Patents Issued in April 30, 2024
  • Patent number: 11971269
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for route planning are provided. The disclosed technology can include accessing travel data that includes information associated with a starting location and a destination. Routes from the starting location to the destination can be determined and each of the routes can be associated regions. Travel costs associated with travelling from the starting location to the destination via each of the routes can be determined. Convenience costs associated with an availability of facilities within the regions associated with each of routes can also be determined. A travel route can be selected from the routes. The travel route can be selected based in part on the travel costs, the convenience costs, and travel criteria. The travel criteria can be associated with travel preferences. Furthermore, route data that can include information associated indications based in part on the travel route can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Yan Mayster
  • Patent number: 11971270
    Abstract: A driving settings control system and method for controlling operating conditions of a vehicle component. The method includes determining a route to a destination in response to receiving the destination from the vehicle, identifying triggers along the route, determining operating conditions of one or more vehicle components of the vehicle corresponding to the triggers, and transmitting control instructions to the vehicle including the route, the operating conditions of the one or more vehicle components, and executing commands instructing the vehicle to accept the operating conditions of the one or more vehicle components as the vehicle approaches locations of the triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11971271
    Abstract: Utilizing existing information of community transportation offerings, the present invention builds customized travel routes to enable independent mobility for individuals with cognitive disabilities. Visual, aural, and sensory prompts are provided based on the location of, and through, a mobile device. Concurrently with providing direction and reassurance to the traveler, the system monitors the location and progress of the traveler along the route. Upon recognition that the mobile device (traveler) is no longer on the initiated route, a caregiver, or the like, is notified to render assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ABLELINK SMART LIVING TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Daniel K. Davies, Steven E. Stock, Erik J. Mugele, Cameron D. Davies
  • Patent number: 11971272
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to capture and compress telematics data are disclosed herein. An example computer-implemented method, executed by a processor, to represent telematics data includes identifying, with the processor, a physical intersection of roads, identifying, with the processor, virtual lines crossing the roads, assigning, with the processor, ordinals to the virtual lines, representing, with the processor, a physical traversal through the physical intersection captured in first telematics data by a pair of the ordinals, and storing the pair of the ordinals in second compressed telematics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Alexander Gataric
  • Patent number: 11971273
    Abstract: Devices, methods, nd machine-read le media to facilitate intuitive comparison and selection of calculated navigation routes are disclosed. An electronic device for navigation includes a touch-sensitive screen and a processing module for displaying a map, calculating a number or navigation routes simultaneously on the touch-sensitive screen, and receiving a selection of a route. Callouts, or markers for presenting key information about each route, are also displayed discretely on the map. Navigation tiles including key route information and route pictorials can also be created and displayed for each calculated route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford Moore, Christopher Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Graham Gyatt
  • Patent number: 11971274
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a high-definition (HD) map. The method includes detecting an object of a road area from the aerial image, extracting a two-dimensional (2D) coordinate value of the detected object, calculating a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate value corresponding to the 2D coordinate value by projecting the extracted 2D coordinate value onto point cloud data that configures the MMS data, and generating an HD map showing a road area of the aerial image in three dimensions based on the calculated 3D coordinate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suk Pil Ko
  • Patent number: 11971275
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer system, configured to receive two or more instances of a first route object comprising a geotemporal attribute comprising geospatial and temporal data to define an instance of the first route object; map the two or more instances of the first route object on to digital map data to define respective first route vertices in the digital map; and receive user input defining an interval and applying the defined interval intermediate chronologically adjacent respective first route vertices to define first waypoints between the respective first route vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Aistis Simaitis
  • Patent number: 11971276
    Abstract: A camera device according to the present embodiment comprises: a first operation part comprising one of a first coil or a magnet and arranged on a fixed member; a second operation part which comprises the other one of the first coil and the magnet, is arranged on a movable member, and faces the first operation part; a hall sensor facing one of the first operation part and the second operation part; and a second coil arranged near the hall sensor, wherein at least a portion of the second coil is arranged between the hall sensor and the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bon Seok Ku, Chang Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11971277
    Abstract: A rotor-hub-flap anisotropic-sensor system includes a rotor hub, a plurality of anisotropic-sensor arrangements interoperably coupled to the rotor hub and operable to measure flapping of the rotor hub, a plurality of rotor blades connected to the rotor hub, and at least one flight control computer interoperably coupled to the plurality of anisotropic-sensor arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Thomas Cravener, Patrick Smith, Troy Cyril Schank, Brady Garrett Atkins, Kynn Jerald Schulte
  • Patent number: 11971278
    Abstract: Among eight teeth pairs, one teeth pair is a non-use teeth pair around which an exciting coil is not wound, and other seven teeth pairs are use teeth pairs around which the exciting coil is wound zero or more times. The number Wa of windings of the exciting coil wound around the tooth included in the use teeth pair in a 90° positional relationship with respect to the non-use teeth pair and the number Wb of windings of the exciting coil wound around the tooth included in the use teeth pair in a positional relationship other than the 90° positional relationship with respect to the non-use teeth pair satisfy a relationship of 0?Wa?0.5Wb. The number Wa of windings and the number Wb of windings may satisfy a relationship of 0<Wa?0.5Wb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ICHINOMIYA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kinashi
  • Patent number: 11971279
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor includes a sensor and a processing circuit. The sensor is designed to generate on the basis of a varying magnetic field an oscillation signal that fluctuates around a mean value. The processing circuit is designed to generate an output signal on the basis of the oscillation signal. The processing circuit is designed, in a high-resolution mode different than a low-resolution mode, in each case to generate a mean value crossing pulse in the output signal when the oscillation signal attains the mean value, and to generate in each case a limit value crossing pulse in the output signal when the oscillation signal attains at least one limit value different than the mean value. A pulse width of at least either the mean value crossing pulse or the limit value crossing pulse is set to indicate that the magnetic field sensor is operating in the high-resolution mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Patricia Lorber, Simone Fontanesi, Tobias Werth
  • Patent number: 11971280
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metering and correcting method and system for an ultrasonic gas meter based on smart gas Internet of Things (IoT). The metering and correcting method is implemented on a smart gas device management platform of the metering and correcting system and includes: in response to receiving a co-correction request from the ultrasonic gas meter, obtaining ultrasonic data and gas medium data; determining a target signal stability value of the ultrasonic gas meter based on the ultrasonic data and the gas medium data; in response to the target signal stability value not meeting a second preset condition, determining a co-correction strategy and sending the co-correction strategy to the ultrasonic gas meter; and evaluating a correction accuracy of the ultrasonic gas meter for performing a correction process based on the co-correction strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yaqiang Quan, Xiaojun Wei, Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11971281
    Abstract: A method for producing a probe of a thermal flowmeter for measuring mass flow of a medium in a measuring tube, wherein a probe core is provided arranged loosely in a probe sleeve having a longitudinal axis, wherein the probe sleeve is deformed relative to the longitudinal axis completely radially in the direction of the probe core by means of high energy rate forming, wherein a material-locking connection between probe sleeve and probe core results and a rod is formed, wherein the rod represents a base body that is used for probe production, wherein a deformation speed reaches values greater than 100 m/s, and wherein the high energy rate forming includes explosive forming or magnetic forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Anastasios Badarlis, Stephan Gaberthüel, Alexander Grün, Hanno Schultheis, Tobias Baur, Martin Barth, Martin Arnold, Mathieu Habert
  • Patent number: 11971282
    Abstract: An imaging system for measuring flow rates of the individual phases of a multiphase flow and for providing images of the multiphase flow, wherein the imaging system is adapted to also measure the thickness of deposits on the internal wall of a pipe, and to a method for analyzing a multiphase flow flowing through a pipe using the imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
    Inventors: Mahmoud Meribout, Esra Al Hosani
  • Patent number: 11971283
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring instrument for measuring a density or a mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube, comprising: a circuit board, at least one coil adapted for registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the at least one coil has a first coil end and a second coil end, wherein the coil apparatus has four contacting elements, wherein the circuit board has a cutting plane extending perpendicularly to the faces, wherein the cutting plane divides the faces into a first side and a second side, wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the first side, and wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner
  • Patent number: 11971284
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Coriolis-force-based flow sensing device and embodiments of methods for manufacturing embodiments of the Coriolis-force-based flow sensing device, comprising the steps of: forming a driving electrode; forming, on the driving electrode, a first sacrificial region; forming, on the first sacrificial region, a first structural portion with a second sacrificial region buried therein; forming openings for selectively etching the second sacrificial region; forming, within the openings, a porous layer having pores; removing the second sacrificial region through the pores of the porous layer, forming a buried channel; growing, on the porous layer and not within the buried channel, a second structural portion that forms, with the first structural region, a structural body; selectively removing the first sacrificial region thus suspending the structural body on the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Gabriele Gattere, Francesco Rizzini, Luca Guerinoni, Lorenzo Corso, Domenico Giusti
  • Patent number: 11971285
    Abstract: Techniques detect a low gas-pressure condition within a region without the use of pressure sensors. In an example, gas usage at a service site is disaggregated to show use by individual appliances. A flowrate of gas at an appliance (e.g., a gas hot water tank) having a generally fixed-rate of gas-consumption is determined. Based at least in part on the flowrate of gas at the appliance, and an historical gas flowrate at that appliance, it is determined if gas pressure at the service site is lower than expected. In an example, failure of the appliance to use its typical fixed-flowrate may indicate low gas pressure at the service site. Information is obtained from a second gas meter at a second service site. Based on the gas pressure at the first and second service sites being lower than expected, a low gas pressure situation may exist in a regional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark K. Cornwall, James Lee Kann, Peter Clevenger
  • Patent number: 11971286
    Abstract: A method and device for indicating whether a dispensable product will require refilling prior to the next scheduled service interval includes tracking the amount of use over a first interval, and calculating a frequency based from the use over the first interval. The quantity remaining is compared with the required amount, which is the product of the number of weeks in the service interval and the calculated frequency. Thus, when the quantity remaining is less that the required amount, a warning will be provided to indicate that the dispensing product should be replaced, as it will be empty before the next service interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Jackson W. Wegelin
  • Patent number: 11971287
    Abstract: A liquid detector comprising a housing having a plurality of side walls and a bottom surface; a sensor mounted within a cavity of the housing and having a sensing surface configured to detect a liquid on an outer surface of a first of the plurality of side walls, and securing means to secure the housing relative to a surface of an external reservoir, wherein the plurality of side walls extends from a top end to a lower end, wherein the bottom surface has a profile comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion and second portion are lower than the plurality of side walls, and wherein at least a lower-most point of the second portion is lower than at least one point of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASPEN PUMPS LIMITED
    Inventor: Claire Saich
  • Patent number: 11971288
    Abstract: A level meter includes light emission segments forming an emission region, a register portion to register a default emission condition and an emission-condition specified value, and a control portion. The control portion controls the light emission so that the emission region spreads in an emission proceeding direction according to an increase in numerical quantity to be expressed. An emission-condition specified value indicates a command to apply a predetermined specified emission condition concerning a subsequent segment positioned on a more upstream side than a foremost segment positioned on a most downstream side in the emission proceeding direction. The control portion allows all the light emission segments forming the emission region to emit light based on the default emission condition, and the control portion allows the foremost segment to emit light based on the default emission condition whereas allowing the subsequent segment to emit light based on the specified emission condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PATLITE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11971289
    Abstract: Tank-installable switches for installation through a thief hatch port on a tank. In some embodiments, the switch may comprise a tubular body and a liquid level sensor. The liquid level sensor may include: a detector; a float in and moveable along a length of the lower end; and a rod connecting the float to the detector. The liquid level sensor may be configured to sense a liquid level relative to the lower end and further configured to generate a signal when at least a maximum selected liquid level is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tara Oilfield Services LTD.
    Inventor: Martin Sheridan
  • Patent number: 11971290
    Abstract: A water submersion detection system that may include a buoyant device having a conductive surface, and a housing enclosing the buoyant device and having conductive elements. The conductive elements may include a first set of one or more nonadjacent conductive elements that are electrically connected, and a second set of one or more nonadjacent conductive elements that are electrically connected. The system may include a submersion alert device that activates responsive to the buoyant device contacting the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Raymond Mark Gamache
  • Patent number: 11971291
    Abstract: Techniques for using data indicating if a gas regulator supplying gas at a regulated pressure to a gas meter (e.g., the gas meter of a house or business) within a gas distribution system has one or more lock-up failure events or venting events, wherein gas is vented to the atmosphere. The data may identify the identity of gas regulators at which the lock-up failure events or venting events occurred. Based at least in part on the identified gas regulators, a number of gas regulators having at least one of lock-up failure events or venting events that are connected to a same gas supply line may be identified. If the number of gas regulators having at least one of lock-up failure events or venting events on the identified gas supply line exceeds a threshold number this may indicate the presence of debris in the gas supply. Remedial steps may be taken, and the situation may be monitored and reassessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Mark K. Cornwall, James Lee Kann, Peter Clevenger
  • Patent number: 11971292
    Abstract: The vibration strength of a linear feeder is changeable depending on whether an article is currently present at a downstream end of a trough of the linear feeder. When articles continue to be vibrationally transported, arriving continuously at the downstream end of the trough of the linear feeder, the vibration strength is set to a vibration strength suitable for discharge of the articles from the downstream end. When there is currently no article at the downstream end of the trough of the linear feeder, the vibration strength is set to a vibration strength suitable for transport of the articles to allow the articles that follow to swiftly arrive at the downstream end of the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yamato Scale Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11971293
    Abstract: A shelf assembly for tracking the weight of non-homogeneous products stored thereupon in a refrigerator comprises a weighing base comprising opposing load-cell bases detachedly attachable to respective left and right internal walls of the refrigerator, a shelf frame or at least one beam member joining respective said opposing load-cell bases so as to form, in combination therewith, a rigid shelf frame, the rigid shelf frame being open to a vertical airflow over at least 25% of its horizontal surface area; a shelf open to a vertical airflow over at least 50% of its horizontal surface area; and a plurality of load cell assemblies fixedly attached to each of respective said opposing load-cell bases so as to mediate between the load-cell bases and the shelf. The shelf can be a wire-grid shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHEKEL SCALES (2008) LTD.
    Inventor: Michael Trakhimovich
  • Patent number: 11971294
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that employ a distributed fiber optic sensor placement procedure that advantageously provides a desirable sensor coverage over a network at minimal cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Ji, Ting Wang, Zilong Ye
  • Patent number: 11971295
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes: a holder including a plurality of placement portions for a reaction tube to be placed thereon; a photometry unit for performing photometry on a solution inside the reaction tube, the photometry unit including a plurality of light emitters and a plurality of first light receivers respectively disposed in the plurality of placement portions; and processing circuitry configured to adjust quantities of light of the plurality of light emitters based on a light quantity signal from a second light receiver that receives light generated by the light emitters and guided by jig inserted into the placement portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shin Iida
  • Patent number: 11971296
    Abstract: A measurement method of receiving an emission light output from an optical semiconductor element on an incident end surface of an optical probe, shifts a relative position between the optical semiconductor element and the optical probe on a plane surface intersecting with an optical axis of the emission light, measures an incident intensity of the emission light at several positions, and obtains an incident intensity pattern showing a relationship between a change in the relative position and the respective incident intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Michitaka Okuta, Yuki Saito, Hisao Narita, Shou Harako, Jukiya Fukushi, Tomokazu Saito, Toshinaga Takeya
  • Patent number: 11971297
    Abstract: A system for monitoring ultraviolet (UV) exposure of a wearer. The system comprises a wearable device operable to sense UV radiation levels to which the wearer is exposed, and to transmit UV radiation information. The system further comprises an external computing device in remote communication with the wearable device, operable to receive the UV radiation information from the wearable device and configured to determine the wearer's real-time UV index value and the wearer's daily cumulative percentage of minimal erythema dose based upon the UV radiation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ECLIPSE Rx, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Matthys
  • Patent number: 11971298
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sensing circuit, including a photo-sensing component, a first transistor, and a temperature-sensing component. The photo-sensing component is configured to receive a light and transmit a first current according to an intensity of the light. A gate terminal of the first transistor is configured to receive a first control circuit. The photo-sensing component and the first transistor are coupled in series between first and second nodes. The temperature-sensing component is coupled between the first and second nodes and is configured to generate a second current according to a temperature. The temperature-sensing component includes a channel structure, a first gate, a second gate, and a light-shielding structure. The channel structure is configured to transmit the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AUO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Yao Chen, Chang-Hung Li, Shin-Shueh Chen, Jui-Chi Lo
  • Patent number: 11971299
    Abstract: A hyperspectral image sensor includes an optical irradiator configured to irradiate light to a partial region of an object, an optical detector configured to receive detection light generated in the partial region in response to the irradiated light and generate spectrum signals, each of the spectrum signals corresponding to a respective sub-region of a plurality of sub-regions included in the partial region, and a processor configured to generate a hyperspectral image of the partial region based on the spectrum signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CHUNG ANG University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Unjeong Kim, Jeongsu Han, Hyungbin Son, Suyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11971300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact, lightweight, cost-efficient ultraviolet-visible-far infrared (UV-VIS-IR) telescope system, covering the 300 nm to 2500 nm (0.3 ?m to 2.5 ?m) spectral range, based on a fast focal-ratio, reflective optics design, and an optical coupling interface appropriate for COTS spectrometers, commensurate with about 1U-2U CubeSat payload volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Shahid Aslam, Tilak Hewagama, Nicolas Gorius, Peter C. Chen, Theodor Kostiuk, John R. Kolasinski
  • Patent number: 11971301
    Abstract: A spectroscopic unit includes a housing, a light incident portion provided in the housing, a Fabry-Perot interference filter arranged in the housing and having a first mirror and a second mirror, a distance between the first mirror and the second mirror being variable. The light incident portion includes an aperture portion in which an aperture is formed and a band pass filter arranged between the aperture and the Fabry-Perot interference filter. The aperture portion is configured so that a value obtained by dividing a length of the aperture in a facing direction of the first mirror and the second mirror by a width of the aperture in a direction perpendicular to the facing direction is equal to or more than 0.5 and the entirety of light passing through the aperture is incident on the band pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kei Tabata, Masaaki Muto
  • Patent number: 11971302
    Abstract: A system for measurement of monochromatic attenuation for each wavelength of the spectrum, understood as such the attenuation at a wavelength of the spectrum with the spectral width provided by the measurement equipment, of the spectral attenuation in the spectral range of measurement, understood as such the set of monochromatic attenuations at all the wavelengths throughout the spectral range of measurement, and the total attenuation, understood as such the attenuation calculated by the integration of the spectral attenuation in the spectral range of measurement weighted with the solar spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUNDACIÓN CENER-CIEMAT
    Inventors: Carlos Fernández Peruchena, Ana Bernardos García, Marcelino Sánchez González, Carlos Heras Vila, Iñigo Salina Áriz, Rafael Alonso Esteban
  • Patent number: 11971303
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of optical technology, disclosing a quadrilateral common-path time-modulated interferometric spectral imaging device and method. The present invention sets up a moving mirror scanning mechanism in a quadrilateral common path interferometer for generating optical path differences that vary with time, so that the quadrilateral common-path time-modulated interferometric spectral imaging device operates in the staring observation mode. The invention can make the quadrilateral common-path time-modulated interferometric spectral imaging device not only retain the advantages of common optical path spectroscopic technology, but also obtain high spectral resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Ruyi Wei
  • Patent number: 11971304
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for logging temperatures of food products using a temperature assembly including a housing and one or more temperature sensors, e.g., an infrared sensor for surface temperatures and an elongate probe for acquiring a temperature within a food product, and a mobile electronic device including a camera, a communication interface for communicating with the temperature assembly, a processor configured to acquire a temperature reading from the temperature assembly and an image from the camera when the temperature reading is acquired, and memory for storing the temperature reading and image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Daniel P. Riscalla
  • Patent number: 11971305
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a photosensitive sensor, a cover, and a moving mechanism. The photosensitive sensor includes a first lens and a second lens which focus on a photosensitive element. The cover includes a first slit arranged on an optical axis of the first lens and a second slit arranged on an optical axis of the second lens. The moving mechanism is configured to move the photosensitive sensor and the cover relative to each other so that the second slit is arranged on the optical axis of the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Odani
  • Patent number: 11971306
    Abstract: A diode (11) is provided on a substrate (1) and thermally insulated from the substrate (1). A positive feedback circuit (18) provides a positive feedback loop so that when a current of the diode (11) decreases due to a change in temperature of the diode (11), the positive feedback circuit (18) further decreases the current of the diode (11), and when the current of the diode (11) increases, the positive feedback circuit (18) further increases the current of the diode (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Fujisawa, Masashi Ueno
  • Patent number: 11971307
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a device (2) and a method for measuring a wavelength for a laser device. The device (2) for measuring a wavelength for a laser device includes: a first optical path assembly and a second optical path assembly. The first optical path assembly and the second optical path assembly constitute a laser wavelength measurement optical path. The second optical path assembly includes: an FP etalon assembly (11) and an optical classifier (13). The homogenized laser beam passes through the FP etalon assembly (11) to generate an interference fringe. The optical classifier (13) is arranged after the FP etalon assembly (11) in the laser wavelength measurement optical path, and configured to deflect the laser beam passing through the FP etalon assembly (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing RSLaserOpto-Electronics Technology Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Guangyi Liu, Rui Jiang, Xiaoquan Han, Jiangshan Zhao, Pengfei Sha, Qingqing Yin, Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11971308
    Abstract: A temperature sensor assembly can include a first temperature sensor that can be configured to obtain a first temperature measurement of a user. The temperature sensor assembly can further include a second temperature sensor that can be configured to obtain a second temperature measurement of the user. The temperature sensor assembly can further include one or more processors that can be configured to determine a third temperature measurement indicative of a temperature of the user based at least in part on the first temperature measurement and the second temperature measurement. The temperature sensor assembly can further include a base station communication antenna system that can include a modal antenna that can be configured to communicate the third temperature measurement with a base station based at least in part on a beam steering operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA AVX COMPONENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurent Desclos, Craig W. Nies, Olivier Pajona
  • Patent number: 11971309
    Abstract: A system includes an antenna having a predetermined directivity and a measurement data processing device that modifies spatial resolution of measurement data received from the antenna. The device includes a plurality of multipliers that multiply together measurement values, which are the signal intensity of the microwave output by the microwave radiometer, and weighting coefficients to be an element of a weighted vector a and output multiplication results; and an integrator that integrates the multiplication results of the plurality of multipliers. The weighted vector a modifies the accuracy of the corrected sensitivity function ?(x,y) with performance of the arithmetic processing of the inverse problem in order to reduce integrated values of a positive value region and a negative value region present on an outer side of the sensitivity distribution of the target antenna sensitivity distribution function F(x,y) in the corrected sensitivity function ?(x,y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Takashi Maeda, Naoya Tomii
  • Patent number: 11971310
    Abstract: An optical fibre, for use in the field of distributed measurement of temperature or deformation by optical reflectometry in the frequency domain using the Rayleigh backscattered signal in the fibre, includes a core doped with nanoparticles for example formed from gold particles covered with zirconium oxide, and can be subjected to high temperatures during the measurement. A method for producing the optical fibre includes a step of heat treatment during which the optical fibre is subjected, for a duration of at least one hour, to a heat treatment temperature higher than a maximum temperature to which it will be subjected during a measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE
    Inventors: Patrick Bulot, Remy Bernard, Odile Cristini, Monika Bouet, Guillaume Laffont, Marc Douay
  • Patent number: 11971311
    Abstract: A non-invasive and a non-contact core body temperature monitoring method and system including an infrared camera, a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium with a program for analyzing thermal images of the human eye. The method for using the system that includes isolating ocular thermal images from a facial image; extracting thermal information about the surface of the eye; transitioning the thermal information to a selected model of the eye; estimating a temperature at the back of the eye; optimizing the estimated temperature at the back of the eye, and transmitting the optimized temperature information to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: XTemp LLC
    Inventors: Senay Tewolde, Katharine Renee Long
  • Patent number: 11971312
    Abstract: A measurement core for measuring nuclear heating, the core extending in a longitudinal direction and having a main plane, includes at least: a first layer of material, forming a first sample; a first thin layer of electrical insulation on the first sample; a thin conductive layer forming a heating electrical resistor on the first layer of electrical insulation; and a second thin layer of electrical insulation on the heating electrical resistor. A calorimetric sensor includes: an outer jacket; a gas contained in the jacket; a measurement core disposed in the jacket; a link for holding the core in the jacket and transferring the heat between the core and the jacket; and temperature measurement capable of measuring the temperature at a hot point, and the temperature at a cold point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE D'AIX-MARSEILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Christelle Reynard-Carette, Adrien Volte, Abdallah Lyoussi, Michel Carette
  • Patent number: 11971313
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a module that delivers a positive temperature coefficient output voltage at an output terminal. A thermistor includes a first MOS transistor operating in weak inversion mode and having a negative temperature coefficient drain-source resistance and whose source is coupled to the output terminal. A current source coupled to the output terminal operates to impose the drain-source current of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Philippe Galy, Renan Lethiecq
  • Patent number: 11971314
    Abstract: A method calculates temperatures in an electric drive unit. A first temperature detection region has a first temperature and a second temperature detection region has a second temperature. The first temperature is influenced by a first coupling value which is non-linearly dependent on the first temperature and the temperature at the first and second temperature detection regions. The calculations are divided among separate calculation units such that the temperatures can be estimated in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Reith, Tom Huck, Jiufang Peng
  • Patent number: 11971315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a force sensor. More particularly, the force sensor includes a first permanent magnet layer; a magnetic tunnel junction disposed on the first permanent magnet layer and configured to have a preset resistance value; and a second permanent magnet layer disposed to be spaced apart from the magnetic tunnel junction, wherein the second permanent magnet layer moves in a direction of the first permanent magnet layer when pressure is applied from outside, the preset resistance value of the magnetic tunnel junction is changed when a magnetic field strength formed between the first permanent magnet layer and the second permanent magnet layer becomes a preset strength or more according to movement of the second permanent magnet layer, and the force sensor senses the pressure based on a change in the preset resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: June Seo Kim, Myoung Jae Lee, Hyeon Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11971316
    Abstract: A stress and/or strain measurement cell for a stress and/or strain measurement system. The cell includes a reference contact, a sensor contact and a first current mirror circuit which is integrated into a semiconductor material and has a first conduction path connectable or connected to the reference contact and a second conduction path connectable or connected to the sensor contact. The first conduction path includes a first transistor and the second conduction path includes a second transistor. A first crystal direction of the semiconductor material oriented perpendicular to a first inversion channel of the first transistor is definable for the first inversion channel and a second crystal direction of the semiconductor material oriented perpendicular to a second inversion channel of the second transistor is definable for the second inversion channel. The first crystal direction of the semiconductor material is inclined relative to the second crystal direction of the semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Falk Roewer, Clemens Jurgschat, Torsten Ohms
  • Patent number: 11971317
    Abstract: A method for sensing. The method includes the steps of transmitting mechanical forces to one or more printed mechanical sensing elements. There is the step of sending prompting signals associated with the mechanical forces to a computer in communication with one or more printed diodes and the one or more printed mechanical sensing elements. There is the step of reconstructing with the computer the mechanical forces that were applied to the one or more printed mechanical sensing elements. An apparatus for sensing. The apparatus includes a computer. The apparatus includes one or more printed electronic diodes and printed mechanical sensing elements connected to the computer, the one or more printed electronic diodes detect mechanical signals applied to the one or more mechanical-sensing elements and that provide corresponding values to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tactonic Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Grau, Charles Hendee
  • Patent number: 11971318
    Abstract: The outer housing for a pressure monitoring system includes a sidewall shell comprising an annular inner sidewall projection extending from a top end thereof; a cap mounted to the sidewall shell, the cap defining an inner cap surface, an outer cap surface, a cap bottom end, and an annular cap recess extending into the cap bottom end between the outer cap surface and the inner cap surface, wherein the annular inner sidewall projection is configured to engage the annular cap recess; and an antenna assembly directly mounted to the inner cap surface, the antenna assembly comprising an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Stephen Moreno, Timothy J. Mitchell