Specific Condition Patents (Class 340/540)
  • Patent number: 11915266
    Abstract: An optimized fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The optimized fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information in an optimized manner and/or provides a status of the information. In some embodiments, the optimized fact checking system generates, aggregates, and/or summarizes content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 11887142
    Abstract: A computer device and method for processing risk related data to affect changes to an insurance policy whereby one or more terms of an insurance policy associated with an insured and informatic data from a plurality of sensor devices are received by a computer processor. Analysis is performed on the received informatic data to determine a risk assessment value regarding the insured and/or other risks relevant to the insurance policy, such as a dwelling. Predefined business rules are then applied using at least the determined risk assessment value to determine if conditions have been met to allow or require modification of the insurance policy whereafter modification of one or more terms of the insurance policy is performed if the insurance policy associated with the insured permits modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ramsey Devereaux, David S. Franck, Michael J. Allen, Daniela Wheeler, Spencer Read, Traci K. Uribe, Ina L. Jackson, Kathleen L. Swain
  • Patent number: 11885779
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for monitoring column chromatography performance. The methods can include acquiring one or more chromatogram ultraviolet (UV) traces generated by a chromatography system during sample purification and/or separation; and analyzing the one or more acquired chromatogram UV traces with an orthogonal partial least squares (OPLS) model, thereby allowing detection of column deterioration prior to column failure and quantitative analysis of UV signal in the one or more chromatogram UV traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Shierly, Kevin Brennan, Nathan Mao
  • Patent number: 11866984
    Abstract: A system for contactless operation of an aircraft lavatory door comprises a controller operatively connected to control an actuator for opening and closing a lavatory door. A gesture sensing system is operatively connected to the controller for sending gesture data to the controller indicative of a user gesturing for the actuator to actuate. A mmWave radar sensing system is operatively connected to the controller to indicate user presence. The controller includes machine readable instructions configured to verify gesture input from the gesture sensing system using input from the mmWave radar sensing system before controlling the actuator to open or close the lavatory door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaraju Sripathi, Rajesh Vasudevan Nair, Kannan Chidambaram Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 11852623
    Abstract: A sensor relating to one aspect of the present invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode arranged relative to the first electrode with a gap being provided therebetween, a sensor body having the first and second electrodes arranged therein, and a catching portion arranged in the gap and having an outer peripheral surface made of an insulating material. Electric connection is established along the outer peripheral surface via conductive particles gathering to the catching portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sakurai, Takahito Azuma, Atsushi Koike
  • Patent number: 11842812
    Abstract: A method of controlling an infant care device includes identifying, via a location tracking system, a device location of the infant care device within a care facility by locating a device location tag on the infant care device, and also identifying any local clinician tags worn by a clinician within a predetermined area around the device location. The local clinician tags are compared to a list of authorized clinician tags to identify whether at least one local authorized clinician tag is within the predetermined area around the infant care device. User input is received at a user interface associated with the infant care device to modify operation of the infant care device. Operation of the infant care device is modified based on the user input only if at least one local authorized clinician tag is within the predetermined area around the infant care device at the time of receiving the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Woloschek, Steven M. Falk, Karen P. Starr, Elizabeth K. Devins
  • Patent number: 11824706
    Abstract: Notification system using a blockchain system. A method of the disclosure includes determining, by a node of a blockchain system, that a notification is available for an application of a computing device. The application is associated with a service platform. The method also includes updating a ledger of the blockchain system to indicate that the notification for the application is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Axel Simon
  • Patent number: 11823281
    Abstract: Methods and systems for assigning damage to a property to causes of loss are provided. A smart home controller and/or an insurance provider remote processor (or server) may generate a time sequence of events for damage associated with an insure-related event. The time-sequence of events may be analyzed to identify causes of loss associated with damage to the property. The smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may further analyze the time-sequence of event to determine a portion of the overall damage associated with each cause of loss. Subsequently, according to certain aspects, the smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may automatically generate a prepopulated insurance claim for damage associated with the insurance-related event, and/or transmit the automatically prepared insurance claim to an insured for their review, approval, and/or modification, such as via wireless communication to a mobile device associated with the insured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri, Jackie O. Jordan, II, Shawn M. Call, John H. Weekes, Ronny S. Bryant, Jennifer Criswell Kellett, Todd Binion, Elisabeth McDermeit, John Donovan
  • Patent number: 11824358
    Abstract: A transformer economizer automatically disconnects a main electric power transformer from a grid power line during low-load periods, and automatically reconnects the main transformer to the grid power line during high-load periods, to reduce low-power electricity losses incurred by the main transformer. The main transformer is therefore deenergized and a much smaller auxiliary transformer is energized during low-load periods to reduce the low-power electricity losses incurred by the main transformer. The main transformer is then automatically switched back into service during high-load periods, while the auxiliary transformer is switched out of service. This provides long-term energy, cost, and carbon footprint savings by automatically switching the large transformer's loads to a much smaller auxiliary transformer, and therefore proportionally lower losses, during light-load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: 741 Solutions LLC
    Inventor: James N. Keig
  • Patent number: 11810664
    Abstract: A patient treatment status notification system in a healthcare facility with multiple examination rooms includes a first electronic visual status indicator and a second electronic visual status indicator to be installed outside a first examination room, an indicator control circuit configured to communicate with and control the first and second electronic visual status indicators of the first examination room, a manual input device for the first examination room configured to receive user input representing change of a treatment status of a patient assigned to the first examination room, a switch multiplexer configured to communicate with and receive the user input from the manual input device for the first examination room, and a central control processor coupled to the indicator control circuit and the switch multiplexer to update the treatment status of the first examination room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Reliant MSO, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence D Garber, Logan M Garber, Sean M McCarthy, Scott G Pilate
  • Patent number: 11811586
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for configuring an alarm rule for an IoT device, and a device and a storage medium thereof, which are applied to the field of IoT. The method includes: configuring at least two groups of alarm rules for a plurality of IoT devices of the same type in an IoT; obtaining n usage categories of the plurality of IoT devices by categorizing the plurality of IoT devices according to usage characteristics of the plurality of IoT devices; calculating a correlation between the at least two groups of the alarm rules and the n usage categories, and storing a corresponding relationship between a target usage category and a target alarm rule whose correlation is higher than a condition; and when an IoT device belonging to the target usage category is newly added, configuring an alarm rule of the newly added IoT device as the target alarm rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: ENVISION DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD., SHANGHAI ENVISION DIGITAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jieyuan Shen, Lang Ming
  • Patent number: 11803335
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for storing incoming data and providing access to that data to multiple machine learned models in a data type-agnostic and programming language-agnostic manner. Operationally, a computing device may receive in coming data (e.g., from sensors, etc.). The computing device may store the incoming data in memory blocks, and index the memory blocks with a unique index (e.g., tag). The index may correspond to a determined tier for the memory blocks, and may enable the system to both locate the data once stored and enable the system to read (or use) the data upon receiving, for example, a data access request. In this way, systems and methods described herein provide for a robust data access and transfer mechanism that allows data to be stored a single time, but accessed by one or more different applications, machine learned models, and the like, simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ITERATE STUDIO, INC.
    Inventors: Arulkumaran Chandrasekaran, Brainerd Sathianathan
  • Patent number: 11783805
    Abstract: Techniques for ordering the output of notification summaries are described. A system may receive multiple notifications intended for a same user or group of users. In response to receiving a user input requesting output of notifications (or in response to multiple notifications expiring soon), the system may identify multiple notifications intended for the user or group of users. The system generates natural language summaries of the notifications, and orders the natural language summaries based on one or more default ordering rules, one or more user preferences, one or more notification provider preference, and/or user feedback. The system then outputs the ordered natural language summaries to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinaya Nadig, Samarth Bhargava, Bhaskara Kiran Kumar Kommalapati, Zheng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11765086
    Abstract: Embodiments include radio transmitters, receivers and methods of operation for enhanced bandwidth utilisation. The transmitter hashes received data blocks to produce indices associated with the received data blocks. The data blocks and associated indices are stored in memory and transmitted. If the received data blocks have previously been stored, the indices are transmitted instead of the data blocks. The receiver stores the received data blocks and associated indices in memory, and outputs the received data blocks. When the receiver receives indices instead of data blocks, it accesses the memory to look up and retrieve the associated data blocks, and outputs the retrieved data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy G. Mester, Patrick I. Lazar
  • Patent number: 11748507
    Abstract: A method of providing information about a device is proposed. According to the method, user-specific information of a first user is provided to the device. The user-specific information is related to a user experience of the device used by the first user. The user-specific information is stored in a non-volatile memory of the device. Upon a request of a second user, device-specific information based on the stored user-specific feedback information from the non-volatile memory of the device is outputted to the second user. A device with an electrical circuit, non-volatile memory, and an output circuit is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Cool, Daavid Hentunen, Olivier Demarto, Fabien Cardinaux
  • Patent number: 11731493
    Abstract: A monitoring system and method are configured to detect a status of a door for a component on a vehicle. The monitoring system includes a sound sensor positioned within an auditory range of the door. The sound sensor detects sound energy generated in relation to a closed position of the door and an open position of the door. The sound sensor outputs a sound signal indicative of the sound energy. A monitoring control unit is in communication with the sound sensor. The monitoring control unit receives the sound signal and analyzes the sound signal to determine the status of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric Lee Nicks, James Ralph Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11735014
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a first user interface that includes a plurality of icons of a first type and at least one icon of a second type. While a focus selector is on a first icon of the first type, the device detects movement of a contact in a drag gesture, and, in response, moves the first icon across the display. In accordance with a determination that the first icon moves over one or more other icons of the first type during the drag gesture, the device outputs one or more tactile outputs of a first type. In accordance with a determination that the drag gesture moves the first icon over an icon of the second type at the end of the drag gesture, the device displays a second user interface that corresponds to the icon of the second type and outputs a tactile output of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Duncan R. Kerr, Joshua B. Kopin, Jules K. Fennis, Miao He
  • Patent number: 11722949
    Abstract: A static memory device including an instrument, a wireless radio, a shared memory, an outgoing memory portion and an incoming memory portion. The instrument includes an environmental sensing device, a hazard detection device, and/or an industrial safety device. The wireless radio sends and receives information on a wireless mesh network. The shared memory is connected to the instrument and wireless radio and includes static message memory having static messages related to the instrument. The outgoing memory portion receives outgoing information from the instrument and transmits the outgoing information to the wireless radio for transmission on the wireless mesh network. The incoming memory portion receives incoming information from the wireless radio and transmits the incoming information to the instrument. The shared memory restricts the wireless radio and the instrument from both raising grant lines and granting data to either the incoming memory portion or the outgoing memory portion simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Scientific Corporation
    Inventors: L. Robert Crouthamel, Raghu Arunachalam, Benjamin Haas, Henry Xin, Lisa McCracken, Scott Jubeck
  • Patent number: 11715366
    Abstract: System and method for alarm processing are provided. The system may include a plurality of security devices. The plurality of security devices may be divided into at least one group. One group of the at least one group may include a first security device and one or more second security devices. The first security device may receive, from the one or more second security devices, one or more first alarms generated by the one or more second security devices. The first security device may determine that an alarm condition is satisfied based at least on one of the one or more first alarms and one or more second alarms generated by the first security device. The first security device may send, based on the determination, at least one of the one or more first alarms and the one or more second alarms to a user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangbo Xu, Liang Chen, Wenjun Yuan, He Zhou, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 11696731
    Abstract: A graphical audio station of a nurse call system is operable to permit a user to perform one or more of the following functions: establish a two-way voice communication link with another computer device in another patient and/or with a another computer device located in another staff work area and/or with a wireless communication device carried by caregiver and/or with a telephone of the healthcare facility; broadcast a voice page to a group of other selected computer devices; compose and send a text message to a portable device that is carried by a caregiver and that has wireless communication capability; browse web pages and/or view multimedia content, such as videos, hosted on servers of the healthcare facility and/or that are accessible via the Internet; view and/or acknowledge and/or answer and/or cancel alerts or nurse calls originating in a plurality of patient rooms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hill-Room Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Schuman, Patricia A. Glidewell, Erik E. Roehl
  • Patent number: 11698994
    Abstract: A method is for a first-time startup of a not fully personalized secure element, which serves for the use of services of a mobile communication network, in a mobile terminal. In the method, the secure element is started and requested to transmit a status message. The secure element transmits a status message in which it is stated whether the secure element: S1) contains only a bootloader but as yet no firmware image for the secure element; S2) contains a firmware image for the secure element but is not yet fully personalized; or S3) is fully personalized. The secure element is accepted in the cases S1), S2) and S3) and rejected in other cases. In the case S1), a download for a firmware image of the secure element is initiated for a first-time startup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVREINT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Götze, Claus Dietze, Jan Eichholz
  • Patent number: 11694146
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer readable memory medium comprising program instructions for graphically developing a connectivity driver is provided. The computer readable memory medium is a non-transitory medium. The program instructions are executable by a processor to generate a purchase order for a laboratory item, transmit the purchase order to a remote computer in order to communicate the purchase order to a vendor, receive an advance shipping notice generated in response to the purchase order, receive item information stored in an RFID tag of a tagged item received at the delivery location, and check the item information against the advance shipping notice in order to verify that the tagged item is the same as the ordered laboratory item. The purchase order specifies a delivery location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
    Inventors: John Curtis Jones, Patrick P. Fritchie, Steve Kotlinski, Jay Brian Sailer, Pathik H. Soni, Erich Iwen, Ronald R. Hohs, William B. Williams
  • Patent number: 11695618
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for root cause analysis in a communication network. In one aspect, a method includes providing a quantum computer with data representing a topology of the communication network, the topology comprising a graph of vertices representing network devices and edges representing connections between network devices; receiving, from the quantum computer, data representing a first subset of network devices, wherein the first subset comprises a dominating set of vertices or a vertex cover for the graph; monitoring network devices in the first subset to generate alarm data representing triggered network device alarms; providing the alarm data to a quantum computer; receiving, from the quantum computer, data representing a second subset of network devices, wherein the second subset comprises a set cover for the alarm data and the network devices in the second subset comprise diagnosed sources of failures in the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Sanjay Tiwari, Gaurav Khanduri, Mayur Kolhe, Carl Matthew Dukatz, Kung-Chuan Hsu, Shantha Maheswari, Mathangi Sandilya, Anshul Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11694494
    Abstract: In some implementations, systems and techniques are described to automatically unlock a front door of a property in response to detecting an alarm signal indicating an emergency at or near a property. Data indicating occurrence of an emergency condition at a property is initially obtained. A lock configuration for an electronic lock of the property is determined. An unlock instruction is generated for the electronic lock based on the determined lock configuration for the electronic lock. The unlock instruction is transmitted to the electronic lock such that, when the unlock instruction is received by the electronic lock, the electronic lock is unlocked according to the unlock instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Rogers, David James Hutz, Noah Robert Weingart
  • Patent number: 11680930
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods and systems for assessing integrity of chromatography columns, systems, and processes. The methods and systems can comprise one or more of extracting a block and signal combination for analysis, performing a transition analysis, performing one or more statistical process controls, and/or implementing in-process controls based on the statistical process controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan L. Mao, Eric Shierly, Bernhard Schilling, Scott Carver, Stefanie McDermott, John Mattila, Hanne Bak
  • Patent number: 11670145
    Abstract: Guiding people toward an exit of a facility includes sending messages to a plurality of sounder devices, each message addressed to a corresponding one of the sounder devices and including a payload that specifies one or more timing parameters unique to the corresponding sounder device, the one or more timing parameters specifying when an audible alarm is to be emitted by the corresponding sounder device. A broadcast alarm message is sent to all sounder devices. In response to receiving the broadcast alarm message, each of the sounder devices emit an audible alarm in accordance with the one or more timing parameters unique to the corresponding sounder device relative to a time of reception of the broadcast alarm message to produce the perceivable sequential audible sweep from the sounder devices toward the exit of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Bryan Ball, Gavin Davidson, Syed Naeem Ahmad, James Junior Nkhata, Sanjana Sethiya, Arjun Poovathingal Radhakrishnan, Ranjay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11663888
    Abstract: Various arrangements for handling a potential security situation using a home automation system are presented. A biometric measurement of a user may be received. An alert from a home automation device in wireless communication with the home automation host system may be received. If the biometric measurement is associated with the alert, a security response action may be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DISH UKRAINE L.L.C.
    Inventor: Zane Eaton
  • Patent number: 11657459
    Abstract: Methods and systems for predictively generating an insurance claim in response to detecting an imminent insurance-related event are provided. According to certain aspects, a smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may store a first set of data received from smart devices disposed on, or proximate to, a property. This data may be analyzed to detect that an insurance-related event is imminent and calculate a likelihood that a property owner will file an insurance claim in response to damage caused by the imminent insurance-related event. If there is a sufficient likelihood that an insurance claim will be filed, the smart home controller or remote processor may store a second set of data received from the smart devices. Subsequently, according to certain aspects, the second set of data may be analyzed to prepopulate an automatically generated insurance claim with information detailing damage to the property caused by the insurance-related event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Daryoush Hakimi-Boushehri, Jackie O. Jordan, II, Shawn M. Call, John H. Weekes, Ronny S. Bryant, Jennifer Criswell Kellett, Todd Binion, Elisabeth McDermeit, John Donovan
  • Patent number: 11657690
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for nanosatellite-based property monitoring are disclosed. A method includes receiving satellite data related to conditions of a property monitored by a monitoring system; determining, based on the satellite data, that the property is at risk from a threat; requesting, from a sensor of the monitoring system, sensor data related to the threat; receiving, from the sensor, the sensor data related to the threat; and based on analyzing the sensor data related to the threat, performing one or more monitoring system actions. The threat may include one of a weather hazard, a security hazard, or a property damage hazard. The monitoring system actions can include sending an instruction to adjust a sensor or component of the monitoring system and can include sending, to a user device, a notification that the property is at risk from the threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Kelly, Matthew Daniel Correnti, Robert Nathan Picardi
  • Patent number: 11651683
    Abstract: The vehicle to vehicle communication system is a traffic control system. The vehicle to vehicle communication system integrates the operation of an emergency vehicle with civilian traffic operating on a road network. The vehicle to vehicle communication system incorporates an appropriate authority, a commercially provided and publicly available cellular wireless network, the emergency vehicle, and the civilian traffic. The appropriate authority is defined elsewhere in this disclosure. The appropriate authority exchanges messages with the emergency vehicle using the commercially provided and publicly available cellular wireless network. The appropriate broadcasts messages to the civilian traffic for the purpose of clearing the path of the emergency vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Pierre-Richard Presna
  • Patent number: 11642263
    Abstract: A person support apparatus includes a base, a controller, and a barrier having at least one electrical device. The base includes mounting structures for releasably mounting the barrier to the base. A first electrical connector is in communication with the at least one electrical device and mounted to the barrier. A second electrical connector is in communication with the controller and mounted at one of the mounting structures for connection with the first electrical connector when the barrier is mounted to the base at the mounting structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Connor Feldpausch St.John, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, William Dwight Childs, Michael Harry Lau, Annie Désaulniers, Michael T. Brubaker, Richard A. Derenne, Justin Raymond, Michael Joseph Hayes, Jason John Connell, Christopher Scott Jacob
  • Patent number: 11647314
    Abstract: A sensor system for a structure comprises a sensor node in force transmitting contact with an impact receiving surface of a structure envelope of the structure. The sensor node is configured to generate first sensor data associated with the structure envelope of the structure and perform a first set of operations to filter out unwanted data from the first sensor data to form a first filtered dataset. The sensor system includes a sensor hub in communication with the sensor node. The sensor hub is configured to receive the first filtered dataset from the sensor node and perform a second set of operations on the first filtered dataset to identify an event experienced by the structure envelope that caused the sensor node to produce the first sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy E. Felks, Joshua D. Heiner, Matthew C. Romney
  • Patent number: 11631306
    Abstract: A method and a target monitoring system (TMS) to generate descriptive parameters of one or more target objects in a region are provided. The TMS dynamically receives first data comprising image data and/or audio data of the target objects in the region and second data comprising circumstantial information related to the first data from one or more sensors positioned in one or more spatial directions in the region over a network. The TMS filters the dynamically received first data and identifies the target objects in the region using image data extracted from the filtered data. The TMS generates descriptive parameters associated with each identified target object in the region using the filtered first data and the circumstantial information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Seshadri Srinivasan, Uday Kiran Chaka, James Garner, Ramesh Sastry, Ritesh Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11628254
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring and delivering medication to a patient. The system includes a controller that has a control algorithm and a closed loop control that monitors the control algorithm. A sensor is in communication with the controller and monitors a medical condition. A rule based application in the controller receives data from the sensor and the closed loop control and compares the data to predetermined medical information to determine the risk of automation of therapy to the patient. A system monitor is also in communication with the controller to monitor system, remote system, and network activity and conditions. The controller then provides a predetermined risk threshold where below the predetermined risk threshold automated closed loop medication therapy is provided. If the predetermined risk threshold is met or exceeded, automated therapy adjustments may not occur and user/clinician intervention is requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ICU Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kenneth Day, Timothy L. Ruchti
  • Patent number: 11617027
    Abstract: A wireless sensor network at a monitored location can be configured to generate sensor channel(s) of data to assess operational conditions at the monitored location. Inputs based on the sensor channel(s) of data are provided to a host system for analysis of a demand to one or more resources at the monitored location. Response messages can be generated based on the demand analysis and transmitted to actuator(s) at the monitored location to effect an adjustment to the operational conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Senseware, Inc.
    Inventors: Julien G. Stamatakis, Serene Al-Momen
  • Patent number: 11617053
    Abstract: A system and method of managing visitor access to an elevator using a mobile device of the visitor is provided. The method includes generating a visitor invitation based on a tenant input using an electronic device, receiving the visitor invitation at the mobile device of the visitor, and gaining limited access to designated floor based on limitation values contained in the visitor invitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Lucien Wedzikowski, Bradley Armand Scoville
  • Patent number: 11587656
    Abstract: A personalized assistance system for a user of a vision correction device includes a remote computing unit with a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The controller is configured to selectively execute one or more machine learning models. A user device is operable by the user and includes an electronic diary module configured to prompt the user to answer one or more preselected questions at specific intervals. The electronic diary module is configured to store respective answers, entered by the user in response to the one or more preselected questions, as self-reported data. The controller is configured to obtain the self-reported data from the electronic diary module and generate an analysis of the self-reported data, via the one or more machine learning models. The controller is configured to assist the user based in part on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Baker, Ramesh Sarangapani
  • Patent number: 11586153
    Abstract: Watch bands described herein include electrochromic features that provide adjustable color control based on an applied voltage to offer a variety of colors and color combinations to be displayed by a single band. The user or a control system can control, select, and/or adjust one or more colors of the watch band for visual display. Accordingly, a variety of colors can be displayed at different times without requiring different watch bands for each color or color combination. The color changing features can be used as a visual output of information from the watch to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhengyu Li, Chia Chi Wu, Chen Zhang, Qiliang Xu
  • Patent number: 11568353
    Abstract: A shipping package (1) comprises an enclosure for receiving content within, a closure (14) for sealing the enclosure, a label comprising shipping information, a network module (380), a sensor module (382), and a battery module (384). The battery module provides power to the network module and the sensor module. The sensor module (382) providing location information to the network module, the network module transmits a shipping status message to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PACKAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan Jonathan Davis, Ronald Eugene Fisher, James Mark Fisher, David Fraser, Andrew David Cater, Mark Joseph Meyer
  • Patent number: 11562434
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an insurance provider server and from at least one sensor located at an insured property, sensor data indicative of an insurance risk associated with the insured property. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the received sensor data, a risk-adjusted insurance premium for an insurance account associated with the insured property. The risk-adjusted insurance premium compensates for the insurance risk associated with the insured property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: OneEvent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt J. Wedig, Daniel Ralph Parent
  • Patent number: 11543444
    Abstract: A tension transducer causes macro-bends in a single-mode fiber sensing line when a utility pole to which it is connected experiences an overturning moment. The device uses a trough shaped geometry to hold and support the single-mode sensing fiber, where an inelastically flexible hinge at the bottom, and a cinching mechanism at the top which connects to a pole mounting plate, combine to depress offset grooves on the inside of the trough walls into the fiber cable, to create a macro-bend in the single mode fiber which results in a detectable signal identifier on a time-domain laser reflectometry interrogation trace of the fiber sensor line. The device's connection to the pole mounting plate is designed to break away and disconnect at a tension value that would exceed the tensile strength of the fiber sensor cable, while still providing sufficient tension transfer to the device to close the trough about the hinge and cause a macro-bend in the single-mode fiber cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventor: Adam Jon Zbinden
  • Patent number: 11545025
    Abstract: A security system including automated notification and surveillance integration is provided. In the security system of the present disclosure, when any of the devices are locked, unlocked, interacted with, alarmed or triggered, a notification or communication signal is sent to at least one other device. The at least one other device may be a receiver, camera, smart phone, smart watch, laptop, desktop, and/or an Internet connected or Internet of Things (IoT) device. Additionally, a system is provided including at least one alarm module that generates an audible sound when an alarm condition is detected; at least one sensor that detects the audible sound and determines if the audible sound is within a predetermined frequency range and an interface that receives at least one first communication signal from the at least one sensor upon detecting an alarm and transmits at least one second communication signal to at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: innovation lock, llc
    Inventors: David R. Wachsman, Alan Rabinowitz, Octavio Pupo Nogueira Neto
  • Patent number: 11538330
    Abstract: The Emergency Automatic Gunshot Lockdown (EAGL) System detects gunshots and executes at least one predetermined adaptive response action, such as notifying law enforcement of an active shooter, providing access control measures such as locking down soft target areas, and alerting building occupants of an active shooter situation. A gunshot is detected and verified using a triple validation system. Once a firearm is discharged, the EAGL system sends “real time” data to building officials, law enforcement, and building occupants notifying them of an active shooter situation. Simultaneously, predetermined commands are sent to access control devices for perimeter, office, classroom, and other soft target areas to lockdown and stay secure, to keep the shooter from entering these soft target areas, and to prevent shooter from entering other buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SECURITY USA SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Boaz Raz, Jennifer E. Russell
  • Patent number: 11536078
    Abstract: An entrance system is disclosed which has a movable door member having a door leaf with a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge. A sensor unit monitors a zone at or near the door leaf for presence or activity of a person or object, and captures an image of an external object at the first vertical edge of the door leaf, and processing the captured image to identify an optical code and recognize a learning mode trigger instruction encoded therein. Triggered by the recognizing of the learning mode trigger instruction, a learning mode of the sensor unit is automatically entered into, in which a distance between the sensor unit and the external object at the first vertical edge is automatically measured and a field width parameter value of the sensor unit is set based on the measured distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB
    Inventor: Roger Dreyer
  • Patent number: 11532005
    Abstract: A computer device and method for processing informatic data from one or more sensor devices associated with a property are provided herein. A first set of informatics data of a first property at a first period of time are analyzed to identify a first operating characteristic associated operating the first property. Operational changes to be implemented at a second property are identified based upon an operational efficiency of the first operating characteristic over a second operating characteristic of the second property. Second sensor data of the second property is used to determine that at least one of the identified operational changes has been implemented. Provision of a discount, a rebate, a monetary transfer, or any combination thereof is provided based upon the implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ramsey Devereaux, David C. Ault, Christina N. Nickel, Elizabeth J. Rubin, Daniela Wheeler, Justin D. Haslam, Thuy Hugos, Spencer Read, Ann C. Tarrillion
  • Patent number: 11528183
    Abstract: A method or system, comprising receiving, at a virtual network function component instances (VNFCI), a heartbeat message from a peer VNFCI with current operational state of active, sending the heartbeat message to the peer VNFCI with a current operational state of active, constructing and sending a next state request message to an element management system (EMS) with one or more of: an active parameter, and a split-brain parameter, starting a response timer, sending a heartbeat message to the peer VNFCI with a current operational state of active and a desired operational state of active when a receive next state response message is received and the VNFCI response state is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Keith William Melkild
  • Patent number: 11517691
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for providing a high pressure controlled proportional assist ventilation breath type during ventilation of a patient. The disclosure describes a novel breath type that reduces ventilator support (or a percent support setting) based on the occurrence of a predetermined number of high pressure alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Ronald Thiessen, Richard Kauc
  • Patent number: 11522284
    Abstract: This document describes an image-capturing doorbell device. In aspects, the image-capturing doorbell device provides a compact, space-efficient, battery-powered, doorbell camera. The architecture of the image-capturing doorbell device is optimized by concentrating sensors at one end of the device and user input mechanism(s) at the opposing end of the device and including a thin and narrow middle portion between the two opposing ends. The sensors include an image sensor and a PIR sensor mounted to the same PCB for space conservation. A camera lens protrudes from an outer surface of an IR window aligned with IR LEDs to mitigate IR flare. The PIR sensor is aligned with a lens that enhances radial motion detection by implementing two stacked rows of lenslets. The user input mechanism includes a light ring formed via a two-shot molding technique with a button to bond the light ring to the button for enhanced waterproofing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jacobi Colton Grillo
  • Patent number: 11515991
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication method related to interference report in full duplex operation. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to form interference information about interference from at least one of the user equipment itself and at least one neighboring user equipment of the user equipment; and a transmitter operative to transmit the interference information to a base station, wherein full duplex operation is performed between the user equipment and at least the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Xiaohan Xia, Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Prateek Basu Mallick, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11505892
    Abstract: Sensor units that includes a power source, a communication interface, and a sensor coupled to the power source and the communication interface. The sensor is calibrated to connect the power source to the communication interface upon an occurrence of a condition in an appliance. The sensor, thereby, permits the communication interface to transmit data indicating the condition to a computing device. Methods, systems, and apparatus, for monitoring such sensor units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Matthew Flachsbart, Benjamin D. Ethington, Wayne M. Hartman, Kade L. Scott