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7315244 Excessive noise level alerting device  
A sound-detection and alerting system (SDAS) is designed for use in hospitals, offices, or other environments where excessive noise levels are of concern. The SDAS depends on several variables to...
7315245 Soap dispenser base system  
A method and apparatus are disclosed involving a soap dispenser base for helping assure the washing of a person's hands. Pressure exerted on a soap dispenser in contact with the soap dispenser base...
7312703 Initialization of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building  
Initialization of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building involves the sensor, a gateway and an installer device. An automated initialization brings the sensor online and...
7312702 Expediting release procedure of cargo container at border crossing or at customs entry point by tracking and reporting threats while cargo container is in transit  
A method of expediting a release procedure of at least one cargo container at least one border crossing or at least one customs entry point by detecting each statistically significant threat (SST)...
7307541 Light output device, relay and program for controlling the light output device  
An information processing system formed with a relay and light output devices. In the system, an external information receiver receives first external information transmitted from an outside. An...
7292144 Apparatus and method for contact-less switching  
An apparatus and method for use with a railroad dragging equipment detecting (DED) system that detects objects hanging from and dragged beneath a train as the train travels along rails of a...
7289036 Personal alarm device  
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a method for alerting a quiescent person, may include recording a personal alert message, receiving an alarm over a wireless communications...
7277520 Electronic apparatus having a communication device  
An electronic apparatus has a communication device, memory which stores identification information for identifying an external device having been previously connected to the communication device,...
7271720 Homeland intelligent systems technology “H-LIST”  
Homeland Intelligence Systems Technology “H-LIST” comprises nano-sensors embedded in a silicon substrate and etched/fused in a micro-fibered material to enable an outfit for monitoring...
7271722 Security sensor device having optical axis adjustment capability  
There is provided a security sensor device having an optical axis adjusting capability, which device includes a beam projecting unit ( 1 ) for projecting sensing waves, to which ID codes for...
7266470 Method for mitigating interference between nearby proximity sensors  
A method, that arbitrates when each of a plurality of sensors can perform an object detection procedure, assigns a different binary address to each sensor. Each bit in the binary address is...
7265658 Notifying system, information providing apparatus and method, electronic device and method, and computer readable medium  
When a notification indicating the abnormality is received by a portable electronic device, an operator identification operating section identifies the operator of the portable electronic device as...
7263620 System and method for graceful shutdown of host processor cards in a server system  
A host processor card configured to be fitted into a server system includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor for storing an operating system. A power control line controls the...
7256692 Anti-tamper apparatus  
One apparatus embodiment includes a patterned electrically conductive layer, a power source, and an actuator. The power source provides an electrical signal to the electrically conductive layer....
7253727 Security checkpoint  
A security checkpoint includes a personal scanning portal, a parcel scanning portal and a controller for ensuring substantially simultaneous scanning of a person and the parcel associated with the...
7250847 Portable surface member for conducting exercises of individuals  
The concept herein is focused on a portable structure, generally in the form of a portable mat or other similar member, that can be moved or transported from place to place to be used in a...
7248174 Automatic sensing of safe-operation sensor apparatus and method  
A movable barrier operator having a microprocessor ( 10 ) or other programmable platform will automatically work in a safe and appropriate manner both with and without safe-operation sensors ( 13...
7239239 Dialog system for warning and information systems  
In order to make warning devices more efficient, it is known to design parameters to be variable and therewith to be adaptable depending upon the state or condition of a user of the warning...
7233243 Method of defense-in-depth ultrasound intrusion detection  
Method of ingress or egress intrusion detection by ultrasound surveillance throughout volumetric multi-area room around a protected object, where the surveyed room is arranged in juxtaposed...
7227465 Security bar with fiber optic cable based security monitoring  
A security bar providing improved security from breach is obtained with the use of a fiber optic cable longitudinally inserted in a hollowed out cavity thereof. Monitoring of the security bar to...
7221271 Device for controlling lighting for the interiors of automotive vehicles and method for controlling said device  
A device for controlling lighting, especially inside the passenger compartments of vehicles, including at least one light source and at least one sensor which influences the light source and which...
7218226 Acceleration-based theft detection system for portable electronic devices  
A theft prevention system for protecting portable electronic devices is disclosed. An acceleration sensor detects the acceleration of a portable electronic device, and a controller analyzes this...
7215241 Tamper detection sensor antenna  
A communication interfering object presence detection sensor, for use with an antenna system, which initiates an alarm signal whenever a communication interfering object presence is detected by...
7212113 Passenger and item tracking with system alerts  
A dynamically configurable threat scanning machine management system is capable of tracking information associated with one ore more items and/or passengers. The central control computer network...
7212966 Voice recognition apparatus for vehicle  
A speech recognition apparatus for a vehicle is provided for decreasing the feeling of discomfort of the operator even in the case that speech recognition is continuously impossible over several...
7212955 Consumer product status monitoring  
Data associated with at least one characteristic associated with the viability of a product is monitored. The data associated with the at least one characteristic is analyzed, and based on the...
7209045 Method for determining and monitoring the ageing of the blood bags in blood transfusion units and healthcare units  
Method of monitoring a blood bag, the method including monitoring a maximum allowed time dT that the blood bag may be kept outside a controlled-atmosphere enclosure and an expiration date stored in...
7209014 Switching device actuated by a transponder  
Proposed is a device actuated by a transponder for the generation of a switch signal. The device is based on an oscillating circuit ( 10 ) with a capacitance (C 1 ), an identification coil (L 1 )...
7206645 Mobile, unitary, wall-plugged, temperature and/or power monitoring and warning system for critical spaces  
A system comprising a housing, an electrical bus, a connector module for connecting the electrical bus to a power source, a battery module so as to provide power to the electrical bus when the...
7202791 Method and apparatus for modeling behavior using a probability distrubution function  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for modeling patterns of behavior of humans or other animate objects and detecting a violation of a repetitive pattern of behavior. The behavior of one or more...
7199724 Method and apparatus to aide in emergency egress  
A method and apparatus are provided to aide in emergency egress of a structure. More particularly, egress indicators are co-located with hazard sensors. During detection of a hazard condition,...
7199711 Mobile floor cleaner data communication  
In a method of communicating data from a mobile floor cleaner to a remote receiver a data communication is initiated from a communicator of the mobile floor cleaner to the remote receiver and data...
7196623 Remote reminding system  
The inventive device functions to warn a user of the undesirable condition of an appliance or other equipment. An “undesirable condition” may be an automatic garage door that is left open, a...
7193513 Alarm system  
A transmitter comprises a signaling history information transmission unit. After the transmitter generates a detection signal, the signaling history information transmission unit sends...
7190268 Multi-angle viewable indicator apparatus  
An indicator apparatus facilitates visibility of one or more indicators from multiple angles. The apparatus includes a housing having an outer sidewall portion. The sidewall portion, for example,...
7190267 System and method for managing power control and data communication among devices  
A system for managing devices comprises a first device comprising a first interface and a second device comprising a second interface. The second interface is coupled to the first interface using a...
7190266 Pre-installed appliance with warning system and methods of operation  
A limited-use appliance, such as a garage door operator or a home network bridge device, is disclosed which has at least one input device for generating an input signal and a controller associated...
7187279 Security system and a method of operating  
A method of operating a security system is disclosed as including sensors for detecting occurrence of at least one security related event, e.g. motion, and alarm devices, in which the sensors and...
7173881 Silent morning alarm  
A alarm system for providing silent notification to a user including an alarm device. The alarm device includes means for generating an alarm signal, and a transmitter connected to the generating...
7173513 Electrical appliance with communication interface  
An electrical appliance includes at least one sensor for recording at least one operating parameter and at least one actuator for influencing at least one operating parameter of the electrical...
7170409 Tamper evident packaging  
A packaging and a method for monitoring a packaging ( 10 ) of a disposable material in a chain of logistics. As an integral part of the packaging, the packaging has an electronic module ( 12 )...
7170418 Probabilistic neural network for multi-criteria event detector  
A multi-criteria event detection system, comprising a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is capable of detecting a signature characteristic of a presence of an event and providing an output...
7167093 Method of steering capacitor fields for use in capacitive sensing security systems  
The present invention provides a capacitive sensing apparatus having utility in object detection security applications whereby the object detection field generated by the apparatus is made...
7158007 Lock control system, lock controller, and key device  
A lock is operated by a lock controller that receives identifying signals transmitted from one or more wireless key devices. Weights are assigned to the identifying signals, and the lock is...
7158025 Emergency alarm system  
An emergency alarm system is disclosed as including a base unit 9 , adapted to be installed in an architectural structure at an area attracting public attention, which incorporates a temperature...
7158028 Intelligent multi purpose early warning system for shipping containers, components therefor and methods of making the same  
A multipurpose sensing system of detecting, qualifying and quantifying a potential threat to national security comprises a multipurpose sensing module associated with each cargo carrying container....
7155485 Variable group communication system  
A flexible multi-processor communications system supports variable message lengths and variable groups and application designations at respective processors. The receiving processors determine what...
7151835 Personal noise monitoring apparatus and method  
The present invention relates to a method, system and device for monitoring noise received by individuals operating in noisy environments. The device comprises a substantially credit card size...
7151447 Detection and identification of threats hidden inside cargo shipments  
A method for identifying at least one threat to the homeland security. Each threat is either hidden inside at least one cargo container before transit, or is placed inside at least one cargo...
7149653 Information system in a motor vehicle with driving-style-dependent production of information to be outputted  
Information system in a vehicle, having a plurality of information sources for outputting respectively associated information. The information which is to be output is generated and/or filtered as...