Patents Examined by Eunhee Kim
  • Patent number: 11232243
    Abstract: Model metadata for each of a plurality of models is stored. The model metadata includes a statistical analysis technique identifier and one or more model input data identifiers. A request to execute a model is received. The request includes data identifying one of the plurality of models, and a model execution start date and end date. On the model execution start date, execution of the model associated with the model execution request is commenced. Outputs of the executed model are stored in a database. The outputs are associated with a model instance identifier, information describing a context for execution of the model, and model output type information. The outputs are retrieved, using the model instance identifier, for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Shannon Terry, Christopher P. Nicholas, Benjamin A. Ogorek, Victoria Bondoc
  • Patent number: 11216758
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and related systems for precision crop modeling and management using the same. Precision crop modeling and management can be incorporated into various methods for growing plants such as crop plants and various methods for managing the growth of such plants in a particular field. The methods generally utilize in-season information relating to weather conditions actually experienced by the field to prepare mid-season, updated crop management plans. A crop management plan is determined using a crop model incorporating a variety of inputs and plant-specific material and energy balances to specify one or more grower-controlled management parameters. An updated plan for a given field can be followed by a grower to increase crop yield and/or optimize one or more other crop or field parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Bruno Basso
  • Patent number: 11205022
    Abstract: A method and system for optimizing structural parameters of an electromagnetic device is described that includes performing operations. The operations include performing a time-forward simulation of a field response in a simulated environment describing the electromagnetic device and extracting decomposition components from the field response to compute a loss value. The operations further include backpropagating the loss value backwards in time using the decomposition components to determine an influence of changes in the structural parameters of the electromagnetic device on the loss value. The operations further include generating a revised description of the electromagnetic device by updating the structural parameters to reduce the loss value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Lu, Martin Schubert, Brian Adolf
  • Patent number: 11188693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented (3) method for modeling at least one light source, comprising: a step of receiving input data (22) comprising data (24) of characteristics of materials forming the light source; and a step of creating, from data (24) of characteristics of the received materials, as well as geometric data (14) and data (26) of characteristics of light emission from the light source, a data model (16) representing the light source, said geometric data (14) describing the light source, and defining a plurality of volumes and surfaces; wherein, during the creation of the data model: the data (24) of characteristics of the materials is linked to the volumes and surfaces of the geometric data (14), and the data (26) of characteristics of light emission from the light source is linked to the surfaces of the geometric data (14); and a step of storing the data model (16) in the computer (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIS
    Inventor: Dominique Chabaud
  • Patent number: 11170140
    Abstract: A method for qualifying a gas turbine engine component includes creating a first set of substantially identical gas turbine engine components via a uniform manufacturing procedure, determining a set of as-manufactured parameters of each gas turbine engine component in the first set, and determining a variance model of the first set. The variance model includes a representative parameter profile, which includes a plurality of component parameter profiles. The sum of each of the component parameter profiles is the representative parameter profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Snyder, Kurt R. Heinemann, Glenn Levasseur
  • Patent number: 11163925
    Abstract: A simulator models an energy and power system. The simulator allows a user to manipulate digital representations of nodes, which represent one or more components of power and energy assets. The simulator also allows a user to manipulate digital representations of edges, which connect the nodes, to form a power and energy network. A plurality of object classes correspond to the nodes and edges. The object classes comprise class inheritance structures so that constraints of a parent class are retained by one or more child classes. The interface on the simulator allows a user to model a power and energy system by allowing the user to connect the nodes with edges to construct a power and energy system, wherein the object classes for the nodes, when executed by the simulator, implement one or more dynamical models to model the power and energy assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Enernet Global, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Schneider
  • Patent number: 11146191
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulation system including a predetermined feedback system having at least a predetermined control block structure corresponding to a predetermined device-side configuration; a holding unit holding impulse response information for calculation that is information on an impulse response relating to the predetermined device-side configuration; a first response calculation unit calculating a time response of the predetermined device-side configuration to a predetermined input value by convolution processing using the impulse response information for calculation and the predetermined input value; and a second response calculation unit calculating a response of the simulation system to a command value input to the simulation system by using the time response of the predetermined device-side configuration calculated by the first response calculation unit. According to this configuration, simulation accuracy of a control system is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Urabe, Mamoru Egi
  • Patent number: 11135012
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: HeartFlow, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11125915
    Abstract: A weather forecasting system has memory for storing satellite image data and numerical weather prediction (NWP) model data, which indicates predicted atmospheric conditions for a geographic region. At least one processor is programmed to identify a cumulus cloud within the satellite image data and to define a zone of influence around the cumulus cloud. The zone of influence represents a boundary for the NWP model data to be used by the processor for predicting whether the cumulus cloud will produce a weather event (e.g., precipitation, convective storm, etc.) in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Inventor: John R. Mecikalski
  • Patent number: 11106840
    Abstract: Systems and methods for models utilizing siloed data are disclosed. For example, data stored with and/or available to one or more systems may be siloed such that it may not be aggregated and/or shared with other systems. The presently-disclosed systems and methods generate and utilize predictive layers and models to allow each system to predict outcomes using its own data and then models are shared between systems to allow each associated system to gain the benefits of the data of other systems without aggregating such data or otherwise sharing the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Clover Health
    Inventors: Ian Blumenfeld, Brian Johnson, Brian Lucena
  • Patent number: 11106841
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for optimizing structural parameters of a physical device are described. The method includes receiving an initial description of the physical device describing the structural parameters within a simulated environment. The method further includes performing a simulation of the physical device in response to an excitation source to determine a performance metric of the physical device. The simulation environment includes one or more absorbing boundaries for attenuation of an output of the excitation source during the simulation. The method further includes recording attenuated field values of the simulated environment associated with the attenuation during the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Brian Adolf, Martin Schubert, Jesse Lu
  • Patent number: 11093661
    Abstract: In most of today's computer aided design (CAD), there are many definitive relationship between how components used in a CAD design relate to other components and feature in the same design. These relationships include sizing (a component is sized based upon another component), placement and orientation (a component is position and orientated based upon another component or feature). In addition, certain components can only be used with other specific components within the same design. Various attributes are placed on the CAD components and features that relate to each other that will be used to automatically size, place and orientate components, as well as make sure the component is valid to be used within the design intent. This saves designers considerable amount of design time as well as ensuring accurate component to component relationship as used in their design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: PTC Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Amadon, Parapura Rajkumar, Malay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11093671
    Abstract: Structural design systems, methods, and computer readable media for selective simulation of coverage in a floor plan are disclosed. The system may include a processor configured to: access a floor plan demarcating multiple rooms; perform a machine learning method, semantic analysis, or geometric analysis on the floor plan to identify at least one opening associated with at least one room from the multiple rooms; access a functional requirement associated with the at least one opening; access at least one rule associating the functional requirement with the at least one opening; define at least one area of interest or disinterest using the at least one rule and the functional requirement; access a technical specification associated with the functional requirement; generatively analyze the at least one room, the technical specification and the area of interest or disinterest to define a solution that conforms to the functional requirement; and output the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BEAMUP LTD.
    Inventors: Tom Segev, Stephane Levy, Guy Austern, Yonatan Goyhman
  • Patent number: 11090120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing parameters of an orthopaedic procedure for a particular patient, including parameters relating to the anatomic and biomechanic fit of an implant or implant system implanted into the patient's joint. These systems and methods may utilize patient-specific information gathered pre-operatively in conjunction with optimization algorithms to determine an optimal implant design and an optimal position and orientation for implantation of the implant into the particular patient's joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian W. McKinnon, Ruxandra Cristiana Marinescu Tanasoca, Randy C. Winebarger, William L. Bowers, Jr., James Bennett Wiebe, III, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Sean M. Haddock, Ryan Lloyd Landon
  • Patent number: 11055452
    Abstract: In an example, a method includes acquiring, at a processor, first object model data representing a first three-dimensional object. A portion of the first object model data representing an object region to be concealed may be identified using the processor. The first object model data may be transformed, using the processor, to determine second object model data representing a modified first three-dimensional object which is distended in the object region represented by the identified portion of the first object model data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott White, Helen Balinsky, Tanguy Delume
  • Patent number: 11054547
    Abstract: Generally, a pedestrian wind environment analysis and display system operable to support one or more client computing devices. Specifically, a browser based graphical user interface which depicts a graphical representation of a spatially referenced three-dimensional model space including a plurality of wind velocity indicators each associated with wind velocity values derived from wind velocity data measured at corresponding location coordinates in the spatially referenced three dimensional model space, each of plurality of wind velocity indicators can be selected in the graphical user interface to cause depiction of a wind velocity graph which plots the associated measured wind velocity values as wind direction and wind speed to characterize a pedestrian wind environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CPP Incorporated
    Inventors: Yarrow Jacob Fewless, Kevin Devaughn Ott, Scott Matthew Parrish
  • Patent number: 11055448
    Abstract: Systems and methods for SMT processes using uninterpreted function symbols. A method includes receiving a configuration model. The method includes computing a variant for the configuration model that includes a non-linear function. The method includes identifying input/output pairs in the non-linear function of the variant. The method includes executing a process on an external application for each input/output pair to produce an output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs. The method includes comparing the output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs with the output corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs. The method includes, when the output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs is equal to the output corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs, then the system stores an indication that the variant is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Richard Neuhäuβer, Gabor Schulz
  • Patent number: 11048833
    Abstract: A method of calibrating stiffness of support structures of an assembly including a main structure and support structures includes modeling the assembly using finite elements, with a theoretical stiffness of the support structures, in moderate support load conditions, calculating calculated reaction forces for each support structure and measuring corresponding measured reaction forces. The stiffness of each support structure is calibrated by determining a calculated stiffness of each support structure based on comparison between the calculated reaction forces and the measured reaction forces. The modeling and simple measurements during an operational phase, in which the support loads are moderate, thus enable the calibration of the stiffness of the support structures. An associated method of modeling the assembly and a corresponding computer program are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Milan Tasic
  • Patent number: 11048831
    Abstract: The current invention concerns a method, a system, and a computer program product for suggesting a detail in a building information model. Based on an initial identification of a detail in relation to two construction elements in a building information model, the invention provides for suggesting to include the detail in relation to another pairs of elements with partially or fully corresponding properties. Based at least in part on acceptance or refusal, a module based on artificial intelligence is trained in order to decide for further pairs of elements whether to suggest inclusion of the detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: BRICSYS NV
    Inventors: Erik De Keyser, Tjerk Gauderis, Luc De Batselier
  • Patent number: 11041816
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reconstructing a parameter of a lithographic process. The method comprises the step of designing a preconditioner suitable for an input system comprising the difference of a first matrix and a second matrix, the first matrix being arranged to have a multi-level structure of at least three levels whereby at least two of said levels comprise a Toeplitz structure. One such preconditioner is a block-diagonal matrix comprising a BTTB structure generated from a matrix-valued inverse generating function. A second such preconditioner is determined from an approximate decomposition of said first matrix into one or more Kronecker products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Maxim Pisarenco, Frank Stefan Schneider, Markus Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kraaij, Martijn Constant Van Beurden