Patents Examined by Zhipeng Wang
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Patent number: 11860704Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine user presence are disclosed. A disclosed example monitoring device to determine of a presence of a user in a metering environment includes a mount to couple the monitoring device to a wearable device to be worn by the user, the wearable device to receive content from a content device, a sensor to detect motion of the user, and a transmitter to transmit motion data pertaining to the detected motion of the user for the determination of the presence of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Timothy Christian, Garrett Sloop
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Patent number: 11853809Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium for computing including determination of work placement on processor cores are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to identify a favored core of the processor cores. The one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry may be configured to determine whether to migrate a thread to or from the favored core. In some embodiments, the determination may be by a process executed by a driver and/or by an algorithm executed by a power control unit of the processor.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Guy M. Therien, Michael D. Powell, Venkatesh Ramani, Arijit Biswas, Guy G. Sotomayor
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Patent number: 11848579Abstract: A data logger device for a power tool including a housing, a power tool interface provided at the top of the housing and configured to be received in a corresponding interface of the power tool, and a battery pack interface provided at the bottom of the housing and configured to receive a corresponding interface of a battery pack providing operating power to the power tool. The data logger also includes a tool terminal block, a battery terminal block provided, and bus bars connecting the tool terminal block to the battery terminal block to provide pass through power from the battery pack to the power tool. The data logger is configured to obtain data related to power tool operation, and export, using a transceiver, the data to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: John W. Thiele, Richard A. Zainer, Matthew Post, Gareth Mueckl, Jonathan E. Abbott, Matthew N. Thurin, Kellen Carey
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Patent number: 11841719Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for improved building systems management and maintenance. The present invention provides a system for providing an augmented reality-like interface for the management and maintenance of building systems, specifically the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems within a building, including the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: CrowdComfort, Inc.Inventors: Abdullah Daoud, B. Eric Graham, Galen C. Nelson, Chris Fuentes, Kevin Loos, Jeff Mcaulay
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Patent number: 11837900Abstract: A battery capacity representation method for a computer system, is disclosed. The computer system includes a specific absorption rate (SAR) sensor, a battery module and a light-emitting diode (LED) module, and the battery capacity representation method includes performing an external environment sensing by the SAR sensor to determine whether a triggering condition is satisfied; sensing a battery capacity of the battery module when the triggering condition is satisfied; and determining a representation status of the LED module according to the battery capacity.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Chih-Teng Shen, Liang-Fang Wan, Jen-Wei Kuo
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Patent number: 11801644Abstract: A method of three-dimensional fabrication of an object is disclosed. The method comprises: forming a plurality of layers in a configured pattern corresponding to the shape of the three-dimensional object, at least one layer of the plurality of layers being formed at a predetermined and different thickness selected so as to compensate for post-formation shrinkage of the layer along a vertical direction. In various exemplary embodiments of the invention spread of building material of one or more layers is diluted at least locally such as to maintain a predetermined thickness and a predetermined planar resolution for the layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.Inventors: Eliahu M. Kritchman, Eduardo Napadensky
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Patent number: 11803217Abstract: Methods and apparatus for thermal management in data storage devices are provided. One such data storage device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM), at least one ambient temperature sensor configured to detect an ambient temperature of the data storage device, at least one component temperature sensor configured to detect one or more component temperatures of one or more components of the data storage device, and a processor coupled to the NVM, the at least one ambient temperature sensor, and the at least one component temperature sensor. The processor is configured to determine a composite temperature of the data storage device based on the one or more component temperatures and the ambient temperature. The processor is further configured to determine whether the composite temperature exceeds a threshold and perform a thermal management operation if the composite temperature exceeds the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bret Dee Winkler, Mark James Hardiman, Jeff Furlong, Christian Khanh Phan, Jeffrey James Levie, David Allen Wright
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Patent number: 11803673Abstract: A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Korrus, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin James Harrison, Shruti Koparkar, Mark Reynoso, Paul Pickard, Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Gary Vick, Andrew Villegas
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Patent number: 11804621Abstract: The invention provides a parameters tuning method of energy storage system and the energy storage system, and the method comprises the following steps: using PID control module to construct a closed-loop control subsystem of energy dispatching; acquiring PID initial parameters according to the energy dispatching model of the energy storage system; setting an adaptive model in the PID control module, and processing the PID initial parameters through the adaptive model to obtain PID adjusted and modified parameters; using the PID adjusted and modified parameters to modify the PID parameters and get the PID tuning parameters. What's more, the system comprises a battery module, a bidirectional converter device, an energy dispatching subsystem and a closed-loop control subsystem; and the closed-loop control subsystem is provided with a PID control module, and the PID control module is provided with an adaptive model for realizing the parameters tuning method of the energy storage system.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen Cubernergy Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zijian Guo, Xi Zheng, Gengying Li, Ping He, Guoping Hu, Jinlai Shang, Xiaoli Guo
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Patent number: 11794412Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a build surface, at least a portion of which is transparent. The apparatus includes a first material depositor operable to deposit a curable resin to form a deposited resin layer on the build surface. A first sensing device is configured to measure the thickness of the deposited resin layer; and wherein the at least one sensing device is configured to generate a signal indicative of the thickness of the deposited resin layer. The first sensing device can be connected to a computer such that the additive manufacturing apparatus is configured to control the thickness of the deposited resin layer. The thickness of the deposited resin layer can be controlled such that it varies from side to side, i.e. across the width of the deposited resin layer in the transverse direction along the x-axis. The thickness can also be controlled such that it varies with time, i.e., in the machine direction along the y-axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Meredith Elissa Dubelman, Mary Kathryn Thompson, Christopher Barnhill, Xi Yang
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Patent number: 11794605Abstract: A power calculation apparatus predicting and calculating an amount of power suppliable from a vehicle having a battery to a power grid via a connection apparatus, the power calculation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: predicting a position of the vehicle after a predetermined duration; predicting a degree of likelihood of connection of the vehicle to the connection apparatus after the predetermined duration, based on a predicted position of the vehicle after the predetermined duration and the connection apparatus; and predicting the amount of power suppliable from the vehicle to the power grid after the predetermined duration, based on the degree of likelihood.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Sakurai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
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Patent number: 11796972Abstract: An on-demand production system for accessories for use with electronic devices is configured to generate digital templates defining the design of the accessories and provide the digital templates to retail or other locations. The retail or other locations may receive access to the digital templates automatically and/or electronically within a week, a day, or even minutes, of the digital template being created. When a customer requests an accessory, the digital template may be accessed. Using an electronic production machine and a supply of stock material, the accessory can be cut, formed, printed, or otherwise produced based on instructions or designs of the digital template. The electronic production machine may automatically read the digital template to automate the production at a retail location. The electronic production machine may produce the accessory on-demand, and production of the accessory may be completed within two hours, or potentially within ten minutes, of a request.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: ZAGG IncInventor: Randall Hales
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Patent number: 11789411Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an energy device including a memory, one or more processors, a transceiver, a display, and a dashboard. The memory includes one or more energy modules. The one or more processors are configured to communicate via the transceiver with one or more energy devices. The display is configured to display a dashboard of energy options based on one or more signals received from the one or more processors.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventor: SaLisa Berrien
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Patent number: 11780169Abstract: In an example, a method includes receiving, at a processor, an indication of a volume of a fabrication chamber and determining a characteristic of a build material for use in fabricating an object within the fabrication chamber. Based on the build material characteristic, a virtual object volume within the fabrication chamber may be determined, wherein the virtual object volume provides a virtual boundary within which to position virtual objects representing objects to be generated in the fabrication chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sergio Gonzalez Martin, Jordi Roca Vila, Scott White, Jordi Gonzalez Rogel
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Patent number: 11784504Abstract: A method for determining parameters of a simplified model of an energy storage system, including an energy storage device and a conversion device, the system being modelled by a complex model including models of the energy storage and conversion devices; the complex model receiving a setpoint power Pac_sp and a state of charge SOCp at input and providing the state of charge SOC of the storage device and the power Pac at the output of the storage device at output; the method including implementing simulations of the energy storage system using the complex model; calculating (a) a table of the variation in the state of charge of the system as a function of the setpoint power and of a state of charge, (b) a table of maximum power as a function of the state of charge; (c) a table of minimum power as a function of the state of charge.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Kangkana Bharadwaj, Franck Al Shakarchi, Franck Bourry
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Patent number: 11777752Abstract: A system, topology, and methods for testing a POE signal downstream from a POE source and configuring a POE device remotely including wired and wireless system for providing signals from remote POE device while providing power to the POE device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Inventor: Ali Eghbal
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Patent number: 11759391Abstract: A method, apparatus and system to facilitate maintenance of a network enabled bathing unit system. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is presented providing a user operable control for receiving from a customer a service request requesting that a technician contact the customer. The user operable control may in some cases be enabled in response to detection of an operational error in the bathing unit system and disabled otherwise. In response to receipt of the service request through the user operable control, a notification message indicating that the customer has requested to be contacted by a technician is sent over a communication network. In some embodiments, a message responsive to the service request is received to cause the GUI to present user-selectable options to enable the customer to selectively permit the remote control and monitoring of the bathing unit system by a specific remote service technician.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GECKO ALLIANCE GROUP INC.Inventor: Benoit Laflamme
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Patent number: 11761662Abstract: Various ways to control the ambient temperature of a room in a structure are described. In one embodiment, a method for intelligently controlling an ambient room temperature in a structure is described, comprising receiving a future outdoor temperature forecast related to a geographic area where the structure is located, and altering a temperature profile for controlling the ambient room temperature based on the future outdoor temperature forecast.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventor: Thomas Thibault
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Patent number: 11762439Abstract: The present invention provides a method of dynamic thermal management applied to a portable device, wherein the method includes the steps of: obtaining a surface temperature of the portable device; obtaining a junction temperature of a chip of the portable device; and calculating an upper limit of the junction temperature according to the junction temperature and the surface temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Pei-Yu Huang, Chih-Yuan Hsiao, Chiao-Pin Fan, Chi-Wen Pan, Tai-Yu Chen, Chien-Tse Fang, Jih-Ming Hsu, Yun-Ching Li
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Patent number: 11754996Abstract: A method for generating a quote for fabrication of a part to be fabricated includes receiving, from a customer device associated with a customer, a design request for a part to be fabricated by a fabrication process, the design request including a three-dimensional model file representing the part to be fabricated and descriptive information including a descriptive datum. The method includes extracting a first feature from the 3D model file, wherein the first feature represents a geometry of the part to be fabricated. The method includes extracting a second feature from the descriptive information, wherein the second feature represents the descriptive datum. The method includes generating, as a function of the first and second features, a quote for fabrication for the part to be fabricated, the quote for fabrication including a cost and time to fabricate the part to be fabricated and sending the quote for fabrication to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: DESPREZ LLCInventors: Jonathan Schwartz, Max Friefeld, Oliver Ortlieb