Patents Examined by Q Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12385245
    Abstract: A hanger for supporting an elongate beam in a building structure has beam support member with a right side spaced from a left side with a support web extending therebetween at a bottom end. The right side, left side and support web define a beam receipt channel. A beam adjustment member is positioned at least partially within the channel proximate the web and in rotational or pivotal relationship with the beam support member. The beam support member may include a series of vertically spaced apart slots or notches for engagement with one or more notches or slots in a back plate. The back plate is separately attachable to a building support member and the beam support member is attachable to the back plate at multiple different vertical positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: OMG Building Products LLC
    Inventors: Logan Carlson, Jonathan W. Dezielle, Timothy F. Gillis
  • Patent number: 12384423
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for fusing sensor data from multiple sensors. An example method can include obtaining a first set of sensor data from a first sensor and a second set of sensor data from a second sensor; detecting an object in the first set of sensor data and the object in the second set of sensor data; aligning the object in the first set of sensor data and the object in the second set of sensor data to a common time; and based on the aligned object from the first set of sensor data and the aligned object from the second set of sensor data, fusing the aligned object from the first set of sensor data and the aligned object from the second set of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Burkay Donderici
  • Patent number: 12385260
    Abstract: A floor covering, made of floor elements, which, at least at two opposite sides, includes a male coupling part and a female coupling part, which allow that two of such floor elements to be interconnected by pushing one of these floor elements with the associated male coupling part, by a downward movement, home into the female coupling part of the other floor element. At least one of the coupling parts, either the male coupling part or the female coupling part, is made as least partially in a filled synthetic material composite, such as extruded wood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: UNILIN, BV
    Inventor: Mark Cappelle
  • Patent number: 12385261
    Abstract: Provided is a hard floor panel having a top side and a bottom side and having side edges along the panel sides for floating installation to form a floor panel composite. At least two floor panels are joined together in each case, the opposite side edges being provided with tongue-and-groove profiles, a tongue and a joining surface is provided in a first side edge and a groove and a joining surface is provided in a second opposite side edge. The tongue of the first side edge has an upper side and a lower side. A projection with a contact surface is provided on the lower side of the tongue. The joining surface of the first side edge extends from the upper side of the floor panel towards the upper tongue side and the joining surface is beveled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Marcel Zorn
  • Patent number: 12383053
    Abstract: Improved methods and systems for operating moveable architectural elements (e.g., furniture) are described. The method includes performing a first part of a movement of the moveable architectural element along a portion of a length of actuation using a motor. The method includes performing a second part of the movement of the moveable architectural element with a desired movement profile and, based thereon, measuring an operation parameter. The method includes comparing the measured operation parameter to a profile of the operation parameter. The method includes incrementing a first counter if a first differential between the measured operation parameter and the profile of the operation parameter exceeds a differential threshold. The method includes adjusting the second part of the movement of the moveable architectural element if the first counter exceeds a counter threshold. Many other improvements and features are contemplated and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Ori Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Rubio, Daniel E. Meyer, Ivan Fernandez De Casadevante, Hasier Larrea Tamayo, Robert T. Hsiung
  • Patent number: 12384426
    Abstract: The technology involves determining a minimum lateral gap distance between a vehicle configured for autonomous driving and one or more other objects in the vehicle's environment. The minimum lateral gap is used when determining whether to have a driver take over control of certain driving operations. This provides a measure of safety during disengagements or other change of control events. Determining the minimum lateral gap includes calculating a budgeted distance based on a cross-track error for a lateral position of the vehicle, an allowed actual gap distance to an object in the vehicle's environment, and a perception error associated with a location of the object in the vehicle's environment. This determination can be done for a set of possible operating speeds and steering rate limit combinations. The vehicle's control system may notify the driver to take control, for instance with audible, visual and/or haptic notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Iglesias, Diomidis Katzourakis, Kerrie Wu, Bruce Lin
  • Patent number: 12386071
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for operating a sensor system. The methods comprise: receiving, by a computing device, a track for an object; classifying, by the computing device, the track as an infant track or a mature track based on a type of sensor detection used to generate the track, a total number of cycles in which the lidar detections were generated, a total number of sensor detections included in the track, an object type associated with the track, an object speed, and/or a distance between the object and the sensor system; using, by the computing device, radar data to modify a speed of the track in response to the track being classified as an infant track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shubhendra Chauhan, Xiufeng Song
  • Patent number: 12385267
    Abstract: A surface repair patch unit is disclosed. The patch unit may include a deformable Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) sheet and a deformable adhesive mesh sheet. The deformable adhesive mesh sheet may be attached or fused to the TPU sheet such that the TPU sheet may be disposed on a mesh sheet interior surface. The patch unit may be configured to be adhered to a damaged surface via the deformable adhesive mesh sheet, and the TPU sheet may substantially cover the damaged surface. The patch unit may further include a first protective film and a second protective film that may be removably attached to patch unit opposing surfaces, and may protect the opposing surfaces from ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: D.P. Wagner, LLC
    Inventor: Kenyon Chayce Hope
  • Patent number: 12377847
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: determining an operating behavior of a first vehicle that is not part of a connected vehicle system from a device communicatively coupled to the first vehicle, wherein the device is configured to operate with the connected vehicle system; determining that the operating behavior is not associated with a second vehicle that is part of the connected vehicle system; and initiating the operating behavior in the second vehicle when the device is communicatively coupled to the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman, Imad Zahid
  • Patent number: 12380952
    Abstract: A memory device includes: a memory cell array including a first memory block and a second memory block adjacently disposed in a first direction, driving signal lines respectively corresponding to vertically stacked word lines, and a pass transistor circuit including an odd number of pass transistor groups and connected between the driving signal lines and the memory cell array. One of the odd number of pass transistor groups includes a first pass transistor connected between a first word line of the first memory block and a first driving signal line among the driving signal lines, and a second pass transistor connected between a first word line of the second memory block and the first driving signal line adjacently disposed to the first pass transistor in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungyeon Kim, Daeseok Byeon, Pansuk Kwak, Hongsoo Jeon
  • Patent number: 12380627
    Abstract: An automated adjustable mannequin is provided for use as a platform for producing computer generated fashion model clothing displays. The clothing displays may be static photographs or video. The mannequin combines manually adjustable dress forms currently used by seamstresses and clothing designers with three dimensional scanning and photographic technologies. Actual body scan data of a living model may be used to automatically adjust the shape or contours of a dress form in real time to match the size and dimensions of a previously photographed model. The automated adjustments to the mannequin may be made at a rate of one frame at a time or 30 frames per second, where the body-form adapts to changes in the underlying model's movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Ovad Custom Stages, LLC
    Inventor: Davo Scheich
  • Patent number: 12382479
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide streaming service downlink network assistance and/or uplink network assistance mechanisms in a fifth generation (5G) system (5GS) network via an Application Function (AF) computing device in a 5GS. In some embodiments, a computing device and/or the AF computing device may inform the network about needs for capacity for downlink or uplink traffic. Various embodiments may include sending radio access network (RAN) capacity requests to a network computing device of the 5GS network including a 5G RAN. In some embodiments, the network computing device of the 5GS network may be a computing device that is not part of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity need messages may be sent directly from user equipment (UE) computing devices to computing devices of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity information of the RAN may be delivered to an AF computing device via an intermediate network function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Imed Bouazizi, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 12382521
    Abstract: Relay connection establishment method and device are disclosed. The method includes: sending, by source UE, a first direct communication request message to next-hop relay UE of the source UE, where the first direct communication request message is used to request to establish, in a process of establishing a relay connection from the source UE to target UE, a first direct communication connection between the source UE and the next-hop relay UE of the source UE; and receiving a first direct communication accept message from the next-hop relay UE of the source UE, where the first direct communication accept message is used to indicate acceptance of the request for establishing the first direct communication connection in the process of establishing the relay connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Wang, Zhenhua Xie
  • Patent number: 12379422
    Abstract: The insulation resistance testing device of the present disclosure includes a first magnetic current sensor disposed between the control unit and the ground, and a first damping resistor disposed in series with the first magnetic current sensor between the control unit and the ground. The insulation resistance testing device of the present disclosure includes a second magnetic current sensor disposed between the positive terminal and the ground of the battery pack, and a second damping resistor disposed in series with the second magnetic current sensor between the positive terminal and the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Mori, Naoya Hatakeyama, Hidenori Matsutoh, Takuro Fuchigami, Tsutomu Kawasaki, Yuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 12374412
    Abstract: The present technology may include a voltage generation circuit configured to generate a plurality of voltages in response to at least one voltage control signal, and control logic configured to generate the at least one voltage control signal in order to adjust at least one of an under drive time and an under drive offset during an under drive operation of a semiconductor apparatus according to a temperature information signal and a pre-stored temperature characteristic signal of the semiconductor apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung Jin Choi, Gwi Han Ko, Chan Hui Jeong
  • Patent number: 12373918
    Abstract: Provided are a picture enhancement method and apparatus. The picture enhancement method includes: for any one pixel, which meets a first filtering condition, in a current block, determining a first pixel value of the pixel after first filtering; and performing enhancement on a pixel value of the pixel based on the first pixel value and a second pixel value of the pixel point before the first filtering, so as to obtain a third pixel value, which has been subjected to enhancement, of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong Chen
  • Patent number: 12372773
    Abstract: An endoscope illumination light switching device includes a rotation body in which a plurality of holes including a first hole are formed in a circumferential direction and that switches a hole on an irradiation optical path through rotation, a drive device configured to rotationally drive the rotation body, a sensor, and a processor configured to control a stop position of the rotation body based on a detection signal from the sensor. The rotation body includes a first detection target shape portion corresponding to the first hole, and another detection target shape portion. The sensor outputs a detection signal in response to detection of each shape portion when the rotation body rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Masaki, Yusuke Yoshida, Takeshi Ito
  • Patent number: 12371899
    Abstract: A brick clip to build double walls in a construction site, comprising a base from one face of which at least two projections capable of being inserted into the holes of a hollow brick are projected. The base is flat and has an X shape defining two right side arms and two left side arms. At each end of the arms of the X-shaped base a cylindrical projection protrudes, and at the center of the X-shaped base two parallel elongated projections protrudes. The cylindrical projections of the right side arms are inserted into the holes of one hollow brick, the cylindrical projections of the left side arms are capable of being inserted in the holes of another hollow brick, and the elongated projections are capable of defining a separation partition that keep the distance between the two bricks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Inventor: Mauro Nicolas Querejeta
  • Patent number: 12371905
    Abstract: An impact resistant shingle that includes a local polymer concentration (“LPC”) asphalt shingle coating is described. The LPC asphalt shingle coating includes a saturated polymer (“SP”) premix and a LPC premix blended and heated to between 320° F. and 500° F. for between 30 minutes and 240 minutes. The SP premix includes a bitumen feedstock and a cross-linking agent heated to between 320° F. and 500° F. and mixed for between 15 minutes and 60 minutes. The bitumen feedstock includes at least one of a bitumen and a rapid digestion process (“RDP”) compound that includes one of: an unmodified RDP compound, a modified RDP compound, an enhanced RDP compound, and a modified enhanced RDP compound. The LPC premix includes an asphalt feedstock and a cross-linking polymer heated to between 320° F. and 500° F. and mixed for 1 minute to 60 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ASPHALT SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Randall Bruns, Sumer S. Lucas
  • Patent number: 12371071
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura