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Antoine Heron, Marlenheim FR
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20090286315 | PROCESS FOR PRESERVING INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS INTENDED TO BE TRANSPLANTED IN A PATIENT - Process for preserving insulin secreting cells intended to be transplanted, including the following steps: introducing an initial volume of culture medium and insulin-secreting cells into a culture container, providing a culture medium source, and replacing, at time intervals below 8 hours, the culture medium in the culture container with culture medium from the source so as to renew the culture medium contained in the container. | 11-19-2009 |
Arnold Heron, Whitby CA
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20110272910 | Independent Suspension Mechanism - There is disclosed an independent suspension unit for a vehicle which does not require an axle. The suspension unit includes a hanger for mounting to the vehicle's frame. A control arm is provided which has opposite first and second ends, the control arm being pivotally mounted to the hanger at a pivot point positioned between the first and second ends of the control arm. The suspension unit further includes a spindle arm mounted to the first end of the control arm, the spindle arm configured to mount to the wheel. The suspension unit also includes a jounce spring made of an elastomeric polymer material mounted between the control arm and the hanger at a first point on the control arm positioned between the pivot point and the first end. The suspension unit also includes a rebound spring made of an elastomeric polymer material mounted between the control arm and the hanger at a second point of the control arm adjacent the second end. The control arm and hanger are configured such that when the first end of the control arm pivots towards the frame of the vehicle the jounce spring is compressed and the rebound spring is relaxed. The control arm and the hanger are further configured such that when the first end of the control arm moves away from the frame the jounce spring is relaxed and the rebound spring is compressed. | 11-10-2011 |
Caroline Heron, Calgary CA
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20100096126 | LOW PRESSURE RECOVERY PROCESS FOR ACCELERATION OF IN-SITU BITUMEN RECOVERY - A method for recovery of hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir by operating adjacent injector producer well pairs under conditions of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) with a lateral drainage well between and substantially parallel to them; the lateral drainage well is operated under conditions of intermittent steam injection and alternating oil, water and gas production; NCG is co-injected with steam into both the injector wells and the lateral drainage well at selected intervals, and in selected quantities in order to control the steam saturation of the SAGD steam chamber and the rise of the steam chamber, and to encourage lateral fluid communication between the adjacent well pairs and the LD well; controlling gas injection and production in order to control the rise of the steam chamber to improve production of oil; operating the well pairs and the LD well under conditions of a steam chamber pressure that is initially and briefly high to establish a steam chamber, but thereafter may be reduced to as low as 200 kPa; operating this low pressure SAGD in reservoirs that are at low pressure, due to factors such as depleted gas caps, regional geology, lack of cap rock, thief zones, or other low pressure zone or loss zones. | 04-22-2010 |
Olivier Heron, Bullion FR
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20100293425 | PARAMETRIC SCAN REGISTER, DIGITAL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR TESTING A DIGITAL CIRCUIT USING SUCH REGISTER - The present invention relates to a parametric scan register and a method of testing a digital circuit with the aid of such a register. The parametric scan register includes a memory cell having at least one data input, able to receive a test datum, and transferring to its output a representative signal indicative of the test datum by use of a synchronization signal. It furthermore includes a parametric test block one input of which is linked to the output (s) of the cell, the output signal of the cell being transferred at the output of the parametric test block through an internal module, this internal module operating according to modes able to modify the output signal of the cell. Embodiments of the invention apply to the testing of integrated circuits with high integration density, for example in the field of nanotechnologies. | 11-18-2010 |
20130158892 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A RESOURCE FROM A PLURALITY OF PROCESSING RESOURCES SO THAT THE PROBABLE TIMES TO FAILURE OF THE RESOURCES EVOLVE IN A SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL MANNER - A method for selecting, from a plurality of processing resources capable in an information-processing system of carrying out one and the same type of process, one of the resources so that it carries out a process of said type, the method including estimating the probable time to failure for each of the resources, the resource being selected so that the probable times to failure of the resources evolve in a substantially identical manner. | 06-20-2013 |
Ronald Heron, Riguad Quebec CA
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20130121684 | Apparatus And Method For Providing Protection In A Passive Optical Network - An apparatus and method for cost-effectively providing protection in a PON. Protection ports, usually on a protection LT card, are configured to communicate with a selectable one of the downstream ODN splitter/combiners associated with the primary ports on the remaining LT cards of the OLT. Each protection port includes at least a splitter for distributing a transmitted signal from a light source to a plurality of switched protection fibers, and may have an optical amplifier to provide for lossless or low-loss distribution. Each port may also have a combiner for combining received signals from a plurality of switched protection fibers. When a failure is detected at a primary port, traffic is re-directed from the primary port to the protection port after the protection port has been configured to communicate with the same ODN splitter/combiner as the failed primary port. | 05-16-2013 |
Ronald Heron, Rigaud CA
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20130183035 | Enhanced PON And Splitter Module And Associated Method - A splitter module for a PON (passive optical network) and method of operating same. An IW (interfering wavelength) is selectively distributed and multiplexed with a downstream PON signal. The ONU (optical network unit) measures and reports performance characteristics such as BER (bit error rate). The performance reporting can be used to identify splitter ports associated with particular ONUs. | 07-18-2013 |
20130308937 | WDM PON WITH NON TUNABLE LEGACY ONUS - In one embodiment, a media access controller includes first and second optical line terminals with a receiver for adjacent first and second wavelength ranges, respectively, and an optical network unit with a transmitter having a transmitter wavelength which drifts between the first and the second wavelength range. The media access controller is configured to assign the optical network unit to the first and the second optical line terminals, such that an optical burst transmitted by the optical network unit is received by the first optical line terminal and the second optical line terminal. The media access controller is configured to determine first and second qualities of the optical burst received by the first and second optical line terminals, respectively, and to determine an estimate of the transmitter wavelength based on the first quality and the second quality. | 11-21-2013 |
Ronald Heron, Riguad CA
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20130259469 | Apparatus And Method For Testing Fibers In A PON - A manner of providing for testing of access fibers in a PON (passive optical network) using OTDR (optical time-domain reflectometry). According to the invention, a PON includes an optical splitter module having one or more optical couplers that combines downstream light from 1×N optical splitter directing the output of an OLT (optical line terminal) and a cyclic AWG (arrayed waveguide grating) for transmission toward one or more ONUs (optical network units). The splitter module is preferably formed on a single semiconductor chip, such as a PIC (photonic integrated circuit) chip and may reside in an outside plant of the PON. | 10-03-2013 |
Ronald Heron, Rigaud Quebec CA
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20140334811 | Apparatus And Method For Conserving Power In A Passive Optical Network - An apparatus and method for cost-effectively conserving power in a PON. Protection ports, usually on a protection LT card, are configured to communicate with a selectable one of the downstream ODN splitter/combiners associated with the primary ports on the remaining LT cards of the OLT. Each protection port includes at least a splitter for distributing a transmitted signal from a light source to a plurality of switched protection fibers, and may have an optical amplifier to provide for lossless or low-loss distribution. Each port may also have a combiner for combining received signals from a plurality of switched protection fibers. Traffic flow through the OLT is monitored and when it is determined that traffic flow has reached a threshold level, traffic is routed via a protection port instead of a primary port. If the traffic rerouted to a protection card, then the method may further include powering down the primary LT card or placing it in a mode having reduced power consumption. | 11-13-2014 |
Sarah Elizabeth Heron, South Australia AU
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20090081724 | Mutations in Ion Channels - A method of identifying a subject predisposed to a disorder associated with ion channel dysfunction, comprising ascertaining whether at least one of the genes encoding ion channel subunits in said subject has undergone a mutation event as set forth in one of SEQ ID Numbers: 1-72. | 03-26-2009 |
Sarah Elizabeth Heron, Highbury AU
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20100136623 | MUTATIONS IN ION CHANNELS - A method of identifying a subject predisposed to a disorder associated with ion channel dysfunction, comprising ascertaining whether at least one of the genes encoding ion channel subunits in said subject has undergone a mutation event such that a cDNA derived from said subject has the sequence set forth in one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-134. | 06-03-2010 |
20140304846 | GENE AND MUTATIONS THEREOF ASSOCIATED WITH SEIZURE AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS - The present invention relates to the proline rich transmembrane protein 2 (PRRT2) gene, and the identification of mutations and variations in PRRT2 that give rise to seizure and movement disorders. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods for the diagnosis or prognosis of such disorders by identifying alterations in the PRRT2 gene. Identification of alterations in the PRRT2 gene also enables the identification of subjects with an increased likelihood of having an offspring predisposed to such disorders. The present invention also provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising an alteration in the PRRT2 gene, wherein said alteration produces a seizure and/or movement disorder phenotype. Also provided is an isolated PRRT2 polypeptide that comprises an alteration which produces a seizure and/or movement disorder phenotype. Furthermore, the present invention provides kit for diagnosing or prognosing a seizure and/or movement disorder in a subject, or for identifying a subject with an increased likelihood of having an offspring predisposed to a seizure and/or movement disorder, wherein the kit includes one or more components for testing for the presence of an alteration in the PRRT2 gene in the subject. | 10-09-2014 |