Patents by Inventor Dominico P. Julian
Dominico P. Julian 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: 20230329165Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media that implement an autonomous or semi-autonomous growth platform used to control live cargo exposures to environmental parameters by changing depth in an offshore environment. For example, the growth platform can be lowered at night so that farmed seaweed can perform luxury uptake of nutrients and raised during the daytime so that the farmed seaweed can capture sunlight.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Dominico P. Julian, Charles Nordstrom, Jeff Zerger, Joel Fraser Atwater, Benjamin Lundquist Saenz
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Patent number: 11673329Abstract: An apparatus includes a precursor dispenser for dispensing a precursor material into a workspace, one or more acoustic sources configured to direct acoustic waves towards the workspace to provide acoustic fields that arrange the precursor material in a three-dimensional shape in the workspace, one or more sensors configured to detect a distribution of the precursor material in the workspace, and an electronic controller in communication with the precursor dispenser, the one or more acoustic sources, and the one or more sensors, the electronic controller being programmed to cause the one or more acoustic sources to adjust the acoustic fields to reduce deviations in the distribution of the precursor material from the three-dimensional shape in the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Patent number: 11533861Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media that implement an autonomous or semi-autonomous growth platform used to control live cargo exposures to environmental parameters by changing depth in an offshore environment. For example, the growth platform can be lowered at night so that farmed seaweed can perform luxury uptake of nutrients and raised during the daytime so that the farmed seaweed can capture sunlight.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Dominico P. Julian, Charles Nordstrom, Jeff Zerger, Joel Fraser Atwater, Benjamin Lundquist Saenz
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Publication number: 20220390948Abstract: An autonomous vessel and method for transporting a cargo from an origin to a destination utilizing water currents, a satellite location system, and a satellite communication system includes a hull for navigating a body of water. A communication module is adapted for wireless communication with local contacts and the satellite communication system. A propulsion module is adapted to propel the hull through the body of water and preferably includes one or more relatively low-power electric motors. A navigation module is adapted to steer the hull towards a next waypoint. The navigation module preferably includes a rudder control system and is connected with a location module that is itself adapted for communication with the satellite location system to find a current location of the hull on the body of water. A controller is adapted for controlling the modules, sending information, and for receiving commands and information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Dominico P. Julian, Jeffrey M. Zerger
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Publication number: 20220355546Abstract: An apparatus includes a precursor dispenser for dispensing a precursor material into a workspace, one or more acoustic sources configured to direct acoustic waves towards the workspace to provide acoustic fields that arrange the precursor material in a three-dimensional shape in the workspace, one or more sensors configured to detect a distribution of the precursor material in the workspace, and an electronic controller in communication with the precursor dispenser, the one or more acoustic sources, and the one or more sensors, the electronic controller being programmed to cause the one or more acoustic sources to adjust the acoustic fields to reduce deviations in the distribution of the precursor material from the three-dimensional shape in the workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Publication number: 20220330506Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media that implement an autonomous or semi-autonomous growth platform used to control live cargo exposures to environmental parameters by changing depth in an offshore environment. For example, the growth platform can be lowered at night so that farmed seaweed can perform luxury uptake of nutrients and raised during the daytime so that the farmed seaweed can capture sunlight.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Dominico P. Julian, Charles Nordstrom, Jeff Zerger, Joel Fraser Atwater, Benjamin Lundquist Saenz
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Patent number: 11413820Abstract: An apparatus includes a precursor dispenser for dispensing a precursor material into a workspace, one or more acoustic sources configured to direct acoustic waves towards the workspace to provide acoustic fields that arrange the precursor material in a three-dimensional shape in the workspace, one or more sensors configured to detect a distribution of the precursor material in the workspace, and an electronic controller in communication with the precursor dispenser, the one or more acoustic sources, and the one or more sensors, the electronic controller being programmed to cause the one or more acoustic sources to adjust the acoustic fields to reduce deviations in the distribution of the precursor material from the three-dimensional shape in the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Patent number: 11313838Abstract: An apparatus includes an acoustic source for directing an acoustic wave towards a workspace, a variable acoustic diffractive device positioned in a path of the acoustic wave between the acoustic source and the workspace, the variable acoustic diffractive device including an array of elements each having independently variable acoustic properties, and an electronic controller in communication with the acoustic source and the variable acoustic diffractive device, the electronic controller programmed to supply signals to cause the acoustic source to produce the acoustic wave and the variable acoustic diffractive device to diffract the acoustic wave from the acoustic source to provide non-uniform acoustic forces in a medium located in the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Publication number: 20200300814Abstract: An apparatus includes an acoustic source for directing an acoustic wave towards a workspace, a variable acoustic diffractive device positioned in a path of the acoustic wave between the acoustic source and the workspace, the variable acoustic diffractive device including an array of elements each having independently variable acoustic properties, and an electronic controller in communication with the acoustic source and the variable acoustic diffractive device, the electronic controller programmed to supply signals to cause the acoustic source to produce the acoustic wave and the variable acoustic diffractive device to diffract the acoustic wave from the acoustic source to provide non-uniform acoustic forces in a medium located in the workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Publication number: 20200298488Abstract: An apparatus includes a precursor dispenser for dispensing a precursor material into a workspace, one or more acoustic sources configured to direct acoustic waves towards the workspace to provide acoustic fields that arrange the precursor material in a three-dimensional shape in the workspace, one or more sensors configured to detect a distribution of the precursor material in the workspace, and an electronic controller in communication with the precursor dispenser, the one or more acoustic sources, and the one or more sensors, the electronic controller being programmed to cause the one or more acoustic sources to adjust the acoustic fields to reduce deviations in the distribution of the precursor material from the three-dimensional shape in the workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Dominico P. Julian, Benoit Schillings, Brian John Adolf
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Patent number: 10782371Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus includes a pair of permanent magnets spaced apart from each other and defining a sample space, the permanent magnets providing a magnetic field in the sample space, an array of magnetic field sensors arranged relative to the sample space to provide, during operation, information about a homogeneity of the magnetic field, an array of magnetic coils arranged relative to the sample space so that each magnetic coil, during operation, generates a magnetic field that changes the magnetic field in the sample space, and an electronic controller programmed to receive information about the magnetic field from the array of magnetic field sensors and to variably energize the magnetic coils in the array of magnetic coils so that the magnetic fields generated by the array of magnetic coils reduces inhomogeneities of the magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Dominico P. Julian, Pascal Pawel Stang
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Publication number: 20200072925Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus includes a pair of permanent magnets spaced apart from each other and defining a sample space, the permanent magnets providing a magnetic field in the sample space, an array of magnetic field sensors arranged relative to the sample space to provide, during operation, information about a homogeneity of the magnetic field, an array of magnetic coils arranged relative to the sample space so that each magnetic coil, during operation, generates a magnetic field that changes the magnetic field in the sample space, and an electronic controller programmed to receive information about the magnetic field from the array of magnetic field sensors and to variably energize the magnetic coils in the array of magnetic coils so that the magnetic fields generated by the array of magnetic coils reduces inhomogeneities of the magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Dominico P. Julian, Pascal Pawel Stang
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Publication number: 20200069293Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, an ultrasound transducer in the housing and positioned to direct ultrasound signals to a volume of a subject and detect reflected ultrasound signals from the volume of the subject, a magnet arranged in the housing and positioned such that a magnetic field of the magnet penetrates the volume of the subject, a radiofrequency (RF) system to perturb a nuclear spin polarization of nuclei in the volume of the subject and detect radio waves emitted from the volume, and an electronic controller programmed to compile an image of at least a first region of the subject based on the detected ultrasound signals and compile a magnetic resonance image of at least a second region of the subject based on the detected radio waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Dominico P. Julian, Pascal Pawel Stang
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Patent number: 10495121Abstract: A method and a device for measuring a fluid flow characteristic of an ambient fluid and modifying fluid flow of the ambient fluid, the method including: applying a first voltage between a first electrode and a second electrode, the first voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the first space; applying a second voltage between the first electrode and a third electrode, the second voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the second space; measuring a first current between the first and second electrodes, and a second current between the first and third electrodes; determining a fluid flow characteristic of the ambient fluid; and applying a third voltage between the first and second electrodes, the third voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the first space sufficient to modify fluid flow of the ambient fluid in the first direction in the first space.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Sylvia Joan Smullin, Cyrus Behroozi, Dominico P. Julian
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Publication number: 20190145443Abstract: A method and a device for measuring a fluid flow characteristic of an ambient fluid and modifying fluid flow of the ambient fluid, the method including: applying a first voltage between a first electrode and a second electrode, the first voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the first space; applying a second voltage between the first electrode and a third electrode, the second voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the second space; measuring a first current between the first and second electrodes, and a second current between the first and third electrodes; determining a fluid flow characteristic of the ambient fluid; and applying a third voltage between the first and second electrodes, the third voltage being sufficient to generate a plasma in the first space sufficient to modify fluid flow of the ambient fluid in the first direction in the first space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Sylvia Joan Smullin, Cyrus Behroozi, Dominico P. Julian
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Publication number: 20110226309Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a solar energy collection system that includes multiple longitudinally adjacent collectors is described. The collectors are coupled end to end to form a collector row. Each collector includes a reflector, one or more solar receivers and a support structure. There is a space between the support structures of adjacent collectors in the collector row, where the reflectors of the adjacent collectors extend beyond the underlying support structures to form a substantially continuous reflective surface over the space. A coupling device is positioned in the space between the tube assemblies. The coupling device connects and helps to rotate the support structures of the adjacent collectors. Some embodiments relate to various types of coupling devices and collector arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: SKYLINE SOLAR, INC.Inventors: Khiem B. Do, Kevin R. Langworthy, Gianfranco Gabbianelli, Eric C. Johnson, Dominico P. Julian, Marc A. Finot, Cameron G. Wylie
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Patent number: 7968791Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a solar energy collection system that includes multiple longitudinally adjacent collectors is described. The collectors are coupled end to end to form a collector row. The collector row extends along a longitudinal axis and is arranged to rotate about a pivot axis to track the sun in at least one dimension. Each collector includes a reflector, one or more solar receivers and a support structure. The support structure includes a tube assembly that underlies the reflector. The tube assemblies of the collector row are arranged end to end along the longitudinal axis. There is a space between the tube assemblies of adjacent collectors in the collector row, where the reflectors of the adjacent collectors extend beyond the underlying tube assemblies to form a substantially continuous reflective surface over the space. A coupling device is positioned in the space between the tube assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Skyline Solar, Inc.Inventors: Khiem B. Do, Kevin R. Langworthy, Gianfranco Gabbianelli, Eric C. Johnson, Dominico P. Julian, Marc A. Finot, Cameron G. Wylie
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Publication number: 20110023940Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a solar energy collection system that includes multiple longitudinally adjacent collectors is described. The collectors are coupled end to end to form a collector row. The collector row extends along a longitudinal axis and is arranged to rotate about a pivot axis to track the sun in at least one dimension. Each collector includes a reflector, one or more solar receivers and a support structure. The support structure includes a tube assembly that underlies the reflector. The tube assemblies of the collector row are arranged end to end along the longitudinal axis. There is a space between the tube assemblies of adjacent collectors in the collector row, where the reflectors of the adjacent collectors extend beyond the underlying tube assemblies to form a substantially continuous reflective surface over the space. A coupling device is positioned in the space between the tube assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: SKYLINE SOLAR, INC.Inventors: Khiem B. Do, Kevin R. Langworthy, Gianfranco Gabbianelli, Eric C. Johnson, Dominico P. Julian, Marc A. Finot, Cameron G. Wylie