Patents Assigned to SAMSARA
  • Patent number: 11338627
    Abstract: A method of monitoring one or more wheels of a vehicle is described. 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, determining based on the first path that the vehicle's first wheel is out of balance with respect to an axle of the vehicle's first wheel, and responsive to determining that the vehicle's first wheel is out of balance, transmitting to a user device a first alert that the vehicle's first wheel is out of balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Glen Phillip McGillan
  • Patent number: 11341786
    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: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSARA INC.
    Inventors: Mathew Chasan Calmer, Jesse Chen, Saumya Jain, Kavya Joshi, Justin Pan, Ryan Milligan, Justin Delegard, Jason Symons
  • Patent number: 11310069
    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: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Tingao Xiao, Benedict Fraser Walker, Xin Yang
  • Patent number: 11217044
    Abstract: A map-based notification system configured to perform operations that include: accessing a base-map that comprises a map-tile, the map-tile defining a speed limit of a location; receiving vehicle data that includes speed data; determining that the speed data from the vehicle data transgresses the speed limit associated with the location defined by the map-tile; and causing display of a notification in response to determining that the speed data from the vehicle data transgresses the speed limit associated with the location defined by the map-tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Derrek Harrison, Ingo Gerhard Wiegand, David Liang, John Charles Bicket, Sushant Thakur, James Michael Rowson, Sylvie Lee, Bodecker John DellaMaria, Kenshiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11204637
    Abstract: A method and a gateway system for enabling adaptive power management. The gateway system is powered by a rechargeable battery that is coupled with a solar power source. A location reading indicating a location of the gateway system is transmitted at a first time. A solar profile is received from a management server. The solar profile indicates a measure of power expected to be generated at the location during an interval of time that occurs after the first time by the solar power source. The gateway system determines based on a current battery level of the rechargeable battery and the solar profile an optimal power usage plan for the gateway system and operates according to the optimal power usage plan during the interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Tuan, Kavya U. Joshi, James Michael Rowson, Justin J. Delegard, James Austin Duffield, Kong Kee Poon, Christian Peter Almer, John Bicket
  • Patent number: 11188046
    Abstract: One or more video gateway devices configured to: access pre-configured criteria including at least a first condition, a second condition, and a first event; access video content captured by cameras configured to capture video of areas of a manufacturing facility; determine, based on an analysis of the video content, that the first condition is satisfied; access sensor data from one or more sensors; determine, based on an analysis of the sensor data, that the second condition is satisfied; and based on determining that the first and second conditions are satisfied, cause the first event to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    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: 11190373
    Abstract: A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles in a fleet. The vehicle gateway device gathers vehicle metric data at a high frequency. Instead of transmitting a large amount of vehicle metric data at a fine level of granularity, the vehicle gateway device aggregates and buckets the vehicle metric data over a period of time (such as, every five minutes). The system uses the bucketed data for fleet management analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Stevenson, Wendy Greenberg, Josephine Nord, Matvey Zagaynov, Jennifer Leung, Andrew Robbins, Michael Ross, Aaron Szerlip, Rushil Goel
  • Patent number: 11184422
    Abstract: Controller devices may be configured to automatically connect to a remote management server (e.g., a “cloud”-based management server), and may offload received data and analyses to the remote management server via wired or wireless communications. The controller 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 controller device, provide real-time information from the controller device, receive configurations/updates, provide interactive graphical user interfaces, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: John Bicket, Anubhav Jain, James Duffield, James Robert Saunders
  • Patent number: 11157723
    Abstract: Methods for performing improving facial recognition of a driver in a vehicle are disclosed. A set of images is received. Each of the set of images includes a portion that is identified as a face. The identification is based on an application of a first machine-learned model to each of the set of images. The application of the first machine-learned model is performed by an application associated with a client camera device mounted in a vehicle. Based on a determination that the set of images matches one or more reference images stored in a database with a confidence level that is equal to or greater than a confidence threshold, a person corresponding to the one or more reference images is associated as a driver of the vehicle during a time period in which the set of images was captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Networks lac.
    Inventors: Meelap Shah, Kenshiro Nakagawa, Matthew Hsu, Ava O'Neill, Ingo Gerhard Wiegand, Derrek Harrison, John Charles Bicket
  • Patent number: 11158177
    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: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    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: 11142211
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for vehicle rider behavioral monitoring. A behavioral monitoring system uses sensor data received from vehicles to monitor the behavior of the vehicle riders (e.g., vehicle operator and/or vehicle passengers) and performs predetermined actions if undesirable behavior is detected. For example, the behavioral monitoring system can transmit a notification or generate a record if inappropriate language or actions are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Hendrika Makilya, Katherine Heddleston, Claire Nord, Anthony Washington, Jennifer Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11145208
    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: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    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: 11140236
    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: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Harrison Riley Davis, Elias Ray Dykaar, Maxwell Anton Dergosits, Ingo Gerhard Wiegand, Justin Joel Delegard
  • Patent number: 11137744
    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: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Lee Heddleston, John Charles Bicket, James Robert Saunders, Peter Lee Atkin
  • Patent number: 11132853
    Abstract: A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles and multiple fleets. The system uses machine learning to identify cohorts for fleets. The system calculates metrics for fleets and benchmarks for the cohorts. The system presents the metrics and benchmarks in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Akhtar, Jennifer Julia Zhang, Alvin Wu, Benjamin Chang, Joanne Wang, Katherine Yeonjune Lee
  • Patent number: 11131986
    Abstract: A controller device may connect to one or more expansion modules for capability expansion. The controller device may be configured to automatically detect and identify connected expansions modules. The controller device may be configured to further automatically detect an order in which the expansion modules are connected. A graphical user interface may be provided including a visualization of the system configuration including the order of the expansion modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: David Gal, Somasundara Pandian, Ye-Sheng Kuo, Kyle Kuwatani
  • Patent number: 11127130
    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: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    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: 11126910
    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: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSARA INC.
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Akhtar, Abhishyant Khare, Brian Tuan, John Charles Bicket
  • Patent number: 11122488
    Abstract: A gateway device for providing a dynamic network activation and/or handover is disclosed herein. The gateway device may determine a first location of the gateway device and identify a first map tile from a network provider map. The gateway device may identify network desirability information associated with the first map tile and identify, based at least in part on the network desirability information, a first network provider. The gateway device may determine a second location and a second map tile from the network provider map. Based at least in part on network desirability information associated with the second map tile, the gateway device may perform or not perform a network activation and/or handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Russell Coates Lloyd, James Michael Rowson, Aidan Siobhan Madigan-Curtis, Gautam Ravi Ramaswamy
  • Publication number: 20210236271
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in implanting intraocular lenses, the apparatus including an axial elongate hollow conduit having first and second ends and defining an intraocular lens injection pathway extending along a longitudinal axis, the axial elongate hollow conduit being formed at the first end with a syringe connector defining a removable syringe mounting location and a pusher element located within the axial elongate hollow conduit between the syringe connector and the second end, at least one of the axial elongate hollow conduit and the pusher element being formed with mutually communicating conduits for enabling viscoelastic material to pass through the syringe connector and the pusher element to a location between the pusher element and the second end of the axial elongate hollow conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Samsara Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: Eli Aharoni