Patents Examined by Thomas E Worden
  • Patent number: 12686993
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, and an upper swiveling body mounted on the lower traveling body. The upper swiveling body is rotatable. An attachment is attached to the upper swiveling body. A traveling actuator is configured to drive the lower traveling body. An attachment actuator is configured to move the attachment. A control device is provided in the upper swiveling body. The control device is configured to autonomously operate at least one of the traveling actuator and the attachment actuator depending on an inclination of a ground on which the lower traveling body is traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Nishi
  • Patent number: 12679339
    Abstract: A parking method includes searching a moving path of a trailer, giving a movement instruction to a vehicle, based on the moving path of the trailer, measuring one or both of a current location of the trailer and a current direction of the trailer according to the movement instruction, comparing one or both of a desired location of the trailer and a desired direction of the trailer in the moving path of the trailer with one or both of the current location of the trailer and the current direction of the trailer; and moving the trailer to a parking space, based on a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Douglas Mackenzie, Venkatesh Dudiki, Zhe Li
  • Patent number: 12676075
    Abstract: A method for providing an automated runway occupied alert comprises receiving, from a location sensor on board an aircraft, location sensor data for the aircraft. Location data is received for target traffic. Based on the location sensor data for the aircraft, a location, a speed, and a direction of travel are determined for the aircraft. Based on the location data for the target traffic, a location, a speed, and a direction of travel are determined for the target traffic. The method further comprises determining that the aircraft meets one or more runway occupancy criteria, and determining that the target traffic meets the one or more runway occupancy criteria. The runway occupied alert is output based upon determining that the aircraft and the target traffic meet the one or more runway occupancy criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Lance Olney
  • Patent number: 12669818
    Abstract: A remote control request method has requesting, by a computer, a remote operator to perform remote control on an autonomous driving vehicle when the autonomous driving vehicle currently has or is expected to have difficulty in continuing autonomous driving, requesting remote assistance in which the remote operator makes at least a part of determination for the autonomous driving inside an autonomous driving domain, and requesting, outside the autonomous driving domain, remote driving in which the remote operator performs at least one of a steering operation and an acceleration or deceleration operation of the autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Sho Otaki, Takashi Suzuki, Toru Takashima, Hojung Jung, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Satoru Niwa, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 12661787
    Abstract: An in-situ robot programming method for a hydraulic turbine top cover based on binocular structured light vision is provided, which relates to the field of robot vision-guided intelligent processing technologies. The method performs hand-eye calibration on a binocular structured light camera and a robot to construct a coordinate conversion relationship thereof, collects an annular to-be-processed area of the hydraulic turbine top cover by the binocular structured light camera for joining, and obtains a trajectory and a trajectory plan through point cloud processing algorithms, to thereby achieve a rapid programming for the hydraulic turbine top cover based on guidance of binocular structured light vision. The method adapts to changes in sizes of the hydraulic turbine top cover and take into account real-time performance and robustness, so that impacts of uncertainty factors on the system are greatly weakened, and the method has characteristics of intelligence and high degree of systematization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignees: China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd., Wuhan Digital Design and Manufacturing Innovation Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Wu, Yichuan Ran, Ming Ma, Zaiming Geng, Jingnan Yan, Jian Deng, Hui Liu, Cencen Yang, Kui Huang, Donglei Ji, Xiaoping Zhang, Gaipeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12654688
    Abstract: A method and system include receiving a request for autonomous parking of a vehicle; upon receiving the request, obtaining information as to a plurality of potential parking spots, including as to their respective effects on a temperature of the vehicle; selecting, via a processor of the vehicle, one of the plurality of potential parking spots as a selected parking spot for the vehicle, based on the information, including the respective effects on the temperature of the vehicle; and autonomously parking the vehicle in the selected parking spot, in accordance with instructions provided by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Samuel B. Kupfer, Mayssaa El Rifai
  • Patent number: 12650702
    Abstract: A mobile vehicle includes a controller, the controller executing program instructions to implement operations including moving the mobile vehicle from an exterior of a target to an interior of the target in response to determining that the mobile vehicle is separated from a second mobile vehicle; driving a transportation component of the mobile vehicle to receive a first cargo from the second mobile vehicle, wherein the second mobile vehicle is located at an exterior of the target; and moving the mobile vehicle away from the interior of the target so that the first cargo is placed in the interior of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: VISIONNAV ROBOTICS USA INC.
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Mu Fang
  • Patent number: 12632068
    Abstract: A management system includes multiple autonomous moving bodies existing in a predetermined area, and a management device configured to manage the multiple autonomous moving bodies, in which each of the multiple autonomous moving bodies is configured to communicate with both the management device and other autonomous moving bodies, the management device is configured to attempt to transmit a specific instruction for a first autonomous moving body to each of the multiple autonomous moving bodies, when a second autonomous moving body receives the specific instruction from the management device, transmit an instruction corresponding to the specific instruction received from the management device to the first autonomous moving body, and when receiving the instruction corresponding to the specific instruction from the second autonomous moving body, the first autonomous moving executes processing according to the instruction corresponding to the specific instruction received from the second autonomous moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Oda
  • Patent number: 12630163
    Abstract: A driving assistance method for a vehicle comprises: suspending autonomous lane change control when a driver's steering operation input during execution of the autonomous lane change control satisfies a predetermined suspension condition; executing first autonomous lane change control, which is executed regardless of an indication of the driver's intention, without confirming the indication of the driver's intention; executing second autonomous lane change control, which is executed due to the indication of the driver's intention, when the indication of the driver's intention can be confirmed; and setting the predetermined suspension condition for the first autonomous lane change control to a condition under which the autonomous lane change control is more readily suspended than under the predetermined suspension condition for the second autonomous lane change control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 12629836
    Abstract: The present applicant discloses a robot suspension judgment method based on laser points, a map update method, and a chip. The method comprises: laser beams emitted by the laser sensor are controlled to scan an area to be detected, so as to obtain a laser beam simulation line segment; at the same time, a pre-built grid map is obtained; according to the number of obstacle grids passed by the laser beam simulation line segment within the allowable range of the ranging error, a laser beam simulation line segment with judgment function is obtained, and the laser beam simulation line segment with judgment function is counted; and according to a ratio of the number of laser beam simulation line segments with judgment function to the number of all laser beam simulation line segments, it is judged whether the mobile robot is in a suspended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: AMICRO SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Hewen Zhou, Huibao Huang, Zhuobiao Chen, Songzhou Xu, Kun Xiong
  • Patent number: 12623844
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a method, apparatus, and device for adjusting a material handling apparatus of a robot. The method includes: acquiring a first detection image through an image acquisition apparatus when the robot moves to a target ground identifier corresponding to a target storage location; determining a pose position relationship between the target storage location and the image acquisition apparatus based on preset key points in the first detection image; and adjusting the material handling apparatus of the robot to be aligned with the target storage location based on the pose position relationship, so that an insert plate of the material handling apparatus is placed between a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. In this way, the material handling apparatus is calibrated before goods are retrieved or stored, which avoids collisions during goods retrieval and storage and improves operation safety of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying Zhao
  • Patent number: 12623352
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automatic massage method and device. A massage trajectory is generated on a typical human body surface model in surface coordinates. A target human body surface model is generated by adjusting its parameters to measurement results of a surface of a patient body. The patient body is placed in a posture close to a recommended posture and its surface is measured using a three-dimensional camera. The target human body surface model is further adjusted to the measured surface of the patient body. The massage trajectory is transferred from the surface coordinates into spatial coordinates, and a motion trajectory of a massage tool is calculated in coordinates of a robotic manipulator. Next, the patient body is massaged by moving the massage tool along the motion trajectory. The massage trajectory is re-calculated continuously to correct the motion trajectory when changing the position and posture of the patient body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Inventors: Denis Ledenkov, Maxim Gladilov
  • Patent number: 12620305
    Abstract: A method for generating data regarding closure of a stretch of navigable elements, includes: identifying source navigable elements and destination navigable elements in a region around the stretch; generating traffic flow indicators, each being based on a comparison of a reference measure and a closure measure. The reference measure indicates a number of first journeys relative to a number of second journeys during a reference period. The closure measure indicates a number of first journeys relative to a number of second journeys during a test period. Each first journey includes movement of a respective client from a respective source navigable element to a navigable element of the stretch and then to a respective destination navigable element. Each second journey includes movement of a respective client from a respective source navigable element to a respective destination navigable element without a stretch navigable element. The data is generated based on the indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: TomTom Traffic B.V.
    Inventors: Sören Sven Sonnenburg, Przemyslaw Polewski, Lucian Ionescu, Gijs Peters, Yucel Kenan Ozturk
  • Patent number: 12617418
    Abstract: A device may receive road facing camera (RFC) video data, driver facing camera (DFC) video data, and idling events data associated with a vehicle, and may receive traffic data associated with the vehicle. The device may determine that an idling event of the idling events data is an idling event trigger, and may process the idling event and the DFC video data, based on the idling event being an idling event trigger and with a first machine learning model, to determine a behavior of a driver of the vehicle. The device may process the behavior of the driver, the RFC video data, and the traffic data, with a second machine learning model, to determine a score for the idling event, and may determine a classification for the idling event based on the score and a score threshold. The device may perform one or more actions based on the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco De Felice, Filippo Valente, Giovanni Pini, Tommaso Mugnai
  • Patent number: 12606264
    Abstract: A method for plausibilizing a sensor signal of a single-track vehicle. The method includes: estimating gear ratios between a wheel speed of a wheel and a pedaling frequency of a pedal of a pedal unit and/or a drive speed of a drive of the single-track vehicle at multiple points in time; ascertaining a value of a reliability indicator based on the estimated gear ratios, the value of the reliability indicator being ascertained with the aid of a statistical parameter, in particular a variance, of the estimated gear ratios and/or a histogram of the estimated gear ratios; and plausibilizing the sensor signal based on a comparison of the value of the reliability indicator with a threshold value, the threshold value corresponding to a maximally permissible value of the reliability indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Schnee, Jo Pletinckx
  • Patent number: 12605846
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a cooking robot system may include a first kettle, a multi-joint robot, and a controller, and wherein the controller, when controlling a movement of the multi-joint robot to grip a cooking utensil, determines whether to rotate a gripper unit coupled to the multi-joint robot according to a kind of the cooking utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: HANKOOKROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chong Young Woo
  • Patent number: 12594967
    Abstract: A system for addressing failure in an autonomous agent includes a driving subsystem, a control subsystem, a central computing subsystem, and an autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor subsystem. The system can optionally additionally include a power subsystem, a vehicle chassis subsystem, a communication subsystem, a distributed computing and/or processing subsystem, a supplementary sensor subsystem, and/or any other components. A method for addressing failure can include any or all of: detecting and responding to a failure; and operating the vehicle. Additionally or alternatively, the method 200 can include any other processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Gatik AI Inc.
    Inventors: Apeksha Kumavat, Brian McLean, Siddharth Ram, Arjun Narang, Gautam Narang
  • Patent number: 12583445
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to sense trouble with a first sensor among sensors that are capable of detecting objects around a host vehicle and whose sensing areas at least partially overlap, detect another vehicle traveling in an area around the host vehicle, based on sensor signals from the respective sensors, and decelerate the host vehicle at first deceleration in the case where trouble with the first sensor is sensed and where the other vehicle is detected on the basis of a sensor signal from a second sensor having lower priority than the first sensor in sensing the other vehicle cutting in front of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kuroda, Kenichiro Aoki, Tadashi Okubo
  • Patent number: 12568363
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication device located onboard a first vehicle in a vehicle system formed from the first vehicle and at least a second vehicle, a second communication device located onboard the second vehicle in the vehicle system, and a first communication path extending between the first and second communication devices and established using a first communication medium. The first and second communication devices may share a security credential via the first communication path. The first and second communication devices also may establish a secure second communication path between the first and second communication devices using the security credential that is shared via the first communication path. The second communication path established by the first and second communication devices uses a different, second communication medium extending between the first and second communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Elliott Loch
  • Patent number: 12535829
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present disclosure includes a ranger that detects a distance to an end part of a stage and detects a predetermined pattern provided on the stage, with infrared light, and an estimator that estimates a self-location on the basis of a detection result of the ranger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: IshwarPrakash Hebbar