Patents Assigned to Inria Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
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Publication number: 20250014674Abstract: A device and a computer-implemented method for analyzing a dataset associated with a plurality of biological objects selected from cells, cell-derived vesicles, acellular microorganisms, and/or biofunctionalized materials; the dataset including N cytometric events, each associated with a biological object, each cytometric event being defined by at least two cytometric parameters measured for the corresponding biological object so that the dataset is represented by a cloud of N points in a D-dimensional space; the device and method being configured to output at least the hierarchical structure representing the different classes of biological objects and their mutual relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicants: METAFORA BIOSYSTEMS, INRIA - INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAYInventors: Marc GLISSE, Louis PUJOL, Baptiste LABARTHE, Romain TAILHADES, Kamila CZECHOWSKA-KUSIO, Dominique BLANCHARD, Vincent PETIT, Mélanie RENNOU
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Patent number: 12153153Abstract: A locating device, which includes a memory arranged to receive data concerning the distance between a plurality of anchors and one or more mobile sources at a plurality of locations different to each other. The locating device includes a decomposer, a reducer, and a solver arranged to return a matrix of coordinates of the anchors and a matrix of coordinates of the locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUEInventors: Roudy Dagher, Gang Zheng, Alban Quadrat
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Patent number: 12147663Abstract: A computer device comprises a screen (6) capable of touch acquisition, and a processor (8) designed to control the display of a depiction of a keypad on a keypad portion (10) of the screen (6) and to determine textual input data when a touch input tool is moved over the keypad portion (10) of the screen (6). The processor (8)is furthermore designed, when a touch input tool is moved continuously over the screen (6), to detect the movement of the touch input tool from the keypad portion (10) to a control portion (12) of the screen (6), to detect the movement of the touch input tool into the control portion (12) and determine a system operation on the basis of this movement, and, if the continuous movement ends in the control portion (12), to execute the system operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUEInventors: Wendy MacKay, Jessalyn Alvina
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Publication number: 20240342481Abstract: A current switcher including: a positive supply bus and a negative supply bus; a floating-output current amplifier configured to make flow, as an output, an intermediate current dependent on a flowing setpoint current implied as an input; at least one anodic reference dipole connected between the positive supply bus and the floating-output current amplifier; at least one cathodic reference dipole connected between the floating-output current amplifier and the negative supply bus; and at least two stimulation bridges, each stimulation bridge including an anodic current source and a cathodic current source each configured to copy the intermediate current.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicants: NEURINNOV, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - CNRS, INRIA - INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIERInventors: David GUIRAUD, David ANDREU, Milan DEMARCQ, Guy CATHEBRAS, Sami AJRAM
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Publication number: 20240335665Abstract: A neural stimulation device configured to apply neural activations including at least two interleaved sequences of current pulses, and a neurostimulation method. The device includes at least one neural electrode including at least two electrical contacts and intended to be implanted on at least one nerve; a current pulse generator connected to the at least one neural electrode via a current distributor; a storage element configured to contain a library of sequences, each sequence including a time series of current pulses associated with a configuration of electrical contacts; and a sequencer configured to apply neural activation to the at least one neural electrode, the neural activation including at least two interleaved sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicants: NEURINNOV, INRIA - INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIERInventors: David GUIRAUD, David ANDREU
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Patent number: 11957437Abstract: A cardiac device comprises a memory arranged for receiving haemodynamic data, and a computer arranged for applying a cardiovascular model comprising a cardiac model and an arterial and venous blood circulation model using the data received in the memory, and for extracting therefrom at least one cardiac activity indicator (CI).Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique, Assitance Publique HopitauxInventors: Radomir Chabiniok, Dominique Chapelle, Arthur Le Gall, Philippe Moireau, Fabrice Vallee
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Publication number: 20230364431Abstract: An active implantable medical device including, once implanted, a module external to the patient and a module inside the patient, the external module and the internal module being intended to transfer energy and data from one to the other. Also, a method for transferring energy and data, the method being implemented by the active implantable medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: NEURINNOV, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INRIA - INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIERInventors: David ANDREU, David GUIRAUD, Brice SORLI, Arnaud VENA
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Patent number: 11748530Abstract: A computer device for characterising execution time by a processor, comprising a memory (8) which receives benchmark program data, sets of characterisation configuration data and sets of execution case data, and a constructor (4) which determines, for each set of execution case data, a set of worst-case configuration data of the processor and a set of initialisation values based on a set of execution case data, and determining a reference execution time by executing the benchmark program according to the set of execution case data using the processor configured with the set of configuration data with the set of initialisation values, all the reference execution times forming a set of reference execution times.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUEInventors: Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Adriana Gogonel
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Patent number: 11427796Abstract: The invention relates to a bioreactor comprising a tank (100) capable of being operated for a working period, said tank (100) being intended to receive a culture medium comprising a cellular culture of photosynthetic microorganisms, a light source (200) arranged to emit incident light having a chosen incoming light intensity (Iin) in the direction of the tank, a temperature probe (400) for measuring the temperature of said culture medium in the tank, and a temperature regulator (500) capable of raising and lowering the temperature of said culture medium in the tank, and further comprising a control (700) of the temperature regulator arranged to adjust the temperature of the culture medium to a low setpoint value (VCB) during a first period, and to adjust the temperature of the culture medium to a high setpoint value (VCH) during a second period, the succession of said first and second periods making it possible to induce a cellular stress in at least some of said photosynthetic microorganisms during the workiType: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En AutomatiqueInventors: Olivier Bernard, Hubert Bonnefond, Antoine Sciandra, Éric Pruvost, Ghjuvan Grimaud
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Patent number: 11120175Abstract: The invention relates to a simulation device including: —a memory (2) receiving a dataset representing parameter measurements; —a selector (4) capable of producing a set of sub-datasets from the dataset, each sub-dataset from said set including consecutive data from the dataset, the number of which is a whole integer received as a variable by the selector (4); —an evaluator (6) capable of calculating, from a value set defining a curve, a form factor indicating a probability of correspondence between the curve defined by the value set and a Gumbel curve; and—a driver (8) arranged so as to call the selector (4) with a plurality of numbers for generating a plurality of sub-dataset sets, select the data, the measurement value of which is highest, within each sub-dataset from each sub-dataset set, create a plurality of curve datasets by combining the data selected from each set, call the evaluator (6) with the plurality of curve datasets, and select the curve dataset for which the form factor indicates the highestType: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En AutomatiqueInventors: Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Adriana Gogonel
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Patent number: 11086331Abstract: The invention relates to an autonomously guided machine (10) comprising at least a steering body and a steering mechanism (13), said machine also comprising: a guide system (11) including an optical filter (17) which has a receiving surface exposed to the exterior and which can transmit light rays directed substantially in one direction and eliminate other light rays; a screen (18) that receives the filtered light; a digital camera (19) for capturing pixel resolution images of the screen (18); a pre-processing element for selecting the pixels corresponding to an incident planar laser beam received by the guide system (11), and filtered and projected onto the screen (18), and for generating a response detection image; a line generator for generating an estimate J of the coordinates of the detected lines based on the response detection image, involving the processing of the pixel columns pixels; and a locator which receives the estimate of the coordinates of the detected lines and calculates values representatiType: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUEInventors: Alejandro Dizan Vasquez-Govea, Jan Michalczyk, Stanislas Borkowski
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Patent number: 10751947Abstract: An additive manufacturing device processes voxels representing an object to be additively manufactured by determining two graphs depending on whether the voxels indicate full or empty spaces, and redefines some of the voxels indicating an empty space as full spaces in order to ensure mechanical stability.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique et en automatique, Universite De LorraineInventors: Sylvain Lefebvre, Jeremie Dumas, An Lu
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Patent number: 10712865Abstract: A computerized device having a man-machine input interface, a controller and a display. The controller being arranged to control the display according to a control value measured on the man-machine input interface at a first measuring frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: Université De Lille, Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En AutomatiqueInventors: Géry Casiez, Denis Efimov, Rosane Ushirobira, Stanislav Aranovskiy, Nicolas Roussel
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Patent number: 10711232Abstract: The invention relates to a bioreactor comprising a tank containing a culture medium in which a cell culture composed of algae cells is dispersed. The cell culture of algae has a concentration greater than 0.1 g/L in the culture medium, and each algal cell has a minimum absorption in a specific range of wavelengths of light. The bioreactor comprises a light source that is capable of emitting incident light in the direction of the tank, 60% of the photons of the incident light having a wavelength which is included in said specific range of wavelengths of light. The invention also relates to the use of the bioreactor for the production of biomass.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie (Paris 6)Inventors: Francis Mairet, Olivier Bernard, Antoine Sciandra, Eric Pruvost, Charlotte Combe
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Patent number: 10290116Abstract: A method for analyzing a dynamic scene partitioned into cells which involves determining a probability of occupancy of a cell and a probability or probabilities of movement of the cell by solving the equation P(OV|ZC)=?A0?1V-1P(CA00?1VV?1Z)/?A00?1VV?1P(CA00?VV?1Z) comprising the determination of the speeds and positions of dummy particles in the grid depending on those determined at the (k?1)th iteration and the probability P(V|V?1); the determination of the particles located in each cell depending on the determined positions, and the solving of the equation, for a cell, is split into the solving of a static part corresponding to P(0=empty, V=0|ZC) and P(0=occupied, V=0|ZC) and the solving of a dynamic part corresponding to P(0=occ, V=vki,|ZC), i=32 1 to nk, in which nk is the number of particles determined in cell C for the kth iteration.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Christian Laugier, Amaury Negre, Mathias Perrollaz, Lukas Rummelhard
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Patent number: 10242138Abstract: Method of automatic synthesis of circuits comprising the generation of a network of regular processes reading or writing data in channels, according to which a single producer process is authorized to write in a channel and a single consumer process is authorized to read in a channel; and a synchronization unit associated with said channel authorizes or disables the implementation of a new iteration of said producer process, respectively consumer process, as a function of a comparison of a position of execution determined as a function of the value of a new iteration collected from the producer process, respectively consumer process, and of a position of execution determined as a function of a last iteration value collected from the consumer process, respectively producer process.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En AutomatiqueInventors: Christophe Alias, Alexandru Plesco
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Patent number: 10106765Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing microalgae on a support (14) that is movably mounted essentially in an aqueous medium contained in a tank (12), said method comprising a succession of phases in which the microalgae developing on the support (14) are exposed to sunlight and phases in the shade, the light intensity received in the shade being less than 50% of the average light intensity received during the sunlight exposure phases. The total length of the shade phases is more than 50% longer than the total length of the sunlight exposure phases.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S), Ecole Centrale Paris, Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie (Paris 6)Inventors: Olivier Bernard, Filipa Lopes, Eric Pruvost, Antoine Sciandra
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Patent number: 10075728Abstract: The invention concerns a method for encoding a multi-view video stream comprising at least two video sequences, comprising a step of motion information prediction for a square or rectangular block of a current picture of a current view from a list of candidate motion information predictors, a motion information predictor including at least a motion vector, and a step of entropic encoding of an item of information representative of the position of a selected motion information predictor in the list.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S)Inventors: Christine Guillemot, Laurent Guillo, Thomas Guionnet
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Publication number: 20180162058Abstract: A method for determining a set of points to be supported for an object to be manufactured by means of an additive manufacturing method, characterised in that it comprises a step consisting of subdividing the object into successive layers, each layer corresponding to a thickness of material deposited during the manufacture of the object; and, for each layer, adding, to a set of points to be supported, points to be supported (PS) on the surface of the object that make it possible to ensure the stability of all of the sub-objects (2n), a sub-object being defined as a solid resulting from the manufacture of the i first layers (Ci) of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicants: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINEInventors: SYLVAIN LEFEBVRE, JEREMIE DUMAS, JEAN HERGEL
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Publication number: 20180065311Abstract: A support structure for supporting an object during the manufacture of same by means of an additive manufacturing method; method for generating such a structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicants: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINEInventors: SYLVAIN LEFEBVRE, JEREMIE DUMAS, JEAN HERGEL