Patents Examined by Brandon J Becker
  • Patent number: 10954778
    Abstract: A method and system for location a collar. A method for locating a collar may comprise disposing a logging tool within a plurality of concentric pipes in a wellbore, measuring one or more wellbore parameters, creating a corrosion detection tool log from the measuring one or more wellbore parameters, processing the corrosion detection tool log to determine a location and a position of a plurality of collars on the concentric pipes, and adjusting the corrosion detection tool log to account for the location and position of the plurality of collars. A system for locating a collar may comprise a conveyance line, a logging tool, and an information handling system. The information handling system may be capable to measure one or more wellbore parameters, create a corrosion detection tool log from the measuring one or more wellbore parameters, and document the location and the position of the plurality of collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Emilio San Martin, Reza Khalaj Amineh
  • Patent number: 10948512
    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: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Philippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen, Brian Y. Lee, David Vogel
  • Patent number: 10948323
    Abstract: An electric measurement method and apparatus for detecting a mass by an electric capacity (permittivity) or a material's dielectric constant, or alternatively, electric inductance (permeability). The mass may be any phase or combination of phases. The mass may be stationary or flowing. It may comprise discrete particles such as grain, or manufactured products such as ball bearings or threaded fasteners, etc. The mass may be a flow element in a rotameter or similar flow measurement device. The sensor comprises a volume which may be completely full or only partially full of the material. The material may be discrete components or a continuum. Sensor signals may be received by existing planter monitoring systems. In some embodiments the flow sensors are positioned external to the application port. In some embodiments sensors may be utilized which are responsive to the refractive index variation of specific chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AMVAC CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Larry M. Conrad, Robert J. Weber
  • Patent number: 10936965
    Abstract: A method executable via operation of configured processing circuitry may include constructing a mutual information graph for categorical data with respect to observed attributes of a plurality of entities described in terms of respective ones of the observed attributes by the categorical data, determining a clique tree correlating attributes having at least a threshold level of mutual dependence among the observed attributes, and determining a normality rating for an entity relative to the plurality of entities based on the clique tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The John Hopkins University
    Inventor: Cetin Savkli
  • Patent number: 10928183
    Abstract: A system and a method for providing an indication about positioning unreliability are described. The system comprises a scanner for scanning a surface geometry of an object and accumulating 3D points for each frame using shape-based positioning; a pose estimator for estimating an estimated pose for the scanner using the 3D points; an unreliable pose detector for determining if the estimated pose has an underconstrained positioning and an indication generator for generating an indication that the unreliable pose estimation is detected. In one embodiment, a degree of freedom identifier identifies a problematic degree of freedom in the estimated pose. In one embodiment, a feature point detector detects a reobservable feature point and the pose estimator uses the feature point with the 3D points to estimate the estimated pose and the unreliable pose detector uses the feature point to identify the estimated pose as an unreliable pose estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Hebert, Alexandre Carette, Éric Saint-Pierre
  • Patent number: 10914859
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for evaluation of an earth formation intersected by a borehole using a logging tool. Methods include making EM measurements on a single logging run while drilling using an EM tool on a tool string in a substantially horizontally aligned section of the borehole at a plurality of borehole depths; estimating, at each of the plurality of borehole depths, a true resistivity of a volume of interest of the formation in which the tool sits in substantially real time while on the single logging run while drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Sheng Fang
  • Patent number: 10915097
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fault signal recovery system including a data processor configured to generate a signal subset U* by removing, from a signal set U for a plurality of tags, some tags including a fault signal, and a first learning signal subset X* by removing tags disposed at positions corresponding to the some tags from a learning signal set X containing only tags of normal signals, a modeling unit configured to generate feature information F extractable from the first learning signal subset X* and recovery information P on a plurality of recovery models usable for restoring the fault signal, and a recovery unit configured to estimate and recover normal signals for the some tags based on the signal subset U*, the first learning signal subset X*, the feature information F, the recovery information P on the plurality of recovery models, and similarity Z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jee Hun Park, Hyun Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 10914771
    Abstract: Conventional real-time spectrum analyzers have a degree of technical complexity in the hardware which increases disproportionately as the analysis bandwidth increases for Fourier transformations of the measured sampling values. When using high analysis bandwidths, a detailed resolution is not needed of each analyzed individual frequency on the time plane at the same time; instead, detection of the presence of short pulses can be important as well. For this application, mixing sampling values on the time plane using a variable auxiliary frequency allows the sampling rate to be reduced, in that the bandwidth is maintained but a compression is carried out on the time plane. A very high time resolution which far exceeds the capabilities of conventional real-time spectrum analyzers can additionally be achieved overall for the analysis bandwidth, the time resolution then being computationally assignable to the individual frequencies for signal forms, in particular pulses, which occur in practice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: AARONIA AG
    Inventor: Oliver Bartels
  • Patent number: 10900811
    Abstract: Provided is a displacement detection device which can uniquely determine displacement of a detection target from output values based on detection as well as make a displacement range of the detection target wider than a displacement range detectable by a sensor. A displacement detection device includes a magnet which is displaced in a displacement direction Ds, is rod-shaped and has a form in which a longitudinal direction and the displacement direction Ds form a predetermined angle ?, and a sensor IC which detects a magnetic flux density of a magnetic field formed by the magnet in an x direction and a z direction orthogonal to the displacement direction Ds and outputs a signal proportional to the magnetic field detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventor: Takumi Yoshiya
  • Patent number: 10890473
    Abstract: A method is provided comprising the steps of exciting a vibration mode of a flow tube (130, 130?), wherein first and second drivers (180L, 180R) are amplitude modulated out of phase from each other, and wherein a drive command provided to the first and second drivers (180L, 180R) comprises a sum of N+1 independent signals. The first and second drivers (180L, 180R) are excited with a plurality of off-resonance frequencies and the effective phase between a modal response and the drivers (180L, 180R) at each of the off-resonance frequencies is inferred. A left eigenvector phase estimate is generated for each of the off-resonance frequencies. A phase of a left eigenvector at a resonant drive frequency is estimated based on off-resonance frequency phase estimates. The method also comprises measuring the phase between a first pickoff (170L) and a second pickoff (170R) and determining a phase of a right eigenvector for the flow tube (130, 130?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Micro Motion, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Joseph Rensing
  • Patent number: 10872172
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for testing randomness of a digital value and processing the digital value. The digital value may include first bit sequences generated by a physically unclonable function (PUF). A grouping unit may generate a plurality of groups by segmenting the first bit sequence, and a processing unit may calculate a second bit sequence from the plurality of groups by performing a logical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: ICTK HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Kyue Kim, Byong Deok Choi
  • Patent number: 10852341
    Abstract: Systems and methods to combine line fault location probabilities. A first and second location probability distribution are received for a location of an line fault along an electrical line based upon at least electrical current measurements reported by a first electrical current monitor at a first location and at least a second electrical current measurements reported by a second electrical current monitor at a second location. The second electrical current measurements being made within a time interval of the first electrical current measurements. A composite location probability distribution is determined for the location of the line fault along the electrical line based on an algorithm processing the first location probability distribution and the second location probability distribution. The composite location probability distribution is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric D. Schwartz, Ronald A. Capute
  • Patent number: 10853893
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for automatically correlating geologic tops. The system receives well logs from different well bores and each of the picks is added to a priority queue ordered by each pick's quality measure. User selected picks are assigned the highest level of quality measure. The system performs correlation by selecting a window of well log data about a pick selected from the top of the priority queue and then finding the best optimal match with a corresponding window in a neighboring wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian W. Grant, Stefan Compton, Dean Witte
  • Patent number: 10837995
    Abstract: Systems and methods to combine line fault location probabilities. A first and second location probability distribution are received for a location of an line fault along an electrical line based upon at least electrical current measurements reported by a first electrical current monitor at a first location and at least a second electrical current measurements reported by a second electrical current monitor at a second location. The second electrical current measurements being made within a time interval of the first electrical current measurements. A composite location probability distribution is determined for the location of the line fault along the electrical line based on an algorithm processing the first location probability distribution and the second location probability distribution. The composite location probability distribution is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Florida Power & Light Company
    Inventors: David L. Herlong, II, Eric D. Schwartz, Ronald A. Capute, Alexandra J. Hayes, Michael A. Gonzalez, Prashant R. Kansakar, Carmen J. Seppy, Andres Gomez, Giovanni Herazo
  • Patent number: 10816527
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for tree preservation efforts by determining a critical root zone of a selected tree within an existing landscape including hardscape elements. The critical root zones can be determined based upon the diameter size of each tree being impacted. The system includes generating a landscape map including visually representing the calculated critical root zone including any root zone loss within the existing landscape. In addition, the disclosure provides a system for determining survivability of an impacted tree that takes into account a number of factors to ensure a survivability percentage of at least 70%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Tree Matrix, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Pitchford
  • Patent number: 10816386
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for selecting an appropriately sized meter for use in a selected application implemented by a computer processor implementing instructions stored in a non-transient memory is described. The instructions include receiving utility meter data transmitted from a plurality of utility meters, each utility meter being installed at a unique utility monitoring location, identifying incorrectly sized utility meters based on utility meter data for particular utility meters that displays quantization effects, and selecting an appropriate meter based on the identification of the utility meters displaying quantization effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Badger Meter, Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Malinowski, Richard Povinelli
  • Patent number: 10810068
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system for valve failure prediction includes a temperature engine to determine a temperature of a liquid exiting a cooling device, a flowrate engine to compare an actual flow rate of the liquid exiting the cooling device to a flow rate threshold, a prediction engine to determine when a valve of the cooling device is malfunctioning based on the comparison of the actual flow rate and the flow rate threshold, and a notification engine to notify a user when the valve of the cooling device is malfunctioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Tahir Cader, John Franz
  • Patent number: 10775212
    Abstract: A method of reducing a phase error of a flow rate measurement in an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed. The flow meter has a flow path for a fluid to be measured, a first ultrasonic transducer having a characteristic quantity and a second ultrasonic transducer having a second characteristic quantity. The method comprises repeatedly measuring the first and second characteristic quantities of the ultrasonic transducers and determining a relation between the characteristic quantities, estimating a phase error value indicative of the phase error from the determined relation between the characteristic quantities, and using the estimated phase error value for correcting a difference between transmission times measured by the ultrasonic flow meter. An output is provided indicative of the flow rate of the fluid in the flow path with reduced phase error from the corrected difference between transmission times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: APATOR MIITORS APS
    Inventor: Jens Drachmann
  • Patent number: 10768013
    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 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    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: 10761120
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for reducing the effects of magnetic field cross-coupling in a multi-conductor current sensor system. A current sensor system includes one or more current sensors, each positioned proximate to at least one conductor and spaced from at least one other conductor. Each conductor carries a current intended to be measured by a respective current sensor. The current sensors include one or more magnetic field sensing elements to generate a magnetic field signal indicative of a detected magnetic field. A characterization measurement is performed to determine the coupling between each current sensor and the respective current conductor and to determine the coupling between the current sensor and the other ones of the current conductors, by providing a reference current to each of the conductors and measuring the outputs at each of the current sensors. The characterization measurement can be used to generate a coupling matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Feucht, Shaun D. Milano