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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160848 | Apparatus for generating coarse-grained simulation image of sample to be measured with a probe of a scanning probe microscope A sample atomic configuration creation part in a control section creates the atomic arrangement data of a sample, and a sample surface height calculation part calculates a sample surface height for every mesh. A probe profile creation part creates the atomic arrange... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160847 | Hybrid multi-layer artificial immune system The hybrid artificial immune system consists of three main layers, including a solution application layer that interacts with the environment, a solution generation layer that solves combinatorial optimization problems and a modeling layer that analyzes problems and... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145459 | Computation of radiating particle and wave distributions using a generalized discrete field constructed from representative ray sets The present system and method for simulating particles and waves is useful for calculations involving nuclear and full spectrum radiation transport, quantum particle transport, plasma transport and charged particle transport. The invention provides a mechanism for c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126686 | 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 A method for modeling the interactions between objects. The surface the objects define an interface between media. A set of elementary characteristic functions are chosen that correspond to the field of application. The physical properties the media are defined. Eac... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8078438 | Method for simulating thermal resistance value of thermal test die A method for simulating a thermal resistance value of a thermal test die is provided to estimate a relationship between the thermal resistance value of a heating block and the thermal resistance value of the thermal test die, and to find out a size of the heating bl... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078439 | Method of imaging subsurface formations using a virtual source array This invention relates generally to a method of simulating the signal of an electromagnetic source using one or more dipole sources. In the method a dipole source is located at an excitation location corresponding to a segment of the electromagnetic source to be sim... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073662 | Design support method, design support system, and design support program for heat convection field A highly convenient design support method and design support system for a heat convection field or a mass diffusion field which significantly reduce the number of times of numerical simulation required to examine the designing parameters for achieving the design pur... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065122 | Method of designing or evaluating a bake oven A method of designing or evaluating the design of a bake oven for curing paint on an article to achieve the cure criteria for predetermined areas of the article, including creating a three-dimensional model of the article and the bake oven, dividing the three-dimens... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8000945 | Method for determining heterogeneous bottom friction distributions using a numerical wave model A computer-implemented inversion method for determining characteristics of a bottom roughness field using a numerical wave model is provided. Measured wave heights over an area of interest are compared to predicted wave heights calculated by a wave model using an es... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996195 | Computation of particle energy from ablation A method is provided for predicting thermal energy transfer from an entrained particle to a wall surface, the entrained particle being incorporated within a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a flow scenario. Initially, the method generates grid geometry fo... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987076 | Electromagnetic field simulator and electromagnetic field simulation program storage medium The electromagnetic field simulator includes a discrete model setting section which sets a space grid width and a time step in a simulation of the electromagnetic field, a coefficient setting section which sets coefficients of equations for the simulation at various... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979250 | Method of laying out a data center using a plurality of thermal simulators A method is provided for facilitating installation of one or more electronics racks within a data center. The method includes: placing a plurality of thermal simulators in the data center in a data center layout to establish a thermally simulated data center, each t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7899655 | Method of predicting and communicating the performance of an installed building component based on the transient hygrothermal behavior of the component A method of predicting and communicating transient hygrothermal behavior of an installed building component in a building wherein an interior environment of the building is materially affected by an environment exterior of the building, includes: defining a performa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885795 | Methods and systems for managing facility power and cooling Systems and methods are provided for determining data center cooling and power requirements and for monitoring performance of cooling and power systems in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7783461 | Systems and methods for simulating vehicle operation Systems for simulating vehicle operation include a computer having a pedal activation program, the pedal activation program comprising instructions for generating signals relating to operation of a vehicle from the computer to a pedal sensor output according to a pr... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769572 | Method of imaging subsurface formations using a virtual source array This invention relates generally to a method of simulating the signal of an electromagnetic source using one or more dipole sources. In the method a dipole source is located at an excitation location corresponding to a segment of the electromagnetic source to be sim... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7698114 | Techniques for distributing power in electronic circuits and computer systems Techniques for enhancing thermal design of a system having a number of boundary values are provided. A method for such enhancement includes representing thermal response of the system to the boundary values, obtaining at least one constraining parameter, and determi... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672818 | Method for solving implicit reservoir simulation matrix equation A method for solving a matrix equation AX=B, wherein A represents a block sparse matrix, B represents a right hand side block vector and X represents a solution block vector. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving the block sparse matrix and the right hand... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7634392 | Simulation of guided wave reflection signals representing defects in conduits A method and system for simulating defects in conduits, where the defects are detected using long-range guided-wave inspection techniques. The guided wave interaction with a defect is treated as a one-dimensional problem of plane wave reflection from a boundary of d... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634393 | Technique for coupling meteorology to acoustics in forests A system and method of predicting multi-dimensional meteorological and acoustic effects within and above a forest environment comprises collecting input data comprising meteorological and forest canopy characterization data for a specified forest environment; inputt... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7430500 | Method and device for numerical analysis of flow field of incompressible viscous fluid, directly using V-CAD data A method including: a dividing step (A) of dividing external data into a plurality of cells (13) having boundaries orthogonal to each other, the external data including boundary data of an object which contacts incompressible viscous fluid; a cell classifying... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424367 | Method for predicting lithology and porosity from seismic reflection data Method for predicting lithology and porosity of subsurface rocks from seismic reflection data. The seismic data is inverted to yield elastic properties of the rocks such as the compressional and shear impedances. A rock physics model is built to relate porosity, the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424408 | Aircraft engine face radar cross section analysis An aircraft engine face radar cross section analysis is computed using a finite element based approach. A finite element model is only created for a periodic slice of the aircraft engine face. The system matrix of the finite element model is then transformed into a ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421345 | Geosteering in earth formations using multicomponent induction measurements A multicomponent induction logging tool is used on a MWD bottomhole assembly. Multifrequency focusing that accounts for the finite, nonzero, conductivity of the mandrel is applied. Using separation of modes, the principal components and a direction of a conductivity... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418350 | Method, media, and signals for processing seismic data to obtain a velocity field A method and apparatus for estimating a seismic velocity field from seismic data including time-amplitude representations associated with source-receiver locations spaced apart by an offset distance and having a midpoint therebetween, the seismic data being arranged... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7401009 | Magnetostatic modeling methods and systems for use with boundary element modeling Methods and systems for magnetostatic modeling of a magnetic object is disclosed. A varying surface charge density is established at a surface of a magnetic object modeled by a magnetostatic model. Thereafter, a varying magnetic charge is generally distributed throu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398158 | Method and apparatus for detecting fractures using frequency data derived from seismic data A unique method has been developed which can show the presence of fractures in an Earth formation as a mappable attribute. This method uses the frequency spectra derived from P-wave seismic data over a pair of specific time windows above and below a seismic horizon ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373251 | Method for predicting quantitative values of a rock or fluid property in a reservoir using seismic data A method is provided for predicting a value of a designated rock or fluid property in a subterranean geologic volume. A first predicted value of the designated rock or fluid property is also assigned to a volume of a multi-dimensional, multi-scale model. A first pre... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366342 | Simultaneous computation of multiple points on one or multiple cut lines Methods, and program storage devices, for performing model-based optical proximity correction by providing a region of interest (ROI) having an interaction distance and locating at least one polygon within the ROI. A cut line of sample points representative of a set... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364355 | Method and apparatus for obtaining a temperature measurement using an InGaAs detector A method of linearizing the output a infrared camera having an InGaAs includes determining the an equivalent black body temperature of an object by utilizing a plurality of calibration constants determined by collecting data from a number of temperatures of the obje... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365544 | Methods of adjusting airborne geophysical measurements based on mapping instrument measurements This invention concerns a method of making airborne geophysical measurements. Such measurements may be made from fixed or moving wing airplanes or dirigibles. The method comprises the following steps: taking first real time measurements from one, or more, geophysica... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363162 | Gas reservoir evaluation and assessment tool method and apparatus and program storage device A Gas Reservoir Evaluation and Assessment Tool utilizes an Analytical Engine to produce predictions of pressure values and other production data at any point in space and at any point in time in a reservoir. A computer system, such as a workstation, stores a Gas Res... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356411 | Method for acquiring and interpreting transient electromagnetic measurements A method for interpreting transient electromagnetic survey data includes measuring transient response of a medium over a plurality of switching events. The measured transient response to a first one of the current switching events is modeled. Transient response to t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353469 | Method and program for designing semiconductor device It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device design method and program that can rapidly improve power supply noise characteristics and reduce the noise sufficiently without being restricted in design and noise solution. A step of perfor... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353056 | Optimized switching configurations for reconfigurable arrays of sensor elements The reconfigurable ultrasound array disclosed herein is one that allows groups of subelements to be connected together dynamically so that the shape of the resulting element can be made to match the shape of the wave front. This can lead to improved performance and/... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353147 | Computer aided design associative design process A system and method for designing components through the use of a computer having a computer aided design (CAD) software enables a reduction in the occurrence of infinite looping. The method includes the step of identifying common areas between the components, where... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343271 | Incorporation of a phase map into fast model-based optical proximity correction simulation kernels to account for near and mid-range flare A first method to compute a phase map within an optical proximity correction simulation kernel utilizes simulated wavefront information from randomly generated data. A second method uses measured data from optical tools. A phase map is created by analytically embedd... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333871 | Automated design and execution of experiments with integrated model creation for semiconductor manufacturing tools A method, system and medium of automation performed on a semiconductor manufacturing tool. The method creates a designed set of experiments for the tool and runs the created set of experiments. The method also collects data resulting from running the experiments and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327896 | Testing apparatus and method for a spectral imaging system A hyperspectral imaging system is tested in the lab to allow a determination of its response to the emission from a simulated target, of certain wavelengths of radiation which the imaging system will be using during target determination. A broadband IR wavelength ge... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324930 | Method and apparatus for performing OPC using model curvature A method of preparing a file that stores layout of devices to be created with photolithography for optical and process correction (OPC). Polygons that define structures to be created are initially fragmented into edge segments and a simulation of how the edge segmen... | 01/29/2008 |
