Patents Examined by Daniel L. Negron
  • Patent number: 12271776
    Abstract: A reader apparatus includes a transmission circuit, a cancellation circuit, and a decoding circuit. The transmission circuit is configured to transmit a query wave that is obtained by modulating a carrier wave with a modulation signal representing a command to be transmitted to a first responder. The cancellation circuit is configured to cancel a modulation component corresponding to the modulation signal from a response wave transmitted using a backscattering method from a second responder different from the first responder. The decoding circuit is configured to decode data represented by the response wave from which the modulation component is canceled by the cancellation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro Matsushita, Sadatoshi Oishi
  • Patent number: 12266231
    Abstract: It is provided a method for configuring access rights for an electronic key (2) forming part of an access control system (10) comprising a plurality of electronic locks (12a-c, 13a-c, 14a-c) for securing access to respective physical spaces. The method is performed in a configuration device (1) and comprising: setting (40) a baseline configuration of access rights for the electronic key (2); receiving (42) access data, indicating at least one instance of the electronic key (2) being granted access by one of the plurality of electronic locks (12a-c, 13a-c, 14a-c); and adjusting (44) the configuration of access rights for the electronic key to restrict access compared to the baseline configuration, based on the access data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventor: Per Nordbeck
  • Patent number: 12249199
    Abstract: An authorization approach to physical access uses identity attributes, doors/readers attributes, time of the day, and policies to determine access rights to facilities and physical spaces in real-time, based on three criteria: who, when, and what. Embodiments address the constantly changing physical access needs of companies as those needs evolve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AlertEnterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Yogesh Ailawadi, Vikas Chauhan
  • Patent number: 12236761
    Abstract: A monitoring system according to the present disclosure includes a cable (20) comprising an optical fiber, a reception unit (31) configured to receive an optical signal including a pattern corresponding to a state of a monitoring target (10) from at least one optical fiber included in the cable (20) and to detect the pattern from the received optical signal, and a control unit (32) configured to detect the state of the monitoring target (10) based on the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 12229609
    Abstract: One example method may include detecting a change in a light impulse via a light sensor embedded in a radio enabled label, activating a power source embedded in the radio enabled label, identifying identifier information to receive at the radio enabled label, and receiving a radio signal at the radio enabled label with the identifier information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ROAMBEE Corporation
    Inventors: Pankaj Patel, Vidya Subramanian
  • Patent number: 12223786
    Abstract: A gate opening method includes: a step (S8) of transmitting a gate opening signal for making a request for opening of a gate, which is configured to restrict entry into a predetermined space, to the gate by using an IP address unique to a mobile terminal associated with a user; a step (S9) of determining whether or not to allow the user to enter the predetermined space based on a ticket management table and the IP address of the mobile terminal in response to reception of the gate opening signal; and a step (S11) of controlling the gate so that the user is able to enter the predetermined space in response to a determination that the user is allowed to enter the predetermined space. The ticket management table includes a plurality of pieces of network address information indicating a plurality of IP addresses unique to a plurality of mobile terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CONNECTFREE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristopher Andrew Tate, Mitsuhiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 12217587
    Abstract: A wireless terminal detection system provided with user position information acquisition means for measuring a position of a reception-side wireless terminal; pattern classification means for classifying movement patterns extracted from position history information of the reception-side wireless terminal into ordinary patterns and non-ordinary patterns based on classification results in which the movement patterns are classified in accordance with times and positions; and determination means for determining whether a transmission-side wireless terminal, which is a transmission source of radio waves received by the reception-side wireless terminal, is a suspicious terminal based on a reception history of radio waves from the transmission-side wireless terminal in time intervals classified as the non-ordinary patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Sakai, Masaki Kitsunezuka, Toshiki Takeuchi, Taichi Ohtsuji, Shoji Nishimura, Yasufumi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 12198490
    Abstract: A store-entry management apparatus (100) includes: an output control unit (102) that causes, when a human detection sensor installed at an entrance of a store detects a person, an output unit (80) provided at the entrance to output voice guidance of a store-entry method; an acquisition unit (104) that acquires authentication information for authenticating a person from a terminal provided at the entrance; and an opening/closing control unit (106) that unlocks and opens a door of the entrance when the acquired authentication information satisfies a reference, wherein the output control unit (102) decides whether the voice guidance is needed by using a detection result of the human detection sensor before the authentication information is acquired, and controls an output of the voice guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsunori Morisaki
  • Patent number: 12198806
    Abstract: A system and a method for remotely controlling a medical device based on image data are disclosed. The system includes a medical device, an image sensor, and a remote caregiver interface. The medical device includes a controller coupled to a communication network. The image sensor is coupled to the communication network and is configured to capture image data. The remote caregiver interface is coupled to the communication network and is configured to display the image data for viewing by a user, receive a selected remote control function from the user, and transmit an input signal corresponding to the selected remote control function to the controller of the medical device to execute the selected remote control function based on the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Durlach, Ross Nave, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu
  • Patent number: 12188266
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device (100) configured for being attached to merchandise to be protected, in particular textile products, wherein the anti-theft device (100) comprises a housing (102) and a locking mechanism (130), which has a needle (106), wherein the needle (106) is adjustable between a locking position, in which it engages with the merchandise to be protected, and a release position, in which detachment and removal of the anti-theft device (100) from the merchandise to be protected are permitted, wherein the needle (106) has a curved, preferably arcuate shape and is accommodated in the housing (102) when in the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Patent number: 12190661
    Abstract: A rotation detection device according to one embodiment includes an angular velocity sensor attached to a rotating body that rotates and configured to detect an angular velocity of the rotating body, and at least one processor configured to perform a control based on the angular velocity detected by the angular velocity sensor, in which the at least one processor is configured to perform processing for calculating a first angle of the rotating body before a rotation operation is performed on the rotating body and a second angle of the rotating body after the rotation operation is performed on the rotating body based on the angular velocity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Bitkey Inc.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Tsushima
  • Patent number: 12174372
    Abstract: A display device controlled via a smart phone (preferably using an TNC App) to display content selected by a requesting rider (e.g., code, symbol, the rider name, or a photo) in a clear and visible way to the waiting rider is a convenient method to identify the rider's designated vehicle instead of trying to search through model, color, and license plates of approaching vehicles as they enter a pickup area (e.g., airport designated area). The selected content is displayed on a display unit on the designated vehicle, and is transmitted to the display unit via a server associated with the designated vehicle using a secure protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: tDisp Inc.
    Inventors: Mokhtar Mansour Sadok, Samia Mhadheb Sadok
  • Patent number: 12165453
    Abstract: An electronic access control system and method that enables conditional access to electronic locking systems according to user-based and situation-based safety parameters. Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a mobile access interface whereby the network operations center can assess a safety risk for a service site based on a combination of user-generated inputs, sensor inputs and/or external data inputs. The system may comprise a dynamic rules engine configured to dynamically determine safety and compliance associated with an access-restricted area. If the access-restricted area is safe, the system may enable access according to one or more access protocols. If the access-restricted area is unsafe, or the user requesting access is not in compliance with one or more static or dynamic safety parameters, the system may disable standard access protocols and deny access to the requesting party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Security Enhancement Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Philip J. Ufkes, Matthew Frank Trapani, Stacey Lee Krutz-Sabol, Mark Williams
  • Patent number: 12135838
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control unit that generates, on the basis of control information relating to tactile stimulation to be perceived by a second user as configured by a first user and on the basis of characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the second user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit and which serves to cause the second user to perceive the tactile stimulation indicated by the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 12134367
    Abstract: A locking and unlocking system includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a state of locking and unlocking of a vehicle that is locked and unlocked based on locking and unlocking instruction information acquired from a portable terminal, and send a notification to a first device associated with the vehicle, when the vehicle is not locked during a period of time from when the vehicle is unlocked based on the locking and unlocking instruction information acquired from the portable terminal until a first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Etsuko Nakajima, Junya Masui, Akira Hoshino, Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 12121016
    Abstract: A lice repellant assembly for repelling head lice includes an article of head gear that can be worn on a user's head. A sound emitter is disposed on the article of head gear. The sound emitter emits sound waves outwardly therefrom. Moreover, the sound emitter has an operational frequency of at least 20.0 Hz to repel lice from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Danielle Campbell
  • Patent number: 12087116
    Abstract: Security check methods and systems over a user on a vehicle may be provided. The security check method including checking an allowed security right to a destination of a vehicle for entry, detecting a security right of a user on the vehicle, and performing a security process related to getting off the vehicle, based on the security right of the user and the allowed security right may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ye Sook Im, Hyeon Cheol Lee, Da Gyeong Lee
  • Patent number: 12073709
    Abstract: A method of providing a mobile device with information of an incoming message using a tactile signal is provided. The method includes receiving the incoming message at the mobile device, determining at least one type of the tactile signal for the information of the incoming message based on a selected setting, transforming the information of the incoming message into the at least one type of the tactile signal, activating the at least one type of the tactile signal, and providing the mobile device with the information of the incoming message using the activated at least one type of the tactile signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seoung Hun Do, Hyeong Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 12067441
    Abstract: A communication device includes an antenna, a driving unit, a first acquisition unit, an input unit, and a second acquisition unit. The driving unit moves a position of the antenna. The first acquisition unit acquires tag data of each radio tag based on a radio wave of each radio tag received by the antenna at a plurality of positions of the antenna. The input unit inputs the tag data of each radio tag at the plurality of positions of the antenna into a learned model. The second acquisition unit acquires, from the learned model, data indicating whether each radio tag is included in a first range or a second range based on the input of the tag data of each radio tag into the learned model by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Sadatoshi Oishi
  • Patent number: 12048292
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking certain activities of a plurality of animals in a feedlot involve a plurality of RF asset tags attached to the plurality of animals and a plurality of RF detector stations that are operable to read unique identifier codes associated with each of the plurality of RF asset tags. Members of the plurality of RF detector stations are positioned, at least for some, proximate to at least one water trough and at least one feed trough, and are operable to transmit data concerning the RF asset tags detected over a communication link to an asset management subsystem. Duplicate signals may be reduced, signal filtered and smoothed, and energy conserved with certain approaches taken with the RF detector stations. Other systems and devices are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: GRYCEPHIE (SARL)
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Georges Blanc, Rémy André Jean Blanc, Julien Fernand Lucien Courtat, Patrick Louis Fiche, Idomeneas Chorafakis