Patents Examined by James J Yang
  • Patent number: 11975579
    Abstract: A boat securement alerting apparatus may include a sensing assembly for sensing existence of a securing condition of a boat securing apparatus. The sensing assembly may include a sensor device with an actuator being movable between an actuated position and a released position. A portion of the actuator may be positionable adjacent to a movable securing element of the securing apparatus such that the actuator is actuated when the movable securing element is moved to a securing position corresponding to the securing condition of the boat securing apparatus. The alerting apparatus may further include an alerting assembly configured to produce an alert when the sensing assembly senses the existence of the securing condition of the boat securing apparatus, and the alert may be a perceptible alert perceptible to a sense of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Hanisch
  • Patent number: 11979029
    Abstract: A device includes a signaling means and a motion sensor, and logic for activating or controlling the signaling means in response to a sensed motion according to an embedded logic. The device may be used as a toy, and may be shaped like a play ball or as a handheld unit. It may be powered from a battery, either chargeable from an AC power source directly or contactless by using induction or by converting electrical energy from harvested kinetic energy. The embedded logic may activate or control the signaling means, predictably or randomly, in response to sensed acceleration magnitude or direction, such as sensing the crossing of a preset threshold or sensing the peak value. The visual means may be a numeric display for displaying a value associated with the count of the number of times the threshold has been exceeded or the peak magnitude of the acceleration sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Binder
  • Patent number: 11963571
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a head-mounted device, a visor that includes a reflective object that is substantially transparent in a visible light spectrum and embodied at a physical surface of the visor, at least one visor attachment assembly that couples the visor to the head-mounted device; at least one optical sensor; and at least one computing device communicatively coupled to the at least one optical sensor, the at least one computing device comprising a memory and one or more computer processors that: receive, from the optical sensor, an indication of light outside of a visible light spectrum that is reflected from the reflective object; determine, based at least in part on the light outside of a visible light spectrum that is reflected from the reflective object, a position of the visor; and perform, based at least in part on the position of the visor, at least one operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Steven T. Awiszus, Kiran S. Kanukurthy, Eric C. Lobner, Robert J. Quintero, Micayla A. Johnson, Milo G. Oien-Rochat, Neeraj Sharma
  • Patent number: 11967409
    Abstract: A system includes a server including a clock and a plurality of medical devices in network communication with the server. Each medical device includes at least one alarm mechanism and an internal clock. A first medical device of the plurality of medical devices is configured to receive a clock synchronization data from the server, update the internal clock of the first medical device based on the clock synchronization data, provide an alarm signal of a first type at a first time, and provide a subsequent alarm signal of the first type at a second time. The second time occurs at a predetermined interval from the first time. Additionally, the second time is the same time the alarm signal of the first type is provided by a second medical device of the plurality of medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
    Inventor: Slawomir Edward Wojtysiak
  • Patent number: 11965742
    Abstract: A work support system includes a positioning device to measure a position of a working object based on a signal of a positioning satellite, a notifier to issue notification of the working object based on whether the position of the working object measured by the positioning device is in an area, and an area changer to change a size of the area based on a number of the positioning satellite included in the signal received by the positioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kinugawa, Keisuke Miura
  • Patent number: 11967230
    Abstract: A method and system for traffic control includes receiving at a processing unit sensor data of a site on a road network and receiving at the processing unit a V2X communication. Locations of road users are calculated from the sensor data and the V2X communication enabling the detection of connected and non-connected road users. Once connected and non-connected road users are detected at a site, this information can be used to control traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOTRAFFIC LTD.
    Inventors: Uriel Katz, Or Sela, Tal Kreisler
  • Patent number: 11958606
    Abstract: A queue system for a lavatory of an aircraft can include an infotainment system configured to receive a user input and to output a request to use the lavatory associated with a seat or occupant, and a queue module operatively connected to the infotainment system. The queue module can be configured to receive the request from the infotainment system and to create and/or modify a virtual lavatory queue based on a request hierarchy of the request to position the request in the virtual lavatory queue, and output a vacancy indicator signal to the infotainment system when the request is at a front of the virtual lavatory queue. The infotainment system can be configured to receive the vacancy indicator signal and display an indication to indicate to a user of the infotainment system that it is the user's turn in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 11953054
    Abstract: A bearing condition monitoring device is a bearing condition monitoring device for monitoring a condition of a thrust bearing for holding a rotational shaft in a thrust direction. The bearing condition monitoring device includes a first temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the thrust bearing, and an arithmetic device for counting a frequency at which an evaluation index of a thrust load on the basis of a measurement value by the first temperature sensor exceeds an allowable value, and for outputting an abnormality in the condition of the thrust bearing if the counted frequency exceeds a threshold. The arithmetic device may count, as the frequency, only a case where a state in which the thrust load exceeds an upper limit load continues for not less than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Seigi Yano, Yuta Ishii, Jun Suzuki, Takaya Futae, Shunsuke Yakushiji, Yosuke Dammoto
  • Patent number: 11954994
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a plurality of magnetic field receivers including magnetic sensors, data characterizing samples obtained by the plurality of magnetic field receivers, the samples of a combination of a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field resulting from interaction of the first magnetic field and an object; determining, using the received data, a polarizability index of the object, the polarizability index characterizing a magnetic polarizability property of the object; classifying, using the determined polarizability index, the object as threat or non-threat; and providing the classification. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Evolv Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ellenbogen, Alec Rose, Peter Lorenz, Christopher Cahill
  • Patent number: 11951274
    Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a case configured to at least partially contain injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a status indicator configured to generate an output which indicates a status of the packaging assembly conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Hardy Kietzmann, Fred Luck, Stefan Riebel
  • Patent number: 11950166
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining occupancies of surrounding agents. One of the methods includes obtaining scene data characterizing an environment at a current time point; processing a first network input generated from the scene data using a first neural network to generate an intermediate output; obtaining an identification of a future time point that is after the current time point; and generating, from the intermediate output and the future time point, an occupancy output, wherein the occupancy output comprises respective occupancy probabilities for each of a plurality of locations in the environment, wherein the respective occupancy probability for each location characterizes a likelihood that one or more agents will occupy the location at the future time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Khaled Refaat, Kai Ding
  • Patent number: 11949241
    Abstract: A device includes a signaling means and a motion sensor, and logic for activating or controlling the signaling means in response to a sensed motion according to an embedded logic. The device may be used as a toy, and may be shaped like a play ball or as a handheld unit. It may be powered from a battery, either chargeable from an AC power source directly or contactless by using induction or by converting electrical energy from harvested kinetic energy. The embedded logic may activate or control the signaling means, predictably or randomly, in response to sensed acceleration magnitude or direction, such as sensing the crossing of a preset threshold or sensing the peak value. The visual means may be a numeric display for displaying a value associated with the count of the number of times the threshold has been exceeded or the peak magnitude of the acceleration sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Binder
  • Patent number: 11944777
    Abstract: A packaging assembly comprises a case configured to at least partially contain a plurality of injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a wireless communication module configured to establish a wireless connection with at least one external device conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventor: Hardy Keitzmann
  • Patent number: 11937153
    Abstract: A method for improving the estimation of an existence probability of objects. The objects are detected using sensors installed in a vehicle and/or an infrastructure component. Each tracker of a sensor and/or a sensor group estimates a status of an object and its existence probability using a detection probability model. The detected objects are merged in a fusion list, and each object is assigned a state and an existence probability. Each object of the fusion list is assigned existence probabilities. Each object of the fusion list is assigned additional information indicating which sensor and/or which sensor group has/have detected the respective object in the last measuring cycle. At least sensor-specific and/or sensor-group-specific existence probabilities of fused existence probabilities and the sensor detection probability are compared in a crosscheck, and false negative cases and false positive cases are ascertained for each sensor and/or sensor groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Adwait Sanjay Kale, Nils Uhlemann
  • Patent number: 11937152
    Abstract: A tracking device is described. The tracking device receives, from a management server, pressure measurement thresholds. The tracking device monitors pressure measurements of the asset. Based on the pressure measurements, the tracking device enters an active mode of operation. When operating in the active mode of operation, the tracking device transmits sensor measurements of the asset to the management server. The tracking device determines new pressure measurements of the asset. Based on the new pressure measurements, the tracking device enters a passive mode of operation. When operating in the passive mode of operation, no data is transmitted or received from/to the tracking device to/from the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Hadi Hajimiri, Rishabh Gupta, Ye-Sheng Kuo, Kenneth Lee, Siri Amrit Ramos, Justin Tingao Xiao, Pete Nicholas Chulick, Gautam Ravi Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11937032
    Abstract: A system for remotely retrieving sensed conditions at one or more building components. The building components are remote or numerous so that a wireless collection of the sensed conditions provides a significant benefit to a builder or building operator. A remote transceiver sends a wireless signal to a building component. The building component includes an onboard transceiver. At least some of the energy from the transmitted wireless signal is received by the onboard transceiver, sent to a storage device, and stored therein. The stored energy is used to operate a sensor for sensing an onboard condition. The onboard condition is then wirelessly transmitted by the onboard transceiver back to the remote transceiver to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Daniel J. White, Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Christopher W. Lemieux, Gary Hill
  • Patent number: 11917493
    Abstract: UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, David Goodwin Shaw, Tyler Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11900784
    Abstract: An electronic device has pair(s) of conductive plates that is coupled to a housing and is electrically isolated by a dielectric material. The pair(s) of conductive plates is positioned to change relative orientation in relation to mechanical force that deforms the housing. Capacitive driver(s) is electrically coupled to pair(s) of conductive plates. A controller is communicatively coupled to the capacitive driver(s). The controller identifies a first capacitance of the pair(s) of conductive plates associated with the housing being in a normal state. The controller detects, via the capacitor driver(s), a change in capacitance from the first capacitance to a second capacitance of the pair(s) of conductive plates. The controller compares the change in capacitance to a threshold. In response to the change exceeding the threshold, the controller generates a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rachid Alameh, Yi Wu, James P. Ashley, Zhengping Ji
  • Patent number: 11887447
    Abstract: An alarm screen comprises a frame comprising a laser sensor, a processing unit, and a wireless transmitter embedded in a hollow interior. The frame comprises an opening for the laser sensor to project a laser beam outside of the alarm screen. The laser sensor projects the beam through the opening, makes a set of one or more measurements of a distance between the laser sensor and an object in a path of the laser beam, and sends the set of measurements to the processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare the distance measurements received from the laser sensor with a threshold distance detect, and send one or more signals to the wireless transmitter when at least one of the distance measurements received from the laser sensor exceeds the threshold. The wireless transmitter is configured to receive signals from the processing unit and wirelessly transmit the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Robert D. Fisher
  • Patent number: 11881069
    Abstract: Security devices and methods for regulating access to an item secured within the security device are provided. In an example, the method includes: determining if a requesting user submitting a request to access the item is an authorized user; and in response to determining the requesting user is the authorized user, the method further includes one or more actions of: triggering a predefined wait period; allowing the requesting user access to the item and notifying at least one of a primary user, a designated user, or a third party service; or notifying the at least one of the primary user, the designated user, or the third party service that the requesting user is requesting access to the item, and receiving an approval or a denial of access to the item to the requesting user from at least one of the primary user, the designated user, or the third party service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Vara Corporation
    Inventors: Jorel Lalicki, Austin Rivera, Timothy Oh, Christine Tate, Hao Chang