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Anthro Corporation

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The Rival Company

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Electronics for Imaging Gmbh

Monterey International Corp.

Fujitsu Corporation

Sherwood Services Ag

Hewlett-packard Corporation

Thrustmaster, Inc.

Ziba Design, Inc.

Racor, Inc.

Events.com, Inc.

Sohrab Vossoughi

David Randall Knaub

Omer Kotzer

Dave Cole

Massoud Mollaghaffari

Steve McCallion

Robert O Dillon

David Knaub

Scott Thorpe

Terrence K Jones

Philip Frank

Gabriel Lopes

Kim Porter

Paul E Furner

Christopher G Alviar

Ken Dieringer

Igor Cornelio Lira

Angelika Schubert-Belle

Henry Young Chin

Thomas Crisp

Felix Ballerstedt

Rafi Holtzman

Paul E Gulick

Steven R Hix

Mehdi Mojtabavi

Lutz Kucher

Dave Sayler

Sandra J Hansen

Christopher A Alviar

Kent Williams

D Barry Huehn

David John Sayler

Eric Young Park

I-Chiang Sun

Chris J Ehr

Iulius Lucaci

Steven W Martinell

Brady A Olason

Alan M Hansen

Marc Lafond

Paul Dery

Brian G Heintz

Henry Y Chin

Vernita Kelm

Akihiko Ishizuka

Gabriel Chauviaux

Valintina S Arroyo

Abdi Nassib

Richard T Hsu

Phillips Tsai

William F Dresselhaus

Robert L Marchant

Joseph Carley

Gene D Yanku

Hiroaki Watanabe

Behren K Reeves

Guilherme Henrique Sehn

Samuel Spencer Jeibmann

James N Grant

Andrew Stam Parnell

Aria Vossoughi

Joel Morrissette

Alma Emadi

Ava Vossoughi

Christopher J Vondrachek

Karl D Roberts, Jr

Marvin G Astleford

Madjid Tounsi

A parking management system identifies vehicles in entrance lanes, exit lanes, or both, of a parking facility and provides a real-time vehicle inventory count. One or more beacons locate point of sale (POS) devices assigned to parking attendants to determine which of them are performing vehicle transactions. Vehicles can be associated with specific transactions, as well as the transaction-authorizing attendant and the barrier gate and vehicle travel lane to which the attendant is assigned. To reduce fraud, this transaction information can be monitored in real time by a web or mobile dashboard and analyzed in real time or upon attendant end-of-shift checkout. The parking management system also implements permit parking invitation techniques that provide registration, payment in advance or on demand, or both, for parking of an invitee's vehicle. These tasks are accomplished without an inviter's knowledge about the invitee, the invitee's vehicle, or both.

Techniques for vehicle parking management and invitation-based permitting

A parking objects or vehicles detection system performs vision-based parking inventory management by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server changes in instances of vehicle parking events.

Parking objects detection system using live inventory management

A dynamic parking management platform () includes a mobile communication device (), a parking server (), and an electronic ticket device () that cooperate to enable a vehicle driver to effect electronically a secure parking fee payment transaction. The electronic ticket device emits a beacon signal to enable transmission of vehicle parking time and other information to a wireless communication device () carried by a parking service provider officer or attendant walking past a parked vehicle and not having to view a display surface on the electronic ticket device. A lock and key capability enables secure parking fee payments and prevents unauthorized parking fee transactions. The parking management platform configured to induce vehicle drivers to purchase a product or service by parking discount inducement or advertisement information from merchants whose stores are located nearby the vehicle parking area.

Dynamic vehicle parking management platform

A parking objects or vehicles detection system () uses BLE proximity sensing to identify a vehicle () with a beacon ID to within about one vehicle length from an access gate () of a vehicle parking surface lot or garage. The system performs vision-based parking inventory management () by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server () changes in instances of vehicle parking events.

Parking objects detection system

A vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system () implemented with a beacon device () configured as a wireless identifier and authentication mechanism offers a user a capability of bypassing infrastructures of commercial parking lots and facilities, mass transit systems, and taxi services when using them. The beacon system includes a source beacon and a user beacon, the latter of which implemented in a user smart device () such as a smartphone. The use of a source beacon and user smart device enables elimination of reliance on a cellular communication connection from the time of the user's grant of permission for action to the time of separation of the user smart device and the beacon by a distance outside the range of connectivity between them. Such elimination of reliance on cellular communication connection avoids delay and communication coverage issues stemming from use of a cellular communication network.

Vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system

Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.

System for and method of communicating information between a host application and external smart objects controlled by a web application

A compact folding furniture piece constructed as a table is configured for convenient storage. The folding furniture piece comprises an object support assembly that is configured for operative connection to a mounting structure and includes a spring mechanism securing together as a flexible unit a support mount, an articulated vertebral column, and a table base. The spring mechanism exhibits flexibility properties such that the object support assembly assumes at rest an unfolded state and, in response to an externally applied bending force, assumes a folded state. In the unfolded state, the vertebral column is substantially straight to provide a closed support surface. In the folded state, the vertebral column is curved to provide a raised, open support surface on which an object can rest.

Compact folding furniture pieces

An image viewing device is matable with a smart device to enhance a user's viewing experience of multimedia content. A display surface of the smart device is not visible to a user when the smart device is inserted into an opening in a back surface opposite a display screen (e.g., touchscreen) of the image viewing device. During operation, the smart device communicates display information to the image viewing device so that multimedia content appears on the touchscreen. For example, the smart device communicates picture or video information to the image viewing device.

Customizable modular multi-function communication device

Eyewear includes a frame front () having first and second sides () to which are attached respective first and second temple arms (). The frame front is pivotally coupled to the temple arms to provide multiple tilt adjustment positions that enable a person wearing the eyewear to rotate the frame front about a pivot axis () between forward-facing and near-field adjustment positions (). First and second nose pad arms () couple respective first and second nose pads () to the frame front and have respective first and second nose bridge-contacting surfaces (). The nose pad arms extend from the frame front in a direction that sets an offset distance () between the nose bridge-contacting surfaces and the frame front to establish a vertical drop distance () that allows the user rotating the frame front about the pivot axis to the near-field adjustment position to see over the top long side () of the frame front.

Adjustable eyewear

A configurable modular communication device is composed of an information delivery module and an information input module that are matable to each other. The information delivery module is a single base unit that can work with a touchscreen keypad or a number of modular keypad or other information input attachments. The information input module enables a user to change the look of the modular communication device according to personal taste and enhances its functionality to fit the exact occasion and mode of use. The information delivery module acts on its own as the navigation key and provides on its display screen menu (including an on-screen touch sensing keypad) user access to all functionality including telephone, PDA (personal digital assistant), camera, clock, GPS, and MP3 music player. User-controlled navigation takes place on or in the vicinity of the display screen, whether by hard or soft key actuation.

A portable, compact folding furniture piece () constructed as a seat or table is configured for convenient storage. The folding furniture piece comprises an object support assembly () that is configured for operative connection to a mounting structure () and includes a spring mechanism () securing together as a flexible unit a support mount (), an articulated vertebral column (), and a support base (). The spring mechanism exhibits flexibility properties such that the object support assembly assumes at rest an unfolded state and, in response to an externally applied bending force, assumes a folded state. In the unfolded state, the vertebral column is substantially straight to provide a closed support surface (). In the folded state, the vertebral column is curved to provide a raised, open support surface on which an object can rest. Depending on the embodiment of the furniture piece, the object can be a person or thing.

Portable, compact folding furniture pieces

Humidifier

Air cleaner

A cart for supporting various types of medical equipment including a main support shelf, a bottom support shelf and a pair of support legs. Each support leg having a first end attached to the main support shelf and a second end attached to the bottom shelf. The cart also including an upper support shelf which couples in spaced relation to the main support shelf. Additional support shelves can be selectively mounted and stacked atop the main support shelf in a similar fashion.

Universal cart

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Sohrab Vossoughi