Patents by Inventor René Morin

René Morin 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: 11727443
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BLUEZOO, INC.
    Inventors: Jan Willem Korver, Thomas Sandholm, Philippe Rene Morin, Thibault de Lacheze-Murel, Guillaume Tenant de la Tour, Paul-Ambroise Augustin Duquenne, Jerome Lejeune, Amanda Mills, Thuong Ho, Hang Ung
  • Publication number: 20220027950
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jan Willem Korver, Thomas Sandholm, Philippe Rene Morin, Thibault de Lacheze-Murel, Guillaume Tenant de la Tour, Paul-Ambroise Augustin Duquenne, Jerome Lejeune, Amanda Mills, Thuong Ho, Hang Ung
  • Patent number: 11151611
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: BLUEZOO, INC.
    Inventors: Jan Willem Korver, Thomas Sandholm, Philippe Rene Morin, Thibault de Lacheze-Murel, Guillaume Tenant de la Tour, Paul-Ambroise Augustin Duquenne, Jerome Lejeune, Amanda Mills, Thuong Ho, Hang Ung
  • Publication number: 20190172096
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Guillaume Tenant de la Tour, Thomas Sandholm, Philippe René Morin, Thibault de Lacheze-Murel, Jan Willem Korver, Paul-Ambroise Augustin Duquenne, Jerome Lejeune, Amanda Mills, Thuong Ho, Hang Ung
  • Publication number: 20190026492
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique to mask personally identifying information (PII) in a people counting system. A sensor that capable of identifying individual mobile devices, such as smart phones, counts people in a given area. Once identified, information that identifies given mobile devices is hashed. The hashed data is used with a filter to determine recurrence of individuals without actually storing any information specifically about those individuals. In order to determine the count of people externally from the sensor, the hashed data is analyzed for cardinality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Sandholm, Hang Ung, Philippe René Morin
  • Publication number: 20190028849
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique to improve the processing of people counting systems. The technique involves the use of a system that counts the local number of wireless/mobile devices via machine identifiers. When the counting device scrapes the machine identifier from a mobile device, the identifier is hashed using a one-way hash function. The hash code corresponds to a bit location on a bitmap. The location in the bitmap is checked. If the bit is already marked full, the mobile device has been previously detected, if the pixel location is empty, this is a new device. Thus, a single bit represents each machine identifier. The number of unique people in a monitored location is the number of full bits in the bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Sandholm, Hang Ung, Philippe René Morin
  • Patent number: 8459196
    Abstract: A submersible robot for operating a tool relative to a surface of an underwater structure has a tool holder movably mounted on a support assembly provided with a driving arrangement for movably holding the tool in operative position relative to the surface. Position and orientation of the support assembly relative to the surface is locked and adjusted by locking and leveling arrangements. A programmable control unit operates the driving, locking and leveling arrangements and the tool and receives measurements from a sensor unit. The control unit has an operation mode wherein a positioning of the robot is determined and controlled as function of an initial position for defining a first work area, and shifted positions of the robot for defining additional work areas, the work areas having overlapping portions with one another for tracking displacements of the robot relative to the surface of the structure using the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Luc Provencher, Stéphan Gendron, René Morin, Michel Blain
  • Publication number: 20120082535
    Abstract: A submersible robot for operating a tool relative to a surface of an underwater structure has a tool holder movably mounted on a support assembly provided with a driving arrangement for movably holding the tool in operative position relative to the surface. Position and orientation of the support assembly relative to the surface is locked and adjusted by locking and levelling arrangements. A programmable control unit operates the driving, locking and levelling arrangements and the tool and receives measurements from a sensor unit. The control unit has an operation mode wherein a positioning of the robot is determined and controlled as function of an initial position for defining a first work area, and shifted positions of the robot for defining additional work areas, the work areas having overlapping portions with one another for tracking displacements of the robot relative to the surface of the structure using the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Luc PROVENCHER, Stéphan Gendron, René Morin, Michel Blain
  • Patent number: 5131374
    Abstract: A hub 1 integral with the injection pump to include a housing 2 driven in rotation, surrounding hub 1 and including two rollers 4, 5 placed parallel to the axis of the housing at a distance from this axis. An eccentric governor weight 15 is mounted on hub 1 to be able to move in one direction under the action of the centrifugal force. Two advance control pistons 8, 9 with axis orthogonal to the axes of the hub are mounted in the hub, each to be able to slide in a recessed bore and each equipped with a lateral support ramp 10, 11 able to work with one of the rollers 4, 5 to cause an angular offset between hub 1 and housing 2. One of the pistons 8 acts in the other direction on governor weight 15 by a spring 18. A hydraulic circuit goes through the hub and has a distributor with controlled relief 20 adjusting the pressure acting on pistons 8, 9 as a function of the position of governor weight 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Renault Vehicules Industriels
    Inventor: Rene Morin
  • Patent number: 4509490
    Abstract: A hydraulic automatic device for the injection advance of a diesel engine. The device includes a hub fixed to the pump camshaft and a casing fixed to the drive pinion of the pump. Two rollers in the casing bear on the ramps of the pistons of which the position is a function of the speed of rotation, owing to two inertia blocks, the thrust of the pistons and the control of the slide valve of a hydraulic distributor. Thus at each speed of rotation, there corresponds a certain angular displacement of the components and a certain advance of the injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Renault Vehicules Industriels
    Inventor: Rene' Morin
  • Patent number: 4491116
    Abstract: A hydraulic automatic device for the injection advance of a diesel engine. The device includes a hub fixed to the pump camshaft and a casing fixed to the drive pinion of the pump. Two rollers in the casing bear on the ramps of pistons, the position of which is a function of the speed of rotation of the device, owing to two inertia blocks, the thrust of the pistons and the control of the slide valve of a hydraulic distributor. Thus at each speed of rotation, there corresponds a certain angular displacement of the components and a certain advance of the injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Renault Vehicules Industriels
    Inventor: Rene Morin
  • Patent number: 4401088
    Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic automatic device for the injection advance of a diesel engine. The device comprises a hub fixed to the pump camshaft and a casing fixed to the drive pinion of the pump. Two rollers in the casing bear on the ramps of pistons of which the position is a function of the speed of rotation, owing to two inertia blocks, the thrust of the pistons and the control of the slide valve of a hydraulic distributor. Thus, at each speed of rotation, there corresponds a certain angular displacement of the components and a certain advance of the injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Renault Vehicules Industriels
    Inventor: Rene Morin
  • Patent number: RE44935
    Abstract: A submersible robot for operating a tool relative to a surface of an underwater structure has a tool holder movably mounted on a support assembly provided with a driving arrangement for movably holding the tool in operative position relative to the surface. Position and orientation of the support assembly relative to the surface is locked and adjusted by locking and leveling arrangements. A programmable control unit operates the driving, locking and leveling arrangements and the tool and receives measurements from a sensor unit. The control unit has an operation mode wherein a positioning of the robot is determined and controlled as function of an initial position for defining a first work area, and shifted positions of the robot for defining additional work areas, the work areas having overlapping portions with one another for tracking displacements of the robot relative to the surface of the structure using the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Luc Provencher, Stephan Gendron, Rene Morin, Michel Blain