Patents by Inventor Edoardo Franzi

Edoardo Franzi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12285269
    Abstract: A method transmits by a watch an information message relating to an assessment of the sleep quality of a user of the watch. The method includes the following steps: recording by the processing unit of data describing at least one event-driven episode of at least one type of environmental event recorded during a sleep period of the user; identifying at least one type of environmental event that disturbs the user's sleep by processing the descriptive data; estimating a sleep quality assessment index for the user as a function of a sleep disturbance indicator for each identified type of sleep disturbing environmental event, and devising an information message including the estimated assessment index for the purpose of diffusion to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Andrea Dunbar, Engin Turetken, Virginie Moser, Patrick Stadelmann, Lingchuan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20250024891
    Abstract: An electrically operated smoking device configured to receive a smoking article, is provided, including: a housing defining a cavity to at least partially receive the smoking article; a sensing system configured to detect indicia on the smoking article, the sensing system positioned on a periphery of the cavity and including a light source and an image detector; and an opaque shield disposed between the light source and the image detector, the opaque shield being configured to prevent light from the light source directly entering the image detector, without first being reflected by the smoking article. A smoking system including the electrically operated smoking device and a smoking article is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Christiane GIMKIEWICZ, Rolf ECKERT, Edoardo FRANZI, David HASLER, Ross STANLEY
  • Patent number: 12141309
    Abstract: A method controls access to at least one confidential datum archived in a memory element of a watch. The memory element includes general data and confidential data, the access to which by a function of the watch requires the wearer of the watch to be identified. The method includes authenticating the wearer to grant access to the functions of the watch, selecting one of the functions of the watch requiring the use of at least one of the confidential data or general data archived in the memory element, determining the category to which the at least one datum required by the function belongs, verifying the identity of the wearer based on an interaction between the wearer and a graphical representation included in the watch, and authorizing use of the at least one confidential datum by the function when the identity of the wearer has been verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 12141258
    Abstract: A method controls access to at least one confidential data access to which by a function of a watch requires an identification of its wearer. The method includes authenticating the wearer of the watch to authorise access to the functions of this watch, selecting one of the functions of the watch requiring the use of at least one of the confidential or general data archived in the memory element, determining the category to which the at least one data required by the function belongs, verifying the identity of the wearer of the watch from at least one biometric information element comprised within a portion of the skin of this wearer when the at least one data is the confidential data, and authorizing use of the at least one confidential data by the function as soon as the identity of the wearer of the watch is verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 12137747
    Abstract: An electrically operated smoking device configured to receive a smoking article is provided, including: a housing defining a cavity configured to at least partially receive the smoking article; and an image sensor configured to detect indicia on the smoking article, the image sensor being disposed on a periphery of the cavity and including a light source, an image detector, and a plurality of microlenses held in a support structure, the plurality of microlenses being configured to provide a mosaic of inverted images on the image detector. A smoking system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Christiane Gimkiewicz, Rolf Eckert, Edoardo Franzi, David Hasler, Ross Stanley
  • Patent number: 12124221
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic watch including a bracelet and a watch case including at least one electrical or electronic component, the watch including at least one Dewar device configured to contain at least one of said electrical or electronic components, the at least one Dewar device including inner and outer walls and a vacuum or quasi-vacuum space defined between these said walls, the inner wall delimiting a volume wherein said at least one electrical or electronic component may be arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: OMEGA SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 12078968
    Abstract: An isothermal clock device for mechanical and/or functional components of a watch, the device being provided with a bracelet and a casing including an enclosure wherein a case of said watch is capable of being arranged and a reversible fastening device fastening the case of a watch in the enclosure of the casing by keeping it away from the set of elements of the casing defining this enclosure, the fastening device including at least two connecting members each connected to an attachment area of the case from at least one telescopic bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Omega SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 12041973
    Abstract: An electrically operated smoking device configured to receive a smoking article is provided, the device including: a housing defining a cavity to at least partially receive the smoking article; and a sensing system to detect indicia on the smoking article, the sensing system being positioned on a periphery of the cavity and including a light source, a mirror, an imaging lens, and an image detector, the mirror being positioned on an internal surface of the cavity adjacent to the light source and the imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Christiane Gimkiewicz, Rolf Eckert, Edoardo Franzi, David Hasler, Ross Stanley
  • Patent number: 12019401
    Abstract: A Dewar device is for mechanical and/or functional components of a watch. The device is provided with a wristlet and a casing. The casing includes a chamber in which a case of the watch is capable of being arranged in a removable manner, and a device for reversible fastening by magnetic levitation of the watch case in the chamber configuring a separation between the case and the set of the elements of the casing forming the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Omega SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 12010647
    Abstract: A method for keeping a first user and a second user continuously informed of each other's emotional state is provided. The method includes: pairing a first connected watch of the first user with a second connected watch of the second user; receiving, by the second connected watch, an emotional notification comprising a graphical representation relating to an emotional state of the first user; and displaying the graphical representation on a first region of a watch face of the second connected watch, and indicating a current time in a second region of the watch face, wherein the first region occupies a display area of a display of the second connected watch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SWATCH AG
    Inventors: Yann Verdon, Andrea Rossi, Selim Salame, Jean-Marc Koller, Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 11977615
    Abstract: A method for facial authentication of a wearer of a watch includes: initiating an authentication process including detecting at least one triggering movement/gesture carried out by the wearer; capturing at least one sequence of images relative to the face of the wearer pivoting from one direction to another in front of the optical sensor; acquiring surface geometric data of the face associated with each image of at least one sequence; generating a three-dimensional model of the face of the wearer from at least one captured sequence of images and from the acquired geometric data; determining an identification index generated based on identification data relative to a plurality of features characteristic of the face of the wearer of the watch detected on the basis of the three-dimensional model, and identifying the wearer if the identification index is greater than a reference identification index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Alain-Serge Porret
  • Patent number: 11974250
    Abstract: A method for keeping a first user and a second user continuously informed of each other's emotional state, includes: pairing a first connected watch (2a) of the first user with a second connected watch (2b) of the second user; receiving by the second connected watch (2b) an emotional notification comprising a graphical representation relating to an emotional state of the first user; and displaying on a watch face of the second connected watch (2b), constituted of first and second regions, of the graphical representation on this first region, and indicating a current time in this second region. The first region occupies a display area of a display of the second connected watch (2b). Displaying includes dynamically positioning the graphical representation in the first region by avoiding an overlapping between this graphical representation and at least one graphical object in this first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SWATCH AG
    Inventors: Yann Verdon, Andrea Rossi, Selim Salame, Jean-Marc Koller, Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 11953861
    Abstract: A method for managing the use of the functions of a watch including a step of authenticating the wearer of the watch in order to authorize access to the functions, and a step of controlling the identity of the wearer of the watch at a determined period by verifying the validity of a digital identification element determined from at least one biometric information element of the wearer, and a step of unlocking access to the functions of the watch when this access has been locked, the step including the following sub steps: presentation of a graphic representation on an interface for broadcasting a visual piece of information of the watch; selection within a limited time interval of a sequence of at least two identification portions comprised in the graphic representation aiming at identifying the wearer, the sequence corresponding to an identification code of the wearer, and validation of the selected sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 11892808
    Abstract: A method for managing the electrical consumption of a watch including a step of identifying a need to charge an accumulator of the watch, and a step of charging the accumulator through guided actuation of a control member of an electrical energy generation mechanism of the watch, if a need to charge is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Alain-Serge Porret
  • Patent number: 11816196
    Abstract: A method for securing access to a watch (100) including: authentication (10) of the wearer of the watch (100) with a view to authorising access to the functions of this watch (100) based on an interaction between the wearer of the watch and a graphic representation included in the watch (100), and periodic checking (20) of the identity of the wearer of the watch through a verification of the validity of a digital data item determined based on at least one biometric data item of the wearer of said watch with a view to retaining/removing the authorisation for access to the functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventor: Edoardo Franzi
  • Patent number: 11808826
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention relates to a method for correcting magnetometric measurements (10) made by a magnetometer mounted on a mobile support. The mobile support carries one or more movement and/or position sensors fixedly mounted with respect to the magnetometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Andrea Dunbar, Engin Türetken, Virginie Moser, Patrick Stadelmann, Lingchuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11747768
    Abstract: A smartwatch including a first screen cooperating with a first display management device of said smartwatch contributing to broadcasting information pertaining to functions provided by the smartwatch and a second screen that is separate from the first screen cooperating with a second display management device of the smartwatch contributing to broadcasting information concerning all or part of a visual message pertaining to a visual and/or audio animation occurring within an environment wherein the smartwatch is located, the information being transmitted from a display control server controlling the second display management device of the smartwatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Jean-Marc Koller
  • Publication number: 20230199710
    Abstract: A method for keeping a first user and a second user continuously informed of each other's emotional state is provided. The method includes: pairing a first connected watch of the first user with a second connected watch of the second user; receiving, by the second connected watch, an emotional notification comprising a graphical representation relating to an emotional state of the first user; and displaying the graphical representation on a first region of a watch face of the second connected watch, and indicating a current time in a second region of the watch face, wherein the first region occupies a display area of a display of the second connected watch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SWATCH AG
    Inventors: Yann VERDON, Andrea Rossi, Selim Salame, Jean-Marc Koller, Edoardo Franzi
  • Publication number: 20230199711
    Abstract: A method for keeping a first user and a second user continuously informed of each other's emotional state, includes: pairing a first connected watch (2a) of the first user with a second connected watch (2b) of the second user; receiving by the second connected watch (2b) an emotional notification comprising a graphical representation relating to an emotional state of the first user; and displaying on a watch face of the second connected watch (2b), constituted of first and second regions, of the graphical representation on this first region, and indicating a current time in this second region. The first region occupies a display area of a display of the second connected watch (2b). Displaying includes dynamically positioning the graphical representation in the first region by avoiding an overlapping between this graphical representation and at least one graphical object in this first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SWATCH AG
    Inventors: Yann Verdon, Andrea ROSSI, Selim SALAME, Jean-Marc KOLLER, Edoardo FRANZI
  • Patent number: 11646008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for broadcasting an acoustic signal to the wearer of a watch, the method comprising a step of identifying an event relating to a function of this watch (1) as well as a step of sending a configuration signal relating to said identified event to a sound interface (3) of the watch (1) comprising a plurality of piezoelectric elements (4) mounted on at least one deformable support element (9), said plurality of piezoelectric elements and said at least one deformable support element (9) being able together to produce a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Tissot SA
    Inventors: Edoardo Franzi, Alain-Serge Porret