Patents Examined by Yaritza H Perez Bermudez
  • Patent number: 12209772
    Abstract: A diagnostic method for verifying the proper functioning of a fluid flow control device of a fluid system, the method including determining whether at least one pressure sensor is functional and if the at least one pressure sensor is considered functional, determining whether a bypass valve is functional and if the bypass valve is considered functional, determining whether at least one flow sensor is functional, if the at least one flow sensor is considered dysfunctional, a flow sensor fault is raised; and otherwise if the at least one pressure sensor is considered dysfunctional, using the at least one flow sensor to determine whether the bypass valve is functional, if the bypass valve is considered functional, determining whether at least one pump is functional, a pump alert is raised if the at least one pump is considered dysfunctional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
  • Patent number: 12189357
    Abstract: A static edge finder for finding an edge of a workpiece loaded in a CNC machine, and tool height gauge for finding the height of a tool loaded in a CNC machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Steven E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 12140461
    Abstract: A method for operating an ultrasonic flowmeter includes: capturing at least one first ringing signal of a first ultrasonic transducer of the ultrasonic flowmeter, and detecting a first ringing debugging signal based on the at least one captured first ringing signal; emitting a first measurement signal into a medium through the first ultrasonic transducer, resulting in a first ringing measurement signal in the first ultrasonic transducer; receiving a measurement signal as a first received signal by the first ultrasonic transducer, wherein the first received signal and the first ringing measurement signal are superimposed to form a first superimposed signal; determining a first correction signal by subtracting the first ringing debugging signal from the first superposition signal; and determining the flow velocity or flow rate of the medium based on the first correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Arie Huijzer
  • Patent number: 12123852
    Abstract: A multifunctional and visual rock triaxial testing system is provided. The multifunctional and visual rock triaxial testing system includes an axial loading system, a high-energy accelerator computerized tomography (CT) scanning system, a turntable system, a triaxial pressure cell, a fluid fracturing pump, a temperature pump, a confining pressure loading pump, a power oil source, and an integrated control console, where the turntable system is configured to drive the high-energy accelerator CT scanning system to rotate, so as to scan an internal structure of a rock sample; and the triaxial pressure cell and the fluid fracturing pump are configured to conduct compression and fracturing tests on the rock sample, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yanzhi Hu, Xiao Li, Tianqiao Mao, Shouding Li, Jianming He, Zhaobin Zhang, Guanfang Li, Bo Zheng
  • Patent number: 12061098
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, an agricultural machine (100) comprising sensors is provided. The agricultural machine (100) comprises a number of sensor programming devices (110), each comprising a unique set of sensor programming instructions, and is arranged to comprise one single corresponding sensor device (120) for each of the sensor programming devices (110). Each sensor programming device (110) is mounted in a programming position (115) adjacent a sensor position (125) for the corresponding sensor device (120), and each sensor device (120) is arranged to be mounted in the sensor position (125) and automatically receive the sensor programming instructions from the corresponding sensor programming device (110). This ensures that if a sensor device (120) is moved from one sensor position (125) to another sensor position (125), it automatically receives a different set of programming instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: VÄDERSTAD HOLDING AB
    Inventor: Stefan Vålberg
  • Patent number: 12038471
    Abstract: An electronic device such as an e-fuse includes analog circuitry configured to be set to one or more self-test configurations. To that effect the device has self-test controller circuitry in turn including: an analog configuration and sensing circuit configured to set the analog circuitry to one or more self-test configurations and to sense test signals occurring in the analog circuitry set to such self-test configurations, a data acquisition circuit configured to acquire and convert to digital the test signals sensed at the analog sensing circuit, and a fault event detection circuit configured to check the test signals converted to digital against reference parameters. The device includes integrated therein a self-test controller configured to control parts or stages of the device to configure circuits, acquire data and control test execution under the coordination of a test sequencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Mirko Dondini, Roberto Crisafulli, Calogero Andrea Trecarichi, Vincenzo Randazzo
  • Patent number: 12025756
    Abstract: A method to operate an ultrasonic sensor includes the step of sending an ultrasonic burst as a series of ultrasonic pulses that have a pulse length and a pulse spacing. The sum of the pulse length and pulse spacing represents the pulse period length. The ultrasonic burst starts at a first time and ends at a second time. The current pulse frequency corresponds to an inverse of the current pulse length. The current pulse frequency, during a first time period passes through a first frequency range, in a following middle time period a middle frequency range and in a following second time period a second frequency range. The length of time of the middle time period is equal to or longer than the sum of the first time period and the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ELMOS SEMICONDUCTOR SE
    Inventor: Egbert Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12007438
    Abstract: A method is provided and includes several operations: testing multiple scan chains in multiple shift cycles to obtain multiple values; determining at least one fail chain in the scan chains and determining at least one fail shift cycle corresponding to at least one fail value in the values; mapping the at least one fail chain and the at least one fail shift cycle to the scan chains to identify the at least one fail flip flop; and identifying at least one fault site corresponding to the at least one fail flip flop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Che Wu, Tsung-Yang Hung, Ming-Yih Wang
  • Patent number: 12007519
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system and method for generating a subsurface model representing lithological characteristics and attributes of the subsurface of a celestial body or planet. By automatically ingesting data from many sources, a machine learning system can infer information about the characteristics of regions of the subsurface and build a model representing the subsurface rock properties. In some cases, this can provide information about a region using inferred data, where no direct measurements have been taken. Remote sensing data, such as aerial or satellite imagery, gravimetric data, magnetic field data, electromagnetic data, and other information can be readily collected or is already available at scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Kenton Lee Prindle, Artem Goncharuk, Neil David Treat, Kevin Forsythe Smith, Thomas Peter Hunt, Karen R Davis, Allen Richard Zhao
  • Patent number: 11988721
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining vehicle battery health. In some embodiments, an example method may include receiving, from a first vehicle, a first value for a first data type and a second value for a second data type, the first data type and the second data type relating to a battery of the first vehicle. The example method may also include determining, for the first data type and the second data type, a minimum possible value, a maximum possible value, and an offset indicator, wherein the offset indicator provides an indication of a significance of the first value and the second values relative to the minimum possible value and maximum possible value for the first data type and the second data type respectively. The example method may also include determining a weight for the first data type and a weight for the second data type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Cox Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Lea Malloy, Mark William Humble
  • Patent number: 11983001
    Abstract: A method for operating a water treatment plant, wherein the plant is equipped with an apparatus for injecting a gas containing oxygen into an effluent, the method comprising a phase of detecting anomalies in the operation of the apparatus, wherein the phase of detecting anomalies comprises an implementation of the following steps: providing data representative of the operating state of the apparatus; and providing a system for acquiring and processing said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Thomas Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 11977106
    Abstract: A system and method of analyzing, manipulating, and combining various items of resource consuming device (“RCD”) performance information to produce quantitative metrics usable to rank or compare RCDs. The method can apply to RCDs such as cars, appliances, residential households or electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Enervee Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Van Buskirk, Richard Busby, Matthias Kurwig
  • Patent number: 11959825
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a rotating equipment through a condition monitoring device is performed in every predetermined time period after every predetermined time interval. The method comprises detecting presence of vibration in rotating equipment based on a signal associated with vibration in the rotating equipment. The signal is measured with one or more sensors of the plurality of sensors. Upon detecting presence of vibration, a predefined number of samples associated with the vibration is acquired at a first frequency. A Root Mean Square (RMS) value of vibration is calculated using predefined number of samples. The calculated RMS value of vibration is compared with a reference value for detecting an operating status, which is stored for every predetermined time interval. Thereafter, the method comprises processing the stored information to assess a condition of the rotating equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Maciej Orman, Manuel Oriol, Pallavi Hujband, Prasad Venikar, Tejas Atul Trivedi, Neethu T. Pradeep
  • Patent number: 11953638
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for generating reservoir models including the SOC nature of the Earth's crust. The methods employ seismic emission tomography (SET) to generate three dimensional models of a formation providing permeability without the need for traditional reservoir modeling techniques and allowing for the identification of naturally-occurring permeability pathways that provide accurate and precise locations for the efficient recovery of hydrocarbons or other fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: G-O-Image, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Geiser
  • Patent number: 11933928
    Abstract: An irregular seismic data collection method is based on forward modeling. The method includes: fully collecting geological information of a work area to build a geological model, determining arrangement parameters of receiver points and shot points for regular high-density collection and irregular sparse collection, performing irregular optimization design on positions of the shot points based on forward modeling, performing irregular optimization design on positions of the receiver points based on forward modeling, and outputting a preferred irregular sparse observation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Shengqiang Mu, Shoudong Huo, Guoxu Shu, Xuhui Zhou, Jiaru Zou, Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 11933678
    Abstract: A method for determining ambient temperature of a device in a building control system. The method includes obtaining a measurement of ambient temperature from a first temperature sensor of the device and obtaining a measurement of temperature of a processing circuit of the device. These temperature measurements along with a brightness level of a display of the device and a state of a relay of the device are provided as input to a neural network. The neural network is trained to recognize these inputs in order to more accurately determine the ambient temperature of the device. The reading from the first temperature sensor may otherwise be inaccurate due to heat generated by electronic components of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Bing Mao, Wensu Lu, Xiaoying Lu, Yingchun Xu
  • Patent number: 11921035
    Abstract: Methods and assemblies may be used for determining and using standardized spectral responses for calibration of spectroscopic analyzers. The methods and assemblies may be used to calibrate or recalibrate a spectroscopic analyzer when the spectroscopic analyzer changes from a first state to a second state, the second state being defined as a period of time after a change to the spectroscopic analyzer causing a need to calibrate or recalibrate the spectroscopic analyzer. The calibration or recalibration may result in the spectroscopic analyzer outputting a standardized spectrum, such that the spectroscopic analyzer outputs a corrected material spectrum for an analyzed material, and defining the standardized spectrum. The corrected material spectrum may include signals indicative of material properties of an analyzed material, the material properties of the material being substantially consistent with material properties of the material output by the spectroscopic analyzer in the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP
    Inventors: Roy Roger Bledsoe, Jr., Lance T. Campbell, Randy N. Ridge, Brian K. Wilt
  • Patent number: 11913826
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating electromagnetic forces active in an electric machine. The method includes the steps of: measuring at least one first operation parameter of the electric machine while the electric machine is operated under at least one operational condition, and estimating electromagnetic forces active in an electric machine during operation of the electric machine by multiplying the measured at least one first operation parameter and a respective second operation parameter provided by a stored structural/vibro-acoustic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Industry Software NV
    Inventor: Fabien Chauvicourt
  • Patent number: 11908811
    Abstract: A system for inspecting or screening electrically powered device includes a signal generator inputting a preselected signal into the electrically powered device. There is also an antenna array positioned at a pre-determined distance above the electrically powered device. Apparatus collects RF energy emitted by the electrically powered device in response to input of said preselected signal. The signature of the collected RF energy is compared with an RF energy signature of a genuine part. The comparison determines one of a genuine or counterfeit condition of the electrically powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Nokomis, Inc
    Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, Stephen Dorn Freeman, Jason Galyardt
  • Patent number: 11899147
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an image of a subterranean region of interest are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a seismic dataset and a geological dip model for the subterranean region of interest and determining a set of input seismic gathers from the seismic dataset. The method further includes determining a central seismic gather and a set of neighboring seismic gathers in a vicinity of the central seismic gather from the set of seismic gathers, determining a set of dip-corrected neighboring seismic gathers based, at least in part, on the set of neighboring seismic gathers and a geological dip from the geological dip model, and determining a noise-attenuated central seismic gather by combining the dip-corrected neighboring seismic gathers and the central seismic gather. The method still further includes forming the image of the subterranean region of interest based, at least in part, on the noise-attenuated central seismic gather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Weihong Zhu, Hussain I. Hammad