Patents Examined by Mark Connolly
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12134547
    Abstract: A method for controlling a hydraulic winch includes acquiring measurements from sensors coupled to the hydraulic winch. A first control function is computed based on the measurements. The first control function sets pressure across a variable displacement motor that produces motion of the tool string following a desired motion trajectory. A second control function is computed. The second control function sets displacement of a variable displacement pump that causes the pressure across the variable displacement motor to track the first control function. A pump command is selected based on the second control function. The pump command is transmitted to the variable displacement pump. The tool string moves responsive to the pump command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fanping Bu
  • Patent number: 12130604
    Abstract: An embodiment includes retrofitting an existing control device with an automation panel that senses manual actuation of a control element of the control device, and automatically actuates the control element in response to a specified control signal. The embodiment collects state data indicative of an actuation state of the control element and context data of conditions at a time that the state data is collected, and generates a training dataset comprising collected state data and sensor data. It then uses this data to train a classification model to predict a control element actuation state based on sensor data. The embodiment deploys the trained classification model to process sensor data and upon detecting a mismatch between a predicted actuation state output from the trained classification model and an actual actuation state of the control element, the embodiment transmits the specified control signal to the automation panel to actuate the control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natalie Brooks Powell, Shikhar Kwatra, Vijay Ekambaram, Nisarg Negi
  • Patent number: 12124307
    Abstract: A media streaming device includes a power manager, a stream processor, and a voltage detector. The power manager receives a power signal from the media playback device to supply power to the stream processor. The stream processor provides media stream to the media playback device for playback. The voltage detector is electrically coupled to the stream processor and captures at least a part of the power supply current to the stream processor. The stream processor is configured to determine whether the power supply voltage remains stable. When the supply voltage remains stable, the stream processor operates in a first mode to provide media stream. When the power supply voltage is unstable, the stream processor operates in a second mode to provide media stream, and the power consumption of the stream processor in the second mode is lower than the power consumption in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Chao-Min Lai, Chia-Chi Yeh, Chieh-Lung Hsieh, Chih-Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 12124316
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing energy consumption. A method may include aggregating, for a prior time period, prior usage data from a plurality of computing nodes. Based on the aggregated prior usage data from the plurality of computing nodes, a usage threshold for decreasing cooling system output for the plurality of computing nodes and a local-time threshold for decreasing the cooling system output for the plurality of computing nodes are determined. Current usage data for the plurality of computing nodes is then received. When the current usage data reaches the usage threshold and the local time is after the local-time threshold, output of the cooling systems of the plurality of computing nodes is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Flynn, Jason Huselton, Paul Brannigan
  • Patent number: 12120991
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for controlling the flow of water through zones of an ancillary span of an irrigation system to achieve optimal water distribution for each of a plurality of sections of a field-of-interest to be irrigated by the ancillary span. The disclosed systems and methods optimally turn control zones on and off to minimize the flow variability of water supplied to the ancillary span. The technology described herein runs a series of simulations to determine an optimal irrigation plan for the ancillary span. The instantaneous average flow at different points within a simulation may be calculated. The plurality of instantaneous average flows are used to determine a variance statistic for the plurality, which is used to determine the optimal plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: REINKE MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventor: Josiah John Carey
  • Patent number: 12123604
    Abstract: The present invention has an additional control device for locally adapting a control signal to be fed to a device-external ventilator having a supply input, a supply output to provide a ventilator supply voltage to the device-external ventilator, a control input, which is configured to receive an actual control signal to be fed to the external ventilator, which actual control signal specifies a desired delivery rate to the ventilator, a control unit with a delivery rate determining unit to capture a power measurement variable correlating with an actual delivery rate of the ventilator, a control signal adapting unit to determine a desired control signal, and a power control unit to output either the received actual control signal or the desired control signal at a control output to the external ventilator in dependence on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: LUNOS LÜFTUNGSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG FÜR RAUMLUFTSYSTEME
    Inventors: Michael Steckenborn, Michael Merscher
  • Patent number: 12117885
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for electronic device power consumption grading. In some examples, similar electronic devices may consume different amounts of power due to variations in components of the electronic devices. The components can include electrical components (e.g., discrete circuits, integrated circuits, etc.), mechanical components (e.g., motors, traces, etc.), electro-mechanical components (e.g., switches, motors, piezoelectric devices, etc.). Power consumption information for specific components can be determined and a power consumption grading for the specific electronic device can be determined from the power consumption information. A user may then utilize the power consumption grading to optimize a usage of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventors: Li Hong Zhang, Mark A. Gaertner
  • Patent number: 12119649
    Abstract: The application relates to an oscillation active damping control method and system for grid-tied type-4 wind turbine generator. The method comprises: based on an interconnection model of multiple subsystems, constructing a stored energy function and a dissipated energy function of a current inner loop control subsystem, and interaction energy functions between the current inner loop control subsystem and other subsystems are constructed, then establishing an energy feedback model of Type-4 wind turbine generator; when the oscillation occurs, obtaining instantaneous angular frequency of the PLL, and then based on the energy feedback model, adjusting the current reference value of the q-axis current inner loop generated by the reactive power outer loop control subsystem, to make the stored energy function decrease with time, so as to suppress the oscillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jing Ma, Letian Wang, Xiangyu Li, Wangyang Du, Yitong Xu
  • Patent number: 12102591
    Abstract: A system and/or massage apparatus to obtain massage data from the massage apparatus (such as a massage chair) for control of a virtual representation of the massage apparatus in a simulated environment is developed. The system and/or massage apparatus is especially suited for a simulated and/or interactive environment such as virtual reality/augmented reality environment. The actual motion(s) of one or more physical massage mechanisms of the massage apparatus is obtained in the form of data signal(s), processed, rendered and displayed in the simulated and/or interactive environment as three-dimensional content. A user interface in the simulated or interactive environment may be used in a real-time or near real-time basis to provide a seamless experience to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: OSIM INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Kia Tong Tan, Gilbert Realuyo, Yeung Lau
  • Patent number: 12093100
    Abstract: Hierarchical Power Management (HPM) architecture considers the limits of scaling on a power management controller, the autonomy at each die, and provides a unified view of the package to a platform. At a simplest level, HPM architecture has a supervisor and one or more supervisee power management units (PMUs) that communicate via at least two different communication fabrics. Each PMU can behave as a supervisor for a number of supervisee PMUs in a particular domain. HPM addresses these needs for products that comprise a collection of dice with varying levels of power and thermal management capabilities and needs. HPM serves as a unified mechanism than can span collection of dice of varying capability and function, which together form a traditional system-on-chip (SoC). HPM provides a basis for managing power and thermals across a diverse set of dice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Garg, Ankush Varma, Krishnakanth Sistla, Nikhil Gupta, Nikethan Shivanand Baligar, Stephen Wang, Nilanjan Palit, Timothy Yee-Kwong Kam, Adwait Purandare, Ujjwal Gupta, Stanley Chen, Dorit Shapira, Shruthi Venugopal, Suresh Chemudupati, Rupal Parikh, Eric Dehaemer, Pavithra Sampath, Phani Kumar Kandula, Yogesh Bansal, Dean Mulla, Michael Tulanowski, Stephen Paul Haake, Andrew Herdrich, Ripan Das, Nazar Syed Haider, Aman Sewani
  • Patent number: 12085298
    Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition, and a storage unit that stores correspondence information in which changes in the control state of the environmental equipment are associated with changes in the physical-and-mental-state information of the user grasped by the grasping unit in accordance with the changes in the control state of the environmental equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto