Patents Examined by Daniell L. Negron
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Patent number: 11967193Abstract: A multi-factor safe locking system for use in firearm storage, wherein the factors comprise a user's provided key, a user's biometric data, and a user's provided code. In some embodiments, the multi-factor safe locking system requires the near-simultaneous entry of two users, or dual consent of the two users to enter at least two unique keys, at least one form of biometric data from each user, and at least two unique codes, wherein each user supplies their own unique code to access the safe's contents. In further embodiments, a safe locking system includes a further factor of a result from a blood alcohol test.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KEOLOGIC, LLCInventor: Joe Cozza
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Patent number: 11954543Abstract: A wireless tag reader includes a casing, an antenna in the casing and through which a radio wave is transmitted to and received from a wireless tag on an article, a control device in the casing and configured to read tag information stored in the wireless tag based on a radio wave received by the antenna, and an elastic member between the casing and the antenna so as to permit the antenna to be movable with respect to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11935381Abstract: The fire detection system is provided to enable early detection of a location where a fire may occur. When detecting a location which vibration reached in the optical fiber 104, the sensor unit 102 transmits information indicating the location to the information output unit 101. The gas state detection section 103 transmits information indicating the state of gas to the information output unit 101. The information output unit 101 receives the information indicating the location which the vibration reached in the optical fiber 104 and the information indicating the state of gas, and outputs information indicating a sign of a fire outbreak occurred when the state of gas meets a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Misao Shiina
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Patent number: 11922250Abstract: The present disclosure provides collaborative radiofrequency identification (RFID) readers that employ code division multiple access (CDMA) encoding to simultaneously broadcast to and read responses from tags in an overlapping reading zone with improved data synchronization and read yield rates. In some embodiments, a harmonic backscattering scheme is used to enable the system to have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sensitivity, while the reader CDMA protocol can be integrated with an initial TDMA polling process or alternative tag CDMA scheme.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cornell UniversityInventors: Edwin C. Kan, Xiaonan Hui
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Patent number: 11914771Abstract: A method for operating a system having a sensor and/or information device and a main device is described. The sensor and/or information device includes a hand garment and a secondary device, with at least one input mechanism. The main device is designed as a smart device. The method includes the following steps: An actuating signal is generated using the at least one input mechanism. The actuating signal is received by the secondary device, and an input signal is transmitted on the basis of the actuating signal by the secondary device to the main device. An action instruction is generated by way of a main device based on the input signal and based on a predefined action sequence. The action instruction is transmitted to the secondary device. Moreover, a sensor and/or information device, a sensor and/or information system as well as computer programme are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Workaround GmbHInventors: Matthias Kirchner, Sebastian Petruch
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Patent number: 11908256Abstract: In some aspects, an electronic lock box may include a heated section, a cooled section, a non-temperature controlled section, and a processor. The processor may receive, from a server, an indication of an electronic order. The processor may identify a code associated with an item. The processor may determine, from the code, a tracking number associated with the item and the description of the item. The processor may determine that the tracking number associated with the item corresponds to a tracking number associated with the electronic order and that a current date corresponds to an expected delivery date. The processor may provide an instruction to unlock the heated section, the cooled section, or the non-temperature controlled section to hold the item based on the description of the item. The processor may maintain an environmental status of sensors (e.g., weight, volume, temperature, operations, and/or location) within the electronic lock box.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Sajjad Mustafa Syed
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Patent number: 11900723Abstract: A system that detects whether a user interacting with a featured activity is wearing glasses is described. The system verifies that the user is wearing the glasses and the system prompts the user and a caregiver and may blur, stop or otherwise interrupt a user experience of a featured activity, such as a video game or film, when the system determined that the user is not wearing the glasses. A glasses module may be positioned at frame of the glasses at a head of the user to detect that the user is wearing the glasses. Optical facial processing may detect a face and glasses on the face. Also disclosed is a hearing aid that may be integrated with such a system. A glasses module that aids in depth perception by reporting distance ahead, and a system that trains eye contact with another person wearing glasses are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Barry Katz
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Patent number: 11900745Abstract: A locker apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: first obtaining, from a first terminal of a deliverer of a parcel that stores the parcel into a locker, notification of a first proof issued from a transmission source of the parcel to the deliverer, the first proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of a receiver of the parcel, and identification information of the transmission source; second obtaining notification of a second proof issued from the transmission source to the receiver, the second proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of the receiver, and identification information of the transmission source in accordance with permission to store the parcel into the locker; and unlocking the locker when contents of the first proof matches that of the second proof.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takayoshi Nakayama, Kenji Taka
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Patent number: 11887416Abstract: An access control system may comprise a credential including credential data, and at least one reader. The at least one reader is configured to receive, over a link, the credential data. The at least one reader is configured to verify that the credential is valid based on the credential data, and mark the credential as valid and track a location of the credential relative to the at least one reader. The at least one reader is configured to make or delay an access control decision for the credential based on the location of the credential.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventors: Philip Hoyer, Fredrik Carl Stefan Einberg
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Patent number: 11887418Abstract: Methods and systems of providing enhanced security to an access-controlled area are disclosed herein. In one implementation a user device generates a signal from which features are extracted to generate a device fingerprint. The features of the signal may be rare, or in some cases unique, to a particular user device such that the use of user device with a known device fingerprint may thwart a relay attack on the access-controlled area. The features of the signal may be related to manufacturing variations between user devices, even devices of the same model. The variations may be related to variations in an electro-mechanical structure of a motion sensor between two user devices. The variations in the electro-mechanical structure may cause variations in a capacitance sensed by the motion sensor. Features of the signal may be analyzed in the frequency or time domains to generate the device fingerprint.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESInventor: Dejun Yang
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Patent number: 11869290Abstract: A key storage device for storing a key provided with an identification code, including a locking unit which has an unlocked state in which the key can be removed from the key storage device, and a locked state in which the key is locked in or on the key storage device. The key storage device includes a control unit connected to the locking unit and having a data interface, the control unit operable to read out the identification code of the key and to provide the identification code of the key at the data interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KNAPP AGInventors: Marc Pendl, Alexander Resch, Johannes Hutter, Wolfgang Puntigam, Franz Mathi
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Patent number: 11833864Abstract: A transceiver of a spare wheel includes a sensing unit having a pressure sensor and an acceleration sensor configured to output a detection signal according to a tire pressure of the spare wheel and an acceleration generated in the spare wheel, a first control unit configured to create a frame that processes the detection signal indicating the tire pressure and stores it as data related to the tire pressure, and a first transmitter receiver configured to transmit the frame. A receiver includes a second transceiver configured to receive a frame and transmit a response signal indicating that the frame is received and a second control unit configured to detect the tire pressure and transmit a response signal from the second transceiver when the frame is received.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Kanbayashi, Takatoshi Sekizawa, Masashi Mori
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Patent number: 11837039Abstract: Access control electronics for wireless locks comprise one or more battery operated radios that receive access control codes. The wireless accessed locks locate the electronic components, circuits, sensors and antennas and many of the lock components away from the container being secured and closer to the operator/user. The disclosed access control electronics combine a proximity detection circuit comprising sensor pads and a capacitive sensing circuit and one or more short-range radio frequency antennas for reading RFID devices. The proximity sensor pads are in close proximity with the antennas, without the antennas interfering with the proximity sensing process, and the sensor pads to not attenuate the signals between the RFID devices and the antennas after the RFID devices are detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Triteq Lock and Security, L.L.C.Inventors: William D. Denison, Calin V. Roatis, Thaddeus A. Meizelis, Daniel R. Michelson, Gabriel Ribu
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Patent number: 11837063Abstract: A communication method between a self-driving transportation vehicle and a locking system, wherein: a control command is transmitted to the locking system to unlock an entrance; the entrance secured by the locking system is opened so the transportation vehicle is able to pass the entrance or is able to set down or pick up items behind the entrance; the locking system and/or the transportation vehicle includes at least one sensor system for detecting an environment to detect persons or potentially intruding objects in the environment of the entrance; in response to a potentially intruding person or a potentially intruding object being detected, the entrance is not unlocked or an already-unlocked entrance is locked again. Also disclosed is a self-driving transportation vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Rolf Kunzler, Henning Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 11823512Abstract: A system adapted to interact with an electronic card includes a server and an electronic lock device. The electronic lock device is configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The server, in response to an access request associated with the electronic card, generates and transmits an access code to the electronic lock device. The electronic lock device is configured to, in response to an input code, compare the input code with the access code, receive input data from a user, access the electronic card to obtain identifying data, and, when the input code is identical to the access code and the input data matches the identifying data, switch to the unlocked state.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: MK GROUP JSCInventor: Khang Trong Nguyen
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Patent number: 11798329Abstract: Remote control for actuating an electric window shade or an electric window blind or an electric window covering, and method and system of using same. A base unit includes: a wireless receiver, to wirelessly receive from an electronic device an incoming wireless signal indicating a command to actuate an electric window covering; a wireless signal constructor, to dynamically construct an outgoing wireless signal which comprises a rolling code; and a wireless transmitter, to transmit the outgoing wireless signal to a wireless receiver of a motor unit that is operably associated with the electric window covering. A wireless signal constructor dynamically constructs the outgoing wireless signal without having access to a secret seed value that is accessible to the motor unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: OLIBRA LLCInventor: Zohar Shinar
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Patent number: 11790708Abstract: In selected examples, a vehicle control system (VCS) includes Bluetooth beacons and an app running on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or a key fob equipped with movement sensors and a Bluetooth® transceiver. Passive keyless entry capability of the system uses received signal strength indications (RSSIs) together with movement-related indications of the movement sensors to determine when the mobile device moves away from the vehicle beyond a predetermined departure distance, and/or approaches the vehicle to within a predetermined arrival distance. When the user approaches the vehicle, the mobile device automatically transmits an arrival notification to the VCS, which automatically performs arrival actions, e.g., unlocking doors and disarming security features of the VCS/vehicle. When the user moves away from the vehicle, the mobile device automatically transmits a departures notification to the VCS, which performs departure actions, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: VOXX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Aravind Warrier, Sylvain Jalbert, Robert Andre Lacroix
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Patent number: 11783646Abstract: An authorization approach to physical access uses identity attributes, doors/readers attributes, time of the day, and policies to determine access rights to facilities and physical spaces in real-time, based on three criteria: who, when, and what. Embodiments address the constantly changing physical access needs of companies as those needs evolve.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: AlertEnterprise, Inc.Inventors: Yogesh Ailawadi, Vikas Chauhan
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Patent number: 11783658Abstract: Methods and systems for maintaining a healthy building. In one example, an access card reader for controlling access to a secure area may comprise a card reader for reading an access card identifier from an access card presented by a user, a touchless thermal sensor for sensing a skin temperature of the user, a memory, and a controller operatively coupled to the card reader, the touchless thermal sensor and the memory. In response to a user presenting an access card to the card reader, the controller may be configured to store in the memory the access card identifier read by the card reader along with a corresponding skin temperature of the user. In another example, a system may be configured to perform contact tracing when an occupant has been identified as displaying signs of an illness.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Jitendra Sitaram Chaurasia, ArunManikandan Kalirajan, Mourian Balasubramanian, Hai Pham, Manik Jahagirdar, Lalitha M. Eswara, Ismaiel Shaik, Sivasanthanam Dhayalan, Bhavya Hanumegowda, Govindaraju Kc, Mayur Salgar, Sheeladitya Karmakar, Vijay Dhamija
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Control system, control method, and computer readable medium for opening and closing a security gate
Patent number: 11776339Abstract: A control system that controls opening-closing of a security gate which is provided in a facility in which a plurality of mobile robots travels autonomously is provided. The control system performs: receiving a passing-through reservation signal for passing through the security gate; and allowing a plurality of mobile robots to consecutively pass through the security gate while the security gate opens its gate once when passing-through reservation signals are received from the plurality of mobile robots.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai