Patents Examined by Omar F. Fernandez Rivas
  • Patent number: 11113440
    Abstract: A hybrid emulation system and method for hybrid emulation of a design under test (DUT). The DUT has system memory logically segmented into a plurality of memory blocks. The hybrid emulation system comprises a hardware emulation system to emulate a first portion of the DUT during the hybrid emulation. The hybrid emulation system also comprises a simulation system to simulate a second portion of the DUT during the hybrid emulation. At least one of the hardware emulation system or the simulation system is configured to assign a memory block of the plurality of memory blocks to one of the hardware emulation system or the simulation system based on memory access statistics describing accesses to the memory block during the hybrid emulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Varma, Cédric Marie Frédéric René Babled
  • Patent number: 11106838
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate an integrated modular architecture (IMA) model. An example apparatus includes an interface importer to import first IMA protocol definitions into a computer modeling environment to generate libraries and generate IMA model objects, a model object handler to import ones of IMA model objects into the computer modeling environment to generate a first IMA model corresponding to an aircraft system of an aircraft and generate an IMA system model corresponding to the aircraft by generating IMA models including the first IMA model. The example apparatus further includes an interface validator to validate the IMA system model by comparing an output of the IMA system model to a validation output, an interface exporter to generate manufacturing build instructions of the aircraft system when the IMA system model is validated, and a report generator to initiate production of the aircraft system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Timothy E. Jackson, Steven M. Walstrom, Christopher M. Uyeda
  • Patent number: 11100268
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a hierarchical approach for performing simulation for PDNs that have integrated VRMs. According to certain aspects, embodiments include an approach that decouples the simulation for PDN and the simulation for VRM/PKG through PDN macromodeling. In these and other embodiments, the approach includes a SPICE-accurate simulation for the VRM part using a non-linear solver and using a linear solver for the PDN part, with minimal handshaking between them. For example, using a Backward Euler method having a fixed time step, at every simulation time interval, the linear solver sends reduced boundary currents to the non-linear solver. After the non-linear solver converges at the time interval, it sends boundary voltages back to the linear solver for determining voltages in the PDN part at the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiyu Zeng, Hailin Jiang, Yanfei Gu, Nityanand Rai, Xin Gu
  • Patent number: 11093576
    Abstract: Well core data descriptions are received as input digital data for computer lithofacies modeling. Digital templates are established for carbonate and clastic core description based on reservoir rock formation analysis. Description criteria of the template for carbonate rock can include texture, mineral composition, grain size, and pore type. For clastic rock, the criteria in the template can include grain size, sedimentary structure, lithology, and visual porosity. The data and observations regarding these criteria are entered into a computer 3D geological modeling system directly. Wireline log data are integrated to calibrate with well core description to derive lithofacies. The lithofacies are exported in digital format to be entered into the 3D geological modeling system. A geologically realistic model of the reservoir can be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Roger R. Sung, Ahmed S. Al-Ramadan
  • Patent number: 11087044
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 11087050
    Abstract: An event transition model for producing test data may be generated from a plurality of event records, each event record including an event time of an instance, wherein the event transition model includes a plurality of states, each state corresponding to one or more instances of the plurality of event records, event transition probabilities between states, and event transition interval times between states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Maeda, Yutaka Oishi, Chikafumi Yasumoto, Jiayun Zhu, Munetaka Ohtani, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 11087042
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include generating a simulation plan based on records that may be commonly kept when administering a computer network. This disclosure further describes techniques that include performing a simulation, based on the plan, to verity, test, and/or evaluate one or more systems, application systems, or applications that operate on the network. In one example, a method includes maintaining a storage system, generating a plan for simulating an application system, generating a simulation image, outputting the simulation image, and receiving simulation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Ben L. Hussey
  • Patent number: 11087031
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a configuration for a loudspeaker arrangement for radiating sound into a space, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing an initial configuration having initial configuration parameters for a loudspeaker arrangement for radiating sound into a space in the computer, determining configurations having respectively associated configuration parameters by means of a target function-based optimisation method, wherein, proceeding from the initial configuration, in the computer a sound field for the space and/or parts thereof into which sound is to be radiated is determined iteratively to a candidate configuration by means of simulation, a value of a target function associated with the candidate configuration and the simulated sound field is determined and a new candidate configuration for the loudspeaker arrangement is selected, and selecting a configuration having configuration parameters from the iteratively determined candidate configurations in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SDA SOFTWARE DESIGN AHNERT GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Feistel
  • Patent number: 11080440
    Abstract: An apparatus to perform tests on fluid flow and configured to operate at field conditions includes one or more vessels and one or more sets of fluid injecting devices corresponding to respective ones of the one or more vessels. Each set of fluid injecting devices includes one or more fluid injecting devices each configured to inject a respective fluid through its respective vessel. The apparatus further includes one or more measurement devices operatively coupled to respective ones of the one or more vessels and configured to measure data associated with fluid flow of the one or more fluids injected into its respective vessel. The measured data comprises one or more of pressure gradient data and flow rate data. The apparatus is in communication with at least one processor configured to calculate a model based on the measured data. In calculating the model, the at least one processor is configured to infer one or more parameters for the model from the measured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter William Bryant, William Fernando Lopez Candela, Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner
  • Patent number: 11069545
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a placing table having a placement surface and provided with a heater in each divided region obtained by dividing the placement surface; a calculation unit that calculates a target temperature of the heater in each divided region in which a critical dimension at a predetermined measurement point satisfies a predetermined condition, using a prediction model that predicts the critical dimension of the measurement point by using a temperature of the heater in each divided region as a parameter and taking into consideration an influence of a temperature of a heater in a divided region other than a divided region including the measurement point in accordance with a distance between the measurement point and the other divided region; and a heater controller that controls the heater in each divided region to reach the target temperature when the substrate processing is performed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Shinsuke Oka
  • Patent number: 11068624
    Abstract: A three-dimensional model generating method selecting a predetermined plane element defining a three-dimensional model element using measurement data, which includes measurement point group data obtained by measuring a measured object, a type of a plane element, and geometric values of the plane element; obtaining a condition required for generating a three-dimensional model element; generating the three-dimensional model element using the selected plane element and the obtained condition; and generating the three-dimensional model of the measured object using one or a plurality of three-dimensional model elements. A calculator displays a three-dimensional image corresponding to the measured object as well as a list of at least the structural elements which, of the plane elements included in the measurement data, configure the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomono, Takanori Asamizu
  • Patent number: 11062616
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for use with an intelligent (AI) computer platform to explore real-world modeling. A sensory input data signal is communicated to the AI platform and translated into a corresponding scenario. The translation is directed at an associated force and application of the force to a selected or identified object and environment. A reaction to the application is created, and reaction data is converted to a sensory output signal. Receipt of the sensory output signal by a corresponding sensory output device creates a physical manifestation of generated feedback of the reaction data to a sensory medium. The embodiments are directed at both learning and assessment, and leverage a corpus with the AI platform in support of an interactive learning experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srirupa Chakraborty, Payel Das, Aditya Vempaty
  • Patent number: 11061428
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for reconstructing a field source of an array antenna based on dipoles. The method includes: S1, measuring a radiation field of the array antenna; S2, obtaining a first initial reconstruction array X; S3, constructing a first transmission matrix T; S4, performing an iterative calculation to obtain a first final reconstruction array X?; S5, obtaining a second initial reconstruction array Y; S6, constructing a second transmission matrix T?; and S7, performing an iterative calculation to obtain a second final reconstruction array Y?. The device includes a measuring unit, a reconstruction plane determining unit, a first initial reconstructing unit, a first transmission matrix constructing unit, a first final reconstructing unit, a second initial reconstructing unit, a second transmission matrix constructing unit, and a second final reconstructing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL TEST SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yihong Qi, Jun Fan
  • Patent number: 11048835
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for the generation and use of a fast battery model. One of the methods includes obtaining temperature data for one or more locations within or on the surface of a battery, the temperature data comprising time-varying heat flow inputs applied to the battery and time-varying temperature signals generated by the battery. The method also includes processing the temperature data to generate a continuous-time thermal model having one or more time-delay elements and one or more parameters, wherein parameter values are fitted using the temperature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventor: Edward Dean Tate, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11030363
    Abstract: A physics engine executed on a processor to simulate real-time rigid body dynamics of a simulated physical system with permissive penetration functionality is provided. The physics engine may be configured to iteratively loop through a collision detection phase, solving phase, updating phase, and display phase. When a penetration between a pair of bodies is due to an initial penetration from a prior collision detection phase, the physics engine may permit the initial penetration between the pair of objects during the current solving phase by not applying a bias or position change to correct for the initial penetration. Also the physics engine may be configured to detect geometry changes and modify the initial penetration distance accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Michael Strunk, Nathanael Presson
  • Patent number: 11003150
    Abstract: A simulation method run on a computer simulating the characteristics of a real controlled device including a heating apparatus that changes a heating value in accordance with a first manipulated value, includes creating a controlled-device model representing the real controlled device where a first manipulated value is an input and a process value for the real controlled device is an output, acquiring a first time-related characteristic as input to the controlled-device model, and calculating a second time-related characteristic from the output from the controlled device model with respect to the input of the first time-related characteristic. The controlled-device model includes a heating component corresponding to the heating apparatus for increasing the process value in accordance with the size of a first manipulated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Wada, Taro Iwami, Yumi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11002593
    Abstract: The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for calculating the diffusivity constant of a sample using acoustic time-of-flight (TOF) based information correlated with a diffusion model to reconstruct a sample's diffusivity coefficient. Operations disclosed herein such as acoustically determining the phase differential accumulated through passive fluid exchange (i.e. diffusion) based on the geometry of the tissue sample, modeling the impact of the diffusion on the TOF, and using a post-processing algorithm to correlate the results to determine the diffusivity constant, are enabled by monitoring the changes in the speed of sound caused by penetration of fixative such as formalin into several tissue samples. A tissue preparation system may be adapted to monitor said diffusion of a tissue sample and determine an optimal processing workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Michael Otter, Benjamin Stevens
  • Patent number: 11003810
    Abstract: A simulation system obtains multiple random number vectors and a parameter vector and calculates realized values of the behavior of a stochastic system corresponding to each obtained random number vector. Based on each obtained random number vector, on the obtained parameter vector, and on a weight function, the system calculates the weight of each obtained random number vector regarding each of the parameters in the obtained parameter vector, and calculates an evaluation value of the behavior of the stochastic system corresponding to each obtained random number vector. Based on the calculated behavior evaluation value corresponding to each obtained random number vector and on the weight of each obtained random number vector regarding the parameter selected from the obtained parameter vector, the system calculates the sensitivity of an expected value for the behavior evaluation value of the stochastic system with regard to the selected parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Fukuda, Yasuyuki Kudo
  • Patent number: 10997782
    Abstract: A method for creating a line drawing associated with a point cloud provides a line drawing representing a three-dimensional object and a point cloud of the same. The line drawing has line drawing coordinate data, and the point cloud has point cloud coordinate data. The point cloud also has point cloud distance data of the three-dimensional object. The method also associates the line drawing coordinate data with the point cloud coordinate data. Further, the method uses the associated coordinate data to apply the point cloud distance data to the line drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventors: James Edwards, David Myall
  • Patent number: 10997329
    Abstract: Structural health monitoring (SHM) is essential but can be expensive to perform. In an embodiment, a method includes sensing vibrations at a plurality of locations of a structure by a plurality of time-synchronized sensors. The method further includes determining a first set of dependencies of all sensors of the time-synchronized sensors at a first sample time to any sensors of a second sample time, and determining a second set of dependencies of all sensors of the time-synchronized sensors at the second sample time to any sensors of a third sample time. The second sample time is later than the first sample time, and the third sample time is later than the second sample time. The method then determines whether the structure has changed if the first set of dependencies is different from the second set of dependencies. Therefore, automated SHM can ensure safety at a lower cost to building owners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: William T. Freeman, Oral Buyukozturk, John W. Fisher, III, Frederic Durand, Hossein Mobahi, Neal Wadhwa, Zoran Dzunic, Justin G. Chen, James Long, Reza Mohammadi Ghazi, Theodericus Johannes Henricus Smit, Sergio Daniel Kapusta