Patents Examined by Christopher P McAndrew
  • Patent number: 11860207
    Abstract: In an example, a method includes receiving an indication of an electrical parameter associated with at least part of a computing device. The method further includes determining whether or not the indication is indicative of an expected electric field distribution associated with a specified hardware configuration for the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: David Plaquin, Carey Huscroft
  • Patent number: 11860245
    Abstract: A magnetic detection device that comprises an amplification circuit amplifying a detection signal from a magnetic sensor that is positioned, for example, in a location where an alternating current magnetic field enters as noise, and detects an alternating current magnetic field targeted for monitoring, said magnetic detection device further comprising: timer circuits that are activated in response to a change in the output of the amplification circuit, and if these clock a prescribed time, the outputs thereof change; a logic circuit that treats the outputs of the timer circuits as inputs; and an oscillation circuit for generating an operation clock signal for the timer circuits. The timer circuits are structured such that if the output of the amplification circuit changes to a different direction before the clocking of the prescribed time is complete, the timer circuits are reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11863137
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for which a chopper modulator and a chopper demodulator of a chopped apparatus having a variable chopper frequency are described. A feedback path is used to reduce ripples and/or remaining offsets as a result of the variable chopper frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Mario Motz, Umberto Aracri
  • Patent number: 11852472
    Abstract: An eddy current sensor assembly includes an eddy current sensor and an output signal processing circuit that processes an output signal from the eddy current sensor. The output signal processing circuit includes a mixer circuit that accepts the output signal and a signal of the predetermined frequency as input, multiplies the two signals received as input, and outputs an output signal obtained by the multiplication, and a low-pass filter that accepts the output signal output by the mixer circuit as input, cuts a high-frequency signal included in the output signal received as input, and outputs at least a direct-current (DC) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Yamada, Taro Takahashi, Hiroaki Shibue, Atsushi Abe, Shinpei Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11852665
    Abstract: A pulsed high frequency monitor of the present invention monitors the power level of a pulsed high frequency on the basis of a transition pattern in which the power level changes in time series instead of monitoring the power level by comparing the power level of the pulsed high frequency with a threshold value. The pulsed high frequency monitor comprises: a DC circuit that converts the pulsed high frequency into DC and outputs the power level; a power level change detection circuit that detects a level change of the power level; and a transition pattern determination circuit that determines a time-series transition pattern of the power level on the basis of the level change detected by the power level change detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KYOSAN ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kojima, Ryota Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11852696
    Abstract: Magnetic sensor assembly (1) having a magnetic sensor (2) with a main sensor surface (2a) and four side surfaces (2b), and a lead frame (3) having a main lead frame surface (3a). The magnetic sensor (2) is positioned onto the lead frame (3) with one of the four side surfaces (2b), and the main sensor surface (2a) is oriented perpendicular to the main lead frame surface (3a). The magnetic sensor (2) has a first plurality of contact pads (4), the lead frame (3) a second plurality of external bond pads (5). The first plurality of contact pads (4) are connected to a subgroup of the second plurality of external bond pads (5) by a conductive glue (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sencio B.V.
    Inventor: Ignatius Josephus Van Dommelen
  • Patent number: 11852694
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to circuitry for detecting connection of a plug of an audio accessory device to a socket of an intermediate cable that is connected to a host device, wherein the plug of the accessory device is of a different type than the socket of the intermediate cable. The circuitry comprises a monitoring unit comprising a first terminal configured to be electrically connected to a first socket contact of the socket that is in electrical contact with a first plug contact of the plug when the plug is fully received in the socket; and a second terminal configured to be electrically connected to a second socket contact of the socket that is in electrical contact with a second plug contact of the plug when the plug is fully received in the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Breslin, John B. Bowlerwell, Clive R. Graham
  • Patent number: 11841245
    Abstract: A measurement system, its assembly and use are disclose. The system may include an instrument for making sensor measurements. The instrument has a substantially cylindrical housing. The shape and size allow the instrument to easily fit in an average hand enabling handheld operation. The housing houses a board stack of electronic boards. These electronics drive an electrical signal in at least one drive channel and measure responses from at least two sensing channels. These responses are provided to a processor for analysis. The instrument has a sensor connector that enables simultaneous electrical and mechanical attachment of an end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: JENTEK Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil J Goldfine, Todd M Dunford, Scott A Denenberg, Kevin P Dixon, Yanko K Sheiretov, Saber Bahranifard, Stuart D Chaplan, Mark Windoloski
  • Patent number: 11841404
    Abstract: An atomic magnetometer, and a method for using same is disclosed. The method for measuring an ambient magnetic field uses an atomic magnetometer that has a probe light beam with a probe axis that probes a polarization vector of an atomic population confined within a vapor cell. The method employs one or more measurement cycles. In each measurement cycle, the polarization vector is prepared in an initial state via an optical pumping pulse. The vapor cell is then subjected to the ambient magnetic field, which results in rotation of the polarization vector by Larmor precession. Within the measurement cycle, at a point in time after the polarization vector has been prepared in the initial state, the ambient magnetic field rotates the direction of the polarization vector, and at least one measurement is made of a projection of the Larmor-rotated polarization vector onto the probe axis during or after application of a magnetic waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Schwindt, Joonas Aleksanteri Iivanainen, Tony Ray Carter, Amir Borna
  • Patent number: 11841413
    Abstract: The present application provides a system and method for using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system. The method includes performing a pulse sequence using the NMR system that spatially encodes NMR signal evolutions to be acquired from a subject using an aggregated radio-frequency (B1) field incoherence and resolving the NMR signal evolutions acquired from the subject using at least one of a dictionary of known magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) signal evolutions to determine matches in the NMR signal evolutions to the known MRF signal evolutions or an optimization process. The method also includes generating at least two spatially-resolved measurements indicating quantitative tissue parameters of the subject in at least two locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Case Western Reserve University, Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Mark A. Griswold, William A. Grissom
  • Patent number: 11835570
    Abstract: A transmission line monitoring system and central processing facility are used to determine the geometry, such as a height, of one or more conductors of a power transmission line and real-time monitoring of other properties of the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LineVision, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Douglas Pinney, Thomas Anderson McChesney, Elliott J. Gould
  • Patent number: 11836290
    Abstract: A system may include at least one resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and a control circuit configured to maintain timing parameters for operation of the at least one resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and vary at least one of the timing parameters to control a spectrum associated with the at least one resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, wherein the spectrum comprises one of a sensor activity spectrum of the at least one resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and a current usage spectrum associated with electrical current delivered to the at least one resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor from a source of electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Kost, Bruce E. Duewer, Tejasvi Das, Matthew Beardsworth, Anthony S. Doy
  • Patent number: 11835556
    Abstract: An electric meter includes a housing, a first set of connection paths, and a second set of connection paths. The first set of connection paths couple to a meter socket and are electrically coupled to a first electrical connection path between first phases of an electric distribution power source, a distributed energy resource device, and a load. First electrical metrology components of the first electrical connection path are positioned within a first segment of the housing. The second set of connection paths couple to a meter socket and are electrically coupled to a second electrical connection path between second phases of the electric distribution power source, the distributed energy resource device, and the load. Second electrical metrology components of the second electrical connection path are positioned within a second segment of the housing that is non-overlapping with the first segment of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Tanwani, Bahadur Singh Rathore, Matt Karlgaard
  • Patent number: 11835598
    Abstract: A magnetic field measurement cable (10) of the present disclosure includes an electric cable (1) provided at an axial part, and an outer circumferential cable (2) provided on the outer side of the electric cable (1) and helically formed by a plurality of steel wires helically wound and a magnetic field measurement optical cable (3) having an optical fiber cable (3a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD
    Inventors: Kinzo Kishida, Ahmad Riza Ghazali, Mohamad Faizal bin Abd Rahim
  • Patent number: 11835564
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a waveguide including a sequence of variable transparency segments, wherein each variable transparency segment of the sequence of variable transparency segments is configured to vary its transparency by the electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) effect and further vary its transparency in response to an incident electromagnetic field; and a plurality of separator segments interspersed within the sequence of variable transparency segments so that each variable transparency segment: has a first separation distance from a first other variable transparency segment being a first predetermined number of variable transparency segments preceding or succeeding in the sequence of variable transparency segments, has a second separation distance from a second other variable transparency segment being a second predetermined number of variable transparency segments preceding or succeeding in the sequence of variable transparency segments, and is uniquely identified by a combination of separ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Fraser Burton, Tim Whitley, Marcus Paterson, Liam Bussey
  • Patent number: 11835483
    Abstract: A magnetic flaw detection method includes a magnetization step (S2) of moving a magnet (21) in a predetermined direction (D) along a surface of an object (7) that is a magnetic body and subsequently removing the magnet (21) from the surface of the object (7) to magnetize a region (R) corresponding to a movement range of the magnet (21) on the object (7), a sensor arrangement step (S3) of arranging a magnetic sensor (35a) to be capable of measuring magnetic flux leakage (8) generated from an abnormal portion (72) of the region (R) that was magnetized in the object (7), and a detection step (S4) of detecting an abnormality in the region (R) with the magnetic sensor (35a) arranged by the sensor arrangement step (S3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Mito, Kazunori Miyazawa, Fumitake Terao, Shoma Takeda, Shoichi Shiosaki
  • Patent number: 11821963
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor 1 includes: a non-magnetic substrate 10; and a sensitive element 30 disposed on the substrate 10. The sensitive element 30 has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and has a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. The sensitive element 30 is configured to sense a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect. The sensitive element 30 includes a soft magnetic material layer 101 made of an amorphous alloy based on Co and having a saturation magnetization of greater than or equal to 300 emu/cc and less than or equal to 650 emu/cc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Daizo Endo, Akira Sakawaki
  • Patent number: 11821962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device (10) and an arrangement (1) for monitoring alternating current electric apparatuses (3), like e.g. power distribution transformers. The inventive method relies on an inductor antenna (11, 11?) suitable to detect the electromagnetic field at the frequency of the alternating current the apparatus (3) to be monitored is supplied with arranged in the vicinity of but distant to the apparatus (3) to be monitored and comprises the steps: —Detecting the electromagnetic field radiated by the electric apparatus (3) to be monitored; —Digitizing the detected electromagnetic field to obtain EMF-data; —Running a Fast-Fourier-Transformation on the digitized EMF-data to obtain FFT-transformed data; and —Monitoring the magnitudes of the FFT-transformed data at least at the frequency of the alternating current the apparatus (3) to be monitored is supplied with and its third harmonic for anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: E.ON SE
    Inventors: Nicholas Ord, Florian Fecher, Maria Garbuzova-Schlifter, Laura Antonia Färber, Eugenio Scionti
  • Patent number: 11821868
    Abstract: A method for detecting and analyzing olefins in petroleum by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry can include obtaining a hydrocarbon sample comprising at least about 90 wt % of saturate compounds; producing a solution comprising the hydrocarbon sample and a metal salt, the metal salt comprising a metal ion; forming olefin-metal ion complexes by electrospray ionization; and detecting the olefin-metal ion complexes using mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ashley M. Wittrig, Kuangnan Qian, Thomas R. Fredriksen
  • Patent number: 11815538
    Abstract: A sensor receiver may include a Rydberg cell configured to be exposed to a radio frequency (RF) signal, and a probe source configured to generate a plurality of spaced apart pulsed probe beams within the Rydberg cell. The pulsed probe beams may be offset in time from one another. A plurality of excitation sources may be coupled to the Rydberg cell. A detector may be positioned downstream from the Rydberg cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Victor G. Bucklew, Jerrod Langston, James Drakes, Samuel H. Knarr