Patents by Inventor Jorge Fernandez
Jorge Fernandez 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: 20240133846Abstract: A method for determining the set of focal laws of a plurality of focal points located in a test object includes the steps of providing a bidimensional array of transducer elements in a coupling medium and defining at least a scan line by a set of focal points. For each scan line, the method comprises performing the sub-steps of choosing a two preliminary focal points, calculating a first auxiliary time-of-flight corresponding to the time-of-flight of a wave emitted from the corresponding transducer element and received in the first preliminary focal point, and a second auxiliary time-of-flight corresponding to the time-of-flight of a wave emitted from the same transducer and received in the second preliminary focal point.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Guillermo COSARINSKY MARKMAN, Jorge FERNÁNDEZ CRUZA, Mario MUÑOZ PRIETO, Jorge CAMACHO SOSA DIAS
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Patent number: 11967480Abstract: An image intensifier device includes: an intensifier tube with at least one photocathode, a micro-channel plate and a conversion element, arranged in that order one after another, and an electric power supply module configured to supply at least one respective polarisation voltage to each of the elements of the intensifier tube. The electric power supply module extends in a region located upstream of the photocathode, on the side of the photocathode opposite to the micro-channel plate. Thus, a space is cleared located downstream of the intensifier tube in the direction of travel of the photons and of the electrons in the image intensifier device. This allows reducing the size of the image intensifier device for example by bringing an eyepiece closer.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PHOTONIS FRANCEInventors: Nicolas Laurent, Jorge De La Torre Noetzel, Diego Rodriguez-Perez, David Fernandez Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20240117240Abstract: A formulation according to the invention that can be utilized in the prevention and/or resolving of water and oil emulsions, is described. These formulations have been found to modify water and oil emulsions, and to be very effective non-emulsifiers/weak emulsifiers and/or demulsifiers, specifically in high brine or highly acidic environments, for water and crude oil emulsions. The formulation comprises at least one ethoxylated alcohol with a molecular structure as shown in formula 1: R—O—(C2H4O)n—H (1) wherein R comprises linear or branched alkyl groups having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and n is from 3 to 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Khatere Sokhanvarian, Cornell Stanciu, Jorge Fernandez
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Publication number: 20240105413Abstract: An image intensifier device includes: an intensifier tube with at least one photocathode, a micro-channel plate and a conversion element, arranged in that order one after another, and an electric power supply module configured to supply at least one respective polarisation voltage to each of the elements of the intensifier tube. The electric power supply module extends in a region located upstream of the photocathode, on the side of the photocathode opposite to the micro-channel plate. Thus, a space is cleared located downstream of the intensifier tube in the direction of travel of the photons and of the electrons in the image intensifier device. This allows reducing the size of the image intensifier device for example by bringing an eyepiece closer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Nicolas LAURENT, Jorge DE LA TORRE NOETZEL, Diego RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ, David FERNANDEZ GUTIERREZ
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Patent number: 11910894Abstract: Suitcase protector comprising a cardboard packaging, characterised by the fact that it is made from the development of a die-cut sheet of cardboard, in which a rectangular, horizontally elongated, major section is defined, which, by means of vertical folding lines, determines the two major (1-1?) and minor (2 2?) sides of a rectangular prismatic container, which by means of vertical folding lines determine the two larger (1-1?) and smaller (2 2?) sides of a rectangular prismatic container.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: VINGBOX IBÉRICA, S.L.Inventors: José Ignacio Gómez Núñez, Jorge Fernández Carmona
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Publication number: 20230389670Abstract: Suitcase protector comprising a cardboard packaging, characterised by the fact that it is made from the development of a die-cut sheet of cardboard, in which a rectangular, horizontally elongated, major section is defined, which, by means of vertical folding lines, determines the two major (1-1?) and minor (2 2?) sides of a rectangular prismatic container, which by means of vertical folding lines determine the two larger (1-1?) and smaller (2 2?) sides of a rectangular prismatic container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: José Ignacio GÓMEZ NÚÑEZ, Jorge FERNÁNDEZ CARMONA
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Publication number: 20230358825Abstract: The present invention describes method directed to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging simulation, said method comprising—partitioning a pulse sequence in parts that have RF excitation and parts that do not have RF excitation;—for each of the parts that do not have the RF active, called gradient parts, performing compression of the gradient parts and then representing signals driving the gradients as an accumulation of area until a readout time point; and then performing the simulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Christos XANTHIS, Jorge Fernandez VILLENA
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Patent number: 11748642Abstract: A system may measure, using a measurement device, a response associated with a sample to an excitation. Then, the system may compute, using the measured response and the excitation as inputs to a predetermined predictive model, model parameters on a voxel-by-voxel basis in a forward model with multiple voxels that represent the sample. The forward model may simulate response physics occurring within the sample to a given excitation. For example, the forward model may be based on differential or phenomenological equations that approximates the response physics. Moreover, the system may determine an accuracy of the model parameters by comparing at least the measured response and a calculated predicted value of the response using the forward model, the model parameters and the excitation. When the accuracy exceeds a predefined value, the system may provide the model parameters as an output to: a user, another electronic device, a display, and/or a memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Q Bio, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Howard Kaditz, Jorge Fernandez Villena, Athanasios Polymeridis
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Patent number: 11692125Abstract: A method for using a surfactant formulation in chemical enhanced oil recovery, wherein said surfactant formulation comprises at least: (i) an anionic salt of an alkyl alkoxylated sulfate, wherein said alkyl alkoxylated sulfate has a molecular structure as shown in (I), wherein R is a linear, branched or mixture of linear and branched alkyl group having from 10 to 20 carbon atoms, n=4 ?15, m=0-10, M+ is an alkali metal ion, an alkanolamine ion, an alkyl amine ion or an ammonium ion; and (ii) a non-ionic alcohol O ethoxylate, wherein said alcohol ethoxylate has a molecular structure as shown in (II), wherein R1 is a linear, branched or mixture of linear and branched alkyl group having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms, y=20-100.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Inventors: Thu Nguyen, Carla A. Morgan, Jorge Fernandez
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Publication number: 20230197245Abstract: The present invention describes method directed to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging simulation, said method comprising—creating an empty 3D slice corresponding to a prescribed slice;—placing the empty 3D slice on the transversal XY plane of an image of an anatomical model;—calculating steps of rotation and translation that if applied would bring a volume-of-interest on the transversal XY plane;—calculating steps for undoing the rotation and translation performed;—applying the steps for undoing the rotation and translation performed on the empty 3D slice so as to bring it at the position of the prescribed slice in 3D space; and—calculating interpolated values of properties of the anatomical model at points of the empty 3D slice which have been placed at the position of the prescribed slice in 3D space, preferably wherein the method also involves a subsequent step of one-to-one matching of the calculated interpolated values with the corresponding points of the empty 3D slice on the transversal XY plane before caType: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Christos XANTHIS, Anthony ALETRAS, Jorge FERNANDEZ VILLENA
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Publication number: 20230138461Abstract: A laser connection module including: multiple superposed electrodes connected in alternating order with opposite electricity supply poles; at least one laser diode mounted between the opposite surfaces of consecutive electrodes, making contact with them; an external structure delimiting an open space located along a light-emitting area of the laser diodes and suitable for containing the set of superposed electrodes and laser diodes; at least one tightener mounted on a first end of the external structure and which presses the set of electrodes and laser diodes against a second opposite end of the structure, establishing the fixation and mutual contact thereof; and an intermediate protective plate disposed between the at least one tightener and the end electrode closest to the at least one tightener.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Luis Jorge FERNANDEZ SANMIGUEL, Carles ORIACH FONT, German FRANCO BLANES, Ezequiel PATRICIO FRESQUET, Gemma SAFONT CAMPRUBI, Eduard CARBONELL SANROMA
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Publication number: 20230106537Abstract: Disclosed is a method of visually inspecting a wind turbine generator (WTG) and parts thereof during operation. The method comprising acts of pointing a visual inspection system with a field of view about a line of sight in a plane of rotor blade of the wind turbine generator (WTG); of capturing multiple images of the field of view using the visual inspection system; of selecting at least one reference image amongst the captured images or from elsewhere; of comparing the at least one other captured image with the at least one reference image; and thus inspecting structural aspects of the wind turbine generator (WTG) as a function of the result of the act of comparing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Shavkat Mingaliev, Poul Anker Skaarup Lübker, Xavier Tolron, Chrysanthos Galetsas, Eric Jacob Rose, Jorge Fernández Barrio
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Patent number: 11614509Abstract: During operation, a computer system may acquire magnetic resonance (MR) signals associated with a sample from a measurement device or memory. Then, the computer system may access a predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors associated with a surface surrounding the sample, where coil sensitivities of coils in the measurement device are represented by weighted superpositions of the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors using coefficients, and where the predetermined coil magnetic field basis vectors are solutions to Maxwell's equations. Next, the computer system may solve, on a voxel-by-voxel basis for voxels associated with the sample, a nonlinear optimization problem for MR information associated with the sample and the coefficients using: a forward model that uses the MR information as inputs and simulates response physics of the sample, the MR signals and the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Q Bio, Inc.Inventors: Matteo Alessandro Francavilla, Jorge Fernandez Villena, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis, Athanasios Polymeridis, Doruk Tayli
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Patent number: 11578254Abstract: Recovering heavy oil from a subterraneous formation penetrated by at least one injection well and one production well, by injecting into the injection well a mixture of steam and an alkyl alkoxylated carboxylate salt, increasing the apparent viscosity of the steam while at the same time lowering the steam mobility, and recovering oil from the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Sasol Chemicals GmbHInventors: Thu Nguyen, Renke Rommerskirchen, Jorge Fernandez
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Publication number: 20220344006Abstract: A computer based biological sequence analysis method provides, after a training phase adopting data from screening experiments, either an evaluation of an input sequence expressing the performance with reference to the chemical-physical feature object of the screening experiment, or at least an optimized output sequence. The method provides the use of a set or library of sequences derived from DMS experiments and SELEX for the generation of a second set of high efficiency biological sequences, whereby high efficiency means, for example, high catalysis capacity, high fitness, high ability to bind to a specific target, high fluorescence activity and, in general, a high performance with reference to the chemical-physical properties of a molecule which are defined at the start and can be selected through experiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicants: POLITECNICO DI TORINO, CENTRO DE INMUNOLOGÍA MOLECULARInventors: Guido UGUZZONI, Andrea PAGNANI, Jorge FERNANDEZ DE COSSIO DIA
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Patent number: 11354586Abstract: A system may measure, using a measurement device, a response associated with a sample to an excitation. Then, the system may compute, using the measured response and the excitation as inputs to a predetermined predictive model, model parameters on a voxel-by-voxel basis in a forward model with multiple voxels that represent the sample. The forward model may simulate response physics occurring within the sample to a given excitation. For example, the forward model may be based on differential or phenomenological equations that approximates the response physics. Moreover, the system may determine an accuracy of the model parameters by comparing at least the measured response and a calculated predicted value of the response using the forward model, the model parameters and the excitation. When the accuracy exceeds a predefined value, the system may provide the model parameters as an output to: a user, another electronic device, a display, and/or a memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Q Bio, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Howard Kaditz, Jorge Fernandez Villena, Athanasios Polymeridis
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Publication number: 20220172084Abstract: A system may measure, using a measurement device, a response associated with a sample to an excitation. Then, the system may compute, using the measured response and the excitation as inputs to a predetermined predictive model, model parameters on a voxel-by-voxel basis in a forward model with multiple voxels that represent the sample. The forward model may simulate response physics occurring within the sample to a given excitation. For example, the forward model may be based on differential or phenomenological equations that approximates the response physics. Moreover, the system may determine an accuracy of the model parameters by comparing at least the measured response and a calculated predicted value of the response using the forward model, the model parameters and the excitation. When the accuracy exceeds a predefined value, the system may provide the model parameters as an output to: a user, another electronic device, a display, and/or a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey Howard Kaditz, Jorge Fernandez Villena, Athanasios Polymeridis
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Publication number: 20210311151Abstract: During operation, a computer system may acquire magnetic resonance (MR) signals associated with a sample from a measurement device or memory. Then, the computer system may access a predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors associated with a surface surrounding the sample, where coil sensitivities of coils in the measurement device are represented by weighted superpositions of the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors using coefficients, and where the predetermined coil magnetic field basis vectors are solutions to Maxwell's equations. Next, the computer system may solve, on a voxel-by-voxel basis for voxels associated with the sample, a nonlinear optimization problem for MR information associated with the sample and the coefficients using: a forward model that uses the MR information as inputs and simulates response physics of the sample, the MR signals and the predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Matteo Alessandro Francavilla, Jorge Fernandez Villena, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis, Athanasios Polymeridis, Doruk Tayli
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Publication number: 20210311150Abstract: During operation, a system may apply an external magnetic field and an RF pulse sequence to a sample. Then, the system may measure at least a component of a magnetization associated with the sample, such as MR signals of one or more types of nuclei in the sample. Moreover, the system may calculate at least a predicted component of the magnetization for voxels associated with the sample based on the measured component of the magnetization, a forward model, the external magnetic field and the RF pulse sequence. Next, the system may solve an inverse problem by, iteratively modifying the parameters associated with the voxels in the forward model until a difference between the predicted component of the magnetization and the measured component of the magnetization is less than a predefined value. Note that the calculations may be performed concurrently with the measurements and may not involve performing a Fourier transform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey H. Kaditz, Athanasios Polymeridis, Jorge Fernandez Villena
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Publication number: 20210311149Abstract: During operation, a system may apply an external magnetic field and an RF pulse sequence to a sample. Then, the system may measure at least a component of a magnetization associated with the sample, such as MR signals of one or more types of nuclei in the sample. Moreover, the system may calculate at least a predicted component of the magnetization for voxels associated with the sample based on the measured component of the magnetization, a forward model, the external magnetic field and the RF pulse sequence. Next, the system may solve an inverse problem by iteratively modifying the parameters associated with the voxels in the forward model until a difference between the predicted component of the magnetization and the measured component of the magnetization is less than a predefined value. Note that the calculations may be performed concurrently with the measurements and may not involve performing a Fourier transform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey H. Kaditz, Athanasios Polymeridis, Jorge Fernandez Villena