Patents Examined by Congvan Tran
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Patent number: 12263012Abstract: Articles of footwear and other devices include modules, e.g., for sensing physical and/or physiological characteristics associated with use of the footwear or other devices. Such devices may include an authentication or activation system for providing power or otherwise determining the connection of a sensor in the article of footwear.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: William E. Berner, Jr., Albert Shum, Charles W. Case, Allan M. Schrock, James A. Niegowski, William F. Rauchholz
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Patent number: 12267914Abstract: A method for determining a capability of a UE, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes that: the UE transmits a network mode to a core network element, wherein the network mode is used by the core network element to determine a UE capability identifier corresponding to the network mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Jianhua Liu
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Patent number: 12256456Abstract: A Method and Apparatus for multi-SIM operation during mobility is provided. The method includes Aspects of the present disclosure are to address Multi-SIM operation during mobility. The method includes receiving an RRC reconfiguration message comprising configuration of a terminal assistance information related to an RRC state transition, initiating a terminal assistance information process based on said configuration information in said RRC control message, initiating a T2 after transmitting the UEAssistanceInformation if said UEAssistanceInformation includes a musim-PreferredRRC-State IE, receiving an RRCRelease message including a SuspendConfig and performing a first set of actions in response to receiving said RRCRelease message.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: Blackpin Inc.Inventor: Soenghun Kim
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Patent number: 12249165Abstract: An asset monitoring system includes a server, and a monitoring system mounted in a container. The monitoring system includes a camera, a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images of the inside of a container, and control the transceiver transmit the images to a server. The server is configured to process the images to determine loading data including at least one of an unused volume or an unused floor space inside the container, and transmit the loading data to a customer computer.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: AMETEK, INC.Inventor: Uday Shankar
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Patent number: 12243332Abstract: An image capturing method has: providing an image capturing area on a display screen of a user device; providing an indication area in the image capturing area; identifying each license plate in the indication area; calculating a license plate area of said each license plate in the indication area; calculating a center point difference from a center point of said each license plate in the indication area to a center point of the indication area; marking a license plate that has a license plate area larger than half of a largest license plate area and has a smallest center point difference; and capturing an image including the marked license plate in the image capturing area.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GOGORO, INC.Inventors: Yi-Chia Lin, Chih-Min Fu, I-Fen Shih
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Patent number: 12237569Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for beamforming control. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method. The method may include providing, by a user equipment configured to include a plurality of antenna panels, capability information to a base station, the capability information including antenna panel information regarding the plurality of antenna panels; and providing, by the user equipment, antenna panel usage information to the base station, the antenna panel usage information indicative of which of the plurality of antenna panels are in at least one of an active transmit state or an active receive state. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Sami Hakola, Jorma Kaikkonen, Juha Karjalainen, Mihai Enescu, Timo Koskela
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Patent number: 12223738Abstract: A method of detecting a way-side object includes receiving data frames from sensors mounted on a vehicle. Position data corresponding to the position of the vehicle is received. Object-of-interest data is retrieved from a database. The sensor data frames and the object-of-interest data are processed to determine a region-of-interest in the sensor data frame. A portion of the sensor data frames corresponding to the region of interest is processed using machine-learned object detection to identify a first object-of-interest. The portion of the sensor data frames corresponding to the region of interest is processed using computer vision methods to detect features of the expected object-of-interest and identifying the detected object-of-interest as explained when the features of the expected object-of-interest are detected. Explained object-of-interest data corresponding to the explained detected object-of-interest is output to a navigation system of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc.Inventors: Veronica Marin, Evgeny Nuger, Jaewook Jung, William Wang, David Beach
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Patent number: 12225609Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for reporting heat generation related information of a terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim
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Patent number: 12219521Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for associating sensing information with a user (e.g., a cellular user) by, for example, determining information from both a sensing node and a communication node, then associating the a sensed object and the communication node based on the information. Additionally, or alternatively, some embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for radar and sensing-based positioning.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Ryan Keating, Amitabha Ghosh, Jun Tan, Nitin Mangalvedhe
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Patent number: 12213213Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes: at least one processor, and the at least one processor is configured to: check at least one event requiring a change in user equipment (UE) capability of the electronic device, change the UE capability of the electronic device based on the at least one event and transmit a TAU request message indicating that UE capability information update is requested, enter an idle state, based on receiving a TAU acceptance message corresponding to the TAU request message in a state in which the UE capability enquiry message corresponding to the TAU request is not received, establish a new RRC connection with the network in the idle state, receive a UE capability enquiry message based on the new RRC connection, and transmit a UE capability information message including the changed UE capability, based on the reception of the UE capability enquiry message.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jungmin Oh, Sanghyun Lee
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Patent number: 12213103Abstract: Dynamically adapting provision of notification output to reduce distractions and/or to mitigate usage of computational resources. In some implementations, an automated assistant application predicts a level of engagement for a user and determines, based on the predicted level of engagement (and optionally future predicted level(s) of engagement), provisioning (e.g., whether, when, and/or how) of output that is based on a received notification. For example, the automated assistant application can, based on predicted level(s) of engagement, determine whether to provide any output based on a received notification, determine whether to suppress provision of output that is based on the received notification (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
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Patent number: 12207357Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and systems for handling encoding of radio capability information of UE using RACS. A method disclosed herein includes encoding radio capability information of a user equipment (UE) in formats of multiple radio access technologies (RATs) that have been supported by a public land mobile network (PLMN) in which the UE is registered.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Varini Gupta, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Lalith Kumar, Narendranath Durga Tangudu, Fasil Abdul Latheef, Himke Van Der Velde, Kundan Tiwari
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Patent number: 12195210Abstract: A mobility management entity (MME) receives, from a first base station, a request for a handover of a wireless device to a second base station. Based on the handover request, the MME sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), an indication of an authentication and/or authorization (AA) status for an aerial service of the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Jinsook Ryu, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard, Taehun Kim, Weihua Qiao
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Patent number: 12200793Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein provide a method for HPLMN-based traffic control in a wireless communication network when a UE 300 is registered on different PLMNs.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lalith Kumar, Kailash Kumar Jha, Govind Irappa Uttur, Shweta M, Vikrant Bajaj
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Patent number: 12193112Abstract: Devices and methods in a wireless communication system (40) applicable to UE (1), an access node (20) and a core network node (120), for handling UE capability information. For the UE, the method comprises storing (602) the UE capabilities information (50) divided into a plurality of data blocks (51-54), wherein each data block includes a subset of the UE capability information; determining (603), for each data block, a corresponding capability ID (512,522,532,542); transmitting a capability message (61) to the access network (200), comprising at least one of the determined capability IDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Svante Alnås
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Patent number: 12185179Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed relating to proximity detection of devices and targeted information services, such as information campaigns. Disclosed methods provide targeted campaigns to a user, such as targeted campaigns to presentation devices based on proximity of user devices near the information devices. Other methods provide targeted campaigns across various applications, while other methods provide for scheduling campaigns to premises device identifiers based on an event schedule, and other methods provide a hierarchal system for monitoring different sets of premises device identifiers when a user device can monitor for a limited number of premises device identifiers at a time.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Michael Connelly, Franklyn Athias, Corey Farrell, Erami Botchway, John Hart, Michael Chen
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Patent number: 12179656Abstract: A control device includes a control unit that acquires an image taken by a vehicle provided with a power supply function for a user, identifies an electric light that is turned off and that is included in the acquired image, refers to definition data that defines whether the identified electric light should be turned on during a time zone when the image was taken to determine whether a power outage has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Satoru Sakuma, Genshi Kuno, Shota Minami
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Patent number: 12183055Abstract: An image processing method includes a first step of acquiring a captured image, and a second step of generating a first map based on the captured image using a machine learning model. The first map is a map indicating a magnitude and range of a signal value in an area where an object in a luminance saturation area in the captured image is spread by a blur generated in an imaging step of the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Norihito Hiasa
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Patent number: 12169842Abstract: A method for triggering image processing based on vibration data analysis may include receiving vibration data captured using a vibration sensor mounted to a shelving unit including; analyzing the vibration data to determine whether a vibration is a result of an engagement of a person with a retail shelf; in response to a determination that the vibration is the result of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf, triggering analysis of an image of captured after the beginning of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf; in response to a determination that the vibration is not the result of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf, forgoing triggering the analysis of the image; and providing information based on a result of the analysis of the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd.Inventor: Youval Bronicki
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Patent number: 12167325Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing network slice quota management. A network slice quota management function may store capacity information for one or more network slices. The network slice quota management function may receive a request for an indication of whether a network slice has additional capacity. The network slice quota management function may provide an indication of whether the network slice has additional capacity in response to the request. The capacity information may relate to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of wireless devices registered for the network slice, or to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of packet sessions established with the network slice, or both, among various possibilities.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Vijay Venkataraman, Krisztian Kiss, Srinivasan Nimmala, Longda Xing, Jordi Agud Ruiz