Patents Examined by Tuyen K Vo
  • Patent number: 11977947
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic shelf label communication system, method and apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hanshow Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiguo Hou, Liangyan Li, Yunliang Feng, Bo Gao, Jun Chen, Qi Jiang, Ming Shen
  • Patent number: 11977938
    Abstract: A forming mold has a surface in contact with a deposited film, a part or an entire part being a first wavy surface. A wave period of the first wavy surface is in a range of 250 nm or more and 500 nm or less. The deposited film conforms to the surface of the forming mold. The first wavy surface includes a plurality of rib surfaces, a plurality of groove surfaces, and a plurality of taper surfaces connecting the rib surfaces to the respective groove surfaces. The deposited film has a peak zone, a valley zone, and a transition zone. One of the peak zone, the valley zone, and the transition zone and another one of the peak zone, the valley zone, and the transition zone are different or has portions different in thickness and/or volume density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Keitaro Sugihara, Akihito Kagotani
  • Patent number: 11978286
    Abstract: The invention provides an authenticatable ballot and method wherein a printable substrate is provided with at least one of overt authenticating indicia and covert authenticating indicia. The overt and covert authenticating indicia provide a means for voters and ballot counting entities to authenticate ballots by verifying the presence of sanctioned overt and covert authenticating indicia. The overt authenticating indicia is observable by the human eye without the use of any specialized tool or light source. The covert authenticating indicia are not readily apparent to the human eye and require the indicia to be resolved using a specialized tool, such as an ultraviolet or infrared light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: George Phillips, Noal Phillips
  • Patent number: 11978061
    Abstract: An anti-counterfeit product of manufacture includes a housing defining a cavity. The housing is constructed of a first and second bodies forming an original joint at a parting line. Inner workings of the product are enclosed within the cavity. An encryption device includes an encryption-coded ceramics-based pin grid array embedded in the first body of the housing. An RFID circuit is connected with the ceramics-based pin grid array. The RFID circuit is configured to report out a confirmation signal based on the code set by the connected ceramics-based pin grid array upon an RFID reader interrogation trigger. The RFID circuit is programmed to prevent future reporting of the confirmation signal upon detachment of the ceramics-based pin grid array from the RFID circuit, such that the confirmation signal is configured to confirm both product authenticity and integrity of the original joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Enrique Busquets, Heiko Erlenkeuser
  • Patent number: 11960656
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for contact-minimized automated teller machine (“ATM”) use and transaction processing using Doppler-radar based gesture recognition and authentication. The apparatus and methods may include an ATM including a millimeter-wave radar transmitter and receiver. Movement of one or more objects, including fingers, within a radar field may be analyzed and translated into gestures and authentication passcode(s). By utilizing the radar field instead of physical buttons or a touchscreen, contact with the ATM may be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Shailendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11960269
    Abstract: An opt-in from at least one user of a plurality of users associated with at least one tool of a plurality of tools is received. An authentication associated with a first opted-in user of the plurality of users associated with an access of a first tool of the plurality of tools is determined. A set of credentials required to operate the first tool associated with the first opted-in user is verified. A request to an Internet of things (IoT) receiver device is transmitted. A response from an IoT transmitter device is received. In response to determining that the first user is utilizing required equipment to operate the first tool, power to the first tool is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Jain, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Ai Kiar Ang, Rambabu Parvatina, Gary Kim Chwee Lim
  • Patent number: 11954553
    Abstract: A barcode reader configured to be supported by a workstation and having a housing with a window. A multi-axis radio-frequency identification antenna assembly is positioned within the housing of the barcode reader and includes first, second, and third antennas. The first antenna is configured to emit a radiation pattern oriented in a first direction, the second antenna is configured to emit a radiation pattern oriented in a second direction, substantially orthogonal to the first direction, and the third antenna is configured to emit a radiation pattern oriented in a third direction, substantially orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Rehan K. Jaffri, Sean Connolly, Mark W. Duron
  • Patent number: 11954558
    Abstract: An Internet of Things equipment management system and an operation method thereof are provided. The operation method includes: obtaining, by a wearable camera, a group number and a user name of the wearable camera from a client-side server; obtaining, by a mobile application, the group name from the wearable camera; scanning a barcode of a sensor to obtain a serial number of the sensor and writing the group name to the sensor by the mobile application; pairing, by the mobile application, the group name and the serial number to establish a pairing relationship between the wearable camera and the sensor; and transmitting, by the mobile application, the pairing relationship to the client-side server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Chih Hu
  • Patent number: 11948031
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a passive RFID tag includes acquiring a tag fingerprint of a first tag as a first tag fingerprint, the first tag being the genuine tag; acquiring a tag fingerprint of a second tag as a second tag fingerprint, the second tag being the tag to be authenticated; comparing the first tag fingerprint with the second tag fingerprint: if the first tag fingerprint is consistent with the second tag fingerprint, determining that the second tag is a genuine tag, otherwise determining the second tag is a forged tag. The tag fingerprint is the persistence time enabling the passive RFID tag to operate normally during discharge after fully charging. The beneficial effects include being high in robustness to the change of environment and high in authentication accuracy and capable of being directly deployed on an existing commercial RFID device without modifying hardware of the tag and reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY, JIANGSU TOOKER ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Liu, Lijun Chen, Dong Jiang, Xingyu Chen
  • Patent number: 11948713
    Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic coating material, a magnetic sheet, and a metal compatible tag that have excellent magnetic shielding characteristics against radio waves in the UHF band and do not interfere with a distribution process. A magnetic coating material includes a magnetic filler and a binder resin, wherein the magnetic filler is an Fe—Cr alloy, and wherein in a magnetic sheet formed from the magnetic coating material, complex relative permeability in 860 MHz to 960 MHz has a loss factor tan ? of 0.3 or less and a real part ?? of 5 or more. Also, a magnetic coating material includes a magnetic filler and a binder resin, wherein the magnetic filler is an Fe—Cr alloy, and wherein a mass ratio of the magnetic filler to a solid content of the binder (mass of the magnetic filler/mass of the solid content of the binder) is from 70/30 to 95/5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kan
  • Patent number: 11948032
    Abstract: A noncontact communication medium includes a processor, and a memory incorporated in or connected to the processor, and performs noncontact communication with an external communication device. The memory has a storage block where information determined depending on a specification of a magnetic tape cartridge, in which the noncontact communication medium is mounted, is stored, and the storage block has an identifier storage field. The processor is configured to write an identifier given from the external communication device to the noncontact communication medium, in the identifier storage field, and execute locking processing of locking the identifier storage field in response to a specific command given from the external communication device to the noncontact communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiichiro Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11950359
    Abstract: A card reader for use with a card may include a card insertion part provided with an insertion port into which the card is inserted, a protruded part which is provided on a front face of the card insertion part and is protruded to a front side with respect to the card insertion part, a breakage detection wiring which is provided in an inside of the protruded part, and a detection part which detects at least one of disconnection and a short circuit of the breakage detection wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Uchiyama, Masaya Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11943526
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is system for providing simultaneous machine vision illumination control and human vision illumination control. The system includes a first illumination control output that is configured to provide first illumination timing information for a first illumination source. The system also includes a second illumination control output configured to provide second illumination timing information for a second illumination source. The first illumination source is configured to provide a first frequency band of illumination for machine vision. The second illumination source is configured to provide a second frequency band of illumination for human vision. The first and second frequency bands are mutually exclusive. A related system is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Event Capture Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian James Mock, John Graves Larkin
  • Patent number: 11941481
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates, in a two-dimensional symbol in which a region where additional data is recorded is provided in addition to a region where normal data is recorded, identification of colors of the regions where the respective data are recorded. Vertically and horizontally arranged first modules are provided, and by the coloration patterns of the first module, a finder pattern for detecting a symbol position, a timing pattern for specifying the center position of the first module, and a first recording region where first data can be recorded are formed. In at least a partial region, a second module is disposed in a portion that does not overlap the first module and includes an intermediate point between the first modules adjacent to each other, and a second recording region where second data can be recorded is formed by the coloration pattern of the second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TERRARA CODE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Teraura
  • Patent number: 11934909
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for storing elements each including a first wireless communication unit, the device including: —a receiving support receiving the elements; —a second wireless communication unit generating waves and communicating with each first unit according to a communication protocol, a communication zone being a three-dimensional zone in which the second unit communicates with each first unit when each first unit is located in the zone and does not communicate with a first unit when the first unit is located outside the zone; —a waveguide able to guide the generated waves so that a dimension of the communication zone is strictly greater than a reference dimension, the reference dimension being equal to the dimension of the communication zone when the storage device is without waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BIOLOG-ID
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Mongrenier
  • Patent number: 11922256
    Abstract: A method of reading a tag located on an object, wherein the tag includes tag values associated with the object, where the method includes obtaining a first sensor output, by reading the tag using a tag reader, the first sensor output being at least one of an erroneous and incomplete representation of the tag values of the tag and includes deriving at least one tag value from the first sensor output using a model, where the model is based on a first set of sensor outputs generated by the tag reader by reading a plurality of tags and tag values associated with the plurality of tags, and where the first set of sensor outputs includes a plurality of sensor outputs, where each sensor output includes at least one of an erroneous and incomplete representation of at least one tag value of the corresponding tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felix Bär, Ralf Gross, Viadimir Lavrik
  • Patent number: 11915076
    Abstract: A wristband configuration for receiving an accessory is described herein. In some implementations, a wristband includes a first side that includes a printable section of the wristband that includes a print coating. The wristband may include a second side, opposite the first side, that includes. The wristband may include may include a comfort coating, and an adhesive material on an adhesive section of the wristband. The wristband may include a receiving hole pattern that is configured to receive an accessory associated with the wristband and secure the accessory to the wristband when worn by a wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Allison Hopkins, Jessica Bicek
  • Patent number: 11915079
    Abstract: A biometric sensor module for detecting a biometric feature of a user comprises: a biometric sensor comprising an array of sensing elements for acquiring sensing signals indicative of a biometric feature of a user, the array of sensing elements arranged facing towards a front side of the biometric sensor. Further, the biometric sensor module comprises a bottom flexible film attached to a back side, opposite the front side, of the biometric sensor. The bottom flexible film can carry at least one electrically conductive line electrically connectable to the biometric sensor and electrically connectable to an external electrical circuit. The biometric sensor module further comprises a top film attached to the biometric sensor closer to the front side of the biometric sensor than the bottom flexible film. The flexible film includes a bent portion such that the flexible film is bent towards the top film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB
    Inventors: Zhimin Mo, Zhecheng Shao
  • Patent number: 11907783
    Abstract: A hologram detection method according to an aspect of the disclosure, includes: inputting a first image, obtained by capturing a detection object on the basis of first flash intensity, to a neural network model to obtain a first detection result value representing the detection or not of a hologram for each of predetermined at least one detection unit regions; and comparing a threshold value with the first detection result value obtained for each detection unit region to determine the detection or not of a hologram in the first image and a first detection unit region where a hologram is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KAKAOBANK CORP.
    Inventor: Dong Yul Lee
  • Patent number: 11907784
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for associating a marking with an object, including the following steps: —identifying the position of at least two different elements of the marking in relation to the marking and/or the object; and—measuring a relative distance between at least two identified elements; then—recording in a database the position of at least two identified elements, and the relative distance between the identified elements so that the position of two identified elements is correlated with the measurement relating to their distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KONATIC
    Inventor: Guillaume Bathelet