Patents by Inventor Nicolo' MANCA

Nicolo' MANCA 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: 11793394
    Abstract: A steerable endoscope system includes a continuum manipulator, a plurality of syringes, and a steerable tip. The continuum manipulator includes a plurality of spaced discs and a plurality of backbones each extending through all discs. A bending movement of the continuum manipulator changes a varying linear displacement of each backbone. Each backbone is further coupled to a different one of the syringes such that the linear displacement of each backbone pushes or pulls a piston of the corresponding syringe by a varying amount. The steerable tip includes a plurality of bellows each pneumatically coupled to a different syringe such that movement of the piston of a syringe causes the corresponding bellow to inflate or deflate. Because the distal end of each bellow is fixedly coupled to the same end effector, variations in the amount of inflation or deflation on each bellow causes a bending of the steerable tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Vanderbilt University, University of Leeds
    Inventors: Nicolo Garbin, Pietro Valdastri, Keith L. Obstein, Nabil Simaan, Piotr Robert Slawinski
  • Patent number: 11786900
    Abstract: A microfluidic device for the isolation of particles of at least one specific type of a sample is described. The microfluidic device comprises: a first inlet adapted to receive a sample comprising the particles of the specific type, at least part of a separation group comprising a separation unit, which comprises a main chamber and a recovery chamber and being adapted to receive the sample and to transfer at least part of the particles of the specific type from the main chamber to the recovery chamber in a selective manner with respect to further particles of the sample, a first outlet which is designed to allow the particles of the specific type to be collected outside of the device and a second outlet adapted to allow at least a portion of the sample to flow out of the main chamber and out of the microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Menarini Silicon Biosystems S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Medoro, Alex Calanca, Nicolò Manaresi
  • Patent number: 11787685
    Abstract: For manufacturing an optical microelectromechanical device, a first wafer of semiconductor material having a first surface and a second surface is machined to form a suspended mirror structure, a fixed structure surrounding the suspended mirror structure, elastic supporting elements which extend between the fixed structure and the suspended mirror structure, and an actuation structure coupled to the suspended mirror structure. A second wafer is machined separately to form a chamber delimited by a bottom wall having a through opening. The second wafer is bonded to the first surface of the first wafer in such a way that the chamber overlies the actuation structure and the through opening is aligned to the suspended mirror structure. Furthermore, a third wafer is bonded to the second surface of the first wafer to form a composite wafer device. The composite wafer device is then diced to form an optical microelectromechanical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luca Seghizzi, Nicolo′ Boni, Laura Oggioni, Roberto Carminati, Marta Carminati
  • Publication number: 20230321904
    Abstract: An extruder for additive manufacturing extends about, and along, a longitudinal axis and has an extrusion nozzle having a polygonal cross-section and a mounting member provided with: a ring configured to be mounted to a bearing coaxial to the extruder and allowing the rotation of the mounting member about the longitudinal axis; a hollow body arranged within the ring and configured to house, in part, an extrusion screw; and a plurality of spokes for connecting the hollow body to the ring so as to define compartments between the spokes-adjacent the hollow body and the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Giovanni Avallone, Paolo Cassis, Francesco De Stefano, Jacopo Gervasini, Nicolò Bordoli
  • Publication number: 20230324674
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical mirror device has, in a die of semiconductor material: a fixed structure defining a cavity; a tiltable structure carrying a reflecting region, elastically suspended above the cavity and having a main extension in a horizontal plane; at least one first pair of driving arms, carrying respective piezoelectric structures which can be biased to generate a driving force that causes rotation of the tiltable structure about a rotation axis parallel to a first horizontal axis of the horizontal plane; elastic suspension elements, which elastically couple the tiltable structure to the fixed structure at the rotation axis and are rigid to movements out of the horizontal plane and compliant to torsion about the rotation axis. In particular, the driving arms of the first pair are magnetically coupled to the tiltable structure to cause its rotation about the rotation axis by magnetic interaction, following biasing of the respective piezoelectric structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Nicolo' BONI, Roberto CARMINATI, Massimiliano MERLI, Carlo Luigi PRELINI, Tarek AFIFI AFIFI
  • Publication number: 20230327677
    Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator in a phase-locked loop circuit is calibrated via a dichotomous search in a set of candidate frequency bands via a sequence of subsequent halving steps that produce reduced subsets of the set of candidate frequency bands. The reduced subsets have respective upper bound values and lower bound values, as well as central values. The central value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i in the sequence is a function of the average of the upper bound value and the lower bound value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i?1 in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Davide Nicolo Fortunato, Antonino Calcagno, Marco Vinciguerra, Angelo Scuderi, Gaetano Cosentino
  • Patent number: 11783832
    Abstract: Determining whether, upon cessation of a second automated assistant session that interrupted and supplanted a prior first automated assistant session: (1) to automatically resume the prior first automated assistant session, or (2) to transition to an alternative automated assistant state in which the prior first session is not automatically resumed. Implementations further relate to selectively causing, based on the determining and upon cessation of the second automated assistant session, either the automatic resumption of the prior first automated assistant session that was interrupted, or the transition to the state in which the first session is not automatically resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Nicolo D'Ercole, Zaheed Sabur, Bibo Xu, Megan Knight, Alvin Abdagic, Jan Lamecki, Bo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230314257
    Abstract: Method for determining a first and a second calibrated value of atmospheric pressure, performed by an electronic apparatus comprising a fixed device and a first and a second movable device comprising respectively a first and a second movable barometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Enri DUQI, Patrick FEDELI, Nicolo' MANCA, Silvia ADORNO
  • Publication number: 20230309989
    Abstract: An assembly includes an insertion device and a suture delivery device. The insertion device includes a longitudinal guide member extending from a proximal end to a distal tip. The tip includes an abutting structure movable between insertion and open positions. The structure is sized and shaped to contact tissue surrounding the tissue opening into which the insertion device has been inserted to maintain a desired position of the insertion device within the opening. The delivery device includes a body and a tube. The tube extends along a curved path configured so that, as the tube is rotated about the member, the tube penetrates tissue surrounding the opening into which the member has been inserted. A distal extension of the tube is configured so that, when the tube has been advanced distally to a distal-most position on the member, a distal end of the tube is proximal of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Nicolo Garbin, Steven Nguyen, Abdul Umaru, William Cohn, Marcus Pantoja
  • Patent number: 11772044
    Abstract: A waste water processing system includes an upflow contacting column having a flue gas input for receiving flue gas having a temperature of at least 500 degrees F., a waste water input, and a flue gas output. The waste water input is coupled to a fluid injector, e.g., atomizing nozzles, positioned in the throat of a Venturi portion of the upflow contacting column or in a sidewall of the throat of the Venturi portion of the upflow contacting column. The flue gas in the upflow contacting column has a high velocity, e.g., a gas velocity exceeding 65 fps in the throat of the Venturi portion of the upflow contacting column at a position where the fluid injector is located. Drying additives such as recycled ash, lime, and/or cement may be, and sometimes are, input into the upflow contacting column downstream of the waste water input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Song Wu, Sandhya Eswaran, Allan Kukoski, Robert Nicolo, Edward Bialkin
  • Publication number: 20230307193
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board using a solder reflow process is disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes: a sealed housing body (e.g., a lower body with a lid attached thereto) including a positive internal contact and a negative internal contact (e.g., metallic contact pads) disposed within the body and each respectively in electrical communication with a positive external contact and a negative external contact. Each of the external contacts provide electrical communication to the exterior of the body, and may be disposed on an external surface of the body. An electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) (also referred to herein as an “ultracapacitor” or “supercapacitor”) energy storage cell is disposed within a cavity in the body including a stack of alternating electrode layers and electrically insulating separator layers. An electrolyte is disposed within the cavity and wets the electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nicolo Michele Brambilla, Joseph K. Lane, John Hyde, Wyatt Andree, Susheel M.J. Kalabathula
  • Publication number: 20230302962
    Abstract: An electrical storage system comprises a first energy storage system and a second energy storage system having a lower electrical energy density and a higher rated electrical power output capability than the first energy storage system, at least one electrical power sensor configured to sense over a plurality of time intervals, electrical power usage information for a load electrically coupled to the first energy storage system and the second energy storage system, and at least one computer processor programmed to determine based, at least in part, on the sensed electrical power usage information and a power requirement of the load in a current time interval, charging/discharging parameters for each of the first energy storage system and the second energy storage system, and control charging/discharging of each of the first and second energy storage systems in accordance with the determined charging/discharging parameters during the current time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Electra Vehicles, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas James Couture, Akhilesh Bakshi, Jacob M. Berliner, Nicoló Michele Brambilla, Fabrizio Martini
  • Publication number: 20230295836
    Abstract: An apparatus for growing semiconductor wafers, in particular of silicon carbide, wherein a chamber houses a collection container and a support or susceptor arranged over the container. The support is formed by a frame surrounding an opening accommodating a plurality of arms and a seat. The frame has a first a second surface, opposite to each other, with the first surface of the frame facing the support. The arms are formed by cantilever bars extending from the frame into the opening, having a maximum height smaller than the frame, and having at the top a resting edge. The resting edges of the arms define a resting surface that is at a lower level than the second surface of the frame. The seat has a bottom formed by the resting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Ruggero ANZALONE, Nicolo' FRAZZETTO, Francesco La Via
  • Publication number: 20230285751
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for treating neurological disorders by electro-stimulation. The apparatus (10) for treating neurological disorders includes at least one electrode (12) implantable in the brain of a patient, and a processing and stimulation device (14) connected to the at least one electrode (12). The processing and stimulation device (14) may include a stimulation module (16) configured to generate a stimulation signal to be sent to the at least one electrode (12), and an acquisition module (20) that measures cerebral activity coming from the brain of the patient. The acquisition module (20) may have a front-end block (27) configured to amplify the potential difference of its input signals (V1a, V2a) and to filter a stimulus artifact and may include a multi-stage fully-differential switched capacitor circuit (e.g., an integrated circuit) configured for discrete-time signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel SENDEROWICZ, Mattia ARLOTTI, Nicolo´ VIENO, Lorenzo ROSSI
  • Publication number: 20230288696
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical-mirror device has a fixed structure defining an external frame delimiting a cavity, an internal frame arranged above the cavity and defining a window, and a tiltable structure with a reflective surface and arranged in the window. Elastically coupled to the internal frame by first and second coupling elastic elements. An actuation structure is coupled to the internal frame to cause the rotation of the tiltable structure around first and second axes. The actuation structure has a first pair of driving arms, elastically coupled to the internal frame and carrying piezoelectric material regions to cause rotation of the tiltable structure around the first axis, and a further pair of driving arms carrying piezoelectric material regions to cause rotation of the tiltable structure around the second axis and interposed between the fixed structure and the internal frame, to which they are elastically coupled by first and second suspension elastic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Nicolo' BONI, Roberto CARMINATI, Massimiliano MERLI
  • Patent number: 11756745
    Abstract: A solid state polymer electrolyte is disclosed for use in an ultracapacitor. The electrolyte includes an ionic liquid and a polymer and may include other additives, wherein an ultracapacitor that utilizes the solid state electrolyte is configured to output electrical energy at temperatures between about ?40° C. and about 250° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FASTCAP SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolò Michele Brambilla, Fabrizio Martini
  • Patent number: 11755667
    Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to receive or obtain, responsive to transmitting the one or more search terms to a search entity, one or more primary content items that include messages that accord with the one or more search terms. The method may additionally include parsing the messages that accord with the one or more search terms to detect one or more relevant secondary search terms and obtaining secondary content items that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms. The method may further include generating signals to represent a report of entities that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Prove Identity, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Goel, Tarun Bansal, Aditya Khurjekar, Nicolo Petrone, Mehul Desai
  • Publication number: 20230282426
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is electrode comprising a current collector comprising a conductor layer having at least a first surface; and elongated metal carbide nanostructures extending from the first surface; and a carbonaceous energy storage media disposed on the first surface and in contact with the elongated metal carbide nanostructures. Disclosed herein too is an ultracapacitor comprising at least one electrode comprising a current collector comprising a conductor layer having at least a first surface; and elongated metal carbide nanostructures extending from the first surface; and a carbonaceous energy storage media disposed on the first surface and in contact with the elongated metal carbide nanostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Nicolo Michele Brambilla, Fabrizio Martini
  • Patent number: 11745158
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and controlling the polymerization in a polymerization vessel by using a camera viewing unit to (a) detect features of the polymer particles, or the particles' environment, (b) compare the features to pre-defined acceptable values of these features or the environment, and (c) if a variation from the pre-defined values is detected, act on process parameters to reduce or eliminate the variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Tiziana Caputo, Antonio Mazzucco, Nicolo Arich De Finetti, Marco Bocchino
  • Publication number: 20230273499
    Abstract: A zoom lens is provided which has at least one front optical group with fixed optical power, adapted to receive rays from an observed object, at least one rear optical group with fixed optical power, adapted to convey the rays towards an image plane of a sensor, a lens opening positioned between the front optical group and the rear optical group, a front adaptive lens positioned between the at least one front optical group and the lens opening, and a rear adaptive lens positioned behind the lens opening. The front and rear adaptive lenses are controllable to vary the respective optical power to adjust focal length, magnification, and working distance of the zoom lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Nicolò BASSOLI, Luca RIZZOTTO, Andrea BERTOLUCCI