Patents by Inventor Pierre Francois
Pierre 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: 20240131441Abstract: A pointer for mounting on an amusement park ride, the pointer having a grip adapted to be held by at least one hand of a user, a grip detection device integrated into the grip for detecting when the grip is held by the user, and a pivot unit pivotably coupling the grip to the amusement park ride, the pivot unit operable between an uninhibited state, in which the pivot unit permits the grip to freely pivot in at least a first direction and a second direction, and an inhibited state, in which the pivot unit inhibits the grip from pivoting in at least the second direction, wherein the pivot unit may transition to the uninhibited state when the grip detection device detects the grip is held by the user and the pivot unit may return to the inhibited state when the grip detection device detects the grip is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Triotech Amusement Inc.Inventors: Ernest YALE, Jean-François D'ARRISSO, Pierre CYR, Guillaume BOURBEAU, Andrei CULURI, Renaud VARIN
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Publication number: 20240120107Abstract: A data processing system for predicting a score representative of a probability of a sepsis for a patient includes a data interface configured to receive, from at least one database, health data of at least one patient. The data processing system includes a trained machine learning model configured to predict and provide the score using as input the health data for each patient, and to provide a plurality of sub-scores representative of a correlation between the health data and the predicted score. In this regard, the health data includes regularly updated biometric monitoring data provided by a biometric monitoring device and health history data provided by at least one health history database.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: PREVIA MEDICALInventors: Pierre-Elliott THIBOUD, Barthélémy ARRIBE, Quentin FRANCOIS
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Patent number: 11956473Abstract: Video coding tools can be controlled by including syntax in a video bitstream that makes better use of video decoding resources. An encoder inserts syntax into a video bitstream to enable a decoder to parse the bitstream and easily control which tools combinations are enabled, which combinations are not permitted, and which tools are activated for various components in a multiple component bitstream, leading to potential parallelization of bitstream decoding.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Edouard Francois, Pierre Andrivon, Franck Galpin, Fabrice Leleannec, Michel Kerdranvat
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Publication number: 20240110054Abstract: A composite article including at least one electronic system, integrated onto the surface or in the volume of a thermoplastic matrix. The electronic system includes at least one piezoelectric transducer and means for transmitting an electrical signal. The piezoelectric transducer includes a piezoelectric polymer essentially consisting of, or consisting of, repeating units derived from vinylidene fluoride (VDF) and vinylidene trifluoride (TrFE), the molar proportion of the unit derived from TrFE being from 15% to 50% relative to the total number of moles of the units derived from VDF and TrFE. Also, the use of the electronic system and to the use of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: ARKEMA FRANCEInventors: Fabrice DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS, Thibaut SOULESTIN, Gilles FRANCOIS, Pierre GERARD
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Publication number: 20240100589Abstract: A setter for an investment casting core is provided. The setter may include: a base section; and a cover section configured to mechanically couple to the base section and having a profile for receiving the investment casting thereon. A setter array for a plurality of investment casting cores is further provided. A method for supporting an investment casting core during heat treatment using the setter is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Keith Joseph DeCarlo, Liam Gabriel Saccucci-Bryan, Pierre Francois Pinard, Rehan Afzal
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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: 11937658Abstract: A sports helmet has: a shell; a face protector; and a face mask disposed on an inner side of the face protector, the face mask having a body overlapping a nose and a mouth and defining a volume between the face and the body, the body defining a top edge for engaging the face and a bottom edge opposed to the top edge and disposed proximate a chin, the bottom edge secured to a lower portion of the face protector at a location spaced apart from the face to define a gap therebetween, and lateral straps secured to one or both of the face protector and the shell for biasing the top edge against the face of the wearer, the body made of a material offering a flow resistance such that an exhalation flow from the wearer is deviated towards the gap and away from the face protector.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SPORT MASKA INC.Inventors: Marie-Jeanne Handfield, Simon-Pierre Germain, François-Olivier Dagneau, Jean-François Béland, Pierre-Luc Beauchamp, Ryan Brownridge, Pierre Paiement, Marc-André Element
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Publication number: 20240090792Abstract: A signal tracking system including: one fixation element to be secured to a rigid body part of the patient surrounding a target body part, the fixation element further including a mapping element, one tracker element to be secured to the fixation element to track, in real time, the internal tracker, and a control unit including a memory to store an internal referential and one image displaying the target body part and one fixation element. The control unit is designed to define, inside the internal referential, at least one 3D frame position attached to the at least one fixation element, and to precisely locate each point of the target body part, the control unit is further designed to precisely localize, in real time, the internal tracker inside the target body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: ROBEAUTE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Quentin FRANCOIS, Bertrand DUPLAT, Sinan HALIYO, Stephane RÉGNIER, Pierre ZARADER
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Publication number: 20240080484Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining (601) a syntax element associated with video data, wherein said syntax element specifies that a cross-color component transform process in which at least one second color component is transformed based on at least one first color component different from the second color component is to be applied to the video data as a post processing process following a decoding process to be applied to the video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Edouard Francois, Philippe Bordes, Pierre Andrivon, Philippe De Lagrange, Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Srinivas Gudumasu
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Publication number: 20240068113Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for treating an electromembrane process aqueous composition comprising sodium and/or potassium sulfate, said process comprising removing water from said electromembrane process aqueous composition under conditions suitable for substantially selectively precipitating sodium and/or potassium sulfate monohydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NEMASKA LITHIUM INC.Inventors: Jean-François MAGNAN, Guy BOURASSA, Nicolas LAROCHE, Gary PEARSE, Stephen Charles MACKIE, Mykolas GLADKOVAS, Peter SYMONS, J. David GENDERS, Geneviève CLAYTON, Pierre BOUCHARD
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Patent number: 11904816Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid recovery system for a motor vehicle and to a vehicle including such a recovery system that that includes at least one liquid intake that communicates with a tank and is referred to as the first tank, which is designed to store liquid from the liquid intake and where the liquid intake is arrangeably designed below the vehicle's beltline.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGEInventors: Laurent Andre-Masse, Philippe Carraro, Julien Carrion, Pierre-Francois Duprat, Jean-Francois Rousseau, Grégory Villemin
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Patent number: 11877958Abstract: The invention concerns an implant that comprises an anterior part and a posterior part extending along a longitudinal axis and having respectively an anterior (A) and a posterior pole (E) both located on axis. The anterior and posterior parts extend each radially relative to axis, on either side thereof, the anterior and posterior parts having each two portions located on both sides of axis respectively when viewed in a sagittal plane. Each portion of the anterior part has a radial extension that increases from anterior pole (A) to a point (B, B?) where the anterior part ends and the posterior part begins, each portion of the posterior part having a radial extension decreasing from point (B, B?) to the posterior pole (E). The outer outline of each portion of the anterior part forms a curve having a radius of curvature that is greater at anterior pole (A) than at point (B, B?).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KEJAKO SAInventors: Gilles Bos, Aurélien Maurer, David Enfrun, Michael Assouline, Pierre-Francois Isard, Pierre-Yves Maitre, Gabriel Delage, Charles-Olivier Zuber, Mario Carta, Moïse Seguin, Quentin Guyot
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Publication number: 20240005024Abstract: A determination is made to obfuscate a protected dataset including data elements that are to remain comparable with one another after the obfuscation. An obfuscation function for the protected dataset is selected wherein the obfuscation function is a monotonic one-way function. One or more parameters for the obfuscation function are automatically determined based at least in part on a secret value. Using one or more processors, the protected dataset is automatically obfuscated to generate an obfuscated version using the obfuscation function with the determined one or more parameters. Computer access to the obfuscated version of the protected dataset is provided as a comparable alternative for the protected dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Adrian Spalka, Pierre Francois Rohel
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Patent number: 11840162Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a slide comprising a fixed profile and a movable profile mounted on the fixed profile so as to slide in a longitudinal direction, the slide comprising a longitudinal adjustment screw, the fixed profile presenting a bottom having an outer face opposite the adjustment screw, the adjustment screw having one end integral with a support which comprises two longitudinal side walls able to receive the end. The bottom comprises two longitudinal parallel slots, and the bottom and the support each have a hole which are in line with one another and are able to receive an attachment part for attaching the fixed profile to the floor of a vehicle when the side walls are engaged in the slots with the rest of the support facing the outer face.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: FAURECIA Sièges d'AutomobileInventors: Pierre-François Beauquet, Guillaume Gabillard, Christian Couasnon
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Publication number: 20230388704Abstract: The electronic processing device for an acoustic apparatus including a first air conduction microphone and a second bone conduction microphone, configured for being connected to the first and second microphones, for receiving as inputs the first and respectively second analog signals from the first, and respectively second microphones and for delivering as output a corrected signal. The processing device comprises: a hybridization module configured for calculating a hybrid signal from the first and second analog signals; an estimation module configured for estimating noise in the hybrid signal; a noise reduction module configured for calculating the corrected signal by applying a generalized spectral subtraction algorithm to the hybrid signal and according to the estimated noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Arthur Henri LACROIX, Clément Jean-Baptiste ALBERT, Mathieu Clément Nicolas DEXHEIMER, Thierry Pierre François GAIFFE
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Publication number: 20230357784Abstract: The invention relates to a method for inserting a desired edit at a target site in a double-stranded DNA sequence in a plant cell, using a Cas nickase associated with a reverse transcriptase adapted to plants and a prime-editing guide RNA comprising in particular a guide RNA region to provide targeting, a template RNA containing the desired edit and a primer binding site (PBS) for the reverse transcriptase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Fabien NOGUÉ, Pierre-François PERROUD, Anouchka GUYON-DEBAST, Wyatt PAUL, Jean-Philippe PICHON
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Publication number: 20230357860Abstract: The present invention relates to the stratification and treatment of patients suffering of cancer. Due to the fact that anti-PD1 therapy targets lymphocytes and the efficiency of anti-cancer therapy is measured by the impact on the tumor cells, the inventors postulated that studying the molecular mechanisms of resistance of anti-PD1 therapy should take into consideration existing intercellular communication between lymphocytes and tumor cells. As exosomes are the carriers for the intercellular transfer of the miRNA responsible of chemoresistance, they herein investigated whether exposure of T cells to anti-PD1 therapy might promote the expression of exosomal miRNA (exomiR) causing the chemoresistance of cancer cells. Surprisingly, they found that anti-PD1 exposure of T-cell promotes an enrichment of exosomal miRNA-4315. They also noted that exosomal miRNA-4315 induced a phenomenon of apopto-resistance to conventional chemotherapies in cancer cells receiving exosomal miRNA-4315.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Pierre-François CANTRON, Gwenola BOUGRAS-CARTRON
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Publication number: 20230316797Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for providing increased detection accuracy. A system for may include a management system, a network, and a sensor device. The sensor device may include a first sensor which captures baseline data and current data associated with the space, a second sensor which detects motion within the space, and a processor which causes the first sensor to capture the baseline data based at least in part upon a predetermined time period having elapsed since detected motion by the second sensor, and further configured to cause the second sensor to capture the current data and perform a comparison operation on the current data and the baseline data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc.Inventors: Goran Stojcevski, Peter Sven Anders Lindgren, Pierre François Veuillet
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Publication number: 20230314190Abstract: A bezel is provided for a multi-sensor device having a cover and a printed circuit board including a plurality of sensors. The bezel comprises a soft, flexible or resilient body including a first side and a second side, and a plurality of openings for the plurality of sensors or components thereof. The plurality of openings extend between the first and second sides. The first side is adjacent to the cover, and the second side is adjacent to the printed circuit board. The body can be a gasketing body to prevent unwanted materials from entering the housing of the multi-sensor device, and to dampen unwanted vibrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC BUILDINGS AMERICAS, INC.Inventors: David John Boretti, Goran Stojcevski, Pierre François Veuillet
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Patent number: 11723948Abstract: The present invention relates to an in vitro method for determine the prognosis of the survival time of a patient suffering from a cancer comprising the steps consisting of i) determining the expression level of the couple DNMT3A/ISGF3? in a sample from said patient, ii) comparing said expression level with a predetermined reference value and iii) providing a good prognosis when the expression level is lower than the predetermined reference value and a poor prognosis when the expression level is higher than the predetermined reference value. The invention also relates a compound which is a DNMT3A/ISGF3? antagonist or a compound which is a DNMT3A/ISGF3? gene expression inhibitor for use in the treatment and prevention of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE), NANTES UNIVERSITÈ, UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)Inventors: Pierre-Francois Cartron, Mathilde Cheray, Francois Valette