Patents Examined by J. Jackson
  • Patent number: 11990992
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for triggering an alarm during a sensor jamming attack. In one aspect, a monitoring system sensor unit is disclosed that includes a sensor, a communication unit configured to communicate with a monitoring system using a range of frequencies, and a jamming detection unit. The jamming detection unit may include a processor and a computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a sensor jamming event, selecting a different form of communication other than the range of radio frequencies for the communication unit to communicate with the monitoring system, and providing, to the communication unit, an instruction to communicate with the monitoring system using the form of communication, wherein the communication unit may communicate, to the monitoring system using the form of communication, the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Scott Trundle, Alexander Lawrence Reeder, Charles Richard Alpert, Noah Robert Weingart
  • Patent number: 11991265
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for asymmetrical frequency spreading including a processor configured to receive a frequency band message comprising a maximum difference and a minimum difference, wherein the maximum difference is between a maximum frequency of a sub-band and a signal frequency, and wherein the minimum difference is between the minimum frequency of the sub-band and the signal frequency compare the maximum difference and the minimum difference with each other; and generate a frequency shift based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elan Banin, Evgeny Shumaker, Ofir Degani, Rotem Banin, Shahar Gross
  • Patent number: 11986501
    Abstract: This disclosure describes compositions and methods involving amounts of probiotic bacteria effective to decrease intestinal permeability or intestinal epithelial tight junction permeability in a subject having or at risk of having defective intestinal barrier, increased intestinal permeability and/or intestinal epithelial tight junction permeability compared to a normal subject. The probiotic bacteria can include a Lactobacillus spp. and/or a Bifidobacterium spp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS
    Inventor: Thomas Y. Ma
  • Patent number: 11980660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to animals and more specifically to insects. In more details the invention relates to an edible composition or insect artificial diet comprising bacteria, fungi or any fragment or spore thereof for use as a vaccine in preventing a microbial disease or infection in an insect. Still, the present invention relates to preventive methods and different uses relating to said compositions or bacteria, fungi or fragments or spores thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DALAN ANIMAL HEALTH INC.
    Inventors: Heli Salmela, Dalial Freitak
  • Patent number: 11977068
    Abstract: A method for testing ecotoxicity of disinfection by-products (DBPs) is disclosed, including the following steps: firstly, hatching and culturing a brine shrimp to obtain a second-instar brine shrimp larvae; secondly, putting the brine shrimp larvae into a water sample containing the DBPs, obtaining a survival rate through acute toxicity exposure and chronic toxicity exposure, respectively, to calculate the toxicity of the water sample to brine shrimp. The new method includes both acute and chronic toxicity tests. The test water sample can be either a single substance solution or an actual disinfection water sample. The brine shrimp has high sensitivity and is convenient to hatch and culture. The raw materials are inexpensive and easily available. The requirements for the culture environment are not high, and the toxicity end-point is clear. The new method is simple, sensitive and economical, and therefore, a popularization is feasible in sewage and reuse water plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenhai Chu, Zuxin Xu, Xinmiao Luan
  • Patent number: 11974229
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that, in a case where a plurality of Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs) are configured, determines transmit power of uplink transmission based on a cumulative value of Transmit Power Control (TPC) commands calculated per TRP; and a transmitting section that performs the uplink transmission by using the transmit power. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to perform appropriate transmit power control even in a case where multiple TRPs are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11973749
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for management of identity systems in an identity infrastructure are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: install a discovery agent in the identity infrastructure; assess the identity infrastructure by the discovery agent; install an identity fabric in the identity infrastructure based on the assessing; receive, at the identity infrastructure, one or more data flows pertaining to identity data or identity metadata for at least one identity domain/system; manage, by a controller element, control plane operations across one or more elements or agents; manage, by at least one of the agents, the one or more data flows; detect and monitor, by the one or more elements or agents, at least one event linked to the one or more data flows; and assess the identity data or metadata and an associated state across the identity domains in the identity infrastructure based on the detecting and monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Strata Identity Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Olden, Christopher Marie, Carl Eric Leach
  • Patent number: 11969474
    Abstract: An immunogenic composition having 13 distinct polysaccharide-protein conjugates and optionally, an aluminum-based adjuvant, is described. Each conjugate contains a capsular polysaccharide prepared from a different serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F) conjugated to a carrier protein. The immunogenic composition, formulated as a vaccine, increases coverage against pneumococcal disease in infants and young children globally, and provides coverage for serotypes 6A and 19A that is not dependent on the limitations of serogroup cross-protection. Methods for making an immunogenic conjugate comprising Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A polysaccharide are also provided in which the serotype 19A polysaccharide is co-lyophilized with a carrier protein and conjugation is carried out in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) via a reductive amination mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventor: A. Krishna Prasad
  • Patent number: 11973873
    Abstract: Systems and methods of Exact Data Matching (EDM) include receiving customer specific sensitive data for a customer, wherein the customer specific sensitive data are converted into a plurality of tokens; receiving a configuration for exact data matching of the plurality of tokens; performing inline monitoring of a user associated with the customer; detecting a presence of one or more tokens of the plurality of tokens based on the inline monitoring; and, responsive to the detecting, performing an action based on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Pooja Deshmukh, Siva Udupa
  • Patent number: 11967684
    Abstract: A radio unit for a cellular radio access network comprises electronic circuits including a cellular transceiver, a housing enclosing the transceiver circuit, and one or more flexible, thin-film solar cells or folia integrated with the housing or sprayed onto housing to convert solar radiation into electrical energy. The one or more area of solar cells can be used to provide power to the transceiver circuit or cooling fans to offset power consumption from the power gird.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mirjana Vukovic, David Pell
  • Patent number: 11959066
    Abstract: A Pseudomonas monteilii strain with salinity-alkalinity tolerance is provided. The strain is Pseudomonas monteilii 9-2, which has been deposited in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) on Oct. 25, 2021, with an accession number of CGMCC No. 23666; and an internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. This application further provides an application of the Pseudomonas monteilii strain in the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in a saline-alkali environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS
    Inventors: Yingqin Wu, Zhiyu Wang, Tong Wang, Longmiao Yuan, Yanhong Liu, Rong Ma
  • Patent number: 11962707
    Abstract: Method for authenticating at least one ventilator with at least one remote station, wherein the ventilator can connect itself via at least one interface to the remote station, at least one authentication file is stored on the ventilator, the authentication file contains at least one signature code of a signing authority, and a public keycode of the signing authority is known to the remote station, the ventilator sends the authentication file to the remote station when establishing the connection to the remote station, the remote station checks the signature code of the authentication file using the public keycode as to whether the signature code originates from the signing point and the ventilator is authenticated when the remote station recognizes the signature code as originating from the signing authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LOEWENSTEIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY S.A.
    Inventors: Igor Bychkov, Matthias Schwaibold
  • Patent number: 11958512
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device includes a camera or other optical sensor configured to be disposed at a trailing end of a first vehicle system. The camera or other optical sensor is configured to output one or more images or video of a field of view behind the first vehicle system. The monitoring device also includes a controller configured to receive output from one or more sensors and to activate the camera or other optical sensor to output the one or more images or video based on the output from the one or more sensors. The output from the one or more sensors indicates one or more of a change in movement of the first vehicle system, a temperature, an acoustic sound, or movement of a second vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carl L. Haas, Padam D. Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph W. Gorman, James A. Oswald, Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, James Trainor, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne, Robert Hoffman, Tim Gibson, Brian Kurz
  • Patent number: 11955815
    Abstract: A system for wireless power networking, preferably including one or more nodes, such as transmit nodes, receive nodes, relay nodes, and/or hybrid nodes. The system may function to form a power network (e.g., mesh network) configured to transfer power wirelessly between nodes of the system. A method for wireless power networking, preferably including transmitting power, controlling relay nodes, and/or receiving power, and optionally including optimizing power network operation. The method is preferably performed at (e.g., by one or more nodes of) the system, but can additionally or alternatively be performed by any other suitable system(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Reach Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Joseph Davlantes, Varun Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11952597
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to an immunogenic composition that includes a mutant Clostridium difficile toxin A and/or a mutant Clostridium difficile toxin B. The mutant toxin may include a glucosyltransferase domain having at least one mutation and a cysteine protease domain having at least one mutation, relative to the corresponding wild-type C. difficile toxin. The mutant toxins may include at least one amino acid that is chemically crosslinked. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods and compositions for use in culturing Clostridium difficile and in producing C. difficile toxins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Arnold Lotvin, Annaliesa Sybil Anderson, Robert G. K. Donald, Michael James Flint, Narender Kumar Kalyan, Kathrin Ute Jansen, Maninder K. Sidhu, Justin Keith Moran, Mark Edward Ruppen, Weiqiang Sun
  • Patent number: 11944675
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a bioconjugate vaccine, such as an O 1-bioconjugate vaccine, comprising: a protein carrier comprising a protein carrier containing at least one consensus sequence, DIE-X-N-Z-S/T, wherein X and Z may be any natural amino acid except proline; at least one antigenic polysaccharide from at least one pathogenic bacterium, linked to the protein carrier; and, optionally, an adjuvant. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of producing an O 1-bioconjugate in a bioreactor comprising a number steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Fabiana Fernandez, Michael Kowarik, Michael Wacker, Michael Wetter
  • Patent number: 11946927
    Abstract: A process and system directed to a more effective, individual based treatment regimen which is built on clinical identified predictive target biomarkers associated with predicting the risk of an individual developing IBD and includes one or more predictive panels of prediction target biomarkers that are used to determine the risk of an individual developing IBD for determining if a therapy should be administered to reduce the risk and further determines the efficacy of treating the individual with mesalamine and effectively identifies and validates novel drug targets for new IBD therapeutics, new diagnostics and diagnostics standards for IBD therapeutic strategies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Bruce R. Yacyshyn, Mary E. Yacyshyn
  • Patent number: 11947692
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for dynamic formjacking protection may include identifying a sensitive data input field element on a webform loaded in a browser, creating a secure isolated container overlaid on the identified sensitive data input field element, and collecting, via the secure isolated container, real input data intended for the sensitive data input field element. The method may also include inserting dummy data into the sensitive data input field element and intercepting a form submit request from the webform to a destination. The method may further include determining whether the destination is a trusted destination, and when the destination is determined to be the trusted destination, modifying the form submit request to allow the real input data to be sent to the trusted destination. The method may also include sending the form submit request to the destination. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GEN DIGITAL INC.
    Inventors: Iskander Sanchez Rola, David Luz Silva, Bahaa Naamneh
  • Patent number: 11942681
    Abstract: A system for subsurface transmission includes an array of very low frequency (VLF) transmitter nodes supported by semi-autonomous maritime, airborne, or space platforms spaced at regular intervals from their nearest neighbors and phased to localize VLF coverage to some desired area on a body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Carson R. White, Walter S. Wall
  • Patent number: 11939592
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recombinant phage having high safety and excellent practicality and usefulness. Provided are a recombinant bacteriophage which is deprived of its proliferative capacity and can infect only once due to the fact that a bacteriophage genome in which a part of a virion constituent gene is deleted is stored in a head, and a method for preparing the same. In addition, provided are a recombinant bacteriophage which is deprived of its proliferative capacity and can infect only once due to the fact that a plasmid having a packaging site and encoding a target gene is stored in a head, and a method for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM
    Inventors: Shoichi Mitsunaka, Hiroki Ando