Patents Examined by T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11972193
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, a system, and a computer-readable storage-medium embodiments of automatic elastic CPU for a physical verification job. An embodiment includes generating multiple commands for a physical verification job of a design. The multiple commands are related by a dependency graph. The embodiment further includes allocating an initial amount of computing resources to execute the multiple commands, queuing a subset of the multiple commands for execution based on the dependency graph, adding an estimated amount of computing resources to the initial amount based on the number of the queued subset of commands and an estimated time to complete the queued subset of commands, and releasing a portion of the estimated amount of computing resources in response to the portion of the estimated amount of computing resources being idle for an amount of time greater than a target time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SYNOPSYS, INC.
    Inventors: Chris Allen Grossmann, Sumit Bhagwanani, Mark Daniel Pogers
  • Patent number: 11968960
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dog training clicker, including a first structural part, a sliding assembly and a second structural part overlaid and arranged in sequence along a first direction; the first structural part includes a first outer shell, the first outer shell is internally provided with a first accommodating space, an elastic sounding plate and a floating button are arranged in the first accommodating space, and the floating button abuts against the elastic sounding plate; the second structural part includes a second outer shell, the first structural part is in sliding connection with the second structural part through the sliding assembly, and the first direction is perpendicular to a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Zerong Yang
  • Patent number: 11969912
    Abstract: A modular press suitable for use in the manufacture of EWC products may include a plurality of frame modules coupled together and aligned along a feed path axis. Each frame module may have a generally planar body supported on a corresponding pair of bases, an elongate aperture, an upper and a lower platform within the aperture, and a platen between the platforms. Optionally, the ends of the aperture may be curved. A first actuator system may be operable to move the platen from a raised position to an intermediate position, and a second actuator system may be operable to press the platen downwardly from the intermediate position onto a workpiece within the aperture. Some modular presses include conveyor rolls and a third actuator system to raise and lower the conveyor rolls. In some embodiments, the actuator systems may be pneumatic actuator systems. Corresponding methods and systems are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: USNR, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Taylor Pope, Laura Hart Meeker, Conrad Bullion, Kevin K. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 11968961
    Abstract: An animal restraint is disclosed for mitigating collar trauma to critical neck structures of an animal. The animal restraint includes a track housing defining an exterior surface and an interior surface. A plurality of loops are positioned on the exterior surface of the track housing. A strap is threaded through the loops, and is adapted to slide around the exterior surface of the track housing from a pulling force on the animal restraint. The strap includes a leash attachment ring adapted for attachment to a leash. Impact resistant padding is attached to the interior surface of the track housing, and the sliding movement of the strap maintains a proper positioning of the impact resistant padding over corresponding anatomical neck structures of an animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Lennie D. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11971726
    Abstract: A method of constructing an indoor wall corner two-dimensional semantic map based on a robot platform includes controlling, by the master control computer, the robot platform to move indoors, collecting, by the lidar sensor, a distance between an indoor object and the robot platform and a direction angle between the indoor object and the robot platform in real time and transmitting the distance and the direction angle to the master control computer, and obtaining, by the master control computer, an environment grid map and a real-time pose of the robot platform by processing the distance between the indoor object and the robot platform and the direction angle between the indoor object and the robot platform based on Gmapping algorithm; constructing a semantic segmentation data set as a training set on the master control computer and obtaining a predicted non-wall corner semantic label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Lin Jiang, Dongjun Fang, Wenkang Nie, Chao Xiang, Shengxi Jin, Jianpeng Zuo
  • Patent number: 11968962
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide apparatuses and methods for facilitating filling and cleaning of bird feeders that are aesthetically pleasing and adaptable for attracting different types of birds. In one implementation, a bird feeder includes a port having a surface extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The proximal end has a connecting portion configured to connect to a reservoir. The surface has one or more openings defined therein. A small seed converter is insertable into the port, and the small seed converter includes a plurality of teeth extending from an edge. The plurality of teeth are configured to narrow the one or more openings for dispensing small sized seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CLASSIC BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Donegan, Bryan Krueger, John W. Bruno
  • Patent number: 11972876
    Abstract: A composite material responsive to mechanical and/or electrical stress comprises at least one substantially non-conductive binder and at least a first electrically conductive filler. The conductivity of the composite material in an unstressed state is related to the conductivity of the at least one substantially non-conductive binder and in a stressed state to the conductivity resulting from the presence of the at least first electrically conductive filler in the composition. The first electrically conductive filler is comprised of magnetite particles in a particle size distribution, and the at least one binder may include an oil, a gel, a wax a gel-wax, gel-ink or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: David Lussey
  • Patent number: 11972151
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to efficiently relocating data within a data storage device. By implementing an error correction code (ECC) module in a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip for each memory die within a memory array of a memory device, the data can be relocated more efficiently. The ECC decodes the codewords at the memory die. The metadata is then extracted from the decoded codewords and transferred to a controller of the data storage device. A flash translation layer (FTL) module at the controller then checks whether the data is valid by comparing the received metadata to FTL tables. If the metadata indicates the data is valid, then the data is relocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Peltz, Karin Inbar
  • Patent number: 11969377
    Abstract: An instrument (10) to downfold an intrauterine device (30), comprising a base (20) with a delatcher (26); a navigator (50) having an aligner plug (51A), a slot (56); an open converger (40) having a flange (45), a covered channel (41); a driver assembly (60) having a bidirectional carrier (61), a graduated tube (71), and a latching rod (81); and a gated support (90) having a leafy arm (91) and a downward fork (94) forming an inverted ā€œUā€ gate (95) having sloped edges (97) with end points (96), at the other end, a holder (92) having an elongated grip (93) on either side; wherein a lower end (37) of the stem (33) of IUD (30) sits on a conical seat (82) having two resting points (83) on the latching rod (81), while a knot (38) of the string (31) sits in the knot room (84) on the latching rod (81).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Mukul Taparia
  • Patent number: 11971099
    Abstract: A soil processing machine includes a hydraulic drive system including an electrohydraulic pressurized fluid source with at least one electric motor and at least one hydraulic drive pump, a hydraulic drive circuit fed with pressurized fluid by the at least one hydraulic drive pump, at least one hydraulic drive motor fed with pressurized fluid from the hydraulic drive circuit, and a discharge valve assembly for discharging fluid from the hydraulic drive circuit to a fluid reservoir. The hydraulic drive system is designed to operate the discharge valve assembly as a function of at least one of the following parameters: a temperature of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, an ambient temperature, a viscosity of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, a degree of contamination of the fluid in the hydraulic drive circuit, a period of time since the last start-up of the hydraulic drive system, a period of time since the last fluid was discharged from the hydraulic drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HAMM AG
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Ronny Pieske
  • Patent number: 11970875
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing a tower structure of a wind turbine includes an additive printing device having a central frame structure with a platform and an arm member. The arm member is generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tower structure. The additive printing device also includes a plurality of robotic arms secured to the arm member of the central frame structure. Each of the robotic arms includes a printer head for additively printing one or more materials. The additive printing device further includes at least one nozzle configured for dispensing a cementitious material. Moreover, the system includes one or more molds additively printed via the additive printing device of a polymer material. As such, the mold(s) define inner and outer wall limits of the tower structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, James Robert Tobin, Krishna Ramadurai, Krishna Prashanth Anandan
  • Patent number: 11972184
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing a robotic system architecture are disclosed. The methods include generating a model that defines one or more requirements for a robotic device for a mapping between a software graph and a hardware graph. The model is used for allocating a plurality of computational tasks in a computational path included in the software graph to a plurality of hardware components of the robotic device to yield a robotic system architecture. The methods also include using the robotic system architecture to configure the robotic device to be capable of performing functions corresponding to the software graph, where the robotic system architecture is optimized to meet one or more latency requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Argo AI, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Ziglar
  • Patent number: 11969735
    Abstract: A food recycler includes a case, a control system within the case, and a set of user interface components that are usable to at least cause the control system to initiate a food recycling cycle. The food recycler also includes a motor within the case and a bucket that has a volumetric capacity between 2.51 and 10 liters. A filter system configured to accommodate air filters is also included in the case of the food recycler. To remove water from waste food items, the food recycler includes a drying component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FOOD CYCLE SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Jonathan Brice Hayman, Bradley Crepeau, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 11972098
    Abstract: Techniques of interaction data processing in a distributed computing system are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving a user interface output having a content item to be surfaced on a client device and a script configured to detect an interaction with the content item at the client device, surfacing the user interface output having the content item on a display of the client device and automatically executing the script embedded in the user interface output to detect an interaction with the surfaced content item at the client device. Upon detecting an interaction with the content item on the surfaced user interface output, the example technique also includes generating and transmitting interaction data representing the detected interaction to a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Ke Wang, Ahmed Hassan Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11969146
    Abstract: A self-locking device of an endoscope is provided. The endoscope includes a housing and a toggle assembly. The toggle assembly includes a toggle support, an elastic support and a toggle handle. The toggle handle is sleeved on the toggle support. An inner side of the toggle support is provided with a toggle lever and a friction piece. One end of the toggle lever is hinged to the toggle handle, and the other end of the toggle lever is not connected to the friction piece. The toggle lever has an L-shaped cross section, with a middle bend fixed to the toggle support. The toggle lever is hinged to the toggle support through a first pin. When being stressed, the toggle lever is rotatable around the first pin, so as to push the friction piece to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUNAN VATHIN MEDICAL INSTRUMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun Mo, Xiaofeng Jia, Guanhua Zhou, Peng Tang
  • Patent number: 11972147
    Abstract: A memory system can include a stack of memory dies such as including a primary die and two or more secondary dies. The primary die can communicate with an external host device and with the secondary dies. In an example, the primary die can issue a command to the secondary dies using a first command message that includes an opcode field specifying a memory operation, a first chip identification field specifying a selected first die of the secondary dies, and one or more operands. In an example, each of the secondary dies receives the same first command message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hari Giduturi
  • Patent number: 11972824
    Abstract: The present technology includes a method of operating a controller that controls a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The method includes receiving a read request for data included in any one memory block among the plurality of memory blocks from a host, and controlling the semiconductor memory device to read data corresponding to the read request using a read-history table. The read-history table includes read voltages used for a plurality of read pass operations for the any one memory block, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Sub Kim
  • Patent number: D1024562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Guixiang Zhong
  • Patent number: D1024751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Honghua Nie
  • Patent number: D1025080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO TUOTUO RIVER DESIGN COMPANY
    Inventor: Xiaodong You