Patents Examined by Calvin Cheung
  • Patent number: 12157546
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining an optimal route of a maritime ship includes a database configured to store at least one optimization constraint parameter, wherein the at least one optimization constraint parameter includes a constant shaft power of the propel shaft of the maritime ship; and a processor configured to execute a multi-objective route optimization based on the departure location, the destination location, and the at least one optimization constraint parameter to obtain the optimal route of the maritime ship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Offshore Navigation Limited ; G.M.S. Global Maritime Services Ltd.
    Inventors: Sverre Dokken, Kris Lemmens, Waqas Ahmed Qazi, Jorgen Grindevoll, Alexis Michael, Reidulf Maalen, Hans Lennart Cederberg
  • Patent number: 12131595
    Abstract: A computing system is structured to receive operating data provided by a telematics circuit associated with a remote engine. The operating data comprises information provided by at least one sensor and/or at least one actuation command. The computing system is structured to determine, based on the operating data, a plurality of field-replaceable units (FRUs) associated with the operating data. The computing system is structured to generate a computer-based simulation corresponding to at least one degradation level for an FRU from the plurality of FRUs, identify a most probable failure, and rank the computer-based simulations across the plurality of FRUs. The computing system is structured to generate an electronic notification comprising data associated with the most probable failure and transmit the electronic notification to a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Achyut Gumaste, Michael Haas, Tara L. Hemami, Krithika Mohan, Veronica Susan Perks, Shakti Saurabh, Jeffrey David Selwyn Diwakar Abraham
  • Patent number: 12127502
    Abstract: A method to adjust an opening between a plurality of shakers of a machine formed as a fruit harvester, starting with aligning and centralizing the machine with a crop row to be harvested, includes the steps of: identifying and defining a configuration of a plurality of trees to be harvested; measuring a width of the plurality of trees to be harvested; setting a value for a desired damage level; calculating an opening factor based on the desired damage level defined in the step of setting; determining a distance “X” from the opening between the plurality of shakers, based on a value obtained for the opening factor in relation to the width of the plurality of trees to be harvested; and adjusting the opening between the plurality of shakers according to the distance “X” determined in the step of determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Mauricio Blanco Infantini
  • Patent number: 12115971
    Abstract: A hybrid gearbox has a shift gearbox including at least one fixed ratio gear having a gear ratio both for the internal combustion engine and the electric motor-generator with respect to a power train connection, and speed superposition gearbox which is designed to provide a power-split gear having a variable speed ratio and a fixed torque ratio with respect to the internal combustion engine connection and the power train connection, wherein the variable speed ratio is formed by a modulation of a speed provided by the internal combustion engine on a speed provided by the electric motor-generator. The hybrid gearbox has at least one operating mode in which gear changes are only carried out between the fixed-ratio gear and the power-split gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Sebastian Liebert
  • Patent number: 12109889
    Abstract: An operation device includes an operation unit configured to be movable relative to a device body of the operation device. The operation device includes a first detector that detects touching of the operation unit and a second detector that detects movement of the operation unit relative to the device body. The operation device further includes a controller that processes detection signals of the first detector and the second detector so that the movement of the operation unit relative to the device body and the touching of the operation unit correspond to inputs for operating an operation subject apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takahiko Matsuzawa, Terumasa Suyama
  • Patent number: 12103521
    Abstract: The pedestrian tracking system implemented in a host vehicle is disclosed. The system estimates trajectories of the host vehicle and the pedestrian based on factors of position and velocity of the host vehicle and parameters of position and velocity of the pedestrian. The trajectories of the host vehicle and the pedestrian are estimated to estimate a point of intersection of the host vehicle and the pedestrian. Further, the system estimates time to collision based on the estimated point of intersection and determines trajectory of the pedestrian in path of the host vehicle. Furthermore, the system assesses collision risk to select the pedestrian as a target and generates a deceleration actuation command to decelerate the host vehicle based on the selected target, which is provided to an automatic emergency braking (AEB) actuation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KPIT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Soumyo Das, Prashantkumar Bipinchandra Vora, Rastri Dey, Kishan Kumar, Milankumar Ambalal Sheta, Meer Reshma Sheerin
  • Patent number: 12099351
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for the operational testing on autonomous vehicles. One exemplary method includes configuring a primary vehicular model with an algorithm, calculating one or more trajectories for each of one or more secondary vehicular models that exclude the algorithm, configuring the one or more secondary vehicular models with a corresponding trajectory of the one or more trajectories, generating an updated algorithm based on running a simulation of the primary vehicular model interacting with the one or more secondary vehicular models that conform to the corresponding trajectory in the simulation, and integrating the updated algorithm into an algorithmic unit of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Zehua Huang, Yixin Yang
  • Patent number: 12098928
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a recognition unit (21) that recognizes a surrounding environment of a current position of a user; a guide control unit (22) that generates guide information corresponding to a characteristic of the user by using a recognition result of the recognition unit and that causes an output device to perform an output thereof; and a change detection unit (23) that detects a changed portion in the surrounding environment of the current position in a case where it is determined that the user has visited the current position in the past, wherein in a case where the change detection unit detects the changed portion, the guide control unit generates the guide information including information causing the user to recognize the changed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mari Saito
  • Patent number: 12091107
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a motor control device and method, more particularly, a motor control device and method capable of improving an uncomfortable feeling in motor control by minimizing the control stop time by classifying the operation in the transition period of a control right to another motor control device according to a failure type, in the case of a failure of the motor control device having the control right in the motor control system of the redundancy structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Jung Kim, Young Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 12086213
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating fused sensor data through metadata association. First sensor data captured by a first vehicle sensor and second sensor data captured by a second vehicle sensor are associated with first metadata and second metadata, respectively, to obtain labeled first sensor data and labeled second sensor data. A frame synchronization is performed between the first sensor data and the second sensor data to obtain a set of synchronized frames, where each synchronized frame includes a portion of the first sensor data and a corresponding portion of the second sensor data. For each frame in the set of synchronized frames, a metadata association algorithm is executed on the labeled first sensor data and the labeled second sensor data to generate fused sensor data that identifies associations between the first metadata and the second metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Sheu, Jie Mao, Deling Li
  • Patent number: 12082768
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for controlling connected devices. For example, a messaging application implemented on a client device detects a real-world object depicted in a received image and determines a current location of the client device. The messaging application identifies a plurality of robotic cleaning devices associated with an account of the messaging application. The messaging application transmits a message comprising the current location of the client device to a first robotic cleaning device of the plurality of robotic cleaning devices and causes the first robotic cleaning device to clean the real-world object depicted in the received image based on the message transmitted by the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Daniel Trinh
  • Patent number: 12080174
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
  • Patent number: 12080179
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to allocate unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Some embodiments, provide UAS allocation systems, comprising: a UAS database that stores for each registered UAS an identifier and corresponding operational capabilities; an allocation control circuit configured to: obtain a first set of multiple task parameters specified by a first customer and corresponding to a requested first predefined task that the customer is requesting a UAS be allocated to perform; identify, from the UAS database, a first UAS having operational capabilities to perform the first set of task parameters while implementing the first task; and cause an allocation notification to be communicated to a first UAS provider, of the multiple UAS providers, associated with the first UAS requesting the first UAS provider to allocate the identified first UAS to implement the first task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Donald R. High, Robert C. Taylor, David C. Winkle, John P. Thompson
  • Patent number: 12079006
    Abstract: A network comprises a network apparatus constructed and arranged for each of a plurality of vehicles in radio frequency (RF) communication with each other, the network apparatus comprising: at least one first transceiver; at least one second transceiver configured to exchange RF signals with the at least one first transceiver; receiver circuitry configured to determine timing information from the acquired RF signals; memory storing information related to fixed distances between the at least one first transceiver and the at least one second transceiver; a processor coupled to the memory to access the stored information related to the fixed distances, and to the receiver circuitry to receive the timing information determined from the RF signals, the processor being configured to determine a relative position of the vehicle with respect to a receipt of the RF signals based on the stored information related to the fixed distances between each of at least three spatially separated antenna and on the timing informa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Position Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward L. Hill, Brett Bilbrey, Harry Lee Deffebach, III, Krenar Komoni
  • Patent number: 12071016
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a dampening unit coupled to an engine. The apparatus further includes a control unit communicably coupled to the dampening unit. The control unit detects a gear shift in a transmission unit associated with the engine. The control unit further determines a dampening duration of the dampening unit at the detected gear shift. The dampening duration corresponds to a time taken for the dampening unit to absorb torsional vibrations of the engine at the detected gear shift. The control unit further compares the determined dampening duration at the detected gear shift with a preset dampening duration at a preset gear shift. The control unit further determines, based on the comparison, a torque control amount for the dampening unit to absorb the torsional vibrations of the engine. The control unit further controls the dampening unit based on the determined torque control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew G. Shapiro, Adam H. Vosz, Eric M. Lott, Kristian Karpinski
  • Patent number: 12065169
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic driving system based on a model predictive control, the automatic driving system where, in an event of a failure of an actuator, identification between a real vehicle and a vehicle model is simplified. Based on information regarding the failure of the actuator, the automatic driving system updates a spot in the vehicle model, the spot corresponding to the spot of failure detected, to a fixed value, and causes an actuator control device for the actuator, where the failure is detected, to fix a command value that is overwritten in accordance with a state of the actuator. With this configuration, the identification between the real vehicle and the vehicle model is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Teppei Hirotsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12062284
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to identifying a specific vehicle that is another vehicle satisfying a specific condition based on information acquired according to communication from another vehicle located near a host vehicle, identifying a distance and a direction associated with the specific vehicle viewed from the host vehicle, and causing a display device to display a notification image capable of including a first area surrounding a host vehicle icon indicating the host vehicle and a second area surrounding the first area and a display icon indicating the position of the specific vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taishi Sase
  • Patent number: 12061478
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing of detection of active emergency vehicles within an autonomous vehicle fleet. Information specifying detection of an active emergency vehicle at a first location in an environment is received. The active emergency vehicle is detected based upon sensor inputs of a first autonomous vehicle in an autonomous vehicle fleet. A second autonomous vehicle, at a second location, in the autonomous vehicle fleet is identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle based on the information specifying the detection of the active emergency vehicle at the first location and the second location of the second autonomous vehicle. A remote assistance session for the second autonomous vehicle is caused to be initiated based on the second autonomous vehicle being identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle. The second autonomous vehicle is controllable by a remote operator during the remote assistance session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sandra Lennie, Jason Yun
  • Patent number: 12062254
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reconfigurable on-vehicle data routing are provided. In one embodiment, a data link communication system comprises: a router to communicate with at least one communication bus and at least one data bus, and monitor data communicated over the communication data buses, wherein the communication bus communicates data link messages with an off-vehicle service provider system, wherein the data bus transports data between the router and a plurality of on-vehicle systems; a routing control logic; and a conditional logic database, wherein the database comprises definitions of one or more datatypes and definitions for at least one data forwarding command; wherein, in response to receiving a first set of data associated with a datatype defined by the database, the logic executes the at least one data forwarding command to control the router to output a second set of data to one or more of the plurality of on-vehicle systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan, Thomas D. Judd
  • Patent number: 12049222
    Abstract: A plurality of localization data sources accessible on a vehicle network in a vehicle can be identified. A plurality of active vehicle applications that request localization data provided by one or more of the localization data sources can be identified. Based on the active vehicle applications, a plurality of the localization data sources to be combined to output a vehicle location can be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Bandi, Samer Ibrahim, Colette Knopp, Basavaraj Tonshal, Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda