Patents Examined by John E Johansen
  • Patent number: 11972185
    Abstract: A method of estimating aging of an integrated circuit (IC) includes: obtaining a first process design kit (PDK) including a plurality of first device models corresponding to a plurality of devices provided by a process of fabricating the IC; obtaining values of aging parameters of device instances included in a netlist defining the IC, by performing a first circuit simulation based on the netlist and the first PDK; and obtaining aging data of the IC by performing a second circuit simulation based on the values of the aging parameters and the netlist, wherein each of the plurality of first device models includes at least one measurement command to be executed in the first circuit simulation to calculate an aging parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehee Choi, Udit Monga, Ken Machida, Uihui Kwon, Yonghee Park
  • Patent number: 11965410
    Abstract: The disclosure presents processes to determine one or more recommendations to well construction operations, generated by analyzing impacts on well construction operations. The impacts can include impacts to the drilling assembly, impacts of the subterranean formation characteristics, impacts on cost, time and performance of the well construction operation, impacts on the service quality, impacts to system integrity, impacts to surface equipment, as well as other impact types, such as geological surveys, seismic surveys, stratigraphic analysis, or reservoir estimations. Each impact can be analyzed using an impact parameter and a softness parameter. An impact map can be computed for each of the parameters, and then the impact maps can be combined to compute one or more integrated impact maps from which the recommendations can be determined. The recommendations can be communicated to a well construction system, such as a geo-steering system, a user system, a well site controller, or other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bibek Kabi, Julien Christian Marck, Olivier Roger Germain
  • Patent number: 11953649
    Abstract: A method can include accessing a depogrid generated via gridding of a structural model in a depositional space and transforming the gridded structural model to a geological space via an inverse mapping where the structural model represents structural features in a subterranean environment based at least in part on data acquired via at least one sensor; determining local u, v and w axes for a plurality of cells in the depogrid via volumetric centroids and vertices represented by coordinates in a depositional space coordinate system (u, v, w) and by coordinates in a physical coordinate system (x, y, z); defining directional geological grid properties based at least in part on the local u, v and w axes; and simulating physical phenomena of the subterranean environment via a simulator based at least in part on at least a portion of the directional geological grid properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simon Harris, Sheleem Kashem, Thomas Viard, Fabrice Levassor
  • Patent number: 11954409
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for planning a distribution network with reliability constraints based on a feeder corridor, including determining installation states of respective elements in the distribution network; determining an objective function, the objective function being an objective function of minimizing a total investment cost of the distribution network; obtaining fault-isolation-and-load-transfer time and fault recovery time in a case where the feeder segment of each feeder line that is contained in each feeder corridor fails; determining constraint conditions including reliability constraints; building a distribution network planning model according to the objective function and the constraints; and solving the distribution network planning model built to obtain optimal solutions as planning states and reliability indexes to plan the distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Zihao Li, Hongbin Sun, Bin Wang, Qinglai Guo
  • Patent number: 11953641
    Abstract: A device comprises a processor; and a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: obtain, from a server, a plate model, wherein the plate model includes a plurality of geodynamic units (GDUs) representing a plurality of different geological regions; receive a user-defined geospatial data of a desired geological region; perform an intersection operation between the user-defined geospatial data and the plurality of GDUs of the plate model, to assign user-defined geospatial data a GDU identifier; obtain, from a server, Euler rotation poles based on a user-specified geological age, each Euler rotation pole being associated with a GDS via the GDU identifier; and reconstruct the user-defined geospatial data to the geological age using the Euler rotation pole and thereby obtain a reconstructed paleogeographic position of the user-defined geospatial data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander James Rushforth, Nilesh Ambadas Vyavahare, Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau
  • Patent number: 11947071
    Abstract: A method can include accessing a model of a subterranean region where the model includes a fault that corresponds to a fault in the subterranean region; via a first side of the fault, outwardly radiating therefrom cells of the model with a first type of radiation and, via a second, opposing side of the fault, outwardly radiating therefrom cells of the model with a second type of radiation; and, based at least in part on the outwardly radiating of the first type of radiation and the outwardly radiating of the second type of radiation, assigning a portion of the cells of the model a sidedness property value with respect to the fault that indicates that each cell in the portion of the cells is assigned to the first side of the fault or assigned to the second side of the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Milan Frank, Fabrice Levassor
  • Patent number: 11941333
    Abstract: Systems and methods for demonstrating power control system (PCS) operating sequences provide a model builder and a sequence builder. The PCS model builder allows a user to build a graphical model of a PCS using drag-and-drop objects representing PCS components, such as generators, circuit breakers, transfer switches, and the like. The PCS sequence builder allows the user to enter plain language commands that represent operations performed by the model objects. The model builder then graphically animates the model according to the plain language commands. Animation may include changing an image color, shape, configuration, position, orientation, or size for the model objects. This allows any user to graphically demonstrate how a PCS would work before resources are invested toward developing the PCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ASCO Power Technologies, L.P.
    Inventor: William J. Dustman
  • Patent number: 11940592
    Abstract: A method for evaluating an integrity of a liner disposed in a wellbore, that contacts a formation through a cement layer between the liner and the formation, includes computing a stress on a boundary of the liner by an iteration procedure that implements an analytical solution of stresses on a liner-cement interface and a cement-formation interface using the geometric data, performing numerical simulations using the computational numerical model to calculate a magnitude and distribution of stresses acting on the liner-cement interface and the cement-formation interface, performing numerical simulations with the actual in-situ stresses to replace the mean in-situ stress on the outer boundary of formation layer to calculate magnitude and distribution of stresses acting on the liner-cement and cement-formation interfaces using the calibrated computational mesh and applying the calculated stresses acting on the liner to a liner integrity evaluation model to determine an integrity of the liner at a plurality of st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Yanhui Han, Dung Phan, Khalid AlRuwaili
  • Patent number: 11934754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic parameter value estimation method using deep learning, the magnetic parameter value estimation method including creating a simulated magnetic domain image corresponding to a spin configuration of a two-dimensional magnetic system created through computer simulation, modeling a deep neural network using the simulated magnetic domain image, and estimating a magnetic parameter value of an observed magnetic domain image using the modeled deep neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hee Young Kwon, Jun Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11927717
    Abstract: A method for history matching a reservoir model based on actual production data from the reservoir over time generates an ensemble of reservoir models using geological data representing petrophysical properties of a subterranean reservoir. Production data corresponding to a particular time instance is acquired from the subterranean reservoir. Normal score transformation is performed on the ensemble and on the acquired production data to transform respective original distributions into normal distributions. The generated ensemble is updated based on the transformed acquired production data using an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF). The updated generated ensemble and the transformed acquired production data are transformed back to respective original distributions. Future reservoir behavior is predicted based on the updated ensemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Zagayevskiy, Hanzi Mao, Harsh Biren Vora, Hui Dong, Terry Wong, Dominic Camilleri, Charles Hai Wang, Courtney Leeann Beck
  • Patent number: 11921084
    Abstract: A method and system for inspecting a steel wheel or steel rim of an off the road vehicle is provided. A method and system for predictive modeling of health and remaining useful life of a steel wheel or steel rim of the off the road vehicle is also provided. The off the road vehicles include vehicles at remote locations such as mine sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CleanSolv International LTD
    Inventors: Thomas Shumka, Jason Shumka
  • Patent number: 11922335
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment. The method for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment comprises six steps: determining the type and strength of external disaster; calculating the failure rate of components; calculating the recovery rate of the components; modeling the BN for a degradation process; modeling the BN for a maintenance process; and calculating the resilience of the offshore oil well control equipment. A system for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment comprises an external disaster evaluation module, a component failure rate calculation subsystem, a reliability degradation process simulation module, a fault identification module, a component recovery rate calculation module, a reliability recovery process simulation module, a reliability change curve derivation unit and an resilience calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Baoping Cai, Yonghong Liu, Yanping Zhang, Chuntan Gao, Xiaoyan Shao, Hongqi Xu, Xincheng Li, Yandong Chen, Renjie Ji, Zengkai Liu, Libing Liu, Rikui Zhang, Yuqian Yang, Shitang Liu, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 11899162
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a selection of various user-defined coarsening parameters. The user-defined coarsening parameters may include a predetermined fine-grid region in a geological region of interest and a predetermined cell distance. The method may further include determining an area of interest (AOI) mask for the geological region of interest based on the predetermined fine-grid region. The method may further include determining a geological property mask based on the user-defined coarsening parameters. The geological property mask may correspond to a predetermined geological feature within the predetermined cell distance from the AOI mask. The method may further include generating a coarsened grid model using grid model data and well data for the geological region of interest. The method may further include performing a reservoir simulation of the geological region of interest using the coarsened grid model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul Crumpton, Michel Cancelliere
  • Patent number: 11900028
    Abstract: Scatterometry analysis for a patterned structure, in which a patterned structure model is provided having a selected number of virtual segment data pieces indicative of a respective number of segments of the patterned structure along Z-axis through the structure, the segment data pieces processed for determining a matrix comprising Z-axis derivatives of electromagnetic elds' response of the segment to incident eld based on Maxwell's equations' solution, transforming this matrix into an approximated response matrix corresponding to the electromagnetic eld interaction between two different points spaced along the Z-axis, the transformation preferably carried out by a GPU, and comprises embedding the matrix in a series expansion of the matrix exponential term, the approximated response matrices for all the segment data pieces are multiplied for determining a general propagation matrix utilized to determine a scattering matrix for the patterned structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NOVA LTD
    Inventors: Ruslan Berdichevsky, Eyal Grubner, Shai Segev
  • Patent number: 11891678
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing a liquid injection process of ionic rare earth ore, including the following steps of: 1) testing the hydraulic properties of an ore body; 2) determining the diffusion degree of the ore body; 3) determining the spatial distribution of the rare earth grade and the impurity grade of the ore body prior to leaching; 4) determining model parameters of competitive exchange of rare earth ions and impurity ions with ammonium ions; 5) obtaining distribution of rare earth ion concentration within the ore body after completion of leaching; 6) obtaining a profile plot of a rare earth leaching rate as a function of the concentration and dosage of an injected leaching agent; and 7) determining a minimum leaching agent dosage to achieve a target leaching rate according to the profile plot, and then determining the ammonium sulfate concentration according to the minimum leaching agent dosage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, LONGYAN RARE-EARTH DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanshi Wang, Ping Long, Wenli Liu, Ying Huang, Dingshun He, Lei Qin, Shili Hu, Chenliang Peng, Sihai Luo, Guoqiang Deng
  • Patent number: 11868681
    Abstract: A system and method for pre-operatively optimizing a fit of an orthopaedic implant relative to a particular individuals anatomy is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
    Inventors: Brian W. McKinnon, Ruxandra C. Marinescu Tanasoca, Randy C. Winebarger, William L. Bowers, Jr., James B. Wiebe, III, Nathaniel M. Lenz, Zachary C. Wilkinson, Sean M. Haddock, Ryan L. Landon
  • Patent number: 11861271
    Abstract: A method includes: accessing a part model comprising a three-dimensional representation of a part; accessing a material profile relating exposure energy and three-dimensional polymerization geometry of a material selected for the part; segmenting the part model into a set of model layers; detecting a first upward-facing surface in the part model; defining a first model volume in a first model layer, adjacent the first upward-facing surface, and fully contained within the part model; based on the material profile, calculating a first exposure energy predicted to yield a first three-dimensional polymerization geometry approximating a first contour of the first upward-facing surface when projected onto the material during a build; populating a first print image with the first exposure energy in a first image area corresponding to the first model volume in the first model layer; and storing the first print image in a print file for the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Ong, Christopher Prucha, Marshall Ling, Elton Cheung
  • Patent number: 11841479
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying subsurface features as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest. Exemplary implementations may include obtaining target subsurface data; obtaining a conditioned subsurface feature model; applying the conditioned subsurface feature model to the target subsurface data, which may include generating convoluted target subsurface data by convoluting the target subsurface data; generating target subsurface feature map layers by applying filters to the convoluted target subsurface data; detecting potential target subsurface features in the target subsurface feature map layers; masking the target subsurface features; and estimating target subsurface feature data by linking the masked subsurface features to the target subsurface feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    Inventors: Shuxing Cheng, Zhao Zhang, Kellen Leigh Gunderson, Reynaldo Cardona, Zhangyang Wang, Ziyu Jiang
  • Patent number: 11840927
    Abstract: A method may include determining, during a first time step within an iterative simulation process, various pseudo-pressure values based on model data. The method may include determining, during the first time step, a first set of skin factor values for the wellbore radial grid portions using the pseudo-pressure values. The method may include simulating, during the first time step, a first well production rate for a well within a reservoir region of interest using the first set of skin factor values and a first pressure distribution for the reservoir region of interest. The method may include simulating, during a second time step within the iterative simulation process, a second well production rate for the well using a second set of skin factor values and a second pressure distribution for the reservoir region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Ali Haydar Dogru, Xiang Yang Ding
  • Patent number: 11836164
    Abstract: A method for recording data relating to the performance of an oil and gas flow network uses statistical data to represent raw data in a compact form. Categories are assigned to time intervals in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SOLUTION SEEKER AS
    Inventors: Vidar Gunnerud, Anders Sandnes, Vidar Thune Uglane, Stine Ursin-Holm, Bjarne Grimstad