Patents Examined by Ce Li Li
  • Patent number: 12384415
    Abstract: Sensor data is received at a processor of a vehicle including at least one sensor, a plurality of axles, and a plurality of tires coupled to the plurality of axles. A determination is made by the processor if at least one tire from the plurality of tires is faulty based on the sensor data. A determination is made by the processor of at least one side of the vehicle and at least one axle from the set of axles associated with the at least one tire in response to the determining that the at least one tire is faulty. A determination is made by the processor of at least one remedial action to be performed by the vehicle based on the sensor data, the at least one side, and the at least one axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Huang, Siva Bhargav Ravella
  • Patent number: 12377839
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is configured to determine whether a preset deceleration assistance start condition is satisfied, start deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle against a first deceleration-triggering object, determine whether a preset deceleration assistance termination condition is satisfied, issue a deceleration assistance termination notification to a driver of the driver's vehicle, determine whether a second deceleration-triggering object is detected ahead of the driver's vehicle, and determine whether a preset quick resumption condition is satisfied. The driving assistance apparatus is configured not to issue the deceleration assistance termination notification when the driving assistance apparatus determines that the quick resumption condition is satisfied, even in a case where the driving assistance apparatus determines that the deceleration assistance termination condition for the first deceleration-triggering object is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Ikezawa, Kohei Tochigi, Shogo Ito
  • Patent number: 12377836
    Abstract: A route guidance apparatus includes: a reservation information communications unit to receive reservation information which includes at least one of a parking-reserved space of the parking lot, a vehicle type, a vehicle number, and a parking time; a reserved vehicle recognition unit to recognize a vehicle number of a reserved vehicle and determine whether the reserved vehicle enters or exits the parking lot; a traffic flow determination unit that divides an area of each floor of the parking lot into a plurality of unit areas and calculates density within the parking lot based on the number of vehicles within each divided unit area; and a parking route generation unit and an exit route generation unit that respectively generate an optimal parking route and an optimal exit route based on the calculated density; and a route guidance unit to provide the user with the generated optimal parking and exit routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jang Shin Kim
  • Patent number: 12374167
    Abstract: A method and system may receive data generated by a plurality of remotely situated vehicles. Various operations are performed with respect to portions of the received data to generate first output representing one or more vehicle actions. Various operations are performed with respect to portions of the received data to generate second output representing one or more control center actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Teleo, Inc.
    Inventors: Romain Clément, Vinay Shet
  • Patent number: 12325453
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle handover system that monitors an environment of a vehicle. The vehicle handover system receives a transition request to change control of the vehicle from an automated driving mode to a passenger of the vehicle. The vehicle handover system detects a key event that may be relevant to the transition request and the detection of the key event is based on the monitored environment. The vehicle handover system may generate a handover scene that includes images associated with the key event, and the images include an image sequence over a time-period of the key event. Before the vehicle handover system changes control of the vehicle from the automated driving mode to the passenger, the handover scene is displayed to the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ignacio J. Alvarez, Michael Paulitsch, Rafael Rosales, Cornelius Buerkle, Florian Geissler, Fabian Oboril, Frederik Pasch, Yang Peng
  • Patent number: 12322225
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. Sensor information for a platform health of the platform is received from a sensor system for the platform. The sensor information for the platform health of the platform is sent by a computer system into a machine learning model trained using historical sensor information indicating a historical platform health and historical context information corresponding to the historical sensor information in which the historical context information is for a set of operating conditions. A remaining useful life of a component in the platform is received by the computer system from the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kang-Yu Ni, Tsai-Ching Lu, Alexander Norman Waagen, Aruna Rani Jammalamadaka, Charles Eugene Martin, Alice Ann Murphy, Derek Samuel Fok, Kirby Joe Keller, Douglas Peter Knapp
  • Patent number: 12311955
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detecting distracted driving on a mobile device and mitigating distracted driving by determining whether a mobile device is used by a driver of a vehicle or by a passenger of the vehicle. The system can determine that the mobile device is in a vehicle and modify the functionality of the mobile device to transition the mobile device into an automobile mode. Vehicle data and/or mobile device data can be used to determine a number of individuals in the vehicle. An identity of the operator of the mobile device can be authenticated based on authentication information obtained by the mobile device. Based on the authenticated identity of the operator of the mobile device, a driving score associated with the driver can be modified, where the score indicates a number of instances of distracted driving by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Elena Carrasco, Will Kerns Maney, David Patrick Dixon, Subhalakshmi Selvam
  • Patent number: 12291211
    Abstract: A method for detecting a standstill of a vehicle includes detecting the standstill of the vehicle using at least one sensor, and, when the standstill is detected using the at least one sensor, carrying out a test routine for checking the standstill of the vehicle. The test routine uses at least one signal from at least one rate-of-rotation sensor as an input value. The method further includes rejecting the detected standstill of the vehicle when the at least one signal from the at least one rate-of-rotation sensor indicates that there is no standstill of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Roith, Jens Strobel, Manuel Popp
  • Patent number: 12286108
    Abstract: A travel controller generates routes respectively leading from a current lane being traveled by a vehicle to lanes except the current lane. The lanes are demarcated by lane lines and located forward in a travel direction beyond a lack-of-lane zone having no lane line. The travel controller further identifies one of the routes corresponding to a path along which the vehicle is traveling the lack-of-lane zone as a route being traveled. The path is calculated with data outputted from a sensor mounted on the vehicle. Then the travel controller controls travel of the vehicle to keep one of the lanes to which the route being traveled leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Okada, Shota Fujii, Eiki Kitagawa, Suzuka Kondo, Soichi Yoshino, Takuo Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12263832
    Abstract: A controller controls a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor arranged in a power transmission path between the engine and a drive wheel, and a clutch arranged in the power transmission path between the engine and the motor. The controller idles the engine in accordance with a target engine rotation speed and operates the motor in accordance with a target motor rotation speed when the clutch is in a disengagement state. When the clutch is in the disengagement state and the engine is idling, the target motor rotation speed is less than the target engine rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakano, Shinichi Oda, Masanao Idogawa, Koji Ichikawa, Atsushi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 12263839
    Abstract: A stop position control system of the present invention includes a controller configured to control the stop position of a stop vehicle that is to stop in a stop area. In the stop position control system, vehicle information on the stop vehicle and luggage information on luggage possessed by a user who is using the stop vehicle are acquired, a necessary stop interval required for loading/unloading the user's luggage from the stop vehicle in the stop area is set based on the vehicle information and the luggage information, and the necessary stop interval is transmitted to an adjacent vehicle that is to stop adjacent to the stop vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Nakamura, Yutaka Mikuriya, Yoshitaka Takagi
  • Patent number: 12258005
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a vehicle hazardous condition of a recreational vehicle and activating a distress mode of the recreation vehicle in response to detecting the vehicle hazardous condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Chiao George Liu, Joseph P. Nuxoll, Jonathon P. Graus
  • Patent number: 12252135
    Abstract: A vehicle controller and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle controller includes a processor that determines whether a driver has an intention to make a lane change using at least one of a steering angle condition, a gaze condition of the driver, or a driving pattern condition of the driver. The processor shares lane change information with a surrounding vehicle, when it is determined that the driver has the intention to make the lane change. The controller also has a storage storing data and an algorithm run by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ki Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12243356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for predicting maintenance/replacement period for a component of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a power-assisted steering system including a steering actuator (14) configured to assist in steering the vehicle at least as compensation for angular deviations of the road wheels (16) caused by road disturbances. The method comprises acquiring over time steering output data indicative of a magnitude and/or frequency of assisted steering as compensation for angular deviations of the road wheels (16) caused by road disturbances, comparing the acquired steering output data with stored component wear data, the stored component wear data being indicative of when maintenance/replacement of the component is due based on wear caused by road disturbances, and determining, based on the comparison of the acquired steering output data and the stored component wear data, whether or not maintenance/replacement of the component is due. The invention also relates to a system (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Mats Fagergren, Jan-Inge Svensson, Gustav Neander
  • Patent number: 12209386
    Abstract: A feedback control device determines a first target angular velocity that is a target angular velocity of an output angular velocity of the target device, using a first transfer function, determines a control input to the target device, based on a difference between the first target angular velocity and the output angular velocity, determines, based on the operation input, a second target angular velocity that is the target angular velocity requested by an operator, determines a degree of comfort of the operator, based on a difference between the output angular velocity and the second target angular velocity, sequentially accumulates the first target angular velocity, the degree of comfort, and a target degree of comfort in a database, and adjusts a first moment of inertia in such a way as to reduce a difference between the target degree of comfort and the degree of comfort, using data accumulated in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takuya Kinoshita, Toru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12179776
    Abstract: An apparatus of determining an optimal velocity of a vehicle, may include an information receiving unit configured to receive and provide vehicle traveling information and traveling environment information which are state variables representing vehicle states required to determine a target velocity for optimizing vehicle fuel economy; and an optimal velocity determination unit configured to determine the target velocity in accordance with a vehicle traveling environment by use of a state variable and reward estimation model and a Q table having values according to the state variables and a control input, from the vehicle traveling information and the traveling environment information provided by the information receiving unit, and a method of determining an optimal velocity of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Hee Yun Lee
  • Patent number: 12179752
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vector based awareness matrix or system for mimicking a human driver situational awareness and to control a host autonomous vehicle accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Richard John Wallner
  • Patent number: 12179743
    Abstract: A moving object determination device applied to a vehicle, the device includes at least a predicted time calculation unit, a time difference calculation unit, and a moving/stationary determination unit. The predicted time calculation unit calculates a predicted time from when an obstacle starts to be detected by the first sensor to when the obstacle will no longer be detected by the second sensor based on a traveling speed of the obstacle and a length of the obstacle. The time difference calculation unit calculates a real time from when the obstacle has been detected by the first sensor to when the obstacle has no longer been detected by the second sensor, and calculates a time difference between the real time and the predicted time. The moving/stationary determination unit determines that the obstacle is a stationary object in response to the time difference being equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hayakawa, Masumi Fukuman, Akihiro Kida, Kunihiro Sugihara
  • Patent number: 12164294
    Abstract: An autonomous running vehicle transmits a camera image around the vehicle photographed by a camera to a remote monitoring center. An obstacle is detected on the basis of information obtained from autonomous sensors including the camera. When an obstacle is detected, the autonomous running vehicle is automatically stopped. The remote monitoring center determines, when the autonomous running vehicle automatically stops, whether or not the run of the autonomous running vehicle is permitted to restart on the basis of the received camera video. When it is determined that the autonomous running vehicle can be restarted, a departure signal is transmitted to the autonomous running vehicle. When the departure signal is received from the remote monitoring center, the autonomous running vehicle restarts running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Taguchi, Makoto Morita
  • Patent number: 12151679
    Abstract: A method for controlling a safety device of a vehicle. The safety device reacts to an imminent collision by an intervention in a longitudinal and/or lateral guidance of the vehicle. The method includes reading in environment data and trip data regarding the collision object in an environment of the vehicle and the vehicle, and seat occupancy data regarding an occupancy state of at least one seat of the vehicle; ascertaining: an expected impingement side of the collision object on the vehicle; a velocity change of the vehicle in the context of the collision; and a seat occupancy distribution in the vehicle, using the seat occupancy data; executing an evaluation of the velocity change with regard to a threshold value and/or of the seat occupancy distribution relative to the expected impingement side; generating, depending on a result of the evaluation, a control signal for the safety device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Weiss, Gyorgy Csaba, Heiko Kim, Joram Berger, Nina Braunert, Heiko Freienstein