Patents Assigned to GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
  • Autonomous racetrack driver coach and demonstrator
    Patent number: 12252156
    Abstract: A method of operating an autonomous racetrack driver coach and demonstrator in an autonomous vehicle employing operating systems for propulsion and maneuvering includes identifying a road course and mapping a velocity profile and a trajectory for the vehicle via a remote configurator. The trajectory defines a vehicle path around the road course and with the velocity profile minimizes the vehicle's lap time. The method also includes determining a presence of a human passenger/operator in the vehicle. The method additionally includes determining, via an electronic controller in communication with a remote detection source, localization of the vehicle on the road course. The method also includes determining vehicle velocity, acceleration, and heading relative to the mapped trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Yitzhak Rubin, Alon Capua
  • Switch duration setting for battery string state of charge balancing
    Patent number: 12255472
    Abstract: A battery system includes: two battery modules, each including three strings of battery cells that are configured to, at different times be: connected in series and to a first positive terminal via first ones of switches; connected in parallel and to a second positive terminal via second ones of the switches; and disconnected from both of the first and second positive terminals; and a switch control module configured to: determine state of charges (SOCs) of the strings, respectively; determine periods of phases, respectively, based on the SOCs; determine first periods for connecting ones of the strings in parallel; divide one of the phases into N equal length periods; selectively decrease N; when a number of the first periods that end closest to one of N period endings is at least a predetermined value, adjust the first periods to the respective closest ones of the N period endings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jun-mo Kang, Charles W. Wampler, II, Dave G. Rich
  • Rotor electrical grounding system
    Patent number: 12255504
    Abstract: An electric machine grounding system with low impedance includes a rotor that has a shaft assembly and that is configured to rotate about an axis. The shaft assembly has a surface. A housing supports the shaft assembly for rotation of the rotor. A holder extends from the housing. A ground assembly is held between the holder and the shaft assembly and includes a plurality of strands that extend to the surface to ground the shaft assembly to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sen Jiang Zhou, Alireza Fatemi, Jack M Gayney
  • Vehicle display control for color-impaired viewers
    Patent number: 12252014
    Abstract: A method of controlling a color display screen aboard a motor vehicle includes performing, via a host computer, a color calibration test of a user of the motor vehicle in which the user is subjected to a calibrated set of color-coded test information. The method includes receiving a color perception response of the user to the calibrated set of color-coded test information via the host computer. Additionally, the method includes mapping a reduced visual gamut of the user via the host computer using the color perception response, and then commanding adjustment of user-specific color settings of the motor vehicle using the reduced visual gamut to thereby accommodate a color perception deficiency of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Yael Shmueli Friedland, Asaf Degani, Dan Levi, Tzvi Philipp, Eran Kishon
  • Application virtualization in an emulator using an authentication processor
    Patent number: 12253967
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for enabling an MFi stack and corresponding MFi application to be authenticated in an emulator operating using one or more processors/CPUs are presented. In one aspect, a computer may include a memory and processor configured to execute the operating system. The computer may include a USB bus coupled through USB interface to a dongle. The dongle may include an authentication coprocessor for use in an integrated circuit (I2C)-to-USB configuration, and an I2C-to-USB computer. Driver code running on the computer may manage the data exchanged between the authentication coprocessor and a virtual emulator on the computer. The emulator may include a USB-to-I2C driver that virtualizes the authentication coprocessor as an I2C device running with the MFi application like CarPlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Bo Nie, Amandeep Saini
  • System and method estimating temperature of a direct current bus bar and direct current connector in a power inverter and providing control based upon the temperature
    Patent number: 12255567
    Abstract: A system includes a battery configured for providing electrical energy in direct current and a drive unit configured for utilizing electrical energy in alternating current to provide an output torque. The system includes a power inverter configured for receiving the electrical energy in direct current, transforming the electrical energy to alternating current, and providing the electrical energy in alternating current to the drive unit. The power inverter includes a direct current bus bar. The system includes a computerized controller. The controller monitors an environmental temperature of the inverter and monitors a current flow of the electrical energy received by the inverter. The controller determines an estimated temperature of the bus bar based upon the environmental temperature and the current flow and determining an inverter percent available capability based upon the estimated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Berry, Young J. Kim, Dylan M. Day
  • Surround view vehicle egress assistance
    Patent number: 12254702
    Abstract: A system and method for surround view egress assistance that includes detecting, by a sensor in a vehicle, an obstacle in a swing path of a vehicle door. The method includes predicting, based on a geometrical analysis, one or more potential collision zones between the obstacle and the vehicle door. The predicting also includes determining a bank angle of the vehicle in the predicting of one or more potential collision zones. The method further includes estimating, based on data from an inertial measurement unit, a severity of an impact of the vehicle door with the obstacle. The method also includes detecting a color and height of a curb and potential collisions with a vehicle door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Gurmeet S. Sidhu, Akram M. Abdel-Rahman, Mansoor Alghooneh, Russell A Patenaude, Patrick G. G. DiGioacchino
  • Traction board
    Patent number: 12251963
    Abstract: A traction board for insertion under a vehicle's tire for freeing the vehicle from a stuck condition includes an elongated board body and an end plate pivotally connected to an end portion of the elongated board body. According to a further aspect, a traction board includes an elongated board body and a finger pivotally connected to the elongated board body and pivotally extending below the elongated board body in order to prevent the elongated board body from sliding rearward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: James A. Wobser
  • On-vehicle ultra-wideband system and method
    Patent number: 12256432
    Abstract: A wireless communication system for a vehicle includes a wireless access point (AP), an ultra-wide band (UWB) system, a communication link, a controller, and a vehicle system. The UWB system is in communication with the wireless AP via a communication link. The wireless communication system is operable to detect, via the wireless AP, a request for localized wireless communication. The UWB system requests the wireless AP to generate a clear to send (CTS) transmission, which includes selecting an ultra-wide band (UWB) channel, mapping the UWB channel to a plurality of WiFi channels, and transmitting, by the wireless AP, the CTS transmission to each of the plurality of WiFi channels. The UWB system then transmits a UWB message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Adler, Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil, Djordje Preradovic
  • Network access control for vehicle
    Patent number: 12253384
    Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing access of an application on a vehicle to a wireless network external to the vehicle. The system may include a network usage controller configured for determining a data usage status for the application to be one of allowed and blocked and a network access manager configured for storing a route for the application to access a server of the wireless network when the data usage status is allowed and for erasing or disabling the route when the data usage status is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Sandeep Vig
  • Systems and methods for employing driver input for adapting path planning in lane centering applications
    Patent number: 12252121
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining, by a processor, that a lane centering feature is active in the vehicle; identifying, by the processor, a pattern of steering wheel torque; determining, by the processor, a driver requested offset based on a location of the vehicle and a location of a center of the lane; applying, by the processor, the driver requested offset to a planned trajectory of the vehicle; evaluating, by the processor, one or more duration conditions; and in response to the evaluating, selectively generating, by the processor, a control signal based on the planned trajectory with the driver requested offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xuefei Yang, Paul A Adam, Tetyana V Mamchuk, Brian Porto, Ashraf Abualfellat
  • Vehicle rear fascia
    Patent number: D1067133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dongwan Jo, Myeongseon Choi, Zooyoung Oh
  • Vehicle rear bumper valance panel
    Patent number: D1067134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Tyler L. H. Moffett
  • Vehicle rear lower fascia
    Patent number: D1067135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dillon R. Blanski, Hoon S. Kim
  • Vehicle rear upper fascia
    Patent number: D1067136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Zooyoung Oh
  • Vehicle rear lower fascia
    Patent number: D1067137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Zooyoung Oh
  • Vehicle rear upper fascia
    Patent number: D1067138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chihoon Kim, Zhou Fang, Jesung Ahn
  • Vehicle front lower fascia
    Patent number: D1067139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gifford, Chad T. Pancurak
  • Vehicle taillamp
    Patent number: D1067481
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gapdong Choi, Youngmin Lee
  • Vehicle taillamp
    Patent number: D1067502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Feng Wang