Patents Examined by Thang D Tran
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Patent number: 11966052Abstract: An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Yuya Kishimoto, Toshiaki Seo, Masuhito Tanaka, Kazuki Takano, Hidehiro Takeda, Misaki Koseki
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Patent number: 11961339Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that utilize machine learning to reduce false positive/negative collision output generation. A computing platform may apply machine learning algorithms on received data to generate a collision output. In response to generating the collision output indicating a collision, the computing platform may identify a data collection location. If the data collection location is within a predetermined radius of a false positive collection location, the computing platform may modify the collision output to indicate a non-collision. If the data collection location is not within the predetermined radius, the computing platform may compute a score using telematics data and compare the score to a predetermined threshold. If the score does not exceed the predetermined threshold, the computing platform may modify the collision output to indicate a non-collision.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Venu Madhav Tammali, Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Jeremy Deram
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Patent number: 11958410Abstract: In some examples, a mobility safety system includes a real-time data capturing component to capture data relating to conditions within a traffic environment using at least one of a camera, a radar sensor, a LiDAR sensor, a proximity sensor, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a global positioning system (GPS), at least one trained model to generate a risk estimation related to a mobility platform within the traffic environment, the at least one trained model being trained using at least one of supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, a risk estimation component to generate the risk estimation, and an alert activation component to generate a first alert directed at an operator of the mobility platform based on the risk estimation.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: VELO AI, INC.Inventor: Galen Clark Haynes
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Patent number: 11955001Abstract: One or more devices may obtain traffic data, such as video from intersection cameras, point cloud data from Light Detection and Ranging (or “LiDAR”) sensors, and so on. Metrics may be calculated from the traffic data. For each frame, the metrics may be analyzed to detect whether a near miss/collision occurs between each object in the frame (such as motorized or non-motorized vehicles, pedestrians, and so on) and each of the other objects in the frame. These metrics may be analyzed to evaluate whether or not a group of conditions are met. If the group of conditions are met, a near miss/collision may be detected. This may be recorded in the metrics for the objects involved. In some implementations, one or more indicators may be added to the traffic data and/or to one or more visualizations generated using the metrics, the traffic data, the structured data, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GridMatrix, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas D'Andre
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Patent number: 11950588Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an inflation device having a base with a top surface containing an aperture and a control device, a motor having a shaft mounted within the base and controlled by the control device, a propeller fixedly secured to the motor to produce an upward thrust, an inflation member secured to the base, circumscribing the aperture, and arranged for inflation by the upward thrust of the propeller, a plurality of wireless motion sensors spaced in the vicinity of the base to detect the presence of movement and to communicate with the control device to initiate inflation of the inflation member, and a random time generator to control random inflation of the inflation member. A method of using the inflation device is also provided in both a tactical training and a wildlife mitigation setting.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Adam North Lazar
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Patent number: 11948446Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection in an RF environment are disclosed. A sensor device in a nodal network comprises at least one RF receiver, a generator engine, and an analyzer engine. The at least one RF receiver measures power levels in the RF environment and generates FFT data based on power level data. The generator engine calculates a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data. The analyzer engine creates a baseline based on statistical calculations of the power levels measured in the RF environment for a predetermined period of time, and identifies at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of the FFT data in at least one conflict situation from comparing live power distribution to the baseline of the RF environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: David William Kleinbeck
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Patent number: 11948435Abstract: An apparatus and method for unlocking a security tag that is connected to an article. The apparatus includes an unlocking device configured to provide an unlock signal or force to a security tag allowing for the security tag to be removed from the article. The apparatus further includes an outer housing having an unlocking surface at least partially disposed above the unlocking device, wherein the unlocking surface includes a continuous surface area defined by a first surface area connected to a second surface area. In one aspect, the second surface area is tactily distinct from the first surface area and the second surface area includes an alignment feature configured to indicate a detachment zone that corresponds with a source of the unlock signal or force.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLCInventors: Channing E. Miller, Adam S. Bergman
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Patent number: 11941981Abstract: Disclosed is an obstacle detection system of a vehicle. The obstacle detection system includes a driving information unit configured to calculate driving position information of the vehicle, a determiner configured to anticipate whether or not the vehicle will enter a joining point where the vehicle meets a target road to be joined based on the driving position information calculated by the driving information unit, a sensing unit configured to sense obstacles located beside the vehicle, and a controller configured to change a sensing range of the sensing unit so as to detect an obstacle moving on the target road to be joined, when the determiner anticipates that the vehicle will enter the joining point.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
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Patent number: 11940544Abstract: Position enhancement for vehicle positioning is provided. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages are received from a roadside unit (RSU) to an onboard unit (OBU) of a vehicle via a transceiver of the vehicle, the V2X messages indicating a location of the RSU. Image sensors of the vehicle are utilized to capture sensor data of the RSU. A current position of the vehicle is updated to a corrected current position of the vehicle based the RSU as shown in the sensor data and the location of the RSU indicated in the V2X messages.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Krishna Bandi, Samer Ibrahim, Brennan Hamilton, Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda
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Patent number: 11941958Abstract: An electronic barrier alarm sensor having a flexible sensing device. The sensor may be mounted to a door, door frame, window, window frame, object or wall to detect when a door or window has been opened, that an object has been moved or to detect the presence of an animal. The flexible sensing device comprises one or more attributes that change as the flexible sensing device is bent, or unbent, by operation of a door, window, removal of an object, or the presence of an animal. Based on the changes, the electronic barrier alarm sensor may transmit an alarm signal when one or more measured values of the one or more attributes changes by more than one or more predetermined amounts.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc.Inventor: Brandon Gruber
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Patent number: 11931668Abstract: A measuring system for horse races or training. The measuring system including at least one base station on a horse track or around the horse track, and at least one transponder module placed on at least one movable object, which is composed by a jockey and a horse of the jockey, in order to establish a wireless communication with the base station(s). The transponder module is placed on the body of the jockey, and preferably at the back of the jockey or a visible up-part of the horse.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Swiss Timing LtdInventor: Sven Pleszinger
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Patent number: 11934908Abstract: A device for detection of a signal of passive RFID chips comprises an antenna for transmitting a source radio signal and receiving a RFID chip radio signal. A signal processed by a peak detector is fed to an input of first and second parallel branches. An output of these branches is connected to a computing unit. The first and second branches each comprise a filter and a bit decoder. The filter and bit decoder of the first and second branches each processes a signal modulated by first and second types of modulation. The computing unit comprises at least first and second modules connected in parallel comprising a protocol for detection of a signal processed by the protocol, wherein the first and second module protocols are different.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Y Soft CorporationInventors: Vladislav Kasík, Pavel Stan{hacek over (e)}k
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Patent number: 11935410Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for locating parking spaces are disclosed. According to one method, a request is received from a user of a vehicle to locate a space; the location of the user is determined; a database comprising spaces within a geographic region is accessed; from the database, a subset of spaces within the geographic region is identified, the subset comprising user-specific spaces; a determination is made regarding the availability of the user-specific spaces; and if a user-specific space is available, a transmission is initiated, intended for the user, providing the location of at least one available space. The systems, methods, and apparatus may be used to locate free spaces, may allow users to indicate when they are vacating a space to enable other users to access the space via a “park it forward” approach, and may assign available spaces to users based on an equitable prioritization protocol.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Evan Humphreys, Denise Lisa Salvucci, Michael J. Kline
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Patent number: 11922794Abstract: When a parked vehicle sustains accidental damage, the system automatically communicates with the vehicle owner and optionally the perpetrator of the damage via, e.g., WLAN communications.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Harald Hagen, Willi Wendt
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Patent number: 11922804Abstract: A method of utilizing basic safety messages (BSMs) to provide insight of traffic situations to a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) enabled vehicle includes one or more of the following: transmitting BSMs from on-road vehicles; forwarding V2X messages including BSMs to a multi-access edge computing (MEC) server; extracting data samples from the V2X messages including BSMs; generating statistical results from the extracted data samples; and visualizing the statistical results for a driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Yuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11893872Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for providing hand hygiene dispenser stations configured to remind users to use the hand hygiene dispenser stations. In one or more embodiments, the present systems and methods provide individual provider identification and networked communication among hand hygiene stations (dispenser stations), enabling tracking of providers and data collection regarding hand hygiene products usage (hand hygiene compliance).Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Christopher D. Hermann, Russell Scott McCrory
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Patent number: 11885108Abstract: In a hydraulic excavator including a machine body and a front work device, when an object is detected by sensors for detecting an object around the machine body when operation limiting control for limiting the operation of at least one of the machine body and the front work device is enabled, or when an operation device is operated, the detection of the object is notified to an operator by a first state warning, and when the operation limiting control is enabled and when the operation device is not operated, the detection of the object is notified to the operator by a second state warning that is weaker in warning intensity than the first state warning. Accordingly, the botheration for the operator can be suppressed while securing the effectiveness of an alarm in periphery monitoring, and the safety performance can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichirou Anahara, Naoki Hagiwara, Kazuhiko Mizoguchi, Akihiro Narazaki, Shinji Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11888643Abstract: System, device, and method of multi-path wireless communication. A method includes: constructing in an electronic device of a user, a control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of the user; wherein the constructing includes inserting into the control message a unique Message-Identifier. The method then transmits the control message, from the electronic device of the user to the HAD, concurrently via at least two different wireless communications channels which include at least: (i) a first wireless communication channel that includes passage of traffic through the Internet, and (ii) a second wireless communication channel in which no traffic passes through the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: OLIBRA LLCInventors: Zohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck, Bradley Luke Totaro, Joao Ricardo Mattos e Silva, Marcio Granzotto Rodrigues, Natan Grando
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Patent number: 11881100Abstract: Technologies and techniques for determining a cluster-based stopping point for a motor vehicle for a predefined reason for stopping in a lane of a road. The individual stopping points of a plurality of vehicles may be determined for the reason for stopping in the lane, wherein the vehicles are controlled by individual drivers. A distribution of the individual stopping points in the lane at least in the direction of travel of the vehicles may be determined. The maximum of the distribution may be determined and stored as a cluster-based stopping point. The cluster-based stopping point determined in this way may be applied to autonomous driving technologies.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan Max, Thomas Günterberg, Timur Aminev, Peter Baumann
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Patent number: 11872937Abstract: A system for detecting one or more characteristics of an object within an automotive vehicle includes one or more sensors mounted within an interior of the vehicle or on an exterior of the vehicle, with each sensor being configured to detect a location, an orientation, a size and/or an object type of the object, and a controller operably connected with the one or more sensors and configured to assess whether the object is disposed in a predetermined alertworthy disposition. A method for detecting characteristics of the object within the vehicle includes determining the location, orientation, size and/or object type of the object using the one or more sensors, and assessing whether the object is disposed in a predetermined alertworthy disposition.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres, Russell A. Patenaude, Eric T. Hosey, Matthew Neely