Patents by Inventor Philippe Favre

Philippe Favre 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: 20250226106
    Abstract: A method to preoperatively assess a risk of bone fracture during or after installing a prosthetic implant into a bone of a patient, the method can include accessing patient medical information. The patient medical information can include at least a medical image of the patient. The medical image can include at least the bone that will receive the prosthetic implant. The method can also include analyzing the medical image to obtain a physical characteristic of the bone. Determining a fracture risk score based on the physical characteristic of the bone. The method can also include transmitting a fracture risk summary to a medical professional. The fracture risk summary can include at least the fracture risk score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Jeffrey E. Bischoff, Ghislain Maquer, Ingmar Fleps
  • Publication number: 20250195143
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of determining fixation of a prosthesis in bone matter based on bone anatomy and density information comprises generating a three-dimensional model of a bone of a patient for output in a video display unit, adding three-dimensional bone density information for the bone matter to the three-dimensional model, simulating a. preparation of the bone to produce a bone surface on the three-dimensional model, simulating placement of the prosthesis in the bone surface, estimating a fixation strength of the prosthesis to the bone matter using the bone density information at the prosthesis, and outputting indicia on the video display unit that indicates risk factors for displacement, of the prosthesis from the bone matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Jeffrey E. Bischoff, Adam D. Henderson, Christine Mirja Mueri, Ghislain Maquer, Mehul Dharia, Rodney Summers
  • Publication number: 20250152241
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of pre-operatively evaluating bone structure for use of a bone graft in a surgical procedure can comprise generating a three-dimensional bone model of a bone of a patient for output in a video display unit, determining a volume of interest (VOI) on the three-dimensional bone model where a bone defect exists, adding an internal bone property for bone matter of the bone structure to the three-dimensional bone model at the volume of interest, analyzing the internal bone property in the volume of interest relative to a treatment for a bone defect, and outputting indicia on the video display unit that indicates utility of a bone graft for the treatment. A surgical planning system can comprise memory having instructions for implementing the computer-implemented method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Jeffrey E. Bischoff, Ghislain Maquer, Ingmar Fleps
  • Publication number: 20230267249
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for manufacturing a prosthetic. The systems and methods can include receiving patient data and determining optimal design parameters for the prosthetic using the patient specific data and a machine learning model. The optimal design parameters can be exported so that the prosthetic can be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Yang Wook Son, Christine Mirja Mueri
  • Patent number: 11443005
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities. For example, correlation scores are calculated that indicate correlations between web pages indicated in a browsing history of a user. Moreover, the correlation scores are calculated based on web navigational activities determined from the browsing history. In addition, the web pages are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the correlation scores and the clusters are ranked for relevancy to the user based on a relevancy algorithm. The relevancy algorithm determines a likelihood that a user will access a corresponding web page for each web page of a cluster. A cluster having a greatest ranking is identified and an indication of a web page of the identified cluster as a suggested web page to revisit is provided to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ken M. Sadahiro, Aaron M. Butcher, Philippe Favre, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Kofi S. Opoku, Seung-Yup Chai, Nandini Arijit Bhattacharya, John D. Malatras, Nicolas A. Champagne-Williamson, Kangsan Lee, Jerin R. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20220249140
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthopedic implant that can include an intramedullary stem transition region that fits in the bony intramedullary canal. The transition region can run as a monolithic piece between the implant body and the intramedullary stem, with a squared cross-section away from the implant body and a circular cross-section close to the stem body. The transition region can allow for higher implant strength with reduced rotation for the implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Stephen Kays
  • Patent number: 11103255
    Abstract: A reamer operably connected to a movable drive element by a translation assembly such that the movement of the movable drive element rotates the reamer. The reamer can be sized such that the reamer can be navigated through or around soft tissue to position the reamer adjacent the defect region and angled to align the reamer with a reamer axis perpendicular to the plane of the defect region. The translation assembly can be configured to translate rotation of the movable drive element to the reamer through an opening through or around the soft tissue. The translation assembly can permit axial reaming of the defect region when the perpendicular axis is obscured by soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Rolfe Hopkins, Philippe Favre
  • Publication number: 20200380051
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for unsupervised clustering of browser history using web navigational activities. For example, correlation scores are calculated that indicate correlations between web pages indicated in a browsing history of a user. Moreover, the correlation scores are calculated based on web navigational activities determined from the browsing history. In addition, the web pages are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on the correlation scores and the clusters are ranked for relevancy to the user based on a relevancy algorithm. The relevancy algorithm determines a likelihood that a user will access a corresponding web page for each web page of a cluster. A cluster having a greatest ranking is identified and an indication of a web page of the identified cluster as a suggested web page to revisit is provided to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ken M. Sadahiro, Aaron M. Butcher, Philippe Favre, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Kofi S. Opoku, Seung-Yup Chai, Nandini Arijit Bhattacharya, John D. Malatras, Nicolas A. Champagne-Williamson, Kangsan Lee, Jerin R. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20200097912
    Abstract: Techniques of selective surfacing email messages in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes calculating an importance value corresponding to an incoming email based on one or more values of attributes of the incoming email and corresponding contribution values of the features toward the importance value. The method can then include performing a comparison between the calculated importance value of the incoming email and a preset importance threshold and, based on the performed comparison, selectively surfacing the incoming email to the user in a first section of an email inbox irrespective of a date/time of reception of the incoming email relative to other emails in the inbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Philippe Favre, Huy Q. Nguyen, Steven Truong, Zhuhao Wang, Xucheng Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Shufang Xie, Yuwei Fang, Jianfeng Gao
  • Patent number: 8249999
    Abstract: Systems are provided for costing service proposals, each comprising a set of proposal elements (OEs) selected from a predetermined group of proposal elements. A proposal costing system has a proposal formulator for selecting a set of proposal elements (OEs) for a new service proposal from the predetermined group of proposal elements in response to user input. The system includes a cost controller for maintaining, for each OE, service data indicative of service tasks associated with that proposal element. The system is adapted for determining a total cost for a new service proposal in dependence on the service data for the selected proposal elements and cost data indicating a cost of service tasks indicated by the service data. In addition, the cost controller is adapted for automatically updating the service data for OEs in the group in dependence on maintenance data indicative of service tasks performed in operation of real services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard Dakar, Philippe Favre, Patrick Gayrard, Emmanuel Lancon
  • Patent number: 7620891
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for allowing a device using a Web browser unable to support CSS, to request trough a network and display Web HTML pages including CSS while using all the presentation features of the included CSS that it can support through the network, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a request from the device for obtaining a Web HTML page; identifying the requesting device, aggregating all the device and network display possibility information, and suppressing the contradictory information, the network display possibilities being of the highest priority, the result forming a Request rule list; retrieving the requested Web page from a Web server; aggregating all the CSS presentation definitions of the Web page while suppressing the conflicting ones in a resulting CSS rule list; modifying the statements of the HTML page which are not related to CSS, reflecting the CSS rule list while taking into account the device and network possibilities as stated in the Request rule list; tra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Denis Aubert, Franck Boudinet, Philippe Favre, Eric Forestier, Bernard Dakar
  • Patent number: 7590138
    Abstract: A method and system for routing channels in which messages are transmitted from a source application to a destination application. The system includes a finite-state machine, source message queues, and a source queue manager for managing the source message queues. The source message queues include a transmission queue for holding a first message for subsequent transmission of the first message from the transmission queue over a first channel to a local queue of the destination application. The method includes: activating the finite-state machine; and performing or not performing a channel routing action, by the finite-state machine, depending on: a channel event having caused the first channel to be started or stopped, a channel sender set for the first channel, and an event type characterizing the channel event as normal or abnormal. The channel routing action is a function of the channel event, the channel sender, and the event type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Benard, Philippe Favre
  • Publication number: 20070078995
    Abstract: A method and system for routing channels in which messages are transmitted from a source application to a destination application. The system includes a finite-state machine, source message queues, and a source queue manager for managing the source message queues. The source message queues include a transmission queue for holding a first message for subsequent transmission of the first message from the transmission queue over a first channel to a local queue of the destination application. The method includes: activating the finite-state machine; and performing or not performing a channel routing action, by the finite-state machine, depending on: a channel event having caused the first channel to be started or stopped, a channel sender set for the first channel, and an event type characterizing the channel event as normal or abnormal. The channel routing action is a function of the channel event, the channel sender, and the event type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Patrick Benard, Philippe Favre
  • Publication number: 20060236223
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for allowing a device using a Web browser unable to support CSS, to request trough a network and display Web HTML pages including CSS while using all the presentation features of the included CSS that it can support through the network, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a request from the device for obtaining a Web HTML page; identifying the requesting device, aggregating all the device and network display possibility information, and suppressing the contradictory information, the network display possibilities being of the highest priority, the result forming a Request rule list; retrieving the requested Web page from a Web server; aggregating all the CSS presentation definitions of the Web page while suppressing the conflicting ones in a resulting CSS rule list; modifying the statements of the HTML page which are not related to CSS, reflecting the CSS rule list while taking into account the device and network possibilities as stated in the Request rule list; tra
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Denis Aubert, Franck Boudinet, Philippe Favre, Eric Forestier, Bernard Dakar
  • Publication number: 20050108085
    Abstract: Systems are provided for costing service proposals, each comprising a set of proposal elements (OEs) selected from a predetermined group of proposal elements. A proposal costing system has a proposal formulator for selecting a set of proposal elements (OEs) for a new service proposal from the predetermined group of proposal elements in response to user input. The system includes a cost controller for maintaining, for each OE, service data indicative of service tasks associated with that proposal element. The system is adapted for determining a total cost for a new service proposal in dependence on the service data for the selected proposal elements and cost data indicating a cost of service tasks indicated by the service data. In addition, the cost controller is adapted for automatically updating the service data for OEs in the group in dependence on maintenance data indicative of service tasks performed in operation of real services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard Dakar, Philippe Favre, Patrick Gayrard, Emmanuel Lancon
  • Patent number: 5623742
    Abstract: A motor vehicle screen wiper comprises a screen wiper arm having a drive head fastened on an end portion of a motor shaft, which is part of a screen wiper drive unit. The motor shaft end portion comprises a conical portion which is received in a complementary through hole associated with the drive head, and which is extended by a threaded terminal shank on to which a fastening nut is screwed. The radial thrust face of the nut cooperates with a portion, in facing relationship with it, of the upper face of the drive head. The drive head comprises an orientation ring in which the conical through hole is formed, with one face of the orientation ring being formed with a set of ridges which cooperate with a complementary ridged engagement surface formed, in facing relationship with the ridged face of the orientation ring, on the body of the drive head. The body is formed with an oblong through hole through which the end portion of the motor shaft extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Paul Journee, S.A.
    Inventors: Maurice Journee, Philippe Favre