Patents by Inventor Aaron Scott

Aaron Scott has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11977874
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring use, determining risk, and pricing insurance policies for a vehicle having one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, an identity of a vehicle operator may be determined and a vehicle operator profile and/or operating data regarding autonomous operation features of the vehicle may be received after the vehicle operator opts into a rewards program and agrees to share their data. Autonomous operation and vehicle operator risk levels associated with operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be determined. Based upon the risk levels and/or comparison thereof, one or more autonomous operation features may be disengaged. A preparedness level of the vehicle operator to assume or reassume control of operating the vehicle is determined prior to disengagement. If satisfactory, an alert is presented to the vehicle operator prior to disengagement of the autonomous operation features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Brian Mark Fields, Chien Che Huang, Mohamed A. Wazeer, Shawn C. Bennett, Steven C. Cielocha, Ronny S. Bryant, Stephen Kohaus, Terry Quakenbush, Richard A. Novak, Aaron Scott Chan, Craig M. Main, Weixin Wu, Torri Wollenschlager, Carol Marie Csanda, Stacey Gorsuch, Todd Binion
  • Publication number: 20240135731
    Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving sensor data detected by one or more image sensors in a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is representative of driver movements of a driver in the vehicle; categorizing the sensor data as driver postures representative of actions of the driver in the vehicle; rotating and scaling the driver postures to be standardized for different drivers and for different locations of the one or more image sensors within different vehicles; analyzing the sensor data to determine a reference position of the driver in the vehicle; and storing, in a database, the driver postures, as rotated and scaled, and the reference position of the driver in the vehicle. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20240133462
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system includes a first prime mover, a transmission, a power take-off (PTO), a lubrication system for the transmission and the PTO, and a control system. The transmission is powered by the first prime mover. The transmission is configured to rotate a drive shaft of the vehicle. The PTO is connected to the transmission at a first interface. The PTO includes the first interface and a second interface. The control system is configured to control fluid flow through the lubrication system for at least one mode where the input section of the PTO is stationary and the output section rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Power Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Joseph T. Dalum, William C. Mammen, JR., Aaron Scott Kim Vanselow
  • Publication number: 20240125467
    Abstract: A portable steam generator includes a power source in a housing, a water tank in the housing, a heating element in the housing and configured to heat water in the water tank to produce steam using power from the power source, and a track on the housing configured to support the portable steam generator in an installation position and allow manual removal from the installation position. A pre-plumbed integrated bathroom panel includes a plumbing inlet configured to provide water to the panel, a water outlet connected to the plumbing inlet, a steam outlet connected to the plumbing inlet and a heating element, a sanitizing outlet connected to the plumbing inlet and an additive generator, valves for directing water from the plumbing inlet to the at least one water outlet, the at least one steam outlet, and the at least one sanitizing outlet, and a controller configured to operate at least the plurality of valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Huston Adam Sprang, Peter Kajuch, Robert Quasius, Aaron Mitchell, James Scott Giefer, Gary Clarke, Jessica Schroeder, Maria Evraets, Amber LaVerne Hall Nelson, Yutong Wu, Evan See-Leet Lee, Thomas Brian Sindelar, Crystal Marie Riste, Ryan Leichty, Zachary Paul Hillesland
  • Publication number: 20240129570
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automating a content release comprising the steps of: determining a content release plan associated with a content release, wherein the content release plan includes a plurality of line items, wherein each line item identifies a content item to be released; parsing the plurality of line items included in the content release plan to build a deployment graph, wherein the deployment graph identifies a plurality of deployment tasks to be executed to complete the content release; executing the content release plan by performing the plurality of deployment tasks according to a schedule identified in the content release plan; and updating the content release plan based on one or more real-time statuses of the plurality of deployment tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Philip Guinard WHITE, Jin Soo KANG, Aaron Matthew MUELLER, Jason Scott YOUNG
  • Publication number: 20240127296
    Abstract: A system includes a millimeter (MM) wave radar detector, where the MM wave radar detector generates signal data associated with a person of interest (POI) within a field of view of the MM wave radar detector. The system further includes an Access Point (AP) coupled with the MM wave radar detector. The AP includes a computing device to receive and analyze the signal data provided by the MM wave radar detector to determine a movement of the POI within an environment, and facilitate generation of a feedback response in response to the determined movement or action of the POI within the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Joel Goergen, Kameron Rose Hurst, John Scott Scheeler, Alpesh Umakant Bhobe, Dylan Thomas Walker, Aaron P. Tondra
  • Patent number: 11954482
    Abstract: According to certain aspects, a computer-implemented method for operating an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be provided. With the customer's permission, an identity of a vehicle operator may be identified and a vehicle operator profile may be retrieved. Operating data regarding autonomous operation features operating the vehicle may be received from vehicle-mounted sensors. When a request to disable an autonomous feature is received, a risk level for the autonomous feature is determined and compared with a driver behavior setting for the autonomous feature stored in the vehicle operator profile. Based upon the risk level comparison, the autonomous vehicle retains control of vehicle or the autonomous feature is disengaged depending upon which is the safer driver—the autonomous vehicle or the vehicle human occupant. As a result, unsafe disengagement of self-driving functionality for autonomous vehicles may be alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Brian Mark Fields, Chien Che Huang, Mohamed A. Wazeer, Shawn C. Bennett, Steven Cielocha, Ronny S. Bryant, Stephen Kohaus, Terry Quakenbush, Richard A. Novak, Aaron Scott Chan, Craig M. Main, Weixin Wu, Torri Wollenschlager, Carol Marie Csanda, Stacey Gorsuch, Todd Binion
  • Patent number: 11937929
    Abstract: Behavioral and mental health therapy systems in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include a wearable camera and/or a variety of sensors (accelerometer, microphone, among various other) connected to a computing system including a display, audio output, holographic output, and/or vibrotactile output to automatically recognize social cues from images captured by at least one camera and provide this information to the wearer via one or more outputs such as (but not limited to) displaying an image, displaying a holographic overlay, generating an audible signal, and/or generating a vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Catalin Voss, Nicholas Joseph Haber, Dennis Paul Wall, Aaron Scott Kline, Terry Allen Winograd
  • Publication number: 20240094564
    Abstract: Methods of assembling a head-mounted display (HMD) may include coupling a first digital projector assembly to an HMD frame, coupling a second digital projector assembly to the HMD frame, and then warping the HMD frame to optically align the first digital projector assembly with the second digital projector assembly. The warped HMD frame may be fixed such that the first digital projector assembly and the second digital projector assembly are optically aligned to within a predetermined threshold. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: James Schultz, Randall Scott Toy, Aaron Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11929842
    Abstract: A method and system for managing delivery of a content stream to a plurality of devices participating in an online conference session, including delivering, to each of the devices, the content stream associated with the online conference session at a first signal quality, receiving an indication signal indicating that a first device is to broadcast the content stream, responsive to the indication signal, increasing a signal quality of the content stream delivered to the first device from the first signal quality to a second signal quality, wherein the second signal quality is higher than the first signal quality, delivering the content stream to the first device at the second signal quality, and delivering the content stream to the rest of the devices at the first signal quality or a third signal quality, wherein the third signal quality is lower than the first signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Linne, Eric Scott Albright, Albert Jose Mangay, Satya Sasikanth Bendapudi, Jizhe Jin
  • Patent number: 11927762
    Abstract: A display system comprising a steerable display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree, positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the steerable display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the steerable display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Christopher David Westra, D. Scott Dewald, Edward Chia Ning Tang, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III, Eric Richard David Frasch, David A. Henderson, Qin Xu
  • Patent number: 11922705
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating and transmitting data representative of a vehicle operation mode. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating data representative of a vehicle operation mode based on vehicle interior image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Sanchez, Aaron Scott Chan
  • Publication number: 20240069005
    Abstract: A method includes determining, using a processing device, a set of observations from coolant data, the coolant data being received from one or more sensors in an environment associated with a coolant. The method further includes determining, using a machine learning model and the set of observations, a contamination level of the coolant. The method also includes initiating an operation, using the processing device, responsive to determining the coolant contamination level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Kelsey Albright, William Andrew Mecham, Tahir Cader, Michael Scott Thompson, Aaron Richard Carkin, William Ryan Weese, Benjamin Joseph Goska, Marc Davis
  • Patent number: 11915276
    Abstract: A system includes a millimeter (MM) wave radar detector, where the MM wave radar detector generates signal data associated with a person of interest (POI) within a field of view of the MM wave radar detector. The system further includes an Access Point (AP) coupled with the MM wave radar detector. The AP includes a computing device to receive and analyze the signal data provided by the MM wave radar detector to determine a movement or action of the POI within the field of view, and facilitate generation of a feedback response in response to the determined movement or action of the POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joel Goergen, Kameron Rose Hurst, John Scott Scheeler, Alpesh Umakant Bhobe, Dylan Thomas Walker, Aaron P. Tondra
  • Publication number: 20240059300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring autonomous driving preferences between vehicles are provided. For example, a vehicle operator may borrow a friend's or spouse's vehicle, or may rent a vehicle, and may wish to transfer his or her autonomous driving preferences to the vehicle he or she is currently operating. An autonomous driving preference associated with an operator of a first vehicle is obtained. The autonomous driving preference includes vehicle controls that the operator prefers to be operated autonomously, semi-autonomously, and/or manually. When the operator of the first vehicle is to operate a second vehicle or is currently operating a second vehicle, an indication of the autonomous driving preference associated with the operator is transmitted to the second vehicle, and the vehicle controls associated with the second vehicle are modified based on the autonomous driving preference associated with the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Aaron Scott Chan
  • Patent number: 11897483
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle driver distractions. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining distracted drivers associated with vehicle driving routes based on postures of vehicle occupants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11898629
    Abstract: A vehicle drive system includes a first prime mover, a transmission, a power take-off (PTO), a lubrication system for the transmission and the PTO, and a control system. The transmission is powered by the first prime mover. The transmission is configured to rotate a drive shaft of the vehicle. The PTO is connected to the transmission at a first interface. The PTO includes the first interface and a second interface. The control system is configured to control fluid flow through the lubrication system for at least one mode where the input section of the PTO is stationary and the output section rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Power Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Joseph T. Dalum, William C. Mammen, Jr., Aaron Scott Kim Vanselow
  • Publication number: 20240044296
    Abstract: Operating a gaseous fuel engine system includes controlling at least one of a delivery location, a delivery timing, or in situ mixing of a gaseous fuel with air, based on at least one engine system parameter upon the basis of which a blowby amount of a gaseous fuel to a crankcase varies. Crankcase accumulation of the gaseous fuel is maintained below a flammability limit. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaswinder Singh, Eric Lee Schroeder, Adam Joseph Clute, Aaron Scott Ness
  • Patent number: 11891961
    Abstract: Operating a gaseous fuel engine system includes controlling at least one of a delivery location, a delivery timing, or in situ mixing of a gaseous fuel with air, based on at least one engine system parameter upon the basis of which a blowby amount of a gaseous fuel to a crankcase varies. Crankcase accumulation of the gaseous fuel is maintained below a flammability limit. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jaswinder Singh, Eric Lee Schroeder, Adam Joseph Clute, Aaron Scott Ness
  • Patent number: 11861917
    Abstract: Method and system for detecting vehicle occupant actions are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by one or more processors, previously classified image data from a previously classified image database, the previously classified image data representing driver postures that are rotated and scaled to be standardized for a range of different drivers and different locations of a vehicle interior sensor within a given vehicle, wherein the previously classified image data is representative of previously classified vehicle occupant actions; receiving, by the one or more processors, current image data from the vehicle interior sensor subsequent to the vehicle interior sensor being registered within the given vehicle, wherein the current image data is representative of current vehicle occupant actions; and determining, by the one or more processors, a vehicle occupant action based at least in part upon a comparison of the current image data and the previously classified image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANIES
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez