Patents by Inventor Andre' Dupont

Andre' Dupont 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).

  • Power tool
    Patent number: 12168287
    Abstract: A power tool comprises a housing and an inner assembly mounted at least partially within the housing and configured to move between a first position and a second position with respect to the housing. The inner assembly comprises a motor assembly. The power tool also comprises a mounting frame for guiding the inner assembly between the first position and the second position and having a cable guide for guiding at least part of a cable connected between the motor assembly and a component fixed relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bernhart, Tobias Heep, Andre Herdling, Jochen Seipp, Patrick Walther, Stefan Gensmann
  • System and method for universal microphone module
    Patent number: 12169661
    Abstract: A microphone module system comprising a microphone module with memory. The microphone module is connected to an original factory installed microphone of a vehicle and connected to an aftermarket radio to allow the original factory installed microphone to be compatible with an aftermarket radio. The microphone module includes a computer program that calibrates the factory installed microphone with the aftermarket radio that is originally embedded in the module memory. A method to remotely flash the module comprises steps of transferring a computer program to the microphone module, installing the microphone module in the vehicle, and calibrating the microphone module with the original factory microphone. The computer program may be specific to a make/model of a vehicle or universally applicable to all vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Automotive Data Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Panayotis Markou, André-Philippe Audette
  • UAV with open cargo bay and method of operation
    Patent number: 12168512
    Abstract: A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage including a top, a bottom, a cavity that forms a cargo bay between the top and the bottom, and a lower access opening in the bottom for lowering a payload from the cargo bay. A movable stage is coupled to the fuselage and adjustable between an upper position in which the stage is above the cargo bay and a lower position in which the stage is at the bottom of the fuselage, the stage including an opening extending through the stage. The UAV also includes a winch disposed in the fuselage and a tether coupled to the winch. The winch is configured to be secured to the payload and is movable through the opening in the stage so as to raise or lower the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Wing Aviation, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Blake, Andre Prager, Evan Twyford, Ivan Qiu, Jasper Lewin
  • Interior aircraft lighting assembly, aircraft passenger service unit with an interior aircraft lighting assembly, and method of operating an interior aircraft lighting assembly
    Patent number: 12168514
    Abstract: An interior aircraft lighting assembly comprises: at least one infrared lighting device for emitting infrared light; at least one further lighting device for emitting visible light; a lighting assembly controller for controlling an operation of the at least one infrared lighting device and of the at least one further lighting device; a supplementary infrared lighting device controller; and a power supply network, which is configured for supplying electric power from the lighting assembly controller to the at least one further lighting device. The supplementary infrared lighting device controller is tapped into the power supply network. The lighting assembly controller is configured to provide an electric trigger pulse on the power supply network for activating the at least one infrared lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Schön, Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl
  • Supporting arm system for a medical device, method for operating a support arm system for a medical device, method for operating a support arm system, and method for designing a support arm system
    Patent number: 12167983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support arm system (10) for movably holding at least one medical device, including at least one movably supported support arm (18, 20, 22, 24) which is configured to hold the at least one medical device, having at least one load detection device (26) which is configured to detect the respective load data of the support arm system (10) during usage thereof; in particular configured by moving the support arm (18, 20, 22, 24), and which is formed with at least one storage device (46) which is configured to store the detected load data. Further, the invention relates to a method for operating a support arm system (10) and method for designing a support arm system (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: ONDAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Trapp, André Pforr
  • Optical interrogation system and method
    Patent number: 12169173
    Abstract: The optical interrogation technique can use an optical prism having two opposite sides including a sample side and a refraction side, the sample side having a plurality of interrogation areas; a source assembly generating a collimated field of illumination directed towards the refraction side; a screen disposed in a screen plane intersecting the field of illumination and shielding the refraction side from the field of illumination, the screen having an aperture allowing a portion of the field of illumination to reach and be refracted by the refraction side, be totally internally reflected at one of said interrogation areas of the sample side, thereby generating a signal, the signal refracted back through the aperture, the screen being movable within the screen plane to shift the aperture and expose different portions of the field of illumination to corresponding ones of the interrogation areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
    Inventors: Maxime Joly, André Bégin-Drolet, Jesse Greener, Tianyang Deng
  • Method for operating a magneto-inductive flowmeter, and magneto-inductive flowmeter
    Patent number: 12169136
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a magneto-inductive flowmeter, wherein the magneto-inductive flowmeter has a measuring tube for conducting a flowable medium, at least two measurement electrodes for detecting a flow speed-based measurement voltage induced in the medium, and a magnetic field-generating device for generating a magnetic field which passes through the measuring tube, said magnetic field generating device having a coil. The method has the steps of applying a control voltage to the coil in order to generate a change in the coil current over time, and determining the change in the coil current over time in a change-over region, wherein the coil current is changed in the change-over region until a target coil current target is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Andre Spahlinger, André Schaubhut, Heinz Rufer, Thomas Küng
  • Infant positioner with repositionable entertainment component
    Patent number: 12167799
    Abstract: An infant positioner and an entertainment component that is useable with the infant positioner in different positions. The entertainment component can be placed in at least a first position and a second position different from the first position. The entertainment component is coupled to a support structure of the infant positioner while the entertainment component is in the first position as well as in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Rumfola, III, Nicholas Joseph Stachowski, Jairo Andres Hurtado
  • Breathing assistance apparatus
    Patent number: 12168097
    Abstract: An apparatus for delivering a flow of gas has a housing, a cover, and a magnetic coupling system arranged to magnetically couple the cover—to the housing. Each of the housing and cover having complementary locating features, the locating features being adapted to locate and align the cover and the apparatus relative to each other to allow for the magnetic coupling. The apparatus also has a handle movably connected to the housing and is movable from a first position to a second position. The housing and the handle comprise complementary interlock features arranged to engage with each other when upward force is applied to the handle in the second position, and the interlock features are disengaged from each other when the handle is in the second position but upward force is not applied to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Rachel Adeline Miller, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Andre van Schalkwyk, Ella Marie Meisel
  • Detection system with addressable units
    Patent number: 12170009
    Abstract: A detection system (10) for hazard detection is provided. The detection system (10) includes a control loop (16); an addressable base unit (18) connected to the control loop (16), the base unit (18) including a first near-field communication module (22) storing a unit address; and a mounting unit (20) removably coupled to the base unit (18), the mounting unit (20) including a second near-field communication module (24) operable to read the unit address from the first near-field communication module (22) and store the unit address so that the mounting unit (20) is thereby addressable via the control loop (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jordi Escofet Via, Andres Cordoba Galera, Ramon De La Torre Rodriguez
  • Turbomachine turbine having a CMC nozzle with load absorption and positional adjustment
    Patent number: 12168941
    Abstract: A turbine including a casing and a nozzle including an outer metallic shroud secured to the casing, an inner metallic shroud, and a plurality of nozzle segments made of CMC forming a crown extending between the outer shroud and the inner shroud, each segment including a strut, an inner platform, an outer platform and at least one airfoil having a hollow profile traversed by the strut, wherein for each airfoil, the outer platform includes an axial stop extending in outward radial protrusion from the outer platform, and the outer metallic shroud comprises a complementary axial stop extending in inward radial protrusion from the outer metallic shroud, the axial stop being upstream and axially bearing against the complementary axial stop, and machined with an angle of machining chosen to adjust the orientation of said at least one blade of the segment with respect to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Aurélien Gaillard, Clément Emile André Cazin, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Clément Jarrossay, Pascal Cédric Tabarin
  • Filter having a shaped rim structure and a flavor capsule
    Patent number: 12167747
    Abstract: A device for use while burning smoking material and inhaling the resulting smoke is disclosed. The device can include a filter comprising a filter element having a shaped rim structure and a recess formed in a surface of a body of the filter along a curved face extending from the first end to the second end, the recess extending radially into the body. The smoking accessory can include a capsule containing a flavoring agent disposed within the recess. The device may be received by a first end a tubular member formed to receive a smoking material, that when burned passes smoke into the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Good Tree International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunal Shoor, Brandon Puett, Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez
  • Optimization of supports for the additive manufacturing of a component
    Patent number: 12168255
    Abstract: A method for producing, by additive manufacturing, a part including at least one surface that must be held during the manufacturing, the method including: a step of forming a raw part by additive manufacturing, the raw part including a support including a pillar and a head which is an alveolar element connecting the pillar to the surface to be held; and a step of detaching the support from the rest of the raw part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Thomas Gricourt, Paul André Somazzi, Sylvain Zambelli
  • DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME CAMERA PARAMETER ESTIMATION
    Publication number: 20240412416
    Abstract: Data processing systems are disclosed for determining semantic and person keypoints for an environment and an image and matching the keypoints for the image to the keypoints for the environment. A homography is generated based on the keypoint matching and decomposed into a matrix. Camera parameters are then determined from the matrix. A plurality of random camera poses can be generated and used to project keypoints for an environment using image keypoints. The projected keypoints can be compared to the actual keypoints for the environment to determine an error and weighting for each of the random camera poses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Leonardo Citraro, Pablo Márquez Neila, Stefano Savarè, Vivek Jayaram, Charles Xavier Quentin Dubout, Felix Constant Marc Renaut, Andres Michael Levering Hasfura, Horesh Beny Ben Shitrit, Pascal Fua
  • Computer
    Patent number: D1054412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan Andersson, André Diekneite, Sebastian Drosdek, Stephan Hühne, Andreas Morlock, Nils Wischermann, Li Wei Wu
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D1054413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D1054415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Cushion
    Patent number: D1054420
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier
  • Light seal
    Patent number: D1054421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier
  • Adhesive bandage with decorated pad
    Patent number: D1054568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
    Inventors: Leonardo Caneppele, Andre Narcizo, Paulo Cesar De Godoy Oriani, Carmine Rizzo, Andre Luiz Santos