Patents by Inventor Thomas Picard
Thomas Picard 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).
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Patent number: 11823473Abstract: An apparatus for classifying a picture of a reaction of reactants in a predetermined container; the apparatus comprising a first neural network arranged for receiving an input picture of a reaction of reactants in a predetermined container and for providing, for each reaction category of a first plurality of reaction categories, a probability that the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to said reaction category; a second neural network arranged for, if the first neural response provides a highest probability that the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to a predetermined reaction category, receiving a predetermined portion of the input picture and providing, for each reaction category of a second plurality of reaction categories, a probability that said predetermined portion of the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to said reaction category.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BIO-RAD EUROPE GMBHInventors: Thomas Picard, Bruno De-Bastiani, Jean-Baptiste Ballereau, Stephane Delaille, Eric Millet, Pierre Bony, Olivier Noel, Yves Raisin, Clément Foissac
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Patent number: 11608812Abstract: Methods (200) for reducing vibrations in one or more rotor blades (120) of a wind turbine (160), when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions are provided. The method comprises measuring (201) one or more deformation parameters indicative of deformation of one or more blades (120), determining (202), at a dedicated controller (190) for an auxiliary drive system (20, 107), a vibration of one or more of the blades (120) based on the deformation parameters, wherein the dedicated controller (190) for the auxiliary drive system is separate from the wind turbine controller (180), and generating (203), at the dedicated controller (190), an output signal to operate the auxiliary drive system to reduce the vibration. Also disclosed are wind turbines (160) which comprise a dedicated controller (190) configured to determine a vibration and generating an output signal to reduce the vibration, when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: General Electric Renovables España, S. L.Inventors: Pedro Arroyo Beltri, Thomas Picard, Marc Canal Vila, Ricardo Lázaro Bosch, Pedro Palomares Rentero
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Publication number: 20220189183Abstract: An apparatus for classifying a picture of a reaction of reactants in a predetermined container; the apparatus comprising a first neural network arranged for receiving an input picture of a reaction of reactants in a predetermined container and for providing, for each reaction category of a first plurality of reaction categories, a probability that the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to said reaction category; a second neural network arranged for, if the first neural response provides a highest probability that the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to a predetermined reaction category, receiving a predetermined portion of the input picture and providing, for each reaction category of a second plurality of reaction categories, a probability that said predetermined portion of the input picture shows a reaction that belongs to said reaction category.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Thomas Picard, Bruno De-Bastiani, Jean-Baptiste Ballereau, Stephane Delaille, Eric Millet, Pierre Bony, Oliver Noel, Yves Raisin, Clément Foissac
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Patent number: 10927813Abstract: Methods of operating a variable speed wind turbine as a function of wind speed are described. The wind turbine has a rotor with a plurality of blades and a generator. The generator has a design rotor speed which varies so as to follow a theoretical generator rotor rotational speed curve describing the rotational speed of the rotor as a function of wind speed. The method comprises determining an erosion risk condition of the blades, determining erosion damage of one or more of the blades accumulated over time and changing the rotor rotational speed from the design rotor speed as a function of the determined erosion risk condition and the determined accumulated erosion damage. Wind turbines configured to carry out such methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Picard, Marc Canal Vila
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Publication number: 20200173418Abstract: Methods (200) for reducing vibrations in one or more rotor blades (120) of a wind turbine (160), when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions are provided. The method comprises measuring (201) one or more deformation parameters indicative of deformation of one or more blades (120), determining (202), at a dedicated controller (190) for an auxiliary drive system (20, 107), a vibration of one or more of the blades (120) based on the deformation parameters, wherein the dedicated controller (190) for the auxiliary drive system is separate from the wind turbine controller (180), and generating (203), at the dedicated controller (190), an output signal to operate the auxiliary drive system to reduce the vibration. Also disclosed are wind turbines (160) which comprise a dedicated controller (190) configured to determine a vibration and generating an output signal to reduce the vibration, when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Pedro Arroyo Beltri, Thomas Picard, Marc Canal Vila, Ricardo Lázaro Bosch, Pedro Palomares Rentero
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Publication number: 20190345915Abstract: Methods of operating a variable speed wind turbine as a function of wind speed are described. The wind turbine has a rotor with a plurality of blades and a generator. The generator has a design rotor speed which varies so as to follow a theoretical generator rotor rotational speed curve describing the rotational speed of the rotor as a function of wind speed. The method comprises determining an erosion risk condition of the blades, determining erosion damage of one or more of the blades accumulated over time and changing the rotor rotational speed from the design rotor speed as a function of the determined erosion risk condition and the determined accumulated erosion damage. Wind turbines configured to carry out such methods are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Thomas Picard, Marc Canal Vila
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Publication number: 20190345912Abstract: Leading edge protectors for a wind turbine blade are disclosed. The leading edge protectors are configured to at least partially cover a blade leading edge section. The leading edge protectors comprise a main body having a substantially constant thickness and having a trailing end. The leading edge protectors further comprise a plurality of irregularities arranged on an outer surface of the main body upstream from the trailing end and configured to energize a boundary layer. Wind turbines comprising such leading edge protectors are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Thomas Picard, Marc Canal Vila
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Publication number: 20150252782Abstract: Method of operating a wind turbine comprising detecting when a first blade substantially approaches the shadow of the tower, and pitching at least one other blade, which is in or approaching a position above the tower, to increase the angle of attack and wind load on said at least one other blade in such a way that an increase of the tilt angle of the rotor is caused. The method further comprises detecting when the first blade is substantially close to leaving the shadow of the tower, and pitching the at least one other blade to decrease the angle of attack and wind load on said at least one other blade in such a way that the previously caused increase of the tilt angle of the rotor is cancelled.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: Thomas Picard
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Patent number: 8386276Abstract: Systems and methods may determine prescribing physician activity levels. Information associated with a plurality of healthcare transaction requests that are received during a designated time period from at least one healthcare provider computer for communication to one or more claims processor computers may be collected. A respective prescribing physician for each of the plurality of received healthcare transaction requests may be identified. For each identified physician, a respective activity measure for the designated time period may be calculated based upon a respective number of the healthcare transaction requests identifying the physician.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings LimitedInventors: David Liu, Sean Daniel Reisz, Thomas A. Picard
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Publication number: 20070024523Abstract: A radome, and corresponding method of making, comprising an electro-optic transparent substrate, a semiconductor coating on the substrate, and a frequency selective surface embedded in the coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: February 1, 2007Applicant: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Thomas Picard, Rickey Akins
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Publication number: 20070013579Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for target radial extent determination using deconvolution are presented. One embodiment features a method for determining a radial extent of an target using an active sensor performing noise reduction on a received signal, deconvolving the noise reduced received signal by a transmit signal to produce a target profile, where both the noise reduced received signal and the transmit signal are over-sampled, and determining the target radial extent using the target profile. Another embodiment further features transforming the digitized transmit signal, transforming the digitized receive signal, thresholding the transformed digitized receive signal, dividing the noise reduced, transformed digitized receive signal by the transformed digitized transmit signal, and inverse transforming the divided signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventor: Thomas Picard
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Publication number: 20060284761Abstract: Methods and systems for discriminating targets using information derived from a sensor are presented. In one embodiment, a method features receiving a plurality of observations corresponding to a target; retrieving probabilities of the observations associated with each of a plurality of states, where the states are based a statistical model associated with at least one target type; consolidating the probabilities of observations for each of the plurality of states using a weighted combination; computing the probability of each state associated with the plurality of observations; selecting a state of the target based upon the computed probability of each state; and discriminating the target based upon the selected state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2005Publication date: December 21, 2006Inventor: Thomas Picard
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Publication number: 20060109194Abstract: A radome, and corresponding method of making, comprising an electro-optic transparent substrate, a semiconductor coating on the substrate, and a frequency selective surface embedded in the coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Thomas Picard, Rickey Akins
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Patent number: D1018557Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Opsens, Inc.Inventors: Sébastien Lalancette, Thomas GoodHart, Maxime Picard Deland