Patents Examined by Sisay Yacob
  • Patent number: 12159530
    Abstract: A control apparatus, for displaying a crosswalk on a road upon detecting a pedestrian who is about to cross the road, includes a controller configured to acquire vehicle information including information indicating whether there is a vehicle about to enter the road, and determine whether to display the crosswalk based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko Mizuno, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 12154429
    Abstract: A vehicle abnormality monitoring method includes starting, by a vehicle, a monitoring device to record a first video when detecting an abnormal event; determining a roadside device in an area where the vehicle is located; and sending, to the roadside device, a monitoring request requesting the roadside device to record a second video of the abnormal event, where the first video and the second video are configured to trace the abnormal event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao Chen, Yuan Xia
  • Patent number: 12154431
    Abstract: A vehicle-searching guidance method includes: displaying a vehicle-searching guidance interface in response to a first trigger operation on a first control, the vehicle-searching guidance interface being used for providing guidance information for vehicle searching; transmitting a multimedia content obtaining request to an electronic device in response to a second trigger operation on a second control on the vehicle-searching guidance interface; receiving multimedia guidance content returned by the electronic device according to the multimedia content obtaining request, the multimedia guidance content including environmental information of a parking space in which a vehicle is parked; and presenting the multimedia guidance content for a user to search for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhongyang Sun, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12139072
    Abstract: A vehicular warning system control system can include a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory can include a warning system control module having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect, using sensor data having information about a gaze of each eye of a driver of a vehicle, an abnormality of a gaze of the driver. The instructions further cause the processor to modify, using the sensor data, a signal emitted by the vehicle when the abnormality is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon A.I. Stent, Heishiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 12136343
    Abstract: An information transmission apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a route determination unit, and an information for a passenger transmission unit. The information acquisition unit acquires boarding stop information indicating a boarding stop for a passenger, and getting-off stop information indicating a getting-off stop for the passenger. The route determination unit determines, by using a route information storage unit, and the boarding stop information and the getting-off stop information, route information indicating a route of a vehicle that the passenger should board. The information for a passenger transmission unit transmits information for a passenger to a terminal of the passenger at a timing determined by using a current position of a vehicle traveling on a route indicated by the route information, and the boarding stop information. The information for a passenger includes boarding vehicle information, for example, an appearance image and a vehicle number of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Tanaka, Kouichi Ono, Norihiro Ide, Tsukasa Kasuya
  • Patent number: 12131644
    Abstract: A traffic control device includes: a passage schedule calculation unit which calculates, on the basis of vehicle information about vehicles that enter an intersection, passage schedules according to which the vehicles pass through the intersection; a collision determination unit which determines, on the basis of the passage schedules, whether the vehicles have a possibility of a collision; a passage rank setting unit which sets passage ranks for the vehicles if there is the possibility of the collision; and a passage schedule adjustment unit which calculates an adjustment period on the basis of a result of comparing the passage schedules for the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, and delays, by the adjustment period, a passage schedule for a vehicle that has a low passage rank among the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, to adjust the passage schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Haiyue Zhang, Takahisa Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 12131634
    Abstract: The present application at least describes an apparatus for managing traffic. The apparatus includes a display including a graphical user interface. The apparatus also includes a non-transitory memory including information for managing traffic and a processor operably coupled to the display and memory, and configured to execute an instruction of receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request from a buyer to purchase a right of way from an entity at a traffic location. Another instruction includes reviewing, via gps, a location or route of the buyer in relation to the traffic location. Yet another instruction includes reviewing, via gps, a location or route of the entity in relation to the traffic location. Yet even another instruction includes determining, based upon the reviewed locations of the buyer and the entity, whether to send the buyer request to the entity; and sending, based upon the determination, the request to the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Gopinath Rangan
  • Patent number: 12130163
    Abstract: An arrangement for a sensor of automation technology, the arrangement selecting a radio module feature, and the radio module feature depending on a sensor structure. The arrangement including a controller that selects the radio module feature according to the sensor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KG
    Inventors: Christian Weinzierle, Levin Dieterle
  • Patent number: 12123940
    Abstract: Disclosed is a distance measuring system for measuring distance of a first transceiver from second transceivers, comprising the first transceiver having a first time zone, a second transceiver having a second time zone, and a control unit having a control-unit time zone. The second transceiver ascertains a time-zone relationship between the second transceiver and the first transceiver, and transmits the time-zone relationship to the control unit. The control unit receives the time-zone relationship, and ascertains, using the received time-zone relationship, a time-zone relationship between the control-unit time zone and the first transceiver. The first transceiver transmits at a defined instant in time or for a defined time period of the first time zone a distance measurement command to the second transceiver. The first transceiver transmits a measurement signal at a further defined instant in time, and the second transceiver switches from an inactive into an active receiving or measuring state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Emmerling, Franz Plattner, Thomas Reisinger, Stefan Meckl
  • Patent number: 12115344
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and infusion pump assembly for determining a first rate-of-change force reading that corresponds to the delivery of a first dose of an infusible fluid via an infusion pump assembly. At least a second rate-of-change force reading is determined that corresponds to the delivery of at least a second dose of the infusible fluid via the infusion pump assembly. An average rate-of-change force reading is determined based, at least in part upon the first rate-of-change force reading and the at least a second rate-of-change force reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Marc A. Mandro, Robert J. Bryant
  • Patent number: 12118889
    Abstract: A warning system is provided for alerting a Vulnerable Road User (VRU) of a predicted collision. The system includes one or more input devices for transmitting a first input signal associated with a first vehicle positioned in a first lane, a second input signal associated with a second vehicle positioned in a second lane, and a third input signal associated with the VRU located on a crosswalk that extends across the first and second lanes. The system further includes a computer having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is programmed to determine the predicted collision between the second vehicle and the VRU at a predicted collision site. The processor is further programmed to generate an actuation signal. One or more roadway notification devices notify the VRU that the second vehicle is positioned in the second lane and headed toward the predicted collision site in the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Naserian, An Xu, Feiyu Cong, Jie Zhu
  • Patent number: 12100299
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for vehicle safety technologies. An example method can include determining, based on sensor data captured by an autonomous vehicle, a first position of a different vehicle and a second position of one or more objects; determining, based on the first position of the different vehicle and the second position of the one or more objects, a risk of a collision between the different vehicle and the one or more objects; and based on a determination that the risk of the collision exceeds a threshold, outputting an alert representing a warning of the collision between the different vehicle and the one or more objects, the alert being directed to at least one of the different vehicle and the one or more objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Edward Forscher, Curt Harrington, William Anthony Silva
  • Patent number: 12100292
    Abstract: A system in accordance with present embodiments includes a source of electromagnetic radiation that operates to emit electromagnetic radiation into an active playing area. The system also includes a sensing device that operates to receive the electromagnetic radiation after being reflected from a retro-reflective material of an article positioned in the active playing area and operable to generate data based on receiving reflected electromagnetic radiation from a series of article positions. Further, the system includes a controller that operates to process the data generated by the sensing device to determine whether the series of article positions correlate to a stored gesture and output a control signal to actuate an effect when the series of article positions correlate to the stored gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Sameer Kawash, Justin Michael Schwartz, Steven C Blum
  • Patent number: 12100295
    Abstract: A control device includes: a control unit that performs control to make a pedestrian crossing appear in an area from a first side to a second side of a road when a pedestrian crosses the road, and that detects at least one vehicle passing through the road; and a communication unit that transmits instruction data instructing the at least one vehicle detected by the control unit to avoid a position that hinders crossing of the pedestrian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 12075957
    Abstract: A floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a recovery tank sub-assembly, a vacuum fan sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, wherein the solution tank sub-assembly preferably includes a secondary electrochemical cell, a solution flow sub-assembly, a control console sub-assembly, a frame and wheel sub-assembly and/or a frame and transaxle sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution flow sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system at least one of selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and analyzes data associated with components of the floor cleaning machine assembly, and at least one of controllably communicates and disseminates such data with at least one of another system and user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: INTELLIGENT CLEANING EQUIPMENT HOLDINGS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Nai Pong Simon Chen
  • Patent number: 12078055
    Abstract: At least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when run on at least one processor of a surface computer system of a measurement while drilling (MWD) system of a drilling rig, causes the surface computer system to: receive a first data stream by a mud pulse telemetry receiver of the surface computer system, detect a synchronization signal indicative of an interruption of transmission of the first data stream due to occurrence of a predetermined event at an unexpected time, and synchronizing the mud pulse telemetry receiver with the synchronization signal; and receive a second data stream by the mud pulse telemetry receiver, in which the second data stream has at least one group of data including drilling logging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Bench Tree Group, LLC
    Inventors: Aubrey Holt, Michael Brownlow, Greg Hill
  • Patent number: 12072041
    Abstract: A monitoring system (500) of an on/off type actuator device (1) for activating a valve for fluid pipelines is described, the actuator device (1) being configured to move a valve member of said valve between a first position and a second position. The actuator device (1) comprises at least one fluid cylinder (6) configured to control a linear movement of an actuator rod (8). The monitoring system (500) comprises a plurality of sensors mounted on the actuator device (1) and configured to detect a plurality of operating parameters of the actuator device, and an electronic processing and control unit (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROTORK FLUID SYSTEMS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Pier Paolo Paradiso, Andrea Bozzelli, Luca Doroni, Andrea Collatini, Nicola Batistoni
  • Patent number: 12062281
    Abstract: A traffic obstruction early warning system installed in roadway locations with limited visibility or restricted line of sight to warn drivers approaching a hazardous road condition well in advance so that precautionary measures may be taken and thereby reduce the risk of the multiple vehicle involvement. Selected roadway locations for the system installations can be the location of past vehicle pile-ups, or at-risk locations. The system timely and cohesively integrates inputs from a plurality of roadway sensors and human reporting to deploy a variety of visible and audible alerts to approaching drivers, law enforcement, emergency responders, local hospitals, utility companies, vehicle apps, and others using a variety of communication modalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventors: John Gregory Baker, Victor Nicholas Pavloff, Jr., Scott Alan Brush
  • Patent number: 12062286
    Abstract: A collision accident prevention method, apparatus, server, and computer program are proposed. The method can include predicting, based on data on a three-dimensional (3D) space corresponding to a caution zone, motion of each of at least one pedestrian in the caution zone and at least one vehicle in the caution zone. The method may also include determining, based on the predicted motion, a degree of risk of collision between the at least one pedestrian and the at least one vehicle. The method may further include providing a message corresponding to the determined degree of risk of collision to the at least one vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Robotics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanbin Lee, Jaeil Park, Hong Minh Truong, Oran Kwon
  • Patent number: 12058482
    Abstract: Footwear systems include an article of footwear and a data transmission system engaged with the article of footwear. The transmission system transmits data to a remote system, such as a display system, another data transmission system, a processing system, etc. Such footwear systems further may include activation systems for activating the transmission and/or display systems. The transmitted data may be used for various purposes, such as: (a) identifying a user of the article of footwear; (b) activating targeted advertising or product information; (c) confirming the user's presence at a specific location and/or at a specific time; (d) determining start, finish, and/or intermediate split times for specific user; (e) confirming athletic equipment usage; (f) providing data for a game or reward program; (g) registering the user for an event or competition; or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles W. Case, Jr.