Patents Examined by Nicole M Louis-Fils
  • Patent number: 11494984
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented medical method for determining a virtual flight-path (1) with respect to a virtual representation (2) of at least one anatomical structure, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, the steps of:—acquiring, on the processor, patient image data describing at least one patient image showing at least one anatomical structure of a patient; —acquiring, on the processor, atlas data describing at least one model of the at least one anatomical structure; —determining, by the processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data, representation data describing a virtual representation of the at least one anatomical structure; —acquiring, on the processor, requirement data describing at least one requirement for at least one flight-path (1); and—determining, by the processor and based on the representation data and the requirement data, flight-path data describing at least one virtual flight-path (1) with respect to the virtual representati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Steinle, Nils Frielinghaus, Dominik Fischer, Christoffer Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11490246
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a network component (e.g., eNB) of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network determines whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE. The determination can occur in a variety of ways, such as based on a message from the drone-coupled UE itself (e.g., an express flying-state notification from the drone-coupled UE, a request particular to a flying state, a measurement reporting message, an identifier used by the drone-coupled UE, uplink signal strength measurement(s) or uplink AoA measurements, whether any intervening base station(s) were skipped over in conjunction with a handoff of the drone-coupled UE, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Haris Zisimopoulos, Masato Kitazoe
  • Patent number: 11475254
    Abstract: A machine learning based system can identify an entity as the likely subject of a multimodal message (e.g., a social media post having a short text phrase overlaid on an image) by creating embeddings for an image of the multimodal message and one or more string embeddings from text of the multimodal message. The embeddings can be weighted to maximize information gain, then recombined and compared against a result embedding database to identify an entity as the subject of the multimodal message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Vitor Rocha de Carvalho, Leonardo Ribas Machado das Neves, Seungwhan Moon
  • Patent number: 11475696
    Abstract: A display device may include a display unit, a finger print sensing unit, and a timing control unit. The display unit includes a plurality of pixel units and includes a fingerprint recognition unit, which may generate first fingerprint data related to a fingerprint. The fingerprint sensing unit may extract a plurality of maxima corresponding to ridge portions of the fingerprint from the first fingerprint data to generate second fingerprint data and may generate luminance data based on the second fingerprint data. The timing control unit may calculate a degree of deterioration of the fingerprint recognition unit based on the luminance data to generate compensation data. The fingerprint recognition unit may receive a data signal corresponding to the compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Seung Hyun Moon
  • Patent number: 11460533
    Abstract: A method for locating a portable radio unit (TF) within a predetermined area (AB, IB) of a vehicle (FZ) has the following steps. A first radio signal (FS1) is transmitted from a vehicle-based position (PO1) outside the vehicle. Further, a second radio signal (FS2) is transmitted from a vehicle-based position (PO2) inside the vehicle. Values (R1, R2) of the respective measured reception field strengths of the first and second radio signals at the location (OF) of the portable radio unit or a value derived therefrom is/are received. Finally, the location (OF) of the portable radio unit is ascertained on the basis of a comparison of the values of the respective measured reception field strengths. In this manner, a simple and reliable way of locating a portable radio unit is also made possible using radio-frequency radio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Stefan Hermann
  • Patent number: 11444683
    Abstract: In a wireless communication network, an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) receives signaling for a wireless relay and transfers a slice request to a Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF). The NSSF transfers a network slice Identifier (ID) and relay slice IDs to the AMF. The AMF transfers the network slice ID and the relay slice IDs to a Session Management Function (SMF). The SMF instantiates a network User Plane Function (UPF) responsive to the network slice ID. The SMF instantiates relay UPFs in the wireless relay responsive to the relay slice IDs. The wireless relay wirelessly exchanges data with the UEs. The relay UPFs process the user data for the relay slices. The wireless relay wirelessly exchanges the user data with the wireless access node which exchanges the data with the network UPF. The network UPF processes the user data for the network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Lyle Walter Paczkowski
  • Patent number: 11389129
    Abstract: In a method for diagnosing and treating a patient having lesions in both arteries of left and right lower limbs. By determining that a lesion distal to an aortailiac bifurcation is to be treated first, catheters and an operation time can be reduced. The lesion to be treated first can be on a priority basis based on diagnostic data, deciding that a lesion proximal to the bifurcation is to be treated next, and then treating the lesions substantially continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Itou, Yoshiyuki Saito, Shota Ishii, Tetsuya Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11395131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for establishing a connection to a terminal device equipped with a subscriber identity module. The method includes: defining the plurality of subscriber identity modules as a group; defining, for at least one of the plurality of subscriber identity modules, at least one characteristic relating to accessing the at least one subscriber identity module; in response to a receipt of a connection request in a terminal device inquiring the at least one characteristic; and establishing, from the terminal device, a connection to the terminal device indicated in the connection request in accordance with the at least one characteristic relating to accessing the at least one subscriber identity module. Also disclosed is a terminal device, a system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TELIA COMPANY AB
    Inventor: Timo Saija
  • Patent number: 11394427
    Abstract: A device operatively couples a tractor ABS controller with TABS controllers in units towed by the tractor. A PLC interface circuit of the device communicates messages received from a PLC network of the towed units to a CAN network of the tractor via a CAN interface circuit. The device may also rebroadcast messages received from the PLC network back onto the PLC network, and may also wirelessly broadcast messages received from the PLC network back onto a wireless network. The device receives messages from the towed units at a message rate, determines a quantity of towed units from the message rate, and communicates the determined quantity of towed units on the CAN network of the tractor. The device receives messages indicating towed unit identification (ID) information, determines a quantity of towed units from the towed unit ID information, and communicates the determined quantity of towed units on the CAN network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Phillip J. Kasper, Daniel P. Zula
  • Patent number: 11341631
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for automatically detecting a physiological condition from a medical image of a patient. The method may include receiving the medical image acquired by an imaging device. The method may further include detecting, by a processor, target objects and obtaining the corresponding target object patches from the received medical image. And the method may further include determining, by the processor, a first parameter using a first learning network for each target object patch. The first parameter represents the physiological condition level of the corresponding target object, and the first learning network is trained by adding one or more auxiliary classification layers. This method can quickly, accurately, and automatically predict target object level and/or image (patient) level physiological condition from a medical image of a patient by means of a learning network, such as 3D learning network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN KEYA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qi Song, Shanhui Sun, Feng Gao, Junjie Bai, Hanbo Chen, Youbing Yin
  • Patent number: 11284413
    Abstract: A wireless device receives at least one message. The at least one message may comprise: an uplink radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) for a periodic resource allocation, and at least one configuration parameter for the periodic resource allocation. The at least one configuration parameter may comprise: an uplink interval parameter, and at least one first parameter indicating one or more traffic types. A downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the uplink RNTI may be received. The DCI may indicate activation of the periodic resource allocation. At least one transport block comprising data of the one or more traffic types may be transmitted employing the at least one configuration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11275395
    Abstract: Methods of powering a radio that is mounted on a tower of a cellular base station are provided in which a direct current (“DC”) power signal is provided to the radio over a power cable and a voltage level of the output of the power supply is adjusted so as to provide a substantially constant voltage at a first end of the power cable that is remote from the power supply. Related cellular base stations and programmable power supplies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John C. Chamberlain, Michael Guerin
  • Patent number: 11277752
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method for an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, configured to: determine a first set of a high priority secondary system based on mutual interference between a low-priority sub-system and the high-priority sub-system, wherein the mutual interference between the high-priority sub-system in the first set and at least one low-priority sub-system is higher than a pre-set level; and based on information related to the first set, clustering the high-priority sub-system in the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youping Zhao, Wei Ding, Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 11256277
    Abstract: Methods of powering a radio that is mounted on a tower of a cellular base station are provided in which a direct current (“DC”) power signal is provided to the radio over a power cable and a voltage level of the output of the power supply is adjusted so as to provide a substantially constant voltage at a first end of the power cable that is remote from the power supply. Related cellular base stations and programmable power supplies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael R Guerin, John Charles Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 11234207
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a positioning information transmission method, a related device, and a system. The positioning information transmission method includes: determining an uplink subframe for carrying an uplink signal and a downlink subframe for carrying a downlink signal; determining first measurement information and second measurement information; and sending the first measurement information and the second measurement information to a positioning server, for locating a terminal device by the positioning server. Positioning accuracy can be improved by using the embodiments of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiantao Xue, Kailong Wang, Yuan Gao, Jing Han, Yueqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11202330
    Abstract: A registration method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The registration method includes transmitting a registration request message to an access and mobility management function (AMF), wherein the registration request message includes requested network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) including single (S)-NSSAI corresponding to a network slice to which the UE intends to register with; and receiving, from the AMF, a registration accept message as a response to the registration request message, wherein if at least one of the S-NSSAI included in the requested NSSAI is rejected by the AMF, the registration accept message includes the rejected S-NSSAI and a reason for refusal for the rejected S-NSSAI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sangmin Park, Jinsook Ryu, Hyunsook Kim, Myungjune Youn
  • Patent number: 11147062
    Abstract: A wireless device may receive message(s) comprising configuration parameters of cells grouped into a first cell group and a second cell group. One or more first grants for transmission in a first subframe on one or more first cells of the first cell group are received. The one or more first cells may comprise an LAA cell. One or more second grants for transmission in a second subframe on one or more second cells of the second cell group may be received. The first subframe may overlap the second subframe. The first subframe may lead the second subframe by a timing difference. In response to the timing difference being larger than a timing value, a power scaling rule may be applied to transmissions corresponding to the one or more second grants based on whether a listen before talk procedure indicates a clear channel for the LAA cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Babaei, Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11146659
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a processor, programmed to utilize a modem to receive an update request as a short message service (SMS) message, identify a network quality metric for a data connection to a base station of a wide-area network, when the quality metric exceeds a predefined threshold value, download the software update from the wide-area network, and otherwise, send an update response as an SMS deliver report indicating rejection of the update request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Wirtanen, Muhammad Khaledul Islam, Yihai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11129024
    Abstract: A vehicle-to-X communication apparatus includes a generating device which is designed to generate a vehicle-to-X message to be sent, a signing device which is designed to sign the vehicle-to-X message to be sent, a first verification device which is designed to verify the vehicle-to-X message to be sent, a transmitting device which is designed to send the vehicle-to-X message. The first verification device is configured according to a higher safety integrity level than the generating device, the signing device and/or the transmitting device. Furthermore, a corresponding method as well as the use of the apparatus in a vehicle or an infrastructure facility is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich Stählin, Marc Menzel, Andrew Kirby
  • Patent number: 11115817
    Abstract: Provided is the use of HSS servers (41, 42) of a local mobile structure (113) and a remote mobile structure (114), as well as the USIM card (211, 221) of a link entity (21, 22), and thus also an MME emulator (51, 52) in order to manage security and in particular the right of the link entity of a given mobile structure to connect with a link entity of another mobile structure, when the link entities establish a backhaul-type data transport link in direct mode between the two mobile structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AIR LYNX
    Inventors: Laurent Pison, François Dubois