Patents Examined by Munear T Akki
  • Patent number: 12020573
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping location and characteristics about traffic participants are described. The systems and methods advantageously use correlative receivers for observing wireless emissions from or reflected by a plurality of traffic participants to allow for tracking geolocation and velocimetry information in real-time. The real-time geolocation and velocimetry information can be useful in autonomous vehicle navigation applications and useful for reducing computational burdens associated with tracking locations of many multiple traffic participants using direct sensor measurements, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Vahid Ataie
  • Patent number: 11990013
    Abstract: A signal-emitting retail display device that includes a wire having a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion configured to support a label holder, the bottom portion configured to store one or more retail items. The signal-emitting retail display device also has an electronic unit that includes an emitter. The emitter is configured to emit a warning signal, and configured to transmit a wireless signal to an alarm box, where the wireless signal is indicative of the warning signal. The wire is electrically coupled to the electronic unit such that the wire functions as an antenna for the transmission of the wireless signal to the alarm box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retails, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent O. Ewing, Chan Chor Man
  • Patent number: 11990039
    Abstract: An emergency vehicle detection device, including a main body to be removably disposed on at least a portion of an interior of a vehicle, a plurality of microphones removably connected to at least a portion of the vehicle to detect at least one frequency emitted from an emergency vehicle, and a light unit connected to the main body to illuminate based on at least one of a type of the emergency vehicle and a direction of approach of the emergency vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: James Fesler
  • Patent number: 11990016
    Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting a fire includes: during a first time period: detecting an increase in ambient light intensity and detecting an increase in ambient humidity; responsive to the increase in ambient light intensity and the increase in ambient humidity, detecting a fire event; during a second time period: correlating a decrease in ambient light intensity with an increase in visual obscuration; detecting an increase in ambient air temperature; in response to a magnitude of the increase in visual obscuration remaining below a high obscuration threshold and a magnitude of the increase in ambient temperature remaining below a high temperature threshold, classifying the fire as an incipient fire; and, in response to the magnitude of the increase in visual obscuration exceeding the high obscuration threshold and the magnitude of the increase in ambient temperature exceeding the high temperature threshold, classifying the fire as a developed fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Noah Lael Ryder
    Inventor: Noah Lael Ryder
  • Patent number: 11980310
    Abstract: A controller for a refrigerator for an entrance gate according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to: register a user authentication means through a user authentication method setting process; and to open an outer door only when user authentication has succeeded, if an article delivery command is input, thereby preventing theft of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seojin Lee, Wonjin Lee, Insun Yeo, Eugene Myung, Miyoung Seo, Kyukwan Choi, Minkyu Oh, Yezo Yun
  • Patent number: 11975731
    Abstract: Warning information that facilitates grasping an obstacle located in rear of a vehicle is provided. A driving assistance system including: a first detection section that detects an obstacle from a plurality of captured images of a rear side of a driver of a vehicle; a second detection section that detects the obstacle by analyzing a reflected wave of a measurement wave transmitted to the rear side; and an information output section that determines a direction in which the obstacle is located with respect to the vehicle on the basis of detection results of the first detection section and the second detection section, and that outputs warning information indicating the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Hayami, Masao Makita, Takayoshi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11958476
    Abstract: Provided are an intelligent parking method and apparatus, relating to the technical field of vehicles. The method comprises: determining a target parking route from at least one pre-stored parking route; determining a target position point in the target parking route closest to a vehicle; sending a prompt message for driving the vehicle to the target position point to a driver of the vehicle when a current position point of the vehicle and the target position point satisfy a proximity matching condition; and when the vehicle drives to the target position point, controlling the vehicle to park according to the target parking route from the target position point. Thus, the driver merely needs to drive the vehicle to a vicinity of the target parking route, and the vehicle may perform intelligent parking and may complete intelligent parking at a longer distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tong Gao, Teng Guo, Xingyu Qi, Peng Hao
  • Patent number: 11951971
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring a level of hydraulic fluid in an agricultural sprayer includes a drive system, a hydraulic fluid system, and a fill level sensor. The system also includes a computing system communicatively coupled to both the drive system and the fill level sensor. The computing system is configured to monitor the level of hydraulic fluid within the hydraulic fluid reservoir based on data received from the fill level sensor. The computing system is further configured to detect a leak condition in the hydraulic fluid system based at least in part on the monitored level of the hydraulic fluid within the hydraulic fluid reservoir and control an operation of the drive system to reduce the ground speed of the agricultural sprayer in response to detecting the leak condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: David Hafvenstein, Timothy Patrick Croydon, John Patrick Greifzu
  • Patent number: 11951993
    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera and an electronic control unit. The camera is disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle. The system detects changes at the driver's eyes via processing of image data captured by the camera and determines driver attentiveness based at least in part on detected changes at the driver's eyes. The system functions as a remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) system. Based at least in part on the determined driver attentiveness, and responsive to monitoring the heart rate of the driver, the system determines impairment of the driver's capability to operate the vehicle. The system generates an alert responsive to (i) determination, via the rPPG system, that the driver's heart rate changes greater than a threshold change over a predetermined period of time and/or (ii) determination, via processing of image data captured by the camera, that driver attentiveness is below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yuesheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11948442
    Abstract: A system for detecting impacts includes a housing configured to be worn by a user. An accelerometer is connected with the housing. The accelerometer is configured to detect an acceleration indicative of an impact experienced by the user. An inaudible tone chip is positioned about the housing. The inaudible tone chip is configured to transmit ultrasonic tones including data of the impact to a remote device. A remote device includes a receiver. The receiver is configured to receive the ultrasonic tones transmitted by the inaudible tone chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: James Kelly, Patrick LaFontaine
  • Patent number: 11948440
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for predicting and detecting the outbreak of a fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FS, Inc
    Inventors: Young Jin Kim, Gi Ryung Kwon, Si Young Choi
  • Patent number: 11948455
    Abstract: A system and method that enables individual travelers, including pedestrians or individuals on smaller conveyances, to communicate their location and direction of travel to signal light controllers at an intersection, enables traffic networks to receive this communication and output the detected data to the corresponding intersection traffic-signal controller to allow for individuals not in standard motor vehicles to be detected by traffic detection systems and to allow for priority of traveler flow either independent of vehicle use, or based on specifics of the vehicle used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: STC, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Cross, Terry Fryar, Nicholas Freed
  • Patent number: 11938880
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting low impact collisions for a vehicle (100). The system includes at least one sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and an electronic controller (150). The electronic controller (150) is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and determine one or more features of the sensor data received from the at least one sensor. The electronic controller (150) is further configured to determine if a collision has occurred based upon the one or more features of the sensor data, and take at least one action in response to determining that the collision has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Jones, Michael Vincent Masserant, Rameez Ahmad, Ulrich Christian Michelfeit, Dean Eiger
  • Patent number: 11941924
    Abstract: A control device, based on a detection result of first equipment that detects a first state of a vehicle, displays information corresponding to a predetermined event on a display device that displays a detection result of second equipment that detects a second state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toyokazu Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11938944
    Abstract: A driver assistance system includes a first measuring device for determining the distances to a water surface, which includes at least two distance sensors. A first distance sensor measures a first distance to a water surface, in that the distance is determined perpendicularly downward from the first sensor to the water surface, and the second distance sensor measures a second distance to a water surface, in that the distance is also determined perpendicularly downward from the second sensor to the water surface. A second measuring device determines an instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A processing unit is coupled to the first and second measuring devices. The processing unit determines an instantaneous water surface plane as a function of the first distance, the second distance, and the instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A display unit indicates the instantaneous water surface plane in relation to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jesse Sharp
  • Patent number: 11932239
    Abstract: A driving support method supports driving of a vehicle from outside of the vehicle using images captured by a camera installed outside of the vehicle. The driving support method includes a recognition step of recognizing a shielding area that is an area in which a vehicle is shielded by a shield within an imaging range of the camera based on the images, and a control step of controlling the behavior of the vehicle by giving a predetermined command to the vehicle when a shielding area is present on traveling path of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Issei Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11932167
    Abstract: A vehicle configured to alert pedestrians. The vehicle includes a driver-assist system including a memory device, a processor, and at least one camera. The memory device includes instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect, utilizing the at least one camera, at least one pedestrian near the vehicle, determine a proximity of the at least one pedestrian to the vehicle, compare the proximity to a threshold proximity, and automatically emit an audible alert from the vehicle in response to the proximity being less than the threshold proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Leo Polosajian
  • Patent number: 11935343
    Abstract: A method of changing a rate of advertising for at least one of a multiple of access controls, including transmitting advertisements from an access control at a nominal rate and changing the nominal rate in response to detection by a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Neeraja Kanteti, Adam Kuenzi
  • Patent number: 11935412
    Abstract: An information supply method causes a computer of a terminal device equipped with a camera and mounted in a mobile object to execute: a process of acquiring an image; a process of determining an alert level for an operator of the mobile object is a first alert level or a second alert level that is a level lower than the first alert level based on a surrounding situation of the mobile object obtained from the image; and a process of displaying information appropriate to the alert level on a display provided on a casing in which the camera of the terminal device is provided in accordance with a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11932480
    Abstract: An equipment security system includes one or more sensors or optical recording devices disposed on or inside a cargo container. A computing device receives data from the one or more sensors or optical recording devices, determines whether an event has occurred at the cargo container, determines a geofence associated with the cargo container, and selects or configures a dynamic script including instructions that specify whether to begin recording an event occurring at or inside the cargo container, whether to record the event in an overwritable, local memory associated with at least one of the one or more sensors or optical recording devices or the computing device, parameters that govern how data associated with the event will be recorded, and whether to upload the data from the local memory to a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony James Hyatt, Andrew Charles Jensen, Hal Wesley Borland, Dennis Wayne Harner, Daniel Robert Martin