Patents Examined by Pameshanand Mahase
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11232311
    Abstract: A method providing guidance to a vehicle for parking includes: obtaining information of potential parking space. Information of the parking space includes likelihood of finding unoccupied parking space and navigating to the parking space according to the information of parking space. The information of the parking space guides a driver to quickly find the parking space, thereby reducing parking time, improving parking space utilization, and efficiency of road traffic management. Calculating the likelihood of finding an unoccupied space is of great assistance to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Fugui Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Po-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11225335
    Abstract: An aircraft operational state monitoring system is provided that includes a module for acquiring a logic state of a plurality of components of the aircraft, the components belonging to airplane systems. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a module for determining the operability status of a plurality of macroscopic functions of the aircraft, each macroscopic function being defined independently of the components and airplane systems necessary for the performance of the macroscopic function, the operability status being determined based on logic states of the plurality of components between an operational status and at least one nonoperational status. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a display and at least one graphic display management assembly on the display, configured for displaying, on the display, summary indicators of the operability status of the macroscopic functions of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Cyril Saint Requier, Gilles Constant, Guy Schaller, Arnaud Branthomme, Magali Thorel
  • Patent number: 11214385
    Abstract: A system includes an RF signaling device configured to record a count of a number of times that an aircraft door or cover has opened or closed, and a management device configured to determine a state of the aircraft door or cover based on communication with the RF signaling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AEROSENS LLC
    Inventors: Farid Hassani, Maria-Esther Martinez-Barreiro
  • Patent number: 11218843
    Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle-target localization, identification and indication. The system includes a vehicle module operating onboard a vehicle and configured to receive a request for a tether and send the tether responsive thereto, and a target module operating on a target external to the vehicle. The target module can generate target profile data (TPD) comprising location information for the target, such as, a first component that is a function of a detected first WiFi signal having a first signal strength. The request for the tether including the TPD is transmitted to the vehicle module; a tether of secured communications is established between the vehicle module and target module. Real-time TPD is exchanged during the tether and the vehicle module performs the V-T localization as a function of the RT TPD, and commands the vehicle based on V-T localization data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Prakash Mohan Peranandam, Jiyu Zhang, Erik B. Golm
  • Patent number: 11217347
    Abstract: A system for detecting patient turns includes a person support apparatus including a person support surface and a support frame, a plurality of load cells for generating load cell data, a sensor for sensing at least one of heart rate data and respiration rate data for an individual, and a computing device coupled to the plurality of load cells and the sensor. The computing device receives the load cell data and the at least one of heart rate data and respiration rate data for the individual, detects that a patient turn has occurred on the person support surface based on the load cell data and the at least one of heart rate data and respiration rate data for the individual, and causes an indication that the patient turn occurred to be logged in an electronic medical record corresponding to the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Zerhusen, Bryan Weidman
  • Patent number: 11214193
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: determine a type of a detection object approaching the vehicle; determine whether or not the detection object enters a predetermined range around the vehicle; and control an output of a sound corresponding to the type of the detection object when the detection object enters the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11205337
    Abstract: An agricultural work machine, an agricultural work machine control system, and method for an agricultural work machine having RFID tags to determine a fault condition of machine components, devices, parts or systems. The RFID tags are located on, at, or near machine components or systems to sense a temperature of those components or systems. A receiver/transmitter interrogates the RFID tags and receives the sensed temperatures, and component identifiers. A controller receives the temperatures from the receiver/transmitter and compares the received temperatures to a threshold to determine whether a fault condition exists. If so, the controller transmits an alert signal to a user interface to indicate that a fault condition exists with an identified component, part, device, or system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel E. Derscheid, Cole L. Murray
  • Patent number: 11195357
    Abstract: Various devices, methods, and media are provided. According to one of the devices, an unlocking request for unlocking a lock is received. The lock is provided in a container and contains a physical object. Information of a first owner, that has a right of ownership of the physical object, is acquired from a first ledger when the unlocking request is received. The first ledger is one of a plurality of distributed ledgers which each have a same content. The device determines whether the first requester matches the first owner, and causes the lock to be unlocked when the first requester matches the first owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Junichiro Soeda
  • Patent number: 11189170
    Abstract: A server includes a vehicle determination unit, an hour determination unit, and an authentication code transmission unit. The vehicle determination unit is configured to determine whether a reservation object vehicle corresponding to reservation vehicle information is in a parking place object area preset based on detection information of a parking place sensor and the reservation vehicle information. The hour determination unit is configured to determine whether a current hour is equal to or later than a transmission start hour. The authentication code transmission unit is configured to transmit an authentication code to a user terminal of a reservation user, when the vehicle determination unit determines that the reservation object vehicle is in the parking place object area and the hour determination unit determines that the current hour is equal to or later than the transmission start hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobutsugu Maruiwa
  • Patent number: 11176792
    Abstract: A merchandise security device configured for use with an electronic key for locking and/or unlocking a lock mechanism is provided. The merchandise security device may include a housing operably coupled with a cable, wherein the cable is configured to be extended and retracted relative to the housing and to at least partially surround an item of merchandise. The security device may also include a lock mechanism configured to releasably secure the cable relative to the housing for locking the cable about the item of merchandise. In addition, the lock mechanism is configured to receive electrical power for unlocking the lock mechanism so that the housing and the cable may be removed from the item of merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.
    Inventors: A. Reneau Van Landingham, Jr., James K. Sankey
  • Patent number: 11176820
    Abstract: A host vehicle warning system includes one or more processors, one or more host vehicle status sensors, one or more approaching vehicle sensors, one or more user interface devices, and one or more memory modules. The one or more host vehicle status sensors output a status signal that a host vehicle is stopped in traffic. The one or more approaching vehicle sensors output a driving condition signal indicative of a driving condition of an approaching vehicle. The one or more user interface devices output a warning to a user of the host vehicle. The one or more memory modules store logic that cause the one or more processors to determine that the host vehicle is stopped in traffic, detect the driving condition of the approaching vehicle, determine whether the driving condition of the approaching vehicle is reckless, and output the warning in response to determining the approaching vehicle is reckless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Khushboo Singh, Eduard VanderSmitte
  • Patent number: 11164434
    Abstract: An electronic article surveillance (EAS) device for monitoring items comprises an electronics housing and an elastic band. The band is attached to the housing and is used to install the EAS device onto an item. A tension monitoring apparatus monitors the band and generates a signal based on the band's state of tension. Electronics within the housing receive this signal and use it to determine the status of the EAS device, i.e. installed, armed, tampered with, etc. Loss of tension may indicate a cut band or removed EAS device. Other sensors may also generate inputs for the electronics to evaluate. These include an installation sensor to monitor contact between the housing and an item and an arming switch to arm the EAS device before installation. The EAS device may have wireless communication capabilities, and external devices may arm and disarm the device with wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventor: Xiao Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11160472
    Abstract: A notification system is provided that provides notification of patient events such as movement and/or incontinence. The notification system provides for a plurality of different pressure sensor pads as well as an incontinence pad to be used in association with a single monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Parasol Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Kilcran, Patrick E. Eddy, Jacob D. Stephens, Lucas W. Stephens, Daniel P. Kilcran
  • Patent number: 11164443
    Abstract: A method for detecting an assistance indicator in a physical consumable usage environment, wherein the method comprises the steps of: detecting an assistance indicator using an electronic control device associated with at least one physical consumable provisioning device; generating an alert based on detection of the assistance indicator; and communicating the alert to a registered device that is associated with the physical consumable provisioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Caroma Industries Limited
    Inventor: Stephen John Cummings
  • Patent number: 11158179
    Abstract: A system for determining that a monitored person has experienced an event wherein the event is detrimental to the monitored person. The system comprises a first sensing component for producing a first sensed parameter value representative of a first sensed condition of the monitored person and a second sensing component activated responsive to the first sensed parameter value for producing a second sensed parameter value representative of a second sensed condition. A detecting component receives the first and second sensed parameter values for determining that the monitored person has experienced the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NXT-ID, INC.
    Inventor: David Tunnell
  • Patent number: 11130455
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to vehicle security enhancement. For example, a vehicle may receive a plurality of data values from an onboard diagnostic system (OBD) of a vehicle, wherein a first data value is received from a first sensor of the vehicle and a second data value is received from a second sensor of the vehicle. The vehicle may determine a third data value received from a controller area network (CAN) bus of the vehicle. The vehicle may determine the third data value is associated with a false message originating from a device external to the vehicle based on performing a correlation analysis between the first value, the second value and the third value. The vehicle may discard the third data value based on the correlation analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Byungho Cha