Patents Examined by Akm Zakaria
  • Patent number: 11009572
    Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for obtaining imaging data using a MRI system configured to provide accurate images with high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) using superconducting magnets with field strengths in the range of 0.5 Tesla (T) to 3 T. The MRI includes a scanning bore deployed within a Cryogen-Free (CF) conduction-cooled superconducting magnet. The CF may have two stages, in which one stage cools a radiation shield down to a mid-level temperature, such as 35-80 degrees Kelvin (K), and the second stage cools the cold-mass further down to about 3-6 degrees K. The two-stage CF cryocooloer is used to cool target bodies of the superconducting magnet system and the receiving RF coil to create a higher SNR relative to when RF coils are not cooled. Sapphire sheets or bars may be used to cool the RF coils because sapphire conducts heat but not electricity, reducing electrical noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Shahin Pourrahimi
  • Patent number: 11009540
    Abstract: An energy supply for a test device includes an energy source configured to provide energy via an inductive element for use by test circuitry; and an energy recovery circuit electrically couplable to the energy source and configured to direct unused energy from the inductive element to the energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Steven T. Clauter, Gary B. Rogers, Norvell Eric Austin, Bradley T. Wolford
  • Patent number: 11005241
    Abstract: A method of distributing an electrically insulating liquefied gas mixture to high-voltage electrical equipment from a storage means containing an insulating gas mixture, including: heating the insulating gas mixture to a temperature such that the contents of the storage means are a homogeneous fluid; and withdrawing the insulating mixture resulting from step a) to fill high-voltage electrical equipment by raising the temperature of the mixture resulting from step a), wherein, during step b), a set value for regulation is applied at variable pressure, calculated in real time based on weighing the storage means, when the change in the set value of pressure is less than 0.2 bar per 1 kg/m3 of change in density, and then a set value for regulation is applied at constant temperature until the storage means is emptied of its content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
    Inventors: Frédéric Loray, Hervé Dulphy, Ariel Satin
  • Patent number: 10996241
    Abstract: A probe card board in the present disclosure includes a plurality of through holes designed to receive a probe brought into contact with a measurement object. The probe card board is composed of silicon nitride based ceramics. The probe card board includes a first surface opposed to the measurement object and a second surface located opposite to the first surface. The probe card board contains a plurality of crystal phases of metal silicide. Metal constituting the metal silicide is at least one kind selected from among molybdenum, chrome, iron, nickel, manganese, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, cobalt and tungsten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Imai
  • Patent number: 10997882
    Abstract: A display device including: a panel unit including N data lines; and a data line driver unit including N channels, wherein the data line driver unit includes a channel amplifier unit, and a short detection device for detecting whether or not a short has occurred between two data lines among the N data lines, wherein N is an integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Oh Kim, Sung Jin Lim, Chul Ho Choi, Ryan Wang, Dashih Chang, Ha Joon Shin, Hanss Su, Jin Soo Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Kyung Gyu Park, Sam Liu, Yao Sheng Liang
  • Patent number: 10996367
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems that use magnetic complexes in wellbore monitoring. A well monitoring system may comprise magnetic complexes disposed in a subterranean formation, wherein the magnetic complexes each comprise a first magnetic portion, a second magnetic portion, and a spacer portion; and an electromagnetic interrogator, wherein the electromagnetic interrogator comprises an electromagnetic source and an electromagnetic detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Satyan Gopal Bhongale, Li Gao, Daniel Joshua Stark
  • Patent number: 10989737
    Abstract: There is described a method for testing equipment using a test box unit and a mate-in interface having a unique mate-in interface ID, the equipment comprising a plurality of contacts. The method comprises connecting a mate-in interface to the test box unit, connecting the mate-in interface to the contacts of the equipment; selecting a mate-in interface for testing using the unique mate-in interface ID; in the mate-in interface as selected, selecting any one of the contacts for testing; and testing the any one of the contacts of the selected mate-in interface to ground and against each other one of the contacts by inputting a signal and measuring the signal through the selected mate-in interface. There can then be automatically created a list of connections for the equipment making use of the detected or otherwise obtained unique mate-in interface ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ZIOTA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Alain Lussier
  • Patent number: 10989832
    Abstract: A method and system for pad alignment may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking a measurement with the electrode with at least one operating frequency, correcting the measurement to account for local formation dip, constructing a window with a predetermined size H, identifying a number of adaptive filters to be utilized, extracting one or more frequency components from the measurement with the adaptive filters, identifying a semblance value of a reference dataset and a target dataset, assembling the semblance values for the reference dataset and the target dataset, identifying the semblance values of the reference dataset and target datasets over the range of relative pad shifts, identifying a pad shift, and forming one or more images of the pad shirt or the semblance of the reference dataset and target data set. The system may comprise a mandrel, one or more pads, and electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Bin Ewe, Ruijia Wang
  • Patent number: 10983152
    Abstract: A device for determining impedance at a data pin of a communication interface. In one embodiment, the device includes a current source configured to selectively inject a test current to the data pin. The device also includes a sensing circuit for sensing a first test voltage corresponding to a voltage at the data pin without the test current injected, and a second test voltage corresponding to another voltage at the data pin with the test current injected. The sensing circuit determines the impedance at the data pin based on the first test voltage and the second test voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR INC., DIALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (TIANJIN) LIMITED
    Inventors: Fuqiang Shi, Jianming Yao, Weihai Huang, Yong Li, John William Kesterson
  • Patent number: 10983180
    Abstract: An integrated fluxgate magnetic gradient sensor includes a common mode sensitive fluxgate magnetometer and a differential mode sensitive fluxgate magnetometer. The common mode sensitive fluxgate magnetometer includes a first core adjacent to a second core. The first and second cores are wrapped by a first excitation wire coil configured to receive an excitation current that affects a differential mode magnetic field. The differential mode sensitive fluxgate magnetometer includes a third core adjacent to the first core and a fourth core adjacent to the second core. The third and fourth cores are wrapped by a second excitation wire coil configured to receive an excitation current that affects a common mode magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Martijn Fridus Snoeij, Viola Schaffer, Gebhard Haug
  • Patent number: 10983184
    Abstract: Polarizable diamond materials and methods for obtaining nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of samples external to the diamond materials are described. The diamond materials can include 12C, 13C, substitutional nitrogen, and nitrogen vacancy defects in a crystalline lattice, wherein the substitutional nitrogen concentration is between 10 ppm and 200 ppm, the nitrogen vacancy concentration is between 10 ppb and 10 ppm, and the 13C concentration is greater than 1.1% and not more than 25%. Methods for obtaining nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can include optically pumping a diamond material to generate electron spin hyperpolarization in nitrogen vacancy centers, transferring the electron spin hyperpolarization to nuclei of the sample, and generating a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum by applying a magnetic field to the sample, exciting the sample with a radio frequency pulse, and detecting a nuclear magnetic resonance response from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Anna Parker, Jonathan King, Christophoros Vassiliou, Alexander Pines, Claudia Avalos, Birgit Hausmann
  • Patent number: 10976363
    Abstract: A wafer inspection method was provided. A motorized chuck stage is controlled by a control rod to be displaced between an upper position and a lower position of an adjustment range along a Z-axis direction, to change a relative position of a wafer on the motorized chuck stage relative to a probe. The control rod is movable between an upper limit position and a lower limit position in a displacement range. The wafer inspection method includes: determining a position of the control rod in the displacement range based on a measurement signal; determining a moving direction and a moving distance of the control rod based on a change of the measurement signal; generating a control signal based on the moving distance of the control rod; and controlling, based on the control signal, the motorized chuck stage and a camera stage to be displaced the same distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MPI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin-Lin Chih, Chien-Hung Chen, Guan-Jhih Liou, Yu-Hsun Hsu
  • Patent number: 10971095
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes source lines and gate lines, pixel electrodes, switching elements, a source driver, a gate driver, and a failure inspection circuit. The source lines and the gate lines are disposed in a lattice form. The pixel electrode is disposed in a pixel region defined by the source line and the gate line. The switching element is disposed corresponding to the pixel electrode. The source driver drives the source lines. The gate driver drives the gate lines. The failure inspection circuit is connected to the source lines or the gate lines, and performs inspection of the source lines or the gate lines. The failure inspection circuit includes monitor input signal lines, monitor output signal lines, a determination circuit that detects voltage levels of output signals from the monitor output signal lines, and an expected value comparison circuit that compares outputs from the determination circuit with expected values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PANASONIC SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Suzuki, Akihiro Yoshizawa, Hideki Nozaki, Satoshi Endou, Kenji Fukuta, Hiroaki Goto
  • Patent number: 10969409
    Abstract: Miniaturized current sensors are disclosed herein. The miniaturized current sensors may employ a coiled coil and a return coil around the current path to be measured. The miniaturized current sensors may be integrated to microelectronic devices and components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Victor Mario Torres
  • Patent number: 10969512
    Abstract: A metal detector detects when a target that is a desirable metal object is located within a medium. A signal is transmitted into the medium. A response signal is received from the medium. The response signal includes a secondary medium response signal from the medium and includes a secondary target response signal from the target when the target is located within the medium. The response signal is amplified to produce an amplified signal. Compensation circuitry perform transmit coil transfer function compensation on the amplified signal to produce a compensated signal. A notch module removes a resistive component of the secondary medium response signal from the compensated signal. A signal vector resistive component demodulator produces a vector resistive component output signal from output of the notch module. A vector reactive component demodulator produces a vector reactive component output signal from the output of the notch module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Tarsacci LLC
    Inventor: Dimitar Gargov
  • Patent number: 10962581
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit test system can include a first semiconductor integrated circuit tester configured to conduct a first test of a first characteristic of one of a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuits, wherein the first test is completed by the first semiconductor integrated circuit tester within a first test time. A second semiconductor integrated circuit tester, can be coupled to the first semiconductor integrated circuit tester, where the second semiconductor integrated circuit tester can be configured to conduct a second test of a second characteristic of each of the plurality of the semiconductor integrated circuits simultaneously, wherein the second test is completed within a second test time that is at least about two orders of magnitude more than the first test time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Nyeong Yun, Jae Moo Choi, Jong Pill Park, Jae Hong Kim
  • Patent number: 10959670
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for determining or quantifying tinnitus conditions within a patient, including determining if a patient has some form of tinnitus as well as categorizing or determining the severity of a tinnitus condition, if present. The described systems and methods are also useful in evaluating the efficacy a tinnitus treatment by measuring the degree of reduction of tinnitus symptoms in a patient. The described systems and methods also provide a personalized profile for each specific patient, allowing for more effective treatment options as various forms or causes of tinnitus become apparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Fatima T. Husain, Yuliy Baryshnikov, Benjamin Joseph Zimmerman, Ivan Thomas Abraham
  • Patent number: 10955484
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of battery state monitoring technologies, and in particular, to a battery state monitoring method and apparatus. The method is: monitoring a voltage value and a current value of an output end of a battery; determining a battery impedance value based on the voltage value; calculating an impedance voltage-drop value based on the current value and the battery impedance value; calculating an open circuit voltage of the battery based on the voltage value and the impedance voltage-drop value; when a difference of the open circuit voltage between two consecutive calculations is greater than or equal to a threshold, judging that the battery state is abnormal; and when the difference of the open circuit voltage between two consecutive calculations is determined to be lower than the threshold, updating the battery impedance value based on the voltage value and the current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Wu, Juan Jin, Kefei Wang
  • Patent number: 10945631
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnet assembly for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system. The assembly includes a yoke having a frame member movably positioned by a magnet movement unit. A first arm extends laterally from a first end of the frame member and includes a first magnet-pole assembly having a first central axis. A second arm extends laterally from a second end of the frame member and includes a second magnet-pole assembly. The second magnet-pole assembly includes a second central axis and configured to orient towards with the first magnet-pole assembly while maintaining a gap therebetween, for positioning a body portion for magnetization. A first and a second clamp member are each mounted about a peripheral side surface of the magnet-pole assemblies, respectively. The clamp members are configured to attenuate a leakage flux emanating from the magnet pole assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sigwa Company, LLC
    Inventor: Fengling Zhang
  • Patent number: 10944133
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by at least one of a plurality of battery monitoring circuits a frequency synchronization signal and measurement frequency information from a host controller, wherein the at least one of the plurality of battery monitoring circuits is connected to at least one of a plurality of battery blocks; generating, by the at least one of the plurality of battery monitoring circuits, a periodic signal based on a clock signal having a clock frequency, the measurement frequency information, and the frequency synchronization signal; obtaining, by the at least one of the plurality of battery monitoring circuits, at least one measurement value of the at least one of the plurality of battery blocks using the periodic signal; and transmitting, by the at least one of the plurality of battery monitoring circuits, the at least one measurement value to the host controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Stefano Marsili, Andreas Berger, Klaus Hoermaier, Guenter Hofer, Christoph Sandner