Patents Examined by Paul B. Yanchus, III
  • Patent number: 11718035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to three dimensional (3D) printed garments and any wearable article, as well as to processes and methods of manufacturing the same. Image information obtained from a subject, for example, images and information related to a subject's body or body part(s) is used to generate a garment or wearable object with a customized fit. In particular, the present invention provides the collection of a subject's data (e.g., using image acquisition devices, methods and software), and use of the data to create a model (e.g., virtual model) that in turn is used to create a subject specific article of clothing or other wearable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PRINTER TAILORED, LLC
    Inventor: Tyler J. Sisk
  • Patent number: 11703932
    Abstract: A data fabric routes requests between the plurality of requestors. A probe filter tracks the state of cached lines of memory at a probe filter coupled to the data fabric. Responsive to the data fabric leaving a non-operational power state while all requestors that are probe filter clients are in a non-operational power state, the power management controller delays a probe filter initialization state in which data regarding cached lines is initialized following the non-operational power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Tsien, Amit P. Apte
  • Patent number: 11698671
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to a peak power manager that includes a first power estimate accumulator circuit configured to receive one or more power estimates associated with one or more subsystems and to generate a first accumulated power estimate. The peak power manage can further include a first-in first-out (FIFO) storage circuit configured to store a plurality of first accumulated power estimates associated with a plurality of clock cycles corresponding to a moving time interval window. The peak power manager can further include a second power estimate accumulator circuit configured to accumulate the plurality of first accumulated power estimates to generate a second accumulated power estimate and a control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Preethi Bhargavi Sama, Richard H. Larson, Shih-Chieh Wen, Srikanth Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11693470
    Abstract: In various examples, a voltage monitor may determine whether the voltage supplied to at least one component of a computing system is safe using two sets of thresholds—e.g., a high-frequency over-voltage (OV) threshold, a high-frequency under-voltage (UV) threshold, a low-frequency OV threshold, and a low-frequency UV threshold. A high-frequency voltage error detector may compare the supplied or input voltage to the high-frequency OV and UV thresholds and a low-frequency voltage error detector that may filter the supplied voltage to remove or reduce noise and then may compare the filtered voltage to the low-frequency OV and UV thresholds. Upon detecting a voltage error, a safety monitor may cause a change to an operating state of the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok Srinivasan, Gokul Ryan Santhirakumaran
  • Patent number: 11662786
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory sub-system stores data at a first voltage level in a memory cell in a first segment of the memory sub-system, and determines a temperature change between a current temperature associated with the memory cell and a new temperature. The processing device further determines a voltage level read from the memory cell at the new temperature, determines a difference between the voltage level read from the memory cell and the first voltage level, and determines a temperature compensation value based on the difference between the voltage level read from the memory cell and the first voltage level in view of the temperature change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Nowell, Sampath K. Ratnam, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu
  • Patent number: 11656670
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for controlling unmanned systems (UMSs), such as unmanned aircraft, are provided. A UMS can include core systems, auxiliary systems, a payload, a physical computer, a network, and a power system. The network can enable the physical computer to communicate with the auxiliary systems using a second communications tier and with the payload using a third communications tier. The network and the physical computer can logically separate the second and third communications tiers. The power system can provide a first, second, and third power domains respectively for the core systems, the auxiliary systems, and for the payload. The power system can include circuitry that inhibits an overcurrent fault in the third power domain from causing an electrical fault in the first and second power domains and that inhibits an overcurrent fault in the second power domain from causing an electrical fault in the first power domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Insitu Inc.
    Inventors: David Rathbun, Douglas Allyn Miller, Kenneth Hillen, Brian Fix
  • Patent number: 11650553
    Abstract: A priori geo-referenced vegetative index data is obtained for a worksite, along with field data that is collected by a sensor on a work machine that is performing an operation at the worksite. A predictive model is generated, while the machine is performing the operation, based on the geo-referenced vegetative index data and the field data. A model quality metric is generated for the predictive model and is used to determine whether the predictive model is a qualified predicative model. If so, a control system controls a subsystem of the work machine, using the qualified predictive model, and a position of the work machine, to perform the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Nathan R. Vandike, Federico Pardina-Malbran, Noel W. Anderson, Michael A. Waldo
  • Patent number: 11640197
    Abstract: Provided is a counter unit capable of supporting any output apparatus of single-phase output, two-phase output, or three-phase output without waste. A counter unit (10) is provided with: a plurality of signal input terminals to which pulse signals outputted from a plurality of external output apparatuses (50) are respectively inputted; input circuits (21a to 21f) respectively connected to the plurality of signal input terminals; a single-phase counter (13) that performs count on the basis of a single-phase pulse signal, and a multi-phase counter (15) that performs count on the basis of a multi-phase pulse signal; and a switching part (16) that switches whether the input circuits (21a to 21f) are connected to the single-phase counter (13) or the multi-phase counter (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oba, Masaya Kudo
  • Patent number: 11635739
    Abstract: A system includes a power profile engine, a power measurement engine, and a power throttling signal generator. The power profile engine receives a desired power profile, e.g., a first profile current average associated with a first time duration and a second profile current average associated with a second time duration. The power measurement engine measures current being drawn and generates a first running average for the measured currents for the first time duration and generates a second running average for the measured currents for the second time duration. The power throttling signal generator generates a first power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the first running average for the measured currents being greater than the first profile current average and generates a second power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the second running average for the measured currents being greater than the second profile current average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Avinash Sodani, Ramacharan Sundararaman, James Eldredge, Richard Taylor
  • Patent number: 11629908
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for time shifting when a cold storage facility is cooled that includes determining a thermal model of a cold storage facility, obtaining an energy cost model that describes a schedule of variable energy costs over a predetermined period of time in the future, determining an operational schedule for at least a portion of a refrigeration system based on the thermal model, the energy cost model, and a maximum allowed temperature, and powering on the portion the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, cooling, by the powered portion of the refrigeration system to a temperature below the maximum allowed temperature, reducing power usage of the powered portion of the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, and permitting the facility to be warmed by ambient temperatures toward the maximum allowed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Lineage Logistics, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander James Woolf, Elliott Gerard Wolf, Daniel Thomas Wintz, Jesse Scott Tootell, Bryan Thomas Kaye, Jesse Dylan Crossno, Alexander Ming Zhang, Gabriel Len West, John Richardson Crawford, Tiara Lee Flewelling
  • Patent number: 11625088
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to allocating power to peripheral device interfaces. One example provides, at a computing device, a method, comprising obtaining a measurement of power consumption by one or more peripheral devices, and based at least on the measurement and on a maximum power tolerance of a power source, allocating to each respective interface a minimum portion of power output from the power source. The method further comprises rendering a remainder of the maximum power tolerance available for consumption by one or more processors, the remainder including the maximum power tolerance minus a sum of the minimum portions, where the remainder and a system portion of power output are available for consumption by the one or more processors, and where a performance attribute of the one or more processors is not throttled while total power consumption does not exceed a threshold power output from the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Donghwi Kim, Gregory Allen Nielsen, Reshed Abdulkader Hussein, Geo John Palakunnel
  • Patent number: 11604449
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring an actuator system, a method for providing an apparatus for monitoring an actuator system, and a method for monitoring an actuator system where the has at least one actuator and at least one data output signal. An anomaly detector detects anomalies. A suppressing engine determines time periods in which a control intervention has been performed. In a resulting monitoring signal, only anomalies are indicated which do not overlap with time periods in which the control intervention has been performed resulting in less irrelevant alerts and false positives output to a human supervisor monitoring the actuator system. The apparatus for monitoring a system may be provided with a plurality of actuators that may affect one another over time. The apparatus may be applied to a system of submersible pumps, or a system of conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Mittelstädt, Markus Michael Geipel, Klaus Arthur Schmid, Klaus-Peter Hitzel, Thomas Runkler, Michael Schnurbusch
  • Patent number: 11592806
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may maintain an first dataset configured to select pick points for objects. The apparatus may receive, from a user device, a user dataset including a user selected pick point associated with at least one object and a first image of the at least one first object. The apparatus may generate a second dataset based at least in part on the first dataset and the user dataset. The apparatus may receive a second image of a second object. The apparatus may select a pick point for the second object using the second dataset and the second image of the second object. The apparatus may send information associated with the pick point selected for the second object to a robotics device for picking up the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PLUS ONE ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shaun Edwards, Paul Hvass, Erik Nieves, Austin Deric, Jonathan Lwowski
  • Patent number: 11586270
    Abstract: Methods and systems of enabling a storage mode on a telematics device coupled to a vehicle are provided. One method includes detecting a first event or receiving a command for enabling a storage mode, entering the storage mode in which the telematics device is in a sleep mode in response to receiving the first event or the command, and exiting the storage mode in response to detecting a second event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Arthur Walli, James Patrick Howell
  • Patent number: 11565278
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for using a specialized sensor for detecting activation of a fluid dispenser and for using gathered data therefrom for a variety of purposes, including determining when to refill the dispenser, tracking and analyzing operation thereof, matching operation to expected or anticipated operation, and identifying specific users and specific incidents of use associated therewith. Also provided are use of remote data repositories and/or processing devices that for processing and use of such data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: VITALACY, INC.
    Inventors: Janel Nour-Omid, Tal Cohen, Don Jindra, Bahram Nour-Omid
  • Patent number: 11567476
    Abstract: A gas delivery apparatus is provided, comprising a system controller configured to collect valve position information and sensor information from at least a plurality of the sensors and valves, store the valve position information and sensor information into the monitored gas delivery process data, and execute the discriminative classifier including a first artificial intelligence (AI) model configured to extract features in a first input image of the monitored gas delivery process; a second AI model configured to extract features in a second input image of a golden gas delivery process; and a contrastive loss function configured to calculate a similarity between the first input image and the second input image based on outputs of the first AI model and the second AI model, and output a repeatability confidence value based on a similarity index between the first input image and the second input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Edward Cocciadiferro
  • Patent number: 11567553
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing power supplies and related power consumption alerts for a server based on the availability of redundant power supplies. When the system detects that a redundant power supply to a server has ceased to provide power, the system configures a new power consumption threshold for the remaining power supply. The new power consumption threshold is different than an initial power consumption threshold (if configured) when the redundant power supply was providing power. A power consumption threshold for triggering power consumption alerts for a power supply may be based on a number of power supplies actively providing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David Warren Hartwell, Andrew David Reid Brown
  • Patent number: 11561598
    Abstract: A power supply system includes circuitry that controls transition of an operation mode of the information processing apparatus from a first mode to a second mode in response to reception of user operation for transitioning to the second mode, the second mode being a mode in which electric power supplied to the information processing apparatus is less than that of the first mode, determines whether to release the second mode based on a detection result of a sensor that detects presence of a human, to output a first determination result, determines whether a first condition relating to the user operation is satisfied, to output a second determination result, and determines, based on the second determination result indicating that the first condition is satisfied, whether to allow releasing of the second mode based on the first determination result indicating that no human is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 11531387
    Abstract: Methods and systems are configured for real time determination of effects incurred by execution of computer processes of networked computer systems and the generation of offsets thereof. A prediction module may be configured to predict the amount of energy utilized by the execution of computer processes by networked computer systems and predict an associated carbon footprint. Methods and systems are configured to determine a selection of offsets and initiate the same via a network communication to remote computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Pledgeling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James F. Citron, Gregory C. Yorke, Paul Forsyth, Annie Meng, Alex S. Sung, Anna N. Nordstrom
  • Patent number: 11520318
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assembling structural components are disclosed. The systems and methods consider a sequence, operations of the sequence, and an approach vector in placing structural members (including structural members with pre-attached fasteners) for assembling structural components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: House of Design LLC
    Inventors: Sean E. Ays, Shane Christopher Dittrich, Mike Aaron Luna