Patents Examined by Curtis B. Odom
  • Patent number: 11968745
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Uzair Ahmed Chughtai, Man Kit Kwan, Yu Yeung, Fawad Ahmed, Tomas {hacek over (S)}eirys, Azim Ul Islam, Chun Kit Chan, Kaho Ho Ho
  • Patent number: 11961380
    Abstract: A audible alarm device (AAD) having: a housing extending axially upwardly and radially outwardly, and having an axial bottom portion and an axial top portion, the top portion having a smoke chamber defined by: a top surface that is planar and having a first diameter, a bottom surface separating the top portion from the bottom portion, the bottom surface being planar and having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter, a side surface connecting the top and bottom surfaces, and a circumferential opening in the side surface providing fluid egress to the smoke chamber, a piezo sounder disposed in the smoke chamber, radially centered within the top portion and axially proximate the top surface of the top portion, the piezo sounder configured to direct sound to the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC MODULAR SERVICES LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Walker, Doug Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11951780
    Abstract: A transmitter is coupled to each of a plurality of wheel assemblies included in a vehicle. The transmitter is configured to function in one of a plurality of formats that are selectable by a command from a trigger device. The transmitter includes a pressure sensor configured to detect the tire pressure, a memory that stores an ID code, a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal, a controller configured to control the transmitter, and a trigger reception unit configured to receive a trigger signal including the command from the trigger device. The controller is configured so that when the trigger reception unit receives a trigger signal including a command designating a format of the transmitter, the controller has the transmitter function in the designated format and has the transmission unit transmit the signal including the ID code to register the ID code to an in-vehicle receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahito Obata
  • Patent number: 11956838
    Abstract: A system and method establishing control of affordances at a workstation. The method includes the steps of storing affordance preferences in a database for a plurality of portable affordance settings that may be present at a workstation, detecting a subset of affordances present within a first zone associated with the workstation, for each detected affordance in the subset, identifying an affordance setting in the database indicating a user preference, and automatically controlling settings of at least each of the detected affordances in the subset to match the user preferences for the detected affordances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Darrin Sculley, Bo Anderson, Rachel Anne Neiman, Brandon Buckingham
  • Patent number: 11949267
    Abstract: An apparatus in which electric power is generated for an electrical load from differentials in electric field strengths within a vicinity of powerlines includes: a plurality of electrodes separated and electrically insulated from one another for enabling differentials in voltage resulting from differentials in electric field strength experienced there at; and electrical components electrically connected therewith and configurable to establish one or more electric circuits whereby voltage differentials cause a current to flow through the established electric circuit for powering the electrical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NXP Aeronautics Research, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Syracuse, Chad D. Tillman
  • Patent number: 11937339
    Abstract: A Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) device can include identification information disposed on an exterior surface of the FWA device. The FWA device can be configured to receive over a local communication network from a mobile device, provisioning information associated with the FWA device based on the identification information and install the provisioning information in a memory unit. The FWA device can establish cellular connectivity with a network base station based on the provisioning information. The provisioning information can be obtained by the mobile device scanning the identification information, providing the identification information to a server, and receiving the provisioning information from the server based on the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INSEEGO CORP.
    Inventors: John Ross, Christopher Yeatts, Ashish Sharma
  • Patent number: 11931205
    Abstract: Medical tool positioning and control devices, systems, and methods. Handle assemblies that allow a steerable shaft to be steered, while allowing the separate movement of a medical tool. The handle assemblies can allow for rotation and axial movement of the medical tool, and optionally with an actuator disposed distal to a second actuator that controls steering of the steerable shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NuVera Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Schaer, Todor Jeliaskov, Mark Kane
  • Patent number: 11937094
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for use of spectrum emission masks to allow for two or more devices to coexist on a common communication bandwidth. The spectrum emission masks may include one, two, or three interior attenuation regions that, when implemented by a transmitting device, significantly reduce the transmission power in the interior attenuation regions. The interior attenuation regions may transmit to interior channels that separate one, two, or three outer channels of a plurality of channels spanning the common communication bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorin Gheorghe Viorel, Ruoyu Sun, Lili Hervieu
  • Patent number: 11923881
    Abstract: A data receiver is configured to receive a signal, the signal comprising interferences of an interference-infested transmission channel, the data receiver being configured to form a histogram of receive information of a signal portion of the received signal and to determine mean receive information and/or a noise measure from the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Karol Bieg, Eberhard Gamm, Clemens Korn, Jakob Kneissl, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
  • Patent number: 11924731
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of telematics or telecommunication control units (TCUs) modules that includes a TCU and one or more sensor arrays (e.g., mmWave sensors, temperature sensors, ambient light sensors, biometric sensors, cameras, proximity sensors, WiFi, touch sensors, microphones, etc.) for monitoring vehicle interiors (e.g., monitoring health conditions of occupants within a vehicle passenger interior, etc.). In exemplary embodiments, sensors may be combined or integrated with (e.g., embedded within, placed on TCU printed circuit board (PCB), directly connected with, mounted along a bottom or side of, etc.) the TCU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MOLEX CVS BOCHUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Möhlmann, Nicola Henseler
  • Patent number: 11924365
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clinical workflow, method, system and apparatus for performing an remote ocular health examination of a patient using medical equipment adapted to apparatus and emulating software and remote administration tool technology application. According to various embodiments portable medical equipment kit (OEK) can be assembled anywhere in the world connected to a computer. The MCB will have proprietary software to provide indirect to direct connection via layers. In an example embodiment, a method includes instructing a patient to position their eyes onto a camera where the image of the eyes are viewed on computer software. Where an on demand doctor can control the software that controls the cameras and review real time or near realtime the ocular images or videos via a indirect to direct connection to the main control base via a remote administration tool technology and emulating software using an internet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Willis Dennis Grajales
  • Patent number: 11916997
    Abstract: An offloading method, of a satellite-to-ground edge computing task, assisted by a satellite and a high-altitude platform can offload a computing task of a ground user equipment (GUE) to a low earth-orbit satellite (LEO SAT), to meet a computing requirement of the GUE and to reduce latency and energy consumption. The method includes four main steps: 1. The GUE selects an associated high-altitude platform. 2. The GUE uses multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) transmission to offload the computing task to the high-altitude platform. 3. The high-altitude platform may also use the MIMO transmission to offload the computing task of the GUE to the LEO SAT. 4. The high-altitude platform and the LEO SAT cooperate to process the computing task of GUE, and reasonably allocate a computing resource to reduce energy consumption; and in MIMO edge computing, the GUE or the high-altitude platform uses the same time-domain and frequency-domain resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junbo Wang, Changfeng Ding, Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11916638
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for spatial multiplexing of different radio technologies are described. An example method for wireless communication includes configuring abase station of a fifth generation new radio (5G NR) radio technology cell to perform transmissions in a network according to a set of compatibility rules that allow a backward compatible operation of the base station with a 4th generation Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) radio technology, and performing transmissions or receptions in the 5G NR cell according to the configuring such that the backward compatible operation is achieved based on orthogonality in a spatial domain between transmissions or receptions in the 5G NR cell and the 4G LTE radio technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shachar Kons
  • Patent number: 11907233
    Abstract: A method, including receiving a search query for resources that are configured to establish a connection with a space vehicle, the search query including a first value for a connection parameter; identifying one or more tactic definitions that satisfy the search query, each of the tactic definitions including one or more second values for the connection parameter, wherein at least one of the second values for the connection parameter matches the first value for the connection parameter that is included in the search query; and generating one or more tactic options, each of the tactic options being generated based on a respective one of the tactic definitions, each of the tactic options being associated with a respective resource of the tactic option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Varian S. Little, Vincent Pascente, Jared B. Dorny
  • Patent number: 11910349
    Abstract: Improved positioning resolution and latency may be achieved via physical layer signaling between a mobile device (UE) and a base station. The physical layer procedures may aid target UEs in enhancing their positioning accuracy and latency, and/or reducing network overhead while boosting UE power efficiency. Accordingly, a UE may transmit, via physical layer signaling to a base station, a request for positioning-resources, for example in response to a determination that current positioning-resources of the UE need to be adjusted. The UE may in turn receive, via physical layer signaling from the base station, an indication of adjusted positioning-resources, and may optionally receive an indication of corresponding allocated grant-resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11907242
    Abstract: An EPF digital record transmission system may be configured to transmit an EPF digital record from an EPF device to a user device. The user device may then transmit the EPF digital record to a host server for storage and processing. The EPF device may also be configured to transmit health data and the user device may be configured to analyze one or both of the health data and the EPF digital record and present a health recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sloan Valve Company
    Inventors: Parthiv Amin, Panagiotis Zosimadis
  • Patent number: 11902937
    Abstract: This disclosure provides details of sequence-based WUS design and signaling, also DCI-based WUS design which also serves as scheduling DCI. For sequence-based WUS there are two variants. A first is based on CSI-RS, that is relatively wide band so the sequence occupies wider band compared to SSB transmission. The second is more akin to the Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) type of sequence in that it occupies a narrower band over the entire bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11902871
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for activating emergency response assets in response to emergency alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: RapidSOS, Inc.
    Inventors: William Pellegrini, Hirsch Meir King-Berkman, Alexander Morgan Hamlin, Krishnakumar Unnikrishnan, Jee Yoon Choi, Gabriel Charles Mahoney
  • Patent number: 11895561
    Abstract: A method of localizing a device within an environment includes a step, in which a first location information is acquired that is representative of a first specified position. In another step, a first sensor information is acquired that is representative of the first specified position. In another step, the first sensor information is allocated to the first location information in order to generate a first condition information that is unique for the first specified position. In another step, a knowledge base is provided which includes the first condition information. In another step, the device provides a current sensor information indicating a current condition of the environment present at the current position of the device. In another step, the device is localized based on a matching between the current sensor information and the plurality of condition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Mika Semann
  • Patent number: 11895706
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for transmitting user plane data to a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by a cell of the wireless communications network when the communications device is not in an active radio resource connected mode is provided. The method comprises transmitting the user plane data using one of a preconfigured set of uplink radio resources of the wireless access interface and a scheduled random access procedure message, and monitoring a preconfigured set of downlink radio resources of the wireless access interface for a downlink signal, the preconfigured set of downlink radio resources being provided in response to the transmitted user plane data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale