Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • AUGMENTED REALITY FOR TELEOPERATION
    Publication number: 20240411306
    Abstract: A method to manage a vehicle is disclosed. The method may include obtaining vehicle inputs that may include an image captured by a vehicle camera. The method may further include estimating a time delay in teleoperation communication with the vehicle, and generating an augmented reality image based on the time delay and the vehicle inputs. The method may further include rendering the augmented reality image on a user interface to manage the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mathew Alan Boesch, Levasseur Tellis, Anthony Mario D'Amato
  • LAST MILE DELIVERY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20240409023
    Abstract: A vehicle is described. The vehicle may include a vehicle sensor configured to detect cart location, and a lifting mechanism disposed at a vehicle sidewall. The lifting mechanism is configured to lift and secure a cart on a target location on the vehicle sidewall. The vehicle may further include a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain the cart location from the vehicle sensor, determine that the cart is aligned with the target location. Responsive to a determination that the cart is aligned, the processor is configured to transmit a command signal to the lifting mechanism to lift and secure the cart on the target location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Arnav Wagh, David Brian Glickman, Pietro Buttolo, Brendan Diamond
  • PERSONAL DEVICE HOLDER
    Publication number: 20240409039
    Abstract: A device holder assembly that includes a body with a housing coupled to the body. A leg assembly is coupled to the housing. The leg assembly includes a first leg and a second leg that are movable between a recessed position and an extended position. A first finger is rotatably coupled to the first leg. A second finger is rotatably coupled to the second leg. The first leg and the second leg and both movable between a deployed position and a retracted position. A third finger is disposed between the first finger and the second finger. The third finger is rotatably coupled to a center portion of the housing. The third finger is rotatable between a deployed position and a retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Charles Shipley, Steven Vega, Chris Fredriksson, Patrick Oliver Vanderpool, Cheryl Harris-Samborski, Gary Vincent Morales, Rafael Rego
  • Method and system for forming a stamped component using a stamping simulation model
    Patent number: 12162056
    Abstract: A method for forming a stamped component from a blank material with an industrial stamping machine during a stamping process includes measuring a plurality of parameters of the stamping process. The parameters are provided as variables of the stamping process. The method further includes analyzing, by a stamping process model, the plurality of parameters to adjust the stamping process for the blank material, defining, by the stamping process model, a control parameter of the industrial stamping machine for the blank material, and stamping the blank material with the industrial stamping machine based on the defined control parameter to form the stamped component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brodie Schultz, Elizabeth Bullard, Jason Ryska, Ralph Conrad, Evangelos Liasi, Scott Ellis
  • Crosslinked polymeric composition and coated conductor
    Patent number: 12163016
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crosslinked polymeric composition. The crosslinked polymeric composition contains (A) a silane functionalized ethylene-based polymer and (B) inorganic hollow microspheres having (i) a D90 particle size from 10 ?m to 100 ?m, (ii) a crush strength from 17 MPa to 140 MPa, and (iii) a density from 0.10 g/cc to 0.40 g/cc. The crosslinked polymeric composition has a tensile strength from 11 MPa to 40 MPa and a tensile elongation from 12% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Chao He, Wenke Miao, Xianmin Xu, Mohamed Esseghir, Xiaoxing Miao, Hongyu Chen
  • Vehicle sensor occlusion detection
    Patent number: 12162497
    Abstract: A system for detecting a road surface includes a processor programmed to identify, in a vehicle sensor field of view, environment features including a sky, a road surface, a road shoulder, based on map data and data received from the one or more vehicle sensors, upon determining a low confidence in identifying an area of the field of view to be a road surface or sky, to receive a polarimetric image, and to determine, based on the received polarimetric image, whether the identified area is a mirage phenomenon, a wet road surface, or the sky. The low confidence is determined upon determining that a road surface has a vanishing edge, a road lane marker is missing, or an anomalous object is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Herman, Aaron Lesky, Akshat Rajvanshi, Brian Quinn Kettlewell, Geoffrey Horowitz
  • Solution polymerization process
    Patent number: 12162965
    Abstract: Disclosed herein too is a method comprising charging to a reactor system a feed stream comprising a catalyst, a monomer and a solvent; reacting the monomer to form a polymer; where the polymer is contained in a single phase polymer solution; transporting the polymer solution to a pre-heater to increase the temperature of the polymer solution; charging the polymer solution to a liquid-liquid separator; reducing a pressure of the polymer solution in the liquid-liquid separator and separating a polymer-rich phase from a solvent-rich phase in the liquid-liquid separator; transporting the polymer-rich phase to a plurality of devolatilization vessels located downstream of the liquid-liquid separator, where each devolatilization vessel operates at a lower pressure than the preceding devolatilization vessel; and separating the polymer from volatiles present in the polymer rich phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Alec Y. Wang, Jorge Rubalcaba, Michael D. Turner, Michael J. Zogg, Jr., Pradeep Jain
  • Systems and methods for onboard analysis of sensor data for sensor fusion
    Patent number: 12162512
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and tracking objects using radar data are disclosed. The methods include receiving measurement data corresponding to an environment of a vehicle from a radar sensor associated with the vehicle, and identifying one or more object tracks of a plurality of object tracks that lie within an extended field of view (FOV) of the radar sensor. The extended FOV may be determined based on an original FOV of the radar sensor. The methods further include performing association of the measurement data with the one or more object tracks to identify an associated object track, and outputting the associated object track and the measurement data to a navigation system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yinguang Li, Xiufeng Song
  • Vehicular ad-hoc network manager
    Patent number: 12167306
    Abstract: An ad-hoc network manager is provided. The vehicle includes a transceiver and one or more controllers of the host vehicle, in communication with the transceiver. The one or more controllers are programmed to receive connected messages from remote vehicles via the transceiver, and execute a message subservice configured to provide, to vehicle applications executed by the one or more controller, one or more events related to the received connected messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Colette Knopp, Kapil Gupta, Jason Haisma, Alexander Katriniok, Justin Martins
  • Obstacle maneuver assistance systems and methods for vehicles
    Patent number: 12162478
    Abstract: An example vehicle can include a sensor platform and a controller that is configured to determine an object that is in front of the vehicle, determine the object as a hazard by at least one of determining, using dead reckoning, that the object is in a path of travel of the vehicle that will cause the object to travel under a restricted zone of the vehicle and/or the object has a height that is higher than a vehicle ride height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Hanson, Pietro Buttolo, John Van Wiemeersch
  • Vehicle having deployable workstation
    Patent number: 12162393
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin interior, at least one seat located in the cabin interior, a support structure located near the at least one seat, and a workstation coupled to the support structure. The workstation includes a desk having a first desk panel and a second desk panel that moves relative to the first desk panel, a display screen, and a pivot mechanism coupled to the desk and the display screen and configured to allow the desk and the display screen to pivot relative to the support structure, wherein the desk and the display screen are configured to pivot to a vehicle downward position folded together and upward deployed use positions such that the desk may extend substantially horizontal in the use position and the display screen may extend upward relative to the desk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Johnathan Andrew Line, Annette Lynn Huebner, Paul Kenneth Dellock, David Brian Glickman
  • Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control a vehicle based on signal blending
    Patent number: 12162466
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control a vehicle based on signal blending are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes programmable circuitry at least determine a first yaw rate signal based on first signal data output by a yaw rate sensor of a vehicle, determine a second yaw rate signal based on second signal data output by a steering wheel angle sensor of the vehicle, determine a blended yaw rate signal based on the first yaw rate signal and the second yaw rate signal, and adjust a torque to be applied by a motor of the vehicle based on the blended yaw rate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ashrit Das, Joshua Guerra, Benjamin James Northrup, Lodewijk Maarten Erik Wijffels, Ziyu Ke, Ronald Loyd Chadwick, Yijun Li
  • Methods and apparatus for ascertaining a driving route for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 12163793
    Abstract: A method for predicting travel of a vehicle includes determining a prediction starting location and a plurality of prediction destinations including a plurality of possible intersections within a boundary at a predefined distance from the starting location. The method also includes determining, for each destination, at least one route to the destination, resulting in a plurality of routes at least one of which corresponds to each destination, including determining a statistical likelihood of the vehicle remaining on an intersection-exit that is along a potential route and selecting at least one route to each destination with the highest statistical likelihood. Responsive to the vehicle no longer being on a selected route, selecting at least one new route to the at least one destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Winge Vigild, Eduardo Perez Guzman, Frederik De Smet, Daniel Roettger
  • Vehicle software compatibility
    Patent number: 12164910
    Abstract: Tracking controller configuration is provided. Each ECU of a plurality of ECUs is queried for feature codes indicative of elements of functionality implemented by the respective ECU. Each of the feature codes corresponds to a target quantity of ECUs involved in implementing the functionality. An alert is indicated responsive to the querying returning a different quantity of ECUs implementing the functionality than the target quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Karl Nathan Clark, Jason Michael Miller, John Caradillo, Vijayababu Jayaraman
  • Vehicle airbag assembly
    Patent number: 12162420
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a seat assembly having a seat bottom and a seatback. The vehicle includes a middle console adjacent the seat assembly. The vehicle includes an airbag inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The airbag is supported by the seatback in the uninflated position and the inflated position. The vehicle includes an inflator supported by the middle console, the inflator operatively connected to the airbag to provide inflation medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Patel, Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk
  • Compatibilized polymeric compositions for optical fiber cable components
    Patent number: 12163014
    Abstract: A polymeric composition includes (a) 1 wt % to 45 wt % of an ethylene-based polymer; (b) 50 wt % to 90 wt % of a polybutylene terephthalate having a melt flow index from 21 g/10 min. to 35 g/10 min at 250 C and 2.16 Kg; and (c) 3.5 wt % to 10 wt % of a compatibilizer comprising a maleated ethylene-based polymer and ethylene n-butylacrylate glycidyl methacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Karl M. Seven, Mohamed Esseghir, Jeffrey M. Cogen
  • Magnet fixation by transfer resin molding in a skewed rotor stack segment application
    Patent number: 12166383
    Abstract: A skewed rotor core assembly having a resin mold disposed in a plurality of longitudinal channels and a resin flow path is provided. The rotor core has a first and second magnet stack each defining a plurality of longitudinal channels. The plurality of longitudinal channels for the first stack are misaligned with the plurality of longitudinal channels for the second stack. Methods of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Singar Rathnam, Devan James Anderson
  • Vehicle Wi-Fi access point detection and mitigation
    Patent number: 12166535
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with an infrastructure device in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) channel having a predetermined channel frequency, the V2X channel being divided into a plurality of subchannels; and a controller, configured to responsive to the wireless transceiver detecting a wireless signal within the frequency of the V2X channel, measure a power spectral density (PSD) gradient of the wireless signal across at least two subchannels of the V2X channel, and compare a magnitude of the PSD gradient against a predetermined gradient threshold, and responsive to verifying the magnitude of the PSD gradient of the wireless signal is greater than the gradient threshold, identify there is an interference to the V2X channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Vukovic, Jovan Milivoje Zagajac, Syed Amaar Ahmad, Colin Turner Lieberman
  • Systems and method for lidar grid velocity estimation
    Patent number: 12162477
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for measuring velocity of an object detected by a light detection and ranging (lidar) system. According to some aspects a method may include receiving a lidar dataset generated by the lidar system, transforming the lidar dataset into a first layer dataset and a second layer dataset, and converting the first layer dataset into a first image and the second layer dataset into a second image. The method may also include performing a feature detection operation that identifies at least one feature in the first image and the same feature in the second image, locating a first location of the feature in the first image and a second location of the feature in the second image, and generating a velocity estimate of the feature based on a difference between the first location and the second location and a difference between the different time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Basel Alghanem, Benjamin David Ballard, Russell Schloss, Christian Höeppner, Mark Ollis, George Peter Kenneth Carr
  • Vehicle using full-velocity determination with radar
    Patent number: 12164021
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive radar data including a radar pixel having a radial velocity from a radar; receive camera data including an image frame including camera pixels from a camera; map the radar pixel to the image frame; generate a region of the image frame surrounding the radar pixel; determine association scores for the respective camera pixels in the region; select a first camera pixel of the camera pixels from the region, the first camera pixel having a greatest association score of the association scores; and calculate a full velocity of the radar pixel using the radial velocity of the radar pixel and a first optical flow at the first camera pixel. The association scores indicate a likelihood that the respective camera pixels correspond to a same point in an environment as the radar pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Xiaoming Liu, Daniel Morris, Yunfei Long, Marcos Paul Gerardo Castro, Punarjay Chakravarty, Praveen Narayanan