House Arrest System, Wandering, Or Wrong Place Patents (Class 340/573.4)
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Patent number: 11057733Abstract: A method of determining the location of a user in an area. A user requests a transmitting device from a transmitter providing device. The transmitter providing device associates an identification code with the user, and the transmitting device transmits that identification code. One or more of receiving devices receive the identification code transmitted by the transmitting device, and send details of the received identification code to the user location determining device. The user location determining device then determines the location of the user, using the received details from the one or more receiving devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: AKSORInventor: Thibaud Donelle
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Patent number: 11044361Abstract: The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is actually being monitored within the monitoring environment. The verification can require one or more monitoring persons monitoring the activity to perform one or more tasks to verify their attentiveness in monitoring the activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Global Tel*Link CorporationInventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
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Patent number: 11013927Abstract: Patient support apparatuses, such as beds, cots, stretchers, chairs, or the like, include wireless communication systems that are adapted to communicate with a non-local wireless receiver positioned outside of the healthcare facility and not associated with the healthcare facility. A computer positioned within the healthcare facility and coupled a local area network of the healthcare facility receives messages from the patient support apparatuses that have been forwarded by the non-local wireless receiver to the local area network. In some embodiments, the wireless receiver is local and positioned within the healthcare facility. In such instances, a second computer, such as a server, forwards a first subset of the patient support apparatus messages to a first computer via the local area network and a second subset of the patient support apparatus messages to a device remote from the healthcare facility. Patient support apparatuses that communicate using visible light are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventor: Michael Joseph Hayes
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Patent number: 11005542Abstract: Invention that uses over-sampling of the Analog to Digital Converter to produce additional synthetic vector signal samples that are used to construct high dimensional Signal Data Vectors and Calibration Steering Vectors, that are used to synthetically increase the effective size of the original real array which results in the generation of a narrower array beamwidth.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventor: Mano D. Judd
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Patent number: 10984645Abstract: Offender location tracking devices have evolved to a point where they are wearable computers. Modern smartwatches are also wearable computers and can be used as offender tracking devices; however, they have the limitation of not being able to detect if they are being tampered with or are removed. A novel security band of the present invention can be used in conjunction with a commercially available smartwatch. The security band of the present invention is able to detect if it is cut or removed and is able to wirelessly notify a smartwatch or optional smartphone. The notification is then relayed to a monitoring center or supervising authority using a cellular telephone network or other wireless communication method.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Inventors: Mark Wojcik, Arthur Jacob Gigler
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Patent number: 10952644Abstract: A location detection system identifies the locations of medical devices such as patient support apparatuses and/or patient care devices within a medical facility. The devices communicate via a wired connection to one or more medical facility systems (e.g. nurse call system, computer network, etc.), and/or via a wireless connection to such systems. The location detection system automatically determines location information of the devices and communicates the location information so that the recipient of any outgoing alerts and/or other information sent from the devices is apprised of the location of the particular device sending the alert or other information. Caregivers are thereby able to respond to the correct location of an alert, and software systems such as EMR systems, admission discharge and transfer (ADT) systems, etc. are able to correlate transmitted device data with the location and/or patient assigned to that location.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael Joseph Hayes, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Jonathan Mark Greenbank
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Patent number: 10952029Abstract: An intelligent tracking system generally includes one or more tracking devices, some of which may be passive tracking devices. Each passive tracking device includes one or more transceivers and is energized by an energizing signal. Some of these passive tracking devices may operate in a first communication mode or a second communication mode based on the energizing signal. Some tracking devices may include encryption modules or authentication modules. Some of these devices may incorporate a bulk acoustic wave oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: CULVERT-IOT CORPORATIONInventors: Dean Mamoru Kawaguchi, Alberto Vidal, Edward John Boling, Prasad Panchalan, Edward Maurice Farrell
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Patent number: 10944803Abstract: A resident of a controlled-environment facility is provided with messaging-initiated interactive sessions. A non-resident records a message for a resident. At a later time, the resident requests use of a resident device. Use of the resident device is authorized and the resident is notified of the message from the non-resident. The message is presented to the resident for review via the resident device. If requested by the resident, approval for an interactive session between the resident and the non-resident is determined. The immediate availability of the non-resident for the requested interactive session is determined. If the non-resident is available, a request is issued to the non-resident for the approved interactive session. The non-resident may be notified of the remaining time the resident has access has access to the resident device and may be presented an option for the approved interactive session during this time window.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLCInventors: Kenneth D. Johnston, Jr., John Mannewitz
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Patent number: 10939819Abstract: One aspect of the apparatus comprising, a sensor configured to acquire a biological signal of a user, and a controller configured to, determine whether the biological signal is continuously outside a predetermined range for a first time period, after determining that the biological signal has been continuously outside the predetermined range for the first time period, then determine whether the biological signal is inside the predetermined range, and activate an alarm if the controller has determined that (i) the biological signal has been outside the predetermined range for the first time period, and (ii) the biological signal has been continuously inside the predetermined range for a second time period, the second time period being longer than the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamasa Kogure
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Patent number: 10928496Abstract: A sensor includes at least one transmitting station including a transmission antenna; a plurality of receiving stations each including a reception array antenna; a first circuit that extracts, from signals observed by the reception array antenna of each of the plurality of receiving stations, living-body components, which are signal components transmitted from the transmission antenna and reflected by at least one living body; a second circuit that calculates, from the extracted living-body components, a plurality of position spectral functions, which are evaluation functions for evaluating a position of the at least one living body when viewed from the plurality of respective receiving stations; and a third circuit that integrates the plurality of calculated position spectral functions into one position spectral function, and calculates at least one maximum value of the position spectral function obtained as a result of integration to estimate the position of the at least one living body.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichi Iizuka, Takeshi Nakayama, Naoki Honma
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Patent number: 10925518Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-weight, small and portable ambulatory sensor for measuring and monitoring a person's physical activity. Based on these measurements and computations, the invented system quantifies the subject's physical activity, quantifies the subject's gait, determines his or her risk of falling, and automatically detects falls. The invention combines the features of portability, high autonomy, and real-time computational capacity. High autonomy is achieved by using only accelerometers, which have low power consumption rates as compared with gyroscope-based systems. Accelerometer measurements, however, contain significant amounts of noise, which must be removed before further analysis. The invention therefore uses novel time-frequency filters to denoise the measurements, and in conjunction with biomechanical models of human movement, perform the requisite computations, which may also be done in real time.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Bijan Najafi, Ashkan Vaziri, Ali-Reza Boloori
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Patent number: 10932088Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for report identification and power control for ranging in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a responding station (RSTA) is disclosed, where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to perform ranging with a initiating stations (ISTAs) and maintain a separate sounding dialogue token for each of the ISTAs and transmit a corresponding sounding dialogue token for a ISTA in a trigger frame for ranging and sounding or a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame, and in a responding to initiating location measurement report. Apparatuses of RSTAs and ISTAS are disclosed that perform power control management during non-trigger-based ranging.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Dibakar Das, Jonathan Segev, Chittabrata Ghosh, Ganesh Venkatesan, Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Eran Segev, Huaning Niu, Shlomi Vituri, Elad Oren, Chen Kojokaro
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Patent number: 10893383Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for diagnosing monitoring system equipment functionality. In some instances, a first test command is provided to a user attached monitor device and a second test command is provided to a user detached monitor device. A first test result is received from the user attached monitor device and a second test result is received from the user detached monitor device. A combination of the first test result and the second test result is analyzed to determine an operation status.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BI IncorporatedInventors: James J. Buck, Jr., Joseph P. Newell, Dustin Pettit, Mike Cooke
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Patent number: 10891586Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting, identifying, and classifying objects positioned on a shelf are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a sensor pad comprises a plurality of electrical contacts disposed in the pad as a matrix of rows and columns of electrical contacts. Further, each contact corresponds to a different surface area of the pad and has a first electrical conductor positioned on a first layer and a second electrical conductor positioned opposite to the first conductor on a second layer. Also, at least one of the first and second conductors is operable to vary in resistance or capacitance based on an amount of pressure applied to that conductor. In addition, each contact is configured to enable an electrical connection between the first and second conductors with a resistance or capacitance that varies based on an amount of pressure applied to a corresponding area of the pad when an object is positioned on that pad.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Smart Supervision System LLCInventors: Anton Kramarov, Yevgeni Tsirulnik
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Patent number: 10885753Abstract: A anti-theft device with a remote alarm feature is provided. The device is configured to attach to an item of retail merchandise and detect when a predetermined motion and light condition are met which together are indicative of a potential retail theft. Upon detection, the device is configured to generate a local alarm, and send a radio frequency to a remote device to generate an alarm at the remote device.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.Inventors: Brent O. Ewing, Chan Chor Man, Thomas O. Nagel
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Patent number: 10834200Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for indicating a security status of an Internet of Things (IoT) device are provided. In some embodiments, a method for indicating a security status of an IoT device is provided, the method comprising: detecting a field of view comprising an IoT device; tracking a position of the IoT device relative to the field of view; interrogating the IoT device for a status thereof; determining a security status of the IoT device based on the interrogating; selecting a graphical representation of a plurality of graphical representations based on the determined security status of the IoT device; and causing an interface to be presented that displays the graphical representation associated with the position of the IoT device in the field of view.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Rodney D. Cambridge, Jonathan D. Dyton, Matthew T. Byrne
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Patent number: 10826790Abstract: A premises networking device includes hardware components including speakers, microphone, infrared sensor, spectrum analyzer and wireless interfaces. A touch screen display presents a user interface that provides information about network conditions and configuration settings and a menu for setting and changing configuration settings. Different versions of the user interface are displayed based on whether a user is in proximity to the device. The user interface includes shapes representing user devices, the visual characteristics of which change based on the current network conditions. A health score, which is an evaluation of network performance based on measurements of aspects of the conditions of the network, is displayed in real time. A network management system includes a network management platform for storing network conditions and configuration information and pushing the information to premises networking devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Starry, Inc.Inventors: Chaitanya Kanojia, Alex Moulle-Berteaux, Brian Scott Loveland, Donald Lehman, Joseph Thaddeus Lipowski
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Patent number: 10825314Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for monitoring and capturing information associated with target subjects, such as babies. For example, the systems and methods provide a capture device, such as a camera, that captures capture time of flight (TOF) data from a target subject. Using the TOF data, the systems and methods, via a display device associated with (e.g., paired to) the capture device, present information about the target subject, such as information indicating movement of the target subject, information indicating a breathing rate of the target subject, information indicating a heart rate of the target subject, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: MiKu, Inc.Inventors: Eric Gregory White, David Robert Abrams
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Patent number: 10743796Abstract: A foot sensor alarm for wheelchairs, detects if a wheelchair occupant's foot has fallen off of a wheelchair footrest. The sensor and alarm make a wheelchair occupant or care giver aware that a foot has fallen off of one or more of the footrests. Sensors may include contact closure sensors, with snap-action switches or magnetically actuated reed switches can be used. Battery-operated window alarms with piezoelectric sound emitters send out vibratory or audio sounds as alarms. An occupancy sensor seat pad is used to power up the alarm system. A flashing light emitting diode can be wired in parallel with each sound emitter to provide a visual alarm as well.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Steven Goldmeier
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Patent number: 10741041Abstract: The techniques and systems described herein determine whether a computing device is within a particular range to communicate with a monitoring device. If the computing device is within the particular range, the computing device is configured to communicate with the monitoring device via a primary monitoring communication mode (e.g., a radio frequency RF channel). If the computing device is outside the particular range, the computing device is configured to communicate with the monitoring device via a secondary monitoring communication mode (e.g., a Wi-Fi channel or a mobile telephone network MTN channel). The computing device receives, from the monitoring device via the primary monitoring communication mode or the secondary monitoring communication mode, monitoring information associated with a monitored subject (e.g., a baby) or associated with an area in which the monitored subject is located (e.g., a room of a residential dwelling).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: BINATONE ELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Kenji Yum
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Patent number: 10741048Abstract: A behavior modification system for deterring an individual from approaching a body includes: a bracelet worn by the individual and including a bracelet controller, an antenna in communication with the bracelet controller, an alert component in communication with the bracelet controller; a base unit including an antenna, a base speaker, and a controller in communication with the base speaker and antenna, the base unit configured to broadcast a predetermined caution zone around a proximity of the base unit. When the controller of the bracelet determines that the bracelet is located within the proximity of the base unit based on a signal received from the base unit on the bracelet, the alert component generates an alert to the wearer of the bracelet, the alert including one or more of arrhythmic vibrations and audible sounds that are unpleasant to an individual with ASD.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Inventors: Jennifer B. Foster, Paul C. Mayes
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Patent number: 10726698Abstract: Systems and methods as provided herein can include receiving user input defining a protection area within a region monitored by a security system, identifying a physical entity associated with the security system, assigning the physical entity to the protection area, receiving movement data of the physical entity from a monitoring device, and using the movement data to identify a pattern of movement of the physical entity with respect to the protection area. Such systems and methods can also include continuing to receive the movement data from the monitoring device after identifying the pattern of movement, determining whether the movement data received after identifying the pattern of movement deviates from the pattern of movement, and when the movement data received after identifying the pattern of movement deviates from the pattern of movement, initiating an alert.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: ADEMCO INC.Inventors: Lokanatha Reddy Jondu, Piyush Awadhesh, Praveen Kumar
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Patent number: 10726699Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting breach events by residents of an assisted living facility includes: defining a first access perimeter within a facility; assigning the first access perimeter to a first resident, in a set of residents in the facility; tracking locations of resident wearable devices associated with residents, in the set of residents, within the facility; disabling a first subregion within the first access perimeter coincident a second location of a second resident, in the set of residents, flagged for separation from the first resident; and, in response to a first location of a first resident wearable device associated with the first resident falling outside of the first access perimeter, distributing a first breach event prompt to assist the first resident, proximal the first location, to care provider mobile devices associated with care providers affiliated with the facility.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLCInventors: Vikram Devdas, Shane McNamara, Christopher Pang, Richard Heaton
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Patent number: 10708407Abstract: A case for a mobile device that can include a piezoelectric component that is configured to output current in response to external pressure applied to the case, a switch between a near-field communication (NFC) antenna and an NFC circuit, and a controller that is configured to be powered by the current from the piezoelectric component to open the switch after an amount of time during which the switch is closed after the external pressure stops being applied to the case.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Diego Rivas Costante, Ozan Anac, Debanjan Mukherjee, Son Hoai Nguyen
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Patent number: 10701716Abstract: A communication interface receives data at least including speech information and information related to a transmission time when the speech information should be transmitted. A processor extracts the speech information and the transmission time included in the data received by the communication interface. A wireless transmitter transmits the speech information extracted by the processor based on the transmission time extracted by the processor. When the transmission time has already passed, the wireless transmitter transmits the speech information and transmits the speech information extracted from subsequent data that follows said data at a time later than the transmission time extracted from the subsequent data.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Shimoshimano, Ichiro Shishido
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Patent number: 10666857Abstract: Various client devices include displays and one or more image capture devices configured to capture video data. Different users of an online system may authorize client devices to exchange information captured by their respective image capture devices. Additionally, a client device modifies captured video data based on users identified in the video data. For example, the client device changes parameters of the image capture device to more prominently display a user identified in the video data and may further change parameters of the image capture device based on gestures or movement of the user identified in the video data. The client device may apply multiple models to captured video data to modify the captured video data or subsequent capturing of video data by the image capture device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Vincent Charles Cheung
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Patent number: 10635796Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for a wearable device as well as a wearable device and a positioning system associated therewith. The wearable device is attached to a wearer through an attachment assembly. The method comprises steps of collecting identity information of an operator operating the wearable device; detecting whether the collected identity information matches with pre-stored target identity information; inhibiting detachment of the attachment assembly from the wearer if the collected identity information does not match with the pre-stored target identity information; acquiring position information of the wearable device; and sending the collected identity information along with the position information to a monitoring terminal for the wearable device. Therefore, usage security and reliability of the wearable device are improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Huiran Tian, Zheng Feng, Xiaodong Shi
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Patent number: 10602963Abstract: A system for telemetrically monitoring a patient includes a remote monitoring device associated with the patient. A location services system tracks a location of the remote monitoring device. A patient tracking computer calculates a distance and a duration of patient ambulation from the tracked location. A method of monitoring an ambulatory patient monitors the location of a remote monitoring device and derives ambulatory event data from the monitored location.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Bruce A. Friedman, Matthew Grubis, Brian W. Nantz, Carl C. Davis
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Patent number: 10609336Abstract: A monitoring system includes at least one processor device and at least one memory architecture coupled with the at least one processor device. The monitoring system includes a first software module executable by the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the first software module is configured to monitor one or more sensor(s), wherein the one or more sensor(s) are configured to collect personally identifiable information, wherein the personally identifiable information pertains to a monitored individual and enables the monitored individual to be uniquely identified. The monitoring system also includes a second software module executed by the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the second software module is configured to enable a wireless transmitter to transmit a report on the monitored individual.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Offender Smartphone Monitoring, LLCInventor: Michael Hugh Kingery
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Patent number: 10565859Abstract: A building management system tracks occupants of a building in which the building management system is installed and presents information about the occupants, including location information, to first responders during emergency and/or training events. Distributed devices of the building management system receive identification information broadcast by user devices of the occupants and sends the identification information to a control panel of the building management system. Location information for the occupants is generated based on the identification information received from the user devices and stored along with time and date information. This location information is then retrieved and presented to first responders, for example, by displaying a map of the building with icons representing the distributed devices and occupants, based on the location information.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: Bruno Gravel, David-Alexandre Bourbonnais
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Patent number: 10558903Abstract: Electronic badges are indirectly tracked by detecting, by a badge communicator on a select industrial vehicle of a fleet of industrial vehicles, the presence of an electronic badge and performing a badge logging transaction in response to detecting the electronic badge. The badge logging transaction includes receiving, by the badge communicator, a badge identifier transmitted by the detected electronic badge. The badge logging transaction also includes determining, by the badge communicator, an offset measurement of the electronic badge relative to the select industrial vehicle, electronically determining a vehicle location of the select industrial vehicle, and identifying a badge location based upon the determined vehicle location and the measured offset. The badge logging transaction can also include generating a time stamp, and wirelessly communicating a badge locator message to a remote server, the badge locator message including the badge identifier, the badge location, and the timestamp.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Lewis H. Manci, Juergen Buchmann, Andreas Simon, Sebastian Sick
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Patent number: 10555125Abstract: A monitoring apparatus that provides multi-level monitoring of personal activities by a user. The monitoring apparatus includes a display, a user interface, a GPS location device, a timer or clock, and wireless or cellular communication transmitters or similar devices. The user designates one or more contacts who will be notified if certain pre-established monitoring conditions are met (e.g., if the user may be in trouble). When the pre-established monitoring conditions are met, the contacts are alerted and notified via phone, email, text, or similar means of communication, or combinations thereof, of the user's location, contact information, and the state that caused the alert and notification.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Inventor: Dillon James Korpman
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Patent number: 10512422Abstract: A location detection system identifies the locations of medical devices such as patient support apparatuses and/or patient care devices within a medical facility. The devices communicate via a wired connection to one or more medical facility systems (e.g. nurse call system, computer network, etc.), and/or via a wireless connection to such systems. The location detection system automatically determines location information of the devices and communicates the location information so that the recipient of any outgoing alerts and/or other information sent from the devices is apprised of the location of the particular device sending the alert or other information. Caregivers are thereby able to respond to the correct location of an alert, and software systems such as EMR systems, admission discharge and transfer (ADT) systems, etc. are able to correlate transmitted device data with the location and/or patient assigned to that location.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael Joseph Hayes, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Jonathan Mark Greenbank
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Patent number: 10504490Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The display apparatus provided in a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a memory; a display unit displaying one or more data areas on a screen; and a controller controlling the display unit to further display additional data area on the basis of at least one of recognition and identification of a passenger who boards on the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaebeom Jeon, Kyungdong Choi
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Patent number: 10478077Abstract: A blood pressure meter includes a pump and a first fluid path provided inside a main body. The first fluid path feeds a fluid from the pump to a fluid bladder or discharges the fluid from the fluid bladder. A pressure sensor is mounted on a first substrate disposed inside the main body. A second fluid path that introduces the fluid from the fluid bladder to the pressure sensor is provided. The second fluid path includes an inlet pipe that is integrally formed with a sensor package that incorporates the pressure sensor, and extends straight between the fluid bladder and the pressure sensor. A second substrate on which a blood pressure measurement element is mounted is disposed in a space that is located between the first substrate and the fluid bladder in a thickness direction and is adjacent to the second fluid path in a planar direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Ono, Yuma Adachi, Yoshihide Tokko, Eisuke Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10445752Abstract: In order to solve the problem of an increase in the number of electronic devices that transmit specific signals and are installed inside a store in order to obtain traffic line information, the present invention calculates position coordinates in a facility using a calculation formula based on the number of signals received and the pattern of the number of signals received, and determines traffic line information.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Norio Ohkubo, Miki Hayakawa, Norihiko Moriwaki
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Patent number: 10446003Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for monitoring a patient, monitoring and/or controlling an adjustable bed and/or preventing patient entrapment. The system may include one or more sensors operatively associated with a processor for performing said monitoring and other functions. The processor may be operatively associated with an adjustable patient bed to interrupt user adjustment of the bed and/or control a patient support.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Huntleigh Technology LimitedInventors: Christopher Locke, David Whyte, Aidan Tout
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Patent number: 10433787Abstract: A self-administered tamper-evident drug detection system. The system includes a biometric detection surface for each of a user's right and left hands, configured to identify the user and prevent tamper by continuously capturing biometric information from each of the user's right and left hands while the system is administering a drug detection test. The system further includes a collection device to administer the drug detection test by exposing a sample collection device to a user's mouth to collect a saliva sample.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: 3M ELECTRONIC MONITORING LTDInventors: Kiran S. Kanukurthy, Matthew D. Moore, Raj Rajagopal, Michael E. Hamerly
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Patent number: 10416007Abstract: An environmental sensor including sensor elements to measure multiple physical quantities associated with a surrounding environment, and includes a state determination unit that determines whether the environmental sensor is in a first state in which the sensor is fixed at a predetermined installation location or in a second state in which the sensor is away from an installation location, and an operation switch unit that switches an operation of each sensor element that measures the physical quantities based on whether a state determined by the determination unit is the first state or the second state.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takanobu Yamauchi, Naotsugu Ueda, Kayo Nakamura, Ryusuke Sakai
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Patent number: 10410499Abstract: A system of identifying a person's identity in a monitored site, comprising communication interface(s) for communicating with motion sensor(s) each monitoring one of a plurality of monitored spaces of a monitored site, RF receiver(s), each having a reception coverage area overlapping with one of the monitored spaces and transmitter(s) for transmitting a request message, a program store storing a code and processor(s) for executing code to, receive from a detecting sensor a presence indication in a detecting space of the monitored spaces, instruct the transmitter(s) to transmit a request message in the monitored site following the indication reception and estimate an identity of a person by analyzing a unique identification signal captured by RF receiver(s) having reception coverage area that overlaps with the detecting space. The unique identification signal is transmitted by an identification device of an associated person in response to the request message reception.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Essence Smartcare Ltd.Inventor: Ohad Amir
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Patent number: 10404941Abstract: A controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media device enables a controlled-environment facility resident to carry-out one task on the device, and provides a visual indication, to the resident, that an overt image and/or video is being captured during this task. Conversely, a covert image and/or video of a user is captured while the controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media device is in use for another task, without providing the user the same or other visual indication that the covert image is being captured.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alice J. Clements, Matthew Smith
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Patent number: 10395160Abstract: An identification device that can be adjustably fit around an object or person whose identity is to be monitored includes an electrically conductive identification strap; electrically conductive locking means designed for adjustable circular locking of the identification strap around a predetermined part of the object or person whose location is to be monitored, thus forming a closed electrical circuit when the electrically conductive identification band and the locking means are both in the working or closed position; and a wireless communications transceiver module designed to establish communication with at least one transceiver module mounted in a different identification device fit onto a different object or person, wherein a first transceiver module executes a linking procedure by radio transmission of identification data streams to at least one other transceiver module in listening mode to receive the identification data stream transmitted from the first identification device.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Mysphera, S.L.Inventors: Salvador Vera Manero, Julián Guirao Aguilar, Vicente Ruedas Abarca, Eduardo Montón Sánchez
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Patent number: 10388125Abstract: For communicating a localized building alert, a processor detects an emergency event. In response to detecting the emergency event, the processor communicates a localized building alert through a lighting system. The localized building alert is restricted to a location of one of an aid recipient and an aid giver.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTDInventor: Douglas Warren Robinson
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Patent number: 10380873Abstract: An interactive wireless life safety communications system is disclosed. A central coordination server is linked to a first network, over which there is a connection to at least one resident life safety device at a specific location or for specific resident. An alarm signal is generated by the resident life safety device upon detection of an alarm condition and transmitted to the central coordination server. A caregiver communications device is connected to the central coordination server over a second network, and is receptive to an alarm notification that is generated by the central coordination server in response to the alarm signal. The caregiver communications device is also receptive to a caregiver user input, from which an action status response is generated for transmission to the central coordination server.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Inventors: Michael Halverson, Richard E. Knecht
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Patent number: 10382727Abstract: Various embodiments concern a system for monitoring a patient in a bed, the system comprising a camera, a user interface comprising a screen, and a computing system. The computing system can be configured to monitor, with the camera, for motion within each of a plurality of zones, the plurality of zones comprising a one or more inner zones extending adjacent along the bed, one or more outer zones extending adjacent along the one or more inner zones, and one or more end zones. Motion within the inner zones can trigger a fall alert while motion within the outer or end zones can suspend one or more functions to prevent the fall alert from being issued. The end zones can comprise a bottom zone and one or more top zones.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: CareView Communications, Inc.Inventors: Matt Clark, Derek del Carpio
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Patent number: 10373448Abstract: An apparatus (10) for detecting an occupancy of an equipment (12) by a person (14). A memory stores a status of the equipment as either occupied or unoccupied, and a predetermined acceleration limit value. An accelerometer unit communicates with the memory, and measures acceleration values of the equipment at discrete time intervals. The accelerometer unit compares each acceleration value to an acceleration limit value. If a consecutive number N of the acceleration values is greater than or equal to the acceleration limit value, the accelerometer unit generates a movement signal. A processor operates between an active mode when it receives the movement signal from the accelerometer unit, and an inactive mode. The processor in the active mode emits an occupied signal if the status of the equipment is unoccupied. A power source supplies electrical power to the accelerometer unit and to the processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MYSEAT SASInventors: Yahya El-Iraki, Pierre Baptiste Landoin
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Patent number: 10375171Abstract: Providing a registry of sensor devices may comprise obtaining a device, determining one or more information types returned by the device, determining one or more communication protocols used by the device for transmitting information, determining one or more encoding schemes used by the device to format the information, adding the device to the registry of sensor devices including at least the one or more information types, the one or more communication protocols and the one or more encoding schemes, and allowing access to the registry of sensor devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Wilfredo Ferre, Dimitri Kanevsky, Peter K. Malkin, Marc P. Yvon
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Patent number: 10357185Abstract: A person support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, or the like, includes an exit detection system that utilizes an occupant motion parameter to determine whether to issue an alert or not. The motion parameter may be based on the weight and motion of the occupant. Successive positions of the occupant are determined in order to calculate a velocity of the occupant. In some embodiments, the kinetic energy of the occupant is used to determine if an alert should be issued. Objects positioned on the person support apparatus may also be detected and tracked. Auto-zeroing of a built-in scale, as well as automatic recognition of the removal, movement, and/or addition of objects is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Marko N. Kostic, Jonathan Mark Greenbank
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Patent number: 10311707Abstract: An interactive wireless life safety communications system is disclosed. A central coordination server is linked to a first network, over which there is a connection to at least one resident life safety device at a specific location or for specific resident. An alarm signal is generated by the resident life safety device upon detection of an alarm condition and transmitted to the central coordination server. A caregiver communications device is connected to the central coordination server over a second network, and is receptive to an alarm notification that is generated by the central coordination server in response to the alarm signal. The caregiver communications device is also receptive to a caregiver user input, from which an action status response is generated for transmission to the central coordination server.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Inventors: Michael Halverson, Richard E. Knecht
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Patent number: 10306595Abstract: A method of selecting hopping target channels by a device except a wireless local area network device includes: selecting candidate channels having a received signal strength less than a set threshold signal strength from among channels included in an available frequency band; classifying the candidate channels into frequency regions based on a channel frequency of each of the candidate channels; and for each of the frequency regions, selecting at least one candidate channel included in a frequency region as a hopping target channel for the frequency region.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Jimin Kim, Kiyong Jeon