Patents by Inventor Jay Steinmetz

Jay Steinmetz 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: 10824194
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations that including a device dispensing system that includes a rack comprising multiple slots to receive multiple modular blades, with each of the multiple modular blades including a plurality of adapters to receive a plurality of devices. The system also includes one or more modular blades received within respective one or more of the multiple slots, with at least a first one of the one or more modular blades configured to receive a first type of devices different from a second type of devices that at least a second one of the one or more modular blades is configured to receive. The system further includes a controller to control device docking for devices receivable into respective adapters provided in the one or more modular blades, to establish an electrical connection between the one or more devices and at least the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CaptureTech LLC
    Inventors: Jay Steinmetz, Maarten A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10615613
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations, including a method that includes obtaining sensor data from at least one sensor in communication with a charging station configured to simultaneously charge multiple chargeable devices using power stored in one or more energy storage devices connected to the charging station, including to simultaneously charge at least one inductive chargeable device, and perform a wired charging operation to charge at least one wired chargeable device. The method further includes determining, based on the sensor data, device information for each of chargeable devices, with the determined device information including, for example, a device type, location information, and/or timing information, and controlling charging operations of the charging station to charge the chargeable devices based, at least in part, on the device information for the each chargeable devices within the charging range of the charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Thames Technology Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Calhoun, Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 10453285
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, assemblies, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a lock assembly to control access to an individual storage space. The lock assembly includes a wireless chargeable storage device to store energy transmitted wirelessly from a remote source, a modular support structure configured to hold the wireless chargeable storage device, and an electric lock in electrical communication with the wireless chargeable storage device. The electric lock is configured to be electrically actuated, using stored energy delivered from the wireless chargeable storage device, from a current locking state to a subsequent locking state in response to a control signal representative of a locking change state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Barcoding, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20190310685
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations that including a device dispensing system that includes a rack comprising multiple slots to receive multiple modular blades, with each of the multiple modular blades including a plurality of adapters to receive a plurality of devices. The system also includes one or more modular blades received within respective one or more of the multiple slots, with at least a first one of the one or more modular blades configured to receive a first type of devices different from a second type of devices that at least a second one of the one or more modular blades is configured to receive. The system further includes a controller to control device docking for devices receivable into respective adapters provided in the one or more modular blades, to establish an electrical connection between the one or more devices and at least the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Jay Steinmetz, Maarten A. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20190244456
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, assemblies, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a lock assembly to control access to an individual storage space. The lock assembly includes a wireless chargeable storage device to store energy transmitted wirelessly from a remote source, a modular support structure configured to hold the wireless chargeable storage device, and an electric lock in electrical communication with the wireless chargeable storage device. The electric lock is configured to be electrically actuated, using stored energy delivered from the wireless chargeable storage device, from a current locking state to a subsequent locking state in response to a control signal representative of a locking change state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 10331992
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices, and other implementations, including a radio frequency identification (RFID) device that includes a sheet comprising a middle strip section separable from a remainder of the sheet, and two side strips flanking the separable middle strip section, with the middle strip section including an attachment structure. The RFID device further includes a radio frequency circuit configured to receive RF transmissions and to transmit reply RF signals. The middle strip section is initially attached to the two side strips in a non-separated configuration, and is configured to be partly separated from the two side strips flanking the middle strip section, and to be attached to at least one of the two side strips at a corresponding at least one attachment point such that the middle strip section, when attached, protrudes relative to a plane defined by the remainder of the sheet to form an arched structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Barcoding, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20190114524
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices, and other implementations, including a radio frequency identification (RFID) device that includes a sheet comprising a middle strip section separable from a remainder of the sheet, and, two side strips flanking the separable middle strip section, with the middle strip section including an attachment structure. The RFID device further includes a radio frequency circuit configured to receive RF transmissions and to transmit reply RF signals. The middle strip section is initially attached to the two side strips in a non-separated configuration, and is configured to be partly separated from the two side strips flanking the middle strip section, and to be attached to at least one of the two side strips at a corresponding at least one attachment point such that the middle strip section, when attached, protrudes relative to a plane defined by the remainder of the sheet to form an arched structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Jay STEINMETZ
  • Patent number: 10262483
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining, by a lock system, environmental data representative of characteristics of an environment at which a lock device, configured to control access to a structure, is located, with the lock device including a lock controller in electrical communication with a lock mechanism. The method further includes controlling the lock mechanism of the lock device based on a comparison of at least one of the characteristics of the environment to corresponding pre-determined data associated with the lock device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Thames Technology Holdings Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 10242562
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a control system that includes a receiving structure to receive a plurality of modular devices, with one or more of the plurality of modular devices being coupled into respective locations on the receiving structure and with each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices configured to transmit a short-range communication in response to receiving a respective stimulus by the each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices. The control system further includes a communication module to communicate with the one or more of the plurality of modular devices coupled to the receiving structure, and a controller configured to perform a respective operation in response to receiving a short-range message from a respective one of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Thames Technology Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 10194859
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining biometric data of a user, and generating instruction data, presentable on a user interface, based on data relating to one or more activities to be completed by the user and based on the biometric data of the user. In some embodiments, obtaining the biometric data may include measuring one or more of, for example, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen level, temperature, speech-related attributes, breath, and/or eye behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Barcoding Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20180240329
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a control system that includes a receiving structure to receive a plurality of modular devices, with one or more of the plurality of modular devices being coupled into respective locations on the receiving structure and with each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices configured to transmit a short-range communication in response to receiving a respective stimulus by the each of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices. The control system further includes a communication module to communicate with the one or more of the plurality of modular devices coupled to the receiving structure, and a controller configured to perform a respective operation in response to receiving a short-range message from a respective one of the one or more of the plurality of modular devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Jay STEINMETZ
  • Publication number: 20180171665
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a seal device that includes a housing and a controller disposed inside the housing, with the controller including at least one sensor configured to measure motion data to detect motion of the seal device, and a communication module. The seal device further includes a seal connectable to the housing, with the seal including a shell and a conductive wire connectable to the controller. The controller is configured to cause the communication module to transmit at least one signal at least in response to one of, for example: a) determination, based on the motion data measured by the at least one sensor, of movement of the seal device, and/or b) detection of structural damage to the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Maarten A. Anderson, Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20180131201
    Abstract: Disclosed are implementations, including a method that includes obtaining sensor data from at least one sensor in communication with a charging station configured to simultaneously charge multiple chargeable devices using power stored in one or more energy storage devices connected to the charging station, including to simultaneously charge at least one inductive chargeable device, and perform a wired charging operation to charge at least one wired chargeable device. The method further includes determining, based on the sensor data, device information for each of chargeable devices, with the determined device information including, for example, a device type, location information, and/or timing information, and controlling charging operations of the charging station to charge the chargeable devices based, at least in part, on the device information for the each chargeable devices within the charging range of the charging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Scott A. Calhoun, Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20180114386
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining, by a lock system, environmental data representative of characteristics of an environment at which a lock device, configured to control access to a structure, is located, with the lock device including a lock controller in electrical communication with a lock mechanism. The method further includes controlling the lock mechanism of the lock device based on a comparison of at least one of the characteristics of the environment to corresponding pre-determined data associated with the lock device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Jay STEINMETZ
  • Publication number: 20160000371
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining biometric data of a user, and generating instruction data, presentable on a user interface, based on data relating to one or more activities to be completed by the user and based on the biometric data of the user. In some embodiments, obtaining the biometric data may include measuring one or more of, for example, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen level, temperature, speech-related attributes, breath, and/or eye behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Jay STEINMETZ
  • Patent number: 9155460
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining biometric data of a user, and generating instruction data, presentable on a user interface, based on data relating to one or more activities to be completed by the user and based on the biometric data of the user. In some embodiments, obtaining the biometric data may include measuring one or more of, for example, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen level, temperature, speech-related attributes, breath, and/or eye behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: BARCODING, INC.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 9033247
    Abstract: A self-boarding pass having a batteryless thin flexible display inlay and a housing encapsulating the batteryless thin flexible display inlay. The batteryless thin flexible display inlay has a bi-state display, display control circuitry, a secure processor and an antenna. The housing has a composite layer having front and back faces and a window aligned with the display in the batteryless thin flexible display inlay, printing on the front face of the composite later and a transparent polyester plastic layer encapsulating the composite layer, the printing and the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Stanley Krawczewicz, Kenneth Hugh Rose, Jay Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 8648716
    Abstract: A system for identifying medication in the form of pills, capsules or tablets, and communicating medicine dosage and intake instructions to a user, utilizing Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) and optical recognition technology. The RFID is performed by labeling a medicine container with a tag containing a unique identifier, associating the unique identifier with an audio file comprising instructions related to medicine usage, and delivering the audio file to an electromagnetic wave-enabled device. A wireless device, such as a mobile telephone or PDA, via a service, plays an audio and/or vibrational file associated with the unique identifier when the RFID tag is read by the device. The mobile device has a camera therein and is operable to capture an image of the pill, capsule or tablet and, via execution of optical recognition software, identify the pill, tablet or capsule, and verify the identity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Barcoding, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20140030684
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining biometric data of a user, and generating instruction data, presentable on a user interface, based on data relating to one or more activities to be completed by the user and based on the biometric data of the user. In some embodiments, obtaining the biometric data may include measuring one or more of, for example, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen level, temperature, speech-related attributes, breath, and/or eye behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Jay STEINMETZ
  • Patent number: 8616457
    Abstract: A smart battery label having an RFID or UHF antenna, sensors to monitor battery environmental data and a bi-state display for displaying battery data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Inventors: Mark Stanley Krawczewicz, Jay Steinmetz