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公开(公告)号:US20230341615A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US17996676
申请日:2021-05-04
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Bharat R. Acharya , Robert D. Taylor , Joseph P. Attard , Benjamin J. Forsythe , David T. Yust , Matthew E. Sousa , Jason S. Petaja , Anthony M. Renstrom , William Blake Kolb , Matthew S. Cole , Matthew S. Stay , Matthew R.D. Smith , Jeremy O. Swanson , Tri D. Pham , David A. Rosen , Qunyi Chen , Lisa A. DeNicola , Quinn D. Sanford , Carl A. Stover , Lin Zhao , Gilles J. Benoit
CPC classification number: G02B6/0056 , G02B6/0051 , G06V40/1318
Abstract: An optical construction includes a reflective polarizer and an optically diffusive film disposed on the reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer includes an outer layer including a plurality of first particles partially protruding from a first major surface thereof to form a structured major surface. A first optically diffusive layer is conformably disposed on the structured major surface. The optically diffusive film includes a second optically diffusive layer including a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed therein, and a structured layer including a structured major surface. For a substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm, the second optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs in the visible wavelength range and an average specular transmittance Is in the infrared wavelength range, where Is/Vs≥2.5.
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公开(公告)号:US20230325077A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-12
申请号:US18210216
申请日:2023-06-15
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Gilles J. Benoit , Nicholas A. Johnson
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0604 , G06F3/0658 , G06F3/0685
Abstract: Method for active data storage management to optimize use of an electronic memory. The method includes providing signal injections for data storage. The signal injections can include various types of data and sizes of data files. Response signals corresponding with the signal injections are received, and a utility of those signals is measured. Based upon the utility of the response signals, parameters relating to storage of the data is modified to optimize use of long-term high latency passive data storage and short-term low latency active data storage.
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公开(公告)号:US11662509B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-30
申请号:US16482312
申请日:2018-03-01
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Timothy J. Nevitt , Gilles J. Benoit , Matthew B. Johnson
Abstract: An article including a reflector with a reflectance band that is substantially constant as a function of an incidence angle; a polymeric multilayer film packet including a front surface partial reflector with a reflectivity that increases with an increasing incidence angle away from the normal; and a wavelength-selective absorber with a transmission band that at least partially coincides with the reflectance band of the reflector.
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公开(公告)号:US20230115202A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-13
申请号:US17873420
申请日:2022-07-26
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Zhisheng Yun , Michael L. Steiner , Jo A. Etter , Timothy L. Wong , Gilles J. Benoit , John D. Le , Erin A. McDowell , Susan L. Kent
Abstract: An optical element includes an optical surface configured to receive light at a predetermined wavelength in a range from about 400 nm to about 1000 nm. The optical surface is defined by a vertical axis and a horizontal axis defining four Cartesian quadrants sequentially numbered in a counter-clockwise direction. A first longitudinal section of the optical surface is centered on the vertical axis and a second longitudinal section of the optical surface is centered on the horizontal axis. The first and second longitudinal section each extend across opposite edges of the optical surface and have a same substantially uniform retardance for substantially normally incident light. The optical element includes four discrete retarder sections. Each retarder section is disposed on a respective Cartesian quadrant of the optical surface and has a retardance difference from the substantially uniform retardance of the optical surface that is greater than zero.
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公开(公告)号:US20220276421A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-01
申请号:US17746170
申请日:2022-05-17
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: John A. Wheatley , Guanglei Du , Gilles J. Benoit , Rolf W. Biernath
Abstract: An example optical filter may include an angle blocking layer having a first angular light blocking range θAL relative to a normal axis, and an interference filter adjacent the angle blocking layer having a second angular light blocking range θIF relative to the normal axis. θIF and θAL at least partially overlap. The example optical filter has a predetermined light transmission zone comprising angles from 0° to a maximum light transmission angle θTmax relative to a normal axis of the major surface. The example optical filter has a predetermined angular light blocking zone θB, a union of θIF and θAL. An example optical filter may include an interference filter having an incidence angle-dependent reflection band and an absorbing layer having an absorption band. The incidence angle-dependent reflection band and the absorption band may overlap at at least one wavelength at at least one angle of incidence.
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公开(公告)号:US11366257B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US16341639
申请日:2017-10-18
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: John A. Wheatley , Guanglei Du , Gilles J. Benoit , Rolf W. Biernath
Abstract: An example optical filter may include an angle blocking layer Slaving a first angular light blocking range θAL relative to a normal axis, and an interference filter adjacent the angle blocking layer having a second angular light blocking range θIF relative to the normal axis. θIF and θAL at least partially overlap. The example optical filter has a predetermined light transmission zone comprising angles from 0° to a maximum light transmission angle θTmax relative to a normal axis of the major surface. The example optical filter has a predetermined angular light blocking zone θB, a union of θIF and θAL. An example optical filter may include an interference filter having an incidence angle-dependent reflection band and an absorbing layer having an absorption band. The incidence angle-dependent reflection band and the absorption band may overlap at least one wavelength at least one angle of incidence.
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公开(公告)号:US20220189632A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-16
申请号:US17436743
申请日:2019-10-03
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Brian E. Brooks , Gilles J. Benoit , Peter O. Olson , Tyler W. Olson , Himanshu Nayar , Frederick J. Arsenault , Nicholas A. Johnson , Susan L. Woulfe , Mark A. Tomai
IPC: G16H50/20 , G16H50/50 , G16H20/10 , A61B5/00 , A61B5/0205 , A61B5/021 , A61B5/024 , A61B5/145 , A61M16/00
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting settings for a treatment of a patient. In one aspect, the method comprises repeatedly performing the following: i) selecting a configuration of input settings for providing a treatment to a patient based on a causal model that measures current causal relationships between input settings and effects of treatments on the patient; ii) receiving a measure of an effect of the treatment on the patient; and iii) adjusting, based on the measure of the effect of the treatment on the patient, the causal model.
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公开(公告)号:US20220187774A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-16
申请号:US17438096
申请日:2019-09-11
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Brian E. Brooks , Gilles J. Benoit , Peter O. Olson , Tyler W. Olson , Himanshu Nayar , Frederick J. Arsenault , Nicholas A. Johnson
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes obtaining data specifying baseline probability distributions for each of a plurality of controllable elements; maintaining a causal model; repeatedly performing the following: selecting control settings for the environment based on the causal model and values for a particular internal parameter of the control system that are sampled from a range of possible values; selecting control settings for the environment based on the baseline probability distributions; monitoring environment responses to the control settings selected based on the causal model and the control settings selected based on the baseline probability distributions; determining, for each of the possible values, a measure of a difference between a current system performance and a baseline system performance; and updating how frequently each of the possible values is sampled.
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公开(公告)号:US20220176968A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-09
申请号:US17436751
申请日:2019-09-11
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Brian E. Brooks , Gilles J. Benoit , Peter O. Olson , Tyler W. Olson , Himanshu Nayar , Frederick J. Arsenault , Nicholas A. Johnson , John A. Wheatley
IPC: B60W40/064 , B60W40/08 , B60W40/105 , G05B13/02
Abstract: A method of optimizing a plurality of control signals used in operating a vehicle is described. The operation has a plurality of associated measurable parameters. The method includes: for each control signal, selecting a plurality of potential optimum values from a predetermined set; operating the vehicle in at least a first sequence of operation iterations, where for each pair of sequential first and second operation iterations in the first sequence of operation iterations, the potential optimum value of one control signal in the first operation iteration is replaced in the second operation iteration with a next potential optimum value of the control signal, while the potential optimum values of the remaining control signals are maintained; for each operation iteration, measuring each parameter in the plurality of measurable parameters; and generating confidence intervals for the control signals to determine causal relationships between the control signals and the measurable parameters.
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公开(公告)号:US20220146995A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17439105
申请日:2019-09-11
Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Inventor: Himanshu Nayar , Frederick J. Arsenault , Nicholas A. Johnson , Brian E. Brooks , Gilles J. Benoit , Peter O. Olson , Tyler W. Olson
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes identifying a procedural instance; selecting control settings for the procedural instance, comprising, for a particular one of the controllable elements: assigning the procedural instance to a cluster for the particular controllable element in accordance with current values of a set of clustering parameters for the particular controllable element; and selecting a setting for the particular controllable element for the procedural instances based on a causal model that is specific to the cluster; obtaining environment responses to the selected control settings that define a value of the performance metric for the procedural instance; and updating, for the particular controllable element, the causal model for the cluster for the controllable element to which the procedural instance was assigned based on the value of the performance metric.
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