Patents Examined by Travis R Hunnings
  • Patent number: 12106649
    Abstract: There is provided a smoke detector including a first light source, a second light source surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the first light source and the second light source emit light, and generates a first detection signal corresponding to light emission of the first light source and a second detection signal corresponding to light emission of the second light source. The processor distinguishes smoke and floating particles according to a similarity between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan Tsai, Guo-Zhen Wang, Ching-Kun Chen, Yen-Chang Chu, Chih-Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 12106650
    Abstract: A variety of dispatcher user interfaces, communications architectures, methods, apparatus, APIs and protocols are described that can help facilitate the integration of volunteer responder networks into the workflows of PSAP dispatchers. In one aspect, a dispatcher user interface facilitates activation of the volunteer responder network, as well as tracking and/or communicating notes to medical devices such as AEDs in the responder network that have accepted an incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Avive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Rory M. Beyer, Sameer Jafri, Gordon Moseley P. Andrews
  • Patent number: 12091187
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes identifying a normal mission of a vehicle based on descriptions of capabilities of the vehicle in a plurality of operational phases where the normal mission is divided into the plurality of operational phases, identifying violations of the descriptions of the capabilities that cause the vehicle to deviate from the normal mission in at least one of the plurality of operational phases, identifying operational impacts on the vehicle caused by the violations, assigning alert levels to the operational impacts, populating an alert database that stores alert events corresponding to the violations and the alert levels assigned to the operational impacts; and generating software code to monitor sensor data during operation of the vehicle to identify the violations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Stefan Neis, Sarah Schmidt, Sebastian Sprengart
  • Patent number: 12087141
    Abstract: An attachment provision control device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include: acquiring information related to a purchased product and at least one of a purchase quantity and a purchase amount of the purchased product; determining at least one of a number and an amount of attachments to be attached to the purchased product based on the information related to the purchased product and at least one of the purchase quantity and the purchase amount of the purchased product; and transmitting an instruction to provide at least one of the determined number of attachments or the determined amount of attachments to an attachment provision device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunori Morisaki, Shinichiro Sato, Hiroki Sugegaya
  • Patent number: 12087144
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a device for mounting on a wall for monitoring an environment. In one embodiment the device comprises: a body comprising: an active reflected wave detector; and a processor coupled to the active reflected wave detector, the processor configured to: control the active reflected wave detector to measure wave reflections from the environment to accrue measured wave reflection data, and identify a status of a person in the environment based on the measured wave reflection data, wherein the processor assumes, for said identification, that the active reflected wave detector is at an operating height above a floor of the environment. The device comprises a cord extending from the body, the cord having a length for ending at the floor when the device is mounted with the active reflected wave detector at said operating height and the cord is freely hanging and straight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Essence Smartcare Ltd.
    Inventors: Barak Katz, Yechezkel Alon Biran, Ohad Amir, Jonathan Mark Schnapp, Eliav Bar Shimon
  • Patent number: 12080138
    Abstract: A sanitizable audio device for use in neonatal care and method of use are provided herein. The audio device comprises a smooth shell defining an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface forms a curved continuous smooth surface. The inner surface supports electronic elements. The shell defines one or more switch apertures, housing one or more actuatable electrical switches, in communication with the electronic elements. The method of use comprises generating on audio output including selecting content that is age appropriate for a particular infant, altering a sound emission of a recording of a care-giver of the particular infant, and programming a music player to emit the audio output below an age dependent volume, for an age dependent number of intervals per day and per week, for an age dependent duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Inventors: Nathalie Maitre, Will Ray, Olena Chorna, Ellyn Evans
  • Patent number: 12080163
    Abstract: A system and method for providing increased traffic carrying capacity of a road, such as a highway, by modifying an existing roadway from, for example, four lanes to five lanes, to create an additional travel lane. The system and method dynamically changes the width of travel lanes using, for example, embedded pavement lights, or other lighting arrangements, in lieu of traditional painted lane lines. As traffic volumes increase and speeds decrease along the road, an intelligent transport system (ITS) sends a congestion signal to the overhead lane controls and dynamic message signs (DMS) along the entire road segment of interest. The posted speed limits are changed, and the lane markings are controlled to dynamically increase the number of lanes in the road segment to five, for example, of narrower widths until traffic volumes reduce and the number of lanes can be returned to four, for example, with normal speed limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: James A. Soltesz
  • Patent number: 12073706
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a computing device, first data from a sensor, the first data including a first timestamp and an event that triggered an alarm; receiving, by the computing device, second data from a remote computing environment, the second data including a second timestamp different from the first time stamp and specifying an action taken in response to the alarm; and rendering a screen on a display of a computing device, the screen including the first and second data represented as a sequence of events ordered by time based on the first and second timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Bojan Rajkovic, Gregory Eusden
  • Patent number: 12073727
    Abstract: A computer system receives a request to locate a vehicle within a facility. The computer system parses the request to identify one or more characteristics of the vehicle. The computer system identifies a sensor corresponding to the vehicle based on the one or more characteristics of the vehicle. The computer system identifies a most recent location of the vehicle based on the last registered position of the vehicle within the facility. The computer system transmits a signal to a parking spot sensor at the most recent location of the vehicle in the facility. The computer system receives the unique identification. The computer system determines that the unique identification of the vehicle sensor co-located with the parking spot sensor matches the sensor of the requested vehicle. The computer system reports to the user a current location of the vehicle within the facility based on a location of the parking spot sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Micah Price, Geoffrey Dagley, Jason Richard Hoover, Stephen Michael Wylie, Qiaochu Tang
  • Patent number: 12051311
    Abstract: Provided are a forest fire detection system and method capable of determining whether events. The forest fire detection system includes an artificial intelligence-based forest fire detection module configured to detect a forest fire from a captured image using an artificial intelligence model; a monitoring camera configured to monitor a predetermined area; a direction estimation module configured to estimate a direction of the forest fire on a map, using a plurality of forest fire detection images provided from the artificial intelligence-based forest fire detection module and data of the monitoring camera; and a same event determination module configured to determine whether events represented by the plurality of forest fire detection images are the same, based on the estimated direction of the forest fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ALCHERAX, INC.
    Inventors: Hee Chan Park, Minkook Cho, Jae Hyeok Kang, Youngseo Cha, Yewon Jun
  • Patent number: 12042252
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for remote patient management and monitoring. The patient is monitored with a wireless sensor system connected to an application executing on a patient user computing device. The system continuously monitors physiological parameters, such as, but not limited to, blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, perfusion index, pleth variability index, and/or respiration rate from the photoplethysmograph. The system triggers alarms if the patient physiological data violates thresholds. Care providers review patient data and associated alarm(s) with graphical user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Ahmed, Nicholas Evan Barker, Keith Ward Indorf, Sungwhan Cha, Sebastian T. Frey, Hyejin Cho
  • Patent number: 12046114
    Abstract: A smoke detection device includes a housing, a smoke collector, an optical detector and a cover plate. The housing has a piercing hole. The smoker collector has a smoke hole, and position of the smoke hole is close to position of the piercing hole. The optical detector is disposed inside the smoke collector and adapted to detect gaseous concentration inside the smoke collector. The cover plate is disposed between the housing and the smoke collector, and used to set a channel from the piercing hole to the smoke hole, so that gaseous matter flows from outside the smoke detection device into the smoke collector through the piercing hole and the smoke hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Chang Chu, Yen-Po Chen, Chih-Ming Sun, Cheng-Nan Tsai, Ching-Kun Chen
  • Patent number: 12043174
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communicating a location of the vehicle to the user; enabling a first communication based on the type of the communication action; determining whether the user has responded to the first communication from received sensor data; and enabling a second communication based on the determination of whether the user has responded to the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Salil Pandit, Julien Mercay, Clement Wright
  • Patent number: 12046120
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system is provided. The system comprises a computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises, receive alarm event data associated with an alarm event, store the alarm event data associated with the alarm event in at least one data store of the computing system, enforce an access control policy on the alarm event data stored in the at least one data store, the access control policy restricting access to the alarm event data based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the computing system, perform at least one analytics operation on the alarm event data associated with the alarm event, and update a value of a current alarm score based on an output of the at least one analytics operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence David Folsom, Thomas Nakatani, Susan Carie Small, Dmitry Vaynriber, Thomas Henry King, Mitchell Patrick Smith, Jason Adukuzhiyil George, Brooke Smith
  • Patent number: 12043414
    Abstract: A runway light control including a relay switch for connecting to a common conductor and a push-to-talk conductor of the aircraft communications system. The control includes a microcontroller connected to the relay switch and an intensity selector assembly connected to the microcontroller. The selector assembly has first, second, and third intensity selectors. The microcontroller is programmed to intermittently close the relay switch a first preselected number of times when the first intensity selector is actuated to signal the automated variable intensity runway light control station to select a first runway light intensity at the airport. The microcontroller is programmed to close the relay switch a second number of times when the second selector is actuated to select a second runway light intensity. The microcontroller is programmed to close the relay switch a third number of times when the third selector is actuated to select a third runway light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Inventor: Alexander T. Tracy
  • Patent number: 12030513
    Abstract: A vehicular alert system includes at least one sensor disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The at least one sensor captures sensor data. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes a processor for processing sensor data captured by the at least one sensor to detect presence of objects viewed by the at least one sensor. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining a likelihood that the vehicle is parking, tracks a position of a detected object until the object leaves a field of sensing of the sensor. The vehicular alert system predicts a position of the object relative to the vehicle and determines the object is a hazard based on the predicted position. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining that the detected object is a hazard, alerts an occupant of the vehicle of the detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Bozich, Nikhil Gupta, Suresh Boddi, Jyothi P. Gali, Alan M. Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 12033493
    Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via an analytical engine that evaluates the entered information in view of various business rules in order to identify the appropriate workers to notify, and generates and transmits the notifications to the employees determined to be suitable for receiving a notification. In response to the generation of the emergency notification, an incident report engine evaluates the entered emergency, and automatically generates an incident report, which may be later accessed and/or modified by workers having a suitable employee access level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Tanvi Chopra, Grace K. Shea, Sharon Grayce Randolph, David M. Nelms, Rajesh Singh, Kartik S. Soni
  • Patent number: 12027034
    Abstract: An alarm system may include a first pneumatic actuation bulb positioned at a first location that includes no electronic components and a first pneumatic tubing connecting the first pneumatic actuation bulb to a first pneumatic switch coupled to an alarm console at a second location different from the first location. The alarm console and a first alarm of the alarm console may be configured to operate using electronic components. The first alarm may provide a first alarm signal responsive to usage of the first pneumatic actuation bulb. A second pneumatic actuation bulb may be positioned at the first location and connected to the alarm console via a second pneumatic tubing and a second pneumatic switch. The alarm console may include a second alarm that provides a second alarm signal responsive to usage of the second pneumatic actuation bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: S&S SYSTEM DESIGNS LLC
    Inventors: Shari Lynn Railton, Sidney Lynn Perkins
  • Patent number: 12027037
    Abstract: An emergency medical services (EMS) visual light guidance aiding device is disclosed. The EMS visual light guidance aiding device is configured to aid EMS personnel in guidance to a specific location without maps, apps, or other conventional guidance mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Anson Carter, Marcella Karina Carter
  • Patent number: 12020548
    Abstract: A variety of methods, medical devices, responder network servers, emergency services interfaces and call center related processes are described that can help improve responder networks designed to get a medical device such as an automated external defibrillator and/or volunteer responders to the scene of a potential medical incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Avive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Jafri, Micah R. Bongberg, Rory M. Beyer, Gordon Moseley P. Andrews