Patents by Inventor Michel Martin

Michel Martin 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).

  • Patent number: 12240685
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a closed flexible package comprising: (i) flexible or semi-flexible lateral walls (2) that form a flatten package body, and (ii) a cup-shaped bottom portion adapted to the insertion of a fluid injection element of the machine, the package body and cup-shaped bottom portion being formed from a one-piece elongated primary flat blank sheet made of flexible material, preferably a fiber-based material, that is folded in a U-shape around its transversal symmetry axis, and sealed along its lateral and upper edges, wherein said cup-shaped bottom portion is a hollow volume having a concave lower side and convex lateral sides, and the profile curvature of said lower side being identical to the profile curvature of each of said lateral sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A.
    Inventors: Stephane Pellegrini, Olivier Jean-Michel Martin, Alexey Vishtal
  • Publication number: 20240248314
    Abstract: A head mounted display system for displaying image content to a user comprises at least one display configured to be worn by a user to present virtual content to first and second eyes of a user, one or more inwardly facing sensors or camera configured to monitor one or both of the users eye and processing electronics. This head mounted display system is configured such that virtual content activity can be initiated and/or driven from eye inputs such as gaze direction, eyelid motions (e.g., blinking), and/or other eye gestures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Heather Michelle MARTIN, Kevin John O`BRIEN, Pedro Luis ARROYO, Flavio DEOLIVEIRA
  • Patent number: 11966055
    Abstract: A head mounted display system for displaying image content to a user comprises at least one display configured to be worn by a user to present virtual content to first and second eyes of a user, one or more inwardly facing sensors or camera configured to monitor one or both of the users eye and processing electronics. This head mounted display system is configured such that virtual content activity can be initiated and/or driven from eye inputs such as gaze direction, eyelid motions (e.g., blinking), and/or other eye gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Heather Michelle Martin, Kevin John O'Brien, Pedro Luis Arroyo, Flavio DeOliveira
  • Publication number: 20240086097
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improving programming to data storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs). A first memory device has a first XOR element and a second memory device has a second XOR element. The ratio of the first XOR element to the capacity of the first memory device is substantially smaller than the ratio of the second XOR element to the capacity of the second memory device. A read verify operation to find program failures is executed on either a wordline to wordline basis, an erase block to erase block basis, or both a wordline to wordline basis and an erase block to erase block basis. Because the program failures are found and fixed prior to programming to the second memory device, the second XOR element may be decreased substantially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich GOROBETS, Alan D. BENNETT, Liam PARKER, Yuval SHOHET, Michelle MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240060001
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous lubricant composition for lubricating moving parts in a mechanical system, comprising at least water, glycerol; and hypericin. It also relates to the use of this aqueous lubricant composition for lubricating moving parts in a mechanical system, in particular in a vehicle propulsion system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Maria Isabel DE BARROS BOUCHET, Yun LONG, Jean-Michel MARTIN, Benoît THIEBAUT, Chantal BOYER
  • Patent number: 11861195
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improving programming to data storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs). A first memory device has a first XOR element and a second memory device has a second XOR element. The ratio of the first XOR element to the capacity of the first memory device is substantially smaller than the ratio of the second XOR element to the capacity of the second memory device. A read verify operation to find program failures is executed on either a wordline to wordline basis, an erase block to erase block basis, or both a wordline to wordline basis and an erase block to erase block basis. Because the program failures are found and fixed prior to programming to the second memory device, the second XOR element may be decreased substantially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan D. Bennett, Liam Parker, Yuval Shohet, Michelle Martin
  • Publication number: 20230380671
    Abstract: A confocal fundus scanner that includes—a lighting device (11) for generating one light beam; a detector (12) for forming a digital image on the basis of received signals; optical units (131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136) positioned to make light beam passing through them to direct it along an illumination path (A) to a target position (O) and to send a reflection back to the detector (12) along an image path (B); —a scanning device (14) having a movable wall (141) with a first slot (142) which is positioned to intercept the image path (B) and a second slot (143) positioned to intercept the illumination path (A). The slots (142, 143) are configured and positioned to move simultaneously and to shape the light beams in linear cross-section light blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Paola GRIGGIO, Matteo MANENTE, Flavio RIZZARDI, Michele MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20230286732
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a closed flexible package comprising: (i) flexible or semi-flexible lateral walls (2) that form a flatten package body, and (ii) a cup-shaped bottom portion adapted to the insertion of a fluid injection element of the machine, the package body and cup-shaped bottom portion being formed from a one-piece elongated primary flat blank sheet made of flexible material, preferably a fiber-based material, that is folded in a U-shape around its transversal symmetry axis, and sealed along its lateral and upper edges, wherein said cup-shaped bottom portion is a hollow volume having a concave lower side and convex lateral sides, and the profile curvature of said lower side being identical to the profile curvature of each of said lateral sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: STEPHANE PELLEGRINI, OLIVIER JEAN-MICHEL MARTIN, ALEXEY VISHTAL
  • Patent number: 11568938
    Abstract: A data storage device includes one or more memory devices that each includes one or more superblocks and a controller coupled to the one or more memory devices. Each superblock includes a plurality of wordlines. The controller is configured to write data to a first wordline of the plurality of wordlines, write data to a second wordline of the plurality of wordlines, perform a read verify operation on the first wordline, and perform a read verify operation on the second wordline. At least one of the first wordline and the second wordline does not include an XOR parity element and one or more wordlines of the plurality of wordlines includes the XOR parity element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan D. Bennett, Liam Parker, Yuval Shohet, Michelle Martin
  • Publication number: 20230018037
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container (1) for use in a beverage preparation machine. The container (1) has a non-symmetrical shape such that it is inserted functionally inside the beverage preparation machine with a specific orientation. The container (1) comprises a container body (2) having a back side (40) and a front side (3), the back side (40) and the front side (3) delimiting a compartment adapted to be traversed by water injected therein by the beverage preparation machine through the back side (40), and a plant material for preparing a tea beverage, the plant material being inside said compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: JAMES STUART CLULOW, OLIVIER JEAN-MICHEL MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11458261
    Abstract: A curcumin entrained vapor generator providing the release of an essence, or compound or substances, from a solid or powder or liquid into a vapor exiting the generator, comprising a container having an interior volume and a region disposed to contain a liquid which emits or forms a vapor, and an openable closed end distal from said contained liquid. An interior support formed to support material (e.g. curcumin or other) thereon and is included and has a plurality of openings, and is dimensioned less than said container interior dimension across said container liquid to form a large vapor passage allowing the essence of the included material to be gently released into the vapor of the liquid and released into the external environment via the container openings. Other embodiments include esthetically shaped support structures, e.g. a leaf, a plant twig-like arms, etc. and/or graphic overlays, etchings, engravings, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Vijaya Natarajan, Joanne Michelle Martin
  • Publication number: 20220291838
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improving programming to data storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs). A first memory device has a first XOR element and a second memory device has a second XOR element. The ratio of the first XOR element to the capacity of the first memory device is substantially smaller than the ratio of the second XOR element to the capacity of the second memory device. A read verify operation to find program failures is executed on either a wordline to wordline basis, an erase block to erase block basis, or both a wordline to wordline basis and an erase block to erase block basis. Because the program failures are found and fixed prior to programming to the second memory device, the second XOR element may be decreased substantially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich GOROBETS, Alan D. BENNETT, Liam PARKER, Yuval SHOHET, Michelle MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11374989
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of instruction presentations to a ‘virtual’ audience or students including real-time information formed from observable audience reactions as they receive the presentation material, and further includes apparatus and methods to correlate the detected or missing audience reactions in relation to specific presented material, rapidly prompting the presenter and/or the audience with specific, timely, low-latency feedback. The presenter is alerted (possibly before an audience question can be formulated), and the audience member is prompted that there may be questions or contributions regarding a specific matter as it is presented, whereupon the audience member is given the freedom to join or question (or not).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: Joanne Michelle Martin
  • Patent number: 11364939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic suspension for a rail vehicle comprising a body and a bogie, said pneumatic suspension extending between the body and a chassis of the bogie, comprising: at least one secondary pneumatic suspension element for vertically supporting the body on the chassis and capable of being supplied with compressed air at a supply pressure, and a pressure source, wherein it further comprises: a control unit, for each suspension element, a sensor connected to the command unit and able to measure a height between the chassis and the body at the level of said suspension element, and for each suspension element, a solenoid valve connecting said suspension element to the pressure source, said solenoid valve being commanded automatically by an electric command signal, generated by the command unit as a function of the measured height(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SPEEDINNOV
    Inventors: Christophe Sarti, Michel Martin, Philippe Dessertenne, Luis Mendes Frederico, Romain Goude, Thierry Thommeret
  • Publication number: 20220139466
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improving programming to data storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs). A first memory device has a first XOR element and a second memory device has a second XOR element. The ratio of the first XOR element to the capacity of the first memory device is substantially smaller than the ratio of the second XOR element to the capacity of the second memory device. A read verify operation to find program failures is executed on either a wordline to wordline basis, an erase block to erase block basis, or both a wordline to wordline basis and an erase block to erase block basis. Because the program failures are found and fixed prior to programming to the second memory device, the second XOR element may be decreased substantially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich GOROBETS, Alan D. BENNETT, Liam PARKER, Yuval SHOHET, Michelle MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20220126029
    Abstract: A curcumin entrained vapor generator providing the release of an essence, or compound or substances, from a solid or powder or liquid into a vapor exiting the generator, comprising a container having an interior volume and a region disposed to contain a liquid which emits or forms a vapor, and an openable closed end distal from said contained liquid. An interior support formed to support material (e.g. curcumin or other) thereon and is included and has a plurality of openings, and is dimensioned less than said container interior dimension across said container liquid to form a large vapor passage allowing the essence of the included material to be gently released into the vapor of the liquid and released into the external environment via the container openings. Other embodiments include esthetically shaped support structures, e.g. a leaf, a plant twig-like arms, etc. and/or graphic overlays, etchings, engravings, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Vijaya Natarajan, Joanne Michelle Martin
  • Patent number: 11044073
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a countermeasure method implemented in a microcircuit can include selecting, at each cycle of a clock signal, a supply mode of a component internal to the microcircuit, the supply mode can be selected from among a first supply mode in which the component is fully supplied by a first supply circuit connected to a supply input of the microcircuit, and at least one second supply mode in which the component is at least partially supplied by a second supply circuit internal to the microcircuit. The second supply circuit can be isolated from the exterior of the microcircuit while it is supplying the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Rambus, Inc.
    Inventor: Michel Martin
  • Publication number: 20210181514
    Abstract: A head mounted display system for displaying image content to a user comprises at least one display configured to be worn by a user to present virtual content to first and second eyes of a user, one or more inwardly facing sensors or camera configured to monitor one or both of the users eye and processing electronics. This head mounted display system is configured such that virtual content activity can be initiated and/or driven from eye inputs such as gaze direction, eyelid motions (e.g., blinking), and/or other eye gestures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Heather Michelle Martin, Kevin John O'Brien, Pedro Luis Arroyo, Flavio DeOliveira
  • Patent number: 11019216
    Abstract: A system and method of the present invention that assembles an acoustic arrangement of the participants (e.g. a square grid, a circle, etc. in a venue), wherein the sounds received by each participant from each of the other participants are processed according to a model of the selected arrangement and the acoustic signature of the venue to permit each participant to localize, identify the participant location and more easily comprehend what is said or presented. Also, corresponding visual representations are placed in the corresponding visual location of the selected arrangement, and together with rapid acoustic localization of a speaking participant, mental ‘overhead’ is significantly reduced and the participant can resume a near normal, in-person meeting behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventor: Joanne Michelle Martin
  • Patent number: 10953314
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for intelligent game systems for putting intelligence into board and tabletop games including miniatures are disclosed. An intelligent game system comprises one or more sensors, a controller, and a projector, the sensors each having an identifer. The sensors obtain object information from intelligent game piece objects and transfer the object information to a controller where it is associated with a sensor identifier and the sensor identifier is associated with a corresponding portion of an image. The controller interacts with the intelligent game piece objects, for managing game play, and for preparing and transferring a changing image to a projector. Intelligent game piece object features are disclosed, as well as methods of initializing a system for use with the intelligent game piece objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Tweedletech, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Martin Maharbiz, Steve Jaqua