Patents by Inventor Jean Michel

Jean Michel 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).

  • METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS
    Publication number: 20200291402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating a Leber congenital amaurosis in a patient harbouring the mutation c.2991+1655 A>G in the CEP290 gene, comprising the step of administering to said patient at least one antisense oligonucleotide complementary to nucleic acid sequence that is necessary for preventing splicing of the cryptic exon inserted into the mutant c. 2991+1655 A>G CEP290 mRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Rozet, Antoine Kichler, Isabelle Perrault, Josseline Kaplan, Xavier Gerard, Daniel Scherman, M. Arnold Munnich
  • Protection mechanism for light source
    Patent number: 10777710
    Abstract: A housing for a light source mounted on a substrate, the housing comprising: a barrel having first and second conducting columns; and a diffuser having a through-hole or partial hole filled with a conductive plug, the conductive plug electrically bridging a gap in an electrical connection between the first and second conducting columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS
    Inventors: Romain Coffy, Jean-Michel Riviere
  • OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200286883
    Abstract: Overvoltage protection circuits are provided. In some embodiments, an overvoltage protection circuit includes a first diode made of a first semiconductor material having a bandgap width greater than that of silicon. A second diode is included and is electrically cross-coupled with the first diode. The second diode is made of a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Michel SIMONNET, Sophie NGO, Simone RASCUNÀ
  • Enzymatic preparation of Propamocarb
    Patent number: 10767199
    Abstract: A process for preparing Propamocarb is presented. The preparation of Propamocarb (propyl 3-(dimethylamino)propylcarbamate) from 3-dimethylaminopropylamine and dipropyl carbonate is performed using an enzyme catalyst. In certain embodiments, the catalyst is a lipase enzyme, immobilized on a solid support. Advantages of the process include the avoidance of the use of chloroformate or vinyl carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Stephanie Kay Clendennen, Neil Warren Boaz, Jean-Michel Rabasse
  • Device for cell culture
    Patent number: 10767151
    Abstract: A device for cell culture, in particular of neuronal cells, including: a substrate defining a first microfluidic chamber to be seeded with a first cell culture, and at least a second microfluidic chamber, a fluidic interconnection system connecting the first and second chambers and enabling cellular extensions, in particular axons, to extend from one chamber to the other, wherein the interconnection system of the device is made so as to promote the progression of at least one first type of cellular extension, the first and second types of extension being different either due to the microfluidic chamber from which they originate, or due to the type of cell of which they constitute an extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: CNRS-DAE, INSTITUT CURIE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Viovy, Jean-Michel Peyrin, Bernard Brugg, Laure Saias, Paul Gougis, Maeva Vignes
  • Protecting block cipher computation operations from external monitoring attacks
    Patent number: 10771235
    Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting block cipher computation operations, from external monitoring attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Cryptography Research Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Cioranesco, Elena Trichina, Elke De Mulder, Matthew Pond Baker
  • Mounting device and carton flow bed
    Patent number: 10765210
    Abstract: A mounting device (100) is provided for connecting two substantially horizontally aligned support beams (20, 30, 40) of a carton flow bed rack (1; 2). The mounting device (100) has a plug (110) pluggable into an end of a first support beam (20) of the support beams. A key (130) is provided as a wedge for fixing the plug (110) in the first support beam (20). An engaging element (120) is arranged at the plug (110). The engaging element (120) is provided to engage a second support beam (30; 40) of the two support beams. The plug (110) is fixable to the first support beam (20) in at least two different plug-positions by means of the key (130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Interroll Holding AG
    Inventors: Jean Michel Laplace, Herve Merieau
  • METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE FIRMNESS OF A GROUND
    Publication number: 20200276870
    Abstract: A method for evaluating the firmness of the ground on which is running a vehicle equipped with at least one mounted assembly having a radial stiffness kradial comprising a tyre casing having a crown, two sidewalls and two beads, equipped with a sensor sensitive to the circumferential curvature and positioned in line with the crown, comprises the following steps: Estimating a value of the curvature ?A of the tire casing corresponding to first steady-state conditions of the tire casing in contact with the ground; and Evaluating the relative firmness of the ground with respect to the radial stiffness kradial of the mounted assembly as being a function of the value of the curvature ?A of the tire casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: PIERRE-ALAIN BEGOU, ANTOINE PATURLE, JEAN-MICHEL VACHERAND, OUSSAMA BOUHADIDA
  • Method for manufacturing a TiAl blade of a turbine engine
    Patent number: 10758957
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a titanium aluminide blade of a turbine engine, including production of a titanium aluminide ingot, extrusion of the ingot through an opening in a die having one main arm and at least one side arm, such as to obtain a extruded ingot having the shape of a bar with a cross-section having one main arm and at least one side arm substantially perpendicular to the main arm, transverse cutting of the extruded ingot such as to obtain sections of extruded ingot, forging of each section of extruded ingot such as to obtain a turbine engine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Gilbert Leconte, Jean-Michel Franchet, Pierre Sallot
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A METAL SHEET WITH A ZnAl COATING AND WITH OPTIMIZED WIPING, CORRESPONDING METAL SHEET, PART AND VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20200270732
    Abstract: A steel part includes a steel sheet substrate and a coating on at least one surface of the steel sheet substrate. The coating includes between 0.2 and 0.7% by weight of Al, with a remainder of the metal coating being Zn and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet substrate and the coating have at least one deformation. An outer surface of the coating has a waviness Wa0.8 of less than or equal to 0.43 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Mataigne, Didier Dauchelle, Florence Bertrand
  • Touchscreen keyboard
    Patent number: 10754543
    Abstract: Operating a touch-screen device includes displaying at least a portion of a keyboard on a touch-screen, detecting a touch on the touch-screen, and detecting movement of the touch on the touch-screen. Operating the touch-screen device also includes moving the displayed keyboard in response to the detected movement of the touch on the touch-screen, detecting a release of the touch from the touch-screen, and assigning a character according to a final location of the touch relative to a location of the displayed keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Olivier Artigue, Jean-Michel Douliez, Francois Trible
  • Controlling air circulation in a data center
    Patent number: 10757837
    Abstract: A method of controlling air circulation in a data center system. The data center system includes: a cold aisle; a hot aisle including a floor element and a ceiling element; a server rack comprising a controller and servers separating the cold aisle from the hot aisle; and an air conditioning unit. The method includes: toggling, by the controller, the hot aisle between: (a) a first configuration in which the ceiling element is opened and the floor element is closed and (b) a second configuration in which the ceiling element is closed and the floor element is opened, wherein the first configuration enables circulation of air from the from the hot aisle to the cold aisle via the air conditioning unit, and wherein the second configuration enables circulation of air from the from the hot aisle to the cold aisle without the circulated air passing through the air conditioning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Rodriguez
  • Installation for hot dip coating a metal strip comprising an adjustable confinement box
    Patent number: 10752982
    Abstract: An installation for hot dip coating a metal strip is provided. The installation includes a device for moving the metal strip along a path, a pot for containing a melt bath and a wiping system including at least two nozzles placed on either side of the path downstream the pot. The wiping system has a box with a lower confinement part confining an atmosphere around the metal strip upstream of said nozzles and an upper confinement part confining the atmosphere around the metal strip downstream of the nozzles, first moving means for vertically moving the lower confinement part with respect to the pot and second moving means for vertically moving the upper confinement part with respect to both the pot and the lower confinement part. The nozzles are vertically movable relative to the pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Peter Schwander, Axel Wendt, Andreas Steffen, Hubert St Raymond, Maxime Monnoyer, Julien Benoit, Jean Michel Mataigne, Paul Durighello
  • ISOINDOLINE OR ISOQUINOLINE COMPOUNDS, A PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THEM
    Publication number: 20200262816
    Abstract: Compound of formula (I): wherein Het, R3, R4, R5, R7, R8, R9, t, p, p?, q, and q? are as defined in the description. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating conditions requiring pro-apoptotic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: James Edward Paul DAVIDSON, James Brooke MURRAY, I-Jen CHEN, Claire WALMSLEY, Mark DODSWORTH, Johannes W.G. MEISSNER, Paul BROUGH, lmre FEJES, János TATAI, Miklós NYERGES, András KOTSCHY, Zoltán SZLÁVIK, Olivier GENESTE, Arnaud LE TIRAN, Thierry LE DIGUARHER, Jean-Michel HENLIN, Jérôme-Benoît STARCK, Anne-Françoise GUILLOUZIC, Guillaume DE NANTEUIL
  • Process for Detecting Nucleic Acid Molecules by Magnetic Hyperthermia and Assembly Enabling Such Detection
    Publication number: 20200263241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for pre-concentration and detection of at least one single-stranded nucleic acid target molecule, the process comprising steps of generating a flow of liquid comprising at least one magnetic nanoparticle in a micro-channel and a plurality of single-stranded nucleic acid probe molecules attached to the nanoparticle, of generating an alternating magnetic field in the part of the micro-channel by means of the electromagnet, the magnetic field having an intensity and frequency that are suitable for causing magnetic hyperthermia of the nanoparticles so as to cause denaturing of the duplex formed by the single-stranded nucleic acid target molecule and the single-stranded nucleic acid probe molecule, and detection of the single-stranded target molecule dispersed in the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Marie-Charlotte Horny, Jean-Michel Siaugue, Vincent Dupuis, Mathieu Lazerges, Jean Gamby
  • PYRROLE COMPOUNDS, A PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THEM
    Publication number: 20200261464
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (1): wherein A1, A2, Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, R3, R4, R5 and T are as defined in the description. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating pathologies involving a deficit in apoptosis, such as cancer, auto-immune diseases, and diseases of the immune system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Arnaud LE TIRAN, Thierry LE DIGUARHER, Jérôme-Benoît STARCK, Jean-Michel HENLIN, Anne-Françoise GUILLOUZIC, Guillaume DE NANTEUIL, Olivier GENESTE, lmre FEJES, János TATAI, Miklós NYERGES, James Edward Paul DAVIDSON, James Brooke MURRAY, I-Jen CHEN, Didier DURAND
  • Rolled stainless steel object and manufacturing method therefor
    Patent number: 10744553
    Abstract: A rolled stainless steel object has surface with a raised and indented pattern including a random juxtaposition of at least two types of polygons. Each of the polygons has at least three sides, and is made up of substantially parallel rectilinear scratches, having a depth of from 5 to 30 ?m separated by ridge lines, the axes of which are from 0.1 to 0.3 mm from each other, and a Fourier transform spectral analysis of which, carried out on a square of at least 100 mm2, shows that they have an isotropy of at least 40% between the rolling direction and the sideways direction, and two adjacent preferred angular orientations of which scratches, from among the three main preferred angular orientations thereof, are spaced apart by a minimum of 20° and a maximum of 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: APERAM
    Inventors: Didier Vil, Jean Michel Damasse, Françoise Haegeli
  • Encapsulation cover for an electronic package and method of fabrication
    Patent number: 10748883
    Abstract: An encapsulation cover for an electronic package includes a cover body having a frontal wall provided with at least one optical element allowing light to pass through. The optical element is inserted into the encapsulation cover by overmolding into a through-passage of the frontal wall. A front face of the optical element is set back with respect to a front face of the frontal wall. The process for fabricating the encapsulation cover includes forming a stack of a sacrificial spacer on top of an optical element, with the stack placed into a cavity of a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
    Inventors: Karine Saxod, Jean-Michel Riviere
  • Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP)-binding molecules and methods of using the molecules
    Patent number: 10745473
    Abstract: The invention provides molecules, e.g., antibodies or antibody fragments, that specifically bind thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), compositions comprising these molecules, and methods of using and producing these molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Matthew John Edwards, Jean-Michel Rene Rondeau, Danforth Miller, Daniel Huang, Hans-Peter Knopf, Gino Anselmus Van Heeke, Rene Hemmig, Kapil Gupta, Nicole Haubst, Barbara Andlauer
  • Ultrasound imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 10743844
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging apparatus (20) is disclosed, comprising a data interface (30) configured to receive a plurality of different ultrasound data sets (26, 28) resulting from an ultrasound scan of an object (18) in different viewing directions. The ultrasound imaging apparatus further comprises a segmentation unit (32) for segmenting anatomical structures of the object in the different ultrasound data sets and for providing segmentation data of the anatomical structures, and a reference determining unit (34) for determining a spatial reference (48, 50, 52, 54) for the different ultrasound data sets on the basis of the segmentation data. A confidence determining unit (40) is included for determining confidence values (56) for different regions of the received ultrasound data on the basis of the spatial reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Roberto Jose Ardon, Remi Nicolas Thierry Cuingnet, Jean-Michel Rouet