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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190548 | Systems, devices, and methods for analog processing A system employs a plurality of physical qubits, each having a respective bias operable to up to six differentiable inputs to solve a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization problem. Some physical qubit couplers are operated as intra-logical qubit couplers to fe... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190275 | Peer-to-peer home automation management A first home automation control device is configured to control a first electrical appliance and to communicate via a peer-to-peer network with a second home automation control device which is configured to control a second electrical appliance. When the first home ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190553 | Methods and systems for quantum search, computation and memory A system for performing multi-dimensional quantum search, quantum computation, quantum memory, quantum storage, and quantum retrieval includes a structure and method for: enabling components and systems for quantum search, and more particularly to improved local and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190539 | Evolutionary facial feature selection An evolutionary feature selection system and method that determines a feature space for a dataset. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for generating a plurality of chromosomes; an agglomerative K-means clustering system for clustering data into clusters, ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188731 | Control system including a control circuit and sensor, and method for operation of the control system A controller includes a control circuit. The control circuit includes a forward path that includes an input and an output, a feedback path coupled to the output and to the input, and a sensor that is between the input and the output. The sensor generates a sensor si... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190299 | Integrated and optimized distributed generation and interconnect system controller Systems and methods for designing and controlling distributed generation resources are disclosed. Monolithic or distributed controllers control the power requests sent to each distributed generation resource to achieve optimal efficiency using rule-based and/or fuzz... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190296 | Apparatus and method for control of a thermostat A thermostat is provided that includes a temperature sensor for sensing ambient temperature, and a switching device that is configured to apply electrical power to a heating element when the switching device is activated. The thermostat further includes a processor ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185217 | Robust adaptive model predictive controller with tuning to compensate for model mismatch An MPC adaptation and tuning technique integrates feedback control performance better than methods commonly used today in MPC type controllers, resulting in an MPC adaptation/tuning technique that performs better than traditional MPC techniques in the presence of pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185215 | Electronic device and method determining a workload of an electronic device An electronic device is provided with at least one functional unit (HB) performing a processing, wherein the functional unit (HB) receives a supply current (Isupply). A supply current monitor (SCM) is provided for monitoring the supply current (Isupply) to determine... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181358 | Energy management apparatus and method An energy management apparatus manages energy consumption of a machine, which has a supply part (14) for supplying energy and a consume part (10) for consuming the energy supplied by the supply part, so that the energy consumed by the consume part is p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185483 | System for design and use of decision models The invention relates to a system for the design and use of decision models. More specifically, the invention relates to an automatic method for decision making by a virtual or physical agent on the basis of external variables derived from an environment described b... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185216 | Plant controlling device and method, thermal power plant, and its control method A controlling device that includes a model that predicts the value of a measured signal obtained when an operation signal is given to a thermal power generation plant, a function that learns a method of generating a model input such that a model output satisfies the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180723 | Root cause analysis in a system having a plurality of inter-related elements A method of performing root cause analysis for use in a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, wherein at least some of the elements experience one or more abnormal conditions, comprising defining one or more conditions for more than one element sy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180491 | Systems and methods for solar affected environmental control One embodiment of the present invention relates to a solar affected environmental control system. The system includes a set of input devices, a priority device, an output device, and a control module. The input devices measure environmental values such as temperatur... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180719 | Printer A printer includes a use status computation section which collects statistics of a use status of an analyzed print job and computes a use frequency and an execution interval of a language translation program based on a result of the statistics, and a resident mode s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180479 | Adaptive control of composite plycutting The feed rate of an ultrasonic knife used to cut composite material is optimized using adaptive control. One or more parameters such as ultrasonic power or side load on the knife is sensed and used to generate feedback control signals. The feedback control signals a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180495 | Air handling control system for a data center Described herein is an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, as well as efficient wire routing, and in particular a control system for controlling the temperature and pressure within the data center. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175988 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus learning a preference of a user for a content item includes acquiring means for acquiring an operation or expression of the user for a certain content item as feedback information; training data generating means for generating tra... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170979 | Systems and methods for calibrating user ratings A website may allow users to rate content items displayed thereon. The user ratings associated with the content items may be weighted according to user rating weight. The rating weight of a particular user may be based, in whole or part, upon whether the user consis... | 05/01/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8170980 | Universal software architecture for decision support A universal software architecture for decision support includes an n-tiered architecture for building a universal task and workload management software system. The design incorporates a connectivity tier for activating a data object representative of application spe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170707 | Failure detecting method, failure detecting apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method A method for inputting a foreign substance inspection map created by foreign substance inspection for a wafer surface after each processing process in a wafer processing process, inputting a die sort map created by a die sort test after the wafer processing process,... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170854 | Behavioral model generation A model of a device is generated. An input port of the device is stimulated with a large amplitude signal having a central frequency. A first port of the device is perturbed with a small amplitude signal tone. The small amplitude signal tone is at a frequency offset... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170963 | Apparatus and method for processing information, recording medium and computer program An information processing apparatus includes a target problem acquisition unit for acquiring a target problem, a generation unit for generating a plurality of solution candidates to the target problem to solve the target problem, and a contribution ratio calculating... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170971 | Systems and methods for providing recommendations based on collaborative and/or content-based nodal interrelationships In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on their attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues. Each interrelationship or link may be positive or negative and may ac... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170723 | Determination and use of power system sensitivities The present disclosure relates to power system sensitivities as computed from power flow parameters and control parameters of a Power Flow Control Device (PFC). To this end, control parameter variations are applied to or generated by a PFC, and comprise variations i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170966 | Dynamic streaming message clustering for rapid spam-wave detection In some embodiments, a streaming message classification method dynamically allocates a stream of messages to a variable number of clusters (e.g. message categories), each containing messages which share a set of similar features. Incoming messages are compared to a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170705 | Interactive on-demand orthotic vending machine and method of producing orthotic including disc version An orthotic vending machine may comprise a measuring apparatus and an orthotic fabricating apparatus. The measuring apparatus may comprises a plurality of probes capable of sensing pressure at various pixels on the underside surfaces of the person's feet at various ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165700 | Complete integration of stand-alone batch operator interface capabilities into generic human machine interface using componentized objects Systems and methods for providing an integrated HMI application for monitoring and interacting with both batch and non-batch processes in a process plant are disclosed. A plurality of independent stand-alone software objects defining various batch process interface ... | 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 |
| 8165726 | Water heater energy savings algorithm for reducing cold water complaints An energy savings water heater is described. The water heater is controlled by an energy savings algorithm that uses one or more of a variable setpoint differential, a variable setback threshold, additional setback thresholds, and an adjustable minimal setpoint to i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160754 | Synthetic air jet cooling system A synthetic air jet cooling system includes a first component. A fan is in fluid communication with the first component. A synthetic air jet is located adjacent the first component. A thermal management engine is coupled to the first component, the fan, and the synt... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160982 | Method for detecting people of interest from information sources A method for detecting people of interest from information sources. Method performs automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving speci... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160752 | Managing energy usage Accessing an energy usage rule for a device is described, wherein the device is coupled with a first structure. The energy usage of the device is monitored. The energy usage rule and the energy usage is then compared. Based on the comparing, an instruction is genera... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160729 | Application of microsystems for a building system employing a system knowledge base An arrangement for use in a control system within a building includes a plurality of sensor microsystems (12, 406, 407, 408) configured to obtain environmental information regarding a plurality of areas in a building and a processing circuit (18, 318, 412,... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160750 | Programmable irrigation controller having user interface An irrigation controller includes a user interface capable of presenting information to a user and allowing the programming of the controller in a simple and intuitive fashion. Information presented may include values of all programmable irrigation parameters associ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160991 | Automated estimation of a country where a client computer is configured to operate A method for automatically estimating a country where a client computer is configured to operate. The method gathers information of the client computer (e.g., GMT offset, time zone name, daylight savings status, desktop language, etc.) and estimates a country where ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155763 | Operation control method, operation control device, and operation control system Operation control method employable in a control apparatus controls a control object by calculating an operation amount to maximize or minimize an evaluation value obtained from a control deviation of the control object from a target value. The operation control met... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155762 | Instrumentation control system In an instrumentation control system in which plural control devices are connected to each other through a network, and transfer of data is performed asynchronously, a reset switch is provided in one of a control device, and when this switch is depressed, an instruc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156057 | Adaptive neural network utilizing nanotechnology-based components Methods and systems for modifying at least one synapse of a physicallelectromechanical neural network. A physical/electromechanical neural network implemented as an adaptive neural network can be provided, which includes one or more neurons and one or more synapses ... | 04/10/2012 |
