Patents by Inventor Francisco A. Navarro
Francisco A. Navarro 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: 20240379011Abstract: A process and machine configured to move resources. The process including: receiving petitions in a resource mover for a utilization, over a time period, by a vehicle of a number of resources; assigning by the resource mover a set of RUPs to each resource over the time period; determining, using a trigger, a mode of operation for the resource mover; deriving, accounting for factors affecting the resources, availability of RUPs, for each resource in the number of resources, over the time period; establishing a maxrety, respectively, allocating utilization of the RUPs for each resource in the number of resources over the time period; and controlling, according to the maxrety, utilizing the resources over the time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Zarrin Chua, Alfredo Giuliano, Francisco A. Navarro Félix, Manuela Sauer, Martin Kearney-Fischer
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Patent number: 12136350Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for operating air vehicles. Missions for the air vehicles are grouped into categories based on durations of the missions. The missions within the categories are clustered into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed to meet a set of mission performance criteria. The subsets of the missions are assigned to a set of air vehicle supervisors.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of the Boeing CompanyInventors: Francisco A. Navarro Félix, Zarrin Chua, Alfredo Giuliano, Martin Kearney-Fischer, Tim Moser, Christopher John Devine, Jakob Widauer
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Patent number: 11953329Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for planning multimodal travel. A planning request for the multimodal travel from a first location to an second location is received. Candidate routes are determined for a passenger that is customized for a set of customization parameters a using the first location, the second location, and a set of passenger preferences. A candidate route in the candidate routes comprises a first leg from the first location to a first vertiport via a first modality, a second leg for a passenger air vehicle to travel from the first vertiport to a second vertiport using an air modality, and a third leg from the second vertiport to the second location using a second modality. The candidate route in the candidate routes is selected to form a route for the multimodal travel for the passenger when a user input is received selecting the candidate route.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences CorporationInventors: Zarrin Chua, Martin Kearney-Fischer, Francisco A. Navarro Félix
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Publication number: 20240101312Abstract: Disclosed is a bag that is produced continuously, forming a group of bags that occupy a minimum volume, the bags being individually detached from the group by means of precut lines, such that the bags are supported on dispensing means by means of upper and lateral sectors (10) delimited by precut lines (7), the tearing of which determines a handle (8) for the bag with the corresponding hole (9) thereof for inserting the fingers of a hand, the bag being separated from the lateral sectors (10). The bags have a bottom determined by three parallel folding lines that allow a W shape to be obtained, such that the bag is flat when not in use, incorporating a double-wall reinforcement at the level of the handle. The bag could optionally be produced using three bands, two end paper bands and a transparent intermediate band, fastened parallel to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventor: Jose Francisco NAVARRO MECHO
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Patent number: 11900281Abstract: In an example, a method for optimizing energy loading in airline operations is described. The method includes receiving a flight plan of an aircraft indicative of a plurality of landing sites and a corresponding plurality of flight legs. The method includes determining an energy load of the aircraft associated with each flight leg. The energy load corresponds to an amount of fuel used during the flight leg. The method includes calculating a fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at a landing site of each flight leg. The fuel value score relates to a refueling estimate at the landing site and a time for refueling at the landing site. The method includes determining a fueling plan based at least on the energy load of the aircraft at each flight leg and the fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at the landing site of each flight leg.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Italo Romani de Oliveira, Francisco A. Navarro, Onofre Andrade
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Publication number: 20230222924Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing vertiport resources. A capacity for handling air traffic at a vertiport is determined. An allocation of arrival slots, departure slots, and service slots for the air traffic using the vertiport is managed based on the capacity determined for the vertiport.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Zarrin Chua, Alfredo Giuliano, Francisco A. Navarro Félix, Manuela Sauer, Martin Kearney-Fischer
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Publication number: 20230026286Abstract: A method for monitoring of a wind turbine including: a) acquiring respective values of one or more operation variables of the wind turbine at the corresponding operation time point; b) determining the value of a tower clearance resulting from the acquired values of the operation variables with the aid of a trained data driven model, where the value of an output variable which is the tower clearance or a variable correlated with the tower clearance is predicted by feeding the acquired value of each operation variable as a digital input to the trained data driven model which outputs the predicted value of the output variable as a digital output, the tower clearance being shortest the distance between the tower and the tip of a specific rotor blade from the rotor blades when the specific rotor blade is in its lowermost position in which it points downward in the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Bert Gollnick, Francisco Navarro Víllora
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Publication number: 20220290998Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for planning multimodal travel. A planning request for the multimodal travel from a first location to an second location is received. Candidate routes are determined for a passenger that is customized for a set of customization parameters a using the first location, the second location, and a set of passenger preferences. A candidate route in the candidate routes comprises a first leg from the first location to a first vertiport via a first modality, a second leg for a passenger air vehicle to travel from the first vertiport to a second vertiport using an air modality, and a third leg from the second vertiport to the second location using a second modality. The candidate route in the candidate routes is selected to form a route for the multimodal travel for the passenger when a user input is received selecting the candidate route.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Zarrin Chua, Martin Kearney-Fischer, Francisco A. Navarro Félix
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Publication number: 20220284823Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for operating air vehicles. Missions for the air vehicles are grouped into categories based on durations of the missions. The missions within the categories are clustered into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed to meet a set of mission performance criteria. The subsets of the missions are assigned to a set of air vehicle supervisors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Francisco A. Navarro Félix, Zarrin Chua, Alfredo Giuliano, Martin Kearney-Fischer, Tim Moser, Christopher John Devine, Jakob Widauer
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Patent number: 11262764Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a system for generating a path for a vehicle from a source to a target within a two-dimensional (2D) environment with one or more obstacles is disclosed. The obstacles may be dynamic, static or both. The method comprises generating, in a two dimensions-plus-time space, a velocity cone that represents a set of potential waypoints reachable from a first source for the vehicle moving at a speed, providing a polytope, obtaining at least one interception polygon by intersecting and projecting the velocity cone with the polytope on the 2D region; generating a 2D scene comprising interception polygons to avoid, computing a visibility graph algorithm for the 2D scene and obtaining a plurality of conflict-free sub-paths, and composing a valid path connecting the source to the target based on the plurality of conflict-free sub-paths.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Francisco A. Navarro, Lucas Rodriguez Diaz, Ernesto Valls Hernandez
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Publication number: 20220017594Abstract: Provided herein are populations of IL2 Dependent haNK® cells, which express a high affinity CD16 but does not express IL-2. These cells maintain stable expression of Fc receptor CD16 while retaining cytotoxicity. In some embodiments, the expression level of CD16 decreases no more than 20% when the cells are activated as compared to expression level of CD16 on the cells before activation. Compositions and kits comprising the cells, and methods of making and using the IL2 Dependent haNK® cells are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Francisco Navarro, Hans G. Klingemann, Laurent H. Boissel, Abhijit Dandapat
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Patent number: 11099582Abstract: Example navigation aids for increasing the accuracy of a navigation system are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein identifying, with an aircraft intent description language (AIDL) aid, an AIDL instruction as associated with a first dynamic activity level of a plurality of dynamic activity levels and determining, with the AIDL aid, an aircraft state to be affected by the AIDL instruction. The example method also includes changing, with a navigation filter, a weighting scheme for a measurement of the aircraft state obtained by an inertial navigation system (INS) of the aircraft and estimating, with the navigation filter, a trajectory of the aircraft based on the weighting scheme and the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael W. Hardt, Eduardo Gallo, Francisco A. Navarro, Glenn Scott Bushnell
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Patent number: 11080929Abstract: A system and a method for generating a 3D path from a source to a destination for an aerial vehicle is disclosed. An example system includes a managing unit to select a group of altitude layers including source and destination and generate a 2D horizontal scenario by identifying constraints to avoid at each altitude layer. The example system includes a path computing unit to determine common constraints for the altitude layers of the 2D horizontal scenario and compute a 2D lateral path avoiding the common constraints. The managing unit generates a 2D vertical scenario based on a projection of the previously computed 2D lateral path onto the constraints at the altitude layers. The path computing unit computes a 2D vertical path avoiding constraints of the 2D vertical scenario. The managing unit composes 3D waypoints of a conflict-free 3D path according to the 2D lateral path and 2D vertical path.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Carlos Querejeta Masaveu, Ernesto Valls Hernandez, Francisco A. Navarro Felix
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Publication number: 20210103860Abstract: In an example, a method for optimizing energy loading in airline operations is described. The method includes receiving a flight plan of an aircraft indicative of a plurality of landing sites and a corresponding plurality of flight legs. The method includes determining an energy load of the aircraft associated with each flight leg. The energy load corresponds to an amount of fuel used during the flight leg. The method includes calculating a fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at a landing site of each flight leg. The fuel value score relates to a refueling estimate at the landing site and a time for refueling at the landing site. The method includes determining a fueling plan based at least on the energy load of the aircraft at each flight leg and the fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at the landing site of each flight leg.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Italo Romani de Oliveira, Francisco A. Navarro, Onofre Andrade
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Patent number: 10930160Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a system for communicating high fidelity (HIFI) trajectory-related information of an aerial vehicle (AV) through standard aircraft trajectory conventions is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, from a first entity, a flight intent containing low fidelity (LOFI) trajectory-related information. The method also includes obtaining intent generation (IG) configuration parameters defining constraints, objectives, or a combination thereof, supplementary to the flight intent, the IG configuration parameters containing HIFI trajectory-related information for closing all degrees of freedom of motion of the AV and configuration. The method includes encoding, using standard aircraft trajectory conventions, the LOFI trajectory-related information from the flight intent and IG configuration parameters as a flight plan and user-defined fields available for information exchange. The method further includes sending, to a second entity, the flight plan and the user-defined fields.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Ernesto Valls Hernandez, Francisco A. Navarro Felix, Carlos Querejeta Masaveu, Jesus Cuadrado Sanchez
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Patent number: 10656661Abstract: Methods and apparatus of tracking moving targets from air vehicles are disclosed. An example system includes an air vehicle including a moving target state estimator to determine at least one of an estimated speed or an estimated location of a moving target, a tracking infrastructure to determine a detectability zone surrounding the moving target based on at least one of the estimated speed or the estimated location of the moving target, and generate a guidance reference to command the air vehicle to move towards a reference location, the reference location based on the estimated location, and a flight control system to cause the air vehicle to follow the moving target outside of the detectability zone based on the guidance reference.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Carlos Querejeta Masaveu, Francisco A. Navarro Felix, Ernesto Valls Hernandez, Andrew Hayes
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Publication number: 20200149891Abstract: Example navigation aids for increasing the accuracy of a navigation system are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein identifying, with an aircraft intent description language (AIDL) aid, an AIDL instruction as associated with a first dynamic activity level of a plurality of dynamic activity levels and determining, with the AIDL aid, an aircraft state to be affected by the AIDL instruction. The example method also includes changing, with a navigation filter, a weighting scheme for a measurement of the aircraft state obtained by an inertial navigation system (INS) of the aircraft and estimating, with the navigation filter, a trajectory of the aircraft based on the weighting scheme and the measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Michael W. Hardt, Eduardo Gallo, Francisco A. Navarro, Glenn Scott Bushnell
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Patent number: 10648814Abstract: Example navigation aids for increasing the accuracy of a navigation system are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein identifying, with an aircraft intent description language (AIDL) aid, an AIDL instruction as associated with a first dynamic activity level of a plurality of dynamic activity levels and determining, with the AIDL aid, an aircraft state to be affected by the AIDL instruction. The example method also includes changing, with a navigation filter, a weighting scheme for a measurement of the aircraft state obtained by an inertial navigation system (INS) of the aircraft and estimating, with the navigation filter, a trajectory of the aircraft based on the weighting scheme and the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael W. Hardt, Eduardo Gallo, Francisco A. Navarro, Glenn Scott Bushnell
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Publication number: 20200123503Abstract: Provided are CD96-modified and TIGIT-modified NK-92 cells comprising one or more alterations that inhibit expression of CD96 and/or TIGIT. Also provided are methods of generating such modified NK-92 cells and methods of treating a subject having or suspected of having a cancer using the modified NK-92 cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: NANTKWEST, INC.Inventors: Francisco Navarro, Hans Klingemann
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Patent number: 10614723Abstract: Apparatus to generate aircraft intent and related methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Michael W. Hardt, Francisco A. Navarro Felix