Patents Examined by James J Yang
  • Patent number: 12131821
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for a medical facility that includes a plurality of rooms with at least one of the rooms having a plurality of sensors. An elevated infection risk determination system is operatively coupled to the plurality of sensors for determining when an elevated infection risk occurs in one or more of the rooms. The BMS may include a memory for storing one or more programmable infection risk compliance parameters, an input port for receiving an elevated infection risk alert for the particular room in the medical facility, a control port for providing control commands to one or more building components of the building management system, and a controller. The controller may be configured to provide control commands via the control port in response to receiving the elevated infection risk alert for the particular room based at least in part on one or more programmable infection risk compliance parameters to help mitigate the elevated infection risk in the particular room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: David Boisvert, David Rausch, Armin Wellig
  • Patent number: 12131215
    Abstract: An RFID tag (1) is configured to transmit a predetermined code (3K) as a RF backscattered radiation (2) in response to an impinging RF signal (41). The RFID tag (1) is configured to react to an impinging signal at a predetermined reference frequency (23) with a reference backscattered signal (2R). The RFID tag (1) is also configured and to react to an impinging signal (41) at any of a group of transmission frequencies (21, 22) with coding backscattered signals (2F-G) whose amplitudes (20A, 20B) relative to the amplitude (20R) of the reference backscattered signal define the code (3K). An RFID reader (4), a kit (5) and a method for transmitting a message from a device (1) to a reader (4) as a RF backscattered radiation (2) in response to an impinging RF signal (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MHM Microtechnique Sàrl
    Inventors: Ivan Olchevski, Stefan Meyer, Matthieu Boubat, Jean-Paul Sandoz
  • Patent number: 12122312
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting a vehicle impact and automatically requesting emergency assistance is provided. The system comprises multiple impact sensors located on the vehicle. The impact sensors are configured to communicate with each other as well as with a main control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Tsvetan Ivanov Delev
  • Patent number: 12115906
    Abstract: An image display system includes a projector that is mounted on a target vehicle and projects an image onto a road surface around the target vehicle, and an image controller that causes the projector to project a support image onto the road surface around the target vehicle when another vehicle traveling behind the target vehicle starts an operation of overtaking the target vehicle, and the support image includes at least one of an image showing a no-entry area which the other vehicle is prohibited from entering and an image showing a passage area through which the other vehicle is to pass during the overtaking operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Mouri, Kentaro Mori
  • Patent number: 12118841
    Abstract: An IoT switchgear operation system using sound wave communication including: a communication terminal for requesting, from an IoT switchgear via sound wave communication, one or more operations among manager registration, user registration, transmission of a changed password, transmission of a one-time digital key for a user, which is for the user himself/herself to open or close the IoT switchgear, and transmission of a one-time digital key for another person, which is for a terminal of another user to open or close the IoT switchgear; and the IoT switchgear for performing manager registration, user registration, a change of a password, storage of a one-time digital key for a user, and opening or closing of a door by using a one-time digital key for another person, which are requested by the communication terminal via sound wave communication with the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: DANSOLPLUS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chang Soon Yim
  • Patent number: 12115336
    Abstract: A packaging assembly comprises a case configured to contain a plurality of injection devices for delivering a medicament and a lid coupled to the case. The lid is movable between an open position and a closed position. The packaging assembly further includes a countdown timer configured to monitor a time remaining to a scheduled time and a sensor configured to output a signal representative of a change in position of the lid from the closed position to the open position. The packaging assembly also includes a reminder alert configured to activate once the scheduled time has been reached, and deactivate based on the signal received from the sensor. The packaging assembly further comprises a reset input device. The packaging assembly is configured to respond to operation of the reset input device by a user to set the scheduled time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Hardy Kietzmann, Fred Luck, Stefan Riebel
  • Patent number: 12112634
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device according to the present disclosure includes: a driver identification means for identifying a driver; a road-to-be-traveled width measurement means for measuring a road-to-be-traveled width being the width of a road-to-be-traveled; a passable road width acquisition means for acquiring a passable road width being a road width passable by an own vehicle driven by a driver identified by the driver identification means; a first determination means for determining whether the road-to-be-traveled width is narrower than the passable road width; and a notification means for, when the road-to-be-traveled width is determined to be narrower than the passable road width by the first determination means, giving notification that a narrow road being a road-to-be-traveled the road-to-be-traveled width of which is determined to be narrower than the passable road width by the first determination means is impassable by an own vehicle driven by a driver identified by the driver identification means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinao Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12090955
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus that may collect data from at a vehicle. Data may be collected by connecting to a port of an on board diagnostic bus at the vehicle or this data may be received via a wireless communication interface. Collected data may be stored at a database and this data may be analyzed to identify whether a person at a vehicle is authorized to access or drive the vehicle. This collected data may also be analyzed to identify faults that may occur at a vehicle and recommendations to responding those faults may be provided to a driver of the vehicle via a user interface such as a speaker or display at the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: AirWire Technologies
    Inventors: Gerardo Gonzalez, Debashis Bagchi
  • Patent number: 12095586
    Abstract: Doorbell systems can include a doorbell and a chime. In some embodiments, the chime can be communicatively coupled to a wireless network of a building, to the doorbell, and to a remote computing device. In several embodiments, the chime facilitates communication with at least one of the doorbell, the remote computing device, and a remote sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SkyBell Technologies IP, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Frank Scalisi
  • Patent number: 12094315
    Abstract: Devices and systems for environmental state estimation and decision-making, including an agent device with a plurality of internal sensors and a microprocessor with an agent program, configured to send and receive electronic communications to and from a plurality of external sensors and other agent devices. The agent device predicts the state of its environment at a time and location according to an internal model of the local environment, selectively samples the state of its environment at the time and location by receiving observations about objects and/or action in said environment, determines any environmental state prediction errors, determines the source or sources for any environmental state prediction errors; and updates its internal model. The agent device may initiate action based on its observations and/or predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Bonny Banerjee
  • Patent number: 12092465
    Abstract: A computer system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method are provided for facility evacuation. The method includes determining one or more environmental conditions adverse to one or more occupants within a structure at least partially enclosing a ventilation system and one or more passageways therein. The method also includes predicting movement patterns of the one or more adverse environmental conditions within the at least a portion of the structure. The method further includes creating, through the ventilation system, at least partially subject to the predicting, one or more evacuation routes including at least a first portion of the one or more passageways comprising reducing, at least partially, the one or more adverse environmental conditions within the one or more evacuation routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Subha Kiran Patnaikuni, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 12088425
    Abstract: A security system architecture including bidirectional communication between a sensor control device and one or more sensor devices coupled to the controller is provided. Such functionality is provided by virtue of a bidirectional wireless transceiver and processor in each sensor device. Embodiments of the present invention further provide this functionality by virtue of a coordinating transceiver coupled to the security system controller for communication with the sensor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Wade Cohn, Lewis Clay Dearman, James Edward Kitchen
  • Patent number: 12079893
    Abstract: Generating authentication credentials includes receiving from a first user input identifying a customer identifier for an online account with a business or organization and a residential or business physical address, and sending via a network a notification to a first user system to follow instructions on a mail piece to be received by the first user. The mail piece is physically sent via a distribution network to the physical address and an online application is activated in response to scanning a coded indicia on the mail piece. Data indicative of an identity of the first user is received and the identity of the first user is verified based on at least information associated with the coded indicia and the received data. A recommendation is generated whether to approve the online account and an electronic credential is created for the first user based on acceptance of the online account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Josen Punnoose, Sachin Agarwal
  • Patent number: 12081359
    Abstract: A modular entry system according to various aspects of the present technology may comprise a main logic controller, an intercom system, and a card reader configured to conduct a secure device-to-device communication transaction with a wireless user device. The card reader may conduct the secure device-to-device communication transaction between the user device and modular entry system by utilizing a first wireless communication protocol in a first communication from the card reader to the user device and a second wireless communication protocol in a second response communication from the user device to the card reader. The modular entry system may also comprise a damage monitoring system configured to detect and report a potential damage event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Level Up Holding Co., Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Schwartz, Joseph Butler, R. Craig Boswell
  • Patent number: 12067442
    Abstract: A reader apparatus detects a communication object by radiating radio waves and receiving a response, determines a change in a state based on at least one of a position and an inclination of the reader apparatus, and controls power consumed in the reader apparatus by setting a length of a first period, in which a reduction of power consumed in the detection is not performed, and a length of a second period, in which a reduction of the power is performed, based on the change in the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuhide Murofushi
  • Patent number: 12067870
    Abstract: A traffic control device system and method for communicating with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. The traffic control device includes a base adapted to be placed on a surface, a body portion joined to the base portion and extending therefrom, and a communication module joined to or integral with the base or body portion. The communication module includes a transmitter adapted to transmit a signal from the traffic control device to one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles, wherein the signal includes information that can be used by the one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles to affect or control at least one system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew David Weirich
  • Patent number: 12067594
    Abstract: A visitor detection unit includes a digital processor, an RF transceiver, a sensor and digital memory. Preferably, the digital memory includes code segments executable on the digital processor for transmitting a beacon signal via a transmitter portion of the RF transceiver, monitoring via the sensor for a visitor event monitoring via a receiver portion of the RF transceiver for a beacon response event, and selectively transmitting metadata via the transmitter portion of the RF transceiver that is related at least one of the visitor event and the beacon response event. In this example embodiment, an enclosure is provided for the digital processor, the RF transceiver and the digital memory such that the visitor detection unit can be mounted on a surface proximate to a physical area to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventor: Ruddman Davis
  • Patent number: 12066344
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques to enable a mobile device to perform multi-source estimation of an altitude for a location. A baseline altitude may be determined at ground level for a location and used to calibrate a barometric pressure sensor on the mobile device. The calibrated barometric pressure sensor can then estimate changes in altitude relative to ground level based on detected pressure differentials, allowing a relative altitude to ground to be determined. Baseline calibration for the barometric sensor calibration can be performed to determine an ambient ground-level barometric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, William J. Bencze, Kumar Gaurav Chhokra, Fatemeh Ghafoori, Stephen P. Jackson, Cheng Jia, Yi-Wen Liao, Glenn D. Macgougan, Isaac T. Miller, Alexandru Popovici, Christina Selle, Aditya Narain Srivastava, Richard Warren, Michael P. Dal Santo, Pejman Lotfali Kazemi
  • Patent number: 12057014
    Abstract: Disclosed in one embodiment is a method for performing an operation for a first road side unit (RSU) in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: transmitting a first message to a second RSU; and receiving a second message from the second RSU, wherein the first message includes position information and a first position list of the first RSU, the second message includes position information and a second position list of the second RSU, and the first position list is updated with the position information and the second position list of the second RSU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaeho Hwang, Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Myoungseob Kim
  • Patent number: 12052533
    Abstract: Systems and methods for remote sensing are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus, includes: a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; an electromagnetic transmitter configured to emit electromagnetic waves; an ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver; a computer system; where: the RFID tag is configured to be operated without a battery, and to be powered by the electromagnetic waves emitted by the electromagnetic transmitter; where the RFID tag is configured to send out UWB impulses based on an amount of electromagnetic power received from the electromagnetic transmitter, such that a repetition rate of the UWB impulses varies with the amount of electromagnetic power received from the electromagnetic transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hongming Lyu, Aydin Babakhani