Patents Examined by Kamini S Shah
  • Patent number: 12210584
    Abstract: An ecological flow determination method for considering a lifting amount a belongs to a technical field of environmental engineering and includes the following steps: collecting, by a collecting device, data needed to calculate an ecological flow; determining, by a calculating device, an ecological base flow; selecting an upper limit and a lower limit of the ecological base flow so as to determine a range of the ecological base flow; verifying the lower limit of the ecological base flow; calculating water demands of landscape wetland, sediment discharge and dilution self purification of three service objects; comparing the water demands of the three service objects so as to determine the lifting amount, and finding out a minimum value and a maximum value to determine a lower limit and an upper limit of the lifting amount in the range; combining the ecological base flow and the lifting amount to determine the ecological flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Xi'an University of Technology
    Inventors: Jungang Luo, Dandan Liu
  • Patent number: 12203949
    Abstract: In a method and device for assessing the quality of a processing operation, a workpiece with specific processing parameters is processed along a processing trajectory. The (X), wherein the processing result is measured by at least one sensor and at least one sensor signal is recorded and at least one quality parameter is determined based on at least one sensor signal and the at least one quality parameter is compared with quality parameter threshold values to assess the quality of the processing result. During the assessment of the processing operation quality, changes made to the processing parameters from target values during the processing are automatically taken into consideration, in that, instead of the quality parameter threshold values, quality parameter threshold values adapted to the changes in the processing parameters are determined, and the at least one quality parameter for assessing the quality of the processing result is compared with the adapted quality parameter threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Ennsbrunner
  • Patent number: 12190030
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for electronically generating, and executing, component models for systems and system components, and determining component options for the system based on the executed component models. In some examples, a computing device generates component models for one or more components of a system. The component models may be based on features, inputs, and outputs to each system component. The computing device may execute the component models to determine one or more requirements for each component. The computing device may then search a database to determine component options that can satisfy the one or more requirements. In some examples, the computing device may display the determined component options, and may allow for the selection of one or more of the determined component options. In some examples, the computing device may allow for the purchase of the component options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PREDICTIVEIQ LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Augusto Betts, Juan Fernando Betts
  • Patent number: 12154663
    Abstract: A method of determining a property of a liquid system, the liquid system including at least one molecule in a solvent, comprises: generating a quantum model of the liquid system, the quantum model including a device region and a lead region, the device region being spherical, paraboloid, cubic or arbitrary in shape and encompassing the at least one molecule and a portion of the solvent of the liquid system, the lead region encompassing a region of the solvent surrounding the device region, determining a first property of the device region by solving a first quantum equation for the device region, determining the first property of the lead region by solving the first quantum equation under open boundary conditions for the lead region, and combining the first property of the device region with the first property of the lead region to arrive at a total first property for the liquid system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Tillmann Kubis, James Charles
  • Patent number: 12118279
    Abstract: Techniques for simulating fluid flow on a computer that involve a stable entropy solver are described. The techniques include simulating activity of a fluid across a mesh, the activity of the fluid being simulated so as to model movement of particles across the mesh, storing, in a computer accessible memory, a set of state vectors for each mesh location in the mesh, each of the state vectors comprising a plurality of entries that correspond to particular momentum states of possible momentum states at a corresponding mesh location, simulating a time evolution of entropy of the flow by collecting incoming set of distributions from neighboring mesh locations for the collision operation, calculating by the computer scalar values in each location, determining outgoing distributions as a product of the collision operation and addition of a heat source, and modifying the flow by the computer performing for a time interval, an advection of the particles to subsequent mesh locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
    Inventors: Pradeep Gopalakrishnan, Raoyang Zhang, Hudong Chen
  • Patent number: 12106020
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a prediction method and system for an initiation volume of a debris flow slope source. The prediction method includes: dividing a debris flow source slope to be predicted into soil columns; determining a positional relationship between a selected central soil column and six adjacent soil columns around; calculating a most unfavorable sliding surface of the soil column and an unbalanced force on the sliding surface according to an upper bound theorem of a limit analysis; determining whether the most unfavorable sliding surface is unstable; determining a mode and a size of a force exerted by an unstable soil column on a surrounding soil column according to a break status of a connection bond of a lateral tensile stress of the central soil column; and finally determining whether the soil column is fluidized, and predicting an initiation volume of the debris flow source slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yuanjun Jiang, Xiaobo Hu, Lijun Su, Xin Xia
  • Patent number: 12106022
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for simulating a dynamic digital twin model of dominant operation of a wind turbine generator assembly, by which conventional operational parameters of the wind turbine generator assembly that are acquired in real time are preprocessed to obtain steady-state operational parameters of the wind turbine generator assembly. A pneumatic subsystem-related data black box model, a transmission subsystem model, a tower subsystem model, and an electrical subsystem model are simulated individually using the steady-state operational parameters, and then combined to form a dynamic dominant-operation simulation model for simulating an operation process of the wind turbine generator assembly. Meanwhile, a dynamic deviation compensation model is constructed on the basis of the dynamic dominant-operation simulation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yang Hu, Fang Fang, Weiran Wang, Jizhen Liu
  • Patent number: 12032885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a material-based subdomain hybrid cellular automata algorithm for solving material optimization of thin-walled frame structures, including an outer loop and an inner loop: the outer loop is to define and update the target cost for the inner loop; the inner loop is to adjust material using a PID control strategy according to the nominal flow stress of a current cell and the nominal flow stress of candidate materials, so that a current cost of the inner loop converges to the target cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Libin Duan, Wei Xu, Xing Liu, Xin Luo
  • Patent number: 11952868
    Abstract: A method for predicting oil flow rates is provided. The method includes accessing historical data from a plurality of databases, accessing historical perforation data and historical reservoir properties data from a simulation model, and determining fluid flow values and rock quality index values associated with perforated intervals of the plurality of wells. The method further includes corresponding the fluid flow values and rock quality values to the well production data, training, using the plurality of input values, a machine learning model for predicting oil flow values at perforated intervals of a plurality of target wells, predicting, using the trained machine learning model, the oil flow values at the perforated intervals of the plurality of target wells, and generating a synthetic production log that includes the predicted oil flow values at the perforated intervals of the plurality of target wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Nauman Aqeel, Waqas Ahmed Khan, Sualeh Hasan, Khaled Benzaoui
  • Patent number: 11406337
    Abstract: A method for vascular assessment is disclosed. The method, in some embodiments, comprises receiving a plurality of 2-D angiographic images of a portion of a vasculature of a subject, and processing the images to produce a stenotic model over the vasculature, the stenotic model having measurements of the vasculature at one or more locations along vessels of the vasculature. The method, in some embodiments, further comprises obtaining a flow characteristic of the stenotic model, and calculating an index indicative of vascular function, based, at least in part, on the flow characteristic in the stenotic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cathworks Ltd.
    Inventors: Ifat Lavi, Ran Kornowski, Idit Avrahami, Nessi Benishti, Guy Lavi
  • Patent number: 11397836
    Abstract: Quantifying power usage for a service. An example method may include identifying a dependency model for the service, the dependency model based in part on infrastructure providing the service. The method may also include determining power usage for the service using the dependency model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Yuan Chen, Dejan S Milojicic, Daniel Juergen Gmach, Cullen E. Bash
  • Patent number: 11379640
    Abstract: Reservoir management based on unstructured grid reservoir simulation is improved with machine learning based intelligent automation. Reservoir heterogeneity, geological internal boundary features and well geometry complexity are taken into account to automatically detect well zone and focusing reservoir area by calculating the region-of-interests in the model and defining cell spacing for grid coarsening and refinement in the reservoir. Data points for wells in the reservoir are grouped into reservoir regions according to datasets organized as a convex hull, which is a minimum convex set in spatial geometry which encloses the totality of such data points. The reservoir regions form a basis for grid spacing utilized in the reservoir model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Xiang Yang Ding
  • Patent number: 11373018
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of displaying model includes: sampling a pattern to acquire an attention point; calculating a spatial or planar distribution that indicates any one of a design density, a lithography target density, a mask transmittance, or an optical image intensity at N points (N being an integer equal to or greater than 1) on the pattern including the attention point; calculating a threshold for the pattern; estimating, based on the distribution and the threshold, N elements respectively corresponding to the N points as a model; and displaying the estimated model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taiki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11365891
    Abstract: A method of balancing a heating system with a flow system, including a supply flow line (60) and a return flow line (70), a heat source (55) and a pump (10) hydraulic lines (L1-Ln), some having a heating element (H1-Hn) with a balancing valve (V1-Vn). The method includes: carrying out one or more measurements by opening one hydraulic line only and determining a flow rate through the pump and a pressure difference across the pump, establishing a hydraulic model based on the determined flow rate and pressure difference from at least two measurements from step, and at least one additional measurement for at least two hydraulic lines, specifying a desired flow rate for each of the hydraulic lines, and adjusting one or more of the dedicated balancing valves in order to meet the desired flow rate for each of the hydraulic lines by using the hydraulic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe, René Stig Bergqvist, Lars Sund Mortensen
  • Patent number: 11357986
    Abstract: A system for estimating a volume of activation around an implanted electrical stimulation lead for a set of stimulation parameters includes a display; and a processor coupled to the display and configured to: receive a set of stimulation parameters including a stimulation amplitude and a selection of one of more electrodes of the implanted electrical stimulation lead for delivery of the stimulation amplitude; determine an estimate of the volume of activation based on the set of stimulation parameters using the stimulation amplitude and a database including a plurality of planar distributions of stimulation threshold values and a map relating the planar distributions to spatial locations based on the one or more electrodes of the implanted electrical stimulation lead selected for delivery of the stimulation amplitude; and output on the display a graphical representation of the estimate of the volume of activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: G. Karl Steinke, Richard Mustakos
  • Patent number: 11353621
    Abstract: Methods and an alarming system for long-term carbon dioxide sequestration in a geologic reservoir are described. The geologic reservoir may be a water filled sandstone reservoir or a carbonate reservoir. A reservoir model is constructed to show the effects of varying injection pressures, the number of injection wells, the arrangement of injection wells, the boundary conditions and sizes of the reservoir on caprock uplift, fracture formation and fracture reactivation. The alarming system generates an alarm when caprock uplift that surpasses a threshold is detected. The injection pressures and the number of injection wells operating may be varied in response to the alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Sikandar Khan, Yehia Abel Khulief, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail
  • Patent number: 11347910
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for predicting strength of a coupon of composite material. A first critical damage event and strain and stress distributions of the coupon is determined by performing a finite element analysis (FEA) of a finite element model of the coupon. The first critical damage event is associated with the strain and stress distributions. The strain and stress distributions are received as inputs to at least one surrogate model. A final load corresponding to a final failure of the coupon is determined using the at least one surrogate model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Martiny, Jonathan H. Gosse, Eddy J. Sharp, Laurent Adam, Roger Assaker
  • Patent number: 11341416
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for solving a set of constraints are described. Binary decision diagram (BDD) learning can be applied to a proper subset of the first set of constraints to obtain a set of bit-level invariants. The set of bit-level invariants can then be used for solving the set of constraints. The set of bit-level invariants can include (1) forbidden invariants, (2) conditional invariants, and/or (3) bit-level invariants that are determined by applying BDD learning to a conjunction of constraints and range expressions. If multiple implied constraints have a common right-hand-side (RHS) expression, then BDD learning can be applied to the common RHS expression only once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: In-Ho Moon, Qiang Qiang
  • Patent number: 11340375
    Abstract: An electromagnetic measurement tool for making multi-frequency, full tensor, complex, electromagnetic measurements includes a triaxial transmitter and a triaxial receiver deployed on a tubular member. An electronic module is configured to obtain electromagnetic measurements at four or more distinct frequencies. The measurement tool may be used for various applications including obtaining a resistivity of sand layers in an alternating shale-sand formation; computing a dielectric permittivity, a conductivity anisotropy, and/or a permittivity anisotropy of a formation sample; and/or identifying formation mineralization including discriminating between pyrite and graphite inclusions and/or computing weight percent graphite and/or pyrite in the formation sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dean M. Homan, John Rasmus, Siddharth Misra
  • Patent number: 11340381
    Abstract: Provided in this disclosure are systems and methods for selection of petrophysical techniques to model reservoirs. Reservoir properties were calculated using two techniques—a deterministic technique and an optimizing petrophysics technique, and simulation models were developed. The technique that yielded a simulation model that aligned more accurately and consistently with the reservoir data was selected to further develop the reservoir model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jubril Oluwa, Dhaher Al-Elew, Charles Bradford