Patents Examined by J. Kim
  • Patent number: 11936949
    Abstract: Methods and set-top boxes are disclosed for automated error detection. The method includes detecting, on an electronic device, a display device connected to the electronic device via a cable; identifying, on the electronic device, a type of display device connected to the electronic device via the cable; classifying, on the electronic device, the type of display device connected to the electronic device via the cable as one of a specific television model or a regular television model; and executing, on the electronic device, a fix for the specific television model. The method can include detecting, on an electronic device, a HDMI cable-related error from a HDMI transmitter of the electronic device; classifying, on the electronic device, a cause of the HDMI cable-related error from the HDMI transmitter; and communicating, by the electronic device, a recommendation to a user to remedy the HDMI cable-related error detected by the HDMI transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Jatti, Virendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11930251
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to credit commercial broadcasts are disclosed. Example commercial crediting apparatus disclosed herein compare first identification information and first timing information obtained from a first monitored data feed with second identification information and second timing information in a second monitored data feed to identify a first final distributor code represented in the second monitoring data feed, the first identification information and the first timing information corresponding to a first commercial represented in the first monitored data feed. Disclosed example apparatus also access data that maps a first original distributor code to the first final distributor code, identify the first commercial in lineup data based on the first original distributor code, and adjust, based on a duration of the first commercial, a duration obtained for a first media program listed in the lineup data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Gangadhar Jakkula, Michael Allen Bivins, Thomas A. Potter, Venkata Lakshmi Kumar Pittu, Kevin J. Rini
  • Patent number: 11926334
    Abstract: Described is a system for human-machine teaching for vehicle operation. The system determines currently enabled status reporting modes on a vehicle interface of a vehicle. The currently enabled status reporting modes are compared to a set of preferred status reporting modes of previous users. Based on the comparison, a status reporting mode is selected. A current operational status of the vehicle is reported to a current user, via the vehicle interface, using the selected status reporting mode. The system then determines preferred solutions of previous users to address the current operational status of the vehicle. Suggestions to address the current operational status of the vehicle based on the preferred solutions are reported to the user via the vehicle interface. A vehicle action corresponding to a solution selected by the current user is implemented via a vehicle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Tiffany Hwu, David J. Huber, Steven W. Skorheim, Jaehoon Choe
  • Patent number: 11926315
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus for detecting risk factors around a vehicle. The present electronic apparatus comprises a communicator, a memory storing at least one computer-executable instruction, and a processor for executing the at least one computer-executable instruction, wherein the processor receives, through the communicator, an image obtained from a camera located to capture the outside of the vehicle, calculates a rollover index of an external vehicle on the basis of an image of the external vehicle included in the obtained image, and performs a preset operation according to the calculated rollover index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwoo Park, Heejun Choi
  • Patent number: 11926869
    Abstract: The development of a simple sequence repeat (SSR) core primer group based on the whole genome sequence of pomegranate and the applications thereof are disclosed. The primer group includes 11 primer pairs: PG080, PG130, PG139, PG152, PG153, PG140, PG098, PG070, PG077, PG090, and PG093. The SSR core primer group of the present disclosure has the advantages such as high polymorphism, good repeatability, stable amplification, and clear and easy to score bands, and is applicable to the fields of pomegranate variety identification, DNA fingerprinting construction, genetic diversity assessment and phylogenetic study, and the like, providing a new tool for pomegranate molecular marker-assisted selection and having an excellent application prospect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE RESEARCH, ANHUI ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
    Inventors: Gaihua Qin, Yiliu Xu, Chunyan Liu, Jiyu Li
  • Patent number: 11920538
    Abstract: An anti-polish ring for an internal combustion engine is provided. The anti-polish ring includes an axially extending ring portion that is configured to scrape a top portion of a piston in a cylinder liner. The anti-polish ring is configured to accommodate passage of an intake or exhaust valve thereby. The anti-polish ring may include an alignment feature so that the anti-polish ring is inserted in a predetermined orientation in the cylinder. The anti-polish ring may include a heat shield and/or a seating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Summerfield, Craig Daniel Fox, Robert Harries, Jamie Kehoe, Kent H. Clark, John M Antonevich, Reid M. Irish, Scott A. Ragon, Stephen G. Townsend, Peter Thomas Quanz
  • Patent number: 11921144
    Abstract: To model a phased array antenna having a target array of antenna elements, a small array of antenna elements is selected that has fewer antenna elements than the target array. For each antenna element of the small array of antenna elements, far field patterns are captured for a plurality of signal frequencies. S-parameters for the small array of antenna elements are captured for the plurality of signal frequencies. The far field patterns captured for the antenna elements of the small array are mapped to antenna elements of the target array of antenna elements. The S-parameters captured for the small array are mapped to the target array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Murthy S. Murali Upmaka, Yan-Hua Cui
  • Patent number: 11919539
    Abstract: Among other things, techniques are described for screening and monitoring the health of a vehicle user including receiving sensor data produced by a sensor at the vehicle, processing the sensor data to determine at least one health condition of the user of the vehicle, and in response to determining the at least one health condition, executing a vehicle function selected from a plurality of vehicle functions based on the at least one health condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Motional AD LLC
    Inventors: Eric Wolff, Abhimanyu Singh, Linh Pham
  • Patent number: 11924514
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a caller identification (ID) method and system that can provide caller ID information to display on devices other than the wireless equipment device that is receiving the phone call. This can include televisions and other streaming devices associated with the user receiving the phone call. The mobile wireless network associated with the user's wireless user equipment can determine whether the user has an additional device on which caller ID is to be displayed, and then identify a media server associated with the additional device. Once identified, the mobile wireless network can provide the media server with the caller ID information so that it can be displayed on the television or other streaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Ashutosh Kumar Sinha
  • Patent number: 11920192
    Abstract: A method of sequencing a nucleic acid comprising (1) generating a stream of single nucleoside triphosphates by progressive enzymatic digestion of the nucleic acid; (2) producing at least one oligonucleotide used probe by reacting, in the presence of a polymerase, at least one of the single nucleoside triphosphates with a corresponding biological probe comprising (a) a first single-stranded oligonucleotide including an exonuclease blocking-site, a restriction endonuclease recognition-site located on the 5? side of the blocking-site and including a single nucleotide capture-site e, and at least one fluorophore region and (b) a second and optionally a third single-stranded oligonucleotide each separate from the first oligonucleotide; (3) cleaving the first oligonucleotide strand of the used probe at the recognition-site with a restriction endonuclease; (4) digesting the first oligonucleotide component with an enzyme to yield fluorophores in a detectable state and (5) detecting the fluorophores released in step (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LIGHTCAST DISCOVERY LTD
    Inventors: Barnaby Balmforth, Cameron Alexander Frayling, Mark Dethlefsen
  • Patent number: 11919536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an evaluation method and system for steering comfort in a human machine cooperative take-over control process of an autonomous vehicle, and a storage medium, thereby avoiding a defect that most comfort evaluation methods are applicable only in laboratory conditions, and also solving a problem that most comfort evaluation methods do not consider non-traditional control characteristics of a driver in a take-over control process. The method of the present disclosure includes: acquiring vehicle data information in a current driving cycle, and preprocessing the vehicle data information to form preprocessed vehicle data information; and using the preprocessed vehicle data information as an input to a well-trained comfort model library, and performing log probability matching calculation on the basis of the comfort model library, to form a comfort recognition result corresponding to comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Xuewu Ji, Yuan Chu
  • Patent number: 11920186
    Abstract: Methods for imaging are described, including, but not limited to a method comprising: (1) contacting a sample being tested for the presence of one or more targets with one or more target-specific binding partners, wherein each target-specific binding partner is linked to a docking strand, and wherein target-specific binding partners of different specificity are linked to different docking strands, (2) optionally removing unbound target-specific binding partners, (3) contacting the sample with antigen-bound imager strands and antigen-specific binding partners linked (directly or indirectly) to optical labels, wherein the antigen-bound imager strands have complementarity to a docking strand, directly or indirectly, and wherein each antigen-specific binding partner is linked to one or more optical labels, and wherein antigen-specific binding partners of different specificity are linked to distinct optical labels, (4) optionally removing unbound antigen-bound imager strands and/or antigen-specific binding partner
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ultivue, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie Rae Hennek, Mael Manesse
  • Patent number: 11912357
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for influential control over a driver's operation of a vehicle's steering wheel. Upon issuing an autonomous control signal to control motive operation of the vehicle, an autonomous control system of the vehicle may reinforce or influence the application of the autonomous control signal by inducing or cuing to induce the driver's hand(s) to turn the vehicle's steering wheel in a particular direction or by a particular amount/with a particular level of torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Nicholas Charles Fishwick
  • Patent number: 11912291
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle and a system for the autonomous vehicle. The system may include: a power supply including a first power output and a second power output; a master computing unit arranged to be powered by the first power output, configured to control operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting the second power output, and configured to provide a third power output by adjusting the first power output; and a slave computing unit arranged to be powered by the second power output, and configured to control the operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting a failure of the master computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Ju, Chengfa Wang, Junping Wang, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11917255
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content in response to a channel change request are provided. In some implementations, methods for presenting media content in response to a channel change request are provided, the methods comprising: causing media content provided on a first channel to be presented in a first display area on a first screen; receiving, at a hardware processor, a request to switch to a second channel; in response to receiving the request to switch to the second channel, causing thumbnail content corresponding to the second channel to be presented in the first display area; determining whether media content provided on the second channel is ready for presentation; and in response to determining that the media content provided on the second channel is ready for presentation, causing the media content provided on the second channel to be presented in the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joon-Hee Jeon, Sun-Gi Hong, Jungshik Jang, Jaekyun Seok, Jae Seo
  • Patent number: 11917754
    Abstract: An antenna module comprises: a circuit board, having a three-dimensional keep-out area; an antenna, disposed on the circuit board and located in the keep-out area; and a metal piece, disposed on the circuit board and located in the keep-out area, wherein the metal piece is electrically insulated from the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Chien-Min Hsu
  • Patent number: 11913370
    Abstract: A valve assembly failsafe configured to be coupled to an actuator of a coolant control regulator assembly is provided. The valve assembly failsafe includes a wind arm, a spring that engages the wind arm under spring tension, a latch that engages the wind arm, a drive gear that engages the wind arm and the actuator, and a driver that engages the latch. The valve assembly failsafe is configured to be positioned in a set state where the latch engages and retains the wind arm under spring tension and the drive gear freely rotates during rotation of the actuator, and a tripped state where the driver rotates the latch to disengage the latch from the wind arm, causing the wind arm to rotate under the spring tension to engage the drive gear and cause the drive gear to drive the actuator to a default position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Osmun, Joseph Davis
  • Patent number: 11911770
    Abstract: A generic point of care based portable device and method thereof as a platform technology for detecting pathogenic infection via nucleic acid based testing achieving sample-to-result integration, comprising the following interconnected stand-alone modules: a thermal unit for executing piece-wise isothermal reactions in a pre-programmable concomitant fashion without necessitating in-between operative intervention; a colorimetric detection unit seamlessly interfaced with smartphone-app based analytics for detecting the target analyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR
    Inventors: Nandita Kedia, Sujay Kumar Biswas, Saptarshi Banerjee, Aditya Bandopadhyay, Arindam Mondal, Suman Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11905566
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of microorganisms from an environmental sample, and in particular to the rapid identification of Listeria spp. The methods and kits described herein provide a method of detecting Listeria spp. without the need for an enrichment step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEOGEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Nelson, Preetha Biswas, Lei Zhang, Mark A. Mozola, Lisa Pinkava, David Brookman, Edan Robert Hosking
  • Patent number: 11905555
    Abstract: The methods, compositions, and kits of the disclosure provide a novel approach for a whole genome, unbiased DNA analysis method that can be performed on limited amounts of DNA. can be used to analyze DNA to determine its modification status. Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method for amplifying bisulfite-treated deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules comprising: (a) ligating an adaptor to the DNA molecules, wherein the adaptor comprises a RNA polymerase promoter comprising bisulfite-protected cytosines; (b) treating the ligated DNA molecules with bisulfite; (c) hybridizing the bisulfite-treated DNA molecules with a primer; (d) extending the hybridized primer to make double stranded DNA; and (e) in vitro transcribing the double-stranded DNA to make RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The University of Chicago
    Inventors: Chuan He, Ji Nie, Xiao-Long Cui