Patents Examined by Mark Connolly
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Patent number: 11507163Abstract: Facilitating powering up/down respective analog circuits of mixed-signal devices utilizing a reconfigurable power sequencer component and corresponding reconfigurable sequencer processing unit(s) is presented herein. A system can comprise a mixed-signal component comprising a group of analog circuits comprising respective inputs to facilitate a power-up and a power-down of respective portions of the analog circuits; and a reconfigurable power sequencer component that obtains, from a reconfigurable memory of the system, reprogrammable information representing respective timed sequences of digital outputs electronically coupled to the respective inputs of the group of analog circuits, and based on the reprogrammable information, generates the respective timed sequences of the digital outputs to facilitate the power-up and the power-down of the respective portions of the analog circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.Inventors: Giuseppe Santillo, Biswajit Datta
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Patent number: 11499739Abstract: The present disclosure provides an air conditioner and a control method thereof. The control method of the air conditioner is capable of acquiring a voice of a user including a state of the user, transmitting the voice of the user to an external server, receiving, from the external server, a control command acquired by using a cooling tendency of the user and the state of the user determined on the basis of a usage history of the air conditioner, and controlling the air conditioner on the basis of the control command. In particular, at least a part of a method of acquiring a control command on the basis of a cooling tendency of a user may use an artificial intelligence model trained according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, and deep learning algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyungseon Song, Soonhyung Gwon, Tan Kim, Dongjun Shin, Hyunwoo Ock, Minkyong Kim
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Patent number: 11490575Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and method for detecting and adjusting the position of an irrigation span. More particularly, the present invention provides a system and method for detecting and removing deflection stresses from irrigation spans caused by corner arm positioning.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Valmont Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tracy A. Thatcher, Mark Moeller
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Patent number: 11484947Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle headstock having a main spindle, a spindle headstock having a main spindle with a Z3 axis parallel to an axis center direction of the main spindle, a turret that moves relative to the spindle headstocks, and a controller that superposition-controls the spindle headstock with movement of the turret as a standard, wherein the turret is movable in directions of an X axis and a Ys axis that are orthogonal to a Z axis and intersect with the Z axis at an angle except for the right angle, and the controller moves the turret in a direction of a Y axis different from the Ys axis and the X axis by combining movement in the direction of the Ys axis and movement in the direction of the Y axis, and regulates, in the superposition control, the movement of the spindle headstock in the X axis direction associated with the movement in the Y axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Shinohara, Mitsuru Yamaura
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Patent number: 11466890Abstract: A control system is provided for controlling heating and/or cooling with a conditioning load such as fan coils and chilled beams. Based on user input and ambient conditions, the control system determines a desired temperature for the liquid entering the load and combines fresh supply liquid (e.g., from a chiller or boiler) with a portion of the liquid that has passed through the load, to achieve the target load input temperature for the liquid. A recirculation pump may be used to return a portion of the liquid exiting the load for mixing with the fresh supply liquid and a control valve may be used to adjust the ratio of fresh supply liquid and recirculated liquid to achieve the targeted temperature. The control systems can be compatible with a variety of liquid supply systems such as two- and four-pipe systems.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: FT Energy Controls, LLCInventors: Richard Furman, Zachary M. Thomas
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Patent number: 11464428Abstract: A shoe-type device and a control method of the shoe-type device are disclosed. A control method of a shoe-type device including an actuator and at least one sensor includes estimating a posture of a user wearing the shoe-type device based on sensor data output from the sensor, and controlling the actuator based on the estimated posture of the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Changhyun Roh
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Patent number: 11454214Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying optimized yaw settings to wind turbines including receiving operating data from at least one wind turbine on a wind farm and sending the data to a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system on the at least one wind turbine to generate current SCADA data. The current SCADA data is sent a central processing center away from the wind farm. The central processing center includes an optimization system that can generate a new look up table (LUT) including at least one new wind turbine yaw setting calculated using information comprising wind direction, wind velocity, wind turbine location in the wind farm, information from a historic SCADA database, and yaw optimizing algorithms. The new LUT is then sent to a yaw setting selection engine (YSSE) where instructions regarding the use of the new LUT are generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: VayuAI Corp.Inventors: Jim Kiles, Jon Sigerman, Zachary Lebovitz, August Kiles, Ashish Badjatia
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Patent number: 11435794Abstract: A cooling system for a datacenter is disclosed. An evaporative cooling subsystem provides blown air for cooling the datacenter and a repurposable refrigerant cooling subsystem controls moisture of the blown air in a first configuration and independently cools the datacenter in a second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventor: Ali Heydari
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Patent number: 11438183Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a power adapter configured for direct connection to a Power Supply Unit (PSU) installed in a network device, the power adapter comprising a power input port for receiving power on an Ethernet cable, a power converter module for converting the power received at the power input port to a PSU input power, and a power output connector for connection with a PSU power input connector.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Joel Richard Goergen, Chad M. Jones, Jessica Kiefer, Douglas Paul Arduini
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Patent number: 11429171Abstract: A system for controlling voltage operation of a power supply unit (PSU) for an information handling system. If the PSU is established as a High-Line power supply and is a dual wattage unit, Low-Line capabilities are disabled and the PSU turns off if power drops below a High-Line minimum voltage. If the PSU is established as a Low-Line PSU or is not dual wattage unit, the PSU is maintained in a current operational state and is either reset or turned off before making changes.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Wayne Kenneth Cook, Wei-Jun Feng
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Patent number: 11428431Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, and a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11397459Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing energy consumption. A method may include aggregating, for a prior time period, prior usage data from a plurality of computing nodes. Based on the aggregated prior usage data from the plurality of computing nodes, a usage threshold for decreasing cooling system output for the plurality of computing nodes and a local-time threshold for decreasing the cooling system output for the plurality of computing nodes are determined. Current usage data for the plurality of computing nodes is then received. When the current usage data reaches the usage threshold and the local time is after the local-time threshold, output of the cooling systems of the plurality of computing nodes is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Matthew Flynn, Jason Huselton, Paul Brannigan
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Patent number: 11391263Abstract: A wind turbine including yaw control comprising a controller receiving an input signal, and providing an output control signal to a yaw actuator. The input signal to the controller is based on: a first feedback signal that is indicative of the relative wind direction determined with respect to the wind turbine, wherein the first feedback signal is filtered with a first low pass filter; and a second feedback signal that is indicative of the activity of the yaw actuator. The control technique of the invention significantly improves the ability of a yaw system to maintain a zero degree yaw error during steady state wind conditions, or in other words to maintain an accurate heading of the nacelle pointing into the wind, as well as reducing the maximum yaw error experienced during yaw system activation.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Martin Møller Sørensen
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Patent number: 11392183Abstract: A power supply combination comprises a first power source comprising a first power rail delivering power at a first voltage and a second power rail delivering power at a second voltage. The power supply combination also comprises a second power source comprising a third power rail delivering power at the first voltage and a fourth power rail delivering power at the second voltage. A first power combining circuit is electrically connected to the first power rail and to the third power rail. The first power combining circuit delivers power at the first voltage to a first voltage input of a load. A second power combining circuit is electrically connected to the second power rail and to the fourth power rail. The second power combining circuit delivers power at the second voltage to a second voltage input of the load.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: OVHInventors: Christophe Maurice Thibaut, Patrick-Gilles Maillot
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Patent number: 11385698Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for managing voltage drops on a semiconductor chip. One exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure may provide a method for managing voltage drops in a semiconductor chip. The method may comprise monitoring power supply voltages for different voltage domains in the semiconductor chip by a voltage drop detection circuit, determining that a voltage drop event has occurred based on voltage information and duration information associated with the voltage drop event reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, generating diagnostic information that includes whether the voltage drop event is an external event or an internal event determined based on the voltage information and timing information reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, and taking an action based on the diagnosis information.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: INNOGRIT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Gang Zhao, Lin Chen, Zhengtian Feng, Qun Zhao
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Patent number: 11372472Abstract: A system on chip (SoC) includes an internal read-only memory (ROM) configured to store a first boot loader; a first internal static random access memory (SRAM) configured to receive a second boot loader output from a booting device, store the second boot loader, and perform a booting sequence according to control of the first boot loader; a second internal SRAM configured to receive a third boot loader output from the booting device, store the third boot loader, and perform a wake-up sequence according to control of the first boot loader; and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) controller configured to load an operating system (OS) from the booting device into a DRAM according to control of the second boot loader.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hee Dong Shin
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Patent number: 11365992Abstract: Vortex sensor amplitude information may be used to validate that a vortex signal being measured corresponds to an actual fluid flow and is not noise. The estimated amplitude of a sinusoidal vortex signal is used as a secondary means to determine the fluid flow based on vortex sensor characteristics. The original amplitude of the sinusoidal vortex signal is determined from a clipped voltage amplitude sinusoidal signal. The estimated velocity of the fluid in a pipe based on the original amplitude of the sinusoidal vortex signal is compared to the measured velocity of the fluid based on vortex velocity frequency. If the two determined velocities do not reasonably agree, the measured vortex signal is not a valid flow signal and adaptive filters are adjusted to reduce the effects of noise.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.Inventors: Peter E. Allstrom, Timothy Dorr
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Patent number: 11369039Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a lighting device are provided. In one example, a method of operating a lighting device including an array of light-emitting elements, an array of heat sinks, and an array of cooling fans, wherein each of the heat sinks corresponds to one of the light-emitting elements, and each of the cooling fans corresponds to one of the heat sinks, includes conductively coupling each of the heat sinks to the corresponding light-emitting element, directing air flow from each of the cooling fans to the corresponding heat sink, measuring heat sink temperatures corresponding to each of the heat sinks with a temperature sensor positioned at the heat sinks, adjusting a speed of each of the cooling fans to reduce a deviation of the corresponding heat sink temperature from a target temperature, and adjusting the target temperature based on an aggregate characteristic of the cooling fan speeds.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Phoseon Technology, Inc.Inventor: Collin Dailey
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Patent number: 11343983Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein are provided for irrigation monitoring and controlling based on water usage monitoring and control using an efficiency model for a defined geographic region. The technology includes receiving a first and a second set of moisture sensor measurements from a set of moisture sensors located in a defined geographic region, and determining an amount of water that is applied to the defined geographic region at a time period between the first and the second set of moisture measurements. An efficiency model representing efficiencies of locations in the defined geographic region is obtained based on the first and second set of moisture measurements and the amount of water applied. Schedule information is generated based on the efficiency model that indicates time periods at which areas in the defined geographic region are to be watered.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Dish Network L.L.C.Inventor: Leo James Ferras
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Patent number: 11340680Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a system controller for tracking a characteristic system energy of a computing system. The system controller may retrieve the characteristic system energy of the computing system from a voltage regulator (VR). The VR may include a VR controller, one or more phase converters, and an output capacitor coupled to a load to provide an operating voltage to the load. The characteristic system energy is related to a sum of capacitances comprising a capacitance of the output capacitor and a capacitance of the load and is determined by the VR controller based on a voltage at the output capacitor and a charging current or a discharging current of the output capacitor via the one or more phase converters. Further, the system controller may determine whether to initiate a corrective action for the VR based on a comparison between the characteristic system energy and a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Mohamed Amin Bemat, Daniel Humphrey