Patents Examined by Omar Fernandez
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Patent number: 9946816Abstract: A system and a method visualize three dimensional (3D) printability of a 3D model. A 3D printing process of the 3D model is simulated to generate a layered 3D model describing the 3D model as printed. A visual rendering of the layered 3D model is generated, and the visual rendering of the layered 3D model is displayed on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Walter Kim, Tolga Kurtoglu, Saigopal Nelaturi, Arvind Rangarajan
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Patent number: 9943370Abstract: Disclosed are various advanced methods, devices, and systems for implants, tools and techniques that facilitate the surgical repair of a knee joint while allowing retention of more natural kinematics and preserving controlled rotation and translation of the repaired joint.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.Inventors: Malte Asseln, Klaus Radermacher
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Patent number: 9946817Abstract: A method for calculating an interaction potential between filler particles in a polymeric material by using a computer is disclosed. The method comprises: arranging filler models and polymer models in a virtual space; calculating a free energy in the virtual space based on a mean field theory; obtaining parameters of the Lennard-Jones potential by approximating the free energy to the Lennard-Jones potential.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Ueno
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Patent number: 9934055Abstract: Evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a different second environment includes generating a configuration file using data obtained from the application executing in the first environment, installing the configuration file in a virtual machine residing in the second environment, launching the application in the virtual machine after the installing, and obtaining a metric indicative of the performance from the virtual machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Salman A. Baset, Hai Huang, Byung Chul Tak, Chunqiang Tang, Long Wang
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Patent number: 9934054Abstract: A method for evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a different second environment includes generating a configuration file using data obtained from the application executing in the first environment, installing the configuration file in a virtual machine residing in the second environment, launching the application in the virtual machine after the installing, and obtaining a metric indicative of the performance from the virtual machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Salman A. Baset, Hai Huang, Byung Chul Tak, Chunqiang Tang, Long Wang
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Patent number: 9926131Abstract: The disclosure describes, in part, a system and method for improving the stacking of containers on or in a transportation unit. In some implementations, a stacking configuration may be planned that identifies containers and a position for those containers in the stacking configuration. As part of the planning, a volume correction may be identified that if corrected would improve the stability of the stacking configuration. A planned custom container may also be identified and one or more dimension values of the planned custom container modified based on the volume correction. The modified planned custom container may be added to the planned stacking configuration to improve the stability of the stacking configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Sebastian Lehmann
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Patent number: 9926085Abstract: Method for optimising the design of sealing rings of internal manhole covers which close the manhole openings over the inner surface of the skin of an aircraft structure, the surface that is in contact with the inner surface of the skin being the optimized surface of said sealing rings, the method including dividing the outer contour and the inner contour of the optimised surface into n points; grouping into families Fi the sealing rings of each manhole opening; generating the curves that are best adapted to the set of points taken for the outer contour and for the inner contour of each sealing ring for each one of the families Fi; generating a ruled surface among the curves generated for each one of the families Fi.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: Carlos Blanco Pacios, Jose Luis Delgado JareƱo
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Patent number: 9916401Abstract: A package design system creates one or more package design files by creating cut line instructions and fold line instructions. If the system determines that the package should be split across two or more substrates, it will select a fold line and convert the selected fold line to a seam. Conversion to a seam may occur by creating cut line instructions for the selected fold line, imparting a first set of functional elements on a first side of the seam, and imparting a second set of functional elements on a second side of the seam. The first set of functional elements and the second set of functional elements will form a functional connection when the three-dimensional structure is formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Reiner Eschbach, Stephen C. Morgana
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Patent number: 9916402Abstract: A package design system creates one or more package design files by creating cut line instructions and fold line instructions for a package flat. If the system determines that the package flat should be split into two or more subparts across two or more substrates or two or more sub-regions of a single substrate, it will select a fold line and convert the selected fold line to a seam. Conversion to a seam may occur by creating cut line instructions for the selected fold line, imparting a first set of functional elements on a first side of the seam, and imparting a second set of functional elements on a second side of the seam. The first set of functional elements and the second set of functional elements will form a functional connection when the three-dimensional structure is formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Reiner Eschbach, Stephen C. Morgana
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Patent number: 9904331Abstract: A system and method for designing aspects of a cooling system for a data center is provided. A method is provided including computing cooling redundancy at each rack position in a data center, in real time. The redundancy can be reported using the traditional N+1, N+2, etc. notation, where N is the number of coolers required to meet the primary cooling load type specification. The redundancy can also be reported in terms of a Cooling Reliability Index (CRI) which also takes into account the inherent availability of the specific cooling units in the design.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James W. VanGilder, Christopher M. Healey
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Patent number: 9904517Abstract: A system and method for automatically generating a displayable model of an application. A first and second screenshots of a first and second screens produced by an application may be captured and stored in a model. Transition information related to a transition from the first to the second screen may be obtained and stored in the model. A session may be recorded by recording screenshots and related events. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Applitools Ltd.Inventor: Adam Carmi
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Patent number: 9906136Abstract: An embodiment method for designing a power converter system includes receiving, by a processor, power converter design parameters. The design parameters include a minimum DC input voltage Vmin and a maximum DC input voltage Vmax, a minimum switching frequency fmin and a maximum switching frequency fmax of a switching bridge of the power converter, and a target output voltage and a target output power. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, a first power converter configuration. The first power converter configuration includes a calculated magnetizing inductance Lmc equal to Re tan(?)(2?fmin)?1, where ? is a load angle complement equal to a sin(VminVmax?1), and Re is an equivalent reflected load resistance of the power converter. The first power converter configuration also includes a calculated resonant inductance Lrc equal to Lmc cos2(?)(fmax2fmin?2?1)?1 and a calculated resonant capacitance Crc equal to Lrc?1(2?fmax)?2.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AGInventors: Mladen Ivankovic, Fred Sawyer
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Patent number: 9886533Abstract: A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system comprising at least one processor, a thermodynamic state solver application, and a thermodynamic system solver application. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic state solver application computes a flash equilibrium state solution for each of a plurality of nodes in a thermodynamic network and determines for each of the plurality of nodes at least one sensitivity of a first thermodynamic property with reference to at least one second thermodynamic property. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic system solver computes a pressure at each of the nodes and flows between the nodes based at least in part on the sensitivities, wherein a result based on the pressures and flows is determined.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Schneider Electric Software, LLCInventor: Ian H. Boys
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Patent number: 9879994Abstract: A method for locating a position determining device in an interior construction site of a building to provide line-of-sight access to a plurality of construction points in the interior construction site, includes accessing a three-dimensional model of the site by a computer system, the model including coordinates of construction points in the site to be located with a position determining device. The method further includes determining a location for placing a position determining device by the computer system, in which no obstructions at the site preclude line-of-sight access by the position determining device to the plurality of construction points. The method may further include receiving spatial data by the computer system, and deriving the three dimensional model by the computer system based upon the spatial data. The position determining device may comprise a robotic total station or other such device. The method is implemented on a computer system.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle
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Patent number: 9868145Abstract: A forming simulation method of an elastic-plastic material, which includes: calculating an element equivalent nodal force vector from stress tensor using a finite element method for one or a plurality of finite elements of a target configuration of the elastic-plastic material; and calculating the total equivalent nodal force vector of areas by integrating the element equivalent nodal force vector for the calculated one or more finite elements over all the areas or specified areas of the elastic-plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ariga, Akihiro Uenishi, Shigeru Yonemura
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Patent number: 9864098Abstract: A method, including: identifying a well target or reservoir segment; defining a dynamic surface grid, the dynamic surface grid being a representation of a ground surface, sea-level, or subsea surface above a reservoir upon which a drill center is locatable, and the dynamic surface grid including a plurality of cells that define potential locations for the drill center; assigning, to each of the plurality of cells of the dynamic surface grid, a value of a drilling or geologic attribute that defines a quality of a drill center position relative to the well target or reservoir segment; and selecting, based on a value of the drilling or geologic attribute, a location for the drill center corresponding to a location represented on the dynamic surface grid.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research CompanyInventors: Jose J. Sequeira, Jr., Yao-Chou Cheng, Rune Musum
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Patent number: 9866454Abstract: A device receives web data, associated with user devices, that is generated based on interactions of the user devices with a network and one or more content provider devices. The device removes erroneous or objectionable web data from the web data to generate a subset of the web data, and categorizes the subset of the web data by assigning categories to the subset of the web data. The device performs an empirical estimation of the categorized subset of the web data to generate empirical estimations. The device performs a simulation of the empirical estimations to generate synthetic data that corresponds to the web data and removes private information relating to the user devices and users of the user devices, and stores the synthetic data in a storage device.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ashok N. Srivastava
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Patent number: 9850717Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method for analyzing a fixed cutter drill bit, said method including selecting a cutter; selecting an earth formation; simulating drilling performance of the fixed cutter bit having at least once cutter thereon; performing finite element analysis using outputs from the simulating; and outputting stress on the at least one cutter.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Zhehua Zhang, Jiaqing Yu
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Patent number: 9851987Abstract: Various embodiments include nested emulation for a source application and source emulator. Duplicate source ISA libraries redirect the source emulator library calls to a target library, thereby forcing the native emulator through proper emulation channels between first and second ISAs. Other embodiments concern accelerating dynamic linking by determining certain function calls that, rather than being processed through emulation of PLT code, are instead directly called without the need for PLT code translation. Some embodiments address both nested emulation and accelerated dynamic linking but other embodiments include one of nested emulation and accelerated dynamic linking. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Xueliang Zhong, Jianhui Li, Jian Ping Chen, Tingtao Li, Yong Wu, Wen Tan, Xiao Dong Lin
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Patent number: 9852239Abstract: A method and apparatus for prediction of community reaction to a post for an online social community is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a proposed post as input to a generated prediction model prior to the proposed post being posted to an online social community; predicting a community reaction to the proposed post using the prediction model; and displaying the predication, wherein the prediction comprises a sentiment score and at least one of a number of responses, a number of responders to the post, a longevity of the post, or a half-life of the post.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Anandhavelu Natarajan, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Vineet Gupta, Anand Ganesan, Anuj Jain, Shriram Revankar, Japnik Singh, Bharat Polineni