Patents Examined by Cal J Eustaquio
  • Patent number: 11837357
    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 receives parameters over a network from a remote computer, receives a user input to confirm the a parameter and/or procedure, determines a target volume for plasma product and/or raw plasma based on the parameters and, in response to confirming the donor, controls the system to collect the plasma using draw and return phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    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: 11830336
    Abstract: The present invention includes a healthcare system for capturing and maintaining patient healthcare records and employing information in the records to proactively alert hospital workers to a condition that places patient health at risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: Richard C. Mayoras, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11825147
    Abstract: An entertainment device initiates a configuration process of a controlling device in response to a change in an audio visual entertainment system configuration in which at least one of a plurality devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source and at least one of the plurality of devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Arling, Patrick H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 11813060
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for performing biometric evoked response monitoring and feedback for a vehicle is provided. The system includes a plurality of sensors and at least one controller. The plurality of sensors may be positioned about a main cabin of the vehicle and each sensor is configured to provide a first signal indicative of a measured electromagnetic characteristic of an anatomical feature of a driver for the vehicle in response to an alert being issued to the driver. The at least one controller is configured to receive the first signal and to determine a stimulus response and an attentiveness response of the driver based on the measured electromagnetic characteristic of the anatomical feature of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Gallagher, Francesco Migneco, Arjun Yetukuri, Marie-Eve Cote
  • Patent number: 11818582
    Abstract: Communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are described. Methods associated with such communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are also described. A circuit breaker panel may include a circuit breaker controller and one or more communication enabled circuit breakers. Two-way wireless communication is possible between the circuit breaker controller and the one or more communication enabled circuit breakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: Adam Kevelos, Alfred J. Lombardi, Michael Ostrovsky, Paul Soccoli
  • Patent number: 11814953
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus, a system, and a method for detecting and indicating the operational position of a valve of wellsite equipment. The apparatus comprises a mount portion and a housing portion. The mount is operatively coupled to a non-moving part of the valve and the housing portion is configured to receive a sensor therewithin. The sensor is configured to detect the position of a moving part of the valve and to provide an output signal indicative of the position of the moving part of the valve. The position of the moving part of the valve is indicative of the operational position of the valve. The system comprises one or more such apparatus for detecting and indicating the operational position of one or more valves on a wellsite or well pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Duncan, Murad Mohammad, Lindsey William Harper
  • Patent number: 11801856
    Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle having a sensor, and includes: a storage unit that stores a control history in which a vehicle control condition and an actual number of measurement times of the vehicle control condition are associated with each other, the vehicle control condition being a condition for performing an arbitrary vehicle control operation for each position; a position specifying unit that specifies a position of the vehicle; a determination unit that determines a current sensor capability that is a current capability of the sensor; and a selection unit that selects, from the storage unit, the vehicle control condition having the largest actual number among the vehicle control conditions that have a position within a predetermined distance from the position specified by the position specifying unit and that can be determined by the current sensor capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyohiro Obara
  • Patent number: 11794770
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for evaluating a driving environment of a vehicle for hearing impairment conditions, detecting a request related to hearing impairment conditions, activating an accessibility mode in response to the request based on the hearing impairment condition, the accessibility mode providing sensory aids in response to the hearing impairment conditions, and altering vehicle motion to enable driver attention to the driving environment. The detecting the request related to hearing impairment conditions includes receiving a driver request for accessibility, a predetermined setting implementing a driver profile indicating a request for accessibility, and an alert from a drivers assisted technology system using artificial intelligence (AI) that the driving environment has hearing impairment conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Noha Ghannam, Clara Bennie, Cheri Hansen
  • Patent number: 11779216
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for providing interactive electronic treatment assistance for benign prostatic hyperplasia and advanced prostate cancer are disclosed. The methods can include automatically sending, by a disease and disorder treatment device, an electronic pathway sign-up link to a smart mobile device. The method can include sending a plurality of inquiries about the BPH condition and/or the advanced prostate cancer condition, to the smart mobile device. The method can include receiving a plurality of patient responses from the smart mobile device. The method can include processing and storing the plurality of patient responses. The method can include providing, by the disease and disorder treatment device, patient education about various treatment therapies for advanced prostate cancer. The method can include automatically monitoring a patient having the advanced prostate cancer condition during the various treatment therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Rogue Medical Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Brady R. Walker, David S. DiMarco, Connie S. DiMarco
  • Patent number: 11780459
    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 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Honda
  • Patent number: 11785146
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling a service administrator to respond to a detected doorbell press at a property when an authorized user is unavailable to respond. In some implementations, a determination that a doorbell press has been detected at a property is made. Video data collected by a doorbell device of the property is obtained in response to determining that the doorbell press has been detected at the property. Sensor data collected by one or more sensors of a monitoring system located within the property is obtained in response to determining that the doorbell press has been detected at the property. A present security risk for the property is determined based at least on the obtained sensor data and the obtained video data. A communication session between the doorbell device and a server system associated with the monitoring system of the property is established in response to determining the present security risk for the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Daniel Todd Kerzner
  • Patent number: 11772675
    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 of Coriolis acceleration with respect to right and left turns 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 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Samuel J. Petuchowski
  • Patent number: 11774577
    Abstract: Systems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless device. After receiving the first packet, the second wireless device sending to the first wireless device a second packet. After sending the second packet, the second wireless device sends a first continuous wave signal to the first wireless device. After receiving the first continuous wave signal, the first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a second continuous wave signal. The first wireless device then calculates a time-of-flight measurement based on a time between the first wireless device sending the first packet and receiving the second packet, and calculates a second measurement based on a phase shift of the first continuous wave signal and the second continuous wave signal, and combines the two measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tomas Motos, Espen Wium
  • Patent number: 11773717
    Abstract: A system includes a housing configured to be secured to the casing string. The housing has a ring shape defining a central orifice for passage of the fluid and an interior surface facing the central orifice. A reflectometer is mounted on the interior surface and is configured to emit a microwave signal into the fluid in the central orifice, receive a reflected microwave signal from the central orifice, and determine a microwave reflection parameter. An acoustic transceiver is also mounted on the interior surface and is configured to emit an acoustic signal into the fluid in the central orifice, receive a reflected acoustic signal from the central orifice, and determine an acoustic reflection parameter. A processor is configured to determine the property of the fluid from the microwave reflection parameter and the acoustic reflection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Jose Oliverio Alvarez
  • Patent number: 11771320
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for augmenting patient-technologist communication, before, during, and after a medical imaging procedure. In accordance with certain embodiments, a system includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium in communication with the processor. The processor executes program instructions stored in the computer readable storage medium which cause the computer processor to generate media that relates to a medical imaging procedure as a function of information in an electronic medical record that corresponds to a patient and output the media that relates to a medical imaging procedure to a display or a speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Emil M. Georgiev, Erik P. Kemper
  • Patent number: 11774578
    Abstract: An automotive sensor integration module including a plurality of sensors which differ in at least one of a sensing period or an output data format, and a signal processing unit, which simultaneously outputs, as sensing data, pieces of detection data respectively output from the plurality of sensors on the basis of the sensing period of any one of the plurality of sensors, determines whether each region of an outer cover corresponding to a location of each of the plurality of sensors is contaminated on the basis of the pieces of detection data, and outputs a determination result as contamination data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Shin Kim, Won Gyum Kim, Kyung Rin Kim, Sung Eun Jo
  • Patent number: 11766750
    Abstract: Communications capabilities are supplied to components of pool water recirculation systems, even if the components lack electrical power or supply wires. Capabilities may be furnished by wireless RF devices that connect to existing fittings or ports of the components, for example. The devices are configured to obtain desired information relating to the components (or the water within them) and transmit the information remotely for processing or consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZODIAC POOL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Mark J. Bauckman, Eugene Keith McQueen, Tawny Jean Cothran
  • Patent number: 11763106
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are provided for estimating characteristics of a wireless communication channel between at least two passive radio frequency (RF) nodes. Backscatter channel state information (BCSI) is measured during communication between the at least two passive RF nodes using the wireless communication channel. An RF node aggregates the measured BCSI and the aggregated BSCI is analyzed to detect at least one activity of a plurality of activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Milutin Stanacevic, Samir Das, Petar Djurić, Athalye Akshay, Ryoo Jihoon, Yasha Karimi
  • Patent number: 11763675
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to perform an appropriate collision determination with respect to an obstacle on an inclined road. A result of an object recognition performed on the basis of an image captured by a camera, a result of an object recognition performed on the basis of a result of detection performed by a millimeter-wave radar, and a result of an object recognition performed on the basis of a result of detection performed by LiDAR are respectively detected; a result of the object recognition is selected depending on the environment around a vehicle; and whether there is a possibility of colliding with the object is determined on the basis of the selected result of the object recognition. The present disclosure is applicable to a vehicle-mounted system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11744505
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method for diagnosing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a subject may include repeatedly measuring heart rate variability (HRV) in the subject and a plurality of HRV altering variables; calculating an HRV fingerprint based on the subject's measured HRV and the measured plurality of HRV altering variables; generating a predicted HRV of the subject based on the HRV fingerprint; and diagnosing a TBI in the subject when the measured HRV of the subject deviates from the predicted HRV of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Tristan Alan Colaizzi