Patents Examined by Tuan C To
  • Patent number: 11970092
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control apparatus is to be mounted in a vehicle having a self-driving function and a driver's seat that can be turned backward, and includes a direction determination unit configured to determine a direction of the driver's seat, and a control unit configured to control an operation of a device mounted in the vehicle in accordance with the direction that is determined by the direction determination unit. In addition, an in-vehicle control apparatus according to the present embodiment is to be mounted in a vehicle having a self-driving function, and includes a self-driving determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is self-driving, and a control unit configured to perform control for restricting an operation of a device mounted in the vehicle in accordance with a determination result of the self-driving determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shota Ushiro
  • Patent number: 11966463
    Abstract: A policy interpreter detects that an application container has been added in a container system, and opens a stored manifest for the application container. The policy interpreter retrieves running services information regarding the application container, and generates a security policy for the application container. The security policy defines a set of actions for which the application container can perform, and the set of actions are determined using the manifest and the running service information associated with the application container. The policy interpreter loads the security policy at a security container. The security container blocks an action performed by the application container in response to determining that the action performed by the application container does not match any action in the set of actions defined in the security policy. The policy interpreter transmits the security policy to a graphical user interface container for presentation to a user via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUSE LLC
    Inventors: Glen K. Kosaka, Gang Duan, Fei Huang
  • Patent number: 11960627
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for anonymizing vehicle data. A data set is created on the basis of captured vehicle data and includes information regarding the location and/or time of the data capture. The information may be anonymized on the basis of traffic flow data by locally concealing the information regarding the location of the data capture and/or by temporally concealing the information regarding the time of the data capture. The traffic flow data may be based on group information received by the vehicle providing the vehicle data via vehicle-to-vehicle communication from other vehicles. A related motor vehicle and a network server directed to the anonymization is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Martin Wegner
  • Patent number: 11963065
    Abstract: Described herein are examples of a system that processes information describing movement of a vehicle at a time related to a potential collision to reliably determine whether a collision occurred and/or one or more characteristics of the collision. In response to obtaining information regarding a potential collision, data describing movement of the vehicle before and/or after a time associated with the potential collision is analyzed to determine whether the collision occurred and/or to determine one or more collision characteristic(s). The analysis may be carried out at least in part using a trained classifier that classifies the vehicle movement data into one or more classes, where at least some the classes are associated with whether a collision occurred and/or one or more characteristics of a collision. If a collision is determined to be likely, one or more actions may be triggered based on the characteristic(s) of the collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Stobbe, Stefania Talpa, Daniel Jacob Lewis, Jorge González Núñez, Ivan Lequerica Roca, Luis Alfonso Hernández Gómez
  • Patent number: 11959748
    Abstract: A functional iterative integration-based method for an inertial navigation solution includes: fitting a Chebyshev polynomial function of an angular velocity and a Chebyshev polynomial function of a specific force according to gyroscope-measured values and accelerometer-measured values on a time interval; iteratively calculating Chebyshev polynomial coefficients of an attitude quaternion by using the obtained Chebyshev polynomial coefficients of the angular velocity and an integral equation of the attitude quaternion, and performing polynomial truncation on a result obtained from each iterative calculation according to a preset order; iteratively calculating Chebyshev polynomial coefficients of a velocity/position by using the obtained Chebyshev polynomial coefficients of the specific force, the Chebyshev polynomial coefficients of the attitude quaternion and an integral equation of the velocity/position, and performing polynomial truncation on a result obtained from each iterative calculation according to a p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Yuanxin Wu
  • Patent number: 11958466
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting in a hybrid electric vehicle display, proximate to or in some relation to each other, engine power usage, motor-generator power usage, and battery state of charge information. By combining the display of engine power usage, motor-generator power, and battery state of charge information, power distribution and related information may be presented to the operator of a vehicle to explain the vehicle's performance from a power split output and usage perspective. This can provide reassurance or confirmation that the vehicle is operating as it should, identify a problematic condition, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Craig D. Herring, Aaron M. France
  • Patent number: 11951981
    Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting and validating a turn light indicator in a vehicle include receiving optical perception data from an optical perception system. The optical perception data includes data describing a detected turn indicator light of another vehicle perceived by the optical perception system including a status of the detected turn indicator light. A turn indicator light signal is generated in the form of a time varying waveform based on the status of the detected turn indicator light. A duty cycle and frequency of the turn indicator light signal is obtained. An assessment is made whether the detected turn indicator light is a valid detection by comparing the duty cycle and frequency with predetermined bounds. When the detected turn indicator light is assessed to be a valid detection, then an automated feature of the vehicle is controlled based on the data describing the detected turn indicator light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Daniel R Kraft, Taylor A. Jakubczak, Amanpal S Grewal, Darren Khan, Ben Llewellyn
  • Patent number: 11954514
    Abstract: A robotic process automation system includes a server processor that performs an automation task to process a work item, by initiating a java virtual machine on a second device. A first user session that employs credentials of a first user for managing execution of the automation task is also initiated on the second device. The server processor loads into the java virtual machine, with a platform class loader, one or more modules, such as logging and security, that perform functions common to the sets of task processing instructions. A first class loader a first set of task processing instructions is also loaded. Then each instruction in the first set of task processing instructions is loaded with a separate class loader. The server processor causes execution, under control of the first user session, on the second device, the task processing instructions that correspond to the work item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOMATION ANYWHERE, INC.
    Inventors: Sudharshan Krishnamurthy, James Dennis, Virinchipuram J Anand, Abhijit Kakhandiki
  • Patent number: 11954322
    Abstract: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with a framework of software code interacting with a plurality of applications to provide gesture operations in response to user inputs detected on a display of a device. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes displaying a user interface that includes a respective view that is associated with a respective application of the plurality of applications. The method includes, while displaying the respective view, detecting, via the software code, a user input within the region of the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the respective view, and, in response, in accordance with a determination that the user input is an inadvertent user input, ignoring the user input. The determination that the user input is an inadvertent user input is made based on an inadvertent user input call transferred through the API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Blumenberg
  • Patent number: 11952821
    Abstract: A control device is mounted on a vehicle including a door opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing a door of an entrance and exit where a passenger gets on and off, and a shift device for changing a driving range of a transmission. The driving range is input to the control device and the control device opens and closes the door by the door opening and closing mechanism. The control device permits opening of the door when the driving range is a parking range, and prohibits a change of the driving range of the shift device when the driving range is the parking range and the door is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Ishida, Kentaro Oya, Takashi Yuma, Chihiro Date
  • Patent number: 11955002
    Abstract: This invention provides a system-oriented and fully-controlled connected automated vehicle highway system for various levels of connected and automated vehicles and highways. The system comprises one or more of: 1) a hierarchical traffic control network of Traffic Control Centers (TCC's), local traffic controller units (TCUs), 2) A RSU (Road Side Unit) network (with integrated functionalities of vehicle sensors, I2V communication to deliver control instructions), 3) OBU (On-Board Unit with sensor and V2I communication units) network embedded in connected and automated vehicles, and 4) wireless communication and security system with local and global connectivity. This system provides a safer, more reliable and more cost-effective solution by redistributing vehicle driving tasks to the hierarchical traffic control network and RSU network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CAVH LLC
    Inventors: Bin Ran, Yang Cheng, Tianyi Chen, Shen Li, Jing Jin, Xiaoxuan Chen, Fan Ding, Zhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11948018
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and/or system is disclosed for changing the events monitored by a processor including: determining whether a change in the monitoring of the first event to the second different event has been requested; copying, in response to a request to change the monitoring of the first event to the second different event, op-codes from memory into microcode executable by a general processing engine; and executing the op-codes from memory by the general processing engine to change the first event monitored by the counter to the second different event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas Bangalore Purushotham, Madhavan Srinivasan, Deepak K. Gangadhar
  • Patent number: 11947666
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for cybersecurity are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve receiving, by an application capable of JavaScript execution, code for execution; executing, before execution of the received code, an intercepting code, wherein the intercepting code is configured to intercept at least one application programming interface (API) invocation by the received code; intercepting, by the intercepting code, an API invocation by the received code; determining that the intercepted API invocation results in a manipulation of a backing store object; and modifying an execution of the intercepted API invocation, wherein the modified execution results in at least one of: a non-predictable memory layout, a non-predictable memory behavior, or a non-predictable property of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SERAPHIC ALGORITHMS LTD
    Inventor: Avihay Cohen
  • Patent number: 11941459
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating applications using a container image of an integration flow are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Sherwin Varghese
  • Patent number: 11938928
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes a plurality of sensors including a first sensor and a second sensor. The vehicle also includes a vehicle controller. The vehicle controller is programmed to (i) collect a first plurality of sensor information observed by the first sensor during operation of the vehicle; (ii) analyze the first plurality of sensor information to detect a gap along the vehicle's path of travel; (iii) compare one or more dimensions of the gap to one or more dimensions of the vehicle; (iv) receive a second plurality of sensor information from the second sensor; and (v) control the vehicle to travel through the gap based on the comparison of the one or more dimensions of the gap to the one or more dimensions of the vehicle and the second plurality of sensor information from the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mark Kisiler
  • Patent number: 11930738
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester has a frame and a spout that is mounted to the frame. A target landing point indicates a position in a receiving vehicle where material is intended to land. A control system detects an actual landing point and automatically controls the spout based on a difference between the actual landing point and the target landing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Kellen O'Connor, Jeremy J. Faust
  • Patent number: 11932213
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling one or more brakes of the vehicle. The system may include a processor and a memory in communication with the processor with a brake control module. The brake control module includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the one or more brakes of the vehicle when the vehicle is in a first mode using a brake-by-wire system. When the vehicle is in a second mode, control the brake-by-wire system such that the one or more brakes of the vehicle are controlled using a mechanical braking system and the brake-by-wire system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Ming Jonathan Goh, Alexander R. Green, Michael Thompson, Kazunori Nimura
  • Patent number: 11935402
    Abstract: This invention provides a system-oriented and fully-controlled connected automated vehicle highway system for various levels of connected and automated vehicles and highways. The system comprises one or more of: 1) a hierarchical traffic control network of Traffic Control Centers (TCC's), local traffic controller units (TCUs), 2) A RSU (Road Side Unit) network (with integrated functionalities of vehicle sensors, I2V communication to deliver control instructions), 3) OBU (On-Board Unit with sensor and V2I communication units) network embedded in connected and automated vehicles, and 4) wireless communication and security system with local and global connectivity. This system provides a safer, more reliable and more cost-effective solution by redistributing vehicle driving tasks to the hierarchical traffic control network and RSU network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CAVH LLC
    Inventors: Bin Ran, Yang Cheng, Tianyi Chen, Shen Li, Jing Jin, Xiaoxuan Chen, Fan Ding, Zhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11934876
    Abstract: A compiler-implemented technique for performing a storage allocation is described. Computer code to be converted into machine instructions for execution on an integrated circuit device is received. Based on the computer code, a set of values that are to be stored on the integrated circuit device are determined. An interference graph that includes the set of values and a set of interferences is constructed. A number of possible placements and a number of blocked placements in a memory of the integrated circuit device are computed for each of the set of values. At least a portion of the set of values are assigned to a set of memory locations in the memory based on the numbers of possible placements and blocked placements, resulting in a set of memory location assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Preston Pengra Briggs
  • Patent number: 11922236
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for producer-side prioritization of message processing. Producer-side prioritization of message processing may include receiving an input message according to a messaging protocol for communicating between software components, where the input message comprises message priority information for the input message, producing a command for a next step in the processing flow, the command including a target time determined using the message priority information from the input message, queuing the command in a command queue, selecting the command from the command queue based on a determination that the target time has expired, and processing the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT GXS ULC
    Inventors: Garrett Christopher Young, Timothy Austin Geldart