Patents Examined by Toan To
  • Patent number: 11954993
    Abstract: In an example method, a mobile device obtains sample data generated by one or more sensors over a period of time, where the one or more sensors are worn by a user. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the sample data, and determines, based on the sample data, a severity of an injury suffered by the user. The mobile device generates one or more notifications based on the determination that the user has fallen and the determined severity of the injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung A. Pham, Stephen P. Jackson, Vinay R. Majjigi, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Adeeti V. Ullal, Yann Jerome Julien Renard, Telford Earl Forgety, III
  • Patent number: 11954984
    Abstract: A cassette for receiving and dispensing bills is disclosed. The cassette includes a sensor structured to detect a location of the cassette, and memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to transmit the location of the cassette to a remote computing device, determine that the location of the cassette has changed, and generate an indication that the location of the cassette has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christian Mande, Darren Goetz, Frank Digangi, Dennis E Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11954314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to generate a media overlay corresponding to a home of a first user, and for generating the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user using media content received in the request. The systems and methods further provide for associating, with the media overlay, a location of the home of the first user and a selection of users to grant permission to access the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user. The systems and methods further provide for determining whether a second user and a location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay and providing the media overlay to the second computing device, based on determining that the second user and location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Michael Barkman, Michael Cumberbatch, Zachary Lupei, Ashley Michelle Wayne, Eric Wood
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11948030
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for verifying that an image includes a complete code of a time-varying visual marker that displays codes sequentially on a display. In some implementations, the verification determines that the image include a complete code rather than combinations of sequentially-displayed codes that may be included in an image based on use of a rolling shutter (e.g., in a camera of a detecting electronic device). In some implementations, the verification involves comparing a first verification portion of an image to a second opposing verification portion of an image. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying image capture parameters (e.g., frame rate) to ensure capture of all codes of a time-varying visual marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad
  • Patent number: 11945398
    Abstract: A vehicle seat structure for a vehicle seat may have a structural component having an inertia belt reel. The inertia belt reel may be arranged in a cavity of the structural component, and the structural component may be connected to at least one further component of the vehicle seat structure. A method for assembling such a vehicle seat structure may include providing a structural component having an inertia belt reel and at least one further component of the vehicle seat structure that are displaced and/or rotated relative to one another such that the structural component and the at least one further component of the vehicle seat structure take up an end position with respect to one another. In a further step, the structural component and the at least one further component of the vehicle seat structure are connected to one another in a form-fitting and/or integrally bonded and/or force-fitting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Adient US LLC
    Inventors: Ludger Muehlenbrock, Toralf Mueller, Tobias Schaffert, Klaus Tupuschies
  • Patent number: 11944467
    Abstract: A graphical audio station of a nurse call system is operable to permit a user to perform one or more of the following functions: establish a two-way voice communication link with another computer device in another patient and/or with a another computer device located in another staff work area and/or with a wireless communication device carried by caregiver and/or with a telephone of the healthcare facility; broadcast a voice page to a group of other selected computer devices; compose and send a text message to a portable device that is carried by a caregiver and that has wireless communication capability; browse web pages and/or view multimedia content, such as videos, hosted on servers of the healthcare facility and/or that are accessible via the Internet; view and/or acknowledge and/or answer and/or cancel alerts or nurse calls originating in a plurality of patient rooms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Schuman, Patricia A. Glidewell, Erik E. Roehl
  • Patent number: 11945066
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for online monitoring defect of a milling tool, comprising the steps of: 1) installing a vibration sensor module on a machine tool spindle; 2) acquiring initial sample data; 3) setting a threshold value ?S0 with a time interval of T; 4) measuring vibration signals of n blades in x, y and z directions in each period T0; 5) shaping to obtain n strong vibration cutting wave data respectively formed by n blades in x and y directions in each period T0; 6) analyzing and processing the strong vibration cutting wave data to obtain the difference ?S0/ between the cutting strong vibration wave areas formed by each blade in each period T0; 7) outputting a blade wear or defect signal to a display alarm module according to the constraint conditions by a data comparing and analyzing module, and giving an alarm by a display alarm module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huajun Cao, Degui Qiu, Hu Liu, Yingqing Chai
  • Patent number: 11948100
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining the category of a software application utilizing machine learning (ML) and knowledge graph techniques, and for controlling access to the application by a user based on the category and configured time restrictions for the user. The system includes a feature set extractor and a category predictor with a trained ML model. The trained ML model generates the category of the application based on a feature(s) of the application. The generated category is indicated in a data structure. An access request handler receives a request related to access to the application from a user device. A category determiner determines the category of the application from the data structure. A time usage manager determines an available time usage for the category and the specified user. The access arbiter responds to the request from the user device with the available time usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Daniela Alexander, Ahsanul Haque, Rajesh Shashikant Korde, Minglei Huang, Rui Zhu
  • Patent number: 11945388
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods are provided for a chassis for an off-road vehicle that includes a roll cage chassis spine. 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 chassis spine includes a front canopy and a rear canopy comprising an overhead spine to the chassis that increases the strength of the chassis and improves the safety of occupants within the vehicle. The rear canopy couples to the rear portion of the chassis, and the front canopy couples to the front portion of the chassis and the rear canopy. The front canopy and the rear canopy are configured to cooperatively reinforce the chassis during loading forces on the front portion due to front struts and loading forces on the rear portion due to rear struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Robby Gordon
  • Patent number: 11938582
    Abstract: A scanning device includes a scanner, a fixing seat, a sensor, and a processor. The fixing seat is provided with a positioning groove for fixing a position of a workpiece. The sensor senses whether the workpiece is on the fixing base. The processor is communicatively coupled to the scanner and the sensor and used for receiving signals from the sensor and sending instructions to the scanner. If the sensor senses the workpiece on the fixing base, the processor controls the scanner to scan an identification code on the workpiece. If the sensor does not sense the workpiece on the fixing base, the processor controls the scanner to stop scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ying-Quan Zhao, Yen-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11941477
    Abstract: Systems and methods to validate RFID counts may be provided. A business may affix temporary or permanent location tags with barcodes throughout an area to be counted, and the location tags may then be recorded. Manual counters may perform a piece count of items associated with each location tag. RFID counters may perform an RFID read of items associated with each location tag. All RFID reads may be associated with their most likely location tag. The manual piece count may be compared to the total of RFID tags assigned to each location tag. Locations may be rejected where the totals do not match. Locations rejected by the manual piece count comparison may then be barcode scanned and compared to the RFID reads for each location tag required to be barcode scanned. Resolution may be performed for locations where the barcode item counts do not match the RFID item counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Datascan
    Inventors: Herb Billings, Kevin Arnold, Marc Fukuda, John Rayner
  • Patent number: 11942125
    Abstract: A thermal medium and a laser recording device are provided in which medium parameters can be acquired efficiently. According to one embodiment, the thermal medium includes a photothermal conversion layer, a color development layer, a storage mechanism. The photothermal conversion layer converts an applied laser beam into heat. The color development layer develops a color by the heat converted by the photothermal conversion layer. The storage mechanism stores information related to a medium parameter including a photothermal conversion efficiency of the photothermal conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuki Nemoto, Yuuichi Nakamura, Yuuma Kadokura, Naoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 11938747
    Abstract: A datapage of a security document includes a non-planar end face that is to be connected to a hinge material, thereby providing for increased overall contact surface area between hinge material and the datapage. Consequently, a respective connecting portion including such an interdigitated structure may provide for superior robustness while still ensuring a high degree of integrity of the datapage and a robust mechanical connection to the remainder of the security document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LINXENS HOLDING
    Inventors: Sunthari Wanittiyaubon, Arporn Sungkhapun, Somchard Phannam, Khietisak Khaipho, Thanapong Phothisarn, Wittaya Songsawat
  • Patent number: 11941974
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for haptic feedback are provided. A microfluidic device includes an inlet port for supplying a fluid into the microfluidic device. A tube receives the fluid from the inlet port. The microfluidic device includes a piezoelectric actuator for realizing a displacement of a substrate to which the microfluidic device is attached, the displacement based on an electrical actuation applied to the piezoelectric actuator, and an amount of the fluid or a pressure in the tube. In some embodiments, the tube includes a carbon nanotube. In some embodiments, an amount of the fluid in the tube is controlled by an actuator (e.g., the piezoelectric actuator).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rakesh Sethi
  • Patent number: 11933025
    Abstract: Each time clogging of a filter (5) of an air cleaner is determined on the basis of intake negative pressure of an engine (2), and the air filter (5) is cleaned, an accumulated value of operating time of the engine (2) from previous cleaning until clogging is determined is taken as a cleaning interval (S), and sequentially measured. A plurality of stages are previously set by classifying a minimum value and a maximum value of the cleaning interval (S), and the measured cleaning interval (S) is added to the stage to which the measured cleaning interval (S) is to belong, among the stages. A histogram in which an axis of abscissas is taken as the stage, an axis of ordinates is taken as frequency of the cleaning interval (S) is constructed, and an approximate straight line (L2) illustrated by a solid line is obtained by approximating a characteristic line (L1) of the histogram illustrated by a dotted line to a straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11935395
    Abstract: An actuator housing intended to provide haptic feedback in a vehicle includes a container having a recess configured to accommodate an oscillating actuator and an insertion opening that opens into the recess, and a cover configured to at least partially close the insertion opening of the container. The container and the cover are mounted so as to be able to move in translation relative to each other and configured such that, when the oscillating actuator is accommodated in the recess, the oscillation of the oscillating actuator causes the cover to move in translation relative to the container, generating haptic vibration in a direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: NOVARES FRANCE, ACTRONIKA
    Inventors: Cyril Soichez, François Bacelos, Pierre Comot, Vincent Hayward
  • Patent number: 11934645
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display control device and a display control method each of which is capable of further improving operability. Provided is a display control device including a control unit that displays a plurality of items associated with a display screen, and, in a case where a desired item is selected by a user operation from the plurality of displayed items, displays a selected display screen corresponding to the selected item together with the display screen that is currently displayed, the selected display screen being displayed at a position relative to a display position of the selected item. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Takuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11935369
    Abstract: A computing system includes at least one processing circuit configured to receive first data from each cassette of a plurality of cassettes, determine, based on the first data, (i) a first location of a first cassette of the plurality of cassettes, (ii) that a fill level of the first cassette does not satisfy a threshold, and (iii) a first denomination of bills contained within the first cassette, identify a second cassette of the plurality of cassettes for replacing the first cassette based on the first location and the first denomination such that the second cassette is configured to receive and dispense bills of a similar denomination to the first cassette, and transmit a notification to a remote computing device, the notification indicating that the fill level of the first cassette does not satisfy the threshold and identifying the second cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christian Mande, Darren Goetz, Frank Digangi, Dennis E Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11935031
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, in an interaction by a switch computer from a second device, data associated with a machine readable code generated by a first application on a first device and provided by a first device to a second application on the second device. The method also includes determining, by the switch computer, a first server computer associated with a first application, transmitting the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data to the first server computer, which processes the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data, determining, by the switch computer, a second server computer associated with the second application, and transmitting, by the switch computer, a communication to the second server computer. The communication informs the second server computer that the first server computer processed the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sirajuddin Nazir, Yuexi Chen