Patents Examined by Michael V Kerrigan
  • Patent number: 11981294
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to techniques for headlamp heater control. In examples, a headlight assembly comprises a heater, which is used to prevent or remove condensation/precipitation on a lens of the headlamp assembly. Given it may be difficult for an individual to know when to manually turn the headlamp heater on, an electronic control unit (ECU) may evaluate a set of rules to determine when to automatically enable or disable the headlamp heater. The rules may be associated with atmospheric conditions outside the vehicle, the state of the vehicle (e.g., whether windshield wipers are turned on, whether windshield defog is enabled, whether a mirror heater is turned on, etc.), and/or user input received by an ECU of the vehicle, among other examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc.
    Inventors: Scott M. Conway, G. Thomas Checketts
  • Patent number: 11970123
    Abstract: A computing device is provided to monitor or ascertain various characteristics of one or more of a wheeled mobility device securement system, a wheeled mobility device, and an occupant of the wheeled mobility device. The computing device can send any and all data available to it, including but not limited to time, dynamic information concerning the vehicle, the wheeled mobility device securement system, the wheeled mobility device, and the occupant, the actions taken by the computing device during an adverse driving condition, and when those actions were taken, to memory for use after the adverse driving event for analysis purposes to understand and recreate the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Valeda Company, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Girardin
  • Patent number: 11961401
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Patent number: 11961338
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is mounted on a vehicle together with a control apparatus configured to accept, from a device electrically connected to a connector on the vehicle, a communication request to request transmission of data and transmit a communication response including the data to the device. The communication apparatus includes a communication interface configured to sequentially transmit two or more communication requests to the control apparatus, and in a case in which a communication response corresponding to at least one of transmitted communication requests is received from the control apparatus, transmit data included in the received communication response to a server apparatus installed in a location different from the vehicle, and a controller configured to determine whether a device to be detected is electrically connected to the connector depending on whether the communication interface has received a communication response corresponding to each of the two or more communication requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yosuke Moriuchi
  • Patent number: 11947364
    Abstract: In a conventional vessel anti-rolling apparatus, because a large memory capacity and a high-speed high-function computing processing unit are required, the cost of the vessel anti-rolling apparatus is caused to rise. A vessel anti-rolling control apparatus and an anti-rolling control method according to the present disclosure includes an azimuth controller that outputs a first steering-angle command value for making the vessel turn to an azimuth to which the vessel should travel, based on an azimuth command signal and a yaw-angle signal, an anti-rolling controller that outputs a second steering-angle command value for reducing rolling of the vessel, based on a rolling-angle signal, a rolling-angular-velocity signal, and a vessel-speed signal, and a steering-angle controller that controls a steering angle, based on the first steering-angle command value and the second steering-angle command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Imamura, Ryo Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11938937
    Abstract: A vehicle control system receives signals from sensors on board a first vehicle and plural other, second vehicles. Based on the signals received from the sensors, the system determines a brake assessment of a brake system, where the brake assessment includes a state of health of the brake system and/or a location of interest of a leak in the brake system. The system controls movement of the first vehicle and the second vehicles relative to at least one remote vehicle system based at least in part on the brake assessment that is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Edward Gaughan
  • Patent number: 11939019
    Abstract: An electric kickboard may include: a top plate of a foot plate including a receiving portion in which an electronic lock device for fixing the electric kickboard is installed; and a bottom plate of the foot plate, which is assembled to the top plate of the foot plate and fixes the electronic lock device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Jaekwang Son
  • Patent number: 11935416
    Abstract: A process can include obtaining a plurality of data points each associated with a respective edge device of a fleet of edge devices, each respective edge device associated with an edge site location or edge device asset group. The plurality of data points are stored to a fleet map data catalog and a filtering selection for viewing a filtered subset of the fleet map data catalog is received, indicating a selected geographic view area and selected edge device types from a plurality of edge device types. Data points corresponding to the filtered subset are obtained from the fleet map data catalog using the filtering selection. A fleet map GUI view is generated using the data points corresponding to the filtered subset, the fleet map GUI view comprising a converged geographic map of the selected geographic view area, with data points are rendered at corresponding locations within the converged geographic map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Armada Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Motamedi, Chris Vasquez, Grant Gordon, Dan Wright, Pragyana K Mishra, Anish Swaminathan, Janardhan Prabhakara
  • Patent number: 11922817
    Abstract: The present application provides a 4-dimensional trajectory regulatory decision-making method for air traffic. The method includes: acquiring a node vector set of a target flight to obtain a target node vector set; acquiring the node vector set of all historical flights simultaneously to obtain a historical node vector set; acquiring a similarity between the target node vector set and the node vector set of each historical flight in the historical node vector set to obtain a plurality of similarity data; acquiring a similarity data which is greater than a preset similarity data from plurality of similarity data to obtain a target similarity data; acquiring a historical flight to which the target similarity data belongs to obtain a target historical flight; acquiring a historical decision-making instruction of the target historical flight to obtain a target decision-making instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kaiquan Cai, Yanbo Zhu, Zhiqi Shen, Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 11919461
    Abstract: A vehicle device includes a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The non-volatile memory stores, as read-only data, a system image. The system image read from the non-volatile memory is extracted in the volatile memory. The vehicle device generates a symbolic link. The vehicle device accesses a file included in the system image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoji Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11906396
    Abstract: Methods of determining resistive coefficients of a vehicle include using a force-based analysis method and a work-energy analysis method. The methods include receiving an input on a mobile device to initiate a test protocol along a path. The mobile device records a set of measurements for determining a drag area coefficient and a coefficient of rolling resistance for the vehicle using the force-based or work-energy analysis method. For the force-based analysis method, a direct measurement of proper acceleration of the vehicle is measured from an accelerometer on the mobile device. For the work-energy analysis method, a normal force on the vehicle is determined from a direct measurement of proper acceleration from an accelerometer on the mobile device. The mobile device determines the drag area coefficient and the coefficient of rolling resistance based on the set of measurements using the force-based or work-energy analysis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: William Blake Laing, III
  • Patent number: 11904655
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting and executing automated control of climate comfort settings based on user classification within a group identity database. Methods of generating and employing the group identity database are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Akshay Dirisala, Leopoldo Urbina, Raghavendran Shankar, Elizabeth Anne Manwell, Victoria Leigh Schein
  • Patent number: 11899452
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to routing an autonomous vehicle based upon risk of takeover of the autonomous vehicle by a human operator. A computing system receives an origin location and a destination location of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system identifies a route for the autonomous vehicle to follow from the origin location to the destination location based upon output of a computer-implemented model. The computer-implemented model is generated based upon labeled data indicative of instances in which autonomous vehicles are observed to transition from operating autonomously to operating based upon conduction by human operators while the autonomous vehicles are executing predefined maneuvers. The computer-implemented model takes, as input, an indication of a maneuver in the predefined maneuvers that is performed by the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle follows a candidate route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston, Vishal Suresh Vaingankar, Antony Joseph, Sean Gregory Skwerer, Lucio Otavio Marchioro Rech, Nitin Kumar Passa, Laura Athena Freeman, George Herbert Hines
  • Patent number: 11900257
    Abstract: A method and system for representing an environment of a first mobile platform. The method includes: capturing features of the environment by discrete time sequences of sensor-data from at least two sensors and respective time markers; determining distances of the first mobile platform to the features of the environment; estimating semantic information of the features of the environment; transforming the semantic information of the features of the environment into a moving spatial reference system, wherein a position of the first mobile platform is at a constant site, using the respective determined distances and respective time markers; creating an input tensor using sequences of the transformed semantic information of the features of the environment, corresponding to the sequences of the sensor data of the at least two sensors; generating an output tensor that represents the environment using a deep neural network at a requested point in time and the input tensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Lukas Hoyer, Volker Fischer
  • Patent number: 11897520
    Abstract: A method for transferring control of a vehicle from automated vehicle control by a control unit to manual vehicle control by a driver by a control lever, wherein the control lever is used at least to accelerate, brake, and steer the vehicle, wherein there is also at least one first display screen for displaying driving information, including at least an actual speed and an actual trajectory of the vehicle and a speed and a trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever, and wherein automated vehicle control is transferred to manual vehicle control when the actual speed of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the speed based on the actual position of the control lever and the actual trajectory of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever on the first display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Jung, Andreas Kramme, Maximilian Haverkamp, Jan Bavendiek, Lutz Eckstein, Alexander Tenbrock, Gert-Dieter Tuzar, Markus Uhlig, Thomas Sulzbach
  • Patent number: 11893839
    Abstract: A performance system can enable an untrained end user to analyze the performance of a vehicle based on performance data that the vehicle's ECU generates. The performance system can include a performance tool that is configured to request performance data from one or more ECUs of a vehicle. The performance system can also include a performance engine that interfaces with the performance tool to create a log of the performance data. The performance engine can be configured to process the performance data log to generate a number of performance values which correspond to performance parameters. The performance engine can then use the performance values to generate performance representations which can then be presented to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Integrated Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Peter Blais, David Blais
  • Patent number: 11892851
    Abstract: A system and method for a motorized mobile chair use a plurality of sensors having a plurality of sensor types to detect a plurality of objects and generate sensor data about the detected objects, each of the detected objects being a person, the sensor data about the objects comprising a plurality of range measurements to the people and a plurality of bearing measurements to the people. The system has at least one processor to receive the sensor data about the people, group the detected people into a plurality of zones, determine a closest person in each zone, and generate one or more control signals to cause the motorized mobile chair to match a speed and a direction of the closest person in the zone corresponding to a direction of travel of the motorized mobile chair while at least approximately maintaining a selected space to the closest person in the zone corresponding to the direction of travel of the motorized mobile chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Patroness, LLC
    Inventors: Jered Harvey Dean, Barry George Dean, Dan Alan Preston
  • Patent number: 11893535
    Abstract: A hybrid modular storage fetching system is described. In an example implementation, the system may include a warehouse execution system adapted to generate a picking schedule for picking pick-to-cart and high-density storage items, and an AGV dispatching system adapted to dispatch a cart automated guided vehicle and a modular storage fetching automated guided vehicle based on the picking schedule. The cart automated guided vehicle may be adapted autonomously transport a carton through a pick-to-cart area and to a pick-cell station. The modular storage fetching automated guided vehicle may be adapted to synchronously autonomously transport a modular storage unit containing items to be placed in the cartons from a high-density storage area to the pick-cell station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jarvis, Paolo Gerli Amador, Michael Bhaskaran, Vikranth Gopalakrishnan, Rodney Gallaway
  • Patent number: 11884261
    Abstract: A vehicular trailer sway management system includes at least one rearward-sensing radar sensor disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU). Radar data captured by the at least one rearward-sensing radar sensor is provided to the ECU. With a trailer hitched to the vehicle, the trailer sway management system, via processing at the ECU of the provided captured radar data, determines oblique angles of the trailer relative to the vehicle. As the vehicle tows the trailer, and responsive to monitoring of determined oblique angles of the trailer relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, the trailer sway management system determines sway of the trailer relative to the vehicle. Responsive to the determined sway of the trailer relative to the vehicle, the trailer sway management system at least in part controls operation of the vehicle to manage sway of the trailer relative to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Helmut A. Wodrich, Walter G. Woodington
  • Patent number: 11879771
    Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring lift events at a construction site includes: deriving a lifting profile from a first timeseries of load values, output by a load sensor coupled to a crane hook, during a first time period; deriving an oscillation characteristic from a first timeseries of motion values, output by a motion sensor coupled to the crane hook, during the first time period; identifying a type of an object carried by the crane hook during the first time period based on the lifting profile and the oscillation characteristic; selecting a load handling specification for the object based on the type of the object; accessing a second timeseries of motion values output by the motion sensor during a second time period; and, in response to the second timeseries of motion values deviating from the load handling specification, activating an object motion alarm for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Versatile Natures Ltd.
    Inventors: Meirav Oren, Ran Oren, Barak Cohen, Danny Hermann