Patents Examined by Michael A Berns
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Patent number: 12680817Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing hazard detection and broadcast functions are provided. In some examples, sensor data may be captured by a mobile device, vehicle, or the like. The data may be used to detect a hazard, identify a type of hazard, and the like. One or more users or groups of users for notification of the hazard may be identified and one or more notifications may be transmitted to users within the group.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: David Evan Shields, David Lambert, Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Pratheek M. Harish
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Patent number: 12664834Abstract: A method for electronically diagnosing an electric drive chain for an electric or hybrid motor vehicle. The drive chain including an electric battery, an electric machine, an inverter connected between the battery and the electric machine, and a link capacitor connected in parallel between the battery and the inverter. The diagnosis method includes: i) continuously controlling the increase in the control frequency of the electric machine; ii) determining the variation in the Fourier transform of the current variation between the assembly comprising the battery and the link capacitor and between the inverter; iii) for each control frequency: 1) detecting an anomaly; 2) otherwise, determining when the control frequency value is optimal.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Nicolas Martinez, Jean-Luc Boyer
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Patent number: 12654873Abstract: A system for displaying an engine out flight plan via an aircraft display device includes a processor and computer-readable memory operably connected to the processor. The computer-readable memory is encoded with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform the following step: receive an engine out procedure, generate the engine out flight plan based upon the engine out procedure, display the engine out flight plan via the aircraft display device, receive an indication of an engine anomaly, and update a guidance aid overlay on the aircraft display device to display a flight attitude based upon the engine out flight plan in response to the indication of the engine anomaly via the aircraft display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Niko Voutilainen, David Watkins
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Patent number: 12654694Abstract: An autonomous driving control system and a method thereof are provided. The autonomous driving control system includes a strategy performing device that generates and performs a stop strategy of a vehicle on the basis of a target stop location, when a critical situation occurs during autonomous driving, a behavior controller that controls a behavior of the vehicle depending on the stop strategy, and an emergency module controller that runs a predetermined emergency module, when the critical situation occurs.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Dong Hwi Lee, Keon Chang Lee, Su Jung Yoo
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Patent number: 12654559Abstract: There are provided a straddle vehicle and a method for controlling a vehicle. the straddle vehicle includes: a vehicle body; an electric motor mounted on the vehicle body as a driving source and rotatable in positive and reverse directions; a battery mounted on the vehicle body and configured to supply electric power to the electric motor; and a processing circuitry configured to control the electric motor. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire vehicle state information capable of determining whether a vehicle state of the straddle vehicle is a forward traveling state or a backward traveling state, and operation information capable of determining whether a user operation is a forward traveling operation or a backward traveling operation; and switch between power running control and regeneration control based on the vehicle state information and the operation information.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventor: Rui Fukuoka
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Patent number: 12651327Abstract: A detection system detects malfunctions in an autonomous farming vehicle during an autonomous routine using one or more models and data from sensors coupled to the autonomous farming vehicle. The models may include machine-learned models trained on the sensor data and configured to identify objects indicative of an operational or malfunctioning component within a tilling assembly such as a tilling shank or sweep. Additionally, a machine-learned model may be trained on sensor data to detect whether debris has plugged the tilling assembly of the autonomous farming vehicle. In response to detecting a malfunction or a plug, the detection system may modify the autonomous routine (e.g., pausing operation) or provide information for the malfunction to be addressed (e.g., the likely location of a malfunctioning sweep that has detached from the tilling assembly).Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Divya Sharma, Michael Albert Elcano, Byron Gajun Ho, Jeremy Douglas Krantz, Tyler Calvin Niday, Robert Joseph Plumeau
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Patent number: 12651494Abstract: A log management device acquires an alive monitoring log indicating that a security sensor of an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle is operating; records acquisition of the alive monitoring log in an alive monitoring table; identifies an unacquired alive monitoring log, and records, in the alive monitoring table, an unacquired period during which the unacquired alive monitoring log is not acquired; and invalidates a record of the unacquired alive monitoring log in the alive monitoring table when the unacquired period of the unacquired alive monitoring log is equal to or longer than a predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shogo Watanabe, Tokuya Inagaki, Ryosuke Murakami, Hirofumi Yamashita, Shinnosuke Sugawara, Takeshi Matsui
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Patent number: 12637089Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the performance of a driver of a vehicle based on changes, over time, in the context and environment in which the vehicle operates, and any resultant driver behavior are disclosed. A set of driver response data is created from based on an analysis of time-series data indicative of the driver's operation of the vehicle in conjunction with time-series data indicative of changes in the vehicle's context/environment. The driver response data indicates the types and magnitudes of the driver's responses to various changes in the vehicle's operating context/environment and the driver's time-to-respond for each of the responses. That is, the driver response data indicates how a driver compensated his or her behavior (if at all) in response to different changes in the vehicle's context and/or environment. The driver response data may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine the driver's performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventor: Brian Mark Fields
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Patent number: 12637091Abstract: An apparatus (1) for calibrating an ADAS sensor of a vehicle (9) includes: a base unit (2) including a plurality of wheels (20); a support structure (3) integral with the base unit (2); a vehicle calibration assistance structure (4), mounted on the support structure (3) and including a calibration device (41, 42) configured to facilitate aligning or calibrating the ADAS sensor; a position detector, configured to capture values of a position parameter representing a position of the support structure (3) relative to the vehicle (9); a processing unit, configured to process the values of the position parameter in real time to derive information regarding an actual position of the support structure (3) relative to the vehicle (9).Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: NEXION S.P.A.Inventor: Giulio Corghi
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Patent number: 12606190Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a first controller configured to control communication associated with a vehicle, a controller configured to control one or more hardware components of the vehicle, and memory storing power state information. The first controller is configured to send, based on the vehicle being in a first mode, a first signal for requesting first information associated with the first mode. While the vehicle is in the first mode, the one or more hardware components are operable by the second controller. The first controller is further configured to store, based on receiving the first information from the second controller, power state information, and perform a function to a state of the second controller as indicated by the power state information.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Yong Joon Lee, Hae Yun Kwon, Sun Woo Kim
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Patent number: 12606207Abstract: Costs associated with configurations corresponding to a maneuver type(s) may be stored in a transition state(s) volume. The same memory volume may be used for storing cost values that correspond different maneuver types and different vertices in a graph of a configuration space. In at least one embodiment, to share a memory volume between maneuver types, the system may determine a cost for a machine to reach a configuration of a configuration space using various different maneuver types. The system may then evaluate one or more of the costs to determine which of the costs to store at one or more memory location(s) corresponding to the configuration (e.g., a point in a memory volume). Cost values for the memory volume may be efficiently determined using kernel-style processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2024Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventor: David Nister
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Patent number: 12589749Abstract: A powertrain, a control apparatus, and a motor control unit. The powertrain includes a drive motor and a transmission device. The transmission device disconnects a transmission connection between the drive motor and a wheel based on a result of a comparison between a temperature or a viscosity of a lube oil and a preset parameter value, and a rotational speed of the drive motor varies with the result of the comparison between the temperature or the viscosity of the lube oil and the preset parameter value. The drive motor stirs the lube oil through idling, to make the temperature of the lube oil rise rapidly. The powertrain, the control apparatus and the motor control unit provided can improve fluidity of the lube oil at very low temperatures, so that a lube oil pump can be started smoothly.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhengyi Tang, Qing Chang
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Patent number: 12591936Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to multicomputer processing of vehicle operational data from telematics devices and other sources with centralized event control. An event control computing platform may receive vehicle operational data from a telematics device associated with a user. Subsequently, the event control computing platform may identify, based on the received data, whether at least one criterion associated with the user has been satisfied. If the received data indicates that the at least one criterion associated with the user has been satisfied, then the event control computing platform may generate a command configured to cause a change to a subunit of user data and then may transmit the generated command to a subunit provisioning server.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Frank A. Kazas, Grady Irey, Soren K. Lundsgaard, Eric D. Huls
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Patent number: 12570143Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for vehicle that improves operability for a driver. A control apparatus for vehicle switches the vehicle to a freewheeling mode in which power generated by an engine is not transmitted to drive shafts. The control apparatus for vehicle includes: a motor; a battery; friction brake equipment that generates frictional braking force on the vehicle; a temperature sensor that acquires temperature of the friction brake equipment; and a determiner that assesses the temperature of the friction brake equipment acquired by the temperature sensor. The friction brake equipment generates the friction braking force when the battery is fully charged. The freewheeling mode is deactivated in a case where the temperature of the friction brake equipment exceeds a predetermined temperature while the battery is fully charged and the vehicle is in the freewheeling mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Masaki Morikawa, Kazuya Sakurai, Noriaki Suzuki, Natsuki Ito
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Patent number: 12549563Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method for obtaining a file based on an over-the-air OTA technology and a related device. The method includes: A first vehicle obtains a target request, where the target request includes target service information, and the target service information is used to obtain a target file associated with a target function; the first vehicle sends the target request to a server; and the first vehicle receives the target file requested by the target request, where the target file is used to indicate the first vehicle to implement the target function. According to this application, a file can be obtained based on the OTA technology, and file management can be simplified.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Wang
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Patent number: 12534221Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for determining a condition of an actuator-position sensor. The system comprises a first circuit electrically coupled with the actuator-position sensor to convert a voltage pattern generated by the actuator-position sensor to an output voltage. The system also comprises a comparator circuit electrically coupled with the first circuit and configured to determine if the output voltage of the first circuit exceeds a first threshold. The system further comprises an output device electrically coupled to the comparator circuit and configured to indicate a first output, associated with a first condition of the actuator-position sensor, when the output voltage of the first circuit exceeds the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael Bunting, Dean Nguyen
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Method for controlling a vehicle driveline comprising a first driving mode and a second driving mode
Patent number: 12534062Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for controlling a vehicle driveline comprising a propulsion unit and a transmission. The method uses topographic data in order to provide predictive control of the vehicle driveline, where the driveline comprises a first driving mode and a second driving mode, where the vehicle is driving to a predetermined destination. The method includes receiving topographic data for the route to the predetermined destination, determining a number of predictive parameters for the route, where, in the first driving mode, the vehicle driveline is controlled in an eco-mode in order to provide the lowest possible energy consumption to the predetermined destination, and where, in the second driving mode, the vehicle driveline is controlled in order for the vehicle to arrive at the predetermined destination at a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Tobias Husberg -
Patent number: 12522202Abstract: A method for increasing occupant comfort and safety in a vehicle may include detecting an occupant in the vehicle using one or more of a plurality of occupant monitoring sensors. The method further may include determining an occupant comfort and safety level of the occupant in the vehicle using the one or more of the plurality of occupant monitoring sensors in response to detecting the occupant in the vehicle. The occupant comfort and safety level includes one of: a high comfort and safety level and a low comfort and safety level. The method further may include performing a monitoring action in response to determining that the occupant comfort and safety level is the high comfort and safety level. The method further may include performing a corrective action in response to determining that the occupant comfort and safety level is the low comfort and safety level.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2024Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Manoj Kumar Sharma, Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan, Mohammad Naserian, Maureen Elizabeth August
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Patent number: 12509058Abstract: A vehicle including: a first drive unit for driving wheels; a temperature control circuit for the first drive unit; and a control device, in which, when controlling the first drive unit under a first drive mode and executing a temperature increase control, the control device determines, based on a state of the vehicle, whether the drive mode of the first drive unit is changeable to a second drive mode in which an output from a first drive motor of the first drive unit is reduced, on determining that the drive mode is changeable to the second drive mode, the control device changes the drive mode to the second drive mode and continues the temperature increase control, otherwise the control device maintains the drive mode in the first drive mode, and ends the temperature increase control and then executes the normal temperature control.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Honjo, Daisuke Takeuchi
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Patent number: 12510432Abstract: A device for finding the center of mass for a marine or similar vessel that includes a cradle seated on a fulcrum that can hold the vessel. The frame upon which the cradle is positioned is shaped to allow the front and back of the cradle to tip upwards and downwards much like a seesaw depending on how the vessel is balanced in the cradle. The device can be used to locate the center of mass or gravity of a vessel or to determine the position of a vessel such that it applies a predetermined amount of weight to the front or back end of a trailer or other supporting device. Scales can be located at either end of the device to calculate the amount of weight exerted by the vessel at either end of the cradle.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Inventor: Joseph Keith Batten