Patents by Inventor Daniel Nicolas

Daniel 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: 20240142016
    Abstract: A fluid management system includes a bladder assembly having a first sheet of weldable plastic material and a second sheet of weldable plastic material bonded to the first sheet to form welded areas surrounding and defining a plurality of bladder chambers between the first and second sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Stefano Nicola, Maxime Samain, Daniel Schmitz, Renato Colja, Robert J. McMillen
  • Publication number: 20240122495
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting a specified substance in an examination object by way of a magnetic resonance apparatus. A controller ascertains a magnetic resonance sequence comprising at least one sub-sequence for detecting at least one substance to be detected in the examination object as a function of the at least one substance to be detected, and ascertains at least one measuring instant for capturing a respective MRT signal to detect the at least one substance to be detected in the examination object as a function of the at least one substance to be detected. The at least one MRT signal is evaluated for fulfillment of a predetermined detection condition, and a presence of the at least one substance to be detected is established when the at least one MRT signal fulfils the predetermined detection condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff, Heiko Meyer, Thomas Vahle, Florian Maier, Wei Liu, Christianne Leidecker, Gregor Michael Körzdörfer, Peter Gall, Daniel Polak
  • Publication number: 20240082228
    Abstract: Disclosed herein include methods, compositions, and kits suitable for use in treatment and/or prevention of RNA viral infections. In some embodiments, the method comprises modulation of host factors related to RNA viral infection using compounds, compositions and kits disclosed herein. There are provided, some embodiments, compounds modulating host factors that govern SARS-CoV-2 replication. Disclosed herein include the use of compounds, compositions and kits disclosed herein to prevent and/or treat SARS-CoV-2 infection, for example by modulating the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: George NICOLA, Sumit CHANDA, Daniel HADERS, Monika RAMOS
  • Patent number: 11853750
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a portion of code, inputting the received portion of code to a probabilistic data structure to determine whether the portion of code is similar to one or more other portions of code, and based on determining that the one or more other portions are similar to the received portion of code, identifying a number of similar portions of code. The method also includes storing relationship data that associates the similar portions of code with the received portion of code, determining one or more subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the similar portions of code and the received portion of code and determining correlations between SME data and the relationship data, and storing the SME data and the correlations, the SME data including an indication of the determined SMEs, the relationship data correlating the one or more SMEs to the received portion of code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Robert Peter Catalano, Tyler Vezio Rimaldi, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Patent number: 11836060
    Abstract: Inputs to a system under test (SUT) are modeled as a collection of attribute-value pairs. A set of testcases is executed using an initial set of test vectors that provides complete n-wise coverage of the attribute-value pairs. For each execution of the testcases, for each attribute-value pair, a non-binary success rate (SAV) is computed based on the binary execution results. in response to a success rate of an attribute-value pair being below a predetermined threshold, a subset of testcases that use the attribute-value pair is identified. Further, sets of code paths for the subset of testcases are identified, each set of code path respectively corresponding to a testcase from the subset of testcases. Further, an intersection of the sets of code paths is determined. Code paths of the SUT that are in the intersection, are highlighted to represent a soft failure with the SUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Dale E. Blue, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20230293039
    Abstract: A method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset of an object includes using an imaging protocol in which a number of k-space lines are acquired in one shot. The imaging protocol includes a plurality of shots. A plurality of additional k-space lines are acquired in at least a subset of the shots, such that movement of the object is detected throughout the imaging protocol. A method for generating a motion-corrected magnetic resonance image dataset from the dataset thus acquired, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and a computer program are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Polak, Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff, Stephen Farman Cauley
  • Publication number: 20230200383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new trinexapac-ethyl microemulsion composition. Such compositions are useful in agriculture for regulating the growth of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Daniel Nicolas BROQUET, Rina SOLANKI
  • Publication number: 20230160989
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a motion-corrected magnetic resonance image of a subject includes providing k-space magnetic resonance data including a plurality of shots, wherein each shot corresponds to an individual motion state of the subject. The method further includes providing motion parameters related to each motion state, determining redundancies across the motion states of the plurality of shots based on the motion parameters, compressing the plurality of motion states based on the determined redundancies across the motion states, and reconstructing the magnetic resonance image from the k-space magnetic resonance data based on the compressed plurality of motion states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Polak, Stephen Farman Cauley, Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff
  • Patent number: 11656869
    Abstract: A method of analyzing code is provided. The method includes generating an abstract representation of the code, identifying conditional statements in the abstract representation, populating a truth table for each conditional statement that has been identified with all possible outcomes of the conditional statement and assessing the truth table for each conditional statement to identify issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael E. Gildein, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Patent number: 11630177
    Abstract: Systems and Methods that identify the effect of motion during a medical imaging procedure. A neural network is trained to translate motion induced deviations of a coil-mixing matrix relative to a reference acquisition into a motion score. This score can be used for the prospective detection of the most corrupted echo trains for removal or triggering a replacement by reacquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff, Julian Hossbach, Daniel Polak, Stephen Farman Cauley, Bryan Clifford, Wei-Ching Lo
  • Patent number: 11630663
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include determining, by a processor, a code segment of a computer code, analyzing the code segment to determine one or more other code segments associated with the code segment, determining a set of subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the code segment and the one or more other code segments, obtaining SME data for each SME in the set of SMEs, wherein the SME data comprises a set of attributes associated with the SME, generating, by the processor, a graphical representation of the set of attributes for each SME in the set of SMEs, transforming the graphical representations into an eigenvectors and eigenvalues, and ranking the SMEs based on their associated eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Robert Peter Catalano, Tyler Vezio Rimaldi, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20230072467
    Abstract: A method for read reference voltage calibration of a non-volatile memory, NVM, such as flash memory, particularly of the NAND type, comprises: Reading from the NVM predetermined reference data stored therein and being encoded with an error correction code, ECC, wherein the reading is performed when a read reference voltage of the NVM, which is used as a reference voltage, such as a threshold voltage, for the reading, is set at a defined voltage level; decoding the read data and observing a number of bit errors, e.g., in a codeword, of the read data in relation to the reference data; and defining a new voltage level of the read reference voltage for a subsequent reading of data from the NVM based on the observed number of bit errors and setting the read reference voltage to the defined new voltage level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Johann-Philipp THIERS, Daniel Nicolas BAILON, Juergen FREUDENBERGER, Jianjie LU
  • Patent number: 11523747
    Abstract: A method for operating a medical diagnostic system that is configured to use a system component of the diagnostic system to generate examination data of a person under examination during an examination procedure is provided. The examination procedure with control of the system component is controlled by a piece of control software, and a component driver exchanges control commands of the control software with the system component in order to control the system component. The method includes providing an event driver that communicates with the control software via an interface of the control software. Via the event driver, a first event is detected in the examination procedure and reported to the event driver. When the first event is detected in the examination procedure, the use of the system component in the examination procedure is modified to a first type defined by the event driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bauer, Thorsten Feiweier, Christian Köglmeier, Carsten Prinz, Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff, Michael Zenge, Michael Schneider
  • Publication number: 20220342018
    Abstract: Systems and Methods that identify the effect of motion during a medical imaging procedure. A neural network is trained to translate motion induced deviations of a coil-mixing matrix relative to a reference acquisition into a motion score. This score can be used for the prospective detection of the most corrupted echo trains for removal or triggering a replacement by reacquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff, Julian Hossbach, Daniel Polak, Stephen Farman Cauley, Bryan Clifford, Wei-Ching Lo
  • Patent number: 11436620
    Abstract: A method for facilitating utilization of processing resources of a plurality of user electronic devices for mining of cryptocurrency. A user application on each user device includes code for a cryptocurrency mining module and code for functionality different from cryptocurrency mining. Various mining activity data indicative of an extent to which each of the plurality of user electronic devices is utilized by a cryptocurrency mining pool to perform cryptocurrency mining operations is received. The method further includes receiving, from at least one of the cryptocurrency mining pool and a cryptocurrency server separate from the cryptocurrency mining pool, an aggregate amount of cryptocurrency. The aggregate amount cryptocurrency may be exchanged, by communicating with a cryptocurrency exchange server, for an aggregate amount of currency other than cryptocurrency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Stanciu, Daniel Nicola, Teodor Anton, Robert A. Clyde
  • Patent number: 11379352
    Abstract: Inputs to a system under test (SUT) are modeled as a collection of attribute-value pairs. A set of testcases is executed using an initial set of test vectors that provides complete n-wise coverage of the attribute-value pairs. For each execution of the testcases, for each attribute-value pair, a non-binary success rate (SAV) is computed based on the binary execution results. The method further includes outputting, to a user, in response to the success rate SAV of the attribute-value pair being below a predetermined threshold, an identification of one or more testcases that use the attribute-value pair, wherein the one or more testcases are to be used for diagnosing a soft failure associated with the SUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Dale E. Blue, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20220188105
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include determining, by a processor, a code segment of a computer code, analyzing the code segment to determine one or more other code segments associated with the code segment, determining a set of subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the code segment and the one or more other code segments, obtaining SME data for each SME in the set of SMEs, wherein the SME data comprises a set of attributes associated with the SME, generating, by the processor, a graphical representation of the set of attributes for each SME in the set of SMEs, transforming the graphical representations into an eigenvectors and eigenvalues, and ranking the SMEs based on their associated eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Robert Peter Catalano, Tyler Vezio Rimaldi, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20220188205
    Abstract: Inputs to a system under test (SUT) are modeled as a collection of attribute-value pairs. A set of testcases is executed using an initial set of test vectors that provides complete n-wise coverage of the attribute-value pairs. For each execution of the testcases, for each attribute-value pair, a non-binary success rate (SAV) is computed based on the binary execution results. in response to a success rate of an attribute-value pair being below a predetermined threshold, a subset of testcases that use the attribute-value pair is identified. Further, sets of code paths for the subset of testcases are identified, each set of code path respectively corresponding to a testcase from the subset of testcases. Further, an intersection of the sets of code paths is determined. Code paths of the SUT that are in the intersection, are highlighted to represent a soft failure with the SUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Dale E. Blue, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20220188103
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a portion of code, inputting the received portion of code to a probabilistic data structure to determine whether the portion of code is similar to one or more other portions of code, and based on determining that the one or more other portions are similar to the received portion of code, identifying a number of similar portions of code. The method also includes storing relationship data that associates the similar portions of code with the received portion of code, determining one or more subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the similar portions of code and the received portion of code and determining correlations between SME data and the relationship data, and storing the SME data and the correlations, the SME data including an indication of the determined SMEs, the relationship data correlating the one or more SMEs to the received portion of code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Robert Peter Catalano, Tyler Vezio Rimaldi, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi
  • Publication number: 20220188219
    Abstract: Inputs to a system under test (SUT) are modeled as a collection of attribute-value pairs. A set of testcases is executed using an initial set of test vectors that provides complete n-wise coverage of the attribute-value pairs. For each execution of the testcases, for each attribute-value pair, a non-binary success rate (SAV) is computed based on the binary execution results. The method further includes outputting, to a user, in response to the success rate SAV of the attribute-value pair being below a predetermined threshold, an identification of one or more testcases that use the attribute-value pair, wherein the one or more testcases are to be used for diagnosing a soft failure associated with the SUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Kevin Minerley, Dale E. Blue, RYAN THOMAS RAWLINS, Daniel Nicolas Gisolfi