公开(公告)号：US20250111122A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18479724

申请日：2023-10-02

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Brian Adolf ,  Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu ,  Ian Williamson

IPC: G06F30/392 ,  G06F119/06

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of creating a design for an optoelectronic detector device is provided. A computing system determines an initial design that includes circuit parameters for at least one photodetector region and for conductors that couple the photodetector region to circuitry. The computing system simulates performance of an optically active region to generate a plurality of field values, and simulates performance of the at least one photodetector region based on the plurality of field values to generate charge values. The computing system simulates performance of at least the conductors based on the charge values to generate a performance loss value, and determines a loss metric based on the performance loss value. The computing system backpropagates the loss metric to determine a circuit parameter gradient, and revises the circuit parameters based at least in part on the circuit parameter gradient to create an updated initial design.

公开(公告)号：US12265777B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17487649

申请日：2021-09-28

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Alfred Ka Chun Cheung ,  Martin Schubert ,  Ian Alexander Durant Williamson

IPC: G06F30/398 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  H04B10/073

Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for creating a design for a physical device are provided. A computing system receives an initial design of the physical device. Performance of the physical device is simulated using the initial design. A performance loss value is determined for the physical device based on the simulated performance at a target wavelength and one or more delta wavelengths. The performance loss value is backpropagated to determine a gradient corresponding to an influence of changes in the initial design on the total performance loss value. The initial design of the physical device is revised based at least in part on the gradient.

公开(公告)号：US12261685B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US17887185

申请日：2022-08-12

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Sunil Pai ,  Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu

IPC: H04J14/02

Abstract: Photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits, optical elements, and techniques of making and using the same are described. A photonic device includes an input region adapted to receive an optical signal including a multiplexed channel characterized by a distinct wavelength, a dispersive region optically coupled with the input region to receive the optical signal, the dispersive region including a plurality of sub-regions defined by an inhomogeneous arrangement of a first material and a second material, and a plurality of output regions optically coupled with the input region via the dispersive region. The plurality of sub-regions can include an input channel section, an in-coupler section, a parallel channel section, an out-coupler section, and an output channel section. The plurality of sub-regions together can configure the photonic device to demultiplex the optical signal and to isolate the multiplexed channel at a first output region of the plurality of output regions.

公开(公告)号：US20250094667A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18884957

申请日：2024-09-13

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Sze Mei Cat Wong ,  Leo Francis Casey ,  Sushant Kumar

IPC: G06F30/20 ,  G06F113/04

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for simulation of electrical power grid behaviors. In some instances, a data model associated with an electrical power grid is obtained. The data model stores static data and dynamic data that can be continuously integrated into the data model based on data streams obtained from data sources associated with properties of the electrical power grid. A set of interfaces can be instantiated for querying data based on the data model. The querying is related to data from at least one of a planning analysis modeling domain or an operation analysis modeling domain from the data model related to the electrical power grid. A query associated with a first planning operation in the planning analysis modeling domain is executed. The query defines one or more nodes of the electrical power grid and relates to the planning analysis domain.

公开(公告)号：US20250093474A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18468114

申请日：2023-09-15

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： Stephen Palese ,  Ondrej Cierny ,  Paul Epp

IPC: G01S7/481 ,  G01S7/484 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G02B27/00

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an optical phased array (OPA) architecture for a device capable of transmitting and receiving both optical communications signals and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) signals. The OPA architecture may involve the use of a single OPA chip with a plurality of photonic integrated circuits (PIC). In this regard, the transmitters and receivers (or transceivers) of the OPA architecture may include switches. The transceiver switch may enable changing between transmitting and receiving optical communications signals and LIDAR signals.

公开(公告)号：US12242775B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-04

申请号：US17354012

申请日：2021-06-22

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Leo Francis Casey ,  Xinyue Li ,  Page Furey Crahan ,  Raymond Daly ,  Peter Evans ,  Xing Chen ,  Amanda McNary

IPC: G06F30/20 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T11/20 ,  H02J3/00 ,  H02J13/00 ,  G06F113/04

Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more processors includes receiving interconnection data for a proposed interconnection to a power grid; accessing a power grid model including a topological representation of the power grid, electrical specifications of grid components, and empirical operation characteristics; and generating, using the interconnection data for the proposed interconnection to the power grid, and the power grid model, simulated power grid data. The simulated power grid data is based on simulating operation of the power grid with the proposed interconnection coupled to a location of the power grid identified by the interconnection data during a simulated time period. The simulated power grid data includes a plurality of different temporal and spatially dependent characteristics of the power grid. The method includes evaluating, using one or more metrics, the simulated power grid data; and outputting evaluation results of the one or more metrics.

公开(公告)号：US20250066207A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18948550

申请日：2024-11-15

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Bryan Christopher GilroySmith ,  Jacques Gagne ,  Robert Nelson ,  Christopher Gregory Malone

IPC: C01B32/50 ,  B01D53/62 ,  F25J3/02

Abstract: Techniques for providing carbon dioxide include generating thermal energy, an exhaust fluid, and electrical power from a power plant; providing the exhaust fluid and the generated electrical power to an exhaust fluid scrubbing system to separate components of the exhaust fluid; capturing heat from a source of heat of an industrial process in a heating fluid; transferring the heat of the industrial process captured in the heating fluid to a carbon dioxide source material of a direct air capture (DAC) system; providing the generated electrical power from the power plant to the DAC system; providing the thermal energy from the power plant to the DAC system; and separating, with the transferred portion of the heat of the industrial process and the provided thermal energy, carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide source material of the DAC system.

公开(公告)号：US12217885B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US18219853

申请日：2023-07-10

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： Nam-Hyong Kim ,  Andrei Kazmierski ,  Paul Epp

IPC: H04B10/00 ,  C01G39/00 ,  C01G55/00 ,  G02B6/42 ,  H01B1/22 ,  H01B1/24 ,  H01M4/131 ,  H01M4/36 ,  H01M4/485 ,  H01M4/505 ,  H01M4/525 ,  H01M4/58 ,  H01M4/62 ,  H01M10/052 ,  G02B27/30 ,  H01M4/02

Abstract: A method of calibrating a collimating lens system includes transmitting, using an optical transmitter, a beam out of an optical fiber and through a collimating lens of the collimating lens system. The beam is reflected off a perfect flat mirror positioned at an output of the collimating lens and back towards the collimating lens, and received, via the collimating lens, at a power meter connected to the optical fiber. The method also includes adjusting a position of a tip of the optical fiber proximal to the collimating lens while tracking a power reading using the power meter, selecting a calibration position of the optical fiber corresponding to a highest power reading, and securing the optical fiber relative to the collimating lens using the calibration position.

公开(公告)号：US20250037453A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18226716

申请日：2023-07-26

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Xin-Jing Wang ,  Anthony Ha ,  Sze Mei Cat Wong ,  Reuben Nahouraii ,  Arthur Robert Pope ,  Om Prakash Ravi

IPC: G06V20/10 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06V10/774

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for mapping an electrical grid are disclosed. A method includes sampling multiple locations within a geographic region, executing a detection process for each location, the detection process including applying the set of images for the location as input to a machine learning (ML) model that is trained to identify electrical grid assets depicted within images taken from a combination of different perspectives and obtaining an output from the machine learning model that indicates whether a same electrical grid asset is identified in each of the images of the location. In response to an ML output that indicates a positive identification of the same electrical grid asset being depicted in a particular set of images of a particular location, the method further includes: selecting a number of sublocations within the region, and executing the detection process for each sublocation.

公开(公告)号：US12205263B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-21

申请号：US18535597

申请日：2023-12-11

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Benjamin Goddard Mullet

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06Q50/16 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q40/08 ,  G06Q50/26

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request for a damage propensity score for a parcel, receiving imaging data for the parcel, wherein the imaging data comprises street-view imaging data of the parcel, extracting, by a machine-learned model including multiple classifiers, characteristics of vulnerability features for the parcel from the imaging data, determining, by the machine-learned model and from the characteristics of the vulnerability features, a damage propensity score for the parcel, and providing a representation of the damage propensity score for display.