Patents by Inventor Chase Kaufman
Chase Kaufman 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).
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Patent number: 11970082Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20240038006Abstract: A light inspection system positions an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a field of view of a camera such that the camera captures an image of a light of the AV. The light inspection system instructs a camera to capture an image of the light while the light is switched on. The light inspection system receives the captured image, determines a luminance of the light based on the image, and determines to service the light in response to the luminance of the light being below a threshold luminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Jeffrey Brandon, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20240010212Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to instruct an autonomous vehicle to navigate a specific course and to record diagnostic measurements while navigating the specific course, receive the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle, and analyze the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle in a context provided by a collection of diagnostic measurement data collected from a fleet of similar autonomous vehicles navigating the specific course.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11866008Abstract: A vehicle having at least one vehicle access secured by a first lock and at least one secure area secured by a second lock. The vehicle may also have a receiver configured to receive a command from a remote computing system to unlock the vehicle access or the secure area.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Rajat Basu, Jeffrey Brandon, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20230401961Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to collect sensor data from at least one sensor on an autonomous vehicle, wherein the sensor data includes a plurality of measurements from the at least one sensor, identify, from the sensor data, at least one measurement from the plurality of measurements that is outside a threshold measurement for the at least one sensor and is indicative of an impact incident, send the sensor data to a remote computing system, and receive, in response to the sending of the sensor data that is indicative of the impact incident, routing instructions from the remote computing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20230400854Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method including determining an operational mode of a vehicle based on data accumulated from at least one vehicle information system associated with the vehicle; selecting one of a plurality of power consumption profiles for the vehicle based on the determined operational mode; and applying the selected one of the power consumption profiles to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Jeffrey Brandon, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11823508Abstract: A light inspection system positions an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a field of view of a camera such that the camera captures an image of a light of the AV. The light inspection system instructs a camera to capture an image of the light while the light is switched on. The light inspection system receives the captured image, determines a luminance of the light based on the image, and determines to service the light in response to the luminance of the light being below a threshold luminance.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Jeffrey Brandon, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11807132Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11794759Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to instruct an autonomous vehicle to navigate a specific course and to record diagnostic measurements while navigating the specific course, receive the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle, and analyze the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle in a context provided by a collection of diagnostic measurement data collected from a fleet of similar autonomous vehicles navigating the specific course.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11776406Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to collect sensor data from at least one sensor on an autonomous vehicle, wherein the sensor data includes a plurality of measurements from the at least one sensor, identify, from the sensor data, at least one measurement from the plurality of measurements that is outside a threshold measurement for the at least one sensor and is indicative of an impact incident, send the sensor data to a remote computing system, and receive, in response to the sending of the sensor data that is indicative of the impact incident, routing instructions from the remote computing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11774968Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method including determining an operational mode of a vehicle based on data accumulated from at least one vehicle information system associated with the vehicle; selecting one of a plurality of power consumption profiles for the vehicle based on the determined operational mode; and applying the selected one of the power consumption profiles to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Jeffrey Brandon, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20230141841Abstract: A system for powering an electric vehicle (EV) includes a battery, a power distribution module, and a battery bypass module. The power distribution module receives power from a charging station, draws power from the battery in a discharging mode, distributes power from the charging station to the battery in a charging mode, and distributes power to a plurality of subsystems of the EV. The battery bypass module is coupled to the battery and the power distribution module. When the battery bypass module is engaged in a charging bypass mode, power distributed by the power distribution module bypasses the battery and is distributed to at least a subset of the plurality of subsystems of the EV.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Adam Mandel-Senft, Brett Lee Rogers, Chase Kaufman, Jeffrey Brandon
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Publication number: 20230098889Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20230089243Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11592821Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method including determining an operational mode of a vehicle based on data accumulated from at least one vehicle information system associated with the vehicle; selecting one of a plurality of power consumption profiles for the vehicle based on the determined operational mode; and applying the selected one of the power consumption profiles to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Jeffrey Brandon, Chase Kaufman
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Patent number: 11560066Abstract: A system for powering an electric vehicle (EV) includes a battery, a power distribution module, and a battery bypass module. The power distribution module receives power from a charging station, draws power from the battery in a discharging mode, distributes power from the charging station to the battery in a charging mode, and distributes power to a plurality of subsystems of the EV. The battery bypass module is coupled to the battery and the power distribution module. When the battery bypass module is engaged in a charging bypass mode, power distributed by the power distribution module bypasses the battery and is distributed to at least a subset of the plurality of subsystems of the EV.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Adam Mandel-Senft, Brett Lee Rogers, Chase Kaufman, Jeffrey Brandon
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Publication number: 20230015366Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) is charged according to a selected charging rate. An available dispatch time is determined based on a current charge level of a battery of the EV, a first charging rate, and a target charge level. An anticipated dispatch time is determined based on predicted demand for a fleet of EVs that includes the EV. If the available dispatch time is later than the anticipated dispatch time, the first charging rate is selected; if the available dispatch time is earlier than the anticipated dispatch time, a second charging rate that is lower than the first charging rate is selected. The second charging rate may be a rate that charges the battery of the EV to at least the target charge level in time for the anticipated dispatch time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Chase Kaufman, Adam Mandel-Senft, Jeffrey Brandon, Brett Lee Rogers
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Patent number: 11548471Abstract: A seatbelt system for automatically detecting damage to a seatbelt webbing includes a strip of seatbelt webbing, a sensor, and processing circuitry. The strip of seatbelt webbing includes an embedded conductive material that extends through the strip of seatbelt webbing. The sensor is connected to the seatbelt webbing and is configured to measure electrical flow through the embedded conductive material. The processing circuitry is configured to receive the measurement of electrical flow from the sensor and to generate an alert based on the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Chase Kaufman, Jeffrey Brandon
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Patent number: 11541778Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
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Publication number: 20220392282Abstract: A light inspection system positions an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a field of view of a camera such that the camera captures an image of a light of the AV. The light inspection system instructs a camera to capture an image of the light while the light is switched on. The light inspection system receives the captured image, determines a luminance of the light based on the image, and determines to service the light in response to the luminance of the light being below a threshold luminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Jeffrey Brandon, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman