Patents Examined by Sisay Yacob
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Patent number: 11969269Abstract: A multi-parameter patient monitoring device rack can dock a plurality of patient monitor modules and can communicate with a separate display unit. A signal processing unit can be incorporated into the device rack. A graphics processing unit can be attached to the display unit. The device rack and the graphic display unit can have improved heat dissipation and drip-proof features. The multi-parameter patient monitoring device rack can provide interchangeability and versatility to a multi-parameter patient monitoring system by allowing use of different display units and monitoring of different combinations of parameters. A dual-use patient monitor module can have its own display unit configured for displaying one or more parameters when used as a stand-alone device, and can be docked into the device rack when a handle on the module is folded down.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Nicholas Evan Barker, Chad A. DeJong, Kirby Clark Dotson, Ammar Al-Ali, Bilal Muhsin, Sujin Hwang, Massi Joe E. Kiani
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Patent number: 11955003Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, in which a commuter demand control system (CDCS) can obtain commuter profiles, and each profile can identify a commuter, an origin, a destination and commute preferences. The CDCS can determine from the commuter profiles batches of commuter profiles. The CDCS can determine, for a batch of commuter profiles, commute profiles, and each commute profile can correspond to a commuter profile in the batch of commuter profiles. The CDCS can provide the commute profiles. In addition, a traffic control system can obtain a commute profile for at least one commuter, and the commute profile can identify a commuter and an authorized time range. In response to determining that the commuter is authorized to traverse the traffic control device at the time point, the traffic control system can actuate the traffic control device.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Thomas J. Ikeler
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Patent number: 11951944Abstract: Systems and methods for localization and passive entry/passive start (PEPS) systems for vehicles are provided. A communication gateway in a vehicle configured to establish a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication connection with a portable device. Sensors are configured to measure signal information about a communication signal sent from the portable device. A localization module is configured to receive the signal information from the sensors and determine a location of the portable device based on the signal information. A passive entry/passive start (PEPS) system is configured to receive the location of the portable device from the localization module and perform a vehicle function including at least one of unlocking a door of the vehicle, unlocking a trunk of the vehicle, and allowing the vehicle to be started based on the location of the portable device. Each of the plurality of sensors are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kyle Golsch
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Patent number: 11955004Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal machine alarm method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of intelligent transportation technologies. The signal machine alarm method, including: acquiring a light-state data stream of a signal machine; determining a target light-state data frame corresponding to a current time according to the light-state data stream; acquiring a timing scheme of the signal machine at the current time; extracting target light-state information of a target phase from the target light-state data frame; and obtaining a calculation countdown according to the timing scheme, the target light color state and the target cycle countdown, and sending alarm information if the calculation countdown is determined to be inconsistent with the target light color countdown.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Donghui Shen
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Patent number: 11948451Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
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Patent number: 11932092Abstract: A power door device includes: a motor actuator to open/close a vehicle door; a controller to control driving of the motor actuator and include an abnormal state dealing unit; an information unit to acquire information about a vertical vehicle acceleration, and a motor load for the motor actuator; and a diagnostic unit to generate an abnormal signal when the motor load exceeds a predetermined load threshold and when the vertical acceleration does not exceed an predetermined acceleration threshold. When the motor load exceeds the load threshold and the vertical vehicle acceleration does not exceed a predetermined acceleration threshold, the diagnostic unit diagnoses an abnormality generates the abnormal signal. The abnormal state dealing unit performs the abnormal dealing control including stop movement during the door opening/closing in response to the abnormal signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Kaneda, Mitsunori Nishino, Nobuyuki Kishikawa
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Patent number: 11933075Abstract: An electronic key may include a partial capacitor comprising a capacitive metal plate in communication with a processor. The capacitive metal plate of the partial capacitor is configured to form a capacitor with a corresponding capacitive metal plate of a lock when brought into proximity with the metal plate of the lock. Data may be transferred from the key to the lock using a capacitor formed by combining the two metal plates, wherein a common ground is established between the metal plate of the key and the metal plate of the lock through a parasitic capacitance present between the key and lock circuitry. Audit trail data may be recorded based on usage of the key.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KNOX Associates, Inc.Inventors: Bryan E. Pavlovic, Tamara Hatzinger, Dominik Scheffler, Howard Needham, Jason Pedersen, John Kowalski, Timothy Sherack, William James
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Patent number: 11928907Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Nakao, Yukie Hasegawa, Kenji Harada, Kenichi Urasawa
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Patent number: 11922750Abstract: A system for facilitating package delivery or pickup at premises of senders or recipients has a package door that is used for receipt and collection of packages. The package door includes an input device for entering package information and an image capture device for visually recording the arrival of a courier. Based on the package information entered via the input device, the system determines whether the package information matches a predetermined value, such as a package tracking number. The system may automatically unlock the package door if the package information matches such predetermined value. In other embodiments, a user may remotely monitor the package information and/or information from the image capture device to determine whether to provide inputs for unlocking the package door. The system logs the package information received from the input device and the image capture device.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: David L. Eichenblatt
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Patent number: 11918161Abstract: A floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a recovery tank sub-assembly, a vacuum fan sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, wherein the solution tank sub-assembly preferably includes a secondary electrochemical cell, a solution flow sub-assembly, a control console sub-assembly, a frame and wheel sub-assembly and/or a frame and transaxle sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution flow sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system at least one of selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and analyzes data associated with components of the floor cleaning machine assembly, and at least one of controllably communicates and disseminates such data with at least one of another system and user.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Intelligent Cleaning Equipment Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nai Pong Simon Chen
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Patent number: 11915585Abstract: A method of generating an output movement layout for a traffic intersection is disclosed which includes receiving intersection geographical data, establishing a center point for the intersection, receiving vehicle global positioning system (GPS) data, establishing a radius of interest for the intersection based on the received vehicle GPS data, establishing entry and exit headings for each vehicle based on the GPS data, generating an angular cluster chart based on the entry and exit headings of each vehicle, and generating an output movement layout for the intersection based on the generated angular cluster chart. Further, a method for green time reallocation at traffic signals is disclosed that is based on the congestion experienced by vehicles identified as following specific movements.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Enrique Daniel Saldivar Carranza, Haoxiang Howell Li, Darcy Bullock
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Patent number: 11904255Abstract: A magic trick apparatus and methods of use is described. The magic trick apparatus may include a half sphere having a rounded side and a flat surface with a coin attached to the flat surface of the half sphere. The magic trick apparatus may further include a band and a ridge on the rounded side and a hole extending into the half sphere. The magic trick apparatus may be used to “transform” a coin into a lollipop.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.Inventor: Rizki Nanda
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Patent number: 11900813Abstract: Provided is a method for providing a safety service in a wireless communication system via a host vehicle. The method may include: detecting an object outside the host vehicle through an object detection device; transmitting a first message providing notification of the detection of the object through a transmitter and a receiver; and outputting an image, for providing the object with the safety service, through an image output device to a prescribed area outside the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Jaeho Hwang, Myoungseob Kim, Jongseob Baek
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Patent number: 11898857Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention can obtain and use a variety of telematics data to classify trips taken by a vehicle. Trip models can be generated based on telematics data captured during the operation of a vehicle. A variety of features of the trip model, such as the timing and/or location of stops made by the vehicle during one or more trips, can be used to classify the trip as a business trip or a personal trip. In several embodiments, machine classifiers are trained to classify features within the trip models based on historical trips that have been classified as business trips or personal trips. A number of trip models can be combined with other driver attributes to classify a particular vehicle and/or driver as engaged with a transportation network company.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Alex Kreig, Anthony Recchia, En-Chieh Yang, Kelly Link, Chhavi Tiwari
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Patent number: 11893837Abstract: A method of setting an operational authority for an electric motorcycle is proposed, the method including a product registration step of pre-registering mapping information of an ID of an electric motorcycle and manager information in a management server; a manager registration step of completing manager registration with the electric motorcycle using the mapping information when the management server receives the ID from the electric motorcycle; a driver registration step of performing driver registration in the electric motorcycle through pairing with the electric motorcycle, when the management server receives driver information from a driver terminal; and an operational authority registration step of completing, when the management server receives a registration request for operational authority information from a manager terminal, a registration of the operational authority information for the electric motorcycle through pairing with the electric motorcycle, by the driver terminal, using the operationalType: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: ZENTROPY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Don Zu, Jae Sang Lee
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Patent number: 11894120Abstract: A moisture-proof assembly for keeping away from a moisture comprises a housing, a cover, a physiological signal transmitter, a charging device and a desiccant. The housing has an opening. The cover is detachably disposed on the housing, configured to seal the opening, and forms an accommodating space together with the housing. The physiological signal transmitter is disposed in the accommodating space for measuring and transmitting a physiological signal. The charging device is combined with the physiological signal transmitter and disposed together or the charging device and the physiological signal sensor are separate disposed in the accommodating space. The desiccant is disposed in the accommodating space to prevent the physiological signal transmitter from moisture, wherein when the physiological signal transmitter is in need of being charged, the charging device is taken out of the accommodating space, and connected to an external power source to charge the physiological signal transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: BIONIME CORPORATIONInventors: Chieh-Hsing Chen, Chun-Mu Huang
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Image processing device, fingerprint collation system, image processing method, and recording medium
Patent number: 11893824Abstract: An image processing device outputs, by using a result of machine learning, an image including three or more gradations and indicating a central line in response to an input of a fingerprint image, the machine learning being performed by using data including at least a fingerprint image, central line information indicating a central line in the fingerprint image, and zone information indicating a zone that is a portion of the fingerprint image which is effective for fingerprint collation, and generates a binary central line image based on the output image.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Fukuda, Akira Hirokawa, Mamoru Inoue -
Patent number: 11881067Abstract: A method for holding piece goods to be collected, and/or for gathering together piece goods to be dropped off. At least one piece goods module has a plurality of separate piece goods compartments at a collection point. The piece goods compartments each have a closure device adjustable from a closure position preventing access to the piece goods compartment into an opening position, which opens up access to the piece goods compartment and back. The piece goods module is transported by a drone by air from a distribution base to a transfer point and/or vice versa. The piece goods module is transported by a courier vehicle from the transfer point to the collection point and/or vice versa. At the collection point the at least one piece goods module is secured captively to a docking station and/or is separated from the docking station which is connected to the piece goods module.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Deutsche Post AGInventors: Felix Vorwerk, Matthäus Pruski
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Patent number: 11878627Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating an assistance system of a motor vehicle, wherein the assistance system has a projector. A message relating to a wrong-way driver is received, and a position of the wrong-way driver transmitted with the message is compared with a current position. Depending on the comparison, a recommendation for adapting a driving parameter is projected into an area in front of the motor vehicle for the driver by means of the projector. The present disclosure also relates to an assistance system of a motor vehicle and to a motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Valentin Schmidt, Tilman Armbruster, Johannes Reschke, Faruk Krijestorac
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Patent number: 11875662Abstract: A proximity detection device for a vehicle is shown and described. The proximity detection device for a vehicle includes a housing. The housing is made up of a solid exterior and an interior volume. The housing encloses at least one sensor which is operably coupled to a CPU. The CPU is then operably coupled to an alarm. The proximity detection device may be incorporated into a vehicle. Further, multiple proximity detection devices may be incorporated into a vehicle for any number of reasons.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Joseph Gaul