Patents Examined by Laura A Gudorf
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Patent number: 11200390Abstract: A distribution system is disclosed for use with an induction system with an object processing system. The distribution system provides distribution of dissimilar objects into one of a plurality of receiving units. The distribution system includes an urging system for urging an object on a conveyor from the conveyor to a chute that includes at least one actuatable door for selectively dropping the object through the at least one actuable door, said chute leading to a first receiving station with a second receiving station being positioned below the at least one actuable door.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Berkshire Grey, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Matthew T. Mason, Christopher Geyer, John Richard Amend, Jr., Kyle Maroney, Joseph Romano, Victoria Hinchey, Jeffrey Kittredge, Andrew Gauthier, Lakshman Kumar, Prasanna Velagapudi
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Patent number: 11195073Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, an intelligent tracking system is disclosed. The intelligent tracking system includes one or more passive tracking devices, an exciter, and a tracker. Each passive tracking device includes one or more transceivers and is energized by an electromagnetic frequency. In response to being energized each passive tracking device transmits a short message. The exciter emits the electromagnetic frequency. The tracker receives short messages from the one or more passive tracking devices and confirms the presence of the one or more passive tracking devices in a vicinity of the tracker based on the received messages.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: CULVERT-IOT CORPORATIONInventors: Dean Mamoru Kawaguchi, Alberto Vidal, Edward John Boling, Prasad Panchalan, Amit Lal, Justin C. Kuo, Edward Maurice Farrell
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Patent number: 11182657Abstract: In an example, a method includes receiving, at a processor, a digital version of an image combined with a machine readable graphic code. Areas of the combined image and graphic code that have a lightness level below a threshold level may be determined. Print instructions for depositing a metallic pattern wherein solid areas of the metallic pattern correspond to the areas of the combined image and graphic code that have a lightness level below the threshold level may also be determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Gideon Amir
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Patent number: 11170278Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of tartan encoding includes receiving first and second information elements for use in generating a tartan design. The method also includes generating a primary pattern for the tartan design using the first and second information elements, the primary pattern including a plurality of primary band counts that are each derived from a combination of the first and second information elements and a plurality of primary, colors. The method also includes generating a secondary pattern for the tartan design, the secondary pattern including a plurality of secondary band counts and a plurality of secondary colors. The method also includes generating a hand-level machine instruction set for the tartan design, the band-level machine instruction set representing the primary pattern and the secondary, pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Knorr Ventures, LLCInventors: Robert J. Knorr, III, Gilbert Reynolds, Rosemarie Knorr, Maria Knorr
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Patent number: 11151830Abstract: Provided are a banknote temporary storage mechanism (400) and a banknote processing device. The banknote temporary storage mechanism (400) is configured to enable the banknote to smoothly fall without getting jammed. The banknote temporary storage mechanism (400) includes a frame (8), a first door (1) pivotally connected to the frame (8), and a banknote pushing mechanism (4). The first door (1) has an open position and a closed position. The banknote pushing mechanism (4) includes a banknote pushing member (44). The banknote pushing member (44) is movably connected to the first door (1), and protrudes from a banknote support surface of the first door (1). The banknote pushing member (44) is configured to, as the first door (1) rotates towards the open position from the closed position, to move relative to the first door (1) along a direction in which a banknote is disengaged from the first door (1), to push the banknote to be disengaged from the first door (1).Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaojie Tang, Xin Wang, Tao Gao
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Patent number: 11151437Abstract: A transaction card includes at least one metal layer having one or more apertures therein. A light guide is disposed beneath the metal layer. The light guide has a light output and a light input. The light output is positioned to transmit light through at least the one or more apertures of the metal layer. At least one LED is positioned to transmit light into the light guide light input.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: COMPOSECURE, LLCInventors: Adam Lowe, John Esau
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Patent number: 11151338Abstract: Disclosed is a method of managing a smart card configured for securing a transaction with an external device via a card reader, the method including the following steps: incrementing at least one command counter of commands received by the smart card during a transaction; and depending on the current value of the at least one counter and a command profile, implementation of a smart card management command.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCEInventors: Francis Chamberot, Arezki Rezzeli
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Patent number: 11144739Abstract: Techniques for eliminating RFID cross-reads for RFID point of sale scanners using imager object tracking are disclosed herein. An example method includes measuring, by an imager a series of displacements of an object from a center of the field of view (FOV) of the imager, over a timeframe; measuring, by an RFID reader, a series of received signal strengths for an RFID tag over the same timeframe; comparing the series of displacements to the series of received signal strengths over the timeframe to determine a measure of similarity between the series of displacements of the object from the center of the FOV of the imager and the series of received signal strengths for the RFID tag over the timeframe; and responsive to the measure of similarity exceeding a threshold measure of similarity, adding a record associated with the RFID tag to a transaction log.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Umesh Manthrayil Sachidanandan, Sajan Wilfred
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Patent number: 11138683Abstract: Provided are a consultation service apparatus of an automatic civic service system and an information processing method. A user holds an application document and identity credentials and operates a consultation service apparatus at a public area. The consultation service apparatus is connected to at least one business/institutional organization at a remote end through a network. The consultation service apparatus acquires image information of the application document and the identity credentials through an image scanner, confirms validity of the image information and performs service classification thereon, transmits the image information to a corresponding organization according to a classification result, and generates a certificate of completion for proof of completion of all procedures. By virtue of the automatic application submission mechanism, social cost can be reduced and working efficiency can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: AVISION INC.Inventors: Chieh-Yi Sung, Vamsi Krishna Neelam
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Patent number: 11126951Abstract: A system and method for ensuring safe delivery of items to an event, such as a conference or trade show. The system uses a controlled-access website or app and a program with a database operated by a security coordinator. All prospective attendees are vetted, and after being verified as bona fide attendees who qualify as a reliable exhibitor/shipper, are given access to the database for the purpose of obtaining (by download) a particularized set of coded labels to be applied to a particular item to be shipped. The coded labels are then printed, applied to the items to be shipped and sent to a staging location for screening. At the staging location, the security coordinator scans all coded labels of shipped items when they arrive, and the program compares the scanned data with the data in the database to see if the shipped items are associated with a reliable exhibitor/shipper.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: UNITED SERVICE COMPANIESInventor: Richard A. Simon
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Patent number: 11126811Abstract: A package unit capturing arrangement includes a belt conveyor for transporting a package unit having an identification marking along a conveying direction and includes an optical sensor. The belt conveyor has, parallel to the conveying direction, a sideguard for preventing the packing unit from falling off a belt of the belt conveyor. The sideguard is designed to have a grate in a region. The sensor is arranged laterally with respect to the belt and behind the grate on a side of the sideguard facing away from the belt so that the belt and the grate lie in a field of view of the sensor. A depth of field region of the sensor is narrower than a width of the belt, with the result that the identification marking of the packing unit is optically capturable by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: DEUTSCHE POST AGInventors: Ingo Tzschichholtz, Guido Bais
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Patent number: 11120321Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of communications and, particularly to a visual card and an operating method for the visual card; the visual card includes a main control module, an antenna module, a power management module, a displaying module and a signal converting module; the main control module is connected to all of the antenna module, the power management module, the displaying module and the signal converting module, the signal converting module is connected to the antenna module; the main control module is configured to communicate with an external card read device via the antenna module, update and store key information; the main control module is further configured to monitor an exit signal according to an electronic signal input by the signal converting module.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: FEITIAN TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
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Patent number: 11116314Abstract: A system for home clothing and footwear products arrangement includes a shelter arrangement which comprises a plurality of shelter elements for storing and sheltering a plurality of dressing items, a control center which is a computing device, an electrical terminal, a position indication arrangement for indicating a position of a target dressing item for a user, and an identifier coupled to the shelter arrangement for establishing communication between the control center and the electrical terminal, so as to allow a user to quickly find his or her target clothing or footwear product.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Inventor: Zixuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11108946Abstract: A method and apparatus for the focus stabilization of an imaging system with variable focus lenses is disclosed herein. As example imaging system includes a variable focus (VF) lens for imaging an object of interest (OOI), a controller configured to provide a voltage to the VF lens, an imaging sensor, and a processor. The processor obtains a calibration parameter, and the imaging system obtains a plurality of images of the OOI. The processor identifies a region of interest of one or more of the images, and an alignment parameter is determined from the images. The processor then determines a tuning parameter from comparing the determined alignment parameter with the obtained calibration parameter. The controller tunes the VF lens according to the determined tuning parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventor: Vladimir Gurevich
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Patent number: 11080499Abstract: A recording tape cartridge includes a case that accommodates a reel around which a recording tape is wound and a label that is attached to a label surface formed at a wall surface of the case. The wall surface is located at a side opposite to a direction in which the case is loaded into a drive device. The label includes a first label layer that is attached to the label surface and on which individual identification information is displayed in a two-dimensional code, and a second label layer attached to the first label layer with a peelable bonding force, the second label layer being capable of covering and concealing the two-dimensional code, and the individual identification information being displayed in a barcode on the second label layer. The two-dimensional code is displayed at a central part in a longitudinal direction of the label.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Osako, Yosuke Sumiya
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Patent number: 11074488Abstract: A wearable device including: a housing including a slot operable to contain an electronically readable tag or a transmitter; and a plurality of depressible buttons coupled to the housing, wherein depressing at least two of the plurality of depressible buttons in a predetermined order is operable to expose the electronically readable tag in or from the slot or is operable to activate the transmitter to transmit a signal. A method of exposing an electronically readable tag including; exposing an electronic tag contained in a housing of a wearable device by pressing a plurality of buttons coupled to the housing in a predetermined order; and exposing the electronic tag to a tag reader.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Inventor: Tomas Francis Klimt
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Patent number: 11068769Abstract: A system, comprising a prepared Near Field Communication (NFC) tag, which has been customized by a business to cause custom websites to pop up on customers' smartphones; a service point, which is a place where a customer will receive service from the business; wherein a customer can waive a smartphone over the prepared NFC tag at a service point; wherein the prepared NFC tag will cause a website to pop up on the smartphone and the customer can enter a request, which will be sent to workers at the business's location; wherein the customer's request is authenticated and hence physical presence verified; wherein workers at the business will receive the request, and will respond to the request at the customer's service point. For example, in a grocery store, the service points are along the aisles, and in a restaurant, the service points are the tables.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Service Point Systems LLCInventor: Mitchell Vibbert
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Patent number: 11069200Abstract: A system for processing a deposit can include a financial institution computing system for use in processing a deposit from a customer at an automated teller machine (ATM). The system can include input/output logic configured to receive, from the ATM, deposit information and an event indicator value corresponding to an interaction between the customer and the ATM; confidence score generating logic configured to analyze the deposit information received from the ATM and to determine a confidence score related to an amount of the deposit based on the analysis; and a risk-decisioning system including funds availability logic configured to calculate an availability value based on the event indicator and the confidence score. The risk-decisioning system can be configured determine that the availability value is greater than an availability threshold, and to responsively make an amount of funds available to the customer for withdrawal at the ATM.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Jerome Rhodes, Michael R. Thomas
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Patent number: 11062100Abstract: Systems and methods configured to determine a machine-readable optical code based on screen-captured video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, via a user interface of a client computing platform, an indication to begin a screen-captured video; initiate, based on the indication, the screen-captured video; effectuate an image decoding machine configured to parse and decode images and/or the video frames for information embedded into the images and/or the video frames to: parse the video frames for a machine-readable optical code; for individual ones of the video frames with the machine-readable optical code, extract embedded information from the machine-readable optical code; and decode the embedded information for metadata; and effectuate, via the user interface, presentation of information derived from the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Outlayr, Inc.Inventors: Carl Michael Cartagena, Mark Jered Verrico, Jonathen Christopher Wong
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Patent number: 11048892Abstract: The invention relates to a custom luggage tag design with barcode and mobile scanner to efficiently process hotel bag delivery on arrival and departure.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: MS SHIFT, INC.Inventor: Ori Zur