Patents by Inventor Joseph Kurtz

Joseph Kurtz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240119205
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for recommending design changes in designing a digital integrated circuit. An analysis of the digital integrated circuit being designed is performed, where the result of such an analysis involves violations being identified and stored. A stored violation, such as a cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and multi-cycle violation, may then be analyzed to identify a root cause of the violation using a rule. Such a rule may be used for triaging various failures in the cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violation of the digital integrated circuit. A design change in the design of the digital integrated circuit may then be recommended based on the identified root cause of the violation. In this manner, the root cause of failures are effectively identified in the design of digital integrated circuits using an offline analysis of cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violations using a rules-based approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: SheshaShayee K Raghunathan, Charles Gates, Kerim Kalafala, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Morgan D. Davis, Debra Dean, Chris Cavitt, Chaitra M Bhat, Richard William Taggart
  • Publication number: 20240108929
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, information that indicates that a fire has been detected in a building and that a fire suppression system within the building has begun dousing the fire; monitoring sensor information from one or more sensors located within the building; determining, by the computer system and based on the sensor information, whether the fire has been extinguished; activating, in response to determining that the fire has been extinguished, a feature to turn off a water supply to the building, the feature being presented on a computing device for a user who is associated with the building; receiving, after activating the feature and from the computing device, a command to turn off the water supply; and transmitting, by the computer system, a control signal that causes an electromechanical device to close a water valve within the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Schmitt, Michael Kramer, Ronak Desai, Randall Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20240104277
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for implementing enhanced noise impact on function (NIOF) analysis of an IC design having nets in multiple different variable voltage domains next to each other and modeling all multiple worst-case victim-aggressor voltage configurations in a single run leveraging noise abstracts characterized at a single voltage corner. The NIOF analysis enables accurately identifying incorrect victim switching or functional fails, effectively and efficiently providing design verification and the ability to sign-off an IC design with a single run, and enable modifying an integrated circuit design to fix NIOF failures, and fabricating an integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Joseph KURTZ, Michael Henry SITKO, Rahul M. RAO, Sanjay UPRETI, Ajith Kumar Madathil CHANDRASEKARAN
  • Patent number: 11314916
    Abstract: An effective spacing is calculated for each physical spacing between two or more neighbor nets of a target net. Segment boundaries are determined based on the calculated effective spacing to define segments for the target net and one of the segments is selected. A metal configuration for the selected segment is identified and a table of capacitance per-unit-length is accessed for the identified metal configuration to return an above capacitance value, a below capacitance value, a left-side capacitance value, and a right-side capacitance value for the corresponding segment, the table comprising at least a two-dimensional (2D) table. The capacitance values are scaled based on a corresponding segment length determined from the calculated effective spacing. The selecting, identifying, accessing and scaling operations are repeated for each remaining segment of the target net. Optionally, the above, below, left, and right capacitance values for all segments of the target net are summed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Lewis William Dewey, III, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Ronald Dennis Rose
  • Publication number: 20220035983
    Abstract: An effective spacing is calculated for each physical spacing between two or more neighbor nets of a target net. Segment boundaries are determined based on the calculated effective spacing to define segments for the target net and one of the segments is selected. A metal configuration for the selected segment is identified and a table of capacitance per-unit-length is accessed for the identified metal configuration to return an above capacitance value, a below capacitance value, a left-side capacitance value, and a right-side capacitance value for the corresponding segment, the table comprising at least a two-dimensional (2D) table. The capacitance values are scaled based on a corresponding segment length determined from the calculated effective spacing. The selecting, identifying, accessing and scaling operations are repeated for each remaining segment of the target net. Optionally, the above, below, left, and right capacitance values for all segments of the target net are summed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Lewis William Dewey, III, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Ronald Dennis Rose
  • Patent number: 11176308
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a target wiring layer, a first adjacent wiring layer above the target wiring layer, and a second adjacent wiring layer below the target wiring layer. Each adjacent wiring layer including crossing wires orthogonal to the target wiring layer. Modify a putative design of the integrated circuit by selecting a target wire; identifying lateral neighbors of the target wire; defining regions of the target wire where the lateral neighbors are homogeneous in cross-section; for each region of the target wire, calculating a wire pattern for the crossing wires; identifying segments within above and below portions of the wire pattern; for each above and below segment pair, obtaining a per-unit-length capacitance from a reduced pattern database; extracting a total parasitic capacitance from the per-unit-length pattern capacitances; and in response to an assessment of the impact of the total parasitic capacitance on circuit performance, producing a modified design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Widiger, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Susan Elizabeth Cellier, Lewis William Dewey, III, Ronald Dennis Rose
  • Patent number: 10929581
    Abstract: The accuracy of electronic design automation is increased by determining whether fill wires in a putative integrated circuit design should be effectively grounded or floating. For each signal wire in the putative design adjacent to the fill wires, a signal sensitivity value, which represents sensitivity of a given one of the plurality of signal wires to noise and timing, is determined. For each one of the fill wires, a fill sensitivity value is determined by: identifying coupling of each one of the fill wires to the adjacent signal wires; and calculating the fill sensitivity value as a combination of the signal sensitivity values of each of the adjacent signal wires for which the coupling has been identified. At least a portion of the fill wires are selectively effectively grounded based on the fill sensitivity value, to obtain a modified design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Kurtz, Ronald D. Rose, David J. Widiger
  • Publication number: 20200387817
    Abstract: Computer systems that use artificial intelligence to predict strategies, scenarios and or game plans for sports games that are already in progress. In some embodiments a feedback loop is used so that the artificial intelligence takes into account events occurring in and/or around the game as they occur to provide updated predictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Kurtz, Pritpal S. Arora, Tedrick N. Northway, Laxmikantha Sai Nanduru, Clea Anne Zolotow
  • Publication number: 20200387580
    Abstract: The accuracy of electronic design automation is increased by determining whether fill wires in a putative integrated circuit design should be effectively grounded or floating. For each signal wire in the putative design adjacent to the fill wires, a signal sensitivity value, which represents sensitivity of a given one of the plurality of signal wires to noise and timing, is determined. For each one of the fill wires, a fill sensitivity value is determined by: identifying coupling of each one of the fill wires to the adjacent signal wires; and calculating the fill sensitivity value as a combination of the signal sensitivity values of each of the adjacent signal wires for which the coupling has been identified. At least a portion of the fill wires are selectively effectively grounded based on the fill sensitivity value, to obtain a modified design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Kurtz, Ronald D. Rose, David J. Widiger
  • Publication number: 20150223752
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, a method and system are used for assisting and facilitating cardiac emergency treatment. The method employs an electronic interface for logging the different treatments and/or medicines administered to a cardiac emergency patient. The interface maintains numerous time intervals, dosage frequencies, and dosage amounts for different treatments. The interface prompts the user when to administer different treatments based on the type of cardiac emergency being suffered, as well other factors. The device implementing the electronic interface may further be in communication with treatment mechanisms, such as a defibrillator and/or an automatic dosage administration machine, for purposes of automated application of treatment at the prompts. Patient information and history, including the history from the present treatment regimen, is stored in a database accessible via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Kurtz, Jorge Cesmegi, III, Patrick Moran
  • Patent number: 5907461
    Abstract: A molded case circuit breaker is provided with ground fault protection by a modular unit which drops into a pole compartment in the molded casing in place of a pole assembly. The modular unit includes a housing forming an open faced cavity across which is mounted a printed circuit board with the ground fault circuit components and trip solenoid projecting into the cavity. The housing also supports the ground fault sensing toroid in a position for the appropriate conductors to pass through the coil. A bell switch and auxiliary switch are positioned by the housing for actuation by levers mounted on the cradle pin and crossbar, respectively. An integral leaf spring molded into the housing accommodates for manufacturing tolerances and fixes the positions of the various components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Dale Hartzel, Keith Lynn Mayhood, William David Munsch, John Joseph Kurtz, Richard Edwin White
  • Patent number: 5272807
    Abstract: A connector (10) having two rows of signal terminals (20) is easily terminated to conductors (106) of discrete wires (14) by providing rear sections (28) of the terminals extending from the front housing member (30). A wire-carrying subassembly (130) having the discrete wires secured thereto is moved against the rear (36) of the front housing member (30) to place stripped conductor portions (108) adjacent the rear terminal sections (28) to be soldered. The wire-carrying subassembly (130) includes a body member (50) having upper and lower arrays of axial grooves (56) therealong between a front support ledge (60) and a rear support section (62), and upper and lower forward and rearward clamping bars (72,82) securable to the body member () to clamp the wires (14) thereto by clamping insulated end portions (104) forwardly of stripped conductor portions (108) within the grooves (56) and insulated wire portions behind the grooves, with the rear terminal sections (28) receivable into the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Homer E. Henschen, Joseph Kurtz, Joseph M. Pawlikowski, Brian A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 5211578
    Abstract: A connector (10) having two rows of signal terminals (20) is easily terminated to conductors (106) of discrete wires (14) by providing rear sections (28) of the terminals extending from the front housing member (30). A wire-carrying subassembly (130) having the discrete wires secured thereto is moved against the rear (36) of the front housing member (30) to place stripped conductor portions (108) adjacent the rear terminal sections (28) to be soldered. The wire-carrying subassembly (130) includes a body member (50) having upper and lower arrays of axial grooves (56) therealong between a front support ledge (60) and a rear support section (62), and upper and lower forward and rearward clamping bars (72,82) securable to the body member (50) to clamp the wires (14) thereto by clamping insulated end portions (104) forwardly of stripped conductor portions (108) within the grooves (56) and insulated wire portions behind the grooves, with the rear terminal sections (28 ) receivable into the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Homer E. Henschen, Joseph Kurtz, Joseph M. Pawlikowski, Brian A. Wolfe