Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • SPARE TIRE INFLATION
    Publication number: 20240316998
    Abstract: A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to actuate a compressor to maintain a spare tire of a vehicle in an uninflated state and, upon receiving data indicating a low pressure of an operating tire of the vehicle, actuate the compressor to inflate the spare tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Edgar Butron luz, Fernando Lozano Omana, Oscar Moran, Dante Arturo Rodriguez
  • RULE VISUALIZATION
    Publication number: 20240320501
    Abstract: A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to train a neural network to input data and output a prediction. A policy can be generated based on the data. Force features can be generated based on the policy. Decision nodes can be trained based on force features and a binary vector from the trained neural network. A decision tree can be generated based on the decision nodes. A decision can be generated by inputting a policy to the decision tree. The decision can be compared to the prediction and the neural network re-trained based on a difference between the decision and the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bilal Hejase, Teawon Han, Subramanya Nageshrao, Baljeet Singh, Tejaswi Koduri
  • OUTPUT FROM ACOUSTIC INPUT
    Publication number: 20240319043
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that includes a computer and memory, the memory including instructions to transform acoustic data to an order spectrum and input the order spectrum to a decoder to determine a feature vector. The feature vector can be input to a one-class classifier to classify the order spectrum as anomalous or non-anomalous and the classified order spectrum can be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Huanyi Shui, Rajesh Gupta, Gurram Sujith Kumar, Devesh Upadhyay, Rajeev Kalamdani, Douglas K. Grimes, Saumuy Puchala
  • CHARACTER STRING RENDERING ON A DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20240320882
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a parameter from the memory that includes an identifier representing a variable font, a weight of the variable font, and a width of the variable font. The instructions can additionally be to compute a pixel length of a received first character string to be rendered via a display utilizing the identified variable font, the weight of the variable font, and the width of the variable font and to control the display to render the received first character string based on the identifier of the variable font, the weight of the variable font, or the width of the variable font.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Itzel Hannelore Ocampo Valadez, Saúl Moreno Motte
  • MAIN BODY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE DOOR
    Publication number: 20240317031
    Abstract: A main body for a motor vehicle door which is produced by injection molding and has a frame, which has an upper reinforcing element, which has flanges that protrude from the upper reinforcing element. It is proposed for the upper reinforcing element to be integrally formed in one piece on the frame via at least two articulation elements in a manufacturing position in which said upper reinforcing element protrudes from the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Juergen Koehler, Muhil Raj Govindaraj, Hari Vigneshwaran, Arul Praveen Aruldoss, Silvia Bappert
  • DATA SECURITY
    Publication number: 20240320363
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to generate obscured received data from received data by applying at least one Boolean operation to the data and to transmit, via a first communications channel, the obscured received data to a second computer. The executable instructions are additionally to transmit, via a second communications channel, a key to the second computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Moore, Bradley Warren Smith, Elizabeth Kanous, Dajiang Suo, Sanjay Emani Sarma
  • SEAL ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20240318721
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes a cap and a seal. The cap includes an engagement structure and a flange. The engagement structure is configured to couple the cap to an enclosure. The flange defines a plurality of openings that are open through a first side of the flange and a second side of the flange. The seal includes a seal body and a plurality of bosses. The seal body engages the second side of the flange and includes a plurality of bosses. Each boss is positioned in a respective opening of the plurality of openings. The seal is compressible against the flange from a relaxed state in which the bosses are flush with the first side of the flange or recessed within the openings and a compressed state in which each boss extends from the respective opening beyond the first side of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Robert Rink, Nathaniel Conti, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
  • LOW-SPEED VEHICLE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20240317223
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, in response to one of a vehicle feature of a vehicle being active or the vehicle being in a preset geographic area, control acceleration and braking of the vehicle based on input from an input device of the vehicle according to a low-speed mode; and in response to the low-speed mode being inactive, control acceleration and braking of the vehicle not according to the low-speed mode. In the low-speed mode, acceleration occurs upon receiving input from the input device. In the low-speed mode, braking occurs upon not receiving input from the input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Hair, Brendan Francis Diamond, Keith Weston, Victor Martinez, Lorne Forsythe, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Jordan Barrett, Alexander Ferencz
  • System and method for completing a neutral profile learning test
    Patent number: 12097863
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a hybrid vehicle during an end of assembly line test are presented. In one example, torque of an integrated starter/generator (ISG) is adjusted so that the ISG may not affect engine data that is collected during end of assembly line engine testing. The collected engine data may be a basis for adapting engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Panhans, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Ameya Vivek Gadre, Arun Sebastian, Francis Thomas Connolly, Minku Lee
  • Vehicle lane-change operations
    Patent number: 12097859
    Abstract: A speed of a target vehicle in a target lane of operation is determined relative to a host vehicle in a host lane of operation. A virtual boundary is determined around the target vehicle based on the speed of the target vehicle. A position in the target lane and outside the virtual boundary is selected based on a) a first cost function for a deviation of a speed of the host vehicle from a requested speed, and b) a second cost function for a frequency of lane changes. Upon determining to move the host vehicle from the host lane to the target lane, the host vehicle is operated to the position in the target lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yousaf Rahman, Mrdjan J. Jankovic
  • Electrified vehicle motor control during tow
    Patent number: 12097776
    Abstract: An electric drive system is actively controlled while an electrified vehicle is being towed. The inverter switches are manipulated to preclude exceeding a maximum voltage of a DC bus and also to preclude exceeding a maximum phase current magnitude. During a transition from an inverter off state to a short-circuit state, field-oriented control is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ji Wu, Yang Xu, Michael W. Degner, Wei Wu
  • Battery thermal overload protection system
    Patent number: 12100856
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric machine, a battery, a clamping fixture, and blades. The battery has a plurality of cells configured to deliver power to the electric machine. The clamping fixture has plates disposed on opposing ends of the plurality of cells and members secured to each of the plates. The members are secured to the plates under a tension force such that the plates apply a compression force to the plurality of cells to decrease the internal resistance of the plurality of cells. The blades are configured to sever the members to release the compression force to increase the internal resistance of the array of cells in response to a temperature of at least one cell of the array of cells exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qian Zhou, Kent Snyder
  • Organometallic chain transfer agents
    Patent number: 12098160
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to organometallic compositions that are useful for chain transfer during olefin polymerization. Such compositions are chain transfer agents comprising an organoaluminum compound of the formula Al(CH2CH(Y2)A2)3 and an organozinc compound of the formula Zn(CH2CH(Y2)A2)2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Edmund M. Carnahan
  • Devolatilizer design
    Patent number: 12098233
    Abstract: A devolatilizer (devo), which operates at a temperature (T) and at a pressure (P), for the separation of at least a portion of a solvent from a polymer-rich solution comprising the solvent and a polymer, and wherein the devolatilizer comprises at least the following components: A) a distributor, a heater, or a heater/distributor combination; B) a shroud (component B) located around some or all of the periphery of component A; and C) a gap (component C) located between the outer surface of component A and the inner surface of component B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Maria Pollard, Irfan Khan, Shrikant Dhodapkar, Martin Lopez, Quan Yuan
  • Coating composition and its uses
    Patent number: 12098503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a silicone elastomeric coating composition for synthetic leather, particularly silicone-based synthetic leather, a silicone elastomeric coating (e.g., a topcoat) formed as a reaction product of the cure of the coating composition, methods of making the topcoat and synthetic leather utilizing the same and uses of synthetic leather products. The topcoat is designed to provide synthetic leather with an improved abrasion and scratch resistant topcoat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: DOW SILICONES CORPORATION, DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Yusheng Chen, Lili Shi, Zhihai Zhang, Rui Wang, Yi Guo, Wengang Song, Linfei Wang
  • Remote park assist augmented reality user engagement with cameraless detection
    Patent number: 12097843
    Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a vehicle processor disposed to control a drive system, and a memory for storing executable instructions. The vehicle processor is programmed to execute the instructions to determine, via the vehicle processor, a localization of a mobile device using a tethered wireless connection between the mobile device and the vehicle, receive, via the processor, an absolute heading of the mobile device, determine, via the vehicle processor, based on the localization of the mobile device, a relative bearing angle from the mobile device to the vehicle. The system may use the tethered wireless connection and the relative bearing angle from the mobile device to the vehicle to determine that a user is actuating a Human Machine Interface (HMI) element indicative of user attention to a remote parking maneuver and complete the remote parking maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hamid M. Golgiri, Vivekanandh Elangovan, Tom Nelson, Erick Michael Lovoie, Ryan Joseph Gorski
  • Multiple radio opportunistic scheduling
    Patent number: 12101755
    Abstract: Scheduling communications using a plurality of wireless interfaces is provided. Signals are monitored that are received from a first antenna configured to send and/or receive first messages over a first message protocol. Using the signals, time slot information is updated that is indicative of which equally-sized consecutive future time slots the first antenna is predicted to transmit and/or receive the first messages. A transmission is scheduled of a second message over a second antenna configured to send and/or receive second messages over a second message protocol using the time slot information to avoid out-of-band emission (OOBE) interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Syed Amaar Ahmad, Ivan Vukovic, Jayanthi Rao, Azin Neishaboori
  • Systems and methods to wash a vehicle in a car wash
    Patent number: 12097826
    Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods related to washing a vehicle in a car wash. In an example method, a car wash controller in a car wash detects a vehicle inside a bay of the car wash and selects a piece of equipment for washing a certain portion of the vehicle. Selecting the equipment may be based on an amount of dirt present on the portion of the vehicle, which can be, for example, a front portion, a rear portion, a side portion, a roof, or an underbody of the vehicle. The car wash controller may query a driver of the vehicle to determine a detergent preference. A car wash system computer in the vehicle may specify an amount of water to be used for washing the vehicle. The car wash controller washes the portion of the car using the detergent and the specified amount of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Gimeno Ferrer
  • Enhanced crude oil recovery from subterranean crude oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs
    Patent number: 12098324
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a sandstone-containing oil reservoir additive composition that includes (a) a nonionic wettability alteration agent having Formula (I): and (b) an injection fluid. For Formula (I), R is an alkyl residue from a branched secondary alcohol initiator, where R can have a carbon number of C4 to C10, x is from 3 to 10 and y is from 1 to 20. The injection fluid can be selected from the group consisting of sea water, engineered water, injection brine, produced brine or combinations thereof. The nonionic wettability agent in the sandstone reservoir additive composition can be from 0.01 weight percent (wt %) to 20 wt % based on the total weight of the sandstone reservoir additive composition. The sandstone-containing oil reservoir additive composition can be used in enhance oil recovery operations, such as a waterflooding operation or a carbon dioxide flooding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Amit Katiyar, Troy E. Knight, Pramod D. Patil, Neeraj Rohilla
  • Three-dimensional object detection
    Patent number: 12100189
    Abstract: An image can be input to a deep neural network to determine a point in the image based on a center of a Gaussian heatmap corresponding to an object included in the image. The deep neural network can determine an object descriptor corresponding to the object and include the object descriptor in an object vector attached to the point. The deep neural network can determine object parameters including a three-dimensional location of the object in global coordinates and predicted pixel offsets of the object. The object parameters can be included in the object vector, and the deep neural network can predict a future location of the object in global coordinates based on the point and the object vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shubham Shrivastava, Punarjay Chakravarty, Gaurav Pandey