Patents by Inventor Patrick Le
Patrick Le 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: 20250251366Abstract: The present invention concerns A method of flawless tube detection, wherein the method comprises: obtaining raw data from an eddy current sensor displaced into a tube in a steam generator; segmenting the tube into different parts based on its geometry; computing, for each part of the tube, a plurality of frames of data, each frame corresponding to a given feature of a set of features computed from the raw data associated with the part of the tube; for each part of the tube, predicting whether the part of the tube is flawless using at least one trained machine learning model on the plurality of frames of data associated with the part of the tube, the trained machine learning model being trained on frames of data from the same part of different tubes; and predicting whether the tube is flawless from the prediction obtained for each part of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIQUE FRANCE SASInventors: Patrick Le Barber, Quentin Lecomte, Jacques-Henri Sublemontier, Conan D. Foster, Arnaud SANGOUARD, Laura Grassi, Pierre-Antoine Meignen
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Publication number: 20250185422Abstract: Optoelectronic device including: a plurality of diodes each including a portion of a stack of first and second semiconductor layers doped according to opposite types, a portion of the first layer of each diode being coupled to a first electrode; trenches running through the stack; a conductive layer arranged against side walls of the trenches, insulated from the stack, coupled to the second electrodes and which is interrupted in such a way that portions of the conductive layer arranged around each of the diodes are insulated from other portions of the conductive layer arranged around the other diodes; conductive portions arranged in the trenches, insulated from the electrically conductive layer and coupled to one another and to a third electrode; bottom walls of the trenches being formed at least by the second electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: June 5, 2025Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Julia Simon, Patrick Le Maitre
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Patent number: 12320586Abstract: Facility and method for hydrogen refrigeration, comprising a hydrogen circuit to be cooled, comprising:—a first and a second set of heat exchanger(s) arranged in series for exchanging heat with the hydrogen circuit to be cooled;—a first cooling device for exchanging heat with the first set of heat exchanger(s) comprising a refrigerator that operates a refrigeration cycle of a first cycle gas;—a second cooling device for exchanging heat with the second set of heat exchanger(s) comprising a refrigerator that operates a refrigeration cycle of a second cycle gas having a molar mass of less than 3 g/mol, the refrigerator of the second cooling device comprising, arranged in series in a cycle circuit: at least one centrifugal compressor, a cooling member, an expansion member and a member for reheating the second expanded cycle gas;—a system for mixing at least one additional component having a molar mass greater than 50 g/mol with the second cycle gas before it enters the at least one centrifugal compressor and a meType: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Patrick Le Bot, Marine Andrich, Nicolas Kofman
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Publication number: 20250102407Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the content of an impurity in a cryogenic liquid, comprising the following steps: filling a vessel with an initial volume of cryogenic liquid, vaporizing all the cryogenic liquid in the vessel, and forming a solid or liquid phase of the impurity in the vessel, isolating the vessel against any exit of material, sending a determinable volume of gas into the vessel, capable of dissolving the liquid or solid phase of the impurity in the determinable volume of gas, isolating the vessel against any entry of material, sending the gas loaded with the impurity to a gas analyser, and determining the content of the impurity in the cryogenic liquid from a content of the impurity measured, by the gas analyser, in the gas loaded with the impurity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Frederic CRAYSSAC, Patrick LE BOT, Daniel MACHON
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Publication number: 20250102406Abstract: The present invention relates to a determination system for determining the content of at least one impurity in a cryogenic liquid, comprising: a vessel capable of receiving an initial volume of the cryogenic liquid, vaporization means for vaporizing the initial volume of cryogenic liquid until a volume of residual cryogenic liquid is obtained in which the impurity is concentrated, the vaporization means being disposed in the lower part of the vessel and means for determining the proportion of the impurity in the residual cryogenic liquid, wherein that the vaporization means comprise a heating surface capable of vaporizing the cryogenic liquid, the vaporization means being configured to keep said heating surface wet using the volume of residual cryogenic liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Frederic CRAYSSAC, Patrick LE BOT, Daniel MACHON
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Publication number: 20250088645Abstract: Coding of the last coded coefficient position is performed by basing the coding of the y coordinate of the position of the last coded coefficient on knowledge of the size of the partial transform used to generate a block of coefficients from a block of video pixels. This enables a context adaptive coding of the last coded coefficient parameter to be performed much more efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Sebastien LASSERRE, Saurabh PURI, Patrick LE CALLET
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Publication number: 20250041519Abstract: A drug delivery investigation device includes a needle insertion mechanism having a cannula, a flow path having an inlet configured to be in fluid communication with a fluid source and an outlet, connection tubing extending between the outlet of the flow path and the needle insertion mechanism, with the connection tubing in fluid communication with the cannula and the flow path, a flow sensor positioned between the inlet and the outlet of the flow path, and a pressure sensor positioned between the inlet and the outlet of the flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Steve Beguin, David James Coleman, Danielle Aboud, Patrick Le Gal Redon, Ronald J. Pettis, Natasha G. Bolick
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Patent number: 12192487Abstract: Coding of the last coded coefficient position is performed by basing the coding of the y coordinate of the position of the last coded coefficient on knowledge of the size of the partial transform used to generate a block of coefficients from a block of video pixels. This enables a context adaptive coding of the last coded coefficient parameter to be performed much more efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Sebastien Lasserre, Saurabh Puri, Patrick Le Callet
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Publication number: 20240424225Abstract: A needle hub for a drug delivery device includes a hub body, an activation button, a needle holder moveable relative to the hub body, a needle attached to the needle holder, a needle spring biasing the needle holder to a retracted position where the needle is positioned within the hub body, a cannula holder moveable relative to the hub body and the needle holder, a cannula attached to the cannula holder, with the cannula configured to be in fluid communication with a fluid source, and a cannula spring biasing the cannula holder to a retracted position. Movement of a portion of the hub body is configured to disengage a connection between the cannula holder and the hub body to allow the cannula holder to return to the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Steve Beguin, David James Coleman, Patrick Le Gal Redon, Marko Plevnik, Nathan Lyell
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Patent number: 12161089Abstract: Provided herein are long-acting antiparasitic devices comprising parasiticidal isoxazoline active agent for external use on an animal to treat and/or prevent parasitic infestations by ectoparasites, and in some embodiments, also parasitic infections. The disclosure also describes methods and uses of the antiparasitic external devices to treat and/or prevent parasitic infestations and/or infections in an animal.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignees: Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc., University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: James Allan, Samuel David Bell, Christian Helmut Epe, Loic Patrick Le Hir De Fallois, Willy W. Lee, Jason J. Locklin
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Publication number: 20240382454Abstract: This invention relates to long-acting injectable compositions for combating parasites in animals, comprising at least one isoxazoline active agent, a liquid PEG and/or a neutral oil, optionally a co-solvent, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable additive or excipient. This invention also provides new isoxazoline active agents with long-lasting efficacy against ectoparasites. The invention also provides for improved methods for eradicating, controlling, and preventing parasite infections and infestations in an animal comprising administering the novel isoxazoline compounds and long-acting injectable compositions of the invention to the animal in need thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH USA INC.Inventors: Loic Patrick Le Hir de Fallois, Charles Q. Meng, Susan Mancini Cady, Peter Cheifetz, Izabela Galeska
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Patent number: 12140799Abstract: A ring resonator electro-optical device includes a first silicon nitride waveguide and a second annular silicon waveguide that comprises a first section running under a second section of the first waveguide. The second waveguide also includes an annular silicon strip having a cross-section increasing in the first section from a minimum cross-section located under the second section.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SASInventors: Patrick Le Maitre, Nicolas Michit
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Patent number: 12133975Abstract: A needle hub for a drug delivery device includes a needle holder and a needle attached to the needle holder, a needle actuation assembly configured to move the needle holder from a retracted position, to an insertion position, and back to the retracted position, and a pressure interlock comprising an inlet configured to be in fluid communication with a fluid source, an outlet in fluid communication with the needle, and a lock member. The lock member having a first position where the lock member prevents actuation of the needle actuation assembly and a second position where the lock member allows actuation of the needle actuation assembly. The lock member is moved from the first position to the second position based on a pressure within the pressure interlock.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Steve Beguin, Patrick Le Gal Redon, David James Coleman, Danielle Aboud, Sean McGrath, Marko Plevnik, Nathan Lyell, Harry Robert Lester
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Patent number: 12123910Abstract: An optoelectronic chip includes optical inputs having different passbands, a photonic circuit to be tested, and an optical coupling device configured to couple said inputs to the photonic circuit to be tested.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SASInventors: Patrick Le Maitre, Jean-Francois Carpentier
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Patent number: 12123418Abstract: In a compression process in a dynamic compressor having at least one first and one second compression stages, a first gas having a first molecular weight of less than 10 g/mol is compressed, at least one second fluid having a second molecular weight greater than 50 g/mol is mixed with the first gas to form a third gas to be compressed having a molecular weight greater than 10 g/mol, the third gas is sent to the first compression stage, the third gas is cooled in a first heat exchanger downstream of the first compression stage, where it is partially condensed, the partially condensed third gas is sent to a first phase separator to form a fourth gas having a lower molecular weight than the third gas and a first condensed liquid having a higher molecular weight than the third gas, the fourth gas is sent from the first phase separator to the second compression stage, the fourth gas compressed in the second compression stage is sent to cool in a second heat exchanger where it partially condenses, and the partiallyType: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventor: Patrick Le Bot
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Patent number: 12109403Abstract: A needle hub for a drug delivery device includes a hub body, an activation button, a needle holder moveable relative to the hub body, a needle attached to the needle holder, a needle spring biasing the needle holder to a retracted position where the needle is positioned within the hub body, a cannula holder moveable relative to the hub body and the needle holder, a cannula attached to the cannula holder, with the cannula configured to be in fluid communication with a fluid source, and a cannula spring biasing the cannula holder to a retracted position. Movement of a portion of the hub body is configured to disengage a connection between the cannula holder and the hub body to allow the cannula holder to return to the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Steve Beguin, David James Coleman, Patrick Le Gal Redon, Marko Plevnik, Nathan Lyell
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Patent number: 12083100Abstract: This invention relates to long-acting injectable compositions for combating parasites in animals, comprising at least one isoxazoline active agent, a liquid PEG and/or a neutral oil, optionally a co-solvent, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable additive or excipient. This invention also provides new isoxazoline active agents with long-lasting efficacy against ectoparasites. The invention also provides for improved methods for eradicating, controlling, and preventing parasite infections and infestations in an animal comprising administering the novel isoxazoline compounds and long-acting injectable compositions of the invention to the animal in need thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH USA INC.Inventors: Loic Patrick Le Hir de Fallois, Charles Q. Meng, Susan Mancini Cady, Peter Cheifetz, Izabela Galeska
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Publication number: 20240297204Abstract: A method for producing a native emission matrix including the following steps of: a) providing a base structure including, successively, a substrate, a GaN layer, a doped In(x)GaN layer where x is from 0 to 8%, and an unintentionally doped In(x)GaN epitaxial regrowth layer; b) patterning mesas in the base structure, the mesas comprising a portion of the doped In(x)GaN layer and the unintentionally doped In(x)GaN epitaxial regrowth layer, whereby the mesas are electrically interconnected with one another; c) porosifying electrochemically the doped In(x)GaN layer; and d) carrying out a first LED structure and a second LED structure on the mesas, whereby a first LED having a first emission wavelength, and a second LED having a second emission wavelength, respectively, are obtained, and a native emission matrix is formedType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Amélie DUSSAIGNE, Patrick LE MAITRE, Helge HAAS, Ludovic DUPRE, Carole PERNEL
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Publication number: 20240213382Abstract: An optoelectronic system includes a photoelectric transducer to emit or receive optical waves and a waveguide to guide waves emitted by the transducer or to guide waves to the transducer, includes a stack successively including a porous first layer of first type doped semiconductor material, a second layer of first type doped semiconductor material doped and lightly doped, a zone including quantum wells, a third layer of semiconductor material doped according to a second doping type opposite to the first type, the photoelectric transducer including a first portion of the porous first layer, a first portion of the second layer, at least a first portion of the zone including the quantum well(s) and at least a first portion of the third layer; the waveguide including a second portion of the second layer adjacent to the first portion and disposed on a second portion of the porous first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Patrick LE MAITRE, Fabian ROL, Julia SIMON, Nicolas MICHIT
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Publication number: 20240194727Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device including at least one LED and at least one photodiode, including the following steps: a) forming a semiconductor support stack including at least one doped semiconductor layer; b) simultaneously forming, during a common epitaxy step, an active emission semiconductor stack of the LED and an active reception semiconductor stack of the photodiode; c) forming trenches delimiting first and second support pads; and d) porosifying the doped semiconductor layer in the first support pad without porosifying this layer in the second support pad, or porosifying the doped semiconductor layer in the second support pad without porosifying this layer in the first support pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Julia Simon, Fabian Rol, Patrick Le Maitre