Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 02/08

20080052050 - Method for model gain matrix modification: A method is presented for adjusting the steady-state gains of a multivariable predictive control, planning or optimization model with uncertainty. The user selects a desired matrix relative gain criteria for the predictive model or sub-model. This is used to calculate a base number. Model gains are extracted from the predictive... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20080052047 - Method for signal and image processing with lattice gas processes: A method for simulating a partial differential equation to perform image and signal processing. The method utilizes quantum and classical lattice gas processes to simulate the partial differential equation. The lattice gas processes may be run on a type I quantum computer, type II quantum computer or a classical computer.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080052053 - Information processing apparatus and method thereof: An information processing apparatus that can reduce an operation time for mesh generation and also reduce erroneous determination on a contact section. A memory stores a contact determination criterion of parts corresponding to a combination of part kinds of parts as CAD data. A processing unit subjects an extracted combination... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080052058 - Method and apparatus for managing volatile organic content in polyolefin: The present invention relates generally to polyolefin production and to reducing volatile organic content (VOC) associated with the polyolefin. Techniques include the construction and implementation of a purge column model to calculate or estimate the VOC content in the polyolefin exiting the purge column. The techniques facilitate the design and... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder

20080052059 - Intelligent system and method for monitoring generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters: Disclosed herein are an intelligent system and method for monitoring a generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters. The intelligent system and method for monitoring a generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters can calculate a maximum reactive power limit corresponding to over-excitation and a generator terminal voltage... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080052046 - Method and apparatus for determining a solution group of parts in an assembly: A method of forming an assembly from a plurality of components, the plurality of components each having a component volume and a respective locus point, is described. The method includes selecting a target volume by defining a target volume and respective locus point. The method further includes determining a solution... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080052048 - Analytical model creation system: An analytical model creation system can create a desired analytical model by adding a given shape change to an existing analytical model. The system includes an adjacent partial analytical model interlocking section for performing an interlocking change process. The interlocking change process is performed on the existing analytical model as... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080052049 - Decentralized simulation system, method for identifying simulators and simulation models: A plurality of simulators operable to decentrally execute arithmetic operations based on a plurality of simulation models which are respectively assigned to the simulators under the control of a management device. A notifying section is operable to provide a notification so as to relate information regarding one of the simulation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080052052 - Apparatus and methods for determining optical tissue properties: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for determining accurate optical property values of turbid media. In one embodiment, the method includes (a) providing a light source, having a first wavelength and a known illumination power, sequentially at a plurality of specific illumination positions on a first surface of the specimen; (b)... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080052054 - Method and apparatus for risk management: An integrated risk management tool includes a persistent object database to store information about actors (individuals and/or groups), physical surroundings, historical events and other information. The risk management tool also includes a decision support system that uses data objects from the database and advanced decision theory techniques, such as Bayesian... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080052051 - Variable-altitude testing systems: A ground-based system for simulating dynamic suborbital-flight environments occurring during substantially complete suborbital-flights by a flight vehicle.... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20080052057 - Diabetes care management system: A diabetes care management system for managing blood glucose levels associated with diabetes comprising a computing device and an insulin delivery device. The computing device generally includes (i) a memory comprising one or more optimal blood glucose values, one or more self care values of a patient, one or more... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20080052056 - Methods for classification of somatic embryos: The present invention is directed towards methods for the classification of plant embryos by the application of one or more classification algorithms to analyze digitized images and absorption, transmittance, or reflectance spectra. The methods are generally applicable and emphasize the importance of acquiring and using as much image and absorption,... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080052055 - Systems, methods and apparatus for protein folding simulation: Analog processors such as quantum processors are employed to predict the native structures of proteins based on a primary structure of a protein. A target graph may be created of sufficient size to permit embedding of all possible native multi-dimensional topologies of the protein. At least one location in a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080052060 - Method and system for transferring data between a discrete event environment and an external environment: In one embodiment, a model of a system includes one or more event-driven blocks and one or more time-driven blocks. The model is executed in part by receiving an entity from a event-driven block, and in response to receiving the entity, generating a time-varying data signal descriptive of the entity.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080046222 - Copyright of digital works in a virtual environment: The present disclosure provides various novel concepts to a video game environment. Video game environments that include a method for controlling the quantity of raw materials in and between games, where player characters invent items by creating blueprints that are registered to a virtual patent office and used by other... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20080046223 - Method of optimizing enhanced recovery of a fluid in place in a porous medium by front tracking: The method optimizes the development of a heterogeneous porous medium within the context of enhanced recovery of a fluid in place, by fast determination of the position of the front separating a sweeping fluid and the fluid in places having application for development of oil reservoirs or gas. The velocity... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080046228 - Emulation system: An emulation system includes a controller, an emulation calculator, an emulation storage unit, and an interface unit. The emulation calculator includes a device under test (DUT) and emulates the DUT. The emulation storage unit stores emulation data of the DUT emulated by the emulation calculator under the control of the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080046221 - Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space: A method and system comprising a Master station, a processor and one or more targets that allows a user of said system to automatically generate a 3 dimensional graphical representation of a construction site and also overlay a drawing onto the graphical representation to guide the user within a virtual... Agent: Paul J. Sutton, Esq., Barry G. Magidoff, Esq. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080046224 - Apparatus and method for predicting disease: The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and methods for predicting disease and, more specifically, to an apparatus and methods for detecting and diagnosing cancer. One embodiment of the present invention may include generating mass spectra data from a sample taken from a subject and comparing the sample to... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080046225 - Compression and compressed inversion of interaction data: A compression technique compresses interaction data. A fast method processes the compressed data without the need to first decompress the data. In one embodiment, the compression technique is used to compress data in an interaction matrix. The interaction matrix (such as a moment method impedance matrix) contains interaction data between... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046226 - Force reflecting haptic interface: The invention is an apparatus for physically exchanging a force with a user in an environment local to the user. A connection element connects to a user's body member and a linkage between the connection element and ground. The linkage includes means for powering at least three independent freedoms of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080046227 - Emulator of a controller of an industrial plant, in particular of an electric energy generating plant: An emulator of an industrial plant controller includes: an emulation unit, comprising an emulation engine; a structural configuration unit, for configuring the emulation engine so as to define an architecture of a controller of a plant, the architecture comprising a plurality of operating modules organised in nodes and at least... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080040081 - Simulation method for improving freedom of setting parameters relating to input/output characteristics of a memory chip: In the simulation method of the present invention; one parameter is first selected from a plurality of parameters that relate to input/output characteristics. Next, regarding setting lines provided in a file for setting necessary choices from among a plurality of choices for a selected parameter, it is determined to either... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040080 - System and method for identifying original design intents using 3d scan data: Programmatic extraction and management of solid and surface modeling parameters from raw 3D scan data is discussed. An automated process reads raw 3D scan data and works in communication with a CAD system able to perform CAD part modeling. The user is provided with an automatic function to segment a... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080040082 - Modeling systems for consumer goods: The present invention relates to modeling systems for designing consumer products and selected components for use in consumer products, consumer products and components selected by such models and the use of same.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080040087 - Automatic generation of heart sounds and murmurs using a lumped-parameter recirculating pressure-flow model for the left heart: Methods and systems for simulating a phonocardiogram (PCG) signal that includes an anomalous condition are provided. The method generates pressure and flow signals from a lumped-parameter heart model responsive to anomaly parameters. The anomaly parameters represent the anomalous condition. A timing profile or the timing profile and an amplitude profile... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080040088 - Multi-variate network survivability analysis: Network survivability is quantified in such a way that failure cases can be compared and ranked against each other in terms of the severity of their impact on the various performance measures associated with the network. The degradation in network performance caused by each failure is quantified based on user-defined... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080040089 - Efficient characterization of high-speed circuits: Input parameters for a circuit that is to be characterized are provided. A characteristic of the circuit is determined. A simulated output parameter of the circuit is determined using a supervised learning algorithm in accordance with the characteristic and at least two of the input parameters. A first pass/fail criterion... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080040090 - Method and apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit: A method and an apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) are described. A circle chain is formed using input pins and output pins to provide an intellectual property (IP) core model that substitutes for a real IP core circuit. A test bench for the IP core model... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080040091 - Method and apparatus of simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit at gate level: A method of simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) at gate level includes providing a net list including information about a variable power source and a variable ground source, providing a circuit model including the variable power source and the variable ground source, and simulating the net list by using... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080040093 - Register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system: Methods and systems for register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system are disclosed. Statistics for use of a set of registers of a target system processor are determined. Based on the statistics a first subset of the target system registers, including one or more most... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080040083 - System and method for solid component evaluation in mixed ground glass nodules: A method for segmenting a solid component (SC) in a ground glass nodule (GGN) includes providing a digitized image that includes a segmented GGN, the image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of points, computing an intensity threshold that distinguishes a high intensity solid component of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080040085 - Dynamic modeling of an internal combustion engine operating with multiple combustion modes: A method of modeling a diesel engine that is capable of multiple combustion modes and equipped with a turbocharger and EGR loop. The model comprises a set of equations, each equation representing one of the following as a time derivative: pressure at the intake manifold, pressure between the turbine and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080040084 - Method of selecting drill bits: A method for selecting at least one drill bit that includes characterizing an application; checking for at least one drill bit with an equivalent characterization in a data store; when the at least one drill bit with the equivalent characterization exists, selecting the at least one drill bit with the... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080040086 - Facilitating oilfield development with downhole fluid analysis: Formation fluid data based on measurements taken downhole under natural conditions is utilized to help identify reservoir compartments. A geological model of the reservoir including expected pressure and temperature conditions is integrated with a predicted fluid model fitted to measured composition and PVT data on reservoir fluid samples or representative... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20080040092 - Information processing apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of circuit blocks including processor blocks; a software block accommodating and executing programs for executing software; and an integrated control block performing integrated control of the whole system. The processor block fetches execution code from the software block for simulating software, via message... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080033700 - Apparatus and method for analyzing design change impact on product development process: An impact of a change in design information is defined as a sum of an additional work amount that must be reworked in each design process referring to the design information. At a time of requesting an impact analysis of a design change, all processes referring to certain design information... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080033699 - Program and method for generating approximate curve from approximate point group data: An approximate curve generation method according to the present invention generates an approximate curve as smooth as an original curve from point group data obtained by approximating a curve shape, and includes: an approximate polygon shape range determining step of sectioning point group data for each line segment of an... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080033701 - Temperature step correction with double sigmoid levenberg-marquardt and robust linear regression: Systems and methods for improving Ct determination in PCR amplification curves by correcting PCR data for temperature shifts that may occur during the PCR process. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined by a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) regression process is used to find an approximation to the portion of the curve... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080033704 - Method and system for pore pressure prediction: A method for performing an oilfield operation at a wellsite having a drilling rig configured to advance a drilling tool into a subsurface formation. The method includes generating a borehole temperature model for an area of interest using water depth information and a vertical stress model, generating a formation temperature... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080033705 - Kinetic measurements of binding interaction with curvature evaluation: Data from kinetic surface plasmon resonance measurements are fitted to time-profile curves. Time profile curves with sub-threshold curvature are flagged as being insufficient to provide reliable determinations of kinetic parameters and binding affinity. The remaining curves are used to calculate the kinetic parameters and binding affinity, obviating the need for... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080033709 - Model-performance determining apparatus and image forming apparatus: A generating unit generates second model-specific data defining a performance of a target machine based on first model-specific data. An irreversible unit realizes an irreversible state in which a transition is possible from a second state to a first state, but not from the first state to the second state.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080033702 - Method of estimating the volumetric carrying capacity of a truck body: A method for estimating the effective volumetric capacity of a truck body is provided. The method includes the step of establishing a side-to-side profile of a generic load model by extending load side lines upward at a predetermined material angle of repose from the upper edge of each of the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080033703 - Structural optimization system: It includes: a part which changes a computer-aided design model according to a design variable and outputs it; a part which calculates and outputs natural vibration modes and natural frequencies; a part which makes a natural vibration mode image; a part which binarizes a natural vibration mode image by a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080033706 - Design and selection of genetic targets for sequence resolved organism detection and identification: A computer-implemented method as follows. Providing a list of target sequences associated with one or more organisms in a list of organisms. Providing a list of candidate prototype sequences suspected of hybridizing to one or more of the target sequences. Generating a collection of probes corresponding to each candidate prototype... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080033707 - System and method for augmenting a humoral immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method for detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080033708 - System and method of generating equation-level diagnostic error messages for use in circuit simulation: A mechanism for providing equation-level diagnostic error messages for system models undergoing circuit simulations is discussed. The components in a model of a system being simulated are converted into multiple numerical equations where each equation corresponds to a component in the system being simulated or a topology equation for the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080033710 - Method and system for designing and modeling a product in a knowledge based engineering environment: An interactive design system includes a design application that creates and models a geometry of an object. A programming language application defines engineering rules that may be associated with the object. The programming language application associates the geometry of the object with the engineering rules such that any change made... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP