Patents Examined by Hugh M. Jones
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Patent number: 10684391Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of master sensor responses with a master sensor in a set of training fluids and obtaining node sensor responses in the set of training fluids. A linear correlation between a compensated master data set and a node data set is then found for a set of training fluids and generating node sensor responses in a tool parameter space from the compensated master data set on a set of application fluids. A reverse transformation is obtained based on the node sensor responses in a complete set of calibration fluids. The reverse transformation converts each node sensor response from a tool parameter space to the synthetic parameter space, and uses transformed data as inputs of various fluid predictive models to obtain fluid characteristics. The method includes modifying operation parameters of a drilling or a well testing and sampling system according to the fluid characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dingding Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher M. Jones, Darren Gascooke, Tian He
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Patent number: 10684441Abstract: A method may include identifying, by a device, a set of components of an optical device. The method may include determining, by the device, a set of design criteria based on the set of components of the optical device. The method may include identifying, by the device, an initial heater configuration based on the set of design criteria. The method may include determining, by the device, a set of optimization parameters for determining a target heater configuration based on the set of design criteria. The method may include performing, by the device and based on the set of optimization parameters, an optimization procedure to alter the initial heater configuration to determine the target heater configuration. The method may include providing, by the device, information identifying the target heater configuration based on performing the optimization procedure.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLCInventors: Roozbeh Ahmadi, Doug Cross, Nenad Duricic, Martin Matthews
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Patent number: 10650175Abstract: Methods for simulating hydrocarbon (HC) migration and accumulation in a subsurface formation are provided. The methods include determining a plurality of HC mass associated with a plurality of grid cells representing the subsurface formation. The methods also include determining a plurality of HC mass outflow magnitudes for one or more grid cells in the plurality of grid cells, the HC mass outflow magnitude for each of the one or more grid cells having an upper bound value based on the HC mass in that grid cell. The methods update the HC mass of the plurality of grid cells based on the plurality of HC mass outflow magnitudes. The methods also determine that a set of grid cells in the plurality of grid cells contain an excess mass of HC, and perform an accumulation process to model filling of a trap associated with the set of grid cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Larry Siu-Kuen Fung, Shouhong Du
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Patent number: 10643010Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for grouping bridges in a simulation are presented. In some examples, grouping bridges may result in more efficient usage of data connections in a simulation and less duplicative data being sent during the simulation. The simulation may be performed by receiving an indication of a streaming query for each worker of a plurality of workers in a worker layer. A plurality of bridges in a bridge layer may be run, and the plurality of bridges may be configured to facilitate data communications between the plurality of workers in the worker layer and one or more databases in a database layer. Each worker of the plurality of workers may be assigned to a different bridge of the plurality of bridges. Based on the streaming query for each worker, the plurality of bridges may be grouped into different groups of bridges.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Improbable Worlds LtdInventors: Matthew John Reveley Lewis, Rok Strnisa, Charles Micou, Michal Witkowski
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Patent number: 10635766Abstract: In a data processing system, a processor creating level qualifying logic within instrumentation of a hardware description language (HDL) simulation model of a design. The level qualifying logic is configured to generate a first event of a first type for a first simulation level and to generate a second event of second type for a second simulation level. The processor simulates the design utilizing the HDL simulation model, where the simulation includes generating the first event of the first type responsive to the simulating being performed at the first simulation level and generating the second event of the second type responsive to the simulating being performed at the second simulation level. Responsive to the simulating, the processor records, within data storage, at least one occurrence of an event from a set including the first event and the second event.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guy L. Guthrie, Hugh Shen, Derek E. Williams
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Patent number: 10635765Abstract: Clusters of metrics in a system are stored. A display region is divided into n divided regions in such a way that an area of a divided region i (1?i?n) is equal to or larger than an area of a divided region i+1. Each cluster is allocated to the divided region i sequentially selected from i=1, in the decreasing order of the number of metrics contained in each of the clusters, in such a way that the number of the clusters allocated to the divided region i+1 is equal to or more than the number of clusters allocated to the divided region i. The cluster allocated to the divided region i is drawn in the divided region i.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masanao Natsumeda
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Patent number: 10635842Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for generating technical design solutions satisfying a given performance target for a building. The method comprises: selecting a design model for the building; selecting a first set of design parameters from a first database; qualifying and/or quantifying the design parameters in the first set; generating a first set of design parameter combinations from the first set of design parameters; attributing the first set of design parameter combinations to the design model to obtain a first set of design alternatives; accessing a second database to determine the impact of the first set of design alternatives on a performance of the building; and ranking the first set of design parameters according to their contribution to the performance of the building.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventor: Thomas Jusselme
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Patent number: 10609328Abstract: A video process is controlled through a one-dimensional control function to affect the two outcomes of processing time and processing error. Points are generated in error/time space corresponding to multiple combinations of parameter values applied to the process using reference input data. A subset of points is selecting in which each point is such that all other points in the space have either a higher error or a higher time, to define the one-dimensional control function.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: GRASS VALLEY LIMITEDInventor: Michael James Knee
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Patent number: 10607043Abstract: In reservoir hydrocarbon exploration, fracture characteristics of subsurface reservoir formations are analyzed based on measures obtained about the subsurface formations and rock. Models of subsurface reservoirs are developed with predictions of natural fracture networks within the subject subsurface reservoirs. The mechanical properties of the formation rock in the reservoirs serve as a main controller to model the natural fractures distribution and their properties. The models so formed are important in the location and completion of wells for hydrocarbon exploration and production.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Otto E. Meza Camargo, Tariq Mahmood, Khalid Hawas
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Patent number: 10599796Abstract: A true random metastable flip-flop (TRMFF) compiler generates an electrical architecture for a TRMFF chain. The compiler selects components for the TRMFF chain from a library of standard cells and logically connects these components in accordance with a primitive polynomial to generate the electrical architecture. The TRMFF chain provides a sequence of random numbers from one or more physical processes in accordance with the primitive polynomial. During operation, one or more microscopic phenomena inside and/or outside of the TRMFF chain can cause one or more low-level, statistically random entropy noise signals to be present within the TRMFF chain. The TRMFF chain advantageously utilizes the one or more low-level, statistically random entropy noise signals to provide the sequence of random numbers.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Charlie Zhou, Tze-Chiang Huang, Jack Liu
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Patent number: 10592621Abstract: A method for determining a stiffness of a tube bundle heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a core tube and a plurality of coil tubes coiled around the core tube to form a tube bundle having a plurality of coil layers at a respective layer coiling angle. The method determines a geometric strength parameter for a coil layer, the strength parameter being an area ratio of a coil-tube cross-sectional area to a cell cross-sectional area resulting from the axial spacing of the coil tubes and an outer diameter of the coil tubes. The area ratio is corrected by a correction factor taking the orientation of the coil tubes of the coil layer in relation to the force of gravity acting on the coil tubes into consideration. The stiffness of the respective coil layer is determined from the corrected area ratio and a modulus of elasticity of the coil-tube material.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Reinhold Hölzl, Jürgen Spreeman, Adriana Stefanescu
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Patent number: 10590762Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a method is disclosed for developing an N-phasic finite element model for performing fully coupled analyses of multi-phase compositional fluid flow and heat flow in nonlinearly deforming porous solid media with time-dependent failure. The method can include formulating a finite element model of the behavior of a coupled solid-fluid formation, having complex geometry and behavior, and applying the model to derive the response of the formation in the form of one or more displacement fields for the solid phases and one or more pressure fields for the fluid phases in a zone of interest in a formation. In an exemplary embodiment, a system is disclosed for estimating the uncertainties in the derived displacement and pressure field solutions for the response of the fully coupled solid-fluid phases.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: GeoScale, Inc.Inventor: Elan Yogeswaren
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Patent number: 10579753Abstract: A method implemented by a data processing system for processing data items of a stream of data items, including: accessing a specification that represents the executable logic, wherein a state of the specification for a particular value of the key specifies one or more portions of the executable logic that are executable in that state; receiving, over an input device or port, data items of a stream of data; for a first one of the data items of the stream, identifying a first state of the specification for a value of the key associated with that first one of the data items; processing, by the data processing system, the first one of the data items according to one or more portions of executable logic that are represented in the specification as being associated with the first state.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Ab Initio Technology LLCInventors: Joel Gould, Scott Studer, Craig W. Stanfill
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Patent number: 10563493Abstract: A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves performing reservoir characterization to generate a mechanical earth model based on integrated petrophysical, geomechanical and geophysical data. The method also involves generating a stimulation plan by performing well planning, a staging design, a stimulation design and a production prediction based on the mechanical earth model. The stimulation design is optimized by repeating the well planning, staging design, stimulation design, and production prediction in a feedback loop until an optimized stimulation plan is generated.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Utpal Ganguly, Hitoshi Onda, Xiaowei Weng
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Patent number: 10551258Abstract: Provided is a residual stress estimation method and a residual stress estimation device capable of suppressing the number of cut pieces to be collected for measuring inherent strain without deteriorating residual stress estimation accuracy. In a case where it is assumed that the inherent strain is uniformly distributed in one direction in a structure, a user measures residual stress from a cut piece collected in a region in which the inherent strain is uniformly distributed and inputs the measured value to the residual stress estimation device. The residual stress estimation device estimates a two-dimensional inherent strain distribution on an analysis surface perpendicular to the one direction in the structure using the input residual stress measured value, transfers the estimated two-dimensional inherent strain distribution to the one direction, and estimates a three-dimensional inherent strain distribution in the structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Okita, Tomokazu Nakagawa, Mariko Yamada
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Patent number: 10540615Abstract: Various embodiments provide a network planning tool comprising one or more memory storage areas containing data related to a plurality of transportation networks, and one or more computer processors configured to: receive input data comprising one or more modifications to one or more parameters associated with the plurality of transportation networks; retrieve at least a portion of the data contained in the one or more memory storage areas; validate the input data against the portion of data retrieved from the one or more memory storage areas, the validating comprising at least calculating one or more impacts to the integrated flow model based at least in part upon the received input data; and calculate, based at least in part upon the identified one or more impacts, one or more updated flow models for the plurality of transportation networks. Associated computer program products and computer-implemented methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Marc Daniel Stevens, Allan Brady Cole
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Patent number: 10515163Abstract: Systems and methods for improving visual attention models use effectiveness assessment from an environment as feedback to improve visual attention models. The effectiveness assessment uses data indicative of a particular behavior, which is related to visual attention allocation, received from the environment to assess relative effectiveness of the environment on influencing the particular behavior.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Brian E. Brooks, Brian J. Stankiewicz, Brian L. Linzie
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Systems and methods for reducing latency when transferring I/O between an emulator and target device
Patent number: 10509877Abstract: Systems, methods, and products having pipelined inputs to and outputs from an emulator are disclosed. Using a pipeline may allow the round trip cable delay (RTCD) to be spread across two or more clock cycles. In an embodiment, an emulation system may store input data received from a target device during a first clock cycle at a target timing domain interfacing component (TTD), and transmit the stored input data during a second clock cycle after the first clock cycle. In another embodiment, the emulation system may delay transmitting the input data received at the TTD during the first clock cycle such that that the input data reaches the emulator at a predetermined time during the second clock cycle. As the RTCD is spread across multiple clock cycles, the emulation system may implement faster clocks.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.Inventors: Mitchell G. Poplack, Viktor Salitrennik, Gavin Zawalski -
Patent number: 10503842Abstract: A system and method for construction estimation using aerial images is provided. The system receives at least one aerial image of a building. An estimation engine processes the aerial image at a plurality of angles to automatically identify a plurality (e.g., perimeter and interior) lines in the image corresponding to a plurality of features of a roof the building. The estimation engine allows users to generate two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of the roof by automatically delineating various roof features, and generates a report including information about the roof of the building.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Xactware Solutions, Inc.Inventors: James Edward Loveland, Jeffrey Clayton Taylor, Jeffery Devon Lewis, Bradley McKay Childs, Corey David Reed, Jared William Robertson
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Patent number: 10497476Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating blood flow through one or more coronary blood vessels may first involve receiving patient-specific data, including imaging data related to one or more coronary blood vessels, and at least one clinically measured flow parameter. Next, the method may involve generating a digital model of the one or more coronary blood vessels, based at least partially on the imaging data, discretizing the model, applying boundary conditions to a portion of the digital model that contains the one or more coronary blood vessels, and initializing and solving mathematical equations of blood flow through the model to generate computerized flow parameters. Finally, the method may involve comparing the computerized flow parameters with the at least one clinically measured flow parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Stenomics, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Singer