Patents Examined by Kamini S Shah
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Patent number: 11281821Abstract: An exemplary method for qualifying a gas turbine engine component includes creating a first set of substantially identical gas turbine engine components via a uniform manufacturing procedure, determining a set of as-manufactured parameters of each gas turbine engine component in the first set of substantially identical gas turbine engine components, determining a variance model of the first set of substantially identical gas turbine engine components, and determining a plurality of predicted response models based at least in part on the variance model, each of the predicted response models corresponding to one of an engine type and an engine assembly, and each of the predicted response models being configured to determine a predicted response of including a gas turbine engine component from the first set of substantially identical gas turbine engine components in the corresponding one of the engine type and the engine assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Daniel A. Snyder, Kurt R. Heinemann
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Patent number: 11281825Abstract: A method for efficiently injecting sources and retrieving receiver wavefields using finite difference models for wavefield simulations on a GPU, when the source and receiver are not on numerical grid points, and therefore arbitrarily located. To accomplish that, the method employs GPU texture memory to increase the memory read bandwidth, and then positions at arbitrary or simulated locations the sources in a finite difference grid, as well as extends them over a newly generated number of grid points.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Changhua Zhang
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Patent number: 11268352Abstract: Techniques for controlling a hydrocarbon production system include determining a first estimate of a prior FVC detectability probability map based on a plurality of reservoir data that includes four-dimensional (4D) seismic data of a subterranean reservoir; determining a second estimate of the prior FVC detectability probability map under seismic data noise conditions; determining an updated detectable FVC probability based on the 4D seismic data; determining an updated FVC probability based on the updated detectable FVC probability and the first and second estimates of the prior FVC detectability probability maps; and generating a control instruction for at least one of a fluid injection system or a hydrocarbon production assembly based on the updated FVC probability.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Philippe Nivlet
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Patent number: 11270041Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a position-based dynamics approach for simulating objects using a set of points and constraints, applied as equations that restrict the relative motion of bodies. Forces are applied to the points to move them, and the constraints ensure that the points will not move in a way that is inconsistent with rules of the simulation. The present invention improves upon existing PBD approaches by using regularized constraints that directly correspond to well-defined energy potentials, and which can advantageously be solved independent of time step and iteration count.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Miles Macklin, Matthias Müller, Nuttapong Chentanez
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Patent number: 11268370Abstract: Examples of techniques for model-based parameter and state estimation for directional drilling in a wellbore operation are provided. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing device, measurement data from the wellbore operation. The method further includes performing, by the processing device, an online estimation of at least one of a parameter to generate an estimated parameter and a state to generate an estimated state, the online estimation based at least in part on the measurement data. The method further includes generating, by the processing device, a control input to control an aspect in the wellbore operation based at least in part on the at least one of the estimated parameter and the estimated state. The method further includes executing a control action based on the control input to control the aspect of the wellbore operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Francesco Quattrone, Christian Hansen, Oliver Hoehn, Joern Koeneke, Bruno Morabito, Rolf Findeisen
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Patent number: 11263373Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predictive machining for forging distortions. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a mesh model of a machined part to be machined from a forged part and residual stress field data for the forged part, where the mesh model includes multiple nodes corresponding to at least one boundary of the machined part, updating the mesh model by applying the residual stress field data to the multiple nodes corresponding to the at least one boundary to change positions of the multiple nodes in the mesh model, repeating the updating until an amount of change to each of the positions of the multiple nodes in the mesh model satisfies a correction criteria, and providing the compensated mesh model for use in machining the machined part from the forged part.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Mario Noviello, Fikret Kalay, Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar
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Patent number: 11262727Abstract: An integrated simulation system includes a first simulation device which executes a simulation of a first program, a second simulation device which executes a simulation of a second program, a start timing setting section which sets start timing for the correlated first program and second program so as to verify the presence or absence of malfunctions caused by a start order of the correlated first program and second program, and a program starting section which issues commands to the first simulation device and the second simulation device to start the correlated first program and second program at the set start timing by a single starting operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Kozo Inoue
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Patent number: 11263289Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship
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Patent number: 11255314Abstract: An energy audit tool for a wind turbine power system includes a data collector module configured for temporary connection to an existing turbine controller of the existing wind turbine power system. The data collector module is configured to collect operating data of the existing wind turbine power system. The energy audit tool also includes a model simulator module configured for analyzing the collected operating data, generating a model of the existing wind turbine power system based on the collected operating data, and determining an energy loss of the existing wind turbine power system from the model of the existing wind turbine power system.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph Chacon Lawrence, Stefan Herr
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Patent number: 11250190Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving a digital description of a quantum circuit, partitioning the digital description of the quantum circuit into a plurality of quantum sub-circuits wherein each quantum sub-circuit of the plurality of quantum sub-circuits comprises one or more quantum gates, determining sub-circuit dependencies for the plurality of quantum sub-circuits, simulating the plurality of quantum sub-circuits according to the sub-circuit dependencies to produce simulation results for each quantum sub-circuit of the plurality of quantum sub-circuits, wherein a first and a second quantum sub-circuit of the plurality of quantum sub-circuits each contain one or more gates that are applied to a common qubit, and wherein the first and the second quantum sub-circuit are simulated independently using an entangled tensor index. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edwin Peter Dawson Pednault, John A. Gunnels
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Patent number: 11250175Abstract: A spatial-information generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reference-plane acquirer, a simplification-section setter, and a shape simplifier. The reference-plane acquirer acquires, on the basis of a first spatial object related to a first space, first attribute information indicating attributes of the first spatial object, and first relation information indicating a relation between the first spatial object and objects of other constituent elements of the building, a reference plane object related to a plane of a part of the first space from the first spatial object and generates a shape of the reference plane object. The simplification-section setter sets a simplification section, which is a target to be simplified, in the shape of the reference plane object. The shape simplifier simplifies the shape of the reference plane object in the simplification section to thereby generate the reference plane object in the simplified shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Gaku Ishii, Ena Ishii
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Patent number: 11226431Abstract: A method and device for filling invalid regions of terrain elevation model data are provided by the present disclosure. The filling method includes obtaining an isolated invalid grid in first terrain elevation model data, the invalid grid being a grid without a valid elevation value; interpolating an elevation value of the isolated invalid grid by using elevation values of valid grids around the isolated invalid grid, to obtain data-interpolated first terrain elevation model data; obtaining invalid patches in the data-interpolated first terrain elevation model data, each of the invalid patches being a region consisting of at least two adjacent invalid grids; and interpolating elevation values of the invalid grids in the invalid patches by using a further terrain elevation model data other than the first terrain elevation model data, to fill the invalid regions of the first terrain elevation model data.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qiankun Wang, Yun Wang, Dongxu Lei
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Patent number: 11227080Abstract: An industrial data presentation system leverages structured data types defined on industrial devices to generate and deliver meaningful presentations of industrial data. Industrial devices are configured to support structured data types referred to as basic information data types (BIDTs) comprising a finite set of structured information data types, including a rate data type, a state data type, an odometer data type, and an event data type. The BIDTs are discoverable by a gateway device on which models of industrial assets can be defined, where the models reference the BIDTs defined on the industrial devices. The gateway device can retrieve industrial data from the data tags, formatted in accordance with the data types and associated user-defined metadata specific to the respective data types. The gateway device or a separate application server system can then generate graphical presentations of the industrial data in accordance with the model and the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joachim Thomsen, Stephen C. Briant, Noel Henderson, Manuel Sukerman, Daniel B. Seger, Scott N. Sandler
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Patent number: 11210434Abstract: A system includes an input/output interface, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a fault code, display on the input/output interface a first component of an aircraft that is associated with the fault code, upon selection by a user of a first hyperlink associated with the first component, display a physical layout of the aircraft in which the first component is indicated, and upon selection by the user of a second hyperlink associated with the first component, display a first wiring diagram of the aircraft in which the first component is indicated.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Textron innovations Inc.Inventors: Monty Allan Wolfe, Marc Lemieux, Michael Alan Gralish
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Patent number: 11208110Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method that models a motor vehicle sensor in a virtual test environment by way of definition. Using a sensor support, a raycast distribution shape, a group of raycast properties, a raycast reflection factor, and a raycast echo, a sensor in reality may be tested in a virtual environment to calibrate the sensor in reality. The sensor support is a virtual sensor support for a virtual sensor model, which forms a three-dimensional or two-dimensional avatar of the sensor in reality, in the virtual test environment. The sensor support has a sensor starting point that is used as an origin for a raycast distribution shape. The method extracts a special application of the sensor in reality in an application case, which is particularly useful for testing scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Frederic Stefan, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier, Michael Marbaix, Evangelos Bitsanis
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Patent number: 11205027Abstract: A system for fault detection and diagnostics of equipment. The system may also be capable of disaggregation and/or virtual submetering of energy consumption by equipment, such as that of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lighting, and so forth, in a building. Vibration and current sensors, along with one or more algorithms, may be utilized for fault detection and diagnostics of equipment. Models may be developed to aid in deducing energy consumption of individual components of equipment, and the like, for a building.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Joseph Majewski, Radek Fisera, Mark Anglin, Thomas Gall
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Patent number: 11200149Abstract: A process is disclosed to identify the minimal set of sequential and combinational signals needed to fully reconstruct the combinational layout after emulation is complete. A minimal subset of sequential and combinational elements is output from the emulator to maximize the emulator speed and limit the utilization of emulator resources, e.g., FPGA resources. An efficient reconstruction of combinational waveforms or SAIF data is performed using a parallel computing grid.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.Inventors: Gagan Vishal Jain, Johnson Adaikalasamy, Alexander John Wakefield, Ritesh Mittal, Solaiman Rahim, Olivier Coudert
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Patent number: 11185138Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing optical characteristics of gemstones with diffractive structures are provided. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a three-dimensional model of a gemstone including representations of surfaces of the gemstone, identifying a region on a surface of the gemstone having an optical value higher than one or more other regions on the surface of the gemstone by analyzing the three-dimensional model of the gemstone, and determining a diffractive structure to be arranged on the identified region of the surface of the gemstone, such that the gemstone with the diffractive structure has a higher optical performance than the gemstone without the diffractive structure. The method can also include fabricating the determined diffractive structure on the identified region of the surface of the gemstone.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SPARKLE CUT DIAMONDS, INC.Inventors: George Maltezos, Mark L. de Naray
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Patent number: 11187235Abstract: A computer implemented method for the prediction of the surge point of a compressor includes: generating a plurality of meshes: a compressor inlet mesh, at least a compressor rotor stage mesh, and a compressor outlet mesh, representing a plurality of exit guide vanes and an exit nozzle and extending up to a final nozzle exit area; assembling the plurality of meshes to obtain the CFD domain; specifying boundary conditions of the computational domain; specifying atmospheric pressure conditions at the final nozzle exit area; computing compressor inlet mass flow rate and compressor pressure ratio; checking if the numerical stability limit is not reached, as a result of the numerical stability limit not being reached: decreasing dimensions of the final nozzle exit area; generating again the compressor outlet mesh; repeating the steps of specifying atmospheric pressure at the final nozzle exit area, the step of computing, and the step of checking.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Senthil Krishnababu
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Patent number: 11176291Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using roughing toolpath sequences generated for subtractive manufacturing include, in one aspect, a method including: obtaining 3D models of a part and a workpiece and information regarding different cutting tools and cutting data therefor; determining a set of candidate combinations of the different cutting tools to effect the roughing operations by estimating a target machining result for each of multiple, tool-size-ordered lists of the different cutting tools; generating an expanded set of combinations of the different cutting tools to effect the roughing operations by adding variations of the candidate combinations; populating a multidimensional roughing operations representation vector using the expanded set of combinations; optimizing values of the multidimensional roughing operations representation vector using simulation of the roughing operations; and pType: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventor: Stephen William Mackman