Specific Condition Patents (Class 340/540)
  • Patent number: 12149784
    Abstract: A receiving device is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive a digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire server information corresponding to a viewing history server that collects viewing history information related to a viewing history of content. The server information is included in the digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is further configured to control transmission of the viewing history information to the viewing history server based on the acquired server information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Jun Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12117786
    Abstract: A control system includes a control apparatus functioning as a master, and plural slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus. The control apparatus executes a first instruction to set specified identification information to a specified slave. In response to whether the specified identification information is successfully written, the control apparatus outputs information indicating whether a reboot of the specified slave is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ishimura, Kojiro Baba
  • Patent number: 12116820
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a sensing circuitry configured to sense a locked or released state of a door of a railway vehicle, or sense an open or closed state of the door, and a processor. The processor acquires an output of the sensing circuitry, and position information in an opening or closing direction of the door, and determines an abnormality in a configuration related to an opening or closing operation of the door, based on a match between the acquired output of the sensing circuitry and the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori Matsushima, Kenji Fujita
  • Patent number: 12104945
    Abstract: A monitoring device for condition assessment of a packaging machine for producing packages of liquid food comprises a signal interface for connection to a plurality of vibration sensors in the packaging machine. The monitoring device includes logic to: receive measurement signals from the vibration sensors and obtain an event timing signal, MES, indicative of predefined work events of the packaging machine, wherein the respective work event corresponds to a mechanical action by a respective component in the packaging machine when operating to produce the packages. The monitoring device further includes logic to: identify, by use of the MES and in the measurement signals, signal values associated with the respective component, and evaluate the signal values for condition assessment of the respective component. The provision and use of the MES thus facilitates condition assessment of individual components in a packaging machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca Capelli, Davide Borghi, Marco Cocconcelli, Giulia Massaccesi, Raffaele Di Canosa, Jacopo Cavalaglio Camargo Molano
  • Patent number: 12100050
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for providing notification indicative of a breach of a dynamic operational parameter threshold. The dynamic operational parameter threshold is set based upon habits of inhabitants of an environment, which are observed via controlled sensors of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ramsey Devereaux, Michael J. Allen, Spencer Read, Traci K. Uribe, Ina L Jackson
  • Patent number: 12093123
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing dashboard for alert storage and history (“DASH”). In various embodiments, DASH provides for consolidated tracking and monitoring of two or more of current (or active) alerts, cleared alerts, and/or transactional information for alerts that are stored within corresponding alert live database that mirrors current alert instance data in a real-time fault management system, alert history database that contains a snapshot of an alert history of each alert or corresponding network device, and/or alert log database that contains a full transaction record of every copy of an alert either over a first duration or having a total data size within a first total data size. DASH also cleans received alert data and/or enriches the alert data, and provides a user interface (“UI”) that enables a user to view, absorb, filter, manage, and/or organize alert data to facilitate addressing of alerts in the network(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew D. Schoenfeldt, Steven Burrell, Angela A. Rash, Shelley Goldner, Shelli L. Hurd
  • Patent number: 12088004
    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: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jacobi Colton Grillo
  • Patent number: 12082808
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a control system configured to alter and/or reduce the capability of the surgical instrument is disclosed. Also disclosed is a surgical instrument that can upload different firmware from a surgical hub such that the surgical instrument can be used to perform different surgical techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12064237
    Abstract: Determination system including: a computing device (i) obtaining information related to an eye of a target person from a plurality of data sources and (ii) making a determination of a predetermined matter related to the target person based on at least part of the information. The plurality of data sources include two or more of a sensor included in a contact lens of the target person, a sensor included in a storage container of the contact lens, a measurement device which carries out measurement related to the eye of the target person, tear fluid of the target person, a storage solution of the contact lens and, a diagnostic process of the target person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mouad Lamrani, Stephen D. Newman, Sami Antero Lakka
  • Patent number: 12059392
    Abstract: An injectable medication tab used to track expiration dates has an informative tab, a release string, an adhesive liner, and a quick release fastener. The informative tab provides visually accessible information about a bottle to which the injectable medication tab is attached. An expiration information portion of the informative tab protrudes from the exterior surface of the bottle after being opened. The adhesive liner is superimposed onto a mounting surface of the informative tab and attaches the informative tab to the bottle. The quick release fastener is a coupling mechanism that connects between an edge of the informative tab and the release string. The release string forms a detachable connection holding the expiration information portion against the bottle until the bottle is opened. Once opened, the expiration information section to protrudes from the bottle until the expiration information is recorded and the medical information portion is adhered to the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventor: Tamia Myshia Patterson
  • Patent number: 12047376
    Abstract: A universal operating system and associated processes and procedures, which, together, are configurable to provide at least one operating system resource. The at least one operating system resource may be utilized by at least one cyber system for providing at least one individual with safe, secure, private cyber interactions with accurately identified instances of the individual's cyber devices, with other parties, and with the cyber devices of other parties. Processes and procedures are also provided which may be configured to provide an individual with the ability to selectively grant or selectively deny another party or a cyber device access to at least one part of the individual's cyber activities, cyber interactions, cyber assets, and cyber resources. A universal operating system is also provided which is configurable for providing interoperable use of cyber content, cyber devices, and cyber programming throughout at least one cyber system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Inventor: Jeffry David Aronson
  • Patent number: 12039157
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing exposure notifications. In some embodiments, after enabling exposure notifications, an exposure notification is received; upon interacting with the notification: if an associated application is installed, a user interface of that application is displayed; if the associated application is not installed, a user interface object associated with a process to install the application is displayed. In some embodiments, an exposure notification management interface is displayed that includes a plurality of entities that have been authorized to provide notifications, along with a user interface object to disable transmission of data to those entities and to disable notifications from those entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Crowley, Heather E. Daniel, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 12022985
    Abstract: This application provides a method for controlling a robot cleaner, a robot cleaner, and a storage medium. The method for controlling the robot cleaner includes the steps of: acquiring a weight of the water tank, comparing the weight of the water tank with a setting value to acquire a comparison result, determining a remaining usable time of the robot cleaner according to the comparison result, and controlling the robot cleaner according to the remaining usable time. Since the weight of the water tank is not easily interfered by other factors, the acquiring of weight has a high accuracy, thereby the remaining usable time determined according to the weight of the water tank has a high accuracy, and then the robot cleaner is controlled according to the remaining usable time with higher accuracy. The control accuracy of the robot cleaner thus can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FLY RODENT DYNAMICS INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Ruijun Yan, Li Lei
  • Patent number: 11965792
    Abstract: Provided herein is technology relating to weather sensors and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices, methods, and systems related to collecting weather data by measuring bending and compression stresses in a weather sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Understory, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Kubicek, Bryan A. Dow, Alexander T. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11946627
    Abstract: A warning device (100, 212, 301, 302, 510) for use in a luminaire (201, 410, 501), comprising a housing (110, 210, 310) accommodating a drive module (115, 215, 401, 402, 520) arranged to be coupled to a luminaire and to a mains voltage (260, 560). The drive module comprises a light source (120, 420) coupled to a switch (180, 380, 491, 492) and an electrical interface (140, 240) configured to electrically connect the drive module and the mains voltage to a light element (530) of the luminaire. The housing comprises a lid (130, 230, 330) operably coupled to the switch of the drive module and configured to activate the switch upon an opening of the lid for switching on the light source upon a current of the mains voltage passing in the electrical interface and deactivate the switch module upon a closing of the lid for switching off the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Liang Zhou, Liwen Zhou, Miner Zhang, Hai Tao Liu
  • Patent number: 11944467
    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: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Schuman, Patricia A. Glidewell, Erik E. Roehl
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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