Patents by Inventor Alexander Nichol

Alexander Nichol has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12000381
    Abstract: A method of controlling a wind turbine is provided, comprising identifying an out-of-vertical load acting in a first direction on the wind turbine. A direction of a wind load acting on the wind turbine is determined. If there is a degree of alignment between the direction of the wind load and the first direction, the wind turbine is controlled to reduce the wind load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: James Alexander Nichols, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Anders Steen Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11983806
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for regenerating a region of an image with a machine learning model based on a text input. Disclosed embodiments involve accessing a digital input image. Disclosed embodiments involve generating a masked image by removing a masked region from the input image. Disclosed embodiments involve accessing a text input corresponding to an image enhancement prompt. Disclosed embodiments include providing at least one of the input image, the masked region, or the text input to a machine learning model configured to generate an enhanced image. Disclosed embodiments involve generating, with the machine learning model, the enhanced image based on at least one of the input image, the masked region, or the text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: OpenAI Opco, LLC
    Inventors: Aditya Ramesh, Alexander Nichol, Prafulla Dhariwal
  • Patent number: 11976631
    Abstract: Methods of measuring a stall condition of a rotor of a wind turbine are disclosed. In one aspect a stall parameter is obtained on the basis of the power parameter and a thrust parameter; and the stall parameter compared with a threshold to determine a stall condition of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Fabio Caponetti, Karthik Vasudevan, James Alexander Nichols, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet
  • Patent number: 11922550
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating an image corresponding to a text input. In an embodiment, operations may include accessing a text description and inputting the text description into a text encoder. The operations may include receiving, from the text encoder, a text embedding, and inputting at least one of the text description or the text embedding into a first sub-model configured to generate, based on at least one of the text description or the text embedding, a corresponding image embedding. The operations may include inputting at least one of the text description or the corresponding image embedding, generated by the first sub-model, into a second sub-model configured to generate, based on at least one of the text description or the corresponding image embedding, an output image. The operations may include making the output image, generated by the first second sub-model, accessible to a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: OpenAI Opco, LLC
    Inventors: Aditya Ramesh, Prafulla Dhariwal, Alexander Nichol, Casey Chu, Mark Chen
  • Publication number: 20230265829
    Abstract: A method of controlling a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine comprising: providing data comprising a plurality of pitch angles of the wind turbine blade and corresponding expected power coefficients for the wind turbine, each pitch angle corresponding to a maximum expected power coefficient for a degradation state of the wind turbine blade; obtaining a current power coefficient of the wind turbine; determining a desired pitch angle for the wind turbine blade, the desired pitch angle being equal to a pitch angle from the dataset corresponding to an expected power coefficient equal to the current power coefficient; and changing a pitch angle of the wind turbine blade to the desired pitch angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob Deleuran GRUNNET, James Alexander NICHOLS, Fabio CAPONETTI, Karthik VASUDEVAN
  • Publication number: 20230243336
    Abstract: Methods of measuring a stall condition of a rotor of a wind turbine are disclosed. In one aspect a stall parameter is obtained on the basis of the power parameter and a thrust parameter; and the stall parameter compared with a threshold to determine a stall condition of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Fabio Caponetti, Karthik Vasudevan, James Alexander Nichols, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet
  • Patent number: 11572865
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling a wind turbine comprising a tower supporting a rotor comprising a plurality of pitch-adjustable rotor blades. The method includes obtaining a movement signal indicative of a lateral movement of the tower; determining a pitch modulation signal, based on the movement signal, for actuating a rotor blade to produce a desired horizontal force component to counteract the lateral movement of the tower; determining a radial force component acting on a rotor blade; determining a phase offset parameter for the rotor blade based on the radial force component; and, transforming the pitch modulation signal into a pitch reference offset signal for the rotor blade based on the phase offset parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Karthik Vasudevan, Poul Brandt Christensen, James Alexander Nichols, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet
  • Publication number: 20220412306
    Abstract: A method of controlling a wind turbine is provided, comprising identifying an out-of-vertical load acting in a first direction on the wind turbine. A direction of a wind load acting on the wind turbine is determined. If there is a degree of alignment between the direction of the wind load and the first direction, the wind turbine is controlled to reduce the wind load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: James Alexander NICHOLS, Jacob Deleuran GRUNNET, Anders Steen NIELSEN
  • Publication number: 20220351424
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for augmenting a video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a selection of an effect; receive user-generated content comprising video data and audio data; detect a characteristic of the audio data comprising at least a volume and/or a pitch of the audio data during a period of time; determine a series of numeric values based on the characteristic of the audio data during the period of time, individual numeric values of the series of numeric values being correlated with an amplitude of the volume and/or pitch at a discrete point within the period of time; and augment at least one of the video data and/or the audio data to include the effect based on the series of numeric values at discrete points in time within the period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: David Robert Kasper, Catherine Yoo, Matthew Alexander Nichols
  • Publication number: 20220260053
    Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling power output of a wind turbine at below-rated wind speed, the method comprising: determining an indication of blade torsion of one or more rotor blades of the wind turbine in dependence on wind speed and/or rotor speed; determining a torsion-corrected blade pitch based on the indication of blade torsion; and using the torsion-corrected blade pitch to control pitch the one or more rotor blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Fabio CAPONETTI, James Alexander NICHOLS, Benjamin ROWLINSON
  • Publication number: 20220136777
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (9) comprises a first conduit module (10a) for the flow of a first fluid, and a second conduit module (11a) for the flow of a second fluid. The second conduit module (11a) is fluidly isolated from the first conduit module (10a). The heat exchanger further comprises a first fluid flow path (12) for the flow of a third fluid in heat exchange with the first and second fluids. The first fluid flow path (12) extends in a substantially radial direction (13) of the heat exchanger (9). At least a portion of the first conduit module (10a) and at least a portion of the second conduit module (11a) are each arranged in a respective path that gradually widens or tightens about a longitudinal axis (14) of the heat exchanger (9). The first conduit module (10a) and the second conduit module (11a) are nested with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Burvill, Hamish Alexander Nichol
  • Patent number: 11149420
    Abstract: A splashless sink assembly includes a bottom, an open top located above the bottom, a first side wall extending upwardly from the bottom to the open top at an angle oblique relative to the bottom, and a second side wall disposed opposite the first side wall. The second side wall extends upwardly from the bottom to the open top at an angle oblique relative to the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Grant, Randon Brooks Bennett, Thomas Ross Alexander Nichol, Zachary Douglas Engle
  • Publication number: 20210277869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling a wind turbine comprising a tower supporting a rotor comprising a plurality of pitch-adjustable rotor blades. The method includes obtaining a movement signal indicative of a lateral movement of the tower; determining a pitch modulation signal, based on the movement signal, for actuating a rotor blade to produce a desired horizontal force component to counteract the lateral movement of the tower; determining a radial force component acting on a rotor blade; determining a phase offset parameter for the rotor blade based on the radial force component; and, transforming the pitch modulation signal into a pitch reference offset signal for the rotor blade based on the phase offset parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Karthik VASUDEVAN, Poul Brandt CHRISTENSEN, James Alexander NICHOLS, Jacob Deleuran GRUNNET
  • Publication number: 20210000921
    Abstract: The invention described herein features methods and compositions for modifying thymic function and/or activity in a subject (e.g., a human, e.g., a human patient in need thereof; or a non-human animal, e.g., a companion animal or an agricultural animal).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: David Arthur Berry, Alexander Nichols, Douglas Ewen Cameron, Brett Blackman, Chantal Kuhn
  • Patent number: 9290961
    Abstract: A collapsible portable shelter including at least a first strut and a second strut, each strut being resiliently flexible, a panel formed of a flexible material coupled with the first strut and the second strut, and an anchoring member for anchoring the panel relative to a surface. The first strut is received along a first side of the panel and the second strut is received along a second side of the panel, the second side opposing the first side. The first strut and the second strut each has a portion extending beyond a third side of the panel. In use, a part of said portion of each of the first strut and second strut is to be received in the surface to resist lateral movement of said part received in the ground. Furthermore, in use, orientation with respect to the surface can be varied by adjusting the anchoring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: John Alexander Nichols
  • Publication number: 20140283890
    Abstract: A collapsible portable shelter including at least a first strut and a second strut, each strut being resiliently flexible, a panel formed of a flexible material coupled with the first strut and the second strut, and an anchoring member for anchoring the panel relative to a surface. The first strut is received along a first side of the panel and the second strut is received along a second side of the panel, the second side opposing the first side. The first strut and the second strut each has a portion extending beyond a third side of the panel. In use, a part of said portion of each of the first strut and second strut is to be received in the surface to resist lateral movement of said part received in the ground. Furthermore, in use, orientation with respect to the surface can be varied by adjusting the anchoring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: John Alexander NICHOLS
  • Patent number: 8720461
    Abstract: A collapsible portable shelter including at least a first strut and a second strut, each strut being resiliently flexible, a panel formed of a flexible material coupled with the first strut and the second strut, and an anchoring member for anchoring the panel relative to a surface. The first strut is received along a first side of the panel and the second strut is received along a second side of the panel, the second side opposing the first side. The first strut and the second strut each has a portion extending beyond a third side of the panel. A portion of each of the first strut and second strut is to be received in the surface to resist lateral movement of said part received in the ground. The orientation of the panel with respect to the surface can be readily varied by adjusting the anchoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventor: John Alexander Nichols
  • Publication number: 20120211039
    Abstract: A collapsible portable shelter including at least a first strut and a second strut, each strut being resiliently flexible, a panel formed of a flexible material coupled with the first strut and the second strut, and an anchoring member for anchoring the panel relative to a surface. The first strut is received along a first side of the panel and the second strut is received along a second side of the panel, the second side opposing the first side. The first strut and the second strut each has a portion extending beyond a third side of the panel. A portion of each of the first strut and second strut is to be received in the surface to resist lateral movement of said part received in the ground. The orientation of the panel with respect to the surface can be readily varied by adjusting the anchoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: John Alexander Nichols
  • Patent number: D638954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Inventor: John Alexander Nichols