Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
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Publication number: 20240282003Abstract: A method includes obtaining infrastructure data from one or more infrastructure sensors, determining an infrastructure-based positional characteristic of the vehicle based on the infrastructure data, obtaining onboard image data from the onboard image sensor, determining an image-based positional characteristic of the vehicle based on the onboard image data and a digital twin of the manufacturing environment, generating an offset matrix based on the infrastructure-based positional characteristic and the image-based positional characteristic, and selectively adjusting a rotation matrix of the onboard image sensor based on the offset matrix and one or more additional offset matrices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mario Anthony Santillo, Krishna Bandi, Gregory P. Linkowski, Meghna Menon
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Publication number: 20240280984Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including perform a remote maneuver of a vehicle, and instruct a mobile device to provide a feedback to an individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Pietro Buttolo, Neha Singhal, Biaohe Guo, Mark Larry, Kenneth Michael Mayer
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Publication number: 20240279437Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an encapsulant film made from a curable composition comprising: (A) a polyolefin polymer; (B) an organic peroxide; (C) a silane coupling agent; and (D) a co-agent comprising a monocyclic organosiloxane of formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Yunfeng Yang, Chao He, Weiming MA, Hongyu Chen, Yabin Sun, Kainan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Cogen, Timothy J. Person, Yuyan Li, Hong Yang
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Patent number: 12065523Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure include polymers comprising the polymerized product of ethylene, at least one diene comonomer, and optionally at least one C3 to C14 comonomer. The polymer comprises tri-functional long-chain branches resulting from the diene that occur at a frequency of at least 0.03 per 1000 carbon atoms of the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Robert D. J. Froese, Teresita Kashyap, Oscar D. Redwine, Daniel J. Arriola, Robert L. Sammler, Cornelis F. J. Den Doelder
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Patent number: 12067087Abstract: A system includes a computer programmed to receive first sensor data from a first sensor, wherein the first sensor data is defined in part by a first data space that includes first parameters of the first sensor, and second sensor data from a second sensor, wherein the second sensor data is defined in part by a second data space that includes second parameters of the second sensor, to input the first sensor data and the second sensor data to a machine learning program to train the machine learning program to determine a domain translation of data from the first data space to the second data space, and then to input a set of training data received from the first sensor to the trained machine learning program to generate a training dataset based on the determined domain translation of data from the first data space to the second data space.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nikhil Nagraj Rao, Akhil Perincherry
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Patent number: 12064733Abstract: Phosgene is mixed with an organic polyamine to produce polyisocyanate compounds. A phosgene flow is established in a conduit (15), and the organic polyamine is injected into the phosgene flow. A constricted region (4) of the conduit (15) resides downstream of the point of the polyamine injection. The presence of the constricted region (4) reduces by-product formation.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Paul A. Gillis, Quan Yuan
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Patent number: 12067149Abstract: Use of embedded metadata for data privacy compliance is provided. In a data store, self-managed data is maintained including metadata specifying retention policy data. Responsive to a self-update to scrub PII from the self-managed data being indicated by the retention policy data, the PII is removed from the self-managed data maintained by the data store. Responsive to a self-update to delete the self-managed data from the self-managed data being indicated by the retention policy data, the self-managed data is removed from the data store.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: David Michael Herman, Jon Speigle, Brian Tamm
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Patent number: 12065145Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for providing a vehicle occupant preparation system for certain acceleration modes. In an example method, sensor data associated with one or more sensors of the vehicle may be generated when a vehicle is in an acceleration mode. Subsequently, an orientation of an occupant in the vehicle relative to a seat or other structure within an interior of the vehicle may be determined using the sensor data. The orientation of the occupant may comprise at least a position of a head of the occupant or a direction the head of the occupant is facing. It may be determined that the orientation of the occupant is not within a predetermined orientation threshold. A notification associated with the orientation of the occupant may then be presented. In some instances, a performance parameter of the vehicle may be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brendan Diamond, Keith Weston, Jordan Barrett, Andrew Lewandowski
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Patent number: 12066297Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized route prediction including receiving, at a first time, first input data associated with a first route; populating a first database with the input data; receiving, at a third time, second input data associated with a second route; comparing the second input data to the first input data included within the first database; determining, based on the comparison, a first cluster including the first data and the second input data or a second cluster including the second input data; populating a second database based on the first cluster or the second cluster; determining, using the first database and at a second time, at least one of: predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data; and causing, based on the predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data, to perform an action in association with a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Shiqi Qiu, Dimitar Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Nikhil Jamdade, Swati Rawat, Kalyani Sonawane, Himanshu Verma, Bhagyashri Katti
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Patent number: 12065164Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and computer program products for object state prediction. For example, the methods include: obtaining, by a computing device, LiDAR datasets from a LiDAR system; and generating, by the computing device, a most likely sequence of states for an object using (i) velocity and acceleration values that are each functions of center point coordinates of amodal cuboids encompassing at least some points in LiDAR point clouds comprising the LiDAR datasets and (ii) a score that is a function of a first geometrical distance of a given point in the LiDAR datasets to an edge of an amodal cuboid and a second geometrical distance from the given point to a center point of the amodal cuboid.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Kevin James Player
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Patent number: 12065955Abstract: A flow management device comprises an outer chamber with an inlet arranged to receive a flow in a first flow direction and an outlet arranged to provide the flow in a second flow direction different from the first direction, and a duct arranged within the chamber, the duct having a first end configured to receive the flow from the inlet and a second end configured to release the flow towards the outlet, wherein a cross-sectional area of the duct increases towards each of the first and second ends of the duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Hitchings, Paul Nigel Turner, Sean Gordon Harman, Daniel Wilden
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Patent number: 12065589Abstract: Laminated panels are made in a process whereby a starting foam formulation is processed through a mixhead, passed through a branched distribution system and dispensed through multiple outlets of the distribution system to produce a foam layer on a bottom facing layer. The foam layer is monitored for the presence of surface bubbles. When surface bubbles are observed, the backpressure in the mixhead is increased to reduce or eliminate the surface bubbles. An apparatus for performing the process includes an adjustment means at or upstream of a first branch point in the distribution system to increase or decrease the backpressure in the mixhead.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Mirella Coroneo, Roberto Rossi, Andrea Benvenuti
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Patent number: 12065008Abstract: A suspension control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with suspension of respective ones of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle, a controller operably coupled to the adjustable dampers to selectively adjust a damping force of one or more of the adjustable dampers responsive to an activation signal, and a driver interface disposed at a steering wheel assembly of the vehicle. The driver interface may be actuated by a driver of the vehicle to apply the activation signal while the driver interface is actuated.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Steven Thompson, Tom Sawarynski, Adam Busack, Jason Michener, Matthew Titus
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Patent number: 12067872Abstract: 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 infrastructure 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Colette Knopp, Jason Haisma, Tommy Poek, Justin Martins, Krishna Bandi
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Patent number: 12065068Abstract: A vehicle console includes a housing having at least one cupholder, a deployable shelf located proximate to the housing and movable between a recessed position in thermal communication with the at least cupholder and an extended position extending outward from the housing. The deployable shelf has a thermally conductive surface, and a heater operatively coupled to the thermally conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Dustin Shedlarski, Micah Jones, Hussein H. Berry
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Patent number: 12065044Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for electrical power distribution. In one example, a system includes plurality of electric consumers comprising one or more operating modes with different levels of power consumption, an energy storage and an electric machine arranged in the vehicle and configured to provide energy to the energy storage device or power to the electric consumers and torque to wheels of the vehicle, a power allocating device coupled to the energy storage device and the plurality of electric consumers, and a controller configured to maintain two indices for allocating power to the plurality of electric consumers, wherein a first index comprises a first power allocation strategy based on power from only the energy storage device and a second index comprises a second power allocation strategy based on power from the energy storage device and the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Urs Christen, David Ramiro, Handian Chen, Fazal U. Syed, Sassan Farahmand, Brendan Jenkins, Douglas Michael Smith
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Patent number: 12064528Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for controlling microbial contamination of scooters are disclosed. A method may include determining that a user interaction with a vehicle is complete, presenting a first indication that the vehicle is unavailable for use, activating a heating element of the vehicle, the heating element associated with a microbial reduction process, determining that a time period associated with the microbial reduction process has expired, deactivating, based on the expiration of the time period, the heating element of the vehicle, and presenting a second indication that the vehicle is available for use.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Gilles Margaria, Rodrigo Denizarte de Oliveira Polkowski, Julio Okada, Eduardo Pinto, Cristiano Grings Herbert, Alper Kiziltas, Deborah Frances Mielewski
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Patent number: 12065174Abstract: Routes may be presented to a vehicle operator with information about predicted autonomous driving levels. A road network route to a destination is received. The road network route is partitioned into segments. Indicia of the segments are provided to an inference engine. The inference engine predicts levels of autonomous driving for the respective segments generated by the inference engine based on the indicia of the segments. Based on the predicted levels of autonomous driving for the respective segments, a ratio of a level of autonomous driving for the road network route is computed. The ratio corresponds to a proportion of time and/or distance for the road network route during which a driver-system is predicted to be engaged at the level of autonomous driving. A user interface is displayed, which includes a graphic representation of the road network route and a graphic indication of the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Amin Ariannezhad, Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi, Mohsen Bahrami, Sajit Janardhanan
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Patent number: 12067854Abstract: A theft detection system for a vehicle is provided. The theft detection system includes a hybrid wireless tire sensor (HWTS) coupled to an interior of a tire of the vehicle, a processor, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including detecting a change in voltage across the HWTS responsive to a change in deformation of the tire, and determining, based on the change in deformation of the tire, if a theft is occurring.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jonathan Engels, Mahmoud Ghannam, Sai Prasanth Velusamy, Dilip Patel
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Patent number: D1039721Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Soohyoung Kim, Damon G. Depeyster, William Mangan
