Patents Examined by Charles R Kasenge
  • Patent number: 12273214
    Abstract: A method for controlling the functioning of at least one smart home appliance of a network system comprising a cloud server, a terminal device and at least one smart home appliance registered in said cloud server. The method comprises a phase of creating an activity group comprising: selecting one or more registered smart home appliance; selecting control instructions; associating the selected control instructions to the selected smart home appliances; selecting a trigger event for each one of the selected control instructions; activating said activity group; and the cloud server sending the selected control instructions to the selected smart home appliances according to the trigger event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Electrolux do Brasil S.A.
    Inventors: André Gustavo Souza Garbosa, Jean Carlo Marques Elias, Alexandre Chauffaille Drummond, Gabriel Gemael Polycarpo Lied, Mayra Camargo Laska Gomes, Cesar Augusto Lima, Jr., Rafael Amaral Alonso Lopes, Vinicius Mendonça Weinert, Kim Enig Risager, Ibsen Silva Caldas
  • Patent number: 12265377
    Abstract: A cool cluster comprises one or more transfer chambers; a plurality of process chambers connected to the one or more transfer chambers; and a computing device of the tool cluster. The computing device is to receive first measurements generated by sensors of a first process chamber during or after a process is performed within the first process chamber; determine that the first process chamber is due for maintenance based on processing the first measurements using a first trained machine learning model; after maintenance has been performed on the first process chamber, receive second measurements generated by the sensors during or after a seasoning process is performed within the first process chamber; and determine that the first process chamber is ready to be brought back into service based on processing the second measurements using a second trained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Priyadarshi Panda, Lei Lian, Pengyu Han, Todd J. Egan, Prashant Aji, Eli Mor, Alex J. Tom, Leonard Michael Tedeschi
  • Patent number: 12266025
    Abstract: Provided are a meter reading device, an attachment member, and a remote meter reading system. The meter reading device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a measurement value measured by a meter device from an image picked up by a camera and generate numerical data indicating the recognized measurement value, a transmission unit configured to transmit the numerical data generated by the recognition unit to a storage device installed on a network, a mirror arranged so as to be opposed to a display surface at a given angle, and other components. The attachment member enables attachment of the meter reading device to the meter device. The remote meter reading system allows the measurement value displayed on an existing meter device to be checked at a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Asiot Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Jun
  • Patent number: 12267181
    Abstract: A building management system comprising a database storing relationships between a plurality of building objects representing building equipment and building spaces and a configuration tool. The configuration tool is configured to obtain configuration data associated with a first building object of the plurality of building objects and use the relationships between the plurality of building objects to identify a second building object having a stored relationship with the first building object. The configuration tool is also configured to automatically generate configuration data for the second building object based on the configuration data associated with the first building object and the relationship with the second building object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Dominick M. Deligio, Jason T. Sawyer, Dimitrios S. Papadopoulos
  • Patent number: 12251779
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of welding machine protection, specifically a protective device for interlocking welding machines, a design method, and a shield. The device includes: an inductive detection module to detect the relative position between the shield and a human head; a position detection module to detect the filter lens position relative to the shield; a determination module connected to both detection modules to check if all parameters are within a preset range, converting them into an unlocking signal if so; and a transmission module to send this signal to the welding machine, allowing operator control after unlocking. The invention enhances safety, reduces injury risks, and offers reliable protection, with advantages like high safety, automatic control, and effective interlocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU SHINE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO.LTD.
    Inventors: Libin Liu, Feng Sha
  • Patent number: 12254426
    Abstract: A production line operation forecast method and a production line operation forecast system are provided. The production line operation forecast method includes the following steps: obtaining an online production line work-in-process map at a time point, generating candidate simulated dispatch decisions based on the online production line work-in-process map, and inferring production-line work-in-process map changes of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions at a next time point; inputting the production-line work-in-process map changes to a forecast model, such that the forecast model outputs simulated production line operation health indicators of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions at the next time point; and selecting one of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions as a scheduling dispatch decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tsan-Cheng Su, Hao-Jhe Huang, Chung-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 12242253
    Abstract: A multifunctional gateway unit may connect at least one apparatus, which is in particular used for machining, handling or storing workpieces that preferably consist of, at least in portions, of wood, wooden materials, or plastic. The multifunctional gateway unit may include, at least one data interface for connecting the gateway unit to a data server; at least one computing unit which comprises a CPU and is designed to interchange data with the data interface; at least one sensor interface which is designed to receive data from a sensor, which is associated with the apparatus, and to forward the data to the computing unit; and/or at least one output interface which is designed to receive data from the computing unit and to forward the data to at least one unit of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HOMAG GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Riethmüller, Martin Meintel, Jochen Paul, Manuel Friebolin, Benjamin Kerth
  • Patent number: 12237942
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a memory, and a processor configured to obtain first information for performing a task, identify a first task corresponding to the first information, identify a first device meeting a plurality of conditions corresponding to the first task among a plurality of devices, and request the first device to perform the first task via the communication module. Various other embodiments may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rami Jung, Hyukjoong Kim, Daedong Park, Kyusung Sim, Kyeonghun Lee, Keuncheol Lee, Junsik Jeong, Jaehong Jo, Jaehyun Cho, Woojei Choi
  • Patent number: 12226021
    Abstract: A method and system may include transmitting a signal to a pump of an air mattress to set the pressure of the air mattress to an initial pressure; receiving, at a central controller, a user preference condition for an automatic adjustment of the pressure in the air mattress; receiving, at the central controller, an indication that the air mattress is empty; and based on determining that the user preference condition has been met and receiving the indication: detecting a change in the pressure of the air mattress beyond a threshold value; and based on the detection, adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to the initial pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
    Inventors: Rob Nunn, Wade Daniel Palashewski, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt
  • Patent number: 12230961
    Abstract: A power control device for controlling an electrical load. The system includes decision logic to implement a local response responsive to events currently occurring in a power grid. The power control device includes a user interface allowing programming the response to the grid imbalance to adapt that response to the particular application in which the load operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SYSTEMEX ENERGIES INC.
    Inventor: Simon Jasmin
  • Patent number: 12221984
    Abstract: A method for parameterizing a digital filter for attenuation of a torsional mode of a power transmission line of an aircraft turbine engine is disclosed. The mode is associated with a frequency in a confidence interval, the digital filter is low-pass and described by a transfer function equal to the quotient N(z)/D(z), integrated into a pre-existing monitoring loop of the turbine engine, to filter signals sampled at a frequency. The method includes: calculating zeros of N(z), so that the filter attenuates the frequency; updating the zeros of N(z), so that the gain of the filter satisfies, in the interval, a first gain template; and determining the poles of D(z), so that, in the bandwidth of the loop: the phase of the filter satisfies a phase template, and the gain of the filter satisfies a second gain template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Typhaine Raslain
  • Patent number: 12216441
    Abstract: A method for transforming production flow data into human machine interface data is presented. The PF data comprises storage objects and processing objects. The method comprises receiving the PF data, identifying the storage objects and the processing objects in the PF data, for each processing object, identifying source objects, identifying destination objects, forming a number of process sequences based on the PF data, identifying linking objects present in two or more of the process sequences, generating an aggregated process sequence, and generating the HMI data based on the aggregated process sequence, such that the HMI data can generate a rectangular array, wherein a visually represented destination object of the destination object is placed subsequent to a visually represented source object of the source object for each of the process sequences in the first direction in the rectangular array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Sebastian Nygren, Mattias Abrahamsson, Rickard Moberg
  • Patent number: 12204324
    Abstract: A predictive maintenance device for an industrial machine includes a determination model and a processor. The determination model has been trained by machine learning to output a possibility of an abnormality for each of a plurality of components by inputting state data. The state data indicates a state of a drive system of the industrial machine. The plurality of components are included in the drive system. The plurality of components are connected to each other so as to operate in conjunction with each other. The processor acquires the state data. The processor acquires the possibility of the abnormality in each of the plurality of components from the state data by using the determination model. The processor determines the component to be maintained from the plurality of components based on the possibility of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KOMATSU INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Funabashi, Yusuke Masato, Taketoshi Fukumura, Eiji Doba
  • Patent number: 12204305
    Abstract: A system includes a first module configured to collect automation plant-related data that include at least operating data, and to generate based on the operating data manipulation-proof usage data which are then transmitted to a second module configured to determine at least a part of the manipulation-proof usage data, to form a checksum from the at least one part of the manipulation-proof usage data, to transfer the checksum to at least one node of a distributed ledger network, and to store the manipulation-proof usage data in an area outside the distributed ledger network. A third module participates in the distributed ledger network and is configured to obtain the manipulation-proof usage data from the area and to check the correctness of the manipulation-proof usage data by forming a checksum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bölderl-Ermel, Rene Ermler, Robert Pfont
  • Patent number: 12200043
    Abstract: A bridge device for a building network includes a radio, a wired communications interface configured to communicate with a first master slave/token passing (MS/TP) network, and a processing circuit configured to wirelessly transmit and receive messages to and from MS/TP devices coupled to the MS/TP network. The processing circuit is configured to transparently communicate the messages such that the MS/TP devices on the first MS/TP network are operationally unaware of a wireless network associated with the bridge device by passing tokens for MS/TP devices outside of the MS/TP network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: William R. Kuckuk, Christopher J. McCann, Nathan M. Zimmerman, Kim K. Weller, Nick J. Schaf
  • Patent number: 12189352
    Abstract: A method of performing a setup of a smart home device may include determining, by an operating system of a control device, that a smart home device is present in an enclosure; receiving, by the operating system, information from the smart home device using a multi-ecosystem protocol, wherein the information identifies a type of device for the smart home device; performing, by the operating system, setup operations for the smart home device based on the type of device; and providing, by the operating system, access to the smart home device for an application operating on the control device after the setup operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Crettenand, Gilles Drieu, Nathan Sandland, Kevin Po, Alexei Sakhartchouk, Julius Löwe, Anna Maria Phan, Mehdi Kash Khaleghi, Kevin Coppock
  • Patent number: 12189371
    Abstract: A trace assistance device includes a memory section, an acquisition section, and an output section. The memory section stores a manipulation log and an operation log. When a predetermined trigger event occurs during the board work, the acquisition section acquires at least one target manipulation history related to the trigger event, a target operation history associated with the target manipulation history, a comparison manipulation history that is the same as or similar to the target manipulation history, and a comparison operation history associated with the comparison manipulation history from the manipulation log and the operation log stored in the memory device. The output section is configured to output an operation of the board production line recorded in the target operation history and an operation of the board production line recorded in the comparison operation history, which are acquired by the acquisition section, in a comparable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Nakai
  • Patent number: 12188668
    Abstract: An HVAC system is provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an HVAC system in which a first controller is configured to provide a communicating protocol to a first HVAC component and a second controller is configured to receive a communicating protocol from the first controller and output an on/off protocol to a second HVAC component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Daikin Manufacturing Company, L.P., Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Honda, Junichi Shimoda, Takashi Shimamura, Yuuji Yamada, Hideyuki Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Imada, David Palazzolo, Joseph Kelly Hearnsberger, Sriram Venkat, Chris Bellshaw, John Clements, Masahiro Oka, Akinori Nakai, Cheng Li, Takahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 12181851
    Abstract: A settings information generation device, for reducing the number of settings steps pertaining to a device in a superordinate device that communicates with a slave device to which the device is connected, includes: a selection unit for accepting a selection of a device to be connected; an acquisition unit for acquiring operational settings information including the input/output data length of the selected device; and a generation unit for generating, on the basis of the operational settings information, superordinate device settings information for setting a storage region for storing data exchanged with the device by a controller via a device management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Higa, Makoto Okuno, Shinji Murayama
  • Patent number: 12184441
    Abstract: In a method for operating a household appliance which includes a display device having a display element comprising an adjustable property and which includes a control apparatus for actuating the display device, an optical sensor of an external device detects an item of activation information from an object. A processing unit of the external device processes the detected activation information to generate an activation signal which is transmitted to the control apparatus for activating an adjustment of the property of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Schumacher, Sabine Harrer, Tobias Schmidt, Thomas Eric Beliveau, Katja Schönfuss