384 patents
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Utility
Systems and Methods for Identifying User-customized Relevant Individuals In an Ambient Image at a Doorbell Device
28 Oct 21
Systems and methods for identifying user-customized relevant individuals in an ambient image at a doorbell device are provided.
Soumitri Kolavennu, Nathaniel Kraft
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Utility
Systems and Methods for Broadcasting an Audio or Visual Alert That Includes a Description of Features of an Ambient Object Extracted from an Image Captured by a Camera of a Doorbell Device
28 Oct 21
Systems and methods for broadcasting an audio or visual alert that includes a description of features of an ambient object extracted from an image captured by a camera of a doorbell device are provided.
Nathaniel Kraft, Piotr Romanczyk, William R. Blum
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Utility
Migration of settings from a non-connected building controller to another building controller
26 Oct 21
A Heating, Ventilation, and/or Air Conditioning (HVAC) controller configured to control at least part of an HVAC system of a building.
Nathaniel D. Kraft, Bernard T. Geary, Ajay Pai, Michael Albright, Sharath Venkatesha, Jeffrey Boll
Filed: 22 Jul 16
Utility
Wall mount connector including memory
19 Oct 21
A thermostat that is configured to be releasably secured to a wall mountable connector, wherein the wall mountable connector includes a jumper switch that permits an installer or other professional to easily form an electrical connection between different wiring terminals of the wall mountable connector in accordance with how particular field wires are connected to the wiring terminals of the wall mountable connector.
David J. Emmons, Travis J. Read
Filed: 14 Feb 19
Utility
Retrofit damper with pivoting connection between deployment and operational configurations
19 Oct 21
A damper assembly is configured for deployment in a forced air duct that supplies conditioned air through a register boot to a register vent secured relative to the register boot.
David J. Emmons, Nathan Carlson, Steven Wolff
Filed: 12 Jun 18
Utility
System for Abnormal Condition Detection Using Nearest Neighbor
14 Oct 21
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from at least one sensor operatively coupled to a mechanical device, sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device; accessing, from an environmental database, information regarding at least one environmental condition in proximity to a geographical location of the mechanical device; generating, using a processor, a correlative value for the mechanical device, wherein the correlative value identifies a correlation between the sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device and the at least one environmental condition; assigning the correlative value as a baseline correlative value to the mechanical device; monitoring the sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device and the at least one environmental condition and updating the correlative value; identifying, using a processor, the correlative value for the mechanical device has exceeded a predetermined threshold as compared to the baseline correlative value; and notifying a user that the correlative value for the mechanical device has exceeded the predetermined threshold.
Brian Scott Courtney, James Henry Gillespie, V, Alan Glenn Hinchman, Logan James Krawchyk
Filed: 24 Jun 21
Utility
Access Door Detection Using a Humidity Sensor
7 Oct 21
A humidifier device includes an output device, an atomizer enclosure having a first opening that is operable to be open and closed and a second opening, an atomizer within the atomizer enclosure configured to produce moisture and to output the moisture through the second opening of the atomizer enclosure, a humidity sensor configured to sense humidity levels, and control circuitry configured to control the atomizer and to determine whether the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open.
Tarik Khoury, Michal Sicner, Pavel Marak
Filed: 7 Apr 20
Utility
Comfort Controller with User Feedback
7 Oct 21
An HVAC control system is provided that is configured to prompt a user to indicate whether or not they arc comfortable under current environmental conditions.
Leisha Wells
Filed: 15 Jun 21
Utility
HVAC control with a remote user interface and a remote temperature sensor
5 Oct 21
An illustrative HVAC controller may include a communication module for wirelessly communicating with a network and wiring terminals for receiving a wired connection to a remote temperature sensor that is situated remote from the HVAC controller and in a living space of the building.
Peter M. Anderson, Ryan Strassburg, Rolf L. Strand, Luke A. Piram, John D. Mitchell
Filed: 8 Nov 19
Utility
Home Network Using Multiple Wireless Networking Protocols
30 Sep 21
A sensor device includes processing circuitry configured to output, at a first bandwidth, first bandwidth data to a hub device using a first wireless connection configured for a first wireless protocol.
Robert D. Juntunen, Kenneth Eskildsen, William R. Blum
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Bluetooth Using Secondary Channel
30 Sep 21
A device includes communication circuitry configured to establish, with an external device, a wireless channel according to a connection protocol and exchange, via the wireless channel and with the external device, network parameters for establishing a BLUETOOTH channel that is different from the wireless channel.
Robert D. Juntunen, Bertrand Jean Michel Debever, Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Water Heating System for Controlling an Ability to Set a Parameter of a Controller
30 Sep 21
This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for controlling a temperature of water contained by a water tank.
Brian Moy, Christopher R. Jones, Michael Crites, Arnold Kalla
Filed: 27 Mar 20
Utility
Wall Mounted Bypass Humidifier
23 Sep 21
In some examples, a device is configured to add moisture to an air stream of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system configured to regulate one or more parameters of a space within a building.
Steven L Wolff
Filed: 19 Mar 20
Utility
Duct positioned wicking evaporative humidifier
14 Sep 21
A wicking evaporative humidifier in which cartridge that includes a pad is inserted directly into an air flow through the wall of a duct that distributes conditioned air throughout a structure.
Ryan McArdle
Filed: 13 Sep 19
Utility
HVAC controller with a zone commissioning mode
7 Sep 21
An HVAC controller may have an operational mode in which the HVAC controller provides operational instructions, and a commissioning mode in which a plurality of wireless devices can be enrolled.
Patrick Gonia, David J. Emmons
Filed: 3 Dec 18
Utility
Method to control a communication rate between a thermostat and a cloud based server
24 Aug 21
A communication rate between a cloud-based server and an HVAC controller located within a building may be controlled based on the amount of power available at the HVAC controller.
Patrick R. Lemire, Robert D. Juntunen, Kurt Robideau
Filed: 20 Jun 18
Utility
Thermostat Power Wire Switching Circuit
19 Aug 21
A switch circuit configured to receive power from either a single power source or dual power source.
Hyunki Kim, Robert D. Juntunen
Filed: 18 Feb 20
Utility
Wireless occupancy sensor with controllable light indicator
17 Aug 21
A wireless occupancy sensor that is configured to be deployed within a building space includes a sensor body, an occupancy sensor that is housed by the sensor body, a light emitting diode (LED) that is housed by the sensor body, a wireless transceiver that is housed by the sensor body and is configured to be in wireless communication with a remote device.
Travis Read, Eric Barton, Karla Morales, Liliana Reategui, Christopher Heintzelman
Filed: 10 Oct 18
Utility
Pressure Reducing Valve and Method for Operating the Same
12 Aug 21
A pressure reducing valve and a method for operating the pressure reducing valve.
Dominik Ernst
Filed: 5 Feb 21
Utility
Dynamic Superframe Slotting
12 Aug 21
An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to output, to a plurality of devices, an initial superframe configured in an initial superframe mode of a plurality of superframe modes.
Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan, Arun Handanakere Sheshagiri, Rajeev Ranjan, Sheetal R. Kadam
Filed: 7 Feb 20