Patents Examined by Benyam Haile
  • Patent number: 12215528
    Abstract: In a door handle sensor system, a door handle device includes an electrostatic sensor to detect the user with respect to a door handle, and a pressure sensor to detect the operating force applied to the door handle. A control device determines whether the position of an operation is in a first end section, a second end section, or a center section of the door handle, and controls an unlatched state based on the determination result and the value detected by the pressure sensor. The electrostatic sensor includes a first electrode including multiple first electrode parts and a second electrode including multiple second electrode parts arranged alternately with the first electrode parts. The first electrode part other than the endmost first electrode part in the first direction and the second electrode part other than the endmost second electrode part in the first direction are arranged in the center section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Takizawa, Masaru Komatsu, Kazuhito Oshita, Manabu Tenjin
  • Patent number: 12211617
    Abstract: A patient monitoring hub can communicate bidirectionally with external devices such as a board-in-cable or a dongle. Medical data can be communicated from the patient monitoring hub to the external devices to cause the external devices to initiate actions. For example, an external device can perform calculations based on data received from the patient monitoring hub, or take other actions (for example, creating a new patient profile, resetting baseline values for algorithms, calibrating algorithms, etc.). The external device can also communicate display characteristics associated with its data to the monitoring hub. The monitoring hub can calculate a set of options for combined layouts corresponding to different external devices or parameters. A display option may be selected for arranging a display screen estate on the monitoring hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Bilal Muhsin, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Peter Scott Housel
  • Patent number: 12196549
    Abstract: In some implementations, a controller may receive, from a sensor system of the machine, sensor data indicating a movement of an idler block of an idler assembly of an undercarriage of the machine. The controller may determine, based on the sensor data, that the idler block has moved from a first position to a second position. The controller may determine an amount of wear of an idler of the idler assembly based on the idler block moving from the first position to the second position. The controller may determine whether the amount of wear satisfies a wear threshold. The controller may cause the machine to perform an action based on determining whether the amount of wear satisfies the wear threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Eric J. Johannsen
  • Patent number: 12190697
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for guarding a walking environment. When it is automatically detected when a user is actively interacting with a device while walking, information surrounding the walking user is monitored based on sensor data from a plurality of sensors deployed on the device to detect surrounding obstacles around the walking user from the sensor data. When it is determined that some of the obstacles satisfy certain pre-determined criteria, warning messages are delivered on the device alerting the user about the surrounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Isabella H. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12154427
    Abstract: An alert is used to inform a user that their blood glucose level has dropped below a threshold (e.g., the user is hypoglycemic) or has increased above a threshold (e.g., the user is hyperglycemic). There is a hierarchy of alerts from lowest priority to highest priority. The alert is communicated by a user device (e.g., a mobile device), which is, for example, a smartphone, smart watch, home automation device, or the like. The alert is modified in order to increase the likelihood that the user receives or acknowledges the alert within a minimal amount of time. An intensity level (e.g., a volume) of an alert is modified based on, for example, whether the user has acknowledged a previous alert. A modality or a sensory channel of an alert is changed if an initial alert does fails to elicit a response from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Gilmore Mears
  • Patent number: 12150731
    Abstract: A method for operating a surgical robot includes providing a plurality of virtual haptic geometries associated with different steps of a surgical procedure, evaluating a plurality of criteria associated with a first virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries, activating the first virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries without activating a second virtual haptic geometry of the plurality of virtual haptic geometries in response to satisfaction of the plurality of criteria, and controlling the surgical robot to constrain movement of an end effector of the surgical robot to the first virtual haptic geometry in response to activating the first virtual haptic geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Radu Iorgulescu, Carinne Cecile Granchi, Dennis Moses, Jason Robert Wojcik
  • Patent number: 12141634
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display card and an electronic device with a wireless communication function. The display card includes a connection interface circuit, a display chip, a wireless communication chip, and a micro-controller unit. The connection interface circuit is configured to electrically connect the display card to the electronic device. The display chip is disposed in the display card. The wireless communication chip is disposed in the display card. The micro-controller unit is disposed in the display card and is electrically connected to the connection interface circuit, the display chip, and the wireless communication chip. In response to the electronic device being in the power off mode, the micro-controller unit receives power for the electronic device through the connection interface circuit and executes the wireless communication function through the wireless communication chip. Therefore, the convenience of the user when operating the electronic device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ASUS GLOBAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Zhou, Xu Wang, Chao Xu, Jingwen Yao, Xilong Du, Qi Hu
  • Patent number: 12135357
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive a notification related to a battery life of a battery of a user device. The system may determine, based on the notification, a battery level of the battery of the user device. The system may select based on the battery level of the battery of the user device, a particular communication scheme, of a plurality of communication schemes, for communicating with a user of the user device. The system may transmit at least one message according to the particular communication scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 12124902
    Abstract: An industrial system includes an electronic badge worn or otherwise transported by an industrial vehicle operator. The electronic badge has a housing, a processor, and a transceiver coupled to the processor that communicates on a personal-area network with a badge communicator that is provided on an industrial vehicle when the electronic badge and the badge communicator are in range of each other. Further, an activity sensor collects activity information about the industrial vehicle operator as the industrial vehicle operator performs work tasks. The electronic badge exchanges data collected by the activity sensor with the industrial vehicle, for communication to a remote server. An electronic message is communicated to the industrial vehicle for output to a display thereon, and the electronic message defines an assigned task that is based upon previously collected data from the activity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Philip W. Swift
  • Patent number: 12115932
    Abstract: A vehicle control device mounted to a vehicle is provided. The vehicle control device causes a transmitter to output a search radio wave, and determines whether a predetermined identification signal from a portable device carried by a user of the vehicle is received by a receiver. When the vehicle control device determines that the identification signal is received by a receiver, the vehicle control device specifies that the portable device is located within a reception range from the vehicle. When the portable device is specified as being located within the reception range from the vehicle, the vehicle control device outputs a supply instruction to an electric power supply unit that supplies electric power to a predetermined execution device mounted to the subject vehicle according to the supply instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 12118871
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining when one or more golf clubs are in use or in a golf bag. Alerts can be provided if it is determined that the golfer has misplaced one or more golf clubs. The disclosed systems and methods can also be used to determine whether other objects have been misplaced from a typical storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Koenig & Smiley Inventions LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Koenig, Matthew Smiley, Guy McIlroy, Venkat Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12109022
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Patent number: 12112629
    Abstract: A location system of a shared vehicle includes: a location module configured to, when a signal strength of a global position system (GPS) module is less than a predetermined signal strength, determine a present location of the shared vehicle within a parking structure based on measurements from one or more sensors of the shared vehicle; a floor module configured to, when the signal strength of the GPS module is less than the predetermined signal strength, determine a present floor of the parking structure on which the shared vehicle is located; and a wireless transceiver module configured to, when the shared vehicle is off and parked within the parking structure, transmit the present location and the present floor to a rental server that is remote from the shared vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Johnson, Martin Nespolo, Thomas Krzyzak, Sibu Varughese, Ginelle Margaret Reed, Wilson Yim
  • Patent number: 12099097
    Abstract: The present description concerns a circuit (5) for monitoring the operation of a component (1) associated with equipment (3), comprising: at least one device (100) for measuring one or a plurality of physical quantities associated with the operation of the component; and a circuit for calculating a value representative of a remaining lifetime of a component, said monitoring circuit (5) being linked to the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CEFEM INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Dominique Bergogne, Jérôme Willemin, Jérôme Fangier, Redouane Hammal, Lionel Fangier
  • Patent number: 12097814
    Abstract: A vehicular device includes a control unit, a main board on which the control unit is mounted, and a module that has a functional unit having different specifications depending on a product model of the vehicular device. The module has a module side control unit configured to control the functional unit of the module. The main board and the module are housed in a casing and connected with each other through a common interface regardless of the specifications of the functional unit. The module side control unit is configured to control the functional unit based on a control command received from the control unit, the control command being common regardless of the specifications of the functional unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 12089949
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The devices, systems, and methods detect one or more parameters with respect to movement of a user, cardiac activity of the user, audio associated with the user, or a combination thereof during a sleep session of the user; process the one or more parameters to determine a sleep status of the user, the sleep status being at least one of awake, asleep, or a sleep stage; and calculate an apnea-hypopnea index for the user during the sleep session based, at least in part, on the sleep status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Niall Fox, Anna Rice, Stephen McMahon, Graeme Lyon, Redmond Shouldice, Stephen Dodd
  • Patent number: 12094316
    Abstract: Described herein is a pilot monitoring system (100) including a camera (106) configured to capture a plurality of digital images of an aircraft (104) cockpit including one or both of a pilot (102) and a co-pilot (103) and a processor (114) configured to process the captured images. The images are processed to determine an alertness state of the pilot (102) and/or the co-pilot (103) during operation of the aircraft (104) based on detected facial features of the pilot (102) and/or co-pilot (103) in the images. Processor (114) receives information indicative of a current phase of flight of the aircraft and displays a visualisation of the alertness level and/or determines a suitability of a controlled rest period for the pilot (102) or co-pilot (103) based on the alertness state of the pilot and (102)/or the co-pilot (103) and the current phase of flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SEEING MACHINES LIMITED
    Inventor: Rama Myers
  • Patent number: 12079070
    Abstract: In some aspects, a method includes obtaining feature importance data associated with an alert and indicating relative importance of each of multiple sensor devices and of one or more simulated features. The method includes identifying a group of the sensor devices that have greater relative importance than a highest relative importance of any of the one or more simulated features. In some aspects, a method includes obtaining a reference list of alerts that are similar to a reference alert and a list of alerts predicted to be similar to the reference alert and ranked by predicted similarity to the reference alert. The method includes determining a score indicating similarity of the list to the reference list. A contribution of each alert in the list to the score is determined based on whether that alert appears in the reference list and the rank of that alert in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SPARKCOGNITION, INC.
    Inventors: Shreya Gupta, Vedhapriya Raman, Kevin Gullikson
  • Patent number: 12074436
    Abstract: Electrical load controllers and methods for controlling conduction of electrical power to loads are provided that include determination of a baseline value based on a dynamic collection of past value(s), determination of a threshold humidity value as a function of a baseline humidity value and a second humidity value greater than the baseline humidity value and/or based on a received ambient light value, and/or determination of whether to transition a switching circuit to an ON state based on a current humidity value, other sensed environmental condition, baseline humidity value, and/or a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ankit Milan Sanghvi, Michael Ross
  • Patent number: 12073697
    Abstract: Present disclosure provides a method for managing an event to generate an alert indicating a subject is likely to be unauthorized, the event comprising data identifying the subject, the method comprising: within a pre-determined period based on a timestamp at which the event is stored in a cache, detecting a recall event comprising the data identifying the subject, the recall event indicating the subject is not likely to be unauthorized; and removing the event from the cache in response to detecting the recall event comprising the data identifying the subject within the pre-determined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Lam Ong, Hong Yen Ong, Xinlai Jiang, Satoshi Yamazaki