Patents Examined by John Breene
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Patent number: 9836802Abstract: Energy usage of a plurality of appliances is measured using a single meter. A pattern of energy usage with respect to the plurality of appliances is determined dependent upon the measured energy usage, appliance details of the plurality of appliances, and usage hours of the plurality of appliances. The pattern is provided to a user of the appliances.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Nagaraja Sundaresh, Pradeep Shetty, Rajesh Ramesh, Chandrashekar Padubidri, Rangesa Arakere, Ananda Huchappa Shastry
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Patent number: 9835594Abstract: A method for automatic diagnosis of a mechanical system of a group of mechanical systems sharing mechanical characteristics includes obtaining data relating to a vibration. The vibration-related data is acquired by a portable communications device configured to communicate with a remote processor. The processor automatically diagnoses the mechanical system by applying a relationship to the obtained vibration-related data. The relationship is based on sets of vibration-related data previously obtained from the mechanical systems. Each set of vibration-related data relates to vibrations of a mechanical system. The relationship is further based on sets of operation data previously obtained for mechanical systems of the group. Each set of operation data indicates a previous state of operation of a mechanical system. Each of the previous states of operation is associated with at least one of the previously obtained sets of vibration-related data.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: AUGURY SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Saar Yoskovitz, Gal Shaul
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Patent number: 9835673Abstract: A method analyzes a fault of an ungrounded power distribution system. The method determines a type of a fault in a line segment of the ungrounded power distribution system, and modifies a nodal admittance matrix of the line segment determined before the fault using a transformation matrix corresponding to the type of the fault to produce a faulty nodal admittance matrix of the line segment after the fault. The ungrounded power distribution system is analyzed using the faulty nodal admittance matrix and nodal admittance matrices of functional branches or line segments of the power distribution system.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Hongbo Sun
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Patent number: 9835496Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method for monitoring and alerting a user caring for a patient when a change in body temperature requires immediate attention. The apparatus is a bracelet worn by the user. The system includes the bracelet in wireless communication with a temperature sensing device placed on the patient. The bracelet has a display operative for displaying the body temperature, an audible alarm that sounds and a vibration that occurs when the temperature exceeds a setpoint, and a plurality of lights, each with a unique setpoint, a light activated when the temperature exceeds the setpoint. The user attaches the temperature sensing device to the patient and dons the bracelet. The user can then sleep, selectively observing the display and lights upon waking with confidence that the system is monitoring the patient's temperature and selectively alerting the user when a change in body temperature requires immediate attention.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Inventor: Ann Balboni
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Patent number: 9838228Abstract: There are provided a device for removing partial discharge noise and a method of diagnosing the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONInventors: Kwang Sik Choi, Jung Cheol Seo
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Patent number: 9829600Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to operate an induction measurement process in a borehole that addresses direct coupling of a signal between sensors of a measuring tool. Apparatus and methods can include a processing unit to generate formation parameters from signals received in the measurement tool. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Michael S. Bittar
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Patent number: 9829591Abstract: A symmetry attribute is described that may be used for determining seismic stratigraphic features in a formation. In one example, seismic input data from a formation is processed to determine an attribute by selecting a center trace, assigning a first cluster of the traces to a left image and a second cluster of the traces to a right image, and determining symmetry about the center trace between the left and the right images.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: IHS Global, Inc.Inventors: Yingwei Yu, Clifford L. Kelley, Irina M. Mardanova
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Patent number: 9829534Abstract: A device for monitoring a power semiconductor switch includes a circuit section for applying to the power semiconductor switch an HF voltage having a frequency above a switching threshold of the power semiconductor switch, a shunt resistor for detecting an actual HF current resulting from application of the HF voltage to the power semiconductor switch, a monitoring circuit for comparing the actual HF current with an expected HF current that depends on a switching state of the power semiconductor switch when the HF voltage is applied to the power semiconductor switch, and a comparator for generating a power semiconductor status signal depending on a result of the comparison. A corresponding method for monitoring a power semiconductor switch of this type is also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Mark-Matthias Bakran
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Patent number: 9823303Abstract: Methods for selecting integrated circuit dies based on pre-determined criteria are disclosed. A disclosed method includes binning tools that characterizes multiple integrated circuit dies based on performance attributes. Each integrated circuit die is labeled with an identifier that represents bin location of the integrated circuit die within a die storage structure. A user can search for integrated circuit dies that matches certain performance grading by providing a performance description to an input interface on testing equipment. A tester is then configured to perform a screening to identify the physical locations of integrated circuit dies that match the retrieved identifiers from the die storage structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Teng Chow Ooi, Azni Abd Rahman, Wei Hoong Yap, Chee Ang Ling, Yew Mun Chan
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Patent number: 9823116Abstract: Geometric calibration of an imaging system is performed by recording visible control points in a calibration image whose geometric properties are known and calibration coefficients can be derived utilizing an image processing system for transforming the recorded image into a geometric distortion-free image. Described are methods and systems for vicarious geometric calibration of a remote sensor that include a processor configured to receive image data collected at a remote sensor, the image data including a plurality of image elements each associated with a respective reflective mirror from a plurality of reflective mirrors located at respective know positions, determine, for each of the plurality of reflective mirrors, an image location in the image data and determine one or more figures of merit based on the image locations and the known positions for each of the plurality of reflective mirrors.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: John F. Silny, Stephen J. Schiller
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Patent number: 9818135Abstract: Social graphs using shared personal data are described, including techniques for capturing data from a social data source, determining one or more connections associated with an item using the data, and creating a social graph using the one or more connections, the social graph comprising the one or more connections associated with the item. Embodiments of the invention also include techniques for updating social graphs.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: HomeAway.com, Inc.Inventors: Blake Biesecker, Kerry Kelley
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Patent number: 9817143Abstract: Systems and methods for attenuating multiples in seismic data are presented. In one aspect, predicted surface-related multiples are calculated for seismic data generated by receivers in a marine survey. Estimates of primaries and multiples may be calculated by applying adaptive subtraction to the predicted surface-related multiples. Residual multiples present in the estimated primaries may be identified using multiple diffraction reduction. The residual multiples and estimated multiples are used to generate final estimated multiples that are subtracted from the seismic data to generate primaries with attenuated multiples.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: PGS Geophysical ASInventor: Gert-Jan Adriaan van Groenestijn
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Patent number: 9816863Abstract: Techniques are provided for an image processing device to receive image information comprising image data for a plurality of mid-wave infrared region (MWIR) channels, where the image data is obtained during a first imaging period and during a second imaging period temporally different from the first imaging period. A plurality of sets of atmospheric wind vectors are calculated using differences between image data obtained during the first imaging period and the image data obtained during the second imaging period for corresponding sets of MWIR channels. An altitude is assigned to the plurality of atmospheric wind vectors in each set based on a brightness temperature of each wind vector and a pre-computed atmospheric temperature profile to generate a set of two-dimensional wind fields comprising one two-dimensional wind field for each set of MWIR channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Christopher E Lietzke, Ronald J Glumb
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Patent number: 9808191Abstract: A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase angle. The measured values of the impedance-related parameters are then used in performing sensor diagnostics, calculating a highly-reliable fused sensor glucose value based on signals from a plurality of redundant sensing electrodes, calibrating sensors, detecting interferents within close proximity of one or more sensing electrodes, and testing surface area characteristics of electroplated electrodes. Advantageously, impedance-related parameters can be defined that are substantially glucose-independent over specific ranges of frequencies. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) enables implementation of the EIS-based diagnostics, fusion algorithms, and other processes based on measurement of EIS-based parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Ning Yang, Rajiv Shah
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Patent number: 9811080Abstract: A method that measures performance of an information appliance comprises a test module receiving, from a client, and recording a request for processing of a sample data by an information appliance. The test module sends the sample data received from the client to the information appliance for processing. If a request to a backend application is present, the test module also sends the request to the backend application for processing and receives and records a response from the backend application. The test module sends the response from the backend application to the information appliance for processing. A generated correlation ID is used to update a performance data table with start time and a stop time of a response for transaction sample data processed by the information appliance.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ta-Wei Lin, Jeffrey C H Liu, Lin Chan Hsiao, Shu-Hao Liang, Chih-Wen Su
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Patent number: 9801576Abstract: A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase angle. The measured values of the impedance-related parameters are then used in performing sensor diagnostics, calculating a highly-reliable fused sensor glucose value based on signals from a plurality of redundant sensing electrodes, calibrating sensors, detecting interferents within close proximity of one or more sensing electrodes, and testing surface area characteristics of electroplated electrodes. Advantageously, impedance-related parameters can be defined that are substantially glucose-independent over specific ranges of frequencies. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) enables implementation of the EIS-based diagnostics, fusion algorithms, and other processes based on measurement of EIS-based parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Ning Yang, Raghavendhar Gautham, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah
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Patent number: 9804050Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides systems and methods of compensating sensor drift. In one example embodiment, a system may comprise a primary sensor having a primary full-scale range and configured to output a primary environmental condition signal indicative of an environmental condition; a reference sensor having a reference full-scale range and configured to output a reference environmental condition signal indicative of the environmental condition, wherein the reference full-scale range is less than the primary full-scale range; and a drift compensation system configured to determine a drift compensation signal using the primary environmental signal and the reference environmental condition signal responsive to the reference environmental conditional signal being in the reference full-scale range and compensate the primary environmental condition signal using the drift compensation signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.Inventor: Wolf S. Landmann
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Patent number: 9791856Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring operating machinery to identify fault frequency sets for consumable components used in the machinery. Data associated with characteristic behavior of the machinery being monitored is acquired and analyzed, comparing known vendor information regarding fault frequencies for specified components to vibration frequencies observed in the machine in service. The systems and methods described herein enable an operator to identify and confirm critical information such as the location of and/or vendor identity for components exhibiting fault vibration behavior.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Charles Terrance Hatch, Jesse Lewis Hanna, Shekhar Raghuvir Sashital, Dhruti Gishu Pillai, Yash Vijay Churi
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Patent number: 9791520Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for managing and monitoring a plurality of emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) at a facility via an emergency power management system (EPMS). The EPMS generally comprises EPSS equipment, a management computer system for managing, monitoring, and testing the operational characteristics of the EPSS equipment, and a plurality of interface modules for providing unified communication capabilities between the management computer system and the EPSS equipment. Additional aspects relate to methods for easily and efficiently creating and installing an EPMS at a facility. Further aspects are directed to providing predictive analyzes related to the EPSS equipment. Also, aspects of the present disclosure relate to normalizing EPSS equipment information across varying vendors, makes, and models of equipment so as to provide a unified view of all equipment across a given facility.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Blue Pillar, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Jay Witter, Thomas Joseph Butler, Joseph J. Scoufis, Eric D. Reichel
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Patent number: 9785254Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing technologies. In particular, aspects of the disclosure relate to mobile computing device technologies, such as systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for improving orientation data. In some embodiments, a magnetic vector filter receives magnetometer data from a magnetometer and gyroscope data from a gyroscope and determines the magnetic vector using the magnetometer data and the gyroscope data in the magnetic vector filter. In other embodiments, a gravity vector filter receives accelerometer data and gyroscope data and determines the gravity vector using the accelerometer data and the gyroscope data in the gravity vector filter.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Victor Kulik, Disha Ahuja, Carlos M. Puig