Patents Examined by Ryan W Sherwin
  • Patent number: 11938863
    Abstract: A peripheral image generation device acquires a plurality of camera images obtained from a plurality of cameras each of which captures a periphery of the vehicle. The peripheral image generation device stores a traveling direction camera image that is a part or all of images included in the plurality of camera images and captured at least in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The peripheral image generation device generates an underfloor transparent image that is a composite image transmitting a bottom of the vehicle based on the plurality of camera images and the traveling direction camera image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Kida, Shinichi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 11932255
    Abstract: A method of processing the psychophysical state of a driver to improve the driving experience of road vehicle driven by a driver and comprising the steps of: cyclically detecting one or more objective vital parameters of the driver by means of one or more first sensors installed within a vehicular system; processing the value of a vital state index according to said one or more objective vital parameters detected; cyclically detecting one or more subjective parameters of the driver by means of one or more second sensors installed within the vehicular system; processing, starting from the objective vital parameters and according to the subjective parameters, the psychophysical state of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FERRARI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mihaela Neagu Chivu, Andrea Secondi
  • Patent number: 11928945
    Abstract: The Active Shooter Response Capability (ASRC) integrates the ASRC application software, heads-up-display (HUD) smart glasses, ASRC processor/transmitter/controller (PTC) and antennas, with either an existing or ASRC provided CCTV/video surveillance, gunshot detection system (GDS), and loudspeaker (1MC). The PTC provides connectivity for multiple devices to accommodate dedicated processing for multiple response teams. ASRC system enables real-time situation awareness providing first responders the ability to visually locate and track an active shooter while executing a breach entry into the scene. When first responders approach the site of a reported active shooter or gunshot detection system alert of gunshot, the ASRC app is accessed on the squad car onboard computer or optional ASRC tablet which remotely syncs with the facility's PTC. This interaction enables the scroll thru each CCTV/Surveillance camera view to locate and lock-on/auto track the shooters movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: George Bacon Brown
  • Patent number: 11922331
    Abstract: Systems and methods for machine-learning-based aircraft icing prediction use supervised and unsupervised learning to process real-time environmental data, such as onboard measurements of outside air temperature and dew point, to predict a risk of icing and determine whether to issue an icing risk alert to an onboard crewmember or a remote operator, and/or to recommend an icing avoidance maneuver. The systems and methods can use reinforcement learning to generate a confidence metric in the predicted risk of icing, to determine a time or distance to predicting icing, and/or to not issue an alert or recommend a maneuver in consideration of historical data in a “library of learning” and/or other flight data such as airspeed, altitude, time of year, and weather conditions. The predictive systems and methods are low-cost and low-power, do not require onboard weather radar, and can be effective for use in smaller aircraft that are completely icing-intolerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathan D. Plawecki, Daniel W. Plawecki
  • Patent number: 11923059
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the contents of a medical storage container such as a tray that has a required inventory of medical articles. A Faraday cage enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and inventory the container. The container and each of the medical articles in the container have a respective RFID tag. A processor is programmed to retrieve the inventory list for the container based on its tag and compare the actual contents of the container according to their tags to the inventory list. Missing items and extra items are noted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MEPS Real-Time, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmy C. Caputo, Shariq Hussain, Jeffrey Shamblin, James P. Williams, Jr., Paul M. Elizondo, II
  • Patent number: 11912285
    Abstract: An apparatus for an autonomous vehicle may include a plurality of sensors and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a trip plan via including a pick-up location, a drop-off location, an identity of the passenger, and control parameters, execute the trip plan according to the pick-up location, the drop-off location, the identity of the passenger, and the control parameters, receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors, and analyze the sensor data in relation to a criteria profile to determine whether compliance boundaries of the criteria profile have been violated. The criteria profile may be generated based on the trip plan and may indicate compliance boundaries for the trip plan. The processing circuitry may be further configured to send an alert in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that a violation of a compliance boundary of the criteria profile has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    Inventor: Ron Fulbright
  • Patent number: 11911184
    Abstract: A bio-signal quality assessment apparatus may include: a bio-signal obtainer configured to obtain a bio-signal; and a processor configured to extract periodic signals from the obtained bio-signal, and determine a signal quality index based on at least one of similarity between the extracted periodic signals and signal variability of the obtained bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Geun Jang, Ui Kun Kwon, Seung Keun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11897455
    Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Omi, Takanori Imazu, Yoshiki Fukada, Takashi Hayashi, Yuta Kataoka, Kohki Baba, Ryuji Okamura, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11892437
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for detecting and reporting pollution at an oil facility are disclosed. The technology utilizes a logic control system to read from a pollution sensor and present the sensed data as a pollutant from a leak. The pollution leakage can be further managed and reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PROJECT CANARY, PBC
    Inventor: David L. Armitage
  • Patent number: 11881108
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for virtual parking lot space allocation. An example method may include receiving, by a processor and from a first vehicle, sensor data relating to a first location. The example method may also include generating, by the processor and based on the sensor data, a first virtual parking space of a virtual parking location within the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Barrett, Brendan Diamond, Michael Alan Mcnees, Keith Weston, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Stuart C. Salter, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 11878699
    Abstract: A system may include sensors that may acquire health data related to an individual. The system may also include a processor that may receive trip data associated with a current location of the individual and a destination location for the individual, traffic condition data associated with routes between the current location and the destination location, and weather related data associated with the routes. The processor may also receive the health data from the sensors and determine whether the individual is associated with a driver assessment score above a threshold based on the trip data, the traffic condition data, the weather data, the health data, or any combination thereof. The processor may then send an activation signal to a vehicle control system in response to the driver assessment score being above the threshold, such that the activation signal may enable the vehicle control system to control operations of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Seth E. Ethington, William Daniel Farmer, Pooja Krishnaswamy, Timothy Shiveley, Anto Chirayil Thomas, Daniel Scott Veibell
  • Patent number: 11871311
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the movement of a foundation may include an elevation sensor to detect changes in elevation of the foundation and positioned on the foundation to broadcast a signal responsive to the movement of the foundation; and a receiver to receive the signal responsive to the movement of the foundation and positioned off the foundation to provide a absolute measurement of the movement of the foundation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Foundation Monitoring Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Arlon Hill, Tony Cooper
  • Patent number: 11865919
    Abstract: A vehicular display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display configured to display, as an image, a function for various pieces of vehicle operation information, a knob operatively coupled to the display and configured to selectively operate a corresponding function of the display according to left-right movement, and guide rails configured to provide a movement path for the knob and divide a plurality of functional areas interlocked with functions displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Joon Ahn, Seung Hwan Lee, Tae Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 11862019
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems associated with lightweight docking stations for one or more micromobility transit vehicles. The docking station may include multiple racks. Each rack may include a base frame having frame segments, an anchor coupled to and extending vertically from at least one of the frame segments of the base frame, and a lock plate coupled to the anchor and including a lock hole. The lock hole is disposed through the lock plate and is capable of receiving a locking device associated with a micromobility transit vehicle so as to permit locking of the micromobility transit vehicle to the anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Michael Arnold, Erik Keith Askin, Jonathan Scott Bernbach, Mayank Manesh Makwana, Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson, Collin O'Neil Waldoch
  • Patent number: 11826179
    Abstract: A method for managing biometric information is provided. The method includes the steps of: determining whether a cardiac disorder event has occurred to a user on the basis of biometric information measured from the user's body and situation information associated with the biometric information; providing alarm information associated with the cardiac disorder event to the user in response to determining that the cardiac disorder event has occurred; and associating a time point of occurrence of the cardiac disorder event with feedback information acquired from the user in response to the provided alarm information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUINNO, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Jae Choo, Jin Won Park, Sung Hoon Jung, Yeong Joon Gil
  • Patent number: 11827213
    Abstract: A personalized notification system for a vehicle comprising: a positioning system; a communication unit; a data gathering unit configured to gather information about a driver of the vehicle, the data gathering unit comprising biometric sensor(s) and/or behavioral sensor(s), the data gathering unit being also configured for determining contact(s) to be warned in case of an emergency in relation with the location of the vehicle, said contacts being obtained from a memory and/or from the remote center; a database containing logged data from the positioning system and the data gathering unit; an emergency detection unit configured to receive an alert from the vehicle regarding a vehicle emergency situation and notify the contact(s) to be warned in case of an emergency as defined in the last registered logged data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dhivya Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11820456
    Abstract: An electronic device can be mounted at least partly in a frame of a bicycle and used to monitor operations or properties of the bicycle or one or more components associated with the bicycle. The electronic device may integrate and communicate with a variety of components including sensors to facilitate customization of monitoring by the electronic device. The electronic device can have a relatively minimalist design. The electronic device, in some embodiments, may include a display that does not present alphanumeric characters to an operator, and the display may instead include multiple indicators that individually or in combination present information to the operator, such as the level of charge of one or more batteries or an operating mode of the electronic device or bicycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Marco Sonderegger, Jan Talavasek, Tero Jakku, Vincent Patureau, Marc Pallure, Jonas Reiter
  • Patent number: 11822991
    Abstract: Improved RFID devices and manufacturing methods that utilize more efficient RFID designs, result in less manufacturing material waste and increased recycling opportunities, all without sacrificing RFID device performance, are disclosed herein. Some exemplary embodiments of the improved RFID device may make use of a thinner foil, a hollowed-out foil, a “no-strip” design, or a tessellated design that may reduce material usage. Other exemplary embodiments may use a lower-impact and/or biodegradable adhesive so as to improve aluminum recycling and lessen risks to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventors: Francisco Duarte Barbosa Teixeira E Melo, Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11804120
    Abstract: A monitor system with dual audio or multiple audio feature for simultaneously monitoring one or more target subjects is disclosed. The monitor system includes a plurality of camera devices and a base station. The plurality of camera devices is arranged to capture video data and sound data of the one or more target subjects independently and simultaneously. The base station is configured to receive the video data and the sound data from the plurality of camera devices, and present the video data and the sound data uninterruptedly. The base station comprises a display panel partitioned into a plurality of regions for displaying multiple views simultaneously using a split-screen technique. The base station outputs an audio signal by combining the sound data from the plurality of camera devices into a single audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Merit Zone Limited
    Inventors: Kelvin Ka Fai Chan, Hon Hung Leung, Hon Kuen Chan, Zhi Qiang Gan, Tse Yim Lau
  • Patent number: 11804134
    Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication unit as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result obtained, and causes the communication unit to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yui Sugie, Hikaru Gotoh, Hiroki Kido, Shuichi Sawada, Genshi Kuno, Katsuhiro Ohara