Plural Controlled Systems, Mechanisms, Or Elements Patents (Class 700/19)
  • Patent number: 12153405
    Abstract: A control system in which a plurality of controllers and a redundant controller are connected to a common network, the plurality of controllers are divided into a highly available controller and other normal controllers, the redundant controller obtains context data of the highly available controller to hold the context data in a memory, holds programs of the plurality of controllers in a non-volatile memory, and holds the program of the highly available controller in the memory, and an arithmetic unit substitutes processing of the highly available controller by using the context data and the program of the highly available controller held in advance in the memory when a failure occurs in the highly available controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Teruaki Sakata, Yusaku Otsuka, Toshiki Shimizu, Manabu Sasamoto, Noritaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12143238
    Abstract: A home automation platform coalesces various devices for home monitoring, control and automation in a comprehensive control application for complete home control. Devices sourced from different vendors are responsive to the control application via a GUI from a personal device. User authentication is handled transparently through exchanges with the vendor specific website for a particular device. A set of agents monitors device operation and builds a model for issuing autonomous instructions to the devices based on the model of established operation. Compatible devices may be any suitable IP addressable device, and the agents gather a history of devices concerned with different comfort and function areas, such as lighting, appliances, air quality and occupancy awareness (e.g. security). In this manner, comprehensive, cross-vendor oversight is implemented from a common control via the personal device app, and a gathered history of home usage drives learning of a usage model for autonomous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sendal, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Silva, James W. Carroll
  • Patent number: 12134193
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated manufacture are provided. User input is received by way of user systems indicating nominal data measurements for an article. Automated material handling machines move parts within view of a machine vision system which performs an initial scan to identify features of said parts. Locations of areas for joining are determined by comparing the identified features to the nominal data measurements and the automated material handling machines move the parts into positions in accordance with the nominal data measurements to form the article. The automated material joining machines join the parts at said areas specified in said user input to form the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventors: George K. Ghanem, Joseph A. Ghanem
  • Patent number: 12137281
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system is provided that includes instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for transporting data over content delivery networks, the operations comprising: segmenting a data stream into a plurality of segments, where a segment may include at least one packet; generating a manifest file containing information associated with one or more segments in the plurality of segments, receiving a request for the manifest file, transmitting the manifest file to a receiver through a content delivery network, receiving a request for a segment in the manifest file, and transmitting the requested segment to the receiver through the content delivery network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SYNAMEDIA VIVIDTEC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Samie Beheydt, Jan De Smet, Jan Nicolaas Fielibert
  • Patent number: 12111626
    Abstract: An I/O server service interacts with multiple containerized controller services each implementing the same control routine to control the same portion of the same plant. The I/O server service may provide the same controller inputs to each of the containerized controller services (e.g., representing measurements obtained by field devices and transmitted by the field devices to the I/O server service). Each containerized controller service executes the same control routine to generate a set of controller outputs. The I/O server service receives each set of controller outputs and forwards an “active” set to the appropriate field devices. The I/O server service and other services, such as an orchestrator service, may continuously evaluate performance and resource utilization in the control system, and may dynamically activate and deactivate controller services as appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Amaro, Jr., Mark J. Nixon
  • Patent number: 12093507
    Abstract: A presentation system includes a server, a presentation device, and an information terminal. The server includes: a first communicator that communicates with the presentation device; a first controller that sends, to the presentation device, a notification that has been associated in advance with a condition satisfied by an operation state obtained from the appliance; and a storage that stores a history of the sent notification. The presentation device presents the notification. The information terminal includes: a display; an acceptor that accepts an operation; a second communicator that communicates with the server; and a second controller that creates a user interface (UI) for accepting the operation, and causes the display to display the UI. The second controller obtains the history from the server via the second communicator. The UI includes the obtained history and accepts turning off the notification included in the history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Torikai, Hiroki Urabe, Hiromu Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 12090651
    Abstract: A system including an autonomous ground vehicle (“AGV”) designed as a common platform to which is affixed one or more articulated arms, which, when combined with attached implements and software for performing movement of the AGV and the arm(s), carries out tasks common to small farms and maintaining small parcels of land. The software enables a farm operator to set up, control, and monitor operations of the robotic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Easton Robotics, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Chandler, Govind Ajith Kumar, Pradeep Gopal
  • Patent number: 12085920
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may relate to a system that includes one or more industrial devices that perform one or more operations within an industrial automation system. One or more industrial devices may include a compute surface able to perform one or more software tasks. The system may include a processor that determines a trigger event has occurred. The processor may determine additional data and a target device based on the trigger event, where the processor may be located on a different hierarchical level as compared to the target device. The processor may determine a container to be deployed to the target device based on the container generating the additional data when deployed on the target device. The processor may deploy the container to the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A Entzminger, Patrick E. Ozimek, Jonathan Alan Mills, Michael J. Anthony
  • Patent number: 12085436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium, comprising a sensor unit for registering a value for the process variable, a time registration unit for registering at least one duration of operation and a calculating unit, which is embodied at least based on the duration of operation registered by the time registration unit and based on at least one influencing variable influencing the duration of operation to make at least one statement with reference to condition of at least one component of the apparatus. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for operating an apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Wetzer GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Jögel, Michael Schnalke, Björn Walser, Kajetan Schneider, Fabian Schmölz
  • Patent number: 12023945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printing system and a method for printing print material, with a number of printing stations, at least one pre- and/or post-treatment station and a number of print product carriers for taking up a print product and for transporting the print product to the stations. It is provided according to the invention that the print product carriers each have their own drive, a steerable chassis and a control unit for independent movement of the print product carriers and that the stations are arranged on a transport surface, on which the print product carriers are freely movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Angelo Schiestl
  • Patent number: 11934159
    Abstract: A controller has improved closed-loop step testing of a dynamic process of an industrial processing plant. The controller performs economic optimization relaxation on process variables, such that operating range of the variables (MVs and CVs) during the testing are not skewed by variations in optimization cost factors. The controller employs computer-implemented methods and systems that receive a user-defined giveaway tolerance representing an allowable range between a current process variable value and a target process variable value. In response to the variables not meeting the giveaway tolerance, embodiments adjust the MPC controller configuration to drive the variables inside the tolerance, while relaxing optimization of the variables already meeting the giveaway tolerance. Using the adjusted configuration, embodiments calculate a new set of targets and generate a dynamic move plan from the new target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AspenTech Corporation
    Inventor: Qingsheng Quinn Zheng
  • Patent number: 11898883
    Abstract: Techniques for obtaining and processing utility consumption data (e.g., gas, water, electricity, etc.) of a utility network to determine if a violation has occurred with respect to a restriction schedule associated with a service site. By way of example, a number of utility restriction schedules associated with a number of service sites may be generated that indicate, for example, a type of restricted activity and/or event (e.g., irrigation), seasons and/or which days activity is allowed or not allowed, duration activity is allowed, and/or mitigation to take place if a violation is detected. A device (e.g., a smart utility meter, a router, etc.) may monitor utility consumption and detect a particular usage activity (e.g., irrigation) via data disaggregation. The device may compare the activity to the restriction schedule for that particular service site and perform automatic mitigation if a violation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventor: James Lee Kann
  • Patent number: 11894945
    Abstract: A controller of a building automation system comprising a communication component and a processor, and a method thereof. The communication component communicates with one or more other controllers of multiple automation level devices. The automation level devices are associated with an automation level network of the building automation system. The automation level devices include the controller and the other controller(s). The processor performs name resolution in which names of objects for devices associated with a building automation system are synchronized by device object references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc
    Inventors: William Choi, Thomas Evans, Robert L. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11860610
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system of an industrial internet of things for industrial production control and a method. The system of industrial internet of things includes a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform that interact in turn. The service platform adopts a centralized layout, and the management platform and the sensor network platform adopt a front sub platform layout. The user platform generates product manufacturing parameters of a production line, and transmits them in a form of instructions through the service platform, the management platform, and the sensor network platform. The sensor network platform finally integrates the received instructions with the real-time manufacturing data of the product to form different types of configuration files, and transmits them to the object platform, so that the object platform can perform production control processing based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yong Li, Bin Liu, Haitang Xiang, Xiaojun Wei
  • Patent number: 11838333
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing continuity of audio and/or video (A/V) presets across different contexts are described. In an embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS), may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: identify a first audio or video setting used by a first audio or video device in a first context; normalize the first audio or video setting into a normalized setting; in response to a determination that the IHS is in a second context, translate the normalized setting into a second audio or video setting; and apply the second audio or video setting to a second audio or video device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Srinivasa Ragavan, Vivekanandh Narayanasamy Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 11822298
    Abstract: An industrial automation component may receive a first set of data associated with the industrial automation component, such that the industrial automation component is associated with a first industrial automation system. The industrial automation component may then receive a second set of data associated with one or more other industrial automation components, such that the one or more other industrial automation components are associated with one or more other industrial automation systems. The industrial automation component may then identify one or more similar patterns in the first set of data and the second set of data and adjust one or more operations of the industrial automation component based on the similar patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subbian Govindaraj, William Sinner, Charles M. Rischar, Haithem Mansouri, Michael Kalan, Juergen Weinhofer, Andrew R. Stump, Daniel S. DeYoung, Frank Kulaszewicz, Edward A. Hill, Keith Staninger, Matheus Bulho
  • Patent number: 11822502
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bus-capable device having an input interface and an output interface for connecting to a serial bus, particularly a CAN bus, wherein the input interface and the output interface each have at least one signal line connection, and further having a terminating resistor for terminating the bus and a switch apparatus for switching the terminating resistor active as a function of the connection status of the input and output interfaces, wherein the input interface and the output interface each having a supply voltage connection for providing a supply voltage to the output and/or input interfaces of a respective next bus-capable device and a feedback connection for receiving the supply voltage from an output and/or input interface of a respective next bus-capable device, wherein the switch apparatus has an evaluation circuit for determining the presence of the supply voltage at the feedback connections of the input and output interfaces and an activation circuit for switching the terminati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Schuler
  • Patent number: 11821152
    Abstract: A method includes receiving first information indicative of a first selection of a machine disposed at a worksite, wherein the first information is received from an electronic device disposed remote from the worksite. The method also includes receiving second information from the electronic device, wherein the second information is indicative of a second selection of a component of the machine. The method further includes determining, using at least one sensor, that an area surrounding the machine is free from unknown objects, and receiving third information indicative of a request to activate the component. The method also includes causing activation of the component based at least in part on the third information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Monica Repiscak, Terry Ray Stoe, Steven Paul Goutermont, Tobin Dale Rasmusson
  • Patent number: 11789596
    Abstract: An instrument manipulation system includes instruments disposed in a predetermined area, and a first manipulation terminal including: a first display unit that displays at least one of disposition positions of the instruments and a range covered by functions of the instruments; a first designation range input unit that receives an input of a designation range for designating at least one target instrument to be manipulated; a first identification information input unit that receives an input of identification information set in the designation range; and a first instrument control unit that causes the target instrument to perform a predetermined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Takahashi, Norihito Sawa, Kohei Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11782460
    Abstract: A system is provided for tracking, in a distributed water infrastructure, water usage by category. The system may comprise at least one processor configured to receive from at least one sensor associated with the distributed water infrastructure signals indicative of water usage in the distributed water infrastructure. The system may, based on the signals indicative of water usage, construct a plurality of profiles. The system may assign each profile to one of a plurality of water usage categories. The system may collect, from the at least one sensor, signals indicative of water usage for substantially all water delivered through the distributed water infrastructure in a time period. The system may construct a plurality of water usage profiles in the aggregate, encompassing substantially all water delivered through the distributed water infrastructure in the time period. The system may assign each constructed water usage profile to one of the plurality of water usage categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WINT WI LTD
    Inventors: Shay Ravid, Avy Tahan, Dror Galron
  • Patent number: 11754998
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a new paradigm of Advanced Process Control that includes building and deploying APC seed models. Embodiments provide automated data cleansing and selection in model identification and adaption in multivariable process control (MPC) techniques. Rather than plant pre-testing onsite for building APC seed models, the embodiments help APC engineers to build APC seed models from existing plant historical data with self-learning automation and pattern recognition, AI techniques. Embodiments further provide “growing” and “calibrating” the APC seed models online with non-invasive closed loop step testing techniques. PID loops and associated SP, PV, and OPs are searched and identified. Only “informative moves” data is screened, identified, and selected among a long history of process variables for seed model development and MPC application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AspenTech Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Zhao, Qingsheng Quinn Zheng, Kerry Clayton Ridley, Liangfeng Lao, Yizhou Fang
  • Patent number: 11740886
    Abstract: An algorithm update method and an apparatus is disclosed, the method includes: receiving, by an internet protocol camera, a deletion instruction that includes a to-be-deleted algorithm container identifier and that is sent by a monitoring system; deleting, by the internet protocol camera, a to-be-deleted algorithm container instance corresponding to the to-be-deleted algorithm container identifier; receiving, by the internet protocol camera, a deployment instruction that includes a to-be-deployed algorithm description file and that is sent by the monitoring system; parsing, by the internet protocol camera, the to-be-deployed algorithm description file to obtain at least one file identifier; obtaining, by the internet protocol camera, at least one to-be-deployed algorithm image file corresponding to the at least one file identifier; and generating, by the internet protocol camera, a to-be-deployed algorithm container instance based on the at least one to-be-deployed algorithm image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianwen Huang, Xiaoqiang Jia, Hongbo Tian
  • Patent number: 11714767
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a combined storage operation, the method including using a direct memory access (DMA) controller to obtain a modified DMA command, wherein the modified DMA command includes parameters of a data manipulation and one of a user read command or a user write command; retrieve data according to the user read command or the user write command; manipulate the data according to the parameters of a data manipulation, inline with the user read command or the user write command; and transmit the manipulated data according to the user read command or the user write command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: LIGHTBITS LABS LTD.
    Inventors: Roii Goldstein, Ofer Hayut, Roy Geron
  • Patent number: 11715368
    Abstract: A load control system may include control devices for controlling electrical loads. The control devices may include load control devices, such as a lighting device for controlling an amount of power provided to a lighting load, and controller devices, such as a remote control device configured to transmit digital messages for controlling the lighting load via the load control device. The remote control device may communicate with the lighting devices via a hub device. The remote control device may detect a user interface event, such as a button press or a rotation of the remote control device. The remote control device or the hub device may determine whether to transmit digital messages as unicast messages or multicast messages based on the type of user interface event detected. The remote control device, or other master device, may synchronize and/or toggle an on/off state of lighting devices in the load control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Mann, Robert C. Newman, Jr., Thomas Lee Olson, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11711585
    Abstract: A mobile terminal has a communication processing unit that transmits, to a video display apparatus for displaying a broadcasted video content, a request for setting a viewing schedule of the video content. A storage unit stores a starting time of the video content for which the setting of the viewing schedule has been requested; and an information provision unit provides information to a user of the mobile terminal. A control unit determines whether the video display apparatus is existent around the mobile terminal. At a first predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit notifies the user of the first predetermined time. If the video display apparatus is not existent around the mobile terminal at a second predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit then notifies the user that it is the second predetermined time before the starting time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hideo Nishijima
  • Patent number: 11703834
    Abstract: In a production system, a control unit controls a first apparatus configured to start to operate after a waiting time and a second apparatus configured to starting to operation after a waiting time. A first sensor outputs a value that changes in response to operation of the first apparatus. A second sensor outputs a value that changes in response to operation of the second apparatus. The control unit compares a first time period from a starting of the operation of the first apparatus to an occurrence of a change in the value of the first sensor with a predetermined first threshold value, and compares a second time period from a starting of the operation of the second apparatus to an occurrence of a change in the value of the second sensor with a predetermined second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomonori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11677245
    Abstract: A control system may include a direct-current (DC) power bus for charging internal energy storage elements in control devices of the control system. For example, the control devices may be motorized window treatments configured to adjust a position of a covering material to control the amount of daylight entering a space. The system may include a bus power supply that may generate a DC voltage on the DC power bus. For example, the DC power bus may extend from the bus power supply around the perimeter of a floor of the building and may be connected to all of the motorized window treatments on the floor (e.g., in a daisy-chain configuration). An over-power protection circuit may be configured to disconnect the bus power supply if a bus current exceeds a threshold for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Stuart W. DeJonge, Chen Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11665019
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data over a bus system, having a storage device for at least temporary storage of messages transmittable over the bus system. The apparatus is designed to check at least one message, stored in the storage device, for at least one criterion and to alter at least one portion of the message based on the check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Ramona Jung, Thomas Enderle
  • Patent number: 11640760
    Abstract: A first remote control application is configured to cause a smart device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of a controllable appliance in response to a user interface element of the smart device being activated while a second remote control application of a bridge device is configured to cause the bridge device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of the controllable appliance in response to receiving at the bridge device the at least one command transmitted from the smart device. The at least one command is transmitted from the smart device using a first transmission protocol and the at least one command is transmitted from the bridge device using a transmission protocol recognized by the controllable appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Arling, Jeffrey Kohanek, Norman G. Sheridan
  • Patent number: 11640152
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and device for providing service for a programmable logic controller (PLC), including: creating a virtual-functional-module-description file including an address of an input channel of a virtual functional module to be created; and creating the virtual functional module in a PLC based on the virtual-functional-module-description file, assigning the address to the input channel of the virtual functional module, and creating a virtual-functional-module-configuration file including a mapping relation between the input channel and an output of a service provider. The present disclosure proposes a concept of a virtual functional module which is used to map data provided by intelligent data sources outside the PLC to input channel of PLC so that the data can be the same as normal input values used by PLC program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Xi Hu, Ji Li, Yue Zhuo
  • Patent number: 11546951
    Abstract: A method for causing an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device to enter a setup mode involves detecting motion by one or more sensors of the A/V recording and communication device, while the A/V recording and communication device is disconnected from a local network. The method also involves entering, by the A/V recording and communication device, a setup mode to initiate a setup procedure after the detected motion. The setup procedure allows the A/V recording and communication device to wirelessly connect to a client device. The method further involves determining whether the client device connects to the A/V recording and communication device within a predetermined timeout period. Additionally, the method involves exiting the setup mode when the A/V recording and communication device does not connect to the client device within the predetermined timeout period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Siminoff
  • Patent number: 11537641
    Abstract: An irrigation subsystem for locating a decoder unit in an irrigation system includes an irrigation controller controlling a plurality of irrigation units installed around branches of one or more water pipes in a field. Each irrigation unit includes a decoder unit placed in a box partially sunk in a ground and a solenoid. The subsystem further includes a memory, a memory control controlling data loading and retrieval into the memory, and an NFC interface having an NFC plate arranged in the box ensuring communication and energy supply with a mobile phone of an installer or searcher when being positioned close to the NFC plate. The communication includes downloading location coordinates of the decoder unit into the memory. The irrigation controller includes a memory for storing location data obtained from the decoder units in the form of a location database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: John Antony Ware
  • Patent number: 11520578
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a plurality of devices, a first device included in the devices including: a storage configured to store consistency information including a permitted combination of versions of software installed on each of one or more devices in association with each of the control functions; a determination unit configured to determine whether the consistency information consistent with versions of software installed on a part of the devices exists when consistency does not exist in the versions of all software installed on each of the devices; and a performance control unit configured to permit performance of a part of control functions associated with the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices when the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Miyake, Teppei Fukuzawa, Shuji Matsuno
  • Patent number: 11521475
    Abstract: A sensor pod is used to analyze one or more chemistry values of a recreational water facility such as a pool, a hot tub and a sauna. The sensor pod can sense one or more chemistry values such as pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, chlorine levels, and cyanuric acid levels. The sensor pod uploads the one or more chemistry values to a server. The chemistry values are processed and analyzed at the server against a set of target or ideal level values to obtain a set of output chemistry values and based upon the output values a message is sent to a customer. The message can instructs the customer to apply remedial steps to normalize the chemistry values as needed. The message can instruct the customer and/or a pool owner to apply remedial steps to normalize the chemistry values as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Maximilian A. Biberger
  • Patent number: 11516041
    Abstract: The present invention separately includes a push server which enables a notification message regarding occurrence of an event to be received even though a smart home application is turned off in a mobile terminal. The present invention receives a notification message using the push server, and resource information corresponding to an event of a home device is included in the notification message which is transmitted from the push server to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Hoon Kim, Jun-Hyung Kim, Dong-Keon Kong, Jai-Ick Chun
  • Patent number: 11513490
    Abstract: A safety instrumented system (SIS) includes safety controllers, and safety input/output (I/O) modules coupled to safety field devices that are coupled in parallel with a process control system's field devices to processing equipment which is configured and controlled to run a process. An I/O mesh network between the safety controllers and the safety I/O modules is configured for selecting any safety controller to become coupled to any safety I/O module to function as a pool of safety I/O modules so that any safety controller is configurable to receive sensor signals from and transmit control signals to any safety field device. The safety field devices are for monitoring process variable(s) for the process so that when one of the safety controllers recognizes a hazardous condition regarding the processing equipment, the SIS independently takes action to keep the processing equipment under control or bring it to a safe state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Adrianus Cornelis Maria Hamers, Joseph Felix, Aad van Wensen
  • Patent number: 11474670
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that, when a user gives an instruction to use a device to a conversation partner on an interface for making a conversation with the conversation partner, switches a display of the conversation partner who is responding, to a display of the device. In a further modification of the invention, the controller may switch the conversation partner who is responding, to the device, in addition to the switch of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11466869
    Abstract: A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a sensor that is configured to generate sensor data that reflects an attribute of the property. The monitoring system further includes a hot water circulation system that is configured to selectively circulate hot water between a hot water source and at least one of multiple locations of the property. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to receive and analyze the sensor data. The monitor control unit is further configured to determine to circulate hot water between the hot water source and a first location of the multiple locations of the property and to bypass circulating hot water between the hot water source and a second location of the multiple locations of the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Colby Kevin Clark
  • Patent number: 11416820
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for remotely automating changes to third party applications from within a primary application are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve maintaining in the primary application, a table having rows, columns, and cells at intersections of the rows and columns, wherein the primary application is configured to enable the construction of automations defined by conditional rules for altering internal information in the primary application and external information in the third party applications; receiving an automation definition conditional on specific information input into at least one specific cell in the table of the primary application, wherein the automation definition is constructed using internal blocks and external blocks, the external blocks having links to the external third party applications; monitoring the at least one specific cell of the primary application for an occurrence of the specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MONDAY.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Shanee Radzewsky, Eliran Zagbiv, Meytal Badichi, Abigail Pagi
  • Patent number: 11409251
    Abstract: A cloud-based modeler component that generates interactive models of an industrial automation system(s) (IAS(s)) is presented. An interactive model facilitates remote viewing of, interaction with, troubleshooting of problems with, or optimization of industrial assets of an IAS. The modeler component polls industrial assets via cloud gateways to obtain information relating to the industrial assets to identify industrial assets of the IAS and relationships with other industrial assets or can receive information from a communication device that obtains information relating to legacy industrial assets to identify those legacy assets and their relationships. The modeler component generates an interactive model of the industrial assets of the IAS based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Strohmenger, Jessica L. Korpela, Matthew W. Fordenwalt, Jan Pingel, Stephen L. Hickox, Douglas B. Weber
  • Patent number: 11409943
    Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a customizable data reporting module are disclosed. A database stores an SSRS file as an SSRS.RDL file. A processor, operatively connected to the database via a network, accesses the database or a folder path to obtain the SSRS.RDL file; reads an XML content within the SSRS.RDL file; extracts, in response to reading the XML content, report layout information data of a report and database related information data of the report; implements, in response to extracting, a data migration process to store the report layout information data as an excel file and the database related information data as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file; receives a request from a user to generate a report in accordance with a desired file format; and processes, in response to receiving the request, the excel file and the JSON file and automatically generates a custom report based on the desired file format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Amit Chodankar, Nikhil Pinto
  • Patent number: 11353836
    Abstract: A method for secure communication with a field measuring device of process measuring technology is described and shown. Upon contact by an external communication means with a web server via a communication interface, a first authenticity check of an external communication means is carried out by the field measuring device and a second authenticity check of the external communication means is carried out. After successful completion of the first authenticity check and the second authenticity check, further communication of the external communication means with the web server is authorized by the field measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KROHNE Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Spiegel
  • Patent number: 11329681
    Abstract: An adaptive radio frequency module including a switching circuit to switch receipt of a voltage, an assembly including the adaptive RF module, a system comprising a base unit with one or more radio frequency modules, and a method of operation of the system are provide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventors: Attila Apro, Maximilian Seiffert, Dhruva Maharaj
  • Patent number: 11321616
    Abstract: A method for generating an operational rule associated with a building management system includes identifying, with a processing device, a first pattern associated with a series of operational observations corresponding to a property of the building management system, correlating a first contextual attribute with the first pattern, and deriving the operational rule at least in part based on the first pattern and the first contextual attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bei Chen, Joern Ploennigs, Anika Schumann, Mathieu Sinn
  • Patent number: 11320806
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for facilitating object-based industrial automation control. An automation control library comprised of a plurality of objects may be maintained in association with one or more industrial automation applications. Code defining the execution of an industrial automation process may be received. A plurality of objects in the object library for implementing the industrial automation control process may be identified. The plurality of identified objects may be matched to one or more hardware components based on one or more operational requirements included in the code, and available hardware resources for performing the automation control process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Srdjan Josipovic, Matthew R. Ericsson, Michael D. Kalan, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon M. Billi-Duran
  • Patent number: 11287958
    Abstract: A digital signage system provides a processor and memory; a media player for delivering content to digital signage that stores at least one playlist having media slots for playing media spots, where at least one of the media spots is a content controlling spot that includes intelligent content including attributes and attribute values for commanding control of delivery of other media spots, where the content controlling spot is configured to, upon being instigated, use the intelligent content to search for media spots to be played by the media player, identify a plurality of published media spots to be played based on a set of attributes and attribute values associated therewith, and cause one of the plurality of the published media spots to be retrieved based on the set of attributes and attribute values associated with the spot, and where the media player plays the retrieved spot on the digital signage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: JohnRyan Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Paul Madgwick, Nancy Radermecher
  • Patent number: 11268727
    Abstract: A control system of a heat, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In some embodiments, the HVAC system includes an electronic display configured to concurrently display a plurality of zone icons that indicate a current setpoint mode corresponding to a plurality of building zones, wherein the current setpoint mode comprises a home setpoint mode and an away setpoint mode. Additionally, the HVAC system may include a control circuitry communicatively coupled to the electronic display. The control circuitry may be configured to toggle the current setpoint mode associated with the plurality of building zones between the home setpoint mode and the away setpoint mode based on a received user input. Further, the control circuitry may be configured to control operation of the HVAC system based on the current setpoint mode associated with each building zone of the plurality of building zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: John W. Uerkvitz, Jonathan A. Burns, Theresa N. Gillette
  • Patent number: 11271983
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and processing multimedia content. Chat content from a chat session among users on a network is accessed, including at least an item of video chat content associated with a phone number of a chat participant. Location information associated with the chat content is determined. Chat content location information is compared with predefined location information associated with projects or activities to identify a corresponding matching project or activity. A multimedia document comprising chat content associated with the matching project or activity is generated, wherein the item of video chat content is displayed in association with a play control and in association with an identifier of the chat participant. The item of video chat content in the multimedia document may be played in response to a user activation of the play control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: E-PLAN, INC.
    Inventor: Michael M. Chegini
  • Patent number: 11221167
    Abstract: In order to an initialising system for a refrigerant compressor unit, including a refrigerant compressor, an electrical drive motor for the refrigerant compressor and a compressor controller that determines the voltage and speed of the drive motor on the basis of sets of configuration parameters loaded into this compressor controller and controls the drive motor accordingly, wherein the initialising system has a compressor data memory, in which compressor data relating to respectively possible refrigerant compressors are stored, and a motor data memory, in which motor data relating to possible drive motors are stored, wherein the initialising system has a processor for performing the initialisation, a display unit and an input unit, wherein during initialisation the display unit and the input unit serve to determine the refrigerant compressor and the drive motor, and wherein the processor uses the compressor data of the determined refrigerant compressor and uses the motor data of the determined drive motor to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BITZER Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Hieble, John Gibson
  • Patent number: 11216889
    Abstract: A system may include a router that may receive a plurality of data packets from one or more devices that communicatively couples to the router. The system may also include at least one processor that identifies an identity of a device based on a data packet received by the router from the device, generate an insurance policy that includes the device in response to identifying the identity of the device, and sends a notification indicative of the insurance policy to a computing device in response to generating the insurance policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick