Patents Examined by Jeffrey P Aiello
  • Patent number: 12067505
    Abstract: The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana Geislinger, Travis Gaddie, Margaret Alden Tinsley, Muneeb Alam, Steven Chad Richardson, Akaash Sanyal, Raquel Crossman, Tianfang Ni, Cory A. Demieville, Luke Gerdes, Robyn Freeman, Oleksandr Klesov, Luciano Kiniti Issoe
  • Patent number: 12061468
    Abstract: The EMERGENCY RESPONSE MANAGEMENT APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“ERMS”) transform emergency related inputs and sensor information into a threat indication category, which is distributed to individuals and/or first responders for managing the threat. In one implementation, the method includes an emergency management processor-implemented method that receives sensor readings from one or more sensor devices and generates risk factors for the at least one sensor device. The generated risk factors are then curve fitted to a plurality of statistical distribution curves including both non-extreme and extreme statistical distributions, wherein each of the statistical distribution curves is indicative of a threat category. The threat category is then determined based on the generated risk factors that provide a best fit with one of the plurality of statistical distribution curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventor: Gautam Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 12061243
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for evaluating a grid condition of an AC power grid. A time series of voltage and current signals of the AC power grid is captured and a local frequency of the AC power grid is identified. The time series of the voltage and current signals is transformed at the identified local frequency of the AC power grid into transformed signals. Equivalent circuit parameters are estimated from the transformed signals based on a description of an equivalent circuit of the AC power grid. A value of a grid condition indicator is determined based on the calculated equivalent circuit parameters and the identified local frequency of the AC power grid and processed in a grid monitoring system for evaluating the grid condition of the AC power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Marco Giuntoli, Giancarlo Dalle Ave, Kevin Schoenleber, Robert Juhlin, Susanne Schmitt
  • Patent number: 12061303
    Abstract: A method of analysing seismic data from a geological structure. The method includes determining a set of tiles from a data cube of seismic data and determining which tiles of the set of tiles can be grouped into one or more patches of tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
    Inventor: Øyvind Skjæveland
  • Patent number: 12053855
    Abstract: A power tool including a motor configured to rotatably drive an output shaft, a variable motor speed control input, a motor speed limit input, and a motor controller. The motor controller includes an electronic processor and a memory configured to store instructions. When executed by the motor controller, the instructions configure the motor controller to detect a motor speed limit from a setting of the motor speed limit input, and detect a variable speed control setting from the variable motor speed control input. The motor controller generates a motor speed control signal for driving the motor based on the detected motor speed limit and the detected variable motor speed control setting, and transmits the motor speed control signal to a motor driver circuit configured to drive the motor at a speed based on the motor speed control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Mark W. Kelly, Caleb M. Schober, Tyler L. Graham
  • Patent number: 12050251
    Abstract: Provided is a method of estimating the state of health of the battery according to various embodiments. The method of estimating the state of health of the battery comprises: measuring a voltage and current of a battery in use to periodically generate a voltage value and a current value; using an adaptive filter to periodically update a G parameter value and an H parameter value in real time from the voltage value and the current value, said parameters indicating the present state of the battery; and using an initial value and a final value of the G parameter that is preset and a present value of the G parameter to estimate the state of health of the battery in real time. The G parameter is a parameter that represents the sensitivity of the voltage to changes in the current of the battery, and the H parameter is a parameter that represents an effective potential determined by the local equilibrium potential distribution and resistance distribution inside the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeonghui Lim, Yongjun Hwang, Christober Rayappan, Giheon Kim, Jake Kim, Sungwook Paek
  • Patent number: 12044738
    Abstract: For each cell in a plurality of cells from a same manufacturing run, a first and a second cell characteristic are received in order to obtain a plurality of cell characteristics. For each cell, a batch compatibility number that is associated with a number of compatible cells that that cell is compatible with is determined based at least in part on the plurality of cell characteristics. The plurality of cells is sorted according to the batch compatibility numbers to obtain a sorted list of cells. A plurality of compatible cells to include in a battery is selected from the plurality of cells, including by evaluating the plurality of cells according to the order of the sorted list of cells and beginning with the lowest batch compatibility number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Wisk Aero LLC
    Inventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Thomas P. Muniz, Patrick K. Herring
  • Patent number: 12044717
    Abstract: This method for analysis processing by using measured impedance spectrum data includes: a step for determining whether to reset the maximum value and/or the minimum value of logarithmic relaxation time corresponding to a measured logarithmic frequency on the basis of the measured impedance spectrum data; a step for setting the number of equal-interval divisions within the range of the logarithmic relaxation time set in the determination step; and a step for analyzing parameters R?, T, L, and Rl for the range of the set logarithmic relaxation time so as to satisfy a prescribed expression (A) by applying a regularized least-squares method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12029147
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting crop diseases in a crop field using machine learning are disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more ambient weather parameters related to environmental conditions around the crop field from an environmental sensor; determining a disease risk indicator associated with the disease and the crop field based on the one or more ambient weather parameters, using a disease risk machine learning module trained on historical weather data from a weather database; receiving a pathogen incidence indicator related to the presence of a pathogen around the crop field from a pathogen sensor, wherein the pathogen is associated with the disease; and generating a disease score based on the disease risk indicator and the pathogen incidence indicator, where the disease score represents the severity of the disease around the crop field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Evergreen FS, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Plato, Matthew Free
  • Patent number: 12032465
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include determining an event associated with a computing system, the event occurring at a first time, obtaining system data associated with the computing system, determining a system state of the computing system at the first time based on the system data, determining, based on the system state, two or more system data clusters comprising clustered system data associated with the system state of the computing system, determining, via an interpolation algorithm, an interpolated data value for the first time based on the system data, and adjusting the interpolated data value based on a determination that the interpolate data value is outside the two or more system data clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi Li, Xing Xing Shen, Xiao Dong Li, He Jiang Jia, Sheng Jie BJ Han, Ye Tian, Bo Tong Liu, Peng Hui Jiang
  • Patent number: 12014533
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring with a scanning device a scan frame including a point cloud comprising a first plurality of points and describing a spatial characteristic of an environment, attributing each of the first plurality of points with a spatial confidence metric, discarding a portion of the first plurality of points when the spatial confidence metric of at least one of the first plurality of points is below a predefined threshold value and directing a user of the scanning device to acquire a second point cloud approximately coincident with the discarded portion of the first plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Steven Huber
  • Patent number: 12015240
    Abstract: A laser device includes a laser diode configured to emit radiation, an output power of the radiation being dependent on a laser diode driving current, and a photodiode configured to receive the radiation emitted by the laser diode. A photodiode current induced in the photodiode by the received radiation is dependent on a power of the received radiation. The laser device further includes circuitry configured to measure the photodiode current for a laser diode driving current and calculate a laser threshold current of the laser diode from the measured photodiode current as a measure of an actual laser threshold current of the laser diode. The circuitry is further configured to detect a malfunction or degradation of the laser diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Henning Gerlach, Susanne Weidenfeld, Robert Wolf, Soren Sofke
  • Patent number: 12007867
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed by a first computing device performing a benchmark. The method may include receiving, from a second computing device comprising a plurality of modules which perform different operations related to an artificial intelligence-based model, module identification information indicating which module among the plurality of modules of the second computing device triggers a benchmark operation of the first computing device. The method may include providing, to the second computing device, a benchmark result based on the module identification information, and the benchmark result provided to the second computing device may be different according to the module identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NOTA, INC.
    Inventors: Sanggeon Park, Wonjin Shin, Jimin Lee
  • Patent number: 12007516
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a geological feature search query identifying one or more geological features, executing, based on receiving the geological feature search query, a search of database storing a plurality of seismic data images. The seismic data images are labeled with geological features present in each of the plurality of seismic data images as part of a machine learning process. The method further includes determining, based on executing the search, search results, wherein the search results identify one more of the plurality of seismic data images having the one or more geological features identified in the geological feature search query, and outputting information regarding the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tracy Dorrington, Chiao-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11983250
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an item-customer matching method and device based on vision and gravity sensing, and belongs to the technical field of computer. The method comprises acquiring the identity information of a customer and tracking the customer in real time in the shopping place, wherein shelves for carrying items are arranged; acquiring the shelf position of the shelf where the loading weight changes; identifying the items that cause changes in the loading weight of the shelf to obtain the item identification result; determining the identity information of the purchaser according to the shelf position, the hand position of the customer, and the action behavior of the customer, wherein the purchaser is a customer matching the item identification result. The device includes a customer tracking module, a shelf position acquiring module, an item identification result acquiring module, and a matching module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Yi Tunnel (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yili Wu
  • Patent number: 11982489
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an automated temperature logging and predictive alerting system for monitoring items that are being cooled or heated. In one embodiment, a predictive logging application may compare a predicted temperature curve of an item to a predefined slope to predict whether or not the item will meet a target threshold. The target threshold may be a target temperature or duration rule that can be aggregated discontinuously over a single day or multiple days. If the projected temperature curve is predicted to not meet the target threshold, the logging application may send alerts notifying a client of available corrective actions. In projecting the predicted slope, the predictive logging application may train machine learning models to analyze historical data associated with the item and the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CM SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Bradford Gray, Thomas Gibson Woodbury, Mary Nicole Veitch
  • Patent number: 11971514
    Abstract: In order to monitor the subsoil of the earth under a target zone, seismic waves coming from an identified mobile noise source are recorded by means of at least one pair of sensors disposed on either side of the target zone, time periods are selected corresponding to the alignments of the pairs of sensors with the noise source, a seismogram of the target zone is reconstructed by interferometry based on the recorded seismic waves and on the selected time periods and an image of the subsoil of the target zone is generated using the seismogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SERCEL
    Inventors: Thomas Bardainne, Baptiste Rondeleux
  • Patent number: 11965899
    Abstract: Disclosed is a calibration curve setting method for setting a calibration curve, the calibration curve setting method including: creating a first calibration curve on the basis of a measurement value obtained by measuring a standard sample for which a concentration of a predetermined component is known; creating a second calibration curve by correcting the created first calibration curve; displaying a screen configured to support an operator for restoring the second calibration curve to the first calibration curve; receiving an instruction of restoring the second calibration curve to the first calibration curve; and displaying the first calibration curve upon receiving the instruction of restoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihito Kato, Hiroshi Kurono
  • Patent number: 11964729
    Abstract: An operated component for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first wired communicator and a first wireless communicator. The first wired communicator has a first wired communication state in which the first wired communicator is configured to recognize a wired signal transmitted via a wired communication channel. The first wireless communicator has a first wireless communication state in which the first wireless communicator is configured to recognize a wireless signal transmitted via a wireless communication channel. The first wireless communicator is configured to be in the first wireless communication state while the first wired communicator is in the first wired communication state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nozaki, Tomohiro Takimoto, Hirofumi Fukui
  • Patent number: 11967470
    Abstract: A method for determining contact thickness change in a contactor includes sensing a first displacement distance moved by an armature of the contactor from a reference location to a first transition point during a switch-off operation of the contactor at a first contactor life reference time when movable contacts and fixed contacts of the contactor define a first contact thickness. The method further includes sensing a second displacement distance moved by the armature from the reference location to a second transition point during a switch-off operation at a second contactor life reference time that is after the first contactor life reference time when the movable and fixed contacts define a second contact thickness that is less than the first contact thickness. The first displacement distance and the second displacement distance are used to determine a contact thickness change between the first contact thickness and the second contact thickness. A contactor adapted to implement the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junfeng Liao, Benfeng Tang