Patents by Inventor Edward Allen
Edward Allen 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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Publication number: 20250117806Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: detecting a request for a software application from a vehicle computer, wherein the software application includes source code comprising one or more embedded placeholders that are mapped to one or more secrets stored in a data store of a vehicle; identifying the one or more secrets stored in the data store that are associated with the one or more embedded placeholders; replacing the one or more embedded placeholders with the one or more secrets identified from the data store into the source code of the software application; and executing the source code of the software application to cause the vehicle to perform an action.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Edward Allen Cain, JR., Adam Loyd Parker, Jonathan S. Burnham
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Publication number: 20250103176Abstract: A device may receive a first user interaction signal in response to a first user interaction with a first user interaction element. In response to the first user interaction signal, the device may provide a first instruction to the computing system to perform a first action with respect to the first indicator, wherein the first indicator is active. The device may receive a switch control signal in response to a second user interaction with a switch control element. The device may set the first indicator as the inactive indicator and the second indicator as the active indicator. The device may receive a second user interaction signal in response to a third user interaction with the first user interaction element and use the second controller to provide a second instruction to the computing system to perform a second action with respect to the second indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: J MICHAEL STAHL, BRYAN MICHAEL HECKMAN, DANIEL EDWARD ALLEN, DYLAN JAMES LEA, JOSEPH-JONATHAN SALZANO, MATTHEW TIMOTHY BRADOW, PETER ANDREW SEILER
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Patent number: 12240550Abstract: A mobile robot having a removable wheel-drive assembly, comprising a mobile base having a chassis and a first wheel well member with a flange. There is a removable wheel drive assembly with a mounting bracket. There is a motor drive unit disposed on the mounting bracket and a wheel/tire connected to the motor drive unit via an axle. There is a second wheel well member on the mounting bracket and positioned between the motor drive unit and the wheel. The second wheel well member includes a central section having an aperture through which the axle passes and a top surface. The top surface of the central section of the second wheel well member engages with the flange of the first wheel well member of the mobile base.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Locus Robotics Corp.Inventors: Brad Edward Fiore, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Edwards Allen, Peter Sussman, John Hayes
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Patent number: 12234419Abstract: A process for extracting fuel products from waste rubber, comprising the steps of subjecting the waste rubber to pyrolysis to produce a pyrolysis vapour, subjecting the pyrolysis vapour to a condensation step to produce a pyrolytic oil having a boiling point range of 45-400° C. and a flash point below 25° C., and then subjecting the pyrolytic oil to a vacuum steam stripping step so as to recover a fraction having a flash point of at least 40° C. but no higher than 55° C., a boiling point range starting at 100° C. or higher, a density at 15° C. of less than 990 kg/m3, a total acid number TAN of up to 12, a styrene content of less than 7000 ppm, and an organic halogen (as Cl) content of less than 50 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: CIRCTEC KNOWLEDGE LTD.Inventors: Robert David Harper, Edward Allen Timpany
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Patent number: 12190099Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of downloading an update of a non-volatile electrically erasable memory storage of a vehicle, determining whether the memory storage is arranged in one of a block of bytes of memory and an individual byte of memory, selecting a programming protocol based on the memory storage arrangement and writing the memory storage based on the selected programming protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Satyajit P. Patne, Russell K. Barker, Ryan N. Wilson, Ismail Thanickel
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Patent number: 12179699Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to securing wireless communications for passive keyless entry (PKE) to an asset. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to acquiring sensor data about at least a surrounding environment of a vehicle that provides access according to wireless communications with a remote device, analyzing the sensor data to define operating conditions identifying security characteristics of the vehicle and interactions of the remote device with the vehicle. The method includes activating a countermeasure from an available group of countermeasures according to at least the operating conditions. The method includes wirelessly communicating, by the vehicle with the remote device, according to the countermeasure.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor North America, Inc., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satyajit Patne, Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Gabriel Lawrence, Joshua Davis, Mark Klausner, Nathan Humpal
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Publication number: 20240413979Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of creating, by a transport, a digital key when the transport is powered on, wherein the digital key relates to an identity of an occupant of the transport, creating, by the transport, a digital sub-key that is related to the digital key, using, by the transport, the digital key during processing of a first set of functions, and using, by the transport, the digital sub-key during processing of a second set of functions that are more critical than the first set of functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Satyajit P. Patne, Ismail Thanickel, Edward Allen Cain, JR.
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Patent number: 12162141Abstract: Robot charging dock includes a charge connector configured to mate with a charging port of a mobile robot. There is a charge connector frame having a front surface on which the charge connector is mounted. The front surface has a first side edge and a second side edge. There is a front cover disposed over the charge connector frame which has an aperture through which the charge connector protrudes. At least a portion of the front cover is spaced from the front surface of the charge connector frame, defining an internal region. There is an opening to the internal region formed along at least a portion of a perimeter of the aperture and there is a light source disposed in the internal region. The light source is directed toward the opening to allow the light source to illuminate charge connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Locus Robotics Corp.Inventors: Michael Sussman, Seth Edwards Allen, Brad Edward Fiore, Hian Kai Kwa, Keegan Burgess Smith, Rafael Gregorio Chavez, Changchun Li, Scott Matthew Rydbeck
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Publication number: 20240406016Abstract: A system having processors and computer-readable memory storing instructions to be executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including: hosting a virtual event for client devices, each having an associated user attending the virtual event; the virtual event allows users to begin/end interactions with client device GUIs, which provide users with real-time audio-visual communications with other users; maintaining user metadata having data fields each storing information related to the user; maintaining interaction data for the event to record interactions between the users; maintaining a ruleset of interaction rules, each specifying users and/or interaction types; applying the user metadata and the interaction data to interaction rules to determine if the specified interaction types have occurred in the virtual event; and modifying a client device GUI responsive to, and based on the, determining if the specified interaction types have occurred in the virtual event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventor: Edward Allen Stevens
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Publication number: 20240400059Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, data to be forwarded to one or more devices associated with each of one or more occupants based on a type of the data and characteristics of the one or more occupants, and forwarding, by the transport, one or more portions of the data based on the determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, JR., Satyajit P. Patne
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Patent number: 12118829Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a transport, first data from a first device, wherein the first device is affixed to the transport, receiving, by the transport, second data from a second device, wherein the second device is detachably attached to the transport and wherein the first data and the second data constitute a same unit of measure, and displaying, by the transport, a value based on the first data and the second data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr., Satyajit P. Patne, Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Brian D. McFarland
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Publication number: 20240335727Abstract: A pair of sports training goggles includes a faceplate having a pair of opposed temples shaped to engage the head of a user and a pair of viewing apertures disposed in general alignment with the eyes of the user. A pair of spaced ocular sockets disposed generally over the eyes of the user each has a central aperture and first and second lenses, each shaped to engage the ocular sockets and occlude the central apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventor: Edward Allen Sprigler
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Publication number: 20240330885Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, a request for particular data, determining, by the server, a transport that can provide the particular data based on one or more current settings of the transport and a current route of the transport, requesting, by the server, the transport to provide the particular data for a value, and receiving, by the server, the particular data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, JR., Satyajit P. Patne
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Publication number: 20240303211Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of sending data from a component on a transport to at least one other component on the transport in at least one location on a bus, comparing the data at the at least one other component to a threshold, and sending a notification, by the at least one other component, to a processor when the data is outside the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Satyajit P. Patne, Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240296248Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of utilizing data, by a transport, for a period of time according to a license file, removing a first type of the data, by the transport, while the transport is operating, removing a second type of the data, by the transport when the transport ceases operating, and retaining a third type of data in memory after the transport ceases operating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, JR., Satyajit P. Patne
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Patent number: 12079616Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request for an application from a vehicle; responsive to the request, pushing a version of the application to the vehicle; installing the application when a mode of the vehicle is set to at least one of a testing mode, a development mode, and a service mode; and performing at least one of testing a functionality of the vehicle by the application, validating the application, and modifying the application.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Satyajit P. Patne, Ryan N. Wilson
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Patent number: 12062027Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, a request for particular data, determining, by the server, a transport that can provide the particular data based on one or more current settings of the transport and a current route of the transport, requesting, by the server, the transport to provide the particular data for a value, and receiving, by the server, the particular data.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Edward Allen Cain, Jr., Satyajit P. Patne
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Publication number: 20240238297Abstract: This disclosure relates, at least in part, to a method of treatment. In one embodiment, the method of treatment comprises administering to a subject in need of such treatment at least a first therapeutic agent including ONC-206, 7-benzyl-4-(2,4-difluorobenzyl)-2,4,6,7,8,9-hexahydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyrido[3,4-e]pyrimidin-5(1H)-one, for the treatment of one or more CNS neoplasms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Joshua Edward Allen, Jill Christine CHAPPELL, Andrew Kang-Kang LEE, Odin Johann NADERER, Varun Vijay PRABHU, Phiroze Behram SETHNA
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Publication number: 20240208537Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining an action of a vehicle that causes an unsafe environment; storing a count of the action during a period; and autonomously controlling the vehicle to correct the action when the count is over a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Edward Allen Cain, JR.
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Patent number: 12021970Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of creating, by a transport, a digital key when the transport is powered on, wherein the digital key relates to an identity of an occupant of the transport, creating, by the transport, a digital sub-key that is related to the digital key, using, by the transport, the digital key during processing of a first set of functions, and using, by the transport, the digital sub-key during processing of a second set of functions that are more critical than the first set of functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Satyajit P. Patne, Ismail Thanickel, Edward Allen Cain, Jr.