Patents Examined by Daniel R Miller
  • Patent number: 11680480
    Abstract: Provided are embodiments for hydrocarbon reservoir development that include the following: identifying proposed well locations within a reservoir boundary, for each location, developing a well plan by: (a) identifying layers of the reservoir located below the proposed location; (b) iteratively assessing the layers (from deepest to shallowest) to identify a deepest “suitable” layer that is not dry, congested, or unsuitable for gas production; and (c) performing the following for the identified layer and the location: (i) determining a borehole configuration for the location; (ii) determining a completion type for the location; and (iii) determining a stimulation treatment for the location, where a well plan for the location (e.g., for use in developing the reservoir) is generated that specifies some or all of a well location, the target layer, a borehole configuration, a completion type, and a stimulation treatment that corresponds to those determined for the proposed well location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hussain Aborshaid, Adel Al-Qahtani
  • Patent number: 11680832
    Abstract: A terminal acquires measurement values from a plurality of sensors that sense a measurement target with measurement levels set therein and controls the sensors. The terminal includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the measurement values from the sensors; a measurement value determination unit configured to determine whether a first measurement value acquired from a first sensor among the sensors exceeds a predetermined threshold; a validity determination unit configured to determine validity of the first measurement value on the basis of measurement values acquired from other sensors when it is determined that the first measurement value exceeds the predetermined threshold; a measurement level determination unit configured to determine that the measurement level of the first sensor is to be raised when it is determined that the first measurement value is valid; and an instruction unit configured to transmit instruction information for changing the measurement level of the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Tamiya, Hironori Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11675036
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shimming device. The shimming device may include at least one supporting component each of which is configured with a plurality of wire groove groups. Each of the plurality of wire groove groups may include a plurality of wire grooves. Each of the plurality of wire grooves may be in a closed shape. The closed shapes formed by the plurality of wire grooves may be nested. The shimming device may further include wires arranged in the wire grooves of the plurality of wire groove groups of the at least one supporting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuguang Liu, Man Fan, Jiwen Yang, Yuan Gao, Lifeng Wang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 11668760
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optimization method, a unit, and an electronic device of a shifted frequency (SF)-based electromagnetic transient simulation, comprising: determining a current amplitude and a voltage frequency based on a node voltage and a branch current calculated from a shifted frequency on a basis of a current time step; determining an optimal shifted frequency of the current time step based on the current amplitude and the voltage frequency; and updating the shifted frequency by adopting the optimal shifted frequency of the current time step for calculating a node voltage and a branch current of the next time step. The method, the unit, and the electronic device provided in the present disclosure may gradually update and optimize the shifted frequency in the simulation process so to enable the shifted frequency to reach the best, thus ensuring the accuracy of output current and voltage simulation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Shilin Gao, Ying Chen, Shaowei Huang, Chen Shen, Zhendong Tan
  • Patent number: 11669080
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of detection results of a plurality of sensors that have detected a state of a detection target at predetermined time intervals and an estimator configured to estimate a specific sensor among the plurality of sensors on the basis of a plurality of mode information acquisition process data elements for enabling various types of feature extraction according to properties of the abnormality obtained from a plurality of detection results acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Seiji Tsutsumi, Miki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11668411
    Abstract: A valve abnormality detecting device includes an opening acquiring portion to acquire a valve opening value; a pressure acquiring portion to acquire a pressure value of operating device air of an operating device for a valve; a stability-time detecting portion configured to detect a stable-opening state in which the valve opening value acquired by the opening acquiring portion 1 is substantially constant; a frictional force detecting portion configured to detect a difference between a maximum pressure value and a minimum pressure value of the operating device air in the stable-opening state as an index value indicating a frictional force at a sliding portion of the valve; and an abnormality determining portion configured to determine that an abnormality may have occurred in the valve in a case where a frequency of occurrence of reduction in which the index value falls below a specified value is an abnormal frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Fumiaki Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11662394
    Abstract: An apparatus for smart frequency selection in a ground monitor apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an energy measurement circuit that measures an energy level at a test frequency in an equipment grounding conductor between a load and a power source and an energy comparator that compares the measured energy level with an energy threshold. The apparatus includes a continuity signal circuit that injects a continuity signal with a frequency at the test frequency in the equipment grounding conductor at an energy level above the energy threshold in response to the energy comparator determining that the measured energy level is below the energy threshold. The continuity signal is an indicator for continuity of the equipment grounding conductor between the power source and load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Intermountain Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale V. Curtis, Robin Vice
  • Patent number: 11662412
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of suppressing noise in an environment of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method comprising estimating a transfer function based on multiple calibration measurements obtained from the environment by at least one primary coil and at least one auxiliary sensor, respectively, estimating noise present in a magnetic resonance signal received by the at least one primary coil based at least in part on the transfer function, and suppressing noise in the magnetic resonance signal using the noise estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hyperfine Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Rearick, Gregory L. Charvat, Matthew Scot Rosen, Jonathan M. Rothberg
  • Patent number: 11662405
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electromagnet coil for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes: generating a coil surface representation defining a surface to contain the electromagnet coil; defining a set of performance metric functions, the set including a mutual inductance function defining mutual inductance between the electromagnet coil and a second electromagnet coil; defining a performance functional based on the coil surface representation and the set of performance metric functions; optimizing the performance functional; generating a current density pattern over the coil surface representation based on the optimized performance functional; and obtaining coil windings defining the electromagnet coil from the current density pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Geron Andre Bindseil, Chad Tyler Harris
  • Patent number: 11656307
    Abstract: The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system component. The magnetic resonance imaging system component comprises an acoustic shield (124) for a magnetic resonance imaging cylindrical magnet assembly (102). The acoustic shield comprises a cylindrical portion (125) configured for being inserted into a bore (106) of the magnetic resonance imaging cylindrical magnet assembly and for completely covering the bore of the magnetic resonance imaging system. The cylindrical portion comprises a smooth exposed surface (126) configured for facing away from the magnetic resonance imaging cylindrical magnet assembly. The cylindrical portion further comprises an attachment surface (127). The acoustic shield further comprises an acoustic metamaterial layer (128) attached to the attachment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Erik Amthor, Peter Forthmann
  • Patent number: 11656308
    Abstract: An assembly for providing a B0 magnetic field for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the assembly comprising: a plurality of rods extending along a common longitudinal direction and positioned to form a bore extending along the common longitudinal direction, the plurality of rods including a first rod, the first rod comprising: ferromagnetic segments, each having a net magnetization in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the common longitudinal direction; and non-ferromagnetic segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Hyperfine Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Cedric Hugon, Michael Stephen Poole
  • Patent number: 11656283
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for determining dispersibility, comprising (a) selecting two random points (1-1?) of an electrode material layer, (b) finding a difference ?1 of an absolute value of two voltage values by measuring voltages between the two points (1-1?) in different current directions, (c) selecting two other random points (2-2? to n-n?, where n is an integer that is equal to or greater than 2) that are different from two points selected in the process (a) and, and repeating the processes (a) and (b) at least once to find ?2 to ?n, (d) finding a mean value of differences ?1 to ?n of the absolute values obtained by repeating the process (b) and the process (c), and (e) finding a standard deviation of ?1 to ?n from the mean value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hye Park, Seok Koo Kim
  • Patent number: 11650351
    Abstract: A method for employing a unified semi-supervised deep learning (DL) framework for turbulence forecasting is presented. The method includes extracting historical and forecasted weather features of a spatial region, calculating turbulence indexes to fill feature cubes, each feature cube representing a grid-based 3D region, and building an encoder-decoder framework based on convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) to model spatio-temporal correlations or patterns causing turbulence. The method further includes employing a dual label guessing component to dynamically integrate complementary signals from a turbulence forecasting network and a turbulence detection network to generate pseudo-labels, reweighing the generated pseudo-labels by a heuristic label quality detector based on KL-Divergence, applying a hybrid loss function to predict turbulence conditions, and generating a turbulence dataset including the predicted turbulence conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yanchi Liu, Jingchao Ni, Bo Zong, Haifeng Chen, Zhengzhang Chen, Wei Cheng, Denghui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11644342
    Abstract: A method of determining a position of a first object includes receiving a first component and a second component of a vector field jointly generated by the first object and by a second object. The method further includes using the second component of the vector field to provide a compensation quantity indicating a contribution of the second object to the first component of the vector field. Further, the method includes determining the position of the first object using the first component of the vector field and the compensation quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stephan Leisenheimer, Richard Heinz, Hyun Jeong Kim, Joo Il Park
  • Patent number: 11644925
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes a detection unit that repeatedly generates a detection signal according to a degree of proximity of the object, a drift simulation unit that generates a drift simulated signal that undergoes a change having correlation with a drift in the detection signal due to repeated generation of the detection signal in the detection unit, and a correction unit that corrects the detection signal according to the change in the drift simulated signal at least one of when repeated generation of the detection signal in the detection unit is started and when an interval for repeatedly generating the detection signal in the detection unit is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11643924
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining permeability of subsurface formations are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: positioning a sample of the subsurface formation in a measurement cell, fluidly connecting an inlet and an outlet of the sample to an upstream reservoir and a downstream reservoir, respectively, flowing a fluid through the sample from the upstream reservoir to the downstream reservoir, measuring changes of an upstream pressure associated with the upstream reservoir and a downstream pressure associated with the downstream reservoir in a measurement time period, and determining a matrix permeability of the subsurface formation based on measurement data before the upstream pressure and the downstream pressure merge at a merging time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jilin Jay Zhang, Hui-Hai Liu, Jewel Duncan
  • Patent number: 11644974
    Abstract: A time-sharing wave recording method is provided. Firstly, N1 operating variables are selected, and the storage addresses of the N1 operating variables are mapped to N1 index variables. Then, N2 record channels in a sequential relationship are provided, and a mapping relationship between each record channel and the N1 index variables is established. Then, the values of the operating variables are assigned to a first record channel of the N2 record channels in response to a rising edge of a pulse of a clock signal and a start triggering signal, the values of the operating variables are sequentially assigned to the rest of the N2 record channels in response to a rising edge of each pulse of the clock signal and the start triggering signal, and the assigned values of the operating variables for the N2 record channels are recorded to the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guojin Xu, Guoqiao Shen, Yunfeng Liu, Qingsong Tao, Changliang Liu, Jinfa Zhang
  • Patent number: 11639711
    Abstract: A method for identifying underperforming agents in a multi-agent cooperative system includes receiving information relating to the performance of each agent in the multi-agent system, calculating an estimated extracted resource value of each agent based on the received information, comparing the estimated extracted resource value of each agent to a threshold value, calculating a performance index based on the comparison and identifying an agent as an under-performing agent based on the performance index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexis Motto, Amit Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11635798
    Abstract: An example computing system may include computer module bays, a power subsystem to supply power to computer modules installed in the computer module bays, and a system controller. The power subsystem may also implement overcurrent protection (OCP) based on an OCP threshold parameter. The system controller may include dynamic OCP adjustment logic that repeatedly updates the OCP threshold parameter during normal operation of the computing system. The dynamic OCP adjustment logic may update the OCP threshold parameter by determining a power requirement of the computing system based on a current configuration of the computing system, determining a new OCP threshold based on the power requirement, and instructing the power subsystem to change a value of the OCP threshold parameter to a new value based on the new OCP threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Christopher C. Wanner
  • Patent number: 11630137
    Abstract: A baseboard management controller (BMC) installed in a server or other hardware device may perform operations to monitor and safeguard metering data for one or more hardware component of a server that includes the BMC. The BMC may periodically transmit a metering data message over a network to an event destination, where the metering data message includes the utilization levels of the hardware component during a period of operation. In response to detecting a loss of communication with the event destination, the BMC may perform lossy compression of the monitored utilization levels for the hardware component, wherein the lossy compression produces a utilization value that is representative of the monitored utilization levels, but uses less data storage capacity. The utilization value may be transmitted to the event destination instead of the monitored utilization levels in response to determining that communication with the event destination has been reestablished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Keith M. Campbell, Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud, Sumeet Kochar