Patents by Inventor Francis Abraham

Francis Abraham 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).

  • Publication number: 20180300160
    Abstract: Implementations discussed herein provide a way for an application to host a graphical element from another application in its own window, such as in its graphical user interface (GUI). A host application that hosts a component graphical element of a component application can control the lifetime and visual appearance of the component graphical element, while the component application provides content for display within the component graphical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Elliot Hajime Omiya, Adam D. Braden, Harley Michael Rosnow, Sergey Shilov, Karthik Vivek Nadig, Vinoo Cherian, Cullen R. Sauls, Pierre-Bernard Thiffault, Saji Abraham, Christopher Edwin Swan, Venkata-Gautam Raju Kanumuru, Stephen H. Wright, Leonardo E. Blanco, Francis Abraham
  • Patent number: 10026510
    Abstract: A process is described for synthesizing a mixed peroxide or hydroxo-peroxide of an actinyl and at least one cation X1, wherein the actinyl is a uranyl or neptunyl and the at least one cation X1 is a di-, tri- or tetra-charged metal cation. This process includes the reaction in a solvent of a salt of the at least one cation X1 with a compound C2 selected from mixed peroxides and hydroxo-peroxides of the actinyl and of at least one singly charged cation X2, whereby compound C2 is converted to the peroxide or hydroxo-peroxide by replacement of the at least one cation X2 by said at least one cation X1. Also disclosed is a process for synthesizing a mixed oxide of an actinide selected from uranium and neptunium, and of at least one metal able to form a di-, tri- or tetra-charged cation, which implements the preceding synthesis process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Orano Cycle
    Inventors: Florent Blanchard, Francis Abraham, Stéphane Grandjean, Nicolas Vigier, Isabelle Hablot, Murielle Rivenet
  • Patent number: 10005676
    Abstract: A method for preparing a powder of a solid solution of dioxide of uranium and of at least one other actinide and/or lanthanide element comprising combusting a solution that comprises uranyl nitrate and at least one nitrate of the other actinide and/or lanthanide element and glycine, with the glycine being used in a predetermined amount so as to form, at the end of the combustion, the solid solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux éenergies alternatives, Orano Cycle
    Inventors: Guillaume Peter-Soldani, Stephane Grandjean, Francis Abraham
  • Publication number: 20160314858
    Abstract: A process is described for synthesizing a mixed peroxide or hydroxo-peroxide of an actinyl and at least one cation X1, wherein the actinyl is a uranyl or neptunyl and the at least one cation X1 is a di-, tri- or tetra-charged metal cation. This process includes the reaction in a solvent of a salt of the at least one cation X1 with a compound C2 selected from mixed peroxides and hydroxo-peroxides of the actinyl and of at least one singly charged cation X2, whereby compound C2 is converted to the peroxide or hydroxo-peroxide by replacement of the at least one cation X2 by said at least one cation X1. Also disclosed is a process for synthesizing a mixed oxide of an actinide selected from uranium and neptunium, and of at least one metal able to form a di-, tri- or tetra-charged cation, which implements the preceding synthesis process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: AREVA NC
    Inventors: Florent Blanchard, Francis Abraham, Stéphane Grandjean, Nicolas Vigier, Isabelle Hablot, Murielle Rivenet
  • Publication number: 20160272505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a powder of a solid solution of dioxide of uranium and of at least one other actinide and/or lanthanide element comprising a step for combustion of a solution comprising uranyl nitrate and at least one nitrate of the other actinide and/or lanthanide element and nitrogen-containing fuel used according to a specific predetermined amount so as to form at the end of this step, said solid solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT À L 'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES AL TERNATIVES, AREVA NC
    Inventors: Guillaume PETER-SOLDANI, Stephane GRANDJEAN, Francis ABRAHAM
  • Patent number: 9302918
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an oxychloride or oxide of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) from a chloride of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) present in a medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type comprising a step of bringing said chloride of actinide(s) and/or lanthanide(s) present in said medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type into contact with a wet inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Annabelle Laplace, Jean-Francois Vigier, Thierry Plet, Catherine Renard, Francis Abraham, Cyrine Slim, Sylvie Delpech, Gerard Picard
  • Patent number: 9045350
    Abstract: A method for converting UO3 and/or U3O8 into hydrated UO4 of formula UO4.nH2O wherein n is 2 or 4, comprising the following successive steps: a) preparing an aqueous suspension of a UO3 powder and/or a U3O8 powder; b) adding hydrogen peroxide H2O2 to the aqueous suspension of a UO3 and/or U3O8 powder, converting the UO3 and/or U3O8 into hydrated UO4 and precipitating, crystallizing the hydrated UO4 in the suspension; c) recovering the precipitate, crystals of UO4 hydrate; d) optionally, washing the recovered UO4 hydrate precipitate, crystal(s); e) optionally, repeating step d); f) optionally, drying the precipitate, the crystals; wherein the addition of H2O2 to the aqueous suspension is carried out so that the suspension contains a stoichiometric excess of H2O2 relatively to the stoichiometry of the reaction from UO3: UO3+nH2O+H2O2?UO4.nH2O+H2O??(1) or of the reaction from U3O8 UO2.67+1.33H2O2+nH2O?UO4.nH2O+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: COMURHEX SOCIETE POUR LA CONVERSION DE L'URANIUM EN METAL ET HEXAFLUORURE
    Inventors: Bertrand Morel, David Amaraggi, Mehdi Arab, Rudy Thomas, Murielle Rivenet, Francis Abraham
  • Publication number: 20140219900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an oxychloride or oxide of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) from a chloride of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) present in a medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type comprising a step of bringing said chloride of actinide(s) and/or lanthanide(s) present in said medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type into contact with a wet inert gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Commissariat a I'energie atomique et aux ene alt
    Inventors: Annabelle Laplace, Jean-Francois Vigier, Thierry Plet, Catherine Renard, Francis Abraham, Cyrine Slim, Sylvie Delpech, Gerard Picard
  • Publication number: 20130280157
    Abstract: A method for converting UO3 and/or U3O8 into hydrated UO4 of formula UO4.nH2O wherein n is 2 or 4, comprising the following successive steps: a) preparing an aqueous suspension of a UO3 powder and/or a U3O8 powder; b) adding hydrogen peroxide H2O2 to the aqueous suspension of a UO3 and/or U3O8 powder, converting the UO3 and/or U3O8 into hydrated UO4 and precipitating, crystallizing the hydrated UO4 in the suspension; g) recovering the precipitate, crystals of UO4 hydrate; h) optionally, washing the recovered UO4 hydrate precipitate, crystal(s); i) optionally, repeating step d); j) optionally, drying the precipitate, the crystals; wherein the addition of H2O2 to the aqueous suspension is carried out so that the suspension contains a stoichiometric excess of H2O2 relatively to the stoichiometry of the reaction from UO3: UO3+nH2O+H2O2?UO4.nH2O+H2O??(1) or of the reaction from U3O8 UO2.67+1.33H2O2+nH2O?UO4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Comurhex Societe Pour La Conversion De L'Uranium En Metal Et Hexafluorure
    Inventors: Bertrand Morel, David Amaraggi, Mehdi Arab, Rudy Thomas, Murielle Rivenet, Francis Abraham
  • Patent number: 5834390
    Abstract: The invention relates to ceramic materials usable as tritium producing material in a thermonuclear fusion reactor. These materials are constituted by lithium zirconate substituted by copper in the form of solid solutions of the type Li.sub.2 ZrO.sub.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Francis Abraham, Pierre Blouet, Jean-Claude Boivin, Marcel Boncoeur, Bernard Rasneur, Nicole Roux
  • Patent number: 5227257
    Abstract: The compositions are derived from Bi.sub.4 V.sub.2 O.sub.11 and are characterized by the fact that at least one of the elements present is substituted, the substituting element(s) being such that the structural nature of the gamma phase of Bi.sub.4 V.sub.2 O.sub.11 is maintained, as well as the equilibrium of the loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Universite des Sciences et Techniques de Lille Flandres Artois Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Lille Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
    Inventors: Francis Abraham, Jean-Claude Boivin, Gaetan Mairesse, Guy Nowogrocki, Michel Kleitz, Jacques Fouletier