Patents by Inventor Timothy Lim

Timothy Lim 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).

  • Patent number: 11526155
    Abstract: Computer-based methods and systems provide automated batch data alignment for a batch production industrial process. An example embodiment selects a reference batch from batch data for a subject industrial process and configures batch alignment settings. In turn, a seed model configured to predict alignment quality given settings for one or more alignment hyperparameters is constructed. Collectively the selected reference batch, the configured batch alignment settings, the constructed seed model, and a set of representative batches, representative of the batch data for the industrial process, are used to perform at least one of: (i) automated active learning, (ii) interactive active learning, and (iii) guided learning to determine settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters. Then, a batch alignment is performed using the determined settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters and the configured batch alignment settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: AspenTech Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Chen Yang, Hong Zhao, Mark-John Bruwer, Timothy Lim
  • Publication number: 20220035348
    Abstract: Computer-based methods and systems provide automated batch data alignment for a batch production industrial process. An example embodiment selects a reference batch from batch data for a subject industrial process and configures batch alignment settings. In turn, a seed model configured to predict alignment quality given settings for one or more alignment hyperparameters is constructed. Collectively the selected reference batch, the configured batch alignment settings, the constructed seed model, and a set of representative batches, representative of the batch data for the industrial process, are used to perform at least one of: (i) automated active learning, (ii) interactive active learning, and (iii) guided learning to determine settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters. Then, a batch alignment is performed using the determined settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters and the configured batch alignment settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Chen Yang, Hong Zhao, Mark-John Bruwer, Timothy Lim
  • Patent number: 9308577
    Abstract: A vehicle door assembly comprises an inner panel integrally formed by upper and lower horizontal beams interconnected by front and rear upright beams, and an outer panel bonded to the inner panel. The frame portion comprises opposite front and rear U-shaped side frame members non-detachably attached to each other by upper and lower intermediate frame members so as to form a continuous perimeter. The side frame members are made of a first steel material and the intermediate frame members made of a second steel material, which is different from the first steel material. A method for manufacturing the inner panel comprises the steps: providing U-shaped sheets of the first steel material, providing top and bottom sheets of the second steel material, non-detachably connecting the U-shaped sheets to the top and bottom sheets so as to form a blank, and stamping the blank into the frame portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal Investigacion y Desarrolli, S.L.
    Inventors: Paul Schurter, Timothy Lim, Paul Dolan, Hamed Sharifi
  • Publication number: 20150101193
    Abstract: A vehicle door assembly comprises an inner panel integrally formed by upper and lower horizontal beams interconnected by front and rear upright beams, and an outer panel bonded to the inner panel. The frame portion comprises opposite front and rear U-shaped side frame members non-detachably attached to each other by upper and lower intermediate frame members so as to form a continuous perimeter. The side frame members are made of a first steel material and the intermediate frame members made of a second steel material, which is different from the first steel material. A method for manufacturing the inner panel comprises the steps: providing U-shaped sheets of the first steel material, providing top and bottom sheets of the second steel material, non-detachably connecting the U-shaped sheets to the top and bottom sheets so as to form a blank, and stamping the blank into the frame portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Schurter, Timothy Lim, Paul Dolan, Hamed Sharifi
  • Patent number: 8910999
    Abstract: A vehicle door assembly comprises an inner panel integrally formed by upper and lower horizontal beams interconnected by front and rear upright beams, and an outer panel bonded to the inner panel. The frame portion comprises opposite front and rear U-shaped side frame members non-detachably attached to each other by upper and lower intermediate frame members so as to form a continuous perimeter. The side frame members are made of a first steel material and the intermediate frame members made of a second steel material, which is different from the first steel material. A method for manufacturing the inner panel comprises the steps: providing U-shaped sheets of the first steel material, providing top and bottom sheets of the second steel material, non-detachably connecting the U-shaped sheets to the top and bottom sheets so as to form a blank, and stamping the blank into the frame portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal Investigacion y Desarrollo, S.L.
    Inventors: Paul Schurter, Timothy Lim, Paul Dolan, Hamed Sharifi
  • Publication number: 20040064825
    Abstract: A system and method for object system interoperability is provided. The system comprises an object generator, a target program, and a formatter which is a serializer and/or deserializer. The method comprises the steps of executing the object generator, which uses a data model specification to generate self-reflective object classes in the target program, which in turn calls a formatter to translate between an object instance and serial data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy Lim, Peter Sumner, Ian Stone
  • Publication number: 20040064826
    Abstract: A system and method for object system interoperability is provided. The system comprises an object generator, a target program, and a formatter which is a serializer and/or deserializer. The method comprises the steps of executing the object generator, which uses a data model specification to generate self-reflective object classes in the target program, which in turn calls a formatter to translate between an object instance and serial data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy Lim, Peter Sumner, Ian Stone
  • Publication number: 20030030049
    Abstract: A railing component has a tubular metal body with a non-uniform cross section. The body is formed by hydroforming and has a coating applied to the exterior. A pattern is applied to the coating to simulate a wood grain. The interior of the tubular body is filled with foam and plugs are provided at opposite ends for connection to other railing components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Gina Guerra, Jeffrey George Witt, Timothy Lim, Jim Vernon Casey
  • Patent number: 6431526
    Abstract: A railing component has a tubular metal body with a non-uniform cross section. The body is formed by hydroforming and has a coating applied to the exterior. A pattern is applied to the coating to simulate a wood grain. The interior of the tubular body is filled with foam and plugs are provided at opposite ends for connection to other railing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Dofasco Inc.
    Inventors: Gina Guerra, Jeffrey George Witt, Timothy Lim, Vernon Jim Casey
  • Patent number: 5064582
    Abstract: A process for recycling and reblending dry, difficult to hydrate polymer fines into a water-swellable fluid absorbent polymer gel is disclosed. The process requires feeding the dry polymer fines into a first mixing zone where they are subjected to spraying with water that at least partially hydrates the fines and mixing, substantially simultaneously with the water contact, at high shear such at the fines are substantial completely hydrated without agglomeration. The hydrated fines are then transported from the first zone into a second mixing zone where blending of the hydrated fines with fresh polymer gel occurs at medium shear such that a substantially uniformly blended product results. The resulting process successfully re-introduces fines into the main product stream wherein the resulting product has high aqueous fluid absorbent capacity and good particulate mechanical integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Tod A. Sutton, Karl V. Jacob, Timothy Lim, Steven P. Sandor
  • Patent number: 4820429
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved surfactant composition useful for providing improved production of oil, or displacing oil within the pores of an oil-containing reservoir under steamflood conditions comprises a synergistic mixture of an .alpha.-olefin sulfonate and an alkylated diphenyl oxide sulfonate component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventor: Timothy Lim