Patents by Inventor Claude Nicolas

Claude Nicolas 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: 20230114908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fully disposable system for casting, polymerizing and compressing a hydrogel. The invention further relates to a method for producing a scaffold for the generation of artificial tissue products using said disposable system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Claude Nicolas HOLENSTEIN, Jerry DONNAN, Vincent RONFARD
  • Publication number: 20230101666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for automatically isolating viable cells from connective, epithelial or other tissue, and, if the tissue is multilayered, for automatically separating one tissue layer from another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Claude Nicolas HOLENSTEIN, Vincent RONFARD, Anna-Lena DITTRICH, Reto FREI, Christian Stefan WULLSCHLEGER, Jascha EISENBERG, Sebastian WOLLMANN
  • Publication number: 20140180953
    Abstract: A system for distributing perishable goods includes a remote central control station, a plurality of local control units, and a plurality of mobile storage containers. By wirelessly transmitting information between the remote central control system and local control units, controlled conditions within the associated mobile storage containers can be optimized to preserve the perishable goods within the containers during lengthy transport trips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Purfresh, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Westcott, Robert A. Hayes, Claude-Nicolas Fiechter
  • Publication number: 20130146256
    Abstract: The heat exchanger comprises a casing divided into two chambers (10, 11) that are connected to each other by numerous parallel tubes (23) each extending from a bottom heat-exchange face (5) to a top face (6) on which a pressing force may be exerted. The cooling fluid passes over the faces (5 and 6) in full, enabling heat to be removed well with great uniformity. The head loss is moderate. The heat exchanger (1) is flexible enough to fit against the surfaces of the elements (3) to be cooled while being capable, by means of the tubes, of withstanding the required applied force. Possible application for cooling power semiconductors or any other component requiring cooling or heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventor: Claude Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20130036068
    Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for logistical management of a cargo shipment. An exemplary method comprises receiving input data related to the cargo. An analysis of the input data may then be performed, and a logistical or movement protocol for the cargo shipment may be modified based on the results of the input data analysis. Various embodiments of the methods may also include comparing the input data to at least one predetermined standard and modifying the logistical or movement protocol if the input data deviates from the standard by at least a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Andrew Smith, Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, David Cope, Ray Hoobler
  • Patent number: 7219123
    Abstract: A mobile information network browser device with audio feedback and adaptive personalization capability that is capable of transmitting a request for information via a wireless communication interface from one or more servers in an information network. The browser device further includes an audio interface capable of receiving data from the wireless communication interface that is responsive to the request for information. The browser device interfaces with a wireless communication network so that it may be used in a mobile vehicle, such as an automobile. The order in which individual pieces of content in the requested information is presented to the user is modified based on indicators of the user's interest in a topic during previous sessions. Such indicators can include whether the user input a command to skip, fast-forward, rewind, or request more detail about a category, subcategory, or topic of information. The adaptive personalization capability can also prevent redundant content from being presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: At Road, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, Amir Ben-Efraim, T Hea Nahm, David Hudson
  • Patent number: 6699686
    Abstract: A DNA fragment coding for a modified nuclear glucocorticoid receptor, particularly one mutated in the region coding for the ligand binding domain, so that receptor activity is more strongly inducible by a synthetic glucocorticoid ligand than by a natural glucocorticoid ligand, is disclosed. A recombination system inducible in mammals by means of a fusion protein produced between a recombinase and the binding domain of the ligand derived from the modified glucocorticoid receptor of which the activity is more strongly inducible by synthetic glucocorticoids than by natural glucocorticoids, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Association pour le Development de la Recherche en Genetique Moleculaire (ADEREGEM)
    Inventors: Jacques Bertrand Brocard, Pierre Henri Chambon, Hinrich Gronemeyer, Daniel Metzger, Jean-Claude Nicolas, Sylvie Roux
  • Patent number: 6609051
    Abstract: A method and system for an improved vehicle monitoring system in order to provide a cost-effective and scalable system design for industrial application through the use of machine learning and data mining technologies on data acquired from a plurality of vehicles to create models. Frequent acquisition of vehicle sensor and diagnostic data enables comparison with the created models to provide continuing analysis of the vehicle with respect to repair, maintenance and diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, Mehmet H. Göker, Daniel Grill, Rainer Kaufmann, Thorsten Engelhardt, Achim Bertsche
  • Publication number: 20030114965
    Abstract: A method and system for an improved vehicle monitoring system in order to provide a cost-effective and scalable system design for industrial application through the use of machine learning and data mining technologies on data acquired from a plurality of vehicles to create models. Frequent acquisition of vehicle sensor and diagnostic data enables comparison with the created models to provide continuing analysis of the vehicle with respect to repair, maintenance and diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Claude-Nicolas Fiechter, Mehmet H. Goeker, Daniel Grill, Rainer Kaufmann, Thorsten Engelhardt, Achim Bertsche
  • Patent number: 5069869
    Abstract: A process for shaping penetrating projectiles useful in the manufacture of military ammunition, comprising: preparing an alloy of tungsten, nickel, iron and copper by powder metallurgy, compacting the alloy mass into a rough shaped blank having an axis of revolution, sintering the rough shaped blanks thereby producing a blank having a density of at least 17,000 kg/m.sup.3, and work-hardening the sintered blank at a temperature ranging from ambient temperature to 500.degree. C., thereby producing a blank having a variable degree of reduction in section in a direction parallel to the axis of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Cime Bocuze
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Nicolas, Raymond Saulnier
  • Patent number: 4350760
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the selective separation of a given protein substance having an affinity for a ligand from other substances some of them having the same affinity for the ligand but also having a high molecular weight, higher than that of said protein substance, said substances being in solution.The method consists of filtering said substances on a gel which excludes said high molecular weight substances, said gel being coupled with a ligand for which said protein substance has affinity.The method may be applied to enzymatic and especially to immunoenzymatic assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Nicolas, Beatrice Terouanne, Bernard Descomps, Andre Crastes de Paulet