Patents Examined by Wayne S. Murray
  • Patent number: 12646013
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include using location data from multiple devices improve the accuracy of location estimates for a rideable vehicle and/or provide calibration for location information. In some examples, at the end of a ride the system may record the location of the rider's device to augment the location data from the rideable vehicle. In another example, when a batch of rideable vehicles are delivered to a location, the system may use the location of the operator's device and/or the locations of other rideable vehicles in the batch to increase the accuracy of data for the location of any given rideable vehicle. In some embodiments, the system may detect the number of functioning location sensors to determine the confidence in the location of the vehicle. This confidence information can then be used in network decisions such as matching. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Korda Drayna, Jatin Chopra, Griffin Thomson
  • Patent number: 12618688
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device searches for a charging facility that is included in one or more facilities located on a planned travel route of a user vehicle and is either one or both of a facility that has charging equipment and a facility to which a charging vehicle for charging the user vehicle is dispatched. The control unit of the information processing device outputs display information for displaying charging facility information on whether the user vehicle can be charged at the charging facility, which has been searched for, on a schematic diagram on which information on the one or more facilities is displayed in order of proximity to the current position of the user vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Kaida, Shinya Hirosawa, Hikaru Sugahara
  • Patent number: 12608719
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for producing a product by selection of one or more chemical precursors, the method comprising: (a) receiving, from an interface, at least two data sets comprising (i) material data related to chemical or physical properties of the one or more chemical precursors and (ii) environmental impact metrics data related to environmental impact metrics for the one or more chemical precursors necessary for manufacturing the product; (b) providing an environmental impact calculation model describing a functional relationship between the material data and the environmental impact metrics data; (c) optionally retrieving, from a database, historical environmental impact metrics data for the one or more chemical precursors, the historical environmental impact metrics data comprising historic environmental impact metrics corresponding to the one or more chemical precursors; (d) ranking the at least two data sets by a distance from predefined minimum values in multiple dimensions of the environm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Henning Schwabe, Jan Schoeneboom, Steffen Thomas Klosterhalfen, Tara Badri, Nicole Graf, Anthony Nicholas Diprinzio, Stefanie Kraus
  • Patent number: 12602954
    Abstract: A method to change an identification code of a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder, and to perform verification of occupants in a vehicle, the method comprising: capturing at least one image or at least one video of individual(s); and changing an identification code of the passive RFID transponder to correspond to a number of the individual(s). The method may comprise capturing at least one further image or at least one further video of the same individual(s) after x time; and performing verification of occupants of the vehicle based on the captured at least one image or at least one video, and at least one further image or at least one further video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: STAR Systems International Limited
    Inventors: Nitai Delgoshen, Udi Delgoshen, Chi Lun Mak
  • Patent number: 12586105
    Abstract: A sum report is generated for each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles, the respective sum report indicating an account of the vehicle to be charged and a total sum owed by the vehicle. An aggregate report is generated indicating total amounts owed to each of a plurality of charger domains across the plurality of vehicles without indicating the accounts of the vehicles. The sum reports and the aggregate report are sent to a RUC service provider, the RUC service provider being configured to charge the vehicles using the sum reports and credit the charger domains using the aggregate report, while being unable to determine which routes were taken by the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Vukovic, Krishna Bandi, Sathyanarayana Chary Palakonda, Syed Amaar Ahmad, Joseph Zane
  • Patent number: 12586027
    Abstract: A method for triggering an event reactive delivery schedule adjustment. The method detects one or more events leading to a delay in a delivery schedule based on integrating IoT sensor data and real-time events. The method further triggers a reschedule event based on the detected one or more events leading to the delay in the delivery schedule. The method further determines availability and location of a user to receive a delivery, based on the reschedule event, and reschedules or cancels the delivery based on the determined availability and location of the user. The method notifies the user about any changes to the delivery, based on user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Majdabadi, Jeremy R. Fox, Jessica Nahulan, Mauro Marzorati, Randy A. Rendahl
  • Patent number: 12548103
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of terminal technology, and provides an itinerary information prompting method and an electronic device to reduce the difficulty for a user to obtain itinerary information during railway travel and provide travel convenience. The electronic device may detect a current stage of an itinerary. Subsequently, the electronic device may prompt the user with itinerary information that matches the stage of the itinerary. The information that matches the stage of the itinerary is the information to be urgently needed by the user at this stage of the itinerary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: BEIJING HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lu Mao
  • Patent number: 12541777
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for counting and extracting opinions in product reviews is provided. The method includes inputting a hypothesis opinion, a product name, and product reviews relating to a product, applying a decontextualization component to the product reviews by using the product name, applying the decontextualization component to the hypothesis opinion by using the product name, applying an entailment model to classify each sentence of the decontextualized product reviews against the decontextualized hypothesis opinion, and outputting one or more sentences classified as entailing the hypothesis opinion and a count of corresponding reviews.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Malon, Hideo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12511586
    Abstract: A vehicle sharing system includes a vehicle having interior transceiver modules associated with different passenger seating areas and a vehicle computing system (VCS) including a processor and a memory in communication with the modules and programmed to detect occupancy status of each seating area based on signals from the modules and to communicate the occupancy statuses to a remote server to facilitate scheduling of ride-sharing passengers for a specified seating area of the vehicle. The reserved seating location may be used to align the seating location/door with a passenger during pick-up, adjust vehicle accessory settings associated with the reserved seating location, and activate a visual indicator to direct the passenger to the assigned/reserved seating location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pietro Buttolo, Stuart C. Salter, James Stewart Rankin, II, James J. Surman, Annette Lynn Huebner, Jeffrey A. Wallace, Cornel Lewis Gardner
  • Patent number: 12493900
    Abstract: Image-based parking recognition and navigation systems and methods are disclosed. An example method includes: obtaining camera data collected by the plurality of cameras, the image data identifying one or more parking locations; analyzing the camera data in accordance with one or more machine learning techniques to identify a plurality of candidate parking location, obtaining, from a smart phone app executed on a mobile user device, a user request to reserve a candidate parking location in the plurality of candidate parking location; determining a location of the candidate parking location based on location data associated with a first camera; identifying a booking method to reserve the candidate parking location based on the location of the candidate parking location; and responsive to obtaining the user request, enabling a user issuing the user request to reserve the candidate parking location through smart phone app executed on the mobile user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: Pied Parker, Inc.
    Inventors: Gianni Rosas-Maxemin, Robert Mazzola, Francisco Sandoval, Callam Poynter, Noah Kindler
  • Patent number: 12480783
    Abstract: Method and system tool for capturing aircraft position information on the ground using ADS-B message data to provide location data and comparing the location data to stored boundary information content in real-time on a computer processor based system, using location data as a primary input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Inventors: John Robert-Winfred Nelson, Levi D. Coblentz
  • Patent number: 12423641
    Abstract: A tape node and associated methods update an integrated smart label display to redirect delivery of an associated asset. Information of the associated asset is displayed on the integrated smart label display and includes an original destination address and a barcode. When the tape node determines that the associated asset is to be redirected to an alternative destination, based on received instructions and/or at least one rule defining conditions for the associated asset, the tape node updates the displayed information to include an address of the alternative destination and updates the barcode of the associated asset on the integrated smart label display. The tape node may provide instructions for receiving a reward for recycling the tape node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Inventors: Hendrik J. Volkerink, Ajay Khoche
  • Patent number: 12367433
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for allocating a moving object for a fleet system may be provided. The fleet system has a fleet spot divided into a multiplicity of zones provided as accommodating space of a moving object. The method includes: receiving, in a server, a use request of the moving object from a user device; transmitting, in the server, an available moving object list including at least one zone and an available moving object of the zone in compliance with the use request to the user device; receiving, in the server, reservation information based on a moving object that the user device selects in the available moving object list; and allocating the moving object to the user device based on the reservation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Jun Ha, Young Jun Moon
  • Patent number: 12361337
    Abstract: A recommended workspace at a premises is determined for a user of a software platform requesting a workspace reservation based on learned preferences specific to the user. The workspace reservation request is initiated via an interaction by the user with one or more graphical user interfaces displaying information associated with workspaces at the premises. Scores for each of multiple candidate workspaces identified for the user from amongst available ones of the workspaces are determined based on weights defined according to learned personnel preferences of the user and learned workspace preferences of the user. A recommended workspace is determined for the user as a candidate workspace of the multiple candidate workspaces corresponding to a highest one of the scores. An indication of the recommended workspace is then output for display within the one or more graphical user interfaces in response to the workspace reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Zoom Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Wing Hong Michael Lam, Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Carleigh Pereira Noble, Jeffrey William Smith
  • Patent number: 12346943
    Abstract: A computerized vehicle management system, comprising a non-transitory memory; and one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to execute instructions to perform operations comprising capturing, using one or more cameras at a parking lot, first image data associated with a vehicle; capturing, using the one or more cameras at the parking lot, second image data associated with the parking lot; providing the image data associated with the parking lot to a computer vision machine learning model to determine a condition of the parking lot indicating at least dimensions of one or more available parking spaces; determining the condition of the parking lot based on a first output of the computer vision machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pied Parker, Inc.
    Inventors: Gianni Rosas-Maxemin, Francisco Sandoval, Callam Poynter, Robert Mazzola
  • Patent number: 12315305
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing apparatus determines, upon determining that a demand for parking in a parking lot is low based on a comparison between a score indicating the demand and a predetermined first threshold value, to set a first area to a parking prohibited state. The first area is at least a part of the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kodai Takanohashi, Atsushi Okubo, Yuji Tachibana, Shogo Momoshima, Takaaki Kato, Daiki Kaneichi, Minoru Nakadori
  • Patent number: 12266029
    Abstract: The system obtains a unique identifier of the vehicle and a unique identifier of a driver of the vehicle. The system generates an OTP using the unique identifier of the vehicle and the unique identifier of the driver of the vehicle and sends the OTP to the UE of the driver of the vehicle. The system authenticates the vehicle and the driver of the vehicle by receiving the OTP from the unique identifier of the UE. The system creates in a database an association between the unique identifier of the vehicle, the unique identifier of the driver of the vehicle, and the UE of the driver of the vehicle. The system detects that the UE is proximate to the parking garage where the vehicle is parked. Upon detecting that the UE is proximate to the parking garage, the system identifies the vehicle of the UE and delivers the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Sunil Kumar Gopal Reddy
  • Patent number: 12260368
    Abstract: A system for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle. The storage receptacle has an entrance opening for receiving the delivery item, a temporary storage area for temporarily maintaining the delivery item once deposited with the storage receptacle, and a retrieval door providing selective access to the temporary storage area. The system includes a backend server that maintains a management profile related to the storage receptacle, a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle, and a wireless accessory sensor node having at least one sensor that monitors for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The wireless accessory sensor node broadcasts an updated advertising signal. The bridge node transmits retrieved event information to the backend server at a reporting time, and the backend server initiates the dispatched logistics operation from comparing the retrieved event information to location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
  • Patent number: 12190258
    Abstract: The present application proposes a method and a system for constructing a data command frame for remote reservation control, by setting a first byte representing a reserved working time start point, a second byte representing one-time working duration, a third byte representing the reservation status of a whole working cycle, the whole working cycle is divided into several time units, the third byte includes several bits corresponding to several time units, and assigns the value of each bit to determine whether the time units corresponding to each bit is reserved as working time; then combining the first byte, the second byte and the third byte to construct data command frame, and sending the command frames to device to realize remote control. This method enables remote reservation setting on the management of places like spa pools, which is safer and more convenient for spa management staff, and can greatly improve working efficiency and reduce the probability of error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Intex Marketing Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Xiong Huang, Ying Biao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12141716
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include using location data from multiple devices improve the accuracy of location estimates for a rideable vehicle and/or provide calibration for location information. In some examples, at the end of a ride the system may record the location of the rider's device to augment the location data from the rideable vehicle. In another example, when a batch of rideable vehicles are delivered to a location, the system may use the location of the operator's device and/or the locations of other rideable vehicles in the batch to increase the accuracy of data for the location of any given rideable vehicle. In some embodiments, the system may detect the number of functioning location sensors to determine the confidence in the location of the vehicle. This confidence information can then be used in network decisions such as matching. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Korda Drayna, Jatin Chopra, Griffin Thomson