Patents Assigned to ABL IP Holdings LLC
  • Patent number: 11118779
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a speaker positioned at a first depth within a luminaire housing and capable of generating an audio output from a speaker diaphragm. The luminaire also includes a light source that generates a light output. Further, the luminaire includes a light guide assembly positioned at a second depth within the luminaire housing different from the first depth. The light guide assembly includes an acoustically transparent area positioned along a sound path from the speaker diaphragm, and the light guide assembly extracts the light output from the light source and directs the light output away from the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Charles Jeffrey Spencer, Daniel Francis Posacki, Kyle Michael Bradd, Gregory Philip Frankiewicz, Feng Chen, John Glenn Serra, Darcie Renee Callison
  • Patent number: 11119725
    Abstract: A control module, for lighting or other environmental control or the like has embedded voice responsive control capability. The recognizable command set supported by the control module is customizable. Software for a data processor configures the control module to identify a user in the vicinity of the control module and change voice response software based at least in part on identity of the user. The changed voice response software configures the control module, to recognize a customized set of vocal commands, e.g. associated with the identified user, in response to speech detected via a microphone and an audio processor of the control module, without requiring network communication. The control module issues control signals to equipment controlled by the module that correspond to the recognized commands of the customized vocal command set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Sean P. White, Daniel M. Megginson, Januk Aggarwal, David P. Ramer
  • Patent number: 11118769
    Abstract: A wall-mounted lighting fixture includes a mounting plate, a canopy and an aiming assembly. The canopy is secured to a mounting plate mounted to a wall. The aiming assembly includes a disk, a tilting assembly, and a light emitting assembly. The canopy defines a circular recess which the disk is positioned flush within. The tilting assembly is coupled to the disk and the light emitting assembly, and includes a pivot joint, for example a hinge, allowing the light emitting assembly to tilt relative to the disk. The disk is rotatably coupled to the canopy allowing the light emitting assembly to rotate relative to the canopy, and therefore the wall. The tilting and rotation allow emitted light from the light emitting assembly to be aimed in two degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: James Sheehy, Douglas Dewayne Grove, Bruce Layne
  • Patent number: 11115899
    Abstract: An example method for a radio frequency (RF) communication system, such as a lighting system, includes receiving, at a non-connected RF node via an extended star wireless network, a gateway heartbeat message that a gateway RF node transmits. The method further includes, in response to receiving the gateway heartbeat message from the gateway RF node, transmitting, via the extended star wireless network, a non-connected registration message to the gateway RF node. The method additionally includes in response to receiving a gateway acknowledgement message from the gateway RF node, configuring the non-connected RF node to act as a respective connected RF node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Alan David Sanders, Richard L. Westrick, Jr., Samar Shaker Soliman
  • Patent number: 11105886
    Abstract: Described examples include light fixtures and/or radio frequency (RF) nodes located in a service volume provided with a mobile asset detection system. The RF nodes receive beacon signals transmitted by mobile assets within the service volume. The mobile asset detection system includes a processor, a transceiver and multi-element antenna array. The multi-element antenna array includes multiple discrete antenna elements that, in some examples, are arranged so that at least one of the discrete antenna elements is non-coplanar with the other discrete antenna elements of the antenna array. Using signal attribute values determined from a signal received via each of the respective discrete antenna elements, a three dimensional estimate of the location of the mobile assets in a service volume may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Mitri J. Abou-Rizk, Sajin George
  • Patent number: 11098880
    Abstract: A luminaire assembly includes a frame and a back plate. In some examples, the frame includes a lip, and the back plate includes a tab. The back plate is positionable within a housing area of the frame such that the tab is engaged with the lip and the back plate is retained within the frame. In other examples, a luminaire assembly includes a wireless module with an antenna positioned adjacent to a module opening of the back plate. The antenna provides wireless transmissions above the top side of the back plate and below the bottom side of the back plate. A luminaire support clip for a luminaire assembly includes a base and a tab. The tab and the base define a receiving area, and the luminaire support clip receives a portion of an edge of a back plate of the luminaire assembly within the receiving area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Robert Shaner, Travis Middleton, Jonathan Lemoine DeBow
  • Patent number: 11085619
    Abstract: A luminaire includes an electronics module and a light module attached to the electronics module. The electronics module includes an electronics housing and a cover attached to the electronics housing. At least one alignment extension extends from the electronics housing, and at least one wireway channel may extend through the at least one alignment extension. The light module includes a housing and a light engine with at least one light source and at least one wire. At least one alignment channel is formed in an underside of the housing of the light module, and the at least one alignment extension is positioned within the at least one alignment channel. The at least one wire extends through the at least one wireway channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Bulent Erel, William Pixler, Luke J. Siefker
  • Patent number: 11080744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. The wireless signals may be received by mobile devices. A wireless network gateway may also receive the wireless signals. A remote server may communicate with the mobile device and/or the wireless network gateway where the remote server includes a database with up-to-date content associated with the POP displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Walden
  • Patent number: 11083061
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve lighting systems relating to control of light fixture output intensity and color temperature. For instance, an input device of the lighting system includes a first selector element communicatively coupled to a driver of a light-emitting diode lighting device across a power cable. The power cable provides a transmission path of power and a control signal between the input device and the driver of the light-emitting diode lighting device. The first selector element is able to control a lumen output of the light-emitting diode lighting device when in a lumen control mode and to control a correlated color temperature output of the light-emitting diode lighting device when in a correlated color temperature control mode. The input device also includes a second selector element that transitions the first selector element between the lumen control mode and the correlated color temperature control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventor: Yan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11074606
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A wireless signal from a POP display may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may provide the unique identifier in the wireless signal and a retail location of the mobile device to a remote server. The retail location of the mobile device may be provided by a mobile application (e.g., a retailer app) on the mobile device. The remote server may determine the retail location of the POP display by associating the retail location of the mobile device with the wireless beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Walden
  • Patent number: 11070616
    Abstract: A method includes based on neighbor relationships among radio frequency (RF) nodes of a flooding wireless network, designating some but not all of the RF nodes as repeaters. The designating step selects (RF) nodes as repeaters such that each RF node of the flooding wireless network has at least two neighboring RF nodes designated as repeaters. The method further includes configuring designated RF nodes to act as repeaters to receive and resend network packet transmissions from other RF nodes through the flooding wireless network. The method further includes configuring all RF nodes not designated as repeaters not to resend network packet transmissions from other RF nodes through the flooding wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Westrick, Jr., Alan David Sanders
  • Patent number: 11064597
    Abstract: A system includes a control device and a plurality of lighting fixtures configured to receive power through the control device. Each lighting fixture includes a receiver and a memory, and is configured to: scan for a first message transmitted by the control device, the first message containing a unique identifier of the control device; receive the first message and store the unique identifier of the control device in the memory; sense a power interrupt to the lighting fixture initiated by the control device within a specified period of time after receipt of the first message from the control device; and transmit a second message including the unique identifier of the control device, the second message indicating that the lighting fixture is in a provisioning mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Ryan A. Zaveruha, Robert W. Hamlin
  • Patent number: 11062344
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A wireless network gateway may receive a wireless signal with a unique identifier. The location of the wireless network gateway may be known to a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Walden
  • Patent number: 11060696
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, a downlight that includes one or more first light sources configured to emit a first light downwardly from the housing, a waveguide, and one or more second light sources. The waveguide is formed of a portion of an optical material and characterized by opposing planar faces joined by one or more edge faces about a periphery of the optical material. The waveguide forms at least a portion of an uppermost optical surface of the luminaire. The one or more second light sources are coupled with the housing and configured to emit a second light into the optical material through at least one of the one or more edge faces. The waveguide is configured to emit at least a portion of the second light upwardly from an upper one of the planar faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Dewayne Grove, Benjamin Bruckner
  • Patent number: D925088
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jon Eric Gibson, Adam Pate, John Sakmar, Luke J. Siefker, Mark Mnich, Eric Fickas
  • Patent number: D927037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Prashank Kansal, Craig Eugene Marquardt
  • Patent number: D928389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Gary Trott, Scott Doty
  • Patent number: D928390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Gary Trott, Scott Doty
  • Patent number: D929015
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Paul W. Lewis, Jr., Eric O. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: D929031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Phillip Sieczkowski