Patents Examined by An T Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11979472
    Abstract: A digital communication module for a self-contained medical device communication platform is disclosed herein. In an example, a digital communication module is communicatively coupled to a therapy module of a medical device for relaying medical device data to an electronic medical record (“EMR”) server that is connected to a medical network. The digital communication module is connected to at least one other digital communication module via a wireless proprietary network that is separate from the medical network. The digital communication module determines that the medical device data from the medical device is to be transmitted, via the wireless proprietary network, to one of the other digital communication modules that is connected to the EMR server via the medical network. The other of the digital communication modules receives, and then routes the medical device data to the EMR server via the medical network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: Bernd Wittner, Aghohgo Ekpruke
  • Patent number: 11975396
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge machining fixture includes a fixture body, two or more electrically conductive face contacts seated in the fixture body, and two or more electrically resistive point contacts seated in the fixture body. The electrically conductive face contacts and the electrically resistive point contacts define a 3-2-1 alignment system to locate an additively manufactured article relative to the fixture body during an electrostatic discharge machining operation. Electrostatic discharge machining arrangements and methods of supporting additively manufactured workpieces during electrostatic discharge machining operations are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Samo, Lukas Shea, Thomas J. Ocken
  • Patent number: 11977960
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a workflow application generates and evaluates designs that reflect stylistic preferences. In operation, the workflow application determines a target style based on input received via a graphical user interface (GUI). Notably, the target style characterizes a first set of designs. The workflow application then generates stylized design(s) based on stylization algorithm(s) associated with the target style. Subsequently, the workflow application, displays a subset of the stylized design(s) via the GUI. A stylized design included in the subset of stylized design(s) is ultimately selected for production via the GUI. Advantageously, because the workflow application can substantially increase the number of designs that can be generated and evaluated based on the target style in a given amount of time, relative to more manual prior art techniques, the overall quality of the stylized design selected for production can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Hooman Shayani, Mark Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 11978618
    Abstract: A component of an ion optical device is manufactured. The component comprises aligned first and second electrode sets. A first material is machined to provide a part-machined first electrode set that comprises the first electrode set attached to a frame part of the first material. A second material is machined to provide a part-machined second electrode set that comprises the second electrode set attached to a frame part of the second material. The component of the ion optical device is assembled by aligning the part-machined first and second electrode sets. Subsequent to aligning the part-machined first and second electrode sets, the part-machined first electrode set is further machined to separate the first electrode set from the frame part of the first material and the part-machined second electrode set is further machined to separate the second electrode set from the frame part of the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH
    Inventor: Wilko Balschun
  • Patent number: 11977964
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary implementations of systems and methods for utilizing a machine learning model to identify logical inconsistencies. An aspect of the disclosed embodiments includes a method comprises receiving, via a network, a document related to a user; receiving, from the machine learning model, a predetermined label and a value associated with the predetermined label wherein the value is associated with a location on the document; storing the predetermined label and the value associated with the predetermined label in a structured data object; identifying, based a consistency rule, a logical inconsistency in the structured data object; generating a visualization based on the logical inconsistency and providing, at a display device, the structured data object, wherein the structured data object includes the visualization of the logical inconsistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PJM PRO, LLC
    Inventor: Rees Winstead
  • Patent number: 11978634
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes performing a first implantation process on a semiconductor substrate to form a deep p-well region, performing a second implantation process on the semiconductor substrate with a diffusion-retarding element to form a co-implantation region, and performing a third implantation process on the semiconductor substrate to form a shallow p-well region over the deep p-well region. The co-implantation region is spaced apart from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate by a portion of the shallow p-well region, and the dee p-well region and the shallow p-well region are joined with each other. An n-type Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) is formed, with the deep p-well region and the shallow p-well region acting as a well region of the n-type FinFET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sih-Jie Liu, Chun-Feng Nieh, Huicheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11977039
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for determining variability of cryo-EM protein structures from a set of cryo-electron microscope images. The method includes: performing iterative optimization, each optimization iteration including: determining the updated variability coordinates for individual images from the set of images using a current value of the variability components; determining the updated variability components for multiple images of the set of images, using the updated value of the variability coordinates, by solving a set of linear equations, the linear equations comprising a sum of weighted compositions of projection and back-projection operators, the equations are solved by arranging the equations into a block-diagonal matrix form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Ali Punjani
  • Patent number: 11978513
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating patterns for memory using threshold voltage difference are disclosed. An embodiment includes circuitry and a memory array including a plurality of memory cells. The circuitry can select a group of memory cells from the plurality of memory cells, program each memory cell of the group to a first data state, determine a first threshold voltage of each memory cell of the group, program each memory cell of the group to a second data state, perform a number of snapback events on each memory cell of the group, program each memory cell of the group to the first data state, determine a second threshold voltage of each memory cell of the group having the first data state, and generate a pattern for the memory array based, at least in part, on a difference between the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongyuan Lu, Robert J. Gleixner
  • Patent number: 11980046
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a display device that includes a first reflector electrode and a second reflector electrode that is separated from the first reflector electrode. The display device further includes an isolation structure that overlies the first and second reflector electrodes. The isolation structure includes a first and second portion. The first portion overlies the first reflector electrode and has a first thickness. The second portion overlies the second reflector electrode, has a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and is separated from the first portion of the isolation structure. The display device also includes a first optical emitter structure and a second optical emitter structure that respectively overlie the first portion and the second portion of the isolation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Chang Chang, Ming Chyi Liu
  • Patent number: 11978526
    Abstract: A data processing circuit and a fault mitigating method are provided. The method is adapted for a memory having at least one fault bit. The memory provides a block for data storage. A difference between an output of a value of a plurality of bits input to at least one computing layer in a neural network and a correct value is determined. The bits are respectively considered the at least one fault bit. A repair condition is determined based on the difference. The repair condition includes a correspondence between a position where the fault bit is located in the block and at least one non-fault bit in the memory. A value of at least one non-fault bit of the memory replaces a value of the fault bit based on the repair condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Skymizer Taiwan Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Ming Liu, Kai-Chiang Wu, Chien-Fa Chen, Wen Li Tang
  • Patent number: 11974549
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes a pressure sensor, a wireless circuit, and a case accommodating the pressure sensor and the wireless circuit in a waterproof manner, and is left inside a stomach of a livestock animal to measure pressure inside the stomach and wirelessly transmit acquired pressure data. The case includes a cylindrical case body and a lid member closing an opening of the case body. The lid member has a measurement hole extending between inside and outside of the lid member and a protection wall part located outside of the case body. The measurement hole has a pressure-receiving pressure measurement part inside for measurement of the pressure and is closed. The measurement hole includes a first linear part and a second linear part intersecting in T shape with the first linear part, and has distal ends open to an outer face of the protection wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 11978582
    Abstract: A coil component having a structure that can easily realize a desired positional relationship between a cover member and a bobbin portion is provided. The coil component includes a bobbin portion, a magnetic core inserted through the bobbin portion, and a coil wound around the bobbin portion, and a cover member covering the bobbin portion by being externally fitted to the bobbin portion. In the coil component, the cover member and the bobbin portion abut each other, and at least one of the cover member and the bobbin portion elastically biases the other in a first direction parallel to a mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Maesawa, Takashi Haga
  • Patent number: 11975453
    Abstract: A method includes: accessing a virtual model defining a geometry of a workpiece; navigating an optical sensor about the workpiece; accessing an image of the workpiece; detecting a marker, on the workpiece, depicted in the image; defining a first workpiece region of the workpiece bounded by the marker; defining a toolpath within the first workpiece region based on a geometry of the first workpiece region represented in the virtual model; assigning a first target force to the first toolpath; and during a processing cycle accessing a first sequence of force values output by a force sensor coupled to the sanding head, navigating the sanding head across the first workpiece region according to the first toolpath, and based on the first sequence of force values, deviating the sanding head from the first toolpath to maintain forces of the sanding head on the workpiece proximal the first target force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GrayMatter Robotics Inc.
    Inventors: Avadhoot L. Ahire, Cheng Gong, Rishav Guha, Satyandra K. Gupta, Ariyan M Kabir, Sagarkumar J. Panchal, Brual C. Shah
  • Patent number: 11975398
    Abstract: An example method of joining a first substrate with a second substrate includes applying a filler material between respective portions of the first substrate and the second substrate, the filler material including an electrically conducting and/or magnetic material, wherein the filler material and the respective portions define a joint; applying an alternating magnetic field to the joint to heat the electrically conducting material to a reaction temperature; in response to heating the electrically conducting material to the reaction temperature, energizing the joint using energy released from the electrically conducting material; cooling the joint to join the first substrate with the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Oqab Dietrich Induction Inc.
    Inventors: Haroon B. Oqab, George B. Dietrich
  • Patent number: 11975401
    Abstract: A detection mechanism of a detection device includes a pulsed laser oscillator that emits a pulsed laser beam; an f? lens facing a workpiece held by a chuck table; a thermal excitation section that applies the pulsed laser beam emitted from the pulsed laser oscillator to an upper surface of a wafer through the f? lens and generates an ultrasonic wave propagated in a spherical form by thermal excitation; and an image forming section that forms an image by capturing a reflected laser beam influenced by vibration of the ultrasonic wave generated by the thermal excitation section, propagated through the inside of the workpiece, reflected by a lower surface of the workpiece, and returned to the upper surface of the workpiece, by an aperture synthesis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiji Nomaru
  • Patent number: 11978063
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a device comprises obtaining, from a plurality of hardware modules of the device, a plurality of serial numbers associated with the plurality of hardware modules. Each hardware module is associated with a respective serial number. The method further comprises obtaining, from a provisioning system, one or more ownership vouchers corresponding to the plurality of serial numbers. The method further comprises verifying, for each hardware module of the plurality of hardware modules, whether to trust said hardware module based at least in part on the one or more ownership vouchers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Naren Mudivarthy, Reda Haddad
  • Patent number: 11975407
    Abstract: A nozzle holder for a laser processing head of a laser processing system is provided. The nozzle holder includes a substantially cylindrical hollow body shaped to matingly engage a laser nozzle. The hollow body defines a longitudinal axis extending therethrough and a plurality of apertures dispersing around a circumference of the hollow body. The nozzle holder also includes a plurality of pawls configured to operably engage the laser nozzle within the hollow body by extending through the plurality of apertures of the hollow body. The nozzle holder further includes a sleeve substantially surrounding the hollow body and the plurality of pawls. The sleeve includes a pawl retractor that is movable along the longitudinal axis to physically displace the plurality of pawls axially and radially relative to the longitudinal axis for disengagement of the plurality of pawls from the laser nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Bouthillier, Carmen Harp, David K. Knapp
  • Patent number: 11975562
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a double-sided bead board, comprising: a base; a first pattern of recessed designs on a first side of the base; and a second pattern of recessed designs on a second side of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Cam West
  • Patent number: 11978822
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device 1 includes a step of providing first phosphor sheets 11, a step of providing second phosphor sheets 12, a step of providing a light-emitting element 13, a selection step of selecting a combination of one of the first phosphor sheets 11 and one of the second phosphor sheets 12 on the basis of a wavelength conversion characteristic of each of the first phosphor sheets 11 and a wavelength conversion characteristic of each of the second phosphor sheets 12, a step of obtaining a plurality of first phosphor pieces 11c and a plurality of second phosphor pieces 12c from the selected first phosphor sheet 11 and the selected second phosphor sheet 12, and a step of disposing one of the first phosphor pieces 11c and one of the second phosphor pieces 12c on or above the light-emitting element 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suguru Beppu
  • Patent number: D1025674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Consolidated Manufacturing International, LLC
    Inventors: Reuben E. Clark, Gary K. Weise