Patents Examined by Vincent H Tran
  • Patent number: 12216439
    Abstract: A method synchronizes a plurality of mobile devices from different vendors by pairing mobile devices with a hub; positioning the hub in an area accessible to group members; automatically copying data structures with characteristics of the mobile device and extracting data from the mobile devices when each of the group members are within a range of the hub; uploading the copied data structures to a remote server; parsing the data based on each respective mobile manufacture data structure; and synchronizing user data with a cloud database. In implementations, the method can be used for fitness training of teams or for selecting optimal team members for a task. The hub's awareness of connected devices in a building can be used to reduce energy consumption by turning off building sectors based on occupants therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Bao tran
  • Patent number: 12212135
    Abstract: Temporary outages or degradation of a resource, such as electric power, may be detected by identifying anomalies in waveform data collected by collection points. The collection points may be distributed throughout a resource distribution system and configured to communicate data to a headend system. The headend system processes the data to identify anomalies and to correlate waveform data collected by different collection points. The geographic locations of the collection points with correlated data are used to identify a geographic region. An unmanned aerial vehicle may be used to conduct an inspection of the geographic region and to collect inspection data. The inspection data may be communicated to the headend system. The waveform data and the inspection data may be used to determine the correct resources to deploy to address the cause of the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: John Radgowski
  • Patent number: 12210366
    Abstract: The invention discloses a power feedback control system and method of MGP system, including detecting the actual active power sent by the generator to the grid through the measurement and calculation module; making a difference between the measured active power and the given active power; calculating frequency regulation amount through the PI regulation module according to the difference, and taking it as feedback; calculating the frequency reference value of the converter in the control system; through the adjustment module adjusts finely the frequency of the converter and adjust the phase difference of frequency modulation to achieve controlling power output, so when the new energy predicts its output power based on power feedback control using MGP before connecting to grid, the output of the control system will not delay and affect the stability and reliability of the control system, ensuring the smooth introduction of new energy grid-connected methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Guizhou Power Grid Company Limited
    Inventors: Julong Chen, Haisen Zhao, Zhenming Liu, Bin Sun, Yi Xue, Qingsheng Li, Qingming Zhao, Yu Zhang, Xueyong Tang, Pu Deng
  • Patent number: 12204390
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of loads, at least one processor, a plurality of regulators configured to adjust a voltage of power received from a power source and output the adjusted power, and a switching circuit configured to connect at least one of the plurality of regulators to at least one of the plurality of loads. The at least one processor is configured to identify a load to which power is to be supplied among the plurality of loads, select at least one regulator among the plurality of regulators connectable to the identified load, and control the switching circuit to connect the at least one selected regulator to the identified load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chongmin Lee, Sungku Yeo, Jaeseok Park, Hyoseok Han, Jaesun Shin, Jeongman Lee
  • Patent number: 12194685
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to process capability procedures for additive manufacturing machines. One example implementation receives and prints two objects with corresponding process values for a set of process parameters within two build regions of the build volume. Measurements are made of each object comprising print parameters and a dataset comprising data representing the process values associated with the print parameters and data representing the second process values associated with the second print parameters is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pablo Dominguez Pastor, Daniel Pablo Rosenblatt, Alejandro Manuel De Pena Hempel
  • Patent number: 12186209
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an orthopedic product for a body part of a patient is disclosed, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing body-part data containing information about an internal structure of the body part, b) detecting a current line of vision from which a user of the method sees the body part, c) displaying the body part data from the current line of vision by means of the display device so that the user sees the body part and the body part data superimposed, d) generating production data for the orthopedic device on the basis of the displayed data and e) providing an orthopedic product manufactured on the basis of the production data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Dries Glorieux, Kai-Hendrik Bussiek-Cillien, Mark Schönemeier
  • Patent number: 12188289
    Abstract: A method for operating a door actuator of a door system, having at least one movable door leaf and having a control device, and having a sensor unit, configured to detect people in a region before the door system, and transmits information about the people to the control device, includes at least the following steps: detecting a first person and, calculating the probable arrival time thereof at the door leaf, calculating first control parameters to actuate the door leaf in relation to the first person, and detecting at least one second person, and calculating the probable arrival time thereof, calculating second control parameters to actuate the door leaf in relation to the second person, linking the first control parameters with the second control parameters to form a first control parameter set, and controlling the drive of the door leaf on the basis of the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Wegner, Jelic Slobodan, Martin Boeckhoff
  • Patent number: 12181899
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a cooling control system and method for electrical equipment (10) and the electrical equipment (10) with controlled cooling, wherein the use of at least one cooling means (15) is dynamically considered, according to the operation of the electrical equipment (10) whose aging is determined mainly through a life balance (LB), which is, in turn, used to determine a selective activation for the cooling means (15), thus ensuring a continuous use lifetime specified by its manufacturer, while at the same time optimizing the lifespan of the cooling means (15), preserving it as much as possible while maintaining the lifespan of the electrical equipment (10) at a predetermined aging calculated through lifespan balance, avoiding unnecessary operating expenses for maintaining the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Treetech Sistemas Digitais Ltda
    Inventor: Daniel Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 12164319
    Abstract: A dual-loop low-drop (LDO) regulator having a first loop which is an analog loop that compares the voltage on the output supply node with a reference, and generates a bias or voltage control to control a strength of a final power switch. The first loop regulates the output voltage relative to a reference voltage by minimizing the error between the two voltages. A second loop (digital loop) that controls a current source which injects current on the gate of the final power switch to boost current for a load. The second loop is an auxiliary loop that boosts the current load for a set interval until the tracking bandwidth of the LDO resolves the error in the output, thereby reducing the peak-to-peak noise. The quiescent current is not increased a lot by the second loop since the second loop circuit is on for a fraction of the entire LDO operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sathya Narasimman Tiagaraj, Gerald Pasdast, Edward Burton
  • Patent number: 12165930
    Abstract: An adaptive modeling method for generating misregistration data for a semiconductor device wafer (SDW) including calculating a fitting function for a group of SDWs (GSDW) having units, including measuring an SDW in said GSDW, thereby generating test data sets corresponding to the units, removing non-unit-specific values (NUSVs) from the test data sets, thereby generating cleaned test data sets, and analyzing the cleaned test data sets, thereby generating the fitting function, and generating misregistration data for at least one additional SDW (ASDW) in the GSDW, including measuring the ASDW, thereby generating run data sets, removing NUSVs from the run data sets, thereby generating cleaned run data sets, fitting each of the cleaned run data sets to the fitting function, thereby generating coefficient sets, and calculating misregistration data for the ASDW, at least partially based on the fitting function and the coefficient sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KLA Corporation
    Inventors: Amnon Manassen, Vladimir Levinski, Daria Negri, Nireekshan K. Reddy
  • Patent number: 12160104
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting regional short-term energy power by taking weather into consideration includes: obtaining meteorological data of all moments in a set time in the future through a network; extracting respectively, from a historical database according to the obtained meteorological data, historical weather station meteorological data, historical network API meteorological data, and historical measured power generation power data within a set time period that meet meteorological conditions corresponding to all the moments; obtaining historical total error data; obtaining real-time error meteorological data; obtaining total error meteorological data; combining the obtained meteorological data of all the moments in the set time in the future with total error meteorological data of all the moments to obtain predicted meteorological data; obtaining predicted power data according to the predicted meteorological data; and optimizing an energy generation plan of a system according to the obtained pre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bo Sun, Chenghui Zhang, Deyin Ma
  • Patent number: 12153391
    Abstract: Operating unit for a container treatment machine, wherein the operating unit comprises at least one touch-sensitive display device, and the operating unit can be operated in two operating modes, wherein a first operating mode is only executed if the operating unit is connected to an operating station of the container treatment machine, and wherein a second operating mode is only executed if the operating unit is not physically connected to the operating station, wherein the first operating mode and the second operating mode differ at least with regard to one function that can be executed with the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Reiner Anders
  • Patent number: 12146484
    Abstract: A method is for producing, for a hydraulic machine having an actuator, a setpoint-value trajectory satisfying predefined limitations in order to influence an output variable of the hydraulic machine. A trajectory of unlimited setpoint values is fed to a trajectory planning function, which produces the setpoint-value trajectory from the trajectory of unlimited setpoint values. In the trajectory planning function, the trajectory of unlimited setpoint values is differentiated at least twice in order to obtain a trajectory of unlimited setpoint values that is differentiated n times. In the trajectory planning function, at least one limitation is applied to the differentiated trajectory of unlimited setpoint values in order to obtain a differentiated trajectory of limited setpoint values. The differentiated trajectory of limited setpoint values is fed to a filter integrator chain in order to obtain the setpoint-value trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Mutschler, Adrian Trachte, Carolina Passenberg, Steffen Joos
  • Patent number: 12147262
    Abstract: A FIFO may use lookahead circuitry to boost performance and reduce data transfer latency by reducing the FIFO operation cycles when operating in the store and forward mode. The lookahead circuitry may increase data transfer rate of the FIFO between two integrated circuit devices that use different clock frequencies. The use of the lookahead circuitry with the FIFO may also reduce power consumption of the FIFO, allow storage media of the FIFO to be smaller, and free up valuable die space for other circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kok Yoong Foo, Sze Yin Lee
  • Patent number: 12149074
    Abstract: A virtual power plant system using a heat conversion device includes a plurality of distributed energy resources connected to a virtual power plant; a virtual power plant output adjustment device connected to the virtual power plant and including a heat conversion device that receives power generated from the plurality of distributed energy resources and converts the power into thermal energy, a virtual power plant management device configured to conduct a bidding by predicting an expected power generation amount of the plurality of distributed energy resources, analyze output variation and error of the virtual power plant due to an output variation of the plurality of distributed energy resources, and stabilize an output variation of the virtual power plant by controlling a power consumption amount of the virtual power plant output adjustment device based on the analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA DISTRICT HEATING CORP.
    Inventors: Ja Kyun Koo, Tae Seon Eom, Yong Ha Lee, Min Sung Ko, Dong Hwan Chang
  • Patent number: 12138725
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a system for detecting malfunctions in an apparatus and/or defects in a workpiece processed by said apparatus. The method provides for acquiring a sound signal emitted by an apparatus during an operation cycle of the same, then comparing the sound signal with a plurality of audio tracks stored in a memory area for determining a malfunction of the apparatus and/or a defectiveness of the workpiece processed by the apparatus based on the result of said comparison. The operation cycle is subdivided into a plurality of work phases and during the acquisition of the sound signal a work phase of said plurality of work phases is identified. Each audio track of the plurality of stored audio tracks comprises an audio component relating to acquired sound signals, and additional information data comprising at least one identifier of the work phase executed by the apparatus during the acquisition of the sound signals of the audio component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LINARI ENGINEERING SRL
    Inventor: Stefano Linari
  • Patent number: 12132310
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a method for controlling a renewable power plant connected to a power network to reduce deviation of a measured frequency of the power network from a target frequency. The method comprises determining a forecasted power gradient over a forecast interval defined between a first time point and a second time point, and, at a third time point during the forecast interval, controlling the power plant to output active power according to a minimum active power level if the measured frequency at the third time point is below the target frequency, controlling the power plant to output active power according to a maximum active power level if the measured frequency at the third time point is above the target frequency. The maximum and minimum active power levels are based on the forecasted power gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Manas Patankar, Hugh McKenzie, Mu Wei, Jacob Quan Kidmose
  • Patent number: 12124229
    Abstract: A textile mill system and associated method include a plurality of spinning mills each having textile machines. A computer system determines adapted machine parameters for the textile machines and processes within the spinning mills. The computer system includes a receiving and transmitting section configured to receive operational information from the spinning mills and the textile machines, and a first database configured to store the received operational information. A processing section includes an optimizer section with a neural network, wherein the neural network uses the operational information stored in the first database with processes for or derived from supervised or unsupervised machine or deep learning to determine the adapted machine parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Niklaus Blaser, Christian Griesshammer
  • Patent number: 12115614
    Abstract: When measuring the position of a workpiece fixed to a table of a machine tool: rotary feed axes of the machine tool are pivoted such that an upper surface of the table faces in the direction of a line of sight of a camera, and an image of the workpiece is captured; the rotary feed axes are pivoted such that a side surface of the table faces in the direction of the line of sight of an image capturing device, and an image of the workpiece is captured; and the position of the workpiece is measured on the machine tool on the basis of the captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kasahara, Kazunari Ishii
  • Patent number: 12115074
    Abstract: A method of constructing a patient-specific orthopedic implant comprising: (a) comparing a patient-specific abnormal bone model, derived from an actual anatomy of a patient's abnormal bone, with a reconstructed patient-specific bone model, also derived from the anatomy of the patient's bone, where the reconstructed patient-specific bone model reflects a normalized anatomy of the patient's bone, and where the patient-specific abnormal bone model reflects an actual anatomy of the patient's bone including at least one of a partial bone, a deformed bone, and a shattered bone, wherein the patient-specific abnormal bone model comprises at least one of a patient-specific abnormal point cloud and a patient-specific abnormal bone surface model, and wherein the reconstructed patient-specific bone model comprises at least one of a reconstructed patient-specific point cloud and a reconstructed patient-specific bone surface model; (b) optimizing one or more parameters for a patient-specific orthopedic implant to be mounte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TECHMAH MEDICAL LLC
    Inventor: Mohamed R. Mahfouz