Patents Examined by John Tweel, Jr.
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Patent number: 11479312Abstract: A smart trailer system coupled to a trailer of a vehicle includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of the trailer, a sensor interface board electrically coupled to the sensor and configured to retrieve the measured parameter, and a master controller communicatively coupled to the sensor interface board via a data bus.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Phillips Connect Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam Bean, Timothy Ronald Jackson, Douglas Chambers, Ruben Chicas, Robert Alexander Phillips, Thomas Begin
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Patent number: 11477973Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: BASF CORPORATIONInventors: James H. Cink, Greggory K. Storey, Kyle K. Jordan, James W. Austin, Charles E. Evanhoe, Bart Ivy, Daniel W. Engels, Daniel Freeman, Kenneth Lauffenburger, Thomas Dills, Kenneth S. Brown, Cheryl Leichter
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Patent number: 11482093Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for automatically determining compliant operation of a power supply panel integrated in a fire alarm system, the method including the steps of receiving a first input in a first selectable field relating to a manufacturer type of the fire alarm system; receiving a second input in a second selectable field relating to a circuit class associated with circuits of the fire alarm system; receiving a third input in a third selectable field relating to an end-of-line resistor size; receiving one or more additional inputs relating to at least one of the power supply panel or the fire alarm system; and performing one or more calculations based on the first, second, and third inputs and the one or more additional inputs to generate outputs for determining compliant operation of the power supply panel integrated in the fire alarm system.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: GREAT SOUTHWESTERN FIRE & SAFETY, INC.Inventor: Eugene R. Reichert, Jr.
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Patent number: 11482311Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for automating a monitoring process is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter. The encounter information is processed to determine if the encounter information is indicative of a potential medical situation. An inquiry is initiated concerning the potential medical situation.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Donald E. Owen, Garret N. Erskine, Mehmet Mert Öz
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Patent number: 11475758Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for monitoring control panels of a fire control system is described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a computing device comprising a memory, a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive, via a gateway device, data from a plurality of fire control panels of a fire control system, and detect an event associated with one of the fire control panels based on the received data, and a user interface configured to display information associated with the detected event.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Deepika Sahai, Simon Foulkes, Karthik Kumar Davanam, Amit Jain, Rajesh Babu Nalukurthy
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Patent number: 11475750Abstract: An alert system for alerting a user in a virtual reality environment is provided. The virtual reality environment has a corresponding physical environment that is monitored by a detector of a fire alarm system through an alarm panel, and the virtual reality environment is provided to one or more user virtual reality devices by a central server. The alert system includes a processor in communication with the alarm panel of the fire alarm system and the central server of the virtual reality system and a memory. The processor continuously monitors the alarm panel of the fire alarm system, receives a signal from the alarm panel when an alarm of the detector has been triggered, and disconnects the one or more user virtual reality devices from the central server upon receipt of the signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: MassVR, LLCInventors: Chris Lai, Steven Daniels
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Patent number: 11475773Abstract: The driver of a vehicle is alerted to occurrence of various pre-dangerous states. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores information obtained by a traveling simulation of a vehicle in a virtual environment and indicating a pre-dangerous state before the vehicle is set in a dangerous state, a first acquirer that acquires actual information during traveling of the vehicle, and an alert controller that provides an alert of occurrence of the pre-dangerous state based on the actual information acquired by the first acquirer and the information indicating the pre-dangerous state.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Nakayamada
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Patent number: 11477622Abstract: The present disclosure relates to monitoring sound in and around a vehicle to predict unsafe driving events, and using the sound information to detect and reduce unsafe driving conditions. A computing device receives information indicative of a sound in or near a vehicle. The sound information may be received via the vehicle itself or via a device. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of an unwanted driving event. The computing device also receives vehicle operation data extracted from one or more vehicle sensors. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of unsafe driving conditions, and if there is, the computing device may output a notice or alert via a notification system to alert the driver or, in certain embodiments, other parties via social media, text message, chat programs, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Andre Rene Buentello, Mark Anthony Lopez, Gregory Brian Meyer, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Garrett Rielly Rapport, Jose L. Romero, Jr., Michael Jay Szentes
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Patent number: 11468751Abstract: A gunshot detection system takes advantage of existing fire alarm system infrastructure by tapping a fire alarm communication network for a fire alarm system. Gunshot sensor units and/or a gunshot detection control panel receive power from the fire alarm communication network via tap units and/or tap wires, which provide electrical connectivity between the fire alarm communication network and the devices of the gunshot detection system. At the same time, the gunshot detection devices communicate via wireless links to an ancillary high-speed network. The gunshot sensor units can communicate with the fire alarm control panel via the fire alarm communication network. Even more comprehensive integration with the fire alarm system involves a hybrid gunshot detection and fire alarm control panel for controlling devices of both the gunshot detection system and the fire alarm system. Hybrid gunshot sensor units include fire detection elements such as smoke sensors and/or fire notification elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Thomas Wysong Connell, II, Alan Levin, III, Michael A. Furtado
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Patent number: 11468762Abstract: A facility alert system is provided. The system includes a plurality of remote units, wherein each unit includes a housing having a plurality of controls thereon. Each of the plurality of remote units is in wireless communication with each other via a wireless transceiver disposed within the housing. Each of the plurality of controls illuminates a corresponding indicator light disposed on each housing of the plurality of remote units when actuated. Upon actuation of one of the plurality of controls, an alert signal is transmitted to emergency services via the wireless transceiver. In some embodiments, a vibration motor is disposed within each housing, whereupon actuation of one of the plurality of controls, each vibration motor activates to vibrate each housing in a pattern corresponding to each control.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: Joseph Skowron
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Patent number: 11462088Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an anti-theft device. Some embodiments comprise a cover seat which is provided with an acoustomagnetic coil and a circuit board and formed with a guide slot, an arm hook which is a curved hook and has a long arm movably inserted into the guide slot, a plug which is mounted on the cover seat and used to lock the arm hook in a moving state, and a cable which is mounted at one end of the cover seat, penetrates through a YETI® vacuum cup and is electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein a monitoring assembly for protecting the tag against damage is mounted on the tag and comprises a Hall® switch arranged on the circuit board and magnetic steel arranged on a short arm of the arm hook.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Industrial Security Solutions, Corp.Inventors: David Michael Sandoval, Mingjun Hu
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Patent number: 11462092Abstract: A safety system for preventing child abandonment in a motor vehicle is provided. The safety system includes a device installable on a child safety seat, a safety belt, or a seat belt shoulder strap. The device includes a presence sensor configured to detect child safety seat occupancy, and a radio transmitter configured to emit a radio signal within a predefined transmission range and functionally connected to the presence sensor to receive a child safety seat occupancy signal and insert presence information into the radio signal. The safety system includes warning signal receiving devices configured to detect the radio signal within the predefined transmission range and extract presence information from the radio signal, and warning emission means. The presence sensor is a capacitive sensor. Each warning signal receiving device is configured to trigger the warning emission means after initially extracting presence information and subsequently detecting an interruption of the radio signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: FILO S.R.L.Inventors: Giorgio Sadolfo, Davide Guglielmo, Gianluca Granero, Vincenzo Roselli
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Patent number: 11457875Abstract: An event prediction system according to an aspect includes an acquisition unit and a symptom detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires body movement data about a subject's body movement from a measuring device that outputs the body movement data. The symptom detection unit makes, based on a subset, acquired during a past reference period, of the body movement data, a decision about whether or not there are any symptoms of an onset of a particular event related to the subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Toshiaki Tanaka, Kenji Masuda, Atsushi Takahashi, Hidehiko Ichikawa
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Patent number: 11455878Abstract: A tracking device, including a communication interface encased in a encasement with a receptacle on two opposite sides of the encasement, a strap, including one or more thin elongated flexible sheets, links coupled to one side of the one or more thin elongated flexible sheets, a fiber optic cable extending from a first end of the one or more thin elongated flexible sheets to a second end of the one or more thin elongated flexible sheets, a head connected to each end of the one or more thin elongated flexible sheets; wherein the heads are configured to fit into the receptacles and lock the strap in the receptacles thus preventing the strap from sliding out of the receptacles; and wherein the communication interface is configured to detect tampering with the strap by transmitting an optical signal through the fiber optic cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: ATTENTI ELECTRONIC MONITORING LTD.Inventor: Ofer Friedman
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Patent number: 11450197Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of controlling a security system by a computer device, comprising receiving device metadata associated with a device in communication with a wireless communication access point. The implementations further include determining that the device metadata comprises matched device metadata based on a match with one of a plurality of previously-identified device metadata in a historical database that stores the plurality of previously-identified device metadata in association with one or more of a plurality of security breach events and a corresponding one of a plurality of security breach probability values. Additionally, the implementations further include determining that the matched device metadata corresponds with a security breach probability value that exceeds a security breach probability threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SHOPPERTRAK RCT CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew W. Wilson, Daniel Mueller, Michelangelo Palella, Adam S. Bergman
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Patent number: 11450185Abstract: 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, wherein the sensor includes an electrical connector. The security system also includes a base configured to removably support the sensor thereon, wherein the base includes an electronics module having a connector. The connector of the sensor and the connector of the electronics module are configured to electrically connect with one another when the sensor is supported on the base, and the sensor is configured to detect unauthorized removal of the item of merchandise from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.Inventors: Christopher Richard Helman, Kyle Baker, Jonathon D. Phillips, Daniel G. Dugas, Michael R. Johnston, Daniel C. Symons, A. Reneau Van Landingham, Jr., Eric Brutke
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Patent number: 11450183Abstract: A headgear-based sports signaling system which includes a controller capable of transmitting electronic signals to receivers mounted in or on sports headgear, and wherein the receivers control lights or other displays in or on the sports headgear to signal events that have occurred during game play. In some configurations, the controller is a whistle with airflow detection which transmits signals to the headgear when airflow is detected in the whistle.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Inventor: Michael Williams
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Patent number: 11451957Abstract: A method for traffic management of proprietary data, in a network system comprising a gateway and a sensor communicatively coupled to the gateway via a data bus, includes determining, by a processor of a bridging device, whether a dedicated pipeline for transmission to the gateway is available, in response to determining that the dedicated pipeline is available, transmitting, by the processor, a request for the dedicated pipeline, determining, by the processor, whether the dedicated pipeline has been established between the bridging device and the gateway, and in response to determining that the dedicated pipe has been established, requesting, by the processor, the proprietary data from the sensor, transmitting, by the processor, the proprietary data from the sensor to the gateway via the dedicated pipeline, and transmitting, by the processor, a dedicated pipeline release signal to the gateway indicating release of dedicated pipeline between the bridging device and the gateway.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Phillips Connect Technologies LLCInventor: Edward Hiroyuki Weaver
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Patent number: 11449057Abstract: A method of facilitating piloting a hybrid rotorcraft having at least one propulsive rotor provided with a plurality of first blades and a lift rotor provided with a plurality of second blades, the hybrid rotorcraft having a power plant. The method includes a step of displaying on a single indicator a first pointer, the position of which along a movement path varies as a function of a first power from the power plant that is consumed by the propulsive system, and of displaying a second pointer, the position of which varies as a function of a second power of the power plant that is consumed by the lift rotor, a variable space between the first pointer and the second pointer representing a power margin from the power plant that is not used so long as the first pointer is situated between the first end and the second pointer.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERSInventor: Kamel Abdelli
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Patent number: 11450189Abstract: A delivery management system includes: an authentication unit that authenticates a user; a storage unit that stores identification information on an article stored in a storage area that is a target article associated with the user; and a control unit that, when an article carried out by the authenticated user from the storage area is the same as the target article, permits the user to exit the storage area.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuji Saito, Hajime Suzuki