Patents by Inventor Simon Alain

Simon Alain 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).

  • MEASURED RESTART OF MICROCONTROLLERS
    Publication number: 20240086542
    Abstract: In various examples there is a computing device comprising: a first microcontroller comprising a first immutable bootloader and first mutable firmware. The first immutable bootloader uses a unique device secret burnt into hardware of the computing device in order to generate an attestation of the first mutable firmware. The computing device has a second microcontroller. There is second mutable firmware at the second microcontroller. There is a second immutable bootloader at the second microcontroller which sends a measurement of the second mutable firmware to the first immutable bootloader whenever the second microcontroller restarts, such that the first microcontroller is able to include the measurement in the attestation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Stavros VOLOS, Colin DOAK, Simon Douglas CHAMBERS, David RUGGLES, Richard NEAL, Cedric Alain Marie FOURNET, Kapil VASWANI, Balaji VEMBU
  • Ultrasonic scanner with interchangeable wedge and flexible probe
    Patent number: 11549918
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe assembly comprises a housing and a wedge, wherein wedges configured for pipes of different diameter may be easily interchanged in the assembly. Four wheels are attached to the housing, there being a front wheel pair and a rear wheel pair. Wheels of each pair are positioned on either side of a linear probe array, wherein the distance between wheels in each pair in a direction perpendicular to the array length is as small as possible. A position encoder monitors the position of the assembly during scanning, and a push lock switch is used to disable the encoder and the data acquisition while indexing to a new scan position on the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Olympus America Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Spay, Simon Alain, Martin Dupuis, Sylvain Sauvageau, Francois Houde
  • ULTRASONIC SCANNER WITH INTERCHANGEABLE WEDGE AND FLEXIBLE PROBE
    Publication number: 20190128856
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe assembly comprises a housing and a wedge, wherein wedges configured for pipes of different diameter may be easily interchanged in the assembly. Four wheels are attached to the housing, there being a front wheel pair and a rear wheel pair. Wheels of each pair are positioned on either side of a linear probe array, wherein the distance between wheels in each pair in a direction perpendicular to the array length is as small as possible. A position encoder monitors the position of the assembly during scanning, and a push lock switch is used to disable the encoder and the data acquisition while indexing to a new scan position on the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Spay, Simon Alain, Martin Dupuis, Sylvain Sauvageau, Francois Houde