Patents Examined by Thomas D. Alunkal
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Patent number: 11367322Abstract: A multi-featured lock back that includes a global position system receiver for location monitoring as well as other features. Using an app that is running on a mobile device, a user may locate and utilize the lock box. A controller within the lock box can use geo-fencing to identify the lock box is being stolen.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventor: Austin Igein
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Patent number: 11351963Abstract: A user authentication device and method for providing a security level varying based on an authentication score of biometric information when providing an authentication-based service in an autonomous driving vehicle. The device and method may be associated with an AI device, a drone, an UAV, a robot, an AR device, a VR device, and a 5G service.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Soo-Hwan Oh
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Patent number: 11351964Abstract: A security device is disclosed. The security device includes multiple fingerprint sensors. Activating the security device requires users to enter an authentication sequence comprised of different finger-to-fingerprint-sensor combinations. This increases the number of available distinct elements that can be used in an authentication sequence of a given length for a fixed number of buttons. The device also combines two different modes of authentication to improve security. The security device can be integrated into motor vehicles, mobile computing devices or other systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Deborah Janette Schulz, Gregory Brian Meyer, Sean Carl Mitchem, Ruthie D. Lyle, Will Kerns Maney, Jr., Bryan J. Osterkamp, Timothy Blair Chalmers
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Patent number: 11345312Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to unlock a vehicle. The systems use a hash function signature for authentication and use a vibration signal to transfer the hash function from a mobile device to a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Sam Harris, Stuart Lane, Tarik Safir, Jamie Mahmutyazicioglu, Endre Hanak, Jonathan Hannaford
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Patent number: 11338772Abstract: Computer systems for training a machine learning model for preventing relay attacks. Including portable electronic devices capable of controlling the opening or closing, contactlessly, of an access to a road vehicle on the basis of a pretrained machine learning model. The general principle is based on the use of smartphones as a digital key for accessing a road vehicle. Machine learning is used to train a learning model capable of predicting the movement of a smartphone of this type as it approaches or moves away from the road vehicle. Subsequently, access to the road vehicle is authorized only when same receives the information on the movement of the smartphone.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Jonathan Bonnet, Nicolas Renard
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Patent number: 11338773Abstract: A transmission control device that drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges controls a genuine transmission antenna among the multiple antennas to transmit, with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device and a noise determination purpose burst signal for determining a noise in the portable device after the transmission of the genuine code, and controls each antenna of a remaining antenna group, which includes remaining antennas except the genuine transmission antenna, to transmit the noise determination purpose burst signal at a transmission time point, which is set different from one another and shifted from a transmission time point of the noise determination purpose burst signal from the genuine transmission antenna. The transmission ranges of the multiple antennas including the genuine transmission antenna are set to not have a common area.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Kato
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Patent number: 11335149Abstract: A locker bank and kiosk system that provide storage for multi-featured portable locker boxes, wherein each portable locker box includes a global position system receiver for location monitoring as well as other features. Using an app that is running on a mobile device or the kiosk, the user can identify an available or vacant locker, reserve the locker, open the locker and retrieve the portable locker box and store other items within the locker in the locker bank.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Inventor: Austin Igein
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Patent number: 11335147Abstract: An exemplary embodiment pertains to a method of operating an electronic lockset during a plurality of iterations of a recurring period of time, wherein the electronic lockset includes a first electronic component. The method generally includes generating a usage score for the electronic component based on usage of the electronic lockset during the first iteration of the recurring period of time, selecting a schedule for the electronic component based on the first usage score, and during a second iteration of the recurring period of time occurring after the first iteration of the recurring period of time, operating the electronic component operating according to the selected schedule.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLCInventors: Joshua A. Long, Joseph W. Baumgarte, John Luif
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Patent number: 11321980Abstract: A system may comprise an alarm apparatus for a premises and a security container apparatus including a housing defining an interior for receiving objects and a securing door movable between open and closed conditions. The container apparatus may also include control elements configured to control operation of the security container apparatus, and the control elements may control operation of aspects of the alarm apparatus. The container apparatus may also include sensing elements configured to sense characteristics of the security container apparatus, and the sensing elements may be in communication with at least one element of the control elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventors: Marc Tobias, Tobias Bluzmanis
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Patent number: 11315117Abstract: A station device in a biometric pre-identification system uses identity to perform one or more actions. Identities are determined (such as via a backend) using biometric information. A biometric pre-identification device obtains biometric information and/or a digital representation thereof from a person approaching the station device. The biometric pre-identification device transmits such to the station device, facilitating the station to begin and/or perform various actions. The station device begins or performs the actions using the identity determined based on the biometric information before the person arrives at the station device.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: ALCLEAR, LLCInventor: Joe Trelin
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Patent number: 11295564Abstract: A key information management device includes an information processing device. The information processing device is configured to deliver key information to a mobile terminal as the mobile terminal transmits a predetermined transmission signal toward a vehicle. The key information is information for unlocking the vehicle, starting the vehicle, or unlocking and starting the vehicle. The information processing device is configured to register permission for a user of the vehicle to use a predetermined service using the vehicle. The permission is permission to cause the information processing device to deliver the key information to a mobile terminal of a third party concerned with the predetermined service, other than the user of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna, Masaki Oshima
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Patent number: 11295604Abstract: A passive rebound switch includes an actuation button, an energy collecting module, a detection control, a housing, a power generation module, and a signal transmission circuit. The actuation button is detachably and pivotally connected to the housing. The power generation device, the signal transmission circuit, and the detection control are accommodated in an receiving chamber formed between the actuation button and the housing. When the actuation button is actuated to move in reciprocated rebounding movement, the energy collecting module is actuated to trigger the power generation module for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy to power the signal transmission circuit for transmitting a control signal. The energy collecting module is disposed between the actuation button and the power generation module. The detection switch pre-activates an I/O interface of an encoder device of the signal transmission circuit prior to the power generation module for generating the electrical power.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: GUANGDONG EBELONG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: YuanFang Liu
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Patent number: 11288463Abstract: An industrial vehicle comprising a tag reader, a reader module, and a diagnostic tag, wherein the diagnostic tag is coupled to the industrial truck within a read range of the tag reader. The reader module and the tag reader cooperate to identify the diagnostic tag and individual tags of a tag layout and the reader module discriminates between the individual tags of the tag layout and the diagnostic tag and the individual tags of the tag layout, correlates an identified individual tag of the tag layout with tag data, correlates an identified diagnostic tag with operation of the tag reader, and generates a missing tag signal if the diagnostic tag is not identified or the operation of the tag reader is not within specified operating parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Cole Steinbrunner, Thomas L. Mallak, Donald T. Meiring, Daniel D. Walton, Nicholas J. Sherman, James Michael Grannan
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Patent number: 11289101Abstract: A vehicle authentication device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to display predetermined verification information on a display device, receive, via an information processor possessed by a user, information on an operation performed by the user after the verification information is displayed, and determine that the information processor is present inside a vehicle cabin, when the information on the operation has a predetermined correspondence with the verification information.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Okada
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Patent number: 11287900Abstract: This disclosure describes operations for operating a touch-sensitive keypad. The operations include: detecting, during a normal operating mode of the keypad, activation of one or more keys of the keypad, the normal operating mode causing the keypad to register a value corresponding to a given key when the given key is activated for a first amount of time; determining that the activation of the keys of the keypad satisfies a visual impaired mode criterion; in response to determining that the activation of the keys of the keypad satisfies the visual impaired mode criterion, transitioning the operating mode of the keypad from the normal operating mode to a visual impaired mode; and registering, during the visual impaired mode, the value corresponding to the given key in response to determining that the given key has been activated for a second amount of time that is longer than the first amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: ASSA ABLOY ABInventors: David Gibbins, Greg Smith
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Patent number: 11279320Abstract: An entry support system includes: a first identification information acquisition unit which acquires first identification information of a first related person in a first predetermined relation with a registered user; a first related person authentication unit which determines whether or not an externally located person is the first related person when the externally located person is recognized by an externally located person recognition unit in a state where an internal user determined as the registered user by a registered user authentication unit is recognized by an internal user recognition unit; and an entry permission unit which executes entry permission processing for enabling entry of the externally located person to a closed space from an entrance, when the externally located person is determined as the first related person by the first related person authentication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Morosawa, Haisong Liu, Akira Nakajima, Kenji Okuma, Hiroaki Maruyama, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Shuto Higashi, Fumiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11267440Abstract: Example user identification systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method determines a first step pulse associated with a user carrying a key fob and detects a user device proximate the key fob. The method further identifies a second step pulse measured by the user device and determines whether the first and second step pulses match. If the step pulses match, the user carrying the key fob is identified as the owner of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Zachary David Nelson, Shane Elwart, Bibhrajit Halder, Jonathan Thomas Mullen, Scott Vincent Myers, Tory Smith, Walter Joseph Talamonti
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Patent number: 11270544Abstract: A method for granting access for a user to a domain which is subject to an access restriction, wherein the user belongs to a group of one or more user shaving an access privilege in relation to the domain. The method comprises acquiring a first set of biometric data associated with the user. A first identification is successful if a comparison of the first set of biometric data to previously acquired data relating to the user, or to the group of users, indicates that the user belongs to the group. The method also comprises acquiring a second set of biometric data associated with the user responsive to the first identification being successful. A second identification is successful if a comparison of the second set of biometric data to previously acquired data relating to the user indicates that the user has the access privilege.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: FINGERPRINT CARDS ANACATUM IP ABInventors: Olis Olofsson, Peter Almers
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Patent number: 11270140Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for preventing an illegal attack, and an electronic device. According to one embodiment, the method comprises: when a user feature of a user is identified successfully, determining whether a living body detection result for the user feature indicates failure; if the living body detection result for the user feature indicates failure, locking a feature ID when the feature ID of the user feature is not locked and a locking condition of the feature ID is satisfied currently; and if the living body detection result for the user feature indicates success, unlocking the feature ID when the feature ID of the user feature is locked and an unlocking condition of the locked feature ID is satisfied currently.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Inventors: Fan Wei, Shaojie Ding, Congyi Hua, Weichang Kang, Chuan Shen
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Patent number: 11263841Abstract: A data storage library system includes a data storage library having at least one library frame, at least one environmental conditioning unit associated with the data storage library and configured to control one or more interior environmental conditions within the at least one library frame, and at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the at least one library frame. The system also includes a library controller configured to initiate a service mode prior to and/or during a service procedure performed within the at least one library frame, wherein the service mode comprises configuring the at least one environmental conditioning unit to adjust the one or more environmental conditions within the at least one library frame toward one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the data storage library. Optionally, a lock and/or indicator (visual and/or audible) may control access to the interior of the library frames.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard G. Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave, Lee C. Randall