Patents Examined by Curtis A. Kuntz
  • Patent number: 12147207
    Abstract: A web browser (5) makes a communication thread (7) and a DOM update thread (6) run in parallel. The communication thread (7) overwrites, when signal data having the same unique identifier as received signal data already exists in a buffer area, the signal data stored in the buffer area with the received signal data. When receiving a signal data request event from the DOM update thread (6), the communication thread (7) transmits all signal data stored in the buffer area to the DOM update thread (6). The DOM update thread (6) updates a DOM for all the signal data. The DOM update thread (6) transmits, after updating the DOM, the signal data request event to the communication thread and updates, according to the updated DOM, a display content of a display part displayed on the web browser (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TMEIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Nobuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12138010
    Abstract: A physiological data acquisition system includes an array electrode sensor (220) having plural electrodes and configured to acquire physiological data; a single electrode sensor having a single electrode and configured to acquire additional physiological data; and a hub that is configured to receive the physiological data from the array electrode sensor and the additional physiological data from the single electrode sensor only along body communication channels. At least one of the array electrode sensor and the single electrode sensor is configured to send an energy request signal to the hub, along the body communication channels. The hub, in response to the received energy request signal, emits radio frequency signals, which are used by the at least one of the array electrode sensor and the single electrode sensor to harvest energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Abdulkadir Çelik, Ahmed M. Eltawil
  • Patent number: 12140023
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively receiving telemetry data are disclosed. In one example embodiment of a method, mud pulse telemetry data is transmitted from a downhole location. The transmitted data may be received at a plurality of transducers. Each of the transducers may be positioned at a different location of a drilling operation. The received data from the plurality of transducers may be processed simultaneously. The data which most likely corresponds to the transmitted mud pulse telemetry data may be selected and output. In some embodiments received data from the plurality of transducers is processed with a plurality of different decoding chains. Parameters of individual ones of the decoding chains and/or the number of decoding chains may be autonomously varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Phoenix Technology Services Inc.
    Inventors: Lior Blokshtein, Rostyslav Kuchma, Stephen Nelson David Larson
  • Patent number: 12135225
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for near real-time anomaly event detection and classification with trend change detection for smart water grid operation management. In the first phase, a trend change is detected in each of one or more sensors by comparing new sensor data of a sensor with a historical trend pattern of the same sensor. In the second phase, and after the trend changes are detected, a valid event evaluation time window can be determined based on combining and analyzing the detected trend changes for flow and pressure sensors, e.g., at least one flow sensor and at least one pressure sensor from the same supply zone of the smart water grid. The valid event evaluation time window can be used with anomaly events that are detected in near-real time to classify the anomaly events in near-real time as valid, e.g., true anomaly events, or invalid, e.g., false alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: Meng Xue, Zheng Yi Wu, Alvin Chew Wei Ze, Jianping Cai, Jocelyn Pok, Rony Kalfarisi
  • Patent number: 12131589
    Abstract: A meter apparatus and method of operating a removable meter apparatus are described. The meter apparatus includes a tag associated with unique tag identification information and configured to be permanently affixed to a location housing at a unique physical location, and includes a removable meter unit configured to mate with the location housing and receive the tag identification from the tag and report the tag identification to a data manager configured to associate an identifier of the removable meter unit with the tag identification and unique physical location, and associate configuration information for the physical location with the removable meter unit and the tag identification. The unique physical location can comprise a single-space parking location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: IPS Group Inc
    Inventors: David William King, Alexander Schwarz, Stephen John Hunter
  • Patent number: 12122252
    Abstract: Electric vehicles indicate charge levels in different ways. A lighting control module is communicatively is configured to illuminate an exterior light of an electric vehicle to indicate a charge status of a battery for the electric vehicle. The charge status is indicated based on varying an intensity of the exterior light, based on illuminating a subset of the exterior lights, and/or based on an animation. The display of the charge indicator varies based on a location of the vehicle, the presence of a person in proximity to the vehicle, and/or a charger connected to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Coburn, Brian Gase, Mohamad Jeffery Hammoud, Luke James Mack, Paul Hoste
  • Patent number: 12126508
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for monitoring and controlling a dynamic network such as an oil, gas, or water pipeline. The system includes a plurality of sensors for measuring aspects of a state of the network with each sensor being associated with a segment of the network and connected to a virtual sensor which accumulates and pre-processes measurements from the sensors for each segment of the network. The system further includes a network topology processor for storing the topology of the network and relating sensors and virtual sensors to segments of the network and neighbouring sensors and virtual sensors in accordance with the topology and a reinforcement learning artificial neural network (ANN) based nonlinear state estimation and predictive control model which uses measurements from the sensors and virtual sensors to model the state of the network and estimate sequential states of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DUBAI ELECTRICITY & WATER AUTHORITY PJSC
    Inventors: Jacob Jacob, Kemal Labbaci, Abdullah Saeed Ali Obaidullah Alnuaimi
  • Patent number: 12119122
    Abstract: An information processing device includes at least one processor, in which the processor acquires position information and vital information of a user, determines whether or not the user is an infection risk person who has a probability of infection with an infectious disease, on the basis of the vital information, specifies, in a case where the user is determined to be the infection risk person, an infection risk place where there is a probability that the user is infected by the other person or infects the other person, on the basis of the position information, and distinguishably maps the infection risk place specified for the infection risk person and the infection risk place specified in advance for a confirmed infected person with the infectious disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 12112632
    Abstract: A device may receive a ticket identifier associated with a ticket, a vehicle identifier associated with a vehicle, and video data tracking the vehicle to a parking spot in a parking area. The device may process the video data, with models, to identify the parking spot and a parking spot location, and may associate the ticket identifier, the vehicle identifier, and the parking spot location. The device may receive a starting location of a user device associated with a user of the vehicle, and the ticket identifier based on the user scanning the ticket. The device may determine the parking spot location based on the ticket identifier, and may process the starting location and the parking spot location, with a path model, to calculate a navigation path from the starting location to the parking spot location. The device may provide the navigation path to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tommaso Mugnai, Marco Boschi, Giovanni Pini, Andrea Basile, Francesco De Felice
  • Patent number: 12111304
    Abstract: The present invention is a sensor device comprising: a housing; a processing unit assembly disposed within the housing, wherein the processing unit comprising a high frequency oscillator, a first voltage meter, a low frequency oscillator, a second voltage meter; a probe having a predetermined shape and profile attached to the processing unit and extending from the housing a predetermined distance; and a first sensing unit integrated into the probe and in electrical communication with the high frequency oscillator and the first voltage meter; a second sensing unit integrated into the probe relative to the first sensing unit and in electrical communication with the low frequency oscillator and the second voltage meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Murray
  • Patent number: 12093774
    Abstract: A system to accurately and consistently read Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) information from RFID tags placed upon objects. The system features a moving antenna or antenna array pointed toward a target detection zone. In some embodiments, a portal is constructed having electromagnetic shielding properties and containers carrying RFID tagged objects are loaded through the portal. In other embodiments, multiple antenna arrays are installed within the portal. Movement of antenna arrays may be provided using a non-electronic motor or actuator to suppress potential electromagnetic interference. A method of accurately and consistently reading RFID information from RFID sources by providing the antenna(s) and portal passing objects having RFID tags proximate the antenna(s) and through the portal, and optimizing the angle by which the antennas and/or antenna arrays may best read the RFID signals upon a target detection zone via movement of the antenna(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Andy L. Mullen
  • Patent number: 12094131
    Abstract: The positional precision assessment device has a processor configured to estimate a first location of a moving object at a first time based on an image representing road features and positional information, estimate a second location at the first time based on a location of the moving object at the second time and an amount of movement and change in direction from the second time to the first time, input the first and second location into a filter and calculate a current location at the first time, and determine a state of precision of the current location based on a difference between the current location of the moving object and a location estimated based on a location of the moving object at a time prior to the first time and an amount of movement and change in direction from the prior time to the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12086667
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a radio frequency identification (RFID) device may include a reactive strap may include a conductor enclosing an area and an RFID chip connected to the conductor, the conductor enclosing an area and defining a first opening, and a flexible substrate attached to the conductor and defining a second opening. The first and second openings together may define a passage through both the conductor and the flexible backing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 12080180
    Abstract: Disclosed are an anti-collision system and method for an aircraft and an aircraft including the anti-collision system. The anti-collision system includes: a sensor data processing unit configured to process data received from a plurality of sensors to detect objects around the aircraft, and output a result about detected objects; a safeguarding box building unit configured to generate, based on an aircraft geometry database, a three-dimensional safeguarding box for the aircraft; and a risk assessment unit configured to calculate relative distances between detected objects and the aircraft, and determine whether there is a collision risk between the aircraft and an object, among the detected objects, located in the safeguarding box or to be entering into the safeguarding box, wherein the system is configured to output an alarm or a warning when there is the collision risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS (BEIJING) ENGINEERING CENTRE COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jinming Huang
  • Patent number: 12080161
    Abstract: A method for vehicle prediction, planning, and control is described. The method includes separately encoding traffic state information at an intersection into corresponding traffic state latent spaces. The method also includes aggregating the corresponding traffic state latent spaces to form a generalized traffic geometry latent space. The method further includes interpreting the generalized traffic geometry latent space to form a traffic flow map including current and future vehicle trajectories. The method also includes decoding the generalized traffic geometry latent space to predict a vehicle behavior according to the traffic flow map based on the current and future vehicle trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuan-Hui Lee, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang, Kun-Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 12070306
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a continuous monitoring of analyte values received from an analyte sensor system are provided. One method for a wireless data communication between an analyte sensor system and a mobile device involves storing identification information associated with a transceiver of the analyte sensor system, the identification information entered by a user of the mobile device via a custom application running on the mobile device; causing the custom application to enter a background mode; searching for advertisement signals; receiving an advertisement signal from the transceiver; authenticating the transceiver based on the identification information; prompting the user to bring the custom application to a foreground mode; causing the custom application to request a confirmation from the user that a data connection with the transceiver is desired; receiving the confirmation from the user; and completing the data connection with the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Hector Hernandez-Rosas, Shawn Larvenz, Mark Dervaes, Indrawati Gauba, Michael Robert Mensinger, Eric Cohen, Brian Christopher Smith, Jorge Valdes, Jacob S. Leach
  • Patent number: 12073272
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, a radio frequency (RF) signal from an RFID reader. When the RF signal includes a command, the method further includes interpreting, by the RFID tag, the command to determine a field strength shell of interest. When the RFID tag is in the field strength shell of interest, the method further includes further interpreting, by the RFID tag, the command to determine a type of request, and providing, by the RFID tag, a response regarding the type of request to include one or more of a matched impedance value generated in response to the RF signal, a field strength reference current generated in response to the RF signal, and a digital value representative of an environmental condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.
    Inventor: Shahriar Rokhsaz
  • Patent number: 12067824
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, system, and computer-readable medium, comprising collecting environment information by a first reader device configured to control access to a first secure area via ultrasound communications. The implementations further include determining first input information based on the environment information, the first input information. Additionally, the implementations further include determining, via a machine learning model, access intention information identifying the first secure area or a second secure area as an object of interest based on the first input information and second input information, wherein the second input information is associated with a second reader device that controls access to the second secure area and is co-located with the first reader device. Additionally, the implementations further include providing, based on the access intention information, access to one of the first secure area or the second secure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Rolando Herrero
  • Patent number: 12062272
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for gas detection. A method may comprise operating a gas detector with a first alarm setting comprising a first predefined threshold; receiving sensed data of oxygen content in the ambient air; when the sensed data is below the first predefined threshold, activating an alarm; generating an acknowledgement request asking if the gas detector has entered an inert work zone; receiving a response from the user acknowledging that the gas detector has entered an inert work zone; deactivating the alarm; changing the alarm settings of the gas detector to a second alarm setting comprising a second predefined threshold; continuing to receive sensed data of oxygen content in the ambient air; when the sensed data is above the second predefined threshold, activating an alarm; and generating an acknowledgement request for the user asking if the gas detector has entered a normal operation work zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jesper Jensen, Jacob Thomas Spector
  • Patent number: 12062282
    Abstract: A method includes calculating a first adaptive threshold based on uncertainty of a first parameter of a first collaborative perception message (CPM) from a first node and uncertainty of the first parameter of a second CPM from a second node, calculating a second adaptive threshold based on uncertainty of a second parameter of the first CPM and uncertainty of the second parameter of the second CPM, obtaining a first association matrix by filtering out one or more pairs whose score is greater than the first adaptive threshold, obtaining a second association matrix by filtering out one or more pairs whose score is greater than the second adaptive threshold, obtaining a fused association matrix based on the first association matrix and the second association matrix, and implementing a fusion algorithm on the fused associated matrix to obtain correspondence identification among objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hansi Liu, Hongsheng Lu, Rui Guo