Patents by Inventor Christopher Olivier
Christopher Olivier 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: 20250008541Abstract: In one aspect, a circuit includes a preamble generator to generate a preamble having a first field and a second field, the first field having a first sequence that is repeated a plurality of times, a length of the first sequence and a number of the plurality of times based at least in part on a range between a transmitter and a receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventor: Fabrice Christophe Olivier PORTIER
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Publication number: 20250007643Abstract: In one embodiment, a transmitter includes: a circuit to generate a packet having a preamble, a header, and a data portion, where the preamble and the header are dynamically adaptable based at least in part on a range between the transmitter and a receiver; and a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit coupled to the circuit to process and transmit the packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventor: Fabrice Christophe Olivier Portier
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Publication number: 20250007756Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in a receiver of a gateway, from a wireless device a radio frequency (RF) signal including a packet and processing the RF signal to obtain a digital stream; detecting and synchronizing, in the gateway, the packet based at least in part on a preamble of the packet; decoding, in the gateway, a header of the packet to obtain information associated with the packet; demodulating, in the gateway, a data portion of the packet into soft information; and sending at least a portion of the decoded header and the soft information from the gateway to a server coupled to the gateway, to enable the packet to be decoded using the soft information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventor: Fabrice Christophe Olivier Portier
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Publication number: 20240333567Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a circuit to: modulate a symbol with a sequence; extend the modulated symbol to obtain a plurality of modulated symbols; and perform, on the plurality of modulated symbols, a plurality of operations according to a Recipe of operations, to obtain extended and modulated symbols. The apparatus may further include a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit coupled to the circuit to process and transmit the extended and modulated symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventor: Fabrice Christophe Olivier PORTIER
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Publication number: 20240333569Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus comprises: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and process an RF signal comprising a packet, the RF front end circuit to output a digital signal comprising the packet; and a baseband circuit coupled to the RF front end circuit. The baseband circuit may comprise: a demodulator to receive the digital signal comprising a plurality of extended and modulated symbols and to: perform a plurality of operations on at least some of a first block of the plurality of extended and modulated symbols according to a reverse recipe of operations to obtain a processed first block of the plurality of extended and modulated symbols; aggregate the processed first block of the plurality of extended and modulated symbols into an aggregated symbol; and demodulate the aggregated symbol to obtain at least one soft value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventor: Fabrice Christophe Olivier PORTIER
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Patent number: 12025539Abstract: Disclosed is a module for sampling from a surface of an industrial vessel without requiring a person to descend into the industrial vessel, using a swab including a stem and a sampling tip, including a swab holder and a conveyor; the swab holder is adapted to receive and secure one end of the swab stem; and the conveyor is configured to set the swab holder in motion on the surface of the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: LABORATOIRE FRANÇAIS DU FRACTIONNEMENT ET DES BIOTECHNOLOGIESInventors: Christophe Olivier, Olivier Dupuis, Quentin Deltour
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Publication number: 20230062669Abstract: The present invention relates to an in-vitro method for detecting anti-erythrocyte antibodies in a sample, comprising at least the following steps: a) bringing the sample into contact with one or more test erythrocytes or a suspension of one or more test erythrocytes having a known phenotype, under conditions likely to induce hemagglutination, so as to obtain a reaction mixture; b) bringing the reaction mixture into contact with a solid substrate containing a plurality of defined adsorption areas which have previously fixed antibodies or antibody fragments capable of binding antigenic determinants present on the one or more test erythrocytes; c) ascertaining the presence or absence of a hemagglutination reaction in at least one of the adsorption areas so as to detect the presence or absence of anti-erythrocyte antibodies in the sample; the steps a) and b) being carried out separately or simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Pauline FOLLET, Pierre LEBRUN, Christophe OLIVIER, David POIRIER, Vianney SOUPLET
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Publication number: 20230049027Abstract: One example discloses a wireless device, comprising: an input configured to receive an interference signal; a transmitter configured to generate a transmit signal having either a first data rate or a second data rate; and a controller coupled to the input and the transmitter, and configured to define an interference threshold; wherein the controller is configured to command the transmitter to modulate the transmit signal at the first data rate if the interference signal is below the interference threshold, and modulate the transmit signal at the second data rate if the interference signal is above the interference threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Christophe Olivier Mertens, Antony Joseph
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Publication number: 20220034758Abstract: Disclosed is a module for sampling from a surface of an industrial vessel without requiring a person to descend into the industrial vessel, using a swab including a stem and a sampling tip, including a swab holder and a conveyor; the swab holder is adapted to receive and secure one end of the swab stem; and the conveyor is configured to set the swab holder in motion on the surface of the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Christophe OLIVIER, Olivier DUPUIS, Quentin DELTOUR
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Patent number: 10734961Abstract: A receiver includes at least a first amplifier configured to receive a received signal and provide a first amplified signal based thereon, a mixer configured to receive the first amplified signal and provide an intermediate frequency signal based thereon and a second amplifier configured to receive the intermediate frequency signal and provide a second amplified signal based thereon. An automatic gain controller for the receiver is configured to, based on a first overload signal indicative of a first frequency range of the first amplified signal having one or more frequency components exceeding a first maximum signal power threshold and a second overload signal indicative of a second frequency range, narrower than the first, of the second amplified signal having one or more frequency components exceeding a second maximum signal power threshold, provide for control of a respective gain of one or both of the first amplifier and the second amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Sebastien Robert, Fabian Rivière, Franck Bisson, Christophe Olivier Mertens, Samuel Becqué
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Publication number: 20190131949Abstract: A receiver includes at least a first amplifier configured to receive a received signal and provide a first amplified signal based thereon, a mixer configured to receive the first amplified signal and provide an intermediate frequency signal based thereon and a second amplifier configured to receive the intermediate frequency signal and provide a second amplified signal based thereon. An automatic gain controller for the receiver is configured to, based on a first overload signal indicative of a first frequency range of the first amplified signal having one or more frequency components exceeding a first maximum signal power threshold and a second overload signal indicative of a second frequency range, narrower than the first, of the second amplified signal having one or more frequency components exceeding a second maximum signal power threshold, provide for control of a respective gain of one or both of the first amplifier and the second amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Sebastien Robert, Fabian Rivière, Franck Bisson, Christophe Olivier Mertens, Samuel Becqué
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Patent number: 9671397Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting analytes, including a plastic substrate at least partially covered by bonding polymers attached to the substrate in a non-covalent manner, said bonding polymers comprising a polysaccharide backbone provided with aromatic groupings and carboxylic acid groupings.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Innobiochips, Universite De Lille 2 Droit Et Sante, Universite De Lille 1 Sciences Et TechnologiesInventors: Oleg Melnyk, Jean-Philippe Georges Bernard Ebran, Julien Philippe Dheur, Nabil Dendane, Vianney Souplet, Christophe Olivier
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Patent number: 8932009Abstract: A device for supporting a ring of a gas turbine, the ring configured to surround mobile blades of the turbine which are driven by a gas stream flowing upstream to downstream. The device includes at least one upstream hook facing upstream, to be housed in an upstream groove of the ring, opened toward the downstream direction, and at least one downstream hook facing downstream, to be housed in a downstream groove of the ring, opened toward the upstream direction. The hooks are protected and clearances at apexes of the blades are more easily controlled. The device further includes, upstream from the upstream hook, a mechanism injecting cooling gas to cool the upstream hook and/or includes, downstream from the downstream hook, a mechanism injecting a cooling gas to cool the downstream hook.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Christophe-Olivier Moraines, Frederic Philippe Jean-Jacques Pardo
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Publication number: 20140139402Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for producing a logical area-based hanging protocol for multiple monitor workstations. The method includes matching one or more monitors to one or more logical areas corresponding to the display characteristics of said monitors, specifying one or more visual components to be displayed in said logical areas, mapping said visual components to said logical areas, and displaying said visual components on the one or more monitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Dmitry Pavlov, Christopher Olivier, Maurizio Menni
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Publication number: 20140074010Abstract: A wearable apparatus (100) for directing electromagnetic radiation onto at least one tissue area is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least one radiation collection surface (101) for receiving incident electromagnetic radiation and at least one radiation emitting surface (102) adapted to direct electromagnetic radiation onto at least one target area of tissue to be treated. A light guide (103) is adapted to receive electromagnetic radiation received by at least one radiation collection surface and to direct at least part of the electromagnetic radiation to at least one radiation emitting surface, wherein a total surface area of the or each radiation collection surface is larger than a total surface area of the or each radiation emitting surface. Coupling means increases the proportion of electromagnetic radiation received by at least one radiation collection surface which enters the light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: POLYPHOTONIX LIMITEDInventors: Janos Veres, Christophe Olivier Miremont, Duncan John Hill
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Publication number: 20130304162Abstract: An apparatus (20) for directing electromagnetic radiation into a respective pupil of at least one eye of a user is disclosed. The apparatus comprises first radiation emitting means comprising at least one radiation emitting layer (8) adapted to emit electromagnetic radiation and second radiation emitting means (6} adapted to direct electromagnetic radiation into at least one eye and/or onto at least one eyelid of a user. A light guide (1) is adapted to receive radiation emitted by the first radiation emitting means and to direct at least part of the radiation to the second radiation emitting means, wherein a total surface area of the first emitting radiation means from which radiation is emitted is larger than a total cross sectional area of a beam of radiation entering the or each pupil of the user in use, in a direction transverse to an optical axis of the beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: POLYPHOTONIX LIMITEDInventors: Janos Veres, Christophe Olivier Miremont, Duncan John Hill
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Publication number: 20130203629Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting analytes, including a plastic substrate at least partially covered by bonding polymers attached to the substrate in a non-covalent manner, said bonding polymers comprising a polysaccharide backbone provided with aromatic groupings and carboxylic acid groupings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE 1 SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE 2 DROIT ET SANTE, INNOBIOCHIPSInventors: Oleg Melnyk, Jean-Philippe Georges Bernard Ebran, Julien Philippe Dheur, Nabil Dendane, Vianney Souplet, Christophe Olivier
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Publication number: 20120163957Abstract: A device for supporting a ring of a gas turbine, the ring configured to surround mobile blades of the turbine which are driven by a gas stream flowing upstream to downstream. The device includes at least one upstream hook facing upstream, to be housed in an upstream groove of the ring, opened toward the downstream direction, and at least one downstream hook facing downstream, to be housed in a downstream groove of the ring, opened toward the upstream direction. The hooks are protected and clearances at apexes of the blades are more easily controlled. The device further includes, upstream from the upstream hook, a mechanism injecting cooling gas to cool the upstream hook and/or includes, downstream from the downstream hook, a mechanism injecting a cooling gas to cool the downstream hook.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Christophe-Olivier Moraines, Frederic Philippe Jean-Jacques Pardo
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Publication number: 20070243623Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the presentation of polypeptides, a method for the preparation and the use thereof, as diagnostic tool (polypeptide chip) for miniaturized and highly parallel detection of structurally or functionally complementary molecules of said polypeptides, i.e. antibodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2003Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicants: Sedac Therapeutics, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Universite De Lille 2Inventors: Oleg Melnyk, Xavier Duburcq, Helene Gras-Masse, Christophe Olivier, Fengling Zhou, Claude Auriault, Ahmed Bouzidi
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Publication number: 20050042298Abstract: A functionalized composition for use in forming an immunonanoparticle. The functionalized composition includes a nanoparticle-forming polymer and a polymeric strand having a first end attached to the nanoparticle-forming polymer and a second end to which a conjugation agent is attached. The functionalized composition is combined with non-functionalized compositions to form nanoparticles compositions that can be used to provide targeted delivery of drugs and diagnostic agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2003Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: William Pardridge, Jean-Christophe Olivier