Patents Examined by Anthony D Afrifa-Kyei
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Patent number: 11967409Abstract: A system includes a server including a clock and a plurality of medical devices in network communication with the server. Each medical device includes at least one alarm mechanism and an internal clock. A first medical device of the plurality of medical devices is configured to receive a clock synchronization data from the server, update the internal clock of the first medical device based on the clock synchronization data, provide an alarm signal of a first type at a first time, and provide a subsequent alarm signal of the first type at a second time. The second time occurs at a predetermined interval from the first time. Additionally, the second time is the same time the alarm signal of the first type is provided by a second medical device of the plurality of medical device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SAInventor: Slawomir Edward Wojtysiak
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Patent number: 11958606Abstract: A queue system for a lavatory of an aircraft can include an infotainment system configured to receive a user input and to output a request to use the lavatory associated with a seat or occupant, and a queue module operatively connected to the infotainment system. The queue module can be configured to receive the request from the infotainment system and to create and/or modify a virtual lavatory queue based on a request hierarchy of the request to position the request in the virtual lavatory queue, and output a vacancy indicator signal to the infotainment system when the request is at a front of the virtual lavatory queue. The infotainment system can be configured to receive the vacancy indicator signal and display an indication to indicate to a user of the infotainment system that it is the user's turn in the queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.Inventor: Timothy Vermeulen
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Patent number: 11951274Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a case configured to at least partially contain injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a status indicator configured to generate an output which indicates a status of the packaging assembly conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Hardy Kietzmann, Fred Luck, Stefan Riebel
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Patent number: 11944777Abstract: A packaging assembly comprises a case configured to at least partially contain a plurality of injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a wireless communication module configured to establish a wireless connection with at least one external device conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SanofiInventor: Hardy Keitzmann
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Patent number: 11932484Abstract: A container for storing liquids includes an inner layer including a storage space for storing liquids; an outer layer; and multiple spacers fastened between the inner layer and the outer layer to form multiple compartments. The spacer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is secured to an adhesive layer of the inner layer. The first surface has many cavities. The second surface is secured to the outer layer and having projections complimentarily secured to the cavities. A manufacturing method of the container is also provided. Therefore, it can solve the problem permeation and adhesive failure caused by leaking. It can generate an early alarm by detecting any leaking or permeation of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventor: Chien-Chih Ho
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Patent number: 11913979Abstract: An electrical safety monitor is provided. The electrical safety monitor may include a housing having a face. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of line inputs for hardwiring a plurality of electrical connections. The electrical safety monitor further includes a plurality of test points with each of the test points corresponding to one of the line inputs, each of the plurality of test points accessible at the face of the housing. The electrical safety monitor further includes a line monitoring circuit having a plurality of light indicators and configured to produce light if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs to thereby indicate presence of voltage to a user. The electrical safety monitor further includes illumination areas associated with each of the test points, wherein each of the illumination areas is provided light by one or more of the plurality of light indicators.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Bryan P. Van Itallie, Aaron Tuttle, Connor B. Meehan, Roger S. Clarke
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Patent number: 11900798Abstract: The invention relates to mobile surveillance and, more particularly, to systems and methods for policing traffic violations, such as illegal cell phone use while driving. The surveillance system may include a mobile unit and an imaging device configured to monitor, detect, and record vehicles moving in the same direction or in an opposite direction of the mobile unit. The imaging device may capture license plate information and other data, such as characteristics corresponding to the driver of the vehicle. Advantageously, the surveillance system can record, analyze, detect, and communicate distracted driver violations effectively and efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: VIG Vehicle Intelligence Group LLCInventor: Greg Horn
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Patent number: 11887722Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for a medical facility that includes a plurality of rooms with at least one of the rooms having a plurality of sensors. An elevated infection risk determination system is operatively coupled to the plurality of sensors for determining when an elevated infection risk occurs in one or more of the rooms. The BMS may include a memory for storing one or more programmable infection risk compliance parameters, an input port for receiving an elevated infection risk alert for the particular room in the medical facility, a control port for providing control commands to one or more building components of the building management system, and a controller. The controller may be configured to provide control commands via the control port in response to receiving the elevated infection risk alert for the particular room based at least in part on one or more programmable infection risk compliance parameters to help mitigate the elevated infection risk in the particular room.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: David Boisvert, David Rausch, Armin Wellig
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Patent number: 11882506Abstract: A method collects data in a network by operation of a local sensor of a consumption meter where the network is part of a supply network. The network distributes a consumable good. The sensor has a measuring element providing raw measurement data corresponding to a physical or physicochemical value or parameter. The sensor has a wired and/or radio communication device and a memory. For the determination of the measurement resolution of the sensor the conditions for generating time stampings using a correlation model are determined in advance, on the basis of the correlation model time stampings of successive raw measurement data in the sensor are generated. The time stampings are transmitted over a wired connection and/or a radio link so that on the basis of the time stampings using the correlation model the raw measurement data collected by the measuring element are reconstructed and evaluated and used for network monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: Diehl Metering Systems GmbH, Diehl Metering S.A.S.Inventors: Aster Breton, Guy Bach, Christoph Sosna, Klaus Gottschalk, Achim Schmidt, Thomas Kauppert, Petra Joppich-Dohlus, Stefan Schmitz
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Patent number: 11849320Abstract: A method of attaching to a wireless communication network to receive wireless communication service. The method comprises calculating a checksum by a monitor application over at least a portion of an operating system stored in a wireless communication device, wherein the monitor application is stored in a trusted portion of memory of the device and executes in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the device and wherein the operating system is authorized by a wireless communication network, comparing the calculated checksum value by the monitor application to a checksum value stored in the TEE, based on determining that the calculated checksum value matches the stored checksum value, rebooting the device to execute the operating system, and transmitting radio access credentials to the wireless communication network by the device, whereby the device authenticates into the wireless coverage of the wireless communication network based on the radio access credentials.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Tracy L Nelson, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Ivo Rook
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Patent number: 11837037Abstract: A universal secure mobile device entry upgrade for electronic locks adds a wireless unlocking functionality to an existing host lock assembly. An electronics unit having a processing unit, a wireless communication device, a lock input, and a lock output is installed between a host motor output and host motor of a host lock. The original unlocking functionality of the host lock is maintained by either repeating an unlock signal from the host motor output to the host motor using the processing unit, or through a two-position switch that passes a host unlock signal to the host motor by default, but switches to a second position that allows an unlock signal to be sent to the host motor when a wireless unlocking is signaled from a mobile unlocking device such as a smartphone or the like. An integrated security chip and real-time clock may be included to increase security.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: OpenKey, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Vincent Zsigray, III, Eric Daley, Christopher Shane Hickingbottom, Todd J. Person
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Patent number: 11837069Abstract: A vehicle includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture a surrounding situation of the vehicle, an external speaker configured to output a sound to the outside of the vehicle, a communicator configured to communicate with a first server, and a controller configured to determine a degree of risk of the dangerous situation based on the degree of risk based on a case where a dangerous situation is captured through the plurality of cameras, to control an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) module to detect obstacles around the vehicle, to control at least one of a digital key and an external speaker to output a message for the dangerous situation or an image in which the dangerous situation is captured, and to transmit the image in which the dangerous situation is captured to the first server through the communicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Singu Kim
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Patent number: 11836569Abstract: A system combining readers for RFID transponders and Bluetooth® devices for for automated roadway tolling and monitoring is described. Because of the ubiquity of Bluetooth® devices, filtering methods are described to narrow received Bluetooth® signals to a particular monitored traffic lane and to further associate the Bluetooth® signal with a registered RFID toll tag in a vehicle. Signal strength of the Bluetooth® signal at each of a plurality of receiver antennas may be used to identify the location of the Bluetooth® device that emitted the signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: AMTECH SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Kelly Gravelle, John Todd Elson, Greg Lantz, Michael Melville, Paul Hamel
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Patent number: 11827257Abstract: A system and device that will notify roadway maintenance workers of an approaching mass transit vehicle and, conversely, will notify the operators and administrators of mass transit vehicles of roadway maintenance workers within the vicinity of an approaching section of track.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: STC, Inc.Inventors: Brad Cross, Destry Diefenbach, Yogesh Barve, Pete Ksycki, Scott Kolts, Steve McDonald
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Patent number: 11793448Abstract: A detection device detecting changes in positive and negative feelings related to mild cognitive impairment is provided. This detection device includes: a detector detecting heartbeat information of a subject; a calculating unit calculating a maximum Lyapunov exponent from the heartbeat information, the maximum Lyapunov exponent indicating to what extent heartbeat intervals vary; a feeling determination unit determining whether the subject has a negative feeling with brain fatigue, anxiety or depression, or a positive feeling without brain fatigue, anxiety and depression, based on the maximum Lyapunov exponent; a change determination unit determining whether the positive or negative feeling of the subject has changed, based on frequency of occurrence of the negative or positive feeling in a predetermined period; and an output unit outputting a result of determination by the change determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11792256Abstract: A remotely controlled device receives touch input data from a remote controller that includes a touch screen. The remotely controller device interprets the touch input data in combination with a current context of the GUI to determine an appropriate command for the current context of the GUI, and updates the GUI in response to the appropriate command. Further, the remotely controlled device sends information via a bidirectional communication protocol to the remote controller informing the remote controller of a context displaying a keyboard, and the remote controller is configured to display a keyboard on its touch screen in response to the information sent via the bidirectional communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Rainer Brodersen, Alan Cannistraro, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Gregory Charles Lindley
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Patent number: 11779285Abstract: An eartip includes a first portion that defines a cavity for receiving an earbud and an aperture. The eartip also includes a second portion that overlies the aperture and is formed of an electrically conductive material. An electrically conductive plug has a first end disposed within the aperture and a second end is coupled to the second portion to provide an electrically conductive path between the second portion and the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Paul Jin, Daniel K. Lee, Caitlin Hanson, Benjamin N. Davies, Ethan Colburn
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Patent number: 11776386Abstract: A smoke sensor with test switch and a method of operation thereof are disclosed. The smoke sensor is an example of a fire alarm initiation device that is deployed in a building, and is part of a fire alarm system at the building. Fire alarm initiation devices include a fire detection system for detecting an indication of fire, a normally deactivated test switch that is activated during testing of the device, and a controller. The controller senses the activation of the test switch, and in response, prevents the device from sending an alarm message upon the fire detection system detecting the indication of fire. In one example, the test switch is a magnetic reed switch that is activated when a hood of a test tool is placed over the device, the hood including a magnet that comes within proximity of the magnetic reed switch to activate the switch.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Kim Bouchard, Meagen Wyganowski
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Patent number: 11757996Abstract: A ceiling fan for a space is provided. The ceiling fan can include a first communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and a plurality of peripheral devices over a local network. The ceiling fan can further include a second communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and an external network. The ceiling fan can further include one or more control devices configured to provide one or more control signals to control operation of one or more of the peripheral devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED (DELAWARE)Inventors: Robert Conrad Martin, Brett Daniel Pare, Michael Richter
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Patent number: 11736666Abstract: A detection system is disclosed herein, the detection system includes a first detection device. The first detection device operates at a first operating power to capture a first image data. Wherein, when the first detection device determines there are differences between a plurality of first frames in the first image data, the first detection device switches to operate at a second operating power to capture a second image data, and the first operating power is less than the second operating power. And the first detection device determines whether the second image data matches an identification data to generate a determining result, and generates a notification signal according to the determining result.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chun-Liang Kuo, Chang-Yi Shen