Patents Assigned to GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
  • System for generating floating image display
    Patent number: 12287496
    Abstract: A system for generating a centrally located floating image display for a plurality of passengers positioned within a vehicle includes a plurality of displays adapted to project a graphic light image, a plurality of beam splitters, one beam splitter individually associated with each one of the plurality of displays, each beam splitter adapted to receive a graphic light image from the associated one of the plurality of displays and to reflect the graphic light image to one of the plurality of passengers, wherein, each of the plurality of passengers perceives a floating image at a central location within the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Kai-Han Chang, Manoj Sharma, Thomas A. Seder, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • System and method for quality control in manufacture of parts
    Patent number: 12286315
    Abstract: A system performs a method of manufacturing a vehicle. The system includes a camera, a transport device, and a processor. The camera obtains an image of a part that is to be assembled to the vehicle. The transport device orients the part with respect to a surface and drops the part onto the surface. The processor creates a first model representing the part and a second model representing the surface from the image, places the first model at a selected drop orientation and a selected drop height with respect to the second model, simulates a drop of the first model onto the second model, and determines a change in a dimension of the first model resulting from the simulated drop. The part is dropped onto the surface at the selected drop orientation and the selected drop height when the change in the dimension of the first model meets a criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ziqiang Sheng, Anthony Vincent Tocco, Timothy J. Byrd, Ronald Schabel, Shane L. Johnson, Jason W. Whaley, Michael J. Watson, Kleber M. Cabral
  • Door trim secondary attachment
    Patent number: 12286064
    Abstract: A trim assembly of a vehicle includes a first component, a second component, and one or more primary retention elements attaching the first component to the second component. A secondary retention element is located at the first component. The secondary retention element is configured to engage the second component only in the event that the first component begins to move away from the second component to prevent release of the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Erick Asgard Tellez, Reynaldo Godinez
  • Occupancy based parking alignment for automated and assisted parking
    Patent number: 12286096
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling alignment of a vehicle during parking that include obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of a vehicle, as to passenger occupancy of the vehicle and as to a parking location for the vehicle; identifying, via a processor of the vehicle, which passenger seats of the vehicle are occupied, based on the sensor data; identifying, via the processor, the parking location based on the sensor data; and determining, via the processor, an offset for parking of the vehicle in the parking location, based at least in part on which passenger seats of the vehicle are occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Giancarlo Gabriel DiGioacchino, Utkarsh Saini, Fred W Huntzicker
  • FLUID APPLICATOR WITH PROPORTIONAL VALVE
    Publication number: 20250128284
    Abstract: A fluid applicator system for applying fluid to a workpiece includes an arm movable relative to the workpiece and a proportional valve attached to the arm and movable with the arm relative to the workpiece, the proportional valve configured to dispense fluid onto the workpiece at predetermined locations when the arm is moved relative to the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Rushabh Patel
  • LANGUAGE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20250131912
    Abstract: A language detection system includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include issuing a vehicle prompt and determining responsiveness to the issued vehicle prompt, the responsiveness including an execution response and anon-responsive response. A language monitoring module is activated in response to the non-responsive response of the determined responsiveness and a spoken language is monitored within an interior cabin of a vehicle. A driver state is estimated based on the determined language, and a translation function is executed using a translation module in response to the estimated driver state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Prabhjot Kaur, Noah Sharkus, Nicholas Constantine Sidiropoulos, Gaurav Talwar
  • MOOD IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250128671
    Abstract: A mood improvement system for a vehicle includes a vehicle processor storing data including vehicle location, vehicle event data, and current driver mood information. The mood improvement system also includes a server communicatively coupled to the vehicle processor and configured to determine whether a mood intervention should be activated. The determination of whether a mood intervention should be activated is based on a driver mood profile including the current driver mood information, and one or more of contextual vehicle information including vehicle event data and vehicle location, and crowdsourced data including current driver mood information from nearby vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Masoumeh Esfandiari, Russell A. Patenaude
  • SYNCHRONOUS ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH RECONFIGURABLE ROTOR AND STATOR POLES
    Publication number: 20250132651
    Abstract: A magnet-free electric machine. The electric machine may include a stator including a first stator winding set and a second stator winding set and a rotor including a first rotor winding set and a second rotor winding set. The electric machine may include a power transfer circuit configured for controlling a polarity and/or a phase sequence of excitation currents used in exciting the first and second stator and rotor windings, and thereby, respectively generated stator and rotor poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Peng Peng, Thomas W. Nehl, Derek F. Lahr, Alireza Fatemi, Lei Hao, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Avoki M. Omekanda, Renato Amorim Torres, Mazharul Chowdhury
  • MATERIALS DELIVERY AND ASSEMBLY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250128896
    Abstract: A delivery and assembly system includes a plurality of storage locations including assembly materials and one or more vehicle transports including a controller. The vehicle transports are configured to transport the assembly materials. A control server is communicatively coupled with the controller of the one or more vehicle transports. The control server is configured to identify an available vehicle transport from the one or more vehicle transports and is configured to determine a fitness of the available vehicle transport to receive the assembly materials. An assembly station is configured to receive the available vehicle transport including the assembly materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Kaphengst, Alfred Manser, Ahmad Almarkhi, Seog-Chan Oh, Joshua Lee Solomon, Xiang Zhao, Miguel Arturo Saez
  • SCALABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR BATTERY CELLS WITH STACKED ELECTRODES
    Publication number: 20250132393
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery cell includes providing a battery cell container. The method also includes generating a first battery monocell having a respective anode, cathode, first separator arranged therebetween, and a second separator arranged adjacent to the corresponding anode. The method additionally includes generating a second battery monocell having a respective anode, cathode, first separator arranged therebetween, and a second separator arranged adjacent to the corresponding anode. The method also includes stacking the first battery monocell and the second battery monocell such that the second separator of the first battery monocell is adjacent to the cathode of the second battery monocell. The method further includes arranging the stacked first and second battery monocells in the battery cell container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Binsong Li, Liang Xi, SriLakshmi Katar
  • WELDING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250132440
    Abstract: A battery casing includes a first portion including a first planar portion and a bottom portion and a second portion having a second planar portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion, the first portion and the second portion configured to be welded together at (i) a first butt joint extending along the first side portion to join the first side portion to the first planar portion and to the bottom portion at the first side portion, (ii) a second butt joint extending along the second planar portion to join the second planar portion to the bottom portion at the second planar portion, and (iii) a third butt joint extending along the second side portion to join the second side portion to the first planar portion and to the bottom portion at the second side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: William P. Payne, Hui-Ping Wang, Vivian Vasquez, Lu Huang
  • WELDMENT ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20250129811
    Abstract: A weldment assembly includes a first component and a second component configured to be coupled to the first component. Additionally, the first component and the second component are coupled through a first linear stitch and a second linear stitch disposed parallel to the first linear stitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Ying Lu, Junjie Ma, Hui-Ping Wang, Mitchell Poirier, Scott A. Hooker
  • ELECTROLYZER STACKS, ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPERATING ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20250129492
    Abstract: A spring plate assembly. The assembly includes spring plates with each of the spring plates having a perimeter section extending in a first plane, at least one bridge section extending from a first portion of the perimeter section to a second portion of the perimeter section, and spring elements that extend from the at least one bridge section. A first pair of adjacent spring plates are configured to engage a corresponding one of the perimeter sections when stacked in a first configuration and the first pair of adjacent spring plates are configured to engage a corresponding one of the plurality of spring elements when stacked in a second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Yeh-Hung Lai
  • Predictive battery health detection from pack soaking behavior
    Patent number: 12282071
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for predicting a quality of a battery includes receiving a first battery measurement data for a first duration of soaking the battery, the first duration shorter than or equal to the soaking. The method further includes computing a plurality of features based on the first battery measurement data. The method further includes predicting, based on the plurality of features, a state of the battery after completion of the soaking. The method further includes outputting suitability of the quality of the battery based on the state of the battery as predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yusheng Zou, Ibrahim Haskara, Bharatkumar Hegde, Chunhao J Lee
  • Vehicle front lower fascia
    Patent number: D1071807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Hongjun Xu
  • Vehicle taillamp
    Patent number: D1072288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Eduardo Okamoto
  • Vehicle front lower fascia
    Patent number: D1072688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Zooyoung Oh
  • Vehicle front upper fascia
    Patent number: D1072690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gifford, Matt McNerney, Zachary K. Parkinson
  • Vehicle front upper fascia
    Patent number: D1072691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gifford, Matt McNerney, Zachary K. Parkinson
  • Vehicle taillamp
    Patent number: D1073141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Tyler L. H. Moffett, Eduardo Okamoto