Patents by Inventor Louis Nicolas
Louis Nicolas 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: 20240091623Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system for providing client-side physiological condition estimations during a live video session. In some embodiments, the system includes a first client computer system that is caused to: (i) store a neural network on one or more computer-readable storage media of the first client computer system, (ii) obtain a live video stream of an individual via a camera of the first client computer system during a video streaming session between the first client computer system and a second client computer system, (iii) provide, during the video streaming session, video data of the live video stream as input to the neural network to obtain physiological condition information from the neural network, and (iv) provide, during the video streaming session, the physiological condition information for presentation at the second client computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Louis Nicolas Atallah, Josheph James Frassica, Minnan Xu
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Patent number: 11904224Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system for providing client-side physiological condition estimations during a live video session. In some embodiments, the system includes a first client computer system that is caused to: (i) store a neural network on one or more computer-readable storage media of the first client computer system, (ii) obtain a live video stream of an individual via a camera of the first client computer system during a video streaming session between the first client computer system and a second client computer system, (iii) provide, during the video streaming session, video data of the live video stream as input to the neural network to obtain physiological condition information from the neural network, and (iv) provide, during the video streaming session, the physiological condition information for presentation at the second client computer system.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Louis Nicolas Atallah, Joseph James Frassica, Minnan Xu
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Patent number: 11839482Abstract: There is provided an apparatus (100) for monitoring swallowing in a subject. The apparatus (100) comprises a processor (102) configured to acquire, from a motion sensor (104), motion signals obtained from a feeding tube, when placed in the esophagus of the subject. The motion signals are indicative of swallowing motions transmitted along the feeding tube. The processor (102) is also configured to process the acquired motion signals to classify the acquired motion signals as indicative of the subject swallowing healthily or unhealthily.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Ali Akbar Ahmad Samadani, Leslie Altimier, Louis Nicolas Atallah
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Patent number: 11767098Abstract: A blade includes a fibrous reinforcement having a three-dimensional weave densified by a matrix, the fibrous reinforcement including, in a single woven piece, a root and an aerodynamic profile part extending along a longitudinal direction between the root part and a blade tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading and a trailing edge portion. The profile part includes first and second suction side and pressure side faces. The fibrous reinforcement includes a separation forming a housing inside the fibrous reinforcement, a bladder filled with a shaping foam being present in the housing. The separation extends over a separation zone inside the profile part of the fibrous reinforcement comprised between the root part and the blade tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction. The separation opens to the outside of the profile part.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Dominique Gerhardt Mayhew, Adrien Louis Nicolas Laurenceau
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Patent number: 11499432Abstract: A method of altering the twisting relationship for the aerodynamic surface of a fan blade of a gas turbine engine, wherein the following steps are performed: establishing, for a portion of the aerodynamic surface of the fan blade, an alteration relationship defined by variation of a pitch angle of the blade as a function of radial height along the blade, the alteration relationship including alterations that are each defined by a height along with the radial height of the fan blade and by an amplitude; and applying the alteration relationship as established in this way to an initial twisting relationship of the fan blade so as to obtain an altered twisting relationship for the fan blade, the initial twisting relationship being defined by a polynomial for the radial height of the fan blade as a function of its pitch angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Adrien Louis Nicolas Laurenceau, Dominique Gerhadt Mayhew, Jonathan Evert Vlastuin
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Publication number: 20220333493Abstract: Fibrous preform for a composite blade and also a composite blade formed by means of such a preform, a rotor and a rotating machine comprising such a blade, the preform comprising a first longitudinal section, configured to form a blade root, and a second longitudinal section, extending from the first longitudinal section, configured to form a portion of an airfoil, wherein the first longitudinal section has a first thickness at its upper end and wherein the second longitudinal section comprises at least one set-back zone having a thickness at least three times less than the first thickness, said set-back zone occupying at least 50% of the second longitudinal section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Adrien Louis Nicolas LAURENCEAU
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Publication number: 20220310241Abstract: Methods and systems for adaptive clinical decision support (CDS). The system may include a CDS score calculator configured to calculate a plurality of patient CDS scores, a detector configured to determine at least one clinician location or resource location, a scheduler configured to receive the plurality of CDS scores, receive the at least one clinician location or resource location, generate a patient priority list based on the plurality of CDS scores and the at least one clinician location or resource location, and generate, using the patient priority list, a patient schedule for at least one recipient, and a transmitter configured to transmit an alert to the at least one recipient if the generated schedule is different from a previously generated schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: LOUIS NICOLAS ATALLAH, MINNAN XU, PAYAAL PATEL, VALERIA PANNUNZIO, CORNELIS CONRADUS ADRIANUS MARIA VAN ZON
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Patent number: 11401823Abstract: An aviation turbine engine having at least one unducted rotary propeller having a plurality of blades, each blade including: a blade body made of composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fiber reinforcement of the blade body presenting three-dimensional weaving, the body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a protective fitting for protecting the leading edge and made of composite material having fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fitting being adhesively bonded onto the leading edge of the blade body, the fitting being formed from a dry fiber preform injection molded with a densifying resin, and a polyurethane film for providing protection against erosion covering the blade body and the fitting.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Adrien Louis Nicolas Laurenceau, Dominique Gerhadt Mayhew
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Patent number: 11366027Abstract: The invention describes a method of predicting a stabilization temperature (T?) of a subject (8) with a heat-flow sensor (1) comprising a plurality of thermistors (S1, S2, S1A, S2A, S1B, S2B), which method comprises the steps of expressing the temperature development of the heat-flow sensor (1) as a stretched exponential equation characterized by a time constant (?) and a sensor characteristic scalar value (m); receiving temperature measurement values (T1, T2, T3, T4) collected by the thermistors (S1, S2, S1A, S2A, S1B, S2B); estimating the time constant (?) on the basis of the temperature measurement values (T1, T2, T3, T4); and deducing the future stabilization temperature (T?) on the basis of the estimated time constant (?). The invention further describes heat-flow sensor (1) and a temperature sensing arrangement (9).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Louis Nicolas Atallah, Patrick Zuidema
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Publication number: 20220097824Abstract: A blade includes a fibrous reinforcement having a three-dimensional weave densified by a matrix, the fibrous reinforcement including, in a single woven piece, a root and an aerodynamic profile part extending along a longitudinal direction between the root part and a blade tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading and a trailing edge portion. The profile part includes first and second suction side and pressure side faces. The fibrous reinforcement includes a separation forming a housing inside the fibrous reinforcement, a bladder filled with a shaping foam being present in the housing. The separation extends over a separation zone inside the profile part of the fibrous reinforcement comprised between the root part and the blade tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction. The separation opens to the outside of the profile part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW, Adrien Louis Nicolas LAURENCEAU
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Publication number: 20220000370Abstract: A core body temperature sensor system which has multiple pairs of temperature sensors across a first insulating layer. The sensed temperatures are monitored as well as the rate of change of sensed temperature at the temperature sensors. The core body temperature is obtained based on a first representative temperature for the first set of temperature sensors, a second representative temperature for the second set of temperature sensors and rate of change information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Antonius Hermanus Maria Blom, Calina Ciuhu, Louis Nicolas Atallah, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20210272684Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing redundant alarms. The system may receive two or more different alarm sequences to infer relationships therebetween. Upon inferring that the datasets are coupled such that an alarm associated with one of the datasets follows an alarm associated with the other dataset, the system may suppress one of the alarms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Louis Nicolas ATALLAH, Rohan JOSHI
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Publication number: 20210259623Abstract: There is provided an apparatus (100) for monitoring swallowing in a subject. The apparatus (100) comprises a processor (102) configured to acquire, from a motion sensor (104), motion signals obtained from a feeding tube, when placed in the esophagus of the subject. The motion signals are indicative of swallowing motions transmitted along the feeding tube. The processor (102) is also configured to process the acquired motion signals to classify the acquired motion signals as indicative of the subject swallowing healthily or unhealthily.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Ali Akbar Ahmad SAMADANI, Leslie ALTIMIER, Louis Nicolas ATALLAH
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Publication number: 20210186347Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising a control unit and a method of operating the apparatus to determine a health status of an infant. The method comprises acquiring contextual information associated with the infant (302) and acquiring at least one heart rate variability signal from the infant (304). The at least one heart rate variability signal acquired from the infant is processed to determine a heart rate variability feature (306) and the determined heart rate variability feature is assigned to a class according to the acquired contextual information (308). The determined heart rate variability feature is compared to one or more corresponding heart rate variability features stored in the same class as the determined heart rate variability in a memory (310) and a health status of the infant is determined based on the comparison (312).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Louis Nicolas ATALLAH, Jan Valentin Wendelin Sebastian WERTH
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Publication number: 20210169406Abstract: An apparatus (100) for determining a stress and/or pain level of a subject comprises a processor (102). The processor (102) is configured to acquire, from a photoplethysmography sensor (104), a photoplethysmography signal obtained from a central part of the body of the subject. The processor (102) is also configured to identify a characteristic of the acquired photoplethysmography signal. The characteristic is normalized for blood pressure. The processor (102) is further configured to determine the stress and/or pain level of the subject from the acquired photoplethysmography signal based on the normalized characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Jens MUEHLSTEFF, Louis Nicolas ATALLAH, Aline Anne Marie SERTEYN
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Publication number: 20210038088Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system for providing client-side physiological condition estimations during a live video session. In some embodiments, the system includes a first client computer system that is caused to: (i) store a neural network on one or more computer-readable storage media of the first client computer system, (ii) obtain a live video stream of an individual via a camera of the first client computer system during a video streaming session between the first client computer system and a second client computer system, (iii) provide, during the video streaming session, video data of the live video stream as input to the neural network to obtain physiological condition information from the neural network, and (iv) provide, during the video streaming session, the physiological condition information for presentation at the second client computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Louis Nicolas ATALLAH, Joseph James FRASSICA, Minnan XU
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Patent number: 10866147Abstract: The invention describes a passive heat-flow sensor (1) comprising a contact face (11) for placement on a subject (8) during a temperature monitoring procedure; and a plurality of combined thermistor arrangements, wherein a combined thermistor arrangement comprises an inner thermistor (S1) arranged at an inner face of the sensor (1); an upper thermistor (S2) arranged at the upper surface of the sensor (1) and arranged relative to the inner thermistor (S1) to measure a vertical heat flow outward from the subject (8); and a lateral thermistor (S3) arranged relative to the inner thermistor (S1) to measure a horizontal heat flow along the contact face (11). The invention further describes a method of measuring the temperature of a subject (8) using a heat-flow sensor (1); and a temperature sensing arrangement (10) for monitoring the temperature of a subject (8) using a heat-flow sensor (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers, Louis Nicolas Atallah
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Publication number: 20200300099Abstract: An aviation turbine engine having at least one unducted rotary propeller having a plurality of blades, each blade including: a blade body made of composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fiber reinforcement of the blade body presenting three-dimensional weaving, the body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a protective fitting for protecting the leading edge and made of composite material having fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fitting being adhesively bonded onto the leading edge of the blade body, the fitting being formed from a dry fiber preform injection molded with a densifying resin, and a polyurethane film for providing protection against erosion covering the blade body and the fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Adrien Louis Nicolas LAURENCEAU, Dominique Gerhadt MAYHEW
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Patent number: 10773453Abstract: A pipe joint coating for welded ends of pipes forming a pipeline. A last and third layer of a 3LPP coating system covering at least a circumferential weld area of the pipe joint is a heated sheet applied around the pipe with a machine including a mounting frame and a transport carriage rotatably movable on the mounting frame to move circumferentially about the pipe joint, and a roller applying an adjusted pressure to the sheet against the pipe and adapting to eccentricity or ovality of the pipe. The sheet is pressed below the pipe away from its overlapping ends, a first part of the sheet is then applied when the roller is rolled in a first direction, and a second part of the sheet is applied by the roller rolled back in the reverse direction around the pipe. The sheet is dimensioned to obtain an overlapped area between its extremities.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: SERIMAX HOLDINGSInventors: Terence Cottrell, Louis-Nicolas Hallez, Gareth Owen, Andrew Stribley
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Patent number: 10682048Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for monitoring an eye of a subject, comprising: a transparent carrier for being in contact with the eye of the subject; and a photosensor facing the eye of the subject for receiving light reflected from the eye of the subject and for determining a light intensity of the received light, wherein the photosensor is arranged on the transparent carrier; and wherein the photosensor includes one of: a plurality of photodetectors arranged in the form of a two-dimensional array and spaced apart from one another for allowing incident light to pass between the photodetectors to enter the eye of the subject wherein the plurality of photodetectors is arranged in a plurality of rows of photodetectors or in a plurality of concentric circles substantially covering the iris and the pupil of the eye of the subject; and a single large area photodetector covering an iris and a pupil of the eye of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Koray Karakaya, Charles Frederik Sio, Louis Nicolas Atallah, Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore, Ron Martinus Laurentius Van Lieshout, Susanne Maaike Valster