Patents by Inventor Fernando Oliveira
Fernando Oliveira 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: 20240124657Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for optimization and recovery of second-generation sugar diluted stream, comprising pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and mainly washing the residual solid from the enzymatic hydrolysis, which allows the increase of sugar recovery. The use of this sugar diluted stream is crucial for process integration, may have different possibilities of use, for example, can be applied in the mechanical refining step, microorganisms propagation, enzyme production, fermentation, enzymatic hydrolysis, including combination of uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Luiz Fernando MARTINS BANDEIRA, Viviane MARCOS NASCIMENTO VICENTE, Carlos Eduardo DRIEMEIER, Christian ALEJANDRO QUEIPO, Danuza NOGUEIRA MOYSES, Absai DA CONCEIÇAO GOMES, Isabelle LOBO DE MESQUITA SAMPAIO, Ana Paula RODRIGUES TORRES, Felipe DE OLIVEIRA BRITO, Adriano DO COUTO FRAGA, Tassia LOPES JUNQUEIRA, Aline MACHADO DE CASTRO
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Patent number: 11838221Abstract: A system may receive a first definition for a virtualized instance of a network function. The first definition may include a first set of declarations in a first format that is different than respective formats supported by different virtualized environments. The system may select a first virtualized environment to run the virtualized instance based on requirements specified within the first definition, and may generate a second definition with a second set of declarations that map the first set of declarations from the first format to a second format supported by the first virtualized environment. The system may deploy the virtualized instance to the first virtualized environment using the second set of declarations from the second definition. Deploying the virtualized instance may include configuring its operation based on some of the second set of declarations matching a configuration format supported by the first virtualized environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Prasad Deviprasad, Hans Raj Nahata, Fernando Oliveira, Kristen Sydney Young
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Publication number: 20230262853Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for heating materials using microwaves, particularly applicable to the heating of ore products, which makes it possible to eliminate the use of fossil fuels (for example natural gas, coal, fuel oil, etc.) for generating heat for heating this type of material, rendering viable the use of microwaves for heating materials through a more efficient dispersion of the electromagnetic waves thereof. The present invention also relates to systems that make use of the heating device as set out above, and a method for heating using microwaves.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Mauro Fumio YAMAMOTO, Pedro Porto Silva CAVALCANTI, Fernando Oliveira BOECHAT, Reginaldo Elias da SILVA, Leonardo Rodrigues VENTURA, Leonardo Batista de Almeida SCARABELLI, Edvandro Rezende Rodrigues JÚNIOR, Thailli CONTE
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Publication number: 20230224257Abstract: A system may receive a first definition for a virtualized instance of a network function. The first definition may include a first set of declarations in a first format that is different than respective formats supported by different virtualized environments. The system may select a first virtualized environment to run the virtualized instance based on requirements specified within the first definition, and may generate a second definition with a second set of declarations that map the first set of declarations from the first format to a second format supported by the first virtualized environment. The system may deploy the virtualized instance to the first virtualized environment using the second set of declarations from the second definition. Deploying the virtualized instance may include configuring its operation based on some of the second set of declarations matching a configuration format supported by the first virtualized environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Prasad Deviprasad, Hans Raj Nahata, Fernando Oliveira, Kristen Sydney Young
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Publication number: 20230199628Abstract: Network devices may be configured to execute computer-executable instructions to instantiate a deployable unit based on the instructions. The instructions may include a virtual network function (VNF) template that includes: a virtualized deployment unit (VDU) template that describes the deployable unit that includes containers; and a connection point template bound to the VDU template. The deployable unit may provide services of a network function in an access network or a core network. The deployable unit may include an interface defined by the connection point template.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Fernando Oliveira, Hans Raj Nahata, Abhishek Kumar, Raquel Morera Sempere
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Patent number: 11546233Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 11321004Abstract: An inter-bus hub, within a hierarchical data bus system, has a partitioned log that includes a first partition and a second partition, where the inter-bus hub is coupled to a first data bus residing in a first segment and to a second data bus residing in a second segment. The inter-bus hub aggregates, based on at least one set of rules, first data from the first data bus, and stores the first data in the first partition. The inter-bus hub aggregates, based on the at least one set of rules, second data from the second data bus, and stores storing the second data in the second partition. The inter-bus hub relays the first data from the first partition to a first destination and relays the second data from the second partition to a second destination.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Publication number: 20220116287Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 11228508Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Publication number: 20210021487Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 10826798Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 10701801Abstract: The present application describes the creation of a flexible textile structure with sensing and lighting capabilities without the loss of important features of a typical textile, for instance, comfort, seamless and mechanical flexibility. As sensing applications are described three different approaches that may or may not work together in the same system: a directly printed self-capacitive sensor, a knitted textile sensor and the integration of temperature/humidity bulk capacitive sensors directly on the textile. As lighting applications for decorative and signage purposes are used two different approaches that could work individually or together: an electroluminescent sensing device and the use of a hybrid sensor that includes the use of SMD LEDs and a printed self-capacitive sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CONTINENTAL—INDUSTRIA TEXTIL DO AVE, S.AInventors: Eduardo Jorge Osorio Dinis, Manuel Joaquim Goncalves Pinheiro, Carla Marina Araujo Pires, Joao Luís Neto Guimaraes Pereira, Ines Rocha e Silva Valente De Matos, Joao Manuel de Carvalho Gomes, Vasco Goncalves Pimenta Machado, Antonio Fernando California Marques, Jose Fernando Oliveira Da Silva
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Publication number: 20200183603Abstract: An inter-bus hub, within a hierarchical data bus system, has a partitioned log that includes a first partition and a second partition, where the inter-bus hub is coupled to a first data bus residing in a first segment and to a second data bus residing in a second segment. The inter-bus hub aggregates, based on at least one set of rules, first data from the first data bus, and stores the first data in the first partition. The inter-bus hub aggregates, based on the at least one set of rules, second data from the second data bus, and stores storing the second data in the second partition. The inter-bus hub relays the first data from the first partition to a first destination and relays the second data from the second partition to a second destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 10663940Abstract: This application presents a solution for measuring different physical parameters from the felt and its surrounding environment, such as: pressure, temperature, humidity, pH, airflow and the degradation of the felt. It is disclosed a monitoring system, comprising: an independent measuring unit fixed in a felt, comprising at least one of the following sensors: temperature, humidity, pH, pressure or air flow; a central acquisition unit comprising a microcontroller, a real-time clock, a communication transceiver connected to at least one independent measuring unit and a communication transceiver connected to a computing device; and a polymeric encapsulation material layer. Applications for this technology are the monitoring of the felt and its surrounding environment in, for example, dry filtration, laundries, wet filtration and other suitable applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: VALMET, LDA.Inventors: Raul Fernando Patrocinio Natunes Lopes, Denis Albert Marie Francois Begasse De Dhaem, Luciano Silva Amaral, Miguel Bruno Vieira Ribeiro, Joao Luis Neto Guimaraes Pereira, Jose Fernando Oliveira Da Silva
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Publication number: 20200136929Abstract: A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) system reads, from a data bus coupled to the NFV system, Virtual Network Function (VNF) parameters published to the data bus by a new VNF. The NFV system publishes, to the data bus based on the VNF parameters, instructions to multiple components of the NFV system defining which VNF capabilities of the new VNF are to be managed, controlled, or monitored by which of the multiple NFV system components. The multiple components of the NFV system control, manage, or monitor the new VNF based on the published instructions. The data bus can include a Data Movement as a Platform (DMaaP) system that publishes and subscribes to streams of records.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Mourad B. Takla, Fernando Oliveira
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Patent number: 10242790Abstract: A number of toroidal ferromagnetic cores for an inductor may be arranged to form a ferromagnetic multi-core array, through which a calculated sequence of wire turns is wound. The array may be structured within certain permitting geometries, to a preferred geometrical shape for use within a downhole tool. The array of cores can take any practical form, include square, rectangular, hexagonal, circular, or the like, as long as the magnetic fluxes of all coils wound about a given core create a magnetic flux within the core that flows in the same direction within the core.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Fernando Oliveira da Fonseca
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Publication number: 20180302983Abstract: The present application describes the creation of a flexible textile structure with sensing and lighting capabilities without the loss of important features of a typical textile, for instance, comfort, seamless and mechanical flexibility. As sensing applications are described three different approaches that may or may not work together in the same system: a directly printed self-capacitive sensor, a knitted textile sensor and the integration of temperature/humidity bulk capacitive sensors directly on the textile. As lighting applications for decorative and signage purposes are used two different approaches that could work individually or together: an electroluminescent sensing device and the use of a hybrid sensor that includes the use of SMD LEDs and a printed self-capacitive sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Eduardo Jorge OSORIO DINIS, Manuel Joaquim GONCALVES PINHEIRO, Carla Marina ARAUJO PIRES, Joao Luís Neto GUIMARAES PEREIRA, Ines Rocha e Silva VALENTE DE MATOS, Joao Manuel de CARVALHO GOMES, Vasco Goncalves PIMENTA MACHADO, Antonio Fernando CALIFORNIA MARQUES, Jose Fernando OLIVEIRA DA SILVA
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Patent number: 10090766Abstract: A biasing circuit for a flyback converter can include a rectifier electrically coupled to an inductor of the flyback converter for generating a direct current signal from an alternating current signal outputted by the inductor in response to the inductor transferring an amount of energy to another inductor. The biasing circuit can also include a storage device electronically coupled to the rectifier to receive the direct current signal and store a charge. The biasing circuit can further include a limiting device electronically coupled to the storage device to provide an amount of the charge that is stored in the storage device to an input lead of a switch of the flyback converter for biasing the switch.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Fernando Oliveira da Fonseca
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Publication number: 20180208512Abstract: The present description relates to a ceramic plate having a polymer coating, and obtaining methods and uses of the ceramic plate. The polymer coating of the ceramic plate can comprise at least one polymer and up to 30% (m/m) of hollow glass microspheres having a size inferior to 90 microns. The ceramic plate can further include a crosslinking agent or an adhesion promoting agent, or a mixture of these agents. The ceramic plate allows for the reduction of a cold feeling. In order to reduce cold feeling, the present description further relates to ceramic coating plates with printed and encapsulated heating elements. The coating plates can be interconnected between plates by means of coupling elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Juliana Patrícia DA SILVA SOUSA, Ana Rute DA SILVA SAMPAIO E PORTELA, Joana DA FONSECA E BRANQUINHO DE PAIS MONTEIRO, Carla Joana SANTOS MARINHO SILVA, Pedro Miguel GUEDES SÃO MARCOS, António Miguel MEIRA GONÇALVES, Ana Rita BENTO MONTES, José Fernando OLIVEIRA DA SILVA, João Manuel DE CARVALHO GOMES
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Publication number: 20180129178Abstract: This application presents a solution for measuring different physical parameters from the felt and its surrounding environment, such as: pressure, temperature, humidity, pH, airflow and the degradation of the felt. It is disclosed a monitoring system, comprising: an independent measuring unit fixed in a felt, comprising at least one of the following sensors: temperature, humidity, pH, pressure or air flow; a central acquisition unit comprising a microcontroller, a real-time clock, a communication transceiver connected to at least one independent measuring unit and a communication transceiver connected to a computing device; and a polymeric encapsulation material layer. Applications for this technology are the monitoring of the felt and its surrounding environment in, for example, dry filtration, laundries, wet filtration and other suitable applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Raul Fernando PATROCINIO NATUNES LOPES, Denis Albert MARIE FRANCOIS BEGASSE DEHAEM, Luciano SILVA AMARAL, Miguel Bruno VIEIRA RIBEIRO, Joao Luis NETO GUIMARAES PEREIRA, Jose Fernando OLIVEIRA DA SILVA