Patents Examined by Matthew Ho
  • Patent number: 12202310
    Abstract: Theft deterrent systems and methods using onboard weight sensors are disclosed herein. An example method can include obtaining an image of a location where a scale is located in a vehicle, the scale being used for cargo weight measurement, determining from the image, when the location of the scale is located is empty, determining a weight value output by the scale, determining an offset for the scale when the weight value is greater than a weight threshold, and adjusting the scale using the offset to zero the scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed M. Dudar
  • Patent number: 12179798
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle is operated along a route according to a nominal driving solution that takes into account one or more first constraints including a first predicted trajectory for an agent vehicle. An alternate scenario is determined based on one or more second external constraints that include a second predicted trajectory for the agent vehicle different from the first predicted trajectory. A risk factor on the nominal driving solution is determined for the alternative scenario, and a secondary driving solution is determined based on the risk factor and the one or more second external constraints. A candidate switching point is identified where the secondary driving solution diverges from the nominal driving solution, and the nominal driving solution is revised up to the candidate switching point based on the secondary driving solution. The autonomous vehicle is then operated based on the revised nominal driving solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Jared Stephen Russell, Clovis Scotti
  • Patent number: 12181873
    Abstract: A method includes identifying sensor data associated with corresponding distal ends of one or more axles of an autonomous vehicle (AV). The method further includes determining, based on the sensor data, mass distribution data of the AV. The mass distribution data is associated with a first load proximate a first distal end of a first axle of the AV and a second load proximate a second distal end of the first axle of the AV. The method further includes causing, based on the mass distribution data, performance of a corrective action associated with the AV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Joshua P Switkes, Andrew Barton-Sweeney, Vadim Butakov, Diomidis Katzourakis, Craig Latimer, David Smith
  • Patent number: 12179592
    Abstract: Apparatuses and a methods for controlling a part of a display of a vehicle to be transparent according to a driving situation is disclosed, where the apparatus for controlling a vehicle display includes an input configured to receive driver request information, driving road information, and steering wheel movement information and a processor configured to control a vehicle internal display to be transparent based on any one or any combination of the driver request information, the driving road information, and the steering wheel movement information, and transmit a control signal to change a portion of the vehicle internal display to be transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hun Kim, Sung Joon Ahn, Seung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 12165527
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for observer-based landing control of a vehicle are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least in response to determining an aircraft is in a flight plan flare regime, determine an estimate state of an aircraft parameter based on an execution of a transfer function of an observer model, the execution of the transfer function based on an altitude command corresponding to the flare regime, determine a gain value based on the aircraft parameter, determine an altitude control input based on the estimate state and the gain value, determine an altitude command output based on the altitude control input and longitudinal dynamics of the aircraft, the longitudinal dynamics generated in response to the aircraft executing the altitude command output, and control an elevator of the aircraft based on the altitude command output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Eugene Lavretsky, Kevin Wise, Ross Gadient, Benjamin David Levine, Jasmine Beth Minteer-Levine
  • Patent number: 12159533
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a passage along a single-track roadway section, wherein confrontational meetings of vehicles moving in opposite directions of travel are avoided through speed adjustment and use of stopping facilities within the single-track roadway section. A system and a vehicle for carrying out the method are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Arndt Dr habil, Frederic Stefan
  • Patent number: 12158756
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle fleet may include multiple autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles of the fleet may be configured to request remote operator input in response to encountering a situation internally or in the environment that the vehicle is unable to resolve. The autonomous vehicle of the fleet requests remote operator input through a fleet queue system that prioritizes the input requests and matches requests to available remote operators for processing and resolving the situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Jacques Maria Mertens
  • Patent number: 12151763
    Abstract: An electric vehicle assembly includes an electric vehicle and a processing device. The electric vehicle includes a wheel, and an electric motor configured to drive the wheel to rotate and to output a value of torque force applied on the wheel and a speed measurement of the electric vehicle. The processing device stores a vehicle weight, and receives a value of torque force and two speed measurements of the electric vehicle from the electric motor, obtains an acceleration based on the speed measurements, obtains a current user weight based on the value of torque force, the acceleration and the vehicle weight, and outputs a notification when the current user weight is lower than an initial user weight by a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kuan-Jiuh Lin, Jun-Wei Su
  • Patent number: 12151558
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a head up display of a vehicle includes a navigation device that calculates a residual distance from a position of the vehicle to a driving direction change point, a display that displays vehicle information as an augmented reality image, and a controller that compares the residual distance with a preset distance, determines whether to correct the residual distance depending on a result of the comparison, corrects the residual distance based on an output height of the augmented reality image when correcting the residual distance, and sets a position spaced apart by the corrected residual distance from the position of the vehicle as a projected position of the augmented reality image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ju Hyuk Kim, Hui Won Shin
  • Patent number: 12145641
    Abstract: A train dispatching control method includes obtaining a train marshalling instruction, determining target carriages corresponding to a marshalling quantity based on carriage positioning information corresponding to to-be-dispatched carriages parked on to-be-dispatched parking lines, and controlling all the target carriages to drive from the to-be-dispatched parking lines to a marshalling dispatch parking line, to form a target train. The train marshalling instruction includes the marshalling quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12122426
    Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: acquire an image in which a road surface around the mobile object is imaged; recognize support information for supporting walking of a specific traffic participant who is a traffic participant having a predetermined attribute obtained from the road surface imaged in the image and the traffic participant imaged in the image; predict a behavior of the recognized traffic participant based on the support information; and control the behavior of the mobile object based on the support information and the prediction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Misako Yoshimura, Ichiro Baba, Kosuke Nakanishi, Yosuke Koike, Koki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 12116033
    Abstract: An electronic pallet (e-pallet) includes a superstructure mounted to a wheeled base platform. A tether device defines an articulation angle with respect to a leading edge of the superstructure, and is grasped by an operator towing the e-pallet. A motor connected to driven road wheels transmits a drive torque to the road wheels responsive to motor control signals, including a desired yaw rate and ground speed. A speed sensor, angle sensor, and length sensor are respectively configured to determine an actual ground speed of the e-pallet, the articulation angle, and a length of the tether device. An electronic controller, in response to the input signals, generates the motor control signals using proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control logic. Coupled lateral and longitudinal dynamics control loops respectively determine the desired yaw rate and ground speed to accommodate for motion of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Hojjat Izadi, Carlos E. Arreaza, Mohammad-Amin Rajaie
  • Patent number: 12118498
    Abstract: A system for automated goods transportation is provided. The system includes a management system, a vehicle scheduling system, a loading/unloading control device, and autonomous driving control devices provided on respective autonomous vehicles. The management system is configured to manage goods information, generate a transportation plan based on the goods information, and transmit the transportation plan to the vehicle scheduling system. The vehicle scheduling system is configured to generate transportation tasks based on the transportation plan and the transportation statuses of the respective autonomous vehicles, and transmit each of the transportation tasks to the autonomous driving control device of the matching autonomous vehicle. The autonomous driving control device is configured to control the autonomous vehicle to complete transportation in accordance with the transportation task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nan Wu
  • Patent number: 12111173
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that determines a travel path of a wheelchair. The control unit determines the travel path of the wheelchair based on information on a step existing on a road surface on which the wheelchair travels and information on a wheel of the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12103654
    Abstract: A marine vessel propulsion system includes a propulsive force generator to generate a propulsive force, a drive source to drive the propulsive force generator, and a controller configured or programmed to control the drive source to perform marine vessel maneuvering-related functions including at least one limited function. The controller includes an interface, and is further configured or programmed to include a restriction unit to restrict a control operation for the limited function, and a restriction cancellation unit to cancel the restriction effected by the restriction unit to permit the control operation for the limited function if a predetermined keycode is inputted from the interface or is registered in the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Matsuo, Yuki Yamaguchi, Taichi Sato
  • Patent number: 12089529
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes one or more actuators configured to move a crop unloading tube of the harvester relative to a frame of the harvester. Additionally, the agricultural harvester includes a sensor configured to capture data indicative of a presence of the crop receiving vehicle within a crop unloading zone of the agricultural harvester. Moreover, the agricultural harvester includes a computing system communicatively coupled to the sensor. As such, the computing system configured to determine when the crop receiving vehicle is present within the crop unloading zone based on the data captured by the sensor. In addition, when it is determined that the crop receiving vehicle is present within crop unloading zone, the computing system is configured to control an operation of the one or more actuators such that the crop unloading tube is moved relative to the frame from a current position to a predetermined crop unloading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Michael Patrick Rush
  • Patent number: 12091841
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work machine management system that can predict the maintenance timing of a work machine with higher accuracy than conventional techniques. A work machine management system 100 of the present disclosure includes an input/output unit 121 and a processing unit 122. The input/output unit 121 receives from work machines 200 positional information PI and operation information OI on the work machines 200, and also receives from a geographical information system server 300 geological information GI on an area where the work machines 200 are to perform an operation, based on the positional information PI. The processing unit 122 predicts the maintenance timing of each work machine 200 based on the operation information OI and the geological information GI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yoneda, Satoshi Inose, Tomohiro Yoshida, Ayato Iwasaki, Takashi Okumura, Hiroyuki Konno
  • Patent number: 12085403
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a vehicle pose, predicting a pose (xk, yk, ?k) of vehicle on a map based on sensor data acquired by a vehicle localization system, transforming a set of map road references of a segment of a digital map from a global coordinate system to an image-frame coordinate system of a vehicle-mounted camera based on map data and predicted pose of the vehicle. The transformed set of map road references form a set of polylines in image-frame coordinate system. Identifying a set of corresponding image road reference features in an image acquired by vehicle mounted camera, where each identified road references feature defines a set of measurement coordinates (xi, yi) in image-frame. Projecting each of identified set of image road reference features onto formed set of polylines in order to obtain a set of projection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZENSEACT AB
    Inventors: Junsheng Fu, Han Zhang, Tony Gustafsson, Andreas Schindler, Eduardo Sesma Caselles, Erik Steinmetz, Pontus Kielén, Axel Beauvisage, Joakim Lin Sörstedt
  • Patent number: 12055939
    Abstract: Substantially discontinuous surface feature traversal feature of the present teachings can leverage a transport device (TD), for example, but not limited to, an autonomous device or a semi-autonomous device, to navigate in environments that can include features such as substantially discontinuous surface features. The substantially discontinuous surface feature traversal feature can enable the TD to travel on an expanded variety of surfaces. In particular, substantially discontinuous surface features can be accurately identified and labeled so that the TD can automatically maintain the performance of the TD during ingress and egress of the substantially discontinuous surface feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Emily A. Carrigg, Patrick Steele, Gregory J. Buitkus, Benjamin V. Hersh, FNU G. Siva Perumal, David Carrigg, Kartik Khanna, Daniel F. Pawlowski, Arunabh Mishra, Yashovardhan Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 12018947
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing a navigation service by a mobile terminal. According to the present specification, when there is at least one mode change section in which a navigation mode needs to be changed in a discovered path, map data, which serves as a basis for path guidance, is changed from first map data to second map data when entering the mode change section, and thus the navigation service can be successively provided in the changed navigation mode. Accordingly, by inputting a destination once, it is possible to implement a seamless path guidance service using a mobile even in an environment in which a vehicle cannot enter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dukyung Jung, Sunghwan Choi