Patents by Inventor A Francis

A Francis 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).

  • Publication number: 20180060506
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve various algorithms and mechanisms to automatically process large amounts of claims data in real-time and automatically identify patients as potential participants for inclusion into a health care and behavior modification treatment regime based on the processed claims data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas CHURCHWELL, Robert CHURCHWELL, Stephen WASKO, Katharine FRANCIS, Kellie SCHOEN, Corey CAMPBELL, Sally ROSENTHAL
  • Publication number: 20180063760
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving video content streams from multiple source mobile devices and identifying that the video content streams pertain to a same event. Additional aspects may include identifying end mobile devices for the video content streams and determining a portion of the end mobile devices are coupled to one communication network and another communication network. Further aspects can include identifying a predicted traffic pattern on the first communication network based on the multiple video content streams pertaining to the same event and that the portion of the multiple end mobile devices are communicatively coupled to the first communication network. Additional aspects may include transmitting a portion of the video content streams across the first communication network and transmitting another portion of the video content streams across the second communication network according to the predicted traffic pattern. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Soumyajit Chakraborty, Stephen Francis Triano, James Gordon Beattie, JR.
  • Patent number: 9906970
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a communication between a transmitting equipment item and a receiving equipment item, said transmitting equipment item transmitting control frames (TC_i) to the receiving equipment item. The method makes it possible to take account of the fact that the control frames (TC_i) are not necessarily transmitted at fixed frequency and to adapt the transmission of the diagnostic frames (TDx_i) to the frequency of transmission of the control frames. Upon a significant variation of this transmission frequency, if no diagnostic frame has been transmitted between the two control frames, the instant of transmission of the next diagnostic frame will take account of this aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Alain Tardivon, Mireille Roger, Herve Dallet, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 9906072
    Abstract: A system includes a first power converter, a second power converter, a first battery having a time to end of discharge (EOD) and coupled to output a current to the first converter, a second battery having a time to EOD and coupled to output a current to the second converter, and a control circuit coupled to the first converter and the second converter. The control circuit is configured to monitor the times to EOD of the first battery and the second battery, and in response to the times to EOD of the first battery and the second battery not being substantially equal, control the first converter to adjust the current drawn from the first battery to change a rate of decrease of the time to EOD of the first battery. Other example systems and methods for substantially matching a time to EOD of a plurality of batteries are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: VERTIV ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Francis Smith
  • Patent number: 9905111
    Abstract: A system for alerting a user when the contents of a refuse container have reached or exceeded a specific weight level. The system measures the weight of the contents and will have the potential to send an alert in a plurality of ways selected by the user or selected by someone associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Luke Christ, Paul Francis Christ
  • Patent number: 9901744
    Abstract: An oral treatment device that emits light onto surfaces of a user's teeth. In one aspect, the oral treatment device includes an intraoral mouthpiece. The mouthpiece may comprise a lamp support structure comprising a lamp support surface; first and second lamps, each of the first and second lamps comprising a plurality of light emitters that generate light which is emitted from a rear surface of the lamp; each of the first and second lamps mounted to the lamp support surface, thereby forming a lamp assembly, each of the first and second lamps operably coupled to a control circuit having a power source; and a lamp retaining component coupled to the lamp support structure, a lower portion of the first lamp and an upper portion of the second lamp retained between the lamp retaining component and the lamp support surface of the lamp support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Scott Demarest, Francis Tatu, Mark Bartlett, Evaristo Delgado, Kathryn Neal, Patrik Johansson, Mark Lowenthal
  • Patent number: 9901688
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for identifying the flexor retinaculum of the carpal tunnel, injecting an effective amount of an agent into at least a portion of flexor retinaculum or tissue adjacent thereto, wherein the agent is configured to weaken the flexor retinaculum. The system may further include means for increasing the tensile stress in the flexor retinaculum post-injection using hand exercises, thereby weakening its structural integrity and decreasing the pressure within the carpal tunnel that impairs median nerve function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: JOHN M. AGEE, TRUSTEE OF THE JOHN M. AGEE TRUST OF AUGUST 15, 1996
    Inventors: John M. Agee, Ben C. Goss, Francis C. King, Jeffrey Woodhouse
  • Patent number: 9901081
    Abstract: This invention provides a transgenic mouse with a p16INK4a promoter sequence that controls expression of a protein such that it is expressed preferentially in senescent cells. The protein either directly induces apoptosis, or converts a prodrug to a cytotoxic compound. In addition, the mouse is injected with syngeneic tumor cells, or has second transgene that causes tumors to form. Removing senescent cells from the mouse may result in the formation of fewer tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
    Inventors: Judith Campisi, Marco Demaria, Francis Rodier, Remi-Martin Laberge, James Mitchell, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, Wendy Toussaint
  • Patent number: 9904805
    Abstract: Memory security technologies are described. An example processing system includes a processor core and a memory controller coupled to the processor core and a memory. The processor core can receive a content read instruction from an application. The processor core can identify a cache line (CL) from a plurality of CLs of a cryptographic cache block (CCB) requested in the content read instruction. The processor core can load, from a cryptographic tree, tree nodes with security metadata. The processor core can retrieve, from the memory, the CCB. The processor core can generate a second MAC from the CCB. The processor core can compare the first MAC with the second MAC. The processor core can decrypt the CCB using security metadata when the first MAC matches the second MAC. The processor core can send at least the identified CL from the decrypted CCB to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Siddhartha Chhabra, Francis X. Mckeen, Carlos V. Rozas, Saeedeh Komijani, Tamara S. Lehman
  • Patent number: 9903535
    Abstract: A cryogenic liquid conditioning system with flow driven by head pressure of liquid contained in a cryogenic storage tank, and a cryogenic liquid delivery system with flow driven by pressure in the vapor space of the cryogenic storage tank. A heat exchanger, coupled to the cryogenic storage tank located below the liquid level of the tank, operates as a portion of both the conditioning system and delivery system. A piping system moves cryogenic liquid to the heat exchanger where it is vaporized, and then moves vaporized liquid to the vapor space of the cryogenic tank and an application. The piping system includes a controller and valve(s) for controlling flow through the system. A sensor for measuring the saturated pressure of cryogenic liquid is coupled to the storage tank or piping system, and is in communication with the flow controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Green Buffalo Fuel, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Leo Snyder, Robert Francis Desjardins, Nathaniel Eaton Allen, James Joseph Donovan, Mark Ray Nuernberger, Peter Maurice Coleman
  • Patent number: 9902012
    Abstract: A weld electrical and gas connector with sealed gas flow is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a welding cable connector system includes a male connector having a conductive body for conveying welding power. The male connector includes a sealed passageway disposed coaxially of the conductive body for conveying shielding gas, and a gas sealing valve configured to seat to stop flow of shielding gas when the male connector is not engaged. The system also includes a female connector having a conductive body for conveying welding power. The female connector includes a sealed passageway disposed coaxially of the conductive body for conveying shielding gas, and a gas sealing valve configured to seat to stop flow of shielding gas when the female connector is not engaged. The male and female connectors are mutually engageable to conduct welding power and shielding gas therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Ray Ihde, Thomas Don Lahti, James Francis Rappl, Joseph Edward Feldhausen
  • Patent number: 9904578
    Abstract: Software development data indicative of a development activity is accessed. A component parameter of a component of a software development platform is set, in which the component parameter is based upon, at least in part, an anticipated component workload associated with the development actively. At least one system resource is allocated for the component of the software development platform based upon, at least in part, the component parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian C. Schimpf, Arthur Francis Crotty, Shailaja Sthalekar Golikeri, Yuhong Yin
  • Patent number: 9901272
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring electrocardiogram (ECG) using wireless communication, including a first measuring device and a second measuring device connected to each other using wireless communication, wherein the first measuring device includes a first electrode configured to measure a first signal generated by a heartbeat, and a slave signal generation unit configured to generate a slave signal based on the first signal and a wireless virtual ground signal received from the second measuring device, and the second measuring device includes a second electrode configured to measure a second signal generated by a heartbeat, a ground electrode configured to measure a ground signal, a wireless virtual ground unit configured to generate the wireless virtual ground signal based on the ground signal, and an ECG measuring unit configured to measure ECG based on the slave signal, the second signal, and the wireless virtual ground signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Inchan Youn, Kuiwon Choi, Jun-Kyo Francis Suh, Seung-Jong Kim, Hyung Min Kim, Youn Joo Lee, Inwon Jung, Heesu Park, Sunghee Park, Jeong Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9901080
    Abstract: This invention provides a transgenic mouse for studying the role of senescent cells on an age-related disorder or an age-sensitive trait. The transgene contains a p16 promoter sequence that controls expression of an enzyme so as to cause the enzyme to be expressed in senescent cells in the mouse. The enzyme converts a prodrug to a cytotoxic agent, so that treating the mouse with the prodrug results in the prodrug selectively killing the senescent cells. As a result, progression of an age-related disorder or an age-sensitive trait is delayed. Included is the 3MR mouse model, which also expresses bioluminescent and fluorescent markers under control of the p16 promoter so that senescent cells in the mice can be visualized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
    Inventors: Judith Campisi, Marco Demaria, Remi-Martin Laberge, Francis Rodier, James Mitchell, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, Wendy Toussaint
  • Patent number: 9906318
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that includes a frequency multiplexer circuit coupled to an input node and configured to receive an input signal via the input node. The frequency multiplexer circuit comprises a first filter circuit, a second filter circuit, and a third filter circuit. The apparatus also includes a switching circuit that is configurable to couple at least two of a first output of the first filter circuit, a second output of the second filter circuit, or a third output of the third filter circuit to a single output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chengjie Zuo, Daeik Daniel Kim, David Francis Berdy, Changhan Hobie Yun, Je-Hsiung Jeffrey Lan, Robert Paul Mikulka, Mario Francisco Velez, Jonghae Kim, Matthew Michael Nowak, Ryan Scott C. Spring, Xiangdong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9902008
    Abstract: A method includes detecting whether a wire feeder is in communication with a welding power supply. The method also includes detecting a current welding process of the welding power supply if the wire feeder is in communication with the welding power supply. The method includes determining, at the wire feeder, a welding output polarity. The method also includes setting a new welding process based on the current welding process and the welding output polarity without a user selecting the new welding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: James Francis Rappl, Jeffery Ray Ihde, Kenneth Austin Stanzel, John C. Leisner
  • Patent number: 9901219
    Abstract: A system and control method for an electronic liquid dispenser utilizes a motor to drive a pump mechanism from a home position in a dispense cycle for dispensing a metered dose of liquid from a reservoir. Upon initiation of the dispense cycle, the motor is started to operate the pump mechanism. Motor work performed by the motor during the dispense cycle is calculated as a function of motor current, motor voltage, and run time of the motor. Upon the calculated motor work exceeding a set point value during the dispense cycle, the motor is stopped and reversed to return the pump mechanism to the home position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Francis Tramontina, Charles Agnew Osborne, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9902731
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R3 have any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Clifford David Jones, Richard Andrew Ward, Mark Andrew Graham, Steven Swallow, Andrew Hornby Dobson, James Francis McCabe
  • Patent number: 9904632
    Abstract: A technique to enable secure application and data integrity within a computer system. In one embodiment, one or more secure enclaves are established in which an application and data may be stored and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Simon P. Johnson, Uday R. Savagaonkar, Vincent R. Scarlata, Francis X. McKeen, Carlos V. Rozas
  • Patent number: 9902011
    Abstract: A welding torch with a welding electrode and a welding electrode holder is provided. One welding torch includes a securing mechanism and an insulated grip. The securing mechanism is configured to secure an exposed central portion of a welding rod bounded by flux covered first and second sides. The securing mechanism is also configured to make electrical contact with the central portion of the rod for arc welding with the first side. The insulated grip is configured to cover the second side of the welding rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: James Francis Rappl, Thomas Don Lahti