Patents Examined by Cedric Johnson
  • Patent number: 11857425
    Abstract: Systems (500, 1000) and methods (1700) for fabricating a soft tissue implant (100, 400). The methods generally involve: receiving implant data representative of the target implant; determining a planned weaving path for forming the soft tissue implant; and communicating the planned weaving path to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventors: Jay M. Patel, Michael G. Dunn, Charles J. Gatt
  • Patent number: 11850112
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a cut line of an aligner are provided. The method comprises: obtaining 3D model data of a plurality of teeth and a gingiva of a subject; obtaining, using the 3D model data, for each one of the plurality of teeth, a respective one of a plurality of intersection loops; translating each one of the plurality of segmentation loops at a predetermined distance from the gingiva to generate a plurality of offset segmentation loops; identifying, within each one of the plurality of offset segmentation loops, a respective buccal portion and a respective lingual portion; sequentially joining respective buccal portions and respective lingual portions associated with each one of the plurality of offset intersection loops, thereby generating a single arch form loop; and applying the single arch form loop to an unfinished aligner to indicate the cut line on the unfinished aligner for producing the aligner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OXILIO LTD
    Inventor: Islam Khasanovich Raslambekov
  • Patent number: 11847383
    Abstract: A method for determining a performance of a subgrade of an expressway section and a processing device thereof are used to accurately calculate a stress, a displacement, a velocity and an acceleration at any position inside the subgrade while analyzing the performance of the subgrade of the target expressway section, in full consideration of the moving speed and vibration characteristics of the vehicle load, the layered characteristics of the expressway and the unsaturated characteristics of the subgrade soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zheng Lu, Chuxuan Tang, Hailin Yao, Yang Zhao, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11836419
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the data visualization system imports and displays, on an electronic device (e.g., a tablet, desktop computing device, etc.), a representation of a construction drawing of a project and corresponding one or more shapes. In one or more embodiments, the one or more shapes may represent an area of the construction drawing. In one or more embodiments, the data visualization system may track project completion and assign colors to the one or more shapes indicating work completion for those shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Estimating Edge LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Good, Bassam Saidi
  • Patent number: 11829687
    Abstract: A method for inversion of a path mileage and offset by using a known coordinate point, comprising: based on coordinates of a known point P and curve elements of a start location and an end location of a curve element, first segmenting or not segmenting the curve element according to a corner of the curve element to obtain a plurality of curve sub-elements (AiBi), and calculating curve elements of the curve sub-elements (AiBi); taking any curve sub-element (AiBi) to calculate a half chord length S and a straight corner ?, and performing precision determination and convergence correction according to S and ?, the point P being always effective with respect to the curve sub-element (AiBi) in the correction process; and performing cyclic convergence calculation to finally obtain a distance from the point P to any point on a chord line or an arc line as an offset of the curve sub-element (AiBi) corresponding to the point P and to obtain a mileage of the curve sub-element (AiBi) corresponding to the point P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiyu Yang, Zhang Yang, Shi Zhou, Kaosheng Wang, Lizheng Liu, Hua Jiang, Yong Yan, Jun He, Taisheng Duan, Ping Guo
  • Patent number: 11829685
    Abstract: A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Domans, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 11821806
    Abstract: The invention discloses a calculation method of ultimate moment resistance and moment-rotation relation for steel beam to concrete-filled steel tube column connections with bidirectional bolts, wherein the calculation method as follows: calculate ultimate moment resistance values of the connection for different failure modes, i.e. yielding of the endplate or T-stub in bending, failure of bolts in tension, failure of column in transverse compression, failure of panel zone in shear, and yielding of the steel beam in bending; the smallest one in the five ultimate moment resistance values is taken as the ultimate moment resistance of the connection; obtain the initial rotational stiffness of the connection by the test, simulation or theoretical calculation; then, the moment-rotation curve of the connection is obtained by substituting the initial rotational stiffness and the ultimate moment resistance into the proposed exponential model for the moment-rotation relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yonghui An, Guojie Zhou, Jinping Ou
  • Patent number: 11809786
    Abstract: An initial building model is read in and a creator indication about the creator thereof is extracted therefrom. The creator indication is taken as a basis for loading a creator-specific object pattern library in which a respective object pattern has an assigned building element data record. The respective object pattern is correlated with objects of the initial building model by a pattern recognition method. At the same time, an object correlating with the respective object pattern is assigned the building element data record assigned to this object pattern as an annotation. The initial building model and the assigned annotations are then taken as a basis for generating and outputting an annotated digital building model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Wolfram Klein, Hermann Georg Mayer
  • Patent number: 11803671
    Abstract: A computing device includes: a memory storing sensor placement rules; a processor connected with the memory, the processor configured to: obtain a floor plan representing a facility, the floor plan including contextual data representing spatial and structural features of the facility; define, based on the contextual data of the floor plan, one or more sensor placement regions within the facility; for each sensor placement region: generate a sensor layout within the sensor placement region based on the sensor placement rules; generate, based on a correspondence between the sensor placement region and the floor plan, a list of sensor devices and corresponding coordinates for each sensor device; and output the list of sensor devices and the corresponding coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David Bellows, Aslam Mohammed
  • Patent number: 11799418
    Abstract: This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for obtaining electronic layout applied to photovoltaic array in the field of equipment installation management. According to the method, the electronic device identifies each first area in a target picture to obtain position information and a module identifier of at least one photovoltaic module in each first area, and may directly obtain an electronic layout based on the position information and the module identifier of each photovoltaic module. In this way, a product identifier of each converter does not need to be manually obtained, and a photovoltaic module does not need to be manually added to the electronic layout. This reduces labor time consumption and improves efficiency of obtaining the electronic layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guilei Gu
  • Patent number: 11797721
    Abstract: A computer system obtains a computer-aided design (CAD) file of the warehouse, and the CAD file describes a floor plan of the warehouse with a plurality of patterns in a plurality of layers. A storage space and a plurality of guard objects are identified on the floor plan of the warehouse. The computer system further obtains inventory information of a plurality of product packages to be stored in the warehouse. Based on the inventory information, a plurality of storage types is identified, and a storage area is determined for a subset of product packages associated with each storage type. In accordance with the storage area needed for each storage type, the storage space is divided into a plurality of storage regions for the plurality of product packages, and each storage region is uniquely associated with a respective one of the storage types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INC.
    Inventor: Lingrui Cai
  • Patent number: 11796175
    Abstract: A method for designing a combustion system which emits less of at least one environmentally-harmful emission is presented. In a describing step, an injector which introduces a fuel into a combustion chamber is described via a CFD code. In a modeling step, combustion kinetics of the fuel are modeled via a pre-processing code as the fuel mixes and reacts with an oxidizer. In a first selecting step, at least one primary scalar is derived during the modeling of the combustion kinetics. In a performing step, a table look-up is performed to obtain at least one data from a look-up database based on the primary scalar. In a second selecting step, at least one secondary scalar is selected in addition to the primary scalar(s). In a specifying step, at least one chemical pathway of formation or destruction for the secondary scalar is specified via a chemistry manager wherein the secondary scalar is representative of the environmentally-harmful emission(s) of the chemical pathway(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea C. Zambon, Balaji Muralidharan, William H. Calhoon, Jr., Ashvin Hosangadi
  • Patent number: 11790125
    Abstract: An automated manufacturing system and method is provided. The system includes a software system and a production system. The software system includes a design module, an engineering module, and a manufacturing module for the design, engineering, and subsequent production of a prefabricated building product. The production system includes a matrix of cells and a plurality of robotic production units configurable with a plurality of production tools. The matrix includes a number of columns and a number of rows, each column representing a product to be worked on and each row representing a type of work to be performed on each product. The system processes a building model and configures each cell to perform specific work with one or more robotic production units and one or more production tools. A prefabricated building product is built in stages as it moves from cell to cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Peyman Poostchi
  • Patent number: 11775704
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimization design method for structural parameters of biomass boiler economizers and belongs to the field of big data learning models. In the present invention, a sample database is established by utilizing historical operating big data of biomass boiler economizers, a heat exchanger residual self-attention convolution model is established based on a CNN and a self-attention mechanism, a plurality of target parameters to be optimized are quickly predicted through machine learning, and multi-target optimization of structural parameters to be optimized in the economizers can be performed in combination with an iterative optimization algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, XIZI CLEAN ENERGY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuiguang Tong, Zheming Tong, Jianyun Zhao, Weixiao He, Haidan Wang, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11775701
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating two-dimensional (2D) images of an environment are provided. The systems includes a measurement device and a processor configured to generate a 2D image of an environment based at least in part on a number of 2D scans, a first translation value, a first translation direction, a second translation value, a second translation direction, a first rotation value, and a second rotation value. Generating the 2D image further includes generating a grid map that includes a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells indicating a probability of a cell area being occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joao Santos, Aleksej Frank, Ahmad Ramadneh, Simon Raab, Oliver Zweigle, Derik J. White
  • Patent number: 11775700
    Abstract: Computer vision systems and methods for detecting anomalous building models are provided. The systems and methods can detect anomalies in building models using one or more of an independent univariate Gaussian algorithm, a multivariate Gaussian algorithm, a combination of a multivariate Gaussian algorithm for continuous features and a frequency histogram algorithm for discrete features, and/or a bin frequency model. The system automatically processes computerized models to determine anomalies, and indicates whether the models are accurate and whether correction is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Insurance Services Office, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Luis Esteban, Eladio Rego
  • Patent number: 11768975
    Abstract: An automatic modeling method for a user-defined vehicle controller includes: configuring a component model; generating a description file; summarizing component input and output signals/parameters; and creating the user-defined vehicle controller. A template and data required by the user is provided to automatically build a vehicle controller port model, and a vehicle controller policy model framework to assist the user to quickly and flexibly build the vehicle controller model is provided. The problem of low efficiency in building various user-defined vehicle controller models for different vehicle types is solved. The user develops a vehicle controller policy model under the given model framework, and the model can run directly without additional configuration of port signals. The user can modify the vehicle controller policy model online in real time, which solves the problem that the application configuration of the vehicle controller is complex and cannot be updated online in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD., CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Yan Yan, Wenbo Li, Fufan Qv, Hong Zheng, Xiaohui Zhang, Changqing Wang, Maodong Fang
  • Patent number: 11763044
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method for automatically grouping design elements on a page. The method comprises generating one or more sets of groups, each set of groups including one or more groups, each group grouping including one or more of the design elements; calculating set cohesion metrics for at least two of the sets of groups, the set cohesion metric calculated for a given set of groups providing a measure of how well the given set of groups has grouped the design elements on the page; determining, based on the cohesion metrics, a final set of groups; and grouping the design elements according to the one or more groups defined by the final set of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANVA PTY LTD
    Inventor: Mars Buttfield-Addison
  • Patent number: 11763046
    Abstract: A simulation suggestion system comprising a server connected with a plurality of clients via a network. The server executes a design engine for generating designs, a simulation suggestion engine for identifying suggested simulations for the designs, and a simulation engine for performing the suggested simulations on the designs. The simulation engine includes one or more simulation tools for performing one or more suggested simulations on a design. A user completes a design of an object via the design engine. The simulation suggestion engine automatically identifies one or more simulation tools that are appropriate for the completed design based on at least one characteristic of the design. The simulation suggestion engine automatically identifies and loads simulation parameters (boundary conditions) for the suggested simulation tools. The suggested simulation tools are then performed on the completed design via the simulation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew John Harris
  • Patent number: 11746645
    Abstract: A virtual sensor system includes one or more electric submersible pumping systems deployed in a reservoir and a computer system that receives data from the one or more electric submersible pumping systems. Field data is provided to computerized statistical models for predicting whether individual electric submersible pumping systems and the reservoir have undergone changes in condition. The statistical models are established with reference data obtained by running electric submersible pumping systems of known working condition in test wells under a variety of controlled conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas ESP, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Vittal, Renee He, Mark Andrew Sporer, Michael Franklin Hughes