Patents by Inventor Christopher J. Risberg
Christopher J. Risberg 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).
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Patent number: 12190650Abstract: An example operation may include providing a value to a transport based on sensor data associated the transport.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie
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Patent number: 12181292Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Patent number: 12162516Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting a gesture in a transport, responsive to the gesture being detected, identifying an action to be performed by the transport, identifying currently engaged transport operations, determining whether performing the action will exceed a threshold transport operation level based on the currently engaged transport operations, and determining whether to perform or cancel the action corresponding to the detected gesture based on whether the threshold transport operation level will be exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 12136047Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of assigning a fractional ownership of a transport, receiving, at a server, sensor data associated with one or more of the transport and a device proximate to the transport, determining a condition of the transport, based on the sensor data, updating the fractional ownership of the transport based on the condition, and providing a responsibility based on the fractional ownership.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Mathew Gardner, Eric Randell Schmidt, James H. Kikuma, Nutonya L. Parker, Evan A. Vijithakumara, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 12033502Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying transports operating on a roadway, determining a degree of transport traffic based on the identified transports, when the degree of transport traffic has exceeded a traffic level, assigning one or more of the identified transports as a roadway manager, controlling movement of the roadway manager, and generating a roadway indicator on the roadway manager to direct the identified transports.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 11961401Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Patent number: 11873000Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting a movement in a transport, determining whether the movement includes a gesture definition, when the movement includes a gesture definition, identifying a gesture associated with the gesture definition, and performing an action, via the transport, corresponding to the identified gesture.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 11869281Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, at a server, sensor data from one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle, receiving, at the server, additional sensor data from a computing device operating inside the vehicle, determining the sensor data and the additional sensor data correspond to the vehicle's operational status, determining whether one or more of the sensor data and the additional sensor data exceed one or more thresholds, and when one or more of the sensor data and the additional sensor data exceed the one or more thresholds, providing a value to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie
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Patent number: 11847919Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a server, a target transport operating in an unsafe manner, locating, the by the server, at least one autonomous transport in front of the target transport, and maneuvering the at least one autonomous transport to affect the target transport.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20230373417Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of monitoring, by a transport, data related to behavior of an occupant of the transport, determining, by the transport, a mode of the occupant based on the data, and adjusting, by the transport, an environment of the transport based on the mode of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie
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Patent number: 11797949Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying, via a transport, at least one person in proximity to the transport, determining the at least one person matches one or more profile attributes of a profile of at least one transport occupant, sending a notification to a communication device in the transport to prompt the at least one transport occupant about the identified at least one person and the matched one or more profile attributes, and responsive to receiving a communication request from the communication device, transmitting a communication invite to a mobile device of the at least one person.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Publication number: 20230316820Abstract: An example operation may include providing a value to a transport based on sensor data associated the transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie
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Patent number: 11735048Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a first transport, an indication from a traffic signal that the first transport is legally able to move from a stopped disposition, elapsing a period of time between receiving the indication and the first transport did not move during the period of time, and receiving a notification at the end of the period of time, by the first transport, that the first transport ought to move.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Publication number: 20230243659Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20230237901Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying transports operating on a roadway, determining a degree of transport traffic based on the identified transports, when the degree of transport traffic has exceeded a traffic level, assigning one or more of the identified transports as a roadway manager, controlling movement of the roadway manager, and generating a roadway indicator on the roadway manager to direct the identified transports.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 11710406Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya Parker
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Patent number: 11694486Abstract: An example operation may include providing a value to a transport based on sensor data associated the transport.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie
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Publication number: 20230182778Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a person as a roadway obstruction via a transport moving along the roadway, determining a first threat level of the person at a first time, via the transport, when the first threat level is above a threshold, indicating via the transport, to alert at least one of an occupant of the transport and the person, detecting a gesture, via the transport, performed by the person, and the gesture indicates the transport should proceed, responsive to detecting the gesture, determining a second threat level at a second time is below the threshold, and responsive to the second threat level being below the threshold, proceeding, by the transport, along the roadway.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
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Patent number: 11538343Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, via a transport, a transport audio, classifying, via the transport, a subset of the transport audio as an atypical transport audio, determining, via the transport, a possible source location of the atypical transport audio, transmitting, via the transport, the atypical transport audio and the possible source location to a server, determining, via the server, a set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio and receiving, via the transport, the set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Patent number: 11529918Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a device, from at least one data source, data related to an occupant of a transport, determining, by the device, a destination of the occupant based on the data related to the occupant, determining, by the device, a departure time of the occupant based on the destination, requesting, by the device, a transport at a location of the occupant at the departure time, and adjusting, by the device, an environment of the transport based on the data related to the occupant and the destination.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri, Felipe G. Salles, Christopher J. Risberg, Joshua C. Batie