plurality of records are connected by a plurality of connections (e.g. citations associated with the publications), the method comprises the steps of receiving a set of input records 40, identifying a plurality of intermediate records 41, each of the first plurality of records having at least one connection to at least one of the starting set of records, identifying a plurality of result records, each of the plurality of result records having at least one connection to at least one of the first plurality of intermediate records, calculating a ranking for each of the plurality of result records 42, and generating an output.
Patent GB-2522909-A (GB)
Title: Drill bit positioning
Inventor: BUGTEN BJARNE
IPC: G01V1/40
Filed: 2014-02-10
Abstract: A method of determining the position of a drill bit 18 in a wellbore drilled in a surface of the earth, comprises providing at said surface a number of surface devices 1-7, each provided with a high precision clock; providing at or adjacent said drill bit 18 a downhole device provided with a high precision clock; for each surface device 1-7, transmitting an electromagnetic signal between said surface device 1-7 and said downhole device, and determining a transit time for said signal using said high precision clocks, said transit time being the time taken for said signal to travel between said surface device and said downhole device; and determining a set of position coordinates for said downhole device based on known position coordinates of said surface devices 1-7 and the transit time for each surface device. The clocks may be atomic clocks the method can be used to steer a drill.
Patent GB-2508549-A (GB)
Title: Infant support structure with entertainment portion
Inventor: GOSZEWSKI ROBERT M
IPC: A47D13/00
Filed: 2012-09-12
Abstract: The present invention is directed to an infant support structure. In one embodiment, the infant support structure includes a frame that has an activity portion or tray area that is located proximate to a seat in which an infant can be placed. The seat is rotatable so that the infant can view and play with different elements in the activity portion. The infant support structure includes an entertainment mechanism that has several movable elements or components coupled to the frame. A drive mechanism is connected to the movable elements and configured so that the drive mechanism moves the movable elements when the drive mechanism is activated. The infant support structure includes at least one input mechanism or switch that can be activated by a child to provide the input to activate the drive mechanism to move the movable elements.
Patent GB-2524024-A (GB)
Title: An aerated biofilm reactor fibre membrane
Inventor: CASEY EOIN
IPC: B01J19/18
Filed: 2014-03-11
Abstract: An aerated biofilm reactor fibre membrane comprising a substantially cylindrical sidewall defining an internal lumen from which gas can permeate through the sidewall; characterised in that at least part of the outer surface of the fibre membrane is engineered to define at least one biofilm retaining region. The outer surface of the fibre membrane may define an array of engineered biofilm retaining regions. Regions may be concave, one or more substantially radially expanding protrusions, or one or more substantially longitudinal elite extending corrugations. The fibre membrane may be formed as a polymer extrusion and may have an external diameter in the range 0.2-5 mm and may comprise polydimethyl siloxane. A reactor for use with the aerated biofilm fibre membrane is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2510511-A (GB)
Title: Electroacoustic method of conductivity measurement through casing
Inventor: DOROVSKY VITALY NIKOLAEVICH
IPC: G01V1/44
Filed: 2011-10-03
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for evaluating a porous earth formation. The method may include estimating a value of at least one parameter of interest of the earth formation using a signal indicative of acoustic waves generated at a metallic surface (200) in communication with the earth formation when the metallic surface (200) is exposed to a constant magnetic field (250) normal to the metallic surface (200) and a harmonic magnetic field (260) along the metallic surface. The signal may be generated by a sensor responsive to the acoustic waves. The apparatus may include a first magnetic source (230) configured to generate a constant magnetic field (250), a second magnetic source (240) configured to generate a harmonic magnetic field (260), and a sensor (220) configured to generate a signal in response to acoustic waves.
Patent GB-2519827-A (GB)
Title: Toroidal field coil for use in a fusion reactor
Inventor: SYKES ALAN
IPC: H05H1/12
Filed: 2014-06-09
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a toroidal field coil 64 for generating a toroidal magnetic field in a nuclear fusion reactor, preferably a compact fusion reactor such as a spherical tokamak, the reactor comprising a toroidal plasma chamber having a central column 61. The toroidal field coil comprises a plurality of windings passing through the central column and around the outside of the plasma chamber. Each winding includes a cable comprising a plurality of stacked HTS tapes, each HTS tape including one or more layers of a high temperature superconductor material. The HTS tapes are arranged such that a face of each HTS tape is perpendicular to a direction of maximal neutron flux during reactor operation as the cable passes through the centre column, such an orientation resulting in neutron interactions generally damaging small patches of multiple tapes rather than a large strip of a single tape.
Patent GB-2513028-A (GB)
Title: Electronic component
Inventor: STONE KATE JESSIE
IPC: B42D15/02
Filed: 2011-01-28
Abstract: An electronic component comprises a flexible planar substrate 42 which is substantially non-stretchable, the substrate having at least two slits 50 arranged to allow two portions 45, 46 of the substrate to be moved apart in the same plane. A first portion 52 of the substrate supports a region of conductive material 43. The substrate comprises a fibre-based material such as paper, card, a laminate, or a plastic membrane. Slits can be parallel, extend from opposite edges of the substrate , cross a midway line 48 and lie between the edges (fig 13). Conductive material 43 can be a track of conductive ink or foil which runs between the slits. The component can be used in an electronic circuit (fig 9), as part of a game (fig 10), a book, poster, calendar, greetings card or product packaging or point of sale display.
Patent GB-2512226-A (GB)
Title: Catenary front-end gear and method
Inventor: VAHIDA BEHZAD
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2012-05-25
Abstract: A hybrid front-end gear 60 for towing plural streamers 80 underwater along an X axis, the hybrid front-end gear comprising a first cable 66a configured to connect to a first vessel 62 and a second vessel 64a; transversal ropes 68 configured to extend along a Y axis that is substantially perpendicular to the X axis; and links 70 configured to connect the transversal ropes to the first cable, wherein the first cable takes a catenary shape when towed underwater and the transversal ropes are substantially straight and the plural ropes are configured to connect to the plurality of streamers. There can be a second cable 66b configured to connect to the first vessel and a third vessel 64b and further direct links between the first and second vessels and the transversal ropes. The gear can further comprise plural streamers connected between the transversal ropes; and a connecting system for connecting the plural streamers to the transversal ropes, wherein the connecting system includes actuators and/or birds. Also disclosed are a catenary front-end gear for towing streamers under water and a method for adjusting a position of streamer when towed under water.
Patent GB-2529387-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle
Inventor: LOVELAND ANDREW JOHN
IPC: B62K17/00
Filed: 2014-07-14
Abstract: A vehicle 2 comprises a frame 8; a front ground engaging sphere 4 which is rotatable about a first axis which is transverse and fixed relative to the frame 8; a rear ground engaging sphere 6 which is rotatable about a plurality of axes, and gripping portions 22 which are provided towards the front of the vehicle 2, for a rider to hold. A support member 50 is connected pivotally to a rear portion of the frame 8 and projects longitudinally of the vehicle 2 and downwardly from the point of connection 52 to the frame 8 to a remote part of the support member 50. The rear sphere 6 is connected to the remote part of the support member 50 for rotation about a second axis which is transverse and fixed relative to the support member 50. The support member 50 is pivotal with respect to the frame 8 about a third axis which extends downwardly and longitudinally of the vehicle 2.
Patent GB-2528655-A (GB)
Title: Graphics Processing Systems
Inventor: BALA SYLWESTER
IPC: G06T15/60
Filed: 2014-07-24
Abstract: A bounding volume (20) represents the volume of a scene to be rendered and a graphics texture represents the transparency of the surface of the bounding volume. For a sampling point (25) within or on the boundary volume, a transparency parameter is determined indicating the amount of shadow cast on the point by a light source (22) that is external to the bounding volume. Firstly, a position (26) on the bounding volume intersected by a vector (28) from the sampling point to the light source is determined and is used to sample the graphics texture. Sampling may constitute determining a vector (27) to a reference position that the texture is defined with respect to from the intersection position. The transparency of the surface of the bounding volume between the sampling point and the light source is thereby determined. The so-determined transparency is then used to simulate the effect of shadows cast by the light source at the sampling point.
Patent GB-2532916-A (GB)
Title: Pump, device for insertion between components, and methods
Inventor: DAVID W BILYK
IPC: F04D29/66
Filed: 2014-08-27
Abstract: A pump comprising a casing 18 and a suction guide 34, wherein the radial position of the casing relative to the suction guide and/or their clearance is adjustable via a device 100 inserted therebetween. The device may have one or more through holes in order to be fastened to the casing. It may also have a body (102, fig. 4) and a tapered foot (104, fig. 4), the latter being inserted between the casing and the suction guide. The tapered foot preferably projects perpendicularly from the body and may have two or more feet itself, for abutting the suction guide. The casing may have a tapered rim at its opening for receiving the tapered foot of the device. The device, as well as methods for adjusting the clearance between opposed surfaces of two components of an apparatus and the relative radial position of these components by using at least one such device, preferably a plurality thereof, are also claimed.
Patent GB-2521724-A (GB)
Title: Computer device and method for isolating untrusted content
Inventor: AUSTIN MARK
IPC: G06F21/56
Filed: 2014-10-20
Abstract: User process (120, fig. 2) in primary user account 121 requests operating system 202 to action a task. Agent 300, executing in cooperation with the OS comprises a task interceptor (320, fig. 2), a task policy unit (330, fig. 2), an isolation environment provisioner (340, fig. 2) and a controller (310, fig. 2). The interceptor intercepts and provides metadata relevant to the task before it is actioned by the OS. The task policy unit examines the metadata and selectively outputs a result identifying the task as untrusted, e.g. due to the nature of the task or because it accesses untrusted content. The provisioner provisions task isolation environment 350 by programmatically creating secondary user account 121b and the controller causes the untrusted task to be executed as an isolated process in the task isolation environment. Printer 500a/b, available in the primary user account, is made available in the secondary user account by populating printer-related user settings of the latter. The agent intercepts a printer service request by the task and, if allowable, provides impersonated credentials of the primary user account and allows the request to proceed using the impersonated credentials.