Patents by Inventor LUIS A. CASTRO

LUIS A. CASTRO 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: 20240135811
    Abstract: An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is within a predefined distance away from the alert beacon. The processor further being operable to calculate an average distance and an average velocity for the vehicle in response to receiving the predefined number of beta readings when the vehicle is within the predefined distance from the alert beacon. The processor also being operable to activate an audible alert and a visual alert when the average distance is below a distance threshold and the average velocity exceeds a velocity threshold in response to calculating the average distance and the average velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shohreh ABEDI, Luis CASTRO, Jeffrey LASKOWSKI, Viral PATEL
  • Patent number: 11900803
    Abstract: An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is within a predefined distance away from the alert beacon. The processor further being operable to calculate an average distance and an average velocity for the vehicle in response to receiving the predefined number of beta readings when the vehicle is within the predefined distance from the alert beacon. The processor also being operable to activate an audible alert and a visual alert when the average distance is below a distance threshold and the average velocity exceeds a velocity threshold in response to calculating the average distance and the average velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: THE AUTO CLUB GROUP
    Inventors: Shohreh Abedi, Luis Castro, Jeffrey Laskowski, Viral Patel
  • Publication number: 20230295998
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for an electrical submersible pump (ESP) of a wellbore is disclosed. The system includes a spool and a tubing insert valve to be associated with the wellbore. The spool is to be located above an Xmas tree and is to retain a coil, cable, or wireline that passes through a wellbore and through the tubing insert valve. The coil, cable, or wireline is to be associated with the ESP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoines, Austin Cookson, Mahesha Udipi, Loy Peng Koh, Luis Castro
  • Publication number: 20230037925
    Abstract: An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is within a predefined distance away from the alert beacon. The processor further being operable to calculate an average distance and an average velocity for the vehicle in response to receiving the predefined number of beta readings when the vehicle is within the predefined distance from the alert beacon. The processor also being operable to activate an audible alert and a visual alert when the average distance is below a distance threshold and the average velocity exceeds a velocity threshold in response to calculating the average distance and the average velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shohreh ABEDI, Luis CASTRO, Jeffrey LASKOWSKI, Viral PATEL
  • Patent number: 11508239
    Abstract: An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is within a predefined distance away from the alert beacon. The processor further being operable to calculate an average distance and an average velocity for the vehicle in response to receiving the predefined number of beta readings when the vehicle is within the predefined distance from the alert beacon. The processor also being operable to activate an audible alert and a visual alert when the average distance is below a distance threshold and the average velocity exceeds a velocity threshold in response to calculating the average distance and the average velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: THE AUTO CLUB GROUP
    Inventors: Shohreh Abedi, Luis Castro, Jeffrey Laskowski, Viral Patel
  • Publication number: 20220316901
    Abstract: A trip planning and reservation system and method is disclosed that may include a U.I. software application executing on a computing device (e.g., mobile device). The U.I. software application may transmit the user account information to an external server. The external server may validate the user account information and transmit an access token to the mobile device. An AI algorithm may be operable to predict and select the plurality of digital media files based on operational data that includes the user account information and one or more user interest tags. It is contemplated that the digital media files may include geographic coordinate data and informational data about a location within a pre-defined proximity of the desired travel route. A first file may then be selected from the plurality of digital media files for inclusion within the desired travel route displayed by the U.I. software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shohreh ABEDI, Viral PATEL, Jeff LASKOWSKI, Sanjay KUCHIPUDI, Jakob TAYLOR, Ericka CAPERS, Luis CASTRO, Andrew HAGAR
  • Publication number: 20220003898
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semi-finished lens including a first optical surface including a surface design associated with a first reference system and a second optical surface to be manufactured, the first and second optical surfaces are connected by an external periphery surface, the semi-finished lens further including a reference element provided on the second optical surface and/or on the external periphery surface, the position of the reference element being defined with respect to the first reference system. Also disclosed is a method and a device for manufacturing an optical lens from such a semi-finished lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Luis CASTRO MARTINEZ
  • Publication number: 20210366277
    Abstract: An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is within a predefined distance away from the alert beacon. The processor further being operable to calculate an average distance and an average velocity for the vehicle in response to receiving the predefined number of beta readings when the vehicle is within the predefined distance from the alert beacon. The processor also being operable to activate an audible alert and a visual alert when the average distance is below a distance threshold and the average velocity exceeds a velocity threshold in response to calculating the average distance and the average velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Shohreh ABEDI, Luis CASTRO, Jeffrey LASKOWSKI, Viral PATEL
  • Patent number: 11015421
    Abstract: A retrievable in-flow control device (ICD) including a device body having a first end, a second end, an outer surface extending between the first end and the second end, and an internal flow path. A wireline connector is arranged at the first end. A latch mechanism is provided on one of the wireline connector and the device body. A flow control port extends through the outer surface to the internal flow path. An equalizer member including a first flow path for passing a first fluid and a second flow path for resisting flow of a second fluid. The retrievable ICD also includes a flow control device establishes a selected pressure drop of the first fluid through the retrievable ICD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, Dylan Bulloch, Jonathan Nelson, Zhi Yong He, Luis A. Castro
  • Publication number: 20210095549
    Abstract: A retrievable in-flow control device (ICD) including a device body having a first end, a second end, an outer surface extending between the first end and the second end, and an internal flow path. A wireline connector is arranged at the first end. A latch mechanism is provided on one of the wireline connector and the device body. A flow control port extends through the outer surface to the internal flow path. An equalizer member including a first flow path for passing a first fluid and a second flow path for resisting flow of a second fluid. The retrievable ICD also includes a flow control device establishes a selected pressure drop of the first fluid through the retrievable ICD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, Dylan Bulloch, Jonathan Nelson, Zhi Yong He, Luis A. Castro
  • Patent number: 10385680
    Abstract: Electrically-operated downhole tools are run into a wellbore on a coiled tubing string which includes tube-wire that is capable of carrying power and data along its length. During operation, a downhole tool is provided power from surface using the tube-wire. Downhole data is provided to the surface via tube-wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Silviu Livescu, Thomas J. Watkins, Steven Craig, Luis Castro
  • Patent number: 10215888
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical lens, includes the steps of providing a blank (1) which includes an upper surface and a lower surface (33) for forming first and second lens surfaces (2), an edge surface (4) forming a first mechanical positioning reference point and a ramp portion (5) provided between the edge surface and the upper surface, which forms a second positioning reference point; providing a positioning ring (10) including a cavity defining an inner contour (20) concentric with the edge surface which forms a first complementary control reference point and a shoulder (21) forming a second complementary control reference point; fitting the blank into the cavity, the edge surface being in contact with the inner contour and the ramp portion being in contact with the shoulder; and locking the blank in position on a locking and supporting pin, the ring then being positioned there between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Luis Castro, Eric Gacoin, Jerome Moine, Bernard Pons
  • Patent number: 10173759
    Abstract: A combustion buoyancy control system for a submersible object is provided. The buoyancy control system includes a piston cylinder and a piston defining a combustion chamber. An oxidizer inlet introduces oxidizer into the combustion chamber. A fuel injector and igniter device injects fuel into the combustion chamber so that it mixes with the oxidizer in the combustion chamber and then ignites the mixture of oxidizer and fuel in the combustion chamber to produce combustion. Combustion within the combustion chamber displaces the piston member in a first direction causing an increase in the volume of the combustion chamber which increases the buoyancy of the submersible object. Displacement of the piston member in a second opposite direction causes a decrease in the volume of the combustion chamber which in turn decreases the buoyancy of the submersible object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Esteban Luis Castro-Feliciano
  • Patent number: 10119351
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a well treatment system that supplies a treatment fluid, a conveyance device and a well tool conveyed by the conveyance device. The well tool can include a perforator configured to form at least one hole in the wellbore tubular and a restrictor projecting from an outer surface of the well tool and adjacent to the perforator. A gap may separate the restrictor and the wellbore tubular. The well tool may also include a flow space that provides fluid communication between a location uphole of the restrictor and a location downhole of the restrictor. The flow space is sized to be restricted by particles in the treatment fluid. The restrictor at least restricts fluid flow through an annulus between the restrictor and the wellbore tubular, and the well tool diverts a substantial amount of the treatment fluid through an at least one hole formed by the perforator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Juan C. Flores, Luis A. Castro, Sr., Andre J. Porter
  • Publication number: 20180266238
    Abstract: Electrically-operated downhole tools are run into a wellbore on a coiled tubing string which includes tube-wire that is capable of carrying power and data along its length. During operation, a downhole tool is provided power from surface using the tube-wire. Downhole data is provided to the surface via tube-wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Silviu Livescu, Thomas J. Watkins, Steven Craig, Luis Castro
  • Patent number: 10072005
    Abstract: 4-Azaindole derivatives which are modulators of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) M1 and which may be effective for the prevention or disease modifying or symptomatic treatment of cognitive deficits associated with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer-type dementia (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a 4-azaindole derivative as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Payne, Jose Luis Castro Pineiro, Louise Michelle Birch, Afzal Khan, Alan James Braunton, James Edward Kitulagoda, Motohiro Soejima
  • Publication number: 20180208593
    Abstract: 4-Azaindole derivatives which are modulators of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) M1 and which may be effective for the prevention or disease modifying or symptomatic treatment of cognitive deficits associated with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer-type dementia (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a 4-azaindole derivative as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: EISAI R&D MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Payne, Jose Luis Castro Pineiro, Louise Michelle Birch, Afzal Khan, Alan James Braunton, James Edward Kitulagoda, Motohiro Soejima
  • Patent number: 10010994
    Abstract: Method of taping an optical lens member (10) to be manufactured. An optical lens member providing step (S1) is performed during which an optical lens member (10) is provided, the optical lens member has a first optical surface (11) associated with a first reference system and a second optical surface (12) to be manufactured, the first and second optical surfaces being connected by a external periphery surface (14), the first reference system being identified by at least one referencing element (111) on the first optical surface and/or the external periphery surface of the optical lens member, a taping step (S2) during which an adhesive tape (17) is provided on the first surface of the lens member so as to cover at least part of the first surface and leaving the referencing element uncovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Eric Gacoin, Luis Castro
  • Patent number: 10012050
    Abstract: A system and method for treating a portion of a wellbore that includes a bottom hole assembly (BHA) connected to a work string. The BHA includes a packing element movable between an unset position and a set position and a locator device movable between retracted position and expanded positions. The locator device may be a locator collet. The locator collet may be expanded by a cone movable with respect to the collet. The expanded locator device is configured to engage a profile in a ported tubular within the wellbore. The engagement between the locator device and the profile selectively prevents further movement of the BHA and provides an indication of the location the BHA. The packing element may then be actuated and the wellbore treated through a port in the ported tubular. The BHA may then be moved to a different ported housing to treat another portion of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Beckett, Luis A. Castro, Christopher W. Thacker, Jason Harper, Marc Carriere, Leigh Thorne, Jeffrey Koch, Justin Reyes, Bradley Collas, Cory Casemore, David Luft, Orest Zolkavich, Derek Robert Brown
  • Patent number: D1022041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Luis Castro