Patents Examined by Seth A Silverman
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 12189937
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of temporally depicting notices is provided. The method comprises receiving a number of notices, wherein the notices are time dependent. A user interface displays separate, respective timelines for the notices, wherein the user interface comprises a slider that moves along the timelines responsive to user input. The user interface also displays visual indicators that correspond to the notices. Responsive to movement of the slider along the timeline, the display of the visual indicators in the user interface is changed to show conditions related to the notices according to the position of the slider on the timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel Artic, Nils Kneuper
  • Patent number: 12190415
    Abstract: A system for navigating a host vehicle includes at least one electronic horizon processor to determine an electronic horizon for the host vehicle based on localization of the host vehicle relative to a map, generate a navigation information packet including information associated with the determined electronic horizon, and output the generated navigation information packet to one or more navigation system processors configured to cause the host vehicle to execute at least one navigational maneuver based on the information included in the navigation information packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Yehonatan Goldman, Amiel Fisher
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12188776
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a dynamic routing system, comprising a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise a first receiving component that receives information of a trip comprising a destination and departure information, and an optimal routing component that determines an optimal routing based on current conditions, user preferences for charging stations, primary user's driving habits, battery's state of health, financial impact, and availability of charging stations at the time of receiving the trip information. At the time of trip set up, the system can make reservations for charging at the charging station requiring a reservation. During the trip, if the system requires a change to the reservation, the system establishes communication with the charging station and adjusts the reservation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Ropel, Ben Lloyd, Mathias Le Saux, Kostas Chatziioannou, Klas Persson Signell
  • Patent number: 12183127
    Abstract: A tire slip state determination method includes: detecting rotation fluctuations of a power transmission member and a wheel body of a wheel; determining, based on an amplitude ratio of a rotation fluctuation amplitude of the wheel body to a rotation fluctuation amplitude of the power transmission member and a phase delay of the rotation fluctuation of the wheel body relative to the rotation fluctuation of the power transmission member, whether a vibration mode of the wheel body and the tire is an elastic slip mode or a sliding slip mode; and determining that the tire is in the sliding slip state when the vibration mode is the sliding slip mode. The amplitude ratio and the phase delay are calculated by using, as a tire driving radius, an effective rolling radius in a region in which a relationship between a dynamic load radius and the effective rolling radius is linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Yagasaki
  • Patent number: 12175554
    Abstract: A guidance system includes: a station congestion estimating unit to estimate congestion situations in respective areas in a station and to output station congestion information indicating the estimated congestion situations in the respective areas in the station; a guidance determining unit to determine a mode of guiding station users on the basis of the station congestion information output by the station congestion estimating unit and to output guidance information indicating the mode that has been determined; and an output generation unit to generate an output signal for guiding the station users on the basis of the guidance information output by the guidance determining unit, to output the output signal that has been generated to an output device, and to cause the output device to provide output corresponding to the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Sayaka Kobayashi, Kazufumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12174022
    Abstract: A route editing assistance device for editing a first route is provided. The route editing assistance device includes an input interface, and processing circuitry. The input interface is configured to accept position information indicating positions of a first set of waypoints representing the first route. The processing circuitry is configured to accept position information indicating positions of a second set of waypoints, wherein the second set of waypoints defines a second route, and generate display data for simultaneously displaying the first route and the second route on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Okuda, Tomoko Fujimoto, Timo Kostiainen, Antti Kuukka
  • Patent number: 12163790
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for visualizing a route traversed by a user during a movement event by periodically obtaining position information data from a receiver of a navigation system during a movement event. A path traversed by a user of a device that includes the receiver during the movement event is estimated based on the position information data. One or more previously mapped features within a proximity of the estimated path on a map are determined. The estimated path is matched to the map based on the previously mapped features to obtain a map-matched path. A display device is caused to render the map-matched path on an image of the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Pesyna, Jr., Christina Selle, Saurabh Godha, Isaac Thomas Miller