Patents Examined by John Tweel, Jr.
  • Roller shutter for securing a physical space within a vehicle
    Patent number: 11624230
    Abstract: It is provided a roller shutter for securing a physical space within a vehicle. The roller shutter comprises: a protective barrier configured to be in a rolled up, open, state, and in a rolled down, protective state; a mesh of conductors being attached to the protective barrier; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the roller shutter to: detect a physical break in the mesh of conductors; when a break in the mesh of conductors is connected, signal that a break-in is detected, determine a valid open request; open the roller shutter when the valid open request is determined; determine when a user has exited the vehicle; and close the roller shutter when the user exit has been determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventor: Peter Stenlund
  • Home occupancy information system
    Patent number: 11626007
    Abstract: A home occupancy status and information system may be used to track information about human and animal occupants within a structure, and provide information to first responders in the event of an emergency. A rescue beacon may be positioned near an entrance to a home, and when an audible alarm or alarm signal is detected by the beacon it will provide visual alerts and/or audible alerts to attract the attention of a first responder, and will provide information on occupants in the home, such as a number of pets, a number of humans, and other information. A rescue device may also be carried by each pet or other occupant in the house, which may be activated by a wireless signal from a rescue beacon, or by a detected alarm audio/signal. When activated, the rescue device will provide audible and/or visual alerts to aid first responders in locating the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: J&M Creative Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Michael L. Ulleweit, Jeffrey A. Jablonski, Matthew B. Sunday, Joseph Althaus, Blake J. Dalton, Michael O. Crowley
  • Merchandise security system with inductive charging
    Patent number: 11620886
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to security systems for securing an item of merchandise from theft or unauthorized removal. For example, the security system may include a sensor configured to be coupled to the item of merchandise and a base configured to removably support the sensor and the item of merchandise thereon. The sensor includes at least one electrical contact and an inductive coil, and the base includes at least one electrical contact and driving electronics for the inductive coil. The sensor is configured to transfer power inductively to the item of merchandise when the at least one electrical contact of the sensor contacts the at least one electrical contact of the base to thereby allow the driving electronics to energize the inductive coil, wherein the sensor is configured to cease transferring power to the item of merchandise when the sensor is lifted off of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Taylor, David N. Berglund
  • Automated identification and creation of personalized kinetic state models of an individual
    Patent number: 11615687
    Abstract: A system and a method for predicting kinesthetic outcomes from observed position, posture, behavior or activity of an individual 1602, 1702. The system uses kinesthetic activity sensors 102, 104 each collecting one or more of audio, video, or physiological signals and capturing the activity of the individual or an ambient environment of the individual. These signals are delivered into a computer system 106 implementing a learning routine 108 which constructs one or more personalized kinetic state models 1510 of positional states for the individual and transitions between the positional states, and further develops one or more customized multi-dimensional prediction models 1500 for the individual and uses the multidimensional prediction models to predict behaviors, activities and/or positional changes likely to occur in the future, and provides notice of predicted unsafe or undesired outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: University Of Cincinnati
    Inventor: Deeptankar DeMazumder
  • Monitoring support apparatus and monitoring support method for supporting work of monitoring person who monitors plurality of subjects by sequentially visiting the plurality of subjects
    Patent number: 11615686
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a measuring device, a position specifying circuit, and a determining circuit. The measuring device measures a plurality of subjects by radiating a detecting wave toward the plurality of subjects. The position specifying circuit specifies positions of the plurality of subjects on a basis of information obtained by the measuring device. The determining circuit determines at least one of: a next subject suitable as a subject to be visited next by a monitoring person among the plurality of subjects; and a movement path along which the monitoring person moves from a position of the monitoring person to the next subject on a basis of the positions of the plurality of subjects specified by the position specifying circuit. A method performs the operations of the measuring device, and the circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Mizutani
  • Voice alarm notification device
    Patent number: 11615680
    Abstract: A voice alarm notification device of a fire alarm system, comprising: a network port for receiving an alarm notification signal; an audio file library in which the audio files include audio voice message files; a speaker; a processor unit connected to the network port for processing an alarm notification signal and for selecting one of the audio files from the library to be played through the speaker; and a Bluetooth module for establishing a Bluetooth communication link to the voice alarm notification device, via which link an audio voice file can be received. The device is arranged to add the audio voice file received via the Bluetooth communication link to the library so as to be available for selection by the processor unit when it receives an alarm notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS FIRE PROTECTION LP
    Inventors: Sonali Date, Praveen Deshpande, Prasad Kulkarni, Faruk Meah
  • Boot wire wrap EAS tag
    Patent number: 11610462
    Abstract: A security tag assembly for placing around a boot, including a circuit board having a processor, and one or more wires electrically connected to the circuit board that form a first opening and a second opening. The first and second openings are respectively configured to receive first and second components of the boot. The assembly further includes a tension switch connected to the one or more wires and having a closed position corresponding to a first tension level on the one or more wires and an open position corresponding to a second tension level on the one or more wires, wherein the second tension level is greater than the first tension level. Further, the processor is configured to monitor whether the tension switch is in at least the open position, wherein the processor is configured to trigger an alarm in response to the switch being in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Channing E. Miller, Edward P. Ellers
  • Detecting device having a plurality of detecting portions working automatically or by selection
    Patent number: 11600167
    Abstract: A device for detecting household conditions and events includes a power supply portion and a plurality of portions able to detect different conditions, or changes in different conditions. Each detecting portion includes an input port and an output port, the output port of one detecting portion is detachably electronically connected to the power supply portion, and the input port of one detecting portion is detachably electronically connected to the output port in a modular fashion of another detecting portion, the remote selection of a specific required detection is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pin-Jen Feng
  • Server-based notification of alarm event subsequent to communication failure with armed security system
    Patent number: 11601865
    Abstract: A server-based environment for reporting a status of a security, monitoring and automation controller is provided. Detecting cessation of an always-on persistent network connection between the SMA controller and the server is also provided. Reporting the cessation of the network connection to an end user and defined others is further provided. A further aspect provides for automatically reporting an alarm event to a central station, the end user, and others, in the event the cessation of the network connection occurs while the SMA controller is armed and after a zone fault event, and not receiving a disarm notification prior to expiration of a preset entry delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Wade Cohn, Gary Robert Faulkner, James Edward Kitchen, David Leon Proft, Corey Wayne Quain
  • Product merchandising systems with enhanced security features
    Patent number: 11598126
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to product merchandising systems that are designed to prevent brute force attempts to steal a product on display. The merchandising systems include security features that enhances the strength of the connection between a puck assembly and a base assembly and between the base assembly and a display surface. The merchandising systems are suited for withstanding brute force pulling attacks on the puck assembly and the base assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mobile Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Miles, Peter Schuft
  • Autonomous vehicle application
    Patent number: 11600177
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A computing device may receive data for the same road segment from autonomous vehicles, including (i) an indication of a location within the road segment, and (ii) an indication of a condition of the road segment. The computing device may generate, from the data for the same road segment, an overall indication of the condition of the road segment, which may include a recommendation to vehicles approaching the road segment. Additionally, the computing device may receive a request from a computing device within a vehicle approaching the road segment to display vehicle data. The overall indication for the road segment may then be displayed on a user interface of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Blake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
  • Device-based notification generation
    Patent number: 11594122
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining a notification based on device properties. A device identification database may associate device identifications with device properties. A device identification associated with a device may be received, and corresponding device properties may be determined. Based on the device properties, a notification may be determined and sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Eng, Tyler Vitale
  • Method and apparatus for enhancing driver situational awareness
    Patent number: 11594131
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a system comprising a processor, a driver profile according to a driver identity for a driver of a vehicle, selecting a driver-specific enforcement scenario for the vehicle according to the driver profile and traffic enforcement information that is associated with a vehicle location, and presenting an in-vehicle alert to convey the driver-specific enforcement scenario to the driver. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James G. Beattie, Jr., Jesse Chan
  • System, program, and method for detecting information on a person from a video of an on-vehicle camera
    Patent number: 11587442
    Abstract: An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. Each of the vehicles generates a video obtained by imaging outside scenery in association with a time and transmit the video and position information of a host vehicle at a time when the video is generated to the server. The server detects attribute information of a person in the video from the video and detects position information of the person at the time based on the position information of the host vehicle at the time when the video is generated, when the video and the position information are received from the host vehicle. The server specifies the same person appearing in two or more videos of videos respectively received from the vehicles and transmits the attribute information of the specified person and movement path information including time-series data of the position information of the person to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Event detection using distributed event devices
    Patent number: 11587429
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for event detection using distributed event devices are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a first event device and a second event device, where the first event device is configured to detect an event in an area and wirelessly transmit a notification of the detected event and location information associated with the first event device to the second event device, and where the second event device is configured to receive the notification of the detected event and the location information from the first event device, determine whether the location information matches a location included in a database in response to receiving the detected event, and perform an activation action responsive to determining the location information matches a location included in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sagar Ramesh Kulkarni, Sudeep Jayakumar Duge, Sameer Tripathi
  • Intelligent emergency response for multi-tenant dwelling units
    Patent number: 11580843
    Abstract: Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, for a multi-tenant dwelling unit (MDU), a map of the MDU, where the map includes locations corresponding to multiple sensors at the MDU and defines multiple sub-areas of the MDU, receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the plurality of sensors, where the sensor data is indicative of a fire event at the MDU, determining, from the sensor data, one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas included in the fire event, generating, based on the sensor data, a targeted fire event response for the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas of the MDU, and providing, to the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas, the targeted fire event response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Jed Menard, Alexander Kappler, John Murdock, Jasper Bingham, Gustaf Nicolaus Maxwell Lonaeus, Kyle Rankin Johnson
  • Method, device and system for the simulation of the presence of humans
    Patent number: 11580835
    Abstract: A method, device and system for simulating the presence of humans includes the method steps of defining activity attributes as input data and defining user preferences as input data. As an output, a time sequence for simulated activities is generated, while the method, device and system should provide an exceedingly realistic simulation of the presence of humans for any application where occupancy simulation is advantageous. This is reached in that user preferences are matched with attributes of activity respectively in that a control unit of a device or within a system is configured to match user preferences with attributes of activity for the generation of the sequence list for simulated activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mitipi AG
    Inventors: Le Kim Khanh Nguyen, Jakob Gabriel Cevc, Laura Kristina Schilliger, Julian Stefan Stylianou
  • Signal displays
    Patent number: 11580827
    Abstract: A method for determining and providing signal displays is provided. The method can include receiving data characterizing signal values. The data can be received from a sensor monitoring an asset, such as a rotating machinery asset. The method can also include receiving data characterizing a threshold trigger level associated with the asset. The method can further include determining a signal display for the asset. The method can also include providing the signal display in a graphical user interface. Monitoring systems for monitoring industrial assets and providing signal displays corresponding to an operation of the industrial assets are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Michael Alan Tart
  • Dynamic feedback for haptics
    Patent number: 11580829
    Abstract: A haptic system is described. The haptic system includes a linear resonant actuator (LRA), a receiver, and a transmitter. The LRA has a characteristic frequency and provides a vibration in response to an input signal. The receiver is configured to sense received vibration from the LRA. The transmitter is configured to provide the input signal to the LRA. The receiver is coupled with the transmitter and provides vibrational feedback based on the received vibration. The input signal incorporates the vibrational feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Yenyu Hsieh, Mo-Hsi Edwin Su, Herbert Huang
  • Processing alarm signals
    Patent number: 11580847
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing alarm signals are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may be registered with a security system that is installed at a premises. Subsequently, an alarm trigger associated with the security system may be received. Based on receiving the alarm trigger, the location of the mobile device may be determined. A response to the alarm trigger then may be determined based on the location of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Bill Horrocks