Patents Examined by Moustapha Diaby
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Patent number: 12388878Abstract: A method for transferring a call, including: receiving an instruction to transfer a call from a first communication module to a second communication module of a mobile terminal, wherein the first communication module is connected via a wireless near-field connection to the mobile terminal, and wherein the first communication module has a first communication profile of a user, and the second communication module has a second communication profile of the user; deactivating the wireless near-field connection; and transferring the call from the first communication module to the second communication module of the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Michael Neuhaeuser
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Patent number: 12369027Abstract: Automatically blocking and/or unblocking a computer-supported medical device in a system includes the medical device and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a first wireless communication device, and the medical device comprises a second wireless communication device. The medical device is automatically shifted from a blocked state into an unblocked state, if when the first communication device establishes a wireless connection with the second communication device and the signal strength of a signal of from the first communication device to the second communication device exceeds a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbHInventors: Christof Eichert, Reza Golriz, Markus Preidel
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Patent number: 12368809Abstract: An input device is mountable on an image forming apparatus including a display portion capable of displaying information and is a numerical key unit 70 at least including a numerical key portion 110 consisting of a hardware key capable of inputting information on a numerical value and a start key 131 consisting of a hardware key capable of inputting information for starting predetermined processing. The start key 131 is disposed on a front side F than the numerical key portion 110 in a state in which the numerical key unit 70 is mounted on the image forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takehito Utsunomiya
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Patent number: 12355930Abstract: Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Ryoichi Taniyama, Rei Tsutsui, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Yuji Takase
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Patent number: 12348685Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in a state where plural image forming devices are arranged to be distributed into a first place and a second place, the first place in which a specific user exclusively uses the image forming device, and the second place in which plural users share and use the image forming device, in a case where a usage status of a user changes or any of the plural image forming devices arranged changes, propose re-arrangement of the plural image forming devices arranged with reference to a usage history of each function by each user in the plural image forming devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Takuya Honda
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Patent number: 12348689Abstract: In a case where an image processing apparatus and a terminal display screens in an associated manner, if the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, and the terminal transmits information about the operation as it is to the image processing apparatus, processing not intended by the user may possibly be performed. Therefore, when the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, the terminal does not transmit the operation information as it is to the image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shodai Yano
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Patent number: 12348665Abstract: An information processing device performs a process of changing, during activation of a first application, a plurality of functions of other than the first application executed by the information processing device to a state where collective restriction is performed according to a first condition, and a process of returning to a state before the collective restriction according to a second condition are executed.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Takura, Keiko Hiraoka, Kumiko Tsukahara, Fumihiko Nishio, Hyumin Seul, Sho Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12342505Abstract: Disclosed are a heat dissipation structure, a heat dissipation component and a mounting method thereof, and a foldable terminal device. The heat dissipation structure may include: a plurality of elastic heat conduction units; and at least one layer of heat conduction mesh, the heat conduction mesh includes a plurality of interlaced mesh wires, each two interlaced mesh wires are rotatable relative to each other, and the plurality of mesh wires are interlaced to form gaps in which the elastic heat conduction units are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Zhulin Huang
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Patent number: 12341917Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes: a first hinge module; a first pressing part, a first support member, a first housing, each at least partially connected to the first hinge module; a second hinge module; a second pressing part, a second support member, a second housing, each at least partially connected to the second hinge module; a flexible display disposed on the first support member and the second support member; a hinge cover covering the first hinge module and the second hinge module; and an elastic member provided in a gap formed between at least a portion of the flexible display and the hinge cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Youngmin Moon, Sangung An, Hyunsuk Choi
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Patent number: 12328417Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus sets a first security setting for the image processing apparatus as a security setting of the image processing apparatus, monitors packets transmitted and received by the image processing apparatus, and provides a notification relating to a need to change the security setting when a packet with a result from monitoring via the monitoring matching a predetermined condition is found, wherein the predetermined condition is associated with the first security setting.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Kimura
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Patent number: 12328420Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Miho Morita, Naoyuki Kato, Kenji Yamada, Satoshi Noda, Kenichi Ishikura, Takahiro Iizuka, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Shinya Hasegawa, Kota Tomioka, Yoichi Yamakawa, Tomonori Sato, Ryusuke Nakata, Kazuyuki Koda, Isamu Adachi, Tomomi Ishida, Shinnosuke Kondo, Yuya Shiokawa, Daisuke Ishihara, Kohei Tachibana, Shinichi Ohba, Taisuke Endo
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Patent number: 12316009Abstract: Base station antennas include a main module that has a first backplane that includes a first reflector. A vertically-extending array of first radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, and at least one first RF port is coupled to the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. These antennas further include a sub-module that is attached to the first backplane. The sub-module includes a second backplane that has a second reflector that is separate from the first reflector. A vertically-extending array of second radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the second reflector and is transversely spaced-apart from the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. A plurality of second RF ports are coupled to the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements. The vertically-extending array of first radiating elements and the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements are configured to serve a common sector of a base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLCInventors: Sammit Patel, Amit Kaistha, Gangyi Deng, XiaoHua Hou, Chengcheng Tang, Joy Huang
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Patent number: 12302215Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for updating a user equipment route selection policy. The method includes receiving, at a home network in communication with a user equipment, an indication that a user of the user equipment desires to connect to a standalone non-public network for an event, receiving service hosting information for the event, revising a user equipment route selection policy at the home network based on the service hosting information to yield an updated user equipment route selection policy and transmitting the updated user equipment route selection policy to the user equipment. The user equipment registers, based on the updated user equipment route selection policy, with the standalone non-public network for the event.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sri Gundavelli, Vimal Srivastava, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
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Patent number: 12294680Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document, and display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Akira Yokoyama
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Patent number: 12282111Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for localization of wireless devices. At least one of mapping and wireless data describing a physical environment is received. The physical environment includes one or more wireless access points. Using the received mapping and/or wireless data, a location of each of the wireless access points is determined. Using the determined location of the wireless access points, one or more wireless devices positioned in the physical environment are located.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Sai Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Dinesh Bharadia, Shreya Ganesaraman, Ish Jain, Shrivatsan Rajagopalan, Aravind Seetharaman, Sanatan Sharma, Aditya Arun, Chenfeng Wu
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Patent number: 12284636Abstract: A system described herein may identify a first set of channel parameters associated with a User Equipment (“UE”). The first set of channel parameters may include timing parameters indicating time intervals at which traffic is able to be wirelessly communicated between the UE and a radio access network (“RAN”), and resource allocation parameters indicating a measure of wireless resources allocated to communicating traffic between the UE and the RAN. The system may generate a second set of channel parameters based on a quantity of instances that traffic was communicated between the UE and the RAN at a beginning of one or more time intervals, indicated by the first set of channel parameters, and a measure of utilization of the allocated wireless resources during the particular timeframe. The UE and the RAN may subsequently communicate using the second set of channel parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Rakesh Bakshi
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Patent number: 12284310Abstract: The invention discloses a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system, for utilizing a hypervisor installed on a smartphone running separate virtual machines (VMs), one configured for personal use and another for work use, thereby allowing for separate operating environments on one piece of hardware. The method includes receiving one or more notifications, or calls, on the smartphone and determining whether the one or more notifications, or calls, are during work hours. The method selects, automatically, the work VM as default if the one or more notifications, or calls, are during work hours. If the one or more notifications, or calls, are not during work hours, the method automatically selects the personal VM as default. The method further notifies a user to switch VMs if the one or more notifications, or calls, occur during a time that is a non-default VM.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Derek Brewer, Robert Wilhelm, Jon D Gullixson, Paul Llamas Virgen
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Patent number: 12283983Abstract: A bottle opening phone case device capable of opening capped and corked bottles includes a shell, which defines an interior space and which has a front that is open. A phone is insertable into the shell to couple the shell to the phone. A plurality of apertures is positioned in the shell, with each aperture aligning with an associated operative element of the phone. A corked bottle opener, which is hingedly attached to the shell, is selectively positionable in a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. In the stowed configuration, the corked bottle opener substantially abuts the shell. In the deployed configuration, the corked bottle opener is substantially perpendicular to the shell. With the shell grasped in a hand of a user, the user is positioned to use the corked bottle opener to remove a cork from a corked bottle.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventors: Terry Peeples, Mercedes Peeples
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Patent number: 12278618Abstract: Dispersive delay lines are disclosed. The dispersive delay line can include a piezoelectric substrate having a first interdigital transducer electrode on a first region of the piezoelectric substrate and a second interdigital transducer electrode on a second region of the piezoelectric substrate. The dispersive delay line is arranged such that an acoustic wave is configured to propagate from the first interdigital transducer electrode to the second interdigital transducer electrode though a third region of the piezoelectric substrate. An additional material positioned on the third region of the piezoelectric substrate can impact acoustic wave propagation velocity. Related radio frequency modules, wireless communications devices, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Siarhei Dmitrievich Barsukou
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Patent number: 12278918Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, the electronic device receives a first notification of a first type and determines a current status for one or more contextual categories. If the current status for the one or more contextual categories satisfies a set of one or more delivery criteria for notifications of the first type, then the electronic device provides the first notification of the first type. If the current status for the one or more contextual categories does not satisfy the set of one or more delivery criteria for notifications of the first type, then the electronic device modifies the first notification of the first type to a second notification of a second type and provides the second notification of the second type.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Krishna Dayanidhi, Patrick T. Dillon, Aaron R. Zinman