Patents by Inventor Andrew Edward Toy

Andrew Edward Toy 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).

  • Patent number: 12169238
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to access sensor data of a sensor of a vehicle while an adaptive cruise control feature of the vehicle is active, detect, based on the sensor data, an object located along a path of travel of the vehicle, determine that the object is a moveable object based on a radar return of a radar reflector of the object, and responsive to the determination that the object is the moveable object, adjust, by the adaptive cruise control feature, the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xingping Chen, Jeremy Lerner, Danielle Rosenblatt, Andrew Edward Toy, Ali Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20240102525
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes machine readable instructions and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to activate a brake motor of a brake of a vehicle to cause contact between a brake pad of the brake and a rotor of the brake, compare a power output of the brake motor of the brake to a threshold, and determine a material degradation level of the brake pad based on the comparison of the power output to the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Edward Toy, Jeremy Lerner, Taylor Hawley, Mohammad Abouali, Ali Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20240051541
    Abstract: A system receives a request for course identification and determines specific vehicle off-road capabilities for a vehicle from which the request was received. The system determines, for presentation, one or more courses within a geographic area having terrain over which the vehicle can travel based on the determined capabilities and presents the one or more courses as selectable course options and receive selection of a course from the course options. Also, the system determines, for the selected course, geographic change regions where an optional vehicle feature should be engaged based on crowd-sourced data gathered for the selected course indicating that the vehicle feature is used by more than a threshold number of vehicles while traversing a travel region of the course following the change region and sends the vehicle the geographic change regions and the corresponding vehicle features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Taylor Hawley, Jeremy Lerner, Ali Abdallah, Mohammad Abouali, Scott Huggins, Xingping Chen, Andrew Edward Toy
  • Patent number: 11841058
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a brake including a rotor and a brake pad and a brake controller to detect a request to determine a wear level of the brake pad, activate the brake to cause contact between the brake pad and the rotor, and determine, based on a latency between the activation of the brake and the contact between the brake pad and the rotor, the wear level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Edward Toy, Jeremy Lerner, Taylor Hawley, Mohammad Abouali, Ali Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20230228310
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a brake including a rotor and a brake pad and a brake controller to detect a request to determine a wear level of the brake pad, activate the brake to cause contact between the brake pad and the rotor, and determine, based on a latency between the activation of the brake and the contact between the brake pad and the rotor, the wear level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Edward Toy, Jeremy Lerner, Taylor Hawley, Mohammad Abouali, Ali Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20230088573
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to access sensor data of a sensor of a vehicle while an adaptive cruise control feature of the vehicle is active, detect, based on the sensor data, an object located along a path of travel of the vehicle, determine that the object is a moveable object based on a radar return of a radar reflector of the object, and responsive to the determination that the object is the moveable object, adjust, by the adaptive cruise control feature, the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xingping Chen, Jeremy Lerner, Danielle Rosenblatt, Andrew Edward Toy, Ali Abdallah