Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Esteban
Geoffrey Esteban 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: 20230168180Abstract: A method for determining a state of a cell, the cell being placed in a sample, in contact with a culture medium, the method comprising: illuminating the sample with a light source and acquiring an image of the sample with an image sensor, the image sensor lying in a detection plane; from the acquired image, locating a position of the cell in a plane parallel to the detection plane; the method further comprising: from the acquired image, estimating a refractive index of the cell or a relative refractive index of the cell, the relative refractive index corresponding to a refractive index of the cell relative to the refractive index of the culture medium; from the estimation of the refractive index or of the relative refractive index, determining an index of interest of the cell; from the index of interest, classifying a state of the cell among predetermined states, the predetermined states comprising at least one apoptosis state and one living state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, IPRASENSE SASInventors: Cedric ALLIER, Lionel HERVE, Geoffrey ESTEBAN, Martin PISANESCHI, Melissa HILL
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Patent number: 10928302Abstract: An analysis system features a confinement device, an optical measurement device, a flow device, a collecting conduit, and an actuation device. The confinement device comprises a measurement chamber, optically transparent first and second measurement surfaces that face each other across a distance that defines a thickness of the measurement chamber, and a flexible membrane that forms a seal with the measurement surfaces to laterally delimit the measurement chamber. When the collecting is sealed with a container, a connection is established that permits a liquid sample to be collected from the container. The optical measurement device emits light towards the chamber and detects light that has been transmitted through it, wherein the flow device causes liquid to flow through the collecting conduit between the container and the measurement chamber. The actuation device varies the thickness.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: IPRATECH SAInventors: Geoffrey Esteban, Jérémie Cubeta, David Sergeant, Thierry Poskin
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Patent number: 10845286Abstract: A method for holographic characterization of a particle contained in a sample, based on an image, or hologram, of the sample obtained by an image sensor when the sample is illuminated by a light source. The hologram is the subject of a holographic reconstruction, to obtain a reference complex image, representative of the light wave transmitted by the sample in a reconstruction plane. A holographic propagation operator is applied to the reference complex image, to obtain a plurality of secondary complex images, from which a profile is determined describing the change in an optical feature of the light wave transmuted by the sample along the axis of propagation of the light wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: COMMISSARIAT Á L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, HORIBA ABX SAS, IPRASENSE SASInventors: Cedric Allier, Anais Ali Cherif, Pierre Blandin, Geoffrey Esteban, Lionel Herve, Damien Isebe
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Patent number: 10481076Abstract: A method for identifying a state of a cell contained in a sample, including: illuminating the sample using a light source by producing an incident light wave propagating toward the sample; then acquiring, using a matrix-array photodetector, an image of the sample, the sample being placed between the light source and the matrix-array photodetector such that the matrix-array photodetector is exposed to a light wave resulting from interference between the incident light wave and a diffraction wave produced by each cell; applying a numerical reconstruction algorithm to the image acquired by the matrix-array photodetector, to estimate a characteristic quantity of the light wave reaching the matrix-array detector, at a plurality of distances from the matrix-array photodetector. The value of the characteristic quantity, or its variation as a function of distance, allows the state of the cell to be determined from among predetermined states.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, IPRASENSE SAS, HORIBA ABX SASInventors: Cedric Allier, Geoffrey Esteban, Lionel Herve
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Publication number: 20190145886Abstract: An analysis system features a confinement device, an optical measurement device, a flow device, a collecting conduit, and an actuation device. The confinement device comprises a measurement chamber, optically transparent first and second measurement surfaces that face each other across a distance that defines a thickness of the measurement chamber, and a flexible membrane that forms a seal with the measurement surfaces to laterally delimit the measurement chamber. When the collecting is sealed with a container, a connection is established that permits a liquid sample to be collected from the container. The optical measurement device emits light towards the chamber and detects light that has been transmitted through it, wherein the flow device causes liquid to flow through the collecting conduit between the container and the measurement chamber. The actuation device varies the thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Geoffrey ESTEBAN, Jérémie CUBETA, David SERGEANT, Thierry POSKIN
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Publication number: 20190101482Abstract: A method for holographic characterization of a particle contained in a sample, based on an image, or hologram, of the sample obtained by an image sensor when the sample is illuminated by a light source. The hologram is the subject of a holographic reconstruction, to obtain a reference complex image, representative of the light wave transmitted by the sample in a reconstruction plane. A holographic propagation operator is applied to the reference complex image, to obtain a plurality of secondary complex images, from which a profile is determined describing the change in an optical feature of the light wave transmuted by the sample along the axis of propagation of the light wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicants: COMMISSARIAT Á L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES AL TERNATIVES, HORIBA ABX SAS, IPRASENSE SASInventors: Cedric ALLIER, Anais ALI CHERIF, Pierre BLANDIN, Geoffrey ESTEBAN, Lionel HERVE, Damien ISEBE
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Publication number: 20180113064Abstract: A method for identifying a state of a cell contained in a sample, including: illuminating the sample using a light source by producing an incident light wave propagating toward the sample; then acquiring, using a matrix-array photodetector, an image of the sample, the sample being placed between the light source and the matrix-array photodetector such that the matrix-array photodetector is exposed to a light wave resulting from interference between the incident light wave and a diffraction wave produced by each cell; applying a numerical reconstruction algorithm to the image acquired by the matrix-array photodetector, to estimate a characteristic quantity of the light wave reaching the matrix-array detector, at a plurality of distances from the matrix-array photodetector. The value of the characteristic quantity, or its variation as a function of distance, allows the state of the cell to be determined from among predetermined states.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, IPRASENSE SASInventors: Cedric ALLIER, Geoffrey ESTEBAN, Lionel HERVE
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Patent number: 8180575Abstract: A process for on-line and in situ counting of cells in a biological culture medium, including a plurality of steps of measuring the capacitance of the medium or a plurality of steps of measuring the conductance of the medium, at distinct frequencies varying within a predetermined range of measurement frequencies. The process includes an extraction of information on the variation of permittivity due to the ?-dispersion in the medium, from the capacitance measurements, and processing of the variation of this information on the variation of permittivity as a function of the frequency, in order to provide information regarding the counting of cells in the medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Nanotec SolutionInventors: Geoffrey Esteban, Bruno Luong, Frédéric Ossart
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Patent number: 7930110Abstract: Method for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells suspended in a conductive fluid, the biomass concentration (X) being obtained from a difference between a first capacitance signal (C?1) of the medium, measured at a first frequency, and a second capacitance signal (C?2) of the medium, measured at a second frequency. The method includes a separate correction of each of the measured signals, based at least on one correction level, the first correction level including a correction of the signals measured in accordance with a model dependent on the conductance of the medium at the first and second frequencies. The invention is useful in biomass measurement systems.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Nanotec SolutionInventors: Frédéric Ossart, Charles Ghommidh, Geoffrey Esteban
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Publication number: 20080312843Abstract: A process for on-line and in situ counting of cells in a biological culture medium, comprising the following steps: a plurality of measurements of the capacitance of the medium or a plurality of measurements of the conductance of the medium, at distinct frequencies varying within a predetermined range of measurement frequencies, an extraction of information on the variation of permittivity due to the ?-dispersion in the medium, from the capacitance measurements, and processing of the variation of this information on the variation of permittivity as a function of the frequency, in order to provide information regarding the counting of cells in the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Geoffrey Esteban, Bruno Luong, Frederic Ossart
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Publication number: 20080262748Abstract: Method for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells suspended in a conductive fluid, the biomass concentration (X) being obtained from a difference between a first capacitance signal (C?1) of the medium, measured at a first frequency, and a second capacitance signal (C?2) of the medium, measured at a second frequency. The method includes a separate correction of each of the measured signals, based at least on one correction level, the first correction level including a correction of the signals measured in accordance with a model dependent on the conductance of the medium at the first and second frequencies. The invention is useful in biomass measurement systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: NANOTEC SOLUTIONInventors: Frederic Ossart, Charles Ghommidh, Geoffrey Esteban