Motorola Corporation

Careband, Inc.

Google Inc.

Motorola Mobility LLC

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Peter Nanni

Jon G Ledwith

Patrick J McVey

Brian A Donlin

Joseph T Kreidler

Ross D Moore

Paul C Sheldon

John D Reed

Adam G Sobol

Dwayne D Forsyth

Todd Sobol

Reid B Erekson

Christopher B Houghton

Bradley Michael Hiben

Ryan Patrick Rye

Hae Rim Jeong

Thomas D Nagode

Martin Hague Ramsden

Adam G Russek-Sobol

Glen A Franson

Peter M Pavlov

Steven J Fink

Harish Natarahjan

Sam H Viesca

Louis Jay Vannatta

Christopher N Kurby

Vijay L Asrani

Mohammed Rajeek Abdul-Gaffoor

Charles Philipp Binzel

Brian David Storm

Greg R Black

Arthur Christopher Leyh

Jason R Gebhardt

Carl Missele

Terry K Mansfield

Keith Andrew Tilley

Ronald F Buskey

Jan P Vanderspool, Ii

Peter A Kwitkowski

Peter P Walter

Louis M Nigra

Chiya Saeidi

Leslie D Mutz

William E Wangard

Anthony M Pirih

Kevin Freisen

Norman E O'Shea

Steven L Russek

Eric Midlock

Li Xiang

A personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device, a system and methods of using the personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device can act as an aggregator of the data that is being acquired by the one or more sensors and from other devices that are within wireless signal range of the personal area network in order to send some or all of the data over a wireless low power wide area network to remote locations within a larger network for subsequent processing, user notification, analysis of location-determination, contact tracing or the like. Data may flow in a bidirectional manner between the wearable electronic device and at least some of the other devices within the personal area network. In one form, the aggregated data may be used to provide information related to one or more operational parameters of an industrial asset and, if necessary, take control-based action in order to adjust one or more such operational parameters. In one form, a communication network formed by the wearable electronic device is used within an industrial setting in order to perform such data acquisition, processing and related control.

Method and system for connectivity and control of industrial equipment using a low power wide area network

A wearable electronic device, a system and methods of monitoring with a wearable electronic device. The device includes a hybrid wireless communication module with wireless communication sub-modules to selectively acquire location data from both indoor and outdoor sources, as well as a wireless communication sub-module to selectively transmit an LPWAN signal to provide location information based on the acquired data. The device may also include one or more sensors to collect one or more of environmental data, activity data and physiological data. The device may transmit some or all of its acquired data to a larger system, including a cloud-based server to, in addition to providing location-based data, be used as a part of a predictive health care protocol to correlate changes in acquired data to salient indicators of the health of a wearer of the device. In one form, the predictive health care protocol uses a machine learning model.

Wearable electronic device and system for tracking location and identifying changes in salient indicators of patient health

A personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device, a system and methods of using the personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device can act as an aggregator of the data that is being acquired by the one or more sensors and from other devices that are within wireless signal range of the personal area network in order to send some or all of the data over a wireless low power wide area network to remote locations within a larger network for subsequent processing, user notification, analysis of location-determination, contact tracing or the like. Data may flow in a bidirectional manner between the wearable electronic device and at least some of the other devices within the personal area network. In one form, the aggregated data may be used to control access to a hazard-prone environment in order to reduce the likelihood of exposure of a service technician to unsafe conditions within such environment. In one form, a communication network formed by the wearable electronic device is used with the hazard-prone environment in order to control access, while in another to control a lockout/tagout procedure.

Method and system for connectivity and control of a hazard-prone environment using a low power wide area network

A mobile edge computing system, a communication network and a method of using a mobile edge computing device. The mobile edge computing system includes a communication module that establishes signal communication over numerous wireless communication protocols at least one of which uses a low power wide area network protocol. A logic device is made up of a distributed set of processing units including both a central processing unit and one or more processors configured for performing machine learning operations the latter of which include one or more of a graphical processor unit and a tensor processing unit. When the system receives event data that has been acquired by one or more of the communication module and a sensor, the system executes a trained machine learning model and conveys, using the low power wide area network protocol, an output that has been produced by the trained machine learning model.

Edge computing system with low power wide area network connectivity and autonomous or semi-autonomous machine learning

A personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device, a system and methods of using the personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device can act as an aggregator of the data that is being acquired by the one or more sensors and from other devices that are within wireless signal range of the personal area network in order to send some or all of the data over a wireless low power wide area network to remote locations within a larger network for subsequent processing, user notification, analysis of location-determination, contact tracing or the like. Data may flow in a bidirectional manner between the wearable electronic device and at least some of the other devices within the personal area network.

Method and system for connectivity between a personal area network and an internet protocol network via low power wide area network wearable electronic device

A wristband locking mechanism for a wearable electronic device, a wristband, a wearable electronic device and a method of securing an article to a person. The wristband locking mechanism includes a clasp assembly with independently-operable spring-biased actuators such that the wristband locking mechanism cannot be unlocked using one hand. The use of sensors, processors, communication equipment and associated components within the wearable electronic device allows a caregiver to monitor one or more of location, environmental, physiological and activity data of a wearer of the device, while the requirement for two-handed operation for unlocking of the wristband locking mechanism provides a deterrent against intentional or unintentional removal of the attached article or wearable electronic device by the wearer.

Wristband locking mechanism, wristband, wearable electronic device and method of securing an article to a person

Wearable location and activity tracking device

A first electronic device uses a first wireless link to connect wirelessly to an audio source device, and a second wireless link to connect to a second electronic device. In some cases, the first electronic device and the second electronic device can be worn by, or mounted to, a user. Upon receiving audio from the audio source device, the first electronic device extracts stereo channels from the received audio, and transmits at least one of the channels to the second electronic device. In some embodiments, an antenna of the first electronic device and an antenna of the second electronic device create a coaxial antenna pair. Alternately or additionally, each antenna, when worn by or mounted to a user, propagates an electric field in a direction generally normal to the user's head. In turn, this generates a creeping wave that travels along a surface, such as the surface of the user's head.

Wireless stereo headset antenna system

A circuit assembly () includes a printed circuit board assembly (). The printed circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board (), a second circuit board (), and a first flexible substrate () interposed between, and continuous with, the first circuit board and the second circuit board. A second flexible substrate () extends from, and is continuous with, the second circuit board. One or more electronic circuits comprising electronic components () are disposed along one or more of the first circuit board or the second circuit board. The printed circuit board assembly is folded about a battery (), with the first circuit board adjacent to the first major face, the second circuit board adjacent to the second major face, and the first flexible substrate spanning the one or more side faces.

Circuit assembly for compact acoustic device

A method and apparatus for a wireless communication earpiece. The wireless communication earpiece comprises an earbud and an electronics portion. A manual selection of one of a left ear and a right ear position of the earbud is conveyed to the electronics portion by one of an electrical and mechanical means. In some embodiments, a right antenna element is electrically coupled (activated) to a transceiver when the right ear position is selected and a left antenna element is activated when the left ear position is selected. In some embodiments, an antenna element is coupled to the transceiver and the antenna element is rotated to a right side (activated) of the earpiece when the right ear position is selected and the antenna element is rotated to a left side (activated) of the earpiece when the left ear position is selected.

Wireless communication earpiece

A Multiple Protocol Signal Detector, MPSD () has a mixer () that receives signal energy from a multi-band antenna system () via a low noise amplifier () and from a variable frequency synthesizer () via a first variable band pass filter (). The output of the mixer () passes through a second variable band pass filter () to an envelope detector () a power detector () and a low resolution A/D () that inputs digitized samples to a binary modulation detector, BMD (). A controller () configures the aforementioned devices of the MPSD () to detect communications using different protocols based on a scan Look Up Table ().

Multiple protocol signal detector

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Peter Nanni