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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190403 | Real-time rendering of light-scattering media A real-time algorithm for rendering of an inhomogeneous scattering media such as smoke under dynamic low-frequency environment lighting is described. An input media animation is represented as a sequence of density fields, each of which is decomposed into a weighted... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190404 | Computational radiator flow distribution method The present invention provides a method for analyzing airflow through a vehicle radiator and identifying how cooling openings in the vehicle affect airflow through the vehicle radiator. A plurality of pathlines each describing airflow through a vehicle front end and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190408 | Methods and systems for numerically predicting surface imperfections on stamped sheet metal parts Methods and systems for numerically predicting surface imperfections on stamped sheet metal parts are disclosed. FEM mesh includes a plurality of shell elements and a plurality of nodes that represents a stamped sheet metal part. At least one surface of the part nee... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190406 | Hybrid solver for data-driven analytics A complex solver that is able to solve a diverse variety of model analytics. Upon identifying the various input variable(s) and output variable(s) of the model variables, if a straight forward solve is not to be performed, it is determined whether the model analytic... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190405 | Method and apparatus for estimating the physical state of a physical system A computer-implemented method of estimating the physical state of a fluid reservoir with known physical characteristics and subject to specified boundary conditions is provided. The fluid reservoir is represented as a plurality of nodes arranged in N-dimensional spa... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190407 | Method and system for evaluating a device during circuit simulation A method for evaluating a device during circuit simulation includes receiving a first request including a first input value; and mapping the first input value to a first space in a table. The table is configured to store one or more table entries. A table entry incl... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185864 | Circuit board analyzer and analysis method A circuit board analyzer includes a storage unit for storing mesh position information on an analyzed mesh-division model and extracted circuit constants in relation to each other; a division-model configuration unit for dividing the layout of a circuit board into m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185362 | Integration of fast feedback into systems configuration A configuration operation set for configuring a system element is tested by simulating execution of the control operation set with simulation sample test data. The configuration operation set is received via a configuration user interface in a configuration view. Si... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180607 | Acoustic modeling method A cross-spectral correlation function of a structure may be determined by providing a finite element model of the structure having a plurality of elements each having a centroid. A plurality of composite centroids may be determined wherein each one of the composite ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180603 | Process for producing sandwich structures with particulate material pattern The present invention is concerned with a process for forming a very well defined pattern of particulate material in a composite material comprising a web material and particulate absorbent material. The present invention relates also to a method for determining the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180606 | Wide angle substantially non-distorting mirror The invention relates to a reflective surface substantially perpendicular to a vector field described by the equation: W ( x , | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180602 | Method for mechanical and capillary seal analysis of a hydrocarbon trap Method for making a probabilistic determination of total seal capacity for a hydrocarbon trap, simultaneously considering both capillary entry pressure and mechanical seal capacity, and where capillary entry pressure is estimated by relating it directly to the buoya... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180601 | Systems and methods for determining volume of activation for deep brain stimulation This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for determining volume of activation for deep brain stimulation (“DBS”) using a finite element model (FEM) circuit to determine a FEM of an implanted electrode and a tissue medium in which the elec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180609 | Jittery signal generation with discrete-time filtering The computer-implementable method allows for the fast creation of a multi-unit interval data signal suitable for simulation. The created signal represents the output of an otherwise ideal Discrete Time Filter (DTF) circuit, and the quick creation of the signal merel... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180604 | Optimizing a prediction of resource usage of multiple applications in a virtual environment Predicting resource usage of applications running in a virtual environment may include executing benchmarks in a native system and collecting first traces of resource utilization metrics; executing the same benchmarks in a virtual environment and collecting second t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180605 | Methods and systems for creating a smooth contact-impact interface in finite element analysis Improved systems and methods of creating a smooth contact-impact interface (i.e., a curve fitted surface) in finite element analysis are disclosed. According to one aspect, a smooth contact interface is created for a master segment used for simulating contacts. Firs... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180599 | Network design utilizing network management routing algorithm Techniques for designing networks. The techniques utilize network management-based routing (NMS routing) in conjunction with the planning step (design-based routing) of the design process so that an optimal network may be designed. An automated technique for designi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180608 | Variable transport delay modeling mechanism A method, system and apparatus for generating a variable transport delay for use in modeling a dynamic system. The variable transport delay of the present invention may be calculated using a variety of means, including the use of a lookup table generated at a variet... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180600 | Input/output buffer information specification (IBIS) model generation for multi-chip modules (MCM) and similar devices In one embodiment, the invention is a method for modeling electrical behavior of a packaged module having multiple integrated circuits (ICs), such as a multi-chip module (MCM). The method includes: (a) identifying one or more pin groups in the module, wherein a pin ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175856 | Method for simulating the gauging of a liquid tank A method for generating a gauging curve for a hollow body containing a liquid. The curve including a set of measurement points for a liquid level inside the hollow body, and the curve approaching an optimum gauging curve. The method includes, for several different p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175855 | Predictive system and method for the design of mechanical resonant devices A method and system for predicting the quality factor of a mechanical resonant (MR) device. The system and method simulates uncoupled elastic vibration of the MR device to produce simulated dilatation and collects data relating to the dilatation and maximum stored e... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175852 | Method of, and system for, process-driven analysis of operations A method of process-driven analysis of operations includes defining an abstract process, defining at least one metric over the abstract process using a metric definer and computing metric values using a metric computation engine. The method further includes building... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175854 | Universal circuit for secure function evaluation An exemplary method enables implementation of a universal circuit capable of emulating each gate of a circuit designed to calculate a function. A first selection module receives inputs associated with the function. It generates outputs that are an ordered series of ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175853 | Systems and methods for a combined matrix-vector and matrix transpose vector multiply for a block-sparse matrix Systems and methods for combined matrix-vector and matrix-transpose vector multiply for block sparse matrices. Exemplary embodiments include a method of updating a simulation of physical objects in an interactive computer, including generating a set of representatio... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170841 | Predictive model validation Models are generated using a variety of tools and features of a model generation platform. For example, in connection with a project in which a user generates a predictive model based on historical data about a system being modeled, the user is provided through a gr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170842 | Fabric modelling A method of modelling fabric properties and behavior first involves generating (16) a yarn model from fiber parameters, which may be empirically determined. The yarn model is homogenised (18, 20) to produce a homogenous representation of the yarn (YMM)... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170844 | Estimation of probability of lambda failure through employment of lookup table A method for estimating a probability of failure of a least-squares ambiguity decorrelation adjustment (LAMBDA) method is provided. The LAMBDA method is used for estimation of double difference carrier phase integer ambiguity. A plurality of condition sets are selec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170846 | Computation method of mechanical material constant of composite material and volume fraction of material component in composite material, and recording medium In a method of computing the overall material constant of a composite material, a virtual composite material is defined as the one that a first material component is dispersed in a form of inner spherical particles in a matrix phase and each of the inner spherical p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170843 | Generic hard/soft 3D spatial collision detection method A method for resolving collisions for placement of objects in 3D models, including attributing a first state to each object having a hard spatial volume and a second state to each object having a soft spatial volume, predefining a first set of rules to determine whe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170845 | Method and apparatus for automatic performance modeling with load dependent service times and overheads A method for modeling performance of an information technology system having one or more servers for serving a number of types of transactions includes modeling a service time of each transaction type at each server and a processor overhead at each server as one of ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165856 | Neighborhood determination methods and systems in computer aided engineering analysis Improved methods and systems for a neighborhood determination in computer aided engineering analysis are disclosed. According to one aspect, a list of neighbor elements is created for a base element of a grid model representing a structure or an engineering product.... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165854 | Computer simulation of photolithographic processing Methods, systems, and related computer program products for photolithographic process simulation are disclosed. In one preferred embodiment, a resist processing system is simulated according to a Wiener nonlinear model thereof in which a plurality of precomputed opt... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165855 | Method for modeling fluid flow over porous blocks The method of modeling fluid flow over porous blocks utilizes heat transfer and fluid flow equations and a discretization numerical method to model heat transfer rates in a square cavity containing a pair of porous blocks. Fluid flow and heat transfer are modeled wi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165853 | Dimension reduction in predictive model development Models are generated using a variety of tools and features of a model generation platform. For example, in connection with a project in which a user generates a predictive model based on historical data about a system being modeled, the user is provided through a gr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166430 | Method for determining the quality of a quantity of properties, to be employed for verifying and specifying circuits A method is specified for determining the quality of a quantity of properties describing a machine, including a step for determining the existence of at least one sub-quantity of interrelated properties (P0, P1, . . . Pn) of the form Pi=(forall t. Ai(t)=>... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161434 | Statistical formal activity analysis with consideration of temporal and spatial correlations Techniques for statistical formal activity analysis with consideration of temporal and/or spatial correlations are described herein. According to one embodiment, a sequential circuit having a feedback loop is unrolled into multiple unrolled circuits, where the seque... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160846 | Method of modeling phase changes due to laser pulse heating The method of modeling phase changes due to laser pulse heating utilizes energy equations and a discretizing numerical method to model temperature variation and cavity depth in a substrate material due to laser heating. Both constant and temperature-dependent therma... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160844 | Block processing of input data in graphical programming environments In one embodiment, a processing block of a block diagram receives input data including a plurality of data elements organized as a matrix of a first size. At least a portion of the input data is partitioned into a plurality of data blocks in response to user-selecte... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161424 | Method and apparatus for modeling chemically amplified resists Some embodiments provide a system for accurately and efficiently modeling chemically amplified resist. During operation, the system can determine a quenched acid profile from an initial acid profile by applying multiple quenching models which are associated with dif... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160845 | Method for emulating operating system jitter Techniques for emulating operating system jitter on a platform using a given trace are provided. The techniques include calculating a scale factor, wherein the scale factor is equal to a maximum of measured overhead of introducing synthetic jitter on the platform an... | 04/17/2012 |
