Patents by Inventor Benjamin Schloss

Benjamin Schloss 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: 12012097
    Abstract: Systems and methods for complementary control of an autonomous vehicle (AV) are disclosed. The methods include receiving information comprising an active trajectory of an AV that the AV intends to following for a planning horizon. The methods also include using the active trajectory to identify one or more regions in an environment of the AV such as a fallback monitoring region (FMR) and an active monitoring region (AMR), and generating one or more instructions for causing the AV to execute a collision mitigation action in response to an object being detected within the AMR. The methods further include transmitting the one or more instructions to an AV platform (AVP) for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Vandapel, Shadi A. Jammoul, Russell Schloss, Basel Alghanem, Benjamin D. Ballard, Yujun Wang, Limin Wu
  • Patent number: 4044772
    Abstract: An apparatus for cardiovascular conditioning, alternative bodily waste elimination and other physiological purposes includes a chamber in which a person is subjected to an environmental temperature elevated sufficiently to cause profuse sweating and increased heart rate. Very low humidity air is blown across the persons's body to achieve rapid evaporation of the perspiration. A dehumidifying system which may be associated with the chamber includes means for recovering the evaporated perspiration and expired moisture.Heart exercise is achieved by a regimen of periodic sessions in the chamber, over the course of which the environmental temperature progressively is raised to place increasing demand on the heart and vascular system. Cardiovascular conditioning results from the increased heart activity and concomitant increased blood flow to the eccrine glands that produce the perspiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Inventor: Benjamin Schloss