Patents Examined by A. Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11940281
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes an input unit configured to input route information indicating a route including one or more paths of a plurality of paths and moving body number information indicating the number of moving bodies for a date and a time on a path to be observed among the plurality of paths, and a learning unit configured to learn a parameter of a model indicating a relationship between the number of moving bodies for each of the plurality of paths and the number of moving bodies for the route and a relationship between the numbers of moving bodies for the route at different dates and times by using the route information and the moving body number information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Iwata, Hitoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11940417
    Abstract: A flexural wave absorption system detects, with a sensor attached to a beam, an incident wave propagating in the beam. The system determines, based on a signal from the sensor generated in response to the incident wave, an amplitude and phase of the incident wave propagating in the beam and controls an actuator connected to the beam to generate a suppression wave, based on the amplitude and the phase of the incident wave, that reduces a coefficient of reflection of the incident wave across a broadband frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka, Danil V. Prokhorov
  • Patent number: 11937863
    Abstract: An end-effector is disclosed. The end-effector includes a clamp arm and an ultrasonic blade configured to acoustically couple to an ultrasonic transducer and to electrically couple to a pole of an electrical generator. The clamp arm includes a clamp jaw, a plurality of variable longitudinal support elements, and a cantilever electrode configured to electrically couple to an opposite pole of the electrical generator, the cantilever electrode fixed to the clamp jaw at a proximal end and free to deflect at a distal end. The cantilever electrode is supported by the variable longitudinal support elements. The variable longitudinal support elements apply a variable force on the cantilever electrode from the proximal end to the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Messerly, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Stephen M. Leuck, Nina Mastroianni, John E. Brady, Wei Guo
  • Patent number: 11941253
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for sensing a failure within a system within a computing device. The system may include a cache memory system and a vaulted memory comprising a random access memory (RAM) having a plurality of independent persistent areas. A primary node and secondary node may be provided. The primary node may occupy a first independent persistent area of the RAM of the vaulted memory. The secondary node may occupy a second independent persistent area of the RAM of the vaulted memory. Data within the vaulted memory may be written to a persistent media using an iterator. The data may include at least one dirty page. Writing data within the vaulted memory to the persistent media may include flushing the at least one dirty page to the persistent media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Oran Baruch, Ronen Gazit, Jenny Derzhavetz
  • Patent number: 11940589
    Abstract: Turning points in stratigraphy (TPS) can be determined, which then can be used to improve the representation of the borehole path in relation to layers of the subterranean formation. The TPS can be determined by analyzing each directional survey point in relation to the nearest layer of the subterranean formation. In determining which layer is the nearest layer, the process can analyze the layer type, such as conformable or unconformable, whether a fault intersects the borehole, the angle of the layer in relation to the borehole path, or whether the true stratigraphic thickness (TST) changes from one of a positive parameter or negative parameter to the other. The generated TPS can be used by a system as input or can be displayed for a user where the segmented borehole path can be aligned using the calculated TST to improve the ability of the user to analyze the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation, Inc.
    Inventors: Alice Butt, Mykhailo Ponomarev, Einar Mageroy
  • Patent number: 11941979
    Abstract: The present application discloses a traffic light control method for an urban road network based on expected return estimation, which uses C-V2X wireless communication technology to obtain real-time information of all vehicles and traffic state in the road network from vehicle-mounted terminals, and adaptively and dynamically controls the phase transformation of the traffic light. According to the present application, the expected returns of keeping the current phase and executing phase switch are calculated by estimating the timely driving distance and the future driving distance of the passable vehicles in the next green light duration in combination with the proposed road priority traffic index. By comparing the expected returns of keeping the current phase or switching to other phases, the best phase is selected, so as to make as many passable vehicles travel farther as possible in the next green light duration. Therefore, the efficiency of traffic will be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Qian Huang, Kan Wu, Yongdong Zhu, Zhifeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11943693
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a first user device associated with local status information indicating a need for medical attention and establishing a biological threat event for the first user device. The method further includes establishing event timeline information of the biological threat event to include time information of historical geographic location coordinate information of the first user device. The method further includes identifying a second user device potentially associated with the biological threat event based on time information of historical geographic location coordinate information of the second user device. The method further includes identifying a third user device potentially associated with the biological threat event based on the time information of the historical geographic location coordinate information of the second user device and time information of historical geographic location coordinate information of the third user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Safety Network Partnership, LLC
    Inventor: Gary W. Grube
  • Patent number: 11931565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical application tool (18) for implanting an electrode wire on nerves in an inner area of a pelvis of a human body, the surgical application tool (18) including a mandrel (16) having an engagement tip (19) and a shaft section (02) and including a sleeve (01) which is configured to insert and guide the electrode wire through a sleeve interior (08) when the mandrel (16) is removed, the sleeve (01) extending at least along the shaft section (02) and being detachable from the mandrel (16), a handle (20) being provided on the mandrel (16) and/or the sleeve (01) for the extracorporeal handling of the application tool (18), and the handle (20) being configured to manually rotate and/or pivot the mandrel (16) and/or the sleeve (01) when it is inserted into the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Marc Possover
  • Patent number: 11931042
    Abstract: Devices, methods and kits for preventing or reducing non-target microparticles deposition and embolization, in conjunction with delivering microparticles (e.g., embolization material) via a blood vessel to a target bodily part. Applicable for entrapping infiltrated microparticles within heart right atrium. Entrapping device includes: filter; and filter collapsing mechanism sized for positioning in catheter lumen of a filter delivering catheter, and having proximal end actuatable from outside of subject. Filter configured for positioning within heart right atrium, for self-expanding and covering right atrium inlet opening, and configured, when expanded, to collect embolic material delivered to target organ and infiltrated into outflow vessel thereof draining to right atrium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ACCURATE MEDICAL THERAPEUTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Gabriel Tal, Eran Miller
  • Patent number: 11931957
    Abstract: A device and method for manipulating particles is provided. The device generally includes a screen acting as a support for a structure formed by particles, which may be selectively deposited on a first substrate. The device may be included in a 3D printing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AEROSINT SA
    Inventors: Alexis Bedoret, Matthias Hick, Kevin Eckes
  • Patent number: 11931991
    Abstract: A packaging system includes a packaging unit and an article. The packaging unit includes a solid layer, a porous layer and a plastic layer with a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive and secure the article in an opening defined by the cavity that is flexible between a first and a second dimension. The packaging unit is fabricated by a 3D printing process. A tensioning device of a 3D printing machine tensions a feed filament during the 3D printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Nicole Distefano, Marc Esformes, Robert W. Klein
  • Patent number: 11933735
    Abstract: An optical detection device is an optical detection device that detects a desired wavelength component included in input light, and includes: a spectrometer including, for instance, a diffraction grating that receives the input light as an input and outputs an alignment of spectra each of which is a duplication of a spectrum of the input light; a second slit array including an array of three or more slits that pass light beams of wavelengths at three or more locations in the alignment of the spectra that are output from the spectrometer; and an imaging element composed of an array of pixels that receive the light beams, having passed through the second slit array, each of the light beams having three or more wavelength components. At least two pitches between slits are different in the array of the three or more slits included in the second slit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 11935414
    Abstract: A system for determining when additional information is needed by a passenger with color deficient vision within a vehicle includes a plurality of perception sensors within the vehicle adapted to collect data related to a physical identity of a primary object and to communicate the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, via a communication bus, to a data processor within the vehicle, the data processor adapted to determine that the physical identity of the primary object may be unclear to a passenger with color deficient vision based on the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, and that assistance should be provided to the passenger with color deficient vision to aid the passenger with color deficient vision in identifying the primary object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss
  • Patent number: 11933931
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of master sensor responses with a master sensor in a set of training fluids and obtaining node sensor responses in the set of training fluids. A linear correlation between a compensated master data set and a node data set is then found for a set of training fluids and generating node sensor responses in a tool parameter space from the compensated master data set on a set of application fluids. A reverse transformation is obtained based on the node sensor responses in a complete set of calibration fluids. The reverse transformation converts each node sensor response from a tool parameter space to the synthetic parameter space and uses transformed data as inputs of various fluid predictive models to obtain fluid characteristics. The method includes modifying operation parameters of a drilling or a well testing and sampling system according to the fluid characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dingding Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher M. Jones, Darren Gascooke, Tian He
  • Patent number: 11937259
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of enhancing signal reception performance. In the base station (100), a control unit (101) generates data signals in unit of fixed length. A transmission unit (107) performs repetitive transmission of a transmission signal including at least one of the data signals in unit of fixed length in a resource that can be set to a plurality of data lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomoya Nunome, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11931636
    Abstract: An evaluation method for evaluating a swing characteristic of a subject with respect to a flying and thus coming object, includes: calculating swing information corresponding to a motion characteristic of the object based on sensor data detected by at least one of a first sensor attached to a ball hitting tool or a back of a hand of the subject and a second sensor attached to a waist of the subject when the subject swings the ball hitting tool with respect to the object; classifying a plurality of pieces of such swing information into a plurality of groups based on the motion characteristic of the object; for each of the plurality of groups, extracting representative swing information in the group based on one or more pieces of swing information belonging to the group; and evaluating a swing characteristic of the subject based on the representative swing information of each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tabuchi, Kohei Mimura
  • Patent number: 11936528
    Abstract: A server of a distributed computing system that is at least partially hosted on a particular access network receives a plurality of messages from a plurality of devices over a network, each of the messages associated with a corresponding source address. For each of the plurality of devices, a current access network is determined for the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being the particular access network, a first network policy is applied to the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being other than the particular access network, a second network policy is applied to the device, the second network policy defining a second encryption requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: iboss, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Michael Martini, Peter Anthony Martini
  • Patent number: 11935765
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a main imaging unit configured to image a region to be laser-processed and an auxiliary imaging unit. The auxiliary imaging unit includes an objective lens, a camera configured to generate an image via the objective lens, a half-silvered mirror disposed between the camera and the objective lens, a light source configured to illuminate a wafer held on a chuck table via the half-silvered mirror and the objective lens, a first polarizing plate disposed between the camera and the half-silvered mirror, and a second polarizing plate disposed between the light source and the half-silvered mirror. The second polarizing plate is disposed such that a polarization plane of light applied from the light source, passed through the second polarizing plate, and reflected by the half-silvered mirror is rotated by a required angle with respect to a polarization axis of the first polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichiro Tsukiji
  • Patent number: 11935384
    Abstract: The disclosed wearable device systems include several features for alerting and guiding persons who are approaching or near to potentially hazardous or high-risk conditions in their nearby environment. Sensor data from wearable devices (also referred to herein as “wearables”) are used to determine the presence of various unsafe environmental conditions and phenomenon, including dangerous terrain or other unusual conditions. The wearable would be used to warn a person, for example via auditory or haptic-based feedback, if the person is about to encounter an unsafe condition. In particular, the proposed systems can be of great benefit to the visually impaired, those persons with physical disabilities, or persons otherwise vulnerable to particular environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Christopher Russell, Gregory David Hansen, Nathan Lee Post, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Nolan Serrao, Ruthie D. Lyle, Pooja Krishnaswamy, Noemy Diosdado
  • Patent number: 11936537
    Abstract: A support method, a support system, and a computer program for efficiently creating a new service obtained by combining functions of a plurality of devices are provided. A support method of the present invention is a support method of supporting creation of a new service obtained by combining functions of a plurality of devices via an IoT hub to which the plurality of devices are connected, and causes an information processing device to execute an extraction step, and the support method further includes a list output step, a selection reception step, a selection output step, an availability reception step, an input and output step, an answer reception step, and a transmission step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IOT-EX INC.
    Inventor: Jun Matsumura