Patents Examined by Seung Lee
  • Patent number: 10146972
    Abstract: A management system includes: a reader that reads item information related to a target item from the target item; an identifier that identifies an authorized storage location where the target item is required to be stored, on the basis of the item information read by the reader; an acquisitor that acquires a reading location where the item information has been read; and a determiner that compares the authorized storage location with the reading location and determines whether or not the target item is stored in the authorized storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA., INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Aoki, Akinori Tadokoro
  • Patent number: 10141483
    Abstract: A semiconductor illuminating device is disclosed. The device includes an LED configured for emitting blue primary radiation and an LED phosphor arranged and configured such that it emits secondary light that forms at least one component of the illumination light, wherein the LED phosphor comprises a red phosphor for emitting red light as a component of the secondary light and a green phosphor for emitting green light as a component of the secondary light, wherein the green light has a color point located above a first straight line having a slope m1 and a y-intercept n1 in a CIE standard chromaticity diagram, with the slope m1=1.189 and the y-intercept n1=0.226, and wherein the components of the illumination light are at such a ratio to one another that the illumination light has a color temperature of at most 5500 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Baur, Reiner Windisch, Frank Baumann
  • Patent number: 10133977
    Abstract: A holder for a product package includes a substrate having an inside surface, with opposing end portions of the substrate being folded upwards. The holder also includes a securing member disposed on at least one of the end portions, the securing member configured to secure the product package within the end portions of the substrate. The holder also includes a RFID tag disposed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: WAVEMARK, INC.
    Inventors: James Barry Billington, Richard Eugene Leitermann
  • Patent number: 10127418
    Abstract: A portable container (2) for one or more articles (16) each tagged with a respective Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device (18). The container (2) comprises: a bay (6) having at least one opening (O) for removal and/or placement of RFID-tagged articles (16) into the bay (6); a lid (15) for covering the at least one opening in the bay (6), wherein the lid (15) is openable to permit access to the bay (6); a detector device (21,22) for detecting RFID-tagged articles (16) located in the bay (6); a power supply (30) for supplying electrical power to the detector device (21,22). The container (2) further comprises: an electromagnetic shield (19,19a,19b,19c,19d) wherein the bay (6) and the at least opening in the bay (6) is enclosed by the electromagnetic shield and wherein the lid (15) forms part of the electromagnetic shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Stanley Middle East FZE
    Inventor: Thierry Demaretz
  • Patent number: 10127423
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a device for reading machine-readable code. A processor, configured by a strike application program monitors for a strike against a surface of the device. The strike is caused by a user either striking the device against a non-device surface or striking the surface of the device without necessarily engaging a button, a capacitive surface, or a resistive surface of the device. The strike comprising a detected strike is detected. An identifying characteristic of the detected strike is determined and it is determined if the detected strike having the identifying characteristic correlates to a particular scan-related operation of the device. The particular scan-related operation correlating to the detected strike having the identifying characteristic is executed in response to determining that the detected strike having the identifying characteristic correlates to a particular scan-related operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Erik Todeschini
  • Patent number: 10114992
    Abstract: An electronic identification document is provided. The electronic identification document may include a carrier, an identification element, a microwave interaction structure configured to interact with microwave radiation, and an alteration element, wherein the alteration element may be part of or in contact with the microwave interaction structure and may be configured to alter, upon interaction of the interaction structure with microwaves, its state from an initial state to a permanent altered state, wherein the permanent altered state may differ from the initial state by a change of the alteration element in color, brightness, saturation, and/or transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Frank Pueschner, Jens Pohl, Thomas Spoettl, Peter Stampka
  • Patent number: 10107470
    Abstract: A device for relative positioning of two parts formed by a light support for an electroluminescent diode and a support element of this light support, comprising two pairs of interlocking reliefs, each pair comprising at least one recess on one part and at least one locating projection with a rounded form, mounted on the other part, each locating projection being intended to rest, in the assembled position, each one on the bottom of the corresponding recess in a corresponding direction of insertion. According to the invention, the positioning device is isostatic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Eric Mornet
  • Patent number: 10108181
    Abstract: A motor drive system includes a motor drive processor, a motor drive memory component, a server, and a display that displays a machine readable code, wherein the motor drive forms a secure wireless connection with a smart device once the smart device has scanned the machine readable code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Louis Baumann, Paul Thomas Krause
  • Patent number: 10095968
    Abstract: A credit card shaped element with a dynamic stripe which may be activated or deactivated, where the stripe is formed by a plurality of coils provided along the curve thereof, where the plurality of coils are activated in a sequential manner, where a plurality of proximity sensing coils are provided in series along the curve thereof, where the plurality of coils are formed by one coil contacted at multiple positions along its length by contact pads and where the signals fed to the coils cause an output of a reader coil to output a signals with a minimum slope or where one signal fed to one track has no peaks when the other signal is close to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Cardlabs APS
    Inventor: Finn Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10094527
    Abstract: A projection headlamp (12) has a reflector (28) reflecting light emitted from a light engine (20); a projector lens (30) projecting reflected light from the reflector (28); and a shutter (22) disposed between light engine (20) and projector lens (30), the shutter (22) having an upper edge (44) defining a cut-off to generate a low beam pattern by obscuring a portion of the projector lens (30) from the reflected light and to selectively emit the reflected light through the projector lens (30) in a low-beam light distribution pattern. The shutter (22) further includes a partially light-transmissive shutter bump (56) extending above the upper edge (44) which attenuates light emitted from the projector lens (30) in a predefined area of the low-beam pattern. Light intensity at the 0.86D, 3.5L NHTSA test point (112) is attenuated to below maximum photometric intensity (12,000 candela), avoiding glare.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Bushre
  • Patent number: 10095972
    Abstract: Systems for switchable RFID tags responsive to an environmental sensor are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a primary RFID tag and a secondary RFID tag, and a switch being associated with the primary RFID tag and the secondary RFID tag in a manner that the primary RFID tag and the secondary RFID tag are not activated at the same time. Each RFID tag may include an integrated circuit and an antenna. The system may also include at least two first electrical terminals electrically connecting the primary RFID tag to the switch, and at least two second electrical terminals electrically connecting the secondary RFID tag to the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TEMPTIME CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ravi Bhatia, Mohannad Abdo
  • Patent number: 10089509
    Abstract: A smartphone and its camera are programmed to function as a barcode scanner, analyze data encoded in a barcode, which also is programmed to “learn” a master barcode, and then scan product barcodes to determine if a product is being loaded onto the correct shipment. A user can choose one of the following modes of operation to start a code match operation: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-some, or box mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Barcode-Test, LLC
    Inventor: John D. Nachtrieb
  • Patent number: 10082264
    Abstract: A light module for a motor vehicle headlight with at least two semi-conductor light sources, a light decoupling optical system having at least one partial optical element and a diaphragm. The light module includes a lens combination arranged between the light decoupling optical system and the diaphragm, which is illuminated by at least one of the two semi-conductor light sources, wherein the lens combination has different refractivities in two spatial directions perpendicular to one another and to the main propagation direction of the emitted light. The light decoupling optical system has different refractivities in the two spatial directions, wherein the refractivity of the light decoupling optical system is greater in the spatial direction in which the lens combination has a lesser refractivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hossfeld
  • Patent number: 10083586
    Abstract: A radio frequency detection device to detect RFID tags. A single double-loop RFID antenna, an RFID reader, connection cables, longitudinal conductive section bars and transverse conductive section bars which form a closed circuit. A transverse branch connecting the longitudinal section bars so as to form a double-loop circuit which is crossed by current and which provides an electromagnetic field able to detect, in three dimensions, RFID tags even on both sides of a single panel of antennas. The possibility of superimposing an RFID antenna, with other antennas with electromagnetic technology allows to obtain a hybrid gate with a simultaneous reading of RFID tags and electromagnetic tags or bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NTL S.R.L.
    Inventor: Gianluca Parma
  • Patent number: 10073999
    Abstract: This patent specification describes operations of a mobile device with barcode-reading capabilities and an application and license server. A mobile device may include a barcode-reading application downloaded from an application server. The barcode-reading application may operate in a base mode or an enhanced mode. In the base mode, the barcode-reading application may establish a network connection to a licensing server to obtain a license code, and determine at least one operating permission authorized by the license code. In the enhanced mode, the barcode-reading application may implement at least one enhanced barcode-reading function which corresponds to the at least one operating permission authorized by the license code. For example, the enhanced barcode-reading function may be a function of decoding a barcode symbology that the decoder is restricted from decoding in the base mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: The Code Corporation
    Inventors: John Deal, George Powell, Garrett Russell
  • Patent number: 10075572
    Abstract: An attachment for use with a mobile device with an imaging device or with a case for the mobile device can include one or more of an attachment base and an attachment body. The attachment base can be configured to be secured to at least one of the mobile device and the case. The attachment body can include at least one optical device for use with the imaging device and can be configured to be secured to the attachment base. The attachment base can removably secure the attachment body to the mobile device or the case when the attachment body is secured to the attachment base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: COGNEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Gifford, David James Stein, Steven Kearns, Bobby Dale Gifford, John Bryan Boatner
  • Patent number: 10073993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for electromagnetic interrogation of RFID transponders including at least one RFID transponder, at least one so-called repeater RFID device and at least one RFID terminal, the at least one RFID terminal is configured to emit an interrogation signal towards the at least one repeater at a frequency F1, the at least one repeater is configured to repeat the interrogation signal with frequency F1 towards the at least one RFID transponder at a frequency F2 and the at least one RFID transponder is configured to emit a backscattered response signal at a frequency F3, the system being characterized in that the at least one repeater is configured to perform an exclusively analog frequency transposition from the frequency F1 to the frequency F2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Recouly, Cyril Catalanotto, Christophe Loussert, Michel Talon
  • Patent number: 10068114
    Abstract: A method for implementing a host card emulation (HCE) service in a remote near field communication (NFC) device is provided. In the method, a first command application protocol data unit (APDU) is received at the remote NFC device from an NFC reader. A first response to the first command APDU is computed. A second command APDU from the NFC reader is predicted that is likely to follow receipt of the first command APDU from the NFC reader. A second response to the predicted second command APDU is computed. A third command APDU is received from the NFC reader. It is determined if the prediction of the second command APDU matches the third command APDU. If the second and third command APDUs match, then the computed second response is send directly to the NFC reader without having to traverse a NFC stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Hoogerbrugge, Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus Michiels, Joppe Willem Bos
  • Patent number: 10062026
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder may include a substrate and a device. The substrate may be in communication with a controller and an antenna, and the antenna is arranged to receive radio frequency signals. A first side surface of the substrate may include a capacitor. The device may be detachably coupled with the substrate via a conductive member positioned between the structure and the capacitor of the substrate, and the conductive member may be within a desired proximity of the capacitor. The structure may be attached to an attachment surface so that an attachment strength between the structure and the attachment surface may be greater than a force required to decouple the structure from the substrate. When the structure is decoupled from the substrate, the conductive member separates from the capacitor, disabling the transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: INTERMEC, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Raven, Jason Harrigan, Rene Martinez, Pavel Nikitin, Shashidhar Ramamurthy, David William Gilpin, Stephen Kelly
  • Patent number: 10054285
    Abstract: A light-emitting arrangement including an optical member and a light-transmissive shield member secured with respect to the optical member at least partially defines a light-fixture exterior and having a back side facing a circuit board and receiving a gasket which encircles the circuit board to provide a water seal thereabout. The gasket has a pair of spaced apart outwardly-extending lateral fingers engaging lateral sides of a recess formed by the optical-member back side, and at least one inner finger extending into the recess offset from the recessed lateral sides. A peripheral wall extends from the optical-member back side outwardly around the gasket and engaging an emitter-supporting to minimize water ingress toward the gasket. An opaque shield is disposed along at least a portion of a perimeter of the optical member and configured and dimensioned to minimize or block distribution of light in at least one direction opposite the direction of the primary illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Demuynck, Lisa Barglind, Charles Hobson, Mark Dixon, Kurt Wilcox