Patents Examined by Manuel A Rivera Vargas
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Patent number: 12281919Abstract: A system includes a central analysis station and a display. The central analysis station may be configured to receive a unique identifier and performance data from each of a plurality of solar panels. The central analysis station may detect a problem in at least one of the plurality of solar panels based on the performance data. A display may be configured to display a status of the at least one of the plurality of solar panels based on the detected problem.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Meir Adest, Lior Handelsman, Yoav Galin, Amir Fishelov, Guy Sella
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Patent number: 12270745Abstract: A single pulse spectral statistical analysis method for particle size distribution of inclusions on a surface of a metal material is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: NCS Testing Technology Co., Ltd., NCS Jiangsu Testing Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yunhai Jia, Liang Sheng, Lei Yu, Liangjing Yuan, Shanshan Xu
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Patent number: 12265461Abstract: An approach for intelligent optimization of machine learning models for a target environment may be provided herein. The approach may include extracting metadata from a training pipeline for a first machine learning model that has been configured to operate within a first computing environment. The approach may also include mapping the extracted metadata to one or more constraints associated with a second machine learning model that has been configured to operate within a second computing environment. The approach may also include training the second machine learning model configured to the second computing environment, with the dataset that was used to train the first machine learning model, based on the mapped constraints. The approach may also include comparing performance metrics of the first machine learning model to corresponding metrics of the now trained second machine learning model.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Kozhaya, Elizabeth Spingola, Paul Samuel Schweigert, Marcos Araque Fiallos
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Patent number: 12235125Abstract: A map (1) to be used by a vehicle which can measure magnetism acting from a road surface side forming a surface of a road to estimate an own vehicle position includes a structure map (M1) which represents a road structure and has position data indicating an absolute position linked to each point and a road-surface magnetic distribution (M2) which is magnetic data at each point on the road surface and has position data indicating an absolute position linked to each point. In the map (1), the structure map (M1) and the road-surface magnetic distribution (M2) are associated with each other via the position data indicating the absolute position.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Michiharu Yamamoto, Hitoshi Aoyama
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Patent number: 12231186Abstract: A method includes a gateway node that obtains a data transmission parameter between a first-level node and each node in a first node set, where the first-level node is located on a first-level power distribution device in a power distribution grid, and the first node set includes a node located on a power distribution device at another level in the power distribution grid other than the first-level power distribution device; determines a second-level node directly coupled to the first-level node from the first node set based on the data transmission parameter between the first-level node and each node in the first node set; and generates a physical network topology of the power distribution grid.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiquan Zhang, Xianyin Li, Jiahong Wei, Yu Li
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Patent number: 12223443Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learning estimation networks in a communications system. One of the methods includes: processing first information with ground truth information to generate a first RF signal by altering the first information by channel impairment having at least one channel effect, using a receiver to process the first RF signal to generate second information, training a machine-learning estimation network based on a network architecture, the second information, and the ground truth information, receiving by the receiver a second RF signal transmitted through a communication channel including the at least one channel effect, inferring by the trained estimation network the receiver to estimate an offset of the second RF signal caused by the at least one channel effect, and correcting the offset of the RF signal with the estimated offset to obtain a recovered RF signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, Kiran Karra, T. Charles Clancy
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Patent number: 12223556Abstract: The present disclosure describes an assembly for mounting a smart meter on a mounting pole. The assembly includes a support frame and an outer cover. The support frame includes a top mounting plate having a first routing aperture located and a first plurality of elongated apertures located circumferentially around the first routing aperture, a bottom mounting plate having a corresponding second routing aperture and a second plurality of apertures located circumferentially around the second routing aperture, the top mounting plate is spaced apart a distance from the bottom mounting plate to form an interior space of the smart meter module, and an inner bracket between the top and bottom mounting plates and coupled thereto, the inner bracket having an aperture that is generally perpendicular relative to the top and bottom mounting plates and configured to receive and secure a smart meter within the interior space of the smart meter module.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLCInventor: Guilibaldo Ruiz
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Patent number: 12216457Abstract: The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment and control method thereof. The system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The service platform and the sensor network platform adopt independent layout, and the management platform adopts centralized layout. The management platform is configured to store a control program that drives operation of production line equipment. The management platform is configured to call the control parameters in the database through communicating with the service platform and configure the control parameters in the control program to control the operation of production line equipment; and a data interaction mode between the user platform and the service platform is modifying and deleting the control parameters in the service platform through data transmission between the user platform and the service platform.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Haitang Xiang, Yaqiang Quan, Bin Liu, Yong Li
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Patent number: 12210381Abstract: A smart ring includes a curved housing having a U-shape interior storing components including: a curved battery approximately conforming to the curved housing, a semi-flexible PCB approximately conforming to the curved housing and having mounted theron: a motion sensor for generating motion data from physical perturbations of the smart ring, a memory for storing executable instructions, a transceiver for sending data to a client computer, a temperature sensor, and a processor for receiving motion data and performing executable instructions in response thereto, and a potting material disposed in the interior, forming an interior wall of the smart ring, wherein the potting material encapsulates the components and is substantially transparent to visible light, infrared light, and/or ultraviolet light.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Ouraring, Inc.Inventors: Curt C. von Badinski, Michael J. Strasser, Peter Twiss
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Patent number: 12210349Abstract: Herein, a “perception statistical performance model” (PSPM) for modelling a perception slice of a runtime stack for an autonomous vehicle or other robotic system may be used e.g. for safety/performance testing. A first PSPM is configured to: receive a computed perception ground truth; determine from the perception ground truth, based on a set of learned parameters, a probabilistic perception uncertainty distribution, the parameters learned from a set of actual perception outputs generated using the perception slice to be modelled, in order to compute a first time series of perception outputs. A second time series of perception outputs is computed using a second PSPM for modelling a second perception slice of the runtime stack, the first PSPM learned from data of a first sensor modality of the perception slice and the time series, and the second PSPM learned independently thereof from data of a second sensor modality of the second perception slice and the second time series.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Five AI LimitedInventors: John Redford, Sebastian Kaltwang, Sina Samangooei, Blaine Rogers
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Patent number: 12197306Abstract: A technique of processing storage cluster performance metrics involves obtaining access to performance metrics from storage appliances of a storage cluster, the performance metrics identifying performance for storage objects managed by the storage appliances. The technique further involves, after access to the performance metrics is obtained, disregarding a duplicate set of performance metrics for a storage object that migrates from a first storage appliance of the storage cluster to a second storage appliance of the storage cluster. The technique further involves, after the duplicate set of performance metrics is disregarded, archiving the performance metrics to an archive. After archiving the performance metrics to the archive, the technique may provide a performance analysis based on the performance metrics from the archive as well as adjust operation of the storage cluster according to the performance analysis.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Alexander Rayev, Rajesh Kumar Gandhi
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Patent number: 12181290Abstract: Systems and methods for the detection and analysis of curvature data are described. A method includes: receiving position data of a vehicle turning maneuver along a portion of a roadway, where the position data includes measured position data collected by sensors of a vehicle while traversing the vehicle turning maneuver; associating the received position data with map data of the portion of the roadway; generating a spline based on the position data, the spline being a smooth curve representing the vehicle turning maneuver from a first road segment to a second road segment; identifying a segment of the spline containing a turning point of the vehicle turning maneuver, the turning point representing a change of a vehicle path from along the first road segment to along the second road segment; and determining a maximum curvature value for the identified segment of the spline.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Liming Wang, Qin Chen
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Patent number: 12177668Abstract: An electromagnetic leakage red and black signal identification method based on information entropy characteristics includes: acquiring electromagnetic information leakage signals of an information device in an idle state and an information processing state respectively, and calculating information entropy of the electromagnetic leakage signals in the idle state and the information processing state; and calculating an information entropy change of the electromagnetic leakage signals caused by information processing, and determining whether an electromagnetic leak contains red signals when the device processes information according to the information entropy change, so as to give an electromagnetic leakage red and black signal identification result.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Fei Dai, Xuanhong Ren, Yiqi Yan, Yuntao Jin
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Patent number: 12165240Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides a multi-modality imaging system in combination with a novel imaging method comprising complex modeling of the modalities and machine learning. In a particular embodiment, multi-modality imaging of a large rock core is described.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., iTomography CorporationInventors: Alexander Katsevich, Michael Frenkel, Igor Frenkel, Airidas Korolkovas, Seongjin Yoon
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Patent number: 12162566Abstract: Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson
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Patent number: 12163422Abstract: A method for performing a drill stem test (DST) is disclosed. The method includes performing underbalanced drilling (UBD) of exploration wells to penetrate a target interval in a subterranean formation, where UBD is performed when a wellbore fluid pressure is less than a formation fluid pressure to allow a fluid flow from the target interval to surface during a drilling phase of the UBD, determining, based on the UBD of the exploration wells, a measure of the fluid flow from the target interval to the surface, obtaining, based on the UBD of the exploration wells, open hole logs of the exploration wells, where the open hole logs represent a reservoir property of the target interval, and selectively performing, based at least on the measure of the fluid flow and the open hole logs, the DST of the exploration wells.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Asim K. Alkhuwayr, Mohammed T. Mojbel
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Patent number: 12137651Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods are disclosed for allocating resources in a breeding pipeline to multiple origins. One exemplary method includes accessing a data structure including data representative of multiple origins, in which the data includes, for each of the multiple origins, a trait performance expression or genotypic component information. The exemplary method further includes determining a resource allocation, which allocates n resources among the multiple origins based on a probability associated with the trait performance expressions and/or the genotypic components for the origins, and then allocating the n resources in the breeding pipeline for the multiple origins, based on the determined resource allocation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Srinivas Phani Kumar Chavali, Sambarta Dasgupta, Qianni Dong, Humberto Ignacio Gutierrez Gaitan, Anthony Paul Kovacs, Jorge Luis Moran, Silvano Assanga Ocheya, Benjamin Bruce Stewart-Brown, Zi Wang, Chong Yu
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Patent number: 12140722Abstract: A method for determining a travertine deposit by: receiving a geological gridded model comprising a plurality of cells; receiving a source cell or a group of source cells of the geological gridded model corresponding to a source; determining a trajectory of a particle introduced at the source based on stochastic movements; and updating a travertine deposit in cells located on the trajectory of the particle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TOTALENERGIES ONETECHInventors: Gérard Massonnat, Aurélien Virgone
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Patent number: 12140508Abstract: A method for monitoring the status of an apparatus comprises processing in a processor a cyclic signal emitted and/or received by said apparatus, by sampling at least part of a plurality of cycles of the cyclic signal at n points to provide n measured values; comparing the n measured values to a predetermined distribution of values at said n points representing a first state of the apparatus; and if the n measured values fall outside predetermined criteria relating to the predetermined distribution, providing an indication that the apparatus is not in the first state.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Green Running LimitedInventors: Raza Rizvi, Doruk Uzunoglu, Peter Davies
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Patent number: 12136054Abstract: Systems and methods of surface steering control of drilling may be used together with systems and methods for planning one or more wells before drilling, planning a well path during drilling and/or updating that well plan and/or other well plans during the drilling of a well. The methods and systems may include planning a field, comprising a plurality of wells to be drilled and/or a plurality of pads from which a plurality of wells are to be drilled, planning a pad from which a plurality of wells are to be drilled, and planning a well both before and during drilling of the well.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Angus Lamberton Jamieson, Andrew Evan McGregor, Todd W. Benson