Patents Examined by James A Edwards
  • Patent number: 11795738
    Abstract: A power release latching system with a service reset. A power release latching system, including: a housing; a service override lever rotatably mounted to the housing, the service override lever being accessible from an exterior of the housing; a motor for rotating a worm that interfaces to a release gear, the release gear having a cam profile that interfaces with a pawl release lever of the latching system, wherein rotation of the service override lever causes rotation of the release gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Alexander Ney
  • Patent number: 11779417
    Abstract: A method of controlling movement of the tip of a surgical endoscope from a first position (E) to an intermediate position (E?), the field of view from the tip of the endoscope being at an angle (?) relative to a longitudinal shaft of the endoscope, the method comprising: receiving a command to move from the first position in a first direction; identifying a nominal view point (N) from the tip of the endoscope in the first position; calculating a tip movement path from the first position based on the received command, the identified nominal view point and the angle (?); determining the intermediate position; and moving the tip to the intermediate position, the intermediate position being such that the nominal view point remains within the field of view from the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Patent number: 11778070
    Abstract: An Ethernet header compression method and apparatus and an Ethernet header decompression method and apparatus. After receiving an Ethernet frame including a first to-be-compressed field, a compression end compresses an Ethernet header of the Ethernet frame based on a first correspondence including first compression information and a value of the first to-be-compressed field and the first compression information. Correspondingly, a decompression end decompresses an Ethernet header of a compressed Ethernet frame based on the first correspondence when receiving the compressed Ethernet frame. In the embodiments of this application, because the Ethernet header of the Ethernet frame is compressed, communication resources is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Fan, Chong Lou, Xiaoying Xu
  • Patent number: 11778061
    Abstract: A feature extraction device is a device that extracts a feature quantity to be input to a state estimation model for estimating a state related to a terminal where the activity is executed or a user of the terminal, which includes an acquisition unit that acquires activity history information indicating an execution history of the activity in a specified period of time and including time-series activity logs, an extraction unit that extracts co-occurrence relationship information indicating a co-occurrence relationship of activities in a specified period of time based on the activity history information, a generation unit that aggregates activity feature quantities indicating a feature of each activity based on the co-occurrence relationship information and generates an activity history feature quantity indicating a feature of the activity history information, and an output unit that outputs the activity history feature quantity as a feature quantity to be input to the state estimation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keiichi Ochiai, Naoki Yamamoto, Takashi Hamatani, Yusuke Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 11778049
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention is generating for a client (a marketer) a measure of relevance of online creative content for online marketing to a set of target users. Another is an interactive user interface for displaying such a measure. Another aspect of the invention is determining a signature of creative content and of components thereof. The measure of relevance is based on profiles of the targeted users and on the signature of the creative content. Another aspect of the invention providing a mechanism to improve the relevance by modifying one or more components of the creative content with respective alternate components, thus suggesting to the client modifications to the content together with a measure of how such modification changes the relevance. Another aspects is providing for an operator the user interface for viewing in real time the effect of such modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Pinpoint Predictive, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Zamir, Avi Tuschman, Wei Nan Hsu
  • Patent number: 11766309
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosures made herein are directed to facilitating adjustability of operative apparatuses. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosures made herein are directed to mitigating adverse implications of having to adjust a control portion of an operative apparatus to a user-defined setting that is not otherwise a predefined setting position of the control portion. Such adverse implications may arise, for example, due to the time required for performing such adjustment with a required degree of precision. Thereby, such embodiments serve to mitigate, if not eliminate, that manner in which adjusting the control portion of the operative apparatus to the user-defined setting during a procedure can undesirably and/or unacceptably limit efficiency and/or effectiveness of the procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ClearCam Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell Ross Gilkey, Alexander Ross Cohen
  • Patent number: 11765256
    Abstract: A device and method for analyzing service-oriented communication in a communications network. A data packet includes a header for service-oriented communication. It is analyzed for the data packet depending on information about at least two data fields of the header whether or not the data packet meets a criterion, the criterion defining a setpoint value for values from the at least two data fields permitted in the communications network or a combination of information from the at least two data fields permitted in the communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Janin Wolfinger, Jens Gramm, Michael Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11765235
    Abstract: A content provider system includes: a repository to store a catalog of content; a storage device including at least a first port and a second port; a first hosted device connected to the first port over a first storage interface for access to the storage device, and to execute content stored in the storage device to provide the content to a first user device; a second hosted device connected to the second port over a second storage interface for access to the storage device, and to execute the content stored in the storage device to provide the content to a second user device; and one or more processing circuits to control access to the storage device from the first and second ports by the first and second hosted devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Seok Ki, Sungwook Ryu
  • Patent number: 11765247
    Abstract: A compute device can monitor interactions with a user and/or remote entity. A real-time stream of event information can be generated by the compute device based on the interactions. At least one software application operating in the compute device can analyze the real-time stream of event information to identify a predefined trigger. In response to identifying the predefined trigger, a pre-defined message can be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Olive AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Lane, Edward Canales, William “Billy” Murray
  • Patent number: 11751756
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an insertion section; an operation section; a bending portion; a longitudinal member for maintaining a constant distance from the operation section to a distal end portion of the insertion section along a longitudinal axis of the insertion section; and a flexible tube portion provided in a movable manner with respect to the operation section and the longitudinal member in a longitudinal axis direction, and making the bending portion extend and contract with movement of the flexible tube portion with respect to the operation section in the longitudinal axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuaki Akui
  • Patent number: 11736554
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for smart upload automation in which actions are automatically performed on a set of digital assets against a target item. In one embodiment, a system includes a network, a server machine, a client machine and a data storage device, each of which is coupled to the network. The client machine designates digital assets and a target item against which the assets will be uploaded. The digital assets are uploaded by the client machine to the data storage device via the network. The server machine automatically performs actions on the digital assets without intervention by the client machine, where the actions are associated with or in some way defined by the target item. The actions may include setting metadata values of the digital assets based upon metadata associated with the target item, or generating different renditions of the digital assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Lee Shepstone
  • Patent number: 11730349
    Abstract: Embodiments of a robotic medical system comprise a steerable instrument that includes a bendable body and a connector assembly configured to detachably connect the bendable body to an actuation unit. A controller is configured to control the actuation unit. The connector assembly comprises a connection receptor coupled to the actuation unit and a connecting shaft coupled to the bendable body. The connecting shaft includes a plurality of driving rods that are attached in a one-to-one correspondence to a plurality of driving wires and that detachably attach to the connection receptor. In a connected state where the bendable body is connected to the actuation unit via the connector assembly, the controller causes the actuation unit to transmit an actuating force from an actuator to a driving rod, and the driving rod actuates or moves a driving wire in a same direction as the actuating force applied by the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Altshuler, Zachary Hamilton Haubert
  • Patent number: 11734008
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to customization of courses of action for responding to incidents in information technology (IT) environments. An incident management service executes incident response monitoring, identification and remediation across an IT environment for one or more entities that may have their own configuration of computing assets (computing environment) within the IT environment. A course of action outlines remediation actions for responding to specific types of incidents within an IT environment. A course of action is customized for implementation within a particular computing environment associated with an entity. Customization of a course of action comprises generation and implementation of sets of instructions that are usable to tailor remedial actions for execution in computing environments of different entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Trenton John Beals, Glenn Gallien, Govind Salinas, Sourabh Satish
  • Patent number: 11725431
    Abstract: A lever is configured to be rotatable around a rotational support axis among a storage position where the lever is flush with a door outer panel, a gripping position where the lever is projected from the door outer panel by driving of a driving unit so that a user is able to grip the lever, and an open position where the lever is further projected from said gripping position. The driving unit is fixed in an opposite area of a hinge arm which is opposite, relative to the rotational support axis, to an area of the hinge arm where the lever is arranged. The above-described area of the hinge arm where the lever is arranged and the driving unit are provided to face each other relative to the rotational support axis when the lever takes the storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Moriyama, Eisuke Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 11716273
    Abstract: A per-hop postcard technique is disclosed. The per-hop postcard technique is implemented to improve Postcard-based Telemetry (PBT). A per-section postcard technique is also disclosed. The per-section postcard technique is implemented to improve In-situ OAM (IOAM). By utilizing these techniques, suitable on-path telemetry may be obtained for multicast traffic. In addition, these techniques may be used to reconstruct and visualize a multicast tree, to conduct performance monitoring, and to perform trouble shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haoyu Song, Michael McBride
  • Patent number: 11706117
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for monitoring services in a multi-service system and detecting deviations in health metrics and/or business metrics of one or more of the services. In response to detecting a metric deviation for a given service, an enhanced message is generated detailing specific data associated with the detected deviation. The enhanced message is generated and transmitted to a recipient address associated with a services that may be affected by the deviation. An action service monitoring messages being received by a domain associated with the recipient address analyzes the information included in the message content. According to the analysis of the message, an action to be performed is identified according to the detected deviation and one or more action requests are generated and transmitted to one or more components and/or services of the multi-service system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Manpreet Arora, Aditya Vashist, Nivea Guru Mandavia, Bhavya Gupta, Fnu Himanshi, Rohit Kumra
  • Patent number: 11690494
    Abstract: An endoscope observation assistance apparatus includes an image information acquiring part to acquire and display a captured image of a luminal organ captured by the endoscope device on a display, a lesion information acquisition part to detect a predetermined lesion based on the captured image and to acquire lesion information regarding the lesion, a lesion disappearance determination part to track the lesion based on the captured image and the lesion information and to determine whether or not the lesion has disappeared from the captured image, and a notification part to notify a determination result when the lesion disappearance determination part determines that the lesion has disappeared from the captured image. Alternatively, the notification part may notify a lesion detection when a short time period passes after the lesion detection by the lesion information acquisition part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: SHOWA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM
    Inventors: Yuichi Mori, Shin-ei Kudo, Masashi Misawa, Kensaku Mori
  • Patent number: 11683384
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method, performed by a repository network entity within a telecommunications network, for providing notifications for a subscription to monitor changes of a NF profile of a monitored network entity. The method comprises: receiving, from a subscribing network entity, a subscription request to subscribe to monitor changes to a NF profile of at least one monitored network entity, the request comprising a notification preference that identifies a subset of attributes in the NF profile to be monitored or to be excluded from monitoring; and providing to the subscribing network entity, notifications of changes to the identified subset of attributes of the NF profile of the at least one monitored network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Jesus-Angel de-Gregorio-Rodriguez, Yunjie Lu
  • Patent number: 11678793
    Abstract: An endoscope including a handle and an insertion tube connected to the handle and having a bending section with a first elongate bending section part and a second elongate bending section part. The first elongate bending section part includes first annular members arranged in a row and interconnected by first bridges so as to form a first comb-like structure. The second elongate bending section part includes second annular members arranged in a row and interconnected by second bridges so as to form a second comb-like structure. An outer circumferential surface includes a groove adapted to receive a first bridge and a groove adapted to receive a second bridge of the first bending section part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Frederik Clausager Vemb Hansen, Ken Henrik Buch
  • Patent number: 11677848
    Abstract: A subscriber management system and method are described, according to various implementations. In an implementation, the method and system generates a unique user device identifier that is stored and accessed in storage on a user device. The user device identifier is passed in network requests when visiting a website having an installation of a module of the subscriber management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Pushnami LLC
    Inventors: Emerson Smith, Mitchell Taylor