Patents Issued in November 12, 2024
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Patent number: 12140696Abstract: According to various embodiments, a radar device is described comprising a processor configured to generate a scene comprising an object based on a plurality of receive wireless signals, generate a ground truth object parameter of the object and generate a dataset representative of the scene and a radar detector configured to determine an object parameter of the object using a machine learning algorithm and the dataset, determine an error value of the machine learning algorithm using a cost function, the object parameter, and the ground truth object parameter and adjust the machine learning algorithm values to reduce the error value.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Chulong Chen, Wenling Margaret Huang, Saiveena Kesaraju, Ivan Simões Gaspar, Pradyumna S. Singh, Biji George, Dipan Kumar Mandal, Om Ji Omer, Sreenivas Subramoney, Yuval Amizur, Leor Banin, Hao Chen, Nir Dvorecki, Shengbo Xu
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Patent number: 12140697Abstract: A self-position estimation device is mounted on a mobile body and acquires a predicted position of the mobile body. Additionally, the self-position estimation device calculates a difference value between a predicted position of an end point of a lane division line that is obtained based on information on the end point of the lane division line acquired from map information and a measured position of the end point of the lane division line measured in such a manner that a measurement unit mounted on the mobile body performs scanning with a light in a predetermined direction. The self-position estimation device estimates a self-position of the mobile body by correcting the predicted position with a value obtained by multiplying the difference value by a coefficient. Further, the self-position estimation device corrects the coefficient based on an interval of scanning positions of the measurement unit at a position where the end point of the lane division line is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Kato, Tomoaki Iwai, Kazufumi Fujiya
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Patent number: 12140698Abstract: A light deflector includes a mirror unit having a reflecting surface; a pair of supports supporting the mirror unit; a pair of drive beams; a frame supporting the pair of drive beams in a cantilevered state; and connecting parts connecting the pair of drive beams to the pair of supports, respectively. Each of the connecting parts has a first area between the first axis and a corresponding drive beam of the pair of drive beams, and a second area at an opposite side of the first area relative to the first axis. The second area includes a projection projecting in a first direction opposite to a second direction toward a portion at which the corresponding drive beam is supported by the frame. The projection includes a first fillet of a fillet shape at an end proximate to a corresponding support of the pair of supports.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Goichi Akanuma, Shinichi Kojima
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Patent number: 12140699Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical sensor arrangement including the steps of providing a substrate having a surface and providing an integrated circuit comprising an optical detector arranged for detecting light of a desired wavelength range. The integrated circuit and a light emitter are mounted onto the surface, wherein the light emitter is arranged for emitting light in the desired wavelength range. The integrated circuit and the light emitter are electrically connected to each other and to the substrate. A light barrier is formed between the optical detector and the light emitter by dispensing a first optically opaque material along a profile of the integrated circuit. A mold layer is formed by at least partly encapsulating the substrate, the integrated circuit and the light emitter with an optically transparent material. A casing, made from a second optically opaque material, is mounted on the light barrier and thereby encloses a hollow space between the casing and the mold layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: AMS AGInventors: Harald Etschmaier, Klaus Schmidegg, James Eilertsen
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Patent number: 12140700Abstract: A meteorological lidar capable of measuring vertical distributions of temperature, water vapor concentration, aerosol, wind direction/wind speed, ozone concentration, CO2 concentration, etc., stably and continuously day and night is provided. A meteorological lidar that emits a laser beam of a specific wavelength into the air and measures scattered light generated by the laser beam includes an optical system that emits a laser beam into the air, and a dust-proof part that makes an enclosing space of the optical system clean.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: EKO INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshikazu Hasegawa, Eiji Takeuchi, Makoto Tsukamoto, Masanori Yabuki
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Patent number: 12140701Abstract: An optical sensor assembly including a housing structure, a first optical sensor secured to the housing structure and arranged to sense in a first direction and a second optical sensor secured to the housing structure and arranged to sense in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Rituja Marathe, Christopher John Trowbridge
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Patent number: 12140702Abstract: Methods and apparatus wavelength discrimination in a LiDAR system. An example embodiment, includes illuminating a field of view (FOV) with transmitted light having different wavelengths at different regions in the FOV, focusing incoming light with a lens of the LiDAR system, and diffracting the focused light from the lens with a diffraction optical element to generate signals having the different wavelengths to respective regions of a detector array, wherein each pixel position in the array corresponds to one of the different wavelengths and to a spatial location in the FOV. The data from the pixel array can be processed to discriminate any of the incoming light not transmitted by the LiDAR system.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLCInventor: William P. Taylor
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Patent number: 12140703Abstract: A LIDAR transmitter includes a first transmitter array attached to a substrate and configured to generate a first array of laser beams. A first lens is positioned in an optical path of the first array of laser beams and configured to converge the first array of laser beams along the optical path. A second lens converges the first array of laser beams, wherein a position of a center of the second lens has a first radial offset from a center of the first transmitter array. A second transmitter array is attached to the substrate with a lateral offset from the first transmitter array and configured to generate a second array of laser beams. A third lens is configured to converge the second array of laser beams along the optical path. A fourth lens converges the second array of laser beams, wherein a position of a center of the fourth lens has a second radial offset from a center of the second transmitter array.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: OPSYS Tech Ltd.Inventor: Mark J. Donovan
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Patent number: 12140704Abstract: Optical systems and methods for collecting distance information are disclosed. An example optical system includes a first transmitting optic, a plurality of illumination sources, a pixel array comprising at least a first column of pixels and a second column of pixels, each pixel in the first column of pixels being offset from an adjacent pixel in the first column of pixels by a first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being horizontally offset from the first column of pixels by the first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being vertically offset from the first column of pixels by a first vertical pitch; and a set of input channels interposed between the first transmitting optic and the pixel array.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Ouster, Inc.Inventors: Angus Pacala, Mark Frichtl, Marvin Shu, Eric Younge
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Patent number: 12140705Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a base and a sensor housing mounted to the base. The sensor housing is rotatable relative to the base about an axis. The sensor housing includes a top panel having an exterior surface. A plurality of fins are disposed on the exterior surface and are fixed relative to the sensor housing. The fins extend radially outward relative to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rashaun Phinisee, Raghuraman Surineedi, Venkatesh Krishnan, Michael Robertson, Jr., Tyler D. Hamilton, Segundo Baldovino
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Patent number: 12140706Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and vehicles that facilitate a light detection and ranging (LIDAR or lidar) system that may take advantage of “dead angles” where the lidar system is oriented toward support structure or another “uninteresting” feature. In such scenarios, light pulses may be redirected toward more-interesting features in the environment. An example system includes a lidar system configured to emit light pulses into an environment of the system so as to provide information indicative of objects within a default field of view. The system also includes a reflective surface optically coupled to the lidar system. The reflective surface is configured to reflect at least a portion of the emitted light pulses so as to provide an extended field of view. The lidar system is further configured to provide information indicative of objects within the extended field of view.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Blaise Gassend, Stephen Sulack, Jonathan Souliere
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Patent number: 12140707Abstract: A single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) device is presented. The SPAD device comprising: a Si-based avalanche layer formed over an n-type semiconductor contact layer; a p-type charge sheet layer formed in or on the avalanche layer, the p-type charge sheet layer having an in-plane width; a Ge-based absorber layer, formed over the charge sheet layer and/or the avalanche layer, and overlapping the charge sheet layer, the Ge-based absorber layer having an in-plane width; wherein, at least in one in-plane direction, the in-plane width of the Ge-based absorber layer is greater than the in-plane width of the p-type charge sheet layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: The University Court of the University of Glasgow, Heriot-Watt UniversityInventors: Douglas John Paul, Derek Dumas, Jaroslaw Kirdoda, Ross W. Millar, Muhammad M. Mirza, Gerald S. Buller, Peter Vines, Kateryna Kuzmenko
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Patent number: 12140708Abstract: A method for optical sensing includes directing a series of optical pulses toward a target scene and imaging optical radiation that is reflected from the target scene onto an array of single-photon detectors, which output electrical pulses in response to photons that are incident thereon. The electrical pulses output by the single photon detectors are counted in multiple different gating intervals that are synchronized with each of the optical pulses, including at least first and second gating intervals at different, respective delays relative to the optical pulses, while the delays are swept over a sequence of different delay times during the series of the optical pulses. A time of flight of the optical pulses is computed by comparing respective first and second counts of the electrical pulses that were accumulated in the first and second gating intervals over the series of the optical pulses.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Nadav Fine, Amir Nevet, Oz Barak
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Patent number: 12140709Abstract: The present invention is directed to lidar systems and methods thereof. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a lidar system that includes a SPAD sensor includes n SPAD pixel rows. Based on the location of a target object on the SPAD sensor, m rows of n SPAD pixels row are selected based at least on the histograms generated using the n SPAD pixel rows. There are other embodiments as well.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN ADAPS PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Letian Wang, Chao Zhang
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Patent number: 12140710Abstract: A method for processing a point cloud generated by a light detection and ranging system, includes: receiving a first measurement generated by the light detection and ranging system; retrieving a plurality of second measurements that are adjacent to the first measurement; calculating a first parameter by using distances of the first measurement and the plurality of the second measurements, the first parameter indicating a degree of continuum of the first measurement relative to the plurality of the second measurements; and determining whether the first measurement represents a measurement of noises by using the first parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HESAI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaotong Zhou, Shaoqing Xiang, Zhaoming Zeng, Zhenlei Shao
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Patent number: 12140711Abstract: In one example, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus is part of a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) module of a vehicle and comprises: a receiver circuit including a photodiode and an amplifier circuit; and a controller configured to: obtain information of an operation condition of the LiDAR module; based on the information, set a multiplication ratio by which the photodiode converts incident light to a photocurrent; obtain, from the amplifier circuit, an output signal based on the photocurrent; and perform a ranging operation based on the output signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Guangzhou Woya Laideling Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yue Lu, Vipul Chawla, Youmin Wang
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Patent number: 12140712Abstract: A LIDAR system includes a light source configured to output light. A portion of the light is included in a LIDAR signal that travels a LIDAR path from the light source to an object located outside of the LIDAR system and from the object to a filter and from the filter to a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to convert optical signals that include the LIDAR signal to electrical signals. A portion of the light is also included in one or more misdirected signals. Each of the misdirected signals travels a different misdirected path from the light source to the filter. Each of the misdirected paths is a different path from the LIDAR path. The system also includes a filter being configured to filter out the LIDAR signal from the misdirected signals. The system also includes electronics that generate LIDAR data from the electrical signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SiLC Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Prakash Koonath, Bradley Jonathan Luff
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Patent number: 12140713Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode is provided an ultrasonic microphone that includes a vibration element that provides a function for converting between mechanical vibrations and electrical signals. The second electrode is externally from the ultrasonic microphone such that an electrical characteristic between the second electrode and the first electrode changes based on an adhesion state of substances adhering to the ultrasonic microphone. The third electrode is provided so as to suppress changes in the electrical characteristic between the first electrode and the second electrode caused by factors other than the adhesion of substances adhering to the ultrasonic microphone.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kensuke Kobayashi, Satoru Noro
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Patent number: 12140714Abstract: A waveform generator includes a system control unit and signal channels controlled by the system control unit and configured to supply driving signals for driving a respective transducer of an array of transducers. Each signal channel includes a sequential access memory having rows, where each row contains an instruction word configured to generate a respective step of a waveform to be generated. A memory output of the sequential access memory is defined by an output row at a fixed location. The waveform to be generated is defined by a block of instruction words. Each signal channel also includes an internal control unit that is configured to sequentially move the content of the sequential access memory, based on the instruction word currently at the memory output, so that sequences of instruction words are provided at the output row.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventors: Stefano Passi, Roberto Giorgio Bardelli, Anna Moroni
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Patent number: 12140715Abstract: A radiation detector includes a substrate including a first electrode portion, a radiation absorption layer disposed on one side with respect to the substrate and configured of a plurality of perovskite crystals, and a second electrode portion disposed on the one side with respect to the radiation absorption layer and being opposite to the first electrode portion with the radiation absorption layer interposed therebetween. Each of the plurality of perovskite crystals is formed to extend with a first direction in which the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are opposite to each other as a longitudinal direction in a region between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion in the radiation absorption layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: Kyoto University, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Keiji Abe, Toshiyuki Izawa, Kenji Makino, Seiichiro Mizuno, Takumi Ikenoue, Yuki Haruta, Masao Miyake, Tetsuji Hirato
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Patent number: 12140716Abstract: An apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels each including a conversion element and a switch, a driving circuit configured to control the switches via drive lines, a bias power supply unit configured to supply a bias potential to the conversion element via a bias line, column signal lines to which signals are output from the plurality of pixels, and a detection unit. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in the row direction and are connected to a common column signal line. The switch of the first pixel and the switch of the second pixel are connected to drive lines different from each other. The detection unit determines presence/absence of radiation irradiation based on a current flowing to the bias line.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Ofuji, Jun Kawanabe, Kentaro Fujiyoshi, Minoru Watanabe, Kai Suzuki, Hideyuki Okada
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Patent number: 12140717Abstract: A neutron beam detecting device according to the invention includes: a first solar cell-type detector that is provided with, on a surface thereof, a conversion film for converting neutrons into photons or any charged particle beam among alpha particles, protons, lithium nuclei, gamma rays or beta rays, and generates a current in response to incident radiation; a radiation detector that generates a current insensitive to neutrons as an output signal in response to the radiation incident; a current measuring device that detects, as signals, the current generated by the first solar cell-type detector and the current generated by the radiation detector in response to the incident radiation; and a flux calculating unit that compares the current signals from the detectors which are detected by the current measuring device.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Mitsuru Imaizumi, Yasuki Okuno
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Patent number: 12140718Abstract: A method includes receiving over a network from one or more seismic sensors a data set characterizing a seismic event generating a seismic wave. Based on the data set, a time of arrival and intensity of the seismic wave at a predetermined location is calculated. The predetermined location has one or more mitigation devices. Whether the intensity of the seismic wave exceeds a predetermined seismic intensity threshold is determined. If the intensity of the seismic wave exceeds the predetermined seismic intensity threshold, the one or more mitigation devices are activated.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: RH2 ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: James Swanson, Lee Tumbleson, Ryan Mills, Isaac Oquist
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Patent number: 12140719Abstract: A correction method for a microseism interpretation fracturing fracture parameter result. The method includes classifying the communication modes of a block sampling fractured wells to be corrected according to the matching degree of micro seismic monitoring result and sand adding amount; correcting the volume coefficient of each said classified fractured well single well, and the volume correction coefficient Bv of each said fractured well is: B v = [ L 5 / 4 ? H ] T [ L 5 / 4 ? H ] W , wherein, [L5/4H]W is a calculation value of a micro seismic monitoring interpretation result; [L5/4H]T is a theoretical calculation value obtained by using field construction parameters; C, calculating the classification volume correction coefficient of each class of fractured wells according to the calculated single well volume correction coefficient of each said fractured well.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (BEIJING)Inventors: Bing Hou, Yue Xiao, Yan Jin, Bowen Cao, Mian Chen
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Patent number: 12140720Abstract: Embodiments provide for a method that utilizes the azimuthally spaced receivers of a sonic logging tool. Signals from monopole and dipole sources are reflected from the geologic interfaces and recorded by arrays of receivers of the same tool. For the incident P-waves from the monopole source, phase arrival times for the azimuthal receivers are compensated for stacking using properties of wave propagation in the borehole, and for the incident SH-waves from the dipole source, signs of waveforms for the receivers are changed for specified azimuths.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Nobuyasu Hirabayashi, Yevgeniy Karpekin, Nicholas Norman Bennett, John Adam Donald, Asbjoern Lund Johansen, Takeshi Endo
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Patent number: 12140721Abstract: Deploying and retrieving streamer cleaning devices. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including transferring a streamer cleaning device to a geophysical sensor streamer. The transferring may include towing the geophysical sensor streamer through water while the geophysical sensor streamer submerged, towing a tow fish through water by way of an umbilical (the streamer cleaning device coupled within a payload area of the tow fish during the towing of the tow fish through the water), landing the tow fish on the geophysical sensor streamer and thereby abutting the streamer cleaning device against the geophysical sensor streamer, closing the streamer cleaning device around the geophysical sensor streamer, releasing the streamer cleaning device from the payload area, and separating the tow fish from streamer cleaning device and the geophysical sensor streamer.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: PGS Geophysical ASInventor: Rune Toennessen
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Patent number: 12140722Abstract: A method for determining a travertine deposit by: receiving a geological gridded model comprising a plurality of cells; receiving a source cell or a group of source cells of the geological gridded model corresponding to a source; determining a trajectory of a particle introduced at the source based on stochastic movements; and updating a travertine deposit in cells located on the trajectory of the particle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: TOTALENERGIES ONETECHInventors: Gérard Massonnat, Aurélien Virgone
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Patent number: 12140723Abstract: A metal detector 20 includes a cover 25, a detection signal acquisition unit 31, a determination unit 32, a display unit 24, and a display control unit 34. The cover 25 is removably attached to a tip portion 18 of a handheld power tool 10. The detection signal acquisition unit 31 acquires a detection signal that changes according to the detection strength of rebar W1 in concrete W. The determination unit 32 determines the presence or absence of the rebar W1 on the basis of the acquisition result acquired by the detection signal acquisition unit 31. The display unit 24 displays the presence or absence of the rebar W1 by lighting lamps in different colors. The display control unit 34 controls so as to switch the color of the light displayed on the display unit 24 on the basis of the determination result by the determination unit 32.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Ryoji Okazaki, Kohei Fujio
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Patent number: 12140724Abstract: A method and system for performing a velocity correction downhole. A method may include disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking one or more measurements of the borehole with one or more pads disposed on the downhole tool, creating one or more images from the one or more measurements to form an image log at a depth within the borehole, identifying a mismatch distance between the one or more images in the image log, and correcting the one or more images at the depth within the borehole based at least in part on the mismatch distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Xiang Wu, Yadong Wang
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Patent number: 12140725Abstract: Techniques for determining reservoir formation properties include generating digital models of core samples taken from one or more reservoir formations based on corresponding images of the core samples; determining a pore throat size distribution of the core samples based on the generated digital models; determining corresponding capillary pressure curves and corresponding NMR value distributions of the core samples with one or more numerical simulations; generating one or more machine-learning (ML) models based on the pore throat size distribution, corresponding capillary pressure curves, and corresponding NMR value distributions of the core samples; adjusting the one or more ML models with one or more reservoir data of the one or more reservoir formations; generating adjusted capillary pressure curves and NMR value distributions from the one or more adjusted ML models; and determining a reservoir formation specific pore throat size distribution from at least one of the adjusted capillary pressure curves orType: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company and King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Marwah Mufid AlSinan, Xupeng He, Hyung Tae Kwak, Hussein Hoteit, Yiteng Li
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Patent number: 12140726Abstract: The present invention relates to a remote tomography system. A filament system generates at least one plurality of plasma filaments. An electromagnetic radiation (EMR) system directs EMR towards the at least one plurality of plasma filaments such that the EMR reflects off of the at least one plurality of plasma filaments towards at least one target region. The EMR system is configured to receive EMR reflected from the at least one plurality of plasma filaments such that EMR reflecting from the at least one target region can be directed towards the EMR system.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Scott C McGirr, Ronald J Wroblewski
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Patent number: 12140727Abstract: A detection system including a plurality of terahertz light sources; and a plurality of terahertz-wave detecting devices which detect terahertz waves, wherein the plurality of terahertz light source includes a first terahertz light source which outputs the terahertz waves in a first on/off pattern with a first cycle, and a second terahertz light source which outputs the terahertz waves in a second on/off pattern with a second cycle which is different from the first cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsuhito Goden
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Patent number: 12140728Abstract: A system for using mobile data to improve weather information is provided. The system includes a weather prediction station configured to receive stationary observation data provided by a plurality of stationary weather stations along with data from a plurality of input weather models and generate unified weather model estimates based on the stationary observation data, the input weather model data, and a processor. The processor is configured to aggregate mobile observation data provided by a plurality of non-stationary sensors and use the aggregated mobile observation data to adjust the weather model estimates.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: William B. Gail
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Patent number: 12140729Abstract: A computerized method of processing data for use in weather modeling is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first data source, by a first server, microwave link data including signal attenuation information. The method also includes pre-processing, in real time, by the first server, the microwave link data, thereby producing pre-processed microwave link data. The method also includes storing the pre-processed microwave link data in a first data store. The method also includes receiving, from the first data store, by a second server, the pre-processed microwave link data. The method also includes processing, on a scheduled routine, by the second server, the pre-processed microwave link data using a data transform, thereby producing first weather data.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: The Tomorrow Companies Inc.Inventors: Shimon Elkabetz, Itai Zlotnik, Rei Goffer, Jacob Ribnik, Nir Nossenson, Rotem Bar-Or, Karl Ginter
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Patent number: 12140730Abstract: An optical film includes an organic solid crystal film formed of a contiguous organic solid crystal having a first dimension no less than 100 micrometer and a second dimension distinct from the first dimension no less than one centimeter. Methods for making the organic solid crystal film are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tingling Rao, Tanya Malhotra, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Lafe Joseph Purvis, II, Sandeep Rekhi, Arman Boromand, Sheng Ye, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Anurag Tyagi
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Patent number: 12140732Abstract: Embodiments of a color-neutral anti-reflective coating and articles including the same are described. In one or more embodiments, a substrate includes a first major surface and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the first major surface of the substrate and having a reflective surface opposite the first major surface. In one or more embodiments, a point on the reflective surface has a single-surface reflectance under a D65 illuminant with an angular color variation, ?E? that is less than 5, where ?E?=?{(a*?1?a*?2)2+(b*?1?b*?2)2}, and a*?1 and b*?1 are color values a* and b* values of the point measured from a first angle ?1, and a second angle ?2, where ?1 and ?2 are any two different viewing angles at least 5 degrees apart in a range from about 10° to about 60° relative to a normal vector of the reflective surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Karl William Koch, III, Cheng-Chung Li, Jean-Francois Oudard
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Patent number: 12140733Abstract: This optical device comprises an ophthalmic lens and a light source emitting in the deep red and near infrared region. The ophthalmic lens has front and rear faces coated with interferential coatings. The mean reflectance of the rear interferential coating is lower than or equal to 2.5% for wavelengths ranging from 700 nm to a predetermined maximum wavelength lower than or equal to 2500 nm, at an angle of incidence lower than or equal to 45°. At an angle of incidence lower than or equal to 45°, for wavelengths ranging from 700 nm to the predetermined maximum wavelength, the mean reflectance of the front interferential coating is either lower than or equal to 2.5% if the source is directed towards the front face of the ophthalmic lens, or higher than or equal to 25% if the source is directed towards the rear face of the ophthalmic lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Francisco De Ayguavives
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Patent number: 12140734Abstract: An optical thin film includes a support layer and a dielectric layer on the support layer. The dielectric layer has a refractive index greater than that of the support layer. The dielectric layer includes a compound ADX, which includes a Group 3 element A, a Group 5 element D, and an element X having an atomic weight smaller than an atomic weight of A or D. The optical thin film may exhibit light transmission having a high refractive index and low absorptivity.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeongyub Lee, Changseung Lee, Kideok Bae, Eunhyoung Cho
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Patent number: 12140735Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens having refractive power, a convex image-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a fifth lens having refractive power and a concave object-side surface; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens. Half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies: ImgH?5.20 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co., LtdInventors: Xiaofang Wang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
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Patent number: 12140736Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surface of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may have improved imaging quality, reduced system length, enlarged aperture, and broad field of view while the optical imaging lens may satisfy at least one inequality.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Maozong Lin, Jiayuan Zhang
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Patent number: 12140737Abstract: Present embodiments provide for optical imaging lenses. An optical imaging lens may include at least seven lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of the convex or concave surfaces of the lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Fensha Cai, Xue Li
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Patent number: 12140738Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. The fifth lens has a positive refractive power, a focal length of the fifth lens is smaller than an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and ?0.38?R10/f??0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, In Gun Kim, Yong Joo Jo, Ju Sung Park
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Patent number: 12140739Abstract: A variable power optical system (ZL (1)) includes a plurality of lens groups (G1-G7). During variable magnification, an interval between adjacent lens groups changes. The plurality of lens groups include: a first focusing lens group (G5) that moves during focusing; and a second focusing lens group (G6) that is disposed more toward an imaging surface side than the first focusing lens group and that moves along a different trajectory than the first focusing lens group during focusing. The first focusing lens group and the second focusing lens group both have a negative refractive power. The plurality of lens groups satisfy the following condition: 0.40<fF1/fF2<3.50 (wherein fF1 is the focal distance of the first focusing lens group, and fF2 is the focal distance of the second focusing lens group).Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Kosuke Machida
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Patent number: 12140740Abstract: An optical device introduces light from an outdoor view in a blind spot area hidden by an obstacle. The optical device includes a first reflector that reflects a part of light and transmits another part of the light, and a second reflector placed between a back surface of the first reflector and the obstacle and apart from the first reflector. The second reflector has a reflective surface that reflects light incident from the first reflector toward the first reflector. A light shield is placed at a front surface of the first reflector to block external light incident on and reflected from the front surface of the first reflector. The light shield includes light-shielding plates arranged at an interval in a vertical direction such that each light-shielding plate is horizontal. The first reflector is parallel to the reflective surface of the second reflector and tilted from a vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Tsuji, Kodai Takeda, Hiroshi Ando
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Patent number: 12140741Abstract: A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have a pixel array that produces light associated with images. The display system may also have a linear polarizer through which light from the pixel array passes and a quarter wave plate through which the light passes after passing through the quarter wave plate. The optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. The lens elements may include a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens. A partially reflective mirror may be formed on a convex surface of the plano-convex lens. A reflective polarizer may be formed on the planar surface of the plano-convex lens or the concave surface of the plano-concave lens. An additional quarter wave plate may be located between the reflective polarizer and the partially reflective mirror.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sajjad A. Khan, Nan Zhu, Graham B. Myhre, Brent J. Bollman, Tyler Anderson, Weibo Cheng, John N. Border
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Patent number: 12140742Abstract: A light irradiation device includes: a light source configured to output light having coherence; a light focusing element having a focusing axis and a non-focusing axis intersecting with the focusing axis and configured to focus the light on a focusing line so as to generate planar light; and an aperture mask having an opening part that limits a part of luminous fluxes of the light transmitted from the light source to the light focusing element. The opening part of the aperture mask has opening edges disposed to extend in a direction along the focusing axis of the light focusing element, and, in a case in which the opening edges are projected onto the focusing line, corresponding projected portions have linear spreads.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Masanori Kobayashi, Satoshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12140743Abstract: A microfluidic-device observation apparatus 1 for observing a specimen present in a plurality of flow paths 103a to 103e arranged in a microfluidic device 100 is provided with: an imaging unit 4 configured to acquire an image of the microfluidic device 100; an extraction pixel selection unit 21 configured to select extraction pixels from a plurality of pixels by a certain criterion based on luminance values of the plurality of pixels constituting the acquired image; a flow path identification unit 22 configured to locate the plurality of flow paths 103a to 103e included in the image; a specimen-featured-pixels detection unit 24 configured to detect a certain number or more of extraction pixels consecutively present inside of the identified plurality of flow paths 103a to 103e as a specimen-featured-pixels group; and a statistical feature value calculation unit 26 configured to calculate a statistical feature value of the specimen based on the number of specimen-featured-pixels group and/or the number of the eType: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinori Ohno
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Patent number: 12140744Abstract: A microscopy system and method of focusing the same are disclosed herein. The microscopy system may include an objective, and imaging device, an illumination source, an epi-illumination module, and a controller. The imaging device is configured to capture a single image of a specimen positioned on a stage of the microscopy system. The illumination source is configured to illuminate the specimen positioned on the stage. The epi-illumination module includes a focusing mechanism in a first primary optical path of a light generated by the illumination source. The focusing mechanism is tilted in relation to a plane perpendicular to the first primary optical path. The controller is in communication with the illumination source. The controller is configured to focus the microscopy system based on a pattern produced by the focusing mechanism on the single image captured by the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Schmidt, Denis Sharoukhov, Tonislav Ivanov, Jonathan Lee
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Patent number: 12140745Abstract: A method and system for measuring the alignment between a substrate and a platform upon which it is disposed by using image processing algorithms are described herein. These algorithms automate the detection of edges of a microscope slide and the platform in a digital image. A reference line pattern in an image of the platform can be used to detect platform edges based on a computed location of the reference line pattern in the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anindya Sarkar, Chibuya Siame
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Patent number: 12140746Abstract: The present disclosure provides a night vision device that includes a base, an outer screen installed on the base and configured to display images of the outside world, and two barrel members respectively hinged on both sides of the base, the two barrel members rotated to adjust a distance therebetween, the base including a main member and a receiving member arranged on a side of the main member, a width of the main member smaller than that of the receiving member, the main member including two arc-shaped recesses for respectively receiving the two barrel members therein; the two barrel members located on the same side of the receiving member, and the outer screen hinged on the receiving member. The present disclosure can simultaneously have functions of adjusting a pupil distance and observing from the outer screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SHENZHENZ.T.DIGITAL CO., LTDInventor: Wai Lun Hui