Patents Examined by Mirza F Alam
  • Patent number: 11881295
    Abstract: Medication management and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense physical activity in a building in which medication of a patient is located is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the medication based on the monitoring. A camera is used to capture an image of the medication and the captured image is analyzed to detect a state of the medication. Information regarding a schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient is accessed and an expected state of the medication is determined. The detected state is compared with the expected state and a determination is made that the patient has departed from the schedule based on the comparison revealing that the detected state does not match the expected state. A message indicating the departure from the schedule is sent based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Hanson, Elizabeth Leslie Manson
  • Patent number: 11875691
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for locating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A region of airspace may be scanned with two scanning apparatuses. Each scanning apparatus may include one or more directional Radio Frequency (RF) antennae. The two scanning apparatuses may have different locations. Radio frequency signals emitted by a UAV can be received at each of the two scanning apparatuses. The received radio frequency signals can be processed to determine a first location of the UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Timothy Just
  • Patent number: 11869350
    Abstract: A computer system includes a memory and a processor. The processor executes instructions to perform steps that include receiving a message from an asset tracking device, the message comprising position information for the asset tracking device and a traffic control device type for a traffic control device that the asset tracking device is attached to. The processor uses the received message to determine a road that the traffic control device is positioned on and a location of the traffic control device along the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: John Hourdos, Gordon Parikh
  • Patent number: 11862000
    Abstract: A device may receive radio frequency (RF) transmissions from access points provided in a zone, and may calculate channel state information (CSI) for the access points based on the RF transmissions. The device may identify CSI phases that satisfy a phase threshold to eliminate surrounding movement in the zone and to focus on an entry location of the zone, and may perform a short-time Fourier transform of the CSI phases to generate a frequency versus time graph. The device may perform a spectrogram analysis of the frequency versus time graph or may process the frequency versus time graph, with a machine learning model, to determine a quantity of people in the zone and a start and stop times associated with entries and exits of the people to and from the zone. The device may perform actions based on the quantity of people and the start and stop times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sagar Deepak Mahurkar, Anjaneya Pericharla, Sanjay Ahuja, Srirama R. Kalidindi
  • Patent number: 11862006
    Abstract: A method of controlling a visual operator interface having a plurality of predefined areas, which include one or more monitoring areas configured to display visual elements representing a current state of a technical system. According to the method, it is determined that one of the monitoring areas is to be prioritized; and an incomplete visibility decrease in at least one other area of the visual operator interface is initiated, wherein the prioritized monitoring area is unaffected by the visibility decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Veronika Domova
  • Patent number: 11862007
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for automatically analyzing and filtering redundant alarms in radio transceiver systems consisting of the following steps: step 1: the operator shall define the relationship between the alarms, defining rules to filter redundant alarms at the FRDU block; step 2: the FSU block will detect the alarm and send it to the FAFU block; step 3: FAFU block will receive alarms from FSU, based on the rules defined in FRDU block will analyze and filter out redundant alarms; Step 4: The FSMU block will receive the alarms after being filtered, stored in the database and also send these alarms to the EMS system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIETTEL GROUP
    Inventors: Tien Luc Nguyen, Khac Tung Nguyen, Khanh Nguyen, Trong Duc Nguyen, Viet Long Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11862005
    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: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: David James Hutz
  • Patent number: 11855446
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to methods and apparatuses for remotely managing electrical and gas devices. In one scenario, a computer system performs a method for remotely managing electrical devices. The method may include determining that an electrical device has changed state, notifying at least one user that the electrical device has changed state, and either receiving an indication from the user that the electrical device is to be turned off, and turning the electrical device off, or receiving an indication from the user that the electrical device is to be turned on, and turning the electrical device on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FireAvert, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Thorpe, Larsen Alma Webb
  • Patent number: 11851277
    Abstract: A sample storage device may include: a storage chamber; paired rail sections separated in separating direction and extending in an extending direction; an antenna array substrate extending between the rail sections and having antennas; paired slide sections separated from each other in the separating direction and disposed at a position opposite to the antenna array substrate with respect to the rail sections and, so as to be slidable in the extending direction relative to the rail sections, respectively; a support plate transparent to radio waves, extending between the slide sections; and a storage box containable a plurality of containers each holding a sample and a radio tag, the storage box to be set on the support plate such that radio waves can be transmitted between the radio tag and corresponding one of the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ohta, Linxiao Xu, Naoki Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11847908
    Abstract: A method may be implemented to prioritize and analyze data exchanged in a connected vehicle transit network. The method may include receiving, at a roadside unit, vehicle data from a connected vehicle. The method may further include prioritizing the vehicle data received from the connected vehicle based on a level of urgency, network latency or available computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark E. Pittman, Patrick B. Brown, David J. Sacharny, Victor Gill
  • Patent number: 11830332
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are described for creating and operating a vibration triangulation network. The network can include vibration sensor devices placed in a building, such as a store or a house, which are able to pinpoint the location of a target, e.g., person, animal, etc., through triangulation. A described technique includes receiving vibration notifications from vibration sensor devices, determining a location of a target within the building based on at least a portion of the vibration notifications and a vibration sensor map associated with the building, and triggering an alarm event based on a detection of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel John Koniar, Liyu Yao, Martin Logan Elliott, William Wireko Mensah, John Zhang
  • Patent number: 11823539
    Abstract: A video data collection and sharing platform is provided capable of detecting high-priority events and communicating alerts to users. A high-priority event is captured by a video capturing device with one or more sensor modules, including one or more video cameras for recording video footage. A network connection is established and input from one or more sensor modules is received. The input includes image data from the one or more video cameras. An input from the one or more sensor modules is analyzed to determine a potential high-priority event. Upon determining a potential high-priority event, conditions of the network connection are measured and an amount of data to be transmitted to a remote server through the network connection is determined based, at least in part, on the measured conditions of the network connection. The determined amount of data is then transmitted to the remote server. The transmitted data includes at least part of the image data from the one or more video cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sensata Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Benjamin Griffin Petroski
  • Patent number: 11816967
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a wireless computing network to automatically provide digital serialization of a plurality of objects, the network including a plurality of wireless nodes located in a physical space, each of the plurality of wireless nodes configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other wireless node in the network in a secure manner and affixed to a physical object in the physical space via any attachment means, utilize data received from a vision-based system to provide a unique digital identity for the physical object upon which it is affixed and transmit information regarding the physical object upon which it is affixed to a portable wireless computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MonoLets, Inc.
    Inventor: Osama Khan
  • Patent number: 11816987
    Abstract: In various examples, audio alerts of emergency response vehicles may be detected and classified using audio captured by microphones of an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in order to identify travel directions, locations, and/or types of emergency response vehicles in the environment. For example, a plurality of microphone arrays may be disposed on an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine and used to generate audio signals corresponding to sounds in the environment. These audio signals may be processed to determine a location and/or direction of travel of an emergency response vehicle (e.g., using triangulation). Additionally, to identify siren types—and thus emergency response vehicle types corresponding thereto—the audio signals may be used to generate representations of a frequency spectrum that may be processed using a deep neural network (DNN) that outputs probabilities of alert types being represented by the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ambrish Dantrey, Atousa Torabi, Anshul Jain, Ram Ganapathi, Abhijit Patait, Revanth Reddy Nalla, Niranjan Avadhanam
  • Patent number: 11798408
    Abstract: Provided are a green wave speed determination method, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relates to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly, the field of intelligent traffic technology. The implementation scheme is as follows: a stop position of a vehicle to be detected at an intersection and waiting time of an indicator light at the intersection are acquired; and a green wave speed of the vehicle to be detected is determined according to a traffic condition type, the stop position and the waiting time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yile Wang, Ning Yang, Chuanming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11799573
    Abstract: Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PB, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel J Daoura
  • Patent number: 11790743
    Abstract: An outdoor camera integrated into an alarm system for property monitoring, configured to monitor a property. The alarm system can have a base station that communicates with all the components of the alarm system, such as an outdoor camera, which can be equipped with an imaging sensor and software capabilities to conduct analysis on data collected by the outdoor camera to determine information about a human or non-human visitor at the property. The outdoor camera provides information about detected events at the property to the base station, where the data can be used to take appropriate action at the property and communicate with either the user or a monitoring service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul Subramany
  • Patent number: 11789151
    Abstract: A surveying system includes a target unit having a reflection target and an encoder pattern showing an angle of the target unit; a scanner configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data, measured coordinates of the target, and optically read the encoder pattern to acquire an encoder pattern read angle; and a leveling base configured to selectively allow either of the target unit and the scanner to be removably mounted. The scanner calculates a direction angle of the leveling base based on the encoder pattern read angle and the offset angle of the target unit, calculates coordinates of an installation point of the target unit based on the measured coordinates of the target and the direction angle of the target, and calculates a direction angle of the scanner based on the offset angle of the scanner and the direction angle of the leveling base on which the scanner is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yasutomi, Takahiro Komeichi, Tadayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11783695
    Abstract: Techniques are described for handling an event where a control panel or an alarm signaling device is tampered with or destroyed by a disablement tactic, e.g., a “crash and smash intrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Scott Trundle, Alison Jane Slavin, Jean-Paul Martin
  • Patent number: 11775798
    Abstract: A noncontact communication medium includes a processing circuit that is mounted on a substrate on which an antenna coil is formed, and has an internal capacitor, and an external capacitor that composes a resonance circuit configured to resonate at a predetermined resonance frequency, along with the internal capacitor and the antenna coil. A method for manufacturing a noncontact communication medium includes measuring a temporary resonance frequency in a state in which the external capacitor is not connected to the processing circuit and in a state in which the processing circuit is connected to the antenna coil, and deciding capacitance of the external capacitor based on a degree of difference between a reference resonance frequency in a case where the noncontact communication medium performs communication with an outside through a magnetic field and a temporary resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiichiro Kataoka