Patents Examined by Daniel Previl
  • Patent number: 11964737
    Abstract: A ship information displaying system can easily grasp the size of a ship intuitively. The system includes a position detector that detects a position of a ship and generates positional data, a direction detector that detects a heading of the ship and generates directional data, a memory that stores size data indicative of a flat dimension of the ship on the basis of a detected location of the positional data in the ship, processing circuitry that places a ship object indicative of the ship at a position in a virtual three-dimensional space corresponding to the positional data, with an orientation corresponding to the directional data and a size corresponding to the size data and that generates an image containing the ship object by rendering a scene based on a viewpoint position and a line-of-sight direction set in the virtual three-dimensional space, and a display that displays the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11963517
    Abstract: System, device and method for detecting, measuring and monitoring chemical concentrations or analytes in insect colonies and agricultural environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory J. Hummer, Matthew Hummer
  • Patent number: 11957542
    Abstract: A semi-automated veterinary medicine delivery device may sense whether and how much air may have been incorporated into a dose delivered to an animal. The device may also sense an incomplete injection in some cases, and may cause a second dose to be administered to make up for the incomplete dose. The device may compare a position sensor on a syringe in combination with a current sensor on a motor attached to the syringe to detect any abnormalities. In the case of an improper dose, the device may alert the user and administer a second dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Automed Patent Holdco, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Magyar, David Royce Edwards
  • Patent number: 11944743
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes an inhalation sensor; an input button; control circuitry and a vaporizer for generating vapor from a vapor precursor material when provided with power from the control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to provide power for the vaporizer to generate vapor both in response to determining from signaling received from the inhalation sensor that a user is inhaling on the vapor provision system and in response to determining from signaling received from the input button that a user has activated the input button for at least a threshold amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Ugurhan Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11945460
    Abstract: Systems and methods communicate an intent of an autonomous vehicle externally. In one implementation, scan data of a field around a travel path of an autonomous vehicle is obtained. The scan data is captured using at least one sensor. An object in the field around the travel path is determined from the scan data. The object is determined to be mutable or immutable. A navigation condition associated with the object is determined based on whether the object is mutable or immutable. The navigation condition is correlated to a portion of the travel path. Control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle is determined for the portion of the travel path in response to the navigation condition. A representation link between the control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle and the object is generated. A representation of the field around the travel path is rendered and includes the representation link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Chip J. Alexander, Miao Sun
  • Patent number: 11948445
    Abstract: A medical system includes a medical device configured to provide device-related data for evaluating the reasons for an alarm in order to trigger appropriate countermeasures. The medical device includes a set of sensors, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to generate an alarm message in response to the alarm signal provided by the set of sensors, detect a set of machine parameters in response to generating the alarm message, generate or obtain an encoded data package representing the set of detected machine parameters in a compressed format, and generate a mixed-type alarm convolute based on the alarm signal provided by the set of sensors. The alarm convolute comprises the alarm message in a readable format and the encoded data package, and the processor is configured to issue the alarm convolute on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: María Millán-Galante
  • Patent number: 11935664
    Abstract: A dynamic characteristic analysis method of DET and RELAP5 coupling based on a universal instrumental variable method includes steps of: constructing a DET simulation model of a discrete dynamic event tree and modifying TRIP cards of an input file by adding universal instrumental TRIP variables according to state transition types of DET simulation objects, the universal instrumental TRIP variable being variable type or logical type; setting a simulation time of the RELAP5, controlling a simulation step, and analyzing an output result file of each simulation step of the RELAP5; backtracking the RELAP5 according to state transition types of DET simulation objects. The dynamic characteristic analysis method has advantages of simplifying TRIP setting process and method of DET state transition objects in an input file of the RELAP5 required for the coupling of DET and RELAP5, reducing a modeling complexity and improving a modeling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: He Wang, Liangjun Wang, Dabin Sun, Haoyin Chen, Genglei Xia, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 11926259
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods that may include receiving situational information triggering a need to alert the driver and in response to the need to alert the driver presenting an alert to the driver based on driver state information selected based on a likelihood the driver will be more receptive to the alert modality than others of the plurality of alert modalities. The likelihood the driver will be receptive to the alert modality may be based on the received situational information, the received driver state information, and a historical behaviour record. The historical behaviour record may correlate the driver's reaction or the reaction of other drivers to previous alerts presented to the driver or other drivers with similar driver state information and similar situational information triggering presentation of previous alerts. The system may learn from the reaction of the driver and/or other drivers to better select suitable alert modalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Arriver Software LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Frank Joo, Rachel Gray Alexander, Shabin Mahadevan
  • Patent number: 11924278
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for securely monitoring a shipping container for an environmental anomaly using elements of a wireless node network of sensor-based ID nodes disposed within the container and a command node associated with the container. The method has the command node identifying which of the ID nodes are confirmed as trusted sensors based upon a security credential specific to each of the ID nodes; monitoring only the confirmed ID nodes for sensor data broadcast those ID nodes; detecting the anomaly based upon the sensor data from at least one of the confirmed ID nodes; automatically generating an alert notification related to the detected environmental anomaly for the shipping container; and transmitting the alert notification to the external transceiver to initiate a mediation response related to the detected environmental anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FedEx Corporate Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
  • Patent number: 11922835
    Abstract: An on-air status indicator device, configured for use with a communication device coupled to a microphone and a camera, having at least one illumination surface comprising a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, wherein in a first illumination mode when a user of the communication device starts or joins a meeting via a communication application executed on the communication device, the first portion of the at least one illumination surface is illuminated, in a second illumination mode the microphone is live in association with the meeting via the communication application, the second portion of the at least one illumination surface is illuminated; and in a third illumination mode when the camera is broadcasting in association with the meeting via the communication application, the third portion of the at least one illumination surface is illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: OAW HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Vitiello, Clint Ditto
  • Patent number: 11913252
    Abstract: A wireless electromechanical lock with one or more of an internal antenna, touch activation, and/or a light communication device that acts as a user interface. In some embodiments, the lock utilizes an antenna near the exterior face of the lockset, designed inside the metal body of the lockset itself. A light communication device is provided in some embodiments to communicate information, visually, to the user via animations and dynamic displays of light. In some embodiments, the lockset includes a touch activation capability, which can be used to lock/unlock the lock and/or otherwise provide input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Uyeda, Michael Maridakis, Jerome F. Czerwinski, Jr., Elliott B. Scheider, Troy M. Brown, David K J Kim
  • Patent number: 11915586
    Abstract: A facility for providing vehicle to vehicle event notification for connected and/or unconnected vehicles is disclosed. The facility enables a vehicle to detect an occurrence of a vehicle status trigger event and identify information describing an event type. The facility determines a priority of the vehicle status event based at least in part on the type of the vehicle status event. When the vehicle status event is to be reported to at least one other vehicle, the facility enables the vehicle to generate a vehicle status event message that includes the priority of the vehicle status event and at least a portion of the information describing the type of the vehicle status event. The vehicle status event message is then transmitted/broadcasted to at least one other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Ukraine L.L.C.
    Inventor: Peter Kulakov
  • Patent number: 11908311
    Abstract: Innovative techniques to design and generate haptics waveforms are proposed. The proposed techniques reduce or eliminate audible noises being generated by a haptic actuator during operation. A haptic controller may compose a voltage waveform at a resonant frequency of the haptic actuator and generate a corresponding control signal. Instead of suddenly entering a high impedance state from a driving state, the voltage waveform may include a ramp down portion in which the voltage ramps down continuously but quickly so that the current flowing within the actuator is brought down before entering the high impedance state. In this way, audible noises may be reduced or even eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Dale Rutkowski, Liangguo Shen, Shivaprakash Halagur, Joshua Zazzera, Nathaniel Jay T. Salazar
  • Patent number: 11908316
    Abstract: When it is determined (by a notification determination unit) that there is information on walking to be notified to a visually impaired person, based on information acquired by a camera, a G sensor, and a GPS module that are built in a white cane used by the visually impaired person, an attribute of the information on walking to be notified is obtained (by an attribute setting unit), and a vibration pattern of a vibration generation device built in the white cane is decided (by an information notification state decision unit) based on the attribute. This makes it possible to optimize the information provided to the visually impaired person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Miyazawa, Tomoaki Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11898882
    Abstract: An apparatus for calibration of a bio-information estimation model includes a sensor configured to obtain a bio-signal from an object in a reference interval; a feature extractor, implemented by at least one processor, configure to extract a reference feature value from the bio-signal; and a calibrator, implemented by the at least one processor, configured to determine whether a condition is satisfied based on at least one of the reference feature value and an offset value, and based on determining that the condition is satisfied, configured to calibrate the bio-information estimation model based on the reference feature value and the offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Ui Kun Kwon, Seung Keun Yoon, Dae Geun Jang
  • Patent number: 11899081
    Abstract: A wireless sensor for an associated machine or machine part which includes a communications module that wirelessly transmits data related to the associated machine or machine part. The communications module is mounted on the sensor and the sensor is disposed under the bottom side of the control circuitry. A sensor is configured to measure one or more properties of the associated machine or machine part. The wireless sensor can be used with a smart device app such that information from the wireless sensor can be received and displayed on the smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BARNES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Darrah, Michael O. Culbertson, Steven J. Reilly, Kelvin L. Knipl, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11900810
    Abstract: Presented are intelligent electronic footwear with controller automated features, methods for making/using such footwear, and control systems for executing automated features of intelligent electronic footwear. An intelligent electronic shoe (IES) includes an upper that attaches to a user's foot, and a sole structure that is attached to the upper and supports thereon the user's foot. An alert system, which is mounted to the sole structure and/or upper, generates predetermined outputs in response to electronic command signals. The IES system also includes a wireless communications device that wirelessly communicates with a remote computing node, and a footwear controller that communicates with the wireless communications device and alert system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Andon, Jamian R. Cobbett, Vikram Malhotra, Hien Tommy Pham
  • Patent number: 11901079
    Abstract: A system, method and non-transient computer readable medium for tracking hypoglycemia risk in patients with diabetes exercise. A system may include a digital processor configured to execute instructions to receive an input from each available data source of a plurality of intermittently available data sources; determine a plurality of probability signals for impending hypoglycemia, wherein each probability signal is based on one or more of the inputs from the available data sources or a lack of input from an unavailable data source; wherein a probability signal for each unavailable data source is assigned a value corresponding to a zone of uncertainty; and determine an aggregate risk of hypoglycemia based on the plurality of intermittently data sources by aggregating the plurality of probability signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Marc D. Breton, Boris P. Kovatchev
  • Patent number: 11890091
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing whether a patient is accompanied by a caregiver and a device using the same, the method for providing whether the patient is accompanied by the caregiver being configured to be implemented by a processor and including receiving an outpatient clinic record from a user device, tokenizing each sentence of the outpatient clinic record as a unit of at least one token, encoding the tokenized outpatient clinic record as an integer, and determining whether a psychiatric symptom occurs for a patient related to the outpatient clinic record by inputting the encoded outpatient clinic record by using a determination model that uses the encoded outpatient clinic record as an input and uses whether the psychiatric symptom occurs as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Park, Duk Yong Yoon, Soo Jeong Kim, Dong Won Kim, Ji Hoon Seo, Woo Chul Jung
  • Patent number: 11887471
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for distributing transportation alerts to computing devices in accordance with factors, such as device-specific and location-specific factors. In embodiments of the present invention, travel alerts, including public alerts associated with certain areas, are formatted or held prior to delivery, based on safety concerns, legal requirements, device settings, or other considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Haag, Carlos J. Lebrilla, Marc Rush, Linda Rolfes