Patents Examined by Naomi J Small
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Patent number: 11626019Abstract: 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 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Daniel Warren Reaser
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Patent number: 11608077Abstract: A collision visualization device includes an identification unit analyzing vehicle traveling information in which information representing at least a type and occurrence time of an event generated in a vehicle to be analyzed in a time period including occurrence time of a collision or each of a series of collisions occurring for the vehicle, is recorded in accordance with occurrence order, and identifying a state of the vehicle in the time period, and a visualization unit causing a display device to display an iconic image representing the state of the vehicle identified by the identification unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Inventor: Eisuke Saito
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Patent number: 11602296Abstract: A mental impairment detection system and non-invasive method of detecting mental impairment of a user are provided. A test (e.g., an inhibitory reflex test or a sustained attention test) is administered to the user, brain activity in a frontal lobe of the user is non-invasively detected while the test is administered to the user, and a level of mental impairment of the user is determined based on the brain activity detected in the frontal lobe of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Husam Katnani, Daniel Sobek, Antonio H. Lara
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Patent number: 11589787Abstract: This drowsiness estimating device estimates a subject's drowsiness from a time-series signal of the subject's eye-openness width. A filtering circuitry filters the time-series signal of the eye-openness width to eliminate signal changes due to the subject blanking and outputs the filtered time-series signal of eye-openness. A feature calculator calculates a feature from at least the filtered time-series signal of the eye-openness width. A drowsiness estimator estimates a drowsiness evaluated value from the feature and outputs an estimated result. The feature calculator includes at least a first feature calculation circuit that calculates a variation of the filtered time-series signal of the eye-openness width within a feature calculation window width and outputs the variation as a first feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori Tsujikawa
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Patent number: 11580871Abstract: An assessment system is provided for assessing a performance of at least one autonomous actor in a dynamic environment. The system includes a computer program which, when operating on a data processing system, retrieves input selected from digital information, sensor data and a combination thereof, for detecting and classifying the at least one autonomous actor present in the dynamic environment; sets up a virtual reality simulation of the environment, and synchronizes the simulation with the environment. The program evaluates behavior of the actor in the environment, including measuring, analyzing and classifying actions and reactions of the actor in the simulation while the actor performs at least one predefined procedure in the environment; compares the behavior of the actor with a curriculum including at least one documented procedure and at least one documented performance value of the at least one predefined procedure; and outputs a qualification for the performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Inventor: Johan Ritser Kuipers
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Patent number: 11574536Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for detecting, by one or more sensor components, at least one sensor input, and executing, by logic, at least one instruction to cause an event on a wearable wireless device, the event comprising at least one of a change in a physical parameter on the wearable wireless device and a wireless communication with a computing device via a transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Shah Saurin, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Francis M. Tharappel, Saurabh Dadu, Brian K. Vogel, Swarnendu Kar, Michael R. Bynum, Prabhakar R. Datta
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Patent number: 11562638Abstract: Embodiments herein generally relate to an electronic system, electronic device and/or a method of using the same to improve human activities in a business, a home or an educational environment. The electronic system, electronic device, and method allows for anonymous feedback from users to alert another user that the sound levels being maintained in a certain region are unacceptable. The method includes inputting one or more sound preferences into one or more electronic devices, receiving, at a first electronic device of the one or more electronic devices, local environment data, determining whether the local environmental data is associated with a first user, exchanging the local environment data with the one or more electronic devices, and generating an alert on the first electronic device. The method and electronic system allows users in the office environment to provide anonymous feedback to users that do not maintain an appropriate sound level.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: LOGITECH EUROPE S.A.Inventors: Sébastien Mathieu Pazmandy, Andrea Ramirez Aburto, Gregory Franc De Ferriere
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Patent number: 11562639Abstract: Embodiments herein generally relate to an electronic system, electronic device and/or a method of using the same to improve human activities in a business, a home or an educational environment. The electronic system, electronic device, and method allows for anonymous feedback from users to alert another user that the sound levels being maintained in a certain region are unacceptable. The method includes inputting one or more sound preferences into one or more electronic devices, receiving, at a first electronic device of the one or more electronic devices, local environment data, determining whether the local environmental data is associated with a first user, exchanging the local environment data with the one or more electronic devices, and generating an alert on the first electronic device. The method and electronic system allows users in the office environment to provide anonymous feedback to users that do not maintain an appropriate sound level.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: LOGITECH EUROPE S.A.Inventors: Sébastien Mathieu Pazmandy, Andrea Ramirez Aburto, Gregory Franc De Ferriere
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Patent number: 11551543Abstract: A wearable device and a system that includes the wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes at least one sensor configured to sense a characteristic of a user, a communication interface configured to obtain a first identifier of a vehicle or equipment, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor the user based on the first identifier or send the first identifier to a monitoring system; determine whether there is a harm possibly occurring to the user of the wearable device based on at least one output from the at least one sensor, or send the at least one output to the monitoring system via the communication interface; and output, after the harm is determined to be possibly occurring, an alarm based on receiving confirmation from the user, or based on not receiving any confirmation from the user within a predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HOLLYMATIC CORPORATIONInventors: Erik Bauer, David Baarman
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Patent number: 11544978Abstract: 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: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES OF NEVADA, LLCInventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
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Patent number: 11538362Abstract: A tactile display device including a nodule having variable stiffness under a surface to provide a near-real feeling of palpation for a physician. The device utilizes granular jamming technology using pneumatic actuation to control a nodule that maintains its shape while allowing the modulation in stiffness. The nodule includes two hemispheres, a contact portion and an actuation portion, forming a sphere. The contact portion and the actuation portion include different thicknesses and/or materials, while the dimensions of the dimensions of the nodule are maintained. As such, a physician can utilize the device to identify the difference between a normal lump and an affected lump even if the shape of each lump appears to be the same. With the tactile display device, due to the different levels of stiffness, a physician can detect the severity of the lump.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Sang-Eun Song, Sakura Sikander
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Patent number: 11538333Abstract: A data acquisition circuit board and an equipment monitoring system are provided. The data acquisition circuit board includes a power supply module configured to perform voltage conversion and supply a power supply signal; a micro-processing unit coupled to the power supply module; a data acquisition module coupled to the micro-processing unit; and a data transmission unit coupled to the power supply module and the micro-processing unit; wherein the micro-processing unit receives and processes data acquired by the data acquisition module, and outputs processed results to the data transmission unit, which transmits the processed results wirelessly.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: AUO MEGAINSIGHT (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Lina Zhao, Po Sun, Zhao Guo, Haiying Zhang
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Patent number: 11518408Abstract: A driver monitor system and method for predicting impairment of a user of a vehicle. The system includes video cameras, an input device for inputting a list of medications being taken by the driver. Processing circuitry predicts side effects of the medications based on the half-life of the medication, detecting eye gaze movement, eye lid position, and facial expression of the user using images from the video camera, predicting whether the user is transitioning into an impaired physical state that is a side effect of the medications, verifying the side effect of the medications, determining whether the user is fit to drive using the verified side effects of the medications, and outputting to the vehicle an instruction to operate the vehicle in a level of automation that makes up for the at least one side effect or to perform a safe pull over operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Nikos Arechiga-Gonzalez, Soonho Kong, Jonathan Decastro, Frank Permenter, Dennis Park
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Patent number: 11508222Abstract: A doorbell system includes a power supply circuit, a smart module, a chime, a chime switch and a control module. The smart module provides a smart function. The chime switch is electrically connected between the control module, the smart module, and the power supply circuit. When the chime switch is turned on, the current flows through the chime under control of the control module. When the chime switch is turned off, the current cannot flow through the chime under control of the control module; consequently, the buzzing sound cannot be generated.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Tsai-Yu Yu, Hung-Chen Wu, Teng-Chieh Yang
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Patent number: 11495060Abstract: A system and method associate a transponder identifier with a transient user account. The account is automatically activated and vehicle license plate information from the transient user's vehicle is automatically associated upon departure of the transient user from a vehicle departure point of a transportation hub. Toll charges incurred by the vehicle can then be associated with the transient user's account based on either reading the transponder identifier or capturing the license plate information. The account is automatically deactivated and closed-out upon return of the vehicle to a vehicle return point at the end of the transient use.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Central Florida Expressway AuthorityInventor: Laura Kelley
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Patent number: 11493556Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD), includes a processor for controlling the IMD; circuitry for providing therapeutic or diagnostic medical operations for a patient; wireless communication circuitry for conducting wireless communications; a non-rechargeable battery; and device power control circuitry. The device power control circuitry includes at least one capacitor; charging control circuitry for switching between charging the at least one capacitor using the non-rechargeable battery and discharging the at least one capacitor to provide power for device operations. The IMD is configured to maintain a count related to a number of times of discharge of the at least one capacitor to provide an end-of-life estimation for the non-rechargeable battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.Inventor: Daran DeShazo
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Patent number: 11478198Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing physiological parameter signal fusion. By respectively analyzing a plurality of input physiological parameter signals, and obtaining a feature of each physiological parameter signal; according to the feature of each physiological parameter signal, obtaining and outputting a fusion state of the plurality of the physiological parameter signals; if the fusion state is a fusion of the at least two physiological parameter signals with the first physiological parameter signal is dominant, highlighting the first physiological parameter signal; and if the fusion state is a fusion of the at least two physiological parameter signals with the second physiological parameter signal is dominant, highlighting the second physiological parameter signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zehui Sun, Bailei Sun, Chaocheng Xie, Jianwei Su, Sanchao Liu, Wenyu Ye, Lihan Liu, Ming Li
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Patent number: 11475751Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device that may include: a first sensor operable to take a first physiological measurement; a second sensor operable to take a second physiological measurement; and a processing device operatively coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor. The processing device may be operable to: receive a first measurement data for the first physiological measurement; receive a second measurement data for the second physiological measurement; generate an event data set based on the first measurement data with the second measurement data; determine an event occurred based on the event data set; determine a type of the event; and in response to the event being a safety event: determine a type of the safety event; identify a risk level of the safety event; and in response to the risk level exceeding a threshold level, notify a second device of the safety event.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Halo Wearables, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Lee, Michael Jones, Federico Calero, Trevor Calero, Devin Miller, David Miller
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Patent number: 11464436Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of accurately determining an awakening degree. An awakening degree determination apparatus includes a change amount acquisition unit, a frequency calculation unit, and an awakening degree determination unit. The change amount acquisition unit acquires an angle change amount, an inclination change amount, and a position change amount. The frequency calculation unit calculates an angle frequency, an inclination frequency, and a position frequency. When at least one of the angle frequency, the inclination frequency, and the position frequency exceeds a fourth threshold value, a fifth threshold value, and a sixth threshold value, the awakening degree determination unit determines that an awakening degree of a driver of the vehicle decreases.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Tominaga, Hiroaki Kitano
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Patent number: 11412402Abstract: An electronic messaging device includes a receiver configured to receive a message at one of a first operational frequency and second operational frequency. The messaging device can added to a message distribution group comprising a plurality of existing messaging devices. A test communication can be sent through a coupling to test an operation of the messaging device and confirming the addition of the messaging device to the message distribution group without communicating with the existing messaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: American Messaging Services, Inc.Inventors: John F. Nagel, J. Roy Pottle, Peter C. Barnett, David Andersen, Jamie Gordon Nichol, Sangsoo Kim