Patents Assigned to IS Technologies, LLC
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE VEHICLE CONTROL AND PEDESTRIAN USER COACHING
    Publication number: 20220161616
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes at least one detection device configured to capture detection data. The system further includes a controller that identifies a travel path of the vehicle extending from a current position to a target position of the vehicle. In response to the travel path, the controller calculates a travel zone occupied by the vehicle traversing the travel path and determines at least one viewing zone proximate to the travel zone. The controller further determines a location of a user based on the detection data and controls a navigation routine of the vehicle along the travel path in response to a location of the user relative to the at least one viewing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hamid M. Golgiri, Erick Michael Lavoie
  • Systems And Methods For Remote Storage Of Information Associated With A Distributed Ledger Network
    Publication number: 20220164310
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to, among other things, systems and methods for remote storage of information associated with a node of a distributed ledger network. In some embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may involve providing, by a first node of a distributed ledger network of nodes and to a first server, first information associated with the first node, wherein the network of nodes includes a network of vehicles. The systems and methods may also involve receiving, by a ledger of the first node and from the first server, a pointer to the first information that is stored at the first server, wherein the pointer is stored in the ledger, and wherein the ledger is a distributed ledger included in all of the nodes of the network of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Abraham Mezaael
  • VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING TORQUE RESERVE VIA BELT INTEGRATED STARTER GENERATOR
    Publication number: 20220161778
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an air-conditioning (AC) compressor, an engine, a belt-integrated starter generator (BISG), and a controller. The controller, responsive to detecting a first AC compressor engagement condition, compares a first AC torque demand that is required to engage the AC compressor with an available torque from the BISG. The controller further, responsive to the available torque being insufficient to engage the AC compressor, engages the AC compressor using the available torque from the BISG and an engine torque from the engine to compensate a torque shortfall between the AC torque demand and the available torque by retarding spark timing and increasing air intake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tom LEROY, Nicholas Dashwood CRISP, Athul RAJ, Grant COOPER
  • CHASSIS PANEL WITH SELECTABLE CABLE MANAGEMENT INSERT AND CABLING METHOD THEREFORE
    Publication number: 20220163744
    Abstract: A chassis panel defines one or more rearward-facing, open-ended slots at a rear of the chassis panel. One or more management inserts can be mounted within the open-ended slot along a forward-rearward axis. Cables can be pre-cabled through the inserts prior to being installed at one or more port modules. Accordingly, the port modules can be cabled prior to being installed at the chassis panel without first having to thread the cables through the chassis panel. Alternatively, the cables can be slid directly into the open-ended slots during installation of the port modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Rodney C. SCHOENFELDER
  • MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATION USING ZERO PULSE SMART VERIFY
    Publication number: 20220165341
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus includes a block of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is connected to one of a plurality of word lines and are also arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage within a common range of threshold voltages. A control circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and the strings is configured to determine an erase upper tail voltage of a distribution of the threshold voltage of the memory cells following an erase operation. The erase upper tail voltage corresponds to a cycling condition of the memory cells. The control circuit is also configured to calculate a program voltage to apply to each of selected ones of the plurality of word lines associated with the memory cells to program the memory cells during a program operation based on the erase upper tail voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xue Bai Pitner, Dengtao Zhao, Deepanshu Dutta, Ravi Kumar
  • PORTABLE WEIGHING SCALE FOR WEIGHING BALED CROP IN FIELD
    Publication number: 20220163372
    Abstract: A portable weighing scale for weighing a bale of crop includes a support frame configured to be transported on ground. A powered lift is operatively coupled to the support frame and configured to lift the bale of crop off the ground. A weight measurement system is operatively coupled to the support frame and configured to measure the weight or mass of the bale of crop when the bale of crop is lifted off the ground by the power lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Daniel L. Pitts
  • REMOTE PARK-ASSIST USER PEDESTRIAN LOCATION COACHING AND ENFORCEMENT
    Publication number: 20220161783
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes at least one detection device configured to capture detection data and a controller. The controller identifies a parking space for a vehicle in an operating area based on the detection data and identifies a travel path of the vehicle from a current position to a target position aligning the vehicle with the parking space. In response to the travel path, the controller calculates a travel zone occupied by the vehicle traversing the travel path and determines at least one viewing zone proximate to the travel zone. The controller further determines a location of a user based on the detection data and controls a navigation routine of the vehicle along the travel path in response to the location of the user relative to the at least one viewing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hamid M. Golgiri, Eric Michael Lavoie
  • FRAGRANCE DIFFUSION COLLECTOR ASSEMBLY, EXCHANGEABLE FRAGRANCE CARTRIDGE, AND FRAGRANCE DIFFUSION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220160924
    Abstract: A collector assembly is adapted for use in a fragrance diffusion system. The collector assembly incorporates a dual-thread collector base including an integrally-formed cartridge coupler and neck. The cartridge coupler has an internal screw thread designed for mating with a complementary external screw thread of a fragrance cartridge. The neck has an external screw thread which matches the internal screw thread of the cartridge coupler. An atomizing device including a flow nozzle is attached to the collector base and defines an internal air passage to an atomization chamber. An airblast through the internal passage of the nozzle creates a suction force drawing liquid fragrance from the cartridge through a vacuum tube and into the atomization chamber where the liquid fragrance is converted into droplets prior to discharging outwardly through a vapor port and into a vapor chamber inside the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: ScentAir Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Connors, Matthew L. Browne, Logan T. Andres
  • Methods and Compositions for Producing Brachytic Corn Plants
    Publication number: 20220162713
    Abstract: The present disclosure is in the field of plant breeding. The disclosure provides methods for breeding corn plants having a brachytic trait using marker-assisted selection. The disclosure further provides brachytic germplasm, markers associated with a brachytic trait for introgressing the trait into elite germplasm in a breeding program. This disclosure also provides brachytic or dwarf elite corn varieties having yield equal to or higher than conventional non-brachytic corn varieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ty Jason Barten, Alana N. Brown, Edward James Cargill, Romain Fouquet, Jose Rafael Gomez, Matthew Sean Marengo, Manuel Oyervides Garcia, Jeanette M. Peevers, Dennis Hung Yang
  • DYNAMIC CONTROL OF VEHICLE DRIVETRAIN MODES
    Publication number: 20220165152
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for establishing at least one low or zero emission traffic zone and for controlling and monitoring a dynamically operated drivetrain of hybrid vehicles passing through the at least one established low or zero emission traffic zone is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Hendrikx, Stuart Easson, Adam Weber, Rathi Munukur, Tariq Alexander Willis, Michael Huynh, Alexandra Holz
  • VISION SENSOR DYNAMIC WATERMARKING VIA NOISE CHARACTERIZATION
    Publication number: 20220164915
    Abstract: Vision sensor dynamic watermarking via noise characterization are disclosed herein. An example device can capture an image by a first device, where the image comprising a pixel group has baseline noise characterization caused by a base noise profile for the first device. The device can produce a noise watermark to create a watermarked image, where the noise watermark can be produced by altering the baseline noise characterization to produce modified noise characterization. The device can also transmit the watermarked image to a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Diedrich, Ali Hassani
  • ENHANCED VEHICLE STEERING OPERATION
    Publication number: 20220161846
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to input steering torque data and steering wheel angle data to a machine learning program trained to output a status of a hand of an occupant relative to a steering wheel, the status being one of (1) the hand is on the steering wheel, (2) the hand is off the steering wheel and no weight is applied to the steering wheel, or (3) the hand is off the steering wheel and a weight is applied to the steering wheel, and actuate a steering subsystem when the output of the machine learning program indicates that the hand of the occupant is off the steering wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hiva Ghanbari, Victor Yu, Milad Zafar Nezhad, Wayne Zhang
  • METHODS TO IMPROVE SITE-DIRECTED INTEGRATION FREQUENCY
    Publication number: 20220162625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for improving site-directed integration frequency in the genome of plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: John BRADLEY, Larry A. GILBERTSON, Ervin NAGY, Christine SHYU, Peizhen YANG, Xudong YE
  • PHOSPHORUS CONTROL FOR WASTE STREAMS FROM GLYPHOSATE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20220162106
    Abstract: This invention relates to processes for the removal of phosphorous from aqueous waste streams comprising phosphorus-containing compounds produced in the manufacture of glyphosate, in order to meet and typically exceed environmental regulations. More particularly, various embodiments of the present invention relate to the removal of phosphorous-containing compounds utilizing biological treatment system(s), oxidizing agent(s), and/or precipitant(s). The processes of the invention are also applicable to the removal of phosphorous compounds from phosphorous-containing waste streams other than those waste streams resulting from the manufacture of glyphosate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Peng Lei, Ming Ren, Anthony E. Vaughn
  • ANIONIC GROUP III COMPLEXES AS WEAKLY COORDINATING ANIONS FOR OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST ACTIVATORS
    Publication number: 20220162352
    Abstract: Embodiments include activators having a structure according to formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Todd D. Senecal, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, Richard J. Keaton, Jerzy Klosin, Rafael Huacuja, David M. Pearson, William H.H. Woodward
  • FIBER PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR A FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20220163730
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fiber optic connectors having integrated features for protecting the optical fibers of the fiber optic connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Danny Willy August VERHEYDEN, David TIMMERMANS, Peter STOCKMANS, Heidi KEMPS, Ann VANDERSTUKKEN
  • DELAYED HARVEST OF SHORT STATURE CORN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20220162632
    Abstract: Methods for delayed harvesting of corn fields are provided herein. These methods provide an extended, flexible period of time to harvest corn. The methods allow growers to harvest their corn at the optimal time for drying down or accessing seed, without increasing the risk of losing yield to lodging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ty J. BARTEN, Edward J. CARGILL, Bryce LEMKE
  • VEHICLE NEURAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20220164582
    Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to receive a monocular image and provide the image to a variational autoencoder neural network (VAE), wherein the VAE has been trained in a twin configuration that includes a first encoder-decoder pair that receives as input unlabeled real images and outputs reconstructed real images, and a second encoder-decoder pair that receives as input synthetic images and outputs reconstructed synthetic images and wherein the VAE includes third and fourth decoders that are trained using labeled synthetic images, segmentation ground truth and depth ground truth. The instructions can include further instructions to output from the VAE a segmentation map and a depth map based on inputting the monocular image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nithin Raghavan, Shubham Shrivastava, Punarjay Chakravarty
  • MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATION USING ONE PULSE SMART VERIFY
    Publication number: 20220165342
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus includes a block of memory cells each connected to one of a plurality of word lines and arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage. A control circuit couples to the word lines and the strings determines a program lower tail voltage of a distribution of the threshold voltage following a first program pulse. The control circuit calculates a second program voltage of a second program pulse based on the program lower tail voltage and applies the second program pulse to each of selected ones of the plurality of word lines associated with the memory cells to program the memory cells such that the distribution of the threshold voltage of the memory cells have a desired program lower tail voltage without further program pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xue Bai Pitner, Deepanshu Dutta, Ravi Kumar
  • COORDINATING VEHICLE CONTROLLER SHUTDOWN
    Publication number: 20220164019
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first controller that sends a request to enter a lower power mode, and a plurality of second controllers. The second controllers each periodically send the first controller signals indicating operation in a normal power mode while being powered by a primary power converter, and responsive to receiving the request, do not send the signals during the low power mode while being capable of powered by an auxiliary power converter that has a maximum power limit less than the primary power converter. Also, the first controller, responsive to not receiving the signals for a predetermined period of time, disconnects the first and second controllers from the primary power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander ANDERSON, John Patrick NEW