Patents Examined by Donald J. Wallace
  • Patent number: 12264925
    Abstract: A server includes a communication device and a processor. From a user terminal, the communication device acquires a vehicle dispatch request including information indicating a vehicle dispatch location and a destination of a vehicle. When the communication device acquires the vehicle dispatch request, the processor determines a traveling route of the vehicle from a current location of the vehicle to the destination via the vehicle dispatch location in accordance with the vehicle dispatch request. The processor determines a route from the current location to the vehicle dispatch location such that an amount of power storage in a power storage device at the vehicle dispatch location is larger than an amount of electric power with which the vehicle can travel from the vehicle dispatch location to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirano, Shogo Tsuge, Ryosuke Ikemura, Yohei Arino, Masaki Ito, Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12266128
    Abstract: The present disclosure analyzes the image around the main body, detects the depth of the floor surface and the height of the floor surface beyond the obstacle, and determines whether to climb the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Juno Choi, Janghun Cheong
  • Patent number: 12263852
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for preventing drunk driving of a vehicle, the system including: an input unit through which a transfer intention to transfer a control privilege of a vehicle from a registered driver to a passenger is input; a sobriety determination unit configured to determine a current driver's inebriation state through a breathalyzer provided in the vehicle when the transfer intention is input through the input unit; a driver verification unit configured to identify personal information of the current driver seated on a driver's seat; and a control unit configured to transfer the control privilege of the vehicle to the passenger when the passenger is measured as being able to drive by the sobriety determination unit and the passenger and the current driver are identified to be the same by the driver verification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Jung, Yeon Su Kim, June Seung Lee, Chang Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12263967
    Abstract: Having as its objective to take flight safety measure per satellite group, a space information recorder (101) is mounted in a mega-constellation satellite business device being a business device that manages a satellite constellation of 100 or more satellites, or in a constellation satellite business device being a business device that manages a satellite constellation of 10 or more satellites. The space information recorder (101) is provided with a category of a satellite group ID (112) which identifies a satellite group in which a group of a plurality of satellites having the same nominal orbital altitude cooperate with each other to fulfill a mission. The category of the satellite group ID (112) includes flight safety measure information (115) expressing flight safety measure of the satellite group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisayuki Mukae
  • Patent number: 12252268
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of controlling autonomous movement of a mobile object in an aircraft operating area is provided. An autonomous control computing system receives an image from a digital camera positioned to view at least a portion of the mobile object. The autonomous control computing system provides the image to a machine learning model to detect within the image one or more self objects and one or more intruder objects. The one or more self objects are affixed to the mobile object. The autonomous control computing system predicts future locations for the self objects based on a navigation path for the mobile object. In response to detecting an overlap between the future locations for the self objects and the intruder objects, the autonomous control computing system alters the navigation path to prevent a collision between the self objects and the intruder objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Oshkosh AeroTech, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen C. Tatton
  • Patent number: 12246851
    Abstract: A system for monitoring impact on an electric aircraft is presented. The system includes a sensor communicatively connected to a flight component, wherein the sensor is configured to detect a measured force datum and generate an impact datum as a function of the measured force datum. The system further includes a computing device configured to simulate a landing performance model output as a function of the impact datum, generate a landing performance datum as a function of a comparison between the landing performance model output, determine an alert datum as a function of the landing performance datum, and display the landing performance datum on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventors: Richard Donnelly, Edward Hall
  • Patent number: 12240486
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a system for autonomously onboarding the vehicle onto a ramp with one or more ramp paths. The system has sensors positioned in front of the front wheels of the vehicle that obtain a three dimensional view of at least an area in front of the wheels. The system also has a control unit configured to receive the three dimensional view from the sensors, identify the one or more ramp paths of the ramp in the three dimensional view, calculate a three dimensional path for onboarding the vehicle on the one or more ramp paths of the ramp and control the vehicle to autonomously onboard the vehicle on to the one or more ramp paths of the ramp along the three dimensional path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co.
    Inventors: Johan Setterberg, Jonathan Johansson, Erik Lindberg Nilsson
  • Patent number: 12242283
    Abstract: A computing system for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can be configured to receive aircraft data, passenger data, or environment data associated with a VTOL aircraft and determine a landing pad location within a landing facility based on the aircraft data, passenger data, and/or environment data. The landing facility can include a lower level and an upper level. The lower level can include a lower landing area and a lower storage area. The upper level can include an upper landing area. At least a portion of the upper level can be arranged over the lower storage area. The landing pad location can include a location within the lower landing area or the upper landing area of the landing facility. The computing system can communicate the landing pad location to an operator or a navigation system of the VTOL aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.
    Inventors: John Conway Badalamenti, Jon David Petersen, Ian Villa
  • Patent number: 12240460
    Abstract: A method for the satellite-based localization of a vehicle in a map-based reference system. A trajectory in a map-based reference system is determined at regular time intervals, on which trajectory the vehicle is to be brought to a stop at least partially automatically in a defined emergency, and are stored in a circular buffer. In the defined emergency and in the event of failure of the at least one camera used for the full localization, an emergency trajectory is selected from the trajectories stored in the circular buffer. An initial vehicle position in the map-based reference system is determined based on the emergency trajectory. A vehicle orientation is ascertained based on a continuously acquired yaw rate of the vehicle. The stretch of route traveled by the vehicle is ascertained based on position data of the vehicle that are acquired in a satellite-based manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ullrich Sussek
  • Patent number: 12233861
    Abstract: An object recognition apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the processor. The processor sets one or more object presence regions in each of which an object is likely to be present, on the basis of observation data of a distance sensor. The processor estimates an attribute of the object that is likely to be present in each of the one or more object presence regions. The processor sets, on the basis of the attribute of the object, a level of processing load to be spent on object recognition processing to be executed for each of the one or more object presence regions by using at least image data generated by an imaging device. The processor performs, for each of the one or more object presence regions, the object recognition processing corresponding to the set level of the processing load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Ono, Keiichi Watanabe, Yu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12233897
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance system is disclosed. The system may include a transceiver configured to receive a source location and a destination location for a user trip, a user driving information and road information associated with a plurality of geographical zones between the source location and the destination location. The system may further include a processor configured to calculate a user driving index based on the user driving information. Further, the processor may be configured to calculate a zone index for each geographical zone based on the road information. The processor may be further configured to correlate the user driving index and the zone index, and calculate a driver assistance index for each geographical zone based on the correlation. The processor may perform a control action when the calculated driver assistance index is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Syed Amaar Ahmad, Azin Neishaboori
  • Patent number: 12233788
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor that determines whether an ice generation condition is satisfied on the basis of at least one or both of a state of a heat source of a vehicle and an outside air temperature after an operation stop of a drive source of the vehicle. If the ice generation condition is satisfied, the processor repeats an ice-crushing operation at a predetermined time interval in a predetermine ice-crushing time period by turning on and thereafter turning off the relay. The predetermined ice-crushing time period is determined on the basis of a temperature difference between a temperature of the fixed contact or the movable contact of the relay and a temperature of an internal atmosphere inside the relay. The predetermined time interval is a time period in which the ice on the fixed contact and the movable contact of the relay grows to a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Izumi Honda, Takashi Moriyama, Takashi Kobayashi, Tomoya Takeda
  • Patent number: 12236781
    Abstract: A position estimation system for a vehicle including a magnetic sensor which measures magnetism acting from a road surface side forming a surface of a traveling road to estimate an own vehicle position includes a map DB which stores a map (1) associated with a road-surface magnetic distribution (M2), which is a distribution of quantities of magnetism at respective points on the road surface, a magnetic distribution generation part which acquires magnetic measurement values from the magnetic sensor and generates a measured magnetic distribution, which is a distribution of magnetic measurement values, and a position estimation part which specifies an area corresponding to the measured magnetic distribution in the road-surface magnetic distribution (M2) associated with the map stored in the map DB and estimates the own vehicle position based on a position of the area corresponding to the measured magnetic distribution on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiharu Yamamoto, Hitoshi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12235657
    Abstract: A system for producing a control signal of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft includes a flight controller configured to obtain a requested aircraft force, generate an optimal command mix, wherein the optimal command mix includes a plurality of commands to a plurality of actuators as a function of the requested aircraft force, wherein generating further comprises receiving an ideal actuator model includes at least a performance parameter, producing a model datum as a function of the ideal actuator model, and generating the optimal command mix as a function of the request aircraft force and the model datum, and produce a control signal as a function of the optimal command mix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Herman Wiegman
  • Patent number: 12236784
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a feeder lane direction warning system. Entering of an own vehicle into a feeder lane in a parking facility is detected. First data of a first parked vehicle parked in a first row of parking spaces adjacent the feeder lane is received from an external sensor mounted on the own vehicle. A traffic direction of the feeder lane is determined based at least on the received first data of the first parked vehicle. An alert is output via an output device of the own vehicle based on determining that the determined traffic direction of the feeder lane is different from a traveling direction of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jia Hwan Hoo
  • Patent number: 12221224
    Abstract: A fuel-based flight indicator apparatus for an electric aircraft is illustrated. The apparatus comprises a flight indicator and a computing device communicatively connected to the flight indicator, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a battery datum from a battery sensor located in the electric aircraft, receive an environmental datum from an environmental sensor located in the electric aircraft, determine an indicator datum as a function of the battery datum, the environmental datum, and a flight plan, and display the indicator datum on the flight indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Hoekje List, Vincent Moeykens, Thomas Henck
  • Patent number: 12221225
    Abstract: A sensor lift mechanism for deploying a sensor from a tail cone of an aircraft includes a frame mounted onto a side wall of the tail cone via a mounting assembly. The frame includes a first roller track and a second roller track aligned with the first roller track. A roller carriage assembly includes a plurality of rollers configured for rolling along the first and second roller tracks. A sensor platform is mechanically coupled to the carriage assembly and configured for mounting the sensor thereto. A drive unit is operatively coupled to the frame. The drive unit translates the roller carriage assembly vertically between the first and second roller tracks to move the sensor platform between a stowed position and a deployed position. A floor of the tail cone includes a track door configured to open for deploying the sensor beneath the tail cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Paul C. Collado, Jonathan J. Kalinowski, Patrick Klausmeyer, Lance A. Kawabata
  • Patent number: 12223778
    Abstract: Examples described may enable provision of remote assistance for an autonomous vehicle. An example method includes a computing system operating in a rewind mode. In the rewind mode, the system may be configured to provide information to a remote assistance operated based on a remote-assistance triggering criteria being met, such as determining that the autonomous vehicle has been stopped for a period of time. When the triggering criteria is met, the remote assistance system may provide data from the time leading up to when the remote-assistance triggering criteria was met that was capture of the environment of autonomous vehicle to the remote assistance operator. Based on viewing the data, the remote assistance operator may provide and input to the system that causes a command to be issued to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Dmitri Dolgov, Joshua Herbach
  • Patent number: 12223846
    Abstract: An all-inclusive method for planning the operation of an aerial vehicle, in particular an eVTOL, which operation is divided into different operational areas each with its own individually validatable and inspectable planning methodology, including (i) pre-processing data on a computer basis on the ground before takeoff of the aerial vehicle; (ii) taking along pre-planned results of the data pre-processing in the form of a database (33, 44) on board the aerial vehicle, preferably after transferring the pre-planned results into the database (33, 44) on board the aerial vehicle; (iii) combining the pre-planned results by means of a computer-based decision logic (28) with planning steps at the flying time in accordance with a state of the aerial vehicle recorded by sensors for generating a current flight path; and (iv) controlling the aerial vehicle along the current flight path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Volocopter GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Ortlieb, Florian-Michael Adolf
  • Patent number: 12214868
    Abstract: Braking systems and methods for an electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are provided. A braking system may contain a pilot control device, brakes, wheels, sensors, and a controller. Pilot controls the pilot control device to transmit information to the controller such that the aircraft will slow down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventors: Lochie Ferrier, Riley Clinton Griffin