Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
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Patent number: 12066281Abstract: A distance sensor is used for automatically determining the size of a wheel on a mobile machine. The distance sensor is mounted to detect distance information relating to a distance between the sensor and an outer circumferential surface of the wheel. The distance information is received by a controller configured to determine the radius of the wheel based at least in part on the distance information. The controller may compare the measured radius with data for a range of standard wheel sizes and determine which standard wheel size is fitted. The measured wheel radius and/or the determined standard wheel size can used as an input for a control system on the machine which requires wheel size data, such as an axle height adjustment system.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Paolo Turcato, Filippo Carollo, Andrea Dal Soglio
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Patent number: 12066282Abstract: A lighting stage includes a plurality of lights that project alternating spherical color gradient illumination patterns onto an object or human performer at a predetermined frequency. The lighting stage also includes a plurality of cameras that capture images of an object or human performer corresponding to the alternating spherical color gradient illumination patterns. The lighting stage also includes a plurality of depth sensors that capture depth maps of the object or human performer at the predetermined frequency. The lighting stage also includes (or is associated with) one or more processors that implement a machine learning algorithm to produce a three-dimensional (3D) model of the object or human performer. The 3D model includes relighting parameters used to relight the 3D model under different lighting conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Kaiwen Guo, Peter Christopher Lincoln, Philip Lindsley Davidson, Jessica L. Busch, Xueming Yu, Geoffrey Harvey, Sergio Orts Escolano, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Jason Dourgarian, Danhang Tang, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Emily B. Cooper, Mingsong Dou, Graham Fyffe, Christoph Rhemann, Jonathan James Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Paul Ernest Debevec
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Patent number: 12066283Abstract: There is provided an identification method including obtaining first information for each of first pixels constituting a first image obtained by imaging the first object with a first camera, the first information related to reflected light from a first object including a body, obtaining second information for each of the first pixels, the second information corresponding to a distance from the first object to the first camera, obtaining an index value as a result of a calculation using the first information and the second information for each of the first pixels, and identifying a first area of the first image corresponding to the body by judging whether each of the first pixels belong to the first area based on the index value.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kohei Yanai
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Patent number: 12066284Abstract: An image projection measuring apparatus includes a measurer, a storage, an image projection data generator, an image projector, and an image projection controller. The measurer is configured to measure a shape of a work by illuminating an outer surface of the work with a line laser from a laser emitter. The storage is configured to store measurement data acquired by the measurer. The image projection data generator is configured to generate image projection data from the measurement data. The image projector includes a camera and is configured to project the image projection data from the camera. The image projection controller is configured to cause the image projector to project the image projection data onto the outer surface of the work.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Takatoshi Sugawara
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Patent number: 12066285Abstract: An assembly includes a hoist or a winch, a cable, and a fleet angle sensor. The fleet angle sensor includes a frame disposed around an opening and the cable extends through the opening. A first photodetector with multiple light-receiving zones is mounted on the frame. A first light source is mounted on the frame opposite the first photodetector. A shield device is under the frame and includes a shield frame and a cover. The shield frame is around the cable and the cover extends from the shield frame toward the cable, with the cable extending through the cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventor: Chuang-Chia Lin
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Patent number: 12066286Abstract: A computer for a motor vehicle. The vehicle including a plurality of wheels, at least one of the wheels including a sensor for measuring at least one value of a “pitch” parameter, enabling the computer to determine a “pitch” coordinate of the sensor along a predetermined “pitch” axis orthogonal to the direction of movement of the vehicle and parallel to the plane of the road. The computer being capable of receiving from the sensor at least one value of the pitch parameter, determining at least one pitch coordinate of the sensor on the basis of the at least one value received, detecting a geometric anomaly in the wheel including the sensor when at least one determined pitch coordinate is outside a first predetermined range of values of coordinates on the pitch axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Sylvain Godet, Stéphane Billy
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Patent number: 12066287Abstract: A solution for evaluating a component of a vehicle, such as a brake pad of a rail vehicle, is provided. An imaging component can acquire image data for a target area of the vehicle within which at least a portion of the component is visible. The target area can be illuminated by an illumination device that is, for example, horizontally offset from the imaging device to highlight the three-dimensional structure in the target area by creating shadows in the image data. A set of points corresponding to the component can be identified in the image data using the shadows. A measurement for at least one attribute of the component can be calculated from the set of points.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: International Electronic Machines Corp.Inventors: Zahid F. Mian, Nicholas P. Glasser, Ronald W. Gamache
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Patent number: 12066288Abstract: Disclosed are a tool and a method for measuring a perpendicularity and an angle of a femur of a vehicle crash dummy. The tool includes: a base, where the base is provided with a guide ring gear; and a clamp assembly, where the clamp assembly is configured to clamp a femur part. A measurement assembly can measure the perpendicularity and the angle of the femur part conveniently.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD., CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhixin Liu, Mei Lu, Weidong Liu, Yongqiang Wu, Zhi Li, Zihe Meng, Kai Wang, Hanxiao Zhang, Ye Hao, Manli Liu
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Patent number: 12066289Abstract: A navigation instrument including an orientation angle calculation unit, in particular the first and second orientation angles, wherein the orientation angle calculation unit is configured to be able to determine the first and second orientation angles in a given order and also in reverse order; and wherein the calculation unit is arranged to be able to choose between said given order and said reverse order, to calculate the first and second orientation angles, based on a comparison between an indicator of a risk of error, quantifying a risk of instability of said unit during the determination of the first and second orientation angles, and a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGÈRE SUISSEInventor: Romain Besuchet
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Patent number: 12066290Abstract: Roll data can be acquired from a magnetometer and an accelerometer of a towed object telemetry unit coupled to a towed object during rolls of the towed object in two or more different headings. The magnetometer can be calibrated based on the roll data. Turn data can be acquired from the magnetometer and the accelerometer during a turn of the towed object from a first heading to a second heading. The magnetometer can be further calibrated based on the turn data.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PGS Geophysical ASInventor: Mattias Südow
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Patent number: 12066291Abstract: A system and method for tactically positioning a sailing boat are defined which calculate a plurality of predicted locations the sailing boat may be situated in order to arrive at a destination at a target time by following a predetermined route. The plurality of predicted locations define a zone which is visually represented with the current location of the sailing boat. to accurate guidance of the sailing boat.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: Iain Bryden Percy, Owen Brice Modral
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Patent number: 12066292Abstract: Techniques are described for configuring a monitoring system to assist users during a detected emergency condition at a property. In some implementations, sensor data from one or more sensors that are located at the property are obtained by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor the property. A determination that there is an emergency condition at the property is made by the monitoring system based on the sensor data, determining. A location of a person inside the property is determined by the monitoring system based on the sensor data. A first path to the person and a second path to guide the person away from the emergency condition are determined by the monitoring system. The first path to the person and the second path to guide the person away from the emergency condition are navigated by a computing device of the monitoring system.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventor: Babak Rezvani
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Patent number: 12066293Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
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Patent number: 12066294Abstract: An apparatus for a vehicle includes processing circuitry configured to obtain identification information on a future passenger of the vehicle, the identification information comprising an ultra-wideband communication identification of a mobile device of the future passenger. The processing circuitry is also configured to locate the future passenger outside the vehicle using ultra-wideband communication, the ultra-wideband communication being performed between an ultra-wideband transceiver of the vehicle and the mobile device of the future passenger and being based on the ultra-wideband communication identification of the mobile device. The processing circuitry is further configured to compute guidance information based on the location of the future passenger of the vehicle, and provide the guidance information via an interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Alaa Mourad, Alexander Krebs, Markus Strassberger
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Patent number: 12066295Abstract: Systems and methods of using sensor data for coordinate prediction are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, for a place, a computer system accesses corresponding service data comprising pick-up data and drop-off data for requests, and accesses corresponding sensor data indicating at least one path of mobile devices of the requesters of the requests, with the at least one path comprising at least one of a pick-up path ending at the pick-up location indicated by the pick-up data and a drop-off path beginning at the drop-off location indicated by the drop-off data. In some example embodiments, the computer system generates at least one predicted geographic location using the paths indicated by the sensor data, and stores the at least one predicted geographic location in a database in association with an identification of the place.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shivendra Pratap Singh, Upamanyu Madhow, Vikram Saxena, Livia Zarnescu Yanez, Chandan Prakash Sheth, Sheng Yang, Alvin AuYoung
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Patent number: 12066296Abstract: Aspects are described herein that are capable of providing a vehicle configuration for a vehicle that is optimized to maximize the customer's performance priorities while additionally complying with regulatory emissions requirements and equipment regulations. A machine learning (ML) predictive model is trained based on simulations run on combinations of vehicle configurations and routes and on real-world telematics data, and used to determine a vehicle configuration optimized for a representative route.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PACCAR Inc.Inventors: Varun Ramesh, Shreyash Ukidave, Michael Douglas Gerty
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Patent number: 12066297Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized route prediction including receiving, at a first time, first input data associated with a first route; populating a first database with the input data; receiving, at a third time, second input data associated with a second route; comparing the second input data to the first input data included within the first database; determining, based on the comparison, a first cluster including the first data and the second input data or a second cluster including the second input data; populating a second database based on the first cluster or the second cluster; determining, using the first database and at a second time, at least one of: predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data; and causing, based on the predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data, to perform an action in association with a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Shiqi Qiu, Dimitar Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Nikhil Jamdade, Swati Rawat, Kalyani Sonawane, Himanshu Verma, Bhagyashri Katti
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Patent number: 12066298Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a computer server system, from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a string of text that comprises a search query. The method also includes identifying one or more search results that are responsive to the search query, parsing a document that is a target of one of the one or more results, identifying geographical address information from the parsing, generating a specific geographical indicator corresponding to the one search result, and transmitting for use by the computing device, data for automatically generating a navigational application having a destination at the specific geographical indicator.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michael J. Lebeau, Ole CaveLie, Keith Ito, John Nicholas Jitkoff
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Patent number: 12066299Abstract: A method, a device and a system for perceiving a multi-site roadbed network are provided. The method includes: constructing a global grid map of the roadbed network that is marked with a position of the system for perceiving at least two roadbed base stations and a perceived range of the system; receiving the detected target list transmitted by each of the systems for perceiving at least two roadbed base stations, where the detected target list is the set of the preset detected targets; according to the position of each system for perceiving the roadbed base station, indexing into the global grid map the detected target list transmitted by each system for perceiving the roadbed base station to generate a global tracking list; and tracking the preset detected target in the detected target list transmitted by the system for perceiving the roadbed base station according to the global tracking list.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SUTENG INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiajun Mou
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Patent number: 12066300Abstract: Systems and methods useful in providing equivalent visual operation (EVO) for the flight crew of an aircraft independent of the actual outside weather and visibility conditions through the use of synthetic vision (SV) and enhanced vision (EV) technologies are described. The systems and methods described herein can contribute toward gaining an operational credit that can expand the operational capabilities of an aircraft. The systems and methods described herein can provide relatively simple and intuitive solutions for activating and operating such systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.Inventors: Anthony J. Barber, Nami Bae, Marc Bergeron, William Murray Colquhoun, Christopher Martin, Mark Schlegel, Natalie W. Wong, Olivier Lebegue
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Patent number: 12066301Abstract: A device orientation calibration system to perform operations that include: accessing inertial measurement unit (IMU) data generated by an IMU mounted upon an object that corresponds with a first reference frame, the IMU data indicating a second reference frame that comprises a Z-axis, a Y-axis, and an X-axis; performing a calibration of the IMU data to align the second reference frame of the IMU with the first reference frame of the object, the performing the calibration comprising: determining a gravitational vector based on a first portion of the IMU data; applying a first rotation to the IMU data to align the Z-axis of the second reference frame with the gravitational vector; determining a forward motion vector based on a second portion of the IMU data; and applying a second rotation to the IMU data to align the X-axis of the second reference frame with the forward motion vector.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Lucas Glenat, Eric Klaus Allseits, John Charles Bicket, Justin Pan, Glen Phillip McGillan, Kevin Lloyd
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Patent number: 12066302Abstract: A system and method for leveling a selected surface of a structure. The system includes a handheld mobile device and a platform leveling assembly (PLA) supportable on a structure to be leveled. The PLA includes a PLA controller and a PLA receiver communicatively coupled with the PLA controller. The handheld mobile device includes a tilt sensor configured to sense an attitude of a selected surface on which the handheld mobile device is placed; and a mobile device controller communicatively coupled to the tilt sensor and the transmitter and configured to receive signals from the tilt sensor indicating the attitude of the selected surface on which the handheld mobile device is placed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Lippert Components, Inc.Inventors: John Peter Manfreda, Matthew A. Collin, Tod Cunningham
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Patent number: 12066303Abstract: A physical quantity sensor-fixing structure includes a holder holding a physical quantity sensor including a detection unit to detect a physical quantity and a plurality of lead wires connected to the detection unit. The holder fixes the physical quantity sensor to a plurality of conductive support members to be respectively connected to the plurality of lead wires. The holder includes a main body member including a housing portion to house at least a portion of the physical quantity sensor, and a lid member covering at least a portion of the housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventor: Keisuke Fukuchi
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Patent number: 12066304Abstract: A switching assembly comprises a pair of fixed contacts, and a contact bridge movable between a bridging position in which the contact bridge electrically connects the contacts and a separated position in which the contacts are electrically separated. A detector of the assembly includes at least one sensor for detecting the presence of the contact bridge in at least one of the separated position or the bridging position, and a controller operatively connected to the sensor and having a first switching point and a second switching point. One of the switching points is associated with a position of the contact bridge between the bridging position and the separated position.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christian Lindner, Bernd Rahn, Peter Sandeck, Matthias Kroeker, Harry Koch
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Patent number: 12066305Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a base material; a conductive fabric on a first surface of the base material; and one or more conductive wires on a second surface of the base material so as to be electrically insulated from the conductive fabric. The second surface is opposite to the first surface of the base material. The base material includes: a first area and a second area. The first area is fitted into a groove of the rim and the second area is placed in a part of a rim of a steering wheel other than the groove, when the base material is attached to the rim. The one or more conductive wires are arranged at a lower wiring density in the first area than in the second area.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takumi Yamada, Takateru Sawada
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Patent number: 12066306Abstract: The presently described systems and techniques enable computers to discern impacts and structural weaknesses in objects in a new and cost-effective manner. As capacitive changes (e.g., mutual capacitance between rows or columns of smart coatings) occur in the smart coatings, contact with the object and/or structural weaknesses of the object may be identified, enabling electronic notification and/or action to occur in response to the contact and/or structural weakness.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Andre Rene Buentello, Nathan Lee Post, Justin Royell Nash, Gregory David Hansen, Jose L Romero, Jr., Brian Francisco Shipley
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Patent number: 12066307Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the angular position of a shaft by a sensor including a toothed wheel including p teeth distributed at equal angles and an additional tooth and a sensitive element that is able to detect a tooth, including the following steps: receiving a tooth signal and the date thereof; shifting the preceding time intervals: Tn?3?Tn?2, Tn?2?Tn?1, Tn?1?Tn; determining the current time interval according to the formula Tn=tn?tn?1; calculating a ratio according to the formula Rn=(Tn*Tn?3)/(Tn?1*Tn?2); and comparing the ratio with a threshold, if the ratio is greater than the threshold, the current tooth signal corresponds to the second tooth immediately following the first tooth, itself immediately following the additional tooth.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Stéphane Eloy, Fabien Joseph
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Patent number: 12066308Abstract: An optical cable structure is discussed that enables a distributed optical fiber sensor to detect acoustic vibration and other measurands, which could be, for example, changes in temperature, changes in static pressure, and changes in static strain. The optical cable structure includes first and second optical fibers disposed within a thin walled, elliptical, gel filled, loose tube helically wound within a cable wall of the optical cable structure. The optical cable structure further includes an additional optical fiber bonded to a strength member using a tight encapsulant. Because the additional optical fiber is fixed to the strength member and disposed with its axis parallel to the strength member, the additional optical fiber experiences the full axial strain on the optical cable structure, unlike the first and second optical fibers contained within the helically wound loose tube, thereby providing a contrast to the strain response coefficients of the first and second optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Vincent Handerek
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Patent number: 12066309Abstract: A variable area flowmeter having a float and having a display unit, the display unit includes a pointer element, the pointer element is connected directly or indirectly to the float such that the pointer element is mechanically deflected by the float during the measuring process. The variable area flowmeter that operates particularly reliably and is flexibly applicable at the same time is achieved in that the display unit comprises at least one bi-stable display which only requires an energy supply in order to modify the displayed representation and/or to restore the representation.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: KROHNE Messtechnik GmbHInventor: Colin Dzieia
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Patent number: 12066310Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a crude oil flow metering device, which includes a measuring part and a metering part; the measuring part includes a measuring tube and a float assembly; the float assembly is in-built in the measuring tube, and includes a float and a float connection rod integrally connected with the float; an end of the float connection rod is connected to a detection part; the detection part protrudes out of the measuring tube when the float rises from a bottom end; the metering part includes a position detection module and a processing module; the position detection module is arranged in a detection cavity located above the measuring tube and formed by a first housing; when the detection part at the end of the float connection rod extends into the detection cavity, the position detection module detects a position of the detection part at the end of the float connection rod to obtain a float height detection signal; and the processing module calculates a flow rate of measured crude oil accType: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Shandong Tiangong Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinhua Li, Haifeng Tian, Jianlin Wang, Hailin Kong, Dedong Kong, Guohua Xu
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Patent number: 12066311Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a sensor system for determining a flow rate of a fluid flow within a fluid channel comprising an elastic segment arranged next to a rigid segment, wherein a first pair of electrodes is provided at the rigid segment and a second pair of electrodes is provided at the elastic segment of the fluid channel. The system further comprises a sensor unit for detecting a capacitance of the first and second electrode pairs, and a processing unit for calculating and monitoring a distance between the electrodes of the second electrode pair based on the detected capacitance of the first electrode pair and the second electrode pair, wherein the first electrode pair is in contact with the rigid segment and the second electrode pair is in contact with the elastic segment. Moreover, a respective method for determining a flow rate of a fluid flow within a fluid channel is provided by the present disclosure, as well as a use of the sensor system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, IncInventors: Sven Ebert, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Paul Federer, Arnulf Staib, Lukas Schneider
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Patent number: 12066312Abstract: A method for determining a flow rate and/or a concentration of particles of a fluid flowing in a chamber, which includes the steps of: producing an ultrasound beam of a given frequency with a first transducer such that all fluid components traveling through an intersection region between the ultrasound beam and the chamber are insonated by the first transducer; receiving Doppler-shifted ultrasound signals generated by the fluid components in the insonated region of the chamber with a second transducer; acquiring the ultrasound signals received by the second transducer during an acquisition time; obtaining a Doppler Power Spectrum of the acquired ultrasound signals; and determining the flow rate and/or the concentration of particles of the fluid by adjustment between, on the one hand, the obtained Doppler Power Spectrum and, on the other hand, a model of the Doppler Power Spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: AENITIS TECHNOLOGIES, INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MÉDICALE), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARISInventors: Jean Provost, Jérémie Gachelin, Baptiste Pialot, Olivier Couture, Emmanuel Vincent
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Patent number: 12066313Abstract: The present method and apparatus use information on the voltage V and the current I drawn by a pump motor to determine the water or liquid level height H in a well in which the pump is employed. In typical examples, the power of the motor can be related to the pressure and the fluid flow, and equations can then be used to relate fluid flow Q1 to fluid height H in the well. Glossary for FIG Calc.=Calculation Meas.=Measurement Detr.=Determines Avg.=Average Param.=Parameter Calib.=Calibration =command CD=Control device (example smart phone).Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Richard Eugen Griessel
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Patent number: 12066314Abstract: A truck scale management system is disclosed that is configured to obtain pricing data for a plurality of products, obtain payment information corresponding to an entity, obtain payment information corresponding to a scale-owner, generate a virtual scale that is configured to obtain scale data from a physical scale associated with the scale-owner, generate a virtual kiosk corresponding to the virtual scale that is configured for use during weighments of trucks on the physical scale and is associated with a given product of the plurality of products, receive a weigh ticket from the virtual kiosk corresponding to a weighment of a given truck that is carrying the given product and is associated with the entity, generate an invoice based on the received weigh ticket and the obtained pricing data and execute a payment of the invoice based on the obtained payment information corresponding to the entity and the scale-owner.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TruckPay Inc.Inventor: Barry Scott Honig
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Patent number: 12066315Abstract: A method for predicting mass of heavy vehicles based on networked operating data and machine learning includes: collecting operating data; extracting speed, engine output torque, satellite elevation, and gear position under a driving condition; determining a transmission ratio of the heavy vehicle based on the gear position; filtering the speed, engine output torque, and the satellite elevation using three of the plurality of filtering parameters; determining a filtered vehicle longitudinal acceleration under the driving condition using the filtered speed, and one of the plurality of filtering parameters; determining a filtered road gradient sine value under the driving condition using the filtered speed, satellite elevation, and one of the plurality of filtering parameters; and inputting the speed, engine output torque, vehicle longitudinal acceleration, road gradient sine value, and transmission ratio into a vehicle mass prediction model to obtain a predicted mass.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD, CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTDInventors: Xiaoxin Bai, Chunling Wu, Xiaojun Jing, Yongzhen Yang, Changyu Li, Xu Li, Weilin Liu, Ziming Jing, Jinghui Fan, Na Li, Jing Wang, Wenjin Zhou
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Patent number: 12066316Abstract: The technology provides a method for monitoring a load carrier vehicle (10: 12: 22: 154), comprising measuring at least one sensor value indicating a force and determining a mass based on the at least one sensor value. Furthermore, monitoring devices (156) used in the method and load carrier vehicles (10: 12: 22: 154) are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Robert Zwijze, Frank Sienkiewicz, Jonas Bautista, Sietse Hendriks, Dennis Kamphuis, Andrew Forti, John Greer, Matthew Via
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Patent number: 12066317Abstract: A cast load cell comprising a load sensing portion integrally cast with a first mounting portion. The load sensing portion has a flexure portion spaced apart from the first mounting portion by a flexure gap. The load sensing portion has at least one sensor cavity above at least a portion of the flexure gap. A second mounting portion is integrally cast with the load sensing portion above the flexure gap. A load sensor is connected to the load sensor portion and positioned within the sensor cavity above a portion of the flexure gap. The first mounting portion, the load sensing portion, and the second mounting portion define an integral, low-profile, weld-free, substantially homogenous unitary cast member.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Vishay Transducers, Ltd.Inventors: Keith Reichow, Bill Zimmerman
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Patent number: 12066318Abstract: An arrangement and method are provided for weighing plant support structures that are travel along a conveyance line. A load bar includes connections to couple the load bar to a carrier, which is moveable along the conveyance line. The load bar receives ends of plant support structure hooks, and exerts a lateral force on the hooks as the load bar travels. A load cell includes a leading portion that is lower in height than a weighing portion of the load cell. Each hook raises as it travels onto the load cell. The relationship of the height of the weighing portion and the length of the hook end are arranged such that, as the hook end is raised, it remains engaged with the load bar so that the load bar continues to exert a lateral force on the hook as the load bar moves in the direction of travel.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: MJNN LLCInventor: Gage Goodspeed Coffin
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Patent number: 12066319Abstract: A multi-purpose child support assembly is provided. The multi-purpose child support assembly includes a frame, a weighting module and a support component. The frame includes a lower frame and an upper frame movably connected to the lower frame. The weighting module disposed on the frame and between the lower frame and the upper frame. The support component is connected to the upper frame and defines a supporting area for a child between the upper frame and the lower frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AGInventor: Colin F. Eggert-Crowe
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Patent number: 12066320Abstract: An electronic measurement device or electronic scale including an arrangement of multiple low-cost sensors to measure a physical property of an object is disclosed. The electronic measurement device or electronic scale utilizes an accurate and effective calibration method that compensates for the idiosyncrasies of using individual sensors. The electronic measurement device positions a plurality of sensors at predetermined observational locations to provide sensor output signals in response to sensing physical characteristics of the physical property of the object to be measured and combines the different sensor output signals by applying a combined calibration transfer function that represents a calibration function for each of the plurality of sensors to provide a cumulative measurement signal that represents the measurement of the physical property of the object. A centroid of the mass of the object is computed and used to execute different applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Daedalus Technology Group, Inc.Inventor: Nathaniel Polish
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Patent number: 12066321Abstract: A method for determining the path of a measurement beam of an interferometric measuring device, includes A. recording a plurality of spatially resolved images of the object under measurement; B. creating a three-dimensional model of the object under measurement; C. providing a beam-position image-recording unit and recording at least one spatially resolved beam-position-determining image; D. determining the spatial position and orientation of the beam-position image-recording unit relative to the object under measurement; E. providing a spatial relation between the spatial path of the measurement beam of the interferometric measuring device and the position and orientation of the beam-position image-recording unit; F. determining the spatial path of the measurement beam of the interferometric measuring device relative to the object under measurement. A measuring device for interferometric measurement of an object under measurement is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Polytec GmbHInventors: Bernd Armbruster, Matthias Schussler, Bernd Heinen
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Patent number: 12066322Abstract: An overlay metrology system may include an objective lens, illumination optics to illuminate an overlay target including a first grating with a first pitch on a first sample layer and a second grating with a second pitch on a second sample layer, where the first and second sample layers are separated by a layer separation distance greater than a depth of field of the objective lens. The system may further include collection optics with a radially-varying defocus distribution to compensate for the layer separation distance such that the first and second gratings are simultaneously in focus on the detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: KLA CorporationInventors: Amnon Manassen, Andrew V. Hill, Yonatan Vaknin, Avner Safrani
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Patent number: 12066323Abstract: A color filter array may include a plurality of color filters arranged two-dimensionally and configured to allow light of different wavelengths to pass therethrough. Each of the plurality of color filters includes at least one Mie resonance particle and a transparent dielectric surrounding the at least one Mie resonance particle.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunghyun Nam, Sookyoung Roh, Seokho Yun
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Patent number: 12066324Abstract: Radiation sensor including a detection assembly and a chopper assembly, which are mechanically coupled to delimit a main cavity; and wherein the chopper assembly includes: a suspended movable structure, which extends in the main cavity; and an actuation structure, which is electrically controllable to cause a change of position of the suspended movable structure. The detection unit includes a detection structure, which faces the main cavity and includes a number of detection devices. The suspended movable structure includes a first shield of conductive material, which shields the detection devices from the radiation, the shielding of the detection devices being a function of the position of the suspended movable structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.Inventors: Michele Vaiana, Enri Duqi, Maria Eloisa Castagna
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Patent number: 12066325Abstract: A contained radiation power metering system for measuring power of a radiation source of an additive manufacturing machine includes a base configured to fit within the additive manufacturing machine, a radiation sensor connected to the base and configured to receive radiation from the radiation source and output a radiation power signal, and a wireless module disposed on the base configured to receive the radiation power signal and transmit the radiation power signal from the system to a separate wireless receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Donovan
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Patent number: 12066326Abstract: A spectrometer includes a support having a bottom wall part and a side wall part surrounding a spectroscopic space, a cover arranged on an opening part formed by the side wall part and provided with a light transmitting part, a joining member arranged between the cover and the opening part, a light detection element supported by the side wall part between the spectroscopic space and the cover, and an optical function part provided on a surface of the bottom wall part. A vent is provided in at least one of the support, the cover, and the joining member. The vent is open to an outside and a space defined by the support, the cover, and the light detection element. The space communicates with the spectroscopic space.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takafumi Yokino, Toshiteru Suzuki, Katsuhiko Kato, Issei Oshima, Takashi Oba
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Patent number: 12066327Abstract: A method for determining a calibration function includes: calculating a first distance, between a distribution of target spectra and a comparison distribution of spectra; calibrating the distribution of target spectra with a first preliminary calibration function to form a first distribution of calibrated target spectra; calculating a second distance, between the first distribution of calibrated target spectra and the comparison distribution of spectra; determining that the second distance is less than the first distance; and setting the calibration function equal to the first preliminary calibration function.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rockley Photonics LimitedInventor: Casimir Wierzynski
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Patent number: 12066328Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for microscopic analysis of a sample using spatial light manipulation to increase signal to noise ratio are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp.Inventors: Derek Decker, Craig Prater
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Patent number: 12066329Abstract: An optical device is disclosed and includes an optical sensor, a plurality of photosensitive pixels disposed on the optical sensor, a wavelength-selective optical filter in optical communication with the photosensitive pixels, and a plurality of spatially-variant written regions disposed in the optical filter, the written regions having a transmission spectrum and each of the written regions being larger than each of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: John A. Wheatley, Mark A. Roehrig, Audrey A. Sherman, Del R. Lawson, Gilles J. Benoit, Daniel J. Schmidt, Jonah Shaver, Raymond J. Kenney, Zhaohui Yang
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Patent number: 12066330Abstract: One or more display color characteristics of an electronic device are managed using a light detecting sensor configured to output multiple color channels in a predefined color space. The light detecting sensor in the electronic device senses ambient light and outputs measurements in visible color channels of the predefined color space to characterize the sensed ambient light. A ratio of one or more measurements of one of the visible color channels to one or more measurements of another of the visible color channels is determined. At least one light source generating at least a portion of the sensed ambient light is classified based at least in part on the determined ratio, wherein the determined ratio indicates a color temperature component of the sensed ambient light. The one or more display color characteristics of the electronic device are adjusted based at least in part on the classifying operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Eliyahu Barel, Arthur Gershfeld