Patents by Inventor Fernando Miranda

Fernando Miranda 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).

  • Patent number: 10590743
    Abstract: A system and method are able to generate and dissipate heat internally to a certain submarine equipment by applying electric power, aiming to aid in the remediation and treatment of hydrate, which was formed in its inside, aiming its effective spreading. The said system is specially suitable to be used in submarine equipments involved in the fluids flowing linked to Oil and Gas Industry, and includes a cavity filled with a fluid suitable for heat transfer, in which a penetrator is installed thereon interlinking an encapsulated resistance to a compensated hose filled with dielectric oil housing inner electrical wires. The said hose has an electrical connector suitable for operating with ROV in its end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Alexandre Carvalhar Marins, Arthur Eugênio De Almeida Filho, Calvino Do Rosário Cordeiro Junior, Jose Felipe Freire Machado, Fernando Miranda Corrêa De Guamá
  • Publication number: 20180245431
    Abstract: A system and method are able to generate and dissipate heat internally to a certain submarine equipment by applying electric power, aiming to aid in the remediation and treatment of hydrate, which was formed in its inside, aiming its effective spreading. The said system is specially suitable to be used in submarine equipments involved in the fluids flowing linked to Oil and Gas Industry, and includes a cavity filled with a fluid suitable for heat transfer, in which a penetrator is installed thereon interlinking an encapsulated resistance to a compensated hose filled with dielectric oil housing inner electrical wires. The said hose has an electrical connector suitable for operating with ROV in its end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: FMC TECHNOLOGIES DO BRASIL LTDA
    Inventors: Alexandre Carvalhar Marins, Arthur Eugênio De Almeida Filho, Calvino Do Rosário Cordeiro Junior, Jose Felipe Freire Machado, Fernando Miranda Corrêa De Guamá
  • Publication number: 20080255949
    Abstract: Systems and methods of employing experimental tasks, neurological and physiological recording devices, and a sequenced process of data acquisition and analysis to produce measurements of pre-verbal and pre-conscious brain processes. An array of measurement devices are connected non-invasively to an individual (the subject). The subject experiences one or more external stimuli via any combination of senses, including visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and/or gustatory. Experimental tasks, data acquisition, analysis, and/or presentation steps are processed to ascertain the subject's pre-verbal and pre-conscious responses to the external stimuli, including attentional triggering, emotional valence and arousal, interest, engagement, and activation of higher cognitive processes such as memory, preference formation, and decision making.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: LUCID SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Genco, Fernando Miranda, Jennifer Mangels, David Remer
  • Publication number: 20060287618
    Abstract: A method and device for preventing RMI (Repetitive Motion Injury). Studies in adult monkeys have shown that RMI is accompanied by remodeling of the primary somatosensory cortical areas of the brain. The results of this is degradation in the sensory feedback from the cerebral cortex which appears to block normal adjustments by the subject in position and frequency that would prevent RMI. A variable amplitude, variable frequency generator and mechanical transducer contained in a small package and housed in a bracelet is applied to the extremity of a subject to transmit varying frequency signals that prevent the degradation in sensory feedback and as a result also prevent the development of RMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventor: Fernando Miranda
  • Publication number: 20030144610
    Abstract: A method and device for preventing RMI (Repetitive Motion Injury). Studies in adult monkeys have shown that RMI is accompanied by remodeling of the primary somatosensory cortical areas of the brain. The results of this is degradation in the sensory feedback from the cerebral cortex which appears to block normal adjustments by the subject in position and frequency that would prevent RMI. A variable amplitude, variable frequency generator and mechanical transducer contained in a small package and housed in a bracelet is applied to the extremity of a subject to transmit varying frequency signals that prevent the degradation in sensory feedback and as a result also prevent the development of RMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Fernando Miranda
  • Patent number: 6457975
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a person to learn a cognitive/functional task that requires a sequence of decisions and a corresponding sequence of actions. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a cognitive/functional task is decomposed into critical elements and non-critical elements. The critical elements have distinguishing features and are essential to the cognitive/functional task. The critical and non-critical elements are presented to a trainee in a predetermined sequence in a simulated environment through, for example, a virtual reality device. The trainee is trained to act in accordance with the critical and non-critical elements presented. Furthermore, a data processing system is used to monitor the actions taken by the trainee in the simulated environment in response to the presented critical and non-critical elements. Moreover, the learning receptivity and learning achievement by the trainee is measured via a brain wave detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventors: Fernando Miranda, Michael Shore, Robin Fried
  • Patent number: 4036414
    Abstract: A fabric creasing machine is disclosed for applying one or more creases in fabric. Only that portion of fabric to be creased is sucked by vacuum into the space between a pair of heated creasing bars by vacuum, and is subjected to steam while being pressed by the pressing bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Inventor: Fernando Miranda