Patents by Inventor Paul Fontaine

Paul Fontaine 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: 12291695
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles, each individual particle having a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles L. Schmitt, Jaden Scott Zerhusen
  • Patent number: 11708545
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles, each individual particle having a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles L. Schmitt, Jaden Scott Zerhusen
  • Patent number: 11332699
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles that comprise at least one of the quaternary ammonium compound and the cationic polymer; wherein the individual particles differ from one another in weight fraction of at least one of the quaternary ammonium compound and the cationic polymer; and wherein the individual particles each have a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jaden Scott Zerhusen, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Alessandro Corona, III
  • Patent number: 11193091
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles, each individual particle having a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles L. Schmitt, Jaden Scott Zerhusen
  • Patent number: 11186803
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles; wherein each of the individual particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; wherein each of the individual particles has a density less than about 0.98 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Corona, III, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Charles L. Schmitt, Jaden Scott Zerhusen
  • Patent number: 10640731
    Abstract: A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles that comprise at least one of the quaternary ammonium compound and the cationic polymer; wherein the individual particles differ from one another in weight fraction of at least one of the quaternary ammonium compound and the cationic polymer; and wherein the individual particles each have a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jaden Scott Zerhusen, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Michael Paul Fontaine, Lenae Virginia Johnson, Alessandro Corona, III
  • Patent number: 9941548
    Abstract: A Nickel iron battery using a mono-block housing that has cells with leak-proof intercell connections. The intercell connections use compressed grommets to prevent fluid transfer between the cells. Each cell generates a charge that can be connected in series or parallel as required. The cells use an electrode plate that enables a manufacturing process which yields higher efficiency, higher throughput, and significantly lower battery cost. The anode composition of the cells has iron powder to increase cathode utilization, therefore lowering cathode material usage and lowering production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Landmark Battery Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Viet Vu, Ajoy Datta, Lucien Paul Fontaine, Andrew James Parth
  • Publication number: 20140377626
    Abstract: A Nickel iron battery using a mono-block housing that has cells with leak-proof intercell connections. The intercell connections use compressed grommets to prevent fluid transfer between the cells. Each cell generates a charge that can be connected in series or parallel as required. The cells use an electrode plate that enables a manufacturing process which yields higher efficiency, higher throughput, and significantly lower battery cost. The anode composition of the cells has iron powder to increase cathode utilization, therefore lowering cathode material usage and lowering production cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Viet Vu, Ajoy Datta, Lucien Paul Fontaine, Andrew James Parth
  • Patent number: 8842030
    Abstract: A sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter includes an input transconductance stage that provides an analog input current proportional to an analog input voltage and a current summing stage that generates an analog error signal corresponding to a difference between the analog input current and a feedback current. The sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter also includes a forward signal path that processes the analog error signal to provide a digital output signal corresponding to the analog input voltage. Additionally, the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter includes a feedback path that includes a current steering digital-to-analog converter having both sourcing and sinking current sources, wherein currents provided by the sourcing and sinking current sources are steerable and connected to directly provide the feedback current based on the digital output signal. A sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter operating method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Fontaine, Abdellatif Bellaouar
  • Patent number: 8316221
    Abstract: A method and a system for personalizing electronic elements, by replacing, in a non-volatile memory of each of the electronic elements a first secret key with a second secret key, by a secure authentication module automatically generating the second key after having restored the first one from an identifier of the element being personalized, including conditioning, on the authentication module side, the provision of the second key to a current element to the reception of a message confirming the key replacement of at least one preceding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Proton World International N.V.
    Inventors: Joan Daemen, Thierry Huque, Paul Fontaine
  • Publication number: 20090067630
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for customizing electronic components (2), by substituting in a nonvolatile storage each one first secret key (Ks) with a second secret key (Ks?), using a secure authentication module (1) automatically generating said second key after reconstructing the first key from an identifier of the component during customization, which consists in conditioning, on the authentication module side, the supply of the second key for a current component upon reception of a confirmation message for key substitution of at least one previous component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: PROTON WORLD INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventors: Joan Daemen, Thierry Huque, Paul Fontaine
  • Publication number: 20060156395
    Abstract: A device is provided for authorizing the use of a selected function from among at least two functions of the device. The device includes storage for storing a function-specific voice pattern that is linked to the selected function, and a comparator for comparing an external input signal with the function-specific voice pattern. Also provided is a terminal unit for communicating with a device for authorizing use of a selected function of the device, and a communication system that includes a device for authorizing use of a selected function and a terminal unit for communicating with the device. Additionally, there are provided a method for giving a user authorization to use a selected function of a device, and a method for obtaining authorization to use a selected function of a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Paul Fontaine
  • Publication number: 20060055579
    Abstract: A receiver 100 is provided. The receiver 100 comprises an in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112 operable to detect a saturation condition of the in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112 and to adjust the amplitude of a in-phase signal processed by the in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112 to remove the in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112 from the saturation condition and a in-phase digital filter 114 operable to adjust a gain applied to a digital input to the in-phase digital filter 114 from the in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112, the adjustment of the gain substantially inversely proportional to the adjustment of the amplitude of the in-phase signal processed by the in-phase analog-to-digital converter 112. In an embodiment, the receiver 100 also comprises a quadrature path that is substantially similar to the in-phase path, and the in-phase path and the quadrature path comprise a direct conversion receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Fontaine, Ahmed Mohieldin, Pascal Audinot, Abdellatif Bellaouar, Mikael Guenais
  • Publication number: 20050269400
    Abstract: A method and a system for checking the atomic character of at least one command executed by a microprocessor of an electronic component including at least one rewritable non-volatile memory, including: selecting a main command including at least one updating of at least one piece of data requiring several write operations in the non-volatile memory; executing this command several times; affecting each execution in one of the write operations, by selecting a different operation each time; and checking, after each affecting, the coherence of the data in the non-volatile memory with respect to at least one predetermined authorized state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Proton World International N.V.
    Inventor: Paul Fontaine
  • Publication number: 20050258992
    Abstract: A system and method implement very high data rate baseband DACs suitable for wireless applications related to new standards (e.g. Ultra-Wide Band) using CMOS processes allowing an integrated solution with the deep-submicron CMOS digital baseband. A single CMOS block working at full speed is discarded in favor of several blocks, each working at a fraction of the original data rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Paul Fontaine, Ranjit Gharpurey, Anuj Batra, Jaiganesh Balakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20050213672
    Abstract: A current-domain transmitter is configured to receive an input signal and provide a transmitted signal. The transmitter has a plurality of elements, operatively arranged between the input signal and the transmitted signal and configured to represent the input signal with respective electric currents whose respective current magnitudes are each substantially proportional to the input signal. The elements may include a current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a current mode filter (such as an LPF), a current mode mixer, and/or a current mode amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Heng-Chih Lin, Ranjit Gharpurey, Paul Fontaine
  • Patent number: 6109877
    Abstract: The invention provides a turbine blade retention device installed in an axially extending gap between the blade root bottom and the slot floor. The retention device has two parts: a blade root retention clip and a spacer bar. The clip has an elongated web of a selected web thickness and width less than the width of the slot floor. The clip includes a forward and a rearward transverse flange extending radially outwardly and extending laterally from forward and rearward ends of the web. The flanges serve to engage the forward and rearward faces of the rotor hub disk respectively, and to engage forward and rearward faces of an associated blade root. The height of at least one flange is less than the gap depth to permit conventional sliding installation the blade root. The spacer bar is installed in the gap between the clip and slot floor to hold the clip radially outward in engagement with the forward and rearward faces of the blade root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eugene Gekht, Mike Louis Paul Fontaine
  • Patent number: 4884525
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for zinc coating one or both sides of continuous steel strip. In order to retain short change-over times when changing from one process to the other, the invention proposes to flange-mount in readily releasably manner a housing (2a, 2b), with guide rolls (3a, 3b) mounted therein, on the duct (5) leading from the furnace to the zinc bath and to design this housing so that it can be interchanged with a support for the guide roll (10) during two-sided zinc coating, making use of the mounting at the duct (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Paul Fontaine
    Inventors: Paul Fontaine, Klaus Frommann, Rolf Michel
  • Patent number: 4535936
    Abstract: A blast nozzle for blowing-off liquids from surfaces, for example from sheet surfaces, has a tubular body, on the outer surface of which converging plate-like lips are provided which extend generally tangentially to form a blow-off slit which runs in an axially-parallel manner to the body. A plate-form cleaning element which may be moved relative to the blow-off slit is located in the body. The cleaning element is attached to a transmission which is adjusted by a drive provided outside the body. According to one embodiment, the cleaning element is a sheet which extends over practically the entire length of the blow-off slit and which may be selectively pushed into, and through, the blow-off slit, whereas according to another embodiment, it is a tongue which lies in the blow-off slit and which may be moved along that slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Inventor: Paul Fontaine