Patents Examined by Dionne Pendleton
  • Patent number: 12380291
    Abstract: Systems and methods of using multiple read area zones to generate more accurate item-level data are described herein. In some embodiments, the systems and methods involve a local read area in combination with a wide read area. In some embodiments, a local area read device alone, or in combination with a wide area read device, is used to detect the removal or return of a product from a merchandising location or area in retail establishment. In some embodiments, a local area read alone, or in combination with a wide area read device, is used to detect the removal or return of a product from a merchandising location or area in retail establishment by detecting/reading a digital trigger on the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventors: Mark Roth, Curtis T. Stackable, Frederick Bleckmann
  • Patent number: 12367357
    Abstract: One example method may include detecting a radio enabled label moving through an area, performing one or more contact operations to the radio enabled label, activating a power source embedded in the radio enabled label responsive to the one or more contact operations, and performing one or more of receiving and transmitting a radio signal via the radio enabled label while the power source is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: ROAMBEE Corporation
    Inventors: Pankaj Patel, Vidya Subramanian
  • Patent number: 12350415
    Abstract: A system performs a method for characterizing passage of a patient fluid through a conduit. The method includes quantifying flow of fluidic content through a conduit, where the fluidic content includes a patient fluid, estimating a concentration of a fluid component of the patient fluid in the fluidic content, and characterizing passage of the patient fluid loss through the conduit based on the quantified flow and the concentration of the fluid component. At least one of the quantified flow or the concentration of the fluid component is based on sensor data from a sensor arrangement coupled to the conduit. Other apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Mayank Kumar, Keng-Tsai Lin, Siddarth Satish, Andrew T. Hosford
  • Patent number: 12354048
    Abstract: Systems and methods of tracking distribution items using hardware components on or in the distribution items. Shippers and recipients of distribution items can track or locate a distribution item, especially a high value item, if the distribution item is lost, misrouted, or delayed. Distribution items can be tracked until an indication of delivery, such as at a delivery location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Ryan M. Luckay, Robert E. Dixon, Jr., James E. Lee, Sr.
  • Patent number: 12354425
    Abstract: A visit assistance apparatus includes: a registration unit configured to register a face image of a visitor and visit assistance information in which identification information of a visitor is associated with identification information of a user to be visited; an authentication control unit configured to cause face authentication to be performed by comparing the face image of the visitor captured by a camera installed in an entry control apparatus that restricts an entry to a floor with the registered face image of the visitor; a specification unit configured to specify, when the face authentication has been successful, identification information of the user based on the visit assistance information, and specify a seat position of the specified user based on floor information; and a generation unit configured to generate guide information for guiding the visitor to the specified seat position of the user on the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuki Akutsu, Akiko Ide
  • Patent number: 12340321
    Abstract: An embodiment server includes a communication device, a memory configured to store information about personal mobility vehicles and user information about users, and a control device electrically connected to the communication device and the memory, the control device being configured to receive a first authentication request of a first user of an electronic device from the electronic device through the communication device, receive an authentication request of a first personal mobility vehicle of the plurality of personal mobility vehicles from the first personal mobility vehicle through the communication device, authenticate the first authentication request of the first user, authenticate the authentication request of the first personal mobility vehicle, and transmit unlock information of the first personal mobility vehicle to the first personal mobility vehicle through the communication device based on both authentications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Yul Woo, Soobin Kim, Seunghyun Woo, Rowoon An
  • Patent number: 12330587
    Abstract: A method to authenticate operators of motor vehicles includes obtaining, based on a driver's license, operator information of an operator of a motor vehicle. The method further includes authenticating, by a Vehicle Identification and Secure Operating Program (VISOP) running on an onboard computer of the motor vehicle, the operator information with a Motor Vehicle Department (MVD). The method determines, based on the authenticating and vehicle identifying information pertaining to the motor vehicle, whether the operator is approved to operate the motor vehicle. The method performs biometric identification to verify that the driver's license matches the operator. The method prevents the motor vehicle from starting, responsive to the operator not being approved to operate the motor vehicle, and allows the motor vehicle to start, responsive to the operator being approved to operate the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventor: Cuthbert Delmer Johnson
  • Patent number: 12327449
    Abstract: A system for providing a user physical access to a facility. The system permits access to the facility via the user's mobile device that has a first near-field communication device and one or more security measures for authenticating the user's identity. A mobile application is encoded on the mobile device and is configured to create, store, and transmit a virtual identification of the user via the first near-field communication device. A reader device, having a second near-field communication device, at the facility permits physical access to the facility. The mobile application permits near-field communication between the first near-field communication device and the second near-field communication device when the mobile device and the reader device are in proximity to one another. When the mobile device authenticates the user's identity, the mobile application transmits the virtual identification to the reader device and the system permits physical access to the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventor: Sudhakar Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 12294663
    Abstract: Systems and methods for onboard vehicle certificate distribution are provided. A system can include a plurality of devices including a master device for authenticating processes and one or more requesting devices. The master device can include a master host security service configured to authenticate the one or more processes of the system. The master host security service can run a certificate authority to generate a root certificate and a private root key corresponding to the root certificate. A respective host security service can receive a request for a process manifest for a requesting process of a respective device from a respective orchestration service. The respective host security service can generate the process manifest for the requesting process and provide the process manifest to the requesting process. The requesting process can use the process manifest to communicate with the certificate authority to obtain an operational certificate based on the root certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael David Sorensen, Matthew Charles Ellis Wood, Matthew James Harris
  • Patent number: 12283144
    Abstract: A method for providing access into a building is shown. The method includes receiving an indication that a potential building occupant is requesting access into the building. The method includes providing input data into a probabilistic model, the input data comprising current health data of the potential building occupant obtained in response to receiving the indication. The method includes analyzing, via the probabilistic model, relationships between a plurality of weighted variables within the probabilistic model to determine an entry decision for the potential building occupant, wherein each of the plurality of weighted variables are representative of subsets of the input data. The method includes, in response to the entry decision permitting the building occupant to enter the building, providing a control signal to a security system to permit access to the building for the building occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Eamonn Jerry O'Toole, Ronan Fineen Hennessy, Róisín Ann O'Brien
  • Patent number: 12277823
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for controlling access to a location, comprising receiving an access identifier and a biometric information sample from a user attempting to enter an access point. The implementations further include matching the access identifier to an authenticated cluster identifier corresponding to a biometric information cluster within a plurality of different biometric information clusters, wherein the biometric information cluster is associated with an authenticated user. Additionally, the implementations further include identifying, based on a machine learning model processing, a cluster identifier from the biometric information sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Gregory A. Makowski, Kshitij Judah, Kris Duszak
  • Patent number: 12272193
    Abstract: A remotely operated cargo lock device for securing cargo in a cargo trailer includes a first personal electronic device carried by a driver of a cargo vehicle and a second personal electronic device carried by a cargo authority. A padlock is attachable to a handle of a cargo trailer door thereby inhibiting the handle from is manipulated into an open position thereby securing cargo in the cargo trailer. The padlock includes a communication unit in remote communication with the extrinsic communication network. The padlock is actuated into an unlocked condition when the communication unit receives an unlock command from the second personal electronic device to facilitate the cargo authority to unlock the handle of the cargo trailer to facilitate the cargo in the cargo trailer to be unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Ronald Mills
  • Patent number: 12272196
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for providing a secure physical storage system. The system may receive a request to register a first physical storage box from an entity including location information and security information. The request can be validated by comparing the security information to a predetermined security threshold. The location information associated with the first physical storage box can be recorded to a blockchain. The first registration information can be received from a first user device. The first physical storage box can be assigned to the first user device and a first identity token associated with the first physical storage box. The assignment information associated with the first physical storage box can be recorded to the blockchain. A first identity token can be received from the first user device. Instructions can be transmitted to the first physical storage box to transition from a locked to an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Rafferty, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Christopher Wallace, Brian Barr, Grant Eden, Samuel Sharpe
  • Patent number: 12272242
    Abstract: A system for use in determining parking spot allocation. The system includes a host vehicle parked in a host parking spot. The host vehicle includes a transceiver configured for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a control unit configured to determine the host vehicle is ready to depart the host parking spot, receive, via the transceiver, a first signal from at least one client vehicle, wherein the first signal indicates the at least one client vehicle is searching for a parking spot, allocate the host parking spot to a first client vehicle of the at least one client vehicle; and transmit, via the transceiver, a second signal to the first client vehicle, wherein the second signal notifies the first client vehicle that the host parking spot has been allocated to the first client vehicle, and provides location data associated with the host parking spot to the first client vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Danyang Tian, Ehsan Moradi Pari, Xue Bai, Yaser Pourmohammadi Fallah, Ghayoor Shah, Shahriar Shahram
  • Patent number: 12273795
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for property communication and access control. In some implementations, a corresponding method includes receiving a data sequence input from a property related to an event at the property; comparing the data sequence input to one or more sequence templates to determine a matching sequence template; based on the matching sequence template, determining one or more relevant actions to be performed; performing the one or more relevant actions using the data sequence input; and providing feedback related to the event or the one or more relevant actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrei Aurelian Furtuna, Matthew Daniel Correnti
  • Patent number: 12260754
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
  • Patent number: 12241793
    Abstract: A colorimetric based sensor system includes a low power communication system to harvest energy from an interrogator and to broadcast information to the interrogator; a controller operatively connected to the low power communication system; a light emitter, operatively connected to the controller, to emit light; a light detector, operatively connected to the controller, to convert receive light into electrical signals; and a colorimetric based sensor, having a changeable color patch and in optical communication with the light detector and the light emitter, to measure a condition of an object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Acelorex, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Casey, Michael Leo, George Gibson
  • Patent number: 12230119
    Abstract: A control device acquire person information that is information unique to person, specify ability information that is information indicating ability of the person indicated by the acquired person information, and output the specified ability information to a predetermined output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Takada, Hironori Nakata, Hiroki Naoshima, Yuji Takagi, Yuri Mashimo
  • Patent number: 12220376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of physiotherapeutic apparatuses and devices for locating or stimulating reflex points in the body of a patient. Specifically, it provides a sensory band comprising a frame having two arched arms, two antennas, a pair of ultrasonic transducers, three vibrators, and a microcontroller operatively connected to said pair of ultrasonic transducers, and to said three vibrators. The present invention further provides a method for obstacle detection that comprises said sensory band, wherein said method comprises the steps of transmitting an ultrasonic wave by means of said pair of ultrasonic transducers; measuring the reflection of said ultrasonic wave by means of said pair of ultrasonic transducers; providing vibrations to said three vibrators, from the reflection characteristics of said ultrasonic wave; wherein said vibration varies depending on the reflection characteristics of said ultrasonic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA
    Inventors: Silvana Nicole Herrera Leiva, Jorge Andrés Cartes Sanhueza
  • Patent number: 12211333
    Abstract: A protected covering for displays used in outdoor environments is provided. Particularly, the protective covering may be provided over a display screen of a delivery locker system. The protective covering may protect the display screen from overheating from sun rays and other heat sources that may exist in an external environment. The protective covering may be configured to be moved between a first position in which the protective covering is covering the display screen and a second position in which the protective covering is not covering the display screen. This allows the protective covering to protect the display screen when not in use but also allow a user to move the protective covering to access the display screen when needed. The protective covering may also include magnets to secure the protective covering to the delivery locker system in the first position or the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Rose Stafford, Joe Kraisorn, Thomas Dutcher, Geoffrey Charles Adleman, Kevin John Donahoe, James Harvey