Patents by Inventor Christopher Travis Whitney
Christopher Travis Whitney 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: 12321166Abstract: A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Zimeno Inc.Inventors: Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Patent number: 12158528Abstract: A plant locating system may include a vehicle supporting a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna and a monocular camera. The system may further include a plant locating unit comprising a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions to direct the processing unit to: acquire a sample image of a plant of interest captured at a time with the monocular camera at an unknown distance from the plant of interest (POI); determine a geographic location estimate of the GPS antenna at the time; identify a selected portion of the sample image comprising the POI; determine a distance between the POI and the monocular camera based upon the selected portion; and determine a geographic location estimate of the POI based on the geographic location estimate of the GPS antenna at the time and the determined distance between the monocular camera and the POI.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Zimeno Inc.Inventors: Sanket Goyal, Christopher Travis Whitney
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Patent number: 12158754Abstract: A vehicle control system may include a vehicle having a propulsion unit and a steering unit, a forward-facing camera carried by the vehicle, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising operator position identification instructions. The operator position identification instructions direct the processor to identify relative positioning of a remote operator on the ground proximate the vehicle based upon signals from the forward-facing camera; and control the propulsion unit and the steering unit of the vehicle to follow the operator based upon the relative on the ground proximate the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Zimeno Inc.Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Patent number: 12158753Abstract: A vehicle is operable in a first mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received by an input device carried by the vehicle from an operator while being boarded on the vehicle and in a second mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received from the operator while the operator is proximate the vehicle, but no longer boarded on the vehicle. The vehicle carries a sensor configured to output a sensed input, as sensed by the sensor, from the operator proximate the vehicle, but not boarded on the vehicle. The sensed input is recognized and associated with a vehicle action and control signals are output to the vehicle based on the sensed input to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Zimeno Inc.Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Patent number: 12007762Abstract: A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Zimeno Inc.Inventors: Praveen Varma Penmetsa, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Publication number: 20240012408Abstract: A vehicle control system may include a vehicle having a propulsion unit and a steering unit, a forward-facing camera carried by the vehicle, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising operator position identification instructions. The operator position identification instructions direct the processor to identify relative positioning of a remote operator on the ground proximate the vehicle based upon signals from the forward-facing camera; and control the propulsion unit and the steering unit of the vehicle to follow the operator based upon the relative on the ground proximate the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Publication number: 20230409026Abstract: A vehicle is operable in a first mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received by an input device carried by the vehicle from an operator while being boarded on the vehicle and in a second mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received from the operator while the operator is proximate the vehicle, but no longer boarded on the vehicle. The vehicle carries a sensor configured to output a sensed input, as sensed by the sensor, from the operator proximate the vehicle, but not boarded on the vehicle. The sensed input is recognized and associated with a vehicle action and control signals are output to the vehicle based on the sensed input to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Patent number: 11774958Abstract: A vehicle is operable in a first mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received by an input device carried by the vehicle from an operator while being boarded on the vehicle and in a second mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received from the operator while the operator is proximate the vehicle, but no longer boarded on the vehicle. The vehicle carries a sensor configured to output a sensed input, as sensed by the sensor, from the operator proximate the vehicle, but not boarded on the vehicle. The sensed input is recognized and associated with a vehicle action and control signals are output to the vehicle based on the sensed input to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Zimeno, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Publication number: 20230136169Abstract: A vehicle is operable in a first mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received by an input device carried by the vehicle from an operator while being boarded on the vehicle and in a second mode in which vehicle actions are controlled in response to inputs received from the operator while the operator is proximate the vehicle, but no longer boarded on the vehicle. The vehicle carries a sensor configured to output a sensed input, as sensed by the sensor, from the operator proximate the vehicle, but not boarded on the vehicle. The sensed input is recognized and associated with a vehicle action and control signals are output to the vehicle based on the sensed input to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Publication number: 20230094055Abstract: A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Praveen Varma Penmetsa, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Publication number: 20230095661Abstract: A plant locating system may include a vehicle supporting a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna and a monocular camera. The system may further include a plant locating unit comprising a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions to direct the processing unit to: acquire a sample image of a plant of interest captured at a time with the monocular camera at an unknown distance from the plant of interest (POI); determine a geographic location estimate of the GPS antenna at the time; identify a selected portion of the sample image comprising the POI; determine a distance between the POI and the monocular camera based upon the selected portion; and determine a geographic location estimate of the POI based on the geographic location estimate of the GPS antenna at the time and the determined distance between the monocular camera and the POI.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Sanket Goyal, Christopher Travis Whitney
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Patent number: 11567492Abstract: A computer implemented vehicle control method may include obtaining a sensed input from an operator remote from a vehicle, recognizing and associating the sensed input with a vehicle action and outputting control signals to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Zimeno, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Patent number: 11543815Abstract: A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Zimeno, Inc.Inventors: Praveen Varma Penmetsa, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Patent number: 11320006Abstract: A power takeoff control system and method sense proximity of an operator to a power takeoff and control operation of the power takeoff based upon the sensed proximity.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Zimeno, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Publication number: 20210223771Abstract: A computer implemented vehicle control method may include obtaining a sensed input from an operator remote from a vehicle, recognizing and associating the sensed input with a vehicle action and outputting control signals to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupartiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Praveen V. Penmetsa, Zachary M. Omohundro
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Publication number: 20210222743Abstract: A power takeoff control system and method sense proximity of an operator to a power takeoff and control operation of the power takeoff based upon the sensed proximity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Publication number: 20210223772Abstract: A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Praveen Varma Penmetsa, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Publication number: 20160267413Abstract: A technique includes clustering projects that include a new project and previous projects based on relationships between users and the previous projects to identify a project cluster containing the new project. The technique includes clustering the users based on relationships between the users and permissions that were assigned to the users to access resources for previous projects. The technique further includes assigning permissions for the users assigned to the new project to access resources associated with the new project based at least in part on the clustering of users and the clustering of projects.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Qianhui Liang, Kas Kasravi, Patrick Goldsack, Sau Sheong Chang, Christopher Travis Whitney