Patents Examined by Yazan Soofi
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 11519741
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes a planning unit that sets a joining route on the basis of information about at least one of a planned route of a user mobile unit that uses a service or a planned route of a provider mobile unit that provides the service, the joining route being a zone for the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit to receive and provide the service, and makes a movement plan including at least one of a route plan for the user mobile unit or a route plan for the provider mobile unit based on the joining route. The information processing device further includes a service provision unit that controls provision of the service so that the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit receive and provide the service while moving on the joining route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tamori, Atsushi Ochiai, Tomoya Fujita, Chao Wang, Masaomi Nabeta, Keisuke Maeda, Takamori Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11520328
    Abstract: A mobile terminal to be carried by a user of a vehicle acquires a captured image of the vehicle, acquires distance information on a distance to the vehicle based on the captured image, determines whether the distance to the vehicle is within a predetermined allowable distance based on the distance information, and transmits an operation signal corresponding to an operation content input by a user to the vehicle when the distance to the vehicle is determined to be within the allowable distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11521437
    Abstract: A storage device (301) stores a failure correspondence table (405) that indicates a countermeasure for a time when a failure occurs in an apparatus mounted on a vehicle (100). A failure countermeasure update unit (404) updates the countermeasure indicated in the failure correspondence table (405) in accordance with a change in a traveling environment of the vehicle (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Kato, Hitoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11520338
    Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle spatial path sampling are provided. The method includes obtaining an initial travel path for an autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location and vehicle configuration data indicative of one or more physical constraints of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining one or more secondary travel paths for the autonomous vehicle from the first location to the second location based on the initial travel path and the vehicle configuration data. The method includes generating a spatial envelope based on the one or more secondary travel paths that indicates a plurality of lateral offsets from the initial travel path. And, the method includes generating a plurality of trajectories for the autonomous vehicle to travel from the first location to the second location such that each of the plurality of trajectories include one or more lateral offsets identified by the spatial envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: David McAllister Bradley, Chenggang Liu, Daoyuan Jia
  • Patent number: 11513518
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein disclose detecting obstacles in a vehicular environment using host vehicle input and associated trust levels. As described here, measured vehicles, either manual or autonomous, that detect an obstacle in the environment will operate to respond to the obstacle. As such, those movements can be used to determine if an obstacle exists in the environment, even if the obstacle cannot be detected directly. The systems and methods can include a host vehicle receiving prediction data about an evasive behavior from one or more measured vehicles in a vehicular environment. A trust level can then be established for the measured vehicles. An obscured obstacle can be determined using the evasive behavior and the trust level which can then be mapped in the vehicular environment. A guidance input can then be created for the host vehicle using the obscured obstacle and the trust level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Derek S. Caveney
  • Patent number: 11507090
    Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle motion control with interactive object annotation are provided. A method can include obtaining data indicative of a plurality of objects within a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle. For example, the plurality of objects can include at least at one problem object encountered by the autonomous vehicle while navigating a planned route. The method can include determining a group of objects of the plurality of objects. For example, the group of objects can include the problem object and one or more other objects in proximity to the problem object. The method can include determining a classification update to be applied to the group of objects. The method can include applying the classification update to the group of objects. The method can include providing data indicative of the classification update for the group of objects to the autonomous vehicle for use in motion planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Shanshi Chen, Samann Ghorbanian-Matloob
  • Patent number: 11497372
    Abstract: An air purifying system includes a robot cleaner configured to generate map information during vacuum cleaning and at least one air purifier that is operated based on the generated map information. Air purifying is performed using updated map information acquired by the robot cleaner during cleaning. The at least one air purifier includes two portable air purifiers mounted on a base air purifier. The two portable air purifiers are configured to be lifted from the base air purifier and moved to separate indoor rooms. The base air purifier includes a controller that determines, based on the generated map information and other information, which rooms the two portable air purifiers should be placed in so that air purifying may be efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Kang, Haeyoong Chung, Jongkeon Jeon, David Kangseong Lee, Daeyoung Kwak, Sohee Park
  • Patent number: 11499836
    Abstract: A method preprocesses a set of non-scheduled lines within a multimodal transportation network of predetermined stations, by (a) for each non-scheduled line (l) of the set of non-scheduled lines, associating, to each station (plj) of a sequence of stations ({right arrow over (p)}(l)) defining the non-scheduled line (l), at least one time interval (I(l,j)) during which a trip on the non-scheduled line (l) can depart from the station (plj); (b) for each first station (plj) of a non-scheduled line (l) which is reachable from a second station (pti) of a scheduled line, adding to a set of feasible transfers between a scheduled line and a non-scheduled line, if there exists a trip (t) on the scheduled line such that a departure time at the first station (plj) after transferring is compatible with the at least one time interval (I(l,j)) associated to the first station (plj), the earliest transfer from the second station (pti) on the trip (t) to the first station (plj); and (c) outputting the set of feasible transfers
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Naver Corporation
    Inventors: Vassilissa Lehoux-Lebacque, Darko Drakulic
  • Patent number: 11492778
    Abstract: A circle assembly for supporting implement of motor grader is provided. The circle assembly rotates relative to drawbar about rotation axis. The circle assembly includes plate and rim member coupled to plate. The plate defines front section and rear section and includes a ring gear portion defining a plurality of teeth formed integrally therein. A first skirt portion and a second skirt portion integrally and contiguously extend from ring gear portion at rear section. The first skirt portion and second skirt portion are angled relative to ring gear portion in direction of rotation axis. The rim member includes first arm member and second arm member attached to first skirt portion and second skirt portion, respectively, and a circumferential belt portion extending between the first arm member and the second arm member. The belt portion is spaced from and surrounds ring gear member at the front section of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Davida Ray Reang