Patents Assigned to SAMSARA
  • Patent number: 11736312
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for variable termination in a vehicle communication bus. To provide compatibility with multiple vehicles, a device may include a software selectable terminator resistor that can be programmatically enabled or disabled to add or remove resistance as needed. For example, the software selectable terminator resistor may be enabled when the device is added as an end node in a high-speed communication bus and operates as a terminator resistor. Alternatively, the software selectable terminator resistor may be disabled when the device is added as an intermediate node positioned between terminator resistors in the high-speed communication bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Tingao Xiao, Benedict Fraser Walker, Xin Yang
  • Patent number: 11731469
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device to monitor one or more wheels of a vehicle. The method includes receiving first accelerometer measurements of a first accelerometer mounted on the vehicle's first wheel when the vehicle is moving during an interval of time, determining based on the first accelerometer measurements a first path followed by the first accelerometer when the vehicle is moving during the interval of time, receiving second accelerometer measurements of a second accelerometer mounted on a vehicle's second wheel when the vehicle is moving during the interval of time, determining, based on the second accelerometer measurements, a second path followed by the second accelerometer when the vehicle is moving during the interval of time, and determining based on a comparison of the first path with the second path that at least one of the vehicle's first wheel and the vehicle's second wheel is misaligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara, Inc.
    Inventor: Glen Phillip McGillan
  • Patent number: 11720087
    Abstract: A system receives operations data and determines operations indicator(s) from the operations data. An operator on a manufacturing line reports a downtime event via a human machine interface device. The system receives downtime event and uptime information. The system calculates an operations indicator, such as an overall equipment effectiveness indicator, from the downtime event and uptime information. A user interface of the system includes the operations indicator(s) and visualizations. Some visualizations include a timeline indicating downtime events and other operations events. Additional downtime and uptime information is received by the system in substantially real-time. The system dynamically calculates updated operations indicator(s) from the additional downtime and uptime information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Lee Heddleston, John Charles Bicket, James Robert Saunders, Peter Lee Atkin
  • Patent number: 11710409
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for automated fleet tracking. A route management system enables fleet managers to define and assign routes for vehicles in a fleet, as well as set route tracking configurations for customized tracking of the vehicles. For example, the route tracking configuration may include customizations to the scheduled start and/or end time of a route, a threshold for determining that a vehicle has arrived and/or departed from a scheduled stop, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Sachal Nanda, Greg Hogan, Jennifer Julia Zhang, Kathryn Siegel, Kelsey Lam, Sean McGee, Alex Wu, Tirso Peguero, Emily White, Eric Shreve, Wei Wu, Chaein Jung, Helen Chung, Sachie Weber, Yosub Shin, Utkarsh Jaiswal
  • Patent number: 11709500
    Abstract: A method and a gateway system of a mobile asset are described. A voltage produced by a power system of the mobile asset is monitored by a gateway system. In response to determining that a first fluctuation occurs in the voltage produced by the power system of the mobile asset over a first interval of time, the gateway system operates in a first mode. In response to determining that a value of the voltage produced by the power system of the mobile asset is less than a voltage threshold, the gateway system automatically transitions to operating in a second mode, which is different from the first mode and causes the gateway system to consume less power than when it is operating in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Russell Coates Lloyd, James Michael Rowson, Maxwell Anton Dergosits, Elias Ray Dykaar, Erin Maria Bailie
  • Patent number: 11704984
    Abstract: A management server receives a request to view video content; access a stream of video content corresponding to the request; access and store, in one or more databases, metadata associated with the video content, wherein the metadata includes a plurality of detections and was generated by the video gateway device based on an analysis of the video content and previously uploaded to a remote computing device; generating and causing display of a user interface that includes: the stream of the video content, a seek bar configured to be manipulated by a user so that the user can navigate through the video content, and the metadata overlaid on the seek bar such that the plurality of detections are overlaid at locations on the seek bar corresponding to when the plurality of detections were detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Saleh ElHattab, Kathryn Siegel, Noah Paul Gonzales, Etienne Jean-Claude Dejoie, Maxwell Coleman Goldberg, Joyce Tian Chen, Kelsey Michelle Lam, Adam Eric Funkenbusch, Karthikram Rajadurai, Rhea Lin, Sebastian Richard Sangervasi, Aidan Siobhan Madigan-Curtis, William Arthur Hughes
  • Patent number: 11694317
    Abstract: Machine vision devices may be configured to automatically connect to a remote management server (e.g., a “cloud”-based management server), and may offload and/or communicate images and analyses to the remote management server via wired or wireless communications. The machine vision devices may further communicate with the management server, user computing devices, and/or human machine interface devices, e.g., to provide remote access to the machine vision device, provide real-time information from the machine vision device, receive configurations/updates, provide interactive graphical user interfaces, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Anubhav Jain, John Bicket, Yu Kang Chen, Arthur Pohsiang Huang, Adam Eric Funkenbusch, Sanjit Zubin Biswas, Benjamin Arthur Calderon, Andrew William Deagon, William Waldman, Noah Paul Gonzales, Ruben Vardanyan, Somasundara Pandian, Ye-Sheng Kuo, Siri Amrit Ramos
  • Patent number: 11688211
    Abstract: An improved system and method of selectively transmitting asset data from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle to a backend server, which is configured to analyze the asset data and, if necessary for further analysis of the asset data (e.g., to determine whether a safety event has occurred) and/or to provide actionable data for review by a safety analyst, requests further asset data from a vehicle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSARA INC.
    Inventors: Mathew Chasan Calmer, Jesse Chen, Saumya Jain, Kavya Joshi, Justin Pan, Ryan Milligan, Justin Delegard, Jason Symons
  • Patent number: 11683579
    Abstract: A video gateway device at a worksite (or other location) is coupled to multiple cameras on a network, such as multiple cameras at a business site. The gateway device determines video stream capabilities of each camera and, based on the capabilities, determines whether any additional video steams need to be created for particular cameras. For example, for cameras that provide only a high-resolution video stream, the gateway will generate (e.g., via downsampling) a standard-resolution video stream for artificial intelligence (“AI”) analysis and a low-resolution video stream for viewing by a user. However, for cameras that provide both a high and standard-resolution video stream, the gateway device uses the camera-provided standard-resolution video stream for AI analysis, rather than generating a new video stream on the gateway device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSARA INC.
    Inventors: Jason Symons, Vignesh Bhuvaneshwar Iyer, Naveen Chinya Krishnamurthy, John Charles Bicket, Meelap Shah, Adam Eric Funkenbusch, Kathryn Siegel, Arthur Pohsiang Huang, Joyce Tian Chen, Karthikram Rajadurai
  • Patent number: 11674813
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating estimated times of arrival for multiple stops along a route. A route management system provides for: accessing a route tracking report associated with a vehicle to identify a set of stops along a route; determining a current location of the vehicle; computing, based on a current location of the vehicle, a first estimated time of arrival (ETA) associated with a first stop of the set of stops and a second ETA associated with a second stop of the set of stops; and generating, for display, first and second identifiers of the first and second stops associated with the first and second ETAs of the first and second stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Helen Chung, Xin Chen, Tirso Peguero, Sean McGee, Sachal Nanda, Yogesh Bhumralkar, Eric Shreve, Matthew Morales, Noah Ray
  • Patent number: 11675042
    Abstract: A management server in communication with one or more object tracking devices is disclosed. The management server may receive location information, configuration information, and orientation information associated with the one or more object tracking devices. Based at least in part on the location information, the management server may receive weather information associated with the locations of the one or more object tracking devices. Based at least in part on the location information, the weather information, the configuration information, and the orientation information, the management server can determine power generated and power consumed by the one or more object tracking devices, which then can be used to determine estimated operation time for the one or more object tracking devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Russell Coates Lloyd, Neel Sheth, Gautam Ravi Ramaswamy, James Michael Rowson
  • Patent number: 11671478
    Abstract: A system for providing remote control of assets is disclosed herein. The system provides secure communications with one or more assets and receive operational data from the one or more assets. The system provides a graphical interface that includes one or more icons, one or more indicators, and one or more user input interfaces. The system receives a user input via the one or more user input interfaces and transmit the user input to an asset associated with the one or more user input interfaces. The system detects changes to an operational characteristics of the asset and display the changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: James Robert Saunders, Erick Anthony Dean, Youny Jing Kuang, Audrey Yun Li, Oscar Ulissez Garcia, Famien Aaron Koko, Noah Paul Gonzales, Jennifer T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11669714
    Abstract: An improved system and method of determining presence of stop signs at intersection based on multiple types of data including ground truth data, telemetry data, and/or trip stills gathered from vehicle devices. The data may be analyzed and aggregated by one or more models and/or neural networks to develop a prediction regarding presence of stop signs at individual intersections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSARA INC.
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Akhtar, Abhishyant Khare, Brian Tuan, John Charles Bicket
  • Patent number: 11665223
    Abstract: Controller devices may be configured to execute a network discovery service to identify other devices on a network, including other controller devices, user computing devices, and/or human machine interface devices. The controller devices may communicate with the devices on the network. An individual controller device may, upon connection to a human machine interface device, provide to the human machine interface device via a web server, a graphical user interface from which a user may configure the controller device or connect to another controller device on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: James Duffield, Paul Ugolini, Ethan Wen-Yen Chiou, Nguyen Trong Dinh, James Robert Saunders
  • Patent number: 11659060
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a device arrangement to derive unknown portions of a communication data scheme. A proxy node is established in a communication path between two nodes configured to transmit communications according to a communication bus standard. The communication data included in the communications transmitted between the nodes conforms to a communication data scheme. The proxy node logs communications transmitted between the nodes via the communication path, resulting in a communication log. The communication log can then be used to derive unknown portion of the communication data scheme, such as commands for requesting specified data types and the data format for transmitting data of specified data types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Harrison Riley Davis, Elias Ray Dykaar, Maxwell Anton Dergosits, Ingo Gerhard Wiegand, Justin Joel Delegard
  • Patent number: 11643102
    Abstract: A vehicle dash cam may be configured to execute one or more neural networks (and/or other artificial intelligence), such as based on input from one or more of the cameras and/or other sensors associated with the dash cam, to intelligently detect safety events in real-time. Detection of a safety event may trigger an in-cab alert to make the driver aware of the safety risk. The dash cam may include logic for determining which asset data to transmit to a backend server in response to detection of a safety event, as well as which asset data to transmit to the backend server in response to analysis of sensor data that did not trigger a safety event. The asset data transmitted to the backend server may be further analyzed to determine if further alerts should be provided to the driver and/or to a safety manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew Chasan Calmer, Justin Delegard, Justin Pan, Sabrina Shemet, Meelap Shah, Kavya Joshi, Brian Tuan, Sharan Srinivasan, Muhammad Ali Akhtar, John Charles Bicket, Margaret Finch, Vincent Shieh, Bruce Kellerman, Mitch Lin, Marvin Arroz, Siddhartha Datta Roy, Jason Symons, Tina Quach, Cassandra Lee Rommel, Saumya Jain
  • Patent number: 11641388
    Abstract: A system for providing remote monitoring of assets is disclosed. The system provides secure communication with one or more assets and receive operational data from the one or more assets. The system generates a graphical user interface that be used for selection of inputs from the one or more assets and specification of conditions to be applied to inputs for generation of alerts. The system can receive a selection of one or more asset outputs and two or more conditions. The conditions are applied to the selection of one or more assets to generate alerts when at least one of the conditions is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: James Robert Saunders, Erick Anthony Dean, Youny Jing Kuang, Famien Aaron Koko, Audrey Yun Li, Amanda Wang, Jennifer T. Nguyen, Noah Paul Gonzales, Steven Vellon
  • Patent number: 11641604
    Abstract: A gateway device for providing a dynamic network activation and/or handover is disclosed herein. The gateway device may activate on a first network associated with a primary network subscription identifier and determine to switch to a secondary network associated with a secondary network subscription identifier. The gateway device may disconnect from the first network and activate on the secondary network. The gateway device may access a cached list of networks for the primary network subscription identifier and scan for available networks while active on the secondary network. Based at least in part on the scan, the gateway device may determine that a second network of the cached list of networks is available. In response, the gateway device can disconnect from the secondary network and connect to the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Russell Coates Lloyd
  • Patent number: 11627252
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for configuration of optical sensor devices in vehicles based on thermal data. To manage the temperature of an optical sensor device, temperature data describing the current temperature of the optical sensor is used to determine whether the current temperature meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature. If the current temperature meets or exceeds the threshold temperature, the optical sensor device may be configured into a modified operating mode to reduce the current temperature of the optical sensor device. For example, the operating mode of the optical sensor device may be modified to terminate one or more processes, reduce a frame rate at which image/video data is captured, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Joel Delegard, Kavya Joshi, Abhinav Acharya, John Charles Bicket, Matthew Chasan, Sabrina Quinn Shemet, Kevin Lloyd
  • Patent number: 11618410
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a remote vehicle immobilizer. A network gateway device receives a command from a remote computing device to modify a configuration of an electronic switch from a first configuration to a second configuration. The electronic switch is positioned in a conducting path between a starter motor of the vehicle and a battery of the vehicle. In response to receiving the command, the network gateway device transmits a signal to the electronic switch via a two-way communication channel connecting the network gateway device to the electronic switch. The signal causes the electronic switch to modify the configuration of the electronic switch from the first configuration to the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Luis Innocenzi, Elias Ray Dykaar, Maxwell Anton Dergosits, Ingo Gerhard Wiegand