Patents Issued in March 22, 2022
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Patent number: 11281168Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for operating an energy plant. In one aspect, the system generates a regression model of a produced thermal energy load produced by a supply device of the plurality of devices. The system predicts the produced thermal energy load produced by the supply device for a first time period based on the regression model. The system determines a heat capacity of gas or liquid in the loop based on the predicted produced thermal energy load. The system generates a model of mass storage based on the heat capacity. The system predicts an induced thermal energy load during a second time period at a consuming device of the plurality of devices based on the model of the mass storage. The system operates the energy plant according to the predicted induced thermal energy load.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel, Graeme Willmott, Matthew J. Asmus
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Patent number: 11281169Abstract: A building management system includes a meter configured to provide data samples of a real point. The real point corresponds to a first physical parameter measured by the meter. The building management system also includes an analytics circuit configured to store a real point object representing the real point and store a meter object representing the meter. The meter object includes a points attribute that lists one or more point objects associated with the meter object including at least the real point object. The analytics circuit is also configured to store a virtual point object representing a virtual point. The virtual point corresponds to a second physical parameter not measured by the meter. The analytics circuit is also configured to update the points attribute in the meter object to list the virtual point object as one of the point objects associated with the meter object.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Abhigyan Chatterjee, Rajesh C. Nayak, Barkha Shah
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Patent number: 11281170Abstract: A system, particularly adaptable for lighting and music presentations, such as for mood, ambience, or party settings includes a flat, wireless broadcast multi-point, synchronizable and scalable operation. The system includes a control system having an electronic circuit which includes a wireless mesh radio, a microcontroller, a wireless short-range radio link unit, a plurality of field-effect transistor (FET) drivers to connect to one or more individual light or sound producing devices or sets thereof, a low voltage DC power supply, an audio input rectifier and filter, and a rotary switch. The system is set up such that a plurality of these control systems are interconnected in a non-hierarchical mesh network, wherein the mesh wireless radio of a given control system has the capacity to signal other nearby control systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: JONES AND MALTERER TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS INCORPORATEDInventors: Dave Jones, Nigel Malterer
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Patent number: 11281171Abstract: A machine having a plurality of sub-assemblies, having a geometric computational model is generated for the machine, including the sub-assemblies and one or more module of machine readable code defining how vibration is communicated through said geometric model. First and second instances of the computational model are run to generate outputs of loading throughout the machine geometry as a result of the vibration of the geometric model under a simulated machine operating condition. The first and second instances respectively includes the computational model with and without inclusion of vibration induced by a control system for one or more sub-assembly of the machine. A maximum loading threshold is determined for the machine. A threshold for one or more control parameter in the control system is set based on the contribution of the vibration induced by the control system to the maximum loading threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Lucia Ciciriello, Lixin Ren
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Patent number: 11281172Abstract: An inventory handling apparatus for transferring inventory items from an inventory bin onto a conveyer includes a rotatable member with a conveyance assembly mounted inside. The conveyance assembly receives an inventory bin into a conveyance channel sized to restrain the inventory bin during inversion of the inventory bin. The inverted inventory bin is moved onto a conveyor and the inventory bin lifted thereby leaving the inventory items on the conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: William Scott Kalm, Peter A. Grant
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Patent number: 11281173Abstract: An environmental control system of a building including a first building device operable to affect environmental conditions of a zone of the building by providing a first input to the zone. The system includes a second building device operable to independently affect a subset of the environmental conditions by providing a second input to the zone and further includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform an optimization to generate control decisions for the building devices. The optimization is performed subject to constraints for the environmental conditions and uses a predictive model that predicts an effect of the control decisions on the environmental conditions. The processing circuit is configured to operate the building devices in accordance with the control decisions.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Liming Yang, Matthew J. Ellis, Masayuki Nonaka
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Patent number: 11281174Abstract: A method and module for industrial process automation for acquiring measured values, wherein the measured value datasets have an identifier for each measured value, and an assignment table for cyclical data and an assignment table for acyclical data are present, which have a user-defined data structure created by a configurer via a configuration tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Holger Roehle
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Patent number: 11281175Abstract: A wireless control module includes: a main control module, a live wire connection/disconnection detection module, a wireless communication module and a control switch. The live wire connection/disconnection detection module is configured to detect a connection/disconnection state of a live wire coupled to a flash switch in series, and the flash switch is in a switch-off state when being pressed by external force and in a switch-on state when not being pressed by the external force. The wireless communication module is configured to receive a wireless control message and upload a current state of a powered device, and the wireless control message is configured to control an on/off state of the powered device. The main control module is configured to generate a control instruction for changing the current state of the powered device.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventor: Huijun Wang
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Patent number: 11281176Abstract: A surface data acquisition, storage, and assessment system for detecting and quantifying similarities or differences between stored data and data collected from a scan. The system operates to scan features of an object and weighs various parameters and utilizing fuzzy logic makes a recommendation.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: EctoScan Systems, LLCInventors: Paul Thomson, Adam R. Gerlach, Bruce Walker
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Patent number: 11281177Abstract: The present disclosure comprises a method, a communication module, and a system for transmitting diagnosis data of a field device that is connected to a superordinate unit via a communication loop. The communication module is connected to the communication loop in parallel with the field device. The method includes the continual storage of electrical energy in the communication module by a transducer unit within the communication module that captures an electrical and/or physical variable and converts it into electrical energy. The method includes polling the diagnosis data of the field device by the communication module and wireless transmission of the polled diagnosis data to a reception unit by the communication module.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER PROCESS SOLUTIONS AGInventors: Marc Fiedler, Vincent de Groot
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Patent number: 11281178Abstract: The controlling apparatus for an industrial product of this disclosure has a couple of microcomputers each of which has a CPU and a memory and each of which runs the same controlling program as well as the same diagnostic program sequence parallelly and simultaneously. After the CPU of the microcomputer writes the calculated result of the diagnostic program sequence in the predetermined area of the storing area for monitoring value, such CPU send the same calculated result to the other one of the microcomputers (receiving microcomputer). The CPU of the receiving microcomputer makes a diagnosis for finding whether or not the received result is identical with its own calculated result.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Riho Uchizawa
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Patent number: 11281179Abstract: A tracing apparatus communicably connected to a programmable logic controller (PLC) that inputs and outputs a signal based on a ladder program, includes a constituent element setting unit configured to set a plurality of constituent elements to be traced among the constituent elements of the ladder program, a tracing data acquisition unit configured to acquire tracing data indicating a signal state of the constituent element at a specified timing, at a predetermined sampling cycle, a section detection unit configured to detect a sampling cycle section in which two or more of the acquired tracing data corresponding to the constituent elements simultaneously change, a change sequence calculation unit configured to calculate change sequence of signals of the constituent elements simultaneously changing in the detected sampling cycle section, and a change sequence output unit configured to output the calculated change sequence of the signals of the constituent elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Dai Mitsuhashi
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Patent number: 11281180Abstract: A programmable controller allocates times obtained by dividing executable time in one operation cycle to a plurality of paths, executes sequence programs of the paths in the respective allocated times, and accumulates remaining time as extra time when execution of each of the sequence programs ends before the end of the allocation time. When it is determined that surplus time occurs on the basis of the accumulated extra time, the programmable controller determines whether each of the sequence programs is executed after being divided, and executes a remainder of a divided sequence program in the surplus time in accordance with a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Nao Onose, Mitsuru Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11281181Abstract: A safety module for a programmable logic control system, wherein the safety module is designed as an assembly consisting of a plurality of modules with a plurality of function blocks connected through at least one internal bus and comprising at least one CPU and which can be connected through at least one interface to external sensors (and switches/buttons) and actuators (and optical/acoustic indicators and displays/monitors) for detecting at least one measurement signal, wherein the safety module operates in two channels and a self-test is implemented.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: BACHMANN GMBHInventors: Christoph Scherrer, Walter Nasahl
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Patent number: 11281182Abstract: Disclosed is a redundant hot standby control system including K industrial personal computers, with a plurality of virtual control devices being established thereon respectively, at least one of the plurality of virtual control devices being established on each IPC as a main control device; and the other virtual control devices being standby control devices. Each of the standby control devices corresponds to a virtual control device, which serves as the main control device on another IPC, except for the IPC to which the standby control device itself belongs. A procedure, which is the same as that operated on the main control device corresponding thereto, is operated on the standby control device. A control bus of the system is used for connecting a plurality of the M IPCs; and a field bus is used for connecting the M IPCs and a plurality of field devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Dong Li, Meng Zhang, Tongzhou Wang, Yan Wang, Chuan Yu Zhang
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Patent number: 11281183Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for monitoring and controlling a machining process of parts. Data as to dimensions of produced parts are gathered during a production process. The parts are produced based on part control plan. The data of the dimensions are plotted as to statistical information related to a distribution curve. Determination is made if a trend in the dimensional data approaches an upper control limit and a lower control limit. Corrective action is taken if the trend approaches either the upper control limit or the lower control limit.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Cox Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: William T. Cox, Jr., Can Saygin
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Patent number: 11281184Abstract: An apparatus such as a hard disk drive includes a base deck, which includes a base member and sidewalls extending from the base member. The base member and the sidewalls both include a non-metallic material and a metallic stiffening material.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Brett R. Herdendorf, Anil J. Reddy, Iraj Jabbari
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Patent number: 11281185Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional object data which represents, with plural voxels, a three-dimensional object including a shape obtained by repeating a unit shape and in which an attribute value is set for each of the plural voxels, a setting unit that sets a three-dimensional threshold matrix in which thresholds are arranged in a three-dimensional space in accordance with a predetermined basic shape, a correction unit that corrects a coordinate value of each of the plural voxels in a certain direction of the three-dimensional object such that the unit shape is formed from a first reference position in the certain direction, and a calculation unit that calculates, on a basis of the attribute value of each of the plural voxels whose coordinate values have been corrected and the three-dimensional threshold matrix, whether to form the voxel.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Torahiko Kanda, Yuki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11281186Abstract: A system and method that relies on the principles of material science, deformable body mechanics, continuum mechanics and additive manufacturing to reduce the costs associated with additive manufacturing. Physical properties are used by numerical solution methods, such as the Finite Element Method (FEM) or Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), to deform an original model of an object to be manufactured into a viable configuration that reduces fabrication material, time, and cost when manufacturing an object through additive manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Robert Sims, Jim Inziello, Fluvio Lobo Fenoglietto, Jack Stubbs
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Patent number: 11281187Abstract: To provide a numerical controller that can detect a position in a machining program at which a speed control abnormality is likely to occur due to an insufficient look-ahead blocks that are used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation, and supplement the look-ahead blocks at that position in order to stabilize feed rate, cutting speed and other factors. A numerical controller includes a required look-ahead blocks setting unit that sets a required look-ahead blocks, which is a look-ahead blocks required to execute a machining program, and an operation limitation unit that compares a look-ahead blocks calculated by a look-ahead blocks calculation unit to the required look-ahead blocks and, if the look-ahead blocks is less than the required look-ahead blocks, limits execution of the machining program until the look-ahead blocks reach the required look-ahead blocks.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Uenishi, Chikara Tango
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Patent number: 11281188Abstract: A controller for a machining-device includes a control-unit. The control-unit sequentially repeats a tapping step of tapping at a tapping-position by moving a tool from a retracted-position to a depth-position while rotating the tool in a normal direction, a retracting step of retracting the tool by moving from the depth-position to the retracted-position while rotating the tool in a reverse direction, and a positioning step of positioning a subsequent tapping-position. The control-unit performs a process including starting the positioning step at the same time as when the tool passes a reference-position in the retracting step, completing the positioning step at the same time as when the tool passes the reference-position in the tapping step, and controlling a timing at which acceleration of a workpiece and the tool finishes in the tapping step and a timing at which deceleration of the workpiece and the tool starts in the retracting step.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Takeuchi, Tetsushi Takahara
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Patent number: 11281189Abstract: A method of altering a rate of executing a motion plan by a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include: receiving, at a control unit of a computer-numerically-controlled machine and from a general purpose computer that is housed separately from the computer-numerically-controlled machine, a motion plan defining operations for causing movement of a moveable component of the computer-numerically-controlled machine; and altering, in response to a command received at the computer-numerically-controlled machine, a first execution rate of the operations to a second execution rate of the operations to change a rate of movement of the movable component. Systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Glowforge Inc.Inventors: Daniel Shapiro, Mark Gosselin, Matthew Sarnoff
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Patent number: 11281190Abstract: Method for setting up a redundant communication connection, and failsafe control unit, wherein a transport and/or networking functional unit of a communication device utilizes at least one communication network address associated with a primary control device and/or a secondary control device to set up two communication connections to a failsafe control unit that includes the primary control device and the secondary control device, where data transmitted via a first communication connection are forwarded from the primary control device to the secondary control device via a first synchronization connection such that data transmitted via a second communication connection are forwarded from the secondary control device to the primary control device via a second synchronization connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Grosch, Jürgen Laforsch, Albert Renschler
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Patent number: 11281191Abstract: A single-wire safety system architecture yields reliable safety device monitoring without the need for dual redundant signal channels. The safety system comprises a safety relay and one or more compatible safety input devices connected in series with the safety relay via a single-wire communication circuit. A safety signal with a recognizable pulse pattern traverses the single-wire safety circuit to the safety relay via the safety devices. The safety relay opens its contactors and deenergizes its associated industrial equipment if the pulse pattern is not received and recognized. The safety relay can also be configured to initiate a global emergency stop in response to a loss of a safety function by one of its safety input devices, the global emergency stop instructing other safety relays of other safety circuits to open their contactors and enter safe mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Germany GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Helpenstein, Mussa Tohidi Khaniki, Rudolf Papenbreer, Oliver Heckel, Jan Anslinger, Suresh R. Nair, Norbert Machuletz
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Patent number: 11281192Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables automation of component sourcing when designing a process system in an industrial environment. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving design specifications of a process system in an industrial environment via a system design application. The method further includes determining components to implement the process system from the design specifications and identifying a first subset of the components for sourcing from an external provider. The method also includes populating the first subset into a component sourcing application.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jessica L. Korpela, Barry M. Jereb, Jeffrey L. Kibbey, David Lillie, Lisa J. Smith, Eric Rehl, Amit R. Sathe
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Patent number: 11281193Abstract: This invention implements a work system high in flexibility and speedy system development. The work system includes a plurality of modules each having software for work which performs predetermined in-module processing, and a service base unit which inputs and outputs event information to and from the modules. The event information includes an identifier and a payload. The service base unit has a function of receiving the event information from any of the modules, and a function of transferring the event information to the other module. The other module to which the event information is transferred determines based on the identifier included in the transferred event information whether the in-module processing is performed within its own module.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Tomoko Ishino
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Patent number: 11281194Abstract: The system utilizes a laboratory data management system (LDMS), a medical data management system (MDMS) and external data sources. The system processes data across multiple laboratories, different input variables (lab assays), specific laboratory tests, specific laboratory testing capabilities and variable outputs. The system measures, documents and manages the immune response by providing the user with actionable laboratory results, triggers and events.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ART RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.Inventor: Barry Fernando
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Patent number: 11281195Abstract: An integrated circuit may include an embedded test processor that is capable of performing in-field testing and repair of hardware-related defects without having to remove the integrated circuit from the customer's board. The test processor can be used to drive and monitor test vectors to performing defect screening on input-output circuitry, logic circuitry including lookup table (LUT) circuits and digital signal processing (DSP) circuits, transceiver circuitry, and configuration random-access memory circuitry. The test processor can generate a failure mechanism report and selectively fix repairable defects via a hardware redundancy scheme. The failure mechanism report allows the customer to identify the root cause of failure in the overall system.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kenneth T. Daxer, Gregory Steinke, Adam J. Wright, Kalyana Ravindra Kantipudi
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Patent number: 11281196Abstract: A production planning system (6) for a raw materials industry plant (ANL), which determines the production planning data (Pi) thereof and specifies said data to the automation system (1) of the plant (ANL). A state monitoring system (7) determines previous and future anticipated states (Z1) of components of the plant (ANL). A quality determination system (8) determines states (Z2) of output products (Ai) produced and still to be produced by the plant (ANL) and/or past and future states (Z3) of the plant (ANL) as a whole. A maintenance planning system (9) and/or the production planning system (6) receive, from the state monitoring system (7), the states (Z1) of the components of the plant (ANL), determined by the state monitoring system (7) and, from the quality determination system (8), the states (Z2 and Z3) of the output products (Ai) and/or of the plant (ANL) as a whole, determined by the quality determination system (8).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Inventors: Kai Ankermann, Arno Haschke, Kurt Herzog, Gerhard Kurka, Michael Weinzinger, Günther Winter
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Patent number: 11281197Abstract: A managing apparatus includes a data collecting unit that collects at least quality information on a workpiece having been machined by a first machine tool and operational information on other machine, an analyzing unit that performs an analysis for determining correlation between the quality information on a workpiece having been machined by the first machine tool and a change in the operational information on the other machine, an operation plan making unit that makes an operation plan, based on the correlation determined by the analyzing unit, for imposing a restriction on an operation of the other machine to reduce a change in environmental temperature of the first machine tool during high-precision machining performed by the first machine tool, and an operation instruction providing unit that provides an operation instruction to the other machine based on the operation plan made by the operation plan making unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Koshiishi, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11281198Abstract: A control system for a central plant having subplants including devices operating to serve energy loads of a building. The system includes a high level optimization module that performs high level optimization of thermal loads subject to constraints to generate subplant load allocations. The control system includes a low level optimization module that performs low level optimization of the subplant load allocations to determine operating states for the devices. The control system includes a constraint modifier that modifies the constraints for the high level optimization module based on equipment schedules. The control system also includes a binary optimization modifier including a pruner module that receives the minimum off schedule to determine adjusted branches and a seeder module that receives the minimum on schedule to determine a starting node for use in binary optimization performed by the low optimization module.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Jared W. Fread, Graeme Willmott, Ryan C. Beaty, Shawn A. Schlagenhaft, Matthew J. Ellis, Michael J. Wenzel
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Patent number: 11281199Abstract: A production control system includes a terminal server and a manufacturing execution server. The terminal server is configured to transmit a control message. The manufacturing execution server is configured to receive the control message through a first communications protocol and a second communications protocol and to execute a first application module and a second application module according to the control message. The terminal server judges whether a quantity of the control message is greater than a predetermined value; if the quantity of the control message is judged to be greater than the predetermined value, then the terminal server transmits the control message through the first communications protocol; and if the quantity of the control message is judged to be less than or equal to the predetermined value, then the terminal server transmits the control message through the second communications protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Inventor: Yandong Lan
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Patent number: 11281200Abstract: Drones (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles, or “UAVs”) equipped with cameras and sensors may be configured to travel throughout the field environment of a process plant to monitor process plant conditions. Onboard computing devices associated with the drones control the movement of the drones through the field environment of the process plant. The onboard computing devices interface with the cameras and other sensors and communicate with user interface devices, controllers, servers and/or databases via a network. The onboard computing devices may receive drone commands from user interface devices and/or servers, or may access drone commands stored in one or more databases. The onboard computing devices may transmit data captured by the cameras and/or other sensors to UI devices, controllers, servers, etc. Accordingly, the user interface devices may display data (including live video feeds) captured by the drone cameras and/or drone sensors to an operator in a human machine interface application.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert G. Halgren, III, Claudio Fayad, Gary K. Law, Mark J. Nixon
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Patent number: 11281201Abstract: An air conditioner, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a compressor, an internal temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller may be configured to initiate a conditioning operation. The conditioning operation may include detecting a learning condition at the air conditioner, identifying a first operating mode, and initiating a learning event at the first operating mode. The conditioning operation may further include measuring performance during the learning event, recording a baseline variable based on the measured performance during the learning event, and measuring performance at the first operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Craig Benjamin Williams
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Patent number: 11281202Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for data monitoring are disclosed. A system may include a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of a plurality of input sensors communicatively coupled to the data acquisition circuit, a data storage circuit structured to store specifications and anticipated state information for a plurality of bearing types, a bearing analysis circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values relative to specifications and anticipated state information to determine a bearing performance parameter, and a response circuit structured to initiate an action in response to the bearing performance parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
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Patent number: 11281203Abstract: A method and a system for detecting anomalies in a water distribution system comprises a network of nodes, and is equipped with sensors of at least water velocity at a subset of the nodes. The water distribution system is modeled by a hydraulic model. The method comprises parametrizing the hydraulic model with initial values of a set of control variables, using the sensors to obtain values of state variables of the network at the nodes, using the hydraulic model to calculate predicted values of state variables, recursively calculating the values of control variables which, applied to the hydraulic model, permit to obtain the predicted values of state variables the closest to the observed values, and classifying nodes of the network based on the values of control variables.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SUEZ GROUPEInventors: Guillaume Cussonneau, Pierre-Antoine Jarrige, Abel Dembele, Francis Campan
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Patent number: 11281204Abstract: An estimating device includes a storage unit that stores in association with each other state history information showing, as a history, a state of electrical equipment in which an abnormality has occurred, and cause history information showing, as a history, a cause of the abnormality, an acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating the state of the electrical equipment in which the abnormality has occurred, a detection unit that detects, from among a plurality of the state history information stored in the storage unit, at least one of the state history information that is similar to the state information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a notification unit that issues a notification concerning the cause of the abnormality, on the basis of the cause history information that is associated with the state history information detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Nose
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Patent number: 11281205Abstract: A radio controlled (RC) vehicle includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a remote control device. The RF signal indicates command data in accordance with a first coordinate system. The command data includes yaw-velocity command data. The RC vehicle includes motion sensors configured to generate motion data. The RC vehicle includes a processor coupled to the motion sensors and to the receiver. The processor is configured to transform the command data into control data based on the motion data and in accordance with a second coordinate system from a perspective of the RC vehicle. The control data includes yaw-velocity control data. The yaw-velocity control data is related to the yaw-velocity command data. The RC vehicle includes control devices coupled to the processor and configured to control motion of the RC vehicle based on the control data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: DRONE-CONTROL, LLCInventors: Katherine C. Stuckman, Michael D. Reynolds
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Patent number: 11281206Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a group of aerial vehicles to meet a connectivity service objective are provided. A method may include causing aerial vehicles in the group to arrive at a target service area during a given arrival time window associated with the connectivity service objective, which may indicate a desired probability of service coverage of the target service area. The method further includes calculating a probability of service coverage of the target service area for the vehicles for a time period after the vehicles are expected to arrive at the target service area, determining whether the probability of service coverage meets a threshold, and causing the vehicles to operate according to a station seeking flight policy during the time period.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Salvatore J. Candido, Sameera Sylvia Ponda
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Patent number: 11281207Abstract: The proposed system, Delayed Telop Aid (DTA), improves the teleoperator's ability to control the vehicle in a three step process. First, DTA predicts robot motion given the operators commands. Second, DTA creates synthetic images to produce a video feed that looks as if the robot communication link had no delay and no reduced bandwidth. Finally, DTA performs closed loop control on the robot platform to ensure that the robot follows the operator's commands. A closed loop control of the platform makes sure that the predicted pose after the delay (and therefore the image presented to the operator) is achieved by the platform. This abstracts away the latency-sensitive parts of the robot control, making the robot's behavior stable in the presence of poorly characterized latency between the operator and the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Robotic Research OpCo, LLCInventors: Alberto Daniel Lacaze, Karl Murphy
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Patent number: 11281208Abstract: Described herein is a framework for efficient task-agnostic, user-independent adaptive teleoperation of mobile robots and remotely operated vehicles (ROV), including ground vehicles (including legged systems), aircraft, watercraft and spacecraft. The efficiency of a human operator is improved by minimizing the entropy of the control inputs, thereby minimizing operator energy and achieving higher performance in the form of smoother trajectories by concurrently estimating the user intent online and adaptively updating the action set available to the human operator.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Nathan Michael, Xuning Yang, Koushil Sreenath
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Patent number: 11281209Abstract: A method of processing live images from a vehicle camera includes acquiring live images and detecting an object within a first live image of the live images. The live images following the first live image are evaluated for object detection. A confidence level is adjusted in response to the object detection evaluation in each of the live images following the first live image. A final value of the confidence level in the object detection within the live images is established after the live images are evaluated.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Venkateswara Adusumalli, Robert Berg, Santanu Panja, James Oldiges, Sriharsha Yeluri, Radha Sivaraman
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Patent number: 11281210Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include power machines such as loaders, and systems used on power machines, configured to detect the presence of an object in a zone adjacent the rear or sides of the power machine and to responsively control the power machine to stop or slow work functions.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: CLARK EQUIPMENT COMPANYInventor: John Pfaff
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Patent number: 11281211Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving control apparatus, a driving control method, and a program that can safety update a personalization function that has been learned to match habits and customs of each driver on the basis of a driving operation of a driver and detection results of various sensors. A personalization function for each driver is found by learning on the basis of driving operation conducted by a driver through manual driving and detection results of various sensors provided on a vehicle body. Verification simulation is carried out by using the found personalization function, and when safety thereof is confirmed, the personalization function is updated as a new personalization function. Autonomous driving reflecting habits and customs of the driver can be realized by correcting an action command found during autonomous driving on the basis of the detection results with the personalization function, thereby realizing safe and comfortable autonomous driving.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kenta Kawamoto
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Patent number: 11281213Abstract: A system and method for controlling a vehicle (100), the vehicle (100) having an autonomous mode of operation, the system comprising: one or more sensors (102) configured to measure one or more parameters associated with an operator (110) controlling the vehicle (100) to perform a first operation; and one or more processors (106) configured to: determine that measurements taken by the one or more sensors (102) fulfil one or more predetermined criteria; responsive to determining that the measurements taken by the one or more sensors (102) fulfil the one or more predetermined criteria, determine a second operation for performance by the vehicle (100); and control the vehicle (100) in the autonomous mode such that the vehicle (100) performs the second operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventors: Gary Martin Cross, Mark Robert Goodall
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Patent number: 11281214Abstract: Performance anomalies in complex systems can be difficult to identify and diagnose. In an example, CPU-usage associated with one or more of the systems can be determined. An anomalous event can be determined based on the determined CPU-usage. In some examples, based at least in part on determining the event, the system may be controlled in a safe state and/or reconfigured to obviate the anomalous event.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Robert Edward Somers, Thomas Michael Flanagan, Andrew Lewis King, Arpan Silas Rajan
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Patent number: 11281215Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle provides a driverless transportation service for a user. An alarming phenomenon is a natural phenomenon that potentially causes a disaster. The autonomous driving vehicle recognizes, based on driving environment information, the alarming phenomenon at a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle or on a planned travel route from the current location to a destination. When recognizing the alarming phenomenon, the autonomous driving vehicle determines whether to continue or halt vehicle travel control in accordance with a current travel plan. When determining to halt the vehicle travel control in accordance with the current travel plan, the autonomous driving vehicle sets an emergency plan depending on a type of the alarming phenomenon and controls the autonomous driving vehicle in accordance with the emergency plan.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasunao Yoshizaki, Koji Taguchi, Masaki Wasekura, Nobuhide Kamata
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Patent number: 11281216Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an autonomous vehicle service are provided. A method can include obtaining data indicative of a service associated with a user, and obtaining data indicative of a transportation of an autonomous robot. The method can include determining one or more service configurations for the service. The method can include obtaining data indicative of a selected service configuration from among the one or more service configurations, and determining a service assignment for an autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the selected service configuration. The service assignment can indicate that the autonomous vehicle is to transport the user from the service-start location to the service-end location. The method can include communicating data indicative of the service assignment to the autonomous vehicle to perform the service.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: UATC, LLCInventor: Richard Brian Donnelly
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Patent number: 11281217Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to predict a user arrival time based on data of a user and a user origin location, deactivate a propulsion of the vehicle upon arriving at the user origin location, and deactivate one or more additional vehicle components based on the user arrival time.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: David Michael Herman, Daniel A. Makled, Michael Mcquillen, Ashwin Arunmozhi, Michael Adel Awad Alla, Ray Siciak, Bo Wu
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Patent number: 11281218Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for receiving data from a plurality of sensors and using the data, as well as other data, to generate a parking recommendation for an autonomous vehicle and instruct the autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location are provided. Data may be received from a plurality of sensors within a first autonomous vehicle, as well as from other vehicles and/or structures. Historical parking data associated with the first autonomous vehicle may also be extracted. In some examples, an expected future trip of the first autonomous vehicle may be determined. The system may then evaluate the data to generate a parking recommendation for the first autonomous vehicle. The system may generate and transmit instructions for traveling from a current location to the recommended parking location and may cause the first autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Howard Hayes, Regina Madigan, Surender Kumar, Mark V. Slusar