Patents Examined by Esvinder Singh
  • Patent number: 12365246
    Abstract: Provided is a driving control method, of a display of a vehicle, including receiving an input signal selected for one of an open mode and a closed mode of the display of the vehicle, operating a drive motor of the display to move the display to a preset target position according to the input signal for each of the modes, and stopping the drive motor after the display reaches the preset target position, wherein the driving control method further includes detecting external resistance by measuring a current value of the drive motor between the operating of the drive motor and the stopping of the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byung Mo Yu
  • Patent number: 12358129
    Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a transport module for transporting a material, a first control module in which a control program for controlling operations of the transport module is installed, and a second control module in which the control program is installed. The second control module monitors operations of the first control module and executes the control program to control the operations of the transport module when a failure occurs in the first control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Suk Choi, Ju Hee Shin, Min Jae Park, Na Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12361322
    Abstract: Training a Gaussian process state space model, which describes a correlation between selected control parameters of a plurality of control parameters for controlling a robotic device and output variables of the robotic device assigned in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hon Sum Alec Yu, Dingling Yao, Christoph Zimmer, The Duy Nguyen-Tuong
  • Patent number: 12353219
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for path planning of an unmanned vehicle in a three-dimensional terrain and relates to the technical field of path planning. The method includes building a random tree with an initial point of a to-be-planned path as a node; generating a random node based on a goal bias strategy and a multi-sampling strategy; determining a node in the random tree and with a minimum two-dimensional distance from the random node as a nearest node; determining a direction from the nearest node to the random node as an extension direction; determining a point corresponding to a preset step length as a to-be-determined node in the extension direction with the nearest node as a starting point; and updating the random tree or determining a path cut-off random tree through elevation detection and path search cut-off detection, so as to determine the to-be-planned path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: Chongqing University, Shanghai University
    Inventors: Jun Luo, Lele Ding, Huayan Pu, Jie Ma, Xuyang Zheng, Hongliang Liu, Jing Huang, Yongbing Chen, Anming Shen
  • Patent number: 12350838
    Abstract: A robot controller for controlling a robot arm includes a first space shaping module configured to provide a shaped first space target motion by convolving a first space target motion with an impulse train, where the first space target motion defines a target motion in a first reference space; a second space shaping module configured to provide a shaped second space target motion by convolving a second target motion with the impulse train; where the second target motion defines the target motion in a second reference space; and a motor controller module to generate motor control signals to the joint motors based on the shaped first space target motion and the shaped second space target motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Robots A/S
    Inventors: Dan Kielsholm Thomsen, Rune Søe-Knudsen, Jeppe Barsøe Jessen, Christian Valdemar Lorenzen
  • Patent number: 12350815
    Abstract: A robot includes: a base having a plurality of wheels; a body having a bottom portion coupled above the base, and a top portion above the bottom portion, the top portion configured to support food and/or drink; a first camera at the bottom portion, wherein the first camera is oriented to view upward; and a second camera at the top portion, wherein the second camera is configured to view upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Bear Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Jungwoo Ha, Fangwei Li, Brennand Pierce, Jungju Oh
  • Patent number: 12338001
    Abstract: An SSA business device is a business device with which an SSA business operator manages space object information. The SSA business device includes a space traffic management device that is compatible with space traffic management devices respectively included in business devices that manage space objects. The SSA business device is connected, through the space traffic management device, to a space traffic management system in which the space traffic management devices respectively included in the business devices are mutually connected with a communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisayuki Mukae
  • Patent number: 12330310
    Abstract: Collision detection useful in motion planning for robotics advantageously employs data structure representations of robots, persistent obstacles and transient obstacles in an environment in which a robot will operate. Data structures may take the form of hierarchical data structures ((e.g., octrees, sets of volumes or boxes (e.g., a tree of axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABBs), a tree of oriented (not axis-aligned) bounding boxes, or a tree of spheres)) or non-hierarchical data structures (e.g., Euclidean Distance Fields) Such can result in computational efficiency, reduce memory requirements, and lower power consumption. The collision detection can take the form as a standalone function, providing a Boolean result that can be employed in executing any of a variety of different motion planning algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: REALTIME ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: William Thomas Floyd-Jones, Sean Michael Murray, George Dimitri Konidaris, Daniel Jeremy Sorin
  • Patent number: 12332655
    Abstract: In a work management device and a work management method, in the case where the number of autonomous mobile working machines used in performing work has been changed, or in the case where, among a plurality of assigned working regions, a difference that is greater than or equal to a percentage threshold value has occurred in a work completion percentage, which is a ratio of a portion where the work is completed to each of the assigned working regions, resetting of the assigned working regions is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Yamauchi, Hideaki Shimamura
  • Patent number: 12330307
    Abstract: The present application discloses a robotic control system, and a method and a computer system for controlling a robot. The robotic control system includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store configured to store a model of a robot having a plurality of axes of control including at least a linear axis and one or more rotational axes. The one or more processors are configured to use the model to control the robot to perform a task, including by sending to the robot a set of control signals to cause the robot to move with respect to two or more of said axes of control including at least the linear axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Dexterity, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Lovett, Zhouwen Sun, Matthew Rodolfo Molina, Robert Holmberg, Derek Pan
  • Patent number: 12296911
    Abstract: A bicycle electronic equipment configured to be attached to a location of the bicycle includes a data processing system, a multicolour light source, and a switch. The switch includes a push-button and a two-state electric circuit. The data processing system is configured to: (a) make the light source emit cyclically repeating N coloured light emitting patterns, with N>=3, wherein coloured light emitting patterns immediately consecutive in the cyclical repetition differ in color and/or type of emitting pattern; (b) monitor the state of the switch during execution of step (a); and (c) perform a different action among N different actions according to which of the N coloured light emitting patterns the source is emitting upon the state switching of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: CAMPAGNOLO S.R.L.
    Inventor: Federico Miglioranza
  • Patent number: 12290927
    Abstract: A system, including an analysis server computer, a robot that is configured to participate in interactions with one or more participants; wherein the robot is configured to collect information related to the participants during the interaction, wherein the robot accepts a summary report related to the interaction from a participant or forms a summary report, wherein the robot is configured to forward the summary report to the analysis server for analysis, wherein the analysis server is configured to analyze the summary report and determine if the summary report should pass or fail, when the summary report passes the analysis server is configured to store the summary report in a database; and when the summary report fails the analysis server is configured to provide feedback to the robot with a list of problems for correction in the summary report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventors: Harry Fox, David Azoulay, Boris Zlotnikov, Andrew C. Gorelick, Efraim Spiro
  • Patent number: 12285871
    Abstract: A robot control method, a computer-readable storage medium, and a robot are provided. The method includes: obtaining first motion data, where the first motion data is human arm end motion data collected by a virtual reality device; obtaining second motion data by mapping the first motion data to a working space of an end of a robotic arm of the robot; obtaining a state of each joint of the robotic arm of the robot, and obtaining control data of the joint by performing a quadratic programming solving on the second motion data and the state of the joint; and controlling, by a motion controller of the robot, the robotic arm of the robot to move according to the obtained control data of each joint of the robot by transmitting the control data of the joint to the motion controller, so that the control method is relatively more natural, intuitive, and flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Meng Yan, Chunyu Chen, Xuan Luo, Zhihao Zhang, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 12279743
    Abstract: A method of using a cleaning robot for improved cleaning of edges of a wall having a projecting baseboard, includes using the robot to strike the baseboard in a first cleaning pass, causing an impact sensor to generate a first signal and a distance sensor to detect a first distance from the wall. The robot continues its first cleaning pass and strikes the baseboard a further time, causing the impact sensor to generate a second signal and the distance sensor to detect a second distance from the wall. A computer of the robot uses the signals to calculate two spatial points and a first straight line running through the points. The computer uses the distances and the two spatial points to establish an approach boundary of the cleaning robot relative to the wall. The computer controls the cleaning robot during subsequent cleaning passes exclusively using the one distance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Julius Geis, Michael Hohmann, Juri Gebel, Dominik Schreiner
  • Patent number: 12269164
    Abstract: A method and computing system for transferring objects between a source repository and a destination repository is provided. The computing system is configured to operate by a combination of pre-planned and image base trajectories to improve speed and reliability of object transfer. The computing system is configured to capture image information of repositories and use the captured information to alter or adjust pre-planned trajectories to improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MUJIN, INC.
    Inventors: Xutao Ye, Hamdi Sahloul, Puttichai Lertkultanon, Rosen Nikolaev Diankov
  • Patent number: 12263603
    Abstract: The invention relates to a linear, gripping, clamping, rotary or swiveling device having a microprocessor and a basic housing (104), wherein at least two sensors are arranged on the basic housing, wherein the microprocessor is designed to merge output signals of the at least two sensors to form a merged signal, and wherein the microprocessor is designed to determine an operating status of the linear, gripping, clamping, rotary or swiveling device depending on the merged signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SCHUNK GMBH & CO. KG SPANN-UND GREIFTECHNIK
    Inventors: Florian Flaxmeyer, Bruno Fellhauer
  • Patent number: 12258150
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of space satellite propulsion, and particularly relates to a digital filter based method for measuring thrust response time of a satellite-borne micro-thruster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Aerospace Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force
    Inventors: Yanji Hong, Xiaohui Feng, Xing Jin, Jifei Ye, Haichao Cui, Gaoping Feng
  • Patent number: 12240447
    Abstract: An object detection device includes first and second detectors each configured to detect an object by transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a moving direction of the moving object and receiving a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a second detector, a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine that an obstacle is present in the moving direction of the moving object, based on object detection results by the first and second detectors; determine crossing of the obstacle based on object detection results by the first and second detectors in a state in which it is being determined that the obstacle is present; and cause a driving controller mounted on the moving object, to release driving restriction control of restricting movement of the moving object when determining the crossing, or prohibit the driving controller from releasing the driving restriction control under a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumiaki Hazama, Yoshimasa Okabe, Hiroki Yamashita, Shingo Kawahara, Chiaki Izumoto, Yusuke Nakamura, Teppei Shibata, Toru Chikamitsu
  • Patent number: 12239395
    Abstract: This application relates to a surgical data acquisition method. In one aspect, the surgical data acquisition method includes acquiring information about movement of a surgical robot, and dividing a hexahedral block including a maximum movement range of the surgical robot into a plurality of sub-blocks of a specified number. The method may also include storing, for each of the plurality of sub-blocks, information on a sub-block corresponding to a position in which the surgical robot has moved and information about the movement of the surgical robot within the sub-block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Meere Company Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung Joo Kim, You Jin Lee, Yo An Lim
  • Patent number: 12240120
    Abstract: A method of operating a robot performing a task when receiving instructions to discontinue the task and perform an additional task. Having performed the additional task, the robot will revert to the position of performing the first task and continue the first task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CARNEGIE ROBOTICS, LLC
    Inventors: David Larose, Claus Thybo