Patents by Inventor Bernard Le Bars

Bernard Le Bars 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).

  • Autonomous cleaning device for seismic streamers and method
    Patent number: 9375763
    Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a marine element towed in water and related methods are provided. The cleaning device includes a body configured to enclose a marine element; at least one wing fixedly attached to the body and configured to impart translational motion to the body when flowing in water; and a keel attached to the body and configured to limit a rotation of the body. The at least one wing is oriented relative to the body so that the cleaning device travels from a head portion toward a tail portion of the marine element when the marine element is towed at an angle less than a triggering angle with a traveling direction of a vessel towing the marine element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: CGG SERVICES SA
    Inventors: Raphaël Macquin, Camille Lapierre, Bernard Le Bars
  • AUTONOMOUS CLEANING DEVICE FOR SEISMIC STREAMERS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20160001336
    Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a marine element towed in water and related methods are provided. The cleaning device includes a body configured to enclose a marine element; at least one wing fixedly attached to the body and configured to impart translational motion to the body when flowing in water; and a keel attached to the body and configured to limit a rotation of the body. The at least one wing is oriented relative to the body so that the cleaning device travels from a head portion toward a tail portion of the marine element when the marine element is towed at an angle less than a triggering angle with a traveling direction of a vessel towing the marine element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Raphaël MACQUIN, Camille LAPIERRE, Bernard LE BARS
  • Method of distributing scrambled services and/or data
    Patent number: 7827594
    Abstract: A method and system for distribution of scrambled data and/or services to at least one master terminal and to at least one slave terminal linked with the master terminal. The method and system transmit to the master terminal a first secret code and transmit to each slave terminal a second secret code in a biunique relationship with the first secret code, and authorize the reception of the data and/or services by a slave terminal only if the first secret code is previously stored in the slave terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Viaccess
    Inventors: Bernard Le Bars, Theo Van Aalst
  • Method of distributing scrambled services and/or data
    Publication number: 20060147042
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the distribution of scrambled data and/or services to at least one master terminal and to at least one slave terminal linked with said master terminal. This method comprises the following steps: transmitting to the master terminal a first secret code SM and to each slave terminal a second secret code SS in a biunique relationship with the first code SM, authorising the reception of the data and/or services by a slave terminal only if the first secret code SM is previously stored in the slave terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Bernard Le Bars, Theo Aalst