Patents Examined by Michael D Lang
  • Patent number: 12372979
    Abstract: A remote control system includes a mobile terminal configured to control a construction machine in a first operating mode using one or more control elements of the mobile terminal and to control at least one imaging device in a second operating mode using the one or more control elements of the mobile terminal. The at least one imaging device is controllable by the one or more control elements of the mobile terminal to record an environment of the construction machine and/or a working tool of the construction machine. A position and/or alignment of the at least one imaging device is controllable via the one or more control elements of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Schwing GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Henikl, Mykola Oleksyuk
  • Patent number: 12346122
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a fusion section that fuses each of first clusters included in a first cluster group with each of second clusters included in a second cluster group to update the second cluster group, the first cluster group into which a piece of first point cloud data obtained by a sensor is clustered, and the second cluster group generated on the basis of a piece of second point cloud data obtained earlier than the piece of first point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Hanyuda
  • Patent number: 12337835
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode or an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a polygon representative of the shape and location of a first object may be received. A polyline contour representation of a portion of a polygon representative of the shape and location of a second object may be received. The polyline contour representation may be in half-plane coordinates and including a plurality of vertices and line segments. Coordinates of the polygon representative of the first object may be converted to the half-plane coordinate system. A collision location between the polyline contour representation and the polygon representative of the first object may be determined using the converted coordinates. The autonomous vehicle may be controlled in the autonomous driving mode to avoid a collision based on the collision location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Dong Li, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Victor Puchkarev
  • Patent number: 12332656
    Abstract: A system including a processor and memory may provide for automatically activating or deactivating a feature of a fleet vehicle. For example, one or more fleet vehicles may include one or more of a global-positioning system, a speed governor, electronically-controlled brakes, an electronically-controlled accelerator, a speed limiter, or an on-board computer with a processor and memory. One or more features may be activated by a local or remote computing device or system. For example, a system may determine one or more recommended routes between two or more locations. The system may track a fleet vehicle's progress along a route, and activate a feature of the fleet vehicle based on the fleet vehicle following or not following the recommended route. For example, the system may cause activation of a speed limiter on the fleet vehicle, disable the fleet vehicle, and/or activate or deactivate autonomous features of the fleet vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Howard Hayes, Surender Kumar
  • Patent number: 12326343
    Abstract: A network controller comprising one or more processors and memories in order to make it possible to achieve both continuous operation of a route search system and energy consumption reduction or leveling used resources. The one or more memories store one or more programs. The one or more processors, by reading the one or more programs, realize a user terminal traffic information acquirer, a traffic demand predictor, a route information acquirer, a route determiner, an operating state information acquirer, and an activation request generator. A navigation route is determined from one or more route candidates based on traffic demand prediction information predicting future traffic demand based on user terminal traffic information. Each base station in an off state corresponding to each area on the determined navigation route is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventors: Jin Nakazato, Saki Tanaka, Haruka Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12326736
    Abstract: An improved UAV system and methods for operation in an inventory management system. The methods include generating a three dimensional (3D) map and estimating a position and orientation of the UAV based upon this map; autonomously navigating the UAV in the environment by using the generated 3d map in conjunction with the position and the orientation of the UAV; performing static and dynamic obstacle avoidance in the environment using collision avoidance; and finding the optimal path from a source node to a destination node within the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: DIGIT7 INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Chithrai Selvakumar Mani, Gaurav Shukla
  • Patent number: 12322502
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to determine a stop location for a health checkup vehicle at which travel distances required for patients of health checkups to be performed on the health checkup vehicle to travel to the health checkup vehicle are equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, calculate a parking allowable number at the stop location or a parking allowable number at a parking lot in a vicinity of the stop location, and suggest, in a case in which the patients include more patients who plan to travel using vehicles than the parking allowable number, transportation means other than the vehicles to the patients who plan to travel using the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Seii Sai, Ibuki Shimada, Takahiro Aoki, Keishi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12312101
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to predicting the health of an aircraft component based on a hybrid digital twin. A computing system receives nominal operational data and operational data from aircraft sensors based on flights by an aircraft to evaluate an aircraft component on the aircraft. The computing system can estimate first parameters corresponding to the aircraft component based on a nominal digital twin using the nominal operational data outside respective alerts corresponding to the aircraft component and second parameters corresponding to the aircraft component based on an operational digital twin using the operational data. The computing system then estimates a first health parameter and a second health parameter for the aircraft component based on the first parameters and the second parameters, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Partha Adhikari, Deepu Vettimittathu Mathai, Avik Sadhu, Venkateswara K. Reddy
  • Patent number: 12315381
    Abstract: A system for digital communication of a flight maneuver. The system includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive at least a flight datum from an aircraft, generate a traffic rendition as a function of the at least a flight datum, identify a flight maneuver as a function of the traffic rendition and a traffic landscape, and transmit the flight maneuver to the aircraft. A method for digital communication of a flight maneuver is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventor: Vincent Moeykens
  • Patent number: 12291244
    Abstract: An embodiment system for controlling switching to a manual driving mode of an autonomous vehicle includes a steering controller configured to determine whether a steering angle is changed according to operation of a steering wheel by a driver, a braking controller configured to apply braking torque to a braking device of each wheel, a motor controller configured to apply individual regenerative braking torque and driving torque to each wheel, and an autonomous driving controller configured to determine a control torque for maintaining straight-ahead driving and to issue an instruction using a feedforward control scheme when a steering angle change signal according to the operation of the steering wheel by the driver is received from the steering controller in a transition section in which an autonomous driving mode is switched to the manual driving mode during high-speed straight-ahead driving of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Myung Ki Yeom, In Su Kim
  • Patent number: 12291235
    Abstract: A driving assistance system for automated driving of a vehicle includes at least one processor unit, which is designed to perform the following when the driving assistance system is carrying out a maneuver of turning onto a street: to determine, on the basis of environment data of an environment sensor system of the vehicle, whether another, on-coming road user is blocking a lane of the street which corresponds to the vehicle; and when it is determined that the other road user is blocking the lane of the street which corresponds to the vehicle to carry out a situation evaluation in order to determine whether the vehicle should back up in order to allow the other road user to exit the street or whether the other road user should be requested to clear the lane by backing up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Felix Klanner, Horst Kloeden
  • Patent number: 12287211
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a set of parameters associated with a vehicle routing problem is received. A set of decision variables and a set of constraints associated with an optimization problem are received. An optimization problem is constructed. The optimization problem is divided into a set of sub-problems. Each of the set of sub-problems corresponds to a subset of warehouses of a set of warehouses. An intermediate solution is determined for each of the set of sub-problems to determine a set of routes associated with the corresponding sub-problem of the set of sub-problems. The intermediate solution associated with each of the set of sub-problems is combined to determine a final solution of the optimization problem based on the received set of constraints. The determined final solution is indicative of the set of optimal routes to be assigned to the set of vehicles. The final solution is rendered on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa, Pouya Shati, Indradeep Ghosh
  • Patent number: 12280671
    Abstract: A controller for a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor generator, a clutch arranged between a crankshaft and the motor generator, and a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage. The controller includes first processing circuitry that executes a catalyst warming process that warms the catalyst under a situation in which the hybrid electric vehicle is at a standstill and second processing circuitry configured to control the clutch and the motor generator. The first processing circuitry requests the second processing circuitry to prohibit disengagement of the clutch when the catalyst warming process is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Ito, Takehiro Komatsu, Masanao Idogawa
  • Patent number: 12275425
    Abstract: An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach the host vehicle and that is predicted to pass through on a specific direction side with respect to a current position of the host vehicle, is present, a turn signal indicator of the host vehicle corresponding to the specific direction side is being operated, and it is likely that the host vehicle starts turning to the specific direction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mafune Kakeshita, Chen Xi, Kohei Morotomi, Yuto Shimbo, Tasuku Usui, Kenichi Shimizu, Wataru Ike, Tsunekazu Yasoshima
  • Patent number: 12275362
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a central ECU (Electronic Control Unit), a first ECU and a second ECU. The first ECU outputs an event signal, which expresses that an event relating to a vehicle has occurred, to the central ECU. In response to acquisition of the event signal, the central ECU refers to setting information in which the event and an action which are set in advance, on a per user basis, correspond to one another, and outputs a control signal, which instructs execution of the action corresponding to the event that occurred, to the second ECU. In response to acquisition of the control signal, the second ECU executes the action corresponding to occurrence of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 12276716
    Abstract: Proposed is an object information generating system including an object detector generating object information on the basis of object detection signals and a processor controlling the object detector. The processor determines an area of interest of a field of view (FOV) of the object detector and generates the object information for the area of interest with the object detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Yun Lee, Jin Gyu Jang, Tae Yoon Son, Duk Yun Cho
  • Patent number: 12277815
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle and a vehicle occupant check method. The vehicle occupant check method comprises checking whether a vehicle occupant is inside a vehicle based on a first preset condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when a current driver of the vehicle matches an existing driver, and a driving pattern of the current driver matches a driving pattern of the existing driver. The vehicle occupant check method further comprises checking whether the vehicle occupant is inside the vehicle based on a second condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when the current driver of the vehicle does not match the existing driver, or the driving pattern of the current driver does not match the driving pattern of the existing driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Duhyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12271197
    Abstract: A method and system for decomposing cross-domain path planning of an amphibious vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Chongqing University, Shanghai University
    Inventors: Huayan Pu, Lele Ding, Xuyang Zheng, Jun Luo, Jie Ma, Jing Huang, Yongbing Chen, Hongliang Liu, Anming Shen, Haonan Sun
  • Patent number: 12272153
    Abstract: A vehicle can include various sensors to detect objects in an environment. In some cases, the object may be within a planned path of travel of the vehicle. In these cases, leaving the planned path may be dangerous to the passengers so the vehicle may, based on dimensions of the object, dimensions of the vehicle, and semantic information of the object, determine operational parameters associate with passing the object while maintaining a position within the planned path, if possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Chen, Janek Hudecek, David Pfeiffer, James William Vaisey Philbin, Zeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12263761
    Abstract: A seat state detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to, in accordance with a moving operation in a front-rear direction by an operator on a seat of a vehicle, detect a moving status value representing a status of a moving mechanism that moves the seat in the front-rear direction; and a determining unit configured to determine that the moving mechanism is in a first state when the detected moving status value is more than a first threshold value, and determine that the moving mechanism is in a second state when the detected moving status value is less than a second threshold value set to a value lower than the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYO DENSO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruhiko Tsuji, Takuma Sumiya, Hiroaki Endo