Patents by Inventor Christopher Leon Jones

Christopher Leon Jones 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: 11499516
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle on a road segment that includes one or more road attributes associated with increased levels of anxiety. In one example, selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle includes determining a driver classification for a driver operating the vehicle; predicting an anxiety level of the driver at an upcoming traffic condition, based on the driver classification; and selectively inhibiting an upcoming engine idle-stop event based on the predicted anxiety level of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Sanjay Abhyankar, Leopoldo Urbina, Sheida Malekpour, Christopher Leon Jones, David Michael Herman
  • Publication number: 20220327920
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a predicted classification related to a road segment; upon a vehicle including the computer traveling over the road segment, determine an actual classification related to the road segment; in response to the actual classification failing to match the predicted classification, transmit a notification to a server remote from the vehicle; and upon receiving an instruction responsive to the notification, transmit vehicle data related to the road segment to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Leon Jones, Jacob Martin Povirk, Austin Kirchner, Charles Robert Maxwell Zine, David Alfred Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 11449651
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to generate an operation parameter histogram for each of a plurality of vehicle operation parameters, operate a test vehicle according to the operation parameter histograms, input each operation parameter histogram and a plurality of test vehicle environment data to a machine learning program, output from the machine learning program a classification for each operation parameter histogram from the machine learning program, input the classifications to a predictive damage model of a three-dimensional schematic of a vehicle component, and adjust one of a size or a shape of the three-dimensional schematic based the output of the predictive damage model. The operation parameter histograms are based on collected data about operation of a plurality of vehicles. Each operation parameter histogram includes an array of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Ostrowski, Christopher Leon Jones, Jacob Martin Povirk, Andrew Christipher Posa, Charles Krysztof, Antonio Stranges
  • Publication number: 20220153283
    Abstract: Vehicle environment data about operation of a plurality of vehicles and vehicle component data for a vehicle component is input into a machine learning program to obtain a transfer function that correlates vehicle environment data to vehicle component data within a specified range of vehicle component parameters. A first event is identified by determining that a datum in the vehicle component data is outside the specified range. A predictive damage model of a vehicle component is updated based on the first event. A virtual parameter of a component model is adjusted based on output from the predictive damage model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Christopher Leon Jones, Jacob Martin Povirk, Ashish Kumar Naidu, Andrew Block
  • Publication number: 20220136474
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle on a road segment that includes one or more road attributes associated with increased levels of anxiety. In one example, selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle includes determining a driver classification for a driver operating the vehicle; predicting an anxiety level of the driver at an upcoming traffic condition, based on the driver classification; and selectively inhibiting an upcoming engine idle-stop event based on the predicted anxiety level of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Sanjay Abhyankar, Leopoldo Urbina, Sheida Malekpour, Christopher Leon Jones, David Michael Herman
  • Publication number: 20210133292
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to generate an operation parameter histogram for each of a plurality of vehicle operation parameters, operate a test vehicle according to the operation parameter histograms, input each operation parameter histogram and a plurality of test vehicle environment data to a machine learning program, output from the machine learning program a classification for each operation parameter histogram from the machine learning program, input the classifications to a predictive damage model of a three-dimensional schematic of a vehicle component, and adjust one of a size or a shape of the three-dimensional schematic based the output of the predictive damage model. The operation parameter histograms are based on collected data about operation of a plurality of vehicles. Each operation parameter histogram includes an array of elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Ostrowski, Christopher Leon Jones, Jacob Martin Povirk, Andrew Christipher Posa, Charles Krysztof, Antonio Stranges