Patents Examined by Joseph H. Feild
  • Patent number: 11908329
    Abstract: A system and related methods for providing unusual attitude symbology for recovering from an unusual attitude condition. By the unusual attitude symbology, a pilot may visually determine corrective actions needed to recover from the unusual attitude condition with a minimal recovery time and similarly with a minimal cognitive workload. The pilot may thus establish stable flight, even under a high-stress situation. The unusual attitude symbology includes pitch direction indicators, roll direction indicators, a roll recovery arc, an unusual attitude warning indicator, and a roll entry chevron. Path based symbology may also be used to provide unusual attitude recovery while maintaining spatial orientation of the aircraft to the outside scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Lenard E Noice
  • Patent number: 11906369
    Abstract: A detection system in an aircraft includes an optical fiber arranged along a structure of the aircraft and affixed to the structure with clamps that are spaced apart along the structure. The optical fiber includes two or more sets of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The system also includes a light source to generate light with two or more wavelengths for injection into the optical fiber, and processing circuitry to identify an overheat condition and monitor vibration experienced by the optical fiber based on reflected signals generated by the two or more sets of FBGs. Integrity of the clamps is indicated by monitoring the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Aswin Kumar Vallamkondu, Mark Sherwood Miller, Stefan Coreth
  • Patent number: 11908291
    Abstract: An example method to reconfigure power modes of a communication device includes operating the communication device in a first power mode. The method includes receiving a power mode reconfiguration command from a server that instructs the communication device to operate in a second power mode that is different than the first power mode. The method includes, in response to receiving the power mode reconfiguration command, terminating operation of the communication device in the first power mode and operating the communication device in the second power mode. A communication device with reconfigurable power modes may include an MCU, a processor (e.g., CPU) communicatively coupled to the MCU, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The non-transitory computer-readable medium has instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to perform or control performance of the foregoing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Freeus, LLC
    Inventors: Rand Adam Fanshier, Craig Roger Pyle, Derek Mark Lomax, Brock McKay Winzeler, Joshua Garner
  • Patent number: 11909462
    Abstract: Self-powered semi-active electronic tag with autonomous processing capacity and its communication procedure having a semi-active electromagnetic auto-feeding electronic device (nanochip) (without the use of batteries). It has autonomous processing capacity and direct two way intercommunication with another device of the same type and with Wifi communication, Bluetooth, (or similar) to Internet (IoT) for connection via Wifi/Bluetooth, or similar, to Internet with blockchain. It is able to identify transactions machine to machine or machine to user, developed with nanotechnology techniques applicable to any industrial product and even living beings and whose process is carried out in three stages. It is capable of generating its own chain of custody, processing and transmitting information and notifications between tags and between these and authorized networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YOCTO TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
    Inventor: Danny Moreno Levy
  • Patent number: 11908319
    Abstract: A multi-geomagnetic sensor speed measurement system comprises a geomagnetic vehicle detection module, a data transmission module, a data reception module and a backend data processing module. When measuring, the geomagnetic vehicle detection module collects the geomagnetic data when the vehicle passes and processes it to obtain temporal data; the backend processing module receives the data for data cleaning; the backend processing module selects the reference sensors and opens individual time windows; the backend processing module processes the temporal data based on the number of temporal data in the time window; in the case of duplicate-detection, a measurement threshold ? is set and the temporal data is merged based on the threshold ?; in the case of mis-detection, the data is interpolated to make up for the mis-detection; based on the alignment result, a minimum variance method is used to estimate the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Changle Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Guoqiang Mao, Yilong Hui, Yuexu Chen
  • Patent number: 11910283
    Abstract: Techniques described herein leverage existing localization sensors or V2X devices to detect one or more other vehicles that include wireless systems that can interfere with in-vehicle wireless networks. The localization sensors or V2X devices can provide information to determine a location, a heading, a speed, a size, and a type of other vehicles. This information can be used to determine a probability of network interference and allow the in-vehicle wireless networks to employ one or more techniques to mitigate the effects of the interference. The interference mitigation techniques can include increasing or decreasing transmitter power, changing a frequency or a channel of a wireless transmitter, or activating one or more additional transmitters as relays to improve reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dan Vassilovski, Hong Cheng, Shailesh Patil, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11904801
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for detecting proper use of a seatbelt in a vehicle. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving, from a sensor, image data of one or more portions of a seatbelt. The process can further include steps for determining a length of the seatbelt that is dispensed based on the image data and determining if the seatbelt is buckled in front of a passenger's body based on the length of the seatbelt that is dispensed. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Matthew George Czapar
  • Patent number: 11900775
    Abstract: A modular patient monitor provides a multipurpose, scalable solution for various patient monitoring applications. In an embodiment, a modular patient monitor utilizes multiple wavelength optical sensor and/or acoustic sensor technologies to provide blood constituent monitoring and acoustic respiration monitoring (ARM) at its core, including pulse oximetry parameters and additional blood parameter measurements such as carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) and methemoglobin (HbMet). Expansion modules provide blood pressure BP, blood glucose, ECG, CO2, depth of sedation and cerebral oximetry to name a few. Aspects of the present disclosure also include a transport dock for providing enhanced portability and functionally to handheld monitors. In an embodiment, the transport dock provides one or more docking interfaces for placing monitoring components in communication with other monitoring components. In an embodiment, the transport dock attaches to the modular patient monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Ammar Al-Ali, Michael O'Reilly, Paul Ronald Jansen, Nicholas Evan Barker, Anand Sampath
  • Patent number: 11900196
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification integrated circuit for reducing pin counts and an RFID providing method thereof are provided in the present invention. The radio frequency identification integrated circuit includes a first IO pin, a second IO pin and a third IO pin. The method includes determining whether the coil is coupled to the first IO pin, the second IO pin and the third IO pin when the RFID IC is enabled; and determining the identification according to the voltage status of the non-coupled pin and the pins coupled to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERALPLUS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hsin Chou Lee, Li Sheng Lo, Hsien-Yao Li
  • Patent number: 11893876
    Abstract: A building monitoring system includes a sensor configured to sense a condition and collect sensor data related to the sensed condition. The building monitoring system also includes a server configured to receive the sensor data. The server is configured to analyze the sensor data to detect an undesirable condition and a threat from the undesirable condition within a structure and automatically issue a notification upon detection of the undesirable condition and the threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OneEvent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Joseph Wedig, Daniel Ralph Parent, Paul Robert Mullaly
  • Patent number: 11891049
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors configured to track working hours of one or more crew members of a vehicle system as the vehicle system travels. The one or more processors are configured to control the vehicle system to one or more of stop movement of the vehicle system, slow movement of the vehicle system, prevent movement of the vehicle system from a stationary position, or control movement of the vehicle system to an alternative location, responsive to one or more of (i) determining that the working hours of the one or more crew members exceed a prescribed service limit, (ii) determining that the working hours are projected to exceed the prescribed service limit before the vehicle system reaches a designated location, or (iii) determining that the working hours are within a designated time window before the prescribed service limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Irwin C. Morris
  • Patent number: 11891079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Uenoyama, Josuke Yamane, Hikaru Gotoh, Takumi Fukunaga, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko, Rio Minagawa
  • Patent number: 11891016
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a vehicle control system (VCS) coupled to a computer of a vehicle via a CAN bus and configured to present selectively appearance of a presence in the vehicle of a smartkey, e.g., by energizing and de-energizing an actual smartkey of the vehicle. The VCS includes a VCS and a Bluetooth® VCS transceiver. The VCS stores VCS software. The apparatus also includes a smartphone with a Bluetooth® transceiver, and storing an app. The mobile device is paired with the VCS to communicate with the VCS via a Bluetooth® link. The app configures the smartphone to receive menu selections from a user, to generate communications that identify smartkey-enabled features of the VCS that correspond to the selections, and to send to the VCS the communications through the link. The VCS software configures the VCS to receive the communications and cause the vehicle to perform actions corresponding to the communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: VOXX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geoff Weathersby, Robert Andre Lacroix, Elie Issa
  • Patent number: 11884288
    Abstract: A method for classifying a weight of a vehicle includes determining a system enablement state of the vehicle load detection and classification system, monitoring a vehicle weight, determining a change in the vehicle weight, comparing the change in the vehicle weight to a first predefined weight change threshold, and categorizing the change in the vehicle weight in response to determining that the change in the vehicle weight exceeds the first predefined weight change threshold. The method also includes determining if a weight has been left in the vehicle after key-off and determining if a weight has been placed in a cargo compartment of the vehicle which exceeds the weight rating of the cargo compartment. The method also includes optimizing a route to a destination based at least on the change in the vehicle weight and displaying the optimized route to the destination using a human machine interface of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dhruv Patel, Joseph F. Szczerba, Abbas Mohammed, Kevin William Rypstra
  • Patent number: 11875211
    Abstract: Smart sensors apparatus for detecting environmental conditions. The smart sticker apparatus includes a radio frequency identification tag comprising a chip and a loop antenna, the loop antenna being configured to transmit sensor information to an external reader, a plurality of sensors configured to provide environmental data, each of the sensors further comprising a substrate having a proximal side and a distal side, wherein the proximal side of the substrate is mounted to the chip, a conductive ink trace disposed on the distal side of the substrate, and a resin fully enveloping the radio frequency identification tag and partially enveloping the distal side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Stephen Cox, Raymond Provost, Iryna Dzieciuch
  • Patent number: 11869279
    Abstract: An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first vehicle information from a vehicle that is a monitoring target of a monitor, the first vehicle information indicating at least one of a running state and an external state of the vehicle; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to a degree of request for monitoring the vehicle by the monitor, the degree being based on the first vehicle information; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiya Arai, Takahiro Yoneda, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 11861998
    Abstract: A system for detecting a presence in an environment to be monitored includes an electrostatic charge variation sensor, a vibration sensor, and an environmental pressure sensor. A processing unit is configured to acquire, from the electrostatic charge variation sensor, an electrostatic charge variation signal, and detect in the electrostatic charge variation signal, first signal characteristics indicative of the presence of a subject in the environment to be monitored. The processing unit further validates the detection of presence of the subject using the vibration and pressure signals provided by the other sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Enrico Rosario Alessi, Fabio Passaniti
  • Patent number: 11861542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for detecting information of assets stored in communication tags and communicating assets information over a communication network. The system includes a bi-directional communication reader, a server, a GPS unit, a camera, a communication module, a relay switch, a battery, and an IR Engine. The server stores asset information using a software application. The software application includes a front end application module for configuration, an event module, a jitter control module, a back end application module, a real time module, a communication module, a GPS communication module, a relay communication module, a motion detector communication module, a reader control module, a camera communication module, an IR communication module, and a remote configuration module. Further, an unlimited number of modules can be added for example extended storage, LCD, and flash. The event module reads the asset information from the database and alerts the user of an event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Danny Akaoui
  • Patent number: 11861997
    Abstract: A method includes supporting, by a support, a bag containing one or more items of an order and detecting, by a sensor coupled to an end of the support, a weight of the bag and the one or more items when the bag is suspended on the support such that the weight of the bag and the one or more items is exerted on the support. The method also includes comparing, by a hardware processor, the detected weight to an expected weight of the order and communicating, by the hardware processor, an alert when the expected weight is unequal to the detected weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Sharon Freedman, Scott Graham, Suzanne M. Bleakley, Tuyen Bui
  • Patent number: 11847519
    Abstract: There is described a system and method for tracking a tag. The system and method includes a concentrator for receiving, via a one-way Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication, at least one data packet broadcasted by a tag during a time slot assigned to the tag and identifying the tag based on the at least one data packet. The system and method also includes a gateway in communication with the concentrator for receiving the identification of the tag from the concentrator and outputting the identification of the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Bluicity Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Kumar Arora, Sylvain Louchez