Patents by Inventor Denis Benoit

Denis Benoit 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: 9363098
    Abstract: A method for evaluating quality of radio links for a wireless body area network includes first and second wireless devices forming a body area network and configured to communicate with each other. One of the two wireless devices is mobile relative to the other, The method includes exploiting messages received by one of the wireless devices to measure instantaneous quality of a corresponding radio link and to estimate times during and between which a radio link is reliable, calculating an estimated times reliability indicator, and classifying the radio links as a function of the reliability indicator into at least first and second categories. One of these categories is a category relating to intermittently reliable radio links taking into account the mobility of the wireless devices of the body area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Elyes Ben Hamida, Denis Benoit
  • Publication number: 20120250546
    Abstract: A method for evaluating quality of radio links for a wireless body area network includes first and second wireless devices forming a body area network and configured to communicate with each other. One of the two wireless devices is mobile relative to the other, The method includes exploiting messages received by one of the wireless devices to measure instantaneous quality of a corresponding radio link and to estimate times during and between which a radio link is reliable, calculating an estimated times reliability indicator, and classifying the radio links as a function of the reliability indicator into at least first and second categories. One of these categories is a category relating to intermittently reliable radio links taking into account the mobility of the wireless devices of the body area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Elyes Ben Hamida, Denis Benoit
  • Patent number: 7293606
    Abstract: A heat exchanging apparatus including a gas fuelled flameless heater and a heat exchanger loop. The heat exchanger loop includes a heat absorbing section which is contained within the flameless heater so that the flameless heater provides a heat source for the heat exchanger loop, and the heat exchanger loop further includes a heat transferring section for transferring heat from the heat exchanger loop to a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: 391854 Alberta Limited
    Inventors: Maurice Rene Benoit, Denis Benoit
  • Publication number: 20070176826
    Abstract: A method for locating a UWB transmitter, without a previously-set reference, using at least one first set of at least three UWB searching transceivers, including first, second, and third transceivers. The method a) synchronizes the three UWB searching transceivers, arranged at three different points, and estimates the relative position of these three points; b) receives, by the three transceivers, signals transmitted by the transmitter to be located; and c) calculates the relative position, with respect to the three searching transceivers, of the transmitter to be located according to the time of travel of the signals, transmitted by the transmitter to be located, to the three searching transceivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Norbert Daniele, Denis Benoit
  • Publication number: 20060201668
    Abstract: A heat exchanging apparatus including a gas fuelled flameless heater and a heat exchanger loop. The heat exchanger loop includes a heat absorbing section which is contained within the flameless heater so that the flameless heater provides a heat source for the heat exchanger loop, and the heat exchanger loop further includes a heat transferring section for transferring heat from the heat exchanger loop to a heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: 391854 Alberta Ltd.
    Inventors: Maurice Benoit, Denis Benoit