Patents by Inventor Thomas Aloysius
Thomas Aloysius 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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Patent number: 11958780Abstract: A ceramic waveguide includes: a doped metal oxide ceramic core layer; and at least one cladding layer comprising the metal oxide surrounding the core layer, such that the core layer includes an erbium dopant and at least one rare earth metal dopant being: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, or oxides thereof, or at least one non-rare earth metal dopant comprising zirconium or oxides thereof. Also included is a quantum memory including: at least one doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device with the ceramic waveguide and a method of fabricating the ceramic waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Sean Matthew Garner, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Jun Yang, Haitao Zhang
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Patent number: 11364121Abstract: A bone graft implant and methods of using the same are provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Vertical Spine LLCInventors: Eric Robert Jania, Thomas Aloysius Crowley, James Joseph Yue, Frank P. Cammisa, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200113697Abstract: A bone graft implant and methods of using the same are provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Eric Robert Jania, Thomas Aloysius Crowley, James Joseph Yue, Frank P. Cammisa, Jr.
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Patent number: 9512484Abstract: A method for determining a prognosis for survival for a patient with breast cancer is described. Also described is a method for monitoring the effectiveness of a course of treatment for a patient with breast cancer, and the use of such a method in a kit. A kit determining the level of RINF is also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Bergen Teknologioverforing ASInventors: Frederic Pendino, Johan R. Lillehaug, Thomas Aloysius, Stian Knappskog
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Patent number: 9231677Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for improved systems and methods for encoding and decoding information transmitted using multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication devices. Structurally sparse codes are implemented based on principles of compressive sampling. Improved detectors are also disclosed for implementing basis pursuit and basis pursuit with runner-up detection techniques.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sagar Dhakal, Alireza Bayesteh, Steve Hranilovic, Amin Mobasher, Thomas Aloysius Sexton
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Patent number: 8942308Abstract: A multi-level coding and iterative decoding scheme using sparse space codes as the inner-code and codes amenable to belief propagation decoding methods (such as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, turbo codes, and trellis codes) as the outer-code is proposed for MIMO communication channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sagar Dhakal, Thomas Aloysius Sexton, Alireza Bayesteh, Steve Hranilovic
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Patent number: 8744864Abstract: A method for generating a financial report indicative of estimated turbine maintenance costs is provided. The method includes receiving, at a database, turbine operational history data and turbine inspection data from a user for a pre-identified turbine, receiving, at the database, turbine replacement part costs, turbine part repair costs, and vendor service costs associated with the pre-identified turbine, inputting a pre-determined turbine operational forecast into the database, analyzing turbine maintenance information including at least one of turbine operational history data, turbine inspection data, replacement part costs, part repair costs, vendor service costs, and turbine operational forecast, and automatically generating a financial report including at least one schedule of turbine maintenance events and costs associated with each event based on the turbine maintenance information analysis.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Douglas Carl Bacon, David Anthony Faour, Thomas Aloysius Ruddy, Jeffrey Scott Hamilton, Mark Kurt Wilhelm Scherluebbe, Leigh-Ann Darden Heuser
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Patent number: 8693597Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. In one embodiment, the method for sampling signals comprises receiving, over a wireless channel, a user equipment transmission based on an S-sparse combination of a set of vectors; down converting and discretizing the received transmission to create a discretized signal; correlating the discretized signal with a set of sense waveforms to create a set of samples, wherein a total number of samples in the set is equal to a total number of sense waveforms in the set, wherein the set of sense waveforms does not match the set of vectors, and wherein the total number of sense waveforms in the set of sense waveforms is fewer than a total number of vectors in the set of vectors; and transmitting at least one sample of the set of samples to a remote central processor.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Thomas Aloysius Sexton, Christopher Andrew DeVries
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Patent number: 8644244Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. In one embodiment, the method for sampling signals comprises receiving, over a wireless channel, a user equipment transmission based on an S-sparse combination of a set of vectors; down converting and discretizing the received transmission to create a discretized signal; correlating the discretized signal with a set of sense waveforms to create a set of samples, wherein a total number of samples in the set is equal to a total number of sense waveforms in the set, wherein the set of sense waveforms does not match the set of vectors, and wherein the total number of sense waveforms in the set of sense waveforms is fewer than a total number of vectors in the set of vectors; and transmitting at least one sample of the set of samples to a remote central processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Thomas Aloysius Sexton, James Earl Womack
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Publication number: 20130230119Abstract: A multi-level coding and iterative decoding scheme using sparse space codes as the inner-code and codes amenable to belief propagation decoding methods (such as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, turbo codes, and trellis codes) as the outer-code is proposed for MIMO communication channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Sagar DHAKAL, Thomas Aloysius SEXTON, Alireza BAYESTEH, Steve HRANILOVIC
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Publication number: 20130217590Abstract: A method for determining a prognosis for survival for a patient with leukaemia is described. Also described is a method for monitoring the effectiveness of a course of treatment for a patient with leukaemia, and the use of such a method in a kit. A kit determining the level of RINF is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: BERGEN TEKNOLOGIOVERFORINGInventors: Frederic Pendino, Pierre De La Grange, Johan R. Lillehaug, Thomas Aloysius, Stian Knappskog
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Publication number: 20130070624Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. L User Equipments (mobile stations) transmit signals with sparsity S and their signals are compressively sensed to M samples by Z remote samplers (a distributed antenna arrangement) and the uplink channel is estimated by a central processor (the “central brain”). For a given system signal to noise ratio, retained samples M and sparsity S, we approximate the loss in sum mutual information due to imperfect knowledge of the channel. The approximation is premised on a lower bound of the mutual information which accounts for the power in the channel estimation error. Also, throughput results are given for adaptively adjusting the sparsity of multiple users' transmit signals based on channel fading.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Nam Nguyen, Thomas Aloysius Sexton
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Publication number: 20120021927Abstract: A method for determining a prognosis for survival for a patient with breast cancer is described. Also described is method for monitoring the effectiveness of a course of treatment for a patient with breast cancer, and the use of such a method in a kit. A kit determining the level of RINF is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Frederic Pendino, Johan R. Lillehaug, Thomas Aloysius, Stian Knappskog
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Publication number: 20100310011Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. In one embodiment, the method for sampling signals comprises receiving, over a wireless channel, a user equipment transmission based on an S-sparse combination of a set of vectors; down converting and discretizing the received transmission to create a discretized signal; correlating the discretized signal with a set of sense waveforms to create a set of samples, wherein a total number of samples in the set is equal to a total number of sense waveforms in the set, wherein the set of sense waveforms does not match the set of vectors, and wherein the total number of sense waveforms in the set of sense waveforms is fewer than a total number of vectors in the set of vectors; and transmitting at least one sample of the set of samples to a remote central processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LTD.Inventors: Thomas Aloysius Sexton, Christopher Andrew DeVries
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Publication number: 20100290395Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. In one embodiment, the method for sampling signals comprises receiving, over a wireless channel, a user equipment transmission based on an S-sparse combination of a set of vectors; down converting and discretizing the received transmission to create a discretized signal; correlating the discretized signal with a set of sense waveforms to create a set of samples, wherein a total number of samples in the set is equal to a total number of sense waveforms in the set, wherein the set of sense waveforms does not match the set of vectors, and wherein the total number of sense waveforms in the set of sense waveforms is fewer than a total number of vectors in the set of vectors; and transmitting at least one sample of the set of samples to a remote central processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LTDInventors: Thomas Aloysius Sexton, Sean Bartholomew Simmons, Paul James Lusina, James Earl Womack
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Publication number: 20100182950Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressive sampling are provided. In one embodiment, the method for sampling signals comprises receiving, over a wireless channel, a user equipment transmission based on an S-sparse combination of a set of vectors; down converting and discretizing the received transmission to create a discretized signal; correlating the discretized signal with a set of sense waveforms to create a set of samples, wherein a total number of samples in the set is equal to a total number of sense waveforms in the set, wherein the set of sense waveforms does not match the set of vectors, and wherein the total number of sense waveforms in the set of sense waveforms is fewer than a total number of vectors in the set of vectors; and transmitting at least one sample of the set of samples to a remote central processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Thomas Aloysius Sexton, James Earl Womack
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Patent number: 7285328Abstract: A composition of matter comprises particles each having a substrate being an oxide or other suitable compound of a metal other than titanium or of certain non-metal elements, and a coating on said substrate being a layer of titanium dioxide. A method of forming particles of titania-coated substrate, includes contacting a bed of hydrated particles of an oxide or other suitable compound of a metal other than titanium or of certain non-metal elements with a fluid medium containing flowing titanium tetrachloride, under conditions in which a layer comprising one or more involatile oxychloride or oxide compounds is formed at and below the surface of each of a multiplicity of the particles of the oxide or other suitable compound which thereby provides a substrate for the layer. The oxychloride or oxide compound or compounds are treated to convert the layer to a Titania coating on the particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Depco-TRH Pty LtdInventors: David Elwyn Price, Thomas Aloysius O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20030143421Abstract: A composition of matter comprises particles each having a substrate being an oxide or other suitable compound of a metal other than titanium or of certain non-metal elements, and a coating on said substrate being a layer of titanium dioxide. A method of forming particles of titania-coated substrate, includes contacting a bed of hydrated particles of an oxide or other suitable compound of a metal other than titanium or of certain non-metal elements with a fluid medium containing flowing titanium tetrachloride, under conditions in which a layer comprising one or more involatile oxychloride or oxide compounds is formed at and below the surface of each of a multiplicity of the particles of the oxide or other suitable compound which thereby provides a substrate for the layer. The oxychloride or oxide compound or compounds are treated to convert the layer to a titania coating on the particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: David Elwyn Price, Thomas Aloysius O'Donnell
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Patent number: 6044276Abstract: In a messaging system having a plurality of simulcasting base transmitters (104), a plurality of pseudorandom sequence generators (216) are provided (402) for the plurality of base transmitters. The plurality of pseudorandom sequence generators are arranged (403) to ensure that they generate a plurality of pseudorandom sequences having sub-sequences that are different from one another during concurrent transmissions by the plurality of base transmitters. A cancellation-affecting parameter of the plurality of base transmitters is adjusted (404, 406, 408) in accordance with the plurality of pseudorandom sequences during the simulcast transmission from the plurality of base transmitters to limit intervals of carrier cancellation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Steven Jeffrey Goldberg, Brian Joseph Budnik, Thomas Aloysius Sexton, Stephen Rocco Carsello
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Patent number: 5939035Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for reducing and/or removing inorganic matter from a material containing inorganic matter which comprises the steps of:(i) (a) treating the material with a source of hydrogen fluoride so as to form a first residue and a first solution containing inorganic matter;(b) separating the first residue from the first solution containing the inorganic matter;(c) treating the first residue with an acid so as to form a second residue and a second solution containing further inorganic matter; and(d) separating the second residue from the second solution containing the further inorganic matter; or(ii) (a) treating the material with an acid so as to form a first residue and a first solution containing inorganic matter;(b) separating the first residue from the first solution containing the inorganic matter;(c) treating the first residue with a source of hydrogen fluoride so as to form a second residue and a second solution containing further inorganic matter; and(d) separating theType: GrantFiled: June 4, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: The University of MelbourneInventors: John Besida, Teresa Kit-Hing Pong, Robert Jacques Adrien, Geoffrey Harold Covey, Thomas Aloysius O'Donnell, David George Wood