Patents by Inventor Nicolas Brunner

Nicolas Brunner 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: 20230160632
    Abstract: A liquefaction and subcooling system, comprising a refrigeration device to provide a refrigerant fluid at a first and a second cold temperature that correspond to temperatures of the first and second gases, a subcooling arrangement coupled to the refrigeration device such that the refrigerant fluid is supplied to the subcooling arrangement, the subcooling arrangement having first and second subcoolers for exchanging heat between a gas to be liquefied and/or subcooled and the refrigerant fluid, wherein, when the gas to be liquefied and/or subcooled is the first gas, the refrigeration device is configured to provide the refrigerant fluid and the subcooling arrangement is configured to guide the refrigerant fluid and the gas through the first subcooler; and, when the gas to be liquefied and/or subcooled is the second gas, the refrigeration device is configured to provide the refrigerant fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Frederic MARCUCCILLI, Nicolas BRUNNER
  • Patent number: 11620107
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a Quantum Random Number Generator comprising an emitting device (110) triggered by a signal representing an input bit x and adapted to generate and send a physical system (130) characterized by one of two possible quantum states determined by said input bit x, a measurement device (120) adapted to detect said physical system, to identify the quantum state of said physical system through an unambiguous state discrimination measurement and to generate an output b first representing whether the quantum state has been identified or not and, if it has been identified, which quantum state among the two possible quantum states was detected by the unambiguous state discrimination measurement to a processing device (140), the processing device (140) being adapted to estimate the entropy of the output b given the probabilities p(b|x) representing the probability of observing output b for a state preparation x, and a randomness extraction device (150) adapted to extract final random bit stre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE
    Inventors: Anthony Christophe Mickaël Martin, Nicolas Brunner, Hugo Zbinden, Jonatan Brask, Joseph Bowles
  • Patent number: 11389893
    Abstract: Ultrasonic welding device having a sonotrode (28) and an anvil (26), in which a flat part and at least one joining part are arranged between the sonotrode (28) and the anvil (26) during ultrasonic welding, and wherein a fastening element is held in a positively locking manner between the flat part and the joining part, and a damping element (22) that presses on the fastening element (8a) is provided, which is pressed on the fastening element in such a way that a relative movement between the fastening element and the flat part and/or the joining part is restricted during ultrasonic welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Auto-Kabel Management GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Brunner, Dany Zuschlag
  • Publication number: 20200282492
    Abstract: Ultrasonic welding device having a sonotrode (28) and an anvil (26), in which a flat part and at least one joining part are arranged between the sonotrode (28) and the anvil (26) during ultrasonic welding, and wherein a fastening element is held in a positively locking manner between the flat part and the joining part, and a damping element (22) that presses on the fastening element (8a) is provided, which is pressed on the fastening element in such a way that a relative movement between the fastening element and the flat part and/or the joining part is restricted during ultrasonic welding
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Nicolas Brunner, Dany Zuschlag
  • Publication number: 20190243611
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a Quantum Random Number Generator comprising an emitting device (110) triggered by a signal representing an input bit x and adapted to generate and send a physical system (130) characterized by one of two possible quantum states determined by said input bit x, a measurement device (120) adapted to detect said physical system, to identify the quantum state of said physical system through an unambiguous state discrimination measurement and to generate an output b first representing whether the quantum state has been identified or not and, if it has been identified, which quantum state among the two possible quantum states was detected by the unambiguous state discrimination measurement to a processing device (140), the processing device (140) being adapted to estimate the entropy of the output b given the probabilities p(b|x) representing the probability of observing output b for a state preparation x, and a randomness extraction device (150) adapted to extract final random bit stre
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Université de Genève
    Inventors: Anthony Christophe Mickaël MARTIN, Nicolas BRUNNER, Hugo Zbinden, Jonatan BRASK, Joseph BOWLES
  • Publication number: 20180021884
    Abstract: Ultrasonic welding device having a sonotrode (28) and an anvil (26), in which a flat part and at least one joining part are arranged between the sonotrode (28) and the anvil (26) during ultrasonic welding, and wherein a fastening element is held in a positively locking manner between the flat part and the joining part, and a damping element (22) that presses on the fastening element (8a) is provided, which is pressed on the fastening element in such a way that a relative movement between the fastening element and the flat part and/or the joining part is restricted during ultrasonic welding
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Nicolas Brunner, Dany Zuschlag