Patents Examined by Cal J Eustaquio
  • Patent number: 12045766
    Abstract: An example system includes at least two transceivers configured to be coupled to an interior of a cargo compartment of an aircraft, and to detect radio frequency identification (RFID) signals from an RFID tag coupled to baggage stored in the cargo compartment. The system also includes a processor configured to perform operations including receiving the signals detected by the transceivers. The operations also include based on runtimes of the signals, determining a respective distance from the baggage to each transceiver, where the respective distance defines a boundary centered at a known location of the transceiver and along which the baggage is estimated to be located relative to the transceiver. The operations also include identifying locations at which the boundaries of the transceivers intersect and, based on the locations, detecting an estimated storage location of the baggage. The operations also include controlling a display device to display the estimated storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andre Lutz, Robin Drews, Karol Ciba, Ralf Rene Cabos
  • Patent number: 12043277
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support device issues an alert to notify a driver of a vehicle that there is a possibility of occurrence of a situation in which the vehicle is not able to travel along a lane. The vehicle driving support device issues an alert when an alert condition that a rate of increase in a lateral acceleration of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a predetermined rate of increase is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Honda
  • Patent number: 12033750
    Abstract: A system and method for collecting plasma includes drawing whole blood from a donor, combining anticoagulant with the whole blood from the donor, separating the whole blood into a plasma product and a second blood component and sending the plasma product to a collection container. A controller determines a total blood volume for a donor based on donor weight, height and gender. The system comprises a touchscreen for receiving a confirming user input and a scanning device configured to scan a bar code associated with a donor. The system and method operate a plurality of draw and return phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: FENWAL, INC.
    Inventors: Brian C. Case, Lan T. Nguyen, Amit J. Patel, Samantha M. Planas, Walter T. Watts, Kyungyoon Min, Daniel R. Boggs
  • Patent number: 12027259
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a detector unit comprising a detector configured to detect an actuation action performable via the detector unit to an actuation button of a medical device to cause the medical device to eject at least a portion of a medicament comprised in the medical device. The detector is configured to detect the actuation action based on a detection of a force and/or a touch applied to the detector unit as part of the actuation action. The apparatus further comprises an electric unit connected to the detector and configured to store and/or provide information related to the detected actuation action. Furthermore, an according method and a computer program for controlling this method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Jasmin Groeschke, Hanno Juhnke, Jan-Peter Spengler, Matthias Scharf, Christoph Dette, Michael Schrack, Olaf Zeckai
  • Patent number: 12020568
    Abstract: A vehicle locating assembly for wirelessly locating a vehicle includes a target module and a locator module. The target module is attachable to an interior element of a vehicle and emits a response signal upon receipt of an identification signal. The locator module can be held in a hand of a user and transmits and receives the identification signal and the response signal, respectively. The locator module comprises an automatic radio direction finder (ADF) and a direction indicator. The ADF is enabled to determine a direction of the target module, relative to the locator module, and to signal the direction indicator to indicate a location of the vehicle to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Lynn Crooks
  • Patent number: 12017672
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store map information including information on a predetermined area used in autonomous driving control of a vehicle; and a processor configured to: refer to the map information to identify an autonomous-driving practicable point at which a planned travel route from the current position of the vehicle outside the predetermined area to a destination of the vehicle enters the predetermined area, calculate a manual-driving section length from the current position of the vehicle to the autonomous-driving practicable point along the planned travel route, and notify the calculated manual-driving section length to a driver of the vehicle via a notification device provided in the interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Kashu, Yasutaka Teramae, Hiroki Ukai, Masahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 12022362
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel technique for realizing suitable tracking band monitoring. The present invention realizes a tracking band monitoring system having a tracking band including a detection device that acquires a life log including vital data and location data of a monitoring target wearing the tracking band, a server, and a relay device that relays communication between the tracking band and the server. The present invention also realizes a tracking band monitoring method and a tracking band monitoring program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Digital AI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidehiko Sekioka
  • Patent number: 12018557
    Abstract: A system for measuring a porosity of a gravel pack in a wellbore includes a transmitting acoustic transducer attached to a sand screen and configured to transmit an acoustic signal. The system further includes multiple acoustic transducers attached to the sand screen and configured to receive the acoustic signal through the gravel pack. The system also includes a control device configured to receive electrical signals from the multiple acoustic transducers and determine the porosity of the gravel pack around the sand screen based on at least the electrical signals. The electrical signals are generated from the acoustic signal received by the multiple acoustic transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: John Alasdair Cameron, Alexei Olegovich Bolshakov
  • Patent number: 12008908
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flight deck system comprising a controller for displaying message content from an ATC conversation. The controller is configured to: receive extracted message content from a plurality of messages; and generate a ticker tape graphical element having a first panel and a second panel for display as an overlay over a primary display on an aircraft display device. The first panel has a main panel for displaying message content for a most recently received message and one or more subsidiary panels for displaying message content for up to a first predetermined number of the most recently received messages. The second panel has a bookmark main panel for displaying message content for a second predetermined number of the most recently received bookmarked messages and one or more bookmark subsidiary panels for displaying message content for a third predetermined number of the most recently received bookmarked messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Naveen Venkatesh Prasad Nama, Vasantha Paulraj, Rahul Pradhan, Nitish Sharma
  • Patent number: 11990010
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for early warning of climbing behaviors, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring video image data including a monitored target and at least one object (11); acquiring behavior information of the at least one object when it is determined that the at least one object enters a target area corresponding to the monitored target (12); marking video frames in which the at least one object is included when it is determined that the behavior information indicates that the at least one object climbs the monitored target (13). By marking the video frames in the video image data, the behavior of the object climbing the monitored target can be found in time, and the management efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangli Wang
  • Patent number: 11978294
    Abstract: Present disclosure relates a multi-factor authentication electronic lock, a multi-factor authentication electronic lock system, and methods of using the multi-factor authentication electronic lock system. The multi-factor authentication electronic lock includes a user presence detection system, a biometrics authentication system, and a multi-factor authentication electronic lock controller. When a user approaches the multi-factor authentication electronic lock, the user presence detection system detects the presence of user and authenticates the user detected to determine whether the user detected is an authorized user registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING EASTHOUSE ELECTRICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Min
  • Patent number: 11959900
    Abstract: A health early warning system for passengers on a train in an outdoor air polluted environment and a method thereof are provided. The system comprises an air quality monitoring station data acquisition module, a train data acquisition module, a train air pollution prediction module, and a train air environment early warning module; the air quality monitoring station data acquisition module acquires data of air quality monitoring stations and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train data acquisition module acquires data of the train and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train air pollution prediction module performs short-term prediction on air pollution of the train and uploads a result of the short-term prediction to the train air environment early warning module; and the train air environment early warning module performs early warning on the health of the passengers on the train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Central South University
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Haiping Wu, Yanfei Li, Chao Chen
  • Patent number: 11961616
    Abstract: An apparatus for real time monitoring of a patient is provided and includes a memory element for storing data, a processor that executes instructions associated with the data, an interface that receives sensor data from a sensor that takes measurements from the patient and sends the sensor data according to the sensor's measurement latency, a latency calculator that frequently calculates a latency threshold that varies according to at least a health status of the patient, a timer that continuously monitors the sensor's measurement latency, a comparator that frequently compares the sensor's measurement latency with the calculated latency threshold, and a feedback module that automatically changes the sensor's measurement latency to match with the calculated latency threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VCCB Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: David Dyell, Christopher Rogowski, Scott Kahler, Jennifer Milan
  • Patent number: 11948412
    Abstract: A method for operating an access control device having a processor, a memory, and an internet connection comprises receiving a credential from a user; checking, by comparing the credential to matching credential information that would indicate the user is authorized to enter stored in the memory of the access control device, if no matching credential information that indicates the user is authorized is found in the memory of the access control device, then checking, at a remote cloud server, a list of buffered credential information for the matching credential information that indicates the user is authorized, and if the matching credential information that indicates the user is authorized is found, sending an unlock signal from the remote cloud server to the access control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: RemoteLock, Inc.
    Inventors: Nolan Mondrow, Robert Goff, Eric Carlson
  • Patent number: 11943567
    Abstract: A system includes a server, a user device, and a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to identify a first active state based on a comparison of a first image to a second image, which are views of the monitored environment; and, in response to identifying the first active state, transmit a first notification that includes the second image to the server. The server is configured to transmit the second image to the user device. The user device is configured to display a plurality of images; and update, in response to receiving the second image, the plurality of images so that the second image replaces at least one image of the plurality of images; receive a request to display an image stream on the user device; transmit, to the server, a request to provide the image stream; and replace the second image with the image stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Vitalchat, Inc.
    Inventor: Ghafran Abbas
  • Patent number: 11941993
    Abstract: A transcription system for an aircraft is configured to: generate an ownship call sign list that includes a plurality of potential ownship call signs that may be used in messages from ATC directed to the ownship, categorize a received message as being directed to the ownship when a recovered call sign from the message corresponds to a call sign from the ownship call sign list; and signal an aircraft display device to display a graphical message element that is representative of the received message, includes a textual representation of message content and the recovered call sign from the received message, and that is displayed in a manner that indicates whether the received message has been categorized as being directed to the ownship or traffic aircraft. The transcription system for an aircraft may be configured to re-categorize a previously categorized received ATC message based on flight crew interaction with a GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Jitender Kumar Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11933830
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for testing a trailer light system including a trailer connector for coupling a first voltage to a first trailer light and a second voltage to a second trailer light, a transmission state detector for determining a vehicle transmission state, and a trailer interface module for detecting an electrical connection to a trailer at the trailer connection, and for applying the first voltage to the trailer connector and the second voltage to the trailer connector in response to the detection of the electrical connection and the vehicle transmission state being in a park state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Harold Bruton Thibodeau, Ansaar Beg, Andreea Sofia Ungureanu
  • Patent number: 11928962
    Abstract: A system for location risk determination and ranking based on vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive accident data and/or event data. The processor is configured to determine a set of incident groups, wherein an incident group of the set of incident groups is associated with a set of accidents of the accident data and/or a set of events of the event data that are grouped by location proximity. The processor is further configured to determine a set of traffic estimations, wherein a traffic estimation of the set of traffic estimations is associated with the incident group of the set of incident groups; and determine a ranking of the set of incident groups based at least in part on the set of accidents, the set of events, and the set of traffic estimations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Cheng, Daniel Witriol
  • Patent number: 11919535
    Abstract: Methods and a computer application program for identifying manual use of a phone by the driver of a vehicle. The application collects heading, velocity and radial acceleration data already available to the operating system of all smart phones and uses the asymmetry with respect to right and left turns between a radial acceleration based on Earth-frame-based heading and speed data and a measured actual radial acceleration to detect manual phone usage by a driver. Detection may result in a visual and auditory warning that would incriminate the driver if the vehicle were to be stopped by law enforcement authorities or involved in an accident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Samuel J. Petuchowski
  • Patent number: 11915198
    Abstract: A system for patient data exchange is provided and includes a plurality of sensors monitoring a patient according to a default sensor configuration, and a patient data exchange engine that receives a request comprising one or more parameters, identifies at least one applicable sensor from the plurality of sensors based on the one or more parameters, and reconfigures the at least one applicable sensor from the default sensor configuration to a different sensor configuration in accordance with the one or more parameters to generate applicable sensor data responsive to the request. In specific embodiments, the patient data exchange engine further computes a monetary value for the generated sensor data based at least on an attribute of the patient and an attribute of the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NANTHEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: David Dyell, Christopher Rogowski, Scott Kahler, Jennifer Milan