Patents Examined by Nha T Nguyen
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Patent number: 11475194Abstract: Techniques improve integrated circuit design by employing multi-operating condition frequency prediction for statically timed designs through statistical analysis. A design management component (DMC) can determine a trained model representing timing path properties and operating conditions of agnostic timing paths based on an analysis of vectorized data that represents timing path information associated with the agnostic timing paths. DMC can perform statistical regression on the vectorized data to facilitate training the trained model. A static timing analysis (STA) component can perform STA on design information associated with the integrated circuitry design and determine an operating condition of a timing path of the integrated circuitry design based on the STA. DMC can predict or determine at least one other operating condition associated with the integrated circuitry design based on the operating condition and the trained model.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Apex SemiconductorInventors: Alfred Yeung, Minkyu Kim, Suresh Subramaniam, Pravin Chingudi
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Patent number: 11465526Abstract: A charging control method of an electric vehicle includes: storing identification information and a charging stop current value of a charger, when charging is stopped due to a timeout of a Power Line Communication (PLC) communication message transmitted from the charger; confirming whether recharging is performed through the same charger as that when the charging is stopped by using the identification information of the charger, upon recharging; and adjusting a charging current of the charger based on the charging stop current value of the charger, when the recharging is performed through the same charger as that when the charging is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Young-Chan Byun
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Patent number: 11460508Abstract: In an identifier assignment system for assigning identifiers to respective voltage monitors to be connected to respective battery units, each measuring unit measures elapsed time information indicative of an elapsed time that has elapsed since a predetermined point of time after an activation of the corresponding voltage monitor based on power supplied from the corresponding battery unit connected to the corresponding voltage monitor. Each measuring unit is also configured to wirelessly transmit the elapsed time information about the corresponding voltage monitor. A comparison unit performs a comparison task of comparing the elapsed times of the respective voltage monitors with each other. An assignment unit is configured to assign unique identifiers to the respective voltage monitors in accordance with a result of the comparison task.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke Kawamoto, Hayato Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11458858Abstract: A method and an apparatus for energy management including an input for a first sensor, which is designed to detect a first measurement variable as information about a current to a home energy management system. A device is designed to determine a second measurement variable depending on the first measurement variable. An output designed to output the second measurement variable, instead of the first measurement variable, as information about a current to the home energy management system for the home energy management system.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Inventors: Simon Schulze, Barry Sole, Ralf Oestreicher
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Patent number: 11455446Abstract: Described is a method for drafting and displaying electrical circuits based on libraries containing items or speech codes corresponding to the various types of electrical components, the items are made up of alphanumeric codes through which it is possible to unequivocally identify each single electrical component and the method comprises the steps of viewing on a PC screen a control unit of the electrical circuit in the middle of a work area, viewing on the PC screen further electrical components, connected directly or indirectly to the control unit, around the above-mentioned control unit, grouping the views according to a level structure, where each level represents a component or device and contains a structure of sub-levels, setting and grouping a plurality of components or devices which have to be highlighted with respect to others, through graphic animations on the PC screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Texa S.p.AInventor: Mario Giacomella
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Patent number: 11447032Abstract: A server acquires a reception amount which is an amount of power that a power supply device received from an engine-driven type generator, converts the reception amount into a virtual currency, transmits, to the power supply device, a money transfer instruction in order to instruct a money transfer, to the engine-driven type generator, of a virtual currency that the conversion unit converted the reception amount into. The power supply device generates a money transfer request in order to, in accordance with the money transfer instruction, performs a money transfer of virtual currency to a virtual currency wallet associated with the engine-driven type generator a virtual currency wallet associated with the server, and transmits the money transfer request to a virtual currency network.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Oshima, Sho Takada, Nobuyuki Sasaki, Yoshihiro Matsunaga, Mitsuhiro Ito, Mio Oshima
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Patent number: 11443091Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of data processing engines (DPEs) DPEs. Each DPE may include a core configured to perform computations. A first DPE of the plurality of DPEs includes a first core coupled to an input cascade connection of the first core. The input cascade connection is directly coupled to a plurality of source cores of the plurality of DPEs. The input cascade connection includes a plurality of inputs, wherein each of the plurality of inputs is connected to a cascade output of a different one of the plurality of source cores. The input cascade connection is programmable to enable a selected one of the plurality of inputs.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.Inventors: Peter McColgan, Baris Ozgul, David Clarke, Tim Tuan, Juan J. Noguera Serra, Goran H. K. Bilski, Jan Langer, Sneha Bhalchandra Date, Stephan Munz, Jose Marques
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Patent number: 11415637Abstract: A system and method for providing an application-independent estimation of the state of health (SOH) of a battery. A battery terminal voltage, under a non-zero load, when a specific amount of charge has been drawn from the battery is compared to stored terminal voltage test data obtained under the same conditions. An estimate of SOH is provided in response to the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Jayant V. Sarlashkar, Mickey E. Argo, Jr., Bapiraju Surampudi
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Patent number: 11407325Abstract: An energy management system includes a local power grid configured to route electricity, the local power grid configured to receive electricity from a municipal power grid of a utility service provider; an electric appliance electrically coupled to the local power grid, the electric appliance configured to receive electricity from the local power grid for operating according to an energy usage state; an electric vehicle electrically coupleable to the local power grid, the electric vehicle configured to exchange electricity with the local power grid; and a system server communicatively coupled to the electric appliance and the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Adam Langton, Isaac Lund, Sean Batir
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Patent number: 11409938Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first and a second set of conductive traces. The first set of conductive traces is in a first level and extends in a first direction. The second set of conductive traces is in a second level and extends in a second direction. The second set of conductive traces includes a first conductive trace corresponding to a gate terminal of a first p-type transistor and a gate terminal of a first n-type transistor, and a second conductive trace corresponding to a gate terminal of a second n-type transistor and a gate terminal of a second p-type transistor. The first and second conductive trace are separated from each other in the first direction. The first n-type transistor and the second p-type transistor are part of a first transmission gate. The second n-type transistor and the first p-type transistor are part of a second transmission gate.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ting-Wei Chiang, Hui-Zhong Zhuang, Li-Chun Tien
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Patent number: 11400827Abstract: A power network management system for managing distribution of electric energy to a multitude of power consumers by means of a power grid, the system comprising a plurality of software agents and a convergence unit. Each software agent is adapted to be connected to one of the power consumers and to exchange data with the power consumer, wherein each software agent is adapted to exchange data with the power consumer, and wherein the convergence unit is adapted to request and receive consumption-related data of the consumers, to estimate energy consumption needs of each of the consumers within a defined time period, to generate an optimized energy distribution plan for distributing available electric energy among the consumers, to generate consumption plan data for each of the consumers, and to provide the consumption plan data to the software agents of the consumers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBHInventor: Bo Pettersson
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Patent number: 11403907Abstract: A system for operating an electric-vehicle charging station is proposed. The system is capable of preventing a general vehicle other than an electric vehicle from being parked in a parking station where the charging module for charging the electric vehicle is installed, preventing an electric vehicle from being parked in a charging station at a higher level than necessary, and eliminating the need for the driver of a subsequent vehicle to wait for charging in the charging station when there is a vehicle that is in a charging state in the charging station.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: BLUE NETWORKS CO., LTD.Inventor: Soon-Yong Noh
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Patent number: 11383612Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with detecting an electric vehicle charging event. In one embodiment, from electricity consumption data from a known set of electric vehicle owners, the method encodes usage values from time intervals with a symbol from a series of symbols representing a level of electricity consumption during the time interval. The encoding generates an encoded consumption pattern of symbols for each electrical vehicle owner. An EV charge motif is identified that represents an EV charging event. One or more machine learning classifiers is trained to identify the EV charge motifs from the known set of electric vehicle owners and to distinguish from non-charge motifs to identify EV charges from unknown data sets.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Vivian Chun-hua Lu, Woei Ling Leow, Rajagopal Iyengar
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Patent number: 11379646Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic circuit design, and more specifically, to determining the computational requirements of fully synthesizing a printed circuit board and/or package. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, one or more PCB electronic design files and determining whether the PCB electronic design files include data required for a synthesis engine. If any data is missing, the method may include inferring one or more parameters using an inference engine and providing the one or more parameters to the synthesis engine, wherein the synthesis engine includes at least one of a placement, via assignment, routing, and metal pouring processes. The method may also include collecting process data from the placement, via assignment, routing, and metal pouring processes and training a machine learning system using the process data.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jorge Alejandro Gonzalez, Shang Li, Luke Roberto
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Patent number: 11374421Abstract: A rechargeable battery kiosk can dynamically alter a charging rate of one or more rechargeable batteries housed within the rechargeable battery kiosk to increase a probability that the rechargeable battery kiosk has an ample supply of fully charged, or mostly fully charged, rechargeable batteries based on an anticipated usage data for the rechargeable battery kiosk.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Neutron Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Ashley Cooper, Paul Durkee, Celina Mikolajczak
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Patent number: 11366784Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices that support fuseload architectures for system-on-chip (SoC) reconfiguration and repurposing are described. Trim data may be loaded from fuses to registers on a die based on a fuse header. For example, a set of registers coupled with a set of fuses on the die may be identified, where the set of fuses may store trim data to be copied to the registers as part of a fuseload procedure. In such cases, one or more fuse headers may be identified within the trim data, and each fuse header may correspond to a fuse group that includes a subset of fuses. Based on one or more subfields within a fuse header, a mapping between fuse addresses and register addresses may be determined, and the trim data from each fuse group may be copied into a set of registers based on the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Lady Nataly Pinilla Pico, Praveen Gopalapuram, Akshay Arun Mote
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Patent number: 11361135Abstract: A method of evaluating sampling sizes for circuit simulation comprises generating a plurality of coverage scenarios based on a defect universe, determining a coverage amount for each of the plurality of coverage scenarios, and associating the plurality of coverage scenarios with a plurality of bins based on the coverage amount for each of the plurality of coverage scenarios. The method further comprises sampling, with a first sampling size, each of the coverage scenarios to determine first sampled coverage scenarios, and determining an error value for each of the plurality of coverage scenarios based on the coverage amount of each of the plurality of coverage scenarios and a coverage amount of a respective one of the first sampled coverage scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.Inventors: Mayukh Bhattacharya, Mihir Sherlekar, Antony Fan
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Patent number: 11360379Abstract: A method for manufacturing a photo mask for a semiconductor device includes receiving a plurality of hotspot regions of a mask layout corresponding to the semiconductor device. The method further includes classifying the plurality of hotspot regions into two or more hotspot groups such that same or similar hotspot regions are classified into same hotspot groups. The hotspot groups includes a first hotspot group that has at least two hotspot regions. The method also includes correcting a first hotspot region of the first hotspot group to generate an enhancement of the first hotspot region and correcting other hotspot regions of the first hotspot group using the enhancement of the first hotspot region to generate enhancements of other hotspot regions of the first hotspot group.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Fu An Tien, Hsu-Ting Huang, Ru-Gun Liu
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Patent number: 11354473Abstract: Systems and methods for designing a robotic system architecture are disclosed. The methods include defining a software graph including a first plurality of nodes, and a first plurality of edges representative of data flow between the first plurality of tasks, and defining a hardware graph including a second plurality of nodes, and a second plurality of edges. The methods may include mapping the software graph to the hardware graph, modeling a latency associated with a computational path included in the software graph for the mapping between the software graph and the hardware graph, allocating a plurality of computational tasks in the computational path to a plurality of the hardware components to yield a robotic system architecture using the latency, and using the robotic system architecture to configure the robotic device to be capable of performing functions corresponding to the software graph.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Argo AI, LLCInventor: Jason Ziglar
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Patent number: 11351882Abstract: An eco-friendly vehicle using a charging control method improves the wireless charging efficiency and efficiently manages the charge/discharge of a battery of the vehicle. The eco-friendly vehicle includes: a wireless power receiver to wirelessly receive an electric power from an external charging device; a memory to store state information of each of a plurality of battery cells; and a controller to control a charging order of each of the plurality of battery cells by using the state information stored in the memory when an engine of the vehicle is in an off state.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Dokon Kim