Patents Examined by James J Yang
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Patent number: 12131821Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: David Boisvert, David Rausch, Armin Wellig
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Patent number: 12131215Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: MHM Microtechnique SàrlInventors: Ivan Olchevski, Stefan Meyer, Matthieu Boubat, Jean-Paul Sandoz
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Patent number: 12122312Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Inventor: Tsvetan Ivanov Delev
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Patent number: 12115906Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumihiko Mouri, Kentaro Mori
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Patent number: 12118841Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: DANSOLPLUS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chang Soon Yim
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Patent number: 12115336Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Hardy Kietzmann, Fred Luck, Stefan Riebel
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Patent number: 12112634Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinao Nakagawa
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Patent number: 12090955Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: AirWire TechnologiesInventors: Gerardo Gonzalez, Debashis Bagchi
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Patent number: 12095586Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: SkyBell Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Joseph Frank Scalisi
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Patent number: 12094315Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: Bonny Banerjee
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Patent number: 12092465Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Subha Kiran Patnaikuni, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 12088425Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.Inventors: Alan Wade Cohn, Lewis Clay Dearman, James Edward Kitchen
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Patent number: 12079893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: United States Postal ServiceInventors: Josen Punnoose, Sachin Agarwal
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Patent number: 12081359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Level Up Holding Co., Inc.Inventors: John H. Schwartz, Joseph Butler, R. Craig Boswell
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Patent number: 12067442Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsuhide Murofushi
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Patent number: 12067870Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Matthew David Weirich
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Patent number: 12067594Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.Inventor: Ruddman Davis
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Patent number: 12066344Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 12057014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaeho Hwang, Hakseong Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Myoungseob Kim
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Patent number: 12052533Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Hongming Lyu, Aydin Babakhani