Patents Examined by Mark A Connolly
  • Patent number: 12252389
    Abstract: A method for operating a water dispenser, the water dispenser having a water supply, a carbon dioxide supply, an outlet for pouring water into a container placed below the outlet, a controller and a user interface, the method including the following steps, which are executed in response to an activation of the water dispenser via the user interface: determining a nominal value of a water volume (V) that is to be filled into the container determining a nominal value of a waiting period (WP) by means of the controller determining nominal values of a first partial volume (V1) and a second partial volume (V2) by means of the controller (V1+V2=V), in particular by determining a volume ratio (R) with R=V1/V for dividing the water volume (V) into the partial volumes (V1, V2) pouring the first partial volume (V1) through the outlet waiting through the waiting period (WP) pouring the second partial volume (V2) through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: BRITA SE
    Inventors: Gernot Wiese, Jürgen Herrmann, Markus Huster
  • Patent number: 12248302
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. The data processing system may implement a distributed management framework for managing the operation of a thermal management subsystem tasked with maintaining the temperatures of the hardware components through heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Donald W. Gerhart, Alaric Joaquim Narcissius Silveira, Eric Michael Tunks, Balamurugan Gnanasambandam, Curtis Ray Genz, Randy Alton Frazier, Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12247753
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring an HVAC system. One of the methods includes receiving pressure data from one or more sensors monitoring a supply air duct of an HVAC system at a property that indicates a pressure in the HVAC system; determining, using the pressure data, that the pressure satisfies a pressure threshold for the HVAC system; and in response to determining that the pressure satisfies the pressure threshold, adjusting an actuator-controlled damper between the supply air duct and a return air duct or adjusting a fan speed of the HVAC system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Harrison Wayne Donahue, Daniel Marc Goodman, Craig Carl Heffernan, Liam Shea Daly, Grant Rudd
  • Patent number: 12250091
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using a positioning tag to facilitate control of a smart home device are presented herein. A communication sessions can be established between a control device and a positioning tag via a first device-to-device communication protocol. In response to a trigger event indicative of a user desiring to control the separate smart home device being detected, a positioning enablement message can be transmitted to the positioning tag via the first device-to-device communication protocol. A signal used for positioning is transmitted by the positioning tag using a second device-to-device communication protocol. Based on the received signal via the second device-to-device communication protocol, an interface that controls the smart home device is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Feldman
  • Patent number: 12248355
    Abstract: A system on chip (SoC) includes an internal read-only memory (ROM) configured to store a first boot loader; a first internal static random access memory (SRAM) configured to receive a second boot loader output from a booting device, store the second boot loader, and perform a booting sequence according to control of the first boot loader; a second internal SRAM configured to receive a third boot loader output from the booting device, store the third boot loader, and perform a wake-up sequence according to control of the first boot loader; and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) controller configured to load an operating system (OS) from the booting device into a DRAM according to control of the second boot loader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee Dong Shin
  • Patent number: 12244145
    Abstract: A power management system includes a photovoltaic power generator connected to a power network, an energy storage device configured to be connected to the power network, and a server. The server is configured to: acquire a predicted value of solar radiation at a prediction time at a point where the photovoltaic power generator is installed; calculate a predicted value of power generated by the photovoltaic power generator at the prediction time by using the predicted value of solar radiation; set a target range of an SOC of the energy storage device by using the predicted value, and control the SOC in such a way that the SOC falls within the target range by the prediction time; and set the target range to a wider range when reliability of the predicted value is low than when the reliability of the predicted value is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tamaki Ozawa, Toru Nakamura, Akinori Morishima, Yusuke Horii, Wataru Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12239436
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments is a device including a sensor module, a display, a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain sensing data from the sensor module, analyze the movement pattern of a user on the basis of the obtained sensing data, estimate movement characteristic information on the basis of the analysis result of the movement pattern, identify the operation mode of the electronic device on the basis of the movement characteristic information, and analyze activity information about the user on the basis of the identified operation mode so as to display same using the display. A method thereof is also disclosed and various other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeonseong Kim, Jeonggwan Kang, Seunghyuck Shin
  • Patent number: 12242316
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. To heat the hardware components, the data processing system may implement a dual device detection framework to identify and characterize various devices that may be usable to heat its hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Curtis Ray Genz, Donald W. Gerhart, Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy, Randy Alton Frazier, Nicole Mutesi
  • Patent number: 12228989
    Abstract: A system includes multiple hardware circuits and protection circuitry. The multiple hardware circuits are coupled to respective power domains having respective sets of domain-specific power settings. The protection circuitry is configured to monitor requests in which one or more of the hardware circuits request transitions between the domain-specific power settings, to determine, from among multiple system-level combinations of the domain-specific power settings, a subset of system-level combinations that could potentially be traversed in performing the requested transitions, and to initiate a responsive action upon detecting that any of the system-level combinations in the subset is specified as invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc
    Inventors: Doron Rajwan, Ami Schwartzman, Lior Zimet
  • Patent number: 12228997
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of operating a flexible and optimized power management unit (PMU) for multiple power supply scenarios are described. One integrated circuit includes a first terminal to couple to an unregulated power supply, a second terminal to couple to a regulated power supply, a first regulator, and a second regulator. The first regulator outputs a first supply voltage in a first configuration, and the second regulator outputs a second supply voltage in a second configuration. The first and second regulators do not operate concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Radhika Venkatasubramanian, Stephen W. Dow, Prasad Rao Kotra, Victor Simileysky, Ataur Rehman Khan, David Moeller, Brian Ballweber
  • Patent number: 12228981
    Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and two opposing side walls extending generally between and connecting the top wall to the bottom wall. The housing further has an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet opposing the airflow inlet. The system further includes a plurality of components within the housing. The plurality of components are arranged in rows with spaces between the rows. The system further includes a board coupled to the plurality of components on a first side and coupled to the bottom wall of the housing on a second side, opposing the first side. The board includes an aperture. The board and the bottom wall of the housing define a channel. The system further includes one or more of an injection ramp, a diversion ramp, and/or an airfoil for directing airflow within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Yu-Nien Huang, Jen-Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 12216446
    Abstract: A ballbar testing tune-up method for machine tool includes the steps of letting a machine tool system execute a ballbar test; obtaining a phase characteristic and a peak-value characteristic; creating a Lagrange interpolation polynomial and inputting a servo controller parameter, a phase characteristic and a peak-value characteristic of the machine tool system each time when executing the ballbar test, and obtaining a proposed servo parameter. This method is simple and easy without incurring additional equipment costs, but just using existing equipment to find the proposed servo parameter quickly and input it into a machine tool system, so as to improve the response issue of a servo system and reduce manufacturing contour error to enhance the working precision of the machine tool system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Ching-Hung Lee, Shun-Fu Wu
  • Patent number: 12215670
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, via one or more turbine-level controllers, an indication of at least one of a communication loss between the one or more turbine-level controllers and a farm-level controller, a detection of an absence of reactive power regulation by the farm-level controller, or a reactive power command of the farm-level controller being equal to or above a saturation threshold during transitioning between a baseline operational mode and reactive power mode, the reactive power mode being characterized in that only reactive power is generate. Upon receipt of the indication, the method includes adjusting a reactive power response of one or more reactive power regulators of the one or more turbine-level controllers so as to avoid an overshoot reactive power event or an undershoot reactive power event at the point of interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Alfredo Sebastian Achilles, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Andreu Casal Vilana, Igor Berroteran
  • Patent number: 12186989
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The computer-implemented method comprises receiving data indicative of a post-manufacture treatment to be applied to a three-dimensional object following completion of a manufacturing process to generate the three-dimensional object; and determining, based on the received data indicative of the post-manufacture treatment, build parameters to be applied in respect of the manufacturing process. A manufacturing apparatus and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sergio Gonzalez Martin, Manuel Freire Garcia, Ismael Fernandez Aymerich
  • Patent number: 12189442
    Abstract: A method for detecting heat dissipation is provided, including the following steps: sensing a core temperature of a heat emitting component of an electronic device; sensing current power of the heat emitting component when the core temperature is greater than or equal to a warning temperature; and transmitting an assembling check prompt and activating a thermal control circuit (TCC) when the current power is less than thermal design power (TDP) of the heat emitting component. An electronic device is further provided, to execute the method for detecting heat dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Kun-Hsin Chiang, Yu-Chieh Chang, Tang-Hui Liao, Wei-Hsian Chang, Wen-Yen Hsieh, Chih-Wei Kuo, Ming-Yi Huang, Ching-Chan Chu, Shun-Po Chang
  • Patent number: 12181947
    Abstract: A driver (e.g., a firmware or software) that improves the performance of the system-on-chip (SoC) in battery mode. The driver is a Peak Power Manager (PPM) which allows drastically higher SoC peak power limit levels (and thus higher Turbo performance) in battery mode. The PPM sets the Vth threshold voltage (the voltage level at which the platform will throttle the SoC) in such a way as to prevent the system from unexpected shutdown (or black screening). The PPM calculates the Psoc,pk SoC Peak Power Limit (e.g., PL4), according to the threshold voltage (Vth). These are two dependent parameters, if one is set, the other can be calculated. The scheme by the PPM is used to optimally set one parameter (Vth) based on the system parameters, and the history of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chee Lim Nge, Alexander Uan-Zo-li, Zhongsheng Wang, James Hermerding, II, Caren Magi
  • Patent number: 12169399
    Abstract: Traditional infrastructure monitoring systems have the disadvantage that they either fail to consider dependency between metrices or consider the dependency only at an abstract level, which adversely affects efficiency with which a performance assessment of the infrastructure being monitored can be carried out. Another disadvantage of the existing systems is that manual intervention is required at different stages of the infrastructure monitoring. The disclosure herein generally relates to infrastructure monitoring, and, more particularly, to a method and system for identifying correlation between metrices in the infrastructure. The system uses a hybrid correlation approach which considers determining a dominant correlation from among a direct correlation and a chained correlation that may exist between each pair of metrices being considered at a time for determining the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Gopalakrishnan Ramamoorthy, Rajan Gurumurthy Pillay, Ninad Arun Date, Shiva Tirumalasetty Santosh, Amit Chowdhery, Soumitra Mandal, Swapneel Kore
  • Patent number: 12153387
    Abstract: A deep learning process receives desired process values associated with the one or more process stations. The deep learning processor receives desired target values for one or more key performance indicators of the manufacturing process. The deep learning processor simulates the manufacturing process to generate expected process values and expected target values for the one or more key performance indicators to optimize the one or more key performance indicators. The simulating includes generating a proposed state change of at least one processing parameter of the initial set of processing parameters. The deep learning processor determines that expected process values and the expected target values are within an acceptable limit of the desired process values and the desired target values. Based on the determining, the deep learning processes causes a change to the initial set of processing parameters based on the proposed state change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Putman, Sarah Constantin, Valerie Bordelanne, Damas Limoge, Jonathan Lee
  • Patent number: 12152341
    Abstract: A system allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. As the user designs the garment, the system provides the user insight in their design process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Levi Strauss & Co.
    Inventors: Debdulal Mahanty, Christopher Schultz, Benjamin Bell, James Barton Sights, Jennifer Schultz
  • Patent number: 12140377
    Abstract: A device for viewing and/or illuminating a target surface in an evacuated chamber having condensable vapor therein, the device comprising: a first section with a through hole having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening; and a second section having a chamber comprising a first portion with a first opening, a second portion with a second opening and a gas inlet, where the second opening is covered with a first window, said first section is attached with the first end to the first portion of the chamber allowing free passage between the chamber and the first section, said gas inlet is connectable to a gas reservoir for feeding a gas into the chamber for prohibiting the first window in the chamber for being contaminated of the condensable vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Arcam AB
    Inventors: Tomas Lock, Björn Löfving, Markus Ramsperger