Patents Examined by Mirza Alam
  • Control device update
    Patent number: 9559789
    Abstract: A system and method for updating IR signal information remotely for control devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Contec, LLC
    Inventor: Huseyin Kandir
  • System and method for highly reliable delivery of life-critical alarms through shared wireless channels
    Patent number: 9554706
    Abstract: A patient monitor includes a plurality of monitoring devices which collect data about a patient. An evaluation unit determines the patient's condition from the collected data and generates an alarm if the patient's condition warrants notifying an appropriate medical responder. A communication unit which transmits the alarm to a access point over a hospital Internet protocol (IP) network, the communication device includes a first transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a primary link and a second transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a secondary link in response to the transmission using the primary link failing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Amjad A. Soomro, Mark S. Kotfila, Ruediger Schmitt, Phillip Raymond
  • Providing driving condition alerts using road attribute data
    Patent number: 9552726
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a driving condition alert to vehicle drivers and others are disclosed. The alert is provided based on road location and attribute data; real-time, historic, and forecast traffic data; real-time, historic, and forecast weather data; and/or scheduled and unscheduled event data. The alert may include information indicating the reason for the alert provided. In addition, the alert may include a relative scale of hazard (e.g., a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no hazard and 10 representing the highest hazardous condition). As a result of receiving the alert, the driver may adjust their route or driving behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Timothy A. McGrath, Matthew G. Lindsay
  • Motion detecting and alerting system and method
    Patent number: 9549544
    Abstract: A motion detecting and alerting system includes at least two motion detectors adapted to detect motion and transmit transmission signals upon detecting motion, at least one alert module adapted to receive the transmission signals and indicate the motion and a wrist strap carried by the alert module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Inventor: John B. Millsap
  • On-board low-power vehicle condition indicator
    Patent number: 9545876
    Abstract: A monitoring unit wirelessly monitors sensor(s) associated with a vehicle and includes (a) a radio frequency (RF) receiver that receives RF signals from one or more sensors; (b) a processing unit connected to the RF receiver that monitors information related received RF signals from the sensor(s); (c) the processing unit monitoring the received RF signals and a status of an output of the sensor(s) associated with the vehicle. The received RF signals may include information on a value of an output of the sensor and limits of acceptable values, and the processing unit generates an alarm when the value of the output is outside of the limits of acceptable values. The alarm may be a visual indication visible from the exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: STEMCO LP
    Inventors: Mark J. Kranz, Michael James Massey, Daniel J. Harding
  • System and method for keyless entry and remote starting vehicle with an OEM remote embedded in vehicle
    Patent number: 9536365
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a keyless go system, and at least one key fob, said keyless go system being operatively connected to a locking/unlocking subsystem and an engine start subsystem, said vehicle further comprising at least one LF transmitter, at least one LF receiver, at least one HF transmitter and at least one HF receiver, said vehicle further comprising an aftermarket keyless go system interfacing with said keyless go system, wherein at least one of said at least one key fob is embedded into said vehicle, and wherein when a user sends a lock/unlock command, or a start command with a portable device, said aftermarket keyless go system interacts with said embedded key fob to selectively enable and disable low frequency communication between said embedded key fob and said keyless go system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Jack Wisnia
  • Haptic feedback generation based on resonant frequency
    Patent number: 9513709
    Abstract: A system that generates a haptic effect generates a drive cycle signal that includes a drive period and a monitoring period. The drive period includes a plurality of drive pulses that are based on the haptic effect. The system applies the drive pulses to a resonant actuator during the drive period and receives a signal from the resonant actuator that corresponds to the position of a mass in the actuator during the monitoring period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Pedro Gregorio, Danny A. Grant, Patrice Favreau, Eric Meunier
  • Proximity location system and method thereof for locating a communications device
    Patent number: 9508254
    Abstract: A proximity location system and method thereof for locating a communications device. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) proximity location tag is arranged in a proximity of the communications device and detected thereby. A proximity location key included in the RFID proximity location tag is acquired by the communications device and forwarded to a location information server. The location information is queried for location information associated with the proximity location key. Based on the location information, data transmitted by the communications device is routed to the appropriate receiver of the data. The location information is also provided to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: WEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Ciesla, Ken Davis, Monica Ann Marics
  • System and method for providing self-locating wireless sensors
    Patent number: 9500736
    Abstract: A wireless sensor network is disclosed that comprises a plurality of wireless sensors and a wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor base station sends a request to one of the wireless sensors requesting the location information for the selected wireless sensor. The wireless sensor determines its location using a location information determination method, associates its identity information with the location information, and sends the identity information and the location information to the wireless sensor base station. The wireless sensor continuously sends updated location information to the wireless sensor base station as the wireless sensor moves within the wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor base station displays the identity information and the location information of the wireless sensor on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Becker
  • Aberration engine
    Patent number: 9489826
    Abstract: An aberration engine that collects data sensed by a monitoring system that monitors a property of a user and aggregates the collected data over a period of a time. The aberration engine detects, within the aggregated data, patterns of recurring events and, based on detecting the patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data, takes action related to the monitoring system based on the detected patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: David James Hutz
  • Methods and systems for alarm management in an electronic device
    Patent number: 9462113
    Abstract: Methods and systems for alarm management for use in an electronic device are provided. First, it is determined whether the electronic device has been flipped over in response to detecting an occurrence of an alarm event. In response to a determination that the electronic device has been flipped over, current alarm is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuo-Chih Hung
  • Condition status-based device system and operation
    Patent number: 9460431
    Abstract: A device, system or method may optionally include a processor, remote to a device, configured to generate information to control, at least in part, a function of the device based, at least in part, on a condition of conveyance of the device, and a transmitter, remote to the device, configured to transmit the information related to the condition of conveyance to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: PJC Investments, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick J. Curry
  • Remote control for sensing movement, image display apparatus for controlling pointer by the remote control, and controlling method thereof
    Patent number: 9453732
    Abstract: A remote control is provided including a plurality of sensors which sense movement of the remote control, and a control unit which turns on at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors and thereby senses movement of the remote control, and determines whether to turn on or off the remaining sensors according to whether or not the at least one sensor senses movement of the remote control. Consequently, battery consumption is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun-kyu Yun
  • Gait-based biometric system for detecting weight gain or loss
    Patent number: 9451881
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a user's static weight while standing as well as the user's load bearing weight. A sensor module with multiple sensors is placed inside a user's shoe and biometric data is gathered from the sensors when the user stands and when the user takes a step or walks. The data is used to generate data loops as the various sets of data are plotted against each other. The loops obtained from the data are then compared against stored loops previously obtained. Using the biometric loop baseline data, it can be determined whether the user has lost or gained weight, whether a specific load bearing weight condition is worsening while standing and while walking or running. The system can also determine whether a specific load bearing weight condition is improving or worsening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: AUTONOMOUS_ID CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Todd Gray, Vladimir Polotski, Barry Smale, Bernard F. Grisoni
  • Prevention of use of a contaminated medical product
    Patent number: 9436802
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to contaminable medical products. In particular, this disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for preventing contaminated use of medical products that become contaminated upon being used for an intended purpose that requires the operation of a medical treatment apparatus, medical treatment system, or both. A medical product may have a unique identity and a permissive operation session, that is associated with the unique identity, may be created to allow a use of the medical device when uncontaminated, while preventing the use of the medical product after it has been presumably contaminated during the permissive operation session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventor: Norman Romanick
  • RFID transponder
    Patent number: 9436899
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (1a) for a transponder (1), wherein said integrated circuit (1a) is switchable between a TTF (transponder talks first) and an RTF (reader talks first)-mode within a switching timeframe (TF2), wherein the position of the switching timeframe (TF2) is shif table in relation to a timeframe (TF1) allocated to the TTF-mode. In a preferred embodiment, the switching timeframe (TF2) is before a timeframe (TF1) allocated to the TTF-mode by default. After initialization of the transponder (1), the switching timeframe (TF2) is switched to a position after the timeframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Helmut Haar, Kurt Bischof, Heiko Scharke
  • Providing a diagnosis of a system of a building
    Patent number: 9430929
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for providing a diagnosis of a system of a building are described herein. One method includes displaying a system of a building, wherein the display of the system includes an identification of a particular component of the system, identifying, within the display of the system, a number of components of the system related to the particular component, and identifying, within the display of the system, a relationship between the particular component and the number of components and a relative operational status of the particular component and the number of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad B. Beaulieu, Wendy Foslien, Henry Chen, Tom Plocher
  • Signal processing device and method
    Patent number: 9426008
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including: a correlation signal output unit configured to, about a received signal transmitted from another device, calculate a correlation value between the received signal and a pattern of a waveform of a known signal and output the calculated correlation value as a correlation signal in a time corresponding to one symbol; a known signal determiner configured to determine, based on the correlation signal, whether or not the received signal is modulated by the known signal in a first interval defined when the time corresponding to one symbol is divided into a plurality of intervals; and an identifier configured to identify a series of the symbol based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Kazuhiro Oguchi, Kazukuni Takanohashi
  • Methods and apparatus for ceiling-mounted RFID-enabled tracking
    Patent number: 9418260
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking a subject using radio-frequency identification (RFID). In an embodiment, an antenna array comprising a plurality of articulating brackets and a plurality of antennas is provided. Each of the articulating brackets is configured to move one of the plurality of antennas into a plurality of positions, and each of the antennas is configured to receive a RFID signal. In addition, a processor receives RFID data based on RFID signals received by the antennas of the antenna array, and determines a trajectory of a subject based on the RFID data. Based on the determined trajectory of the subject, the processor controls one or more of the articulating brackets to move one or more of the antennas into a position to track the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Quake Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Chetan Shantilal Karani, Luke Christopher Waidmann, Walker Edward Bolger-Kumm, Ronan Wisdom
  • Return mechanism, acceleration mechanism, power generator, transmitter, and switching arrangement
    Patent number: 9419496
    Abstract: A return mechanism is achieved which requires only a small force for operation. In one aspect of the present invention, a return mechanism (10) includes: a first spring (1) that acts between an operating section (11) and a working section (12); and a second spring (2) that acts between the operating section (11) and a base (13). A direction in which the second spring acts when the operating section (11) is in a first position is not parallel to a direction in which the second spring (2) acts when the operating section (11) is in a second position. A component which, of a force of the second spring, acts in a direction of motion of the operating section (11) is smaller when the operating section (11) is in the second position than in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Tsukanaka, Satoru Nishimaki, Makoto Wada, Kazuyuki Tsukimori