Patents Examined by Khoi H. Tran
  • Patent number: 12222726
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that utilize production vehicles to develop new path planning features for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) by using federated learning. To achieve this the “under-test” path planning module's output is evaluated in open-loop in order to produce a cost-function that is subsequently used to update or train a path planning model of the path planning module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Zenseact AB
    Inventors: Magnus Gyllenhammar, Carl Zandén, Majid Khorsand Vakilzadeh
  • Patent number: 12221021
    Abstract: A system in a vehicle includes a personal thermal device. The personal thermal device provides heating or cooling to an individual occupant of the vehicle. The system also includes a controller implementing reinforcement learning to control the personal thermal device. The controller obtains states, from one or more sensors, indicating current conditions, to obtain a score that is determined according to the states and that represents a reward used in the reinforcement learning. The controller provides a stochastic policy indicating a probability of taking a particular action to control the personal thermal device based on the score acting as a feedback for feedback control of the personal thermal device using the reinforcement learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alaa M. Khamis, Lei Li, Paul H. K. Hui, Todd M. Tumas, Jarvis Chau
  • Patent number: 12223843
    Abstract: An aviation advisory module may include processing circuitry configured to receive data indicative of internal factors and external factors related to route optimization of an aircraft. At least some of the external factors may include dynamic parameters that are changeable while the aircraft is in-flight. The processing circuitry may also be configured to generate a guidance output associated with a route of the aircraft based on integration of the internal factors and the external factors to optimize the route for a user-selected cost parameter, and provide a graphical representation of the guidance output along with comparative data or context information associated with the user-selected cost parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: Bruce J. Holmes
  • Patent number: 12220820
    Abstract: A robot slider position setting device sets a position of a robot slider that moves while being loaded with a robot that performs predetermined work on a workpiece by using a tool provided at a distal end of the robot. The robot slider position setting device includes an interference-region-information storage unit that stores interference region information indicating an interference region with which the robot interferes in a predetermined ambient environment, an approaching-direction determination unit that determines a direction of an arm of the robot as an arm approaching direction such that the direction does not overlap the interference region by fixing a wrist rotation center of the robot in a state where the tool is in an orientation according to a predetermined working position, and a position determination unit that determines the position of the robot slider based on the arm approaching direction determined by the approaching-direction determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Hida
  • Patent number: 12222722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that utilize production vehicles to develop new path planning features for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) by using federated learning. To achieve this the “under-test” path planning module's output is evaluated in closed-loop in order to produce a cost-function that is subsequently used to update or train a path planning model of the path planning development-module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Zenseact AB
    Inventors: Magnus Gyllenhammar, Carl Zandén, Majid Khorsand Vakilzadeh
  • Patent number: 12214779
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining one or more objects in a transport that may become airborne and altering a portion of the transport to minimize the one or more objects from becoming airborne during a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Simon P. Roberts, Yang Ding, Daniel Warren Reaser, Christopher J. Macpherson, Keaton Khonsari, Derek A. Thompson, Sergei Gage
  • Patent number: 12214504
    Abstract: A layout generation device includes: a waypoint registration unit, an arrangement generation unit, an arrangement evaluation unit, an arrangement extraction unit, a path determination unit, a path generation unit, an arrangement exclusion unit, and an arrangement evaluation update unit. The arrangement evaluation unit evaluates, as an evaluation value, an operation time of a robot without considering an obstacle for each of arrangements. The arrangement extraction unit extracts an arrangement having a best evaluation value from among the evaluated arrangements by the arrangement evaluation unit. The path determination unit determines whether or not an extracted arrangement extracted by the arrangement extraction unit needs to avoid an obstacle in terms of an operation of the robot via a waypoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Ishikawa, Tomoaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12214832
    Abstract: An ADS performs processing including setting an initial value of a wheel steer angle command when an autonomous state has been set to an autonomous mode, obtaining a limitation of a rate, setting a wheel steer angle limitation as the wheel steer angle command when magnitude of the initial value is larger than the wheel steer angle limitation, and transmitting the wheel steer angle command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma Suzuki, Yuji Watari, Eisuke Ando
  • Patent number: 12217614
    Abstract: A method and system for resolving a multi-operator distributed collaborative conflict of an unmanned air vehicle is disclosed, including: resolving a conflict in a strategic stage: generating multidimensional data based on time and spatial elements, rasterizing the multidimensional data, performing preliminary conflict resolution according to a preset airspace and an airspace requirement after rasterizing, and generating strategy approval information; and completing strategy conflict resolution by checking the strategy information; resolving a conflict in a pre-tactical stage: acquiring flight plan approval information, designating checking parties, performing multiple checks on the flight plan information, and performing judgment in combination with checking results of a plurality of checking parties to generate a conflict checking result; and resolving a conflict in a tactical stage: identifying a trajectory deviation according to real-time flight data, and sending out a warning according to a deviation cat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CIVIL AVIATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE OF CHINA
    Inventors: Renli Lv, Meiliwen Wu
  • Patent number: 12208858
    Abstract: A bicycle with an electric pedal assist motor capable of driving a chainring independent of cranks includes wheel speed sensors and crank cadence sensors. The wheel speed sensors and the crank cadence sensors measure wheel speed and crank cadence, respectively, and provide the measured wheel speed and crank cadence to a controller of the bicycle. The controller is configured to instruct an assist motor to activate based on the measured wheel speed and/or the measured crank cadence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SRAM, LLC
    Inventors: Sage Hahn, Brian Jordan, Kevin Wesling
  • Patent number: 12209884
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining sensor data indicating a tension experienced by a tether while a payload coupling apparatus connected to the tether is lowered from an aerial vehicle using the tether. The method also includes determining, based on the sensor data, a ground contact time at which the payload coupling apparatus or a payload coupled thereto made initial contact with a ground surface. The method additionally includes determining a length of the tether released from the aerial vehicle at the ground contact time. The method further includes determining a tether-based altitude of the aerial vehicle based on the length of the tether released from the aerial vehicle at the ground contact time. The method yet further includes causing the aerial vehicle to perform an operation based on the tether-based altitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Wing Aviation LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Qiu, Louis Kenneth Dressel
  • Patent number: 12209001
    Abstract: A method controls the reverse speed of a materials-handling vehicle having a forward-facing operator seat, a front end, a back end, a reverse-consent sensor, and a controller. The method detects, via the reverse-consent sensor, whether an operator of the vehicle is in a position to view a path of the vehicle when the vehicle is driven in a reverse direction; limits, via the controller, the reverse speed of the vehicle to a first maximum reverse speed when the operator is not detected to be in such a position when the vehicle is driven in a reverse direction; and limits, via the controller, the reverse speed of the vehicle to a second maximum reverse speed when the operator is detected to be in such a position. The first maximum reverse speed of the vehicle may be lower than the second maximum reverse speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc.
    Inventor: John Gribben
  • Patent number: 12202148
    Abstract: A controller including a processor configured to obtain a message from a task performing agent of a group of task performing agents allocated to a plurality of tasks, wherein the message comprises information about one or more assessments of the task performing agent, wherein the one or more assessments are based on a sensing process performed by one or more sensors of the task performing agent, wherein the task performing agent is an autonomous machine or a human agent equipped with sensors; and allocate a task of the plurality of tasks to the task performing agent, based on the information and based on whether the task performing agent is an autonomous machine or a human agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinayak Honkote, John Charles Weast, Rajesh Poornachandran, Dibyendu Ghosh, Karthik Narayanan, Ganeshram Nandakumar
  • Patent number: 12202121
    Abstract: A robot includes: a communication unit that receives a remote operation instruction by a user terminal of a user; a body unit capable of traveling; a head unit attached to the body unit and capable of changing a direction; a camera; a control unit that controls the body unit, the head unit, and the camera, based on the operation instruction; and an operation switching input unit that switches between the operation instruction by the user terminal of the user and an operation instruction by a facility terminal of a facility user, and when switching the operation instruction, the operation switching input unit requests the user for whether to approve user switching, and when the user approves the user switching of the operation instruction via the user terminal, the operation switching input unit switches the operation instruction by the user terminal to the operation instruction by the facility terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Ueyama, Hiroki Mukai
  • Patent number: 12203240
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a lower traveling body; and a control apparatus configured to determine a traveling vibration of the construction machine at each predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masahito Indoh
  • Patent number: 12202301
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring unit is for mounting on a vehicle wheel, having a sensor for measuring the tire pressure, a transmitter and a receiver for wireless data transmission, a memory for storing tire data, and a controller connected to the sensor, the transmitter, the receiver and the memory. The controller writes this tire data into the memory on receipt of tire data received via the receiver and assigns a value to a variable, the value marking this tire data as valid. It is provided that a necessary condition for the variable to be assigned a value which marks the tire data as invalid is that the controller detects a pressure increase that exceeds a predetermined threshold value. In addition, a corresponding method for managing tire data in a data memory of a tire pressure monitoring unit is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Dederer, Christian Walter
  • Patent number: 12202141
    Abstract: A method of the present disclosure includes (a) a step of receiving track information for specifying a track of a target operation of a robot, (b) a step of acquiring, according to an instruction to adjust a parameter set for controlling the target operation, about one or more initial parameter sets, values of evaluation indicators of control results obtained when causing the robot to execute the target operation using the respective initial parameter sets, (c) a step of displaying, on a display section, one or more reference displays based on the acquired values of the evaluation indicators, and (d) a step of receiving an input of condition information for deciding a condition of optimization processing for the parameter set, the condition information being condition information about the evaluation indicators, performing the optimization processing for the parameter set according to the condition information, and determining a value of a new parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitake Mizobe, Ryutaro Seki, Atsushi Toyofuku, Jun Toda
  • Patent number: 12202150
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a robot master control system. The robot master control system includes: a master controller, configured to control at least one dual-robot control system, where each of the least one dual-robot control system includes a first robot, a second robot, and a sub-controller controlling the first robot and the second robot, and the sub-controller is controlled by the master controller. In the present disclosure, multiple robots may be coordinated and comprehensively controlled to grab and move objects. Compared with a single robot, the efficiency of the multiple robots operation is greatly improved. In addition, each dual-robot control system may be individually configured, thereby improving the work efficiency of coordinated work of dual-robot control systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Suzhou Engoal Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhanpeng Ma, He Wang, Hong Qian
  • Patent number: 12201373
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for determining a configuration of a medical robotic arm, wherein the configuration comprises a pose of the robotic arm and a position of a base of the robotic arm, comprising the steps of: acquiring treatment information data representing information about the treatment to be performed by use of the robotic arm; acquiring patient position data representing the position of a patient to be treated; and calculating the configuration from the treatment information data and the patient position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Steinle, Christoffer Hamilton, Nils Frielinghaus
  • Patent number: 12202122
    Abstract: The present application relates to an autonomous drive through system and method for autonomously detecting the position of the user's face in a vehicle and through AI and robotic technology, calibrating the height, distance, and direction/orientation (x, y, z axis) of the interface associated with the device, bringing the interface closer to the user. The user (driver) either through touch screen and/or voice AI and/or pairing with a mobile device can order and/or pay and/or withdraw cash without coming out of their vehicle(s). The system includes one or more sensors, such as a camera, that provides input for autonomously adjusting height of the device with respect to the user (driver) window. Based on the location of the car window, the device adjusts its position via moving horizontally (x-axis) based on the location of the driver's window and adjusts its position vertically along the y-axis to place itself at the eye level of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Techolution Consulting LLC
    Inventor: Luv Tulsidas