Patents Examined by Connors
  • Patent number: 11974151
    Abstract: Provided are a measurement indication method, an apparatus, and a system. The specific solution is as follows: UE receives first information sent by a network-side device, where the first information is measurement configuration information or system information; and the UE determines second information based on the first information, where the second information includes a first target radio access technology RAT type. The first information is the measurement configuration information, and the second information is used to indicate a region measured by the UE and corresponding to the first target RAT type; or the first information is the system information, and the second information is used to indicate that a measurement result obtained through measurement by the UE and corresponding to the first target RAT type is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Qian Zheng, Wei Bao
  • Patent number: 11971035
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compressor having a first rotor and a second rotor disposed within a housing, where the first rotor is configured to rotate about a first axis of the housing and the second rotor is configured to rotate about a second axis of the housing. The first rotor and the second rotor engage with one another such that rotation of the first rotor and the second rotor pressurizes a vapor within the housing. The compressor includes an end plate coupled to a discharge end of the housing, where the end plate includes a variable opening configured to discharge a flow of the vapor from the housing. The end plate also includes a first movable member and a second movable member that are configured to increase or decrease a cross-sectional area of the variable opening to adjust the flow of the vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventor: Franklin Aaron Montejo
  • Patent number: 11974138
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a first transmission device incudes receiving a first set of observations from a first receiving device based on transmissions from the first transmission device to the first receiving device at a previous time slot of a fixed contention-based spectrum sharing system. The first transmission device shares a spectrum with a second transmission device. The method also includes measuring an energy level from an ongoing data transmission of the second transmission device at a current time slot. The method further includes generating, at an artificial neural network of the first transmission device, at least one of a transmission determination, a set of transmission parameters, or a combination thereof, based on a second set of observations, the energy level, and a counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Sandeep Doshi, Srinivas Yerramalli, Lorenzo Ferrari, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 11971025
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a plurality of terminals; a terminal cover protecting the plurality of terminals; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a shell; and a cover having a flat portion disposed around the plurality of terminals, and a sensor protection portion covering the temperature sensor, the sensor protection portion being integrally formed with the flat portion to extend from the flat portion. The terminal cover is attached to cover the flat portion of the cover in a state in which the temperature sensor disposed on the shell is covered by the sensor protection portion of the cover. Thus, it is possible to prevent a lead wire of the temperature sensor from being accidentally cut when the terminal cover is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Sakata, Shigeru Hata
  • Patent number: 11971201
    Abstract: A compressor of an embodiment includes three suction pipes. A first center of a first suction pipe, a second center of a second suction pipe, and a third center of a third suction pipe are positioned at vertices of a triangle. A first distance between the first center and a center of a compressor main body is smaller than a second distance between the second center and the center of the compressor main body and a third distance between the third center and the center of the compressor main body. The first suction pipe is connected to a first suction port on an uppermost side. A second virtual plane on which a central axis of a main curved pipe part of the second suction pipe is disposed and a third virtual plane on which a central axis of a main curved pipe part of the third suction pipe is disposed are inclined to opposite sides from each other with respect to a first virtual plane on which a central axis of a main curved pipe part of the first suction pipe is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hirayama, Shogo Shida
  • Patent number: 11965501
    Abstract: A system and technique for determining functionality of a hydraulic system including first and second motors mutually coupled in driving relation with a pump, a sensor generating a signal representative of a monitored condition, and a controller configured to selectively control activation and deactivation of the motors. Fitness detection logic stored in memory of the controller is executable by a processor to: determine, based on the signal while the first motor is activated and second motor is deactivated during a first test interval, whether the monitored condition meets a predefined threshold prior to expiration of the first test interval; determine, based on the signal while the second motor is activated and first motor is deactivated during a second test interval, whether the monitored condition meets the predefined threshold prior to expiration of the second test interval; and generate a readiness signal representative of the determined functionality of the hydraulic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Ramsey, Michael A. Holland, Nathanael K. Rehn, Jacob M. Kongs, Jordan Tagtow
  • Patent number: 11965744
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for indoor positioning. The method includes obtaining a first location of a subject at a first time point. The method also includes determining one or more motion parameters associated with the subject at least based on one or more sensors carried by the subject. The method further includes determining, based on the first location of the subject and the one or more motion parameters associated with the subject, a second location of the subject at a second time point after the first time point. The method still further includes adjusting, at least based on surroundings information associated with the subject at the second time point, the second location of the subject to determine a target location of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Teng, Rongzhi Wang, Jiankuan Li, Zhiwei Ruan, Zongyue Liu, Jun Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Shenggang Bao, Chao Liu
  • Patent number: 11965498
    Abstract: A method for operating a pressure control system having a multistage compressor includes outputting, by the multistage compressor in order to fill a pressure medium store or pressure medium chambers of the pressure control system, a pressure medium compressed multiple times. Outputting the pressure medium compressed multiple times includes providing, by a first compression stage, a precompressed pressure medium and further compressing, by a second compression stage, the precompressed pressure medium to form a compressed pressure medium and then outputting the compressed pressure medium. Alternatively, outputting the pressure medium compressed multiple times includes providing a compression pressure medium, which is obtained from additional compression of an already compressed charge pressure medium from the pressure medium reservoir or the pressure medium chambers of the pressure control system, wherein the compression pressure medium is output without additional compression by the second compression stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventors: Joerg Scharpenberg, Uwe Stabenow
  • Patent number: 11967161
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a system of a delivery device for combining sensor data from various types of sensors to generate a map that enables the delivery device to navigate from a first location to a second location to deliver an item to the second location. The system obtains data from RGB, LIDAR, and depth sensors and combines this sensor data according to various algorithms to detect objects in an environment of the delivery device, generate point cloud and pose information associated with the detected objects, and generates object boundary data for the detected objects. The system further identifies object states for the detected object and generates the map for the environment based on the detected object, the generated object proposal data, the labeled point cloud data, and the object states. The generated map may be provided to other systems to navigate the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hakan Boyraz, Baoyuan Liu, Xiaohan Nie, Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11968018
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first beam of a set of beams configured for spatial division multiplexing (SDM), a downlink communication. The UE may transmit, via a second beam of the set of beams, uplink control information (UCI) associated with the first beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11963151
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for beam failure recovery. The method includes detecting a beam failure on a serving cell of the terminal device, the serving cell including at least one of a primary cell and a secondary cell serving the terminal device. The method further includes in response to detecting the beam failure on the serving cell, generating a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, the MAC CE including a field associated with the serving cell, wherein the field is set to be a predefined value indicating the beam failure. The method further includes transmitting the MAC CE to a network device associated with the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Timo Koskela, Samuli Turtinen, Chunli Wu, Benoist Sebire, Mihai Enescu
  • Patent number: 11963230
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH); and receiving a random access response (RAR) on the basis of the PRACH, wherein the MACH is composed of N_MAX sequences mapped on the frequency domain, the N_MAX sequences are formed of M groups each including N sequences, the N_MAX sequences have the same length, the N_MAX sequences are generated on the basis of the same base sequence; the N sequences respectively have different cyclic shift (CS) values applied thereto; and the pattern of the different CS values may be the same for the M groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seokmin Shin, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Changhwan Park, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11962470
    Abstract: A method and system are provided to facilitate the commissioning of a distributed system. The method and system obtains a base configuration which defines an expected virtual topology for a distributed system, and identifies via a control device a physical network topology of the distributed system to commission the distributed system. The control device performs network discovery to identify a plurality of connected devices that are communicatively coupled thereto, and to collect device information for each connected device relating to its identity and relative position in the distributed system which has connected devices or associated subnetworks connected in a ring network topology. The collected device information for the plurality of connected devices is compared to the expected virtual topology from the base configuration to determine an identity and physical location of the plurality of connected devices and associated subnetworks in the physical network topology of the distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Freeman, Kevin M. Jefferies, Benjamin Edwards, Matthew White
  • Patent number: 11956177
    Abstract: Implementations of this disclosure provide a resource allocation method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device, the first indication information being used for determining frequency domain units included in a first interlace on a first BWP; and determining, by the terminal device, the frequency domain units included in the first interlace according to the first indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11939968
    Abstract: Provided is a pumping system that includes a parallel dual chamber pumping mechanism and an attachable disposable cassette. The disposable cassette may include a multi-laminate membrane, which facilitates efficient, accurate and uniform delivery of fluids. The membrane can be held in intimate contact with the pumping fingers of the pumping mechanism by electrostatic or magnetic attraction, thereby allowing the pump to pull a vacuum without the need for a preloaded elastomeric pumping segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Altra, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew G. Morris, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11937530
    Abstract: Agricultural machines utilize global positioning systems (GPS) to acquire the location of the machine as well as the location of an event, which may be based upon an operation of the agricultural machine. Because of the possibility of outage and/or inaccuracy of the GPS, a GPS augmentation system can be included with the agricultural machine. The GPS augmentation system can supplement the location determination of the GPS, or can be used in place of the GPS when the GPS is not available. An unmanned vehicle can also be used as part of the augmentation system to provide additional information for the location of the agricultural machine and/or the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Schoon, Jeremy Nadke, Ryan McMahan, Matthew Moeller
  • Patent number: 11937104
    Abstract: A radio wave environment analyzer includes a memory that holds location information on a radio transmitter disposed in a target area where a moving body is present and location information on a reference point at which a radio wave from the radio transmitter is received, and a processor that obtains (i) a first reception intensity of the radio wave at the reference point when the moving body is present at an initial location and (ii) a plurality of second reception intensities of the radio wave at the reference point respectively corresponding to cases where the moving body is present at a plurality of movement locations. The processor selects one or more locations out of the plurality of movement locations to execute a simulation of a radio wave environment in the target area, based on the first reception intensity and the plurality of second reception intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Asada, Teppei Emura, Yasunori Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 11933308
    Abstract: A pump assembly with a pump unit comprising an impeller for pumping fluid, an electric motor for driving the impeller, a control module for controlling the speed of the electric motor in a control mode, and an interface for receiving a pulse width modulated (PWM) control signal with a duty cycle indicative of the speed of the electric motor. The control module is configured to interpret the PWM control signal at start-up of the electric motor per default in a configuration mode as a configuration bit sequence based on the duty cycle of the PWM control signal during a pre-determined configuration window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Martin Byskov Skafsgaard, Susanne Hamann Gade, Keld Benner Valbjørn, Jan Carøe Aarestrup
  • Patent number: 11933287
    Abstract: A pump for a microfluidic device is disclosed. The pump comprises an actuator and a resilient isolator which is a planar, layered structure. The resilient isolator may comprise a support layer and optionally other layers for strengthening against tensile stress imposed by bending. Alternatively or in addition, the resilient isolator may comprise a plurality of annular regions, layers of the resilient isolator being configured such that at least one of the plurality of annular regions is less resistant than another one of the plurality of annular regions to bending. The actuator may comprise a piezoelectric disc including a surface which comprises electrode regions for electrical connection with respective conductive regions of a conductive layer of the resilient isolator, and an alignment feature for rotational alignment of the piezoelectric disc to ensure the electrical connection between the electrode regions and the respective conductive regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TTP VENTUS LTD.
    Inventors: James Samuel Bumby, Stuart Andrew Hatfield
  • Patent number: 11928738
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to improving the experience of gig-economy workers are disclosed, with particular reference to gig-economy work involving vehicle use. During or after performance of gig-economy work, data automatically collected may be used to generate and present recommendations or education points to gig-economy workers. Such recommendations may include targeted alerts to notify gig-economy workers of high-demand situations or to coordinate between gig-economy workers and gig-economy customers. Alerts may be generated based upon current excess demand for gig-economy services, as well as gig-economy worker availability and preferences. For example, alerts may be generated in response to detecting emergency conditions in an area in order to mobilize a large number of gig-economy transportation service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Hannah Estes, Audrey Schwartz, Michael DiBenedetto, James P. Rodriguez, Anna Zarkoob, Ben Tucker, Dar Beachy, Elijah Abella, Diana Sherwood, Emily Bryant, Kristin Sellers, Brian M. Fields, Hanpei Zhang