Patents Examined by K. Shah
  • Patent number: 11912196
    Abstract: An apparatus for outputting a virtual engine sound includes: an output device that outputs the virtual engine sound; a bumper beam connected to a rear surface of the output device; and a bumper foam connected to the output device and the bumper beam while opening left and right side surfaces of the output device. The apparatus for outputting a virtual engine sound may improve a virtual engine sound output efficiency by utilizing a sound pressure radiated from a side surface of the virtual engine sound output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keun Jin Kim, Young Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 11900495
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller. The controller is configured to: when the controller determines that boarding or alighting by a user or loading or unloading of luggage is to be performed with respect to the vehicle, control the vehicle to project visual information to, or set a geo-fence on, at least a part of a region within a predetermined range from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Roger Kyle, Yuta Kodama, Corentin Marie C. Mossoux, Shunsuke Tanimori, Rio Minagawa, Dany Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11902726
    Abstract: A method of operating a battery powered telemetric device configured with a processor, a sensor to measure data to indicate the contents or usage of a product within an asset generating sample data, data storage, at least one battery and a transmitter, includes keeping in the data storage at least one instance of previous data samples represented in a previously transmitted packet, awakening the telemetric device at variable time intervals programmed according to pre-determined user-defined characteristics so that the sensor provides sample data to the data storage to indicate the contents or usage of the product within the asset wherein the telemetric device is otherwise asleep to minimize battery drain, storing all the sample data since the transmission of the previously transmitted packet and the kept at least one instance of previous data samples represented in the previously transmitted packet in the data storage as all the stored sample data, transmitting a packet including representations of the conten
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON CONTROLS PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Julien Dominique Rivals, John Richard Haddy
  • Patent number: 11894884
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for modular electrical grid communications platform. In some implementations, a devices includes a housing that forms an interior space, and that includes an exterior surface, one or more pass-through regions that each define a through-hole between the interior space and the exterior surface, and a recess at the exterior surface that is capable of receiving a module. The device includes a printed circuit board disposed within the interior space of the housing. The devices includes a module that has at least one sensor and that is placed in the recess. The device includes electrical connections that each have a first end connected to the printed circuit board, and a second end that directly or indirectly contacts a corresponding component of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Richard Alpert, Roy Franklin Perry
  • Patent number: 11894677
    Abstract: A system and method for data collection and aggregation using a distributed network of communications enabled sensors connected to another primary network to achieve a secondary out-of-band monitoring perspective, for example, in power grids. The data collection system includes an aggregation and processing server configured to collect data from a variety of sensors adjacent to the monitored network each sensor includes secondary power such that it can continue data transmission even during power grid outages. The data collection system includes a method for secure real-time data ingest, machine learning enabled analysis, risk assessment, and anomaly detection on a broad geographic scale irrespective of isolated network boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernardo Huberman, Scott H. Clearwater, Scott L. Caruso
  • Patent number: 11893652
    Abstract: A control device that is communicably connected to a vehicle includes a control unit. The control unit executes acquisition of sensor information from a sensor provided in the vehicle, determination of whether the vehicle is parked based on the sensor information, determination of whether a user is staying in the vehicle based on the sensor information, and estimation that the user is staying in the vehicle when a parking time of the vehicle exceeds a first reference value and a staying time of the user exceeds a second reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirohiko Morikawa
  • Patent number: 11878151
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, an intelligent medicine administering system includes a medicine injection device having a multi-channel encoder that detects fault conditions (e.g., such as open or short circuits) and a patient user's companion device including a software application operable to implement algorithms for detecting faults and communication loss and alerting the patient user for safety and fail-safes of the medicine injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jack Pryor, Arnold Holmquist
  • Patent number: 11875870
    Abstract: In a data transmission system, one or more signal supply voltages for generating the signaling voltage of a signal to be transmitted are generated in a first circuit and forwarded from the first circuit to a second circuit. The second circuit may use the forwarded signal supply voltages to generate another signal to be transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit, thereby obviating the need to generate signal supply voltages separately in the second circuit. The first circuit may also adjust the signal supply voltages based on the signal transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit. The data transmission system may employ a single-ended signaling system in which the signaling voltage is referenced to a reference voltage that is a power supply voltage such as ground, shared by the first circuit and the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Best, John W. Poulton
  • Patent number: 11870564
    Abstract: An audio data transmission method includes encapsulating, based on a physical layer frame header, a protocol data unit (PDU) including audio data, to obtain an audio data packet, where the physical layer frame header is modulated using a first digital modulation scheme, the PDU is modulated using a second digital modulation scheme, a value of a modulation rate of the first digital modulation scheme is equal to a value of a data transmission rate, and a value of a modulation rate of the second digital modulation scheme is less than the value of the data transmission rate, and sending the audio data packet on a BLUETOOTH low energy (BLE) physical channel at the data transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huazhang Liu, Zhan Yu, Tong Chen
  • Patent number: 11863362
    Abstract: A radio receiver comprises a matched filter bank and a decision unit. The matched filter bank has a plurality of filter modules for generating correlation-strength data from a sampled radio signal, each filter module being configured to cross-correlate the sampled signal with data representing a respective filter sequence. The decision unit is configured to use the correlation-strength data to generate a sequence of decoded symbols from the sampled signal. The matched filter bank and/or decision unit are configured to determine the value of each symbol in the sequence in part based on the value of a respective earlier decoded symbol from the sequence of decoded symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventors: Daniel Ryan, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11864091
    Abstract: A method for discovering services in a telecommunication network provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, said method comprising the steps of receiving a discovery request, from a Network function, NF, consumer, for discovering an NF producer to interact with, wherein said discovery request comprises a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number, MSISDN, associated with said NF consumer, transmitting to an address translate server, an address translate query, wherein said address translate query comprises said MSISDN, receiving an address translate response, wherein said address translate response comprises a Universal Resource Identifier, URI, and transmitting, to said NF, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises an NF producer instance for interaction with said NF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, David Castellanos Zamora, Jose Miguel Dopico Sanjuan
  • Patent number: 11863546
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method for delivering a certificate to a vehicle comprising transmitting the certificate to the vehicle via near field coupling is provided. The near field coupling can be accomplished by transmitting data using a near field coupled antenna to a receiver. The near field coupled antenna can also be used for content delivery such as for example, a streaming video signal, a streaming webcast signal, non-streaming transfer of information, etc. The method can be used for location validation of land vehicles, marine vehicles, and pedestrians as well as content delivery, and payment mechanisms. In accordance with another embodiment a traffic control system is configured to control vehicles and pedestrians in an intelligent transportation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Eberle Design, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy McCall
  • Patent number: 11863140
    Abstract: An aspect includes a filtering method including operating a first filter to filter a first input signal to generate a first output signal; operating a second filter to filter a second input signal to generate a second output signal; and merging at least a portion of the second filter with the first filter to filter a third input signal to generate a third output signal. Another aspect includes a filtering method including operating switching devices to configure a filter with a first set of pole(s); filtering a first input signal to generate a first output signal with the filter configured with the first set of pole(s); operating the switching devices to configure the filter with a second set of poles; and filtering a second input signal to generate a second output signal with the filter configured with the second set of poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Abbas Mohamed Helmy, Mehran Bakhshiani, Francesco Gatta
  • Patent number: 11863361
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods for frequency domain (FD) local oscillator frequency offset (LOFO) compensation. The method comprising: i) compensating, by an integer Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) bins-based oscillator, LOFO in a received signal by an integer number of FFT bins; and ii) compensating, by a fractional FFT bins-based oscillator, LOFO in the compensated signal by the integer FFT bins-based oscillator with a fine compensation resolution of a fractional number of FFT bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Qiu, Xuefeng Tang, Ahmed Mohamed Medra, Hossein Najafi, Ali Bakhshali
  • Patent number: 11861437
    Abstract: A method of detecting a stimulus can include detecting an output from a radio frequency identification tag including a sensor. A smartphone-based sensing strategy can use chemiresponsive nanomaterials integrated into the circuitry of commercial Near Field Communication tags to achieve non-line-of-sight, portable, and inexpensive detection and discrimination of gas phase chemicals (e.g., ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, cyclohexanone, and water) at part-per-thousand and part-per-million concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Timothy Manning Swager, Joseph Michael Azzarelli, Jens Bomholdt Ravnsbæk, Katherine Andrea Mirica
  • Patent number: 11863212
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the signal processing device to perform operations including: converting a first signal that is a time domain signal into a second signal that is a frequency domain signal in response to reception of the first signal, the first signal containing noise superimposed on a broadcast electric signal derived from a broadcast electromagnetic wave, the noise having peaks of amplitude at regular frequency intervals in the frequency domain; calculating a frequency interval between the peaks of the noise in the frequency domain based on a correlation of the second signal; determining a frequency shift amount in the frequency domain based on the frequency interval; and shifting a frequency of the second signal by the frequency shift amount to create a frequency-shifted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fujishima, Wataru Miyashita, Shunsuke Ikeda, Takayuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 11855824
    Abstract: Provided are a data modulation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The data modulation method comprises: modulating data according to a configured constellation point modulation symbol S(n) set, wherein n is an integer between 0 and N?1, and N is an even integer greater than or equal to 4; and transmitting the modulated data on a physical resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Xin, Tong Bao, Jin Xu, Guanghui Yu, Liujun Hu
  • Patent number: 11855825
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing additional bandwidth to receivers that can decode a higher modulation comprising trading a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction induced constellation noise of all or a subset of in-band on-channel (IBOC) carriers within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ODFM) waveform with data carrying superposition modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NAUTEL LIMITED
    Inventor: Philipp Schmid
  • Patent number: 11843489
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for identifying the phase and polarization of independent modulation streams in quadrature channels of a coherent transmission system by using digital code. As a result, phase rotation and polarization of streams that during transmission may have become rotated and swapped around in the channel are correctly labeled and depermuted according to a known and predictable order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Razzell
  • Patent number: 11832945
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for identifying impairment using measurement devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BI Incorporated
    Inventors: Duke Hanson, Dustin Pettit, Joseph P. Newell