Performance Or Efficiency Evaluation Patents (Class 702/182)
  • Patent number: 12290024
    Abstract: An intelligent system and a method for coordinating harvester and logistics vehicle are illustrated. The intelligent system comprises a harvester terminal and a logistics vehicle terminal. The harvester terminal comprises a repository monitoring module and a control module, wherein the repository monitoring module monitors storage information of a storage bin of the harvester. The control module receives the storage information from the repository monitoring module, and determines whether the storage location of the storage bin of the harvester reaches a preset location. The harvester terminal and the logistics vehicle terminal are communicatively connected. When the storage location of the storage bin of the harvester reaches the preset location, the control module sends a transport instruction to the logistics vehicle terminal to control the logistics vehicle to transport grain, thereby achieving intelligent coordination between the harvester and the logistics vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: FJ Dynamics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuan Yao, Di Wu, Bo Wang, Qing-Quan Wang, Yong-Quan Shen, Chao Tong, Shun Fan
  • Patent number: 12292730
    Abstract: When a worker executes an operation on an actual plant, an information processing device generates a first calculation result obtained by calculating a behavior of the actual plant after execution of the operation using a virtual plant following an operational status of the actual plant and generates each second calculation result obtained by calculating a behavior of the actual plant with respect to each of operation pattern plans corresponding to a state of the actual plant. The information processing device evaluates the operation that is executed by the worker based on the first calculation result and the second calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kashiwa, Toshiaki Omata, Nobuaki Ema, Yoshitaka Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12293667
    Abstract: Methods for performing operations for improving driver safety across a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. A plurality of safety events pertaining to a driving of a fleet of vehicles by a plurality of drivers are detected. A subset of the events is identified. The subset corresponds to one or more safety events of the plurality of safety events involving one or more vehicles of the fleet of vehicles to which drivers have not been assigned. A user interface is generated for presentation on a client device, the user interface including an interactive user interface element for accessing the subset of the events. One or more user interface elements are provided for accepting or rejecting recommendations for assignments of one of the plurality of drivers to each of the vehicles. The recommendations are generated based on an application of a machine-learned model to images of faces captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Evaline Shin-Tin Tsai, Alan Guihong Liu, Ijeoma Emeagwali, Ishaan Kansal, Saleh ElHattab, Bodecker John DellaMaria, Eliott Ray Chapuis, Jason Noah Laska, Jennifer Kao, Sean Kyungmok Bae, Sylvie Lee, Brian Tuan
  • Patent number: 12288012
    Abstract: An example method comprises receiving historical sensor data from sensors of components of wind turbines, training a set of models to predict faults for each component using the historical sensor data, each model of a set having different observation time windows and lead time windows, evaluating each model of a set using standardized metrics, comparing evaluations of each model of a set to select a model with preferred lead time and accuracy, receive current sensor data from the sensors of the components, apply the selected model(s) to the current sensor data to generate a component failure prediction, compare the component failure prediction to a threshold, and generate an alert and report based on the comparison to the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Yajuan Wang, Gabor Solymosi, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 12286597
    Abstract: In order to predict the future evolution of a health-state of an equipment and/or a processing unit of a chemical production plant, e.g., a steam cracker, a computer-implemented method is provided, which builds a data-driven model for the future key performance indicator based on the key performance indicator of today, the processing condition of today, and the processing condition over a prediction horizon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Simeon Sauer, Daniel Keck, Eric Jenne, Alexander Badinski, Miriam Angela Anna Hahkala, Bart Blankers, Hendrik De Winne, Britta Carolin Buck
  • Patent number: 12282308
    Abstract: A novel system includes an intelligent process anomaly detection and trend projection system which is configured to train artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for anomaly prediction in industrial systems according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, such intelligent process anomaly detection and trend projection system is configured to determine an estimated remaining useful life of an industrial asset. For example, in some embodiments, the system is configured to identify a degradation part of the signal and a normal part of the signal; separate the degradation part of the signal from the normal part of the signal; identify one or more patterns of a degradation part of the signal and the normal part of the signal; and determine an anomaly prediction based on the one or more patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Aveva Software, LLC
    Inventors: Aldimir Lyubchev Mihnev, Prarthana Rohitkumar Shah, Brian Kenneth Erickson, William Charles Winn Bielke
  • Patent number: 12281817
    Abstract: Provided is a method of signalling a command to a water heating appliance remote from a controllable water outlet fed from the appliance via a water supply installation, the method comprising: monitoring the water supply that feeds the controllable water outlet; detecting a sequence of changes in a property or state of the water supply consequent on operation of the controllable water outlet; correlating the sequence of changes with a stored pattern; detecting a match above a stored threshold; interpreting the match as a command. It is thus possible to manipulate a tap, or other controllable water outlet, to signal to a processor so that the temperature or flow rate of water supplied by the outlet can be increased. Thus a water supply system may have default flow and temperature levels designed for economy and low water usage, but a user can on demand override one or both of these limitations without the necessity of needing to go to the appliance to reset it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: OCTOPUS ENERGY HEATING LIMITED
    Inventor: Peter Konowalczyk
  • Patent number: 12279867
    Abstract: Systems, devices, kits, and methods are provided herein in the form of example embodiments that relate to calibration of medical devices. The medical devices can be sensors adapted to sense a biochemical attribute. The embodiments can be used to determine calibration information specific to an individual medical device. The embodiments can determine the calibration information by reference to one or more parameters obtained during manufacturing of the medical device. The embodiments can also determine the calibration information by reference to in vitro testing of the medical devices. The embodiments also apply to systems incorporating those medical devices in their use in the field. Also described are embodiments of modifications to surfaces of sensor substrates, such as through applied radiation and/or the creation of a well, to aid in the placement and/or sizing of a sensor element on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.
    Inventors: Steven Scott, Christopher J. Bennell, Claire Bhogal, Katie A. Cranfield, Marc B. Taub, Bree M. Winter, Owen D. Reynolds, Jean-Pierre Babka, Dharmendra S. Patel, Christopher A. Thomas, Udo Hoss, Mark S. Yahnke, Tahir S. Khan
  • Patent number: 12282335
    Abstract: A system and a method for operating an aircraft during a climb phase of flight include a control unit configured to receive data regarding one or both of a current flight or one or more previous flights of the aircraft from one or more sensors of the aircraft. The control unit is further configured to determine efficient climb phase parameters for the aircraft based on the data. The aircraft is operated during the climb phase of one or both of the current flight or one or more future flights according to the efficient climb phase parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Chaitanya Pavan Kumar Aripirala, Veeresh Kumar Masaru Narasimhulu, Joost E. Koennen, James R. Hamilton, J. L. Tylee
  • Patent number: 12281810
    Abstract: An air conditioner which comprises: a temperature sensor; and a processor that obtains, based on receiving a turn-on command for the air conditioner, a first temperature value sensed through the temperature sensor; based on a threshold time elapsing subsequent to the receiving of the turn-on command, obtains a second temperature value sensed through the temperature sensor; and provides notification information related to an environment in which the air conditioner is installed, on the basis of the first temperature value and the second temperature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngju Joo, Jun Hwang, Kwangil Nam, Jeonguk Park, Hyeongjoon Seo, Sangwoo Lee, Hyoshin Lee, Hyeongkyu Cho
  • Patent number: 12276580
    Abstract: A pump health analysis method and a pump health analysis device using the same are provided. A standard vibration curve of a standard pump is obtained. The standard vibration curve is converted from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain a first frequency distribution curve. A sample vibration curve of a sample pump is obtained. The sample vibration curve is converted from the time domain to the frequency domain to obtain a second frequency distribution curve. The first frequency distribution curve is compared with the second frequency distribution curve by using a cosine similarity algorithm to obtain a health index of the sample pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Wei-Chen Wu, Cheng-Tai Peng, Chih-Chung Kuo
  • Patent number: 12277772
    Abstract: Video surveillance system for assessment of customer ordering in a drive-through, wherein the video surveillance system having a first camera, a second camera, a network, a control unit, a computer vision unit. The first camera acquires a first image, the second camera acquires a second image. The computer vision unit has a calculating features for the first and second images. The computer vision unit a means for matching such features, wherein a vehicle is tracked by matching the first image and second images. The control unit computes a time span between the appearance of the vehicle appearing in the first image and appearing in the second image. The first and second cameras are arranged laterally to a side window of the vehicle, so that inside the vehicle is recorded at two time points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ADVANCED VIDEO ANALYTICS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauke, Markus Kächele
  • Patent number: 12278663
    Abstract: The present application provides an optical module and parameter transmission method, detection method, control method thereof, and a fronthaul system. The parameter transmission method includes: generating, in response to at least one of a plurality of registers of a far-end optical module becoming a first source register, an uplink optical signal according to ID information and a register value of the first source register, where the first source register is a register having a changed register value of the plurality of registers, and register values of the registers have a mapping relationship with performance parameters of the far-end optical module; and transmitting the uplink optical signal to a near-end optical module of a near-end node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nengnian Zhu, Yun Zhang, Zhan Su
  • Patent number: 12276541
    Abstract: A method and a device for non-invasive vibration-based condition monitoring of a machine placed on a physical frame of reference, using a time-domain broadband magnetoresistive sensor having a sensor transfer function of electric resistance versus magnetic field intensity, said machine comprising an attached magnet or a magnetic part; comprising the steps of: placing the magnetic sensor on said physical frame of reference at a distance from the machine and at a predetermined distance from the magnet or magnetic part, such that the magnetoresistive sensor is operating in a dynamic part of the sensor transfer function in respect of the magnetic field produced by the magnet or a magnetic part; capturing a time-domain magnetic field signal transduced by the sensor; and using an electronic data processor to process the captured signal to obtain a vibration-based indicator of the machine's condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (INL)
    Inventors: Ricardo Alexandre De Matos Antunes Ferreira, Tim Böhnert, Elvira Paz Pérez De Colosía
  • Patent number: 12271193
    Abstract: A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes receiving road data. The road data includes information about a plurality of potential events along the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes determining, in real time, a probability that the plurality of potential events along the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle will occur while the autonomous vehicle moves along the road and determining, in real time, an adjusted planned path using a probabilistic predictive control that takes into account the probability that the plurality of potential events along the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle will occur. Further, the method includes controlling the autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to autonomously follow the adjusted planned path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Reza Hajiloo, Seyedalireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi, Ehsan Asadi, Gianmarc Coppola, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi
  • Patent number: 12272573
    Abstract: A load port is capable of monitoring various environmental parameters associated with a transport carrier to minimize and/or prevent exposure of the semiconductor substrates therein to increased humidity, increased oxygen, increased vibration, and/or one or more other elevated environmental conditions that might otherwise contaminate the semiconductor substrates, damage the semiconductor substrates, and/or cause processing defects. For example, the load port may monitor the environmental parameters as indicators of a potential blockage of a diffuser of the transport carrier, and a relief valve may be used to divert a gas away from the transport carrier based on a determination that a diffuser blockage has occurred. In this way, the gas may be diverted through the relief valve and away from the transport carrier to prevent increased humidity, contaminants, and/or vibration from contaminating and/or damaging the semiconductor substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Fam Shiu, Ting-Yau Shiu, Cheng-Lung Wu, Yang-Ann Chu, Jiun-Rong Pai
  • Patent number: 12271980
    Abstract: A computing system receives data for a game. The data includes at least one of tracking data or event data. Based on the data for the game, the computing system determines that an event has occurred within the game. Based on the determining, the computing system generates a graphic responsive to the event. The graphic includes insights related to the event. The computing system recommends an image relevant to the event based on metatags associated with the event. The computing system generates a visual element by merging the image and the graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Lucey, Anthony Borsumato, Kevin Allinson, Christian Marko
  • Patent number: 12265932
    Abstract: An exemplary mobile apparatus for assessing an operating condition of an asset. The mobile device includes at least one sensor device for acquiring data related to one or more operational or environmental characteristics of an asset during operation. The mobile device further includes a processing device encoded with a neural network architecture having one or more models trained to identify one or more operating conditions of one or more assets according to asset type. The processing device can determine an operating condition of the asset by extracting features from the acquired data and comparing attributes of the extracted features to attributes of at least one known operating condition determined through training of the models. The mobile device can also include an output interface to output a result of the determination performed by the processing device, which can include communicating the result to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.
    Inventors: David Lawrence Rogers, James Eric Syphard, Sean Patrick McKenna, Douglas Paul Hamrick, Jonathan Robert Lee Mulholland
  • Patent number: 12254332
    Abstract: A system for hardware installation is disclosed that includes a rack template system operating on a first processor and configured to receive location data and to provide a workflow of a series of rack image data sets. An agent system operating on a second processor and configured to display the series of rack image data sets and to prompt a user to enter user-generated image data sets. A rack validator operating on the first processor and configured to receive the user-generated image data sets and to determine whether the user-entered image data sets match the series of rack image data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM USA, INC.
    Inventors: Arun Rajagopal, Abhijeet Singh, Venugopal Kanumalla
  • Patent number: 12253926
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing efficient integration tests on mobile device for contactless data transfers are described. Rather than performing contactless communications with a variety of test user devices (e.g., test smart cards), which may be time consuming and may present physical difficulty, a mobile device can simulate the result of these communications using a simulator application operating on the mobile device. A contactless communication application, also operating on the mobile device, can communicate with the simulator application in order to generate interaction payloads based on stored data records corresponding to the test user devices. These interaction payloads can then be transmitted by the mobile device to a processing computer. Later, the mobile device may receive a response from the processing computer or another computer system, indicating if the interaction payloads were successfully received and interpreted. This in turn may indicate if the integration test was successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Yuexi Chen, Marc Kekicheff, Christian Aabye, Alexandre Pierre
  • Patent number: 12248489
    Abstract: Techniques for contextualizing utility visualization patterns in a utility infrastructure environment are described herein. A utility meter data dashboard associated with a type of event may be displayed. A selection of a portion of a first utility visualization displayed in the utility meter data dashboard is received, the portion being associated with a subset of utility data. One or more previously used utility visualizations may be determined from among a plurality of additional utility visualizations. One or more candidate utility visualizations associated with the type of event may be determined from among the previously used utility visualizations. A ranked list of one or more candidate utility visualizations may be displayed. A second utility visualization may be displayed based at least in part on a selection from the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Christman
  • Patent number: 12242249
    Abstract: An operation method for production facilities operates production facilities of a same kind located at production sites, and includes: a data information preparation step of aggregating operational data of each of the production facilities for each of the production sites; a data accumulation step of accumulating the operational data aggregated at the data information preparation step into a computer located at a data accumulation site; a data analysis step of analyzing an operation status of each of the production facilities, using the operational data accumulated at the data accumulation step; a data display step of displaying information on analyzed the operation status of each of the production facilities on a display unit located at each of the production sites; and a facility operation step of referring to the displayed information and operating a production facility located at a second production site from a first production site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ito, Kazuhira Ichikawa, Shingo Sugioka, Hiroyuki Shimamoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12241850
    Abstract: Food processing monitoring systems and method thereof are provided. A method includes obtaining first temperature data from a first temperature sensor at an inlet of a food processing machine; obtaining second temperature data from a second temperature sensor at an outlet of the food processing machine; obtaining current data from a current sensor that is configured to measure current of a motor of the food processing machine; determining presence of food product at the inlet based on a peak current, of the current data at a time the motor starts, being greater than a first current threshold; and logging a temperature of the first temperature data based on the peak current being greater than the first current threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HOLLYMATIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Bauer, Victor Guynn
  • Patent number: 12235749
    Abstract: A trace circuitry may be configured to receive a selection of one or more types of events possible in a processor core among multiple types of events. The trace circuitry may generate a message including trace information when an event corresponding to the selection occurs in the processor core. The trace information may include an address associated with the event and an indication of the type of event and/or cause for why the event occurred. In some implementations, the trace circuitry may use an event filter to pass events corresponding to the one or more types of events that are selected and block events corresponding to one or more types of events that are not selected. In some implementations, the trace circuitry may generate timestamps based on events to enable measurements between the events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SiFive, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Ableidinger, Ernest L. Edgar
  • Patent number: 12238124
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting suspicious malware by analyzing data such as transfer protocol data or logs from a host within an enterprise is provided. The systems and methods include a database for storing current data and historical data obtained from the network and a detection module and an optional display. The embodiments herein extract information from non-encrypted transfer protocol metadata, determine a plurality of features, utilize an outlier detection model that is based on historical behaviors, calculate a suspiciousness score, and create alerts for analysis by users when the score exceeds a threshold. In doing so, the systems and methods of the present invention improve the ability to identify suspicious outliers or potential malware on an iterative basis over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan S. Webster, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Patent number: 12235713
    Abstract: A method for operating a storage device capable of improving reliability of a memory system is provided. The method includes providing a storage device which includes a first component and a second component; receiving, via a host interface of the storage device, a command for requesting failure possibility information about the storage device from an external device; and providing, via the host interface, the failure possibility information about the storage device to the external device in response to the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Seop Shim, Kyung Duk Lee, Jong-Sung Na, Chan Moo Park, In Kap Chang, Chang Min Cho
  • Patent number: 12235629
    Abstract: A method for configuring and parameterizing field bus subscribers interconnected via a field bus, wherein a first field bus subscriber provides and/or receives process data and a second field bus subscriber allows a user program to run, where a topology is determined by a configuration tool with configuration parameters of the field bus subscribers in a configuration file, the first field bus subscriber is parameterized for subsequent communication via the field bus with a configuration data set including a first part of the configuration file, from the configuration file and further code portions from a program library, an object-orientated class is generated with elements and functions for communication between the first and second field bus subscribers, and the class is instanced in the user program of the second field bus subscriber, the functions being used for communication during execution of the user program to permit access to the process data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Pohle, Sebastian Kemptner, Dirk Schneider
  • Patent number: 12228898
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a method for monitoring a process engineering installation, in which a model of the process engineering installation is used to ascertain values of at least one performance parameter of the process engineering installation from actual values of at least one operating parameter of the process engineering installation that occur during operation of the process engineering installation, wherein the model is used to ascertain comparison values of the at least one performance parameter of the process engineering installation from setpoint values of the at least one operating parameter, and wherein mutually corresponding values and comparison values of the at least one performance parameter are taken as a basis for ascertaining at least one performance gap in the operation of the process engineering installation and to a process engineering installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Linde GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Koch, Oliver Slaby
  • Patent number: 12227201
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine a perception zone of interest, via a trained perception model, based on at least one of a vehicle parameter or planning data, wherein the vehicle parameter comprises at least one of a vehicle direction or a vehicle speed and the planning data comprises a route and trajectory to be traversed by the vehicle; determine a vehicle route and trajectory based on a subset of sensor data, wherein the subset of sensor data corresponds to the perception zone of interest; and operate the vehicle to traverse the vehicle route and trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jianbo Lu, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Sanghyun Hong, Ling Zhu, Mitch McConnell
  • Patent number: 12230069
    Abstract: A system for electric aircraft fleet management for at least an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes a computing device communicatively connected to at least an electric aircraft, wherein the computing device is configured to receive measured data from the at least an electric aircraft, generate the aircraft performance model output as a function of the measured data, transmit the aircraft performance model output to a user, receive a flight plan from the user; and manage the at least an electric aircraft using the flight plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventor: Vincent Moeykens
  • Patent number: 12229594
    Abstract: Scheduling multiple processes with varying delay sensitivity is disclosed herein. In one example, a processor device iteratively executes a processing workload that includes a fixed-execution-time process and an adjustable-execution-time process. During each iteration of the processing workload, the processor device first determines, for that iteration, a maximum cycle time interval during which both the fixed-execution-time process and an adjustable-execution-time process will execute. The processor device further determines a maximum execution time interval for the adjustable-execution-time process, based on the maximum cycle time interval and a fixed execution time interval for the fixed-execution-time process. The processor device then modifies an adjustable execution time interval for adjustable-execution-time process in the current iteration of the processing workload based on the maximum execution time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Jered J. Floyd, Ali Ok
  • Patent number: 12223777
    Abstract: A determination device may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire first degradation values that indicate respective degradation degrees of a plurality of components of a same type, and regard the respective first degradation values of the plurality of components as respective first usage values of a plurality of usage environments in which the plurality of components are used. The determination device may include a determination unit configured to determine, based on a target value that indicates a predetermined target degradation degree of the plurality of components, a first combination of the respective first degradation values of the plurality of components and the respective first usage values of the plurality of usage environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kodaira, Takahira Kawata
  • Patent number: 12222121
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring an HVAC&R system employ a monitoring agent that uses observations of evaporator and condenser intake temperatures, evaporator discharge temperature, and a compressor input power parameter to learn operating characteristics of the HVAC&R system in newly maintained condition. Thereafter, the agent continuously or regularly computes a relative coefficient of performance (COP) for the system under subsequent observed ambient conditions, and relates the present instantaneous efficiency of the HVAC&R system under the observed ambient conditions to the instantaneous efficiency when the system was in newly maintained condition. The relative COP can be used to detect system degradation and quantify the energy usage and cost attributable to the degradation. The agent can take appropriate actions to prevent/minimize damage based on the degree of degradation detected, including shutting off power to the HVAC&R system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Buda
  • Patent number: 12221321
    Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring a state of a physical passenger transport system are described. The method includes monitoring the state of the passenger transport system using an actualized digital replica dataset (ADRD) which reproduces characterizing properties of components of the passenger transport system in an actual configuration in a machine-processable manner after assembly and installation thereof in a building. At least one detection device is arranged in the physical passenger transport system and detects changes in at least one characterizing property that occur due to wear. These changes are transmitted to the ADRD, wherein changes and change trends in the components are monitored and evaluated using calculations and/or using static and dynamic simulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Thomas Novacek, Alexander Pfeiler, Christoph Sander, Gerd Laglbauer, Hannes Dragsits
  • Patent number: 12223396
    Abstract: A system receives and automatically transforms utility pipe attribute data and pipe break data. The missing and/or incorrect entries in the pipe attributes and/or break data is automatically identified and correct values for these entries are is automatically imputed to generate improved datasets of the pipe attribute data and break data. The improved data can be used to build a model with machine learning. Predictions of future likelihood of failure for pipe sections in a network of pipes can be made based on the model. A national database can be created that is filled with environmental data that has been transformed, optimized, merged, and imputed. The national database can be used for many customers to save computational costs. The national database can be used to build the failure prediction model for utility companies thereby saving computational costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Fracta
    Inventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Matti Salomon Kakkori, Julio Daniel Buendia
  • Patent number: 12210045
    Abstract: An impedance measurement jig may include a first contact plate, a second contact plate, a cover plate, a plug, and an analyzer. The first contact plate may make electrical contact with an ESC in a substrate-processing apparatus. The second contact plate may make electrical contact with a focus ring configured to surround the ESC. The cover plate may be configured to cover an upper surface of the substrate-processing apparatus. The plug may be installed at the cover plate to selectively make contact with the first contact plate or the second contact plate. The analyzer may individually apply a power to the first contact plate and the second contact plate through the plug to measure an impedance of the ESC and an impedance of the focus ring. Thus, the impedances of the ESC and the focus ring may be individually measured to inspect the ESC and/or the focus ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeongsang Kim, Dougyong Sung, Sungjin Kim, Yunhwan Kim, Inseok Seo, Seungbo Shim, Naohiko Okunishi, Minyoung Hur
  • Patent number: 12204431
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for the automated, rule-based generation of models from arbitrary, semi-structured observation data. Context data of received observation data, like data describing the location of on which a phenomenon was observed, is used to identify related observations, to generate entities in a model describing the observed data and to assign observations to model data. Mapping rules may be used for the on-demand generation of models, and different sets of mapping rules may be used to generate different models out of the same observation data for different purposes. Further, observation time data may be used to observer the temporal evolution of the generated model. Possible use cases of the so generated models include the interpretation of observation data that describes unexpected operation conditions in view of the generated model, or to determine how a monitored system reacts on changing conditions, like increased load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Dynatrace LLC
    Inventors: Herwig Moser, Martin Carpella, Otmar Ertl
  • Patent number: 12205080
    Abstract: Diagnosing vehicle anomalies efficiently is dependent upon the expertise of the repair technician, but also the availability of resources. As vehicles have become increasingly computerized, repair technicians have become increasingly specialized in a smaller number of vehicle models. Dealerships and large repair shops have an advantage in that they can more easily afford to obtain specialized electronic tools. However, repair technicians in smaller repair shops often are more skilled, but are unable to afford access to advanced electronic tools and software. A system for using remotely located resources to improve the diagnosis and resolution of vehicle anomalies, including the use of expert technicians and vehicle-specific databases, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Opus IVS, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert U. Beckmann, Michael Kirlauski, Andrew Woodard
  • Patent number: 12204772
    Abstract: A memory device may include a time counter which is configured to output a count signal according to a predetermined time interval; a use history circuit which is configured to write an operating time value based on the count signal and generate and write a validation value corresponding to the operating time value; and a command decoder which is configured to receive an instruction from a memory controller. The instruction may be according to an operation mode that is determined based on the operating time value and the validation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changhwi Park, Junyoung Ko, Jungmin Bak
  • Patent number: 12207111
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for carrying out performance measurement monitoring. Specifically, a consumer seeking performance measurement monitoring transmits a request to a management service producer that includes the parameters of the monitoring, such as the type of data to be monitored, a granularity period and one or more threshold values. In response, the management service producer communicates with a network function to carry out the monitoring. In particular, for each granularity period, a monitoring value is initialized. Then, either at the end of the granularity period or at intervals throughout the granularity period, the monitoring value is measured. If, at the time of measurement, the measurement value exceeds any one of the threshold values, a notification is transmitted to the consumer. Otherwise, monitoring continues for the remainder of the granularity period and/or is repeated for subsequent granularity periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 12204299
    Abstract: A machining condition searching method includes: generating a machining condition to be set in a machining device; collecting a machining state; collecting the machining result performed under the machining condition; calculating an evaluation value of the machining on the basis of the machining result; constructing an evaluation value prediction model predicting, on the basis of the machining condition, the machining state, and the evaluation value, an evaluation value corresponding to the machining condition that has not been tried; and constructing the evaluation value prediction model on the basis of a change degree in the relationship between the machining condition and the evaluation value, and performs weighting based on the machining state on the evaluation value prediction model. The machining condition to be tried next is generated using a predictive value of the evaluation value. Each of the above processes is repeatedly performed until it is determined to end a search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Masui, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Jun Maruta, Koki Nakane, Takayuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12196441
    Abstract: An intelligent control system for an electric curtain is provided. The intelligent control system includes a control apparatus, a monitoring apparatus, a sensing apparatus, a curtain apparatus, a lighting apparatus, and an air conditioning apparatus. The control apparatus is correspondingly coupled to the monitoring apparatus, the sensing apparatus, the curtain apparatus, the lighting apparatus, and the air conditioning apparatus. The monitoring apparatus is able to capture interior images, the sensing apparatus is able to sense exterior illuminance, and the control apparatus is configured to determine an opening degree of the curtain apparatus, illumination brightness of the lighting apparatus, and an air conditioning setting of the air conditioning apparatus by comparing different interior illuminance values, which are obtained from the interior images captured by the monitoring apparatus at different levels of interior illuminance, with an exterior illuminance value sensed by the sensing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAN HSIN PLASTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu-Yuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12189630
    Abstract: Log messages are compressed, searched, and decompressed. A dictionary is used to store non-numeric expressions found in log messages. Both numeric and non-numeric expressions found in log messages are represented by placeholders in a string of log “type” information. Another dictionary is used to store the log type information. A compressed log message contains a key to the log-type dictionary and a sequence of values that are keys to the non-numeric dictionary and/or numeric values. Searching may be performed by parsing a search query into subqueries that target the dictionaries and/or content of the compressed log messages. A dictionary may reference segments that contain a number of log messages, so that all log message need not be considered for some searches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: YSCOPE INC.
    Inventors: Yu Luo, Kirk Rodrigues, Ding Yuan
  • Patent number: 12190331
    Abstract: An apparatus for carbon emission optimization using machine-learning, apparatus including a processor and a memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive an integrated logistics data collection, determine a projected carbon emission as a function of the integrated logistics data collection, generate a transportation plan as a function of the integrated logistics data collection and the projected carbon emission, continuously receive a current logistics datum from an external source, and iteratively modify the transportation plan based on the current logistics datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PITT-OHIO
    Inventors: Justine Russo, Stephen Milcoff
  • Patent number: 12175804
    Abstract: A server includes an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of vehicles; and a processor, programmed to, send a query to the plurality of vehicles, the query identifying types of vehicle data and indicating an initial sampling rate, responsive to receiving the vehicle data sampled by the vehicles, process the vehicle data to obtain a feature result including an estimated value and a variance extending from the estimated value, and responsive to the variance being greater than a first threshold, send a first updated query indicating an increased sampling rate to the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Huanyi Shui, Zhe Wang, Devesh Upadhyay, Brandon M. Dawson
  • Patent number: 12175080
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically configuring a multi-site storage system such as a metro cluster using input/output (IO) response time (RT) hints from a host computer. The techniques include receiving IO RT hints at each storage appliance of the multi-site storage system from the host computer, which is initially identified as “local” or “remote” relative to a physical location of the storage appliance. The techniques further include modifying, by the storage appliance, an initial local or remote identification of the host computer relative to the physical location of the storage appliance based on the received IO RT hints, dynamically changing, by the storage appliance, states of IO paths between the host computer and nodes of the storage appliance based on the modified local or remote identification of the host computer, and providing, by the storage appliance, notification of the changed states of the IO paths to the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vinay G. Rao, Vasudevan Subramanian, Sanjib Mallick
  • Patent number: 12169658
    Abstract: Systems and methods for remotely monitoring digital signage. Display assemblies are provided, each having an electronic display, an additional component for operating the display assembly, a sensor for monitoring conditions at the display assembly, a local controller, and a network connection device. Remote server(s) execute software which establishes a data connection with each of the display assemblies, receives and stores data measurements made by the sensors of the display assemblies in a sensor specific and a display assembly specific manner, receives user data requests, and for each of the user data requests, generates data output displays including a user specified subset of the data measurements associated with a user specified subset of the sensors and a user specified subset of the display assemblies indicated in the respective user data request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot Newnham, Brock Bearchell, William Dunn
  • Patent number: 12168165
    Abstract: Methods and program products for building a workout are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for generating a workout includes the steps of receiving user input indicating features of a desired workout, generating a workout, wherein the workout comprises a plurality of intervals, and wherein a first interval comprises an interval intensity and an interval duration, and initiating a graphical display that conveys the number of intervals making up the workout and the interval intensity and the interval duration of the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christian Dibenedetto, Maya Ann Page, Stephen John Black
  • Patent number: 12165096
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for determining carbon emissions of a requested shipment are provided. A computing device of apparatus may be configured to receive a customer request for a shipment of a moveable good. In one or more embodiments, computing device may be configured to provide shipment elements of the shipment as a function of customer request. In one or more embodiments, carbon emission data describing carbon emissions of shipment may be determined by computing device as a function of carbon emission data and/or shipment elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PITT-OHIO
    Inventor: Justine A. Russo
  • Patent number: 12163860
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for structural damage monitoring for whole-machine life test of small turboshaft engine, comprising: determining a failure mode based on load borne by typical components of the small turboshaft engine in a service process and common failure forms, screening a structural damage index of a non-major component based on a coupling relationship between structural damages, selecting a destructive damage of components in the small turboshaft engine and an indirect damage causing changes in material properties of key component, planning a structural damage monitoring means based on the failure mode, the structural damage index, the destructive damage, and the indirect damage, designing an accelerated mission test platform of the small turboshaft engine, and designing a torque automatic loading scheme of an eddy current dynamometer, and testing the small turboshaft engine, and performing damage monitoring of the small turboshaft engine based on the planned structural damage monitoring means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
    Inventors: Yingdong Song, Xu Zhao, Mofei Chen, Xuming Niu