Patents by Inventor Olivier Francois
Olivier Francois 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).
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Publication number: 20240099806Abstract: A system to localize a micro-device inside a target body part, including: a micro-device remotely steered and controlled from outside the target body part, a control unit including a memory for storing one ultrasound image of the target body part, one probe being brought in contact with a securing body part of the patient, and at least one tracker connected to the micro-device. The probe and the tracker communicate with ultrasounds, the control unit being thus able to localize, in real time, the tracker within an internal referential defined with regards to the probe, and the control unit displays, on a screen, the ultrasound image and displays, in real time, the localization of the micro-device on the ultrasound image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: ROBEAUTE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MÉDICALE)Inventors: Quentin FRANCOIS, Bertrand DUPLAT, Sinan HALIYO, Stéphane RÉGNIER, Pierre ZARADER, Olivier COUTURE, Antoine COUDERT
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Patent number: 11933403Abstract: A metallic sealing assembly between a rotating shaft and a fixed frame comprises: a flexible metallic seal having two tori, inner and outer, that are concentric and of different average diameters, comprising a metal envelope which encases and holds the inner and outer tori; a shaft rotating about an axis of rotation, comprising an annular shoulder against which the seal comes to press; a counter-face, comprising a contact face against which the seal comes to press; a wedge block positioned around the rotating shaft such that the seal is held between the wedge block and the contact face, the wedge block mounted to slide on the rotating shaft; a metal part which forms a cap through which the rotating shaft passes and which is secured to the frame and/or to the counter-face, the rotating shaft being free to rotate with respect to the cap and axially secured to the cap.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TECHNETICS GROUP FRANCE SASInventors: Laurent Guimet, Jean-François Juliaa, Michel Lefrancois, Christophe Darles, Olivier Constant
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Publication number: 20240060210Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen, Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen. A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham, Pierre-Olivier Francois Marc Colard
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Publication number: 20240017040Abstract: A catheter accessory for use with a catheter having a distal portion comprising an intervention accessory having a distal portion outer diameter. The catheter accessory comprises an elongated tubular structure, releasably mounted onto the intermediate portion, but static during operation, to provide a pre-determined flexural rigidity and a pre-determined flexibility simultaneously to the intermediate portion covered by the elongated tubular structure. The elongated tubular structure has a default shape and size for operation with a lumen with an inside diameter larger than the intermediate portion outer diameter and smaller than the distal portion outer diameter, holding the catheter accessory onto the intermediate portion and completely proximal to the distal portion comprising the intervention accessory during the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Olivier François BERTRAND, Ramses GALAZ
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Publication number: 20230408727Abstract: An apparatus includes a folded optical path including optically reflective surfaces at least one of which includes an optical metasurface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Olivier Francois, Villads Egede Johansen, Ulrich Quaade
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Patent number: 11821107Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen. Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Element Six Technologies LimitedInventors: Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham, Pierre-Olivier Francois Marc Colard
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Publication number: 20230224148Abstract: Aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for generating a private cryptographic key for use in a secure cryptogram for transmission between a first entity and a second entity. The method may comprise: selecting a random vector defined in an n-dimensional vector space shared between the first entity and the second entity, the vector comprising one or more component coordinates defined in the n-dimensional vector space, each component coordinate being associated with one or more bits; determining the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector; and generating the private key in dependence on the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Olivier Francois Roussy NEWTON, Andrew DEONARINE, Nicolas Alexandre Roussy NEWTON, Railton FRITH
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Publication number: 20220365882Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to control operation of a memory cache. In at least one embodiment, cache guidance is specified within application source code by associating guidance with declaration of a memory block, and then applying specified guidance to source code statements that access said memory block.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Harold Carter Edwards, Luke David Durant, Stephen Jones, Jack H. Choquette, Ronny Krashinsky, Dmitri Vainbrand, Olivier Giroux, Olivier Francois Joseph Harel, Shirish Gadre, Ze Long, Matthieu Tardy, David Dastous St Hilaire, Gokul Ramaswamy Hirisave Chandra Shekhara, Jaydeep Marathe, Jaewook Shin, Jayashree Venkatesh, Girish Bhaskar Bharambe
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Patent number: 11477017Abstract: Aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for generating a private cryptographic key for use in a secure cryptogram for transmission between a first entity and a second entity. The method may comprise: selecting a random vector defined in an n-dimensional vector space shared between the first entity and the second entity, the vector comprising one or more component coordinates defined in the n-dimensional vector space, each component coordinate being associated with one or more bits; determining the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector, and generating the private key in dependence on the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: BTQ AGInventors: Olivier Francois Roussy Newton, Andrew Deonarine, Nicolas Alexandre Roussy Newton, Railton Frith
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Publication number: 20220233201Abstract: There is described a device for applying an adjustable and simultaneous compression on vessel access points. The device comprises a frame comprising a body with at least two cavities through the body to be placed about surfaces of a patient corresponding to the at least two cavities. At least two compression members are movably fitted in the cavities, wherein a portion of the frame defines a space into which a portion of the compression member is fitted and around which it hinges. A side of the compression members opposite a portion around which it hinges comprises a locking mechanism which releasably engages with the frame at an interface between said side and the frame to lock each one of the at least two compression members in a given hinge position for applying the pressure onto the vessel access point depending on the hinge position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Olivier François BERTRAND, Ramses GALAZ, Arnoldo HEREDIA, Daniel GOMEZ
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Publication number: 20220154368Abstract: A method of forming a diamond composite body and the diamond composite body. A first single crystal diamond body is provided, which contains nitrogen and has a uniform strain such that over an area of at least 1×1 mm, at least 90 percent of points display a modulus of strain-induced shift of NV resonance of less than 200 kHz, wherein each point in the area is a resolved region of 50 ?m2. The first single crystal diamond body is treated to convert at least some of the nitrogen to form at least 0.3 ppm nitrogen-vacancy, NV?, centres. A CVD process is used to grow a second single crystal diamond body on a surface of the first single crystal diamond body. The second single crystal diamond body has an NV concentration less than or equal to 10 times lower than the NV? concentration in the first single crystal diamond body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: ANDREW MARK EDMONDS, PIERRE-OLIVIER FRANCOIS MARC COLARD, MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM
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Publication number: 20220154366Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen. Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: ANDREW MARK EDMONDS, MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM, PIERRE-OLIVIER FRANCOIS MARC COLARD
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Patent number: 11244093Abstract: A method simulates behavior of a structure by finite element calculation in which a global model represents the structure, a local model represents an area of the structure including geometric details, and an auxiliary model represents the area without the geometric details. The method includes determining by finite element calculation in the global model of a nodal displacement field corresponding to a loading applied to the global model; applying the nodal displacement field to the local and auxiliary models and determining the corresponding forces; calculating a correction when convergence of the solution obtained for the global model is not achieved, and the applying is resumed with a nodal displacement field calculated in the global model after implementing the correction; determining values of internal variables for the different loading increments; and assessing the evolution in the behavior of the structure over time as a function of these values.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: Safran Aircraft Engines, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)Inventors: Geoffrey Juan Desmeure, Maxime Guy Roland Blanchard, Olivier Francois Gerard Allix, Pierre Noel Gosselet
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Patent number: 11220139Abstract: Airplane tire with a tread wear indicator, with a circumferential ridge (4) of the tread (2) having an initial height H0 and an allowable remaining height HR. Wear indicator (6) comprises N cylindrical cavities (7) emerging on rolling surface (3) and independent of one another. The N cavities are divided into a first family of N1 wear cavities C1i (8) having respective initial depths P1i in pairs that are distinct and equal to i*(H0?HR)/N1, i being an integer number varying from 1 to N1, and into a second family of N2 positioning cavities C2j (9), j being an integer number varying from 1 to N2, each positioning cavity C2j having an initial depth P2j strictly greater than (H0?HR), such that only the N2 positioning cavities C2j (9) emerge on rolling surface (3) when height HR of circumferential ridge (4) is reached.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventor: Olivier Francois
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Publication number: 20210129596Abstract: Method for determining the state of a wear for an aeroplane tire to predict its remaining number of landings. The aeroplane tire comprising a tread with a circumferential ridge having a wear indicator. The method comprises capturing a first positioning pattern of the wear indicator, intended to mark the positioning of said wear indicator in the tread, capturing a second state pattern of the wear indicator, intended to determine the state of wear of the circumferential ridge concerned at a given instant, analyzing the first positioning pattern and the second state pattern of the wear indicator captured, by comparison to reference patterns, determining the state of wear of the circumferential ridge at a given instant, and rendering information on the state of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Olivier FRANCOIS, Julien BRUNET
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Publication number: 20210128793Abstract: Bioresorbable medical devices, such as stents, scaffolds and other medical devices implantable in human and animal bodies, in which galvanic couples are formed. The devices include bioresorbable amalgamates, wires, laminates, layered structures or combinations thereof. Also, methods of manufacturing the devices, including laminating, folding, 110 braiding, weaving, crocheting or cold spraying of materials with different galvanic potentials Also, machining of amalgamated materials using electrical discharge machining.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Rosaire Mongrain, Olivier Francois Bertrand, Ramses Galaz
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Patent number: 10814673Abstract: Protective reinforcement (3) for a tire has a mean radial thickness T at least equal to two times the diameter D of a-12-einforce (4), comprises respectively on its radially interior face (31) and on its radially exterior face (32) parts (7) made of elastomeric compound having an axial width W at least equal to the diameter D of a-12-reinforcer (4), and the path of any-12-reinforce (4), in the circumferential direction (XX?), varies radially between the radially interior first face (31) and the radially exterior second face (32), in such a way that the set of paths of the reinforcers (4) of the protective reinforcement (3) constitutes a three-dimensional lattice. Furthermore, the path of any-12-reinforce (4), in the circumferential direction (XX?), is a zigzag curve extending axially over the entire axial width L of the protective reinforcement (3).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Rimyalegdo Kiebre, Olivier Francois
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Publication number: 20200328886Abstract: Aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for generating a private cryptographic key for use in a secure cryptogram for transmission between a first entity and a second entity. The method may comprise: selecting a random vector defined in an n-dimensional vector space shared between the first entity and the second entity, the vector comprising one or more component coordinates defined in the n-dimensional vector space, each component coordinate being associated with one or more bits; determining the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector, and generating the private key in dependence on the one or more bits associated with each component coordinate comprised in the random vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Olivier Francois Roussy NEWTON, Andrew DEONARINE, Nicolas Alexandre Roussy NEWTON
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Patent number: 10736995Abstract: An intermixed particulate bioresorbable material including cathodic particles and anodic particles bound to each other, wherein the anodic and cathodic particles are made respectively of an anodic and a cathodic material, the anodic and cathodic materials forming a galvanic couple. The anodic and cathodic particles are present in a predetermined ratio and the anodic particles, cathodic particles and predetermined ratio are such that bioresorption of the bioresorbable material is promoted by galvanic corrosion between the anodic and cathodic materials. Also, a medical device, manufactured using the bioresorbable material and a method of manufacturing the bioresorbable material and the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: LES ENTREPRISES NANOSTENT INC.Inventors: Rosaire Mongrain, Olivier Francois Bertrand, Stephen Yue
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Patent number: 10717326Abstract: Protective reinforcement (3) for a tire has a mean radial thickness T at least equal to two times the diameter D of a reinforcer (4), the protective reinforcement (3) comprises respectively on its radially interior face (31) and on its radially exterior face (32) parts (7) made of elastomeric compound having an axial width W at least equal to the diameter D of a reinforcer (4), and the path of any reinforcer (4), in the circumferential direction (XX?) of the tire, varies radially between the radially interior first face (31) and the radially exterior second face (32), in such a way that the set of paths of the reinforcers (4) of the protective reinforcement (3) constitutes a three-dimensional lattice.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Rimyalegdo Kiebre, Olivier Francois