Patents Examined by Eunhee Kim
  • Patent number: 11474010
    Abstract: A method is provided. An actual fatigue curve limit is determined for actual stress of a drilling component based on an actual yield strength of a material of the drilling component. A plurality of drilling parameters is simulated for the drilling component to determine one or more estimated stresses enacted on the drilling component for one or more combinations of the plurality of drilling parameters. A component life cycle of the drilling component is determined based on the actual fatigue curve limit and the plurality of drilling parameters. A consumed component life of the drilling component is determined for an actual drilling step utilizing the drilling component, and a remaining life of the drilling component after the actual drilling step is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Minh Dang Nguyen, Yun Shan Ariane Wu
  • Patent number: 11468207
    Abstract: A simulation-based framework for optimizing resource allocation and layout design is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Sara Masoud, Young-Jun Son, Russell E. Tronstad, Chieri Kubota
  • Patent number: 11468216
    Abstract: A method of building a model, including: receiving, a hierarchical tree structure representative of a system, the hierarchical tree structure defines a node associated with a hardware; collecting data associated with the hardware component, the data associated with a time stamp, the data comprises observational data associated with the physical system; derive, based on the data, node states of the node including first and second node states, wherein a first node state defines a first state of the node, and a second node state defines a second state of the node; building a finite state machine (FSM) model, the FSM model defines a sequence of states associated with the node, based at least in part on the time stamp, the FSM model is part of an overall finite state machine of the physical system; and creating the model of the physical system based on the overall finite state machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LINECRAFT AI LIMITED
    Inventors: Ranjit Date, Mangesh Kale, Abhijeet Phatak
  • Patent number: 11461515
    Abstract: An optimization apparatus includes an output data acquirer to acquire output data expressing a result of experiment or simulation based input parameters, input/output data storage to store the input parameters and the output data corresponding to the input parameters, as a pair, an evaluation value calculator to calculate evaluation values of the output data, an input parameter converter to generate conversion parameters of a dimension number changed from the dimension number of the input parameters, a next-input parameter decider to decide next input parameters based on pairs of the conversion parameters and the evaluation values corresponding to the conversion parameters, and a repetition determiner to repeat operations of the output data acquirer, the input/output data storage, the evaluation value calculator, the input parameter converter, and the next-input parameter decider, until satisfying a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kiribuchi, Takeichiro Nishikawa, Satoru Yokota, Ryota Narasaki, Soh Koike
  • Patent number: 11443085
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are microfluidic systems with recirculation of fluid and computer-implemented methods of calculating conditions within the microfluidic systems. The microfluidic systems include a computing device and a microfluidic device having first and second reservoirs, at least one chamber, and a fluid path connecting the first reservoir, the chamber, and the second reservoir. The methods for calculating conditions include receiving a first reservoir fluid volume, a second reservoir fluid volume, a first concentration, and a second concentration. The methods further include receiving a time-dependent imposed pressure difference between the first reservoir and the second reservoir, then determining a hydraulic pressure difference and an effective pressure difference. The effective pressure difference is used to account for reactions occurring within the microfluidic device and to determine the value of the condition within the microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: James Hickman, Kazi Tasneem, Christopher Long
  • Patent number: 11432909
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating an image of corrected teeth. The apparatus includes: a control unit configured to generate dental curves representative of dental arches after the completion of correction from an image of teeth, and to generate an image of corrected virtual teeth by aligning the locations of the teeth with the dental curves; and an input/output unit configured to provide the image of corrected virtual teeth via a screen. The control unit is further configured to model the dental curves with functions corresponding to sets of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LAON MEDI INC.
    Inventors: Seonggon Lee, Jae Min Park, Suk Joong Lee
  • Patent number: 11428958
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating fully custom products from scratch without exclusive use of off-the-shelf or pre-specified components. A system for creating custom products includes an image capture device for capturing image data and/or measurement data of a user. A computer is communicatively coupled with the image capture device and configured to construct an anatomic model of the user based on the captured image data and/or measurement data. The computer provides a configurable product model and enables preview and automatic or user-guided customization of the product model. A display is communicatively coupled with the computer and displays the custom product model superimposed on the anatomic model or image data of the user. The computer is further configured to provide the customized product model to a manufacturer for manufacturing eyewear for the user in accordance with the customized product model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BESPOKE, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Fonte, Eric J. Varady
  • Patent number: 11429764
    Abstract: A method for generating an energy usage profile for a software program executed in a computing device includes generating a call trace of an executed system call, identifying a first power consumption and duration of a first power state due to the first system call using a model, identifying a second power consumption and duration of a second power state based on the model, and generating an energy usage profile for the software program. The energy usage profile includes energy consumption of the computing device for the system call based on the first power consumption level multiplied by the first duration and the second power consumption level multiplied by the second duration associated an identifier for the call trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Yu Charlie Hu, Abhinav Pathak
  • Patent number: 11365620
    Abstract: A method of and a device, borehole drilling equipment and a computer program product for estimating at least one of down hole speed and down hole torque of borehole drilling equipment while drilling a borehole in an earth formation. The borehole equipment comprising a rotational drive system, a drill string, a bottom hole assembly comprising a drill bit, a top end coupled to the rotational drive system, and a speed controller arranged for controlling rotational top end drive speed by commanding a top end drive torque. The method being performed in a computer based on a two-port spectral domain transfer matrix computational model of the borehole drilling equipment. While drilling, rotational top end drive speed and top end drive torque are obtained and down hole speed and down hole torque of the borehole drilling equipment are calculated by reducing spectral bandwidth of and applying a time delay term to the calculations enabling a causal time domain solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ENGIE ELECTROPROJECT B.V.
    Inventor: Andre Veltman
  • Patent number: 11354461
    Abstract: A method and system for simulating a distribution of obstacles are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of point clouds of a plurality of frames, wherein each point cloud includes a plurality of original obstacles; acquiring real labeling data of an acquisition vehicle, and obtaining data of a simulation position of the acquisition vehicle based on the real labeling data and a movement rule of the acquisition vehicle; determining the number of obstacles to be simulated based on the data of the simulation position of the acquisition vehicle; selecting the determined number of obstacles to be simulated, from a range with the simulation position of the acquisition vehicle as a center, wherein the range is less than or equal to a maximum scanning range of the vehicle; and acquiring real labeling data of the selected obstacles, and obtaining a position distribution of the selected obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Fang, Feilong Yan, Ruigang Yang, Liang Wang, Yu Ma
  • Patent number: 11352739
    Abstract: A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. The user's preview may be based upon a two-dimensional image of a wear pattern in a laser input file and, from a set of two-dimensional images of a base garment, create a three-dimensional view of the base garment with the wear pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Levi Strauss & Co.
    Inventors: Benjamin Bell, Christopher Schultz, Jennifer Schultz, Debdulal Mahanty
  • Patent number: 11328099
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal model creation device capable of creating a highly accurate thermal model. A constraint-condition setting means 72 sets constraint conditions of parameters in the thermal model. A parameter determination means 73 determines all unknown values of parameters in the thermal model under the constraint conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Patent number: 11320566
    Abstract: A subsurface representation may define simulated subsurface configuration of a simulated subsurface region. The simulated subsurface region may include simulated wells, and the simulated subsurface configuration may define simulated correlation between the simulated wells. Subsurface configuration of wells may be compared with the simulated subsurface configuration to generate similarity maps for the wells. The similarity maps may be arranged based on spatial arrangements of the wells such that the similarity maps overlap with each other within an overlap area. Locations within the overlap area may correspond to groupings of matched simulated wells. Correlation between the wells may be determined based on the simulated correlation between the matched simulated wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Brett M. Hern, Tao Sun, Brian Willis
  • Patent number: 11318616
    Abstract: An industrial control design and testing system allows vendor-specific digital twins of industrial robots to be imported into a vendor-agnostic simulation platform so that coordinated operation of the robots within the context of a larger automation system can be simulated and observed. Rather than requiring a designer to re-write the robot program in a format understandable by the simulation system, the design and testing system can link to instances of the vendor-specific robot simulation platforms to facilitate execution of the actual robot programs that will be installed and executed on the corresponding physical robots. This accurately simulates operation of the robots in a manner that requires less development work on the part of the designer and allows the robot's surrounding environment to be modeled and simulated more accurately than would be the case using a simulation platform specific to a particular robot vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Mcgregor, Adam Davidson, David Dawkins
  • Patent number: 11314536
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for obtaining optimal variational parameters of a ground state wavefunction for a Hamiltonian system. The method includes initializing a plurality of variational parameters and sending the variational parameters to a quantum computing portion to output a plurality of measurement results. The method includes transmitting the measurement results to a classical computing portion to update the plurality of variational parameters based on the plurality of measurement results and an update rule, and determining whether a measured energy satisfies a convergence rule. When the measured energy does not satisfy the convergence rule, the method includes sending the plurality of updated variational parameters to the quantum computing portion for a next iteration; and when the measured energy satisfies the convergence rule, the method includes obtaining a plurality of optimal variational parameters for the Hamiltonian system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Chee Kong Lee, Qiming Sun
  • Patent number: 11301598
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for fast determining a time-delay stability margin of a power system, which focuses on three steps, i.e., Jordan standardization, Taylor separation and Schur simplification, to reconstruct a new time delay system and reduce the system dimension. In this method, firstly, a time delay model is Jordan standardized; further, Taylor expansion is applied in a process for separating state variables with time delay from stage variables without time delay; then, balanced model reduction is realized by Schur simplification; and finally, a WSCC 3-generator-9-bus power system with multiple delays will be used to validate the proposed method via several typical criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongjie Jia, Chaoyu Dong, Yilang Jiang, Tao Jiang, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11295044
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for dynamic determination of an environmental footprint linked to the overall mobility of a user, comprising means for measuring a trip made by the user using a smart phone application which detects modes of mobility and modes of mobility in a motorized vehicle and style of driving; means for calculating a pollution footprint of the user, accounting for the real usage and global and local pollutants emitted during a given time interval using a server or onboard electronics in a control unit or in a connected vehicle; and means for exploiting the pollution footprint, including a connected object informing one of the user and the administrative authorities of the pollution footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Laurent Thibault, Gilles Corde
  • Patent number: 11294095
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for performing a reservoir simulation for a subterranean formation with a fracture network by receiving data representing the subterranean formation, obtaining a matrix grid based on the data, where the matrix grid includes matrix grid control volumes, generating a fracture network based on the data, identifying a location of a fracture-fracture intersection within the fracture network, discretizing the fracture network into fracture network control volumes, where the fracture network is discretized independently of the matrix grid, identifying a location of a matrix-fracture intersection between the matrix grid control volumes and fracture network control volumes, calculating a transmissibility for the fracture-fracture intersection and the matrix-fracture intersection, and performing the reservoir simulation based on the transmissibility for the fracture-fracture intersection and the matrix-fracture intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hussein Mustapha
  • Patent number: 11281171
    Abstract: A machine having a plurality of sub-assemblies, having a geometric computational model is generated for the machine, including the sub-assemblies and one or more module of machine readable code defining how vibration is communicated through said geometric model. First and second instances of the computational model are run to generate outputs of loading throughout the machine geometry as a result of the vibration of the geometric model under a simulated machine operating condition. The first and second instances respectively includes the computational model with and without inclusion of vibration induced by a control system for one or more sub-assembly of the machine. A maximum loading threshold is determined for the machine. A threshold for one or more control parameter in the control system is set based on the contribution of the vibration induced by the control system to the maximum loading threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Lucia Ciciriello, Lixin Ren
  • Patent number: 11280922
    Abstract: A method for performing a field operation of a field. The method includes identifying, inside a volume of interest representing a portion of the field, that a first surface segment is truncated by a second surface segment, where each of the first surface segment and the second surface segment corresponds to a geological feature in the field, generating, based at least on a first implicit function, an extended first surface segment that includes the first surface segment and a first extension of the first surface segment, generating a number of compartments by dividing the volume of interest using at least the extended first surface segment and the second surface segment, merging, based on a common boundary of at least two of the compartments being within an invalid portion of the extended first surface segment, the at least two compartments into a single merged compartment, and performing, based at least on the single merged compartment, modeling of the field to generate a modeling result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Azeddine Benabbou, Arnaud Levannier, Colin Daly