Simulating Nonelectrical Device Or System Patents (Class 703/6)
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Patent number: 11217043Abstract: One or more devices in a data analysis computing system may be configured to receive and analyze movement data and driving data, and determine driving trips and associated drivers based on the received data. Movement data may be collected by one or more mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and on-board vehicle systems. Drivers associated with driving trips may be identified based on the movement data collected by the mobile devices, such as speed data, acceleration data, or distance data.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: ARITY INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Edward A. Biemer
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Patent number: 11209415Abstract: A discrete element method for modelling fracture evolution of roadway surrounding rock is provided, which includes: taking rock cores from a coal seam in the field and recording RQD values, observing roadway deformation, and making a statistical analysis on distribution characteristics of fractures in the coal seam; testing mechanical parameters of coal-rock samples indoors, and calculating strength of a rock mass according to the RQD values; creating a numerical model by using a UDEC-Trigon module to adjust the parameters to match the strength of the rock mass, and correcting model parameters; and creating a numerical model of an engineering scale to adjust the parameters to match field deformation characteristics, and finally simulating fracture evolution of the roadway surrounding rock. The present invention provides accurate and basic mechanical parameters for discrete-element numerical simulation of roadway deformation, guaranteeing realistic and reliable simulation results.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: China University of Mining and Technology, China Mining & Civil New Material Science and Technology Ltd., BOXIA MINING TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Xiangyu Wang, Jianbiao Bai, Junwu Xia, Shuai Yan
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Patent number: 11204838Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques to make the synthesized monitoring conditions of partially-observable hybrid systems robust to partial observability of sensor uncertainty and partial controllability due to actuator disturbance. The approach herein shows that the monitoring conditions result in provable safety guarantees with fallback controllers that react to monitor violation at runtime.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Stefan Mitsch, Andre Platzer
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Patent number: 11200469Abstract: A graphics adaptation method for printable ceramic supports. Images are printed on sample ceramic supports starting from an original image file. A sample printed image is acquired. Sample points representative of the sample image are selected. Original points present in the original image file are also selected. A point-based matching is sought between the sample points and the original points, on the basis of which the original image file is modified and an adapted image file is determined, thus adapting the graphics of the original image file to the graphics of the sample image. A graphics adaptation system based on the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: SYSTEM CERAMICS S.P.A.Inventors: Matteo Rubbiani, Davide Bonvicini, Franco Stefani
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Patent number: 11200491Abstract: A computer system that uses artificial intelligence based neural networks, to monitor the security and cooling system of a computer network and to take automated remedial action based on the monitoring. The computer system autonomically learns behavior profiles of the cooling system, attack profiles and circumvention techniques used to target the network. The remedial action taken by the computer system includes calibrating the cooling system to maximize efficiency, isolating any misuse that has been identified, surveilling the misuse in the isolated environment, analyzing its behavior profile and reconfiguring the network to enhance security.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Nautilus TRUE, LLCInventor: Arnold Magcale
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Patent number: 11194834Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to data visualization, and more specifically, to technology that automatically visualizes various analytics and predictions generated for mass participation endurance events, or other events of interest.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Karen R. Smilowitz, George T. Chiampas, Taylor G. Hanken, Rachel G. Lin, Ryan W. Rose, Bruno P. Velazquez, Samuel H. Young
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Patent number: 11194940Abstract: A computing system determines a design space for designing a design system. The computing system receives a request to identify input(s) that will provide a response of the design system that advances a user-defined goal for the design system. The computing system, responsive to the request to identify input(s), generates a design for the design space that provides design cases for generating the response of the design system and obtains responses of the design system generated for multiple design cases of the design for the design system. The computing system selects at least one design case based on obtained responses of the design system for the multiple design cases, and based on the at least one design case, outputs an indication of suggested input(s) for the design system. The suggested input(s) advances the user-defined goal for the design system and is not disallowed according to disallowed combination(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventors: Joseph Albert Morgan, Yeng Saanchi, Laura Carmen Lancaster, Christopher Michael Gotwalt, Caleb Bridges King, Ryan Adam Lekivetz
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Patent number: 11194300Abstract: The invention provides methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring field device states within a process control system, and for detecting and responding to state changes associated with one or more field devices. Implementation of the invention involves, for each field device within a selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices, (i) retrieving a reference set or template set of field device parameter state data associated with the field device (ii) retrieving a set of current state data associated with each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices, (iii) comparing the two sets of parameter state data for each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices and (iv) generating and/or displaying a report representing detected deviations between the two sets of parameter state data for each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Tung Ngie Tang
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Patent number: 11188692Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for performing a flow simulation that include storing in a memory state vectors for a plurality of voxels, the state vectors comprising a plurality of entries that correspond to particular momentum states of a plurality of possible momentum states at a voxel. The techniques also include storing in a memory a representation of at least one surface and performing interaction operations on the state vectors, the interaction operations modelling interactions between elements of different momentum states. The techniques also include performing surface interaction operations which model interactions between the surface and elements of at least one voxel near the surface, including modeling a wall shear stress direction that is not parallel to a flow velocity direction and performing move operations on the state vectors to reflect movement of elements to new voxels.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.Inventors: Hudong Chen, Raoyang Zhang, Yanbing Li
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Patent number: 11176165Abstract: Application-level data in a storage system are evaluated. For example, a backup analysis tool retrieves a backup object stored in the storage system. The backup analysis tool reconstructs an application object from the backup object. The backup analysis tool accesses the first application object according to a native application format associated with the first object.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Cohesity, Inc.Inventors: Apurv Gupta, Vipin Gupta, Johnny Chen, Sunil Moolchandani, Murali Vajapeyam
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Patent number: 11170570Abstract: There is provided a method of generating instructions for manufacturing of a functionally graded material (FGM) object, comprising: providing geometric trivariate(s) defining geometry of FGM object, providing material trivariate(s) defining material properties of the FGM object, computing a volumetric representation of the FGM object that includes the geometric trivariate(s) and the material trivariate(s) spanning a same parametric domain, and computing code instructions for execution by a manufacturing device controller of a manufacturing device for manufacturing of the FGM object by: identifying locations within the boundaries defined by the geometric trivariate(s) of the volumetric representation, computing respective material value(s) for each of the locations according to the material trivariate(s) of the volumetric representation corresponding to the identified locations, and converting the locations from the parametric domain to the Euclidean space, wherein each of the locations in Euclidean space is aType: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Ben Ezair, Gershon Elber
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Patent number: 11162703Abstract: Systems and methods for characterization of retrofit opportunities are described. The methods may comprise computing, using at least one computing device disposed remote from a building and based at least in part on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) runtime data associated with the building, one or more thermal characteristics of the building. In some embodiments, a model-predicted indoor temperature may be fitted against thermal data measured by a thermostat at the building. The thermal characteristic of the building may comprise a thermal insulation, an air leakage rate and/or an HVAC efficiency. The method may be used to determine, using the at least one computing device, suitability of the building for a retrofit opportunity to improve energy efficiency of the building. Determining the suitability may comprise evaluating the one or more thermal characteristics. The HVAC runtime data may be computed based on data received from a thermostat or a meter, such as an electric or a gas meter.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: FRAUNHOFER USA, INC.Inventors: Michael Zeifman, Amine Lazrak
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Patent number: 11156649Abstract: A transport unit, in which a rapid and precise fault localization can be achieved, includes an installation, a simulation device with an interface, through which current status data of the installation can be received, and a computing unit configured determine or acquire simulated status data on the basis of simulation data and the current status data, which are representative for a status of at least a part of the installation. A method for controlling an installation in a transportation unit, in particular a rail vehicle, is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventors: Frank Dahms, Michael Dirauf
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Patent number: 11156744Abstract: A system and method is provided for restoring a 3D tomographic model of the Earth's subsurface geology from the present-day to a past restoration time. Whereas at the present time all faults represent active discontinuities, at a past restoration time some faults have not yet formed. Accordingly, the restored model divides the fault network into ?-active faults (discontinuous surfaces for faults that intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time) and ?-inactive faults (continuous surfaces for faults that do not intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time). A new 3D restoration transformation is also provided that uses linear geological constraints to process the restoration model in less time and generate more accurate geological images.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: EMERSON PARADIGM HOLDING LLCInventors: Jean-Laurent Mallet, Anne-Laure Tertois
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Patent number: 11151904Abstract: Provided are a multi-functional stratigraphic structure model testing system and testing method. The system includes a test piece testing device platform that includes a watertight fan-shaped closed cavity, a fluid-solid coupling loading system, and an anti-arc reaction frame system. A coupling loading system region consist of hydraulic (liquid) loading and multi-directional solid-skeleton loading onto a pore or crack test piece, which can be independently operated or combined with each other's. The fan-shaped closed cavity is fixed through the anti-arc reaction frame system, and a fan-shaped center region is provided with an application region of underground working face. The other two flat fan sides are provided with application regions of physical and chemical improvement for surrounding rock.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING, CHINA RAILWAY TUNNEL CONSULTANTS CO., LTD., HEBEI ZHUCHENG INDUSTRIAL AND MINING MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaomin Zhou, Yue Zhuo, Wenzhu Ma, Wei Li, Yan Xu, Yongsheng Liu, Xiaonan He, Yue Wang, Yongdai Wang, Shiwu Cai, Guijiang Wei, Xin Jiang, Zhiyuan Sha
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Patent number: 11151802Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a face adjustment image, the method comprising the steps of: (a) generating a matched image by superimposing a cephalometric image having a cranium image of a patient whose face is to be corrected with a three-dimensional facial image of the patient; and (b) displaying a predicted facial image on a screen by transforming soft skin tissues of the face according to the skeletal change in the cephalometric image. According to the present invention, the change in the soft skin tissues and the predicted facial image are displayed on a screen of a computer, a terminal or the like based on the skeletal change in cranium, teeth, prosthesis or the like supporting the soft skin tissues. Therefore, the change in the soft skin tissues can be predicted, thereby increasing the accuracy of a face correction operation, making it more accurate and convenient to plan the operation, and enhancing communication between the patient and medical staff.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MORPHEUS CO., LTD.Inventors: Heung-san Choi, Jin-su Kim, Young-guk Park, Seung-hak Baek, Sang-hwan Joo, Hyung-jun Cho
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Patent number: 11144684Abstract: A device may analyze, by one or more processors, a model to identify a first set of model elements that are associated with a model element. The device may apply, by the one or more processors, one or more results from an analysis of the model to a first network unit to determine a complexity of the first network unit or a coupling of the first network unit to other model elements of the model. The device may generate, by the one or more processors, a second network unit, representing a second hierarchy of computation, from the first network unit based on the complexity or the coupling. The device may provide, by the one or more processors, the second network unit as a testing unit for testing the model, the second network unit comprising two or more model elements and one or more numeric expressions.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.Inventors: Dixit Manoj Gangadhar, Prahladavaradan Sampath, Janaki Sivaramakrishnan, William J. Aldrich, Ebrahim Mehran Mestchian
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Patent number: 11141281Abstract: A system and method for the field of humeral components for shoulder joint prostheses and, more specifically, to a method for constructing a range of humeral components intended to be inserted into the proximal region of the humerus during reconstructive shoulder surgery includes the following steps: obtaining a set (Evs) of statistical data relating to variables that can be used to characterise the geometry of a proximal humerus region from morphometric data (Dm) of proximal humerus regions belonging to a representative sample of a population; based on a statistical distribution, determining a set (G) of sizes forming the range of humeral components; for each of the sizes, determining a measurement (MiTn-n) for each of the variables, according to the set of statistical data; and for each of the sizes, producing a humeral component according to the measurement of each of the variables corresponding to the size.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: MOVE-UPInventor: Laurent Geais
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Patent number: 11144829Abstract: Provided herein are exemplary systems and methods including the generation of a superior strategy for deployment to real time actual conditions with dynamic feedback to the secure intelligent networked architecture in order for adjustments to be made to the strategy being deployed to the real time actual conditions and the learned generation of subsequent strategies.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Capitalogix IP Owner, LLCInventors: Howard M. Getson, Sean Vallie, Robert Jump, Wincenty Borodziewicz
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Patent number: 11144042Abstract: An industrial data presentation system leverages structured data types defined on industrial devices to generate and deliver meaningful presentations of industrial data. Industrial devices are configured to support structured data types referred to as basic information data types (BIDTs) comprising a finite set of structured information data types, including a rate data type, a state data type, an odometer data type, and an event data type. The BIDTs can be referenced by both automation models of an industrial asset and non-automation models of the asset, allowing data points of both types of models to be easily linked using a common data source nomenclature.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joachim Thomsen, Steven C. Briant, Noel Henderson, Brian Fast
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Patent number: 11144779Abstract: A first image may be received by a processor. The processor may identify an image quality measure of which to evaluate the first image. The processor may compare the first image to one or more images. The processor may generate a first image quality score for the first image based on the comparing. The processor may convert the first image quality score into a first micro air-quality index. The processor may transmit the first micro air-quality index to a recording device. Additionally, a recording device may capture a first image. The recording device may send the first image to a database that may include a model associated with an image quality measure. The recording device may receive a first micro air-quality index associated with the image quality measure. The recording device may rearrange a display of the first image to display the first micro air-quality index.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Fang Wang, Su Liu, Kevin Shank, Cheng Xu
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Patent number: 11137751Abstract: A method for estimating life of a component includes obtaining fracture data corresponding to a component. The fracture data includes a first dataset corresponding to a threshold region where the crack in the component is dormant below a fatigue threshold. The method further includes determining initial estimates of parameters of a crack growth rate model and parameters of temperature models corresponding to the crack growth rate model based on the fracture data. The method also includes computing optimized parameters of temperature models corresponding to the crack growth rate model, and a scatter parameter via simulation of a joint optimization method using the initial estimates. The method includes determining a cumulative distribution function based on the optimized parameters and the scatter parameter and estimating life of the component based on the cumulative distribution function.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sankar Narayanan, Santosh B. Narasimhachary, Kai Kadau, Sachin R. Shinde
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Patent number: 11125913Abstract: A system and method is provided for restoring a 3D tomographic model of the Earth's subsurface geology from the present-day to a past restoration time. Whereas at the present time all faults represent active discontinuities, at a past restoration time some faults have not yet formed. Accordingly, the restored model divides the fault network into ?-active faults (discontinuous surfaces for faults that intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time) and ?-inactive faults (continuous surfaces for faults that do not intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time). A new 3D restoration transformation is also provided that uses linear geological constraints to process the restoration model in less time and generate more accurate geological images.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: EMERSON PARADIGM HOLDING LLCInventors: Jean-Laurent Mallet, Anne-Laure Tertois
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Patent number: 11126765Abstract: The present invention provides a method for an optimal scheduling decision of an air compressor group based on a simulation technology, which belongs to the technical field of information.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jun Zhao, Yang Liu, Fan Zhou, Zhongyang Han, Linqing Wang, Wei Wang
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Patent number: 11120181Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to detect and determine the location and relative significance of joint damage in structures including bridges, and particularly including accelerated bridge construction (ABC) bridges, based on measured changes in bridge dynamic or static response parameters and model updating methods. These systems and methods may use a detailed finite element model to calculate the sensitivity of joint damages in the structure response parameters for a particular loading configuration and the change of state in the structure obtained through instrumentation and response monitoring of the structure compared to a prior condition of the structure in order to identify potential damages.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEESInventors: Mohammad Abedin, Armin Mehrabi
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Patent number: 11113862Abstract: An injury to a computer game character is simulated by changing the length or weight of an injured body part, or by adding additional links to the skeleton of the character to make the character harder to control. The facial expression of the character also can change. A generative adversarial network (GAN) may be used to learn motion under circumstances of injury to better mimic motion of an injured human as may be derived from, e.g., motion capture (MOCAP) video.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Michael Taylor, Glenn Black
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Patent number: 11113930Abstract: Various embodiments that may generally relate to one or more competitions. Such competitions may include a plurality of rounds. A round may include a player attempting to choose a winner of an event on which a round is based. A surviving player after a number of rounds may be a winner of a competition. Various apparatus and methods are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Kenneth L Miller, Jason Simbal, Craig Lipka, Phillip Flaherty
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Patent number: 11105646Abstract: A computer system provides navigation services. Route data is processed to extract a plurality of routes, wherein each route comprises a plurality of links and nodes. A partition layer is generated for a map including the plurality of links and nodes of the routes, wherein the partition layer comprises a plurality of meshes each containing links and nodes of the map. A context is processed to remove invalid links and nodes from the map based on the context. The partition layer is updated by merging a subset of the plurality of meshes in response to the removal of the invalid links and nodes. A navigation service is provided for the plurality of routes based on the updated partition layer of the map. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for providing navigation services in substantially the same manner described above.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Shoichiro Wantanabe, Yasutaka Nishimura, Kenichi Takasaki
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Patent number: 11106344Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a method is performed at an electronic device including a display device and one or more input devices. The method includes displaying, on the display device, a first graphing area section presenting a plot of a first set of data points for a first variable. The method includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first user input indicative of a selection of a portion of the first graphing area section. The method includes determining, based on the first user input indicative of a selection of a portion of the first graphing area section, a portion of the first set of data points for the first variable. The method includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second user input indicative of a weighting of the portion of the first set of data points for the first variable. The method includes determining, based on the weighting, a second set of data points.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: DECISIONNEXT, INC.Inventors: Robert David Pierce, David Rodriguez Gomez, Arden Martin Arnold, Michael R. Neal
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Patent number: 11092934Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method of determining information for building information modeling (BIM) by a BIM device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Mok Seo, Dong-Seop Lee, Hun-Jung Lim
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Patent number: 11086035Abstract: A method, including: performing, with a computer, within-seismic-attribute clustering for each of a plurality of seismic attribute datasets for N different attributes, N being greater than or equal to two; identifying an anchor attribute and N?1 subordinate attributes from the N different attributes; linking, with a computer, objects within the seismic attribute data sets corresponding to the N?1 subordinate attributes to related objects within the seismic attribute data set corresponding to the anchor attribute; and identifying, with a computer, cross-attribute clusters, wherein the objects of any subordinate attribute that are linked to a same object of the anchor attribute are part of a single cross-attribute cluster.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Inventor: Yulia Baker
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Patent number: 11083377Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for quantitative hemodynamic flow analysis, which involves retrieving patient specific image data. A 3D reconstruction of a vessel of interest can be created from the patient specific image data. Geometric information can be extracted from the 3D reconstruction. A lesion position can be determined. Patient specific data can be obtained. Hemodynamic results can be calculated based on the geometric information, the lesion position and the patient specific data.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Pie Medical Imaging B.V.Inventors: Chris Bouwman, Dennis Koehn, Jean-Paul Aben
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Patent number: 11069452Abstract: A drive device for an in-core neutron instrumentation system includes a safety circuit between a power supply and a drive motor. The safety circuit is provided inside the cover member, and switches between a conductive state in which power can be supplied to the drive motor and a cut-off state in which power cannot be supplied thereto depending on a mounted state of the cover member. The safety circuit is controlled to be in the conductive state in response to a state in which the cover member is mounted on the base member, and is controlled to be in the cut-off state in response to a state in which the cover member is not mounted on the base member.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Saito, Kazunori Aida
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Patent number: 11061919Abstract: A computer-implemented method for interactive visualization of a first set of objects in relation to a second set of objects in a data collection, wherein each of the second set of objects is hierarchically structured includes parsing the first set of objects in relation to the second set of objects in order to generate a mapping between the first set of objects and the second set of objects. The method further includes causing display of a representation of the first set as a central node and a representation of the second set as a set of topic nodes surrounding the central node or surrounded by the central node, the displayed representations constituting a sieve diagram. The method also includes causing display in the sieve diagram of a set of relationships between the first set of objects and the second set of objects by providing a graphical linkage directly or indirectly between the central node and each node that corresponds to a member of the second set.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Inventor: Dhirj Gupta
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Patent number: 11055908Abstract: A two-stage method for iteratively inverting geophysical data for the purpose of subsurface imaging, including: obtaining at least one geophysical dataset and an initial subsurface model; representing subsurface such that a geometry of a geobody is defined using a set of basis functions, and a number of such basis functions is significantly smaller than the number of cells used in cell-based geobody representations, wherein an order of magnitude reduction is two or more for 2-D domains and 3 or more for 3-D domains; in a first stage, successively updating the initial subsurface model, only for the geobody, by performing iterative low-dimensional geophysical inversion based on minimizing a misfit between simulated geophysical data and the geophysical dataset, wherein the simulated geophysical data is generated from a current subsurface model at each iteration; generating a subsurface image from a final updated subsurface model obtained via the low-dimensional geophysical inversion, wherein the subsurface imageType: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Ashutosh Tewari, Dimitar Trenev
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Patent number: 11055742Abstract: A method including displaying content elements on one or more websites to users. This method can also include tracking impression response data comprising (a) a response of the user to the content element of the content elements displayed on the one or more websites and (b) a time of the response of the user. Additionally, the method can include receiving a request from a first user. The method can further include determining weightings of the content elements based on posterior distributions using the impression response data, as adjusted by a temporal decay factor based on the times of the impression response data for the content elements. The method additionally can include generating the webpage to comprise the selected content element. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Abhimanyu Mitra, Kannan Achan, Abhay Kashyap, Afroza Ali, Omkar Deshpande
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Patent number: 11048981Abstract: A piping and instrumentation planning and maintenance system includes an input/output (I/O) interface for receiving a target piping and instrumentation diagram (PID) from a document source system; a processor in communication with the I/O interface; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor. The non-transitory computer readable media store instruction code, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to classify entities and properties thereof within the target PID. The entities include one or more assets and interconnections therebetween specified in the PID. The processor compares the classified entities to a knowledge base that represents relationships between a plurality of assets and interconnections between the assets. The processor then determines, based on the comparison, whether the assets in the target PID are interconnected correctly.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Teresa Sheausan Tung, Jean-Luc Chatelain, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger, Ishmeet Singh Grewal
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Patent number: 11048471Abstract: The audio signal processing apparatus includes at least one bus a network interface, a user interface, a display, and a processor. The network interface outputs an audio signal through a second plurality of audio channels through a network. The user interface receives an operation from a user. The processor receives, from a destination device to which the audio signal is output, information about the number of available output channels of the destination device, controls the display to display a virtual bus representing the output channels of the destination device, received information regarding the number of output channels, receives input setting of a correspondence relationship between the second plurality of audio channels of the audio signal and the virtual bus, generates setting information according to the received input setting, and sends the audio signal outputted from the network interface the audio signal and the setting information to the destination device.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Takahashi, Tadashi Morikawa
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Patent number: 11040449Abstract: A robot control system for controlling a robot including an actuator is provided. The robot control system includes: a collision detector configured to detect a collision occurring between the robot and an external object during movement of the robot, a driving controller configured to control the actuator, a position calculator configured to calculate at least one of collision position coordinate information indicating a collision position where the collision occurs and pushed position coordinate information indicating a pushed position to which the robot is pushed by a collision force generated from the collision, and a restart coordinate setter configured to set the collision position or a position included in a preset moving path of the robot and spaced apart from the collision position as a restart position for restarting a moving operation of the robot, based on a result of the calculation by the position calculator.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Hanwha Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun Gyu Lim, Chang Woo Song
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Patent number: 11030634Abstract: A method including displaying content elements on one or more websites to users. The classification of the users into segments can be based on each impression of content elements being displayed on the one or more websites to a user of the users, tracking impression response data comprising (a) a response of the user to the content element of the content elements displayed on the one or more websites, and (b) one or more segments of the segments in which the user is classified. The method can also include receiving a request from a first user. The method can also include generating a mixture distribution for the first segment for the first content element based on the impression response data for the first segment and generating the webpage to comprise the selected content element. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Abhimanyu Mitra, Kannan Achan, Afroza Ali, Omkar Deshpande, Abhay Kashyap
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Patent number: 11030363Abstract: A physics engine executed on a processor to simulate real-time rigid body dynamics of a simulated physical system with permissive penetration functionality is provided. The physics engine may be configured to iteratively loop through a collision detection phase, solving phase, updating phase, and display phase. When a penetration between a pair of bodies is due to an initial penetration from a prior collision detection phase, the physics engine may permit the initial penetration between the pair of objects during the current solving phase by not applying a bias or position change to correct for the initial penetration. Also the physics engine may be configured to detect geometry changes and modify the initial penetration distance accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Oliver Michael Strunk, Nathanael Presson
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Patent number: 11027741Abstract: A method of estimating driver readiness in a vehicle for performing automated driving includes analyzing a bio-signal and a behavior of a driver through collected driver information, determining a bodily sensory usage state of the driver from the behavior of the driver, deriving chances of task candidates that are probable to occur from the driver during driving from the bodily sensory usage state of the driver to infer a task, determining an intention of the driver on the basis of the inferred chances of the task candidates, and calculating driver readiness using the intention of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hyun Suk Kim, Dae Sub Yoon, Woo Jin Kim, Seung Jun Lee
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Patent number: 11023626Abstract: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for automating design, analysis, and product management synchronization in a model-based systems engineering environment. An analysis template is linked to a system architecture representing a product to be manufactured. A set of properties for an architectural element of the system architecture is extracted based on an analysis instance created from the analysis template. The set of properties is converted into a variable input-output structure. An analysis is run using the variable input-output structure to generate results. The results are linked to the analysis instance such that the analysis instance provides a time-based record of the analysis; to the system architecture to update a set of architectural elements impacted by the results; and to a product management tool, thereby synchronizing the design, the analysis, and the product management of the product to improve an efficiency in the design and manufacturing of the product.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: James Michael Milstead, Theron Edward Ruff, Roger Keith Bolton, Robert Arthur Hartung, Harold Albert Robbins
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Patent number: 11016473Abstract: A process control system includes: one or a plurality of field devices configured to be placed in a plant; and a control apparatus configured to perform at least one of input and output on the field device to control the plant; and a change trend calculation device configured to calculate a change trend in time-series data including an observed value at each point in time of the field device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Fujita, Kimikazu Takahashi, Nobuaki Ema
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Patent number: 11016452Abstract: A controller hardware in the loop (CHIL) interface is disclosed. The CHIL interface comprises software and hardware that redirects a signal flow, including modulation signals and measurements exchanged between controller logic and a power electronics converter (PEC), to a CHIL port. Accordingly, the CHIL port provides access to the controller logic, at a digital level, throughout phases of the controller's lifetime (i.e., design, installation, maintenance, upgrade). Thus, the CHIL interface facilitates the use of PEC simulators for testing. The CHIL interface can detach the actual PEC from the control logic so testing can be performed with or without an operating PEC and can avoid the need for dedicated and error prone signal conditioning circuitry that is external to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Michael Steurer, Karl Schoder, Mark Stanovich, James Langston
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Patent number: 11013909Abstract: When electrodes are used to impose an electric field in target tissue within an anatomic volume (e.g., to apply TTFields to treat a tumor), the position of the electrodes can be optimized by obtaining electrical conductivity measurements in an anatomic volume and generating a 3D map of the conductivity directly from the obtained electrical conductivity or resistivity measurements, without segmenting the anatomic volume into tissue types. A location of the target tissue is identified within the anatomic volume, and the positions for the electrodes are determined based on the 3D map of electrical conductivity and the position of the target tissue.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Novocure GmbHInventors: Cornelia Wenger, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda, Zeev Bomzon, Noa Urman, Eilon Kirson, Yoram Wasserman, Yoram Palti
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Patent number: 11003815Abstract: An example method of analyzing a structure includes generating initial simulation results for at least one finite element model, each of the at least one finite element models includes a plurality of nodes representing a structure. The initial simulation results simulate a response of the plurality of nodes to boundary conditions for a plurality of sets of input variable values. Each set of input variable values represents a different geometry of the structure or a different set of boundary conditions. The initial simulation results are decomposed into a plurality of patterns that indicate correlations between values in the initial simulation results. The plurality of patterns has a quantity that is less than the plurality of nodes. A respective emulator is created for each pattern. The initial simulation results are expanded by determining additional simulation results for the plurality of nodes using the emulators and additional sets of input variable values.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventor: Christopher A. Ruoti
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Patent number: 11004145Abstract: A method of designing bifacial solar panels installations that does not rely on the use of all available space to maximize electrical output and return on investment. Instead, the design method relies the market meter rate of the business sector in the area to determine of the KW size of the array. This production is then converted to cost per square Area for use in evaluating the costs, predicting profits, and generating lease agreements. The tenant pays a contract cost per square Area regardless of actually energy consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventor: Kirk Williamson
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Patent number: 10997329Abstract: Structural health monitoring (SHM) is essential but can be expensive to perform. In an embodiment, a method includes sensing vibrations at a plurality of locations of a structure by a plurality of time-synchronized sensors. The method further includes determining a first set of dependencies of all sensors of the time-synchronized sensors at a first sample time to any sensors of a second sample time, and determining a second set of dependencies of all sensors of the time-synchronized sensors at the second sample time to any sensors of a third sample time. The second sample time is later than the first sample time, and the third sample time is later than the second sample time. The method then determines whether the structure has changed if the first set of dependencies is different from the second set of dependencies. Therefore, automated SHM can ensure safety at a lower cost to building owners.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shell Oil CompanyInventors: William T. Freeman, Oral Buyukozturk, John W. Fisher, III, Frederic Durand, Hossein Mobahi, Neal Wadhwa, Zoran Dzunic, Justin G. Chen, James Long, Reza Mohammadi Ghazi, Theodericus Johannes Henricus Smit, Sergio Daniel Kapusta
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Patent number: 10990711Abstract: A system and method for designing and manufacturing of composite parts wherein the planner can design the part on a computer and analyze the entire work flow process from design to manufacture so as to determine the most efficient design and method of manufacture including resource costs including time, machines, material, labor and expenses.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventor: Gregory MacLean