Patents by Inventor Thierry Lucidarme

Thierry Lucidarme 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: 12218621
    Abstract: A system for generating electrical energy, for instance at an agricultural site. The system includes at least one mobile robot, referred to as “collecting robot” and a plurality of mobile robots, referred to as “producing robots”. Each collect robot includes at least one input port adapted for coupling with an output port of a producing robot and an output port for outputting electrical energy received from each producing robot coupled with the collecting robot. Each producing robot includes a photovoltaic generator, at least one input port adapted for coupling with an output port of another producing robot, and at least one output port for outputting electrical energy generated by the producing robot and received from each other producing robot coupled with the producing robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Mike Van Iseghem, Anne-Sophie Coince, Jean-Marc Lauruol, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman, Harry Michael Cronin, Phil Peter Catton, Laura Kristine Bujouves
  • Publication number: 20240153657
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling a plurality of nuclear reactors, comprising, for each nuclear reactor, a plurality of sensors for measuring operating parameters as well a system for controlling the nuclear reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Electricite de France
    Inventors: Laurent Amice, Thierry Lucidarme, Christopher John Wright, Jan Jasper Van Den Berg
  • Patent number: 11747161
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to replenishing an energy reserve of a vehicle of interest located in a zone of interest. Such examples comprise emitting, from a computer system and towards a vehicle controller of the vehicle of interest, instructions to direct the vehicle of interest towards a specific replenishing station located in the zone of interest. The specific replenishing station is assigned for replenishing the vehicle of interest based on a set of statistical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Paul Breslow, Baptiste Bel
  • Patent number: 11694170
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided comprising: generating a digital data block comprising transaction data representing at least one energy transfer transaction corresponding to an exchange of charge between a community member device and a charge source device, randomly selecting, in a group of community member devices, a plurality of block verification devices, wherein the block verification devices form a subgroup of block verification devices, partitioning a block verification computation task for the digital data block into a plurality of block verification computation subtasks, assigning the block verification computation so subtasks to respective selected block verification devices, transmitting the digital data block to each selected block verification device, together with its respective block verification computation subtask over a computer network, determining that the digital data block is verified, based on at least one verification results of a corresponding block verification computation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Stephane Dupre la Tour, Julian Nolan, Matthew Lawrenson, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
  • Publication number: 20230118891
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling a plurality of nuclear reactors in clusters, comprising, for each reactor, a plurality of sensors for measuring operating parameters as well as a system for controlling the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactors being grouped into clusters having a cluster head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Electricite de France
    Inventors: Laurent Amice, Thierry Lucidarme, Christopher John Wright, Jan Jasper Van Den Berg
  • Patent number: 11593898
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided, which comprises: determining a current block stored in a blockchain data structure stored in the database, which comprises data related to a first energy transfer transaction for transferring charge from a community member device; searching the blockchain data structure for predetermined data indicating an energy transfer from at least one primary energy provider device controlled by a primary energy provider to the community member device, upon determining in the blockchain data structure at least one block containing the predetermined data, generating a new block with data corresponding to a current reward transaction between the primary energy provider and the community member, based on data of the at least one block and data of the current block; and adding the new block in the blockchain data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Stephane Dupre la Tour
  • Patent number: 11465516
    Abstract: Disclosed is a management device suitable for managing an electric propulsion assembly of a vehicle. The management device includes: a communication interface suitable for receiving an elevation profile for a predetermined route that the vehicle is intended to take; and a determination module configured to determine, based on the elevation profile, for each of one or more points of the route, a maximum electric power that the electrical energy storage device is configured to supply to the motor at the corresponding point. The management device is further configured to interact with the electric propulsion assembly such that, for each point of the route for which the maximum electric power is determined, the electric power actually supplied by the electrical energy storage device to the motor is less than the corresponding maximum electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventor: Thierry Lucidarme
  • Patent number: 11332037
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a state of health (SOH) of an electric battery of an electric vehicle, said method comprising a step of: performing a given number (m) of tests on the electric battery, each giving results, associating each result to a state of the battery, a given number (N) of states of the battery being possible, estimating a probability of each state of the battery on the basis of a Bayesian calculation, and estimating the SOH in function of the probability of each state and of the results of the tests, called estimated SOH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventor: Thierry Lucidarme
  • Patent number: 11125822
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a state of health (SOH) of an electric battery of an electric vehicle, said method comprising a step of: performing on said electric battery, under given conditions, a test, called proxy test, said proxy test including a partial charge and/or discharge action of the battery, comparing the results of the proxy test with data stored in a dataset, and estimating the SOH in function of the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Jan Jasper van den Berg, Julian Charles Nolan, Timothy Giles Beard
  • Publication number: 20210070192
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to replenishing an energy reserve of a vehicle of interest located in a zone of interest. Such examples comprise emitting, from a computer system and towards a vehicle controller of the vehicle of interest, instructions to direct the vehicle of interest towards a specific replenishing station located in the zone of interest. The specific replenishing station is assigned for replenishing the vehicle of interest based on a set of statistical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Paul Breslow, Baptiste Bel
  • Publication number: 20200143338
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided comprising: generating a digital data block comprising transaction data representing at least one energy transfer transaction corresponding to an exchange of charge between a community member device and a charge source device, randomly selecting, in a group of community member devices, a plurality of block verification devices, wherein the block verification devices form a subgroup of block verification devices, partitioning a block verification computation task for the digital data block into a plurality of block verification computation subtasks, assigning the block verification computation so subtasks to respective selected block verification devices, transmitting the digital data block to each selected block verification device, together with its respective block verification computation subtask over a computer network, determining that the digital data block is verified, based on at least one verification results of a corresponding block verification computation
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Stephane Dupre la Tour, Julian Nolan, Matthew Lawrenson, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
  • Publication number: 20200143490
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided, which comprises: determining a current block stored in a blockchain data structure stored in the database, which comprises data related to a first energy transfer transaction for transferring charge from a community member device; searching the blockchain data structure for predetermined data indicating an energy transfer from at least one primary energy provider device controlled by a primary energy provider to the community member device, upon determining in the blockchain data structure at least one block containing the predetermined data, generating a new block with data corresponding to a current reward transaction between the primary energy provider and the community member, based on data of the at least one block and data of the current block; and adding the new block in the blockchain data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Stephane Dupre la Tour
  • Publication number: 20200011931
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a state of health (SOH) of an electric battery of an electric vehicle, said method comprising a step of: performing on said electric battery, under given conditions, a test, called proxy test, said proxy test including a partial charge and/or discharge action of the battery, comparing the results of the proxy test with data stored in a dataset, and estimating the SOH in function of the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Jan Jasper van den Berg, Julian Charles Nolan, Timothy Giles Beard
  • Publication number: 20200009987
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a state of health (SOH) of an electric battery of an electric vehicle, said method comprising a step of: performing a given number (m) of tests on the electric battery, each giving results, associating each result to a state of the battery, a given number (N) of states of the battery being possible, estimating a probability of each state of the battery on the basis of a Bayesian calculation, and estimating the SOH in function of the probability of each state and of the results of the tests, called estimated SOH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Thierry Lucidarme
  • Patent number: 9504093
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications local area network (20) is described with a concentrator (32) connected to a plurality of radio heads (36, 38) via a local area network (LAN, 20). The concentrator (32) provides remote control of a local timing signal individually in each radio head. The control may be open loop or closed loop and may be provided through the LAN. The concentrator may also provide digital signal processing (DSP) as a shared resource for the radio heads (36, 38). The DSP may include channel coding. The radio heads (36, 38) may provide modulation for channel coded signals transmitted from the concentrator (32) via the LAN (20). The LAN may be wired LAN or a wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Fabrice Robert, Pierre Emmanuel Calmel, Patrick LaGrange, Christophe Bonnot
  • Patent number: 9210575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for securing a radio communication link establishment in a radio communication network comprising a local network and a secured network. The local network comprises at least a first terminal and a second terminal and at least the first terminal is capable of communicating with the secured network. The radio communication network implements layered protocol functions, comprising at least Layers 1, 2 and 3, the terminals being identifiable by their Layer 2 and 3 addresses. The secured network comprises a database comprising address correspondence information between Layer 2 and 3 addresses of terminals. In the method the first terminal authenticates itself with the secured network and then by using the Layer 3 address of the second terminal, obtaining the address correspondence information provided by the database and thereby determining the corresponding Layer 2 address of the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Lescuyer, Thierry Lucidarme
  • Publication number: 20150270883
    Abstract: The invention relates to transmission from a base station to a receiver, the base station comprising first radiating means arranged for transmitting according to an antenna pattern with respect to the receiver and further comprising second radiating means arranged for transmitting according to the same antenna pattern as the first radiating means with respect to the receiver, the transmissions of the first and second radiating means being time shifted by a determined duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Thierry Lucidarme, Arnaud de Lannoy
  • Patent number: 9065520
    Abstract: The invention relates to transmission from a base station to a receiver, the base station comprising first radiating means arranged for transmitting according to an antenna pattern with respect to the receiver and further comprising second radiating means arranged for transmitting according to the same antenna pattern as the first radiating means with respect to the receiver, the transmissions of the first and second radiating means being time shifted by a determined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Thierry Lucidarme, Arnaud de Lannoy
  • Patent number: 8982683
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal carrying information elements over a plurality of frequency subcarriers simultaneously. The method comprises: identifying a set of at least one frequency subcarrier of the plurality particularly subjected to attenuation; and transmitting the signal simultaneously over said plurality of frequency subcarriers by assigning respective information elements to the frequency subcarriers of the plurality not belonging to said set and assigning to each frequency subcarrier of said set a respective coefficient set so that an envelope of the transmitted signal is less than an envelope of the signal that would be transmitted by assigning respective information elements to all the frequency subcarriers of the plurality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Thierry Lucidarme
  • Patent number: 8963788
    Abstract: An antenna system includes at least one antenna and one X-Y mount, said mount being composed of at least three mechanical elements, the first element being a base, the second element being a lower box, the third element being a upper box, the antenna of the system being fixed to the upper box. The components of the antenna downlead are distributed in the various elements composing the X-Y mount, an OMT type junction included in the upper box enabling separation of the components of the downlead into two separate paths, a first path called the ascending path comprising components for amplifying and processing signals to be transmitted by the antenna, a second path called the descending path comprising components for processing and amplifying signals received by the antenna, the components associated with these paths being placed on either side of the various elements of the X-Y mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Thierry Lucidarme, Marc Touret