Patents Examined by K. Wong
  • Patent number: 11871897
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a radiographic image captured by irradiating a breast compressed by a compression member with radiation; generate a projection image, which includes guide information serving as a guide in a case in which the breast is compressed and is capable of identifying whether the guide information is related to a right breast or a left breast, on the basis of a shape of the breast in the compressed state indicated by the radiographic image; and control an image projection unit which projects the projection image onto a first projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11874182
    Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising a slider with a resistive temperature detector (RTD) having a first resistance electrically connected to a first amplifier and a plurality of controlled current sources and switches, and one or more processing devices configured to: control the switches to generate an alternating-bias signal having a first clock frequency for biasing the first resistance, modulate an input signal of the first amplifier using the first clock frequency to generate a modulated signal, demodulate an amplified modulated signal at an output of a second amplifier using the first clock frequency to generate a resistance detection signal, the second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier, and process the resistance detection signal to determine the first resistance and/or a change in value of the first resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Ronald Chang, Bernhard E. Knigge
  • Patent number: 11875909
    Abstract: Pulse generators and radiation systems having the same are provided. A pulse generator may include a shielding device and a control device operably connected with the shielding device. The control device may be configured to control the shielding device to intermittently shield radiation emitted from the radiation source to produce pulsed radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenglong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11867070
    Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine and a sensor system. The gas turbine engine includes an inlet and a compressor section. A flowpath projects radially inward into the gas turbine engine from the inlet and extends through the compressor section. The sensor system includes a plurality of static pressure sensors at least partially within the flowpath. The sensor system is configured to determine a total pressure characteristic within the flowpath using the plurality of static pressure sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Mark Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11869296
    Abstract: Provided is an equipment controlling apparatus that includes a storage section that stores a time frame within which a setting of operation of a device disposed in a predetermined region is to be changed, and a control section that controls the device to change operation between a time frame set in advance in the storage section and a time frame different from the time frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Yokota, Takeshi Otani, Michiko Toba, Kazuha Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Hida, Takeo Kamei, Shuhei Kikuchihara, Shinya Kimura, Ryohei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11867551
    Abstract: A signal transmitter for a fill level sensor, a conductor path arrangement is printed on a resistor arrangement. The resistor arrangement is located below a slideway and is accessible between conductor path sections for trimming of the resistor. The signal transmitter is of particularly compact configuration and can be produced at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kallweit, Claus Eichelmann
  • Patent number: 11869312
    Abstract: A continuous symbol sequence supplemental game features is described. A gaming device randomly triggers, based on a random number generator, a continuous symbol sequence supplemental game feature. The gaming device randomly determines, based on the random number generator and triggering the continuous symbol sequence supplemental game feature, a number of credit symbols to add to a continuous symbol sequence. The gaming device randomly determine, based on the random number generator, the credit values for the credit symbols. The gaming device presents the continuous symbol sequence, wherein the credit values of the credit symbols in the continuous symbol sequence are arranged in a designated order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christmas Uberuaga, Daniel Mirjavadi, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 11869298
    Abstract: A method of interacting with an electronic gaming machine that executes a program for a wagering game includes generating a video image including the electronic gaming machine, the electronic gaming machine is within a view of a player, generating virtual content associated with the game executed by the electronic gaming machine, and displaying the virtual content to the player to augment the player's view of the electronic gaming machine, the virtual content appears to the player to be on or adjacent to the electronic gaming machine. Related electronic gaming machines and electronic gaming systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: David Vincent Froy, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11867065
    Abstract: To increase the inertia of a sealing lip of a blade for an aircraft turbine engine, and thus improve the service life of such a sealing lip, the sealing lip is conformed so as to have a trough in the outer surface thereof and a corresponding boss in the inner surface thereof, the trough and the boss being defined based on a connection cross section of the sealing lip to a blade body, and being formed at a distance from a free axial end of the sealing lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Edouard Emmanuel Garreau, Josserand Jacques Andre Bassery, Lucas Geoffrey Desbois, Etienne Leon Francois, Samuel Laurent Noel Mathieu Juge, Elsa Maxime, Ba-Phuc Tang, Denis Gabriel Trahot, Thomas Tsassis
  • Patent number: 11867646
    Abstract: Provided is a total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer which has high analysis sensitivity and analysis speed. The total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes: an X-ray source that has an electron beam focal point having an effective width in a direction parallel to a surface of a sample, and orthogonal to an X-ray irradiation direction, that is larger than a dimension in the irradiation direction; a reflective optic that has an effective width in the orthogonal direction that is larger than that of the electron beam focal point, and has a curved surface in the irradiation direction; and a plurality of detectors that are arranged in a row in the orthogonal direction, and are configured to measure intensities of fluorescent X-rays emitted from the sample irradiated with primary X-rays focused by the reflective optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kambe, Kazuhiko Omote, Toshifumi Higuchi, Tsutomu Tada, Hajime Fujimura, Masahiro Nonoguchi, Licai Jiang, Boris Verman, Yuriy Platonov
  • Patent number: 11869294
    Abstract: An identification systems maintains digital identities for people and uses such digital identities to generate and/or provide one or more digital identification objects to one or more checkpoints. Such digital identification objects may be generated on the fly using identity information stored in association with the digital identities, stored, and so on. The identification system may generate the digital identification object in a format expected by the checkpoint, may have a trusted relationship with the checkpoint and/or may be configured to securely communicate with the checkpoint, and so on. In this way, the identification system may enable use of the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints discussed above without requiring that people have a mobile driver's license and/or other government-issued digital identification stored on a mobile device that is capable of communicating with the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SECURE IDENTITY, LLC
    Inventors: Sam Hall, Kenneth Cornick
  • Patent number: 11869554
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a disk, a head that writes data to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller that controls a position of the head so as to write a first spiral servo pattern to the disk, and overwrite a second spiral servo pattern different from the first spiral servo pattern by shifting in a radial direction of the disk from the first spiral servo pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshitaka Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11866199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interlining checked bags between two unaffiliated airlines. The traveler may purchase the interlining service and be assured that the checked bags associated with that service will be automatically transferred from their first flight to their next flight. The traveler does not have to collect the checked bag, and then re-check it onto the second flight, which may allow a traveler to say with in the security zone of the airport, where permitted by airport flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Air Black Box Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Hance, Andrew Bliesner, Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
  • Patent number: 11867090
    Abstract: A stator vane provided rearward of a rotor blade, includes: an airfoil body having an airfoil profile. The maximum airfoil thickness position of the airfoil body on the airfoil profile satisfies following conditions at least on a tip side of the airfoil body: (a) on a plane expanded in a circumferential direction in which the stator vane is arranged, the position is located in a first region which is close to a trailing edge of the airfoil body from an intersection of the airfoil body and a line which is parallel to an extension line of a camber line of the rotor blade at a trailing edge of the rotor blade and passes through a leading edge of another stator vane adjacent in the circumferential direction, and (b) the position is located in a second region having a chord ratio from 0.2 to 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Kusuda
  • Patent number: 11867548
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and mediums for correcting a smart gas flow. The method may be implemented by a smart gas device management platform of an IoT system for correcting a smart gas flow. The method may include: obtaining reading data of a gas meter; determining a first confidence level of the reading data based on the reading data; in response to a determination that the first confidence level is smaller than a confidence level threshold, obtaining a working condition parameter; and determining, based on the working condition parameter, a gas meter correction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yong Li, Yongzeng Liang, Xiaojun Wei
  • Patent number: 11864937
    Abstract: Methods and systems for X-ray and fluoroscopic image capture and, in particular, to a versatile, multimode imaging system incorporating a handheld X-ray emitter operative to capture non-invasive images of a target; a stage operative to capture static X-ray and dynamic fluoroscopic images of the target; a system for the tracking and positioning of the X-ray emission to improve safety of obtaining X-ray images as well as improve the quality of X-ray images. Where the devices can automatically limit the field of the X-ray emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OXOS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Ruff, Gregory Kolovich, Dev Mandavia, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Igor Zamlinsky, Sean Dolan
  • Patent number: 11869291
    Abstract: A smart locker system with assistance for a visually impaired user is disclosed. Each locker in the smart locker system includes a beacon that emits a signal either before the locker door is released or at the same time as the locker door is released. The beacon is used by a visually impaired user to locate the specified locker before it opens or at the same time as it opens. The beacon may be a haptic device that causes the specified locker to vibrate, which allows the user to find the locker by feel. The beacon may also be an auditory device that causes the specified locker to emit a sound, which allows the user to find the locker by sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meridian Zero Degrees LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dallimore, Richard Medlin, Eric Frank, Ben Misegades, Dominic Atibil, Victor Graham, Tim Dobson, Josh Edwards
  • Patent number: 11864933
    Abstract: A system for imaging a breast includes a gantry and a tube head rotatably coupled thereto. An x-ray source is disposed within the tube head. A support arm is movably coupled to the gantry and includes a breast support platform. An x-ray detector is disposed within the breast support platform and a compression arm is movably coupled to the support arm. An opaque breast compression paddle is coupled to the compression arm. The breast support platform and the opaque compression paddle at least partially define a compression volume for compressing a breast and a camera is arranged to capture images of the compression volume. An image display is at least partially disposed on the system and is configured to display the images of the compression volume captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Harold Paige
  • Patent number: 11860333
    Abstract: Examples are directed toward systems and methods relating to security screening. For example, a screening system includes a sensor array to sense a gravitational field caused by an item, and a conveyor to convey the item through sensing positions for scanning by the sensor array. A controller acquires weight measurement information from sensor elements, and gravitational measurement information from the sensor array. The conveyor incrementally advances the item through additional sensing positions to acquire weight measurement information and gravitational measurement information. The controller performs tomographic reconstruction to generate a tomographic image of the item, using a generated weight map as a static weight input vector and using a generated mass map as a static mass input vector for the tomographic reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventor: James Henry Remer
  • Patent number: 11860100
    Abstract: Microscopy with Ultraviolet Surface Excitation (MUSE) for use in the classroom to enhance life sciences education and curricula, or for other applications, including without limtiation the operating room, other medical environments, research environments, and low resource environments. MUSE's suitability is based on multiple key factors including its simplicity of use, the incorporation of inexpensive hardware including LED illumination, and very basic tissue preparation. The ultraviolet excitation acts as passive optical sectioning confining the generated fluorescence signal to only a few micrometers below the tissue surface thus eliminating the out of focus signals. This facilitates image capture of tissue microstructure and organization from specimens at the intact or sliced surface arising from varying fluorophore concentration within the different cellular compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Stavros G. Demos, Chi Huang