Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Publication number: 20240071229Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying connected vehicles through invoking maneuvers by vehicles that assist with distinguishing between safety messages having unassociated identifiers originating from the connected vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying surrounding vehicles including indeterminate vehicles from a driving environment using temporary identifiers received from the surrounding vehicles. The method also includes generating trajectories for the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes distinguishing the indeterminate vehicles from communications using the temporary identifiers by observing execution of the trajectories by the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes executing a planning task by a subject vehicle using safety information from the communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Sergei S. Avedisov, Seyhan Ucar, Rui Guo, Onur Altintas
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Publication number: 20240066656Abstract: A dedicated concrete surface polisher comprises a frame and powered chassis substantially resembling a twin rotor riding trowel, equipped with a plurality of diamond polishing pucks, and mounting apparatus for maintaining flat puck contact with the lower concrete surface. Each rotor supports an intermediate drive plate driven by a hydraulic motor. The intermediate drive plate comprises a circular ring plate that is reinforced by a substantially rigid, winged drive collar. Each drive plate supports a plurality of radially spaced apart polishing rotors that project into contact with the concrete surface being treated. Each polishing rotor is secured to the ring plate. The polishing rotors support a plurality of radially spaced apart, downwardly projecting, diamond-equipped pucks that frictionally bear against the concrete surface for polishing and abrading in response to rotor rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Allen Engineering CorporationInventor: Timmy D. Guinn
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Publication number: 20240070341Abstract: An intelligent simulation system for jacket towing system includes a distributed collaborative simulation subsystem configured to provide a communication interface for each subsystem, a comprehensive management and evaluation subsystem configured to generate and issue a simulation subject, an operation control simulation subsystem configured to generate operation instructions, a motion simulation subsystem configured to receive parameters of the subject and the operation instructions, simulate a motion state of the jacket, a tugboat and a towrope in real time, and transmit the simulated motion states to the visual simulation subsystem, and a visual simulation subsystem configured to perform a three-dimensional display for the real-time simulation of the motion states of the jacket, the tugboat and the towrope.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITYInventors: Yingfei ZAN, Lihao YUAN, Duanfeng HAN, Hui JIA
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Publication number: 20240068132Abstract: Nucleation enhancement and/or growth rate improvement of mesophase in pitch compositions derived from hydrocarbon feedstocks can be achieved by: reacting in a reaction zone a blend comprising an isotropic feed and a seeding agent, to produce a reacted pitch having a mesophase content of about 10 vol % to 100 vol %, based on the total volume of the reacted pitch, and a softening point (Tsp) below 400° C.; wherein the seeding agent is about 50 wt % or less, based on the total weight of the blend; wherein the seeding agent has a mesophase content of about 0.01 vol % to 100 vol %, based on the total volume of the seeding agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Manesh Gopinadhan, Stuart E. Smith, Nicole M. Callen, Clarence E. Chase, Kazem V. Edmond, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Eric B. Sirota, Daniel J. Ryan
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Patent number: 11912861Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber compound for tire treads, comprising: 30 to 70 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight rubber (phr) of a cyclopentene ring-opening rubber having a Tg of ?120° C. to ?80° C. and a ratio of cis to trans of 5:95 to 40:60; and 20 phr to 60 phr of a high vinyl polybutadiene rubber.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Engineering & Technology Co.Inventor: Xiao-Dong Pan
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Patent number: 11912541Abstract: A rapid recovery grapple is described. The rapid recover grapple can be used to quick and easily be secured to a vehicle or other item that is submerged in a body of water. The grapple is attached to a winch or other rope or line that can be used to remove the vehicle from the water. For instance, the grapple may be configured to be secured to a wheel or tire of a vehicle. The grapple may have a body and at least one finger that is rotatable relative to the body. For instance, the at least one finger may be first and second fingers rotatable relative to the body. The grapple may be equipped with a biasing member, such as a cord, spring, or other elastic member that automatically biases the at least one finger to a give position.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Search and Recovery Engineering LLCInventor: Nicholas Duane Gebhardt
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Patent number: 11915906Abstract: A method of scanning a wafer includes placing the wafer over a substrate holder inside a processing chamber, where the wafer is placed at a first twist angle relative to a reference axis of a rotatable feedthrough of the processing chamber. The method further includes performing a first pass scan by exposing the wafer to an ion beam while driving two rotary drives disposed in a scanning chamber synchronously to generate a planar motion of the wafer from a rotational motion of the two rotary drives, where the wafer is oriented continuously at the first twist angle when performing the first pass scan.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TEL Manufacturing and Engineering of America, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Gwinn, Paul Consoli, Jerry Negrotti
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Patent number: 11917929Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide for a topological quantum computer that uses edge Majorana quasi-particles to form qubits. An inverted Indium Arsenide (InAs) and Gallium Antimonide (GaSb) heterostructure is disclosed that is a quantum spin Hall insulator. A layer of aluminum can be deposited over a nanotube that is placed across the layers of the heterostructure. Once the nanotube is removed, and a gate is formed on the heterostructure and the heterostructure is cooled so that the aluminum becomes superconducting, helical edge states are formed at the junction of the super conducting aluminum, the InAs, and the GaSb which creates a Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at zero magnetic field. The MZMs can be used to construct a topological qubit for fault-resistant topological quantum computation.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Wei Pan
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Patent number: 11914930Abstract: A method for implementing a modeling tool that generates optimized reduced kinetics models for given operating conditions and a numerical scheme to speed-up kinetics evaluation of turbulent-chemistry coupling during CFD simulations. The tool is capable of predicting ignition and flameholding phenomenon for most propulsion systems, including gas turbine applications. A lumped-parameterization based optimization scheme may generate multi-step quasi-global kinetics models using laminar flame speed as the target data. This scheme may be further extended to include optimization of emission predictions such as CO and NOx.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: COMBUSTION SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Ponnuthurai Gokulakrishnan, Darin Viehe, Andrew Trettel, Michael S. Klassen
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Patent number: 11913839Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an improved method and apparatus for thermal monitoring for a metal additive manufacturing system. An emissivity value of a top surface of an object to be manufactured is determined based, at least in part, on an arithmetic product of a predetermined roughness value and a predetermined slope-related value. The predetermined roughness value and slope-related values are predetermined based, at least in part, on measurements of a previously manufactured object. The system sinters a metal to form the top surface of the object to be manufactured. An infrared sensor detects radiation from at least a portion of the top surface of the object to be manufactured. A temperature is generated based, at least in part, on the detected infrared radiation and the emissivity value and the generated temperature is applied to a temperature utilization component of the system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Samantha Taylor, Eric Christopher Forrest
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Patent number: 11911995Abstract: Composite materials include a steel matrix with structural aramid formed of individual fibers penetrating into the matrix at substantial depth. The fibers typically have defined diameters and large ratios of penetration depth to fiber diameter. Specified methods for forming the composite materials have a unique ability to achieve the large ratios of penetration depth to fiber diameter.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Michael Paul Rowe
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Patent number: 11913438Abstract: An air inflation device includes an inflation unit defining an interior space, a handgrip unit connected to the inflation unit, and a pressure measuring mechanism disposed in the handgrip unit and including a first tubular member defining a receiving space, and a second tubular member defining a flow guide channel that has an air inlet communicating with the interior space, and an air guide hole communicating with the receiving space. A measuring unit is disposed in the receiving space and has a free end pushed to move relative to the first tubular member by air entering the receiving space from the flow guide channel. An indicating unit indicates a position of the free end in the first tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: BETO ENGINEERING AND MARKETING CO., LTD.Inventor: Lopin Wang
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Patent number: 11914374Abstract: A system or method for an imaging system is provided for inspecting a heliostat. The imaging system includes a platform and a camera mounted on the platform and a heliostat having a plurality of mirrored facets. The camera is positioned to acquire a first image that serves as a reference image and a second image that is a reflected image from at least one facet. The camera stores image data associated with the first image and the second image, and wirelessly transmits the stored image data to a computing apparatus. The computing apparatus compares the first image with the second image and determines a performance parameter associated with the heliostat.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Julius Yellowhair
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Patent number: 11914101Abstract: A method for partitioning a search direction when using least squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) is provided. LSRTM may be used iteratively in order to improve imaging accuracy. As part of LSRTM, multiple local line searches may be performed. In particular, image space may be partitioned, such as by using a set of masks. The search direction, such as the gradient, may be partitioned using the set of masks. Local line searches may be performed for each partition of the search direction, resulting in finding respective line search constants. The respective line search constants may then be used for iterating the model in order to improve imaging accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Valeriy V. Brytik, Junzhe Sun, Carey M. Marcinkovich, Hong Zhao, Erik R. Neumann
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Patent number: 11912443Abstract: The present invention relates to a film wrapping machine for a product packing device using a stretch film, including a frame having vertical bars extending upward and spaced apart from each other, a film clamping unit including a pair of suction pads which are moved in a direction of being spaced apart from each other in a state of adsorbing the stretch film so that a front end portion of the stretch film supplied from a film supply device is opened, and a plurality of clamps configured to grip the front end portion of the stretch film opened by the suction pads, receive the stretch film whose upper end is cut and bonded by the film supply device in a wrinkled state, and process the stretch film to be covered on a product in a process of lowering the vertical bars, and a controller which controls operation of the film clamping unit and the film supply device.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YULWON ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang-Sik Mun, Young-Woo Park, Sung-Jin Kim
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Patent number: 11915202Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for an in-vehicle infotainment platform for a vehicle. The in-vehicle infotainment platform includes a memory and an electronic control unit. The memory is configured to store meeting information including video conferencing information or audio conferencing information. The electronic control unit is coupled to the memory. The electronic control unit is configured to automatically connect to a video conference using the video conferencing information or automatically connect to an audio conference using the audio conferencing information.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Katsumi Nagata, Makoto Tanaka
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Patent number: 11914304Abstract: A method to control the density of a three-dimensional photonic crystal template involves changing the irradiation time from at least four laser beams to yield a periodic percolating matrix of mass and voids free of condensed matter from a photoresist composition. The photoresist composition includes a photoinitiator at a concentration where the dose or irradiation is controlled by the irradiation time and is less than the irradiation time that would convert all photoinitiator to initiating species such that the density of the three-dimensional photonic crystal template differs for different irradiation times. A deposition of reflecting or absorbing particles can be patterned on the surface of the photoresist composition to form a template with varying densities above different areas of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Gaurav Singhal, Paul Vannest Braun, Danny J. Lohan, Kai-Wei Lan
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Patent number: 11913053Abstract: Provided is an application of trehalase in fermentative production. The trehalase has amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO.6, SEQ ID NO.7, and SEQ ID NO.8. Provided are methods for producing and applying trehalase, particularly being applied in the production and fermentation of alcohol and an amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Nanjing Bestzyme Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Lin, Hongxian Xu, Hui Peng
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Patent number: 11911657Abstract: A pushup exercise device for various pushup exercises in the prone position on a platform with added resistance is provided. In an embodiment, the device includes a base platform in mechanical communication with a graspable member having a graspable portion. Furthermore, an attachment component is in mechanical communication with the graspable member. Additionally, an unobstructed passage provides a route through which a cable can be attached to the attachment component. In such embodiments, the user is allowed to perform exercises with the pushup exercise device by grasping the graspable portion of the graspable member.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OK Engineering Inc.Inventors: Omar Ismail KashKash, Yousef Ismail KashKash
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Patent number: 11916949Abstract: A computer-implemented method of monitoring activity of devices in a network is provided. The method comprises passively collecting data regarding how the devices access the network, and for each device on the network, identifying all other devices on the network with which the device communicates. All communication traffic from the devices to outside the network is identified. A determination is made if there are any required updates and if patches for the devices execute in a fashion defined as safe. A number of risk indicators for privacy risks are determined according to device communication within the network, device communication to outside the network, and update and patch execution. A visualization of any identified risk factors is displayed to a user through a user interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Vincent Urias, Brian P. Van Leeuwen, Douglas M. Kayatt, Jr.
