Patents by Inventor Alexander Jacques Maria Mertens

Alexander Jacques Maria Mertens has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240124020
    Abstract: A remote computer system may receive data associated with an autonomous vehicle traversing an environment along a route in accordance with a planned trajectory and data associated with an event within the environment and cause a display to display a representation of the autonomous vehicle. A request to generate an intermittent stopping action message comprising one or more of a position or orientation, a period of time, or a condition is received by the remote computer system and transmitted to the autonomous vehicle, wherein the autonomous vehicle is configured to move to the one or more of position or orientation for the period of time or until the condition is met, such that the vehicle moves to or is at the one or more of position or orientation prior to the event occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ravi GOGNA, Alexander Jacques Maria MERTENS, Ruikun YU
  • Publication number: 20240036571
    Abstract: A remote operations system receives a request for remote operator assistance and adds the request to a queue of additional requests. The queue may be ordered based on time of receipt, priority, criticality, and the like. The remote operations system determines a remote operator of a set of remote operators to provide a response to the request in the queue based at least in part on one or more of a status of the remote operator (e.g., indicative of availability, whether they are in training, etc.), criteria associated with the remote operator (e.g., skills in responding to various requests, preferences for a geographic area, mission types, etc.), and information associated with the request received from the vehicle (e.g., mission type, sensor data, messages, vehicle status, etc.). If the request is not accepted in a threshold period of time, the request may be rerouted to an additional remote operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Meredith James Goldman, Rachel Gelb, Ravi Gogna, Alexander Jacques Maria Mertens, Paul Orecchio