Patents Issued in September 1, 2020
  • Patent number: 10761135
    Abstract: In some examples, a device includes a main array of circuit elements representing a main measurement range of parameter values and a test array of circuit elements representing a test measurement range of parameter values, the test measurement range being less than the main measurement range. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to select a portion of the main array of circuit elements representing a partial measurement range, the partial measurement range being less than or equal to the test measurement range. The processing circuitry is also configured to test the portion of the main array of circuit elements using the test array of circuit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Erwin Schmalzl
  • Patent number: 10761136
    Abstract: Approaches for testing phase rotators are provided. A circuit for testing phase rotators includes a compare element including a first input and a second input, wherein the compare element is configured to compare a first phase of a first signal provided at the first input to a second phase of a second signal provided at the second input. The circuit also includes a first test bus connected to the first input and a second test bus connected to the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert G. Gerowitz, Sarah B. Higgins, Joseph A. Iadanza
  • Patent number: 10761137
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for binning integrated circuits (ICs) using an adaptive binning system that can re-bin the ICs in response to receiving a new or updated test specification. Unlike static binning systems, in one embodiment, the binning system receives measured test data from a testing system. Put differently, instead of a testing apparatus simply indicating whether an IC does (or does not) satisfy the criteria in the test specification, the testing apparatus provides measured test data to the binning system. The binning apparatus can then store the received test data. As such, if a new test specification is received or generated, the binning system can use the already saved test data to re-bin the ICs using the criteria in the new test specification without having to re-test the ICs. In this manner, the binning system can re-categorize the ICs as customer needs or customer demand changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Lee N. Chung, Randy J. Simmons, Arnold Louie, Dahshi Shen, Felino E. Pagaduan, Tony Le
  • Patent number: 10761138
    Abstract: A Built-in-Self-Test (BIST) centric Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) framework can include a host controller and one or more tester units. The host controller can be configured to receive one or more inputs to initiate testing of a plurality of Devices Under Test (DUTs). The one or more tester unit can include a plurality of Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitters (UARTs) communication links. The UART communication links can be configured to send one or more commands for initiating and controlling a Built-in-Self-Test (BIST) in the plurality of DUTs. The UART communication links can also be configured to receive test output data of the BIST from the plurality of DUTs. The host controller can also be configured to output the test output data of the BIST.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Balun, Chi Yuan
  • Patent number: 10761139
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a storage circuit, a processing circuit that performs processing using data stored in the storage circuit and writes data into the storage circuit as the processing is performed, a scan test circuit that executes a scan test on the processing circuit when the processing circuit does not perform processing, and an inhibit circuit that inhibits writing of data from the processing circuit to the storage circuit when the scan test on the processing circuit is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Shibahara, Daisuke Kawakami, Yutaka Igaku
  • Patent number: 10761140
    Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor device is described. In accordance with one example embodiment, the method comprises providing a virtual DUT in the form of a behavior model of the semiconductor device and developing at least one test in a test development environment for an automatic test equipment (ATE). In this case, commands are generated by means of the test development environment, which commands are converted into test signals by means of a software interface, which test signals are fed to the virtual DUT and are processable by the latter. The software interface processes response signals of the virtual DUT and reports information dependent on the response signals back to the test development environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Oliver Frank, Christoph Hazott, Georg Krebelder, Bruno Mariacher, Otto Pfabigan, Sebastian Pointner, Ralf Reiterer, Florian Starzer
  • Patent number: 10761141
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for estimating a battery state. A method of estimating a battery state that includes determining whether a previous state to a rest state of a battery is a charging state or a discharging state; selecting a current profile comprising one or both of a charging pulse and a discharging pulse based on the previous state of the battery; stabilizing an open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery by applying the current profile to the battery; and measuring the stabilized OCV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Won Song, Ju Wan Lim, Sungick Kim, Jinho Kim
  • Patent number: 10761142
    Abstract: A battery monitoring unit includes a plurality of voltage detection lines, a flexible printed circuit board extending in a stuck direction of single batteries, an electronic circuit connected to one end portions of the plurality of the voltage detection lines so as to detect voltage of each of the single batteries and mounted on the flexible printed circuit board, a plurality of busbar fixing portions formed integrally with the flexible printed circuit board and to which the plurality of the busbars are fixed respectively, and communication lines disposed in the flexible printed circuit board so as to connect between the electronic circuit and a battery ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Ota, Kazuya Harakawa, Yoshiaki Ichikawa, Yoshiaki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10761143
    Abstract: A storage amount estimation device is provided that can estimate a storage amount of an energy storage device containing an active material in which a storage amount-voltage characteristic exhibits a hysteresis, an energy storage module including the storage amount estimation device, a storage amount estimation method, and a computer program. An energy storage device contains an active material exhibiting hysteresis between a storage amount-voltage charge characteristic and a storage amount-voltage discharge characteristic in a positive electrode and/or a negative electrode, the active material generating a plurality of electrochemical reactions according to transition of charge-discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Nan Ukumori, Yuichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10761144
    Abstract: The number of ports of a microcomputer is increased to detect an abnormality of the power supply line in a case where a power supply line to a load circuit is increased in number by two or more systems. A first resistor R1 and a second resistor R2 are commonly connected to one end of a third resistor R3. The other end of the third resistor R3 is connected to a monitor port of the microcomputer 15 and is grounded through a fourth resistor R4. The microcomputer 15 determines a value of a monitor voltage input to the monitor port to determine an abnormality of a first power supply line L1 and a second power supply line L2. Specifically, it is determined whether the first power supply line L1 and the second power supply line L2 are short-circuited to a ground side, or a voltage is not supplied to the first power supply line L1 and the second power supply line L2 due to an open circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichirou Hida
  • Patent number: 10761145
    Abstract: An illuminating fixture and a device are provided. The illuminating fixture includes an intelligence control system, a scanning system, wires, and at least two sets of probes. One end of the probe is connected with a probe arm, and the probe arm is configured to control a slide movement of the probe along an up and down direction and rotation of the probe. the scanning system positions a measurement position of a test element group, and the intelligence control system is configured to automatically adjust a position of the probe by the probe arm according to the measurement position positioned by the scanning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qianwen Xu
  • Patent number: 10761146
    Abstract: Provided are a wafer probe card that matches in one-to-one correspondence with an LED wafer by implementing a probe system having the same size as the LED wafer, and inspects brightness and wavelength of light emitted from a plurality of LEDs provided on the LED wafer at once by controlling the plurality of LEDs to emit light, an analysis apparatus including the same, and a method of fabricating the wafer probe card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Hoon Jung, Dae Sik Kim, Sung Yeol Kim, Seung Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 10761147
    Abstract: A monitoring system has one or more voltage sensors configured integral in a single housing for detecting a voltage of a power cable of a transformer and one or more current sensors integral in the single housing configured for detecting a current in the power cable of a transformer. Further, the monitoring sensor has at least one internal sensor integral with the voltage sensor and the current sensor, the internal sensor configured for detecting operational data corresponding to the distribution transformer and a processor configured to receive operational data indicative of the detected operational value and perform an action based upon the operational data received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: GRID20/20, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph O. Beaudet, Sergio Angeli
  • Patent number: 10761148
    Abstract: An indicating circuit for a switching power supply is provided. An LED and a resistor are connected in series, and then are connected in parallel with a capacitor, and the parallel-connected circuit and a diode are connected in series in the same direction, and then are connected in parallel with an inductor to form the indicating circuit. The cathode of the indicating circuit is a terminal 1, and the anode of the indicating circuit is a terminal 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MORNSUN GUANGZHOU SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baojun Wang
  • Patent number: 10761149
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for energizing a wound component are described. In one arrangement, a method of energizing a component with an alternating voltage is provided. The component comprises a coil wound on a magnetic core. The method comprises applying a voltage across the coil that has a first waveform during a first time period and a second waveform during a second time period. The second time period is subsequent to the first time period. The second waveform comprises an oscillating function comprising a sequence of identical waveforms. The first waveform is such that if the coil had zero electrical resistance the variation of flux density in the magnetic core with time would change sign at least once during the first waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: VOLTECH INSTRUMENTS, LTD.
    Inventors: John Stewart Ford, Lionel Ind
  • Patent number: 10761150
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic field detection device that includes a first and second soft magnetic bodies, and a magnetic detector. The first and second soft magnetic bodies extend along a first plane and are disposed in confronted relation in a third direction. The first plane includes both a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third direction is orthogonal to both the first and second directions. The magnetic detector is provided between the first and second soft magnetic bodies in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Nagata, Kazuya Watanabe, Keisuke Uchida, Kohei Honma, Hiraku Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 10761151
    Abstract: An optical fiber-mounted field sensor for measuring an electric or magnetic field includes an optical fiber configured to receive light from a laser source, a polarizer, a polarization manipulator, electro-optical material or magneto-optical material adjacent to the polarization manipulator, and a high reflection coating. The polarizer is adjacent to an output of the fiber, while the polarization manipulator is adjacent to the polarizer and opposite of the optical fiber. The electro-optical material or magneto-optical material is adjacent to the polarization manipulator, and the high reflection coating is adjacent to the electro-optical material or magneto-optical material. An optical mainframe for sending and receiving optical beams to and from the optical fiber-mounted field sensor is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Fiber Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoung Yang, John Whitaker
  • Patent number: 10761152
    Abstract: A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) for mobile applications comprising: a superconducting flux transformer having a pickup coil and an input coil, wherein the input coil is inductively coupled to a Josephson junction; a resistive element connected in series between the pickup coil and the input coil so as to function as a high pass filter such that direct current (DC) bias current is prevented from flowing through the input coil; and a flux bias circuit electrically connected in parallel to the superconducting flux transformer between the pickup coil and the input coil so as to reduce motion-induced noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Anna Leese de Escobar, Robert Lewis Fagaly, Susan Anne Elizabeth Berggren, Benjamin Jeremy Taylor, Marcio Calixto de Andrade
  • Patent number: 10761153
    Abstract: Magnetic sensors, sensor modules, and methods thereof are provided. A magnetic sensor includes a sensor arrangement including a plurality of magnetic field sensor elements electrically arranged in an asymmetrical bridge circuit, where a first total resistance of a first pair of sensor elements provided on a first side of the asymmetrical bridge circuit is different from a second total resistance of a second pair of sensor elements provided on a second side of the asymmetrical bridge circuit, and the asymmetrical bridge circuit is configured to generate a differential signal based on sensor signals generated by the plurality of magnetic field sensor elements in response to a magnetic field impinging thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Simon Hainz
  • Patent number: 10761154
    Abstract: A scanning ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurement system is disclosed with a radio frequency (RF) probe and one or two magnetic poles mounted on a holder plate and enable a perpendicular-to-plane or in-plane magnetic field, respectively, at test locations. While the RF probe tip contacts a magnetic film on a whole wafer under test (WUT), a plurality of microwave frequencies (fR) is sequentially transmitted through the probe tip. Simultaneously, a magnetic field (HR) is applied to the contacted region thereby causing a FMR condition in the magnetic film for each pair of (HR, fR) values. RF output signals are transmitted through or reflected from the magnetic film to a RF diode and converted to voltage signals which a controller uses to determine effective anisotropy field, linewidth, damping coefficient, and/or inhomogeneous broadening for a sub-mm area. The WUT is moved to preprogrammed locations to enable multiple FMR measurements at each test location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Guenole Jan, Son Le, Luc Thomas, Santiago Serrano
  • Patent number: 10761155
    Abstract: In order to reduce the memory footprint used for monitoring specific absorption rate (SAR) in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a hybrid sliding window method is provided. The method includes receiving a measured value once every first time interval, processing the measured value, and storing a value resulting from the processing in a first memory element. Measured values stored in second memory elements are summed every second time interval, where the first time interval is less than the second time interval. A representation of SAR is calculated every first time interval based on the value resulting from the processing and the sum of the measured values of the second memory elements. When the second time interval is reached, the value stored in the first memory element is moved to one of the second memory elements, and the value stored in the first memory element is reset to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Adolf, Thomas Benner, Jörg Ulrich Fontius, Rene Gumbrecht
  • Patent number: 10761156
    Abstract: According to some aspects, an apparatus is provided comprising a deployable guard device, configured to be coupled to a portable medical imaging device, the deployable guard device further configured to, when deployed, inhibit encroachment within a physical boundary with respect to the portable medical imaging device. According to some aspects, an apparatus is provided comprising a deployable guard device, configured to be coupled to a portable magnetic resonance imaging system, the deployable guard device further configured to, when deployed, demarcate a boundary within which a magnetic field strength of a magnetic field generated by the portable magnetic resonance imaging system equals or exceeds a given threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Hyperfine Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas McNulty, Michael Stephen Poole
  • Patent number: 10761157
    Abstract: Pressure coring where the core apparatus drills the core sample and seals the core sample at its native downhole pressure (e.g., several thousand psi) may be expanded to include nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging components to produce a pressurized NMR core holder that allows for NMR imaging of the core samples having been maintained in a downhole fluid saturation state. NMR imaging performed may include 1H and also 19F imaging depending on the chamber fluid used in the pressurized NMR core holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Songhua Chen, Donald Clifford Westacott
  • Patent number: 10761158
    Abstract: A multichannel array coil of an MRI apparatus achieves both a wide sensitivity and low noise. An RF coil (array coil) is provided with a plurality of subcoils. Each of those subcoils is adjusted to be receivable of nuclear magnetic resonance signals, and also adjusted so that a part of current (first current) passing through one subcoil upon receipt of the signals flows into the other subcoil in the form of sub-current. A flowing direction of the first current is opposite to the flowing direction of the sub-current, and an electric field generated by the first current within a subject and an electric field generated by the first sub-current within the subject intensify each other in the space between a first loop coil unit and a second loop coil unit. Accordingly, noise correlation that is determined by an inner product of the electric fields is reduced, thereby achieving low noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Otake, Hisaaki Ochi, Kohjiro Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 10761159
    Abstract: A dual frequency coil package system for use in transmitting and receiving at least two frequencies in an MRI system, including a frequency converter coupled to the MRI system to receive a first frequency through the local transmit coil port and convert the first frequency to a second frequency, a second frequency transmit coil to receive the second frequency from the frequency converter and to transmit the second frequency, a dual tuned receiver coil to receive and to output the at least two frequencies, and a switchable receiver to receive the at least two frequencies output from the dual tuned receiver coil and to transmit the first frequency received from the dual tuned receiver coil directly to the MRI system, and to convert the second frequency received from the dual tuned receiver coil to the first frequency before transmission to the MRI system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ScanMed, LLC
    Inventor: Randall W. Jones
  • Patent number: 10761160
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a field distribution of an antenna arrangement of a magnetic resonance system is provided. The symmetry of the field distribution may be impaired by positional inaccuracy of the antenna arrangement in the magnetic resonance system. The antenna arrangement comprises oscillating circuit antenna elements and switching elements. Each of the oscillating circuit antenna elements is assigned a respective switching element of the switching elements. A respective switching element is configured to couple the assigned oscillating circuit antenna element operatively to the antenna arrangement in dependence on a status of the respective switching element. During the method, symmetry information on the field distribution in the antenna arrangement is measured, and the switching elements are automatically adjusted using the measured symmetry information, such that the symmetry of the field distribution in the interior of the antenna arrangement is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Nistler, Razvan Lazar
  • Patent number: 10761161
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus has an MR scanner that includes a basic field magnet, which defines a patient receiving zone and that has at least one superconducting coil that generates a basic magnetic field in the MR scanner. The MR scanner has a power supply controlled by at least one control computer of the MR apparatus for the purpose of providing electrical power to the superconducting coil. The power supply is arranged on, and may be fixedly mounted to, the basic field magnet or integrated into the basic field magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Biber
  • Patent number: 10761162
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil system is provided that includes a gradient coil and a flow inlet. The gradient coil includes a flow channel passing therethrough. The gradient coil defines an eye and an end. The eye is disposed proximate the center of the gradient coil. The flow inlet is disposed along the gradient coil between the eye and the end. Cooling fluid is provided to the gradient coil via the flow inlet, and removed from the gradient coil via the eye and the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Naveenan Thiagarajan, Derek Allan Seeber, Eric George Budesheim, Charles Critcher, Dominic Michael Graziani
  • Patent number: 10761163
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet includes superconducting magnet coils (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, S1, S2) disposed inside a magnet cryostat (12). The superconducting magnet coils generate a static (B0) magnetic field when an electric current flows in the superconducting magnet coils. A superconducting B0 compensation circuit (30, 60, 70) is also disposed inside the magnet cryostat, and is coupled with the superconducting magnet coils to passively reduce temporal variations in the B0 magnetic field generated by the superconducting magnet coils. An electric current sensor (40) is also disposed inside the magnet cryostat and is connected to measure electric current flowing in the superconducting B0 compensation circuit. An active B0 compensation component (50) is operatively connected with the electric current sensor to receive the measurement of electric current flowing in the superconducting B0 compensation circuit and to provide active B0 magnetic field compensation based on the measured electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Gerardus Bernardus Jozef Mulder, Cornelis Leonardus Gerardus Ham
  • Patent number: 10761164
    Abstract: A method for generating a spatially resolved magnetic resonance dataset using a coil arrangement includes providing at least one correction datum based on receiver characteristics of the coil arrangement. The method also includes providing a magnetic resonance dataset with spatially resolved signal intensity data, and correcting the at least one signal intensity datum in the magnetic resonance dataset by the correction datum before or after providing the magnetic resonance dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Beckmann, Petra Bildhauer, Carsten Großhauser, Hubertus Fischer, Uvo Hölscher, Ralf Kartäusch, Jürgen Nistler, Dominik Paul, Dieter Ritter, Volker Weißenberger
  • Patent number: 10761165
    Abstract: A system and method of acquiring an image at a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. Accordingly, an analog signal based on a pulse sequence and a first gain is obtained. The analog signal is converted into a digitized signal. A potential quantization error is detected in the digitized signal based on a boundary. When the detection is affirmative, a replacement analog signal based on the pulse sequence is received. At least one portion of the replacement analog signal can be based on an adjusted gain. The adjusted gain is a factor of the first gain. The replacement analog signal is digitized into a replacement digitized signal. At least one portion of the replacement digitized signal corresponding to the at least one portion of the replacement analog signal is adjusted based on a reversal of the factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC.
    Inventors: Cameron Anthony Piron, Alexander Gyles Panther, Chad Tyler Harris, Stephen B. E. McFadyen
  • Patent number: 10761166
    Abstract: A guide map is created for use in placing a spectroscopic single voxel in a region of interest in single voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy. An anatomical planning image of the region of interest is obtained through MRI. As a spectroscopy voxel is stepped across the region of interest, characteristics of the magnetic field used in the MRI are measured at each location of the imaging voxel, and a guide-FWHM map indicative of the homogeneity/inhomogeneity of the magnetic field over the region of interest is derived using the measurements. The guide map is created by overlaying the guide-FWHM map on the anatomical planning image. A spectroscopic single voxel of a size corresponding to that of the spectroscopy voxel is placed within the region of interest as per the guide map. Then spectral data is acquired from the region of interest confined to the single voxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Ivan Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 10761167
    Abstract: A method for creating a dictionary for a magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) reconstruction includes training a semi-supervised learning system based on at least a set of MRF data and a set of control variables and generating a plurality of signal evolutions using the trained semi-supervised learning system. The method also includes generating an MRF dictionary using the plurality of signal evolutions generated using the trained semi-supervised learning system and storing the MRF dictionary in a memory. In one embodiment, the semi-supervised learning system is a MRF generative adversarial network (GAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Mark A. Griswold, Mingrui Yang
  • Patent number: 10761168
    Abstract: A method for the simultaneous recording of magnetic resonance data relating to an examination subject from at least two different slices by a magnetic resonance sequence, wherein an excitation period of the magnetic resonance sequence that includes at least one sub-section that acts on only one of the slices, and that contains at least one high frequency pulse is used, wherein, to correct the main magnetic field inhomogeneities of the first order, for each slice affected by a sub-section, a correction parameter that modifies the gradient pulses that are to be emitted is determined, taking into account at least one main magnetic field map that describes the spatial distribution of the main magnetic field and a slice position of the affected slice and is applied in the emission of gradient pulses for the respective slice in the sub-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Zeller
  • Patent number: 10761169
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for recording a magnetic resonance (MR) data set with MR signals from at least two slices, a first radio-frequency (RF) pulse is radiated in at least one first slice, a second RF pulse is radiated in at least one second slice, and readout of at least one first and at least one second MR signal takes place. The flip angle of the second RF pulse is smaller than the flip angle of the first RF pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Zeller
  • Patent number: 10761170
    Abstract: The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 400) comprising: a memory (112) for storing machine executable instructions and a processor (106) for controlling the medical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Jakob Meineke, Ulrich Katscher
  • Patent number: 10761171
    Abstract: A system and method for generating quantitative images of a subject using a nuclear magnetic resonance system. The method includes performing a navigator module to acquire navigator data, and performing an acquisition module during free breathing of the subject to acquire NMR data from the subject that contains one or more resonant species that simultaneously produce individual NMR signals in response to the acquisition module. The above steps are repeated to acquire data from a plurality of partitions across the volume. The navigator data is analyzed to determine if the NMR data meets a predetermined condition and if not, the above steps are repeated for at least an affected partition corresponding to NMR data that did not meet the predetermined condition. The NMR data is compared to a dictionary of signal evolutions to determine quantitative values for two or more parameters of the resonant species in the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Vikas Gulani, Nicole Seiberlich, Mark A. Griswold, Yong Chen, Bhairav B. Mehta, Simone Coppo
  • Patent number: 10761172
    Abstract: A system and method for acquiring a calibrated eddy-current field model in magnetic resonance imaging (MM) are provided. The method may include one or more of the following operations. An eddy-current field model may be obtained. The eddy-current field model may be transformed by Laplace Transformation. Data of an eddy-current field may be obtained. The data of the eddy-current field may be processed. A calibrated eddy-current field model may be acquired. In addition, the calibrated eddy-current field model may be used to compensate an eddy-current field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Erwei Jia, Xiaocong Xing, Kaipin Xu
  • Patent number: 10761173
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging a subject includes a first imaging pulse sequence having gradient blips along an x-direction and a y-direction to acquire calibration image data from multiple slices. The imaging pulse sequence also includes a plurality of Z-shimming gradient blips coincident in time with the gradient blips along the x- and y-directions and varied within each slice. A plurality of calibration images are reconstructed from the calibration image data and a comparison image is formed by selecting an image from the calibration images corresponding to at least one of the varied Z-shimming gradient blips for each slice to determine a desired value of the Z-shimming gradient blips. The desired values are used to perform a second pulse sequence to acquire clinical image data from the subject. The second pulse sequence is used to acquire clinical images having been compensated for magnetic susceptibility variations within the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Stern, David Silbersweig, Hong Pan, Yihong Yang, Hong Gu
  • Patent number: 10761174
    Abstract: A method for recording a B0 map of a main magnetic field of a magnetic resonance device in an imaging volume of which an object to be recorded is arranged includes scanning a recording region to be covered by the B0 map by the magnetic resonance device. The recording region is scanned by a map recording sequence slice-by-slice in successive slices in a slice selection direction extending in a phase encoding direction and a readout direction, or three-dimensionally using two phase encoding directions and one readout direction in order to ascertain the B0 map. In a preliminary scan, the magnetic resonance device ascertains extension information describing the extension of the object using a scout sequence, which is used to define the recording region in sequence parameters of the map recording sequence and/or to adjust at least one sequence parameter of the map recording sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Niederlöhner
  • Patent number: 10761175
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves method and apparatus for de-embedding test fixture to extract the electrical behavior of device under test. A calibration board with both “1× open” and “1× short” test structures is fabricated and measured by equipment such as vector network analyzer that produces S parameters. The S parameters of “1× open” and “1× short”, with or without correction factors, are combined to produce the S parameters of equivalent “2× thru” test structure. The S parameters of equivalent “2× thru” are used subsequently to de-embed the test fixture. This present disclosure gives a simpler and more accurate method to create the S parameters of “2× thru” for de-embedding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ATAITEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ching-Chao Huang
  • Patent number: 10761176
    Abstract: A differential signature detection system is provided. The system comprises: a target sensor, wherein the target sensor is configured to measure acoustical signals within a first narrow band around a target frequency; an offset sensor, wherein the offset sensor is configured to measure acoustical signals within a second narrow band around an offset frequency; and a controller coupled to the target sensor and the offset sensor, wherein the controller is configured to: compare a signal output of the target sensor with an output of the signal output of the offset sensor to calculate a differential measurement that comprises a difference in signal peak intensity; compare the differential measurement to a reference signal, wherein the reference signal comprises a threshold indicative of a presence of a characteristic signature peak associated with a target object; and produce an output based on the comparison between the differential measurement and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Tin
  • Patent number: 10761177
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor for processing a plurality of radio frequency chains at a wireless device in a block based modulation environment, recording subcarrier phases and differences between the subcarrier phases, and using the subcarrier phase differences to construct a feature vector for use in angle of arrival calculated positioning of a mobile device, and memory for storing the subcarrier phases and the feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Donald Hart, Paul J. Stager, Santosh Pandey, David Kloper, Dan Lyons, Matthew A. Sliverman
  • Patent number: 10761178
    Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Kentaro Asai
  • Patent number: 10761179
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for localizing a source of a set of radio signals, such as radio signals received from an RFID tag at various locations. A source of a set of radio signals (such as radio signals received from an RFID tag at various locations) is localized by obtaining a plurality of radio signals in the set from a different location in an environment; determining a magnitude and received location for each of the plurality of radio signals; determining a direction for each of the plurality of radio signals by comparing each given radio signal to other radio signals in the set; and determining a location of the source of the set of radio signals by determining an intersection of the direction for each of the plurality of radio signals. The direction for each of the plurality of radio signals optionally comprises a net directional vector determined using a weighted circular mean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Lenchner, John C. Nelson, Timo Juhani Santala
  • Patent number: 10761180
    Abstract: A system includes a host device having a hardware processor and a host wireless transceiver, and client devices having client wireless transceivers for wireless communications with the host device. The hardware processor receives wireless signals transmitted by the client wireless transceivers using the host wireless transceiver, and determines locations of the client devices relative to the host device based on angles of arrival of the of the wireless signals. The hardware processor further determines an activation sequence for activating the client devices based on the locations relative to the host device, and transmits control signals using the host wireless transceiver, according to the activation sequence, to activate the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan D. Nocon
  • Patent number: 10761181
    Abstract: A method for locating at least one receiver in a positioning system. The system includes: at least two generators, each generator emitting, on a single carrier, at least two signals that each have a different code, and a receiver configured to detect the signals emitted by the generators. In the method: the receiver measures, for each generator, the phase difference between both signals emitted by the generator, and at least one geometric size, representing the position of the receiver in relation to the generators, is calculated on the basis of the measurements of the phase difference in order to locate the receiver in the positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Alexandre Vervisch-Picois, Nel Samama
  • Patent number: 10761182
    Abstract: Multiple mode star tracker methods and systems in which attitude information and image information is generated are provided. The multiple mode star tracker includes a detector having a plurality of pixels arranged in a focal plane array. The detector is operated to obtain multiple image frames from within a field of view containing a plurality of stars. For each of the image frames, the attitude of the detector and in turn the attitude of each pixel is determined. Based on the attitude quaternion of the individual pixels within a plurality of frames, image data from the plurality of frames is co-added or stacked to form a composite image. The co-addition of multiple frames of image data enables or facilitates the detection of dim objects by the multiple mode star tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Emil Tchilian
  • Patent number: 10761183
    Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a trio of ultrasonic sensors, and a controller configured to, responsive to a location of an object identified from a distance between the ultrasonic sensors, a receive time at each of the ultrasonic sensors associated with a same ultrasonic pulse from a transmitter of the object, and an absence of data regarding a send time of the ultrasonic pulse, steer the vehicle to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Paul Gibeau, Mark J. Ferrel, Christopher W. Bell
  • Patent number: 10761184
    Abstract: A polarimetric phase array radar system (PPARS) for determination of parameters of a target and a method of operating the PPARS are described. The PPARS includes an array having transceiver elements configured to transmit transmitting signal components of a dual-polarization signal having either a single type polarization or simultaneously two types of polarization. The array also configured to receive a receiving signal component having a single type of polarization. In transmitting mode, the transceiver elements are operative to transmit a signal component having one or two types of polarization. In receiving mode, the transceiver elements are divided into at least two sub-arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Igal Greenberg, Orna Boeko, Vladimir Rojanski