Patents Assigned to Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
  • Patent number: 11955375
    Abstract: A composite structure, intended for a planar co-integration of electronic components of different functions, the composite structure including from its base towards its surface: a support substrate made of a first material, the support substrate including cavities each opening into an upper face of the support substrate, the cavities being filled with at least one composite material consisting of a matrix of a crosslinked preceramic polymer, the matrix being charged with inorganic particles; and a thin film made of a second material, the thin film being bonded to the upper face of the support substrate and to the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Marilyne Roumanie, Christelle Navone, Lamine Benaissa
  • Publication number: 20240110828
    Abstract: A method for determining the operating state of a light-emitting implant implanted in the brain of a living being, the light-emitting implant including a light source responsible for emitting light into the brain of the living being, the method using a diagnosing device that includes a receiver of a light signal transmitted through a first eye of the living being and a device for determining the operating state of the light-emitting implant based on the received transmitted light signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE GRENOBLE ALPES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Pierre BLEUET, Claude CHABROL, Cécile MORO, Stephan CHABARDES, Alim Louis BENABID
  • Publication number: 20240113054
    Abstract: An electronic chip including a substrate and, on the side of one face of the substrate, a metal pad intended to receive a soldering material, the pad including, in order from said face of the substrate, a first metal layer, an electrically conductive barrier layer, and a second metal layer, wherein an electrically insulating barrier layer is arranged on, and in contact with, the sidewall of the first metal layer over the entire periphery of the metal pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Clément Lobre, Eva Serres, Ludovic Dupre
  • Patent number: 11947021
    Abstract: Constructing an estimated orientation of the vehicle from a previous position and a previous orientation of the vehicle, then correcting this estimated orientation to obtain a first corrected orientation containing a corrected yaw angle of the vehicle, obtaining a measurement of the yaw angle of the vehicle, then replacing, in the first corrected orientation, the corrected yaw angle with the measured yaw angle, to obtain a second corrected orientation, then delivering the corrected second orientation by way of orientation determined for the vehicle and using, in the next execution of the constructing step, the corrected second orientation by way of previous orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Christophe Villien
  • Patent number: 11942450
    Abstract: A cell of fluidic assembly of microchips on a substrate, including: a base having its upper surface intended to receive the substrate; a body laterally delimiting a fluidic chamber above the substrate; and a cover closing the fluidic chamber from its upper surface, wherein the body comprises first and second nozzles respectively emerging onto opposite first and second lateral edges of the fluidic chamber, each of the first and second nozzles being adapted to injecting and/or sucking in a liquid suspension of microchips into and/or from the fluidic chamber, in a direction parallel to the mean plane of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventor: Melina Haupt
  • Patent number: 11933403
    Abstract: A metallic sealing assembly between a rotating shaft and a fixed frame comprises: a flexible metallic seal having two tori, inner and outer, that are concentric and of different average diameters, comprising a metal envelope which encases and holds the inner and outer tori; a shaft rotating about an axis of rotation, comprising an annular shoulder against which the seal comes to press; a counter-face, comprising a contact face against which the seal comes to press; a wedge block positioned around the rotating shaft such that the seal is held between the wedge block and the contact face, the wedge block mounted to slide on the rotating shaft; a metal part which forms a cap through which the rotating shaft passes and which is secured to the frame and/or to the counter-face, the rotating shaft being free to rotate with respect to the cap and axially secured to the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TECHNETICS GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Guimet, Jean-François Juliaa, Michel Lefrancois, Christophe Darles, Olivier Constant
  • Patent number: 11934870
    Abstract: A method for scheduling computing tasks on a supercomputer including offline reinforcement learning (OFRL) of a scheduler on a database (LDB). The database includes at least one execution history (HIST) that includes the state (LHPCS) of a learning supercomputer at several moments (T, T?1); the actions (LACT) related to the scheduling of learning tasks on the learning supercomputer at those moments (T); and a reward (REW) related to each task. The method also includes the use of the scheduler trained on the computing tasks to be scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: BULL SAS, LE COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Pierre Seroul
  • Patent number: 11931152
    Abstract: The present description concerns a support helmet (130) for a medical imaging or treatment device, comprising a head cap (131) provided with a plurality of through openings (133), each opening being adapted to receiving an elementary imaging or treatment module (110) assembled in the opening so as to slide along an axis substantially orthogonal to the head cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Matthieu Le Prado, Etienne Labyt
  • Publication number: 20240081695
    Abstract: Measuring device (1) intended to be disposed against a medium, the device extending between a contact face (10) intended to be applied facing the medium and a distal end (4), the device including a lateral wall (5) extending between the contact face and the distal end, the device including: at the level of the contact face (10), at least one admission opening (12) configured to collect a transcutaneous gas of interest emitted through the medium, the admission opening being through the contact face; a measuring chamber (20) including a gas sensor (23), the gas sensor being configured to measure a concentration of the gas of interest flowing through the measuring chamber; a collecting chamber (30) connected to the measuring chamber and delimited by an opening on the lateral wall, the collecting chamber including at least one lateral opening (34) through the lateral face or on the top wall of the collecting chamber so as to admit a vector gas into the collecting chamber; the device being characterized in tha
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, L3 MEDICAL
    Inventors: Pierre GRANGEAT, Myrna Violeta JAILLET-CASILLAS, Fabien STOCARD
  • Publication number: 20240089624
    Abstract: A pixel circuit comprising: a light-sensing element; a first transistor having its control node coupled to a sense node and its source coupled to a readout path of the pixel circuit; and a reset voltage correction circuit comprising: a first switch configured to selectively couple an input node of the reset voltage correction circuit to a correction node, the input node being connected to the sense node or to the source of the first transistor, the correction node being coupled by a capacitance to the sense node; and a second switch configured to selectively couple the correction node to a reset voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Gaelle Palmigiani
  • Patent number: 11923477
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device, including the successive steps of: a) performing an ion implantation of indium or of aluminum into an upper portion of a first single-crystal gallium nitride layer, to make the upper portion of the first layer amorphous and to preserve the crystal structure of a lower portion of the first layer; and b) performing a solid phase recrystallization anneal of the upper portion of the first layer, resulting in transforming the upper portion of the first layer into a crystalline indium gallium nitride or aluminum gallium nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Hubert Bono
  • Publication number: 20240071450
    Abstract: A device for modifying at least the direction of magnetization of a magnetic layer, the modifying device including a ferroelectric layer having a ferroelectric polarization, arranged on or under the magnetic layer so as to define a stack including at least the magnetic layer and the ferroelectric layer, a generator apt to inject an electric current into the stack along a direction parallel to the plane of the layers of the stack, and a modification unit apt to modify the ferroelectric polarization of the ferroelectric layer, for modifying, with the generator, the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, THALES, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe ATTANE, Laurent VILA, Manuel BIBES
  • Publication number: 20240069282
    Abstract: A process for fabricating an optoelectronic device having a germanium-on-silicon photodiode coupled to an Si3N4 waveguide includes producing a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor stack of thin layers configured to form segments of a semiconductor structure of the photodiode, producing a photonic substrate having the Si3N4 waveguide, and transferring and bonding the semiconductor substrate to the photonic substrate. The photodiode is produced by photolithography and etching of the semiconductor stack to form the semiconductor structure which is then located above the waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Bertrand SZELAG
  • Publication number: 20240069917
    Abstract: A method for executing a machine code with a computer, including constructing a signature for a current instruction on the basis of signals generated by a stage of a hardware processing path, this stage being a decoder or a stage following the decoder in the hardware processing path, and on the basis of the preceding signature constructed for an instruction which precedes it, then checking the integrity of the executed machine code by comparing the signature constructed for the current instruction with a prestored reference signature, then only when the integrity of the current instruction has been checked successfully, decrypting a cryptogram of the following instruction using the signature constructed for the current instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
    Inventors: Thomas CHAMELOT, Damien COUROUSSE, Karine HEYDEMANN
  • Patent number: 11913041
    Abstract: The invention relates to the uses of a new characterized TET protein showed restricted to N-terminus glycine residues exopeptidase. The invention also relates to a method comprising said use of said new characterized TET protein as a N-terminus glycine residues specific exopeptidase. The invention further relates to a support wherein it is immobilized on said new characterized TET protein as a N-terminus glycine residues specific exopeptidase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Bruno Franzetti, Eric Girard, Alexandre Appolaire, Hind Basbous
  • Patent number: 11916492
    Abstract: The present description concerns a device for delivering a voltage from an AC voltage, comprising a capacitive element (120), two switches (132H, 132L) in a half-bridge between terminals of the capacitive element (120); terminals (102, 104) of application of the AC voltage; a transformer (160), comprising a first winding (162) coupling to a junction node (136) between the switches (132H, 132L) one of the terminals (104) of application of the AC voltage; and one or a plurality of circuits (170, 180, 140), configured to switch the switches (132H, 132L) and receive an AC current (I164) flowing through a second winding (164) of the transformer (160) and regulate the voltage delivered by the device by acting on a frequency of said AC current and/or on a phase shift of said AC current with respect to its reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Alain Bailly, Dominique Bergogne, Thierry Bouchet
  • Publication number: 20240061401
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling operating modes of a system, each operating mode being implemented by an execution of one or more software components. This control system includes software components called elementary components, each elementary component having at least one input able to receive input data and/or at least one output able to transmit output data; and at least one software meta-component including one or more internal wiring diagrams, each internal wiring diagram defining interconnections between inputs and outputs of elementary components and/or meta-components, a transition logic between states defining a current state of said system and a sequence between states at least some of the states corresponding to an implementation of an internal wiring diagram, a mechanism for controlling the internal configurations, and a programming interface providing services/functions implementing at least one internal wiring scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventor: Baptiste GRADOUSSOFF
  • Patent number: 11907159
    Abstract: A method of representing a distributed computing system, the distributed computing system comprising a plurality of processing devices connected together according to a predefined topology. The method comprising receiving at least one piece of data from an activity log file relating to at least one processing device among the plurality of processing devices, receiving at least one metric relating to at least one processing device among the plurality of processing devices, receiving at least the predefined topology of the distributed computing system, constructing a graph representative of a distributed computing system operation, the graph comprising the data item extracted from the received log file, the received metric, and the received topology, and embedding at least one part of the graph to obtain at least one state vector representing the at least one part of the embedded graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: BULL SAS, LE COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Emeric Dynomant, Pierre Seroul
  • Patent number: 11906422
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting a gaseous species by photoacoustic effect. The device comprises a substrate, inside which a cavity is formed. A light source is disposed on the substrate, in such a way that a part of the substrate extends between the light source and the cavity. The device is arranged in such a way that the light, emitted by the light source, is propagated through the substrate, before reaching the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Emmanuel Ollier, Caroline Coutier, Laurent Duraffourg, Thierry Verdot
  • Patent number: 11909005
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical power-supply system comprising: a plurality of electrical batteries (B_1, B_2, B_3, B_aux), each battery comprising a plurality of cells connected in series and/or parallel and separate switching means attached to each cell or to a group of a plurality of cells, said plurality of batteries comprising batteries that are called main batteries (B_1, B_2, B_3), which are each dedicated to delivering electrical power to one separate piece of consuming equipment, processing and control means, the processing and control means comprising: means for selecting at least one what is called standby battery (B_S) from said plurality of batteries, the selected standby battery being a battery the output current of which is zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Ghislain Despesse, Sylvain Bacquet