Patents Examined by Toan To
  • Patent number: 11964526
    Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a hydraulic circuit with a first hydraulic cylinder connected between the first end of the first axle and the chassis, and a second hydraulic cylinder connected between the second end of the first axle and the chassis. At least one sensor senses a position of the chassis relative to the first axle. An electrical processing circuit is coupled with the hydraulic circuit and the at least one sensor. The electrical processing circuit controls operation of the hydraulic circuit, and includes an operator input device for selectively: 1) raising the chassis of the baler relative to the first axle, 2) lowering the chassis of the baler relative to the first axle, or 3) automatically returning the chassis of the baler to a predetermined operating height relative to the first axle, dependent upon an output signal from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Sven Monbaliu
  • Patent number: 11966906
    Abstract: A transfer platform can allow users to participate in campaigns based on one or more types of user activity data and corresponding activity values set by the users. The transfer platform can receive the user activity data from one or more sources, such as user devices and data source platforms. Based on received user activity data, and corresponding activity values, the transfer platform can determine transfer amounts to be transferred from one or more source accounts to one or more destination accounts. Accordingly, the transfer platform can implement transfers based on user activity data that indicates user engagement in one or more activity types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Joel Millar
  • Patent number: 11968589
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for enabling beta testing of new features within a native application. In one embodiment, a native application executed by a client device may include executable instructions that are activated and executed only upon indication of a user belonging to a beta test group. The client device may receive a signal from a service or content provider that includes test group information indicating whether a user is a member of a test group. The client device may process the received signal to determine whether the user is a member of a test group and, if so, activates and executes certain instructions received as part of the native application that define a user interface enabling access to additional functionality unavailable to a user determined not to be a member of a test group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kjell Hegstad, Dennis R. Brandt
  • Patent number: 11966577
    Abstract: An electronic device concurrently displays: a first object that includes first content of an application, including updating the first content as a state of the application changes; and a user interface of software that is different from the application. In response to detecting an input directed to the first object: if the input is a first type of input, the device transitions from displaying the first object to displaying a second object that is smaller than the first object and that includes different, second content of the application, including updating the second content as the state of the application changes while continuing to display the user interface of the software; and, if the input is a second type of input that is different from the first type of input, the device replaces at least a portion of the user interface of the software with a user interface of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: William M. Tyler
  • Patent number: 11966905
    Abstract: An improved savings education and management system includes a base unit including a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, a display, and buttons, wherein the base unit includes a housing which presents an appearance of an egg. A mobile unit includes a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, and a display. A computer server includes a processor and non-transitory computer-readable server memory storing a database including a user account, the user account having financial accounts and corresponding to the base unit and the mobile unit. The base unit includes instructions stored in the memory that present on the display information related to the user account which corresponds to the one of the buttons. The mobile unit includes mobile instructions stored in the memory that transmit an instruction to the computer server to debit one of the financial accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolle S Hood, Annamarie Shoen
  • Patent number: 11964528
    Abstract: System and method for improving braking efficiency by increasing the magnitude of a frictional force between a tire of a vehicle wheel and a road surface. Braking efficiency may be improved by controlling the normal force applied on the wheel, with an active suspension actuator, based on the wheel's slip ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ClearMotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Chandrashekhar Chetty, Allen Chung-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11959967
    Abstract: A system is provided including a current sensor arranged to sense current drawn by an electric motor of a powered device through an AC power line from a power supply and provide current data related to the powered device; a monitoring device arranged to receive the current data from the electrical sensor, the monitoring device including a controller processing the current data to obtain performance data associated with the powered device, the performance data relating to load applied to the electric motor; a data communication device communicating with the monitoring device and arranged to receive the performance data associated with the powered device; and a computing device including a graphical user interface, the computer device receiving a user's selection of the powered device from a list of powered devices and presenting the performance data to the user via the graphical user interface in response to the user's selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Pasquino, Lara Kudryk-Traska, Dalton S. Dawkins, Raymond D. Brubaker, Grzegorz J. Kwiatkowski, Joshua M. Hooks, Stephen J. Skeels, Richard B. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11960714
    Abstract: An electronic device transitions from a power saving state to wake state in which a wake screen user interface is displayed. From the wake screen user interface, the device transitions to a home screen user interface in response to an input that includes movement in a first direction meeting first criteria, and transitions to a widget user interface in response to an input that includes movement in a second direction meeting second criteria. The widget screen user interface includes user interface objects corresponding to different applications, including a respective user interface that is larger than one or more of the application icons corresponding to different applications in the home screen user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: William M. Tyler
  • Patent number: 11959857
    Abstract: Provided is a Raman scattering measurement apparatus including a light source which emits light to smoke particles, a filter configured to block light which is incident to the smoke particles and passes through the particle and to allow Raman scattered light to pass therethrough, and a photodetector which detects the Raman scattered light passing through the filter in order to distinguish fire smoke generated due to a true fire from non-fire smoke generated due to daily life or industrial activity. The present invention also provides a fire determination apparatus including a unit which reads a Raman shift from Raman scattered light detected by the photodetector of the Raman scattering measurement apparatus, estimates a smoke component from the read Raman shift, and determines fire/non-fire from the estimated smoke component and a method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hoe Sung Yang, Soo Cheol Kim, Hyun Seok Kim, Sang Hyun Mo, So Young Park, Kang Bok Lee, Kyu Won Han
  • Patent number: 11957605
    Abstract: A mobility augmentation system monitors data representative of a user's motor intent and augments the user's mobility based on the monitored motor intent data. A machine-learned model is trained to identify an intended movement based on the monitored motor intent data. The machine-learned model may be trained based on generalized or specific motor intent data (e.g., user-specific motor intent data). A machine-learned model initially trained on generalized motor intent data may be re-trained on user-specific motor intent data such that the machine-learned model is optimized to the movements of the user. The system uses the machine-learned model to identify a difference between the user's monitored movement and target movement signals. Based on the identified difference, the system determines actuation signals to augment the user's movement. The actuation signals determined can be an adjustment to a currently applied actuation such that the system optimizes the actuation strategy during application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cionic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Robison, Michael Dean Achelis, Lina Avancini Colucci, Sidney Rafael Primas, Andrew James Weitz
  • Patent number: 11960963
    Abstract: An example barcode reader includes a housing having a window. An imaging assembly is recessed within the housing, has an imaging field-of-view (FOV) directed toward the window, and includes an imager configured to capture an image of an object positioned within a product scanning region. An illumination assembly is recessed within the housing and has an illumination FOV directed toward the window and overlaps the imaging FOV by at least 70% from zero to 3 inches from the window. A controller is configured to receive a captured image from the imaging assembly and to process the captured image to: determine if the object is a product for sale or a hand of a user; decode a barcode if the object is a product for sale; and identify elements of the hand of the user for identification if the object is the hand of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Darran Michael Handshaw, Stefanie Handshaw
  • Patent number: 11957631
    Abstract: Embodiments of a wheelchair and suspension system are provided. In one embodiment, a wheelchair or other vehicle having a wheel assembly is provided. The assembly includes, for example, a housing, a resilient member between two sleeves or casings, and a wheel support connected to a wheel. The resilient member compresses when there is an impact on the wheel and decompresses after the impact. In another embodiment, a wheelchair or other vehicle having a multi-purpose suspension system is provided. In one instance, the system provides suspension between to the main drive wheels and the frame. In a second instance, the system provides suspension between the anti-tip wheels and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INVACARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert L. Cuson, Robert A. Bekoscke
  • Patent number: 11959805
    Abstract: The system is configured to locate, track and/or analyze activities of living beings in an environment. The system does not require the input of personal biometric data. The sensor system detects infrared (IR) energy from a living being moving in an environment, determines a temperature of the living being based on IR energy data of the IR energy, projects the temperature onto a grid having sequential pixels, determines serial changes of the temperature in the sequential pixels and determines a trajectory of the living being based on the serial changes of the temperature in the sequential pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BUTLR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Honghao Deng, Jiani Zeng, Ziran Zhang, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11961389
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide a wearable device, such as a smart ring, that provides feedback to guide users in performing physical tasks. Tasks may include tasks associated with an application executing on a mobile device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Debashis Ghosh, Carrie Anne Hanson, Elizabeth S. Votaw
  • Patent number: 11954310
    Abstract: A customized interactive computing environment may allow for a customized interactive user experience. The interactive computing environment may be defined by session parameters to customize a session of the interactive computing environment. The session parameters may include customized interactive user objectives that may be defined by a user. Each objective may be defined with a number of points awarded to a user for completing the objective. Real-time interactive user data may be received from user devices for completion of the custom objectives. Custom profile information may be defined by a user to customize user interfaces provided to users that log into a session of the interactive computing environment. Data analysis about the session and/or the defined objectives may be generated and displayed to users to indicate progress or other data about the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: James L. Moran, Stephen G. Pjura, Bradley D. Moran, Jesse T. Rendell
  • Patent number: 11954986
    Abstract: A self-service apparatus having a three-layer system architecture includes an application-layer device, an intermediate-layer device, and bottom-layer peripheral devices. The application-layer device is configured to provide a user interface for self-service and control the entire self-service apparatus according to an interaction with the user to provide the user with required self-service, and comprises a first processor and a first memory. The first processor executes an application program stored in the first memory and communicates with the intermediate-layer device. The intermediate-layer device comprises a terminal control module which comprises a second processor and a second memory. The second processor communicates with the bottom-layer peripheral devices, and the second processor executes a control program stored in the second memory to control operations of the peripheral devices based on an instruction from the application-layer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yin Sun, Xueqing Wei, Jinfeng Zhang, Hua Shao
  • Patent number: 11951790
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a range sensor is configured to detect a distance between a portion of a vehicle and an object above the portion of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the detected distance may be presented to an operator to allow the operator to control a height of an adjustable suspension in order to manually control the distance. In some embodiments, the detected distance may be used to automatically control the distance. In some embodiments, the distance may be controlled in order to allow the vehicle to couple to the object, such as a fifth wheel of the vehicle coupling to a kingpin of a trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc.
    Inventors: Stan Delizo, Ted Scherzinger, Yen-Lin Han, Austin Chong, Christian Heussy, Caroline Hofgaard, Oleksiy Khomenko, Pauline Shammami, Kirstin Schauble
  • Patent number: 11954552
    Abstract: An RFID tag substrate includes an insulating substrate that has a mounting region in which a semiconductor device is disposed, the mounting region being included in a first surface of the insulating substrate, and a coil that is positioned at an outer edge portion of the insulating substrate. The coil includes a plurality of first coil conductors and a plurality of second coil conductors that are wound such that the first coil conductors and the second coil conductors each have the same number of turns and such that a direction in which the first coil conductors are wound and a direction in which the second coil conductors are wound are opposite to each other. The first coil conductors and the second coil conductors are alternately arranged in a thickness direction of the insulating substrate and connected in series to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11952008
    Abstract: An obstacle in a periphery of the vehicle is detected using a peripheral monitoring sensor for monitoring the periphery of the vehicle. It is sequentially determined whether an avoidance of the obstacle is necessary, according to a route of the vehicle. A warning device is controlled to issue a warning when determining that the avoidance of the obstacle is necessary. In a case where determining that the avoidance of the obstacle is unnecessary after starting the warning, the warning device is controlled to continue issuing the warning when an obstacle distance is less than a predetermined threshold value set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yousuke Miyamoto, Masumi Fukuman, Akihiro Kida
  • Patent number: 11951827
    Abstract: The work vehicle includes a vehicle body provided with a travel device; a prime mover provided in the vehicle body; a transmission device capable of speed-changing a driving force from the prime mover and transmitting the driving force to the travel device; a transmission case housing the transmission device and being filled with lubricating oil; and a controller capable of switching between a warm-up operation mode in which a gear of the transmission device is rotated in a state in which transmission of power from the transmission device to the travel device is blocked and a travel operation mode in which the gear is rotated in a state in which the power is transmitted from the transmission device to the travel device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Gono, Naoya Nihei, Keiji Takahashi, Susumu Takeoka, Shusaku Yamaguchi, Yoichi Sugihara