Patents Examined by L. Williams
  • Patent number: 11921310
    Abstract: An illuminated harness includes a front panel assembly and a rear panel, in which the front panel assembly includes a left front panel detachably connected to a right front panel. A side-illuminating fiber optic cable is attached to the front panel assembly and the rear panel assembly, including a first belt portion and a second belt portion joining the front panel assembly to the rear panel, combining to form a belt. The fiber optic cable also forms a left shoulder strap joining the front panel assembly to the rear panel and a right shoulder portion joining the front panel assembly to the rear panel, forming a pair of shoulder straps. A light source is coupled to the fiber optic cable and arranged to transmit light into the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Keith S. Willows, June A. Angus, Antonio Del Rosario
  • Patent number: 11921900
    Abstract: Managing privacy controls in an information handling system to allow Information Technology Decision Makers (ITDMs) to prevent unwanted disclosure of information while allowing users to work together. A first privacy policy is asserted to protect information. When a user device requests an override to access an I/O device, embodiments analyze device parameters and application parameters to determine whether to authorize the use of the I/O device. If the override request is authorized, the user is able to access the I/O device and a new privacy policy is asserted. If a device parameter changes, embodiments may assess whether the change could result in unwanted disclosure of information and dynamically change the privacy policy to prevent the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Daniel Lawrence Hamlin
  • Patent number: 11917052
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hash algorithm circuit, a hash algorithm method, and an electronic device. The hash algorithm circuit is used to reduce fixed-length parallel data, and the reduced identifier can be used as an index reference, an identifier ID, an address extension bit, information summary, and so on. The hash algorithm circuit has the characteristics of low power consumption, low cost, etc., and can be integrated in a digital circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangye Wei, Liming Xiu
  • Patent number: 11904764
    Abstract: A cancellation device for an automotive feature on a vehicle includes a lever configured to be manually moved relative to the vehicle from a first, neutral position to a second, non-neutral position to actuate the automotive feature. The cancellation device also includes a detent pawl coupled to the lever such that the detent pawl moves with the lever, a detent spring configured to bias the detent pawl, a centering spring configured to bias the lever back to the first, neutral position, and a magnet configured to generate a force to hold the lever in the second, non-neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: STRATTEC SECURITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam Pirkey, Gregory J. Organek, Steven J. Dimig, Alan J. Ritz, Ben Dimig
  • Patent number: 11907406
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a corresponding system of tamper-evident recording of a plurality of service data items are provided. Each service data item is associated with a data item verification fingerprint. A processing routine is conducted, in which an aggregated verification fingerprint is computed from at least a plurality of data item verification fingerprints using at least one one-way compression function, so that the aggregated verification fingerprint has a bit length, which is less than a bit length of a concatenation of the data item verification fingerprints. The aggregated verification fingerprint is then stored in at least one blockchain, so that a tamper-evident verification of each service data item is possible, while the storage of the aggregated verification fingerprint is decoupled from the service data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CRYPTOWERK CORP.
    Inventor: Holger Assenmacher
  • Patent number: 11906854
    Abstract: A liquid crystal element includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate, a first pixel electrode corresponding to a first pixel region arranged on the first substrate on the second substrate side, a second pixel electrode corresponding to a second pixel region arranged on the first substrate on the second substrate side, a common electrode arranged on the first substrate side of the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between a group of the first and second pixel electrodes and the common electrode, where the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are provided on different layers on the first substrate, and their ends are arranged so as to partially overlap each other in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Toko, Hiroshi Tozuka
  • Patent number: 11898726
    Abstract: A light irradiation device includes a light source, a first reflecting surface, a second reflecting surface and a rotation mechanism that rotates the first reflecting surface around a first central axis passing through a center of the first reflecting surface and rotates the second reflecting surface around a second central axis passing through a center of the second reflecting surface. The first central axis is orthogonal to a first reference surface that is 45 degrees inclined with respect to a first plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis of light incident upon the first reflecting surface, the second central axis is orthogonal to a second reference surface parallel to the first reference surface, and the first reflecting surface is inclined with respect to the first reference surface and the second reflecting surface is inclined with respect to the second reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashige Suwa, Ritsuya Oshima, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11899756
    Abstract: A method for registering and provisioning an electronic device is provided. The method includes a step of inserting a first keypair into a secure element of the electronic device. The first keypair includes a public key and a private key. The method further includes a step of requesting, from a remote server configured to register and provision connected devices, a provisioning of credentials of the electronic device. The method further includes a step of verifying, by the remote server, the electronic device credentials. The method further includes a step of registering, by the remote server, the electronic device. The method further includes a step of transmitting, from the remote server to the electronic device, a device certificate. The method further includes steps of installing the transmitted device certificate within the secure element of the electronic device, and provisioning the electronic device according to the installed device certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Pala, Ronald H. Ih, Carl Fredrik Pettersson
  • Patent number: 11889989
    Abstract: A light source apparatus for endoscope includes a light source, a collective lens, a light shielding member which shields at least a part of the light emitted from the light source, and allows light which is not shielded, to be transmitted as transmitted light, an optical fiber on which, the transmitted light transmitted through the light shielding member is incident, a holding member which includes a heat insulating member, and holds at least one of the light source, the collective lens, and the light shielding member by fixing at a respective position thereof, and a heat exhausting member which exhausts heat generated in the light shielding member to an outside of the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Kigoshi, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11884207
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for light adaptation of the eyes of a driver of a vehicle when exiting a tunnel. The method and arrangement determines a tunnel exit position and changes a light source luminous flux of at least one light source in the vehicle as the vehicle approaches the tunnel exit position in response to the determination of the tunnel exit position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEV. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Erik Lindberg Nilsson, Magnus Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11886246
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler R. Kakuda, Christopher E. Glazowski, Elizabeth C. Porter, Hao Dong, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
  • Patent number: 11886579
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus for validating and authenticating use of machine learning models. For example, various techniques are described herein to limit the vulnerability of machine learning models to attack and/or exploitation of the model for malicious use, and for detecting when such attack/exploitation has occurred. Additionally, various embodiments described herein promote the protection of sensitive and/or valuable data, for example by ensuring only licensed use is permissible. Moreover, techniques are described for version tracking, usage tracking, permission tracking, and evolution of machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Shawn Arie Peter Stapleton, Amir Mohammad Tahmasebi Maraghoosh
  • Patent number: 11887805
    Abstract: Electron sources can include an electron source crystal coupled in series between opposing electrically conductive supports to form an electrically conductive path, wherein the electrical resistance of each of the electrically conductive supports is lower than the electrical resistance of the electron source crystal. Electron source crystals can include an emitting end and opposing shank end, wherein the shank end includes opposing leg portions. Electrically conductive supports can include foil supports spaced apart across a gap, wherein each of the opposing leg portions is attached to a respective foil support such that the foil supports are electrically connected to form the electrically conductive path. Particle focusing system are also disclosed. Electron sources can include an electron source crystal having an emitting end and opposing shank end, wherein the shank end is formed of a pair of opposing leg portions. Methods of manufacturing and operating electron sources are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FEI Company
    Inventors: John Stiller, Aaron Torok, Kevin Kagarice
  • Patent number: 11887973
    Abstract: There is provided a full spectrum white light emitting device comprising: a broadband LED flip chip that generates broadband light of dominant wavelength from about 420 nm to about 480 nm and a FWHM from 25 nm to 50 nm; and at least one photoluminescence layer covering a light emitting face of the broadband LED flip chip; wherein the broadband LED flip chip comprises a broadband InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells LED chip comprising multiple different wavelength quantum wells in its active region that generate multiple narrowband light emissions of multiple different wavelengths and wherein broadband light generated by the broadband LED flip chip is composed of a combination of the multiple narrowband light emissions, and wherein the at least one photoluminescence material layer comprises a first photoluminescence material which generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 490 nm to 550 nm; and a second photoluminescence material which generates light with a peak emission wavelength from 600 nm to 680 n
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Qun Li, Xianglong Yuan, Jun-Gang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11887802
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure is an electron emitting element 10 including a laminated structure in which a first electrode 1, an electron accelerating layer 6 made of an insulation film, a second electrode 3, and a cover film 7 are laminated in that order, in which the second electrode is an electrode which transmits electrons and emits electrons from a surface thereof, and the cover film is a film which transmits electrons, is a protective film made of a material different from that of the second electrode, and constitutes an electron emission surface 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Murakami, Masayoshi Nagao
  • Patent number: 11879635
    Abstract: A luminaire is provided that includes an LED light engine emitting a light engine light beam and one or more optical devices configured to receive the light engine light beam and form a luminaire light beam emitted by the luminaire. The LED light engine includes an array of LED emitters mounted on a substrate, an array of lenses optically coupled to the array of LED emitters, and a plurality of filter regions. The filter regions of the plurality of filter regions are optically coupled to and fixedly mounted relative to the array of LED emitters. Each filter region of the plurality of filter regions is aligned with an associated LED of the array of LED emitters and is configured to filter substantially only light emitted by the associated LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ROBE lighting s.r.o.
    Inventors: Jan Vilem, Tomas David, Josef Valchar
  • Patent number: 11881545
    Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first substrate. The light-emitting device also includes a second substrate including a light-shielding structure. The light-emitting device further includes a first light-emitting module and a second light-emitting module being adjacent to each other. The first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module are spaced apart by a gap, and the light-shielding structure at least partially covers the gap in a top view direction of the light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jia-Yuan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee, Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11878435
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a shaving device and more specifically, to a portable shaving apparatus designed to look like a cosmetic container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Khubani, Eric Langberg, David Stowers
  • Patent number: 11881392
    Abstract: A lamp and epitaxial processing apparatus are described herein. In one example, the lamp includes a bulb, a filament, and a plurality of filament supports disposed in spaced-apart relation to the filament, each of the filament supports having a hook support and a hook. The hook includes a connector configured to fasten the hook to the hook support, a first vertical portion extending from the connector toward the filament, and a rounded portion extending from an end of the first vertical portion distal from the connector and configured to wrap around the filament. A second vertical portion extends from an end of the rounded portion distal from the first vertical portion and the second vertical portion has a length between 60% and 100% of the length of the first vertical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yao-Hung Yang, Shantanu Rajiv Gadgil, Kaushik Rao, Vincent Joseph Kirchhoff, Sagir Kadiwala, Munirah Mahyudin, Daniel Chou
  • Patent number: 11880084
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for making armored cables. An example method for making an armored cable includes forming a strip stock into an armor tubing; welding a seam of the armor tubing in a welding zone; inserting at least one of a first optical fiber or a first wire into a first end of a first guide tube, wherein: the first guide tube extends through the welding zone; the first guide tube protects the at least one of the first optical fiber or the first wire during the welding of the seam; and the first guide tube is not part of the armored cable after the making of the armored cable; and supporting the first guide tube within the armor tubing by a plurality of support legs such that the first guide tube does not contact the armor tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Edward M. Dowd, Domino Taverner, John J. Grunbeck