Patents by Inventor Luca D'Ottone

Luca D'Ottone 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).

  • Publication number: 20250192998
    Abstract: A system and method provide a hybrid communication scheme that achieves high communication rates with post-quantum computational security guarantees. Messages to be securely communicated are first mixed using an individually secure encoding, such as a linear network code, and some of the encoded messages are further encrypted. The encrypted and unencrypted messages are sent via different communications channels. Each unencrypted message becomes almost as secure as the encrypted messages because of the pre-mixing, since decoding any one of the messages requires all of the messages, including the encrypted messages. Thus, a very few encrypted messages may be used, allowing the rate of communication to approach one as the number of channels increases. This is particularly beneficial when a classical public-key cryptosystem can only be used in part of the data transmitted or stored, in the presence of noisy channels, in distributed data storage, and other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Muriel MEDARD, Alejandro COHEN, Rafael Gregorio Lucas D'OLIVEIRA, Salman SALAMATIAN
  • Publication number: 20250123443
    Abstract: A system includes an array of light-collecting elements, each light-collecting element of the array of light-collecting elements configured to output a collected light signal to an optical fiber of a number of optical fibers, an optical fiber combiner coupled to the array of light-collecting elements by the number of optical fibers, the optical fiber combiner configured to receive the collected light signals from the array of light-collecting elements through the number of optical fibers and to combine the collected light signals to form one or more combined collected light signals, and an optical detector configured to receive the one or more combined collected light signals from the optical fiber combiner and convert the one or more combined light signals into one or more electrical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan J. Gelly, Lucas D. Benney, Steven J. Spector, Joseph Hollmann, Michael G. Moebius
  • Patent number: 12272343
    Abstract: It is described a metamaterial sound insulation device, with improved efficiency in dampening sound transmission across it compared to a traditional sound insulation device having comparable size and weight. The device is especially adapted for sound insulation in the automotive field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Adler Evo S.R.L, Phononic Vibes S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giorgio Lesage, Maurizio Tarello, Massimiliano Tiengo, Luca D'Alessandro, Giovanni Capellari, Simone Meduri
  • Patent number: 12261949
    Abstract: A system and method provide a hybrid communication scheme that achieves high communication rates with post-quantum computational security guarantees. Messages to be securely communicated are first mixed using an individually secure encoding, such as a linear network code, and some of the encoded messages are further encrypted. The encrypted and unencrypted messages are sent via different communications channels. Each unencrypted message becomes almost as secure as the encrypted messages because of the pre-mixing, since decoding any one of the messages requires all of the messages, including the encrypted messages. Thus, a very few encrypted messages may be used, allowing the rate of communication to approach one as the number of channels increases. This is particularly beneficial when a classical public-key cryptosystem can only be used in part of the data transmitted or stored, in the presence of noisy channels, in distributed data storage, and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Muriel Medard, Alejandro Cohen, Rafael Gregorio Lucas D'Oliveira, Salman Salamatian
  • Patent number: 12256626
    Abstract: An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum ink fills set by specification. In various embodiments, different droplet combinations are produced through different print head/substrate scan offsets, offsets between print heads, the use of different nozzle drive waveforms, and/or other techniques. Optionally, patterns of fill variation can be introduced so as to mitigate observable line effects in a finished display device. The disclosed techniques have many other possible applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Nahid Harjee, Lucas D. Barkley, Christopher R. Hauf, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan
  • Publication number: 20250065711
    Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a chassis including a wheel and an electric motor configured to receive electrical energy and provide power to the wheel to move the refuse vehicle, a body assembly coupled to the chassis and configured to store refuse, a tailgate movably coupled to the body assembly, and an energy storage device coupled to the tailgate and moveable therewith. The electric motor is configured to be powered by the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Lucas D. Crist, Grant D. Wildgrube, Jarud H. Hoefker, Leslie H. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20250044097
    Abstract: Navigation with light refraction or dispersion and landmark data is provided. A system can include a data processing system. The data processing system can receive a first image of a surface of a planet from a first camera. The data processing system can generate a first position dataset based on the first image and data representing landmarks of the surface of the planet. The data processing system can receive, by a second camera oriented towards an atmosphere of the planet, a second image. The data processing can generate, via a celestial body catalog, a second position dataset based at least in part on an amount of refraction or dispersion of light of a celestial body in a second image. The data processing system can determine, based on a filter applied to the first position dataset and the second position dataset, a position and attitude of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Juha-Pekka J. Laine, Avinash Agrawal, Lucas D. Benney, Gregory Blasche, Matthew T. Jamula, Charles Anthony McPherson, Dorothy C. Poppe, Stephen P. Smith
  • Patent number: 12209625
    Abstract: A brake caliper for a disc brake system has a caliper body straddling the disc and having a first elongated portion facing a first braking surface of the brake disc, and a second elongated portion, opposite to the first elongated portion and facing a second braking surface of the brake disc opposite to the first braking surface. A bridge connects the first elongated portion and the second elongated portion to each other. The brake caliper has at least one pair of opposite brake pads, each brake pad having friction material and a support plate supporting the friction material, the support plate having a plate back facing a respective elongated portion of the first and second elongated portions. A detecting device for detecting a biasing force directed in axial direction is interposed between the plate back of the second brake pad and the second elongated portion of the caliper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Carrara, Luca D'Urso, Mauro Reolon, Paolo Sala, Beniamin Szewczyk
  • Publication number: 20250022556
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for time-series forecasting are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for refining time-series forecasts, the method obtains timestep information including baseline information, a time gap, and context information. The baseline information includes information known about the system at a time when the multivariate time-series is generated. The context information includes at least one vector of time-independent background variables related to the system. The method determines, based on the timestep information, parameter predictions for the system at a first timestep and a second timestep. The method derives actual state values for the system at the first timestep. The method updates the parameter predictions for the system at the second timestep, using a gating function, based on a discrepancy between: the parameter predictions for the system at the first timestep, and the actual state values for the system at the first timestep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Unlearn.AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Luca D'Alessio, Rishabh Gupta, Charles Kenneth Fisher
  • Patent number: 12168393
    Abstract: A fuel system for a vehicle includes a fuel tank configured to provide fuel to an engine of the vehicle, a shutoff valve configured to selectively restrict a flow of the fuel along a flow path between the fuel tank and the engine, a temperature sensor configured to monitor a temperature of at least one of the engine of the vehicle or a temperature associated with a body area of the vehicle and provide a temperature signal, and a controller coupled to the temperature sensor and the shutoff valve. The controller is configured to control the shutoff valve to restrict the flow of the fuel in response to the temperature signal indicating a temperature in excess of a temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Lucas D. Crist, Grant D. Wildgrube, Jarud H. Hoefker, Leslie H. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12145567
    Abstract: A braking system for vehicles has a pilot pump with a manual actuation device, which is fluidically connected to an absorber device which simulates the driving resistance offered by at least one braking device. The system has at least one control unit operatively connected to at least one sensor and to the manual actuator device and is programmed to actuate the braking device via the actuator device when it receives from the sensors a braking action request signal. The control unit is programmed so as to correct the braking action requested by the user, actuating the manual actuator device so as to avoid blocking of one or more wheels or the occurrence of instability of the vehicle during braking. The control unit is programmed to induce on the manual actuation device at least one vibration when it corrects the braking action requested by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luca D'Urso, Massimo Di Stefano, Valerio Galizzi, Fabio Alemanno, Francesco Dozzi, Beniamin Szewczyk
  • Publication number: 20240360455
    Abstract: The present invention provides double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) agents for inhibiting expression of a target gene, comprising an antisense strand which is complementary to the target gene; a sense strand which is complementary to the antisense strand and forms a double stranded region with the antisense strand; and one or more C22 hydrocarbon chains conjugated to one or more internal positions on at least one strand, compositions comprising such dsRNA agents, and methods of use thereof for treating a subject having a skeletal muscle disorder, a cardiac muscle disorder, or an adipose tissue disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Jayaprakash K. Nair, Justin Pierson, Elena Castellanos-Rizaldos, Yesseinia Anglero-Rodriguez, Karyn Schmidt, Lucas D. BonDurant, Kevin Dooley, Ivan Zlatev, Vasant R. Jadhav, Martin A. Maier, Alexander V. Kel'in, Masaaki Nakata
  • Patent number: 12128363
    Abstract: A membrane having a first outer surface having a plurality of pores in a skin layer and the plurality of pores having a closed perimeter in the skin layer. The membrane having a second outer surface and a porous supporting layer connecting the first outer surface to the second outer surface. The first outer surface of the membrane is a melt-fused skin layer from exposure to ultra-violet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: Lucas D. McIntosh, Aniruddha A. Upadhye, Joel A. Getschel
  • Patent number: 12128861
    Abstract: A brake caliper for a disc brake has a caliper body straddling a brake disc. The caliper body has a thrust device housing accommodating a thrust device configured to apply a bias on at least one brake pad to abut the at least one brake pad against braking surfaces of the brake disc. The thrust device is operatively connected to a translating screw nut. The translating screw nut is operatively connected to a worm. The worm is operatively connected to a gearbox and rotatably supported by a screw thrust bearing configured to apply for the worm an axial reaction. At least one part of the gearbox is rotatably supported by at least one gearbox thrust bearing configured to apply for the at least one part of the gearbox a radial reaction. The screw thrust bearing and the gearbox thrust bearing are a same thrust bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Carrara, Paolo Sala, Luca D'Urso, Mauro Reolon
  • Patent number: 12131498
    Abstract: A way to design a codebook for estimating the type of a molecule at a particular location in a fluorescence microscopy image makes use of one or both of (1) knowledge of the non-uniform prior distribution of molecule types (i.e., some types are known a priori to occur more frequently than others) and/or knowledge of co-occurrence of molecule types at close locations (e.g., in a same cell); and (2) knowledge of a model of the (e.g., random) process that yields the intensities that are expected at a location when a molecule with a particular subset of markers (i.e., a molecule of a type that has been assigned a codeword that defines that subset) is present at that location. The codebook design may provide experimental efficiency by reducing the number of images that need to be acquired and/or improve classification or detection accuracy by making the codewords for different molecule types more distinctive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yeda Research and Development Co. LTD. of Weizmann Institute of Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth
    Inventors: Mehrtash Babadi, Luca D'Alessio, Muriel Medard, Ken Duffy, Yonina Eldar, Litian Liu
  • Patent number: 12104666
    Abstract: A brake caliper of a disc brake has a caliper body straddling a brake disc and having a thrust device housing accommodating a thrust device operatively connected to a translating screw nut. The translating screw nut is operatively connected to a worm. The worm is operatively connected to a gearbox and rotatably supported by a screw thrust bearing configured to apply for the worm an axial reaction. At least one part of the gearbox is rotatably supported by a gearbox thrust bearing configured to apply for the at least one part of the gearbox a radial reaction. The thrust bearing has at least one radially inner slewing ring and the gearbox has an epicyclic gear having a fixed gear or an internally toothed body cooperating with at least one planet gear rotatably supported about at least one planet gear pin connected to the at least one radially inner slewing ring to transmit action of the gearbox to the worm by the at least one radially inner slewing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Carrara, Paolo Sala, Luca D'Urso, Mauro Reolon
  • Publication number: 20240263688
    Abstract: A tensioner for a belt has a fixed part provided with a pivot defining an axis (A), an eccentric arm rotatably mounted on the pivot about the axis (A), a pulley rotatable about an axis (B) defined by the arm and configured to cooperate with a timing belt, a first spring-damper assembly interposed between the arm and the fixed part, and a second spring-damper assembly configured to act between the arm and the fixed part from a predetermined angle of rotation of the arm with respect to the fixed part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: PROPULSION SOLUTIONS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Edevon COSTA, Eduardo SOUZA, Luca D'AMICANTONIO, Antonio Gasper JUNIOR
  • Publication number: 20240226820
    Abstract: Tetrablock copolymers of formula ABAC are provided that can be used to form porous articles such as porous hollow fibers and porous membranes. Each A block is formed from a vinyl aromatic monomer, the B block is formed from a conjugated diene monomer, and the C block is formed from at least two different oxirane (i.e., epoxy) compounds. The tetrablock copolymers can advantageously be prepared without the use of functional initiators and/or difunctional initiators. The tetrablock copolymers are well suited for solvent induced phase separation (SIPS) processing to prepare porous articles. Membranes formed from the tetrablock copolymers can be used for water treatment and biopharmaceutical purification and/or separation processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Carl A. Laskowski, Timothy M. Gillard, Lucas D. McIntosh, Clinton P. Waller, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240230851
    Abstract: A LiDAR system includes a light source and an arrayed micro-optic configured to receive light from the light source so as to produce and project a two-dimensional array of light spots on a scene. The LiDAR system also includes receiver optics having an array of optical detection sites configured so as to be suitable for establishing a one-to-one correspondence between light spots in the two-dimensional array and optical detection sites in the receiver optics. The LiDAR system further includes a birefringent prism and a lens. The LiDAR system may also include a mask placed in the light path between the birefringent prism and the receiver optics. Alternatively, the LiDAR system may include a controller programmed to activate or deactivate each optical detection site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Michael G. MOEBIUS, Lucas D. BENNEY, Steven J. SPECTOR, Steven J. BYRNES
  • Patent number: 12027779
    Abstract: An antenna system has a two-dimensional field of view, yet can be implemented on a surface, such as on electronic or photonic integrated circuits. The antenna system includes an array of antennas disposed in a predetermined non-linear pattern and a two-dimensional beamforming network (BFN). The antenna system can be steered/selectively beamformed in two dimensions through beam port selection. The beamforming network is disposed entirely on a single first surface. The beamforming network has a one-dimensional array-side interface disposed on the first surface and a one-dimensional beam-side interface disposed on the first surface. The antennas of the array of antennas are individually communicably coupled to the array-side interface. Segments of the beam-side interface map to respective pixels in the two-dimensional field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian A. Brown, Benjamin F. Lane, Hannah Clevenson, Lucas D. Benney, Michael G. Moebius, Robin M. A. Dawson, Steven J. Spector