Patents Examined by Crystal J Barnes Bullock
  • Patent number: 12283817
    Abstract: There is provided a method, a system, a storage medium and an orchestrator to enable a computer resource of a computing pool. In particular, the methods and apparatuses of the present disclosure are configured to enable a computing resource (16) of one or more computing pools (17), the computing resource (16) being in communication with a converter (13) of a renewable energy source (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: FUNDACIÓ PER A LA UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA
    Inventors: Borja Martínez Huerta, Xavier Vilajosana Guillen, Cristina Cano Bastidas, Marc Guerrero Molero
  • Patent number: 12276431
    Abstract: A control device, an air conditioner, and a control method thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gunhyuk Park, Kanghyeok Kwon, Jeongmi Woo, Yunsue Jung
  • Patent number: 12275198
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite structure includes accessing design data for the composite structure that is manufactured according to a process including forming a layup of plies of fibers using a machine tool. The method includes applying the design data to an ANN classifier to classify a localized inconsistency of a type of inconsistency on the composite structure, the localized inconsistency spatially referenced to a location on the composite structure. The method includes performing a root cause analysis to identify one or more of process parameters as a potential cause of the type of inconsistency, and modifying one or more of the geometric model, the layup design, or values of the one or more of the process parameters to address the potential cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Carla E. Reynolds, Dustin D. Fast, Andrew L. Bauer, Troy Winfree, Steven M. Shewchuk, Alexander M. Rubin, Samuel J. Tucker
  • Patent number: 12269204
    Abstract: A printer head (200, 300, 400) for a 3D-printing apparatus, comprising a nozzle (210, 310, 450) arranged to deposit one or more adjacently arranged filaments of printing material to form at least one layer of an object to be produced. The nozzle comprises at least one exterior surface (220) configured to be brought into abutting contact with a peripheral edge (280) of the at least one layer, and configured to be guided along the peripheral edge of the at least one layer and on a predetermined distance into the at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Tjin Sjoe Kong Tsang, Coen Theodorus Hubertus Fransiscus Liedenbaum, Hendrik Jan Kettelarij, Hans Kroes
  • Patent number: 12265378
    Abstract: An industrial internet of things with independent management platform and control methods thereof are provided. The service platform and sensor network platform use a centralized arrangement, and the management platform uses an independent arrangement. When the management platform receives sensing detection data transmitted by the object platform, the sensing detection data is presented to the user platform after being processed by a sub-platform. When the management platform sends a control command to the object platform, a control parameter of a type of production line stage is calculated by a corresponding sub-platform and sent to the object platform by the sub-platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Bin Liu, Haitang Xiang, Xiaojun Wei, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 12259696
    Abstract: Method and environment controller for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance. A predictive model generated by a neural network training engine is stored by the environment controller. The environment controller determines at least one room characteristic. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value and at least one set point. The environment controller executes a neural network inference engine, which uses the predictive model for inferring the one or more commands for controlling the appliance. The inference is based on the at least one environmental characteristic value, the at least one set point and the at least one room characteristic. The environment controller transmits the one or more commands to the controlled appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: DISTECH CONTROLS INC.
    Inventor: Francois Gervais
  • Patent number: 12242232
    Abstract: Inference server and environment controller for inferring one or more commands for controlling an appliance. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value (for example, at least one of a current temperature, current humidity level, current carbon dioxide level, and current room occupancy) and at least one set point (for example, at least one of a target temperature, target humidity level, and target carbon dioxide level); and forwards them to the inference server. The inference server executes a neural network inference engine using a predictive model (generated by a neural network training engine) for inferring the one or more commands based on the received at least one environmental characteristic value and the received at least one set point; and transmits the one or more commands to the environment controller. The environment controller forwards the one or more commands to the controlled appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DISTECH CONTROLS INC.
    Inventors: Francois Gervais, Carlo Masciovecchio, Dominique Laplante
  • Patent number: 12228891
    Abstract: Method and environment controller for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance. A predictive model generated by a neural network training engine is stored by the environment controller. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value (for example, at least one of a current temperature, current humidity level, current carbon dioxide level, and current room occupancy). The environment controller receives at least one set point (for example, at least one of a target temperature, target humidity level, and target carbon dioxide level). The environment controller executes a neural network inference engine, which uses the predictive model for inferring the one or more commands for controlling the appliance based on the at least one environmental characteristic value and the at least one set point. The environment controller transmits the one or more commands to the controlled appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DISTECH CONTROLS INC.
    Inventors: Francois Gervais, Carlo Masciovecchio, Dominique Laplante
  • Patent number: 12222120
    Abstract: A thermostat for a building zone includes at least one of a model predictive controller and an equipment controller. The model predictive controller is configured to obtain a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps, use a predictive model to predict a temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps, and generate temperature setpoints for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by optimizing the cost function subject to a constraint on the predicted temperature. The equipment controller is configured to receive the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller and drive the temperature of the building zone toward the temperature setpoints during each of the plurality of time steps by operating the HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Matthew J. Ellis, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal, Brennan H. Fentzlaff
  • Patent number: 12206240
    Abstract: A system for analyzing energy usage measures one or more parameters indicative of energy usage for a plurality of sub-circuits, where the sampling rate for the measuring is substantially continuous, and automatically transmits information related to at least one of the measured parameters at a rate that enables monitoring of current energy usage. The system further detects a significant change in a measured parameter, determines whether the significant change in the measured parameter is caused by a change in energy usage, and automatically transmits information related to the significant change in the measured parameter caused by the change in energy usage after detecting the significant change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MELROK, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Roger Kamel, Paul W. Donahue
  • Patent number: 12206245
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically and automatically adjusting the load on a power grid through micro adjustments of equipment coupled to the consumer side of the power grid. The system allowing for the automatic adjustment of equipment to either decrease or increase instantaneous power demand on the grid in response to peak demands and demand valleys to smooth the demand curve on the power grid. The system able to balance demand within the grid to adjust demand within various different portions of the power grid and allowing for reducing the power buffer supplied by electric utilities to reduce waste and carbon emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Budderfly, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Subbloie, Christopher J. DeBenedictis, Kenneth Buda, Jaan Leemet
  • Patent number: 12175826
    Abstract: A charging locker including a charging station. The charging locker can receive a power connection to a user device via the charging station. The charging locker can actuate a lock for a door of the charging locker to a locked state. the charging station can provide power that charges the user device. Responsive to receiving a user event when the lock for the door of the charging locker is in the locked state, the charging locker can actuate the lock for the door of the charging locker to an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vikram Rengarajan, Subil Mathew Abraham
  • Patent number: 12174597
    Abstract: Systems and methods may use a low speed controller in addition to an economic optimizer to achieve long-term objectives without significantly disrupting or destabilizing an electrical system. Specific long-term objectives include maximizing a capacity factor incentive and regulating battery degradation, but the methods and systems herein can be extended to more long-term objectives. A low speed controller can adjust one or more parameters of a cost function based on the relation between the projected state of the electrical system and the one or more parameters to effectuate a change to the electrical system to attempt to comply with the long-term objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Enel X North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Rebecca G. Wolkoff
  • Patent number: 12152798
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus having a refrigerant circuit, in which a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, and an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a pipe and refrigerant circulates in the pipe, includes an indoor fan configured to supply an indoor air to the indoor heat exchanger, and a controller configured to control the compressor and the indoor fan. The controller is configured to run the compressor at a start of a cooling operation, start running the indoor fan at less than a set minimum wind velocity after a first set time has elapsed since the compressor started operating, run the indoor fan at the set minimum wind velocity after a second set time has elapsed since the indoor fan started operating at less than the set minimum wind velocity, and run the indoor fan at a set wind velocity after a third set time has elapsed since the indoor fan started operating at the set minimum wind velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Masahiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 12145814
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for automated engaging of a truck trailer at a loading dock. Sensors measure a distance and an angle of alignment between the incoming trailer and a wall of the loading dock. An outside lighting system guides a truck driver backing the trailer toward the dock door. A vehicle restraint system fixates the trailer within the loading dock in response to signals from the sensors. An overhead dock door opens once the trailer is successfully fixated by the vehicle restraint system. A dock leveler deploys after the overhead dock door opens. An inside dock light indicates to dock personnel that the trailer is ready to be serviced. Once servicing of the trailer is finished, an automated release of the trailer from the loading dock may be initiated by PLC communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Niagara Bottling, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Avalos
  • Patent number: 12137535
    Abstract: A thermal management system for a computing device often includes one or more internal heat pipes and conductive structures to move heat from one or more heat-generating components within the computing device to a heat exchanger. For an air-cooled device, one or more exhaust fans blow air across the heat exchanger to transfer heat from the heat exchanger to the air before it is exhausted out of the computing device. While operation of the exhaust fans may be necessary to maintain device temperature below one or more thresholds, exhaust fan operation may be optimized to maximize the user experience. The presently disclosed technology applies distinct exhaust fan speed and/or direction profiles for each of one or more exhaust fans within the computing device to maximize the user experience, particularly to reduce or avoid blowing hot air at the user's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Donghwi Kim, Gregory Allen Nielsen, Benjamin Francis Walker
  • Patent number: 12135534
    Abstract: A fuel supply control apparatus configured to supply carbon dioxide-origin fuel to a power generation facility configured to generate electric power by at least using the carbon dioxide-origin fuel and a common fuel different from the carbon dioxide-origin fuel. The fuel supply control apparatus includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to set a supply time and supply amount of the carbon dioxide-origin fuel to be supplied to the power generation facility. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire fuel information on a use fuel including the common fuel and the carbon dioxide-origin fuel to be used in the power generation facility. The electronic control unit is configured to variably adjust and set each of the supply time and the supply amount based on the fuel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koseki Sugiyama, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12117779
    Abstract: A time that is a predetermined period before an operation start time which is a time in a schedule at which a first device starts an operation is obtained as a prompt start time, a pattern extended or compressed along a time axis from an initial pattern indicating a temporal change in an intensity of a prompt is generated; and a second device is caused to start outputting the prompt at the prompt start time and to output the prompt with an intensity indicated by the pattern generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 12111619
    Abstract: Example embodiments allow for networks of hybrid controllers that can be computed efficiently and that can adapt to changes in the system(s) under control. Such a network includes at least one hybrid controller that includes a dynamic sub-controller and a learned system sub-controller. Information about the ongoing performance of the system under control is provided to both the hybrid controller and to an over-controller, which provides one or more control inputs to the hybrid controller in order to modify the ongoing operation of the hybrid controller. These inputs can include the set-point of the hybrid controller, one or more parameters of the dynamic controller, and an update rate or other parameter of the learned system controller. The over-controller can control multiple hybrid controllers (e.g., controlling respective sub-systems of an overall system) and can, itself, be a hybrid controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The University of Chicago
    Inventors: Henry Hoffmann, Lester Teichner, Benjamin Vear
  • Patent number: 12097002
    Abstract: In a coupled control mode, an operator directly controls movement of an associated manipulator with an input device while indirectly controlling movement of one or more non-associated manipulators, in response to commanded motion of the directly controlled manipulator, to achieve a secondary objective. By automatically performing secondary tasks through coupled control modes, the system's usability is enhanced by reducing the operator's need to switch to another direct mode to manually achieve the desired secondary objective. Thus, coupled control modes allow the operator to better focus on performing tasks and to pay less attention to managing the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicola Diolaiti, David Q. Larkin, Catherine J. Mohr