Patents Examined by Shawna M Kingston
  • Patent number: 11142335
    Abstract: A passenger unit for use on-board a passenger vehicle (e.g., an in-flight entertainment device) includes a display, a memory storing a passenger unit identifier, a network interface, and a connector configured to physically couple to a connector on a mounting unit, where the mounting unit is installed on, or proximate to, a particular seat of a plurality of seats on-board the passenger vehicle. The passenger unit also includes a controller configured to obtain a seat location code of the particular seat from the mounting unit, and to cause the seat location code and the passenger unit identifier to be transmitted, via the network interface, to a server on-board the passenger vehicle. The server is configured to map the passenger unit to the particular seat using the seat location code and the passenger unit identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Adrian Lauer
  • Patent number: 11139684
    Abstract: A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). To allow easy and convenient access to empty portable electrical energy storage device compartments within the vehicles, if the vehicle comes within the vicinity of a collection, charging and distribution machine or other authorized external device such as a key fob or other wireless device of a user, an empty portable electrical energy storage device compartment that is closed or locked, is unlocked, unlatched or opened automatically. Also, if the portable electrical energy storage device compartment is in another desired state to have the compartment unlocked, such as having a portable electrical energy storage device in the compartment that has a charge level below a particular threshold, the compartment will likewise be unlocked, unlatched or opened automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Gogoro Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Tsung Wu, Hok-Sum Horace Luke, Jui Sheng Huang, Matthew Whiting Taylor, Huang-Cheng Hung
  • Patent number: 11089743
    Abstract: System and method for quantifying qualitative turf conditions as they relate to turf performance and health. In an embodiment, data is collected about turf condition using a turf analysis device. The data collected about the conditions may be used to generate condition-based turf stress indexes that may be used to generate an overall a Turf Performance Indicator (TPI). Such collections are calculated through a unique quantitative mathematical equation resulting in a measurable quotient that is used to assess overall turf performance qualities on a relative scale over time. Using an integrated Global Positioning System (GPS), the TPI measurements can be used to identify overall property conditions and zone specific conditions within that property. Such analysis is viewed with visual analysis methods using a cloud based system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun Kit Chan, Michael Kuvelas, Carmen Magro, Scott South
  • Patent number: 11094176
    Abstract: A state indicating device, which is adapted in an electronic device, includes a state detecting circuit, a controller, a driving circuit, and an LED device. The state detecting circuit is configured to detect an operation state of the electronic device to generate a detection signal. The controller generates a control signal according to the detection signal. The driving circuit generates a driving signal according to the control signal. The LED device displays an indication state according to the driving signal, in which the indication state is configured to indicate the operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Lu, Tai-Hsin Chu
  • Patent number: 11045139
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides alert implants that comprise a medical device and an implantable reporting processor (IRP), where one example of such a medical device includes a component for a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) such as a tibial extension, a femoral component for hip replacements, a breast implant, a distal rod for arm or leg breakage repair, a scoliosis rod, a dynamic hip screw, a spinal interbody spacer, and tooling and methods that may be used to form the alert implant, and uses of such alert implants in the health maintenance of patients who receive the implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Canary Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Bailey, Douglas Bensch, Douglas Brajer, Fred Cushner, Aimee L. Desaki, Jeffrey M. Gross, Winslow T. Harte, Nicholas H. Helseth, David A Herrin, William L. Hunter, Dermot Keenan, George A. Morales, Shane Murphy, Stephen Raitt, Thomas Snopek, Curtis Troupe
  • Patent number: 11030900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for automatically controlling a vehicle F in a traffic network, comprising a central unit which provides respective envelopes EHi of a number I of flat geographical sub-regions TBi of the traffic network, as well as an assigned attribute Ki for each of the geographical sub-regions TBi, wherein the attribute Ki indicates the intensity of a risk posed to the vehicle F itself and/or to objects arranged in the sub-region TBi if the vehicle F should enter the respective geographical sub-region TBi, the central unit and the vehicle F being designed and set up to communicate data, the vehicle F featuring: a first unit for determining the current position POSF of the vehicle F in the traffic network, a second unit for determining the distance dEH*(POSF) of the vehicle F from the envelope EH* of the sub-region TB* closest to the position POSF, and a third unit for carrying out automatic control interventions SEG in the longitudinal and/or transversal control or regulation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Robert Klarner, Hartmut Runge
  • Patent number: 10993417
    Abstract: Sensor data captured over time and associated with a plurality of livestock animals can be analyzed to determine health conditions associated with a plurality of livestock animals and to determine interactions of the livestock animals. The interactions specify at least distances between the livestock animals, duration of the distances, and frequency of the interactions. A health graph network is constructed, which includes nodes and edges, a node in the nodes representing a livestock animal and specifying at least a health condition of the represented livestock animal, an edge connecting at least two of the nodes and representing an interaction between at least two animals represented by said at least two of the nodes. Based on the health graph network, a potential outbreak among a subgroup of the livestock animals can be predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ashley D. Gritzman, Toby Kurien, Komminist Weldemariam, Darlington Shingirirai Mapiye
  • Patent number: 10994742
    Abstract: A driving assistance device for assisting a driving of a vehicle is configured to: acquire an operation state for the vehicle by a driver; acquire a driving characteristic of the driver according to the operation state; acquire a driving frequency of the driver with respect to the vehicle; and notify the driver of information relating to the driving characteristic at intervals corresponding to the driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10946978
    Abstract: An airborne platform includes a body and a sensor device. The body includes a first material having a first flexibility. The sensor device is positioned inside the body, and includes an electric conductor. The electric conductor includes a second material that has a second flexibility that is less than the first flexibility. The sensor device is configured to output an output signal indicating whether the sensor device has undergone mechanical failure in response to a load applied to the sensor device that is greater than a load threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Stepan V. Lunin
  • Patent number: 10930153
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle external notification device including a first notification unit that gives notice of information on an action schedule so as to be recognizable from the front of a host vehicle, a second notification unit that gives notice of the information so as to be recognizable from the side of the host vehicle, an action schedule unit that predicts a future action of a pedestrian, a parallel advance prediction unit that predicts whether or not the pedestrian advances in parallel with the host vehicle, and a notification control unit that causes the first notification unit to give notice of the information when it is predicted that the pedestrian does not advance in parallel with the host vehicle, and causes the second notification unit to give notice of the information when it is predicted that the pedestrian advances in parallel with the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Morimura, Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa
  • Patent number: 10867489
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for responding to theft of a sensor enclosure of an autonomous vehicle. Theft of the sensor enclosure can be detected using at least one piezoelectric sensor. An electrical signal to the at least one piezoelectric sensor can be generated. The at least one piezoelectric sensor can be caused to emit a sound based on the electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Peter G. Diehl, Cheng Jin
  • Patent number: 10849502
    Abstract: A peripheral device for providing a health information message to a host device includes a health data obtainer configured to obtain health data; a message generator configured to determine a type of the health data, a private message identification (ID) corresponding to the type of the health data, and an ID of the peripheral device, and generate the health information message to include the private message ID, the ID of the peripheral device, and the health data; and a message provider configured to transmit the health information message to the host device, the private message ID being configured to be interpreted differently according to the ID of the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-hun Choi, Do-yoon Kim, In-young Lee, Jae-geol Cho
  • Patent number: 10807562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for detecting an operating state of a vehicle engine. The system comprises: an input coupled to a power line of a vehicle; means to filter out relatively high frequency transient noise components of a signal received from the power line; a first detector for receiving the filtered signal and detecting when transient noise associated with the power line rises above a first threshold and generating a first detection signal in response thereto; a second detector for receiving the filtered signal and detecting when the transient noise falls below a second threshold, which is lower than the first threshold, and generating a second detection signal in response thereto; and means for generating a first output signal in response to the first detection signal and a second output signal in response to the second detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TRACKER NETWORK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventor: Roderick Whitlock
  • Patent number: 10730511
    Abstract: A communication device having a wireless receiver configured to receive first signals from a vehicle and a wireless transmitter wherein the communication device transmits second signals containing information about a state of the vehicle to an external information device on the basis of the first signals via the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Matthias Breuel, Arndt Böhme
  • Patent number: 10724354
    Abstract: A system may include a monitoring device that may receive data associated with one or more properties of a well. The well may produce a flow of hydrocarbons. The monitoring device may receive data associated with the well and determine whether the flow of hydrocarbons includes a percentage of water greater than a threshold based on whether the data is outside a profile associated with the flow of hydrocarbons at the well over time. The monitoring device may then send an alarm notification to another device indicating an increased water cut in the flow of hydrocarbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sensia Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Srikanth G. Mashetty, Miguel Armando Machado
  • Patent number: 10665085
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to recording data at a plurality of in-service vehicles operating within a plurality of predetermined regions for which users of a plurality of mobile devices are responsible, analyzing, at the vehicles, the recorded data for violation of one of a plurality of predetermined safety parameters by the vehicles, and transmitting, to a central server, data associated with a safety parameter violation by a vehicle in violation of one of the predetermined safety parameters. A safety event alert is generated at the central server for the vehicle in violation in response to receiving the transmitted data, and the safety event alert is communicated from the central office to a mobile device authorized by the central office to receive the safety event alert for the predetermined region within which the violation occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventor: Randy Boyles
  • Patent number: 10654411
    Abstract: A network system is configured to facilitate a safe service coordination environment. The network system detects abnormal user states (e.g., sleepiness, inebriation, etc.) and provides corrective recommendations to those users. To do so, client devices executing an application send information associated with the service to the network system. The network system determines an aggregate set of service characteristics based on the aggregate telematics data. The network system also determines a provider profile for a provider providing service in the environment describing the deviation of the user's driving characteristics from the aggregate service characteristics. Based on the difference between the aggregate characteristics and the user profile, the network system determines the provider state using a state verification process. Based on the determined provider state, the network system determines a set of corrective recommendations and sends the corrective recommendations to the provider device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael O'Herlihy, Karna Chokshi, Matthew Joseph Doyle
  • Patent number: 10646379
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method of interrogating a sensor to detect the presence of moisture on an occupant support comprises the steps of A) providing a moisture responsive sensor in a surveillance zone of the occupant support, the sensor being tuned to a center frequency; B) exciting the sensor with an electromagnetic signal having a frequency approximately equal to the center frequency; C) monitoring for a center frequency response from the sensor; D) comparing the center frequency response to an expected center frequency response; and E) if the center frequency response compares favorably to an expected center frequency response, issuing a first output consistent with the favorable comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Heil, Steven A. Dixon, Laetitia Gazagnes, Timothy A. Lane, David L. Ribble, Varad N. Srivastava
  • Patent number: 10652634
    Abstract: A distributed directional aperture (DDA) system provides the capability to receive and/or transmit signals, limiting that reception or transmission to a 3-dimensional beam. The DDA system includes sensing and/or emitting array subsystems which comprise sensors and/or emitters distributed across, within, or under the skin of an aircraft, ship, ground vehicle, or fixed installation. The sensors receive energy, convert the received signals to digital information, and transmit that information via a telemetry subsystem to a beamformer subsystem. The beamformer subsystem analyzes the received signals from the sensors and/or emitters in order to determine the signal content from a specific direction. The emitters transmit energy, converting signals received from the beamformer subsystem via the telemetry subsystem into energy emissions. Methods of providing the DDA system including subsystems thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Peter B. Houser, Suzanna J. LaMar, Bayne R. Bunce, Jr., Jinous Valizadeh
  • Patent number: 10642960
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling medication-dispensing patches by a wearable device is provided. The method comprises receiving a transmission at a wearable device, wherein the transmission identifies a medication-dispensing patch; transmitting information corresponding to the identified medication-dispensing patch to an external computing device; receiving information at the wearable device from the external computing device, wherein the received information corresponds to a dosage of a medication that should be dispensed by the medication-dispensing patch; and transmitting information from the wearable device, wherein the transmission is configured for controlling a medication dosage that is dispensed by the medication-dispensing patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Jonathan T. Goguen