Patents Examined by Pameshanand Mahase
  • Patent number: 12112618
    Abstract: Methods and systems for illuminating a path are described. Data indicating a condition can be received by a lighting device. A light for output by the lighting device can be determined based on a location of the lighting device, such as a location of the lighting device relative to the condition and/or an egress. Data indicating the condition and/or data indicating the light for output can be transmitted to one or more other lighting devices, thereby illuminating a path away from the condition to the egress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Arvind K. Mundra, Andrew Cannone, Nishant Doshi, Pragnesh Rabari, Alexander Cabinian, Krishna Chaitanya Madabooshi, Daniel Hillegass, Dipal Patel
  • Patent number: 12100286
    Abstract: A hygienic behavior monitoring system configured to use sensors to detect instances of hygienic behaviors. The hygienic behavior monitoring system includes a presentation unit that presents one or more media items and a processing unit that indexes behavioral instances. An analytic unit calculates instances of one or more hygienic events based at least in part on a fusion of sensor signals including instances of the actions of a sanitary device with instances of detected human presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hygiene IQ, LLC
    Inventors: Sean M. Podvent, Richard Adams, Aleksandar Bradic, Vojislav Antonic
  • Patent number: 12100251
    Abstract: A system for includes master and sniffer devices. The master device includes: first antennas with different polarized axes; a transmitter transmitting a challenge signal via the first antennas from the vehicle to a slave device, where the slave device is a portable access device; and a receiver receiving a response signal in response to the challenge signal from the slave device. The sniffer device includes: second antennas with different polarized axes; and a receiver receiving, via the second antennas, the challenge signal from the transmitter and the response signal from the slave device. The sniffer device measures when the challenge signal and the response signal arrive at the sniffer device to provide arrival times. The master or sniffer device estimates at least one of a distance from the vehicle to the slave device or a location of the slave device relative to the vehicle based on the arrival times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raymond Michael Stitt, Yuki Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 12095588
    Abstract: A vehicular drawing device includes a first operating system, a second operating system, a first circuit block group, a second circuit block group, a first power circuit, a second power circuit, and a controller circuit. The first circuit block group is used in the first operating system. The second circuit block group is used in the second operating system. The first power circuit is configured to supply a sub power to the first circuit block group. The second power circuit is provided separately from the first power circuit, and the second power circuit is configured to supply a main power to the second circuit block group. In response to the main power being abnormal, the controller circuit is configured to (i) maintain supplying of the sub power from the first power circuit to the first circuit block group and (ii) terminate an operation of the second power circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiya Sakamoto, Takashi Hashizume
  • Patent number: 12094278
    Abstract: There is provided an access system for controlling access to an inspection area and a product inspection apparatus. The access system comprises an area access controller configured to control an inspection area access means for controlling access to an inspection area; a product inspection apparatus controller configured to control access to one or more functions of a product inspection apparatus within the inspection area; a first RFID reader configured to read an external RFID tag of a user; and one or more memory devices configured to store authorised RFID data corresponding to one or more RFID tags each associated with an authorised user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Hitesh Hirani, Andy Alexander
  • Patent number: 12084198
    Abstract: An apparatus for visually indicating attitude of an aircraft in flight is disclosed. The apparatus includes an aircraft model, a cross-shaped LED lamp, a dome filled with damping fluid, a vertical tube, an earth model, and a laser pointer. The apparatus is installable into a cockpit of an aircraft and allows a pilot of the aircraft to see the flight attitude of the aircraft indirectly through the apparatus. Particularly, the apparatus is used under emergency conditions, such as when the internal attitude instrument is out of order and the external environment cannot be effectively visualized. Thus, the apparatus provides a safety guarantee in situations of manual flight in low visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Le Zhuang
  • Patent number: 12071308
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for conveyor operation and maintenance that employ one or both of a “smart shoe” technology where one or more conveyor shoes incorporate features, such as an RFID tag, and a “missing pin detection” technology where one or more pin components of conveyor shoes incorporate features, such as an RFID tag, allowing selective wireless tracking and identification capability. A conveyor system comprises a shoe management system allowing interactions directly with one or more RFID readers, which can detect, store and/or monitor information associated with “smart shoe” and/or “missing pin detection” RFID tags, where interface between this application and the reader can be implemented via a socket interface. An open platform communications (OPC) wrapper can be created around the interface so that a Human Machine Interface (HMI) could interact directly with shoe management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: AEGIS SORTATION, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Jay Ice
  • Patent number: 12051320
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to projecting action indicators on items in a retail facility. In some embodiments, a system comprises an image capture device configured to capture an image of a shelving unit, a control circuit configured to identify items located in the shelving unit, determine an action item for an item located in the shelving unit, identify boundaries of the item, and generate an action image including an action indicator based on the action item for the item, wherein the action indicator is located within the boundaries of the item, and a display device configured to present the action image on the shelving unit, wherein the action indicator is presented on the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Eric A. Letson, Tom G. Douglass, Jason D. Bellar
  • Patent number: 12051328
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing sensor data on a display of a vehicle. For instance, data points generated by a lidar sensor may be received. The data points may be representative of one or more objects in an external environment of the vehicle. A scene including a representation of the vehicle from a perspective of a virtual camera, a first virtual object corresponding to at least one of the one or more objects, and a second virtual object corresponding to at least one object identified from pre-stored map information may be generated. Supplemental points corresponding to a surface of the at least one object identified from the pre-stored map information may be generated. A pulse including at least some of the data points generated by the sensor and the supplemental points may be generated. The scene may be displayed with the pulse on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Nirmal Patel, Maria Moon, Peter Crandall
  • Patent number: 12045710
    Abstract: An apparatus for classifying the motion of a movable treatment device having at least one inertial sensor, a motion pattern classification device configured to discriminate between two or more motion classes contained in a set of motion classes of the movable treatment device, and an interface for providing inertial sensor data from the inertial sensor to the motion pattern classification device. The inertial sensor data represents a movement of the movable treatment device, wherein the motion pattern classification device comprises at least one neural network configured to receive and classify the inertial sensor data with respect to the motion classes contained, each associated with at least one class member selected based on the motion of the movable treatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Faiz Feisal Sherman, Xiaole Mao
  • Patent number: 12039852
    Abstract: A pre-disaster banking system including a mobile conditions monitoring center including a vehicle having a system controller including: a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions to perform the following steps: receiving location data from a personal electronic device of a user; receiving forecast data regarding a predicted disaster; making a first determination, based on the received location data and the received forecast data, that the personal electronic device is located in an area that is expected to be affected by the predicted disaster; receiving banking information for the user; making a second determination that the user is scheduled to receive a payroll deposit that could be affected by the predicted disaster; and determining, based on the first determination and the second determination, a banking transaction to be executed for the user at a predetermined time relative to the predicted time of occurrence of the predicted disaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Manfred Amann, Emily Margaret Gray, Donnette Moncrief Brown
  • Patent number: 12027007
    Abstract: Methods and systems for unlocking an access point of a facility with a mobile device. Permissions and locations of access points of the facility that are accessible to a user of a particular mobile device may be downloaded and a location of the particular mobile device determined. The mobile device may identify one or more access points of the facility that are accessible by the user of the mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and the downloaded permissions and locations of the access points. The method may include displaying on the mobile device a notification of the access points that are identified by the mobile device, receiving a selection of one of the displayed access points from the user via a user interface of the mobile device, sending a command from the mobile device to unlock the selected access point, and unlocking the selected access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael Coniff, Krishna Murthy, Sreedhar Raman, Karthik Harpanhalli
  • Patent number: 12026567
    Abstract: A circuit for a passive radio-identification tag operating in a UHF band is described, configured for a radio communication with a reader that emits a reading signal. The circuit is produced as a single chip, comprising one or more transducers for measuring a strain, a first sub-circuit configured for the acquisition of the transducer measurement, and a second sub-circuit configured for the radio transmission of the acquired measurement to the reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ASYGN
    Inventors: Lionel Geynet, Nicolas Delorme
  • Patent number: 12025270
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a controller is configured to be operably coupled to a series of safety relays. Each safety relay is coupled to a machine from a plurality of machines. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a potential collision between any machine from the plurality of machines that is coupled to the at least one of the safety relays that was activated. The controller is configured to send, in response to the signal indicative of the potential collision, a signal to at least one of the safety relays from the series of safety relays to activate the at least one of the safety relays, thereby stopping motion of any machine from the plurality of machines that is coupled to the at least one of the safety relays that was activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX VENTURES LIMITED
    Inventors: Travis McGuire, Brad Hamilton, Jerald Colbert, Shane McClaugherty
  • Patent number: 12018995
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the wear of a pulley. A wear monitor pulley comprises a pulley comprising a curved shell, cylindrical body, and at least one wear monitor affixed to, or embedded in, the pulley, lagging, or backing, wherein the wear monitor transmits information about the pulley through electromagnetic fields. A method comprising affixing at least one wear monitor on a wear monitor pulley, associating information and data about the wear monitor pulley with the at least one wear monitor affixed to the at least one wear monitor pulley, transmitting a signal from the at least one wear monitor using electromagnetic fields from the at least one wear monitor to a wear monitor reader, reading the signal sent by the at least one wear monitor with the wear monitor reader, and determining whether the at least one wear monitor has sent the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Braime Group PLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Norman Wheat
  • Patent number: 12020553
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages an IOT based management system for assisting users around a swimming pool. The system comprises a plurality of sensors configured to sense a plurality of parameters corresponding to various pre-defined events associated with said swimming pool; a control unit communicatively coupled to said plurality of sensors through a communication network to receive said plurality of parameters and configured to process said plurality of parameters based on at least one machine learning algorithm to generate actionable intelligence in the form of signals associated with said pre-defined events corresponding to said plurality of parameters; and at least one IOT based actuating mechanism configured to receive said signals and perform at least one action upon reception of said signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Mirza Faizan
  • Patent number: 12017580
    Abstract: A linear regulator supplies a first drive current to a first light source in a first period in which the first light source is turned on and a second light source is not turned on, and in a second period in which the first light source and the second light source are turned on, and stops the supply of the first drive current in a third period in which the first light source and the second light source are turned off. A switching regulator supplies a second drive current to the second light source in the second period, and stops the supply of the second drive current in the third period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Ohta, Susumu Ogo
  • Patent number: 12012054
    Abstract: A vehicle is electrically connected to one or more accessories. The vehicle includes at least one controller that may be configured to identify the accessory based on accessory identification information. The controller may also be configured to provide one or more commands to control an operation of the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Aidan B. Shaughnessy, Joshua T. Weed, Adam C. Koosmann, Brian D. Krosschell, Austin A. Holt, Benjamin S. Fuchs, Donovan L Fredrickson
  • Patent number: 12004486
    Abstract: An information handling and alarm system is provided to help pet owners care for and find lost pets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Pet Notify, Inc.
    Inventors: Layne Sapp, Taylor Rork
  • Patent number: 11993254
    Abstract: A cognitive sensor-based autonomous parking route search system includes a cognitive sensor configured to obtain cognitive information for determining an existence and a location of an obstacle by sensing a space around a vehicle being driven in an inside of a parking lot, a global path search module configured to generate a global path for the inside of the parking lot as a node map by searching for a free space, in which the vehicle is capable of being driven, based on the cognitive information and by setting a node in the free space, and an optimal local path generation module configured to generate an optimal local path from a current location of the vehicle to a destination by connecting the node set in the free space while the vehicle moves inside the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Kyujin Park, Junho Yang