Patents Examined by Seth A Silverman
  • Patent number: 12293072
    Abstract: A music composition application for mobile devices provides gesture-driven interfaces for rapidly creating digital music compositions with chord and lyric notations. In certain embodiments, a gesture-driven composer environment can be configured in various modes to enable end-users to input and align chord notations with lyric notations, align chord notations with beat notations, and incorporate the chord with musical scores. The chord notations can be stored as chord objects with embedded information that can be propagated across the different modes, and the application facilitates transitions among modes while maintaining consistent chord information. Gesture-based inputs allow users to easily insert, reposition, and customize chord notations. The application also provides audio playback functionality by translating the digital music composition into analog audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MusicSketch, LLC
    Inventors: John Lawrence Walecka, Michael Dewey Burks
  • Patent number: 12293394
    Abstract: In some implementations, a verification system may generate a selector associated with a plurality of countries. The verification system may receive an indication of a selected country from the plurality of countries. Accordingly, the verification system may generate one or more visual regions, where each visual region is associated with a corresponding verification rule and includes at least one pair of visual selectors with a first selector associated with a type of user information and a second selector associated with a type of matching. The verification system may modify the verification rule based on interaction with the at least one pair of visual selectors included in a corresponding visual region of the one or more visual regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: John Backus, Faris Toqan
  • Patent number: 12287950
    Abstract: A user interface comprising at least a set of reaction icons configured to initiate a search of content of a communication platform is described. In an example, at least the set of reaction icons can be presented via the user interface of the communication platform, wherein individual reaction icons of the set of reaction icons are selectable as search parameters in the user interface. In response to receiving a selection of at least one reaction icon, a search for content, associated with the at least one reaction icon, stored in a database associated with the communication platform can be initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Mckenna Lowry, Austen Payan, Anthony Tae Jin Lee, Racine Harris
  • Patent number: 12287215
    Abstract: A method for assessing driving routes to mitigate wear on a vehicle may include determining a driving route traversed by a vehicle, the driving route including an origin and a destination. The method may include receiving signals generated by a number of sensors built into specific locations on the vehicle, the sensors including at least one vibration sensor. The method may include assessing wear on the vehicle due to one or more wear mechanisms based on the signals. The method may include identifying a correlation between the driving route and the assessed wear on the vehicle, transmitting information associated with the correlation between the driving route and the assessed wear on the vehicle, receiving a routing recommendation based on information about an alternate route, and displaying the routing recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Philippe Herrou, Christopher R. Conklin, Parker Richard Williams
  • Patent number: 12282786
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate and cause display of a contextual navigation menu within a GUI, wherein the contextual navigation menu presents contextually relevant interface elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Newar Husam Al Majid
  • Patent number: 12264452
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine that allows assisting a loading work without giving uncomfortable feeling to an operator. The control device 40 of the work machine 1 includes an allowable range calculation section 46 that calculates an allowable range indicating a range in which the front work device 2 is movable in a height direction allowed in a swing operation; an operation determining section 45 that determines whether the work machine 1 is under a convey operation; and an operation control section 4 that controls a turn operation of a boom 8 such that the position of the front work device 2 in the height direction remains within the allowable range when the work machine 1 is determined to be under the convey operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Kouji Fujita, Hideaki Itou, Hidefumi Ishimoto, Teppei Saitoh, Tadashi Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 12264935
    Abstract: The technology relates to a navigation system that provides one or more routes from a starting location to a destination location, including a candidate parking location at or near the destination location. The starting location may be the current location of a user or the parking location from a previous navigation session. In some examples, the current location of the user may be the same location as the parking location from the previous navigation session. Each route suggestion may include one or more segments. For example, a route may include a first segment from the location of the user to the candidate parking spot and a second segment may be from the candidate parking location to the destination location. In some examples, there may be a third segment from the user's current location to the parking location from the previous navigation session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 12253378
    Abstract: A method for determining a location and pose of at least one trailer for hitching to a vehicle includes: receiving at least one image of at least one trailer generated by a camera of the vehicle; locating the at least one trailer in the at least one image; determining a plurality of keypoints associated with at least one trailer in the image using at least one machine learning model; determining a location of a coupler of the at least one trailer relative to the vehicle and a pose of the at least one trailer relative to the vehicle based on the computed keypoints; and determining a path for maneuvering the vehicle into position for hitching the at least one trailer to the vehicle based on the location of the coupler of the at least one trailer and the pose of the at least one trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US, LLC.
    Inventor: Rujiao Yan
  • Patent number: 12253384
    Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing access of an application on a vehicle to a wireless network external to the vehicle. The system may include a network usage controller configured for determining a data usage status for the application to be one of allowed and blocked and a network access manager configured for storing a route for the application to access a server of the wireless network when the data usage status is allowed and for erasing or disabling the route when the data usage status is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Sandeep Vig
  • Patent number: 12253377
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that performs prediction, from a first movement route including a predetermined number of continuous road links, of one or more road links that are traveled by a first mobile object subsequent to the first movement route, based on movement history information on one or more mobile objects traveling on a road. The control unit performs the prediction by using a machine learning model that, for an input of sequential data, outputs one piece of data or sequential data subsequent to the input sequential data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jiawei Yong, Shintaro Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12240490
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle management system capable of securing safety of an escorted vehicle while suppressing a decrease in productivity by improving setting of an entry prohibited area of an unmanned vehicle at the time when an abnormal state of position information on the escorted vehicle has been detected. The vehicle management system is configured such that an unmanned vehicle, an escorted vehicle, an escorting vehicle, and a control station that controls the unmanned vehicle on the basis of position information on the escorting vehicle and position information on the escorted vehicle are capable of communicating with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kanai, Katsuaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12235933
    Abstract: An autonomous agent operating method, system, and computer program product, including launching a first autonomous agent for a task with an initial update interval and adjusting the initial update interval for a second autonomous agent based on a second task for the second autonomous agent being similar to the task over time in relation to a trust level of a human user in a performance of the first autonomous agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Thomas Richards, David John Piorkowski, Stephanie Houde, Yunfeng Zhang, Qingzi Liao, Rachel Katherine Emma Bellamy
  • Patent number: 12235114
    Abstract: A routine-run-vehicle determination unit determines a route from a departure place to a destination of a following vehicle, and a plurality of routine-run vehicles in charge of a plurality of routine-run areas overlapping the route. For each of the routine-run vehicles, a route determination unit determines a routine-run route on which the following vehicle and another following vehicle that are going to travel in a routine-run area in charge can follow, and determines a portion of the routine-run route overlapping an adjacent routine-run area as a takeover position at which the following vehicle is taken over to the next routine-run vehicle. A reservation management unit transmits routine-run-vehicle reservation data including identification information of the following vehicle, and the routine-run route and the takeover position to each of the routine-run vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Fukuhara, Yoshihiro Nakai
  • Patent number: 12236251
    Abstract: A device implementing a system to render user interface timeline views for display of dynamic application content includes a processor configured to retrieve a data structure corresponding to user interfaces of an application associated with respective times, and at least one declaratively defined user interface element. The processor is further configured to determine whether a rendering cost of a plurality of the user interfaces complies with an update budget of the application, where the rendering cost includes interpreting the at least one declaratively defined user interface element for the respective times. When the rendering cost is determined to comply, the processor is further configured to render the plurality of the user interfaces in advance of the respective times associated with the plurality of the user interfaces. The processor is further configured to display at least one of the rendered plurality of the user interfaces based on a current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Schimon, August L. Joki, Joshua C. Weinberg, Matthew S. Koonce
  • Patent number: 12235116
    Abstract: Autonomous management of wireless connectivity of priority response vehicles is provided. It is received, from a communications network including a plurality of access points, the access points configured to provide communications services to priority vehicles and non-priority vehicles, locations of the priority vehicles over the communications network. A SON server is utilized, in communication with the plurality of access points, to optimize wireless connectivity for the priority vehicles. It is received, by an enhanced vehicle management system (EVMS) server, in communication with the SON server, network quality information from the SON server. The priority vehicles are routed based on the network quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jean de Dieu Mutangana, Mohsen Bahrami, Hamed Asadi, James Wilhelm Heaton
  • Patent number: 12229825
    Abstract: A smart table display system includes a display surface, an input/output device, and a processing circuit configured to receive financial data regarding a financial health of a user, generate a graphical user interface comprising a graphic that depicts the financial health of the user based on the financial data where the graphical user interface is for display on the display surface, receive sensor data regarding the user via the input/output device, continuously update the financial health of the user based on the sensor data, and cause the graphical user interface to update as the financial health of the user is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Kourtney Eidam, Darren M. Goetz, Dennis E. Montenegro
  • Patent number: 12217551
    Abstract: A method for estimating a remaining range of a vehicle battery charge includes identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a selected route, determining a vehicle energy consumption profile for a vehicle, and determining a current state of charge of a vehicle battery of the vehicle. The method also includes determining, for the selected route, a route energy consumption profile and calculating an estimated remaining charge for the vehicle battery at an end of the selected route based on the state of charge of the vehicle battery and the route energy consumption profile. The method also includes, in response to a determination that the estimated remaining charge is less than a lower limit of the vehicle battery charge range, determining a target vehicle speed profile based on the at least one route characteristic, the vehicle energy consumption profile, and the state of charge of the vehicle battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies IP Limited
    Inventors: Peter M. Olin, Li Tang, Harry Husted
  • Patent number: 12214280
    Abstract: A set of levels of a game is displayed and a user selection of one of the levels detected. It is determined that the user is partaking in a fragment collection event, the fragment collection event defining a set of collection conditions, and that one of the collection conditions is satisfied. Fragments are assigned to the user, the fragments having no utility within a game environment, wherein only one collection condition can be satisfied per level selection. A fragment count is stored, where assigning the one or more fragments to the user comprises incrementing the fragment count associated with the user by a predefined amount associated with the satisfied collection condition. When the fragment count is equal to or greater than a threshold fragment count, the fragment count is decreased by an amount equal to the threshold fragment count and a utility object assigned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KING.COM LIMITED
    Inventor: Mick Heijkens
  • Patent number: 12205478
    Abstract: A mission plan module generates a mission plan for a deployed remote vehicle. The mission plan comprises a plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle. A burst upload module receives the mission plan and selects a given subset of the plurality of commands. The burst mode module transmits the given subset of commands to a data link interface (DLI) module over a network. The given subset of commands is transmitted with a burst mode operation based on burst rate parameters, causing the DLI module to transmit the given subset of commands to the deployed remote vehicle through a ground communication element. The burst mode module receives a set of response messages from the remote vehicle responsive to the given subset of commands and selects a next subset of the plurality of commands. The burst mode module transmits the next subset of commands to the DLI module over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhaval D. Patel, Nathan John Miller
  • Patent number: 12189939
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gesture detection system comprising a linear capacitive slider sensor configured to sense when a finger is close to the sensor surface, or is touching or is lifted or moved away from the sensor surface, and a direction of movements of the finger across the sensor surface, and when the finger is lifted away from the sensor surface, a combination of finger movements across the sensing surface is interpreted as a detectable gesture by the gesture detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TK&H HOLDING AS
    Inventors: Tom Austad, Hans Zwart