Patents Examined by Manuel Rivera Vargas
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Patent number: 11514277Abstract: A sensing system including multiple sensor node devices and an analysis device, wherein: each of the multiple sensor node devices has a sensor that measures a measurement target and acquires data values, a learning unit that, based on the data values, learns a model used to estimate the data values at an installation position of the sensor, and a communication unit that transmits learning result data indicating a learning result from the learning unit; and the analysis device has a spatial analysis unit that estimates a spatial distribution of the data values based on the learning result data from each of the multiple sensor node devices and the installation positions of the respective sensor node devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Kitsunezuka
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Patent number: 11514328Abstract: Methods and systems that provide one or more recommended configurations to planners using large data sets in an efficient manner. These methods and systems provide optimization of objectives using a genetic algorithm that can provide parameter recommendations that optimize one or more objectives in an efficient and timely manner. The methods and systems disclosed herein are flexible enough to satisfy diverse use cases.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Kinaxis Inc.Inventors: Sebastien Ouellet, Phillip Williams, Nathaniel Stanley, Jeffery Downing, Liam Hebert
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Patent number: 11507049Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for detecting abnormity in an unsupervised industrial system based on deep transfer learning. Labeled machine sensor sequence data from a source domain and unlabeled sensor sequence data from a target domain are used in the present invention to train an industrial system abnormal detection model with good generalization ability, and the industrial system abnormal detection model is trained and tested to finally generate a trained industrial system abnormity discrimination model. Using the model, received machine sensor sequence data can be analyzed and whether a machine is abnormal is discriminated.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ruichu Cai, Zijian Li, Wen Wen, Zhifeng Hao, Lijuan Wang, Bingfeng Chen, Boyan Xu, Junfeng Li
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Patent number: 11506214Abstract: A cooling fan monitoring circuit for monitoring and immediately alerting the user of the activation of a cooling fan motor and blade assembly providing notice of the shutting down of equipment requiring cooling to prevent overheating and damage to the equipment. The circuit is capable of monitoring multiple cooling fans and shuts down equipment if any one of the cooling fans ceases function, fails a preset condition, or the equipment reaches a preset temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Winston Industries, LLCInventors: Lloyd Dennis Hall, Jr., Robert Scott Gasser, Wesley Alden Kleier, Bobby Douglas Hayes
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Patent number: 11506647Abstract: A method is provided for operating a gas concentration monitoring system as well as a gas-measuring device, a central unit, a gas concentration monitoring system as well as computer program product. The safety of persons or the safety of a situation is determined with respect to at least one hazardous gas. The concentration of the gas is provided to a memory and analysis device. A measured value rating number is determined for a preset period of use. A number of instances, of the measured concentration values exceeding of a preset gas concentration limit value is input. A safety code is determined from at least one of: the measured concentration values, the measured value rating numbers and from the a total number of instances in which a gas concentration limit value was exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: DRÄGER SAFETY AG & CO. KGAAInventors: Malte Berndt, Ingo Kaneblei, Ulf Ostermann
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Patent number: 11506575Abstract: Systems and methods for boiler regulation are disclosed. The system can receive boiler data from a boiler and compare the boiler data to a normal operating range to detect an abnormality. Based on a plurality of rules, the system can identify an anticipated root cause and at least one corrective action. Based on the at least one corrective action, the system can generate and/or output instructions for the boiler to perform the at least one corrective action. The system can display an indication of the abnormality and/or the at least one corrective action.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Jorge Miguel Gamboa Revilla, Sergio Montalgo Salazar, Amin Monfared
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Patent number: 11499985Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring rotational frequency in rotating machines use variable sliding windows of measurement. The systems and methods count and store the number of internal clock cycles between the start of a measurement interval and each pulse signal from a pulse generator. Rotational frequency is determined by taking a difference between the count for a most recent pulse signal and the count for some previous pulse signal within the measurement interval. The number of pulse signals that have occurred between the most-recent pulse signal and the previous pulse signal represents a window of measurement. This window of measurement, or the size thereof, may then be used along with the count difference to determine the rotational frequency. The window of measurement may then be slid to the counts for next most recent pulse signal and the next previous pulse signal to obtain a new count difference, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.Inventors: Anupam Saurabh, Ajay Mishra, Shahid Ansari
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Patent number: 11499892Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a system, and at least one computer-readable storage device are provided. A measured value related to operation of a device is periodically received for each respective reporting period. If the measured value indicates unhealthy operation of the device, a distance of the measured value from a predetermined abnormal threshold is determined and stored in a data store. Based on the determined distance, a number of most recent reporting periods included in a window is determined. All stored distances determined from measured values received before the window of the most recent reporting periods are deleted from the data store. An occurrence of a device failure is determined based on the stored distances in the data store after the deleting. In response to determining the occurrence of the device failure, an action is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Montana Morris
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Patent number: 11493903Abstract: Methods and systems for a data marketplace in a conveyor environment includes a self-organizing data marketplace. The self-organizing data marketplace includes at least one data collector and at least one corresponding conveyor in an industrial environment, wherein the at least one data collector is structured to collect detection values from at least one sensor of a power roller of the at least one corresponding conveyor; a data storage structured to store a data pool comprising at least a portion of the detection values; a data marketplace structured to self-organize the data pool; and a transaction system structured to interpret a user data request, and to selectively provide a portion of the self-organized data pool to a user in response to the user data request.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
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Patent number: 11494674Abstract: A driving action evaluating device that specifies a driving scene by using at least one of an image captured by an onboard camera and position information of an own vehicle; and derives an evaluation of driving actions by executing an evaluation logic, which corresponds to only a driving scene specified by the specifying section, among a plurality of evaluation logics that correspond to a plurality of driving scenes, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Gentaro Kogano
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Patent number: 11480454Abstract: A soft-melted parison is disposed in molds forming a shape of a measurement pipeline portion 10, the parison is expanded by means of gas inflow, and blow molding is performed. The shapes of a pipe body 11, a fluid inlet portion 12, and a fluid outlet portion 13 are formed by an inner mold of the molds. Ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b bulging outwards in a sealed manner are formed on both sides positioned in the oblique direction of the pipe body 11 with respect to a center line of the pipe body 11. Parts of the ultrasonic wave input-output portions 14a and 14b are wall surfaces 15a and 15b for attaching ultrasonic wave transmission-reception units. The measurement pipeline portion 10 is obtained by cutting end portions of the fluid inlet portion 12 and the fluid outlet portion 13 after the parison is solidified.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: RYUSOK CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiichi Murakami, Kohei Sakiyama
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Patent number: 11480595Abstract: The invention relates to the estimation of a time-variable physical quantity by a distributed system comprising a centralized platform and a set of distributed measurement devices each communicating with the platform via a communication network, on the basis of the measurement (100), by each device of the set, of a local datum representative of the physical quantity, the collection (120) by the centralized platform, over a predetermined sampling period, of measurement samples originating from a subset of devices of said set via said communication network, and the estimation (130) of the physical quantity over the sampling period on the basis of the collected samples. According to the invention, each device of said set executes (110), in each sampling period, a local algorithm deciding randomly and based on a sending probability associated with each device, whether the corresponding measurement device is part of said subset.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: VOLTALISInventors: Bruno Heintz, Mathieu Bineau, Marc Autord, Jean Marc Oury
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Patent number: 11474511Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to determine a measure of probe quality, such as a level of accuracy with which the location of a probe point is defined. In the context of a method and for a plurality of probe points, a distance is determined between a respective probe point and a line representative of a link. For the plurality of probe points, the method also includes determining a difference between a bearing of the respective probe point and a bearing of the link. The method further includes determining the measure of probe quality based upon a product of a representation of the distance between the plurality of probe points and the line representative of the link and a representation of the difference between the bearing of the plurality of probe points and the bearing of the link.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.Inventors: James Fowe, Aditya Balasaheb Jadhav
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Patent number: 11475313Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques to discover features such as object categories that provide improved accuracy and performance. For example, in an embodiment, a method may comprise extracting, at the computer system, features from a dataset comprising a plurality of data samples using a backbone neural network to form a features vector for each data sample, training, at the computer system, using the features vectors for at least some of the plurality of data samples, an unsupervised generative probabilistic model to perform clustering of extracted features of the at least some of the plurality of data samples by minimizing a negative Log-Likelihood function, wherein clusters of extracted features form categories, and categorizing, at the computer system, at least some different data samples of the plurality of data samples, into the formed categories.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leonid Karlinsky, Joseph Shtok
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Patent number: 11464166Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine, particularly a combine harvester or a forage harvester, has a supporting frame, a cutting mechanism, an inclined conveyor and a driver's cab. The cutting mechanism is arranged at the supporting frame by the inclined conveyor. The driver's cab is arranged at the supporting frame with the intermediary of at least one damper unit. At least one camera is arranged in an interior of the driver's cab. The camera is oriented to the cutting mechanism and/or to the inclined conveyor through a front windshield of the driver's cab. The camera is arranged in an operative area of a cleaning device of the front windshield so that a detection area of the camera can be optically acquired at least through a portion of the operative area of the cleaning device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Dennis Neitemeier, Marvin Barther, Frédéric Fischer, Boris Kettelhoit
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Patent number: 11466555Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product configured to performing automated downhole wellbore trajectory control for correcting between an actual wellbore trajectory path and a planned wellbore trajectory path. For example, in one embodiment, a PID controller is configured to obtain real-time data gathered during the drilling operation, determine whether the actual wellbore trajectory path deviates from the planned wellbore trajectory path, and automatically initiate the downhole wellbore trajectory control to change the actual wellbore trajectory path to a modified correction path that is determined using a minimum incremental wellbore energy method.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Robello Samuel, Zhengchun Liu
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Patent number: 11465286Abstract: A remaining life of a robot body is precisely estimated. A robot control apparatus 300 includes: a drive control unit 305 that controls drive of a robot body 200; a detection unit 306 that detects a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 that is deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is driven; a determination unit 303 that determinates presence/absence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount; and an estimation unit 304 that estimates a remaining life of the robot body 200 when presence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 is determined.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Maki Endo, Yasumoto Mori, Teruyuki Shiraki
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Patent number: 11467014Abstract: A fluid flow meter system for monitoring fluid flow through a lumen includes a first ultrasonic transducer configured to transmit one or more versions of a transmit (TX) signal through a fluid flowing within the lumen, and a second ultrasonic transducer configured to receive one or more respective receive (RX) signals. The fluid flow meter system includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to sample, at a first frequency, the one or more RX ultrasonic signals and a processor configured to generate a fine resolution signal based on the one or more RX ultrasonic signals. The fine resolution signal is associated with a second sampling rate higher than the first sampling rate. The processor is also configured to compute a cross-correlation signal indicative of cross-correlation between the fine resolution signal and a waveform and determine an estimated fluid flow parameter based on the computed cross-correlation signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: StreamLabs, Inc.Inventor: Brian Gestner
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Patent number: 11460593Abstract: An apparatus obtains measurements from a seismic sensor, wherein the seismic measurements include a set of seismic waves having at least a subset of seismic multiples and a machine-readable medium having program code executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to determine seismic measurements of the seismic waves, fit reflectivity model based on a set of reflectivity models using a nonlinear scheme to the seismic measurements, and identify a subset of the seismic measurements corresponding to the subset of seismic multiples. The apparatus also includes program code to cause the apparatus to generate a set of reduced-noise seismic measurements based on attenuation of the subset of the seismic measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Amit Padhi, Mark Elliott Willis, Xiaomin Zhao
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Patent number: 11448792Abstract: Methods are presented for determining the location of underground features (e.g., CO2). One method includes capturing, by sensors distributed throughout a region, seismic traces associated with seismic signals generated by a seismic source. For multiple sensors, active noise is identified or passive noise is measured within each seismic trace and values for attributes associated with the active or passive noise are determined. Further, an unsupervised machine-learning model, based on the values of the attributes, is utilized to determine noise characteristics for multiple sensors. The sensors are grouped in clusters based on the noise characteristics for each sensor. For multiple clusters, a noise filter is created based on the noise characteristics of the sensors in the cluster, and the noise filter of the cluster is applied, for multiple sensors, to the seismic traces of the sensor. Additionally, the filtered seismic traces are analyzed to determine a location of CO2 underground.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Energy and Environmental Research Center FoundationInventors: César Barajas-Olalde, Kyle A. Glazewski, Nicholas W. Bosshart