Having Plural Distinct Sensors (i.e., For Surrounding Conditions) Patents (Class 340/539.22)
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Patent number: 11185239Abstract: A system for determining reference signatures for use in assisting identification of a body state in a biological subject, the system including at least one processing device that obtains reference data for each of a plurality of reference individuals, the reference data including at least one reference impedance indicator obtained by performing at least one impedance measurement on the reference individual, a body state indication indicative of any body states associated with the reference individual and characteristic data indicative of one or more physical characteristics of the reference individual and analyses the reference data to establish one or more reference signatures, each reference signature being indicative of at least one reference impedance indicator associated with a respective body state for respective physical characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: IMPEDIMED LIMITEDInventors: Richard Roland Carreon, Jack Gerald Cosentino
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Patent number: 11184858Abstract: Tracking devices having extended service life for use as finders, locators, sensors, and radio contact reporters. The devices combine a Bluetooth digital radioset and a cellular frequency modulation radioset and are operative with or without a smart device and with or without a cellular radio network. Finding, locating and sensing are provided as a Bluetooth network service, as a cellular network service, or as a service mediated on a network that combines Bluetooth and cellular radio nodes, with “Bluecell” devices acting as hubs. Bluecell devices can be authenticated on both Bluetooth and cellular networks. Systems and methods for using the dual radio devices are also disclosed. Power management schema made possible by dual radio control of on-board processing circuit function enable extended operation of Bluecell devices as part of an IoT. Remotely controllable devices having a service life of a year or more are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: PB, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Daoura, Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
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Patent number: 11180170Abstract: A system, method and assembly for detecting the operational status of one or more discharge gates on one or more railcars. The system and method monitor parameters that include whether the discharge gate is open or closed, whether the railcar is in motion or not, and whether the railcar is in a location where it is acceptable for the discharge gate to be open. Sensors carry out the monitoring, and the information obtained by monitoring the parameters are used to determine if a notification event has taken place and if so, a notification of such event can be transmitted to a remote receiver. A change in the status of any one of the monitored parameters can trigger the determination of whether a notification event has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: AMSTED RAIL COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Justin M. Lidgett, Andrew H. Martin
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Patent number: 11145183Abstract: In a tracking device 10, a crescent-shaped PCB 12 partially encircles a battery 15 to minimize thickness of the device 10. A speaker 23 and an LED 24 emit alerts upon command of a control apparatus 37 or in response to motion or temperature sensed by sensor 25. A local network 40 has one hub 41 to tracking devices 33 and a wider area network 45 has multiple hubs for more detailed tracking of devices 33. A wide area network 50 tracks devices anywhere and stores data of each tracking device including its last known position and its sensor data. An apparatus and methods for finding and tracking a plurality of radiotag/objects designated as a group 303 by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Inventors: Daniel J Daoura, Nicholas R Pearson-Franks
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Patent number: 11139079Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods, systems, and computer program products for determining stroke onset. Aspects of the invention include determining a baseline behavioral model for a user and receiving real-time user data from a personal portable device. Aspects of the invention also include analyzing the real-time user data to determine the presence of an abnormal event. Aspects of the invention also include, based at least in part on a determination that the abnormal event is present, conducting a plurality of stroke analyses to generate a plurality of impairment characteristics. Aspects of the invention also include integrating the plurality of impairment characteristics, comparing the integrated plurality of impairment characteristics to the baseline behavioral model and outputting a stroke onset determination.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Itzhack Goldberg, Raquel Norel, Kahn Rhrissorrakrai
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Patent number: 11133099Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and media for assisting recall of a lost memory. An example method includes receiving activity data and associated metadata regarding a plurality of activities participated in by a user over a plurality of time periods. The method includes generating a memory chain graph that spans the plurality of time periods, in which the graph includes a plurality of memory events and a plurality of memory pointers. The method includes identifying a memory event of the memory chain graph that the user is unable to presently recall, selecting a memory pointer that is linked to the memory event, and then presenting the user with information corresponding to the selected memory pointer to assist the user in recalling the memory event.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eric V. Kline, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11100635Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to automatic pan-tilt-zoom adjustment to improve vital sign acquisition. In various embodiments, a vital sign acquisition camera (176) operable to pan, tilt, and zoom (“PTZ”) may capture (402) an image of a patient (100). The image may be analyzed (404) to detect a depicted position of the patient within an image coordinate space of the image. A desired position of the patient within the image coordinate space of the image may determined (406), and a difference in the image coordinate space between the depicted position and the desired position may be calculated (408). The difference may then be mapped (410) from the image coordinate space to a PTZ space. One or more PTZ parameters of the vital sign acquisition camera may be altered (412) based on the mapping. After altering the one or more PTZ parameters, the vital sign acquisition camera may acquire (414) one or more vital signs from the patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Haibo Wang, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria van Zon
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Patent number: 11092665Abstract: The described disclosure presents embodiments of an efficient shortwave radio technique using a network of multiple sites located in and around an operating region (e.g., continental USA), calibrated distributed beacons, a detailed knowledge of ionospheric behavior, and sophisticated operational tools and software, that geo-locates targets without depending on satellites. The embodiments of the technique described herein, for example, accurately may locate a target by utilizing remote field units, a network of radio receive sites, receivers that accept and time stamp pertinent signals, demodulators that recognize and extract meaningful data from received signals, communications from all receive sites to a Network Operations Center (NOC), communications from NOC to field units to keep shortwave channel choices relevant and effective, and a processor within the NOC that analyzes and evaluates data.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: HYSKY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles C. Maynard, James V. Rootsey, Philip L. Galpin, C. Paul Smith-Goodson, Niles K. Chura
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Patent number: 11093927Abstract: An augmented reality system collects sensory data from one or more user devices in a manner that is transparent to the user's augmented reality experience. A customer of an augmented reality system requests sensory data at a specified location. The augmented reality system modifies the augmented reality experience for one or more users to move someone to the specified location. The user device(s) collect the sensory data at the specified location in a manner that is transparent to the augmented reality experience of the user(s). The sensory data is uploaded from the user device(s) to the augmented reality system, which sends the sensory data to the customer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Inseok Hwang, Su Liu, Eric J. Rozner, Chin Ngai Sze
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Patent number: 11057688Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and transmitting combined external data from one or more sources are described herein. An example method may include collecting, by a data collection device communicatively coupled to a central data portal, sensor data from one or more sources, processing, by the data collection device, the sensor data to evaluate status data concerning status of the one or more sources, transmitting, by the data collection device, the status data to a central data portal, and processing, by the central data portal, the status data for storage and visualization. The data collection device can be co-located with one of the sources. The sources may include one or more of a building, a room, outdoor location, an asset, a vehicle, and a person.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: HDWB, LLCInventors: Eric William Hoffmann, John Myrl Warren
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Patent number: 11049348Abstract: Techniques are described for user authentication based on a signal that is transmitted through an individual's body, and detected using device(s) in physical contact with the individual. A signal, such as an electrical signal or a vibrational signal, may be transmitted from a first device and received by a second device that is in physical contact with the individual. The received signal may be employed to determine a body signature for the individual. The body signature may identify the individual among a population of individuals, given the particular alterations to the propagating signal caused by the individual's physiology. Accordingly, the body signature may be employed as a form of biometric data that is useable to authenticate the individual to access a secure area, log in to a device or an application, or for other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Amanda S. Fernandez, Rick Swenson
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Patent number: 11043111Abstract: A fire alarm includes comprises a central fire alarm control panel for monitoring the building and activating an alarm; and multiple remote units for distribution within the building, the remote units including indicating devices for determining conditions that are indicative of a possible emergency. The multiple remote units are in communication with the fire alarm control panel in a master-slave relationship such that the fire alarm control panel will receive inputs from the indicating devices and activate the alarm when those inputs indicate a possible emergency. In addition, the remote units include a secondary communication system for communication between remote units in a degraded mode of operation that occurs in the event of a failure of the master-slave communications with the fire alarm control panel, the secondary communication system including a transceiver arrangement at each remote unit for providing a wireless mesh network between the multiple remote units.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Jordi Escofet Via
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Patent number: 11037420Abstract: Disclosed is a networked system for detecting conditions at a physical premises. The networked system includes a local computer system configure to read a configuration file that determines processing performed by the local computer system and evaluate collected sensor data with respect to the configuration file, for first sensor data to be processed by the local computer, and execute unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the first sensor data to produce operational states and detect drift sequences that are correlated to stored determined conditions. The networked system also includes a remote computer system that execute unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the collected sensor information. An alert is asserted by at least one of the local computer and the remote computer based on the determined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLCInventors: James Trani, Gopi Subramanian
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Patent number: 11027172Abstract: An exercise device in accordance with the present disclosure may include a body having a first end and a second end, wherein a first end is configured to receive a handle attachment. The exercise device may also include a first connection component disposed at the second end of the body and configured to attach the exercise device to a first resistance component. A sensor may be coupled to the first connection component. Additionally, a processing circuit may be disposed in the body of the exercise device communicatively coupled to the sensor. The exercise device may include a rotatable display configured to be visible to a user as a user performs movements with the exercise device.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Inventor: Thomas W. Osbrink
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Patent number: 11016220Abstract: The formation of dynamic, micro-climate groups consisting of passive and active weather collecting devices is provided. Such devices may collect weather information in real-time. The collected information may be distributed weather information and or forecasts to individuals in a particular geographical area or to other subscribers.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Weatherman, Inc.Inventors: Richard Reichmuth, Jonathan Edward McCottry, II, Ivan Alejandro Herrera Agassini
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Patent number: 11017346Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for generating a content related notification based upon managed logistics information related to a container using a container interface display apparatus. Such a container interface display apparatus records an update to the managed logistics information maintained in a memory of the container interface display apparatus and then accesses at least a portion of the managed logistics information maintained in the memory after recording the update. The container interface display apparatus then detects a notification event based upon the accessed portion of the managed logistics information. Such notification event is related to status information associated with the container or an item stored within the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INCInventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, Mark E. Scott
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Patent number: 11006100Abstract: A physician performing a physical examination can miss subtle abnormalities, such as alterations of respiratory rate or dangerous skin lesion. A surgeon performing surgery can miss small areas of bleeding or tumor implants. This invention comprises head display unit comprising sensors that gathers data and in real time analyzes the data for potential hazards and alerts the user of a potential hazardous scenario.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventor: Robert Edwin Douglas
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Patent number: 10997842Abstract: A smart kitchen solution can help reduce fires in home kitchens by permitting a user to see, on a portable electronic device, whether a stove was left on or if there is an unexpected elevated temperature on the kitchen stove. Such an unexpected elevated temperature may be detected if the stove if left on without a pan on the stove, if the contents of a pan has boiled out of a pan, or if the stove is on at certain hours of the day, such as at night. The solution can include motion detectors, audible alerts, voice alerts and optional shutdown mechanisms to remotely turn off a stove. The system can include further options, such as built in fire extinguishing materials, arm and disarm features, various mounting capabilities and the ability to interact with a digital assistant, such as Google Home, Alexa, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Inventors: Catherine Cora Ehrlich, Nicole Cora Ehrlich, John Stump
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Patent number: 10986503Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for cooperative security in wireless sensor networks are described herein. A wireless node may organize itself into a cluster with other wireless nodes. The wireless node may cooperate with other wireless nodes in the cluster to select a leader node. The wireless node may describe its expected behaviors. The wireless node may detect a compromised wireless node within the cluster. The wireless node may prevent the compromised wireless node from compromising another wireless node.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Robert Lawson Vaughn, Osvaldo Diaz, Siu Kit Wai, Igor Tatourian
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Patent number: 10972306Abstract: A building management system includes a building system interface (24) configured to access a building system (20); an event service module (26) configured to access event data in the building system through the building system interface (24); a knowledge base (12) providing a model of the building system, the model including semantic descriptions of the event data, the semantic descriptions of the event data being arranged in an ontology; a semantic service module (30) in communication with the knowledge base (12); and a user interface (14) in communication with the semantic service module (30) and the event service module (26), the user interface (14) generating a user request to create an event filter having a filter criterion and report event data matching the filter criterion.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Fabrizio Smith, Daniele Alessandrelli, Christos Sofronis, Alberto Ferrari, Jason Higley, Bhabani Sankar Nanda
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Patent number: 10952696Abstract: A method for detecting measurement signals during a medical imaging procedure executed by a medical device includes detecting measurement signals with a set of sensor nodes, which are integrated in a component of the medical imaging device, wherein each sensor node (SN) operates autonomously and wirelessly, and locally preparing the detected signals for being transmitted according to an interference-free instruction protocol, to a gateway.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventor: Stefan Popescu
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Patent number: 10944828Abstract: A system for enabling access to resources in a setting so that a number of requesters can efficiently access limited resources. The system may be implemented as a custom set of devices integrated in a setting, or may be retrofitted into existing equipment in some settings. A user interface is available to each potential requester that can be used to submit a request to access a resource. A server is configured to receive requests and use a variety of information to manage those requests and provide a notification via the user interfaces of when and where a user should proceed to in order to access a resource. The server also implements one or more techniques or procedures for managing the flow of traffic through the setting and to the resources to ease congestion and improve flow and access.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Good2Go, Inc.Inventor: Frances Heller
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Patent number: 10938510Abstract: A method of communicating information from a sensor concerning a received signal, comprising: responsive to receiving by at least one detecting sensor, during a defined time interval, data indicative of an entire data of a frequency band received by it during the defined time interval, comprising at least one signal emitted at least one emitter, and to detecting of the emitted signal by the at least one detecting sensor, sending from the sensor assistance information corresponding to the detected emitted signal during the defined time interval, to at least one non-detecting sensor. This information can be utilized by the non-detecting sensor to perform an action with respect to data indicative of an entire data of the frequency band received by the non-detecting sensor during a corresponding defined time interval, the action corresponding to at least one emitted signal received by the non-detecting sensor during the corresponding defined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Moshe Fireaizen, Moshe Nahaman
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Patent number: 10924908Abstract: A method and system for retransmitting an emergency message including receiving, at a communication device, the emergency message including a first identifier indicative of a communication type and a second identifier indicative of a type of emergency. An electronic processor of the communication device selects, for distribution of the emergency message, a plurality of communication channels and at least one communication type based on the second identifier. The electronic processor prioritizes the plurality of communication channels and the at least one communication type according to a transmission priority having a higher priority associated with at least one of the group consisting of the first identifier and the second identifier. Then, the electronic processor controls transmission of the emergency message according to the transmission priority over the plurality of communication channels and the at least one communication type.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Jifeng Zheng, Quanwen Du, Zheng Zhong
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Patent number: 10924539Abstract: A method and a device for selecting an aggregation node are provided. The method includes: acquiring a trust value list for each of nodes in a cluster, the trust value list for each of the nodes including trust values for each of the nodes, acquired by remaining nodes in the cluster; acquiring an actual trust value for each of the nodes according to the trust value list for each of the nodes; calculating an actual remaining energy ratio of each node according to a self-calculated remaining energy ratio of the node calculated by itself and other-calculated remaining energy ratios for the node calculated by the remaining nodes in the cluster; calculating an energy-trust integrated value for each of the nodes according to the actual trust value and the actual remaining energy ratio; and selecting an aggregation node according to the energy-trust integrated values for the nodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Chenxu Liu
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Patent number: 10915511Abstract: A method and system for automatically determining a processing path is provided. The method includes generating an input criteria associated with performing a hardware apparatus implemented process. Metadata describing the input criteria is generated and stored. Weighting factors associated with the metadata are generated and a specialized hardware apparatus executing the hardware apparatus implemented process is enabled. Measurement characteristics associated with conditions resulting from the specialized hardware apparatus executing the hardware apparatus implemented process are retrieved from a plurality of hardware sensors. A resource database catalog for hardware based data processing resources is queried and an optimization process for determining an optimized processing path for processing the metadata with respect to the resource database hardware based data and the measurement characteristics is executed.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
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Patent number: 10897144Abstract: An apparatus has connectors to receive batteries. A power multiplexer is connected to the connectors. A processor is connected to the power multiplexer to execute a battery charge protocol including the operations of selecting at least one battery for charging, where the at least one battery is in a fast charge state that allows for substantially linear charge performance. Direct current is applied to the battery until the fast charge state is terminated. The selecting and applying operations are repeated until the fast charge state is terminated in each of the batteries. Direct current is then directed to the batteries until a full charge state is reached for each of the batteries.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: AMPL LABS, INC.Inventors: Michael Patton, Keith Resch, Rafael Calderon, Tomoko Nishioka-Patton
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Patent number: 10892543Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing telecommunications signal relays, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing telecommunications signal relays using radiating closures (either aerial, below grade, and/or buried, etc.), or the like. In various embodiments, a signal distribution system, which might be disposed within a radiating closure, might receive a first communications signal. A wireless transceiver of the signal distribution system might send the first communications signal, via one or more wireless communications channels, to one or more devices that are external to the radiating closure. In some embodiments, antennas—which might comprise first antennas disposed within the radiating closure or second antennas embedded in a housing material of the radiating closure, or both—might direct the first communications signal that is sent from the wireless transceiver to the one or more devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Jonathan J. Vermes, Thomas Schwengler
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Patent number: 10835136Abstract: A wearable device having sensor-dependent behavior modification, according to one embodiment, includes a housing configured for positioning on a human body. A plurality of sensors are positioned in and/or on the housing for detecting a condition of the wearable device and/or an environment of the wearable device. A processing circuit in the housing is coupled to the sensors for receiving sensor data therefrom. A computer readable storage medium is coupled to the processing circuit, the computer readable storage medium having program instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processing circuit cause the processing circuit to change a state of the wearable device based on the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: CAEDEN, INC.Inventors: Skip Thomas Orvis, Nora Elam Levinson, Jamal Eddine Mouline, Colden Amsel Prime, Conan Zhang
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Patent number: 10817770Abstract: A container tracking system includes a plurality of metallic containers arranged with substantially parallel sides having a gap therebetween, and at least one RF transmitter having an antenna located within the gap and arranged to excite a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave transverse to the parallel sides.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Inmarsat Global LimitedInventors: Hilary Charles David, Johnny Nemes
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Patent number: 10812512Abstract: Systems and associated methods for detecting a set of spectrum sensing falsification (SSF) attacks in a geographic database (GDB) driven cognitive radio (CR) system. Viewing the GDB as a type of non-orthogonal compressive sensing (CS) dictionary, the composite power spectral density (PSD) estimate at a candidate CR is approximated by a small number of sensor nodes listed in the GDB. In a dense CR network, the PSD estimate at a CR may contain a composite mixture of spectrally overlapping signals. An implementation of an optimized, greedy algorithm orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) returns a set of sensor nodes which are suspected to be in the vicinity of the CR. A sufficient match between the PSD estimate reported by a candidate CR and the PSD that is sparsely approximated from the SNs in its area provides confidence (trust) metrics which may be used to detect potential SSF attacks.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: John J. Kelly, Jonathan Ashdown
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Patent number: 10803720Abstract: A method and system architecture for automation and alarm systems is provided. An intelligent fire detection sensor is provided that provides input data to a gateway device for processing and facilitates two-way communication with users and a third-party monitoring service. The system architecture is hierarchically organized, allowing devices to process system data differently at different levels of the hierarchy. Processing of at least some of the sensor data is overseen by the gateway device, which may determine, based on the processing, to activate one or more secondary sensors at the fire detector (such as an optical camera). The gateway device and fire detection sensor may interact cooperatively to process voice commands and/or gesture data, and to recognize false alarms.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Andrei Bucsa, Greg Hill
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Patent number: 10776697Abstract: A method for training a neural network comprising at least one layer comprising a plurality of input nodes, a plurality of output nodes, and a plurality of connections for connecting each one of the plurality of input nodes to each one of the plurality of output nodes, is provided. The method comprises pseudo-randomly selecting a subset of the plurality of connections, each connection of the plurality of connections having associated therewith a weight parameter and a probability of being retained in the neural network, generating output data by feeding input data over the subset of connections, computing an error between the generated output data and desired output data, and, for at least one connection in the subset of connections, determining a contribution of the weight parameter to the error and updating the probability of being retained in the neural network accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sepideh Kharaghani, Vanessa Courville, Barnaby Dalton
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Patent number: 10779432Abstract: A modular data center (MDC) has information technology (IT) component(s) positioned within an interior enclosure of a volumetric container of the MDC. An in-band communication network connection is between the IT component(s) and a data center external to the MDC. A security system includes a controller that is communicatively coupled to the IT component(s) and the in-band communication network connection. The controller executes a security platform application that enables the MDC to secure the IT component(s). The controller monitors the in-band communication network connection for a loss in communication that can be indicative of a preparatory act by an unauthorized person to compromise the IT component(s) or access computing workload and/or data. In response to determining that the in-band communication network connection is not operable, the controller autonomously secures the IT component(s), computing workload, and data by removing a locking key of a storage device to encrypt storage media.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventor: Tyler B. Duncan
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Patent number: 10769920Abstract: An improved system detects an environmental anomaly in a shipping container and initiates a mediation response through a generated layered alert notification. The system includes sensor-based ID nodes associated with packages within the container, and a command node mounted to the container communicating with the ID nodes and an external transceiver on a vehicle transporting the container.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
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Patent number: 10769319Abstract: Prediction methods and systems including a central processing unit including a data acquisition unit configured to acquire experimental data of a parameter characterizing the time-dependent phenomenon, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire digital data of the parameter characterizing the phenomenon, and a data processing unit configured to combine the experimental data and the digital data, by using a proper orthogonal decomposition POD that makes it possible to obtain an effective prediction of the time-dependent phenomenon, combining the advantages of the experimental data (accuracy) and those of the digital data (spatial resolution).Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus Group India Private Limited, Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Marcus Barth, Lars Hansen, Mathieu Berthomet, Saravanan Rajan
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Patent number: 10769955Abstract: The invention relates to a complex proximity safety and warning system. The invention provides a safety system comprising a generator that generates a magnetic field that establishes a boundary, where the generator is capable of receiving radio frequency signals. Also provided is a radio frequency device that sends radio frequency signals, the radio frequency device being capable of sensing the magnetic field and generating a radio frequency response.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Strata Safety Products, LLCInventors: Larry D. Frederick, Paul Hammond
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Patent number: 10740611Abstract: An state determination system comprises an information acquiring portion that acquires an environment information, a movable body, an instruction portion that performs an action instruction to the movable body, and an estimation portion that estimates an abnormality of the object based on at least one of the information acquired by the information acquiring portion and the environment information acquired by the movable body. In case the estimation portion estimates the abnormality of the object, the instruction portion performs the action instruction for moving to the neighborhood of the object and requiring a response, to the movable body. At least one of the information acquiring portion and the movable body acquires the response state of the object to the action of the movable body instructed by the instruction portion. The state determination system comprises a determination portion that the abnormality of the object based on the acquired response state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Fuminori Saito
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Patent number: 10742352Abstract: A method of communicating information from a sensor concerning a received signal, comprising: responsive to receiving by at least one detecting sensor, during a defined time interval data indicative of an entire data of a frequency band received by it during the defined time interval, comprising at least one signal emitted at least one emitter, and to detecting of the emitted signal by the at least one detecting sensor, sending from the sensor assistance information corresponding to the detected emitted signal during the defined time interval, to at least one non-detecting sensor. This information can be utilized by the non-detecting sensor to perform an action with respect to data indicative of an entire data of the frequency band received by the non-detecting sensor during a corresponding defined time interval, the action corresponding to at least one emitted signal received by the non-detecting sensor during the corresponding defined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Moshe Fireaizen, Moshe Nahaman
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Patent number: 10702188Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact, video-based monitoring of pulse rate, respiration rate, motion, and oxygen saturation. Systems and methods are described for capturing images of a patient, producing intensity signals from the images, filtering those signals to focus on a physiologic component, and measuring a vital sign from the filtered signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Paul S. Addison, David Foo, Dominique Jacquel
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Patent number: 10679756Abstract: Health and wellness management technology, in which events that relate to activity within the monitored property are sensed based on output from sensors located at a monitored property. Behaviors are detected based on the sensed events that relate to activity within the monitored property and, in accordance with the detected behaviors, one or more models are created based on a likelihood of similarly expressed events happening at similar times with similar characteristics. Additional behaviors detected after creation of the one or more models are evaluated against the one or more models to determine whether the additional behaviors are consistent with the one or more models. At least one action is performed based on the determination of whether the additional behaviors are consistent with the one or more models.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Mark Andrew Hanson, Christopher Silverman, Adam T. Barth
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Patent number: 10667725Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting and responding to falls by residents within a facility includes: at a wearable device worn by a resident, writing sensor data from a sensor integrated into the wearable device to a buffer, inputting sensor data into a compressed fall detection model—defining a compressed form of a complete fall detection model and stored locally on the wearable device—to detect a fall event at a first time, and transmitting a corpus of sensor data from the buffer and a cue for confirmation of the fall event to a local wireless hub in response to detecting the fall event; and, remotely from the wearable device, inputting the corpus of sensor data into the complete fall detection model—stored remotely from the wearable device—to confirm the fall event and dispatching a care provider to assist the resident in response to confirming the fall event.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLCInventors: Richard Heaton, Vikram Devdas, Dan Erichsen, Joe Edwards
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Patent number: 10660520Abstract: A machine-implemented method including obtaining physiological signal data for a living being and performing a first analysis of the physiological signal data at a processing device local to the living being and remote from a central processing device. The method further includes transmitting from the processing device data associated with the analysis to the central processing device and performing at the central processing device a second analysis of the data associated with the first analysis. The method further includes displaying the data associated with the second analysis. The method can also include interaction between the processing device local to the living being and the central processing device. The method can also include distributing monitoring and analysis between an ambulatory and a centralized subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: BRAEMAR MANUFACTURING, LLCInventor: Dongping Lin
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Patent number: 10608702Abstract: A near field communication (NFC) device includes a communications module and a controller. The communications module includes a receiver to receive a wireless signal, a transmitter to transmit data by superimposing the data on the wireless signal, and a signal detector to compare the wireless signal with a predetermined reference signal. The communications module operates in at least one of a wakeup mode and a sleep mode, the receiver and transmitter are activated to operate in wakeup mode, and the receiver and transmitter are deactivated in sleep mode. The controller adjusts the sensitivity of the signal detector based on a magnitude of the wireless signal and an operating condition of the communications module when the communications module enters the wakeup mode from the sleep mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Joo Lee, Jong Pil Cho, June Soo Kim, Il Jong Song
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Patent number: 10581553Abstract: A method of communicating information from a sensor concerning a received signal, comprising: responsive to receiving by at least one detecting sensor, during a defined time interval, data indicative of an entire data of a frequency band received by it during the defined time interval, comprising at least one signal emitted at least one emitter, and to detecting of the emitted signal by the at least one detecting sensor, sending from the sensor assistance information corresponding to the detected emitted signal during the defined time interval, to at least one non-detecting sensor. This information can be utilized by the non-detecting sensor to perform an action with respect to data indicative of an entire data of the frequency band received by the non-detecting sensor during a corresponding defined time interval, the action corresponding to at least one emitted signal received by the non-detecting sensor during the corresponding defined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Moshe Fireaizen, Moshe Nahaman
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Patent number: 10575788Abstract: Methods and systems are described for sensing and recovery of a biological signal using generative-model-based compressive sensing. A transformation is applied to sparsify the quasi-periodic signal removing morphology parameters and leaving temporal parameters. The sparsified signal is sampled and the sampled signal data is transmitted to a base station. A homotopy recovery algorithm is applied to the received sampled signal data by the base station to recover the temporal parameters of the biological signal. Generative modelling is applied using previously captured morphology parameters to generate a reconstructed signal. Finally, the reconstructed signal is adjusted and scaled based on the recovered temporal parameters to provide a reconstructed signal that is diagnostically equivalent to the original biological signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Sandeep Gupta, Ayan Banerjee
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Patent number: 10558941Abstract: A receptacle for detecting delivery and retrieval events has a door sensor, an item sensor, a scanner, and a control unit for operating the sensors, and transmitting the sensor information for processing and analysis. A system can determine whether an event was a delivery or retrieval event based on sensor information and item tracking information. A system can further include an item configured to interact with a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: United States Postal ServiceInventors: Robert E. Dixon, Ryan Luckay
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Patent number: 10542481Abstract: In some examples a method includes receiving, with an Access Point (AP), a request from a wireless device to access a network through the AP; determining, with the AP via beamforming of a fixed antenna array of the AP, whether an angle of the wireless device relative to the fixed antenna array is within a first predetermined range; determining, with the AP, whether a received signal strength between the AP and the wireless device is within a second predetermined range; and granting, with the AP, the wireless device access to a network through the AP when it is determined that the angle of the wireless device relative to the fixed antenna array is within the first predetermined range and the received signal strength is within the second predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Aruba Networks, Inc.Inventor: Abilash Soundararajan
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Patent number: 10524719Abstract: A system for identification of one or more neuro-cardiological disturbances of a subject in a post-acute stroke treatment and in the intensive care setting is provided. The system includes a wearable device configured for capturing data associated with a neural and heart activity. The wearable device includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured for measuring an electrical activity of a heart to generate a first signal. The wearable device also includes an accelerometer configured for detecting and acquiring neural accelerometry data to generate a second signal. Moreover, the system includes a processor with a memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: NEUROANALYTICS PTY. LTDInventors: Marimuthu Palaniswami, Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha
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Patent number: 10521674Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to trailer loading analytics. In an embodiment, the present invention is a method for detecting a trailer door status. The method includes: capturing a 3D image representative of a 3D formation; analyzing respective depth values of a first sub-plurality of the plurality of points of the 3D image to determine whether the formation is within a first predetermined distance threshold from a location; and when the formation is within the first predetermined distance threshold, analyzing respective depth values of a second sub-plurality of the plurality of points to determine whether the 3D formation is substantially flat, a determination of the three-dimensional formation being substantially flat being indicative of the trailer door being closed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLCInventors: Adithya H. Krishnamurthy, Justin F. Barish