Patents by Inventor Edmund Frank LoPresti

Edmund Frank LoPresti 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).

  • Powered vehicle convoying systems and methods of convoying powered vehicles
    Patent number: 8326473
    Abstract: A vehicle convoy system for use in connection with a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes at least one drive mechanism to impart drive to the vehicle, includes at least a first processor that is adapted to be placed in operative or communicative connection with the drive mechanism to effect control of the drive mechanism based upon data of the position of a leading vehicle in front of the vehicle so that the vehicle moves to follow movement of the leading vehicle. The vehicle can, for example, be a self-propelled wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Rich Callaghan Simpson, Vinod Kumar Sharma, Joseph John Olson, Jeremy Robert Puhlman, Edmund Frank LoPresti, Leonard Casimir Mostowy, Jr.