Patents Examined by Rehana Perveen
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Patent number: 11779440Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating and modifying a virtual model of a set of teeth, where the method provides that a restoration can be inserted into a physical model of the set of teeth manufactured from the virtual model of the set of teeth. A method of and a system for generating a virtual model of a set of teeth for manufacturing a physical model of the set of teeth, and to a physical model of a set of teeth.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Sven Nonboe
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Patent number: 11775705Abstract: A computer-based method for rapidly updating a history-matched reservoir simulation model selected from among a plurality of history-matched reservoir simulation models hosted on an information technology system. A software module configured to perform an update by parametrically varying the time over the selected update period and the position for each selected well model file and a corresponding well update file, replacing outdated well model file data with well update file data at each respective time and each respective position. The method is configured by selecting a reservoir simulation model for update, a petroleum field model to use, a reservoir model within the field, and one or more wells within the reservoir for the update. The well model files to be updated and the time interval over which the updates are to be made can be set by a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Yousef Z. Taieb, Faisal Hammad H. AL Naseef, Hamoud Abdulrahman Alqahtani, Amell Ali Al-Ghamdi, Fouad F. Abouheit
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Patent number: 11773709Abstract: A drilling well underground kick processing method and device are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)Inventors: Yonghai Gao, Baojiang Sun, Zhiyuan Wang, Hao Li, Yufa Su, Bangtang Yin, Xinxin Zhao, Xuerui Wang, Xiaohui Sun
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Patent number: 11775720Abstract: Aspects of the invention include obtaining one or more feature values that define an architecture design of a memory array and implementing a machine learning model to obtain a predicted power, performance, and area (PPA) of the memory array based on the one or more features. The predicted PPA output by the machine leaning model is assessed based on predefined PPA goals. A design of an integrated circuit that includes the memory array is finalized and fabricated based on the predicted PPA meeting the predefined PPA goals.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tuhin Mahmud, Saiful Islam, Abraham Mathews, Geoffrey Wang
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Patent number: 11768986Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulation of an integrated circuit for yield analysis includes: a) for plurality of variables, generating initial sampling sets by sampling from provided distributions related to physical properties of circuits; b) selecting at least one sample from each initial set randomly and combining into initial simulation set; c) running initial simulation of operation of circuit, applying initial simulation set, the operation having passing/failing criterion; d) if fails: storing samples of initial set into initial sampling distributions for each variable; e) repeating steps b)-d) until sufficient failures obtained; f) building importance sampling distribution based on each initial sampling distribution, the importance distribution having lower, center, upper portions; g) generating secondary simulation set by drawing samples from importance sampling distribution for each variable; h) simulating circuit by applying the secondary set; i) repeating steps g)-h); j) mapping resulting yieType: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Inventors: Tom Johansson, Hemanth Prabhu, Arturo Prieto Llorens, Babak Mohammadi
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Patent number: 11768978Abstract: Systems and method for realistic simulation of occupancy are provided herein. A context associated with one or more smart devices associated with a property is reterieved, Then, simulation content specific to the context is requested. The simulation content is then caused to be presented by the one or more smart devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge Lecocke, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
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Patent number: 11747237Abstract: A method and system of providing customizable service for an asset. The method including generating a predictive model for each asset of a fleet, each predictive model based on an operational profile for the asset and including a probability density function associated with the operational durability of the asset, establishing a maintenance strategy associated with the asset, and combining each of the predictive models to generate a compound fleet performance model, the fleet performance model including a combined probability density function. The method also includes collecting actual asset performance and maintenance data to generate actual asset metrics, determining a fleet performance profile based on the actual asset metrics indicative of a health assessment of the fleet, comparing the predicted fleet performance with the actual fleet performance, and ascertaining actionable choices for managing the assets based on a deviation of the predicted and actual fleet performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas A. Frewen, Ozgur Erdinc, Hala Mostafa, Mei Chen, Draguna Vrabie
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Patent number: 11741270Abstract: A system may include an access engine and a foam part generation engine. The access engine may be configured to access a computer-aided design (CAD) seat surface that represents a seat surface of a seat design and access seat parameters for the seat design. The foam part generation engine may be configured to construct a CAD foam part for the seat design based on the CAD seat surface and the seat parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Inc.Inventor: Marc Attar
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Patent number: 11733423Abstract: Methods for determination of surface leak rates in an injection well after determining a presence of a surface leak based on visual identification of a leak typically associated with abnormal decrease in surface injection pressure. An injection well performance model is generated based on a reservoir pressure of the injection well, a fluid injection pressure, and properties of an injection fluid. The injection well performance model is calibrated using a shut-in bottomhole pressure and injection data measured prior to the determining of the presence of the surface leak. A production well model is generated from the injection well performance model. For each pressure value between the pressure of the injection well measured at the surface and a shut-in wellhead pressure (SIWHP), the production well model is executed to determine a flow rate of the surface leak.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammed A. Alhuraifi, Rashad I. Al-Milad
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Patent number: 11734469Abstract: A method for generating an online landscape design for a property includes first entering an address for a property and then importing satellite view data of the property and a street where the property is located from global mapping databases. Next, calculating property size, topography and house size from the satellite view data using a calculator engine. Next, performing scene segmentations and analyzing existing conditions via a landscape design engine, then applying custom vision classifiers for specific landscape elements via the landscape design engine, and then analyzing foliage conditions from the satellite view data. Next, determining property landscape improvements via a scoring engine and then determining materials lists, and calculating quantities, and costs for fulfilling the property landscape improvements via the calculator engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HOME OUTSIDE, INCInventors: Julie Moir Messervy, David Rose, Kyle Scharpf
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Patent number: 11734475Abstract: Example implementations involve systems and methods which can involve storing interface (I/F) communication activity records of a plurality of simulation engines during execution of a co-simulation, and for a subsequent execution of the co-simulation, replacing one or more of the plurality of simulation engines with a simulation engine repeater configured to reproduce I/F communication activity from the stored I/F communication activity records corresponding to the replaced one or more of the plurality of simulation engines during the subsequent execution of the co-simulation and to log a real time consumed for execution of the reproduced I/F communication activity in the subsequent execution and a simulation time consumed for execution of the reproduced I/F communication activity for each simulation step, the real time determined based on a real time difference between a start of each simulation step and completion of synchronization with a co-simulator bus at an end of each simulation step.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Ichiki Homma
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Patent number: 11727159Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for a mission-driven design framework for optical systems. An exemplary method for improving the design of an optical system includes receive a first plurality of parameters indicative of performance requirements of the optical system, receive a second plurality of parameters representative of characteristics of one or more components in the optical system, generate a mathematical representation that combines the first plurality of parameters and the second plurality of parameters, perform a sensitivity analysis to obtain a ranking of parameters from the first plurality of parameters and the second plurality of parameters, select, based on the ranking of the parameters, at least one parameter that produces a largest change in the mathematical representation, and produce a constraint file comprising the at least one parameter for ingestion by a design tool to enable the design of the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventor: Shawn D. Higbee
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Patent number: 11720730Abstract: A method and system (and/or a total simulation) have at least first and second sub-systems. An interconnection network is determined, which couples and determines the first and the second sub-systems at a coupling. First sub-system information of the first sub-system and second sub-system information of the second sub-system are determined. An execution sequence is selected, by which it is determined, in which sequence relative to each other a first and a second parameter outputs are determined. Furthermore, extrapolation methods are determined, by which first and second parameter inputs are determinable during a macro step size (e.g. between the coupling times). The macro step size prescribes-coupling times, at which an exchange of corresponding first and second input parameters and of the first and the second output parameters between the sub-systems is performed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Virtual Vehicle Research GmbHInventors: Martin Benedikt, Jost Bernasch, Franz Holzinger, Daniel Watzenig
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Patent number: 11721236Abstract: A method and system for modeling aerodynamic interactions in complex eVTOL configurations for realtime flight simulations and hardware testing which includes decomposing the aircraft into aerodynamic subcomponents, wherein the interactions between these components are handled by flow simulations of the surrounding fluid, which may be Euler flow CFD simulations. The system may be used as a flight simulator for pilot training in a realtime environment. The system may be used to support component testing using an interface to those components, such as flight electronics and actuators, to test the components in high fidelity simulations of actual flight demands on those components. The system may also be used to support design analysis in non-realtime to run numerous simulations on different designs and to provide comparative output.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.Inventors: Gregor Veble Mikic, JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll, Jeremy Bain
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Patent number: 11714926Abstract: Product displays are used to hold and present products. A method of manufacturing a product display can include forming display unit and cartridge blanks for assembly into a product display that has been designed using a product display design model executed on a computing device. A dataset of standardized units is created and includes products, cartridges, and display units. The product display design model generates product display design options that specify geometric arrangements of cartridges within display units, where the cartridges are each associated with a product type. The geometric arrangements are based on inputs that include combinations of a target total product count, a target mix ratio, product types, and a product display type. Display unit blanks and cartridge blanks used to construct display units and cartridges of the product display are formed by a manufacturing device based on a generated product display design option.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: THE HERSHEY COMPANYInventors: Eric Lawrence, Christopher P. Gantz, Gregory M. Gressel
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Patent number: 11704447Abstract: A system for designing a circuitry configuration of heat-exchanger units includes an interface to acquire design parameters the heat-exchanger units, a memory to store computer-executable programs including a relaxed decision diagram formation module, and a processor, in connection with the memory, configured to perform the computer-executable programs. The computer-executable programs include steps of providing a configuration of the heat-exchanger units, providing the design parameters of the heat-exchanger units acquired via the interface, generating a relaxed decision diagram based on the design parameters, creating constraints with respect to connections of the heat-exchanger units according to the relaxed decision diagram, and generating feasible configurations of the heat-exchanger units by a mixed-integer-programing method using the constraints.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Arvind Raghunathan, Christopher Laughman
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Patent number: 11704455Abstract: Techniques are provided for improving quantum computing devices. The technology can facilitate generating a sequence of sparse matrices representing a quantum computing device and a noise model. A system can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components and a processor that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a term identifier that can identify a plurality of time-dependent terms in a machine-parseable representation of a quantum computing device. The computer executable components can further include a sparse matrix generator that can generate a first sparse matrix for ones of the plurality of time-dependent terms, resulting in a plurality of first sparse matrices.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Nation, Naoki Kanazawa, Thomas Arab Alexander
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Patent number: 11704450Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods relate to generating and optimizing an architectural design. According to embodiments, a method can include receiving metadata of digital communications and collaboration between members of an organization. The method can also include generating a target network model indicating a work style of the members of the organization; a level of interaction between the members of the organization; a spatial clustering of the members; or a number, a size, and an allocation of rooms with a specialized purpose. The method can further include selecting at least one criterion for the architectural design, where the criterion can include: cost, wellness, community, work style, choice, privacy, or vibrancy. The method can further include determining criteria scores for one or more architectural design prototypes. Moreover, the method can include selecting the architectural design based on the criterion scores.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SILVERSTEIN PROPERTIES, INC.Inventors: Guy Vardi, Danil Nagy, Daniel Goldstern
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Patent number: 11699008Abstract: A computer aided design can be decomposed into multiple domains or regions in a domain decomposition method, and then one or more finite element method boundary conditions at an interface between the domains can be imprinted on the faces of the domains at the interface, and then mesh generation can be performed independently on the domains. Thus, nonconformal domain decomposition can use the imprinting of the boundary conditions to improve the results of the independent mesh generation.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: ANSYS, INC.Inventors: Kezhong Zhao, Lars Eric Rickard Petersson, Xiaozhou Fu
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Patent number: 11699003Abstract: A simulation system includes a storage module comprising a plurality of behaviors and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to define an agent for use in a simulation, where the agent comprises one or more of the plurality of behaviors from the storage module and the agent is capable of implementation on a plurality of different simulators, establish a contract with a first simulator and the agent to provide a consistent boundary between the agent and the first simulator, and execute the simulation of a device in a simulation environment with the first simulator and the agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Andrew P. Best, Chien-Liang Fok, Sachit P. Vithaldas