Patents by Inventor Laurent Bloch

Laurent Bloch 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).

  • PCMCIA card for remotely communicating and interfacing with aircraft condition monitoring systems
    Patent number: 7103456
    Abstract: A method and corresponding system use a Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card to remotely communicate and interface with flight performance data on an aircraft. The PCMCIA card can be plugged into an Aircraft Condition Monitoring Systems (ACMS) using a card interface. The method and system offer a global communication architecture that can be implemented with existing ACMS devices and with any flight data acquisition unit (FDAU) equipped with a storage card, such as a PCMCIA card. The PCMCIA card offers real-time wireless communication between the ACMS on an aircraft and a ground station without any hardware and/or software modifications to the ACMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: SAGEM Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Bloch, Jean-Michel Toussaint
  • Energy index for aircraft maneuvers
    Patent number: 7075457
    Abstract: Method and system for analyzing, separately or in combination, kinetic energy and potential energy and/or their time derivatives, measured or estimated or computed, for an aircraft in approach phase or in takeoff phase, to determine if the aircraft is or will be put in an anomalous configuration in order to join a stable approach path or takeoff path. A reference value of kinetic energy and/or potential energy (or time derivatives thereof) is provided, and a comparison index for the estimated energy and reference energy is computed and compared with a normal range of index values for a corresponding aircraft maneuver. If the computed energy index lies outside the normal index range, this phase of the aircraft is identified as anomalous, non-normal or potentially unstable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Inventors: Thomas R. Chidester, Robert E. Lynch, Robert E. Lawrence, Brett G. Amidan, Thomas A. Ferryman, Douglas A. Drew, Robert J. Ainsworth, Gary L. Prothero, Timothy P. Romanowski, Laurent Bloch, William L. Craine, Vincent J. Zaccardi
  • PCMCIA card for remotely communicating and interfacing with aircraft condition monitoring systems
    Publication number: 20050228559
    Abstract: A method and corresponding system use a Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card to remotely communicate and interface with flight performance data on an aircraft. The PCMCIA card can be plugged into an Aircraft Condition Monitoring Systems (ACMS) using a card interface. The method and system offer a global communication architecture that can be implemented with existing ACMS devices and with any flight data acquisition unit (FDAU) equipped with a storage card, such as a PCMCIA card. The PCMCIA card offers real-time wireless communication between the ACMS on an aircraft and a ground station without any hardware and/or software modifications to the ACMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Laurent Bloch, Jean-Michel Toussaint
  • Medallion with earth soil display
    Patent number: D367436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventors: Laurent Bloch, Olivier Bensimon