Patents by Inventor Christopher FOY
Christopher FOY 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).
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Publication number: 20240096317Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the conference call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Theresa Foy, Christopher Warren, Livia Johanna, Bharatkumar Patel, Leah Meyerholtz, Qingxuan Li, David J. Shuckerow, MinJie Tong, Vinayaka Dattatraya, Kendal Sparks, McKenna Morey
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Publication number: 20240092379Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the conference call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Livia Johanna, Theresa Foy, Christopher Warren, Bharatkumar Patel, Leah Meyerholtz, Qingxuan Li, David J. Shuckerow, MinJie Tong, Vinayaka Dattatraya, Kendal Sparks, McKenna Morey
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Publication number: 20240092389Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the conference call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Qingxuan Li, Theresa Foy, Christopher Warren, Livia Johanna, Bharatkumar Patel, Leah Meyerholtz, David J. Shuckerow, MinJie Tong, Vinayaka Dattatraya, Kendal Sparks, McKenna Morey
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Publication number: 20240098463Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Theresa Foy, Christopher Warren, Livia Johanna, Bharatkumar Patel, Leah Meyerholtz, Qingxuan Li, David J. Shuckerow, MinJie Tong, Vinayaka Dattatraya, Kendal Sparks, McKenna Morey
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Publication number: 20240098464Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert condition within the AV via data from an electronic sensor suite of the AV; based at least in part on detecting the alert condition, automatically initiating a call with another party; and communicatively coupling a passenger of the AV to the conference call, whereby the passenger can communicate with the other party via the conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Theresa Foy, Christopher Warren, Livia Johanna, Bharatkumar Patel, Leah Meyerholtz, Qingxuan Li, David J. Shuckerow, MinJie Tong, Vinayaka Dattatraya, Kendal Sparks, McKenna Morey
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Patent number: 11828405Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer line exchanger which is optimized for one or more objective functions of interest such as pressure drop, erosion rate, fouling, coke deposition and operating costs. The transfer line exchanger is designed by computer modeling a transfer line exchanger in which the cross section of flow path is substantially circular and modeling the operation of the transfer line under industrial conditions to validate the model design and its operation. Then iteratively the model design is deformed and the operation of the deformed part is modeled and compared to values obtained with other deformed models until the value of the objective function is optimized (e.g. at an extreme) or the change in the objective function is approaching zero.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Eric Clavelle, Edgar Yajure, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy, David Eisenhawer
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Patent number: 10962610Abstract: The Zeeman shift of electronic spins in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has been exploited in lab-scale instruments for ultra-high-resolution, vector-based magnetic sensing. A quantum magnetometer in CMOS utilizing a diamond-nanocrystal layer with NVs or NV-doped bulk diamond on a chip-integrated system provides vector-based magnetic sensing in a compact package. The system performs two functions for the quantum magnetometry: (1) strong generation and efficient delivery of microwave for quantum-state control and (2) optical filtering/detection of spin-dependent fluorescence for quantum-state readout. The microwave delivery can be accomplished with a loop inductor or array of wires integrated into the chip below the nanodiamond layer or diamond. And the wire array can also suppress excitation light using a combination of plasmonic and (optionally) Talbot effects.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Mohamed I Ibrahim, Christopher Foy, Donggyu Kim, Dirk Englund, Ruonan Han
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Publication number: 20210010618Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer line exchanger which is optimized for one or more objective functions of interest such as pressure drop, erosion rate, fouling, coke deposition and operating costs. The transfer line exchanger is designed by computer modeling a transfer line exchanger in which the cross section of flow path is substantially circular and modeling the operation of the transfer line under industrial conditions to validate the model design and its operation. Then iteratively the model design is deformed and the operation of the deformed part is modeled and compared to values obtained with other deformed models until the value of the objective function is optimized (e.g. at an extreme) or the change in the objective function is approaching zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Eric Clavelle, Edgar Yajure, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy, David Eisenhawer
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Patent number: 10816111Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer line exchanger which is optimized for one or more objective functions of interest such as pressure drop, erosion rate, fouling, coke deposition and operating costs. The transfer line exchanger is designed by computer modeling a transfer line exchanger in which the cross section of flow path is substantially circular and modeling the operation of the transfer line under industrial conditions to validate the model design and its operation. Then iteratively the model design is deformed and the operation of the deformed part is modeled and compared to values obtained with other deformed models until the value of the objective function is optimized (e.g. at an extreme) or the change in the objective function is approaching zero.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Eric Clavelle, Edgar Yajure, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy, David Eisenhawer
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Publication number: 20190235031Abstract: The Zeeman shift of electronic spins in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has been exploited in lab-scale instruments for ultra-high-resolution, vector-based magnetic sensing. A quantum magnetometer in CMOS utilizing a diamond-nanocrystal layer with NVs or NV-doped bulk diamond on a chip-integrated system provides vector-based magnetic sensing in a compact package. The system performs two functions for the quantum magnetometry: (1) strong generation and efficient delivery of microwave for quantum-state control and (2) optical filtering/detection of spin-dependent fluorescence for quantum-state readout. The microwave delivery can be accomplished with a loop inductor or array of wires integrated into the chip below the nanodiamond layer or diamond. And the wire array can also suppress excitation light using a combination of plasmonic and (optionally) Talbot effects.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Mohamed I. IBRAHIM, Christopher FOY, Donggyu KIM, Dirk ENGLUND, Ruonan HAN
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Patent number: 10357754Abstract: Oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins provides a lower energy route to produce olefins. Oxidative dehydrogenation processes may be integrated with a number of processes in a chemical plant such as polymerization processes, manufacture of glycols, and carboxylic acids and esters. Additionally, oxidative dehydrogenation processes can be integrated with the back end separation process of a conventional steam cracker to increase capacity at reduced cost.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Claire Jeannine Ennis
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Publication number: 20180236432Abstract: Oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins provides a lower energy route to produce olefins. Oxidative dehydrogenation processes may be integrated with a number of processes in a chemical plant such as polymerization processes, manufacture of glycols, and carboxylic acids and esters. Additionally, oxidative dehydrogenation processes can be integrated with the back end separation process of a conventional steam cracker to increase capacity at reduced cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Claire Jeannine Ennis
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Patent number: 10022699Abstract: The present invention provides low profile, thick (“stubby”) longitudinal fins having a cross section which is a parallelogram, trapezoid or a triangle extending from 10% to 100% of a coil pass and comprising from 3 to 45 weight % of a coil in a radiant section of a furnace for thermally cracking one or more of paraffins and naphtha. The fins provide an additional surface through which heat may be transferred to the coil making the coil more efficient reducing greenhouse emissions.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy
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Patent number: 10016741Abstract: The present invention provides low profile, thick (“stuby”) longitudinal fins having a cross section which is a parallelogram, trapezoid or a triangle extending from 10% to 100% of a coil pass and comprising from 3 to 45 weight % of a coil in a radiant section of a furnace for thermally cracking one or more of paraffins and naphtha. The fins provide an additional surface through which heat may be transferred to the coil making the coil more efficient reducing greenhouse emissions.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy
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Patent number: 10000706Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide components for a serpentine fluid reactor which is optimized for one or more objective functions of interest such as pressure drop, erosion rate, fouling, coke deposition and operating costs. The components are designed by computer modeling the components individually and collectively in which the cross section of flow path is substantially circular under industrial conditions to validate the model design and its operation. Then iteratively the component designs are deformed and the operation of the deformed part(s) is modeled and compared to values obtained with other deformed models until the value of the objective function is optimized (e.g. at an extreme) or the change in the objective function is approaching zero.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Eric Clavelle, Edgar Yajure, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy, David Eisenhawer
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Publication number: 20180161751Abstract: The present invention provides low profile, thick (“stuby”) longitudinal fins having a cross section which is a parallelogram, trapezoid or a triangle extending from 10% to 100% of a coil pass and comprising from 3 to 45 weight % of a coil in a radiant section of a furnace for thermally cracking one or more of paraffins and naphtha. The fins provide an additional surface through which heat may be transferred to the coil making the coil more efficient reducing greenhouse emissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Edward Christopher Foy
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Patent number: 9993798Abstract: Oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins provides a lower energy route to produce olefins. Oxidative dehydrogenation processes may be integrated with a number of processes in a chemical plant such as polymerization processes, manufacture of glycols, and carboxylic acids and esters. Additionally, oxidative dehydrogenation processes can be integrated with the back end separation process of a conventional steam cracker to increase capacity at reduced cost.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Claire Jeannine Ennis
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Patent number: 9630893Abstract: In the operation of an oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) process, it is desirable to remove oxygen in the product stream for a number of reasons, including to reduce oxidation of the product. This may be achieved by having several pre-reactors upstream of the main reactor having a catalyst system containing labile oxygen. The feed passes through one or more reactors saturated with labile oxygen. When the labile oxygen is consumed through a valve system, the pre-reactor accepts product from the main reactor and complexes reactive oxygen in the product stream until the catalyst system is saturated with labile oxygen. Then the reactor becomes a pre-reactor and another pre-reactor becomes a scavenger.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina
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Publication number: 20170106346Abstract: Oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins provides a lower energy route to produce olefins. Oxidative dehydrogenation processes may be integrated with a number of processes in a chemical plant such as polymerization processes, manufacture of glycols, and carboxylic acids and esters. Additionally, oxidative dehydrogenation processes can be integrated with the back end separation process of a conventional steam cracker to increase capacity at reduced cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Claire Jeannine Ennis
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Publication number: 20170081261Abstract: In the operation of an oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) process, it is desirable to remove oxygen in the product stream for a number of reasons, including to reduce oxidation of the product. This may be achieved by having several pre-reactors upstream of the main reactor having a catalyst system containing labile oxygen. The feed passes through one or more reactors saturated with labile oxygen. When the labile oxygen is consumed through a valve system, the pre-reactor accepts product from the main reactor and complexes reactive oxygen in the product stream until the catalyst system is saturated with labile oxygen. Then the reactor becomes a pre-reactor and another pre-reactor becomes a scavenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Xiaoliang Gao, Edward Christopher Foy, Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina