Patents by Inventor Clovis EBERHART

Clovis EBERHART 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: 20260084704
    Abstract: A control system includes a processor; and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to control an operation of an object and output state information indicating a state of the controlled object; perform first control that operates the controlled object according to a first safety rule; perform second control that operates the controlled object according to a second safety rule; and perform the first control in response to determining that the state information satisfies a first switching condition defined based on the first safety rule and the second safety rule, and perform the second control in response to determining that the state information does not satisfy the first switching condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Clovis EBERHART, Jeremy DUBUT, James HAYDON, Ichiro HASUO
  • Publication number: 20260070585
    Abstract: A safety rule generation device includes: a processor; and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive input of a plurality of control flows indicating state transitions of a plurality of moving bodies, respectively, the moving bodies operating in a predetermined scenario; generate an integrated control flow in which the plurality of control flows are integrated based on transition conditions assigned to the control flows; assign logical expression constraints that guarantee safety, to respective states included in the integrated control flow; and generate a safety rule based on the logical expression constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: James HAYDON, Ichiro HASUO, Martin BONDU, Clovis EBERHART, Jeremy DEBUT
  • Patent number: 12566598
    Abstract: A sampling device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute selecting a control flow corresponding to each branch in a probabilistic program; optimizing the program by applying predetermined transformation rules to the program of the selected control flow by back propagation; and generating samples according to the optimized program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ichiro Hasuo, Yuichiro Oyabu, Clovis Eberhart, Kohei Suenaga, Kenta Cho, Shinya Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20250340216
    Abstract: A safety rule capable of coping with a complex scenario is formulated. A safety rule generation device includes an input unit configured to receive an input of scenario information representing a predetermined scenario by chaining subscenarios in which a control strategy and a goal are associated, a precondition calculation unit configured to calculate a precondition for executing the control strategy while achieving the goal for each of the subscenarios, and an output unit configured to output safety rule information obtained by combining the precondition and the control strategy for each of the subscenarios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ichiro HASUO, Clovis EBERHART, James HAYDON, Jeremy DUBUT, Rose BOHRER, Erik Andre PALLAS, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Sasinee PRUEKPRASERT, Xiaoyi ZHANG, Akihisa YAMADA, Kohei SUENAGA, Fuyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230333829
    Abstract: A sampling device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute selecting a control flow corresponding to each branch in a probabilistic program; optimizing the program by applying predetermined transformation rules to the program of the selected control flow by back propagation; and generating samples according to the optimized program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ichiro HASUO, Yuichiro OYABU, Clovis EBERHART, Kohei SUENAGA, Kenta CHO, Shinya KATSUMATA