Patents Examined by Mancil Littlejohn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12235947
    Abstract: A physiological patient monitoring system with a patient-facing interface is disclosed. The patient interface can be used by the patient to communicate with hospital staff without actually requesting attendance and can request attendance for specific purposes. The patient interface may also track patient treatment and inform patients of the details of their treatments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Bilal Muhsin, Ammar Al-Ali, Nicholas Evan Barker, Chad A. DeJong, Omar Ahmed, Keith Ward Indorf, Steve Coon
  • Patent number: 12223110
    Abstract: A software defined button includes a force sensor and a haptic output element. The button further includes an immutable logic core and a mutable logic core. The mutable logic core is configured to define one or more thresholds against which input received from the force sensor can be compared to determine whether a user input has been provided. The immutable logic core is configured to verify actual force input has been received when the mutable logic core signals that user input has been received. In response to receiving a verified force input, the haptic output element can be caused to be driven by one of the mutable or immutable logic cores to provide a haptic output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Denis G. Chen, Matthew T. Metzler, Eric M. Innis, Darya Amin-Shahidi, Shingo Yoneoka, Chi Kin Ho, Adriane S. Niehaus, Matthew N. Weege, Michael S. Weinstein, Tristan R. Hudson, Parin Patel, Jonathan A. Gordon
  • Patent number: 12221003
    Abstract: A wireless charging system for a road. The wireless charging system comprises a wireless communication transceiver embedded within the road. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to communicate with a vehicle traveling on the road. The wireless charging system additionally comprises a wireless power charger embedded within the road. The wireless power charger is configured to transmit energy wirelessly to the vehicle. The wireless power charger further comprises at least one control processor in communication with the wireless communication transceiver and the wireless power charge. The control processor is configured to control the wireless power charger based on data regarding the vehicle obtained from the wireless communication transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Integrated Roadways, LLC
    Inventors: Tim Sylvester, Tiziano Pedersoli
  • Patent number: 12215831
    Abstract: An optimized, energy-sensitive system and method for fulfilling various data needs of gas utilities. In particular, the disclosure relates to optimized methods for discovering and reacting to an alarm. In one aspect, when an alarm is triggered a telemetry unit automatically alters its operating mode to begin transmitting live pressure reads every minute instead of every hour, as typically performed. This variance in operation eliminates the need for a user to monitor a pipeline system for an incoming alarm and manually request data by initiating a live communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Aclara Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Peggy Devereaux, Vaishali Sangtani
  • Patent number: 12216834
    Abstract: Disclosed are a human-computer interaction movement track detection method, device, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: segmenting a movement path of a movement target to obtain one or more sub paths; monitoring and recording movement of the movement target in each of the sub paths to obtain a human-computer interaction movement track of the movement target in each of the sub paths; identifying the human-computer interaction movement track of the movement target in each of the sub paths with a determination model corresponding to each of the sub paths; and detecting a human-computer interaction movement track of the movement target based on identification of the human-computer interaction movement track in each of the sub paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: KINGFAR INTERNATIONAL INC., NANJING KINGFAR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Qichao Zhao, Ran Yang
  • Patent number: 12201106
    Abstract: A fishing and hunting prediction system and method. The fishing and hunting prediction system may include a server, including a fishing and hunting prediction application, a controller, operating memory, and a communications interface, and wherein the server is accessible via a network. The fishing and hunting prediction system may further include, a data store in communication with the server; one or more data sources, wherein the one or more data sources are accessible to the fishing and hunting prediction application via the network; and wherein the controller is configured to execute stored program instructions, that may include providing access to a user; receiving user profile data; receiving waypoint data for one or more waypoints; receiving data from the one or more data sources; processing the received data; and generating fishing and hunting forecasting models based on the processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ChasinFins, Inc.
    Inventor: Murphy Ernest Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 12188344
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing a charging and communication interface and a sensor system to gather downhole measurements. The method further includes charging and activating the sensor system using the charging and communication interface, installing the sensor system into a nozzle of a drill bit, running the drill bit into a wellbore, conducting measurements using the sensor system, pulling the drill bit out of the wellbore, and contacting the charging and communication interface with the sensor system to retrieve the measurements from the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Abrar Alshaikh, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Guodong Zhan, Timothy Eric Moellendick
  • Patent number: 12142134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a haptic feedback substrate, a haptic feedback apparatus and a haptic feedback method. The haptic feedback substrate comprises an actuator and a plurality of vibration units connected to the actuator, wherein each vibration unit has a different inherent frequency, the actuator is configured to generate a vibration signal and drive the vibration unit with the inherent frequency being a target inherent frequency to resonate, and a difference between the target inherent frequency and a frequency of the vibration signal is less than or equal to a present threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaotong Liu, Yuju Chen
  • Patent number: 12102872
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for measuring angles, such as foot angle at each of a plurality of positions during a plurality of successive strides during activity such as bicycling or running. Optionally, acceleration and gyroscopic/rotational data is wireless received from a foot-mounted sensor module having accelerometers for acceleration measurements in orthogonal directions and gyroscope sensors to provide rotational measurements around orthogonal axial directions; and a processor that calculates foot angles at a plurality of successive positions within each of a plurality of strides of a human user during an athletic activity; and an output device in the personal electronic device that presents human-perceptible indications based on the calculated foot-angle data. In some embodiments, the output data is presented visually and/or audibly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Bryan L. Striemer
  • Patent number: 12105877
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for haptic stimulation. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a haptic stimulation system comprising a haptic stimulation interface comprising a pattern of stimulation elements configured to stimulate receptors in skin of a user. The haptic stimulation system further comprises a control circuit configured to present information in the haptic stimulation interface in accordance with a presentation mode that is tailored to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 12106659
    Abstract: A haptics signal generator configured to generate a haptics signal for driving a haptics transducer by amplitude modulating and frequency modulating a carrier signal based on an input audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Lal, Michael Kurek, Hamid Sepehr
  • Patent number: 12086316
    Abstract: The invention provides a haptic feedback data processing method. During the running of the preset application process, the haptic feedback data of the actuator is collected in real time. At the time of reference data sampling, all collected haptic feedback data are integrated and processed to generate recorded data. Store the executable data corresponding to the recorded data. Through the implementation of the present invention, the haptic feedback data generated in real time is recorded and stored during the running of the application. Therefore, in the application data playback scenario, the haptic feedback data during the running of the application can be output accordingly, which can provide users with a more extreme recording file playback experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai)Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiuyue Wang, Yulei Zhang, Xiaojie Shao
  • Patent number: 12061748
    Abstract: A haptic touchpad may include a seamless layer of glass; a touchpad assembly, including: a capacitive touch printed circuit board (PCB) operatively coupled to a bottom side of the seamless layer of glass via a first adhesive; a contact foil operatively coupled to the bottom surface of the capacitive touch PCB via a second adhesive; a piezoelectric element array operatively coupled to a bottom side of the contact foil to receive an applied mechanical stress; and a controller of the information handling system operatively coupled to the piezoelectric element array to: receive electric actuation signals from the piezoelectric element array placed under the mechanical stress via the contact foil; and send an electrical response signal to the piezoelectric element array to cause the piezoelectric element array to generate haptic feedback; and a unibody C-cover support frame to support the touchpad assembly and the seamless layer of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Priyank J. Gajiwala, Nicholas G. DiLoreto, Brian J. Yates, Joseph McDonald, Duck Soo Choi, Mark A. Schwager
  • Patent number: 12051318
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for receiving electronic healthcare records and wearable device data associated with multiple users from multiple data sources, which are configured to generate and store the data in various data model regimes, many of which are not standardized or are variants of a standard. The data is standardized, aggregated, and then analyzed to generate reports. The reports are used to provide a plurality of customized execution environments and user interfaces on computing devices of the users, based on a report of each user. The data is used to determine distress situations and provide alert notifications in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Cascioli
  • Patent number: 12020550
    Abstract: A system for detecting and discriminating the severity of a fall includes a mobile device configured to communicate a network, a notification module, and a wearable device configured to communicate with the mobile device, the wearable device including a fall monitor and an activity log resident on the wearable device, where the fall monitor is configured to record detected movement on the activity log. The notification module is configured to effect a selectable setting of a rate of communication between the mobile device and the wearable device based on at least part of a predetermined pattern of a fall discriminator within the activity log, where the selectable setting defines a predetermined period of communication between the mobile device and the wearable device. The fall discriminator is configured to determine when the activity log includes a notable fall event based on the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: FALLCALL SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Shea C. Gregg
  • Patent number: 12020559
    Abstract: A tactile sensation presentation device includes a light source that emits a laser beam toward a test site that is a region of a skin surface of a biological object and a control device that generates a control signal that controls the light source and causes the light source to emit the laser beam in a modulated manner. The laser beam emitted from the light source in a manner modulated in accordance with the control signal from the control device whereby the test site is irradiated is absorbed at the test site and generates a pressure wave that is a thermoelastic wave by the photoacoustic phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Okabe, Toshishige Shimamura, Yoshiyuki Doi, Yuzo Ishii
  • Patent number: 12009103
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method. The method can comprise causing a first user interface to be automatically rendered on a device via an App. The first user interface can comprise health instructions. The health instructions can be rendered responsive to a communication from a server to the App. The communication from the server comprises the health instructions. The health instructions can be determined via the server based upon an Artificial Intelligence algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventors: Edward R Silansky, Jennifer Finan, Leslie Ricci
  • Patent number: 12002341
    Abstract: In one aspect of the disclosed implementations, a device includes one or more motion sensors for sensing motion of the device and providing activity data indicative of the sensed motion. The device also includes one or more processors for monitoring the activity data, and receiving or generating annotation data for annotating the activity data with one or more markers or indicators to define one or more characteristics of an activity session. The device also includes one or more feedback devices for providing feedback, a notice, or an indication to a user based on the monitoring. The device further includes a portable housing that encloses at least portions of the motion sensors, the processors and the feedback devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: James Park, Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Eric Nathan Friedman, Christine Boomer Brumback
  • Patent number: 11995977
    Abstract: A monitor circuit is configured to receive sensor data samples at a first bit rate. The monitor circuit includes a sensor data processing circuit that is coupled to a sensor node and is configured to generate a sensor data characteristic signal for each sensor data sample. The sensor data characteristic signal for a particular sensor data sample indicates a value of a monitored parameter of the particular sensor data sample. The monitor circuit also includes a fault trigger circuit configured to determine, based on the sensor data characteristic signal, whether the sensor data samples satisfy a fault trigger. The monitor circuit further includes a summarization circuit configured to generate a sensor data summary signal based on the sensor data characteristic signal. The sensor data summary signal is provided to a summary output node at a second bit rate that is less than the first bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John Harrison, Xavier F. Nieves, Matthew Swoboda
  • Patent number: 11990297
    Abstract: A switch including a blade, an electrical terminal, and a sensor. The blade is pivotable between an open position and a closed position. The electrical terminal is configured to receive the blade when in the closed blade position. The sensor is coupled to the electrical terminal. The sensor is configured to sense a position of the blade and output a signal corresponding to the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: David Rhein, Angelo Rizzo