Patents Examined by To Toan
  • Patent number: 11989735
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a user device, a transaction service request including a transaction identification and a transaction time; identifying a first plurality of lockbox locations that can complete the transaction service request based on the transaction identification and the transaction time, the first plurality of lockbox locations being within a threshold proximity of a geographic area associated with the user account; receiving, from the user device, a selection of one of the lockbox locations of the first plurality of lockbox locations that can complete the transaction service request; configuring a physical lockbox of the selected lockbox location; receiving an unlock attempt; and transmitting an unlock command to the physical lockbox to unlock the door of the physical lockbox based on a comparison of the unlock attempt to a lockbox locking passcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Miranda C. Hill, Alicia Y. Moore, Susan Symons
  • Patent number: 11989396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an interactive user interface data for validating one or more contacts and/or updating actions for an individual. In some embodiments, an interactive user interface can be generated including a first portion including a selectable list of primary contact information items associated with the individual and a second portion including a selectable list of secondary contact information items associated with the individual. After receiving a first user input in the second portion selecting a secondary contact information item, the interactive user interface can be updated to receive further user inputs, such as a new primary contact information item. The interactive user interface can then be updated to include the new primary contact information item in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Kang, Kellen Donohue, Lindsey Bergh, Paige Pauli, Yiying Li
  • Patent number: 11989719
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods that enable authentication of a user via an authentication application that is different than a wallet application that is being used to process a transaction. The wallet application may contain payment devices and/additional wallet applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Jalpesh Chitalia, Thomas Purves, Ansar Ansari, Vishwanath Shastry, Otto Williams, Kevin Carvalho, Madhuri Chandoor, Amit Gupta, Manoj Kannembath, Samuel Blake Shrauger
  • Patent number: 11987090
    Abstract: A damping system includes a first magnetic damper pair mounted on a suspension system of a vehicle. The first magnetic damper pair includes a first magnet mounted on a first surface of a body of the vehicle and a second magnet mounted on a first moveable component of the suspension system coupled to a wheel of the vehicle. A sensor is mounted on the body of the vehicle or the wheel. A damping system control module is configured to receive, from the sensor, inputs indicative of a velocity and a displacement of the wheel relative to the body of the vehicle, calculate an amount of force to generate between the magnetic damper pair in a direction opposite a direction of movement of the wheel, and control supply of current to at least one of the first magnet and the second magnet to generate the calculated amount of force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Savannah Theisen, Jeffrey L. Vogt
  • Patent number: 11990220
    Abstract: Aspects relate to calculating energy expenditure values from an apparatus configured to be worn on an appendage of a user. Steps counts may be quantified, such as by detecting arm swings peaks and bounce peaks in motion data. A search range of acceleration frequencies related to an expected activity may be established. Frequencies of acceleration data within a search range may be analyzed to identify one or more peaks, such as a bounce peak and an arm swing peak. Novel systems and methods may determine whether to utilize the arm swing data, bounce data, and/or other data or portions of data to quantify steps. The number of peaks (and types of peaks) may be used to choose a step frequency and step magnitude. At least a portion of the motion data may be classified into an activity category based upon the quantification of steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron B. Weast, Aaron K. Goodwin, James M. Mullin, John M. Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11988318
    Abstract: The present embodiments include new methods for low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) using an extended Kalman filter (EKF) to increase the navigation parameters accuracy or reduce the total RMS errors even during the unavailability of Above Ground Markers (AGM) using new developed method called PipeLine Junctions (PLJ) detection. This method detects the pipeline junctions and adds heading and pitch constraints to the Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) motion between junctions. The results of this such embodiments with a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) based IMU showed that the position RMS errors have been reduced around 85% of the original applied EKF solution. Therefore, this approach is a useful solution for PIG navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Profound Positioning Inc.
    Inventors: Naser El-Sheimy, Hussein Ahmed Sahli, Adel Mohamed Aly Elsayed Moussa
  • Patent number: 11987196
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods are provided for a chassis for an off-road vehicle that includes roll cage center supports. The chassis is a welded-tube variety of chassis that includes a front portion and a rear portion that are joined to an intervening passenger cabin portion. The roll cage center supports include angled braces for counteracting lateral forces on a canopy of the vehicle during a rollover event. A center roof bar disposed along a midline of the canopy provides overhead protection to occupants within the passenger cabin portion. Windshield braces within a windshield area of the canopy reinforce a front of the center roof bar. A rear of the center roof bar is reinforced by roof braces within a rear of the canopy. The windshield braces and the roof braces support the center roof bar so as to withstand forces exerted on the canopy during a rollover event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Robby Gordon
  • Patent number: 11984018
    Abstract: This bodily vibration generation device can be mounted to a bodily sensation presentation apparatus and generates, with a simple configuration, suitable vibration corresponding to a sound so that a user bodily senses the vibration. This device has: an electromagnetic actuator that causes, by an inputted drive signal, a movable body being supported so as to be elastically vibratable with respect to a fixed body, to vibrate by driving same in one direction of the vibration directions thereof; an AC signal input unit for inputting an AC signal; and a rectification unit that performs half-wave rectification of the AC signal and outputs the AC signal to the electromagnetic actuator as the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Yasutaka Kitamura, Tomoya Ishitani
  • Patent number: 11981178
    Abstract: A stabilizer bar assembly for a suspension system of a vehicle. The stabilizer bar assembly includes a first bar configured to be coupled to the vehicle suspension system proximate to a first wheel. A second bar is adjacent to the first bar. A coupling assembly is at an interface between the first bar and the second bar. The coupling assembly includes a magnetorheological material in contact with both the first bar and the second bar. The magnetorheological material is configured to transform from a fluid state to a viscoelastic solid state when subject to a magnetic field. A magnet is configured to apply the magnetic field to the magnetorheological material. In the viscoelastic solid state, the magnetorheological material resists relative movement between the first bar and the second bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Brian K. Saylor, Robert Patrick Marble
  • Patent number: 11981176
    Abstract: An active damper is provided for a motor vehicle including a sprung mass, an unsprung mass coupled thereto and at least one wheel and tire combination coupled to the unsprung mass such that road terrain movement acting on the at least one wheel and tire combination along a z-axis induces movement of the unsprung mass along the z-axis which, in turn, induces movement of the sprung mass along the z-axis. The active damper may include a housing configured to be mounted to the unsprung mass, a damper mass received within the housing and movable relative to the housing, and an actuator configured to be responsive to a drive signal to cause the damper mass to move within the housing so as to cancel, or at least reduce, movement of the unsprung mass resulting from the road terrain movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Gene Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11981175
    Abstract: A method for operating a chassis of a motor vehicle according to the principle of a skyhook control, the chassis having at least one adjustable damper according to which body movements of the motor vehicle body resulting from road bumps are damped using the skyhook damping value (dsky). When driving over a road bump, a classification is made as to whether a critical body movement of the motor vehicle body is to be expected, and that in case of a classification as a critical body movement, the critical classified body movement is compensated for using a stored critical skyhook damping value (dsky-crit) which is greater than the skyhook damping value (dsky).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Unger
  • Patent number: 11983782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a device, a storage medium and a program product for carbon trading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: VECHAIN GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SARL
    Inventors: Xinli Tian, Jianliang Gu
  • Patent number: 11977683
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing defining an aperture. An input device extends through the aperture and has a user input surface external to the housing. An inertial actuator is mechanically and fixedly coupled to the input device and positioned within the housing. A mechanical wave dampener provides mechanical wave dampening between the input device and the housing. The electronic device enables haptic feedback to be provided locally to the input device. In some cases, the mechanical wave dampener may dampen shaking of the input device with respect to the housing by at least an order of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Riccardo Tarelli, Muhammad F. Hossain
  • Patent number: 11977951
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that match image portions of a first set of image portions and image portions of another set of image portions. This may be performed in a such a way that the sum of descriptor distances of the matched image portions is optimized in a globally optimal way. In some implementations, the matching is subject to one or more constraints, e.g., ensuring that each image portion of the first data set is matched with at least one image portion of the second data set and ensuring that each image portion of the second data set is matched with only one image portion of the first data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad
  • Patent number: 11977948
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a code reading device includes: a camera including an image sensor with a plurality of image pickup elements, the camera being configured to pick up an image of a symbol attached to merchandise; a decision unit configured to decide a position of clipping in the image sensor, based on change information for changing a set position of clipping in the image sensor, when the change information is inputted; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the symbol, based on an image by the image sensor corresponding to the decided position of clipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidehiro Naito
  • Patent number: 11978334
    Abstract: A system may include a vehicle. The vehicle may include an array of haptic devices. The system may further include at least one processor configured to: determine a location of an object or occurrence relative to the user; based at least on the location of the object or occurrence relative to the user, select at least one haptic device of the array of haptic devices to be driven and function as a directional haptic alert to the user, wherein the directional haptic alert is indicative of a direction from the user toward the object or occurrence; and output at least one command to cause a driving of the selected at least one haptic device, wherein the driving of the selected at least one haptic device is perceivable by the user as the directional haptic alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Arjun Harsha Rao, Timothy J. Wittkop, Christopher L George, Michael P. Matessa, Peggy Wu, Wade T. Johnson, Sarah Barber, Felix B. Turcios, Bryan C. Schultz
  • Patent number: 11974845
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which provide for a “factory-calibrated” sensor. In doing so, the systems and methods include predictive prospective modeling of sensor behavior, and also include predictive modeling of physiology. With these two correction factors, a consistent determination of sensitivity can be achieved, thus achieving factory calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Ma, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Thomas Stuart Hamilton, Jonathan Hughes, Jeff Jackson, David I-Chun Lee, Peter C. Simpson, Stephen J. Vanslyke
  • Patent number: 11975584
    Abstract: A damping control system for a vehicle having a suspension located between a plurality of ground engaging members and a vehicle frame are disclosed. The vehicle including at least one adjustable shock absorber having an adjustable damping characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathon P. Graus, David D. Helgeson, Alex R. Scheuerell
  • Patent number: 11977014
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing a diffusion trend of a diffusible substance. The systems may obtain a plurality of sets of reference information relating to the diffusible substance from a plurality of devices respectively, each of the plurality of sets of reference information at least including a time point when a corresponding device detects the diffusible substance and a location where the device detects the diffusible substance. The plurality of sets of reference information may correspond to a same or a substantially same time domain. The systems may determine the diffusion trend of the diffusible substance based on the plurality of sets reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongjun Fang, Guoquan Zhang, Zhiji Deng
  • Patent number: 11977950
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor is provided that has an image sensor for the detection of image data in its field of view and an aiming device having a light source that is arranged laterally offset from the image sensor and that is configured to generate alignment light and thus a light pattern in the field of view to make the position and/or extent of the field of view in space visible. In this respect, the aiming device has at least one optical metaelement having a metasurface and/or a metamaterial that is arranged and configured such that the optical axes of the image sensor and the aiming device are coaxially superposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Katharina Bleicher, Christoph Menzel