Patents Examined by David A Hopkins
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Patent number: 11002593Abstract: The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for calculating the diffusivity constant of a sample using acoustic time-of-flight (TOF) based information correlated with a diffusion model to reconstruct a sample's diffusivity coefficient. Operations disclosed herein such as acoustically determining the phase differential accumulated through passive fluid exchange (i.e. diffusion) based on the geometry of the tissue sample, modeling the impact of the diffusion on the TOF, and using a post-processing algorithm to correlate the results to determine the diffusivity constant, are enabled by monitoring the changes in the speed of sound caused by penetration of fixative such as formalin into several tissue samples. A tissue preparation system may be adapted to monitor said diffusion of a tissue sample and determine an optimal processing workflow.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Michael Otter, Benjamin Stevens
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Patent number: 10962668Abstract: A method of reducing surface-scattered noise includes receiving seismic data associated with a marine region, where the marine region includes an ocean bottom, a first zone including water above the ocean bottom, and a second zone including earth subsurface layers below the ocean bottom, and the received seismic data includes signals reflected from the earth subsurface layers and surface-scattered noise reflected from the ocean bottom and an ocean surface; determining a water velocity for the first zone; determining bathymetric values of the ocean bottom; based on the determined water velocity and the bathymetric values, determining a velocity model for the marine region; based on the determined velocity model and wavelet functions of seismic source signals, calculating the surface-scattered noise by solving a wave equation; and determining the signals reflected from the earth subsurface layers by subtracting the calculated surface-scattered noise from the received seismic data.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hongwei Liu, Yi Luo, Vincent Etienne
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Patent number: 10954757Abstract: An illustrative domain-adaptive hydraulic fracturing simulator includes: a data acquisition module, a simulator module, and a visualization module. The data acquisition module acquires measurements of a subterranean formation undergoing a hydraulic fracturing operation. The simulator module provides a series of states for a model of the subterranean formation by: (a) constructing said model from the measurements, the model representing said current state throughout a modeled domain; (b) determining a core domain of influence within the modeled domain by identifying active fractures; (c) generating a linear set of equations to derive the subsequent state from the current state, the linear set of equations including fluid flow equations for the core domain of influence and excluding fluid flow equations for a region of the modeled domain outside the core domain of influence; and (d) deriving the subsequent state from the linear set of equations. The visualization module displays the series of states.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dinesh Ananda Shetty, Avi Lin
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Patent number: 10929573Abstract: Systems, computer readable media, and method concern receiving a processing request associated with a design or modeling of a product. The method also includes initiating one or more processes in a cloud for the processing request. Resources of the cloud are allocated based at least partially on requirements of the processing request and launch specifications. Further, the method includes establishing a channel between the one or more processes and a product design computer based at least partially on process specification. The product design computer is located remotely from the cloud, and the channel translates data between the one or more processes and the product design computer. The method also include outputting a result of the one or more processes to a requester associated with the process request.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Narasimha Murthy Kanuparthy, Bruce Lydell Nelson, John Merrill Higginson, Erich Gunther Schuller, Earl Manlangit, Shane T. Peterson
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Patent number: 10929577Abstract: Techniques for autonomously modeling a two-phase cooling architecture are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a reduced physics model based on a profile of a heat source and a parameter of a cooling structure. The reduced physics model can provide an output. Also, the computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by the system, a full physics model based on the output. The computer-implemented method can further comprise combining, by the system, the reduced physics model and the full physics model to define an architecture that achieves a flow distribution of a coolant.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy Joseph Chainer, Pritish Ranjan Parida
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Patent number: 10915674Abstract: Techniques for autonomously modeling a two-phase cooling architecture are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a reduced physics model based on a profile of a heat source and a parameter of a cooling structure. The reduced physics model can provide an output. Also, the computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by the system, a full physics model based on the output. The computer-implemented method can further comprise combining, by the system, the reduced physics model and the full physics model to define an architecture that achieves a flow distribution of a coolant.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy Joseph Chainer, Pritish Ranjan Parida
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Patent number: 10855561Abstract: In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes one or more of the following features including creating service request outcome models each being based on a service request outcome. A service request entered using natural language can be received and tokenized. A binary matrix can be created from the tokenized service request, and a service request outcome model can be identified based on the binary matrix. The service request outcome model can be used to identify a service request category, a service request predicted resolution, and a service request diagnostic. A confidence value can be calculated based on the service request predicted resolution. The service request category, the service request predicted resolution, and the service request diagnostic can be transmitted to an automated service request resolution system to resolve the service request.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Michael Monahan, Matthew Lee Maddox
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Patent number: 10803995Abstract: A method and system for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis is disclosed. A patient-specific real anatomical model of a diseased coronary artery of a patient is generated from medical image data of the patient. A hypothetical normal anatomical model is generated for the diseased coronary artery of the patient. Blood flow is simulated in each of the patient-specific real anatomical model of the diseased coronary and the hypothetical normal anatomical model for the diseased coronary artery. A hemodynamic index is calculated using simulated blood flow rates in the patient-specific real anatomical model of the diseased coronary and the hypothetical normal anatomical model for the diseased coronary artery.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: Puneet Sharma, Lucian Mihai Itu
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Patent number: 10796353Abstract: An order processing device acquires an order request of a mounting member that is attached to mounting device and that handles a component, and component related information including information related to a component of a specific shape to be handled by the mounting member or information of a component related member that relates to a member that stores the component. Next, the order processing device outputs design data of the mounting member designed based on the acquired component related information to a customer PC of a requester. Designing of the mounting member is performed on the side of the supplier of mounting device and the design data is delivered to the requester, and the mounting member is manufactured on the requester side based on the design data using technology possessed by the requester.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Iwaki, Shinsuke Suhara
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Patent number: 10789395Abstract: A simulation device capable of executing a proper simulation without changing a program, while the definition of virtual peripheral equipment and/or a PLC is not necessary. A signal status setting file, which is separated from a robot program, can be executed in parallel with the program, and includes a command for setting or changing a signal status described corresponding to a line in execution of the program, wherein the status is referenced by executing the line of the program. For example, a command of the file, described corresponding to a fifth line of the robot program, commands inputting a signal which indicates that the opening motion of a door is completed. Therefore, when the simulation is executed, in synchronization with the line in execution of the program, the setting or changing of the signal status, described corresponding to the line in execution, is performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Kozo Inoue
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Patent number: 10776540Abstract: A computing system is described herein, where the computing system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the following acts: 1) receiving a computer-implemented definition of an enclosed geometric domain, wherein the geometric domain is three-dimensional; 2) determining locations of seeds for the enclosed geometric domain; 3) decomposing the enclosed geometric domain into a conforming Voronoi mesh based on the locations of the seeds, wherein the conforming Voronoi mesh comprises Voronoi cells, and further wherein the conforming Voronoi mesh is bounded by the enclosed domain; and 4) performing a numerical simulation to generate simulation results, wherein the numerical simulation is based on at least one Voronoi cell in the Voronoi cells of the conforming Voronoi mesh.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Mohamed Salah Ebeida
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Patent number: 10776537Abstract: A computing system is described herein, where the computing system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the following acts: 1) receiving a computer-implemented definition of an enclosed geometric domain, wherein the geometric domain is two-dimensional; 2) determining locations of seeds for the enclosed geometric domain; 3) decomposing the enclosed geometric domain into a conforming Voronoi mesh based on the locations of the seeds, wherein the conforming Voronoi mesh comprises Voronoi cells, and further wherein the conforming Voronoi mesh is bounded by the enclosed domain; and 4) performing a numerical simulation to generate simulation results, wherein the numerical simulation is based on at least one Voronoi cell in the Voronoi cells of the conforming Voronoi mesh.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Mohamed Salah Ebeida
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Patent number: 10635088Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where three dimensional (3D) models of the physical structures are produced to include lattices and hollows, include: obtaining design criteria for an object; iteratively modifying 3D topology and shape(s) for the object using a generative design process that represents the 3D topology as one or more boundaries between solid(s) and void(s), in combination with physical simulation(s) with a hollow structure and a lattice representation; adjusting a thickness of the hollow structure; adjusting lattice thickness or density; and providing a 3D model of the generative design for the object for use in manufacturing a physical structure corresponding to the object using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Karl Darcy Daniel Willis, Andrew John Harris, Andriy Banadyga, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Hooman Shayani
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Patent number: 10620037Abstract: The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for calculating the diffusivity constant of a sample using acoustic time-of-flight (TOF) based information correlated with a diffusion model to reconstruct a sample's diffusivity coefficient. Operations disclosed herein such as acoustically determining the phase differential accumulated through passive fluid exchange (i.e. diffusion) based on the geometry of the tissue sample, modeling the impact of the diffusion on the TOF, and using a post-processing algorithm to correlate the results to determine the diffusivity constant, are enabled by monitoring the changes in the speed of sound caused by penetration of fixative such as formalin into several tissue samples. A tissue preparation system may be adapted to monitor said diffusion of a tissue sample and determine an optimal processing workflow.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Michael Otter, Benjamin Stevens
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Patent number: 10607246Abstract: A method including interacting with a promotion code provider programmatically, providing a promotion code to a validation function of the promotion code provider, and evaluating a response from the promotion code provider. The act of interacting with a promotion code provider can include controlling an interface that simulates user actions, such as but not limited to controlling an in-memory web browser through an API, where the API provides a set of functions for simulating user actions. Accordingly, the method can be used to quickly and easily determine whether one or more promotion codes, such as online coupons, are valid.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: RetailMeNot, Inc.Inventors: David Lemphers, Christopher Couhault, Alexandros Suvacioglu
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Patent number: 10528687Abstract: Virtual oscillator control systems, devices, and techniques are provided. One example device includes a processor configured to implement a virtual oscillator circuit and output an oscillating waveform based on the virtual oscillator circuit and power electronics operatively coupled to the processor and configured to convert, based on the oscillating waveform, direct current (DC) electricity to alternating current (AC) electricity. The processor may be further configured to extract, from the virtual oscillator circuit, a virtual current based on an output current of the AC electricity, and output the oscillating waveform further based on an input voltage of the DC electricity.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, ETH ZürichInventors: Brian Benjamin Johnson, Nathan Ainsworth, Sairaj Vijaykumar Dhople, Mohit Sinha, Florian Anton Dörfler
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Patent number: 10525518Abstract: The present application automatically creates a press die shape corresponding to various kinds of pressing methods and product shapes using a part processing method data relating to press forming of ordinary parts. It includes a data storing device which stores a data relating to a shape of a part; a pressing method for press forming the part; a pressing direction setting and a press die shape type, with respect to each part; a part processing obtaining device which obtains a data relating to the pressing method of a referencing part, the pressing direction setting and the press die shape type; and a creation device which creates the press die shape data relating to a shape of a product portion and a peripheral portion thereof in the press die, and the pressing method, the pressing direction setting and the press die shape type of the referencing part.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: JSOL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuko Watanabe, Yasuyoshi Umezu
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Patent number: 10496422Abstract: A digital logic device is disclosed that includes registers, SRAM, DRAM, and a processor configured to store in the registers an initial portion of a first response data to a command, and store in the SRAM the first response data. The processor is further configured to store in a lookup table the memory location and size of the first response data in the SRAM, store in the DRAM additional response data, and store in the lookup table the memory location and size of the additional response data in the DRAM. The processor is configured to receive the command from a host device, retrieve the first response data from the registers or the SRAM, and send the first response data to the host. If the command includes additional response data, the processor is configured to concurrently retrieve the additional response data from DRAM and send the additional response data to the host.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Total Phase, Inc.Inventors: Thomas P. Holden, Kumaran Santhanam
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Patent number: 10467363Abstract: A fault simulation system that has a simulation unit comprising an ECU model including an element fault model made to have a fault by a time setting or external command and all or a portion of a sensor model, actuator model, vehicle model, and driver model and can evaluate vehicle behavior at the time of an element fault according to driving operation based on a set travel scenario, wherein the passage time, vehicle behavior, driving operation, and the like, at each point on a course are determined through non-fault simulation and on the basis of that information, an element fault is inserted according to a fault time setting or fault command for the element fault model.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Hyodo, Yasuo Sugure, Shogo Nakao, Yoshinobu Fukano
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Patent number: 10402919Abstract: A method for estimating growth stage threshold values for a specific hybrid seed at a specific geo-location using historical growth stage data and observed growth stage data comprises using a server computer system, storing a historical crop growth model of one or more hybrid seeds measured from one or more fields over a particular period of time. The historical crop growth model includes growth stage threshold estimates for one or more hybrid seeds. The server computer system receives, via a network, one or more digital measurement values specifying one or more observed growth stage values for a particular hybrid seed at a particular field over a particular period of time. The server computer system transforms the growth stage thresholds into growth stage duration values for the historical crop data and the observed crop data.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: The Climate CorporationInventors: Marian Farah, Jeffrey Gerard