Patents Examined by Curtis J King
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Patent number: 11769396Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for self-testing event devices of a building alarm system are described herein. One mobile device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to: generate, a list of event devices of an alarm system that are available for testing, providing a device selection tool that allows a user to select a number of event devices from the list of event devices, and providing a self-test initiation tool that generates an initiation message that is to be sent to the selected number of event devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Benjamin H. Wolf, Hariprasad Kozhikkotakathitta Veetil, Michael Barson, Christopher Dearden
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Patent number: 11763610Abstract: A method is provided for locking and unlocking an electronic power tool. The method includes receiving, at a locking device, information associated with the electronic power tool, and generating, at the locking device, a lock code based on the received information. The method further includes transmitting, by the locking device, the lock code to the electronic power tool. The lock code is configured to lock the electronic power tool upon being received at the electronic power tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Anthony M. Davis, Chad E. Jones, Nicholas S. Oliver
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Patent number: 11755851Abstract: A process for triggering projected displays can comprise determining that an RFID device has moved within a predetermined range of a first interrogator, wherein the RFID device is carried by a user. The RFID device can be interrogated to determine a first identifier. Based on the first identifier, an identity of the user can be determined. A projection command can be transmitted to a projection source, wherein the projection command comprises the identity of the user and instructive indicia comprising information about a toy, wherein the toy comprises a second RFID device.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: CFA Properties, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Panayiotou, Nathaniel McFarland
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Patent number: 11748819Abstract: Systems and methods are discussed for providing sensor enhanced safety, recovery, and activity evaluation systems. Sensors that monitor user activity and behavior are worn by a user and/or placed in the user environment. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety, recovery, and/or activity evaluation. Based on the evaluation, recommendations or adjustments to the terms of an insurance policy covering the user, the user's employer, or a facility providing health care to the user, are generated, to accurately reflect the risks associated with the user, employer, and/or facility. In embodiments, an alert may be generated when a failure to conform with activity guidelines is detected.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance CompanyInventors: Andrew J. Amigo, Michael Gingrave
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Patent number: 11699056Abstract: An RFID inlay includes an RFID module and an antenna. The RFID module includes an RFIC and an antenna sharing circuit provided between the RFIC and the antenna. The RFIC includes a power receiving terminal to which power induced upon receipt of an electromagnetic wave for power reception is input and a transmitting terminal from which a transmission signal for RFID is output. Moreover, the antenna receives the electromagnetic wave for power reception and generates an electromagnetic wave for RFID.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Ueki, Noboru Kato
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Patent number: 11694540Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing fire events pattern analysis and cross-building data analytics are described herein. One fire system maintenance system, includes a number of fire system detectors, a fire system control panel, and a gateway device all positioned within the facility, the gateway device having instructions to: collect fire system device health data associated with one or more fire or smoke detector devices and to send this fire system device health data to a remote device, the remote device having instructions to: analyze the collected fire system device health data to determine an event type for each device health event recorded in the collected data, predict future device health events, categorize the device health events based on their determined event type, and prioritize the categorized device health events based on the quantity of events categorized in each event type.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Deepika Sandeep, Hariprasad Kozhikkotakathitta Veetil, Jayaprakash Meruva, Rajesh Babu Nalukurthy, Sundararaman Venkateswaran, Vishwanath Gupta
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Patent number: 11694058Abstract: Mounts for securing a tracking device to an object. The mounts include a case and a coupler system. The case includes a body defining a port complementarily configured with the tracking device to receive the tracking device. The coupler system is configured to couple the case to the object and includes a fabric expanse.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Elevation Lab, Inc.Inventors: Casey Hopkins, Jacob Hull
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Patent number: 11676477Abstract: An object herein is to provide a fire alarm system which is capable of performing cable-deterioration diagnosis on a cable even if it is connected to a communication input type sensor. The fire alarm system includes: a sensor to which a communication signal to be used for detection is inputted intermittently; an input circuit unit for causing a current for measuring an impedance, to flow to the sensor constantly in a manner superimposed on the communication signal to be used for detection; a signal processor for measuring the impedance in a communication off-period of the communication signal; a storage in which a threshold value for the impedance is stored, the threshold value serving to determine deterioration of a cable connected to the sensor; and a controller for diagnosing, when the measured impedance exceeds the threshold value, that the cable connected to the sensor is deteriorated; to thereby perform cable-deterioration diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Keiichi Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 11670144Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing indicators of distance. For example, display of a visual distance indicator that indicates the distance between a computer system and an entity is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan N. Dour, Robert Thomas Aloe, James Cartwright, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Giovanni Laviste Denina, Christopher B. Fleizach, Banafsheh Jalali, Chia Yang Lin, Donald L. Marotta, Jr., Darren Christopher Minifie, Grant Paul, Per Haakan Linus Persson, Antoine Tarault, Alexander Nicholas Walczak
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Patent number: 11657605Abstract: A thermal imaging system including at least one thermal imaging device, a server, and at least one mobile device. The thermal imaging device captures thermal images of an environment. The server applies computer vision techniques to the thermal images, detects events of a predetermined type, and generates notifications of the events of predetermined types detected from the thermal images. The mobile device runs a mobile application that is configured to receive the notifications, present user interfaces, receive user annotations of the notifications in the user interfaces, and transmit the annotations to the server. According to the annotations, the server adjusts parameters used in the application of the computer vision techniques and in the generation of the notifications.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Calumino Pty Ltd.Inventors: Marek Steffanson, Felix Dintner
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Patent number: 11654730Abstract: A tire system is configured to enable a general-purpose communication device to establish data communication with a tire-side device, thereby enabling transmission of data indicating a tire-related condition from the tire-side device to the general-purpose communication device. The general-purpose communication device acquires the tire-related condition, and reports the tire-related condition to the user via a notification unit. Based on the above, it is possible to report the tire-related condition via the general-purpose communication device based on the communication between the general-purpose communication device and the tire-side device.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Suzuki, Takatoshi Sekizawa, Kenichiro Sanji, Naohito Takasuka
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Patent number: 11651671Abstract: To be capable of efficiently transmitting appropriate information on the motion improvement to a person in motion. A motion evaluation system includes a sensor unit, an information processing device, and an information presentation device. The information processing device includes a communication device, a storage device, and an arithmetic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takuto Sato, Takehiro Niikura, Mitsuhiro Okada, Hiroki Ohashi, Takayuki Akiyama, Katsuyuki Nakamura, Mohammad Osamh Adel Al-Naser, Sheraz Ahmed
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Patent number: 11625999Abstract: Emotional loneliness is referred as the absence of an attachment figure in one's life and someone to turn to. The existing methods use installation of sensors for tracking the movement, behaviour and activity of the person, but most of the efforts are obtrusive in nature. A non-obtrusive method and system for detection of emotional loneliness of a person have been provided. The disclosure is utilizing multiple varied techniques to understand the emotional loneliness. The multiple techniques comprise room change movement anomalies, living room stay anomalies, correlating the living room stay with the bedroom stay and outdoor movement anomalies. The methodology also ensures reduced variance and false positives, as emotional loneliness is finally determined based on more than two positives of above methods. The detection of person's movement is done using a featured engineered dataset based on collection of raw time series data collected from a plurality of motion sensors.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Ramesh Balaji, Anirudh Thenguvila Purushothaman, Srinivasa Raghavan Venkatachari
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Patent number: 11615699Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for testing the availability of a detector for detecting smoke. More specifically, the present invention relates to a detector with a testing unit arranged to detect whether the detector has been covered, such that it is unable to perform its function as a smoke detector.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventor: Stephen John Penney
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Patent number: 11610463Abstract: Disclosures relate to a sensor system and arrangements having different sized removable spacers. The spacers may be mixed and matched as needed or desired to compensate for misalignment conditions. Further, different spacer combinations and adjustments may be guided by a security management computing device. Variations in configurations of mounting surfaces, such as door and window assemblies, may be accommodated. Alignment of a transmitter or a receiving device, e.g., a magnetic device, with respect to a transmitter or receiving device despite misalignment of the components due to, for example, uneven surfaces of a door or a window, or a respective frame may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Devlyn Kornegay, Michael Jou, Zhe Zhang, Henry Homza, Nicholas Stefano
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Patent number: 11605281Abstract: In one embodiment, a method (110) that determines conditions including that a user is located in a monitored area and not wearing a wearable device (112), and provides an alert based on the determinations and an input pattern from one or plural sensors (114).Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate
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Patent number: 11599830Abstract: A machine learning system passively monitors sensor data from the living space of a patient. The sensor data may include audio data. Audio features are generated. A trained machine learning model is used to detect a change in condition. In some implementations, the machine learning model is trained in a learning phase based on training data that includes questionnaires completed by caregivers and identified audio features.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Inventors: Geoffrey Nudd, David Cristman, Jonathan J. Hull
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Patent number: 11594089Abstract: A touchless motion sensor system for performing directional motion detection includes first and second touchless motion sensors. First and second sensing units are coupled to the first and second touchless motion sensors each having a sensing unit disable input, a sensing unit disable output, a sensing unit to sensing unit motion detected output, and motion logic. The first sensing unit disable output is coupled to the second sensing unit disable input, and the second sensing unit disable output is coupled to the first sensing unit disable input.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Essex Electronics, IncInventor: Robert D Hogg
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Patent number: 11587428Abstract: Systems and methods for responding to incidents in a building are provided. One method includes performing operations including retrieving data relating to one or more on-premises building devices of the building, determining the incident relating to the one or more on-premises building devices, and determining a plurality of potential responses to the incident. The operations further include analyzing the plurality of potential responses and determining relative risks of the potential responses to the incident and transmitting, to a first on-premises building device of the on-premises building devices, data indicating the incident and at least one of the plurality of potential responses based on the relative risks of the potential responses.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: John A. Stone, Ryan A. Piaskowski
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Patent number: 11587423Abstract: A method and system for detecting a person falling, confirming a potential fall, and taking action to mitigate the effects of a fall.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Healthcare Integrated Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth M. Greenwood, Scott Michael Boruff, Jurgen Klaus Vollrath