Patents Examined by Tuan Vu
  • Patent number: 11625591
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to an extended memory neuromorphic component for performing operations in memory are described. An example apparatus can include a plurality of computing devices. Each of the computing devices can include a processing unit and a memory array. The example apparatus can further include a communication subsystem coupled to the at least one of the plurality of computing devices and to a neuromorphic component. At least one of the plurality of computing devices can receive a request from a host to perform an operation, receive an indication of data to be access in a memory device to perform the operation, and send an indication to the neuromorphic component to monitor the data to be accessed. The neuromorphic component can intercept data and determine that a portion of the data should be flagged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay S. Ramesh, Allan Porterfield
  • Patent number: 11625821
    Abstract: An inspection-plan based inspection method includes receiving data characterizing an inspection plan associated with inspection of one or more nodes in an inspection site by an inspection device. A first step of the inspection plan includes a first set of operating parameters of the inspection device associated with the inspection of a first node of the one or more nodes and a first set of constraints associated with one or more inspection criteria at the first node by the inspection device. The method also includes generating a first control signal configured to instruct the inspection device to inspect the first node of the one or more nodes. The first control signal is based on one or more of the first set of operating parameters and a user input. The method further includes receiving data characterizing the inspection measurement of the first node by the inspection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Andrew Coombs
  • Patent number: 11625275
    Abstract: Technologies for secure I/O include a compute device, which further includes a processor, a memory, a trusted execution environment (TEE), one or more input/output (I/O) devices, and an I/O subsystem. The I/O subsystem includes a device memory access table (DMAT) programmed by the TEE to establish bindings between the TEE and one or more I/O devices that the TEE trusts and a memory ownership table (MOT) programmed by the TEE when a memory page is allocated to the TEE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Krystof Zmudzinski, Siddhartha Chhabra, Reshma Lal, Alpa Narendra Trivedi, Luis S. Kida, Pradeep M. Pappachan, Abhishek Basak, Anna Trikalinou
  • Patent number: 11614973
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of sharing a physical device between multiple virtual machines is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first virtual machine, a request to access a physical device of a computing device. The method also includes assigning, by a processing device, the physical device to the first virtual machine in view of power state information associated with the physical device of the computing device, wherein the power state information is received from one or more other virtual machines of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: 11577909
    Abstract: An example system for deployment of a compacting head in a waste compartment includes an eutectic alloy fusible link positioned within a waste compartment that breaks at or above a predetermined temperature, a spring tensioned deploy lever that is deployed based on a break of the eutectic alloy fusible link, a pivotal joint assembly that collapses based on deployment of the deploy lever, and a compacting head of a trash compactor that is deployed to compact contents of the waste compartment based on collapse of the pivotal joint assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Darren C. McIntosh
  • Patent number: 11574090
    Abstract: In a device engineering method, data of a plant network hierarchy (PNH) and registered devices (RD) in a device management server are synchronized to a device simulation server (SS). In a simulation mode, at least one function of device management system is executed via communicating with simulated devices (SD), while the device management system being not communicatively coupled to any physical control station configured to control physical field devices in a real plant. Virtual parameters are introduced into the SD. For device configuration, simulation is made of configurable device parameters; non-configurable device parameters; and device status, with SD generated from DD files in the PNH for the RD in the FDCS. Parallel communications including sending communication requests from a CRH component to the SD in the PNH from the CRH component in the FDCS to the SD in the PNH are executed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: JingXiang Xu, Kim Fatt Ng, Wei Hong Weng
  • Patent number: 11568318
    Abstract: A method for developing machine-learning (ML) based tool including initializing an input dataset, which is pre-processed by a first model to harmonize the dataset. Historical data similar to the input data set is fetched from a historical database. Based thereupon a controller recommends a method and a control-setting associated with the identified model for the visual inspection process to a user. Thereafter, the dataset is annotated by a second model to define a labelled data set. A plurality of features are extracted with respect to the data set through a feature extractor. A machine-learning classifier operates upon the extracted features and classifies the dataset with respect to one or more labels. A meta controller communicates with one or more of the first model, the second model, the feature extractor and the selected classifier for assessing a performance of at least one of first model and the feature extractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ariel Beck, Chandra Suwandi Wijaya
  • Patent number: 11568310
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a temperature prediction model is disclosed. The apparatus for generating a temperature prediction model includes the temperature prediction model configured to provide a simulation environment, and a processor configured to set a hyperparameter of the temperature prediction model, train the temperature prediction model, in which the hyperparameter is set, so that the temperature prediction model, in which the hyperparameter is set, outputs a predicted temperature, update the hyperparameter on the basis of a difference between the predicted temperature, which is outputted from the trained temperature prediction model, and an actual temperature, and repeat the setting of the hyperparameter, the training of the temperature prediction model, and the updating of the hyperparameter on the basis of the difference between the predicted temperature and the actual temperature by a predetermined number of times or more to set a final hyperparameter of the temperature prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hangyu Ko, Bongsang Kim
  • Patent number: 11565393
    Abstract: Systems and methods of operating power tools. The method includes receiving a command to start a recording mode at a first electronic processor of a first power tool, and receiving at the first electronic processor, a measured parameter from a sensor of the first power tool while a first motor of the first power tool is operating. The method also includes generating a recorded motor parameter by recording the measured parameter, on a first memory of the first power tool, when the first power tool operates in the recording mode, and transmitting, with a first transceiver of the first power tool, the recorded motor parameter. The method further includes receiving the recorded motor parameter at an external device, transmitting the recorded motor parameter to a second power tool via the external device, and receiving the recorded motor parameter via a second transceiver of the second power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Cole A. Conrad, Thomas G. Simeone, Matthew J. Mergener, Matthew P. Wycklendt
  • Patent number: 11563820
    Abstract: Provided is a home appliance of determining an operation command corresponding to an occupant through learning based on setting information of the home appliance according to the occupant to provide an operation satisfying all occupants. An air conditioner according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: an outdoor unit; and an indoor unit including a heat exchanger, wherein the indoor unit includes: a communicator configured to communicate with an access point (AP); and a controller configured to receive information about a terminal connected to the access point through the communicator, and change at least one of operation temperature or an operation mode when a new terminal is connected to the access point or a terminal connected to the access point is disconnected from the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soonhoon Hwang, Youngju Joo, Hyun-Woo Ock, Maloochandra Ashok, Kwan-Ho Park, Dongjun Shin, Jungmo Yeon
  • Patent number: 11561802
    Abstract: As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for a microservice lifecycle operator. In use, at least one specification for a microservice is identified. Further, a lifecycle of the microservice is managed, using a lifecycle operator and the at least one specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Edwar Adib Mansour, Igor Troyanovski, Eyal Reuven, Cedric Gegout
  • Patent number: 11550300
    Abstract: A clothing management using a moving hanger is provided. A method of controlling a clothing styler according to an embodiment of the present disclosure determines a weight of clothing using a current RPM (cRPM) determined based on a PWM value provided to a motor and a prediction model based on the pre-trained artificial neural and may perform a suitable control operation according to the determined weight. The clothing styler of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, and a device related to a 5G service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Suman Bae
  • Patent number: 11544656
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing self qualification of cloud based applications. One of the methods includes analyzing, by a self-qualified process (SQP), a set of risks for a cloud based software platform, wherein each risk comprises a set of features that are being evaluated according to a risk definition; performing, by the SQP, one or more tests related to one or more risks of the set of risks; and based on an outcome of each of the tests, generating a measure of a qualification state for the cloud based software platform, wherein the measure of the qualification state is used to determine self-qualification of the software platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Bigfinite Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Manzano DoƱabeitia
  • Patent number: 11531573
    Abstract: A method and system provides for asynchronous two-way binding between a user interface and a data model which are implemented on different frameworks. The system includes data, data model, and bridge controllers. The data controller provides a front-end binding framework that interacts with a user interface of a user device to manage a bindable property or method for a view on the user device. The data model controller provides a back-end binding framework that manages a data model, the front-end binding framework and the back-end binding framework being different types of frameworks. The bridge controller implements asynchronous two-way binding for the bindable property or method between the front-end binding framework and the back-end binding framework to update the bindable property or method in the data model when data changes at the user interface and to update the view on the user device when data changes at the data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AVEVA SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: Lokesh Yadav, Shishir Roy, Chetankumar Patel
  • Patent number: 11520306
    Abstract: A machine learning apparatus includes a first information acquiring unit that acquires first information including at least one of a shape of a workpiece, a material of the workpiece, a cutting path of a cutting process, a type of a tool, and an amount of wear of the tool; a second information acquiring unit that acquires second information correlated with an evaluation of a burr occurring on the workpiece due to the cutting process; and a learning unit that executes learning processing using a plurality of pieces of the first information and a plurality of pieces of the second information, and generates a learning model that outputs a cutting condition, according to another piece of first information that is different from the plurality of pieces of first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuuki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11521012
    Abstract: This application provides a method for training a neural network model and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining annotation data that is of a service and that is generated by a terminal device in a specified period; training a second neural network model by using the annotation data that is of the service and that is generated in the specified period, to obtain a trained second neural network model; and updating a first neural network model based on the trained second neural network model. In the method, training is performed based on the annotation data generated by the terminal device, so that in an updated first neural network model compared with a universal model, an inference result has a higher confidence level, and a personalized requirement of a user can be better met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Qing Su, Ying Jin
  • Patent number: 11513504
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from one or more sensors associated with manufacturing equipment, current trace data associated with producing, by the manufacturing equipment, a plurality of products. The method further includes performing signal processing to break down the current trace data into a plurality of sets of current component data mapped to corresponding component identifiers. The method further includes providing the plurality of sets of current component data and the corresponding component identifiers as input to a trained machine learning model. The method further includes obtaining, from the trained machine learning model, one or more outputs indicative of predictive data and causing, based on the predictive data, performance of one or more corrective actions associated with the manufacturing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: David John Paul
  • Patent number: 11510404
    Abstract: A boom sprayer includes any number of components to treat plants as the boom sprayer travels through a plant field. The components take actions to treat plants or facilitate treating plants. The boom sprayer includes any number of sensors to measure the state of the boom sprayer as the boom sprayer treats plants. The boom sprayer includes a control system to generate actions for the components to treat plants in the field. The control system includes an agent executing a model that functions to improve the performance of the boom sprayer treating plants. Performance improvement can be measured by the sensors of the boom sprayer. The model is an artificial neural network that receives measurements as inputs and generates actions that improve performance as outputs. The artificial neural network is trained using actor-critic reinforcement learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Lee Kamp Redden, Erik Ehn, James Michael Fleming
  • Patent number: 11514367
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining feature generation code from, which is configured to determine features relating to input data. The method further includes obtaining data grouping code, which is configured to generate training data by determining a plurality of data groupings for the features relating to the input data. The method further includes obtaining modeling code, which is derived at least in part by applying one or more machine learning algorithms to the training data. The method further includes applying a model wrapper code to the feature generation code, the data grouping code, and the modeling code to generate a model wrapper and deploying the model wrapper such that the model wrapper may receive a first application programming interface (API) call including an input data value, determine a score relating to the input data value, and send a second API call including the score in response to the first API call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Chen Wu
  • Patent number: 11507354
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing operable functionality of input source code files from a software program by identifying a first code snippet and a first library function which generate similar outputs from a shared input by parsing each and every line of code in a candidate code snippet to generate a templatized code snippet data structure for the first code snippet, and then testing the templatized code snippet data structure against extracted library function information to check for similarity of outputs between the first code snippet and the first library function in response to a shared input so that the developer is presented with a library function recommendation which includes the first code snippet, the first library function, and instructions for replacing the first code snippet with the first library function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DevFactory Innovations FZ-LLC
    Inventors: Tushar Makkar, Mukund Mandyam Kannappan