Patents Assigned to Smartdrive Systems Inc.
  • Patent number: 12222731
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using risk profiles for fleet management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Fleet management may include determining the performance levels of particular vehicle operators. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events. The values are based on vehicle event information for previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a particular vehicle, particular vehicle event information for particular vehicle events that have been detected by the particular vehicle; determine one or more metrics that quantify a performance level of the particular vehicle operator, based on the risk profiles; compare the one or more metrics for the particular vehicle operator with aggregated metrics that quantify performance levels of a set of vehicle operators; and store, transfer, and/or present results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Forney, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Reza Ghanbari, Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas
  • Patent number: 12216473
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using risk profiles for creating and deploying new vehicle event definitions to a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a first risk profile, a second risk profile, and vehicle event characterization information; select individual ones of the previously detected vehicle events that have one or more characteristics in common; determine circumstances for at least a predefined period prior to occurrences of the selected vehicle events; create a new vehicle event definition based on the determined set of circumstances; distribute the new vehicle event definition to individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles; and receive additional vehicle event information from the individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Shayne Brookins, David Forney, Reza Ghanbari, Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas
  • Patent number: 12170023
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system that generates data describing physical surroundings of vehicles during operation. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to one or both of the physical surroundings of the vehicles and/or the operation of the vehicles. Based on the generated output signals, the physical surroundings in which the first vehicle is operating are derived, such as, for example, the speeds of different nearby vehicles, and their distances to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Slaven Sljivar, Jason Palmer, Reza Ghanbari, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Barry James Parshall, Mark Freitas, Daniel Andrew Deninger
  • Patent number: 12142096
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting vehicle events. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. The system detects a vehicle event based on the information conveyed by the output signals. The system selects a subset of sensors based on the detected vehicle event. The system captures and records information from the selected subset of sensors. The system transfers the recorded information to a remote server or provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas, Daniel A. Deninger, David Forney, Slaven Sljivar, Alekh Vaidya, Jeffrey Griswold
  • Patent number: 12134389
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for determining responsiveness of a driver of a vehicle to feedback regarding driving behaviors. The system may include a sensor configured to generate output signals conveying first driving behavior information, which may characterize operation of the vehicle by the driver. The system may include one or more processors configured to obtain the first driving behavior information. The one or more processors may effectuate provision of feedback defined by feedback information based on the first driving behavior. The sensor may be configured to output signals conveying second driving behavior information, which may characterize operation of the vehicle by the driver during and/or subsequent to the provision of the feedback. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain the second driving behavior information and assess responsiveness of the driver to the feedback based on the second driving behavior information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas, Daniel A. Deninger, David Forney, Slaven Sljivar, Alekh Vaidya, Jeffrey Griswold
  • Patent number: 12122294
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying whether vehicle operators are paying attention are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals conveying information related to a first vehicle operator; make a first type of determination of at least one of an object on which attention of the first vehicle operator is focused and/or a direction in which attention of the first vehicle operator is focused; make a second type of determination regarding fatigue of the first vehicle operator; make a third type of determination of at least one of a distraction level of the first vehicle operator and/or a fatigue level of the first vehicle operator; and effectuate a notification regarding the third type of determination to at least one of the first vehicle operator and/or a remote computing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Mauricia, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Reza Ghanbari, Mark Freitas, Jeffrey Griswold, David Forney, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Jason Palmer
  • Patent number: 12100249
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of the vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to obtain executable code from a user, and subsequently transmit the executable code to individual vehicles in the fleet. Individual vehicles locally execute the executable code to produce local results, and subsequently transfer the results to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Ghanbari, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Mark Freitas, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Slaven Sljivar, Jason Palmer, Jeffrey Griswold, David Forney
  • Patent number: 12055948
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and using risk profiles for management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events, based on previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: obtain vehicle event information for vehicle events that have been detected by the fleet of vehicles; aggregate the vehicle event information for multiple ones of the events to create one or more of a first risk profile, a second risk profile and/or a third risk profile; obtain a point of origin for and a target destination of a particular vehicle; determine a set of routes from the point of origin to the target destination; determine individual values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events along individual routes in the set of routes; select the first route from the set of routes; and provide the selected first route to the particular vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Ghanbari, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, David Forney, Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas
  • Patent number: 12008922
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system that determines driving performance by a vehicle operator for simulated driving of a simulated vehicle in a simulation engine. Individual vehicle event scenarios correspond to vehicle events. Individual simulation scenarios correspond to individual vehicle event scenarios. A vehicle operator, e.g., an autonomous driving algorithm, operates the simulated vehicle in the simulation engine for a set of simulation scenarios. One or more metrics quantify the performance of the vehicle operator based on simulated results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Reza Ghanbari, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Slaven Sljivar, Mark Freitas, Barry James Parshall, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Behzad Shahrasbi, Mojtaba Ziyadi
  • Patent number: 11999369
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for determining vehicle operator preparedness for vehicles that support both autonomous operation and manual operation. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to vehicles and their operation. During autonomous vehicle operation, the system gauges the level of responsiveness of an individual vehicle operator through challenges and corresponding responses. Based on the level of responsiveness, a preparedness metric is determined for each vehicle operator individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas, Daniel A. Deninger, David Forney, Slaven Sljivar, Alekh Vaidya, Jeffrey Griswold
  • Patent number: 12002358
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to maintain map data and distribute it to the fleet, including local map data to individual vehicles pertaining to their surroundings. Individual vehicles may compare the local map data with the information related to their individual surroundings. Based on such comparisons, individual vehicles may detect discrepancies between the local map data and the information related to their individual surroundings. The remote computing server may modify and/or update the map data based on the detected discrepancies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Reza Ghanbari, David Forney, Mark Freitas, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Jeffrey Griswold, Jason Palmer
  • Patent number: 11994643
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a sitting duck scenario of a vehicle on or near a road are disclosed. The current location and speed of the vehicle are used for different comparisons and/or determinations, including a comparison to road-specific information to determine whether the vehicle is in a particular proximity of a highway, and a determination whether the vehicle has been stationary continuously for at least a specified duration. Additional comparisons and/or determinations may be used. If such an occurrence has been detected, one or more notifications are generated, and provided to one or more of the vehicle operator and/or a remote computing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Wagstaff, Samuel Thomas Kruse, Jason Palmer
  • Patent number: 11945462
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing speed thresholds for a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Input is used to provide associations between particular weather-relation conditions (such as rain) and arithmetic operations, that may be used to determine a current speed threshold as a function of a local posted speed limit at the current location of a vehicle. The current speed threshold is subsequently used to detect whether vehicles are exceeding the current speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas Kruse, David Wagstaff, Jason Palmer
  • Patent number: 11884255
    Abstract: Excess fuel consumption monitor and feedback systems for vehicles include sensor arrays of two primary types including those sensors deployed as part of a vehicle manufacturer established sensor suite and sensors deployed as after-market sensors. Together, these sensor suites include sensors coupled to vehicle subsystems and operating environments associated with the vehicle. Data from these sensors may be used as parametric inputs to drive algorithmic calculations which have outputs that express excess fuel consumption. Expressions of excess fuel consumption may be made instantaneously as real-time feedback to a vehicle operator/driver and/or a fleet manager as part of a summary report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Slaven Sljivar
  • Patent number: 11854313
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles. The system may detect vehicle events based on the information conveyed by the output signals. The system includes a remote computing server configured to present a user interface to a user. Through the user interface, the user may query information from one or more vehicles in the fleet. The distributed query is transmitted to individual vehicles, and results are locally processed in accordance with response constraints and subsequently transmitted back to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Ghanbari, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, David Forney, Mark Freitas, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Jeffrey Griswold, Jason Palmer
  • Patent number: 11830365
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system that generates data describing physical surroundings of vehicles during operation. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to one or both of the physical surroundings of the vehicles and/or the operation of the vehicles. Based on the generated output signals, the physical surroundings in which the first vehicle is operating are derived, such as, for example, the speeds of different nearby vehicles, and their distances to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Slaven Sljivar, Jason Palmer, Reza Ghanbari, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Barry James Parshall, Mark Freitas, Daniel Andrew Deninger
  • Patent number: 11815898
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using risk profiles for creating and deploying new vehicle event definitions to a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a first risk profile, a second risk profile, and vehicle event characterization information; select individual ones of the previously detected vehicle events that have one or more characteristics in common; determine circumstances for at least a predefined period prior to occurrences of the selected vehicle events; create a new vehicle event definition based on the determined set of circumstances; distribute the new vehicle event definition to individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles; and receive additional vehicle event information from the individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Shayne Brookins, David Forney, Reza Ghanbari, Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas
  • Patent number: 11776327
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of the vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to obtain executable code from a user, and subsequently transmit the executable code to individual vehicles in the fleet. Individual vehicles locally execute the executable code to produce local results, and subsequently transfer the results to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Ghanbari, Daniel Andrew Deninger, Mark Freitas, Nicholas Shayne Brookins, Slaven Sljivar, Jason Palmer, Jeffrey Griswold, David Forney
  • Patent number: 11731636
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for determining responsiveness of a driver of a vehicle to feedback regarding driving behaviors. The system may include a sensor configured to generate output signals conveying first driving behavior information, which may characterize operation of the vehicle by the driver. The system may include one or more processors configured to obtain the first driving behavior information. The one or more processors may effectuate provision of feedback defined by feedback information based on the first driving behavior. The sensor may be configured to output signals conveying second driving behavior information, which may characterize operation of the vehicle by the driver during and/or subsequent to the provision of the feedback. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain the second driving behavior information and assess responsiveness of the driver to the feedback based on the second driving behavior information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Mark Freitas, Daniel A. Deninger, David Forney, Slaven Sljivar, Alekh Vaidya, Jeffrey Griswold
  • Patent number: 11734964
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting execution of driving maneuvers based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. Some or all of the system may be installed in a vehicle and/or be otherwise coupled with a vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. The system may include one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of the driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on a comparison of the information conveyed by the output signals from the sensors to criteria included in the pre-determined driving maneuver profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Slaven Sljivar