Patents Assigned to SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
  • Patent number: 11887462
    Abstract: A sensor system for identifying vaping, other smoking activities, and bullying at a site includes an air quality sensor configured to detect air quality, a sound detector configured to detect sounds, and a network interface configured to transmit a signal indicating abnormality matching signature of vaping, other smoking activity, or sound of bullying. Vaping or another smoking activity is identified based on the detected air quality, and bullying is identified based on the detected sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 11450327
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying potential bullying are disclosed. In various aspects, a system for identifying potential bullying includes a sound detector configured to provide samples of sounds over time, a processor, and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the system to determine that a noise event has occurred by processing the samples to determine that the sounds exceed a sound level threshold over a time period that exceeds a time period threshold, process the samples to provide frequency spectrum information of the noise event, determine whether the noise event is a potential bullying occurrence based on comparing the frequency spectrum information of the noise event and at least one frequency spectrum profile, and initiate a bullying notification in a case of determining that the noise event is a potential bullying occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Cary Chu
  • Patent number: 11373498
    Abstract: A notification system for notifying detection of vaping, smoking, or potential bullying at a premises includes a plurality of sensors, each being configured to sense air quality, sound, and temperature at the premises, a memory configured to store a responsibility schedule, and positional information and base data for each of the plurality of sensors, a controller configured to determine detection of vaping, smoking, or potential bullying by comparing results sensed by the plurality of sensors with the base data, and a message server configured to send an alert to a person based on the responsibility schedule, a detection location, and a detection time. The person is responsible at the detection location and at the detection time based on the responsibility schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 11259167
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to notification systems and methods for providing a notification of detected prohibited behavior to a user device that is estimated to be nearest to a particular location. In aspects of the present disclosure, a notification system includes at least one sensor configured to sense measurements indicative of a prohibited behavior, a wireless device passive monitor, a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to detect an occurrence of the prohibited behavior based on the sensed measurements, estimate which user device from a predetermined list of user devices is a nearest user device to the wireless device passive monitor, and provide a notification to the estimated nearest user device regarding the detected occurrence of the prohibited behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 11228879
    Abstract: A notification system for location-based fingerprint detection includes a wireless device scanner, at least one sensor, and a remote server. The sensor is configured to sense parameters indicative of an event. The system further includes a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to: detect an occurrence of the event based on the sensed parameters; receive, by the wireless device scanner, a wireless signal of a user device; determine a unique identifier of the user device based on the wireless signal, wherein the wireless signal includes a wireless signal noise level for the user device; and transmit the determined unique identifier to the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Soter Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 11024145
    Abstract: A sensor system for identifying vaping, other smoking activities, and bullying at a site includes an air quality sensor configured to detect air quality, a sound detector configured to detect sounds, and a network interface configured to transmit a signal indicating abnormality matching signature of vaping, other smoking activity, or sound of bullying. Vaping or another smoking activity is identified based on the detected air quality, and bullying is identified based on the detected sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Soter Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 11002671
    Abstract: A method of detecting a substance includes, for each position of a plurality of positions in a field of view of an environment: emitting from a light source a light beam including a predetermined wavelength that is absorbable by a constituent of the substance, controlling at least one mirror to direct the emitted light beam to the position in the field of view, detecting by a detector light resulting from the emitted light beam, and determining whether the constituent of the substance is present at the position in the field of view based on characteristics of the detected light; generating a detection map indicating a presence or an absence of the substance at the plurality of positions in the field of view of the environment; capturing, by an image capture device, an image of the environment; and identifying a portion of the captured image having the substance based on the detection map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Cary Chu
  • Patent number: 10970987
    Abstract: A sensor system for identifying vaping, other smoking activities, and bullying at a site includes an air quality sensor configured to detect air quality, a sound detector configured to detect sounds, and a network interface configured to transmit a signal indicating abnormality matching signature of vaping, other smoking activity, or sound of bullying. Vaping or another smoking activity is identified based on the detected air quality, and bullying is identified based on the detected sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 10939273
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to notification systems and methods for providing a notification of detected vaping, smoking, or potential bullying to a user device that is estimated to be nearest to a particular location. In aspects of the present disclosure, a notification system includes at least one sensor configured to sense measurements indicative of at least one of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking, a wireless device passive monitor, a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to detect an occurrence of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking based on the sensed measurements, estimate which user device from a predetermined list of user devices is a nearest user device to the wireless device passive monitor, and provide a notification to the estimated nearest user device regarding the detected occurrence of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 10937295
    Abstract: A notification system for notifying detection of vaping, smoking, or potential bullying at a premises includes a plurality of sensors, each being configured to sense air quality, sound, and temperature at the premises, a memory configured to store a responsibility schedule, and positional information and base data for each of the plurality of sensors, a controller configured to determine detection of vaping, smoking, or potential bullying by comparing results sensed by the plurality of sensors with the base data, and a message server configured to send an alert to a person based on the responsibility schedule, a detection location, and a detection time. The person is responsible at the detection location and at the detection time based on the responsibility schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 10932102
    Abstract: A notification system for location-based fingerprint detection includes a wireless device scanner, at least one sensor, and a remote server. The sensor is configured to sense parameters indicative of at least one of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking. The system further includes a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to: detect an occurrence of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking based on the sensed parameters; receive, by the wireless device scanner, a wireless signal of a user device; determine a unique identifier of the user device based on the wireless signal; and transmit the determined unique identifier to the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Soter Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Publication number: 20200402386
    Abstract: A sensor system for identifying vaping, other smoking activities, and bullying at a site includes an air quality sensor configured to detect air quality, a sound detector configured to detect sounds, and a network interface configured to transmit a signal indicating abnormality matching signature of vaping, other smoking activity, or sound of bullying. Vaping or another smoking activity is identified based on the detected air quality, and bullying is identified based on the detected sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Soter Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 10852505
    Abstract: An isothermalized mirror assembly is a mirror structure that uses a heat pipe to isothermalize heat loads. The isothermalized mirror assembly includes at least one mirror unit and a quantity of thermally-convective fluid. The mirror unit includes a vacuum enclosure, a capillary medium, at least one reflector, and a plurality of cross supports. The vacuum enclosure is the structural base of the isothermalized mirror assembly and is used to retain a vacuum and the thermally-convective fluid. The cross supports are mounted within the vacuum enclosure and increases the structural integrity of the vacuum enclosure. The capillary medium is mounted across the interior of the vacuum enclosure and about each cross support. The capillary medium and the thermally-convective fluid work in conjunction to form a heat pipe within the vacuum enclosure. The reflector is externally mounted to the vacuum enclosure in order to redirect EM radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: David Strafford, Diana Strafford
  • Patent number: 10777063
    Abstract: Systems and sensors for detecting vaping or smoking are disclosed. A sensor system for identifying vaping and smoking at a site includes an air sensor located within a return vent of a ventilation system and configured to sense air quality of air conveyed through the return vent, a controller configured to identify vaping and smoking from the sensed air quality based on an air signature, and a network interface configured to communicate an alert indicating the vaping or smoking, when the vaping or smoking is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Cary Chu
  • Patent number: 10699549
    Abstract: A sensor system for identifying vaping, other smoking activities, and bullying at a site includes an air quality sensor configured to detect air quality, a sound detector configured to detect sounds, and a network interface configured to transmit a signal indicating abnormality matching signature of vaping, other smoking activity, or sound of bullying. Vaping or another smoking activity is identified based on the detected air quality, and bullying is identified based on the detected sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, William Schweigert, Asheik Hussain, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: D899285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Jason Legoff