Patents Assigned to L
  • Patent number: 8605445
    Abstract: The structure comprises at least a device, for example a microelectronic chip, and at least a getter arranged in a cavity under a controlled atmosphere delineated by a substrate and a sealing cover. The getter comprises at least one preferably metallic getter layer, and an adjustment sub-layer made from pure metal, situated between the getter layer and the substrate, on which it is formed. The adjustment sub-layer is designed to modulate the activation temperature of the getter layer. The getter layer comprises two elementary getter layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Xavier Baillin
  • Patent number: 8603872
    Abstract: The field effect device comprises a sacrificial gate electrode having side walls covered by lateral spacers formed on a semiconductor material film. The source/drain electrodes are formed in the semiconductor material film and are arranged on each side of the gate electrode. A diffusion barrier element is implanted through the void left by the sacrificial gate so as to form a modified diffusion area underneath the lateral spacers. The modified diffusion area is an area where the mobility of the doping impurities is reduced compared with the source/drain electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Laurent Grenouillet, Yannick Le Tiec, Nicolas Posseme, Maud Vinet
  • Patent number: 8606738
    Abstract: A method and system for policy based management in a communication system, comprising at a policy enforcement point (101) associated with policy decision points (102,103,104). The enforcement point (101) transmits a request for a decision from the decision points (102,103,104). A policy strategy point (105) is configured with a decision strategy, comprising an algorithm for determining a resulting decision. The decision points (102,103,104) generate decisions upon which the strategy point (105) generates the resulting decision, by applying said decision strategy on said decisions. The strategy point (105) communicates the resulting decision to the enforcement point (101), which executes the resulting decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericcson (publ)
    Inventors: Johannes Van Elburg, Paulus Karremans, Hendrikus Adrianus Antonia Maria van der Velden, Eltjo Boersma
  • Patent number: 8605683
    Abstract: An access network connection controller is disclosed for ordering a mobile terminal to switch from a connection to a first access network to a connection to a second access network in order to ensure that a good connection to the mobile terminal is maintained when the mobile terminal enters an area in which connection to the first access network may be restricted and the second access network may be beneficial. The access network connection controller is operable to receive movement information representative of the movement of the mobile terminal connected to a first access network; to determine from the movement information whether the mobile terminal is approaching a restricted area wherein connection to a second access network may be beneficial and to generate a command ordering the switching of the connection mobile terminal from the first access network to the second access network before the mobile terminal enters the restricted area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel-Angel Garcia Martin, Pablo Martinez De La Cruz
  • Patent number: 8603446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic composition, particularly for hair care, and to a method for cosmetically treating keratin material, particularly the hair, using the compounds of Formula (I), where: —n=1, 2, 3, or 4; —R1, R?1, R2, and R?2 are H, —OH, —NRR?, or a C1-C18 carbon group capable of containing one or more heteroatoms selected from among O, S, and N; and —Z is a multivalent carbon radical optionally substitutable and/or interruptible by specific groupings, it being understood that said radical Z includes at least one heteroatom selected from among N, O, and S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Nathalie Mougin, Xavier Schultze, Anne-Claude Dublanchet, Michel Philippe
  • Patent number: 8604959
    Abstract: A method and device for digital filtering of a digital signal in a radio frequency (RF) device front end are disclosed. In one embodiment, 2M+1 groups of N digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are grouped to emulate a (2M+1)*N tap finite impulse response (FIR) filter. Each DAC in a group receives a clock that differs in phase from the clocks of the other DACs in the group. The filter is implemented to suppress image spectra of the digital signal without increasing a clock rate by which the signal is sampled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Mark William Wyville
  • Patent number: 8605838
    Abstract: Interference is estimated in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing system by receiving at a wireless receiver pilot symbols and data symbols transmitted in time and frequency via resource blocks, detecting a first one of the data symbols transmitted to the wireless receiver via a time-frequency resource element of a first one of the resource blocks and identifying a second one of the resource blocks adjacent the first resource block having related interference parameters. The interference is estimated based on the pilot symbols transmitted via the first resource block and the pilot symbols transmitted via the second resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Karl J. Molnar, George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 8605265
    Abstract: An optical detection process relates to detecting micron- or submicron-sized particles or organisms by means of a contact imaging device, the particles or organisms being immersed in a liquid droplet and the detection being carried out by means of a matrix of photosensitive cells or photosites. The process includes one detection step or a succession of detection steps carried out while the liquid droplet is evaporating. The process may also include a detection step carried out after the liquid droplet has evaporated. The process allows a three-dimensional distribution of the particles or organisms in the initial unevaporated droplet to be reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Cédric Allier
  • Patent number: 8606197
    Abstract: A method and system for pre-distorting a dual band signal to compensate for distortion of a non-linear power amplifier in a radio transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first and second signal of the dual band signal are up-sampled at a sampling rate that is based at least in part on the bandwidth of at least one of the first and second signals and based at least in part on an intermediate frequency by which the first and second signal are tuned before pre-distortion of the tuned signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Chunlong Bai
  • Patent number: 8606288
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for radio base stations of a wireless communication network, enabling each radio base station to transmit parameters indicating imbalance between UL and DL to adjacent radio base stations, when it is triggered to do so. The adjacent radio base stations can then use the parameters for radio resource management decisions such as HO decisions, whenever needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Anders Furuskär
  • Patent number: 8606504
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for distinguishing between LOCATION_REPORT messages to avoid ambiguities. Therefore, a value of an information element of request type is returned by a radio network controller, depending on an intended receiver of the location information. A control node receiving the information element value analyses said value and determines the receiver depending on the result of said analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Enrico De Luca, Alessandro Lala, Martin Israelsson, Anders Molander, Maurizio Iovieno, Arpad Kormos
  • Patent number: 8606283
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods, a user equipment and a communication network entity for optimizing the radio resource utilization in a communication network system comprising a network side and a user equipment side between which data is transmitted on uplink (17) and downlink (16) channels with a transmit power and said user equipment (18) is arranged to adjust said transmit power on said uplink channels (17) according to gain factors received from said network side, wherein said user equipment (18) is located in a location area of said communication network system. The gain factors are transmitted to the user equipment (18) solely when the user equipment (18) accesses the network system instead of transmitting gain factors during every session setup as long as the user equipment (18) is in said location area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Rong Hu, Qingyu Miao, Mats Sagfors, Hai Wang
  • Patent number: 8603502
    Abstract: Cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and the corresponding salts thereof: wherein: R1 is a radical chosen from —COOR?, —CONR?R?, —CH2OR?, —COR?, —CH2R?, —SO2OR?, —PO3R?R? and —NHR?, wherein R? and R?, which may be identical or different, are defined herein; R2 is chosen from saturated and unsaturated, linear, branched and cyclic hydrocarbon radicals comprising from 1 to 18 carbon atoms which are optionally substituted by from 1 to 5 identical or different entities chosen from —OR??, —OCOR??, —SR??, —SCOR??, NR??R??, —NHCOR??, halogen, —CN, —COOR?? and —COR??, wherein R?? and R??, which may be identical or different, are defined herein, as well as the use of these compounds, for example, to promote skin desquamation, to stimulate epidermal renewal and/or to combat the signs of skin ageing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Christophe Boulle, Maria Dalko, Jean-Luc Leveque, Lucie Simonetti
  • Patent number: 8605601
    Abstract: A telecom node (210, 310) such as a base station is configured to detect events. A low priority event may not be serious enough on its own to raise an alarm to a network management system (220, 420) managing the telecom node (210, 310). However, the low priority event can collectively have a serious impact on the network performance if the event occurs over multiple nodes (210, 310) of the network (200). When a low priority event occurs over multiple nodes (210, 310), the telecom node (210, 310) notifies the network management system (220, 420) of the event by raising an alarm so that the situation can be addressed. In a partitioned network installation, not all neighboring nodes (210, 310) are managed by a same network management system (220, 420). When the alarm is raised to the network management system (220, 420), other network management systems (220, 420) managing the neighboring nodes (210, 310) are notified of the alarm by the network management system (220, 420).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Niklas Isaksson, Magnus Standar, Andreas Olsson, Per Stahle
  • Patent number: 8605799
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for frequency offset estimation exploits the differences in reference symbol timing for different channels to resolve ambiguities in the frequency offset estimation. Based on the initial frequency offset estimates, a hypothesis table is constructed providing hypothesized frequency offsets for each channel for a plurality of possible offset regions. An error metric for each offset region is calculated based on the difference of the hypothesized frequency offsets. The set of hypothesized frequency offsets that minimize the error metric is selected as the final frequency offset estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Guoqiang Lu, Oskar Mauritz, Fredrik Huss, Henrik Back
  • Patent number: 8604048
    Abstract: Pyridocarbazole-type compounds of formula (I): are provided as a medicament, and more particularly for application in anticancer chemotherapy. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition with the compound and methods for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative-type pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, parasitoses, such as malaria, or glaucomas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Curie, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Universite Paris Sud (Paris XI)
    Inventors: Laurence Lafanechere, Emilie Vassal, Caroline Barette, ChiHung Nguyen, Christian Rivalle, Renaud Prudent
  • Patent number: 8601961
    Abstract: A mount for a trash whipping implement for connection to a planter is disclosed. A height and force adjustable mounting system is also disclosed for use with a planter that enables the force of such an implement on the soil to be modulated as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: L & B Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Loyd C. Van Buskirk, Brian R. Meldahl
  • Patent number: 8603311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pH measuring device containing a reference cell which includes a tank filled with an electrolyte solution and a platinized platinum reference electrode immersed in the tank. The measuring device also contains a measuring cell. The measuring cell contains a platinized platinum measuring electrode which is immersed in the solution to be measured. The measuring device also contains a temperature regulator to ensure that the temperature is the same in the reference cell as in the measuring cell. The measuring device also contains a particle pressure regulator to ensure that the hydrogen partial pressure is the same in the reference cell as in the measuring cell and a fluid pressure regulator to ensure that the pressure is the same in the reference cell as in the measuring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Dominique You, Edmond Blanchard
  • Patent number: 8605713
    Abstract: A method and system of negotiating Media Gateways (MGs) between a plurality of call control nodes (CCNs). The system includes an originating CCN which builds an original list of configured Media Gateways capable of being used in a call by the originating CCN. The first CCN associates an identifier and a priority with each Media Gateway in the list prior to sending the list to a subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN removes from the original list any identifiers associated with any MG in the original list of identifiers which is not capable of being used in the call by the subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN then forms a modified list of identifiers associated with at least one MG capable of being used in a call by the originating CCN and the subsequent CCN. The subsequent CCN also selects a specified MG from the modified list and sends a first backward message from the second CCN to the originating CCN identifying the specified MG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dirk Kampmann, Jens Poscher
  • Patent number: 8604482
    Abstract: A microelectronic device includes a plurality of disconnected similar semiconducting portions, electrically isolated from each other and forming a semiconductor layer, at a spacing by a constant distance and with a shape parallel to the other portions. The microelectronic device also includes two electrodes arranged in contact with the semiconductor layer such that a maximum distance separating the two electrodes is less than the largest dimension of one of the semiconductor portions. The shape and dimensions of the semiconductor portions, the spacing between the semiconductor portions, the shape and dimensions of the electrodes and the layout of the electrodes relative to the semiconductor portions are such that at least one of the semiconductor portions electrically connects the two electrodes to each other. The largest dimensions of the semiconductor portions are perpendicular to the largest dimension of the electrodes, the electrodes being similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Romain Gwoziecki, Romain Coppard