Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
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Patent number: 11927947Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state or condition of a building, a system manager, and a cloud-based data platform. The system manager is coupled to the building equipment via a system bus and configured to obtain alarm data from the building equipment and generate a timeseries sample including the alarm data. The cloud-based data platform includes a timeseries service configured to receive the timeseries sample from the system manager, extract the alarm data from the timeseries sample, and store the alarm data as a sample of an alarm timeseries.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Pravin J. Duraisingh, Lisa E. Strand, Harrison J. Palzewicz
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Patent number: 11927948Abstract: A system (1) is configured to receive status information reflecting a current status of a device (33) and determine first status information (68,69) for presentation on a first user device (1). The first status information reflects the current status of the device. The system is further configured to cause the first status information to be presented on the first user device and cause second status information (78,79) to be presented on a second user device. The second status information reflects the current status of the device in dependence on whether a privacy mode is active for the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Mustafa Tolga Eren
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Patent number: 11927949Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for anomaly classification for an industrial control system (ICS) communication network based on statistical learning and deep learning. This method designs LSTM deep learning structure parameters and performs modeling analysis based on a large amount of traffic data during normal operation of the ICS communication network; based on real-time communication traffic data thresholds generated by a SARIMA online statistical learning model, designs correlated algorithms to analyze a numerical relationship between background traffic and real-time traffic; and classifies ICS communication network anomalies according to an ICS network anomaly classification algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventor: Qiang Yang
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Patent number: 11927950Abstract: A system for communicating between redundant devices balances the desired attributes of a high availability (HA) control system and a safety control system. The system includes concurrent connections as a fault tolerant mechanism for industrial protocol connections at the transport layer. The concurrent connections establish multiple paths for redundancy from a data producer to a data consumer. Concurrent connections increase availability of the HA control and safety instrumented systems. More specifically, concurrent connections and architectural redundancies eliminate a single point of failure within the control system and further reduce safety connection timeouts during fault detection and/or recovery. Concurrent connections may be used to keep a HA system operational or to provide detection of a failure in a safety system. The industrial control network may be configured to function as a HA control system, as a safety control system, or with certain degrees of both HA and safety-related operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas L. Stay, Anthony G. Gibart, Mark A. Flood, Chandresh R. Chaudhari, Chad J. Bohl, Sivaram Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 11927951Abstract: A remote wireless hydraulic cab preferably includes a cab member, a hydraulic sensor block, an electrical bulkhead, a cab bridge controller and a cab transceiver. The cab member preferably includes a cab enclosure, two hydraulic joysticks, two hydraulic treadles and electrical equipment. The hydraulic sensor block includes a sensor block and a plurality of hydraulic pressure sensors. Hydraulic lines from the joysticks and treadles are connected to the sensor block. Pressure measurements from the joysticks and treadles are sent from the plurality of hydraulic pressure sensors to the cab bridge controller. The cab bridge controller sends signals for wireless transmission through a cab wireless transceiver to a frame transceiver. The electrical equipment is supplied with electrical power and transmits signals through the electrical bulkhead. Electrical power to the cab enclosure is supplied through an electrical generator and hydraulic fluid to the joysticks and treadles are supplied through a hydraulic pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: ZOOMLION HEAVY INDUSTRY NA, INC., ZOOMLION HEAVY INDUSTRY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO. LTDInventors: Mark McKinley, Brittney Bembenek, Matthew Seeger, Steven Melotik
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Patent number: 11927952Abstract: A vehicle can connect to multiple networks and can determine network parameters (e.g., available bandwidth, latency, signal strength, etc.) associated with the multiple networks. Additionally, the vehicle can access network map data associated with the multiple networks. As the vehicle traverses an environment, the vehicle can collect sensor data of the environment and/or vehicle data (e.g., vehicle pose, diagnostic data, etc.). Based on the network parameters and the network map data, the vehicle can optimize the use of the networks determine portions of the sensor data and/or vehicle data to transmit via the one or more of the multiple networks.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Gogna, Paul Orecchio
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Patent number: 11927953Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing custom waypoint missions using an onboard computing device in communication with a movable object. The movable object can include a flight controller, and a communication system. The flight controller can be in communication with the onboard computing device which includes a processor and an onboard data manager. The onboard data manager can receive at least one input, determine one or more instructions to be performed by the at least one movable object based on the at least one input, generate movement commands to implement the one or more instructions, and send movement commands to the flight controller to be executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DJI RESEARCH LLCInventors: Rohit Sant, Arnaud Thiercelin, Arjun Sukumar Menon
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Patent number: 11927954Abstract: A vehicular control system includes a forward-viewing camera, a forward-sensing sensor and an in-cabin-sensing sensor. With the system controlling driving of the vehicle, the system determines a triggering event that triggers handing over driving of the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle before the vehicle encounters an event point associated with the triggering event. The vehicular control system (i) determines a total action time available before the vehicle encounters the event point, (ii) estimates a driver takeover time for the driver to take over control of the vehicle and (iii) estimates a handling time for the driver to control the vehicle to avoid encountering the event point. Responsive to the vehicular control system determining that the estimated driver takeover time is less than the difference between the determined total action time and the estimated handling time, control of the vehicle is handed over to the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ralph Latotzki, Frank Goseberg
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Patent number: 11927955Abstract: The technology relates to assisting large self-driving vehicles, such as cargo vehicles, as they maneuver towards and/or park at a destination facility. This may include a given vehicle transitioning between different autonomous driving modes. Such a vehicles may be permitted to drive in a fully autonomous mode on certain roadways for the majority of a trip, but may need to change to a partially autonomous mode on other roadways or when entering or leaving a destination facility such as a warehouse, depot or service center. Large vehicles such as cargo truck may have limited room to maneuver in and park at the destination, which may also prevent operation in a fully autonomous mode. Here, information from the destination facility and/or a remote assistance service can be employed to aid in real-time semi-autonomous maneuvering.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Vijaysai Patnaik, William Grossman
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Patent number: 11927956Abstract: The technology relates to assisting large self-driving vehicles, such as cargo vehicles, as they maneuver towards and/or park at a destination facility. This may include a given vehicle transitioning between different autonomous driving modes. Such a vehicles may be permitted to drive in a fully autonomous mode on certain roadways for the majority of a trip, but may need to change to a partially autonomous mode on other roadways or when entering or leaving a destination facility such as a warehouse, depot or service center. Large vehicles such as cargo truck may have limited room to maneuver in and park at the destination, which may also prevent operation in a fully autonomous mode. Here, information from the destination facility and/or a remote assistance service can be employed to aid in real-time semi-autonomous maneuvering.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Vijaysai Patnaik, William Grossman
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Patent number: 11927957Abstract: Among other things, a system provides speed behavior planning for vehicles with autonomous driving capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Motional AD LLCInventors: Dmytro S. Yershov, Jeong hwan Jeon, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Eric Wolff
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Patent number: 11927958Abstract: An automatic traveling vehicle includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a storage mode when a storage execution condition is satisfied. The storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture together with a counterpart automatic traveling vehicle. In the storage posture, the vehicle is in a superposition state in which the vehicle overlaps with the counterpart vehicle in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the vehicle is lined up with the counterpart vehicle while the first top plate and a second top plate of the counterpart vehicle are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11927959Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle provides a driverless transportation service for a user. An alarming phenomenon is a natural phenomenon that potentially causes a disaster. The autonomous driving vehicle recognizes, based on driving environment information, the alarming phenomenon at a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle or on a planned travel route from the current location to a destination. When recognizing the alarming phenomenon, the autonomous driving vehicle determines whether to continue or halt vehicle travel control in accordance with a current travel plan. When determining to halt the vehicle travel control in accordance with the current travel plan, the autonomous driving vehicle sets an emergency plan depending on a type of the alarming phenomenon and controls the autonomous driving vehicle in accordance with the emergency plan.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasunao Yoshizaki, Koji Taguchi, Masaki Wasekura, Nobuhide Kamata
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Patent number: 11927960Abstract: A vehicle control system includes at least one imaging device attached to a vehicle and that captures multiple images, and a control circuit that generates a composite image from the multiple images and displays the composite image on a display unit. The vehicle is operated according to a user operation on a portion of the display unit on which the composite image is being displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kohtaro Sabe, Peter Duerr
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Patent number: 11927961Abstract: A method for constraining robot autonomy language includes receiving a navigation command to navigate a robot to a mission destination within an environment of the robot and generating a route specification for navigating the robot from a current location in the environment to the mission destination in the environment. The route specification includes a series of route segments. Each route segment in the series of route segments includes a goal region for the corresponding route segment and a constraint region encompassing the goal region. The constraint region establishes boundaries for the robot to remain within while traversing toward the goal region. The route segment also includes an initial path for the robot to follow while traversing the corresponding route segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Gina Fay, Joel Chestnutt, Marco da Silva, Alfred Anthony Rizzi
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Patent number: 11927962Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for addressing an error in a localization system that includes monitoring a plurality of sensors of a driver assistance system in real-time, with each sensor generating a data stream. The method further includes identifying a sensor having an anomalous data stream and calculating a primary localization and a backup localization. The primary localization calculation includes the anomalous data stream and the backup localization calculation does not include the anomalous data stream. Further, the method includes executing an action when the backup localization error estimate exceeds a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Michael Herman, Yashanshu Jain, Brian Quinn Kettlewell, Ali Husain, Ashwin Arunmozhi
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Patent number: 11927963Abstract: A physical space contains stationary objects that do not move over time (e.g., a couch) and may have non-stationary objects that do move over time (e.g., people and pets). An autonomous mobile device (AMD) determines and uses an occupancy map of stationary objects to find a route from one point to another in a physical space. Non-stationary objects are detected and prevented from being incorrectly added to the occupancy map. Point cloud data is processed to determine first candidate objects. Image data is processed to determine second candidate objects. These candidate objects are associated with each other and their characteristics assessed to determine if the candidate objects are stationary or non-stationary. The occupancy map is updated with stationary obstacles. During navigation, the occupancy map may be used for route planning while the non-stationary objects are used for local avoidance.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Shreekant Gayaka, Boshen Niu, Simon Edwards-Parton
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Patent number: 11927964Abstract: An autonomous work machine that works in a work area while autonomously traveling in the work area, comprises a specification unit configured to specify, based on information of a position detection unit configured to detect position information, a self-position of the autonomous work machine, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the self-position, whether the autonomous work machine has reached a perimeter portion of a no-work area positioned within the work area, and a control unit configured to control the autonomous work machine to do a lap along the perimeter portion in a case in which the autonomous work machine is determined to have reached the perimeter portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Kameyama, Keiji Muro, Minami Kigami
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Patent number: 11927965Abstract: Provided is a method for operating a robot, including: capturing images of a workspace; capturing movement data indicative of movement of the robot; capturing LIDAR data as the robot performs work within the workspace; comparing at least one object from the captured images to objects in an object dictionary; identifying a class to which the at least one object belongs; generating a first iteration of a map of the workspace based on the LIDAR data; generating additional iterations of the map based on newly captured LIDAR data and newly captured movement data; actuating the robot to drive along a trajectory that follows along a planned path by providing pulses to one or more electric motors of wheels of the robot; and localizing the robot within an iteration of the map by estimating a position of the robot based on the movement data, slippage, and sensor errors.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: AI IncorporatedInventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Lukas Fath, Andrew Fitzgerald, Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Brian Highfill
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Patent number: 11927966Abstract: An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has an appliance housing, a drive, a computing element and a plurality of fall sensors. The computing element compares a detection result of a fall sensor with a known reference result, and when the detection result does not correspond with the reference result, determines a malfunctioning of the fall sensor. The computing element determines distances detected chronologically successively by the same fall sensor during a movement of the appliance with one another, and when the distances are identical, determines a malfunctioning of the fall sensor, and/or compares a detection result of the leading fall sensor with a detection result of a trailing fall sensor and when the trailing fall sensor detects a slope without the leading fall sensor having detected the slope before, determines a malfunctioning of the leading fall sensor and the trailing fall sensor takes over the from the leading fall sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Andrej Mosebach, Henning Hayn
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Patent number: 11927967Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system of a vehicle may access sensor data associated with a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The system may generate, based on the sensor data, a first trajectory having one or more first driving characteristics for navigating the vehicle in the surrounding environment. The system may generate a second trajectory having one or more second driving characteristics by modifying the one or more first driving characteristics of the first trajectory. The modifying may use adjustment parameters based on one or more human-driving characteristics of observed human-driven trajectories such that the one or more second driving characteristics satisfy a similarity threshold relative to the one or more human-driving characteristics. The system may determine, based on the second trajectory, vehicle operations to navigate the vehicle in the surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.Inventors: Ashesh Jain, Anantha Rao Kancherla, Taggart C Matthiesen
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Patent number: 11927968Abstract: A device for performing autonomous agricultural operations may include a toolbar to which a plurality of implements may be interchangeably coupled, and a pair of parallel chassis beams mounted perpendicularly on the toolbar. At least a portion of each of the chassis beams may be telescopic and configured to be extended outward from, and retracted inward towards, the toolbar. The device may also include a plurality of drive assemblies each mounted on one of the chassis beams, and a plurality of motors corresponding to the drive assemblies and configured to drive the drive assemblies in accordance with one or more drive parameters to move the device throughout a site. The device may further include a computing device configured to automatically determine the drive parameters, and cause the plurality of motors to drive the corresponding drive assemblies in accordance with the drive parameters.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SALIN 247, INC.Inventors: David Russell Krog, Benjamin Lee Krog, Saeed Arabi
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Patent number: 11927969Abstract: A system includes a robotic vehicle having a propulsion and a manipulator configured to perform designated tasks. The system also including a local controller disposed onboard the robotic vehicle and configured to receive input signals from an off-board controller. Responsive to receiving an input signal for moving in an autonomous mode, the local controller is configured to move the robotic vehicle toward one of the different final destinations by autonomously and iteratively determining a series of waypoints until the robotic vehicle has reached the one final destination. For each iteration, the local controller is configured to determine a next waypoint between a current location of the robotic vehicle and the final destination, determine movement limitations of the robotic vehicle, and generate control signals in accordance with the movement limitations.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Ghulam Ali Baloch, Huan Tan, Balajee Kannan, Charles Theurer
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Patent number: 11927970Abstract: A method for a leading transportation vehicle and for taking over control of a transportation vehicle to be controlled, including identifying the transportation vehicle to be controlled; determining a dynamic holding area relative to the leading transportation vehicle for the transportation vehicle to be controlled, wherein the dynamic holding area is defined so that the transportation vehicle to be controlled remains behind the leading transportation vehicle and uses a different lane; and transmitting a message relating to the dynamic holding area to the transportation vehicle to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Andreas Kwoczek, Julia Kwasny
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Patent number: 11927971Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
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Patent number: 11927972Abstract: A system for determining a travel direction that avoids objects when a vehicle travels from a current location to a target location is provided. The system determines a travel direction based on an attract-repel model. The system accesses external object information provided by an external object system. The external object information may include, for each of a plurality of objects, location, type, and constraint. The system assigns a repel value to the location of each object based on the type of and constraint on the object. The system assigns an attractive value to the target location. The system calculates a cumulative force based on the attractive and repulsive forces and sets the travel direction based on the cumulative force.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: N. Reginald Beer, Jacob Trueblood, Brian Matthew Wihl
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Patent number: 11927973Abstract: A fluid control device includes a slide valve movable in a chamber along an axis between a closed position, in which the slide valve is pressed axially against a fixed seat, and an open position, in which the slide valve is axially separated from the seat and a thermomechanical actuator, which is able to drive the slide valve depending on the temperature of the fluid in the chamber and which includes both a thermostatic element, including a fixed piston, and a body forming a heat-sensitive part of the thermomechanical actuator, arranged inside the chamber The piston being mounted with the ability to move along the axis on the body so that the piston deploys against the body when the thermally expandable material expands, and a return spring, interposed axially between the casing and the body so as to retract the piston away from the body when the thermally expandable material contracts.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: VERNETInventor: Laurie Cécile Marie Louboutin
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Patent number: 11927974Abstract: The flow rate control device includes a main plate corresponding to an inner diameter and including a through hole which is formed at the center thereof and through which a fluid flows, a sub-plate corresponding to a size of the through hole, disposed in front of the main plate, and applied with a pressure of the flowing fluid, and an expansion and contraction flow path formed to connect the through hole and a circumference of the sub-plate to each other and expanded and contracted by the pressure applied to the sub-plate. The expansion and contraction flow path includes a plurality of holes which are formed in a side surface thereof and through which the flow flows, and has a cross-sectional area changed by the pressure to control a flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Korea Aerospace Research InstituteInventors: Kwang Kun Park, Jun Seong Lee, Kee Joo Lee
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Patent number: 11927975Abstract: A switch circuit includes: a switch coupled to control an electrical parameter of a main circuit. A. PSRR of the main circuit is determined by the switch; a first driver configured to operably drive the switch, wherein the first driver is powered by a supply current; and a supply transistor configured to operably generate the supply current, wherein the supply transistor is biased in a subthreshold region, such that the PSRR of the main circuit is higher than a predetermined level within a predetermined frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATIONInventor: Chuang-Shen Voo
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Patent number: 11927976Abstract: A system and method for managing power consumption and storage in a power grid. Measurements are received from a plurality of geographically distributed energy management controllers. Each energy management controllers has energy storage units with stored energy. The measurements comprise the energy production and storage capacity of the energy management controllers and their associated energy storage units. The measurements are processed, e.g., aggregated, and displayed on a graphical user interface. Commands are transmitted to a first subset of the energy management controllers to command the units to discharge their stored energy into a power grid through an inverter. Commands are transmitted to a second subset of the plurality of energy management controllers to store energy in each unit's energy storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GRIDPOINT, INC.Inventors: Brian Golden, Courtney McMahan, David Hakim, Edward Shnekendorf
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Patent number: 11927977Abstract: A building manager includes a communications interface configured to receive information from a smart energy grid. The building manager further includes an integrated control layer configured to receive inputs from and to provide outputs to a plurality of building subsystems. The integrated control layer includes a plurality of control algorithm modules configured to process the inputs and to determine the outputs. The building manager further includes a fault detection and diagnostics layer configured to use statistical analysis on the inputs received from the integrated control layer to detect and diagnose faults. The building manager yet further includes a demand response layer configured to process the information received from the smart energy grid to determine adjustments to the plurality of control algorithms of the integrated control layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Clay G. Nesler, Kirk H. Drees, James P. Kummer, Derek Supple, Marc D. Andraca, John I. Ruiz, Paul Harrison Rode
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Patent number: 11927978Abstract: A control apparatus is configured to control driving of a power generation apparatus including a motor and a power generator. The control apparatus includes a processor configured to calculate: (i) a first adjustment force command value for controlling the motor in accordance with a deviation between an observed value and a reference value of a rotation speed of the power generator; (ii) a correction value for compensating for a delay of an electric output of the power generator; and (iii) a second adjustment force command value for controlling the motor by adding the first adjustment force command value and the correction value.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Ryo Sase
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Patent number: 11927979Abstract: A multi-directional input device includes an operating member that protrudes from a case and can be tilted, a compression coil spring that returns the operating member to an initial state before a tilting operation, a magnet holding member that is relatively movable with respect to the operating member only in a direction along a protruding direction and is interlocked only in a tilting direction, a magnet arranged in the magnet holding portion, and magnetic sensors that are each disposed at a position facing the magnet and detect a movement of the magnet. The magnetic sensors are each disposed on a side of the magnet and can detect magnetic components in three axial directions orthogonal to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Asano, Masato Shimizu
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Patent number: 11927980Abstract: An electronic device includes a controller, a clock generator, a first operation interface and a first functional unit. The controller generates a first clock enable signal, and then generates a first operation instruction. The clock generator generates a first clock according to the first clock enable signal. The first operation interface generates a first power supply signal according to the first clock, and translates the first operation instruction into a first operation signal. The first functional unit is enabled according to the first power supply signal, and starts to operate according to the first operation signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Hen-Kai Chang
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Patent number: 11927981Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated circuit, which counts parameters required for a dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) operation. The integrated circuit includes: an event block accessing a bus, which connects processing devices to each other, and outputting an event signal, based on data transmitted through the bus; a clock counter counting the number of clock signals received from a clock management unit; a plurality of performance counters respectively counting parameters used to calculate a workload, based on the event signal; an interface receiving an operation signal from the DVFS governor, which determines an operation frequency and an operation voltage of a processing device based on the workload, and transmitting the number of clock signals and the parameters to the DVFS governor; and a controller controlling operations of the event block, the clock counter, and the plurality of performance counters, based on the operation signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Junghwan Oh, Sunwook Kim, Wooil Kim, Manhwee Jo
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Patent number: 11927982Abstract: An integrated clock gate (ICG) includes an OR-AND-INVERT gate to receive a first enable and a second enable; a first inverter coupled to the output of the OR-AND-INVERT; a first NAND gate coupled to the output of the first inverter; a second NAND gate coupled to the output of the OR-AND-INVERT; and a second inverter to provide a clock which is gated based on logic values of the first enable and/or the second enable, wherein an output of the second inverter is received as input by the OR-AND-INVERT-gate. The ICG circuit reduces capacitance of input clk pin, which translates to lower switching power when clock is gated and reduction in dynamic power of clock network, since buffers in clock tree driving the ICG cells can be downsized. The ICG cell has the smallest transistor count (and area) when compared to existing ICG cell topologies.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Gururaj K. Shamanna, Naveen Kumar M, Harishankar Sahu, Abhishek Chouksey, Madhusudan Rao
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Patent number: 11927983Abstract: Provided for herein are systems, methods, apparatus and software configured synchronize clocks across two or more processing devices. The techniques of the present disclosure include: obtaining, at a processing device, indications of clocks, wherein the indications comprise an indication for a clock for each of a plurality of processing devices; determining, from the indications, whether a clock of the processing device leads or lags a majority of clocks of the plurality of processing devices; and adjusting the clock of the processing device in a direction of the majority of the clocks of the plurality of processing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: L3Harris Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Jarvis
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Patent number: 11927984Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a support member, a first body, and a second body. The first body is of a plate shape and includes a first surface. A first I/O device is arranged on the first surface. The second body is of a plate shape. Ends of the first body and the second body are rotatably connected. In a first positional relationship, the first body and the second body are parallel to each other. In a second positional relationship, the first body and the second body form an angle. In a supported state, the first I/O device faces away from the second body, and the support member is between the first body and the second body to limit the first body from approaching the second body. In an unsupported state, the support member does not limit the first body from approaching the second body.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Ghwang-Hyun Lim, Cuong Truong, Matthew Tucker
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Patent number: 11927985Abstract: A wearable electronic device accommodatable in an external electronic device may include a communication circuit, and at least one processor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myeongjae Hong, Hyunmo Yang, Seungnyun Kim, Junwhon Uhm, Yongseob Yun, Jongmin Yoon, Junmyeong Jeong
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Patent number: 11927986Abstract: An integrated computational interface device may include a portable housing having a key region and a non-key region; a keyboard associated with the key region of the housing; and a holder associated with the non-key region of the housing. The holder may be configured for selective engagement with and disengagement from the wearable extended reality appliance, such that when the wearable extended reality appliance is selectively engaged with the housing via the holder, the wearable extended reality appliance is transportable with the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SIGHTFUL COMPUTERS LTD.Inventors: Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan, Orit Dolev, Oded Noam, Barel Tayouri
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Patent number: 11927987Abstract: A display device includes a window, a display module, a protection film, a circuit board, a first area adhesive member, and a second area adhesive member. The window includes a first area providing a front surface and a second area bent from the first area to provide a side surface. The display module includes a first portion coupled to the window and a second portion extending from the first portion. The protection film includes a first film portion corresponding to the first portion and a second film portion corresponding to the second portion, and is disposed below the display module. The first area adhesive member couples the first portion and the first film portion. The second area adhesive member couples the second portion and the second film portion, and has an elastic modulus greater than that of the first area adhesive member. The circuit board is coupled to the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun Hee Lee, Sunho Kim, Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 11927988Abstract: The disclosure provides members formed from multiple layers as well as enclosures and electronic devices that include the members. The members include glass members formed from multiple layers of glass. In some cases, the members include a protruding feature provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. The member may define one or more through-holes that extend through the protruding feature. The protruding feature may define a textured region that may be configured to provide a matte or glossy appearance.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Joseph C Poole, Matthew S. Rogers, Dale N. Memering
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Patent number: 11927989Abstract: In one general aspect, a computing device includes a hardware processor, a memory, a first housing portion including a touch screen display, and a second housing portion coupled to the first housing portion by a hinge, where the second housing portion includes a rotatable keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Christopher Wiley Sleat
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Patent number: 11927990Abstract: A computing device can include a housing that includes a shell and a shell cover, where the shell cover includes a keyboard; and an electronic component secured in a component bay of the shell by a latch accessible upon displacement of the shell cover, where the component bay includes an electrical bay contact and bay magnets, where the electronic component includes an electrical component contact and component magnets, and where the component magnets are coupled to the latch and move responsive to actuation of the latch to lock the electronic component in the component bay via a magnetic attraction force between the bay magnets and the component magnets that mates the electrical bay contact and the electrical component contact and to unlock the electronic component for removal from the component bay.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Perelli, Ali Ent
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Patent number: 11927991Abstract: Embodiments of synchronized hinges for foldable displays are described. In some embodiments, a hinge may include: a first bracket coupled to a first shaft via a first arm, a second bracket coupled to a second shaft via a second arm, and a synchronization bracket coupled to the first and second shafts.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Christopher A. Torres, Enoch Chen, Anthony J. Sanchez, Chia-Hao Hsu, Hsu Hong Yao, Mo-Yu Zhang
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Patent number: 11927992Abstract: According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing including an acoustic conduit to output a sound, a sound output device disposed at least partially in the housing, and connected with an outside of the electronic device through the acoustic conduit, a memory, and a processor electrically connected with the sound output device and the memory. The processor may determine whether specified information is received in association with an output of the sound output device, output, through the sound output device, a sound including a plurality of frequency bands, based on the specified information, when the specified information is received, and maintain center frequencies of the plurality of frequency bands to be substantially fixed and change, in a specified range, sound pressures of the plurality of frequency bands, during time that the sound is output.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongki Kim, Jin Kim, Youngbae Park, Changshik Yoon, Dongheon Jang, Junhui Lee, Sungho Son
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Patent number: 11927993Abstract: A biomechanically optimizing mobile device use system having a mobile computer device with readable storage and a display; an orientation determination system included with the mobile device and adapted to determine a position of the mobile device; and, an operating system that, when the mobile device is powered on and upon each repositioning of the mobile device, is adapted to: determine a current position, determine a reference position relative to one of a vertical position and a face down position, determine a stress angle of the mobile device according to a difference between the current position and the reference position, and, actuate a user notification according to a determination that the stress angle exceeds a predetermined angle for a predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: UpBright LLCInventor: Shawn LaBelle
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Patent number: 11927994Abstract: The present invention discloses a pivot mechanism and an electronic device applying the same. The electronic device includes a first body and a second body that are individually independent. The pivot mechanism is configured to turn the second body relative to the first body so that the second body may be in an open position or a closed position. The pivot mechanism includes a base and a pivot structure. The base includes a first connecting member and a second connecting member, which are fixedly connected on a top portion and a peripheral portion of the first body, respectively. Extension directions of the first second connecting members are perpendicular to each other. The pivot structure is disposed on the first connecting member, and is fixedly connected to the second body. Accordingly, stable joining of the first second bodies is ensured, and turning stability and smoothness are at the same time satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Getac Holdings CorporationInventor: Kun-Cheng Lee
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Patent number: 11927995Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate including a display area and a non-display area at a periphery of the display area; a first signal wiring on the non-display area of the base substrate and including a first wiring part and a second wiring part connected to the first wiring part; and a printed circuit board including a lead wiring on the first signal wiring. The second wiring part includes an open part passing through a surface of the second wiring part in a thickness direction, the second wiring part includes a long side extending along a first direction and a short side extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a separation distance between the open part and an end of the short side of the second wiring part in the first direction is within about 0.4 times the long side of the second wiring part.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Myong Soo Oh, Seung Ho Choi, Ji Hoon Hwang
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Patent number: 11927996Abstract: A computing cooling system includes a chassis, heat dissipation device(s) in the chassis, a first fan system in the chassis configured to generate a first airflow that is directed past the heat dissipation device(s) and out of the chassis, and a second fan system in the chassis configured to generate a second airflow that is that is directed into the chassis. A board in the chassis includes a first board section located adjacent the first fan system, and a second board section located adjacent the second fan system and configured to receive the second airflow. The first board section includes first components that are thermally coupled to the heat dissipation device(s) and that are configured to operate in a first temperature range, and the second board section includes second components that are configured to operate in a second temperature range that is lower than the first temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Philip Joseph Grossmann, Michael James Pescetto, Jacob Vick, Travis C. North