Patents Examined by Michael V Kerrigan
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Patent number: 11808585Abstract: A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination, and update a route to terminate at the identified location of interest rather than the original destination. Information identifying the origin and destination for the route can be collected at a first user device and the route can be displayed at a second user device. Additional information is then received from the first user device (such as a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination). This additional information received at the first user device is used to update the route that is displayed on the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Cayden Meyer, Scott James Ogden
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Patent number: 11808584Abstract: A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination, and update a route to terminate at the identified location of interest rather than the original destination. Information identifying the origin and destination for the route can be collected at a first user device and the route can be displayed at a second user device. Additional information is then received from the first user device (such as a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination). This additional information received at the first user device is used to update the route that is displayed on the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Cayden Meyer, Scott James Ogden
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Patent number: 11808583Abstract: A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination, and update a route to terminate at the identified location of interest rather than the original destination. Information identifying the origin and destination for the route can be collected at a first user device and the route can be displayed at a second user device. Additional information is then received from the first user device (such as a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination). This additional information received at the first user device is used to update the route that is displayed on the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Cayden Meyer, Scott James Ogden
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Patent number: 11808586Abstract: A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination, and update a route to terminate at the identified location of interest rather than the original destination. Information identifying the origin and destination for the route can be collected at a first user device and the route can be displayed at a second user device. Additional information is then received from the first user device (such as a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination). This additional information received at the first user device is used to update the route that is displayed on the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Cayden Meyer, Scott James Ogden
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Patent number: 11808595Abstract: A communication control device is configured to: store communication possibility information in which positions at which the communication control device is connectable to an external device and communication modes that are usable at the positions, among a plurality of communication modes, are correlated with each other; acquire a first route as an expected route along which the communication control device is to move; control a communication mode that is used by an application implemented by the communication control device for communication with the external device while the communication control device is moving, based on the first route, communication possibility information, and a communication content required by the application; and execute communication between the application and the external device by using the communication mode controlled by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Ninagawa, Satoshi Niwa
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Patent number: 11807254Abstract: An apparatus providing a wiper fail-safe mode, a system having the same, and a method thereof identify the occurrence of a wiper system failure and notify the driver of the occurrence of the failure. The system includes a wiper control module that is connected with at least one of a wiper and a rain sensor and outputs at least one of location information of the wiper and failure information of the rain sensor. The system includes an apparatus providing a wiper fail-safe mode that identifies a failure of a wiper system based on at least one of state information of a wiper switch, the state information being received from the wiper switch, the location information of the wiper, the location information being received from the wiper control module, or the failure information of the rain sensor and outputs a notification of the failure of the wiper system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Seok Ju Byun
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Patent number: 11809189Abstract: A package delivery support system includes a mobile unit prepared in an area, and a sales server configured to acquire an intention of a user to purchase a product and transmit inquiry information as to whether an address or residence of a delivery destination is in an area in which the mobile unit is available, a delivery server configured to manage information regarding a package, and a management device configured to manage the mobile unit. The management device acquires at least one of a delivery request to deliver a package loaded on the mobile unit and a pickup request to pick up a package with the mobile unit, and supplies the mobile unit with an instruction for causing the mobile unit to move to a location specified by the at least one of the delivery request and the pickup request.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Kaneko, Masato Endo, Shinji Sassa, Takahiro Shiga, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11807067Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system includes a vehicle heat pump system, a battery system coolant loop, a drive train coolant loop, and control electronics. The vehicle heat pump system includes a compressor, a cabin condenser, a cabin evaporator, a cabin blower, and a chiller. The battery system coolant loop is in thermal communication with a battery system and with the chiller and selectively in thermal communication with the drive train coolant loop. The control electronics control the components of the vehicle thermal management system to heat the cabin, cool the cabin, heat the battery system, cool the battery system, and cool the drive train. The control electronics may control the compressor to operate in an efficient mode or a lossy mode in which the compressor generates heat. The control electronics may also control the components of the vehicle thermal management system to precondition the battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Mancini, Joseph Stratford Maxwell Mardall, Jan Kopitz, Curt Raymond O'Donnell, Daniel F. Hanks, Huize Li
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Patent number: 11807361Abstract: A system includes a camera configured such that a field of view of the camera is positioned to capture a base portion and a movable portion of an aircraft. A computer communicatively connected to the camera is configured to determine a relative orientation between a base identification feature of the base portion and a movable identification feature of the movable portion of the aircraft based on image data received from the camera. The computer is also configured to determine a position of the movable portion of the aircraft based on the relative orientation between the base identification feature and the movable identification feature and a position of the base portion and to compare the position of the movable portion to a reported position for the movable portion to determine a variance. An aircraft control system is configured to monitor a state of the aircraft based on the variance.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Zipline International Inc.Inventors: Peter Abeles, Keenan Wyrobek
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Patent number: 11807327Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for performing generation of driving information and driver-specific start control for a two-wheeled vehicle on the basis of biometric recognition. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for controlling start of a two-wheeled vehicle limitedly to a driver identified on the basis of biometric recognition and generating driving information of the identified driver in relation to sudden turns, sudden acceleration, sudden stops, impact occurrence, speed limit violation, and the like while driving.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: GREENRIDEAINTOP CORP.Inventors: Tae Hwan Yeo, Bong Sup Lee
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Patent number: 11783643Abstract: Disclosed are a system, method and system to predict an individual's action in connection with a vehicle user interface using machine learning. One or more models may be developed based, at least in part, on observations of past actions by the individual among the plurality of target actions by the individual. Extracted features of a current context may be applied to the developed one or more models to predict a subsequent action among the target actions by the individual.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventors: Yahya Sowti Khiabani, Chieh Hsu, Charles Furrer, Dat Nguyen
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Patent number: 11783642Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of requesting, by a processor of a device, permissions to provide access to a transport to a diagnostic location from a network of a plurality of diagnostic locations, in response to receiving the permissions from the network of the plurality of the diagnostic locations, authenticating the diagnostic location, by the device, providing a pre-stored one-time access key to the transport to the diagnostic location, and receiving, by the device, diagnostics from the diagnostic location.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Neil Dutta, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Shingo Sugimoto, Andrew L. Wells, Shintaro Iwaasa, Felipe G. Salles, Robert D. Slater, Joshua V. Marasigan, Joshua C. Batie, Ryan T Oehler
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Patent number: 11774966Abstract: Sensor data collected from an autonomous vehicle can be labeled using sensor data collected from an additional vehicle. Labeled sensor data can generate targeted testing instances for a trained machine learning model, where the trained machine learning model is used in generating control signals for an autonomous vehicle. In many implementations, targeted training instances can generate an accuracy value for the trained neural network model. Additionally or alternatively, the sensor suite on the additional vehicle can include a removable hardware pod which can be mounted on a variety of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Jean-Sebastien Valois, Daniel Munoz
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Patent number: 11776328Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a variable multiplexer for vehicle communication bus compatibility. A device includes a variable multiplexer that can be electronically configured to a desired pinout configuration to provide compatibility with multiple vehicles. For example, the variable multiplexer may be electronically configured based on a pinout configuration used by the vehicle to connect pins in the device to the corresponding pins on the data link connector that provide the same specified function. The device may therefore use a single standardized cable with vehicles using a variety of pinout configurations.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.Inventors: Xin Yang, Justin Tingao Xiao, Harrison Riley Davis
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Patent number: 11768497Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first controller, a first communication unit, and a second controller and communication unit both on board a vehicle. The second controller is configured to generate first control signals for controlling the vehicle based at least in part on second control signals received by the second communication unit from the first communication unit. The first controller is configured to receive proximity signals relating to a geographic proximity between two or more designated transports. The transports are respective movements of material from respective first locations to respective second locations. The first controller is further configured to generate a control plan for the two or more transports based at least in part on the proximity signals, and generate the second control signals, for communication to the second controller for controlling completion of the two or more transports, based on the control plan.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventor: Edward McQuillan
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Patent number: 11760282Abstract: A method for detecting a special operating state of a motor vehicle which differs from a normal operating state of the motor vehicle, in which a noise emitted by the motor vehicle during operation of the motor vehicle is captured in the interior of the motor vehicle using a mobile apparatus which is separate from the motor vehicle, and the noise is compared with a plurality of reference noises provided by the mobile apparatus, the noise being assigned to a most similar reference noise of the plurality of reference noises on the basis of the comparison if a minimum similarity value is exceeded, and the special operating state being detected by the assignment which has been carried out.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventor: Carsten Bruns
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Patent number: 11755012Abstract: This patent application discloses methods and systems for alerting computerized motor-vehicles about predicted accidents. In an example method, a motor vehicle alerts another motor vehicle about a predicted accident, even though that accident is between the alerting car and a third motor vehicle—for example, the alert is transmitted by non-visual electromagnetic (EM) radiation. When an adjacent motor vehicle receives such accident alert and determines it might itself be hit, it will react so as to minimize its chances of being hit or at least to minimize the damage if it is being hit. Optionally, one or more of the motor vehicles has an onboard device for measuring a blood-alcohol level of a human driver thereof. The measured blood-alcohol level may be used to compute a probability of an occurrence of an accident and/or may be included in one or more of the transmitted accident alerts.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Dov Moran, Menahem Lasser
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Patent number: 11755029Abstract: Examples described may enable provision of remote assistance for an autonomous vehicle. An example method includes a computing system operating in a rewind mode. In the rewind mode, the system may be configured to provide information to a remote assistance operated based on a remote-assistance triggering criteria being met, such as a detected object having a low detection confidence. When the triggering criteria is met, the remote assistance system may provide data from the time leading up to when the remote-assistance triggering criteria was met that was capture of the environment of autonomous vehicle to the remote assistance operator. Based on viewing the data, the remote assistance operator may provide and input to the system that causes a command to be issued to the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventor: Joshua Herbach
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Patent number: 11745813Abstract: An automated vehicle inspection system includes a diagnostic terminal mounted in a vehicle and connected to an engine control unit (ECU) of the vehicle, sequentially operating individual electric components through the ECU based on stored electric component inspection items while the vehicle passes through a watertight booth and receiving individual operating currents measured to determine whether the electric components normally operate, a transceiver connecting to the diagnostic terminal and a wireless diagnostic communication network through an antenna disposed in the watertight booth process line, and an inspector recognizing a vehicle ID of a vehicle that enters the watertight booth, transmitting inspection items according to a vehicle type and specification of the vehicle ID to the diagnostic terminal through the diagnostic communication network, and recognizing a vehicle ID of a vehicle that leaves the watertight booth to collect inspection results determined in the diagnostic terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Tae Sung Kwon, Gun Son, Kyungbae Yoon, Yeon Ji Choi
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Patent number: 11738779Abstract: A system includes an acquisition unit that acquires an operation amount or a duration count, and a switching unit that switches a driving state. The switching unit switches the driving state to the cooperative driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than an intervention threshold and less than a start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold during the autonomous driving state, switches the driving state to the autonomous driving state when the operation amount is less than the intervention threshold or the duration count is less than the first threshold during the cooperative driving state, and switches the driving state to the manual driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than the start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa, Toshiki Kindo