Patents Examined by Muhammad Adnan
  • Patent number: 11972648
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus including: a first storage unit configured to store image data captured by a plurality of monitoring cameras disposed in a plurality of restricted areas in which entry is restricted by a plurality of electric locks according to an authority associated with each piece of authentication information; and an access control unit configured to permit only a registrant corresponding to the authentication information that allows entry into the restricted area to access the image data captured in the restricted area by any of the plurality of monitoring cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kojima, Atsushi Wada
  • Patent number: 11965375
    Abstract: A movable barrier operator includes a communication interface configured to receive commands that cause the motor to move the movable barrier. The movable barrier operator further includes a processing circuit configured to cause the motor to automatically move the movable barrier from a first open position toward a closed position and then from the closed position toward a second open position different from the first open position in response to receipt of an intermediate open command by the communication interface. The processing circuit can also cause the motor of the movable barrier operator to move the movable barrier toward the first open position in response to the processing circuit determining that the movable barrier had been obstructed while moving from the first open position toward the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, LLC
    Inventor: James J. Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 11961388
    Abstract: A vehicle alarm system configured to avoid false alarms while maintaining the vehicle alarm system armed. The vehicle alarm system includes: at least a first sensor configured to detect at least a first living object; a processing circuitry operatively connected to the least a first sensor configured to cause the vehicle alarm system to: detect at least a first living object inside of a vehicle by the at least first sensor; and reduce, or unarm, at least a first alarm function of the vehicle alarm system in response to detecting the at least first living object, while at least a second alarm function of the vehicle alarm system is configured to be armed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Albin Hagström, Johnny Tran Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11953590
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for detecting multipath radar returns and modifying radar data. A vehicle may use radar devices to receive radar data while traversing within an environment. The vehicle may process the radar data using a virtual array based on an arraignment of the antennae within an aperture of the radar device. Using the virtual array, the vehicle may determine an elevated noise level that may be indicative of a multipath radar return. Based on the elevated noise level, the vehicle may determine a second virtual array associated with multipath radar returns, and may process the radar data using the second virtual array. Based on determining that the noise level associated with the second virtual array is lower than the initial noise level, the vehicle may determine that the radar data includes a multipath radar return, and may modify the radar data to correct or mitigate the error caused by the multipath return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Abdeldayem, Badeea Ferdaous Alferdaous Alazem, Samantha Marie Ting
  • Patent number: 11956699
    Abstract: A monitoring device detection system may include a mounting assembly disposed onboard a vehicle system. The mounting assembly couples a vehicle signaling and monitoring device to the vehicle system. One or more sensors may obtain information related to one or more of the mounting assembly or the vehicle system. One or more processors may determine a state of the mounting assembly based on the information obtained by the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Kurz
  • Patent number: 11941929
    Abstract: A movable barrier operator comprising a motor, communication circuitry configured to receive a control signal and communicate with a door lock associated with a passageway door, and a controller. The controller is configured to authenticate the control signal, wherein authenticating the control signal includes associating the signal with a first level of access or a second level of access. The controller is further configured to communicate with the door lock via the communication circuitry to permit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the first level of access and inhibit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the second level of access. The controller is configured to cause the motor to open the movable barrier regardless of association of the control signal with the first level of access or the second level of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC
    Inventors: David R. Morris, James Scott Murray, Robert J. Olmsted
  • Patent number: 11942269
    Abstract: A security assembly may have at least two components including a first component and a second component. The first and second components may be engageable together, and may have an engaged condition and a disengaged condition. The engaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being abutted against each other, and the disengaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being spaced from each other. The security assembly may be configured to utilize a physical manipulation aspect and a magnetic interaction aspect between the first and second components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Marc Tobias, Tobias Bluzmanis
  • Patent number: 11935413
    Abstract: A vehicle notification apparatus recognizes an object of driving over on a road on which a host vehicle travels based on a detection result by a front sensor of the host vehicle, determines whether the object of driving over flies backwards based on a detection result by a rear sensor of the host vehicle when the object of driving over is recognized, and notifies a following vehicle of projectile information corresponding to the flight of the object of driving over when it is determined that the object of driving over flies backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kai Oya, Shintaro Inoue, Fumio Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11928950
    Abstract: The present invention provides a PPE-N system that comprises PPE components, smart tags, smart tag readers configured to detect within working ranges and trigger audio-visual alarms and send a warning to a predetermined person, and a hub that compares signals from the smart tags to help assess the PPE-N component health. The present invention further comprises waypoints to verify that the PIPE component conforms to requirements of the PPE component and determine whether the PPE component is permitted in a predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ATTACHE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Alan Wesley Davis
  • Patent number: 11918378
    Abstract: Embodiments of a personal safety monitoring system this disclosure include a wristband that includes a two-way security screw having a non-standard drive recess and sized for insertion into adjustment holes of the wristband; a security key having a non-standard drive configured for insertion into the non-standard drive recess of the two-way security screw; and a designed fail point located along at least one of the first and second lengths of the wristband, the designed fail point configured to fail at a predetermined pull force on the wristband. A monitor may receive signals from the wristband and sound an alert when the wristband exceeds a maximum allowable distance from the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KB, LLC
    Inventors: Christie Matthews, Tim Thornton
  • Patent number: 11915589
    Abstract: The present invention describes an anti-collision system (1) for ground vehicles, comprising a first transceiver device (4), associated with an obstacle (B), configured to generate and transmit one or more wireless signals (SG_B_i), at pre-established time intervals, the first wireless signal (SG_B_1) carrying an obstacle identification code (ID_1); a second transceiver device (3), associated with a ground vehicle (A), configured to transmit one or more wireless signals (SG_A_i) and to receive said one or more wireless signals (SG_B_i) comprising said first wireless signal (SG_B_1) carrying the obstacle identification code (ID_1); a processing unit (20) configured to process collision data of said vehicle (A) comprising: a first calculation module (21) configured to determine the trajectory (D_TRJ) of the ground vehicle (A) and the obstacle (B) as a function of said wireless signals (SG_B_i) and said wireless signals (SG_A_i); a second calculation module (23) configured to determine on the basis of said traje
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: UBIQUICOM S.R.L
    Inventors: Michele Orlando, Andrea Capolei, Claudio Rosace, Stefano Sarasso
  • Patent number: 11912195
    Abstract: A getting-off support device of a vehicle continues to issue an alarm for a predetermined time when a physical body condition indicating that a physical body that obstructs getting-off of an occupant in the vehicle exists around the vehicle and a getting-off condition indicating that the occupant in the vehicle intends to get off the vehicle are satisfied, and prolongs the time of issuing the alarm when both of the physical body condition and the getting-off condition are further satisfied while the issuing of the alarm is continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Saitoh, Iwao Izumikawa
  • Patent number: 11905146
    Abstract: A system control device (36): acquires the three-dimensional information of the work site, the weight of a load W, and the operating condition of the crane (1) via an input device (34) or a system-side communication device (33); upon acquiring the arrangement position and arrangement direction of the vehicle (2) at the work site via the input device (34), calculates the movable range of the crane (1) in the arrangement position and arrangement direction of the vehicle (2) taking the three-dimensional information of the work site into consideration; and overlays the image (M1) of the crane (1) and the movable range (A) on the two-dimensional image or the three-dimensional image of the work site displayed on a display device (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11908308
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reduction of false detections using an ultrasound emitter. One of the methods includes obtaining sensor data captured by a sensor of a property monitoring system; detecting an object represented by the sensor data; determining that the object represented by the sensor data is likely a non-object of interest and being detected as an object of interest; and in response to determining that the object represented by the sensor data is likely the non-object of interest and being detected as the object of interest, sending, to an ultrasound emitter, a command to cause the ultrasound emitter to emit ultrasonic sound around the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Dean Constantine, Gary Franklin Bart
  • Patent number: 11903537
    Abstract: A wireless dispenser beacon module for a product dispenser comprises a bottle presence trigger configured to detect one of presence or absence of a product bottle in the product dispenser; an actuation sensor configured to detect actuation of the product dispenser; and a module controller configured to wirelessly transmit dispenser data indicative of the detected one of presence or absence of the product bottle in the product dispenser associated with each detected actuation of the product dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rospierski, David L. Snodgrass, Andrew M. Schultz, Viktor Slobodyan, Cheryl A. Littau, Kenneth T. Dobizl
  • Patent number: 11900743
    Abstract: A security authentication method is provided. In a step (a), a to-be-recognized image information and a to-be-recognized voice information about a user are provided. Then, a step (b) is performed to identify and judge whether the to-be-recognized image information and the to-be-recognized voice information comply with a registered image information and a registered voice information, respectively. In a step (c), if the judging condition of the step (b) is satisfied, a security information prompt signal is generated. In a step (d), a to-be-recognized security information is provided by the user. Then, a step (e) is performed to identify and judge whether the to-be-recognized security information complies with an abnormal warning information. In a step (f), if the judging condition of the step (e) is satisfied, an abnormal state warning and processing process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiu-Wen Wang, Chih-Wen Lin
  • Patent number: 11887386
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for intelligently identifying upload trigger events and/or storage trigger events to selectively store a media recording portion at an in-cabin media capture device and/or transmit the media recording portion to a remote server. For example, utilizing a trigger analysis model, the disclosed systems can analyze transportation service data such as motion data, global position system (GPS) data, audio data, digital incident reports from provider/requestor devices, etc. to identify certain trigger events. These trigger events may include, for instance, a collision event, a transportation irregularity, a confrontation event, provider/requestor media recording requests, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Davis, Ethan Duncan Eyler, Yahui Jin, Rachel Hallie Lomax, Avneet Oberoi, Douglas Sigelbaum, Michael Anthony Vernier, Shu-min Wee
  • Patent number: 11884311
    Abstract: A system and method obtain first image data of a route at a location of interest from a first optical sensor disposed onboard a vehicle system moving along the route. The first image data depicts the route at the location of interest prior to passage of the vehicle system over the route at the location of interest. Second image data of the route at the location of interest is obtained from a second optical sensor disposed onboard the vehicle system. The second image data depicts the route at the location of interest after passage of the vehicle system over the route at the location of interest. A determination is made as to whether a change in the route has occurred at the location of interest by comparing the first image data with the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Kurz, Chris Schuchmann, Robert Peipert, Timothy Brown, Derek Woo
  • Patent number: 11887467
    Abstract: A method, system, device, or apparatus for notifying a device of a greater number of safety events associated with the first user. The method includes retrieving safety events associated with a first user of a first electronic device and determining a frequency of safety events. The method includes retrieving safety events associated with a second user of a second electronic device and determining a frequency of safety events. The method includes comparing the frequency of safety events associated with the first user and the number of safety events associated with the second user and determining that there is a greater frequency of safety events associated with the first user than with the second user for the period of time. The method includes determining a cause of the greater frequency of safety events associated with the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tula Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lee, Michael Jones, Federico Calero, Trevor Calero, Devin Miller, David Miller
  • Patent number: 11887481
    Abstract: A device can comprise a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and comprising computer executable components, comprising a trajectory determination component that determines a trajectory of an adjacent-lane traveling vehicle traveling in a lane adjacent to a vehicle comprising the device, wherein visibility of the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle, from the vehicle, is impaired by a succeeding vehicle traveling between the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle and the vehicle, a collision avoidance component that, in response to the trajectory of the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle being determined, by the trajectory determination component, to prevent a safe lane change by the vehicle to the lane, initiates a collision avoidance action for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashok Chaitanya Koppisetty, Mikael Ljung Aust