Patents Examined by Daniell L. Negron
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12027031
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device and method are disclosed, including a display, a biometric sensor, a communication circuitry, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a transmission including air quality information from an external electronic device equipped with a gas sensor, detecting, via a biometric sensor, biometric information of a user, identifying, via at least one processor, a dangerous situation based at least partly on the air quality information and the biometric information, and displaying a notification message indicating the identified dangerous situation through at least one of a display of the wearable electronic device, or the external electronic device, based on the identification of the dangerous situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Seo, Hyuncheol Park, Jinhee Won, Seongmin Je
  • Patent number: 12014636
    Abstract: A delivery approval apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring a position information of a user who has requested the predetermined service; acquiring a position information of the vehicle parked at a delivery place; receiving an agreement signal agreeing on a service result of the predetermined service and transmitted from a user terminal used by the user; and when the agreement signal is received, detecting a relative position of the user with respect to the vehicle, based on the position information of the user and a most previous position information of the vehicle, and when the user is located within a predetermined range from the vehicle, determining that the vehicle is delivered to the user to approve a completion of the predetermined service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuhei Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12001241
    Abstract: A portable electronic device that can operate even when electric power supplied through contactless charge by electromagnetic induction is low is provided. The portable electronic device includes a reflective liquid crystal display which includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a power source portion which includes a rechargeable battery capable of charge by contactless charge, and a signal processing portion which includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. In the portable electronic device, electric power stored in the rechargeable battery is used in the reflective liquid crystal display and the signal processing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: 11991263
    Abstract: Examples of methods for notification delivery are described herein. In some examples, a method may include determining a flow state of a user based on biometric data from a biometric sensor in an extended reality device. In some examples, the method may include determining a modality for notification delivery based on the flow state. In some examples, the method may include delivering the notification using the modality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mithra Vankipuram, Sarthak Ghosh, Rafael Antonio Ballagas
  • Patent number: 11988332
    Abstract: A method for controlling personal protective equipment. The method includes positioning of a person equipped with personal protective equipment next to an electrical enclosure, wherein a specific personal protective equipment requirement is defined for the electrical enclosure. The method further includes scanning the personal protective equipment in a contact-less manner while the person is next to the electrical enclosure. Thereby scanned personal protective equipment information are generated. The method further includes comparing the scanned personal protective equipment information with the specific personal protective equipment requirement and evaluating, based on the comparison, whether the personal protective equipment is in accordance with the specific personal protective equipment requirement. The method further includes providing a feedback indicating whether or not the personal protective equipment is in accordance with the specific personal protective equipment requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Veronika Domova, Claire Pitois, Henrik Hillborg
  • Patent number: 11967193
    Abstract: A multi-factor safe locking system for use in firearm storage, wherein the factors comprise a user's provided key, a user's biometric data, and a user's provided code. In some embodiments, the multi-factor safe locking system requires the near-simultaneous entry of two users, or dual consent of the two users to enter at least two unique keys, at least one form of biometric data from each user, and at least two unique codes, wherein each user supplies their own unique code to access the safe's contents. In further embodiments, a safe locking system includes a further factor of a result from a blood alcohol test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KEOLOGIC, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Cozza
  • Patent number: 11954543
    Abstract: A wireless tag reader includes a casing, an antenna in the casing and through which a radio wave is transmitted to and received from a wireless tag on an article, a control device in the casing and configured to read tag information stored in the wireless tag based on a radio wave received by the antenna, and an elastic member between the casing and the antenna so as to permit the antenna to be movable with respect to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11935381
    Abstract: The fire detection system is provided to enable early detection of a location where a fire may occur. When detecting a location which vibration reached in the optical fiber 104, the sensor unit 102 transmits information indicating the location to the information output unit 101. The gas state detection section 103 transmits information indicating the state of gas to the information output unit 101. The information output unit 101 receives the information indicating the location which the vibration reached in the optical fiber 104 and the information indicating the state of gas, and outputs information indicating a sign of a fire outbreak occurred when the state of gas meets a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Misao Shiina
  • Patent number: 11922250
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides collaborative radiofrequency identification (RFID) readers that employ code division multiple access (CDMA) encoding to simultaneously broadcast to and read responses from tags in an overlapping reading zone with improved data synchronization and read yield rates. In some embodiments, a harmonic backscattering scheme is used to enable the system to have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sensitivity, while the reader CDMA protocol can be integrated with an initial TDMA polling process or alternative tag CDMA scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Edwin C. Kan, Xiaonan Hui
  • Patent number: 11914771
    Abstract: A method for operating a system having a sensor and/or information device and a main device is described. The sensor and/or information device includes a hand garment and a secondary device, with at least one input mechanism. The main device is designed as a smart device. The method includes the following steps: An actuating signal is generated using the at least one input mechanism. The actuating signal is received by the secondary device, and an input signal is transmitted on the basis of the actuating signal by the secondary device to the main device. An action instruction is generated by way of a main device based on the input signal and based on a predefined action sequence. The action instruction is transmitted to the secondary device. Moreover, a sensor and/or information device, a sensor and/or information system as well as computer programme are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Workaround GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kirchner, Sebastian Petruch
  • Patent number: 11908256
    Abstract: In some aspects, an electronic lock box may include a heated section, a cooled section, a non-temperature controlled section, and a processor. The processor may receive, from a server, an indication of an electronic order. The processor may identify a code associated with an item. The processor may determine, from the code, a tracking number associated with the item and the description of the item. The processor may determine that the tracking number associated with the item corresponds to a tracking number associated with the electronic order and that a current date corresponds to an expected delivery date. The processor may provide an instruction to unlock the heated section, the cooled section, or the non-temperature controlled section to hold the item based on the description of the item. The processor may maintain an environmental status of sensors (e.g., weight, volume, temperature, operations, and/or location) within the electronic lock box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Sajjad Mustafa Syed
  • Patent number: 11900723
    Abstract: A system that detects whether a user interacting with a featured activity is wearing glasses is described. The system verifies that the user is wearing the glasses and the system prompts the user and a caregiver and may blur, stop or otherwise interrupt a user experience of a featured activity, such as a video game or film, when the system determined that the user is not wearing the glasses. A glasses module may be positioned at frame of the glasses at a head of the user to detect that the user is wearing the glasses. Optical facial processing may detect a face and glasses on the face. Also disclosed is a hearing aid that may be integrated with such a system. A glasses module that aids in depth perception by reporting distance ahead, and a system that trains eye contact with another person wearing glasses are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Barry Katz
  • Patent number: 11900745
    Abstract: A locker apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: first obtaining, from a first terminal of a deliverer of a parcel that stores the parcel into a locker, notification of a first proof issued from a transmission source of the parcel to the deliverer, the first proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of a receiver of the parcel, and identification information of the transmission source; second obtaining notification of a second proof issued from the transmission source to the receiver, the second proof including identification information of the parcel, identification information of the receiver, and identification information of the transmission source in accordance with permission to store the parcel into the locker; and unlocking the locker when contents of the first proof matches that of the second proof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayoshi Nakayama, Kenji Taka
  • Patent number: 11887418
    Abstract: Methods and systems of providing enhanced security to an access-controlled area are disclosed herein. In one implementation a user device generates a signal from which features are extracted to generate a device fingerprint. The features of the signal may be rare, or in some cases unique, to a particular user device such that the use of user device with a known device fingerprint may thwart a relay attack on the access-controlled area. The features of the signal may be related to manufacturing variations between user devices, even devices of the same model. The variations may be related to variations in an electro-mechanical structure of a motion sensor between two user devices. The variations in the electro-mechanical structure may cause variations in a capacitance sensed by the motion sensor. Features of the signal may be analyzed in the frequency or time domains to generate the device fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
    Inventor: Dejun Yang
  • Patent number: 11887416
    Abstract: An access control system may comprise a credential including credential data, and at least one reader. The at least one reader is configured to receive, over a link, the credential data. The at least one reader is configured to verify that the credential is valid based on the credential data, and mark the credential as valid and track a location of the credential relative to the at least one reader. The at least one reader is configured to make or delay an access control decision for the credential based on the location of the credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventors: Philip Hoyer, Fredrik Carl Stefan Einberg
  • Patent number: 11869290
    Abstract: A key storage device for storing a key provided with an identification code, including a locking unit which has an unlocked state in which the key can be removed from the key storage device, and a locked state in which the key is locked in or on the key storage device. The key storage device includes a control unit connected to the locking unit and having a data interface, the control unit operable to read out the identification code of the key and to provide the identification code of the key at the data interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KNAPP AG
    Inventors: Marc Pendl, Alexander Resch, Johannes Hutter, Wolfgang Puntigam, Franz Mathi