Patents Examined by Pameshanand Mahase
  • Patent number: 11409975
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a NFC communication system, to a method of establishing communication between a wireless communication device and a passive NFC device and to a passive NFC device. The passive NFC device includes an NFC controller, an NFC transceiver coupled with the NFC controller, and at least one persistent flag coupled with the NFC controller, the persistent flag being switchable between an activated state and a deactivated state. The NFC controller is configured to perform a logical operation being divisible into a sequence of at least a first subtask and a second subtask and the NFC controller is configured to ascertain the status of the persistent flag. The NFC controller is further configured to selectively perform at least one of the first subtask and the second subtask on the basis of the status of the persistent flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin SA
    Inventors: James J. Springer, Fabrice Walter, Pierre Muller, Fabien Bourquin
  • Patent number: 11405011
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for selective communication between a tag and a reader using a filter. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication method between a tag and a reader using a filter performed by a reader includes generating a filter based on tag information of the tag to collect data, transmitting the generated filter to the tag, and receiving data from a tag that selected through a filtering operation of the transmitted filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Tae-Jin Lee, Kyoung Min Kim, Young Il Cho
  • Patent number: 11386760
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for the detection and identification of a cellular device that crosses a perimeter associated with a premises that is installed with a monitoring system. Subsequently, a determination of an intruder crossing the perimeter and/or entering a building within the premises may be made based on receiving unique identification values for the cellular device and/or information associated with a user of the cellular device. One or more sensors present within or near the premises may be configured to send alert information when tripped. The monitoring system may be configured to determine a location of the cellular device, an identity of the user of the cellular device, additional information stored, transmitted or received by the cellular device, and safe escape routes that may be sent to one or more user devices registered with the monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Deven Vazirani
  • Patent number: 11382511
    Abstract: A system for issuing a notification responsive to the occurrence of an event affecting a monitored person. The system has a monitoring device that determines occurrence of an event related to the health or safety of the person and produces a first signal when the event occurs. A first communications device issues a second signal upon receiving the first signal and a second communications device issues a notification signal upon receiving the second signal. The notification signal is issued to one or more entities and advises that an event has occurred. The first communications device has a shorter communications range than the second communications device. Also, the second communications device operating at a higher power level or a greater signal bandwidth than the first communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: LOGICMARK, INC.
    Inventors: Hannah Tunnell, David Tunnell
  • Patent number: 11386787
    Abstract: A first device may receive, from a second device associated with an emergency motor vehicle (EMV), EMV-tracking information and a communication that the EMV is in emergency response mode and may determine, based on the EMV-tracking information, that the EMV is approaching an intersection. The first device may receive, from a third device associated with a user vehicle, user-tracking information. The first device may determine, based on the user-tracking information, that the user vehicle is approaching the intersection. The first device may determine, based on the EMV-tracking information and the user-tracking information, whether the EMV is predicted to collide with the user vehicle. The first device may provide, to the second device and based on the determination of whether the EMV is predicted to collide with the user vehicle, a first notification including information regarding safety of the EMV proceeding through the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Harlan Schweitzer, John Gregory Bosque, Dante J. Pacella, Lee E. Sattler
  • Patent number: 11379817
    Abstract: A toll advertisement message (TAM) broadcast from a roadside unit (RSU) is received by a vehicle via V2X communication, the TAM indicating geographic locations of lanes of a roadway for which tolls are due and cost information for traversing the lanes of the roadway. A heading of the vehicle is determined in relation to a TAM reference point indicating a geographic location of a toll gantry. A toll zone boundary region for the vehicle is identified by filtering the geographic locations of the lanes in the TAM to include only those lanes in a travel direction consistent with the heading. A lane straddling algorithm is utilized to identify, for each of the lanes in the travel direction, a respective percentage within each lane that the vehicle is traveling. A tolling usage message (TUM) is sent via the V2X communication, indicating to the RSU the percentage lane usage of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Bandi, Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda, Samer Ibrahim, Brennan Hamilton, Jovan Milivoje Zagajac
  • Patent number: 11354950
    Abstract: A monitoring system including pieces of measuring equipment and an LPWAN reception terminal. Each piece of measuring equipment has a sensor arranged to measure a parameter of the aircraft, an LPWAN antenna and an LPWAN transmitter, an independent power source that powers the piece of measuring equipment, a main cut-off member connected between the independent power source and the LPWAN transmitter, and a main control component arranged to monitor operating parameters of the LPWAN transmitter and to open and close the main cut-off member selectively as a function of the operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Nicolas Fanton, Thiebault Jeandon, Emmanuel Couturier
  • Patent number: 11338872
    Abstract: The invention relates to an autonomous device for alert in case of motion of a vehicle, comprising: an electrical energy recovery facility (11) adapted to recover electrical energy generated by rotation of a wheel (2) of the vehicle, a temporary accumulation module (12) adapted to store at least part of said electrical energy, a telecommunication module (13) adapted to be supplied by the temporary accumulation module, and configured to emit, in response to its being supplied with electrical energy by the temporary accumulation module (12), a communication destined for a network (3) for dispatching an alert message destined for a terminal (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Mikaël Marche, Frédéric Dutronc
  • Patent number: 11332127
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is programmed to obtain a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot, obtain information of a current free space of the parking lot, secure from the current free space of the parking lot a parking space that the obtained size matches; and provide the vehicle with guidance information indicating the secured parking space for driving the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko Mizuno, Misa Ejiri, Kazuyuki Kagawa, Yuta Oshiro, Katsuhito Kito
  • Patent number: 11334163
    Abstract: The disclosed flexible vibrotactile devices may include a flexible electroactive material that has a substantially spiral shape, a first electrode electrically coupled to a first side of the flexible electroactive material, and a second electrode electrically coupled to a second, opposite side of the flexible electroactive material. The first electrode and the second electrode may be positioned and configured to apply an electrical voltage to the flexible electroactive material to induce haptic vibration in the flexible electroactive material. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniele Piazza, Tristan Thomas Trutna
  • Patent number: 11328598
    Abstract: A parking lot guidance system includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state based on a result of detection from a detection unit; a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot based on a determination from the determination unit; and a display unit configured to display the predetermined number of empty spaces. The selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11325527
    Abstract: A helmet lighting system includes a display attachable to a helmet which is selectively illuminated in response to receiving a wireless signal transmitted from a wireless transmitter operably coupled to a brake or direction signal light of the motorcycle. The display includes flexible base housing attachable to an outer surface of the helmet that at least partially houses an illumination module. A flexible applique overlies the illumination module and is at least partially transparent or translucent so as to pass light from LEDs of the illumination module therethrough. The applique is removably attachable to the base housing and/or the illumination module and may be replaced with other appliques having different logos or indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jeffrey B. Cook
  • Patent number: 11295590
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a Unified Security Device (“USD”). The methods comprise: receiving an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) interrogation signal with an antenna of the USD; processing the EAS interrogation signal using a processor unit of the USD; using the processor unit to generate an EAS response signal that emulates a response signal produced by an Acousto-Magnetic (AM) type of EAS security tag, in response to the EAS interrogation signal; and communicating the EAS response signal from the USD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Steve E. Trivelpiece, Craig E. Trivelpiece, David Torrecilla, Adam S. Bergman
  • Patent number: 11295619
    Abstract: A parking lot data repair method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
    Inventors: Lei Peng, Yuqiang Sun, Huiyun Li
  • Patent number: 11270244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a monitoring device and system, the monitoring device comprises a sensing module arranged to detect a condition of an object associated with the monitoring device; a wireless communication module operably connected with the sensing module, the communication module being arranged to communicate the condition detected by the sensing module to an external electronic device; and an identification module with a unique identifier arranged to be read for identifying the monitoring device. During transportation and storage of object, it is desirable to monitor some physical properties continuously, detect anti-counterfeiting and track the location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Luxon Data Holdings Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hui Ling Lee
  • Patent number: 11263880
    Abstract: Alarming cables, assemblies and systems for displaying and protecting a powered article of merchandise from theft include an alarm unit disposed between a first cable having a first connector for connection to a power source and a second cable having a second connector for connection to the merchandise. An alarm unit connector may connect the second cable to the alarm unit. The alarm unit and the alarm unit connector may each include a connection member to electrically connect the merchandise with the alarm unit and the power source when the alarm unit connector aligns with and engages the alarm unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Grant, Gary A. Taylor, Robert Schultz, Christopher J. Fawcett, Larry T. McKinney, Kirk Burmeister, II, James K. Sankey
  • Patent number: 11257346
    Abstract: Systems and methods for configuration for contextual response to motion-based events are disclosed. For example, a predefined event may be detected. The system may determine that a subject associated with the event is of a given type of subjects and may determine whether another person is present in the environment associated with the event to assist in providing aid. The presence of the other person may be detected, a type of the other person may be performed, and a notification may be output on a second device associated with the other person based on the type. The system may track when the other person reach an area associated with the event and may cause the first device to perform an action to assist the other person in providing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Meyers, Mara Clair Segal
  • Patent number: 11241368
    Abstract: A smart pacifier that performs various functions via smart device connection and application is disclosed. In all of its iterations, there is the ability to put the parent in Bluetooth or other iteration of wireless connection with the pacifier so that each of the features of the pacifier can be accessed through a smart device application, permitting each of them to be operated while the parent is out of sight of the child, and for the pacifier to shut down remotely based on direct sensory interaction with the child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: LaToya Shontay Thomas, Larry Anthony-Quinn Thomas
  • Patent number: 11236606
    Abstract: An embodiment of a communication system for communicating between a wired pipe string in a borehole and a surface location includes at least a first wired pipe downhole component and a second wired pipe downhole component in the wired pipe string, a coupler configured to transmit a transmission signal between the first wired pipe downhole component and the second wired pipe downhole component, and a wireless transmission assembly in at least one of the first wired pipe downhole component and the second wired pipe downhole component. The wireless transmission assembly is configured to wirelessly transmit a wireless transmission signal to a receiver antenna, and the receiver antenna is disposed at the surface location and configured to receive the wireless transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Pridat, Gavin Lindsay, Kai Schoenborn
  • Patent number: 11232663
    Abstract: A method for limiting exposure to infectious disease by controlling access to a controlled access venue to admit individuals who have tested non-infectious for a particular highly infectious disease or have received a vaccination against the same comprises receiving, at a central website operator server, consumer user identification information from consumer users and storing that information in a consumer user database associated with the server. A biometric identifier from the consumer users is transmitted to the consumer user database and each associated with its respective associated consumer user to form an enrollment record. Identity of a presented individual is collected at a medical certification point and an authority record is created in an accessible authority database. At said medical certification point, an antibody test or vaccination is administered and the same is noted in the authority record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Lalit Lodha, Joshua Huntington