Patents Examined by Yazan A Soofi
  • Patent number: 11577725
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control at least one of a steering system or a propulsion system to operate a vehicle at a speed below a speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to determine whether one or more second vehicles a first distance from the vehicle are traveling below the speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are traveling below the speed threshold, continue to control the steering system or the propulsion system. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are not traveling below the speed threshold, transition control of the steering system or the propulsion system to a human operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy D. Zwicky, Jeremy Lerner, Md Nahid Pervez, Natalie Arguello, Andrea Bowes Chowanic, Scott Huggins, Jason Joseph Woo, Taylor Hawley, Xingping Chen, Nitendra Nath
  • Patent number: 11572082
    Abstract: A driving risk assessment and control decision-making method for an autonomous vehicle includes: detecting the surrounding state of the vehicle multiple times to generate multiple sensing signals; quantifying the sensing signals to generate multiple sensing values and calculating a sensing average value of the sensing values; calculating a sensing error value between each sensing value and the sensing average value, a sensing error average value of sensing error values and a sensing error variation value; integrating the sensing error average value, the sensing error variation value and a sensor systematic error average value and a sensor systematic error variation value to generate a sensing signal correction value; combining the sensing values and the sensing signal correction value to generate multiple sensing signal reference values; judging whether a stability of the sensing signal reference values falls within a preset range; generating a control mechanism based on the judgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Wang, Tsung-Ming Hsu, Hsiang-Chieh Hsu
  • Patent number: 11572054
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus (12) has: a setting device (122) for setting a first target position (31) on the basis of a first sign object (21), if the first sign object requesting a vehicle (1) to stop is detected; and a supporting device (123) for performing a first deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle to a first target speed before the vehicle reaches the first target position, if a second sign object (22) representing a stop position is detected during a period when the first decelerating control is performed, the setting device sets a second target position (32) on the basis of the second sign object and the supporting device performs a second decelerating control for decelerating the vehicle to a second target speed before the vehicle reaches the second target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11567498
    Abstract: An agriculture support device includes a traveling creator to create a scheduled traveling route of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller to display on an external terminal a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator, and a correction permitting controller to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator when the external terminal requests the correction. The display controller displays, on the external terminal, the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has traveled on the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Unesaki, Izuru Shimamoto, Hirokazu Sasamoto, Yoshiharu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11565697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle and a parking control method therefor which can prevent a parking curb or a driving system from being damaged during parking due to collision with the parking curb or running over the parking curb according to creep torque imitation by an electric motor in a vehicle equipped with the electric motor. A parking control method includes determining whether a parking situation occurs, applying a creep torque modification coefficient to a creep torque until contact with an object that applies a reaction force to a wheel in a parking direction is sensed to determine a modified creep torque upon determining the parking situation, and variably controlling the creep torque by applying a variable coefficient to the modified creep torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Un Son, Sang Joon Kim, Kyu Hwan Jo, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Hoon Yu, Joo Young Kim, Jin Kyeom Cho
  • Patent number: 11562606
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device associated with a vehicle, the device including a set of sensors configured to generate a set of data associated with the vehicle; and one or more controllers configured to analyze the set of data to determine if an accident involving the vehicle has occurred, responsive to a determination that an accident involving the vehicle has occurred, determine an accident-severity score associated with the vehicle involved in the accident, the accident-severity score being based on a set of accident-severity scoring rules and at least a portion of the set of data, and transmit an output signal representative of the determined accident-severity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cyber Physical Systems LLC
    Inventors: Melanie Taylor, Kyle Ducharme, Edmund J. Song
  • Patent number: 11556132
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: an electronic control system for automatic driving; and a cabin with which a boarding space is formed. The electronic control system includes an antenna unit for satellite navigation, and the antenna unit is attached to a central area of a roof of the cabin in a left-right direction. An upper surface of an area of the roof around the antenna unit is formed so as to be an inclined surface that is inclined in a front-rear direction. Left and right end portions of the roof are provided with left and right bulging edge portions that bulge upward from the left and right end portions and have a length that spans between front and rear ends of the roof, and water drain grooves that guide water on the roof toward the left and right bulging edge portions such that water detours the antenna unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishiro Nishi, Atsushi Shinkai, Tomofumi Fukunaga, Takahiro Nakatsuka, Yushi Matsuzaki, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Takafumi Morishita
  • Patent number: 11554690
    Abstract: A user destination is identified based on received location information from a user. A first seat in a vehicle is assigned to the user based on the user destination. At least one of the first seat and a second seat in the vehicle is moved upon user entry until a distance between the first seat and the second seat is greater than a distance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Lawrence Jackson Van Hoecke, Omar Makke, Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Hamid M. Golgiri
  • Patent number: 11550061
    Abstract: Determining classification(s) for object(s) in an environment of autonomous vehicle, and controlling the vehicle based on the determined classification(s). For example, autonomous steering, acceleration, and/or deceleration of the vehicle can be controlled based on determined pose(s) and/or classification(s) for objects in the environment. The control can be based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s) directly, and/or based on movement parameter(s), for the object(s), determined based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s). In many implementations, pose(s) and/or classification(s) of environmental object(s) are determined based on data from a phase coherent Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) component of the vehicle, such as a phase coherent LIDAR monopulse component and/or a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LIDAR component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Aurora Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe, Christopher Paul Urmson
  • Patent number: 11547515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile selection system for selecting medical accessories comprising a control system, a user interface and a treatment cart. The treatment cart comprises a plurality of storage devices each having at least two storage areas for a respective accessory type. The control system thereby implements a selection method having the following method steps. The treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed is determined in one method step via the user interface. In a further method step, a plurality of accessory set parameters which characterize a medical accessory set are determined on the basis of an accessory database and on the basis of the treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Olaf Schermeier, Kirill Koulechov
  • Patent number: 11541859
    Abstract: An electronic brake system and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The electronic brake system includes an integrated master cylinder, a hydraulic-pressure supply device, and a hydraulic control unit. The integrated master cylinder allows a brake fluid to be discharged based on displacement of a brake pedal and at the same time provides proper pedal feel for the user. The hydraulic-pressure supply device generates hydraulic pressure by operating a hydraulic piston in response to an electrical signal that is output in response to displacement of the brake pedal. The hydraulic control unit controls hydraulic pressure of brake fluid supplied to respective wheel cylinders. The electronic brake system operates in different ways according to a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyojin Jeong, Seong Ho Choi, Jin Seok Kim, Byung Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 11541888
    Abstract: A driving assist device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a control device. The control device does not execute an inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined first condition upon determination that at least one preceding object is detected based on the output of one of the first sensor and the second sensor without being detected based on the output of the other of the first and second sensors; and an environment of a non-detection sensor that is the other of the first and second sensors satisfies a first requirement for determination of a reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor; and the control device executes the inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined second condition upon determination that the environment of the non-detection sensor satisfies a second requirement for determination of the reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Mizuno, Yohei Masui
  • Patent number: 11535348
    Abstract: A sailing assisting system is provided in which a sailing assist for a vessel which enters a specific water area where sailing of the vessel is limited is realized through a simple configuration and in which a steersman is prevented from having strange feeling. A sailing assisting system includes movable controlling devices (a shift and throttle controller, a steering device, a trim switch), actuators (a rotational shaft drive unit, a shaft drive unit, a switch drive unit) for driving these controlling devices, and a control unit for executing a notification operation and controlling the actuators to limit movable ranges of the controlling devices if a hull is determined to stay within a specific water area where the sailing of the hull is limited based on information on the specific water area and information on the position of the hull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hashizume, Akifumi Fujima, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11531349
    Abstract: In a predictive path planning functionality for a transportation vehicle data describing a roadway are acquired by one or more sensors disposed on the transportation vehicle and analyzed. One or more predicted paths are predicted with at least one neural network. Data describing a reference path taken by the transportation vehicle are acquired. The one or more predicted paths are evaluated to detect one or more errors in the predicting operation wherein the one or more errors include an indication that the one or more predicted paths of the path planning system deviate from the reference path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Xinwei Gong, Sai Prasad Nooka
  • Patent number: 11529874
    Abstract: A charging rescue system and method for all-electric vehicles comprises: a rescue vehicle APP, a charging rescue vehicle, a rescued vehicle APP, and a rescue platform. The rescue vehicle APP comprises a user module, an order module, a monitoring module, and a communication module. The charging rescue vehicle comprises a controller, a GPS device, a direct current battery charger, an alternating current battery charger, and a measuring module. The rescued vehicle APP comprises a user module, an order module, a payment module, and a communication module. The rescue platform comprises an access module, an order execution module, a vehicle selection module, a rescue vehicle monitoring module, a bill management module, and a user authentication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUNAN SCIENTOP AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT SHARES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Deng Hu, Xuekun Yu, Shen Wang
  • Patent number: 11530526
    Abstract: A system for performing an earthmoving operation may include a work vehicle having an articulable implement and a soil composition sensor supported on the work vehicle. The soil composition sensor may generate data indicative of a soil composition below a surface of a worksite. The system may additionally include a computing system communicatively coupled to the soil composition sensor and the work vehicle. The computing system may receive an input associated with a target profile of the worksite. The computing system may further receive the data indicative of the soil composition of the worksite. Additionally, the computing system may generate an earthmoving prescription map based at least in part on the target profile of the worksite and the soil composition of the worksite, where the earthmoving prescription map indicates soil composition layers between the surface of the worksite and the target profile of the worksite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Scott A. Elkins
  • Patent number: 11530961
    Abstract: System for automatically classifying vehicle vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles having the same vocation classification, independent of vehicle fleet groupings, industry vehicle application groupings and vehicle type groupings, is disclosed. The system includes a vehicle vocation classifier in communication with a data management system to store historical vehicle data including recurring vehicle usage data, and assign one or more predicted vocations for each vehicle based on the recurring vehicle usage data using a machine learning technique. The system also includes a benchmarking management system for grouping the historical vehicle data for vehicles of same determined predicted vocation, determining therefrom benchmarking vehicles having better performance characteristics than other vehicles of the same determined predicted vocation, and benchmarking performance of the other predicted vocation vehicles relative to the benchmarking vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: GEOTAB, INC.
    Inventors: Javed Siddique, Robert Bradley, Xiaochen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11527115
    Abstract: A control device including: a determination unit that determines whether or not a malfunction has occurred in a monitoring target on the basis of a state of the monitoring target; an arithmetic unit that is capable of reconfiguring a function; a storage unit that stores software used for causing the arithmetic unit to reconfigure a function relating to an operation of the monitoring target; and a processing unit that reads the software from the storage unit and reflects the software on the arithmetic unit in a case in which it is determined by the determination unit that a malfunction has occurred in the monitoring target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Satoru Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11525686
    Abstract: A method and system for deploying a calibrated positioning map of an area. The method, executed in a processor of a server computing device, comprises deploying a crowd sourced magnetic fingerprint map for mobile device localization during traversal of the indoor area, accumulating received signal strength (RSS) measurements in forming a RSS fingerprint map using crowd sourced RSS measurements during the deploying, and switching, responsive to identifying desirability of a change in the mobile device localization within the indoor area, from the crowd sourced magnetic fingerprint map to the RSS fingerprint map as basis for localizing the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Joshua Karon, Sean Huberman
  • Patent number: 11526172
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile object control apparatus and a mobile object control method that provide an improved method of presenting a travel route during movement of the mobile object. A degree of relation with an individual in the vicinity of a mobile object is decided, and a travel mode that is associated with a process performed by a driving section that moves the mobile object and a process performed by an output section that outputs a representation for presenting a travel route of the mobile object is set on the basis of the degree of relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suzuki, Kentaro Ida, Hidehiro Komatsu, Chikako Tateishi, Yuto Ishizu