Patent Applications published on Jun 16, 2022

Explore the 8,871 U.S. Patent Applications published on the 24th week of 2022, including 6,568 applications that subsequently received a Patent Grant.

Featured patent applications from Jun 16, 2022

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Cilag GmbH International.
US20220183685A1
Human necessities
Application 20220183685, fig. 01

Mechanisms for compensating for drivetrain failure in powered surgical instruments

A surgical apparatus includes an end effector configured to interact with a tissue during a plurality of zones of operation. The surgical apparatus further includes at least one drive mechanism operable to effect at least one motion in the end effector during each of the zones of operation. The surgical apparatus also includes one or more vibration sensors configured to record vibrations generated by the at least one drive mechanism during the zones of operation, wherein the one or more vibration sensors are configured to generate an output signal based on the sensed vibrations, and wherein the output signal is employed to determine a status of the surgical apparatus based on predetermined threshold values that are unique to each of the zones of operation.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc..
US20220191704A1
Electricity
Application 20220191704, fig. 01

System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019, LLC.
US20220187847A1
Physics
Application 20220187847, fig. 01

Robot Fleet Management for Value Chain Networks

A robot fleet management platform includes datastores configured to store a governance library defining governance standards. Processors execute computer-readable instructions to implement a governance-enabling intelligence layer that receives and responds to intelligence requests received from intelligence service clients. The intelligence layer includes artificial intelligence services including machine learning, rules-based intelligence, digital twin, robot process automation, and machine vision. The set of governance standards is applied to decisions made by one or more of the set of artificial intelligence services. An intelligence layer controller coordinates performance of the artificial intelligence services on behalf of the intelligence service clients and performance of analyses corresponding to the artificial intelligence services based on the set of governance standards. The intelligence layer returns decisions determined by the artificial intelligence services in response to the intelligence requests. The decisions are determined based on intelligence service data sources and the set of analyses.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Snap Inc..
US20220188539A1
Physics
Application 20220188539, fig. 01

Eyewear including sign language to speech translation

An eyewear having an electronic processor configured to identify a hand gesture including a sign language, and to generate speech that is indicative of the identified hand gesture. The electronic processor uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify the hand gesture by matching the hand gesture in the image to a set of hand gestures, wherein the set of hand gestures is a library of hand gestures stored in a memory. The hand gesture can include a static hand gesture, and a moving hand gesture. The electronic processor is configured to identify a word from a series of hand gestures.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD..
US20220186724A1
Mechanical engineering
Application 20220186724, fig. 01

Fracturing equipment

The present disclosure provides a fracturing equipment. The fracturing equipment includes: a plunger pump, a main motor and a noise reduction device. The plunger pump is used for pressurizing liquid. The main motor is connected to the plunger pump by transmission for providing driving force to the plunger pump. The noise reduction device is constructed as a cabin structure and covers outside the main motor and isolates the main motor from the plunger pump. With the fracturing equipment according to the present disclosure, the fracturing equipment is driven by the main motor with relatively low noise during operation. The noise reduction device isolates the main motor from the outside, which can effectively reduce the noise intensity transmitted to the outside during operation, thereby achieve the effect of noise reduction. In addition, the plunger pump is isolated from the main motor by the noise reduction device, thus realizing isolation of high-pressure dangerous areas and ensuring safe operation.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION.
US20220191226A1
Electricity
Application 20220191226, fig. 01

Aggregating results from multiple anomaly detection engines

Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a list of objects with anomaly detection results associated therewith. The method further includes generating a resource graph, wherein the resource graph comprises at least two nodes, each of the at least two nodes being associated with one of the objects. The method further includes determining a relationship between the at least two nodes. The method further includes assigning an anomaly score to at least one of the objects. The method further includes calculating for at least one of the nodes, an overall anomaly score for the at least one of the nodes based on the anomaly score for the at least one of the objects and based on the anomaly score for another node related to the at least one of the nodes.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: AI Incorporated.
US20220187841A1
Physics
Application 20220187841, fig. 01

METHOD OF LIGHTWEIGHT SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING PERFORMED ON A REAL-TIME COMPUTING AND BATTERY OPERATED WHEELED DEVICE

Some aspects include a method for operating a wheeled device, including: capturing, by a primary sensor coupled to the wheeled device, primary sensor data indicative of a plurality of radial distances to objects; transforming, by a processor of the wheeled device, the plurality of radial distances from a perspective of the primary sensor to a perspective of the wheeled device; generating, by the processor, a partial map of visible areas in real-time at a first position of the wheeled device based on the primary sensor data and some secondary sensor data, wherein: the partial map is a bird's eye view; and the processor iteratively completes a full map of the environment based on new sensor data captured by sensors as the wheeled device performs work within the environment and new areas become visible to the sensors; and executing, by the wheeled device, a movement path to a second position.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc..
US20220183687A1
Human necessities
Application 20220183687, fig. 01

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE VELOCITY SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

A computer-assisted device include an actuator and one or more processors. The computer-assisted device is configured to support an instrument having an end effector located at a distal end. To perform an operation with the instrument, the one or more processors are configured to operate the end effector according to a state machine having a first state and a second state. In the first state a velocity set point of the actuator is set to a first velocity. In the second state the velocity set point of the actuator is set to a second velocity lower than the first velocity. The state machine transitions from the first state to the second state when a force or torque applied by the actuator is above a first threshold and transitions from the second state to the first state when the force or torque applied by the actuator is below a second threshold.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P..
US20220191719A1
Electricity
Application 20220191719, fig. 01

Network connectivity performance determination on computing devices

Example implementations relate to determining router and computing device performance. An example non-transitory machine-readable medium can include instructions executable by a processor to capture, from an agent device on a computing device of a network, computing device data and network connectivity data associated with the computing device and filter data associated with connectivity to non-WiFi networks from the captured computing device data and network connectivity data. The instructions can be executable to filter out-of-network data from the captured computing device data and network connectivity data, correlate the filtered data with wireless router performance data, and determine router and computing device performances based on the correlation.

Published: 2022-06-16 Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc..
US20220188361A1
Physics
Application 20220188361, fig. 01

Voice-based Auto-Completions and Auto-Responses for Assistant Systems

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first input by a user from a client system associated with the user, wherein the first input is in a voice modality, analyzing the first input to generate one or more candidate hypotheses, determining one or more modalities for presenting output generated by the one or more computing systems to the user at the client system, and sending instructions to the client system for presenting one or more suggested auto-completions corresponding to one or more of the candidate hypotheses, respectively, wherein each suggested auto-completion comprises the corresponding candidate hypothesis, and wherein the one or more suggested auto-completions are presented in the one or more determined modalities.