Patents by Inventor David LeBlond

David LeBlond 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: 20240148291
    Abstract: An imaging system, such as a surgical microscope, laparoscope, or endoscope or integrated with these devices, includes an illuminator providing patterned white light and/or fluorescent stimulus light. The system receives and images light hyperspectrally, in embodiments using a hyperspectral imaging array, and/or using narrowband tunable filters for passing filtered received light to an imager. Embodiments may construct a 3-D surface model from stereo images, and will estimate optical properties of the target using images taken in patterned light or using other approximations obtained from white light exposures. Hyperspectral images taken under stimulus light are displayed as fluorescent images, and corrected for optical properties of tissue to provide quantitative maps of fluorophore concentration. Spectral information from hyperspectral images is processed to provide depth of fluorophore below the tissue surface. Quantitative images of fluorescence at depth are also prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Pablo Valdes, Frederic Leblond, Keith D. Paulsen, Brian Campbell Wilson, David W. Roberts, Michael Jermyn
  • Patent number: 11937951
    Abstract: A method of generating corrected fluorescence data of concentrations of a targeted fluorophore in tissue of a subject includes administering first and second fluorescent contrast agents to the subject, the first contrast agent targeted to tissue of interest, the second agent untargeted. The tissue is illuminated with light of a first stimulus wavelength and first data is acquired at an appropriate emissions wavelength; the tissue is illuminated at a second stimulus wavelength and second data is acquired at a second emissions wavelength associated with the second agent, the first and second emissions wavelength differ. Difference data is generated by subtracting the second data from the first data. A system provides for stimulus and capture at multiple wavelengths, with image storage memory and subtraction code, to perform the method. Corrected data may form an fluorescence image, or is used to generate fluorescence tomographic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Trustees of Dartmouth College
    Inventors: Kenneth Tichauer, Robert W. Holt, Frederic Leblond, Pablo Valdes, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11584506
    Abstract: An aircraft and an aircraft wing assembly for an aircraft. The wing assembly includes a wing body assembly including a wing body; and at least one protruding portion connected to the wing body. The protruding portion extends aftwardly from an aft side of the wing body assembly, a leading edge of the wing body assembly defining a leading edge line, a trailing edge of the wing body assembly defining a trailing edge line extending between the inboard end and the outboard end, the trailing edge including a trailing edge of the protruding portion, the trailing edge line being a smooth line, a chord distance being defined longitudinally from the leading edge line to the trailing edge line, the chord distance at a center of the protruding portion being greater than the chord distance inboard of protruding portion and outboard of the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Fassi Kafyeke, Francois Pepin, Farzad Mokhtarian, David Leblond
  • Publication number: 20210197961
    Abstract: A winglet system for a wing of an aircraft is provided. The winglet system comprises an attachment end for attachment to a main wing of the aircraft, an upper winglet and a lower winglet. The upper and lower winglets are staggered and also overlap one another along the chord of the attachment end. A spanwise profile of the lower winglet has a midpoint where a slope of the spanwise profile at a point outboard of the midpoint is inclined more upwardly than a slope of the spanwise profile at the midpoint. The configuration of the winglet system may provide benefits such as a reduced bending moment and reduced negative interference between the winglets while also managing ground clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Pascal BOCHUD, David LEBLOND, François PEPIN
  • Publication number: 20200239126
    Abstract: An aircraft and an aircraft wing assembly for an aircraft. The wing assembly includes a wing body assembly including a wing body; and at least one protruding portion connected to the wing body. The protruding portion extends aftwardly from an aft side of the wing body assembly, a leading edge of the wing body assembly defining a leading edge line, a trailing edge of the wing body assembly defining a trailing edge line extending between the inboard end and the outboard end, the trailing edge including a trailing edge of the protruding portion, the trailing edge line being a smooth line, a chord distance being defined longitudinally from the leading edge line to the trailing edge line, the chord distance at a center of the protruding portion being greater than the chord distance inboard of protruding portion and outboard of the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Fassi KAFYEKE, Francois PEPIN, Farzad MOKHTARIAN, David LEBLOND
  • Publication number: 20130078284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Tzuchi R. Ju, Claudia M. Davila, Yi Gao, Linda E. Gustavson, David LeBlond, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20120171262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Tzuchi R. Ju, Claudia M. Davila, Yi Gao, Linda E. Gustavson, David LeBlond, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100310607
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Tzuchi R. Ju, Claudia M. Davila, Yi Gao, Linda E. Gustavson, David LeBlond, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20070185199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Tzuchi Ju, Claudia Davila, Yi Gao, Linda Gustavson, David LeBlond, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20070148234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Tzuchi Ju, Claudia Davila, Kevin Engh, Yi Gao, Linda Gustavson, Shyamala Jayaraman, David LeBlond, Dennis Lee, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20060280791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Tzuchi Ju, Claudia Davila, Kevin Engh, Yi Gao, Linda Gustavson, Shyamala Jayaraman, David LeBlond, Dennis Lee, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20060280790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral formulations comprising an active agent comprising at least one of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid, salts of 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid or buffered 2-[4-(4-chlorobenzoyl)phenoxy]-2-methyl-propanoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Tzuchi Ju, Claudia Davila, Yi Gao, Linda Gustavson, David LeBlond, Tong Zhu
  • Patent number: D930549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Bochud, David Leblond, François Pepin
  • Patent number: D978057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Bochud, David Leblond, François Pepin
  • Patent number: D1013609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Pascal Bochud, David Leblond, François Pepin