Patents by Inventor Neal Andrew Seegmiller

Neal Andrew Seegmiller 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: 11964669
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles and methods of controlling autonomous vehicles through topological planning with bounds, including receiving map data and sensor data, expanding a topological tree by adding a plurality of nodes to represent a plurality of actions associated with the plurality of constraints, generating a bound based on a constraint in the geographic area, the bound associated with an action for navigating the autonomous vehicle relative to the at least one constraint, storing the bound in a central bound storage, linking a set of bounds of a tree node to the bound via a bound identifier, wherein the first bound is initially linked as an active bound, or alternatively, as an inactive bound after determining it is not the most restrictive bound at any sample index, and control the autonomous vehicle based on the topological tree, to navigate the plurality of constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Argo AI, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone, Arek Viko Sredzki
  • Patent number: 11884304
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles (AV), computer program products, and methods for maneuvering an AV in a roadway, including receiving forecast information associated with predicted trajectories of one or more actors in a roadway, determining a relevant trajectory of an actor based on correlating a forecast for predicted trajectories of the actor with the trajectory of the AV, regenerate a distance table for the relevant trajectory previously generated for processing constraints, generate a plurality of margins for the AV to evaluate, the margins based on a plurality of margin types for providing information about risks and effects on passenger comfort associated with a future proximity of the AV to the actor, classifying an interaction between the AV and the actor based on a plurality of margins, and generating continuous scores for each candidate trajectory that is also within the margin of the actor generated for the relevant trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Arek Viko Sredzki, Mark Ollis, Christopher Cunningham, Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone
  • Publication number: 20230339500
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles and methods of controlling autonomous vehicles through topological planning with bounds, including receiving map data and sensor data, expanding a topological tree by adding a plurality of nodes to represent a plurality of actions associated with the plurality of constraints, generating a bound based on a constraint in the geographic area, the bound associated with an action for navigating the autonomous vehicle relative to the at least one constraint, storing the bound in a central bound storage, linking a set of bounds of a tree node to the bound via a bound identifier, wherein the first bound is initially linked as an active bound, or alternatively, as an inactive bound after determining it is not the most restrictive bound at any sample index, and control the autonomous vehicle based on the topological tree, to navigate the plurality of constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone, Arek Viko Sredzki
  • Patent number: 11697429
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles and methods of controlling autonomous vehicles through topological planning with bounds, including receiving map data and sensor data, expanding a topological tree by adding a plurality of nodes to represent a plurality of actions associated with the plurality of constraints, generating a bound based on a constraint in the geographic area, the bound associated with an action for navigating the autonomous vehicle relative to the at least one constraint, storing the bound in a central bound storage, linking a set of bounds of a tree node to the bound via a bound identifier, wherein the first bound is initially linked as an active bound, or alternatively, as an inactive bound after determining it is not the most restrictive bound at any sample index, and control the autonomous vehicle based on the topological tree, to navigate the plurality of constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Argo AI, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone, Arek Viko Sredzki
  • Publication number: 20230074873
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles (AV), computer program products, and methods for maneuvering an AV in a roadway, including receiving forecast information associated with predicted trajectories of one or more actors in a roadway, determining a relevant trajectory of an actor based on correlating a forecast for predicted trajectories of the actor with the trajectory of the AV, regenerate a distance table for the relevant trajectory previously generated for processing constraints, generate a plurality of margins for the AV to evaluate, the margins based on a plurality of margin types for providing information about risks and effects on passenger comfort associated with a future proximity of the AV to the actor, classifying an interaction between the AV and the actor based on a plurality of margins, and generating continuous scores for each candidate trajectory that is also within the margin of the actor generated for the relevant trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Arek Viko Sredzki, Mark Ollis, Christopher Cunningham, Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone
  • Publication number: 20220250641
    Abstract: Provided are autonomous vehicles and methods of controlling autonomous vehicles through topological planning with bounds, including receiving map data and sensor data, expanding a topological tree by adding a plurality of nodes to represent a plurality of actions associated with the plurality of constraints, generating a bound based on a constraint in the geographic area, the bound associated with an action for navigating the autonomous vehicle relative to the at least one constraint, storing the bound in a central bound storage, linking a set of bounds of a tree node to the bound via a bound identifier, wherein the first bound is initially linked as an active bound, or alternatively, as an inactive bound after determining it is not the most restrictive bound at any sample index, and control the autonomous vehicle based on the topological tree, to navigate the plurality of constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Neal Andrew Seegmiller, Patrick Stirling Barone, Arek Viko Sredzki