Patents Examined by Arleen M. Vazquez
  • Patent number: 11680833
    Abstract: A new DP meter diagnostic system for wet gas flow builds on existing diagnostic techniques. Based on new diagnostic parameters and calculations derived from them, blocked pressure ports or impulse lines can be identified or wet gas established as the cause of an abnormal reading. Further diagnostic techniques can take advantage of the new diagnostic parameters to predict a liquid loading parameter, gas flow rate and fluid flow rate for wet gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Steven
  • Patent number: 11650319
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a process may create a disk for each point of the point cloud, where a size of the disk and the orientation of the disk are respectively based on a computed scale and a non-oriented normal. The process may insert each disk into a search structure that is queried to determine if one or more disks intersect the paths from a given point to each scanner in the point cloud. The process may create an output corresponding to each scanner in the point cloud, where each output includes the number of intersecting disks and the distance from the given point to the scanner. The process may implement a sorting algorithm to assign the given point to a scanner position. An application may utilize the assignment of each point in the point cloud to a scanner position to generate a high-resolution 3D mesh of a scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: Cyril Novel, Alexandre Gbaguidi Aisse
  • Patent number: 11624849
    Abstract: A method for estimating all five transversely-isotropic (TI)-elastic constants using borehole sonic data obtained from at least one subterranean borehole in a transversely isotropic formation. In an embodiment, the method includes: solving for a quasi-compressional qP-wave velocity VqP using inversion algorithms based on exact solutions of the Kelvin-Christoffel equations for plane wave velocities in arbitrarily anisotropic formations, where the five TI-elastic constants may include C11, C13, C33, C55, and C66.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Austin Boyd, Vanessa Simoes, Bikash Kumar Sinha, Smaine Zeroug, Anna Paula Lougon Duarte
  • Patent number: 11507487
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method selects a percentage of a plurality hosts that are coupled together via a network fabric and calculates a number of workloads needed for the percentage of hosts based on a benchmark test to run. A plurality of data compute nodes are configured on one or more host pairs in the percentage of the plurality of hosts to send and receive the number of workloads through the network fabric to perform the benchmark test. A set of measurements is received for sending and receiving the workloads through the network fabric using the plurality of data compute nodes. The method increases the percentage of the plurality of hosts until the set of measurements fails a criteria or the percentage of the plurality of hosts is all of the plurality of hosts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chia Chen, Dongdong Deng, Jin Heo, Shilpi Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11493560
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing the operating state of an electrochemical system in real-time comprising a stack of cells, said method comprising steps for performing voltage measurements of said cells. Said method further comprises: real-time processing of the voltage measurements (61) thus performed, in order to extract specific waveforms (40) therefrom, converting said specific waveforms in order to generate specific points (65) therefrom of the real-time operation of the electrochemical system, and comparing these specific points of the real-time operation and specific points (75) of an off-line operation of the electrochemical system that originate from a conversion of specific waveforms (74) extracted from voltage measurements (78) performed off-line, while the electrochemical system is placed in known operating states including fault states, so as to produce information (69) relating to the real-time operating state of the electrochemical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE, INSTITUT FRANCAIS DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DES TRANSPORTS, DE I'AMENAGEMENT ET DES RESEAUX
    Inventors: Sébastien Faivre, Frédéric Gustin, Daniel Hissel, Fabien Harel, Zhongliang Li
  • Patent number: 11480941
    Abstract: To provide an analysis device, an analysis method, and an analysis program capable of analyzing a machining state while associating machine data output during operation of a machine tool and measured data containing the size of an actual machined part measured by a measuring machine with each other. An analysis device comprises: a collection unit that collects an aggregate of machine data output during operation of a machine tool and an aggregate of measured data containing measurement points where the size of a machined part machined by the machine tool has been measured by a measuring instrument; and a feature extraction unit that selects machine data corresponding to an arbitrary measurement point, in the aggregate of the measured data from the aggregate of the machine data, and extracts the selected machine data as a feature at the arbitrary measurement point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Kamiguchi, Noboru Kurokami, Shinichi Ogawa, Yuuya Miyahara, Yasushi Okajima
  • Patent number: 11474087
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying actual XIC peaks of compounds of interest from samples so that more accurate expected retention times and more accurate expected retention time windows can be calculated. In one system, an actual XIC peak is identified using standard samples. The ratio of the quantity of the compound of interest in any two different samples is known, so this ratios is compared to the intensities of the XIC peak calculated in the two samples to identify an actual XIC peak. In another system, an actual XIC peak is identified using information about other compounds of interest in a plurality of samples. It is known that the XIC peaks of compounds of interest in the same samples have a similar distribution of retention times across those samples, so the distributions of retention times of XIC peaks are compared to identify actual XIC peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Gordana Ivosev
  • Patent number: 11460491
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor in which a current sensor that detects a current of a power line as a change in a magnetic field and a voltage sensor that detects a voltage of the power line using capacitive coupling are integrally formed. The transmission of signals related to substantially the same sections is omitted in order to effectively compress an output signal from the sensor and an output signal from the voltage sensor. When the amplitude and phase of a fundamental wave which are estimated from the output signal from the sensor and the amplitude and phase of harmonics are encoded, the amplitude and phase of the harmonics are relativized with a value for the fundamental wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Informetis Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Arashima, Takashi Shibuya, Mototsugu Abe, Masayuki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 11460480
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring turbulent gas flux using high-speed vertical wind speed measurements (e.g., on the order of 5-10 Hz or more frequently) and low-speed gas content measurements (e.g., on the order of 5 Hz or less frequently), without the need for the sophisticated and expensive high-speed hardware to separate gas samples (e.g., into accumulation bags) according to updrafts and downdrafts. A time series of high-speed vertical wind speed data is used as a guide to distinguish between updrafts and downdrafts. When vertical wind speed is upward (updraft), the low-speed gas content is recorded into a data structure in one location, or marked with one flag. When vertical wind speed is downward (downdraft), the low-speed gas content is recorded into a different location, or marked with a different flag. Eddy Accumulation or Relaxed Eddy Accumulation computations can be performed using the stored gas content data to determine gas flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Li-Cor, Inc.
    Inventors: George G. Burba, Dayle McDermitt, Xiaomao Lin, Liukang Xu, Dave Johnson
  • Patent number: 11454442
    Abstract: An abnormality determination device for a transporting refrigeration apparatus includes a determination unit that determines an abnormality of the transporting refrigeration apparatus installed on a container. In pre-trip inspection that is conducted before the container is loaded on a transporting device, a test operation is performed for test operating modes. The pre-trip inspection is conducted multiple times. The abnormality determination device is configured to obtain at least part of time series test data related to a same one of the test operating modes in the pre-trip inspection. The determination unit is configured to determine whether the transporting refrigeration apparatus has an abnormality based on a change trend of the time series test data related to a same one of the test operating modes when the pre-trip inspection is conducted multiple times, and when there is no abnormality, estimate an abnormality occurrence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kiichirou Satou
  • Patent number: 11454569
    Abstract: An engine health diagnostic apparatus is provided for analysing health of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. The apparatus comprises feature generation circuitry for processing vibration sensor data received from a vibration sensor detecting vibration at a component of the reciprocating internal combustion engine 4 and generating a feature vector indicating multiple features of the sensor data. Processing circuitry processes the feature vector using a trained classification model which is defined by model parameters characterising a decision boundary of healthy operation learnt from a training set of feature vectors captured during healthy operation of the engine. The model generates an engine health indication providing a quantitative indication of deviation of the feature vector from the decision boundary of healthy operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: STS INTELLIMON LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Smart, Neil Grice, David Brown, Martin Gregory, David Garrity
  • Patent number: 11428832
    Abstract: Systems and methods for calibrating multiple electronic devices are described herein. Such methods may include obtaining, by a processor, data from a plurality of reference electronic devices, analyzing, by a processor, the data and calibrating, by the processor, the electronic device based on the analyzed data obtained from the plurality of reference electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: IMAGE INSIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon A. Drukier, Eric P. Rubenstein, Yonatan B. Rubenstein, Joshua C. Kessler, Peter R. Solomon, Marek A. Wojtowicz
  • Patent number: 11397206
    Abstract: The present invention related to the field of power system protection and control, presents a voltage travelling wave differential protection method considering the influence of frequency-dependent parameters, which provides more accurate and rapid fault identification. The technical scheme of the present invention is as follows: a calculation method of voltage travelling-wave differential protection for VSC-HVDC transmission lines, taking the influence of the frequency-dependent parameters into consideration, the steps are as follows: calculating a characteristic impedance and propagation coefficient of the frequency-dependent transmission line in time domain, collecting voltage and current signals at the both ends of the transmission line and then calculating the forward and backward voltage travelling wave, respectively, comparing a differential value of voltage travelling wave with a preset threshold value to determine whether the internal fault occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Tianjin University
    Inventors: Botong Li, Mingrui Lv, Bin Li
  • Patent number: 11391842
    Abstract: An imaging sensor is configured to sense an environment through which a vehicle is moving. A method for controlling the imaging sensor includes receiving sensor data generated by the imaging sensor of the vehicle as the vehicle moves through the environment, determining (i) a lower bound for a vertical region of interest (VROI) within a vertical field of regard of the imaging sensor, the VROI comprising a virtual horizon, using a first subset of the sensor data, and (ii) an upper bound for the VROI within the vertical field of regard of the imaging sensor, using at least a second subset of the sensor data, where the first subset is smaller than the second subset. The method also includes causing the imaging sensor to be adjusted in accordance with the determined lower bound of the VROI and the determined upper bound of the VROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Luminar, LLC
    Inventor: Dmytro Trofymov
  • Patent number: 11385214
    Abstract: An elemental analysis of rock samples from outcrop sections or wells is performed. Data quality checks, data analysis, and filtering are performed on the rock samples, including de-spiking of elemental profiles and elemental ratios. First and second derivatives for the elemental profiles and the elemental ratios are calculated. Samples and depths that exceed thresholds are determined. The process is repeated for the elemental profiles and the elemental ratios that are related with boundary determination and carbonate or siliciclastic sediments. Additional filters are applied to at least a subset of the elemental profiles and elemental ratios that are related with boundary determination and carbonate or siliciclastic sediments to enhance the boundary identification. Possible boundaries in depths of the outcrop sections or wells are determined by summarizing the additionally filtered elemental profiles and the additionally filtered elemental ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Nikolaos A. Michael, Neil W. Craigie, Christian Scheibe, Rainer Zuhlke
  • Patent number: 11353335
    Abstract: One or more devices in a data analysis computing system may be configured to receive and analyze movement data, and determine driving trips associated driving data based on the received movement data. Movement data may be collected by one or more mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and the like. One or more driving trips may be identified based on the movement data collected by the mobile devices, including acceleration data, speed data, and rotation rate data. After identifying a driving trip, the previously collected movement data and/or additional driving data may be analyzed to determine additional driving trip data, such as the driver, vehicle, and/or additional driving factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier, Jeffrey Fitzgerald, Eric D. Huls, Joseph Kleinhenz, William Loo, Matthew James Manzella, Philip Peter Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11353358
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for interactive weight management that includes generating a number of sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn based on a current weight Cw, a desired weight loss amount (?W), a desired weight Dw, a curve tension r, and a timeframe (?) in which the weight loss amount (?W) is to be achieved, wherein the timeframe (?) includes a number (n) of time periods that each correspond with a pair of successive ones of the sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn. The method includes sending the sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn and the number (n) of time periods to a weight measuring device that is associated with a user. Based on the condition Wa1>gi<Wa2 or based on the condition W a ? ? 1 < g i + g i + 1 2 ? ? and ? ? W a ? ? 2 < g i + 1 + g i + 2 2 , new sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn are generated and are updated in the weighing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Rasimo Systems LLC
    Inventor: Sarfraz Khokhar
  • Patent number: 11353487
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting capacitance of a filter capacitor of an inverter are provided, wherein each output terminal of the inverter is connected to one terminal of a first filter capacitor through an inductor, and the other terminals of all first filter capacitors are interconnected. The method includes: outputting a first voltage {dot over (U)}1i through an ith output terminal of the inverter, i=1, 2 . . . N, i?j, 1?j?N, i and j are positive integers, and N is a total quantity of output terminals of the inverter; obtaining ?ik and determining a ratio of |?ij| to |?ik|, where ?ik is a current of an inductor connected to a kth output terminal when the ith output terminal outputs the first voltage {dot over (U)}1i, k=1, 2 . . . N, and k is a positive integer; and determining capacitance of a first filter capacitor connected to the jth output terminal based on ?ij, {dot over (U)}1i, and the ratio of |?ij| to |?ik|.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Yin, Zhiwu Xu, Yuandong Meng
  • Patent number: 11353347
    Abstract: Disclosed examples include methods and systems to measure fluid flow, including a transmit circuit to provide a transducer transmit signal based on a transmit pulse signal, a receive circuit to receive a transducer receive signal, an ADC to sample a receive signal from the receive circuit and provide a sampled signal, and a processing circuit that computes a transit time based on the sampled signal, and provides the transmit pulse signal including a first portion with a frequency in a first frequency band, and a second portion with a second frequency outside the first frequency band to mitigate undesired transducer vibration, where the second frequency is outside a transducer frequency bandwidth of the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Anand Dabak, Luis Reynoso Covarrubias, Srinath Ramaswamy, Srinivas Lingam
  • Patent number: 11346705
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for interactive weight management that includes generating a number of sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn based on a current weight Cw, a desired weight loss amount (?W), a desired weight Dw, a curve tension r, and a timeframe (?) in which the weight loss amount (?W) is to be achieved, wherein the timeframe (?) includes a number (n) of time periods that each correspond with a pair of successive ones of the sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn. The method includes sending the sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn and the number (n) of time periods to a weight measuring device that is associated with a user. Based on the condition Wa1>gi<Wa2 or based on the condition W a ? ? 1 < g i + g i + 1 2 ? ? and ? ? W a ? ? 2 < g i + 1 + g i + 2 2 , new sub-goal weights g0, g1, . . . gn are generated and are updated in the weighing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Rasimo Systems LLC
    Inventor: Sarfraz Khokhar