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Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/10

20100023305 - Computer-readable recording medium which stores knitting structure model generation program,knitting structure model generation apparatus and knitting structure model generation method: A knitting structure model generation program, apparatus and method are provided to generate a three-dimensional model of a warp knit to reproduce a realistic knitting structure. An initial model generation portion (160) generates in a virtual three-dimensional space an initial model of a warp knit representing one column of yarn... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20100023306 - Devolatilization performance prediction apparatus and devolatilization performance prediction method: A devolatilization performance prediction apparatus for a solution devolatilization process using a twin-screw extruder including a flow state computation means 101 for computationally determining information relating to the flow state of solution existing in a devolatilization region 600, or a target region, of a devolatilization process on a screw 200... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100023307 - Methods for prognosing mechanical systems: A method of prognosing a mechanical system to predict when a failure may occur is disclosed. Measurement data corresponding to the mechanical system is used to extract one or more features by decomposing the measurement data into a feature space. A prediction model is then selected from a plurality of... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20100023308 - Method for accelerating simulation performance and increasing simulation accuracy of models using dynamic selection and replacement of executable embodiments with temporally optimal functional detail and simplification: A method for increasing simulation speed is achieved by implementing a sequence of executable embodiments of digital, analog, mixed-signal or full-wave components are substituted during the process. The substituted embodiments represent more optimal instruction sequences, reconfigurable logic configurations or combinations thereof which may only be a valid representation of the... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20100023309 - Method for predicting symmetric, automated, real-time arc flash energy within a real-time monitoring system: A system for making real-time predictions about an arc flash event on an electrical system comprises a data acquisition component communicatively connected to a sensor configured to acquire real-time data output from the electrical system; an analytics server communicatively connected to the data acquisition component and comprising a virtual system... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100023310 - Emulation system and method for a no longer available microcontroller: An emulation system and emulation method for a no longer available microcontroller, having a supplyable microcontroller and emulation software able to be run thereon, and having an interpreter, the emulation software forming a software layer between the hardware of the available microcontroller and an operating software of the no longer... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100017170 - System and method for protection system design support: A method and system for assessing, auditing, designing, and evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure process plant design and/or the proper sizing and selection of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsystem, and optionally a report generation subsystem, including... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100017175 - Method and apparatus for distinguishing combinational designs: Ordinary minterm counting (OMC) and weighted minterm counting (WMC) are applied as combinational design discriminators to a pair of combinational designs D1 and D2. OMC assigns the same weight to each minterm, while WMC assigns a weight that can vary. For application of minterm counting, D1 and D2 can be... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100017174 - Method and system for processing echo signals: In a pulse-echo measuring system, echo signals are compared by a difference calculator with the output of a model simulating the system. The detected differences are used to re-calculate parameters in the model. Other parameters are directly measured and applied to the model. A primary measurement, such as level, is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100017171 - Method for tuning patient-specific cardiovascular simulations: Computational methods are used to create cardiovascular simulations having desired hemodynamic features. Cardiovascular modeling methods produce descriptions of blood flow and pressure in the heart and vascular networks. Numerical methods optimize and solve nonlinear equations to find parameter values that result in desired hemodynamic characteristics including related flow and pressure... Agent: Charles A. Taylor Attorney At Law

20100017172 - Method of determining the feasibility of a proposed structure analysis process: A method of determining the feasibility of a proposed structure analysis process is disclosed. The process involved the electron beam excitation of x-rays from a multi-layered structure. The method comprises generating predicted x-ray data represents the x-ray excitation response of the multi-layered structure according to one or more sets of... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100017173 - Method of modelling the switching activity of a digital circuit: m

20100017176 - Synthetic structure for asymmetric eddies in the ocean: A system and method is provided for an asymmetric formulation whereby multiple water masses mix together and generate an ‘eddy-like’ feature. Given the core and the shore profiles, embodiments produce a three-dimensional eddy representation for a particular ocean region based on three (core, inshore and offshore) specified profiles. The formulation... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20100017179 - Distributed simulation: A method and apparatus are presented to facilitate simulation of complex systems on multiple computing devices. Model authors can specify state-related information to be exported for viewing or access by other applications and models. Subsystem models may be written to enable connection with other subsystem models via controlled interfaces, such... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20100017178 - Method and system for providing a digital model of an object: Methods and systems are provided for generating a digital model of at least a part of an object referenced to a global coordinate system. An initial digital model, referenced to a local coordinate system associated with the optical device and representative of the respective part, is provided using an optical... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100017177 - Method of predicting and exhibiting energy usage for a plurality of buildings: The invention disclosed comprises a device and method for predicting energy usage for a plurality of buildings. Such a prediction is made by acquiring a plurality of building descriptors from at least two descriptor databases for each building of the plurality of buildings. At least one acquired building descriptor is... Agent: Law Office Of Michael J. Feigin

20100017180 - Method and device for object tracking in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle: A method for predicting object movements in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, in which the movements of objects located periodically by a locating device (12) are precalculated by dynamic modeling of the objects, characterized in that a plurality of dynamic models (16) are held in readiness which... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100017181 - Method for constructing a hybrid grid from a cpg type grid: m

20100017182 - Method for coronary artery disease risk assessment: The present invention is directed to methods for atherosclerosis risk reduction including initial risk stratification, goal setting, and goal attainment for patients with, or at risk for, atherosclerosis. The present invention may be embodied in a computer implemented software product, the modules and sub-routines resident on a computer or hand... Agent: King & Spalding

20100017185 - Method and system for virtual prototyping: An integrated design environment (IDE) is disclosed for forming virtual embedded systems. The IDE includes a design language for forming finite state machine models of hardware components that are coupled to simulators of processor cores, preferably instruction set accurate simulators. A software debugger interface permits a software application to be... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20100017183 - Multiprocessor development environment: In a method of simulating a multi-processor system by running code that simulates the system on a host processor, a SPECULATE and a COMMIT instruction is used to mark an area of memory, shared across several simulated processors, and the code is translated at run time to a form required... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20100017184 - Systems and methods for performing virtual storage operations: The present invention includes a system for simulating the performing of data storage operations. The system may include a storage manager component, at least one media management component directed by the storage manager component to manage storage operations to at least one storage device, and a storage emulation module adapted... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100017186 - Noise model method of predicting mismatch effects on transient circuit behaviors: A method of simulating device mismatch effects on transient circuit behaviors utilizes a circuit model corresponding to an electronic circuit. The circuit model includes a plurality of circuit elements and one or more noise sources. The noise sources have noise characteristics that correspond to device mismatch effects associated with the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20100017187 - Random initialization of latches in an integrated circuit design for simulation: Latches in a net of a simulated integrated circuit design are initialized to known logical states prior to application of a reset signal at the beginning of the simulation. The logical states may be set by generating a list of the latches, sorting them in random order, and then dividing... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jvm)

20100017188 - Specification files for call translation and trace: A method and apparatus for storing a function specification file is described. In an exemplary method, the function specification field is capable for providing other software to facilitate execution of an application in a second operating system with the presence of a first operating system and the application is compiled... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100017189 - Transparent intellectual network storage device: The invention is an intellectual network storage device that uses a network to store and retrieve data, and that connects to an existing storage controller of a host computer. The device is transparent to the operating system of the host computer, and thus does not require additional software, such as... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20100017190 - Emulator: To provide an emulator capable of targeting a device capable of accepting connection of an expansion device for expanding a controller connection port to a plurality of controller connection ports. The emulator, targeting a device having at least one controller connection port and capable of accepting connection of an expansion... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20100017191 - Microcomputer simulator: Provided is a microcomputer simulator capable of quickly dealing with change of a target microcomputer to thereby enable a speedy development of software. The microcomputer simulator is a microcomputer simulator for simulating a microcomputer including therein a CPU and a peripheral circuit of the CPU, and includes a mother board... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100010785 - Apparatus and method for creating scaled, three-dimensional model of hydraulic system to perform calculations: A software application implementable on a computer system is used to create a model of a hydraulic system to perform calculations. The user visually constructs a two-dimensional (2-D) connectivity model in the computer system. The 2-D connectivity model has a plurality of node points defined at various elements (sources, outlets,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100010784 - Model-based scanner tuning systems and methods: Systems and methods for tuning photolithographic processes are described. A model of a target scanner is maintained defining sensitivity of the target scanner with reference to a set of tunable parameters. A differential model represents deviations of the target scanner from the reference. The target scanner may be tuned based... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100010783 - Moving physical objects from original physical site to user-specified locations at destination physical site: Dimensions of each physical object to be moved from an original physical site to a destination physical site are at least approximately determined. Each physical object is tagged with an identifier. A virtual layout of the destination physical site and the dimensions and the identifier of each physical object are... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja (san Jose)

20100010782 - Systems and methods of selecting a cae analysis solver with appropriate numerical precision in each of a series of hierarchically related engineering simulations: Systems and methods of selecting a solver with appropriate numerical precision in each of a series of hierarchically related engineering simulations are described. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a series of hierarchically related engineering simulations comprises a sequence of finite element analyses for designing and analyzing... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20100010781 - Universal method for modeling the interactions between at least one wave and at least one object, the surface of each object defining an interface between at least two media: The present invention relates to a method for modeling the interactions within a system between at least one object. The surface of each object defines an interface between at least two media. The set of elementary characteristic functions are chosen that correspond to the field of application in question. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100010788 - Method of constructing a metamodel for simulating technical data: e

20100010787 - Platelet thrombus formation simulator:

20100010786 - Sound synthesis method and software system for shape-changing geometric models: New methods and software tools that simulate interacting with geometric shapes to synthesize sound are provided. The invention includes methods for determining real-time resonant frequencies for shape-changing geometric objects and interactive software articles/systems that allow users to simulate in real time resonant frequencies of an object as changes are made... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20100010789 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for simulating a scenario by updating events over a time window including the past, present, and future: A scenario is simulated by providing an agent that is an object in the scenario, providing a time window for the scenario that spans the farthest reachable past time and the farthest reachable future time with respect to a present time for the agent and/or at least one player that... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100010790 - System & method for dynamic structuring of process annotations: A plurality of base templates are generated. Each of the base templates models a corresponding process. A plurality of instances of each of the base templates are instantiated. Each of the plurality of instances corresponds to an application of the corresponding process to a particular environment. Each of the instances... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100010791 - System and method for constructing flexible ordering to improve productivity and efficiency in process flows: A plurality of equivalent representations of a process are identified. The process has a plurality of tasks. Each of the representations specifies a different order of the tasks. The plurality of equivalent representations are consolidated into a single representation. The single representation captures, in at least one flexible order grouping,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100010792 - Method and apparatus for analysis of errors, accuracy, and precision of guns and direct and indirect fire control mechanisms: Methods and a system for simulating a weapon system are provided. The weapon system may be modeled using a detailed-error-source description (DESD), with an error term for each error source in the weapon system. A target for the weapon system may be determined. For each simulated shot, each error term... Agent: Honeywell/s&s Patent Services

20100010795 - Method for simulating the thermomechanical behavior of a tire rolling on the ground: A process for simulating the physical behavior of a vehicle tire rolling on the ground with which the tire tread has an area of contact including at least one adherent contact zone and at least one sliding contact zone, which process includes at least modeling operations, numeric value assignment operations,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100010794 - Methods and systems for evaluating a design of an aircraft: A method for evaluating a lightning/HIRF protection effectiveness of a vehicle design is provided. The method is performed using a computer system coupled to a database. The method includes storing in the database design service life goals and critical characteristics for at least one lightning/HIRF protection component. The method also... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100010793 - Vehicle aspect control: A computer system and method for determining a survivability aspect control signal for an aircraft is disclosed. The computer system can include a processor and a memory including software instructions adapted to cause the computer system to perform a series of steps. The steps can include providing a plurality of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100010796 - Location of bypassed hydrocarbons: A method of locating resources in a reservoir that includes at least one injection well and at least one production well includes mapping a modeled permeability characteristic of structures making up the reservoir, computing, based on the modeled permeability characteristic, an indicator of flow velocity for streamlines from each production... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20100010797 - Method for determining the effects of external stimuli on biological pathways in living cells: The present invention describes methods for carrying out experiments on living cells, including making measurements of the operation transcriptional regulatory processes and indicators of the kinds of processes operating in the cell in response to external stimuli. Image analysis allows for gathering data concerning the flow of information through a... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us)

20100010798 - Modeling of variations in drain-induced barrier lowering (dibl): The present method is a method of modeling Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering (DIBL) in a transistor model, the transistor model being based on a MOSFET transistor. The transistor model includes a base, a source, a drain, a gate, and a gate terminal. In the present method, a voltage is applied to... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Amd

20100010799 - Device simulation method and system: A simulation method and system. The method includes receiving by a simulation engine in a device driver, input simulation parameters data associated with a simulation process. The simulation engine calculates a simulated scale down process time period for a device associated with the device driver. The simulation engine simulates the... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20100004903 - Method of constructing a digital model of a route: A method of constructing a digital model of a road, includes the steps of acquiring a first set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a differential global positioning system (DGPS), acquiring a second set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a hybridized... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100004902 - Spine selection mode for layout editing: Methods, software, and systems implementing software provide for accepting a user's selection of a database object defining layout being displayed. The database objects can include objects defining paths and path segments. Automatic layout tools may be used in creating at least some of the objects. The user's selection begins a... Agent: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. C/o Duane Morris LLP

20100004904 - Display designing system and method for designing a display: A display designing system and a method thereof. The display designing system includes a variety of operation modules and an integration module. After receiving initial parameters and selecting operation type parameters, the operation modules generate operation results and transfer the operation results to the integration module. The integration module integrates... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100004905 - Facilities optimization method: The facilities optimization method utilizes Coulomb's law to model placement of facilities relative to a population using the facilities. The natural phenomenon of electrical charge attraction and repulsion can be used to model a wide variety of facility layout and planning problems. The physical phenomenon of charge interaction is simulated... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20100004906 - Fluid injection management method for hydrocarbon recovery: A method for controlling fluid injection parameters to improve well interactions and control hydrofracture geometries is provided. The method incorporates a systematic, transient analysis process for determining the formation effective displacement, stress and excess pore pressure field quantities at any depth within a stratified subterranean formation resulting from the subsurface... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20100004907 - Methods of optimizing chromatographic separation of polypeptides: Described are methods for determination of peptide specific parameter(s) of a mixture comprising a target peptide and a related impurity (or impurities) to be used in a simulation model of chromatographic separation using mathematical model(s). Also described are chromatographic simulation methods using above determined parameters, as well as computer systems... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20100004908 - Multi-scale finite volume method for reservoir simulation: A multi-scale finite volume method for simulating a fine-scale geological model of subsurface reservoir is disclosed. The method includes providing a fine-scale geological model of a subsurface reservoir associated with a fine-scale grid, a coarse-scale grid, and a dual coarse-scale grid. A coarse-scale operator is constructed based on internal cells,... Agent: Chevron Services Company Law, Intellectual Property Group

20100004909 - Method and system for simulation of an mr image: In a method and system for simulating a magnetic resonance image of an examination subject, imaging parameters are determined that correspond to an imaging sequence that will be used to generate a magnetic resonance image of an examination subject, this being the magnetic resonance image that is to be simulated.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20100004910 - System and method of interactive situation simulation: An authoring, execution, and participation software system and corresponding method for the capture and execution of real-world events (e.g., crises) involving individuals such as senior private and/or public sector leaders is presented. The authoring system and method are used to model a scenario, incorporating knowledge from domain experts, relevant media,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100004911 - Method for simulating a physical property of a technical structure by a component model: A method for simulating a physical property of a component model comprising a computer accessible construction model of a technical structure, by automatically generating a mesh of a component model. The component model is first described by a fine mesh of finite elements, and, based on the fine mesh, the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100004912 - Method for simulating a physical property of a technical structure by a component model: A method for simulating a physical property of a component model comprising a computer accessible construction model of a technical structure, by automatically generating a mesh of a component model. The component model is first described by a fine mesh of finite elements, and, based on the fine mesh, a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100004913 - Winds aloft profiler: A platform for a handheld wind profiler includes a housing containing a three-axis magnetic compass module generating a compass signal, including the orientation of the housing relative to magnetic north at a time. A two-axis inclinometer module generates a inclinometer signal including the orientation of the housing relative to a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100004914 - Modeling the nonlinear hysteresis response of reservoir media: A method of modeling a nonlinear hysteresis response of reservoir media involves obtaining measurements of core samples from the reservoir to generate a multitude of bounding curves representing primary drainage and primary imbibition characteristics of a reservoir, generating, using a processor, a plurality of constitutive equations based on the multitude... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20100004915 - Epithelial layer detector and related methods: An epithelial detector and method for automatically identifying epithelial portions of a tissue sample, includes: staining the tissue sample with at least two dyes; applying a color transformation to a color image of the tissue sample to obtain one or more color channels; and applying a trained convolutional neural network... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100004916 - Process analyzer: Techniques for performing discrete event process simulations are described. A first software module receives production process data and configures the data into a precedence format. The precedence data is then provided to a second software module which modifies the precedence data by introducing variability into the data. A third software... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC