Patents Examined by Brandon J Becker
  • Patent number: 11353335
    Abstract: One or more devices in a data analysis computing system may be configured to receive and analyze movement data, and determine driving trips associated driving data based on the received movement data. Movement data may be collected by one or more mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and the like. One or more driving trips may be identified based on the movement data collected by the mobile devices, including acceleration data, speed data, and rotation rate data. After identifying a driving trip, the previously collected movement data and/or additional driving data may be analyzed to determine additional driving trip data, such as the driver, vehicle, and/or additional driving factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier, Jeffrey Fitzgerald, Eric D. Huls, Joseph Kleinhenz, William Loo, Matthew James Manzella, Philip Peter Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11353487
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting capacitance of a filter capacitor of an inverter are provided, wherein each output terminal of the inverter is connected to one terminal of a first filter capacitor through an inductor, and the other terminals of all first filter capacitors are interconnected. The method includes: outputting a first voltage {dot over (U)}1i through an ith output terminal of the inverter, i=1, 2 . . . N, i?j, 1?j?N, i and j are positive integers, and N is a total quantity of output terminals of the inverter; obtaining ?ik and determining a ratio of |?ij| to |?ik|, where ?ik is a current of an inductor connected to a kth output terminal when the ith output terminal outputs the first voltage {dot over (U)}1i, k=1, 2 . . . N, and k is a positive integer; and determining capacitance of a first filter capacitor connected to the jth output terminal based on ?ij, {dot over (U)}1i, and the ratio of |?ij| to |?ik|.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Yin, Zhiwu Xu, Yuandong Meng
  • Patent number: 11327106
    Abstract: A system for detecting a fault in a polyphase electrical network, characterized by the fact that it comprises a plurality of sensors distributed over the electrical network and suitable for measuring a parameter representative of the positive sequence voltage and/or the negative sequence voltage at each respective sensor and analyzing means suitable for analyzing the signals coming from the different sensors representative of the positive sequence voltage and/or the negative sequence voltage at each respective sensor, by searching for an extremum from among the signals coming from the sensors and for locating a fault at the sensor corresponding to this extremum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Boris Deneuville
  • Patent number: 11327120
    Abstract: A method for determining a State of Health (SoH) of a power source of a portable device involves extracting a start voltage value of an examined power source; activating one or more hardware components of the portable device by a software, to increase the current consumption of the device, identifying a voltage drop rate of the examined power source and comparing a calculated voltage drop rate to pre-calculated threshold values stored on a database of a main server. A system for executing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ESW Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Gross
  • Patent number: 11294042
    Abstract: Embodiments of present disclosure relates to method and system to accurate detection of partial visual fault in lidar sensor of moving vehicle. Initially, first line cluster data for static objects present within first predefined view of Lidar sensor is determined. Static objects are tracked until viewing angle of Lidar sensor for corresponding static object is 90°. The tracking is performed based on second line cluster data corresponding to first line cluster data for static objects present within second predefined view of Lidar sensor. During tracking, non-observation of second line cluster data corresponding to first line cluster data, for one or more static objects is detected. Angle of non-observation is determined for one or more static objects upon detection. Presence of partial visual fault for Lidar sensor is detected based on angle of non-observation, for notifying navigation system associated with moving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Balaji Sunil Kumar, Manas Sarkar
  • Patent number: 11249104
    Abstract: An electronic device monitors accelerations using a motion sensor. The electronic device determines a current motion state based on the accelerations. The electronic device identifies a plurality of applications that subscribe to a motion state identification service and notifies a subset of the applications of the current motion state, the subset meeting notification criteria associated with the current motion state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Philippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen, Brian Y. Lee, David Vogel
  • Patent number: 11249139
    Abstract: When a battery voltage of a battery cell is high, it takes time for a detected voltage to drop to a fixed threshold. Therefore, an ON control of a switch element takes long time to detect a disconnection state reliably. A battery monitoring system includes: a monitoring circuit corresponding to an assembled battery having a plurality of battery cells and which monitors states of the battery cells; voltage detection lines which are provided corresponding to the battery cells and which connect the battery cells with the monitoring circuit; and switch elements which are provided between the voltage detection lines and which adjust voltages of the battery cells, the battery monitoring system compares battery voltages of the adjacent battery cells with a varying threshold determined based on a voltage just before checking a disconnection state and detects disconnection states of the voltage detection lines according to the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Enmei, Akihiro Machida, Tatsumi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11243109
    Abstract: An ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, including a switching unit for switching electrical transmission signals between a signal generator and at least two ultrasonic transducers and for switching electrical reception signal between the transducers and a receiver circuit, wherein the switching unit is coupled to an output terminal of an operational amplifier of the signal generator and to an inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier of the receiver circuit. Furthermore, a method for characterizing an ultrasonic transducer is disclosed, including the step of determining directly from one or more supply current signals for an active component of a signal generator one or more quantities useful for characterizing the transducer. Furthermore, a method for determining the time delay of an ultrasonic signal in a flow path of an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, including the step of comparing physically transmitted, delayed and received signals with simulated non-delayed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apator Miitors ApS
    Inventor: Jens Drachmann
  • Patent number: 11243129
    Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one sensor configured to collect sensing data, a memory configured to store the sensing data, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire first sensing data through the at least one sensor and determine a falling pattern of the electronic device based on the first sensing data, acquire second sensing data through the at least one sensor and determine a collision pattern according to falling of the electronic device based on the second sensing data, determine the type of object with which the electronic device collides based on the falling pattern and the collision pattern, and perform a preset function based on the type of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Shin, Jungsik Park
  • Patent number: 11231305
    Abstract: A flow sensor apparatus for monitoring a directed stream of an agricultural product from an application port of a supply tube. The directed stream has a target directed portion and an off-target portion. A sensor housing includes a conical flow receiving element and a sensor body. The receiving element has an inlet orifice at a first end and a receiving element outlet at a second end. The first end is smaller than the second end. The sensor body has a sensor inlet end positioned to receive a target directed portion of the directed stream from the receiving element outlet of the conical flow receiving element wherein an off-target portion of the directed stream is not sensed. The sensor housing and sensor element are positioned external to the application port and thus positioned to provide measurement, targeting, and timing of the agricultural product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: AMVAC CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Larry M. Conrad, Richard L. Rice
  • Patent number: 11231306
    Abstract: An ultrasound flow measurement apparatus (10) for determining the flow rate of a fluid flowing in a line (12) is provided having at least one measurement path (18) at which a first ultrasonic transducer (16a) and a second ultrasonic transducer (16b) are arranged opposite one another with the flowing fluid between them, and having an evaluation unit that is configured to calculate the flow rate from a time of flight difference of ultrasonic pulses along the measurement path (18) in the direction with the flow (14) and against the flow (14). The ultrasonic transducers (16a-b) here are positioned such that a specific part pulse is isolated in time in a received signal of the respective receiving ultrasonic transducer (16a-b), with the part pulse corresponding to a direct sound, a reflected sound, an axially broken fluid sound, or an azimuthally broken fluid sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SICK ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Nerowski, Henri Kirmse, Martin Oberländer
  • Patent number: 11199429
    Abstract: A method for measuring a speed of a fluid includes transmitting an ultrasonic measurement signal; acquiring and digitizing a measurement portion of an ultrasonic measurement signal received after traveling a defined length to obtain measurement samples; estimate, from the samples, an amplitude of the measurement portion; access reference samples forming a reference curve which is an interpolation of the measurement samples; produce adjusted measurement samples by multiplying the samples by ratio between an amplitude of the reference curve and the amplitude of the measurement portion; determine a unit time delay between the adjusted measurement sample and the reference curve; estimate a zero-crossing time of the measurement portion from the unit time delay and from the reference samples, estimate, from an average of the zero-crossing times, the time it takes the ultrasonic measurement signal to travel the defined length; estimate the speed of the fluid from the travel time measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS
    Inventor: Henri Teboulle
  • Patent number: 11199566
    Abstract: Non-fault disturbance-based method and system for measuring short-circuit capacity of a power grid on site including: connecting or disconnecting a reactive compensation device to or from a power grid point of common coupling, to generate a disturbance on a power grid; obtaining total active power and total reactive power of a load of the point of common coupling before the disturbance; determining a vector difference between a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance and a voltage of the power grid point of common coupling after the disturbance; obtaining a voltage effective value of the power grid point of common coupling before the disturbance; obtaining a capacity of the reactive compensation device; and determining a short-circuit capacity of the point of common coupling according to total active power, total reactive power, vector difference between voltages, voltage effective value, and capacity of the reactive compensation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Power Grid Planning Research Institute of Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pu Deng, Zhenghang Hao, Zhenming Liu, Yi Xue, Guangmei Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Qingming Zhao, Xueyong Tang, Qingsheng Li, Yu Zhang, Sha Zhang, Xianggang He, Jian Wang, Sibin Lu, Ke Yang
  • Patent number: 11175342
    Abstract: In order to determine a monitoring circuit having a leak current equal to or more than a predetermined reference, the monitoring device 20 includes the determination unit 13 that determines whether a leak current of a specific monitoring circuit 11, among a plurality of monitoring circuits 11 that are driven using electric power stored in two or more battery units 10 associated as a monitoring target, is equal to or more than a first reference using: a comparison result of comparison between a proportion of the specific monitoring circuit 11 being associated with a low-voltage battery unit having the lowest voltage value among the plurality of battery units 10 and a predetermined threshold value; and information indicating whether or not the number of low-voltage battery units associated with the specific monitoring circuit 11 is 2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagano, Masataka Atsuki
  • Patent number: 11164806
    Abstract: A system may include determination of a spatial power map associated with an integrated circuit based on an architecture of the circuit, generation of a spatial thermal map associated with the integrated circuit based on the spatial power map, and determination of a spatial leakage power map based on the spatial thermal map. In some aspects, a system includes determination of a temperature of an integrated circuit, comparison of the temperature with a thermal divergence temperature, determination that the temperature of the integrated circuit is primarily due to leakage power, and disabling of power to the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhananjay Adhikari, Zhong-Ning George Cai, Jacob Schneider
  • Patent number: 11112860
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for determining the orientation of an object relative to a platform likely to be exposed to buffeting. The object may be a helmet worn by a pilot in which orientation of the helmet relative the aircraft while in flight may usefully be known, in particular when determining the position of space-stabilised symbols being displayed in an associated helmet-mounted digital display system. According to the method, not only may orientation of an object may be predicted at some time ahead of a time point of validity of source sensor data, but the prediction may be dynamically configured to according to a detected severity of buffeting to reduce the effects of the buffeting upon the quality of data output by the system. The method includes measuring the severity of any buffeting using the same source data as used to determine orientation of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Simon Trythall, John Richard Williams, Peter Michael Knight
  • Patent number: 11079224
    Abstract: In this azimuth angle sensor, original magnetic detection data is sequentially acquired as data points in a triaxial coordinate system by detecting magnetism on three axes. An offset derivation device provided to the azimuth angle sensor derives offset values for correcting the original magnetic detection data and generating corrected magnetic detection data. The offset derivation device uses a plurality of data points in the original magnetic detection data or in the corrected magnetic detection data to derive provisional offset values, then derives the magnitude of magnetism on such an occasion on the basis of the original magnetic detection data and the provisional offset values. When the magnitude of magnetism thus derived is within a predetermined correction success range, the offset values are updated using the provisional offset values. When the magnitude of magnetism thus derived is not within the predetermined correction success range, the offset values are not updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Masafumi Seike, Hideki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11058496
    Abstract: A method, including calculating locations of first sensors attached to a probe that has been inserted into a human patient, and calculating positions of second sensors attached to a sheath via which the probe is inserted. The method also includes calculating respective shapes of the probe and the sheath, to achieve a best fit to the calculated probe sensor locations and sheath sensor positions, while restricting the probe to pass through the sheath. The calculated respective shapes of the probe and the sheath are used to present an image of the sheath aligned with the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Shmuel Cohen, Lior Zar, Assaf Pressman, Konstantin Feldman, Daniel Osadchy, Oshrat Ben Zaken, Shiran Eliyahu, Meir Bar-Tal
  • Patent number: 11015946
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing remotely captured sensor data. A computing platform having at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory may receive, via the communication interface, from a user computing device, sensor data captured by the user computing device using one or more sensors built into the user computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may analyze the sensor data received from the user computing device by executing one or more data processing modules. Then, the computing platform may generate trip record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the trip record data in a trip record database. In addition, the computing platform may generate user record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the user record data in a user record database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Pratheek M. Harish, Benjamin Robertson Yeomans, Alexander Herrmann, Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Olivia Mahler-Haug, Dipti Karmarkar
  • Patent number: 10996360
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of correcting recorded seismic data where each receiver clock is potentially inaccurate. Since the seismic wave field is not random, and contains coherent events that are recorded by all receivers in a local area, it is possible to estimate the differences in the time reference by comparing the recordings of different receivers in a local area. With no external time reference, time signal, or pilot trace, an entire seismic data itself can be used to determine how each receiver's clock is drifting from true time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: John Theodore Etgen