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).

  • Patent number: 10825981
    Abstract: An electromechanical actuator includes a base part and an oscillation resonator having the shape of a rod. The electromechanical actuator further includes amount for mounting the oscillation resonator to the base part. The mount is configured to bear the oscillation resonator so as to be rotatable around an axis of the oscillation resonator rod relative to the base part. A driver member is mechanically coupled to the oscillation resonator. A slider or a rotator is configured to be moved by the driver member when the oscillation resonator is excited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: attocube systems AG
    Inventors: Khaled Karrai, Pierre-Francois Braun, Georgy Maikov
  • Patent number: 10826691
    Abstract: A system and method for encrypting portions of data for storage in a remote network have been provided. The system comprises a memory with instructions executable by a processor to receive data for forwarding to a server device, wherein the received data comprises an indication of one or more portions of the received data to be encrypted; identify a portion comprising the one or more portions of the received data based at least in part on the indication; encrypt the identified portion of the data; generate a payload that comprises the encrypted portion and one or more unencrypted portions of the received data; and transmit, to the server device, the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Francois Rohel, Siddharth Shah, Martin Wexler
  • Publication number: 20200335996
    Abstract: The regulating device (5) according to the invention for an excitation alternator (9) comprises a voltage feedback loop (6) and a temperature feedback loop (15) comprising means for measuring/estimating temperature supplying a current temperature (T), a comparator (18) generating a temperature error (?T) between a maximum permissible temperature (Tmax) and the current temperature, means for inputting a current speed of rotation of the alternator, a control module (19) supplying a percentage of a maximum permissible excitation (rmax) as a function of the temperature error and a speed correction supplied by speed correction means according to a predetermined correction law as a function of the current rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Pierre Chassard, Pierre Tisserand, Pierre-François Ragaine
  • Publication number: 20200309029
    Abstract: An air inflow lip of a nacelle for a turbojet of an aircraft, including a cavity defined by a leading edge of the nacelle and by an annular wall, includes an inner wall, an acoustic treatment device, and a pneumatic de-icing device including a de-icing fluid supply device. The inner wall of the air inflow lip includes acoustic boreholes and the pneumatic de-icing device includes a honeycombed de-icing plate mounted inside the cavity on the inner wall of the air inflow lip. Also included are conduits for the circulation of a de-icing fluid and acoustic wells communicating with the acoustic boreholes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick BOILEAU, Caroline COAT-LENZOTTI, Marc VERSAEVEL, Virginie Emmanuelle Anne Marie DIGEOS, Pierre-François BEHAGHEL
  • Publication number: 20200282011
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Pierre-Francois CARTRON, Mathilde CHERAY, Francois VALETTE
  • Publication number: 20200259808
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for encrypting portions of data for storage and processing in a remote network. For example, methods may include receiving a message that includes data for forwarding to a server device; encrypting a portion of the data to determine an encrypted portion; determining metadata based on the portion of the data, wherein the metadata indicates one or more properties of the portion of the data and enables one or more operations to be performed by the server device that depend on the one or more properties; determining a payload including the data with both the encrypted portion and the metadata substituted for the portion of the data; and transmitting the payload to the server device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Pierre Francois Rohel, Siddharth Shah, Martin Wexler
  • Patent number: 10731530
    Abstract: A heater is suitable to be arranged opposite and away from an upstream or downstream face of an exhaust gas purification member of a vehicle. The heater comprises a fastening ring with an electrically conductive frame having a geometric center, a central support arranged substantially at the geometric center of the frame, and a plurality of elongate heating elements each having first and second ends opposite one another. The first end is connected to the frame and the second end is connected to the central support. The fastening ring further comprises a plurality of electrically conductive radial protrusions distributed around the frame and protruding toward the outside of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMS D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventors: Xavier Pierre François Bartolo, Christophe Tournier
  • Patent number: 10718056
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for tuning the performance of at least one electrochemical cell of an electrochemical cell stack. The method includes supplying power to an electrochemical cell stack. The electrochemical cell stack includes a plurality of electrochemical cells. The method further includes monitoring a parameter of at least one electrochemical cell and determining if an electrochemical cell becomes impaired. The method also includes diverting a fraction of the current flow from the impaired electrochemical cell during operation of the electrochemical cell stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Blanchet, Wonseok Yoon, Pierre-Francois Quet
  • Patent number: 10697965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: INSERM (INSITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE), UNIVERSITE DE NANTES, UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Pierre-Francois Cartron, Mathilde Cheray, Francois Valette
  • Publication number: 20200193052
    Abstract: A method for providing personal information of a user requested by a given online service. The method includes, by a security server of a mobile terminal operator of he user: (a) receiving a request for the personal information, including comprising a unique identifier of the user and an identifier of the online service; (b) sending, to the mobile terminal, a response authorisation request; (c) if a response authorisation confirmation is received, sending data, which is associated in a database with the unique identifier and the identifier of the online service. Each pair of a unique identifier and an online service identifier is also associated in the database with a parameter representative of a level of security required in order to confirm the response authorisation on the mobile terminal. The step (b) includes: determining the value of the parameter; and integrating the determined value in the response authorisation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Pierre-Francois Dubois, Javier Polo Moragon, Serge Llorente
  • Patent number: 10684337
    Abstract: A method for designing one or more multichannel, multiband radio frequency (“RF”) pulses for use with a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system is provided. The method includes determining a number of RF amplitude modulations and a number of RF phase modulations for each channel in a multichannel RF coil by minimizing an objective function that includes a complex-valued vector. The objective function also contains a system matrix that accounts for both a spatial sensitivity profile of each channel in the multichannel RF coil and a magnetic field map for each excitation band in the multiband RF pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Xiaoping Wu, Pierre-Francois Van De Moortele, Sebastian Schmitter, Kamil Ugurbil, Edward Auerbach
  • Publication number: 20200182086
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane intended to be arranged in all or part of an air flow of an aircraft bypass turbomachine fan, the vane comprising an aerodynamic part equipped with at least one interior lubricant cooling passage delimited in part by an intrados wall and an extrados wall of the vane, there being flow-disturbing lugs, made as one piece with one of the intrados and extrados walls, passing across the passage. According to the invention, in any plane of section passing orthogonally through the lugs, the space defined between these lugs has a geometry defined exclusively by a set of annulus shapes of the same dimensions, partially overlapping one another and each in part delimiting at least two of these lugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Dimitri Daniel Gabriel MARQUIE, Geoffray Henri Robert LEGUERY, Pierre François SENEJOUX
  • Publication number: 20200113736
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Gilles BOS, Aurélien MAURER, David ENFRUN, Michael ASSOULINE, Pierre-Francois ISARD, Pierre-Yves MAITRE, Gabriel DELAGE, Charles-Olivier ZUBER
  • Publication number: 20200102401
    Abstract: The present invention discloses antibodies which bind human and Macaca fascicularis CEACAM5 proteins, as well as isolated nucleic acids, vectors and host cells comprising a sequence encoding said antibodies. The invention also discloses immunoconjugates comprising said antibodies conjugated or linked to a growth-inhibitory agent, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising antibodies, or immunoconjugates of the invention. The antibodies or immunoconjugates of the invention are used for the treatment of cancer or for diagnostic purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Pierre-Francois BERNE, Francis BLANCHE, Hervé BOUCHARD, Béatrice CAMERON, Tarik DABDOUBI, Stéphanie DECARY, Paul FERRARI, Alexey RAK
  • Patent number: 10594670
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for encrypting portions of data for storage and processing in a remote network. For example, methods may include receiving a message that includes data for forwarding to a server device; encrypting a portion of the data to determine an encrypted portion; determining metadata based on the portion of the data, wherein the metadata indicates one or more properties of the portion of the data and enables one or more operations to be performed by the server device that depend on the one or more properties; determining a payload including the data with both the encrypted portion and the metadata substituted for the portion of the data; and transmitting the payload to the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Francois Rohel, Siddharth Shah, Martin Wexler
  • Patent number: 10553886
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell system for generating oxygen depleted air. The fuel cell system may include a fuel cell having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte positioned between the anode and the cathode. The cathode may be configured to receive an air flow and discharge an oxygen depleted air flow. The fuel cell system may further include a sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of a presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow and a controller in communication with the sensor and the fuel cell. The controller may be configured to detect the presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow based on the first signal, and in response to detecting the presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow, selectively cause a current density of the fuel cell to decrease and/or increase a flow rate of the air flow to the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Buelte, Pierre-François Quet
  • Patent number: 10545210
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing RF pulses using a technique that directly controls temperature rise via a compression model that is based on virtual observation points (“VOPs”) are provided. Thermal pre-simulations are first carried out for a given RF exposure time, coil, and subject model in order to obtain complex temperature matrices, after which the compression scheme follows. As one example, the thermal model employed can be Pennes' bio-heat equation. Focusing design constraints on the temperature rise instead of the absolute temperature allows for uncertain parameters to be dropped from the thermal model, making it more robust and less prone to errors. In some embodiments, the algorithm used for RF pulse design is the active-set (“A-S”) method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: Regents of the University of Minnesota, Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas Boulant, Pierre-Francois Van De Moortele
  • Publication number: 20200015955
    Abstract: The invention concerns an iris cover implant intended to cover at least partially the iris of an eye, the cover implant comprising a body having a first face that is an opaque face and, on an opposite second face, at least one attachment member that extends outwardly from the body and is fixed thereto, the at least one attachment member comprising at least two clamping portions that are able to attach the body to an iris of an eye by clamping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Gilles BOS, Aurélien MAURER, David ENFRUN, Michael ASSOULINE, Pierre-Francois ISARD
  • Patent number: 10524521
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system (1) for activating the deployment of an inflatable safety vest, characterised in that it comprises a case (2) designed to be solidly connected to the inflatable safety vest and equipped with a first opening (21) into which a box (3) can be removably inserted, said box comprising at least an electronic card, connection means and an energy-storage device. The upper part of the aforementioned first opening (21) is provided with a housing (22) which is equipped on the base and connected to the case (2) and into which at least the upper part (31) of the box (3) can be inserted so that it is hermetically connected to the case (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: IN&MOTION
    Inventors: Valentin Honore, Pierre-François Tissot, Rémi Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190373967
    Abstract: A device for the inflation of an inflatable life vest, notable in that it includes a storage casing containing at least two cartridges of pressurized gas which are arranged side-by-side and touching one another to form a row, and a release casing comprising at least one striker device that makes it possible, in the event of activation, to puncture each of the said cartridges simultaneously or in succession to release the gas they contain in gaseous form to the outside of the inflation device through at least one orifice made on the release casing, the said storage and release casings being in the overall shape of a flattened hollow parallelepiped and joined together removably and in a manner that is gastight with respect to the gas contained in the said cartridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: IN&MOTION
    Inventors: Valentin HONORE, Rémi THOMAS, Pierre-François TISSOT