Patents Examined by Kesha Frisby
  • Patent number: 11942206
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the efficacy of entertaining elements during physical and cognitive therapeutic sessions are disclosed. The system is comprised of a means for providing visual and auditory information, and prompting a patient to perform physical and cognitive tasks of varying difficulty. The system is further comprised of a means of tracking the patient's movements to provide feedback to the patient and assess the performance of the patient's movements. Prompted movements are designed to provide therapeutic mental, behavioral, and physical health benefits to the patient, and may increase or decrease in difficulty based on prior assessments of a patient's movements. Entertaining elements are introduced in the visual and auditory information and assessed for their impact on the patient's performance of the movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: John Attard, Victor Talbot, Christopher Recinos, Darren Hocking, Hassan Farhat, Harout Mardirosian, Yudhi Sharma
  • Patent number: 11928321
    Abstract: Templates for identifying equivalent fractions in one example comprise a plate defining a plurality of aligned rows, each row having an equal length and representing a respective fraction. Each row defines a number of slots through the plate, positioned to divide a row into equal parts corresponding to the respective fraction. Slots or markers in respective rows corresponding to equivalent fractions are vertically aligned. An elongated slot may be provided on the template or on a separate template to draw a boundary to mark a fraction, identify equivalent fractions and perform mathematical operations. In another example, a first template includes a plurality of aligned rows with marks to indicate fractions and a second, transparent template for placement over the first template. Fractions may be drawn in a Unit box defined on the second template. Methods of using a template, and virtual templates, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Alfred Goldman
  • Patent number: 11922824
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for personalizing playback of an audio stream is provided. The present invention may include sectioning the audio stream into one or more content blocks and one or more filler blocks; determining one or more topics associated with the one or more filler blocks; determining a level of complexity associated with the one or more filler blocks; determining a listener's level of interest in and level of comprehension of the one or more topics; based on the level of complexity, the level of interest, and level of comprehension corresponding to the one or more topics, assigning a playback speed to the one or more content blocks associated with the one or more topics; and modifying the one or more content blocks to play at the assigned playback speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Igor S. Ramos, Angelo Danducci, II, Kimberly J. Taft, Devon E. Mensching
  • Patent number: 11922826
    Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and teaching aid for continuously improving the system for educating students to a level of mastery and for systematically improving the mastery standard The invention includes a cost efficient system that enables multiple cycle of learning for each lesson, and the system is continuously reviewed and revised based on feedback showing the understanding and knowledge on the part of the students. Repetitive cycles of learning result in students with mastery level skill and confidence. The invention also includes a cost efficient method for creating the course and preparing instructors to teach the course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Eureka! Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas B. Hall
  • Patent number: 11915604
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a training lab that can be used as a teaching platform for individuals to learn electronic maintenance, such as transformer maintenance. The training lab can be either stationary or mobile, or can switch between the two modes. Modified transformers, or other equipment, can be incorporated into the lab to improve training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUANTA ASSOCIATES, L.P.
    Inventors: Alan Drew, Aaron Howell, Mark Groves, Aaron Marshall Jenkins, Phil Carrillo
  • Patent number: 11904227
    Abstract: An exercise information management system and a method of controlling the exercise information management system are provided. The exercise information management system includes a plurality of smart mirrors and a server that communicates with at least one smart mirror. Exercise-related information of an exercise performed by a user in the at least one smart mirror among the plurality of smart mirrors is stored in the server and remaining smart mirrors among the plurality of smart mirrors is configured to share the exercise-related information stored in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Un Kim, Jeongwoo Nahm
  • Patent number: 11893900
    Abstract: An electronic chess set includes a plurality of conductive chess pieces, a chessboard having a playing surface including a plurality of individually identifiable locations visible to a user on the chessboard, and an electronic system including a capacitive sensing system. In some embodiments, the capacitive sensing system is configured to determine for each of the plurality of individually identifiable locations: when a chess piece included in the plurality of conductive chess pieces is located at a respective one of the plurality of individually identifiable locations and user-contact with the chess piece is absent; when the chess piece located at the respective one of the plurality of individually identifiable locations is in contact with the user; and when each of the plurality of conductive chess pieces is absent from the respective one of the plurality of individually identifiable locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Bryght Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bowman Wigh, Adam Wesley Roush, Justin William Farrell, Elliot Samuel Wilder
  • Patent number: 11887506
    Abstract: Techniques are described by which learner skill can be estimated over time, even in the presence of large data sets. A rating system can be used in which a learner's submission of a course assessment can be interpreted as a single match, where the learner and the course assessment are competing against each other. This approach can be applied to online learning platforms that include very many learners who have submitted assignments very many times in many courses. The described techniques provide reliable estimates of assessment difficulty and learner ability. The described scoring framework may be used as a basis for various applications that account for a learner's ability, such as adaptive diagnostic tests and personalized recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Coursera, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Reddick, Emily Glassberg Sands, Vinod Bakthavachalam, Alan Hickey
  • Patent number: 11881122
    Abstract: A question-and-answer application that displays topic-specific biographical information about users when presenting certain content elements is described. The topic-specific biographical information for a user may be displayed in various contexts, such as with an answer to a question on a question page for the question, or with information identifying a user who is following a question or a topic. With some embodiments, a user's topic-specific biographical information may be provided by the user, provided or suggested by another user, or obtained from an external data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUORA, INC.
    Inventors: Adam D'Angelo, Charles Duplain Cheever, Rebekah Marie Cox
  • Patent number: 11881119
    Abstract: In general, systems, methods, and devices for modeling air leaks in lungs are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the systems, methods, and devices provide a model to allow for simulation of negative and positive pressure ventilation modes in vitro, which may allow for evaluation and investigation of pathologies and interventions. In addition to ventilation functions the model includes submersion of the lung sample in fluid inside a chamber and cycling the fluid through a collection system to collect air leaked from the lung. The model can allow for quantification and visual observation of air leaks in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Chad E. Eckert, Jordan B. Wong, Charles C. Klassen, Harald C. Ott, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 11875694
    Abstract: An operation motion is accurately determined in an operational information management system. The system includes a motion verification portion that combines and verifies plurality of pieces of sensor information and recognizes a specific body motion, a signal determination portion that determines whether an operation content of an operator is correctly performed based on the body motion recognized by the motion verification portion, and a report portion that reports a determine result of the signal determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Tetsuya Ishimaru, Nobuyuki Sugii, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Noriyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11869385
    Abstract: The present invention manages knowledge through elementary knowledge units and systematized inventories of bodies of knowledge comprised of interrelated elementary knowledge units. Methods and systems of the present invention granulate articulations from sources into utterances that are semantically equivalent to elementary knowledge units, but that may be lexically inequivalent. These elementary knowledge unit outputs may be constellated to reflect compositional dynamics of a body of knowledge. A constellation of knowledge units may be updated based on updating the body of knowledge out of which they are granulated or by adding elementary knowledge units granulated from one or more sources. An individual source may be abstracted based on how it relates to the elementary knowledge units in a body of knowledge. Knowledge mastery may be imparted through one-at-a-time absorptions of elementary knowledge units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Erind Pajo
  • Patent number: 11844626
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods that can determine a user's fitness based on a single factor such as oxygen lung volume (pmVO2). A heart rate measurement is conducted on the user after the user performs a physical test specified by a fitness application of the system. The heart rate measurement is converted into a pmVO2 value and compared to pmVO2 values of other individuals. The system assigns the user a fitness grade based on the comparison result. The system further includes an artificial intelligent system that helps the user to move from a grade to a higher grade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: COOPER HEALTH AND FITNESS APPLICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Clark Cooper, Terdema Ussery, III
  • Patent number: 11837349
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the efficacy of entertaining elements during physical and cognitive therapeutic sessions are disclosed. The system is comprised of a means for providing visual and auditory information, and prompting a patient to perform physical and cognitive tasks of varying difficulty. The system is further comprised of a means of tracking the patient's movements to provide feedback to the patient and assess the performance of the patient's movements. Prompted movements are designed to provide therapeutic mental, behavioral, and physical health benefits to the patient, and may increase or decrease in difficulty based on prior assessments of a patient's movements. Entertaining elements are introduced in the visual and auditory information and assessed for their impact on the patient's performance of the movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: John Attard, Victor Talbot, Christopher Recinos, Darren Hocking, Hassan Farhat, Harout Mardirosian, Yudhi Sharma
  • Patent number: 11826612
    Abstract: A portable instrument provided with a device for controlling or managing a sports or well-being activity of a person wearing the portable instrument. The control device includes at least a motion sensor and a pressure sensor connected to a calculation unit, and a GNSS receiver module connected to the calculation unit. The calculation unit of the control device is arranged to activate the GNSS receiver module for a time of activation defined subsequent to variations in movement detected by the motion sensor differing from known movement data or walking profiles in order to determine at least one reference speed of the person, and to deactivate the GNSS receiver module after the activation time for a deactivation time greater than the activation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Cedric Nicolas, Kamiar Aminian, Joaquin Cabeza De Pablo, Martin Savary, Abolfazl Soltani, Hooman Dejnabadi
  • Patent number: 11830376
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for providing weather information are provided. An indication of a subject of interest may be received from a user. A geo-location of the subject of interest may be determined. Weather information within a threshold distance from the geo-location may be determined. Sounds corresponding to the weather information may be generated. The sounds may include sound localization with respect to the user in order to indicate a position of the weather information with respect to the geo-location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jessika Ann Welch, Maureen Kraft
  • Patent number: 11819751
    Abstract: During a first time period and for a first user, a second user is automatically selected based on competitive data of the first user and competitive data of the second user, and a workout selection is sent to cause a video of a workout to be displayed during a second time period on a smart mirror of the first user and a smart mirror of the second user. During the second time period, a live stream of the first user exercising is displayed at the smart mirror of the second user, and a live stream of the second user exercising is received and displayed at the smart mirror of the first user. During the second time period, a performance score of the first user and a performance score of the second user is displayed at the smart mirrors of the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Curiouser Products Inc.
    Inventors: Brynn Putnam, Kristie D'Ambrosio-Correll
  • Patent number: 11810478
    Abstract: A system and method for an electric aircraft coaching simulator is illustrated. The simulator includes a pilot control that is configured to generate a pilot command. The simulator includes a processor that is configured to receive optimized flight data, simulate a battery performance of an electric aircraft as a function of the received pilot command and generate an optimal flight recommendation based off the optimized flight data. The simulation model is configured to communicatively connect with the flight simulator to mimic a real flight situation. Optimized flight data from other pilots can be used to coach pilots how to fly with more energy efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy Gerard Richter
  • Patent number: 11804147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for managing an individual's weight, which operates in an Internet of Things environment over a 5G communication network and is capable of effectively managing an individual's weight, and a personalized weight management method using the apparatus. The present disclosure is directed to learning a predicted weight of an individual calculated based on weight information of the individual, information on a type and an amount of food ingested by the individual, and information on exercise performed by the individual, received on the present day, and predicting information on food to be ingested and information on exercise to be performed in order to achieve a target weight received from the individual, based on the learned predicted weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Seo Jeong Chang
  • Patent number: 11776425
    Abstract: Examples include a frame supporting a holding slot with guide surfaces along an axis from a slot power connector. A first and a second circuit board device are movably supported by the guide surfaces. Each includes a first side edge, a second side edge, and a laterally stackable power rail extending from a first connector on the first side edge to a second connector on the second side edge. Each includes a guide structure moveably engaging the slot guide surfaces. In a state, the first circuit board device is adjacent the slot power connector. The second circuit board device is adjacent the first circuit board device. the first connector of the first circuit board device is aligned and coupled with the slot power connector, the second connector of the first circuit board device is aligned and coupled with the first connector of the second circuit board device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Asim Dajoh, Mohammed Altalhi