Patents Examined by Benyam Haile
  • Patent number: 11952087
    Abstract: A smart clothing and backpack system enables a user to perform many actions. The smart clothing includes circuitry and/or is made of a conductive material enclosed in an insulation material. The smart clothing includes a set of sensors configured to detect body information. The smart clothing includes multiple electromagnets configured to adjust a size of the smart clothing. The electromagnets are configured to have an increased attraction to make the smart clothing tighter on the body of the user. The system includes a smart backpack to communicate with the smart clothing. The smart backpack includes a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader configured to detect RFID tags on or in items within the smart backpack. Many other features are able to be implemented with the smart clothing and backpack system. The smart clothing is able to include a wetsuit configured to communicate with a surfboard and/or a backpack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandra E. Myslinski, William T. Myslinski, Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 11947647
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a user via a galvanic skin response on electric computing device is described. The method includes receiving a request for user authentication from a second electronic computing device. The electronic computing device measures a change in the galvanic skin response associated with the user, and the change in the galvanic skin response is indicative of the user creating a physical connection between the electronic computing device and the second electronic computing device. The electronic computing device compares the galvanic skin response to a threshold skin conductance level. When the comparison of the galvanic skin response indicates, an authentication confirmation is sent to the second electronic computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis
  • Patent number: 11917983
    Abstract: A pet care system includes a mobile robot comprising a first communication circuit configured to transmit a search signal through a first communication method and a second communication circuit configured to transmit event occurrence information through a second communication method different from the first communication method. The system includes a wearable device including a sensor configured to transmit a response signal through the first communication method in response to the search signal. The system includes a station comprising an operation dispenser configured to perform a predetermined operation based on the reception of the event occurrence information. The mobile robot further comprises a processor configured to determine a moving direction of the mobile robot based on the response signal received from the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonyoung Seo, Hyunkoo Kang, Chunseong Kim, Taegyu Kim, Jinwook Yoon, Kyounghoon Lee, Euihyun Jung, Donghyun Chun, Hongseok Choi, Jihoon Ha
  • Patent number: 11918353
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Patent number: 11911529
    Abstract: A system may automatically conduct hygiene cycles for a confined space such an interior space of a box suitable for storing and/or carrying packaged food. The system may include a hygiene device that can be attached to the box to conduct the hygiene cycles. The system may also automatically collect information related to the hygiene cycles and transmit the collected information to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Wenbin Wei, Ying Zhang, Zhili Ding, Huarong Yu
  • Patent number: 11901070
    Abstract: A patient monitoring hub can communicate bidirectionally with external devices such as a board-in-cable or a dongle. Medical data can be communicated from the patient monitoring hub to the external devices to cause the external devices to initiate actions. For example, an external device can perform calculations based on data received from the patient monitoring hub, or take other actions (for example, creating a new patient profile, resetting baseline values for algorithms, calibrating algorithms, etc.). The external device can also communicate display characteristics associated with its data to the monitoring hub. The monitoring hub can calculate a set of options for combined layouts corresponding to different external devices or parameters. A display option may be selected for arranging a display screen estate on the monitoring hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Bilal Muhsin, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Peter Scott Housel, Ammar Al-Ali
  • Patent number: 11890074
    Abstract: A surgical guidance system for use with a robotic device configured to support and move a surgical tool includes a tracking system configured to track the surgical tool and at least one bone, a display device, and a control system coupled to the tracking system and the display device. The control system is configured to register a plurality of target trajectories to the at least one bone, determine a distance between the surgical tool and each target trajectory, automatically identify which one of the target trajectories is closest to and within a threshold distance of the surgical tool, and display, on the display device, the identified target trajectory relative to the at least one bone and a tracked pose of the surgical tool relative to the identified target trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Radu Iorgulescu, Carinne Cecile Granchi, Dennis Moses, Jason Robert Wojcik
  • Patent number: 11888129
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: monitoring, using a battery management unit, a condition of one or more cells within a block of a battery, wherein the monitoring comprises capturing, using a camera associated with the battery management unit, an image of an exterior of the one or more cells; determining, using a processor, that the condition of at least one of the one or more cells has fallen below a predetermined threshold, wherein the determining comprises identifying that the exterior of the at least one of the one or more cells has undergone a color change event; and providing, responsive to the determining, a notification. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John M Petersen, Bouziane Yebka, Gary D Cudak, Nathan Peterson
  • Patent number: 11884208
    Abstract: A danger detection system for detecting a danger on a road, the danger that changes over time and may not be a danger due to the change over time, the danger detection system including a vibration acquisition unit 11 configured to acquire an acoustic signal collected by a microphone mounted on a vehicle when the vehicle passes through a region on a predetermined road, a danger determination unit 12 configured to determine whether the acoustic signal is derived from the danger, a danger location detection unit 2 configured to determine whether the danger is present in the region on the predetermined road based on the number of times an acoustic signal acquired from each of the plurality of vehicles is determined to be derived from the danger, and a danger information notification unit 3 configured to notify a communication device that can pass through the region on the predetermined road of danger information that is information about a region on a road determined to have a danger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata
  • Patent number: 11877871
    Abstract: An infectious disease prevention supporting device according to an embodiment of the present invention is an infectious disease prevention supporting device including a processor. The processor is configured to perform a detection process that detects a motion of a forearm or a wrist by a user, a proximity determination process that determines whether the user's hand is in proximity to a mucosa of the user's face based on the motion detected by the detection process for a predetermined period of time, and a warning generation process that generates a warning to suppress the proximity of the user's hand to the mucosa when it is determined by the proximity determination process that the user's hand is in proximity to the mucosa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Maeda, Midori Kodama, Motonori Nakamura, Ippei Shake
  • Patent number: 11878708
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for monitoring an occupant located in an interior of a vehicle. The techniques include the detection an occupant in at least one image. Body points of the occupant are identified based on the at least one image, and a pose of the occupant is classified based on the detected body points. A recommendation for adapting the occupant's pose is provided based on the classified pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Alexander Barth, Douglas L. Welk
  • Patent number: 11877220
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system is provided, comprising a first device having a power supply and configured to wirelessly transmit electric power from the power supply, and a second device having one or more electrical components and configured to wirelessly receive the electric power and provide it to the one or more electrical components for consumption. The second device further comprises an alignment module configured to activate an indicator if a measured level of the received power is greater than a threshold level. Also provided is a wireless system comprising a first device having a power supply and a wireless transmitter configured to transmit a data signal and an electric power signal, and a second device having a wireless receiver configured to receive the electric power signal and data signal, and one or more electrical components configured to consume the received power and process the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Meyer
  • Patent number: 11875579
    Abstract: A parking objects or vehicles detection system performs vision-based parking inventory management by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server changes in instances of vehicle parking events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CITIFYD, INC.
    Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Dave Cole, Massoud Mollaghaffari, Abdi Nassib
  • Patent number: 11873168
    Abstract: A hanger orientation detection system determines the orientation of a hanger on a rail-based garment conveyor. To do so, the detection system continuously monitors the pivot state of a pivot arm. The pivot arm pivots between no-contact and contact pivot states. The no-contact pivot occurs when a garment hanger in a correct orientation translates past the pivot arm without contacting the pivot arm. The contact pivot state occurs when a garment hanger in an incorrect orientation translates past the pivot arm and contacts the pivot arm. Contacting the pivot arm displaces the pivot arm in a measurable manner. The sensor measures the deflection of the pivot arm to determine the pivot state. When the sensor senses that the pivot state changes from the no-contact pivot state to the contact pivot state, the detection system generates an alert signal indicating that a garment hanger is in the incorrect orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: THREDUP INC.
    Inventor: Jimmy Melancon
  • Patent number: 11860145
    Abstract: An automated wetstock management system can include a plurality of sensors disposed in a fuel storage facility, the plurality of sensors configured to sense fuel data characterizing one or more aspects of the fuel storage facility, and a wetstock management server communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors. The wetstock management server can process the fuel data to detect whether the fuel data satisfies an exception indicative of an operational issue of the fuel storage facility based on one or more predefined rules or models stored in the wetstock management server. In some embodiments, the wetstock management server can generate a workflow for assisting a user of the fuel storage facility to resolve the operational issue. In some embodiments, the wetstock management server can assign a risk category to the exception and electronically transmit an alert characterizing the operational issue to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: Philip Hill, Prem Swaroop, Atish Kamble, Konstantin Streltsov, Krystian Kulig
  • Patent number: 11856453
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes obtaining, with a sensor of a vehicle, a data set representing an external object, the data set having a first set of features, obtaining, with a receiver of the vehicle, a channel load about a radio frequency through which the data set may be transmitted, obtaining, with an environment sensor of the vehicle, context information about a road on which the vehicle is located, and processing the data set representing the external object based on the channel load and the context information to generate a reduced data set representing the external object, the reduced data set having a second set of features fewer than the first set of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergei S. Avedisov, Onur Altintas, Takamasa Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11830337
    Abstract: A signal device for maritime distress rescue and a surveillance device for maritime distress rescue are provided. The signal device for maritime distress rescue which is carried by a user aboard a vessel may include a first communicator configured to communicate with a surveillance device for maritime distress rescue of the vessel, a first position detector configured to generate first position information of the signal device at a predetermined time interval, and a first controller configured to receive second position information of the surveillance device from the surveillance device at a predetermined time interval and determine whether the first position information is within a safe area of the vessel that is set on the basis of the second position information. Accordingly, when a distress occurs, it is possible to transmit a distress signal without operating a switch while minimizing power consumption of the signal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Hee Yeon Lim
  • Patent number: 11819306
    Abstract: A helmet configured for improving the safety of a user of a personal mobility by measuring an electroencephalogram (EEG) of the user using an EEG detector provided in a helmet, determining an accident situation based on the measured EEG, and operating a safety device is provided. The helmet includes a body configured to form an exterior of the helmet and can be worn on a user's head; the EEG detector provided on the body and configured to detect EEG of the user; and a controller configured to determine an accident-related situation based on an EEG signal output from the EEG detector, and to generate a control signal for operating a safety device according to the determined accident-related situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jeong-Eom Lee, Youngmin Park, Seona Kim
  • Patent number: 11810675
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides a system and a computer implemented method for crisis state detection and intervention of a person or group of persons, the method comprising: providing a computer system designed to detect and intervene non-normal, elevated crisis operating states; using one or more sensors that ascertains a crisis state via physical, behavioral, or cognitive indicators; deducing, with computational hardware, the operational state of a user or users from one or more sensors; and administering an immediate, dual intervention of a sensory form to de-escalate the crisis operating state of a person or group of persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Kristen M. Heimerl
  • Patent number: 11803835
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying account information. The systems and methods may include a portable smart display device in short-range communication with a mobile device. The smart display device may be configured to provide a user with quick and easy yet secure access to account information, without the need for multi-step login and verification processes. The smart display device may be sized to fit within a wallet and within quick, easy reach of a user. The smart display device may receive up-to-date account information from the mobile device, and display the account information on-demand upon detecting an activation event, thereby providing an enjoyable user experience and a useful tool for quickly informing the user of their financial situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam R. Koeppel, Alex Leo Niderberg, Kevin Kelly, Mili Mittal, Sarah Calandro, Jonathan R. Turfboer