Patents by Inventor Christophe Colin

Christophe Colin 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: 20250135726
    Abstract: Indirect additive manufacturing installation for indirect additive manufacturing by projection of binder onto a powder bed, comprising a support, a powder supply means configured to form successive powder beds on the support, a print head configured to selectively project the binder onto each of the successive powder beds, and a counting device for counting the drops of binder projected by the print head onto the powder beds. A method for indirect additive manufacturing by projecting binder onto a powder bed, comprising forming successive powder beds on a support, selectively projecting binder onto each of the powder beds, the method further comprising counting the projected binder drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin SANGOUARD, Christophe COLIN, Emmanuel DIOH, Brieuc BADIN
  • Patent number: 12246911
    Abstract: A transport container for bulk cargo/materials has a rectangular base and four sidewalls. The sidewalls are hingedly connected to the base and movable from an erect condition, providing a box structure for loading of the container, into a folded flat condition for stacking of the container. The base includes hinged floor for discharge of the particulate material contents by lifting the container with forklift engaging formations at an upper end of two oppositely arranged sidewalls. Forklift sleeves on an underside of the floor allow for movement of the loaded container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Colin James
  • Patent number: 12227407
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a bottle is disclosed. The bottle includes a main storage area, a dosage storage chamber, and a dispensing neck. The dosage storage chamber is coupled to the main storage area via a fluid channel. The dispensing neck extends from the dosage storage chamber for dispensing a content of the bottle. In a case that the dispensing neck is positioned parallel with the ground, the content of the bottle in the dosage storage chamber will not flow into the dispensing neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: David Zevetchin, Christopher Colin Buckman, Ralph Lynch
  • Patent number: 12140528
    Abstract: A corrosion sensor is described. The corrosion sensor comprises a substrate 10 and a patterned conductive layer provided on the substrate 10, wherein the conductive layer defines: a common terminal; a set of terminals, including a first terminal and a second terminal; and a set of sensing elements, including a first sensing element and a second sensing element; wherein respective sensing elements of the set thereof are electrically coupled to the common terminal and to respective terminals of the set thereof, such that the respective terminals of the set thereof are specific to the respective sensing elements of the set thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Mark David Balmond, Ian Michael Sturland, David William Gough, Christopher Colin Figgures
  • Patent number: 11986379
    Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp
  • Publication number: 20230243737
    Abstract: A corrosion sensor is described. The corrosion sensor comprises a substrate 10 and a patterned conductive layer provided on the substrate 10, wherein the conductive layer defines: a common terminal; a set of terminals, including a first terminal and a second terminal; and a set of sensing elements, including a first sensing element and a second sensing element; wherein respective sensing elements of the set thereof are electrically coupled to the common terminal and to respective terminals of the set thereof, such that the respective terminals of the set thereof are specific to the respective sensing elements of the set thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Mark David Balmond, Ian Michael Sturland, David William Gough, Christopher Colin Figgures
  • Publication number: 20230233384
    Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ray Dennis DRIA, Michael Joseph PAGE, Joseph Leslie GROLMES, Scott Alan KING, Matthew Steven RITTER, Christopher Colin ARP
  • Publication number: 20230177376
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a quantum processing device comprising: one or more functional nanowires, each functional nanowire connected to at least one of a source and a drain; a sensing nanowire spaced from the one or more functional nanowires and connected to at least one of a source and a drain; one or more gate electrodes capacitively coupled with each of the one or more functional nanowires; one or more electrodes capacitively coupled with the sensing nanowire; and a floating coupler positioned between and electrostatically coupling the one or more functional nanowires and the sensing nanowire; and a controller connected to the one or more gates of the sensing nanowire and the one or more gates of the one or more functional nanowires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Diraq Pty Ltd, Commissariat a L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Maud VINET, Louis HUTIN, William James GILBERT, Andre Luiz SARAIVA DE OLIVEIRA, Christopher Colin ESCOTT
  • Publication number: 20230168181
    Abstract: Specimens for evaluating corrosion protection of substrates due, at least in part, to coatings applied thereupon are described. A specimen (1) comprises: a first coating (10), comprising a first set of layers (11) including a first layer (11A), on a first substrate (12); and a first set of perforations (100), including a first perforation (100A) and a second perforation (100B), in the first coating (10), wherein the first perforation (100A) has a first depth D1 through the first coating (10) and a first dimension W1 transverse to the first depth, wherein the second perforation (100B) has a second depth D2 through the first coating (10) and a second dimension transverse to the second depth D2 and wherein the first dimension W1 and the second dimension W2 are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Rebecka Eley, Mark David Balmond, Christopher Colin Figgures, Ian Michael Sturland, Simon Robert Church
  • Patent number: 11642255
    Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp
  • Patent number: 11544444
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of phonetically encoding a text document. The method comprises providing, for a current word in the text document, a phonetically equivalent encoded word comprising one or more syllables, each syllable comprising a sequence of phonemes from a predetermined phoneme set, the sequence being phonetically equivalent to the corresponding syllable in the current word, and adding the phonetically equivalent encoded word or the current word at a current position in the phonetically encoded document, Each phoneme in the phoneme set is associated with a base grapheme that is pronounced as the phoneme in one or more English words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Readable English, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Colin Stephen, Ann Elizabeth Fitts
  • Patent number: 11514241
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for transforming a hierarchical document object model (DOM) to filter non-rendered elements, including parsing elements in a hierarchical DOM to identify one or more tags, any properties, and any values of the elements, removing invisible elements determined based on properties of each invisible element, each invisible element comprising an element of the DOM that is hidden from a user when the DOM is rendered, removing empty elements based on the tags of each element, each empty element comprising a tag without any associated values, identifying remaining elements of the hierarchical DOM that have parent elements that have been removed from the hierarchical DOM, and re-parenting the remaining elements to new parent elements remaining in the hierarchical DOM based on traversing the hierarchical DOM from each of the remaining elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: THE ORIGINAL SOFTWARE GROUP LTD
    Inventor: Christopher Colin Armitage
  • Patent number: 11254040
    Abstract: A subject of the invention is a process for surfacing or resurfacing a metal part by laser-assisted deposition of a filler material in order to produce an abradable coating of the part, the process being characterized in that the filler material is an iron-based powder comprising vanadium, chromium, nickel, boron, silicon and carbon, in that the laser has an operational wavelength ranging from 900 nm to 1100 nm and in that it comprises the irradiation of the part by a laser beam such that the specific energy (SE) varies from 5 J/mg to 10 J/mg and such that the linear density (LD) varies from 25 mg/mm to 55 mg/mm. Another subject of the invention is the surfaced or resurfaced metal part. Another subject of the invention is a pre-alloy in iron-based powder form, comprising vanadium, chromium, nickel, boron, silicon and carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERAL DES ETABLISSISIEMENTS MICHELIN CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE, ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS-A.R.M.IN.E.S., ECOLE NATIONALE D'INGENIEURS DE SAINT ETIENNE SAINT ETIENNE, FRANCE, DMA LASER
    Inventors: Bernard Cappa, Cédric Carlavan, Christophe Colin, Maryane Jacquier, Julien Sijobert, Ludovic Thivillon
  • Publication number: 20210347561
    Abstract: A transport container for bulk cargo/materials has a rectangular base and four sidewalls. The sidewalls are hingedly connected to the base and movable from an erect condition, providing a box structure for loading of the container, into a folded flat condition for stacking of the container. The base includes hinged floor for discharge of the particulate material contents by lifting the container with forklift engaging formations at an upper end of two oppositely arranged sidewalls. Forklift sleeves on an underside of the floor allow for movement of the loaded container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Colin JAMES
  • Publication number: 20210342531
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for transforming a hierarchical document object model (DOM) to filter non-rendered elements, including parsing elements in a hierarchical DOM to identify one or more tags, any properties, and any values of the elements, removing invisible elements determined based on properties of each invisible element, each invisible element comprising an element of the DOM that is hidden from a user when the DOM is rendered, removing empty elements based on the tags of each element, each empty element comprising a tag without any associated values, identifying remaining elements of the hierarchical DOM that have parent elements that have been removed from the hierarchical DOM, and re-parenting the remaining elements to new parent elements remaining in the hierarchical DOM based on traversing the hierarchical DOM from each of the remaining elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Colin Armitage
  • Patent number: 11148204
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a part by selective melting or sintering of powder beds by high energy beam, the method including a) providing a material in the form of powder particles; b) depositing a first powder layer on a support; c) scanning a region of the first layer with the beam to heat the powder locally to a temperature higher than the powder sintering temperature, such that the powder particles as melted or sintered form a first single-piece element; d) depositing a second powder layer on the first powder layer; e) scanning a region of the second layer with the beam to heat the powder to a temperature higher than the powder sintering temperature, so that the particles of powder as sintered or melted form a second single-piece element; and f) repeating d) and e) for each new powder layer laid over a preceding layer until the part is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, MBDA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe Colin, Jean-Baptiste Mottin, Laëtitia Kirschner, Gérard Saussereau
  • Patent number: 10967460
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a part includes: a) supplying powder particles; b) melting a first quantity of power with a beam and forming, on a support, a first pool including the melted powder and a portion of the support; c) forming a second pool by melting a second quantity of powder on the support; d) repeating c) to form a first layer; e) heating an [n]th quantity of the powder, and forming an [n]th pool above the first layer; f) heating an [n+1]th quantity of the powder, and forming an [n+1]th pool downstream from the [n]th pool above the first layer; g) repeating f) to form a second layer above the first layer; and h) repeating e) to g) until the part is constructed. The powder particles reaching each pool are at a temperature well below the pool temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, MBDA FRANCE
    Inventors: Christophe Colin, Julie Maisonneuve, Gérard Saussereau
  • Patent number: 10941039
    Abstract: Dihydrogen metaphosphate can be synthesized via protonation, and can react with a dehydrating agent to afford tetrametaphosphate anhydride. A monohydrogen tetrametaphosphate organic ester can be derived from the anhydride. A metal tetrametaphosphate complex can be prepared using a metal salt and a dihydrogen tetrametaphosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yanfeng Jiang, Khetpakorn Chakarawet, Julia Stauber, Christopher Colin Cummins
  • Patent number: D973200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp
  • Patent number: D1031026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp