Patents by Inventor David Melcher

David Melcher 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: 12134308
    Abstract: A window may have a structural window layers such as an inner glass layer and an outer glass layer. The inner glass layer may be a layer of tempered glass. The outer glass layer may be a laminated glass layer. The inner and outer glass layers may be separated by an air gap. One or more reflection suppression layers such as antireflection layers and/or circular polarizers may be incorporated into the window to suppress reflections of light from within the interior region off of the window back towards the interior region. The antireflection layers may be formed on one or both surfaces of the inner glass and one or both surfaces of the outer glass. An electrically adjustable layer such as a guest-host liquid crystal light modulator layer or other electrically adjustable optical component layer may be interposed between the outer glass layer and the air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Christopher D. Jones, Derek C. Scott, James R. Wilson, Martin Melcher, Peter F. Masschelein
  • Patent number: 12044875
    Abstract: Light-control panels including layered optical components are described in this application. An example of a light-control panel includes a first glazing layer, a second glazing layer, a third glazing layer, and a fourth glazing layer, a first switchable component extending between the first glazing layer and the second glazing layer, a thermal coating extending between the first glazing layer and the first switchable component, and a second switchable component extending between the third glazing layer and the fourth glazing layer. The second glazing layer and the third glazing layer have an air gap therebetween, such that the air gap forms a space between the second glazing layer and the third glazing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Christopher D. Jones, James R. Wilson, Martin Melcher, Peter F. Masschelein
  • Publication number: 20240076129
    Abstract: A method for delivering a plurality of packages is described. The method includes obtaining, via a processor, information associated with a delivery plan of the plurality of packages from at least one memory. Based on the information, the method includes determining, via the processor, a current location, and a destination location of a target container. In response to the determination, the method includes determining, via the processor, a movement plan to move the target container to the destination location. Based on the movement plan, the method includes activating, via the processor, a first set of motorized tiles to move the target container to the destination location. The method further includes receiving, via the processor, an updated movement plan from a server plan when a preset condition is met. Based on the updated movement plan, the method includes activating, via the processor, a second set of motorized tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Stark, Girish Kumar Yadav, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Kurt Michael Lundeen, David Melcher, John Randolf Vincent, Yifan Chen, Sarah Garrow
  • Patent number: 11624620
    Abstract: A method of in-vehicle tracking begins with establishing a communication link between a mobile device and a navigation system of a vehicle. The navigation system presents driving instructions leading to a destination. Each of a plurality of locations is serially passed over the communication link from the mobile device to the navigation system. Additionally, each of the plurality of locations is serially set, as it is communicated, as the destination within the navigation system. As the destination within the navigation system is updated, the driving instructions leading to that destination are updated as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Cuddihy, Gary Steven Strumolo, Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Ali Hassani, Craig Simonds
  • Patent number: 11567643
    Abstract: Systems and methods interacting with a digital map are provided herein. A system includes a display that is configured to display a digital map. The digital map includes a number of targets with which a user can interact and a number of actions that are available for each target. The system is configured to update a table of an individual profile account when the user performs an actions at one of the targets, use a role prediction model to predict a role based on the table of the individual profile account, and update the table of the individual account based on a table of a role profile account associated with the predicted role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jiaqi Ma, Robert Collard, David Melcher, Jason Snow, Yifan Chen
  • Patent number: 11543931
    Abstract: Systems and methods interacting with tabletop models using a handheld device are provided herein. A display system includes a tabletop model, including a horizontal display that is configured to display a two-dimensional digital map and a three-dimensional physical model that is configured to overlay the two-dimensional digital map. The display system includes a mobile device including a touchscreen display. The display system transforms a movement on the touchscreen display to a movement of a cursor on the two-dimensional digital map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Shan Chy Chueh, David Melcher, John Vincent, Kangning Chen, Jason Snow, Girish Yadav, Jiaqi Ma, Robert Collard, Shuai Wang
  • Publication number: 20220236855
    Abstract: Systems and methods interacting with tabletop models using a handheld device are provided herein. A display system includes a tabletop model, including a horizontal display that is configured to display a two-dimensional digital map and a three-dimensional physical model that is configured to overlay the two-dimensional digital map. The display system includes a mobile device including a touchscreen display. The display system transforms a movement on the touchscreen display to a movement of a cursor on the two-dimensional digital map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Shan Chy Chueh, David Melcher, John Vincent, Kangning Chen, Jason Snow, Girish Yadav, Jiaqi Ma, Robert Collard, Shuai Wang
  • Publication number: 20220236859
    Abstract: Systems and methods interacting with a digital map are provided herein. A system includes a display that is configured to display a digital map. The digital map includes a number of targets with which a user can interact and a number of actions that are available for each target. The system is configured to update a table of an individual profile account when the user performs an actions at one of the targets, use a role prediction model to predict a role based on the table of the individual profile account, and update the table of the individual account based on a table of a role profile account associated with the predicted role.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jiaqi Ma, Robert Collard, David Melcher, Jason Snow, Yifan Chen
  • Patent number: 11248912
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for simulations of vehicle-based item delivery. In some examples, a method can include generating a simulation of at least a portion of an environment in which items are to be delivered by a delivery vehicle; determining delivery locations associated with at least one delivery route for the delivery vehicle in the environment within the simulation; determining delivery location groups for the delivery location based on a delivery range of drones associated with the delivery vehicles; and determining waypoints for the delivery vehicle on the delivery route based on a minimum travel time associated with at least one drone of the drones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Abhishek Sharma, Prashant Rao, Amanuel Zeryihun
  • Patent number: 11126265
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor that is programmed to receive input specifying a component in a vehicle and data specifying a location of a wearable device in the vehicle. The processor is programmed to determine a distance of the wearable device from a location of the component and actuate the wearable device to provide haptic output based on the determined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, David Melcher, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Ali Hassani, Devinder Singh Kochhar, Jeffrey Brian Yeung, Kenneth Michael Mayer
  • Publication number: 20210041241
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for simulations of vehicle-based item delivery. In some examples, a method can include generating a simulation of at least a portion of an environment in which items are to be delivered by a delivery vehicle; determining delivery locations associated with at least one delivery route for the delivery vehicle in the environment within the simulation; determining delivery location groups for the delivery location based on a delivery range of drones associated with the delivery vehicles; and determining waypoints for the delivery vehicle on the delivery route based on a minimum travel time associated with at least one drone of the drones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Abhishek Sharma, Prashant Rao, Amanuel Zeryihun
  • Patent number: 10699574
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting a parking space via a camera, generate a parking message including location information about the parking space; broadcast the parking message to fleet vehicles within a predefined geo-fence, each of the fleet vehicles serving as a node of a blockchain network; and receive a predefined reward, via the blockchain network, from one of the fleet vehicles having successfully occupied the parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Amanuel Zeryihun, Pramita Mitra, Prashant Rao, Abhishek Sharma, David Melcher
  • Publication number: 20200148231
    Abstract: A computer is programmed to receive biometric data, from a transdermal patch in a vehicle during operation of a vehicle, wherein the biometric data include a measurement of a chemical. The computer is programmed to actuate a vehicle component, upon determining from a combination of the measurement of the chemical and vehicle operating data that a risk threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ali HASSANI, Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, David MELCHER, Jeffrey Allen GREENBERG, Devinder Singh KOCHHAR, Jeffrey Brian YEUNG, Kenneth Michael MAYER
  • Publication number: 20200134592
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for vehicle sharing on peer-to-peer networks. Example methods may include determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory an input indicative of an environment context of a user, an input indicative of a user request associated with a vehicle. The example methods further include determining a vehicle option or a service option based on the input, accessing a file associated with transactions on a peer-to-peer network including computing nodes connected based on a blockchain protocol, and adding information associated with the user the vehicle option or service option to the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Rao, Abhishek Sharma, Amanuel Zeryihun, Pramita Mitra, David Melcher
  • Publication number: 20200117275
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor that is programmed to receive input specifying a component in a vehicle and data specifying a location of a wearable device in the vehicle. The processor is programmed to determine a distance of the wearable device from a location of the component and actuate the wearable device to provide haptic output based on the determined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yifan CHEN, Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, David MELCHER, Jeffrey Allen GREENBERG, Ali HASSANI, Devinder Singh KOCHHAR, Jeffrey Brian YEUNG, Kenneth Michael MAYER
  • Patent number: 10593335
    Abstract: A vehicle voice processor includes a processing device and a data storage medium. The processing device is programmed to receive identification information from a wearable device, identify a speaker from the identification information, identify a dialect associated with the speaker from the identification information, select a predetermined acoustic model, and adjust the predetermined acoustic model based at least in part on the dialect identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Hassani, Gary Steven Strumolo, Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Mark A. Cuddihy, Craig John Simonds
  • Patent number: 10522141
    Abstract: A system includes a wearable device including a memory and a processor. The processor receives a verbal input for a vehicle from a user. The processor interprets the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer. The processor generates a message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and sends the message to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Pramita Mitra, Craig John Simonds, Gary Steven Strumolo, Ali Hassani, Mark A. Cuddihy, David Melcher
  • Publication number: 20180286413
    Abstract: A vehicle voice processor includes a processing device and a data storage medium. The processing device is programmed to receive identification information from a wearable device, identify a speaker from the identification information, identify a dialect associated with the speaker from the identification information, select a predetermined acoustic model, and adjust the predetermined acoustic model based at least in part on the dialect identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Hassani, Gary Steven Strumolo, Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Mark A. Cuddihy, Craig John Simonds
  • Publication number: 20180261217
    Abstract: A system includes a wearable device including a memory and a processor. The processor receives a verbal input for a vehicle from a user. The processor interprets the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer. The processor generates a message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and sends the message to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: PRAMITA MITRA, CRAIG JOHN SIMONDS, GARY STEVEN STRUMOLO, ALI HASSANI, MARK A. CUDDIHY, DAVID MELCHER
  • Publication number: 20180180424
    Abstract: A method of in-vehicle tracking that may begin with establishing a communication link between a mobile device and a navigation system of a vehicle. The navigation system may present driving instructions leading to a destination. Each of a plurality of locations may be serially passed over the communication link from the mobile device to the navigation system. Additionally, each of the plurality of locations may be serially set, as it is communicated, as the destination within the navigation system. As the destination within the navigation system is updated, the driving instructions leading to that destination may be updated as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Mark A. Cuddihy, Gary Steven Strumolo, Pramita Mitra, David Melcher, Ali Hassani, Craig Simonds