Patents Examined by Julie B. Lieu
  • Patent number: 11227073
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses relating to an anti-theft device. An anti-theft device can be affixed to a tablet or laptop. The anti-theft device can determine if a distance relative to a reference point exceeds a threshold. An alarm state can be entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventor: Niloy Roy
  • Patent number: 11221625
    Abstract: A system included and a computer-implemented method performed in an autonomous-driving vehicle are described. The system performs: detecting one or more movable traffic objects; determining one or more target movable traffic objects from the one or more detected movable traffic objects; determining a type of the one or more target movable traffic objects and an traffic object that has a right of way (ROW) in a situation involving the autonomous-driving vehicle. The system further performs: determining a manner of generating a vehicle behavior notification to the target movable traffic object based on the type of the one or more target movable traffic objects and the ROW; and causing a vehicle behavior notification of the determined manner to be generated to the one or more target movable traffic objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Zixuan Zhou, Xiang Yu, Tiancheng Lou, Jun Peng
  • Patent number: 11217081
    Abstract: An RF shut off system includes a sensor for indicating a mast or antenna position such that an antenna supported by the mast is operable or not according to an indication of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: PERFECTVISION MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: George Kerstetter, Charles Darwin Davidson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11205335
    Abstract: A lanyard device (10) having a flexible neck cord (12) and at least one strain sensor (30) arranged for sensing strain in the flexible neck cord; and a personal lanyard monitoring system including the lanyard device (10). A position recognition unit (52) is configured for comparing strain data obtained from the at least one strain sensor (30) to predetermined strain data, and recognizing a position of the flexible neck cord (12) in dependence on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Lifeline Systems Company
    Inventor: Chaitanya Dongre
  • Patent number: 11205345
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and apparatuses for intelligent traffic signaling are disclosed. Standalone traffic signals are equipped with a plurality of sensors including RF, radar, Wi-Fi, and cellular sensors, etc., for detecting approaching automobiles in an opposing traffic lane. The traffic signal is controlled by a processor at an attached or nearby controller box, and the processor is operable to receive speed, location, and heading data directly from nearby automobiles. The processor determines, based on detected or received data corresponding to approaching automobiles, a level of safeness associated with crossing the opposing traffic lane. The level of safeness is calculated by determining an expected time to arrival of an approaching automobile at the traffic intersection, and comparing the expected time to a width of the opposing traffic lane. A light pattern at the traffic light indicates the calculated level of safeness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Information, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Mulligan
  • Patent number: 11203325
    Abstract: An identification system configured so as to identify a driver of a vehicle after the vehicle has been started, the identification system includes a state detection module configured so as to generate a first dataset containing information relating to at least one movement of a device of the vehicle; an identification module carried or worn by a carrier or wearer and configured so as to generate a second dataset including movement data of the carrier or wearer; and a computing module configured so as to correlate the first dataset with the second dataset so as to determine whether the carrier or wearer and the driver are the same person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventor: Arnaud Dieudonne
  • Patent number: 11198388
    Abstract: A vehicle alarm system includes a vehicle having a frame; a driver seat secured to the frame; a back seat secured to the frame; and a computer configured to determine if the vehicle is in motion. The system further includes a pressure sensor secured to a driver seat and in data communication with the computer, the pressure sensor is configured to sense the pressure of a driver sitting on the driver seat; a thermometer sensor in data communication with the computer, the thermometer is configured to measure the outside and inside air temperature within the vehicle; a motion detector in data communication with the computer, the motion detector is configured to detect motion of an infant within a car seat secured to the back seat of the vehicle; a camera in data communication with the computer, the camera is configured to capture images of the infant; a transmitter in data communication with the computer; and a mobile device in wireless communication with the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Sidney L. Crose
  • Patent number: 11189155
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking an article is described. The article may be baggage passing through an airport terminal or another venue. The system comprises a beacon associated with a baggage article, a plurality of relaying bridges, and a tracking service. Short-range radio signals including a beacon identifier and a beacon transmission power are emitted by the beacon associated with a baggage article and detected by a plurality of relaying bridges. The relaying bridges calculate a received signal strength indicator (RSSI), convert the short-range radio signal to a relay signal and transmit the relay signal including a unique relaying bridge identifier and RSSI information via a network. The tracking service receives data from the relay signal, attaches a time stamp to the received data, stores the time-stamped data, and determines from the stored data the time when the article arrives at a point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Eric Malinofsky
  • Patent number: 11158189
    Abstract: According to the disclosed approaches, a first processor receives location messages from second processors. Each location message specifies published geographical coordinates that indicate a geographical location, and the published geographical coordinates are a version of actual geographical coordinates truncated from a first level of precision to a second level of precision. The first processor accesses subscriptions to location topics in response to the location messages. Each location topic specifies in the second level of precision, subscribed-to geographical coordinates of a location. The first processor determines whether or not the published geographical coordinates match any of the subscribed-to geographical coordinates. Non-matching location messages are discarded, and matching location messages are transmitted to one or more third processors identified by the subscriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Global Traffic Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Edwardson, Samantha Edwardson
  • Patent number: 11151862
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for monitoring and controlling a security system for a structure are provided herein. An exemplary method may include receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure; determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data; creating an alert based in part on the critical event; getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit; determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences; and activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Tobin E. Farrand, William M. Gillon, Kevin D. Snow, William T. Krein, David A. Bryan
  • Patent number: 11148587
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a light system for mounting to an automobile that alerts surrounding vehicles to emergency conditions on the automobile without the necessity of establishing electrical communication with the control system of the automobile. The light system utilizes a movable contactor that serves to activate and deactivate the light when the light system is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Hayes
  • Patent number: 11147490
    Abstract: A monitoring device for detecting wetness in a garment is disclosed. The monitoring device of the present disclosure includes a clip removably attachable to the garment and having a printed circuit board and a plurality of pins in communication with the printed circuit board, a portion of the plurality of pins extending through a portion of the clip, wherein the plurality of pins include a first pin, a second pin, and a third pin, the first pin and the second pin aligned along a first axis of the clip and the third pin aligned along a second axis of the clip, the second axis spaced from the first axis, wherein, with the clip attached to the garment, the printed circuit board is in communication with the garment via the plurality of pins. Transmitters having built-in delay mechanisms configured to delay transmitting operational data for a period of time are also disclosed. The operational data may include moisture data and detachment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: RSC ASSOCIATES, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Reed Stevens, Ivan J. Goering, Suguru Nishioka
  • Patent number: 11142155
    Abstract: A horn plate assembly for a vehicle includes: a horn plate having a plurality of fastening holes; and fasteners fastened to a hub of a steering wheel through the fastening holes. Seating grooves having stepped cross-sections to the fastening holes are formed at the fastening holes, and portions of the fasteners are seated in the seating grooves when the fasteners are fastened to the hub of the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyoung Jun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11143516
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a task management system for map labeling tasks. The system can determine when one task is dependent on completion of another task and schedule those tasks accordingly. Further the system can ensure that tasks are completed with a proper priority and can track completion of these tasks. The present technology ensures sufficient work is completed to speed up map release versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Chen Xie, Rohan Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11145172
    Abstract: A vibration control apparatus that is connectable to plural types of vibrating device, that identifies the type of the vibrating device actually connected to the vibration control apparatus, of the plural types of vibrating device, that obtains property information relating to the vibration property of the identified type of vibrating device, that accepts a vibration instruction, and that causes the connected vibrating device to vibrate for the content produced by correcting the content of the accepted vibration instruction in accordance with the obtained property information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11136788
    Abstract: An electronic door lock including a magnetometer, an accelerometer, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a status of a door with respect to a door frame using data provided by the accelerometer and magnetometer which collectively generate acceleration data, velocity data and positional data of the door. The processor provides data to a user interface or an alert device indicating one or more of: door open angle, prep-less door position, an acceleration alert, a door position alert, door sag, door frame rub, and triangulation of an intruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Brian A. Telljohann, Ryne Rayburn, Matthew R. Dexter, Gregory Ross, John Evenson
  • Patent number: 11132897
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of an edge server communicating with vehicles by continuously receiving messages which include data of state transitions of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) contained in each vehicle; monitoring in real-time the streamed message data from each vehicle for detection of updates of data about state transitions of ECUs used in the vehicular operations; crowdsourcing in real-time the state transition data of the ECUs during the vehicular operations to group together state transition data having commonality as crowdsource transition data; processing, using a machine learning model, the crowdsource transition data, to classify the crowdsource transition data of an anomaly event; and transmit in advance to an identified vehicle an alert of the anomaly event in order for a driver or ADAS to execute a response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Donal McErlean, Joon Hwang, Geoffrey Wakefield, Mason D Gemar, Scott E. Jackson
  • Patent number: 11127227
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing accident events are disclosed According to certain aspects, an electronic device may access sensor data associated with operation of a vehicle, and analyze the sensor data to determine that an accident event has occurred. In response, the electronic device may dynamically and automatically retrieve additional sensor data from at least one additional electronic device via a short range communication. The electronic device may compile or aggregate the additional sensor data with the original sensor data to provide a thorough representation of the accident event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BLUEOWL, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Dahl, Steven J. Harris, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11107352
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing and routing ridesharing vehicles. In some implementations, the systems and methods may count the number of passengers entering a ridesharing vehicle, distribute vehicles in need of charge to charging stations based on predicted future demand, manage a fleet of petrol and electric ridesharing vehicles, route autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles, automatically adjust drop-off locations based on safety constraints, and preschedule a rideshare with an unknown pick-up location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: VIA TRANSPORTATION, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Ramot, Oren Shoval, Shmulik Marcovitch, Erin Abrams
  • Patent number: 11102654
    Abstract: A helmet for communicating with a vehicle function controller and method for operating the same has a first memory, a first transmitter, a first receiver and a first controller in communication with the first memory, the first transmitter and the first receiver. The first receiver receives a plurality of vehicle function settings. The first memory stores the vehicle function settings within a memory of the helmet. The first transmitter communicates the vehicle function settings from the first memory to the vehicle function controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Taylor, Troy D. Kendrick