Patents Examined by Mark Connolly
  • Patent number: 11586263
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that can take plural power control modes different in rated power from one another, a fan that rotates to dissipate heat generated by the processor, and a power control unit that controls the power consumption of the processor. The plural power control modes include two or more stages of dynamic control modes different in rated power from one another and a unified communication mode. The power control unit selects any one of the dynamic control modes based on an event in which a power consumption state of the processor continues for a predetermined duration or more, and when the unified communication works, the power control unit preferentially selects the unified communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Atsunobu Nakamura, Takuroh Kamimura, Akinori Uchino
  • Patent number: 11586266
    Abstract: Data may be transferred from a volatile memory to a non-volatile memory using a persistent power enabled on-chip data processor upon detecting a power loss from a primary power source. The one or more emergency power supplies are attached to the volatile memory, the non-volatile memory, and the persistent power enabled on-chip data processor to assist with the transferring of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bulent Abali, Alper Buyuktosunoglu
  • Patent number: 11586265
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for proactively initiating throttle action on one or more cores in a multicore processing device to mitigate voltage droop therein. The method includes determining, in real-time, an indication of stall events within the core and determining one or more resolutions of the stall events. The method also includes determining, in real-time, a timing margin value for the core and predicting inducement of a voltage droop on the core. The method further includes integrating the resolutions of the stall events and the timing margin value for the core, determining, subject to the predicting, a throttle action for the core, and executing the throttle action on the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Bhadravati Parashurama, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Ramon Bertran Monfort, Tobias Webel, Martin Recktenwald, Preetham M. Lobo, Srinivas Bangalore Purushotham
  • Patent number: 11587431
    Abstract: A control method and device for a smart seated toilet. The method comprises: by acquiring function usage limitation information of a pre-set function provided by the smart seated toilet, judging whether the function usage limitation information satisfies conditions for allowing a user to use; if so, unlocking the pre-set function; and if not, then locking the pre-set function. By verifying the usage of a smart seated toilet, usage limitations of different functions of the smart seated toilet are realized, and convenience for users is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN AXENT CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tongqiang Zhou, Yimin Fang, Wensen Chen
  • Patent number: 11578886
    Abstract: A thermostat device may use one or two temperature sensors inside the housing of the thermostat device to perform temperature compensation to determine the ambient temperature outside the housing of the thermostat device. Processing circuitry of the thermostat device may determine a current operating mode of the thermostat device out of a plurality of operating modes. The processing circuitry may also use machine learning to estimate the current and voltage of the thermostat device based on temperature differences between the two temperature sensors. The processing circuitry may determine, based at least in part on the estimated current and voltage of the thermostat device and the current operating mode of the thermostat device, an ambient temperature outside the housing of the thermostat device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Rafael Aguilar, Sergio Adrian Martinez, Ever Hernandez, Mohammad A. Aljabari
  • Patent number: 11574182
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, device inspection or repair may be facilitated via signal-based determinations. In some embodiments, one or more flaws may be detected on a portion of a device via an optical sensor. Based on the detection, a physical structure may be caused to physically interact with the portion of the user device. Information indicating signals from the physical interaction may be obtained. Based on the signal information, a determination of whether a repair process should be performed on the device may be effectuated. The device may be assigned to be repaired via the repair process based on the determination indicating that the repair process should be performed on the device. In some embodiments, the signal information may be provided to a prediction model to determine whether the repair process should be performed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: APKUDO, INC.
    Inventors: Josh Matthews, Kevin King, Benjamin Leslie, Jason Hihn
  • Patent number: 11575253
    Abstract: Systems and methods to estimate trapped charge for a controlled automatic reclose of a power line using a ganged switching device are described herein. For example, an intelligent electronic device (IED) may calculate a voltage amount associated with trapped charge of each phase of a power line based on voltage measurements of the power line. The IED may send a signal to close a ganged switching device at a time based at least in part on the trapped charge of each phase of a power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ritwik Chowdhury, Gabriel Benmouyal, Carolyn Sun
  • Patent number: 11567462
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data collection system includes an event data collector, a state machine generator, a state machine list, and a state machine driver. The event data collector collects sense signals respectively as a plurality of event data. The state machine generator generates a state machine as a model corresponding to the workpiece. One of the sense signals is acquired when the workpiece is fed into the processing system. The state machine generator generates the state machine and generates an ID for the state machine when the event data collector collects one of the plurality of event data corresponding to the one of the sense signals. The state machine driver drives the state machine retained in the state machine list by sending, to the state machine retained in the state machine list, an event corresponding to another one of the sense signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Tsubasa Kusaka
  • Patent number: 11556161
    Abstract: A power delivery system for a computing device includes a power connector, a power delivery switch, a charging circuit, and a hardware controller. The power connector is configured to selectively electrically connect with a power supply unit. The power delivery switch is electrically intermediate the power connector and the charging circuit. The hardware controller is configured to limit a charging current at the charging circuit to a sub-threshold level for a current-limiting duration based at least on initiation of a transition of the power delivery switch from an OFF state to an ON state that lasts for a switching duration that is less than the current-limiting duration. The charging circuit is configured to modulate the charging current to a regulated charging current and deliver the regulated charging current to a system load of the computing device after the current-limiting duration has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Donghwi Kim, Ying Huang, Geo John Palakunnel
  • Patent number: 11550379
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages a building management system for a building. The building management system includes a building controller, a power over Ethernet (PoE) adapter, and a PoE source. The building controller is configured to operate one or more building equipment of the building, wherein the building controller is powered via alternating current (AC) power. The power over Ethernet (PoE) adapter comprises one or more circuits configured to receive PoE from the PoE source, wherein the PoE source is configured to generate the PoE having direct current (DC) power. Further, the PoE adapter is configured to generate AC power based on the PoE received from the PoE source, and provide the AC power to the building controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Matthew T. Plank, Daniel J. Sonnemann, Kevin F. Hughes, Musa J. Abdeljaber
  • Patent number: 11543870
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power system that includes a set of power devices and addressing lines. The set of power devices are electrically connected to a main power source, a standby power source and a server node. The addressing lines are electrically connected to the set of power devices, so that the set of power devices can correspond to a plurality of different addressing signals respectively. The set of power devices are switched at different times based on the different addressing signals, so that one of the main power source or the standby power source supplies power to the server node though the set of power devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Te-Chih Peng, Ming-Hsiang Lo, Sung-Yueh Chen
  • Patent number: 11530836
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an air conditioner and a control method thereof. The control method of the air conditioner is capable of acquiring a voice of a user including a state of the user, transmitting the voice of the user to an external server, receiving, from the external server, a control command acquired by using a cooling tendency of the user and the state of the user determined on the basis of a usage history of the air conditioner, and controlling the air conditioner on the basis of the control command. In particular, at least a part of a method of acquiring a control command on the basis of a cooling tendency of a user may use an artificial intelligence model trained according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, and deep learning algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungseon Song, Soonhyung Gwon, Tan Kim, Dongjun Shin, Hyunwoo Ock, Minkyong Kim
  • Patent number: 11531386
    Abstract: A multi-element device includes a plurality of memory elements, each of which includes a memory array, access circuitry to control access to the memory array, and power control circuitry. The power control circuitry, which includes one or more control registers for storing first and second control values, controls distribution of power to the access circuitry in accordance with the first control value, and controls distribution of power to the memory array in accordance with the second control value. Each memory element also includes sideband circuitry for enabling a host system to set at least the first control value and the second control value in the one or more control registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Deborah Lindsey Dressler, Julia Kelly Cline, Wayne Frederick Ellis
  • Patent number: 11513581
    Abstract: Example techniques related to portable playback device power management. An example implementation includes a main SoC comprising main processor(s), an auxiliary processor, and a kernel that executes on the one or more main processor cores. During kernel suspend of the kernel, a power management microcontroller monitors a battery for conditions corresponding to respective wake-on-battery triggers, detects that the monitored conditions correspond to a particular wake-on-battery trigger; and in response, sends, to the auxiliary processor, an interrupt corresponding to a particular wake-on-battery trigger, wherein the interrupt causes the auxiliary processor core to enable the main processor(s) and resume the kernel from kernel suspend. After resuming from kernel suspend, the kernel adds a first kernel resume source event indicating the particular wake-on-battery trigger to a power event queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Chai, Xiang Wang, Brenda Stefani, Lyford Beverage, Jr., Allan Velzy, Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III
  • Patent number: 11507166
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for monitoring total power consumption of a component coupled to a riser card includes: capturing, by a power cable sensor, a first signal associated with a power cable; receiving, by a power monitor, the first signal from the power cable sensor via a first bus; determining, by the power monitor, a first power consumption level indicating a first voltage supplied to the component via the power cable; capturing, by a card slot sensor, a second signal associated with a card slot; receiving, by the power monitor, the second signal from the card slot sensor via a second bus; determining, by the power monitor, a second power consumption level indicating a second voltage supplied to the component via the card slot; and determining, by the power monitor, a total power consumption level associated with the component based on the first and the second power consumption levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Derric C. Hobbs, Eric N. Sendelbach
  • Patent number: 11510346
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an immersion cooling system includes a coolant tank that has liquid coolant and contains at least partially submerged within the liquid coolant 1) a thermoelectric cooling (TEC) element that is coupled to an information technology (IT) component that is mounted on a piece of IT equipment, and 2) a heat sink that is coupled to the TEC element, wherein the TEC element is configured to transfer heat generated by the IT component into the liquid coolant via the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Shuai Shao, Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11507163
    Abstract: Facilitating powering up/down respective analog circuits of mixed-signal devices utilizing a reconfigurable power sequencer component and corresponding reconfigurable sequencer processing unit(s) is presented herein. A system can comprise a mixed-signal component comprising a group of analog circuits comprising respective inputs to facilitate a power-up and a power-down of respective portions of the analog circuits; and a reconfigurable power sequencer component that obtains, from a reconfigurable memory of the system, reprogrammable information representing respective timed sequences of digital outputs electronically coupled to the respective inputs of the group of analog circuits, and based on the reprogrammable information, generates the respective timed sequences of the digital outputs to facilitate the power-up and the power-down of the respective portions of the analog circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Santillo, Biswajit Datta
  • Patent number: 11499739
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an air conditioner and a control method thereof. The control method of the air conditioner is capable of acquiring a voice of a user including a state of the user, transmitting the voice of the user to an external server, receiving, from the external server, a control command acquired by using a cooling tendency of the user and the state of the user determined on the basis of a usage history of the air conditioner, and controlling the air conditioner on the basis of the control command. In particular, at least a part of a method of acquiring a control command on the basis of a cooling tendency of a user may use an artificial intelligence model trained according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, and deep learning algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungseon Song, Soonhyung Gwon, Tan Kim, Dongjun Shin, Hyunwoo Ock, Minkyong Kim
  • Patent number: 11490575
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system and method for detecting and adjusting the position of an irrigation span. More particularly, the present invention provides a system and method for detecting and removing deflection stresses from irrigation spans caused by corner arm positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Valmont Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy A. Thatcher, Mark Moeller
  • Patent number: 11484947
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle headstock having a main spindle, a spindle headstock having a main spindle with a Z3 axis parallel to an axis center direction of the main spindle, a turret that moves relative to the spindle headstocks, and a controller that superposition-controls the spindle headstock with movement of the turret as a standard, wherein the turret is movable in directions of an X axis and a Ys axis that are orthogonal to a Z axis and intersect with the Z axis at an angle except for the right angle, and the controller moves the turret in a direction of a Y axis different from the Ys axis and the X axis by combining movement in the direction of the Ys axis and movement in the direction of the Y axis, and regulates, in the superposition control, the movement of the spindle headstock in the X axis direction associated with the movement in the Y axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Shinohara, Mitsuru Yamaura