Patents Examined by Brent A. Swarthout
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Patent number: 11794638Abstract: A signaling device includes a light emitting unit, wherein the light emitting unit includes a plurality of lights; and a plurality of feedback lights configured to indicate to an operator of the signaling device whether electronics and the plurality of lights are functioning properly; and a remote controller unit in communication with the light emitting unit, wherein the remote controlling unit is configured to adjust a light intensity of the plurality of lights, wherein the plurality of lights is configured to resemble at least one of: turn signal arrows or indicators, brake lights, and flashing lights indicative of hazards.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Michael Ejiawoko
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Patent number: 11798444Abstract: A system determines first content for presentation on a display within an environment when a speed of one or more vehicles within a field of view (FOV) of the display is less than a threshold speed and second content for presentation on the display when the speed of the one or more vehicles within the FOV is greater than the threshold speed. The second content is different than the first content. The system transmits at least one of the first content or the second content to the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DeLorean, LLCInventor: Jack Z. DeLorean
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Patent number: 11772801Abstract: An electric field sensor includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of electrodes, an insulator, a plurality vias, and a ground ring. The electrodes are disposed on the substrate. The insulator is disposed over the electrodes. The vias are coupled to the electrodes and extend through the substrate at a right angle to the electrodes. The ground ring is disposed around the electrodes and the vias and is configured to attenuate a sensitivity of the sensor to electric fields outwards of the ground ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Instrumar LimitedInventors: Stuart Inkpen, Chris Nolan, Bill Conway, Dana Linfield, David Bonnell, Joshua Swamidas, Ruth Abraham
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Patent number: 11756411Abstract: An apparatus to locally monitor, and report to a remote monitoring system, specific physical conditions of equipment that provide early indication of failure conditions, including but not limited to: temperature, level of fluids, pressure, temperature, the presence of gases or airborne particulate, and signs leaks.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Aderis Energy, LLCInventors: Adam Will Foodman, Bradley Allan Micallef, Olee Joel Olsen, Jr.
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Patent number: 11756441Abstract: Methods and systems are described for detecting movement of a portable electronic device; receiving video data, for a first object, captured by a video capture device during the movement; and utilizing the video data, presenting a video by a display device of the portable electronic device that is viewable to a user for directing an attention of the user in connection with the first object.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: RAFQA STAR, LLCInventor: Robert Paul Morris
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Patent number: 11756422Abstract: A signal information distribution system is configured to distribute, to vehicles, signal information including a lighting start time and a lighting continuation interval of each of a plurality of signal lights installed at an intersection, each signal light being configured to light in a predetermined color. The system includes: a storage unit configured to store a timing table including scheduled lighting intervals of the plurality of signal lights; a monitor unit configured to observe lighting and extinction of the plurality of signal lights; a generation unit configured to generate the signal information, based on an actual lighting interval, of a predetermined signal light, obtained from an observation result of the predetermined signal light, and on the scheduled lighting interval, of the predetermined signal light, included in the timing table; and a distribution unit configured to distribute, to the vehicles, the signal information generated by the generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Norikazu Kawasaki, Masafumi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ishimaru, Shin Yamamoto, Tomoko Yasui, Yoshikazu Toyama
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Patent number: 11749097Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for a self-testing fire sensing device are described herein. One device includes an adjustable particle generator and a variable airflow generator configured to generate an aerosol density level sufficient to trigger a fire response without saturating an optical scatter chamber and the optical scatter chamber configured to measure a rate at which the aerosol density level decreases after the aerosol density level has been generated, determine an airflow rate from an external environment through the optical scatter chamber based on the measured rate at which the aerosol density level decreases, and determine whether the self-testing fire sensing device is functioning properly based on the fire response and the determined airflow rate.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Christopher Dearden, Michael Barson, Benjamin Wolf
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Patent number: 11748780Abstract: Electronic display systems, including roadside display devices, vehicle-based devices, personal mobile devices, intermediary servers, advertising servers and/or networks, and/or additional external data sources may operate individually or in combination to identify one or more vehicle locations, driving routes, driver and passenger characteristics, driving behavior and patterns, telematics data, and the like. Vehicle and individual characteristics and/or telematics data may be determined based on data received from traffic cameras, vehicle-based devices, personal mobile devices, telematics devices, and/or other data sources, including software applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Robert Wasserman, Fred Dimesa, Bill Yurdin
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Patent number: 11735034Abstract: A system for implementing an interaction between a semi-autonomous or autonomous motor vehicle and a vulnerable user of a carriageway used by the motor vehicle and potentially crossed by a vulnerable user at a crossing, pedestrians and cyclists being considered to be vulnerable users. The system includes an environment sensor, a computer which processes the data received from the environment sensor, and a display device which is directed to outside of the vehicle and controlled by the computer. The display device being in the form of a horizontal strip occupying a longitudinal end of the vehicle, including an at least four pixels per cm2 matrix panel configured to provide vulnerable users present in the vehicle's environment with a visual indication as to whether or not they may cross the carriageway road surface, and delivers either an indication prompting them to cross or, conversely, an indication forbidding them from crossing.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Pascal Clochard, Sylvain Cremonese
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Patent number: 11727809Abstract: A system for implementing an interaction between a semi-autonomous or autonomous motor vehicle and a vulnerable user of a carriageway used by the motor vehicle and potentially crossed by a vulnerable user at a crossing, pedestrians and cyclists being considered to be vulnerable users. The system including an environment sensor, a computer processing the data received from the one or more environment sensors, and a display device arranged on the vehicle and directed to the outside of the vehicle, the display device in the form of a horizontal strip and occupying a longitudinal end of the vehicle, and providing vulnerable users present in the vehicle's environment in the vicinity of the crossing with a visual indication as to whether or not they may cross the carriageway road surface, so that pedestrians and cyclists can obtain unambiguous information as to their presence being taken into account by the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventors: Pascal Clochard, Hubert Koba
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Patent number: 11708019Abstract: The invention relates to a method, performed by a control device (10), for controlling a vehicle lighting device (100), the vehicle lighting device (100) includes the control device (10); and at least one electronic display unit (20) arranged at one end (12, 14) of a vehicle (1), wherein the control device (10) is arranged to control the at least one display unit (20) to show various types of vehicle lights (22). The method includes: collecting (s101) data relating to the vehicle surroundings; and controlling (s102) the at least one display unit (20) to adapt at least one vehicle light (22) based on the collected data.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Scania CV ABInventors: André Claesson, Sami Teppola, Mikko Kallio, Tomas Skeppström, Morgan Colling, Linus Ährlig, Robert Sjödin
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Patent number: 11702226Abstract: A lighting system for air mobility may include a light emitting unit provided on a boom or a propeller of the air mobility and configured to emit light toward a ground surface so that the light is projected onto a point directed toward the ground surface from the propeller or the boom; and a control unit electrically connected to the light emitting unit and configured to control light emitting modes of the light, emitted by the light emitting unit, based on operating modes of the air mobility or operating modes of the propeller.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sang Hyun Jung, Kyu Hoon Cho, Chung Sik Yim, Jae Young Choi
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Patent number: 11685546Abstract: A method includes detecting, by a processing circuit, a high-speed rejected takeoff has occurred by determining an aircraft has accelerated to at least a first preset indicated airspeed value and then by determining the aircraft has decelerated below at least a second preset indicated airspeed value and the aircraft is on the ground. The method also includes detecting, by the processing circuit, an event other than the high-speed rejected takeoff has occurred by determining the aircraft has not accelerated to at least the first preset indicated airspeed value, or by determining the aircraft has accelerated to at least the first preset indicated airspeed value and the aircraft has not decelerated below at least the second preset indicated airspeed value, or by determining the aircraft is airborne.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Andrea Sanzone, Rahul Ashok, Rowena Loh, Garoe Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11673684Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for monitoring the structural health of components. In an aspect is provided a system for monitoring structural health of a component that includes a mechanotropic elastomeric (ME) layer at least partially disposed on a surface of the component, the ME layer having a first portion corresponding to a first end of the component and a second portion corresponding to a second end of the component; a fiber optic light guide coupled to the first end; and a detector coupled to the second end. In another aspect is provided a method that includes pulsing an electromagnetic energy source coupled to a system comprising a ME layer; and detecting a wavelength or wavelength range by a detector, the detected wavelength or wavelength range being responsive to an amount of stimulus and being indicative of a deformation in a component.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Andrew M. Zweig
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Patent number: 11657689Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling physical retail stores and other facilities to implement automated-checkout techniques for the purchase of items that are priced per unit weight. For example, the described systems may enable a facility to implement technology where users are able to remove items from inventory locations, place the items on weight sensors, and then be charged for the prices of the items without performing manual checkout of the items. The price of an item is determined based at least in part on the identifier of the item and the price per unit weight of the item. The systems described herein thus enable customized retail facilities, as opposed to a retail facility that allows automated-checkout only for prepackaged-type or otherwise non-customizable merchandise.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aaron M. McDaniel, Nirmal Doshi, Nathan P. O'Neill, Joel Stirling, Joseph W. Chauvin, Nir Charny, Kaigene Jennifer Lin, Spencer Ralph Dodge
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Patent number: 11655053Abstract: A method determines an inflation pressure expected in an aircraft tire provided with a pressure and temperature sensor. Also disclosed is a method for assistance in the maintenance for an aircraft tire and also a portable electronic device intended for assistance in the maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, SAFRAN, SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS, SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Michael Arnoux, Eric Carin Neba
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Patent number: 11645511Abstract: A system for predicting a hazardous event from road-scene data includes an electronic control unit configured to implement a neural network and a camera communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit, wherein the camera generates the road-scene data. The electronic control unit is configured to receive the road-scene data from the camera, and predict, with the neural network, an occurrence of the hazardous event within the road-scene data from the camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventor: Simon A. I. Stent
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Patent number: 11630216Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to determining an effective size, quantity, shape, and type of water particles in a cloud atmosphere based on differences in amplitudes of optical signals backscattered at different backscattering angles. Off-axis backscattering—backscattering at angles other than 180 degrees—is affected by the effective size, quantity, shape, and type of water droplets. Detected amplitudes of optical signals that are backscattered at different angles are used to indicate the effective size, quantity, shape, and type of water particles in the cloud atmosphere. In some embodiments, optical emitters and detectors are configured to measure amplitudes of optical signals backscattered at backscattering angles of both on-axis—180 degrees—and off-axis varieties.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.Inventors: Mark Ray, Jennifer M. Alexander, Kaare Josef Anderson, Darren G. Jackson
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Patent number: 11631994Abstract: A device includes a signaling means and a motion sensor, and logic for activating or controlling the signaling means in response to a sensed motion according to an embedded logic. The device may be used as a toy, and may be shaped like a play ball or as a handheld unit. It may be powered from a battery, either chargeable from an AC power source directly or contactless by using induction or by converting electrical energy from harvested kinetic energy. The embedded logic may activate or control the signaling means, predictably or randomly, in response to sensed acceleration magnitude or direction, such as sensing the crossing of a preset threshold or sensing the peak value. The visual means may be a numeric display for displaying a value associated with the count of the number of times the threshold has been exceeded or the peak magnitude of the acceleration sensed.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: May Patents Ltd.Inventor: Yehuda Binder
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Patent number: 11626110Abstract: A computing device may be configured to receive a content asset and to determine whether the content asset comprises one or more triggers. The trigger may be a word, phrase, or passcode that alerts a voice activated device to the presence of a voice command and may serve as an instruction to the voice activated device to cause execution of the voice command. In response to determining that the content asset comprises one or more triggers, the computing device may be configured to insert one or more signal markers into the content asset at a location corresponding to the one or more triggers, and to cause transmission and/or presentation of the content asset with the one or more signal markers. The signal markers may cause a voice activated device to ignore a voice command in the content asset, despite the presence of one or more triggers.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Shawn O'Malley, Michael Rosenwald, Jeremy Zaucha