Patents Examined by Shon G Foley
  • Patent number: 11775888
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent scheduling table generation method based on multi-source data analysis of buses, including following steps: integrating business data and cashier data of a bus scheduling system, analyzing the running situation of each line by using an intelligent scheduling algorithm, calculating passenger flow data of boarding and dropping off buses according to cashier data of card swiping for boarding buses, and scientifically and reasonably obtaining the data of each line in the intelligent scheduling table, such as of the number of upgoing and downgoing vehicles, departure time periods, planned shifts, planned circle time, so as to obtain the intelligent scheduling table which accords with the characteristics of morning, midday and evening peak of each line and adjusts the departure interval in real time according to the actual running situation of the lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Aerospace Internet of Things Technology Co., Ltd, China Aerospace Times Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Junjun Li, Chunlei Zheng, Xuedong Zhao, Hao Dong, Lin Gao, Xuelin Yang, Fengting Shen
  • Patent number: 11772813
    Abstract: A method of managing risks and alerts for a system. The system includes source modules and auxiliary modules for identifying actual or potential risks of failures or of malfunctions of the system. A central module of the system serves to determine actual or potential risks of failures or of malfunctions of the system and actual or potential risks associated with parameters external to the system and that might have impacts on operation of the system. Then, an overall risk level is determined by combining the various actual or potential risks and their effects on the system, and then an action and information interface may be controlled as a function of the overall risk level, e.g. for modifying a display of information relating to the system and/or to its environment, or indeed for automatically performing an action on the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Quintana, Herve Rouat, Jean-Marc Quiot, Marc Greiller
  • Patent number: 11763684
    Abstract: A joint-decision making system for a vehicle operator and a dispatcher is disclosed, comprising: a vehicle operator engine implemented on a vehicle system configured to: detect a trigger event condition; retrieve vehicle information relevant to the event trigger condition; receive additional information relevant to the event trigger condition; generate a suggested response based on the trigger event condition, retrieved vehicle information, and received additional information; display the suggested response on a graphical user interface of the vehicle operator engine; and transmit the trigger event condition, vehicle information, and suggested response to a dispatcher engine; and the dispatcher engine implemented on a ground system configured to: receive the event trigger condition, vehicle information, and suggested response from the vehicle operator engine; retrieve the additional information relevant to the event trigger condition; and display the suggested response on a graphical user interface of the dis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Zhong, Raghu Shamasundar, Dan Li, Ramkumar Rajendran, Kalimulla Khan, Visakh Sivadasan
  • Patent number: 11753047
    Abstract: A system in a vehicle can have a camera and/or a sensor. Such a camera can be configured to record a visual feature of a user in the vehicle and send data derived from the visual feature. Such a sensor can be configured to sense a non-visual feature of the user in the vehicle and send data derived from the non-visual feature. The system can have a computing system configured to receive such data from the camera and the sensor. The computing device can also be configured to determine a state of the user based on the received data derived from visual and non-visual features, as well as an AI system. The computing device can also be configured to enable or disable a function of the vehicle based at least partially on the state of the user, which the AI system can infer from the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Richard Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 11753036
    Abstract: Energy consumption for a vehicle may be reduced based at least in part on an environment characteristic associated with the environment through which the vehicle travels or an operation characteristic associated with operation of the vehicle, thereby increasing an operational time of the vehicle. In some situations, reducing energy consumption may be associated with operation of one or more of a sensor (e.g., turning the sensor off, reducing a frequency or resolution of the sensor, etc.) and/or one or more processors associated with the vehicle (e.g., turning a processor off, reducing a rate of computation, etc.) based at least in part on one or more of the environment characteristic signal or the operation characteristic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Wimmershoff, James William Vaisey Philbin, Sarah Tariq
  • Patent number: 11749119
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating and displaying a location, time, amount of one or more transitions along a flight path of a vehicle to ensure sonic boom values remain within permissible threshold values. The method may include receiving speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, including environment data, for a flight path of the vehicle, and generating, for each of one or more transitions along the flight path of the vehicle, at least one of a transition location, of upcoming locations along the flight path, a transition time, and a transition amount, based on the received speed data, altitude data, and flight path data, and a permissible threshold boom value of the upcoming transitions along the flight path. The method may also include outputting the generated transition location, transition time, and transition amount for the one or more transitions to a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: John Suddreth
  • Patent number: 11749121
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system comprising a user device and a restriction management system is provided. The restriction management system includes one or more processors and at least one computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium has logic stored thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, cause the restriction management system to perform actions comprising receiving flight plan information, querying a restriction data store to retrieve an initial set of restriction definitions relevant to the flight plan information, generating information for presenting a checklist based on a comparison of restriction definitions from the initial set of restrictions to a set of checklist items, and transmitting the information for presenting the set of checklist items to the user device for presentation. In some embodiments, the flight plan information includes a planned flight area and a planned flight period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Wing Aviation LLC
    Inventors: Tara Sheida Rezvani, Jonathan Lesser, Reinaldo Negron, Jr., Shruthi Baskaran, Sung Roa Yoon, Arnaud Caron
  • Patent number: 11740703
    Abstract: An apparatus having a gesture sensor is provided. The gesture sensor includes an image sensing unit and a processing unit. The image sensing unit can capture at least a gesture image of user. The processing unit is electrically connected to the image sensing unit. The processing unit can send at least a control command according to the gesture image to operate the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Yuo Wu, Yi-Hsien Ko, Nientse Chen
  • Patent number: 11741841
    Abstract: A method for updating, for an aircraft, a first flight plan having a first set of flight parameters, includes receiving, via an avionics device, a change to the first flight plan, determining a second set of flight parameters based on the change to the first flight plan, receiving, by the avionics device, at least one of terrain data and special use airspace (SUA) data. The method includes performing, with the avionics device, a safety validation of the second set of flight parameters, wherein the safety validation comprises: comparing the second set of flight parameters with the received at least one of terrain data and SUA data, and determining, based on the comparison, whether the second set of flight parameters presents a risk to safe flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: Stefan Alexander Schwindt, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth
  • Patent number: 11735058
    Abstract: A system and method for an automated sense and avoid system for an electric aircraft is illustrated. The system comprises a flight controller communicatively connected to an electric aircraft, wherein the flight controller is configured to receive a plurality of flight inputs from a sensor, determine an impact element as a function of the plurality of flight inputs, produce a flight modification as a function of the impact element, and initiate the flight modification as a function of an automated process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Moy, Collin Freiheit, Joshua E. Auerbach
  • Patent number: 11735059
    Abstract: A system and method are provided that direct a real time global view with images of an aircraft's entire exterior environment from an external monitoring system located on an aircraft equipped with landing gear wheel-mounted electric taxi drive systems powering ground travel to an integrated head-up display worn by a pilot driving the aircraft with the electric taxi drive systems within an airport ramp area. The real time global view and images produced by the monitoring system are communicated to the integrated head-up display in the form of an actual picture of the ramp area environment exterior to the aircraft viewable by the pilot with the head-up display in real time as the pilot maneuvers the aircraft within the ramp area with the electric taxi systems. The pilot can change the images viewed in the head-up display by changing head position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Isaiah W. Cox, Joseph J. Cox, Jan Vana, Tomas Vana
  • Patent number: 11710413
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a system for flight plan generation of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. An exemplary system for flight plan generation includes a flight controller mounted on an eVTOL aircraft. The flight controller may be configured to receive a plurality of flight plan data and generate a flight plan for the aircraft as a function of the plurality of flight plan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Lochie Ferrier, Nicholas Warren, John Charles Palombini
  • Patent number: 11708987
    Abstract: An energy management system is disclosed for optimizing energy usage of HVAC equipment in a building complex. The energy management system is configured to be integrated into an existing Building Automation System (“BAS system”) in order to process the data points in a less time consuming and efficient manner relative to known systems that map one point at a time. The BAS system data points are “point mapped”, i.e., uploaded to a file in the “cloud”, and are updated continuously as a function of time and deposited in a “bucket” in which the data points are unfiltered. These data points can then be filtered by node path and equipment in order to bulk tag equipment and bulk tag points in each of the buildings. These bulk tagged points data points can then be linked to specific rules in an analytical rules library. The system automatically applies predetermined analytical rules to tagged HVAC data points without specific knowledge of the rule by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: RESOLUTE BUILDING INTELLIGENCE, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Hallendy, Carlos Devoto, Justin Bootcheck, Chad Ruch, Keith Murphy
  • Patent number: 11705011
    Abstract: A system and method for an ownship aircraft auto transition from an assigned spacing application to a visual separation application provides the ability to intuitively pre-configure for and execute an automatic transition from an assigned spacing traffic application managing an assigned interval spacing to a traffic application managing visual separation from an assigned target aircraft. This feature enables integration between separate traffic applications, creating new capabilities while reducing the workload on the pilot during a particularly busy phase of flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix B. Turcios, Randy H. Jacobson, Bryan C. Schultz
  • Patent number: 11702223
    Abstract: A system including a module for collecting vibration signals, a module for filtering the signals, a module for verifying whether the signals preserved by the filtering module correspond to signals representative of a set of flight conditions of the aircraft that are listed in a reference database, a module for identifying sources of vibration, a module for requesting a maneuver to be carried out by a pilot depending on the identified sources of vibration, a module for deciding, using a predefined decision tree, whether the preceding modules should be implemented again, and a module for transmitting a vibration report to a user device. The system allows assistance to be given, to the pilot, with the generation of a vibration report, and assistance to be given with maintenance of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Thien Phu Vo Hoang, Pierrick Ollivier
  • Patent number: 11697511
    Abstract: A method for combining log data generated by an appliance associated with an aircraft with flight data is disclosed. The method includes receiving an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signal, wherein the ADS-B signal is received by a communication module communicatively coupled to the appliance. The method includes processing the ADS-B signal into a digitized data signal and correlating the digitized data signal with the log data. The method further includes combining the ADS-B data signal into the log data to create a combined data and correlating the combined data with chronological data, wherein the combined data is timestamped based on the chronological data. A system is also disclosed. The system includes an appliance configured for use in an aircraft. The system further includes a communication module communicatively coupled to the appliance configured to receive automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals from the aircraft and send ADS-B data to the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Vermeulen, Hans Huijsing
  • Patent number: 11694559
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for modifying a flight plan of a vehicle. The method may include identifying a maneuver of a flight path that will generate a focus boom, based on received flight path data and permissible threshold boom values for locations along a boom footprint of the maneuver, and generating an adjustment to at least one of a speed, an altitude, an attitude, a location, and a turn radius of the maneuver based on the received data and the permissible threshold boom values. In addition, the method may include updating the flight plan based on the generated adjustment to the at least one of the speed, the altitude, the attitude, the location, and the turn radius of the at least one maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: John Suddreth, Daniel E. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11686490
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes techniques that enable a conditioned air system to automatically restore functionality and/or to operate at reduced functionality when a fault is detected, for example, to facilitate reducing likelihood that continuing operation with the fault present will decrease lifespan of the conditioned air system. To facilitate improving operation of the conditioned air system when a fault is present, the control system of the conditioned air system may utilize substitute sensor data and/or adjust its control algorithm. In this manner, the control system may facilitate improving operational reliability and/or availability of the conditioned air system, for example, by adaptively adjusting its operation to enable the conditioned air system to continue operating even when a fault is present, while reducing likelihood that the continued operation will reduce lifespan of the conditioned air system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Shawn A. Hern, Brian D. Rigg, Tom R. Tasker, Cody J. Kaiser, Andrew M. Boyd, Noel Grajeda-Trevizo
  • Patent number: 11676497
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting an RTA waypoint with associated time constraints. The system includes a flight management system (FMS) providing an assigned flight plan with a plurality of waypoints; a display device configured to render a current location and trajectory of the aircraft in a navigation display and in a vertical display; and a controller circuit. The system locates the RTA waypoint among the plurality of waypoints, as a function of the flight plan and the current location and trajectory of the aircraft. The system identifies a time constraint associated with the RTA waypoint. The system uses the time constraint to determine a type, from among an “at”, a “before”, and an “after”, for the RTA waypoint; and, assigns a preprogrammed visual encoding scheme for the type to the RTA waypoint. The system presents the RTA waypoint, using the visual encoding scheme, on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Subash Samuthirapandian, Thea Feyereisen
  • Patent number: 11661210
    Abstract: A method is for detecting a blockage of a wind vane (12) of an aircraft, with the wind vane (12) including a support (20), a paddle (22) mounted rotating relative to the support (20) along an axis (A), a motor (28) able to exert a rotational torque on the paddle (22) along the axis (A), the motor (28) being connected to a processing unit (18). The method includes applying a predetermined blockage detection torque on the paddle (22) by the motor (28); measuring at least one piece of information representative of a resistance of the paddle (22) to the predetermined detection torque; and generating, via the processing unit (18), a blocking information signal, if a predetermined condition based on the representative information is verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: François-Xavier D'Arbonneau