Patents Examined by Jay Patidar
  • Patent number: 11906685
    Abstract: Discriminating between a cable locating signal and a false cable locating signal is described. A reference signal, which contains a locating signal frequency impressed on it, is transmitted in a way which provides for detection of a phase shift between the locating signal and the false locating signal. Based on the phase shift, a receiver is used to distinguish the locating signal from the false locating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merlin Technology Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Mercer, Albert W. Chau
  • Patent number: 11906452
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pH-sensor for determining and/or monitoring a pH value of a medium, having a sensor unit with a wall in contact with the medium, and at least one pH-sensitive material, which has at least one spin state that changes as a function of a pH value. The at least one pH-sensitive material is arranged in or on a region of the wall in such a way that the at least one spin state is subjected to a change in the pH value of the medium. The pH-sensor also includes a spin-sensitive unit, which is configured to detect a variable associated with the at least one spin state, wherein the spin-sensitive unit is arranged in an environment of the at least one pH-sensitive material such that the spin-sensitive unit is subjected to a change in the spin state of the at least one pH-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi, Raphael Kuhnen, Matthäus Speck
  • Patent number: 11894180
    Abstract: The present invention provides a capacitive voltage transformer, including: a capacitive voltage-dividing component and an electromagnetic unit. The capacitive voltage-dividing component comprises: one or more levels of stacks, and each stack is a coupling capacitor. The coupling capacitor includes: an upper cover plate, a lower cover plate, an insulating sleeve, a capacitor core, squirrel cage electrodes, volume matching devices, a high voltage lead, and a low voltage lead. The lowermost coupling capacitor is provided with a medium voltage lead and a lead terminal. The low voltage lead of the lowermost coupling capacitor is led out through a low-voltage leading-out tube arranged in the lead terminal, and the medium voltage lead of the lowermost coupling capacitor is led out through a medium-voltage leading-out post arranged in the lead terminal. The medium-voltage leading-out post passes through and out of the low-voltage leading-out tube and is arranged coaxially with the low-voltage leading-out tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU APPARATUS SCIENCE ACADEMY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Delin Hu, Chun Hu, Zhanbin Wang, Jie Li, Bing Yin, Ming Qian
  • Patent number: 11879859
    Abstract: A process for determining the type of a diamond having spin properties and physical properties, said process including the steps of: (i) determining the spin properties of a diamond of unknown type, using optically detected magnetic resonance to measure the spin properties of said diamond of an unknown type, wherein the spin properties are indicative of the physical properties of the diamond; (ii) comparing the spin properties of said unknown diamond with the spin properties of a plurality of diamonds of known types; and (iii) determining the type of said diamond of unknown type upon a predetermined threshold of correlation between the spin properties of said diamond of unknown type with the spin properties of a diamond of known type of said plurality of diamonds known types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GOLDWAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ka Wing Cheng, Yau Chuen Yiu, Kong Chan, Chun Hong Sham, Juan Cheng, Koon Chung Hui
  • Patent number: 11874241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sample cell for performing DNP-NMR measurements, for interchangeable use in an EPR microwave resonator, with the sample cell comprising a flat sample cavity for holding a liquid sample to be measured, wherein the flat sample cavity extends with a maximum length L and a maximum width W in a sample cavity plane, and extends with a maximum height H perpendicular to the sample cavity plane, with H? 1/15*L and H? 1/15*W, and an NMR coil wound around the flat sample cavity for generating an RF magnetic field B2, wherein a coil axis of the NMR coil about which the NMR coil is wound is oriented perpendicular to the sample cavity plane. The invention provides a sample cell which is easy to handle and improves the quality and the reproducibility of DNP-NMR measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Krahn, Franck Vincent
  • Patent number: 11874298
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a magnetic field sensor component, including a chip carrier having a connection conductor and a magnetic field sensor chip arranged on the chip carrier, and a magnet, wherein the magnetic field sensor component is arranged on a mounting surface of the magnet, wherein the mounting surface has an elevation and the connection conductor is bent around the elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gernot Binder, Ferdinand Gastinger, Stephanie Jankowski, Thomas Lassleben
  • Patent number: 11876549
    Abstract: In the present invention, provided are a magnetic resonance imaging system, a method for determining a SAR value of a magnetic resonance imaging system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The system comprises a radio-frequency transmitting coil, configured to receive radio-frequency power from a radio-frequency transmitting link and transmit radio-frequency power required for imaging to a scanned object. The system further comprises a reflection coefficient determining module, a resistance value determining module, and a SAR value determining module. The reflection coefficient determining module is configured to acquire a frequency response of a first input reflection coefficient of the radio-frequency transmitting coil when having no load and a frequency response of a second input reflection coefficient thereof when having the scanned object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Weiman Jiang, Fan Yang, Kun Wang
  • Patent number: 11874243
    Abstract: The present application provides an isolation testing unit for a pipeline segment having an isolation junction is provided. The isolation testing unit includes, among other things, an isolation monitoring device that allows for constant monitoring of an isolation parameter at a display with a graphical user interface. The isolation testing unit may include a potentiometer for measuring a potential on an upstream portion of a pipe and a downstream portion of a pipe. The effectiveness of the isolation is determined by the difference between the potentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GPT Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Gonzales, Nicholas Bander, Ian Kinnear, Aaron Alfano, Tim Hurley, Wade Troutman
  • Patent number: 11860247
    Abstract: A magnetic field generator includes: an upper layer resonance coil composed of a first conductive material and forming a loop circuit having a coil portion; a lower layer coil composed of a second conductive material and forming a loop circuit having a coil portion arranged opposite to the coil portion of the upper layer coil at a predetermined distance; and a substrate supporting the upper layer coil and the lower layer coil and having a dielectric material between the upper layer coil and the lower layer coil. A high-frequency current is supplied to the lower layer coil and a high-frequency current having a phase opposite to that of the high frequency current supplied to the lower layer coil flows through the upper layer coil. A length per loop of the coil portion in the upper layer coil and the coil portion in the lower layer coil is matched to one wavelength of the high-frequency current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Anno, Takayuki Shibata, Kazuhiro Oyama
  • Patent number: 11860126
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention may include an eddy current nondestructive evaluation device. The eddy current nondestructive evaluation device may include a rotating body; a motor coupled with the rotating body such that the motor rotates the rotating body; a permanent magnet coupled with the rotating body; a pickup coil coupled with the rotating body; and an integrator circuit electrically coupled with the pickup coil that integrates a voltage from the pickup coil to produce integrated voltage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EHT Ventures LLC
    Inventors: James R. Prager, Timothy M. Ziemba, Kenneth E. Miller, Ilia Slobodov, Paul Melnik, Connor Liston, Kevin Muggli, TaiSheng Yeager, John G. Carscadden
  • Patent number: 11841409
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for determining an acquisition order identified with an acquired magnetic resonance data set, which comprises a total number of slices, using a simultaneous multislice technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Zeller, Flavio Carinci, Dominik Paul
  • Patent number: 11843099
    Abstract: A method for extracting electrolyte solution in lithium secondary battery includes (S1) freezing a secondary battery by impregnating in liquid nitrogen and then cutting it without disassembling; (S2) immersing the frozen cut secondary battery in an extraction solvent to extract an electrolyte solution contained in the battery; and (S3) calculating the total amount of the electrolyte solution with respect to the total size of the battery from the content of the extracted electrolyte solution, and then determining a ratio of total amount of the electrolyte solution to the content of the electrolyte solution used in manufacturing the secondary battery to obtain extraction efficiency. A system for extracting an electrolyte solution in a secondary battery is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Rin Jang, Jeong Ae Ahn, Junghyun Song, Byoung Hyoun Kim
  • Patent number: 11835603
    Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes cells configured to form a first cell region and a second cell region on a measurement target, a pump laser, a probe laser, a first optical system configured to cause pump light to be incident on the first cell region, a second optical system configured to cause the pump light having passed through the first cell region to be incident on the second cell region, a third optical system configured to cause first probe light to be incident on the first cell region, a fourth optical system configured to cause second probe light to be incident on the second cell region, detection portions configured to detect the first probe light having passed through the first cell region and the second probe light having passed through the second cell region, and a deriving portion configured to derive an intensity of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Kyoto University
    Inventors: Akinori Saito, Takahiro Moriya, Takenori Oida, Motohiro Suyama, Tetsuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11821966
    Abstract: An optically pumped, atomic magnetometer incorporates a feedback system for stabilizing the magnetic bias field and suppressing unwanted background fields. The magnetic bias field is applied to a vapor cell containing host atoms of two different species, each of which resonates at a different Larmor frequency when both are subjected to the same magnetic bias field. One species provides the feedback for stabilizing the bias field, thereby creating a stabilizing magnetometer portion that nulls out the unwanted background fields. The other species provides magnetic field detection or signal reception on a radio communication frequency of interest, thereby creating a signal magnetometer portion that permits detection of the signal at the radio communication frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Peter D. D. Schwindt, Neil Claussen, Jonathan Edward Bainbridge
  • Patent number: 11821965
    Abstract: A very low frequency (VLF) magnetic field sensor, using spins sourced from insulating ferrimagnetic materials or ferrites, which can achieve high sensitivities competitive with modern sensors while simultaneously maintaining a small size, low power consumption, simplicity of design, and low cost. The magnetic field sensor utilizes nonlinear resonant precession modulation (RPM) dynamics of subatomic spins to attain parametric amplification of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Lap Kun Yeung, Kevin Luong
  • Patent number: 11822036
    Abstract: Embodiments for passive spychip detection through polarizability and advanced pattern recognition are described. For example a method includes inducing a magnetic field in a passive component of a target system while the target system is emitting EMI with changes in amplitude repeating at a time interval; generating a time series of measurements of a combined magnetic field strength of the induced magnetic field and the EMI; executing a frequency-domain to time-domain transformation on the time series of measurements to create time series signals of combined magnetic field strength over time at a specific frequency range; monitoring the time series signals with an ML model trained to predict correct signal values to determine whether predicted and measured values of the time series agree; and indicating that the target device may contain a passive spychip where anomalies are detected, and is free of passive spychips where no anomalies are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Rohrkemper, Yifan Wu, Guang C. Wang, Kenny C. Gross
  • Patent number: 11802886
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor module includes an axially polarized back bias magnet having a magnet body that radially extends from an inner sidewall to an outer sidewall and a bore that defines the inner sidewall. The axially polarized back bias magnet generates a radial bias magnetic in-plane field about a magnetization axis of the axially polarized back bias magnet in a sensor plane. The magnetic field has a magnetic flux density of substantially zero along the extension of the magnetization axis and along a perimeter of a zero-field closed loop located in the sensor plane. The magnetic sensor module includes a magnetic sensor including a plurality of sensor elements arranged in the sensor plane at locations where the radial bias magnetic in-plane field has the magnetic flux density of substantially zero, including at least two sensor elements being arranged on the perimeter of the zero-field closed loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Gernot Binder
  • Patent number: 11802900
    Abstract: A portable device is described for use with a system in which a transmitter signal is transmitted by a transmitter from within the ground during an operational procedure. The portable device is configured for measuring electromagnetic noise. An extension leg is removably attachable to the portable device and supports a measurement wheel at a distal end such that the electromagnetic noise is measured on a measurement path along which the measurement wheel is rolled for use in selecting a transmission frequency for the transmitter signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Merlin Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Loc Viet Lam, Albert W. Chau
  • Patent number: 11796612
    Abstract: A physically unclonable function (PUF) and a method of reading it are provided. The PUF is constituted by a microfabricated array of randomly polarized micromagnets disposed on a substrate. The PUF can be read by creating a magnetization map of the PUF from the signal output of a quantum diamond microscope (QDM) and converting the magnetization map to a numerical sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Pauli Mark Kehayias, Ezra Bussmann, Tzu-Ming Lu, Andrew Mounce
  • Patent number: 11788978
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data for a saturated core sample regarding a geological region of interest. The method may further include determining, using the first NMR data, spatial porosity data based on the saturated core sample. The spatial porosity data may describe various porosity values as a function of a sampling position of the saturated core sample. The method may further include obtaining second NMR data for a desaturated core sample regarding the geological region of interest. The method may further include determining, using the second NMR data, spatial permeability data based on the desaturated core sample. The method may further include determining a geological model for the geological region of interest using the spatial porosity data, the spatial permeability data, and a fitting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Marwah Mufid AlSinan, Hyung Tae Kwak, Jun Gao