Patents Examined by Ronald D Hartman
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Patent number: 11593253Abstract: An effective system for verifying safety of an artificial intelligence system includes a feature quantity information accepting unit which accepts feature quantity information that includes values of plural feature quantities, that are assumed as those used in an artificial intelligence system, in each of plural first test data used for a test for verifying safety of the artificial intelligence system; and a judgment unit which judges a first combination, that is a combination that is not included in the plural first test data, in combinations of values that plural feature quantities may take, or a second combination, with it plural correct analysis results that should be derived by the artificial intelligence are associated, in the combinations of the values that the plural feature quantities may take.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: JAPAN MANNED SPACE SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Nomoto, Yasutaka Michiura, Shota Iino
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Patent number: 11579585Abstract: Method and system for optimizing the arrangement of a set of aircraft parts on a plate. The system includes a selection module which selects, from a set of data on the material of the set of parts and a set of geometric data associated with the set of parts, part grouping criteria including at least one optimized plate thickness value, an optimization module for optimizing the arrangement of the set of parts on a plate as a function of the part grouping criteria, cutting criteria and optimization criteria and a transmission module generating and transmitting, to a user system, optimization data representative of the optimization of the arrangement of the set of parts. The system makes it possible to take account of the parameters linked to the dimensions of the plate to optimize the arrangement of the set of parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Laurent Huquet, Perrine Dupuy, Samuel Drouvroy, Christophe Louat
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Patent number: 11578696Abstract: A method for determining an available power of a wind farm, wherein the wind farm comprises a plurality of wind power installations with a rotor having rotor blades, the blade angle of which can be adjusted is provided. A wind farm which is set up to carry out the method for determining an available power is provided. The method comprises providing a shading matrix which determines at least one effective wind speed of each of the wind power installations in the wind farm as a function of at least one wind speed and wind direction and wind farm throttling using a park wake model. The method makes it possible to accurately determine an available power of a wind farm even when the wind farm is operated with throttled power.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbHInventor: Jörn Jacobsen
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Patent number: 11574721Abstract: A system and method that identifies delayed infusion programs at an infusion pump or with a first computer and an infusion pump. The first computer receives an infusion auto-program from a remote source, transmits the infusion auto-program to the infusion pump, and sends a stale auto-program to the infusion pump. The infusion pump receives a manual infusion program, saves and executes the manual infusion program, and compares the stale auto-program to the manual infusion program to identify potential matches between the stale auto-program and the manual infusion program. The infusion pump evaluates the potential matches and determines if the potential matches are within a predefined tolerance, continues to execute the at least one manual infusion program on the infusion pump if the potential matches are within the predefined tolerance, and remotely saves differences in the manual infusion program and the at stale auto-program in a remote server for later analysis.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: ICU Medical, Inc.Inventor: Christopher E. Kohlbrecher
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Patent number: 11556099Abstract: A system for performing projective tests includes a web server, a database server, and an artificial intelligence (AI) server. The web server is coupled with an electronic data network and configured to provide a man-machine interface via the electronic data network to a remote client. The database server manages test and training data and is coupled with the web server. The AI server is coupled with the web server and the database server, and configured to execute one or more AI algorithms. The man-machine interface provides administrative tools to control a content of at least one projective test where the content may include at least one projective stimulus comprising at least one of an image, a video, an audio file, and a text file. The man-machine interface provides administrative tools that control a display associated with the projective test.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: INKBLOT HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Kenneth R. Faro
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Patent number: 11550309Abstract: An inspection system may receive inspection datasets from a defect inspection system associated with inspection of one or more samples, where an inspection dataset of the plurality of inspection datasets associated with a defect includes values of two or more signal attributes and values of one or more context attributes. An inspection system may further label each of the inspection datasets with a class label based on respective positions of each of the inspection datasets in a signal space defined by the two or more signal attributes, where each class label corresponds to a region of the signal space. An inspection system may further segment the inspection datasets into two or more defect groups by training a classifier with the values of the context attributes and corresponding class labels for the inspection datasets, where the two or more defect groups are identified based on the trained classifier.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: KLA CorporationInventors: Erfan Soltanmohammadi, Ashwin Ramakrishnan, Mohit Jani
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Patent number: 11550292Abstract: A computerized method of machining a workpiece including, prior to machining the workpiece, establishing, based on empirical data obtained from machining activity at an earlier time, an historical mapping indicating pairings of depth of cut and rpm at which undesirable chatter (UDC) did not occur during machining activity at an earlier time using at least one given type of milling machine, at least one given type of cutting tool and at least one given type of workpiece material, prior to commencing machining of the workpiece, programming a machine tool to machine the workpiece using a given type of milling machine, a given type of cutting tool and a given type of workpiece material at at least one depth of cut and rpm, which, based on the historical mapping, avoid UDC and operating the machine tool in accordance with the programming to machine the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SOLIDCAM LTD.Inventor: Michael Berman
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Patent number: 11540458Abstract: Several embodiments provide wireless irrigation system and related methods. In one implementation, an irrigation system includes a plurality of valves; a plurality of solenoids; a plurality of circuits, at least one circuit in a circuit housing attached at least partially to a dedicated solenoid housing of a respective one of the plurality of solenoids; a plurality of wireless transceivers, at least one wireless transceiver in the circuit housing attached at least partially to the dedicated solenoid housing of the respective one of the plurality of solenoids and configured to wirelessly communicate via a communication network; and the communication network comprising the plurality of wireless transceivers for communication with the plurality of solenoids.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Rain Bird CorporationInventors: Mark M. Ensworth, Barbara E. Booth, Dean C. Thornton, Randall A. Hern, Malcolm N. Napier
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Patent number: 11537104Abstract: Parameters of a set of tools are stored on a storage device. The tools are part of a manufacturing assembly usable for removing one or more support structures from a part. The support structures are formed with the part to facilitate additive manufacturing of the part. A near-net shape is modeled which includes the part combined with the support structures. A process plan is developed that includes subtractive manufacturing operations by the manufacturing assembly that remove the support structures. The process plan repeatedly updates the near-net shape as each one of the support structures is incrementally removed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Saigopal Nelaturi, Morad Behandish
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Patent number: 11532525Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling concentration profiles of deposited films using machine learning are provided. Data associated with a target concentration profile for a film to be deposited on a surface of a substrate during a deposition process for the substrate is provided as input to a trained machine learning model. One or more outputs of the trained machine learning model are obtained. Process recipe data identifying one or more sets of deposition process settings is determined from the one or more outputs. For each set of deposition process setting, an indication of a level of confidence that a respective set of deposition process settings corresponds to the target concentration profile for the film to be deposited on the substrate is also determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Anton V Baryshnikov, Aykut Aydin, Zubin Huang, Rui Cheng, Yi Yang, Diwakar Kedlaya, Venkatanarayana Shankaramurthy, Krishna Nittala, Karthik Janakiraman
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Patent number: 11517401Abstract: A removable dental appliance may include an appliance body at least partially surrounding two or more teeth of a patient. The appliance body may include a first shell shaped to receive a first tooth; a second shell shaped to receive a second tooth; and at least one spring bellows that includes an arcuate displacement extending over and away from at least a portion of an interproximal region between the first tooth and the second tooth to join the first shell and the second shell. The spring bellows is configured to apply a force between the first shell and the second shell to cause movement of at least one of the first tooth and the second tooth toward a desired position when the removable dental appliance is worn by the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Richard E. Raby, Chaodi Li, Michael K. Domroese
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Patent number: 11513500Abstract: A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite. A managing application executing on a computer in the control van can retrieve the pumping sequence from a local or remote storage computer. The managing application can establish an electronic communication link to receive sensor data from a plurality of fracturing units. The managing application can control the plurality of fracturing units with a stage script with multiple sequential instructions for a pumping stage of a pumping sequence while receiving one or more periodic data sets from the plurality of fracturing units wherein the data sets are indicative of the current state of the pumping stage of the pumping sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, Joshua Lane Camp, Ian Bradford Mitchell
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Patent number: 11512864Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a deep spatial-temporal similarity method for air quality prediction, and belongs to the technical field of environmental protection. When the method predicts air quality-related indexes of a target site, a temporal change of air pollution and a spatial diffusion relationship are effectively combined, and then spatial-temporal similarity sites of the target site are selected; air quality monitoring data collected by the target site, the spatial-temporal similarity site of the target site and geographical neighbour sites of the target site and meteorological data are respectively taken as inputs of a long short term memory network (LSTM) model to obtain uncorrelated output results, and then predicted values of air quality-related index data of the target site are obtained in a mode of support vector regression (SVR) integration.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Wei Fang, Runsu Zhu, Hengyang Lu, Xin Zhang, Jun Sun, Xiaojun Wu
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Patent number: 11506489Abstract: A contour accuracy measuring system and a contour accuracy measuring method are provided. The contour accuracy measuring system captures location coordinate data of shafts of a machine tool. The location coordinate data are calculated to obtain a first true round trajectory on an inclined plane as reference information. The contour accuracy measuring system then adjusts parameters of the locations of the shafts based on the location coordinate data of the shafts of the reference information to generate a second true round trajectory on the inclined plane, so as to get to know whether the locations of the shafts after the parameters are adjusted comply with a standard. Therefore, the overall measurement process can be speeded up by automatically measuring the parameters and automatically testing an operating status.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yu-Sheng Tseng, Po-Hsun Wu, Tsung-Yu Yang, Chien-Yi Lee
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Patent number: 11500429Abstract: An expansion module for an industrial controller is configured to perform independent local processing of its input signals and to independently generate control outputs in parallel with the primary control program executed by the industrial controller. This can reduce or eliminate response latency for time-critical processes that would otherwise be present if all monitoring and control were performed by the industrial controller alone. This approach can be beneficial for configurations in which the industrial devices that are monitored and controlled via the expansion module require fast response times, as in the case of industrial safety applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Germany GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Machuletz, Thomas Helpenstein, Oliver Heckel, Mussa Tohidi Khaniki, Jan Anslinger, Rudolf Papenbreer, Suresh R. Nair
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Patent number: 11493909Abstract: A semiconductor fabrication facility (FAB) is provided. The FAB includes a number of processing tools. The FAB also includes a sampling station connected to the processing tools. In addition, the FAB includes a detection vehicle detachably connected to the sampling station and comprising a metrology module. When the detection vehicle is connected to the sampling station, a gas sample is delivered from one of the processing tools to the metrology module of the detection vehicle via the sampling station for performing a measurement of a parameter in related to the gas sample by the metrology module. In addition, the FAB includes a control system configured to issue a warning when the parameter in related to the gas sample from the one of the processing tools is out of a range of acceptable values associated with the one of the processing tools.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Lee-Chun Chen, Yi-Chien Yang, Chia-Lin Hsu
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Patent number: 11483987Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for analyzing sensor data related to an irrigation system. According to a preferred embodiment, the system includes algorithms for analyzing real-time, near real-time and historical data acquired from sensors in communication with a mechanized irrigation machine. Further, the algorithms of the present invention system may analyze collected sensor data to determine if an event has occurred or is predicted to occur. Further, the algorithms of the present invention may provide commands to an irrigation machine and notifications to users. According to further aspects of the present invention, the algorithms of the present invention may preferably apply machine learning and other data analysis tools to detect maintenance patterns, geographic trends, environmental trends, and to provide predictive analysis for future events.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Valmont Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tracy A. Thatcher, Mark Moeller, John Kastl
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Patent number: 11467547Abstract: Provided is a control device for performing model prediction control. A position of a virtual obstacle associated with a real obstacle is set based on a position of the real obstacle acquired by a first acquisition part so that the virtual obstacle is positioned substantially symmetrically to the real obstacle with reference to a following target trajectory of a control target. Stage costs calculated by a prescribed evaluation function include: a first stage cost associated with a first probability potential field representing a probability that the real obstacle is present based on the position of the real obstacle; and a second stage cost associated with a second probability potential field representing a probability that the virtual obstacle is present based on the position of the virtual obstacle and having a probability value equal to or greater than that of the first probability potential field.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Mamoru Egi
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Patent number: 11467555Abstract: A method for determination of an effective machine use of a machine tool, as well as a machine tool that is configured for this purpose. The machine tool has multiple machine axes in order to move a workpiece and/or a tool. A rotary drive drives the workpiece or the tool in order to remove material. A control unit of the machine tool determines a use duration characteristic parameter (T) and an output power characteristic parameter (L) and determines therefrom a machine use characteristic parameter (M). The use duration characteristic parameter (T) describes a duration during which the workpiece is machined by the tool. The output power characteristic parameter (L) describes the applied or required power in order to effect the material removal. The machine use characteristic parameter (M) is determined by the control unit, such that it can be transmitted to an external unit for further evaluation or processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: GEBR. HELLER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBHInventors: Simone Müller, Klaus Winkler, Bernd Zapf
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Patent number: 11467564Abstract: A first drive operates directly on a machine element, whereas a second drive operates on a machine element via a speed-changing device. A position controller receives a position setpoint value and a position actual value of the machine element and determines therefrom a speed setpoint value for the machine element. A first determining device receives the speed setpoint value and determines a resulting speed setpoint value using the speed setpoint value. A first speed controller determines a first force setpoint value from the resulting speed setpoint value and the speed actual value of the machine element and controls the first drive depending on the first force setpoint value. A second speed controller determines a second force setpoint value from the resulting speed setpoint value and the speed actual value of the second drive and controls the second drive depending on the force setpoint value.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: David Bitterolf, Sven Tauchmann