Patents Examined by Mark C Clare
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Patent number: 12367514Abstract: A taxi vehicle management method includes: evaluating, based on DR contribution history information, a degree of contribution to demand response for energy management by a driver of a taxi vehicle, the DR contribution history information indicating a history of contribution to the DR by the driver using a power storage device of the taxi vehicle; and determining a calculation formula of a fare of the taxi vehicle driven by the driver, using a result of evaluation of the degree of contribution by the driver. The determining the calculation formula of the fare includes determining the calculation formula of the fare such that the fare becomes lower as the degree of contribution to the DR by the driver becomes higher.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Tsutsumi, Makoto Kakuchi, Yurika Tanaka, Kazuya Tsuchiya, Hiroaki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 12106622Abstract: A visitor management system, which can accurately determine if a visitor presents a proper ticket for the visitor's personal attribute, includes: a reader configured to read ticket information in a ticket medium; a camera configured to capture an image of the visitor; a control device configured to acquire a personal attribute of the visitor from the captured image, determine if consistency is achieved between the ticket information from the reader and the acquired personal attribute, and generate a management screen including determination result information; and a display configured to display the management screen. The determination result information generated by the control device may include a number of persons for each ticket type and a number of persons for each personal attribute, and inconsistency information indicating that consistency is not achieved.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takayuki Matsukawa
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Patent number: 12106320Abstract: An autonomous futures contract orchestration platform includes a set of processors programmed with a set of non-transitory computer-readable instructions. The instructions include receiving, from a data source, an indication associated with a product that relates to an entity that purchases or sells the product. The instructions include predicting a baseline cost of purchasing or selling the product at a future point in time based on the indication. The instructions include retrieving a futures cost, at a current point in time, of a futures contract for an obligation to the purchasing or selling the product for delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time. The instructions include executing a smart contract for the futures contract based on the baseline cost and the futures cost. The instructions include orchestrating the delivery or performance of the product at the future point in time.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Strong Force VCN Portfolio 2019, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Andrew S. Locke
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Patent number: 12056629Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to acquire reservation information for a booth, and give an instruction for change related to a disposed object that is disposed inside and/or outside the booth based on the acquired reservation information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Nobuhiro Kitagawa, Kengo Tokuchi
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Patent number: 12033109Abstract: An online concierge system delivers items from retailers to customers. The online concierge predicts a range of times during which an order may be fulfilled for presentation to a user. The online concierge system uses a trained maximum time prediction model to determine a maximum time for order fulfillment based on an order. A trained minimum time prediction model determines a minimum time for order fulfillment from the order and the maximum time. The minimum time may account for one or more rules (e.g., a percentage of orders fulfilled before the minimum time, a desired rate of selection of a range including the minimum time). A range bounded by the maximum time and the minimum time is transmitted to a customer to enable the customer to select a time interval for order fulfillment.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Shuai Wang, Zi Wang, Liang Chen, Houtao Deng, Xiangyu Wang, Aman Jain, Jian Wang
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Patent number: 12020180Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a reaction information use unit configured to use reaction information indicating a reaction of a user to presented information in a case where use of the reaction information has been permitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Itaru Shimizu, Makoto Koike
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Patent number: 11983664Abstract: A shipping management system includes one or more computer systems coupled to a network and a data storage device. The shipping management system uses one or more ingest modules to collect shipping information from the computer systems of multiple carriers. The shipping management system uses one or more normalization modules to normalize carrier specific data. The shipping management system uses one or more prediction modules to analyze the normalized shipping information using a set of prediction rules. The shipping management system identifies carrier exceptions and generates predicted exceptions based on the normalized shipping information. The shipping management system can selectively generate notifications, take actions, and/or resolve identified and generated exceptions.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CONVEY, LLCInventors: Olivier Jean Marie Modica, Jennifer Lynn Bebout
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Patent number: 11972687Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshio Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 11972686Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshio Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 11935411Abstract: A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshio Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 11900304Abstract: A warehousing and shipping management system stores first coded information contained in optical recognition codes attached to each of a plurality of objects and second coded information contained in object-attached radio communication tags attached to each of the plurality of objects, acquire the first coded information contained in the optical recognition code attached to a target object, automatically acquires location information of each of the object-attached radio communication tags and location information of an operator's radio communication tag; and associates the stored first coded information corresponding to the optical recognition code attached to the target object and the stored second coded information corresponding to the object-attached radio communication tag attached to the target object on the basis of location information of each of the object-attached radio communication tags and location information of the operator's radio communication tag when the first coded information is acquired.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Ueda
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Patent number: 11875422Abstract: Techniques and examples pertaining to baggage transportation in a vehicle-sharing environment are described. An automotive vehicle may have a plurality of baggage compartments each respectively having a size capacity and a weight capacity. The vehicle may also have a plurality of sensors capable of monitoring a loading situation of the plurality of baggage compartments. The vehicle may further have a memory element capable of storing capacity data representing the loading situation, as well as a processor capable of updating the capacity data in an event that the loading situation is changed due to a baggage having been loaded to, or unloaded from, a baggage compartment of the plurality of the baggage compartment. The automotive vehicle may be an autonomous ride-sharing vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Vivekananda Krishnamurthy, Kathryn Hamilton, Ray Siciak, Mahrdad Damsaz
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Patent number: 11868924Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing location-based appointment operations is disclosed. The method includes receiving input indicating an instruction to perform an action related to appointments. Responsive to the input indicating the instruction to perform the action related to appointments, it may be determined that a computing device is proximate to a physical location where locations are schedulable. Then, responsive to determining that the computing device is proximate to the physical location, information related to scheduling appointments at the physical location is received via a network. The indication based on the received information is presented at the computing device. Input requesting an action in relation to an appointment at the physical location may be received at the computing device. An indication to initiate the requested action may be sent via the network. Related computing devices and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion BankInventors: Miguel Navarro, Levi Sutter, Aparicio Giddins, Jr.
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Patent number: 11861961Abstract: An item management system and a key management system are provided. The key management system includes a plurality of keys, each key including an RFID tag in association therewith; a plurality of key storage positions, each for storing one or more of the plurality of keys; a visual indicator associated with each of the storage positions, the visual indicator configured to indicate a status of one or more of the key storage positions; at least one RFID reader configured to read the RFID tags of the plurality of keys; and at least one processor, coupled to the at least one RFID reader, the at least one processor configured to determine the presence of at least one of the plurality of keys in an associated storage position of the plurality of key storage positions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: INSPECTREALESTATE.COM.AU PTY LTDInventor: Dylan Pettersson
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Patent number: 11803931Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire a rental request for a company vehicle used for a business operation of a company, select the company vehicle, in response to the rental request, from among private vehicles that are used by employees of the company when they go to work and are available as the company vehicle, and provide, in a case where a private vehicle is selected in selecting the company vehicle in response to the rental request and rented out as the company vehicle, to a requestor who has sent the rental request availability information that enables the requestor to use the selected private vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Masaru Ando, Toshinari Honda
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Patent number: 11605048Abstract: A shipping management system includes one or more computer systems coupled to a network and a data storage device. The shipping management system uses one or more ingest modules to collect shipping information from the computer systems of multiple carriers. The shipping management system uses one or more normalization modules to normalize carrier specific data. The shipping management system uses one or more prediction modules to analyze the normalized shipping information using a set of prediction rules. The shipping management system identifies carrier exceptions and generates predicted exceptions based on the normalized shipping information. The shipping management system can selectively generate notifications, take actions, and/or resolve identified and generated exceptions.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: CONVEY, LLCInventors: Olivier Jean Marie Modica, Jennifer Lynn Bebout
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Patent number: 11094028Abstract: A method comprises: obtaining historical vehicle service data in an area for a time period including historical locations of passenger-seeking vehicles with respect to time, historical locations of passenger orders with respect to time, and historical trip fares with respect to pick-up locations and time; discretizing the area into a plurality of zones and discretizing the time period into a plurality of time segments; aggregating the historical vehicle service data according the zones and time segments; obtaining an expected reward for a passenger-seeking vehicle to move from zone A to each neighboring zone of the zone A based on the aggregated historical vehicle service data; and obtaining a probability of a passenger-seeking vehicle moving from zone A to a neighboring zone B based on the expected reward for the passenger-seeking vehicle to move from zone A to the each neighboring zone of the zone A.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Beijing DiDi Infinity Technology and Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jintao Ke, Guojun Wu, Zhengtian Xu, Hai Yang, Yafeng YiN, Jieping Ye
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Patent number: 10891879Abstract: Described are systems and methods that enable the repurposing of packages and shipment of items in those repurposed packages. For example, a first user may repurpose a package in which they previously received a shipment and, using a label or identifier already affixed to the package, ship an item to a different delivery destination. The described implementations enable the first user to repurpose a package and ship an item in that repurposed package without having to print a shipping label, weigh the repurposed package, or deliver the repurposed package to a carrier for shipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John Weresh, Pragyana K. Mishra