Patents Examined by Rufus C Point
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Patent number: 12727596Abstract: Disclosed is a pest repelling fan, comprising reflective fan blades, and an ultrasound emitting system configured to produce sound waves that disturb and/or deter pests. In certain embodiments, the targeted pests are flies.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2024Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Inventors: Justin Karasek, Jasha Karasek
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Patent number: 12722649Abstract: A vehicle warning apparatus to be applied to a vehicle is configured to give a warning to a driver who drives the vehicle in accordance with a state of the driver and a state of use of a mobile device by the driver in traveling of the vehicle. The vehicle warning apparatus includes: a near-infrared image data obtainer configured to acquire near-infrared image data; a visible light image data obtainer configured to acquire visible light image data; and a warner configured to determine the state of the use of the mobile device by the driver, based on the near-infrared image data and the visible light image data, and give the warning to the driver in accordance with a result of determining the state of the use of the mobile device by the driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 12722488Abstract: The vehicle includes a display (navigation screen and HUD) and a processor that causes the display to display panoramic images indicative of the surroundings of the vehicle, such that the vehicle is captured from above the vehicle. The panoramic image includes an icon that is superimposed on the panoramic image and indicates the positions of the plurality of wheels, and a recommended route that is superimposed on the panoramic image and indicates a route through which the plurality of wheels is desired to pass.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Komori, Hideki Tamoto, Yusuke Saigo
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Patent number: 12722880Abstract: A storage system for a plane fuselage including at least one storage unit defining an enclosed cargo storage space. At least one monitoring module is disposed proximate the at least one storage unit. The at least one monitoring module is configured to detect a condition within or proximate the at least one storage unit that includes at least one of a temperature, a fire condition, a water leakage, a gas leakage, a chemical leakage, an explosive condition, or a movement of the at least one storage unit. At least one status communication device is in communication with the at least one monitoring module and is configured to alert a user of the detected condition by the at least one monitoring module.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhang Yang, Michael Burns, Bethany D. Van Houten, Thomas S. Wright, Andrew D. Weller, David I. Driscoll, Xiaoxu Niu, Bradley R. Hamlin, Michael F. Behm
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Patent number: 12709156Abstract: A vehicle display control device that displays predetermined information in a display region that is at a periphery of a driver's seat in a case in which at least one travel assist function among acceleration/deceleration or steering operates, the device includes a processor, wherein the processor: displays an image, which expresses a reason why a travel assist function has operated, in the display region; and displays a mark, which corresponds to a type of the travel assist function, in a vicinity of the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2024Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Miki Tsujino, Masashi Hatanaka
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Patent number: 12711981Abstract: Systems and methods of using machine learning for identifying glass breakage events can include (a) accessing or obtaining the machine learning mode, (b) obtaining audio data, (c) determining, by processing the audio data using the machine learning mode, whether a glass breakage event has occurred, and (d) when determined that the glass breakage event has occurred, indicating the glass breakage event has occurred. Methods and instructions for training a machine learning model for identifying a glass breakage event can include (a) obtaining training audio data, (b) classifying the training audio data into a plurality of subsets, and (c) generating the machine learning model for identifying glass breakage events using the classified subsets.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventors: Grant Hosinski, Tyler Bellenfant, Thomas Clark Pearson
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Patent number: 12712343Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring infrastructure systems. Indications of problem reports are received and analyzed to determine an estimated location of a problem in an infrastructure system. Based on analyzing the indications, a selected drone that is pre-deployed at a location near the estimated location is selected. Operations of the selected drone are remotely control, based on determining the selected drone, to inspect an area or equipment in a vicinity of the estimated location of the problem.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Florida Power & Light CompanyInventors: Kyle A. Bush, Guillermo Aleman, Eric D. Schwartz, Michael L. Wenell, Troy D. Freissle-Lewis, Christopher H. McLemore
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Patent number: 12696878Abstract: An animal data compliance system includes one or more sources of animal data from one or more targeted individuals wherein the animal data is transmitted electronically. A collecting computing device gathers the animal data. One or more rules related to at least a portion of the animal data are created or modified based upon one or more terms. The one or more rules are associated with at least a portion of the animal data. At least a portion of animal data and the one or more rules are provided to one or more receiving computing devices. The one or more rules informs the one or more receiving computing devices of one or more permissions or restrictions related to the animal data. The one or more receiving computing devices take at least one action based upon the one or more rules.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Sports Data Labs, Inc.Inventors: Vivek Khare, Mark Gorski, Stan Mimoto
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Patent number: 12696887Abstract: A fishing information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires prescribed fishing information, a determination unit that determines an event occurred based on the prescribed fishing information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a first storage control unit that causes a first storage unit to store the prescribed fishing information, from a prescribed time before the time that it is determined by the determination unit that an event has occurred, as event information.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Youhei Toake, Shouji Nakagawa, Shu Kusuda
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Patent number: 12694798Abstract: A system, includes a memory in communication with a processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive a first location of a real vehicle, receive an updated location of the real vehicle, compute, utilizing at least the first location and the updated location, a future location of the real vehicle at a predetermined time in the future and output data to a display device adapted to display to a user of the display device at the predetermined time a mixed reality representation of an environment surrounding the real vehicle as viewed from the future location.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 28, 2026Assignee: RED SIX AEROSPACE INC.Inventors: Daniel Augustine Robinson, Glenn Thomas Snyder, Nikola Vladimir Bicanic
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Patent number: 12682730Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for converting a vibration signal. The system includes a signal acquisition module and a signal conversion module. The signal acquisition module is configured to dock an application to acquire original vibration signal data in the application and to convert the original vibration signal data into preset protocol vibration signal data according to a preset protocol format. The signal conversion module is configured to convert the preset protocol vibration signal data into processed vibration signal data corresponding to a vibration unit according to a preset signal generation method, and to output the processed vibration signal data into the vibration unit to drive the vibration unit to generate vibration. The system can set vibration frequencies according to different applications, so that a user feels a vibration effect satisfying an application scenario from the controller with the vibration unit, the user experience is improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiuyue Wang, Zhipeng Ye, Yulei Zhang
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Patent number: 12682690Abstract: An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first vehicle information from a vehicle that is a monitoring target of a monitor, the first vehicle information indicating at least one of a running state and an external state of the vehicle; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to a degree of request for monitoring the vehicle by the monitor, the degree being based on the first vehicle information; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Toshiya Arai, Takahiro Yoneda, Yuta Shimotsuma
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Patent number: 12676060Abstract: A fall prevention system provides intervention and distraction to attempt to prevent a “fall risk” patient from falling from bed while providing alerts to caregivers. The system provides verbal, visual and tactile interventions to create a distraction and time for a nurse or caregiver to intervene and prevent a fall.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Dignity HealthInventors: Albert Biemond, Trent Maruyama
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Patent number: 12676040Abstract: An access control system includes access control devices for reading access control keys that are each associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of authorized users of the facility. Access requests from the access control devices are presented to an Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine, the AI/ML engine identifying one or more of the plurality of access requests as a flagged access request that represents a possible security event for the facility. One or more images from a security camera that captures the flagged access request are displayed for review by a security operator and a response is entered by the security operator that classifies the flagged access request as either a legitimate access request or an illegitimate access request. An alert is issued when the response classifies the flagged access request as an illegitimate access request.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: D Sivasanthanam, Ramkumar A, Pandurengan G, Vivek Kumar Sah
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Patent number: 12658027Abstract: False alarms may be mitigated in a Building Management System (BMS). Domain knowledge is received, as are a plurality of alarms. Some alarms are removed based at least in part on the domain knowledge, resulting in a shortlist of potential false alarms. A generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model is applied to these alarms, simulating a virtual scenario for each alarm while considering the respective alarm as a true alarm. A discriminator AI Model is applied to determine whether the simulated virtual scenario for each alarm is probable or not. When the simulated virtual scenario is determined to be not probable, the respective alarm is classified as a false alarm and when the simulated virtual scenario is determined to be probable, the respective alarm is classified as a true alarm.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Anchal Gupta, Lalitha M. Eswara
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Patent number: 12648594Abstract: An electronic device comprising: one or more processors; a radio transceiver; memory storing a unique serial number identifying the electronic device; pairing circuitry configured to communicatively couple, using the radio transceiver, the electronic device with an external device distinct from the electronic device; first electronic circuitry configured to perform a plurality of operations of the electronic device; and activation circuitry configured to activate and deactivate the first electronic circuitry; wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to (i) detect, using the pairing circuitry, a successful pairing of the electronic device with a first external device; and (ii) in accordance with the detection of the successful pairing, activate, using the activation circuitry, the first electronic circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: PayRange LLCInventor: Paresh K. Patel
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Patent number: 12641156Abstract: A water management system including a first end point device in communication with a first fixture, the first end point including a first end point electronic processor configured to receive data associated with the first fixture and a first fixture identifier. The water management system also includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by at least one electronic processor to perform a set of functions, such as receiving the data associated with the first fixture and the first fixture identifier, associating the first fixture identifier with a first location classification and a first type classification, processing the data associated with the first fixture to organize the data based at least in part on the first location classification associated with the first fixture identifier or the first type classification associated with the first fixture identifier, and transmitting the organized data of the first fixture to a user device for display.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: ZURN WATER, LLCInventors: William Leannah, Anthony Wilcox, Richard J. Miezin, Larry Le, Michael Job, Glen Trickle, Kurt Drier, Mike Troutman, Andrew Roy
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Patent number: 12626576Abstract: Invention describes set of units able to communicate one with each other by means of cooperating software, mutually control themselves and imagine displays from other units. Invention enables by means of indicated set or individual units as well, to make remote monitoring of persons and control their location, heath condition and capacity. Also, it enables to monitored persons to check their condition on mobile unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Inventor: Vladimir Kranz
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Patent number: 12626590Abstract: Provided is a communication method, including: acquiring to-be-transmitted target data; acquiring information of parsing conditions required to be satisfied by a node for parsing the target data, wherein the parsing conditions include that a distance between a position of the node for parsing the target data and an initial position is less than or equal to a target distance, the initial position being a position of the first node or an occurrence position of a target event, and the target data indicating the target event; and sending a target message including the information of the parsing conditions and the target data.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Grouup Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youxue Wang
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Patent number: 12614440Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for notifying emergency personnel is provided. The present invention may include continuously monitoring a dependent using one or more dependent devices wherein the continuous monitoring of the dependent comprises monitoring a location of the dependent or a presence of one or more abnormal conditions; and automatically initiating a dependent alert SOS call to emergency personnel using the dependent devices, wherein the automatically initiating the dependent alert SOS call to the one or more emergency personnel occurs upon receiving a guardian activated SOS signal from one or more guardian devices or upon the presence of the one or more abnormal conditions. Additionally, the present invention may include detecting whether one or more guardian devices initiated the guardian-activated SOS signal and detecting of the presence of the one or more abnormal conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ali Y. Duale, Akil Khamisi Sutton, Edward C. McCain, Kennedy Cheruiyot