Patents Examined by Naomi J Small
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Patent number: 12384399Abstract: A floodwater risk assessment system for a vehicle includes one or more cameras oriented to collect image data of floodwater located along a roadway the vehicle is traveling along, a time-of-flight sensor system that directs a laser beam towards a plurality of target points disposed along the floodwater one or more controllers in electronic communication with the one or more cameras and the time-of-flight sensor system. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine a risk associated with crossing the floodwater at each of the plurality of target points located along the floodwater based on a flow speed of the floodwater and a floodwater depth. The one or more controllers generate a notification indicating the risk associated with crossing the floodwater at the plurality of target points located along the floodwater.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Manoj Kumar Sharma, Joseph F. Szczerba
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Patent number: 12371045Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle includes an outwardly headed state detection unit, a target accelerator operation amount setting unit, and an information presentation unit. The outwardly headed state detection unit makes a detection of an outwardly headed state in which the vehicle is cornering with a yaw rate and a slip angle of a vehicle body having a same sign. The target accelerator operation amount setting unit sets, in response to the detection of the outwardly headed state, a target accelerator operation amount so that a difference between a driving force on the front wheel caused by an output of the travel power source and an absolute value of a braking force on the front wheel caused by internal circulation torque of a transfer is reduced. The information presentation unit presents the driver with information regarding the target accelerator operation amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Kyosuke Hirazumi
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Patent number: 12371048Abstract: The information processing device includes a processor, and the processor inputs information on a course on which the vehicle travels, setup information on a setup of the vehicle, and feedback information from a driver driving the vehicle into a learned model, and proposes an optimal setup when the vehicle travels on the course based on an output from the learned model.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Takeuchi, Kohei Shintani, Hisashi Matsuda, Daisuke Toyoda
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Patent number: 12347254Abstract: A method of locating a lock box including: obtaining a saved location of the lock box using an application operated via a first cellular telephone, the saved location of the lock box being accurate within a first selected radius; displaying the saved location of the lock box on the first cellular telephone via the application; detecting a Bluetooth advertisement of the lock box using the first cellular telephone; determining a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of the Bluetooth advertisement; determining a distance between the first cellular telephone and the lock box in response to the RSSI of the Bluetooth advertisement; and displaying a distance indicator depicting the distance between the first cellular telephone and the lock box on the first cellular telephone via the application.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Adam Cooper
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Patent number: 12330552Abstract: A moving body is configured to perform autonomous operation. The moving body includes: a first body including at least one wheel and configured to travel by the at least one wheel; a second body attachable to and detachable from the first body; and a display circuit arranged to face an outer side of the first body. The display circuit is configured to display at least a first schematic pattern of a first eye and a second schematic pattern of a second eye.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishio, Masahiro Anezaki, Takanao Yano, Makoto Hinata, Kanji Muto, Naoki Usui
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Patent number: 12327152Abstract: An example disclosed method for authenticating a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tag includes receiving a first signal including a first transponder identifier associated with the RFID tag; receiving a second signal including a second transponder identifier, wherein the second transponder identifier is associated with a different transponder than the first transponder identifier; and determining, with circuitry, whether the second transponder identifier is associated with the RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventor: Michael K. Fein
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Patent number: 12325428Abstract: A method of monitoring passenger health and comfort onboard a vehicle, including: transmitting a request to connect to a user device associated with a passenger on the vehicle; receiving a connection confirmation from the user device; obtaining, from one or more sensors associated with the user device, passenger health data; receiving from one or more other sensors onboard the vehicle, environmental data; generating, based on the passenger health data and the environmental data, an indicator value for each of a plurality of parameters; determining whether the indicator value for any of the plurality of parameters has reached a threshold value; generating, responsive to determining that the indicator value has reached the threshold value for any of the plurality of parameters, a recommended action; and automatically transmitting the recommended action to a designated device.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Shafi Merchant, Murali Kusuma, Sreenivas Venkataramappa, R Jagadeesh Uma Shankar
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Patent number: 12322273Abstract: A user wearable monitoring device for improved personal security includes a band, a clasp configured for moving between an open position and a closed position, a removable chip coupled to the band, and a digital locking mechanism configured for monitoring detachment. A method of digitally locking the device includes receiving a signal from a user input device and rotating contact sensors into a locked position in response to the signal. A method of unlocking the device may include receiving a second signal from the user input device, or receiving input from the contact sensors, and rotating the contact sensors into an unlocked position. In this manner, the digital locking mechanism is configured for recognizing unauthorized detachment of the device from the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: WC Ideal Products, LLCInventor: Rachel Cardis
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Patent number: 12293664Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of parking a transport in an initial space, determining an average time of an event attended by at least one occupant associated with the transport, moving the transport to at least one other space when an elapsed time of the event is less than the average time and when the at least one other space is available and closer to an event location than the initial space, and moving the transport to a final space when the event is completed, and the final space is a location of a device associated with the at least one occupant.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Daniel Warren Reaser
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Patent number: 12290365Abstract: A health and safety monitoring and alert system includes a main system and a detection system. The main system includes a processor, a storage medium, and a visualization system. The detection system is configured to detect health and safety information relating to occupants in a space and communicate the detected health and safety information with the main system by a network connection. The visualization system includes a display interface, and the display interface is configured to represent the health and safety information by at least one of using symbols, numbers, or colors.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: TRITON SENSORS, LLCInventors: Lance Parthemore, Garrison Parthemore, Jack Guerrisi, Mauricio Solis, William Wendin
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Patent number: 12288458Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods are described herein for an emergency management and response system for an airport. These systems and methods utilize a network of devices that can be configured to automatically receive an alert from a control tower or dispatch based on selected criteria about an emergency.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Westnet LLCInventor: Richard Matheny
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Patent number: 12288432Abstract: A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allow for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES, LLCInventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
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Patent number: 12286107Abstract: A computer generates an accident risk definition model to estimate a probability of hazard occurrence as an accident risk by inputting first in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past and hazard occurrence data having information on hazard occurrence from the first in-vehicle sensor data preset therein, generates accident risk estimation data by inputting second in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past to the accident risk definition model and estimating the probability of the hazard occurrence, generates an accident risk prediction model to predict the accident risk after a predetermined time by inputting first biological index data corresponding to the second in-vehicle sensor data and the accident risk estimation data, calculates second biological index data from second biological sensor data by acquiring the second biological sensor data of a driver, and predicts the accident risk after the predetermined time by inputting second biological index data to the accident risk prediction model.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: LOGISTEED, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Tanaka, Shunsuke Minusa, Hiroyuki Kuriyama, Daichi Ojiro, Kiminori Sato
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Patent number: 12280792Abstract: A safety driving detection and auxiliary system comprises a physiological sensing module, an alcohol detection module, a warning device and a computing device. The physiological sensing module is configured to obtain at least one piece of physiological information of a driver. The alcohol detection module is configured to detect an alcohol concentration of the driver. The warning device is configured to generate a warning signal. The computing device is connected to the physiological sensing module, the alcohol detection module and the warning device, and is configured to determine whether to actuate a vehicle controller according to the alcohol concentration of the driver, obtain a vehicle speed information from the vehicle controller, and actuate the warning device or/and control the vehicle controller at least according to the at least one piece of physiological information and the vehicle speed information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ting Kai Chen, Chao Yuan Yu, Jung-Pin Wang, Che-Yu Lin, Tai-Yu Chiang
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Patent number: 12271524Abstract: A brain-computer aided analysis method for an aviation accident is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining historical electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and historical psychological and physiological features of various pilots during flight to be recorded as first EEG signals and first features; training a feature recognition model by using the first EEG signals as an input and the first features as an output; inputting EEG signals of a pilot of an aviation accident aircraft into the feature recognition model, and outputting psychological and physiological features of the pilot of the aviation accident aircraft to be recorded as second features; determining whether the second features are abnormal or not according to the historical psychological and physiological features of the pilot of the aviation accident aircraft and the first features.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Qijun Zhao, Xu Zhou, Binwu Ren, Xiayang Zhang, Daoqiang Zhang, Bo Wang
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Patent number: 12258024Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing for vehicular monitoring operations. In a first aspect, a method of monitoring includes receiving first image data from a first camera oriented in a first direction with a first field of view facing a user; receiving second image data from a second camera oriented in a second direction different from the first direction, the second camera having a second field of view corresponding to a field of view of the user; determining a set of regions of interest based on the second image data; determining a gaze direction of the user based on the first image data; and determining an attentiveness score based on correspondence between the set of regions of interest and the gaze direction. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gustav Nils Ture Persson, Per Cronvall
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Patent number: 12251227Abstract: An emergency cardiac and electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode placement device with artificial intelligence is disclosed herein. The emergency cardiac and electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode placement device incorporates electrical conducting materials and elastic material into a pad that is applied to a chest wall of a patient, which places multiple electrodes in the appropriate anatomic locations on the patient to quickly obtain an ECG in a pre-hospital setting. The AI program continuously runs EKGs to continuously monitor a patient.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CB Innovations, LLCInventors: Christian McClung, Stephen Dunphy
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Patent number: 12234674Abstract: A first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a door lock control apparatus (10) including an on-site image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an on-site image generated by a camera for capturing a site where a reserved vehicle is present, an on-site sensing unit (12) that senses that a reserving person is present on the site, based on the on-site image, and a release command output unit (13) that outputs, when it is sensed that the reserving person is present on the site, a command of releasing a door lock of the reserved vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki Akutsu, Atsushi Fukuzato, Daisuke Watanabe
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Patent number: 12227037Abstract: The invention concerns an RFID sensor device (1, 2, 3) for tires, designed to be embedded/integrated, at least partially, in/into, or applied to, a tire (4) and comprising a patch-type antenna that includes a multilayer structure comprising: a bottom ground plane (10, 20, 30); an intermediate dielectric substrate (11, 21, 31) arranged on the bottom ground plane (10, 20, 30); and one or more top conductive patches (12, 13, 22, 32) arranged on the intermediate dielectric substrate (11, 21, 31) and covering partially or completely said intermediate dielectric substrate (11, 21, 31), wherein said bottom ground plane (10, 20, 30) and said one or more top conductive patches (12, 13, 22, 32) are short-circuited or capacitively coupled.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Bridgestone Europe NV/SAInventors: Maria Cristina Caccami, Gaetano Marrocco, Cecilia Occhiuzzi, Sara Amendola, Nicola D'Uva
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Patent number: 12222231Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for water metering are disclosed. In one aspect, sensor data can be received from a flexible sensing device fitted to medium that includes a restricted area through which fluid can move over a period of time. At least one of a level of vibration of the medium or a level of audio energy from the medium in the period of time is identified. A flow rate of fluid moving through the restricted area of the medium is determined. An event at a property that receives at least a portion of the fluid moving through the restricted area of the medium is determined. A notification indicating the event at the property is generated.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Vaughn Realty Ventures LLCInventors: William J. Raduchel, Bradley Moser Vaughn