Patents by Inventor Pascal MAEDER

Pascal MAEDER 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: 20250058455
    Abstract: A packaging device for an accessory device includes a retaining element for retaining the accessory device, a clamping element for clamping the accessory device, and a clamping recess for receiving the accessory device. The clamping element, in particular the clamping recess, is provided for clamping the accessory device depending on a movement, in particular a rotational movement, of the clamping element relative to the accessory device, in particular a longitudinal axis of the accessory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Frederick Clifford Paddock, Pascal Maeder, Aleksei Aleksandrovich Ruin, Mark Shickle, Warren Keefe, Benedek Peter Doemeny, Patrick Wessner
  • Publication number: 20240062490
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for contextualizing and selecting objects for placement in digital environments, specifically, in mixed reality (MR) environments. The proposed systems and methods embed personalized and customized content in the user's view of the physical environment in real time. The systems and methods include a contextual data harvesting process related to the user's physical surroundings. The gathered data about the user environment and the set of available objects are then processed using machine learning (ML) models to infer a relevant object to place on the selected placement space. Further, the present systems and methods include displaying the selected object in the MR environment. Systems and methods for training ML models for contextualizing and selecting objects for placement in mixed reality environments are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Pascal MAEDER, Hafsa ENNAJARI, Leonid REINOSO MEDINA, Akinlolu Oluwabusayo OJO
  • Publication number: 20230306205
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for creating and implementing personalized conversational agents representing historical figures travelling through space and time. These agents can process and analyse natural language utterances expressed by a user and generate knowledgeable and contextualized responses when prompted. The proposed agents can reply to existing conversations, initiate meaningful conversation topics to engage other users. The personalized conversational agents have the ability to navigate freely in space and time, while conditioning their conversational responses on their current space and time coordinates. Natural language processing (NLP) models are used to derive a conversation topic, its related space and time information based on the existing information available about the historical figure of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Pascal MAEDER, Hafsa ENNAJARI, Leonid REINOSO MEDINA
  • Publication number: 20220164096
    Abstract: A spatio-temporal messaging system through which people can connect with one another by posting and replying to messages. The system is based on events which take place in reality in either the past, present or future, and which are documented by users on the messaging platform. Messages are created with associated spatio-temporal coordinates. Posts referring to a single message or a message thread are identified by markers which visibility can be filtered by navigating a map in longitude, latitude and scale. Messages are searchable using graphical representations of space and time including maps and a time-gliding tool. Users can anonymously access and navigate the platform for the purpose of reading markers headers, creating new message or replying to existing messages. The platform randomly attributes a unique username to new users who will automatically retain it for future sessions if they use the same environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Pascal MAEDER, Leonid REINOSO MEDINA, Arturo MAEDER
  • Patent number: 11268489
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a trailing edge including a radially inboard portion and a radially outboard portion opposite the radially inboard portion and a retrofit system coupled to the trailing edge. The retrofit system includes a mounting structure for coupling the retrofit system to the trailing edge and at least one serrated portion extending at least partially along the mounting structure. The serrated portion includes at least one substantially acoustically absorbent material. A method for reducing noise emission from a wind turbine blade including a trailing edge and retrofit system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Roger Drobietz
  • Publication number: 20190170114
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a trailing edge including a radially inboard portion and a radially outboard portion opposite the radially inboard portion and a retrofit system coupled to the trailing edge. The retrofit system includes a mounting structure for coupling the retrofit system to the trailing edge and at least one serrated portion extending at least partially along the mounting structure. The serrated portion includes at least one substantially acoustically absorbent material. A method for reducing noise emission from a wind turbine blade including a trailing edge and retrofit system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Roger Drobietz
  • Patent number: 10240576
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a trailing edge including a radially inboard portion and a radially outboard portion opposite the radially inboard portion. The trailing edge further includes at least one serrated portion extending at least partially between the radially inboard portion and the radially outboard portion. The serrated portion includes at least one substantially acoustically absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Roger Drobietz
  • Patent number: 9995277
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm includes: receiving temperature data associated with a plurality of locations along a sound path between the wind farm and a sound immission point from one or more sensors; estimating a propagation characteristic of the sound path based at least in part on the temperature data; predicting a noise level at the sound immission point based at least in part on the propagation characteristic; determining a control signal for one or more wind turbines in the wind farm based at least in part on the noise level; and using the control signal to control the one or more wind turbines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Andreas Herrig, Seongkyu Lee, Stefan Kern, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Benoit Philippe Petitjean, Roger Drobietz, Sujan Kumar Pal, Biju Nanukuttan
  • Patent number: 9677537
    Abstract: A wind blade is provided that includes a primary blade body defining a leading edge and a trailing edge and further defining a pressure side and a suction side joining along the trailing edge. The wind blade also includes a secondary blade having an aerodynamic contour defining a first surface and a second surface and coupled with the primary blade body for the purpose of shielding noise. The secondary blade body is disposed proximate to at least a portion of the trailing edge on at least one of the pressure side and the suction side of the primary blade body and may also improve overall performance of the wind blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Gowri Jaganathan Sengundermudaliar, Karthickprabu Vijayakumar
  • Publication number: 20170145990
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a trailing edge including a radially inboard portion and a radially outboard portion opposite the radially inboard portion. The trailing edge further includes at least one serrated portion extending at least partially between the radially inboard portion and the radially outboard portion. The serrated portion includes at least one substantially acoustically absorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Roger Drobietz
  • Publication number: 20160032892
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm includes: receiving temperature data associated with a plurality of locations along a sound path between the wind farm and a sound immission point from one or more sensors; estimating a propagation characteristic of the sound path based at least in part on the temperature data; predicting a noise level at the sound immission point based at least in part on the propagation characteristic; determining a control signal for one or more wind turbines in the wind farm based at least in part on the noise level; and using the control signal to control the one or more wind turbines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas Herrig, Seongkyu Lee, Stefan Kern, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Benoit Philippe Petitjean, Roger Drobietz, Sujan Kumar Pal, Biju Nanukuttan
  • Publication number: 20140294592
    Abstract: A wind blade is provided that includes a primary blade body defining a leading edge and a trailing edge and further defining a pressure side and a suction side joining along the trailing edge. The wind blade also includes a secondary blade having an aerodynamic contour defining a first surface and a second surface and coupled with the primary blade body for the purpose of shielding noise. The secondary blade body is disposed proximate to at least a portion of the trailing edge on at least one of the pressure side and the suction side of the primary blade body and may also improve overall performance of the wind blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Gowri Jaganathan Sengundermudaliar, Karthickprabu Vijayakumar
  • Publication number: 20140093380
    Abstract: Rotor blade assemblies for wind turbines and methods for reducing rotor blade noise are disclosed. A rotor blade assembly includes a rotor blade having external surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending between a tip and a root. The rotor blade further defines a span and a chord. The rotor blade assembly further includes a tab. The tab includes an inner surface, an outer surface, a forward end and an aft end. The inner surface is mounted to one of the pressure side or the suction side. The outer surface has a cross-sectional profile configured to modify an operational value of the rotor blade at the trailing edge. The forward end is disposed within the chord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Roger Drobietz, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Gowri Sengundermudaliar, Lorenz Edwin Drack, Andreas Herrig, Christian A. Carroll