Patents by Inventor Erik Nielsen

Erik Nielsen 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: 11794759
    Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to instruct an autonomous vehicle to navigate a specific course and to record diagnostic measurements while navigating the specific course, receive the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle, and analyze the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle in a context provided by a collection of diagnostic measurement data collected from a fleet of similar autonomous vehicles navigating the specific course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11795418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to endoglucanase variants and methods for obtaining endoglucanase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Lars Anderson, Allan Svendsen, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Lars Giger, Vasudeva Prahlada Rao, Sohel Dalal, Santhosh Vasu Mepadam, Marie Thrysoe Kruse, Kasper D. Rand, Pernille F. Jensen
  • Patent number: 11771786
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automated detection and disinfection of microbes in autonomous vehicles, to prevent possible transmission of diseases or illness to subsequent users. Automated detection and disinfection of a vehicle includes autonomously scanning various parts of the autonomous vehicle for microbes, selecting a disinfectant based on detected microbes, and autonomously disinfecting at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Harrison Glidden, Erik Nielsen, Sriram Salem Kannan, Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Maximilian Gerrit Euchenhofer, Michael Frank Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11776406
    Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to collect sensor data from at least one sensor on an autonomous vehicle, wherein the sensor data includes a plurality of measurements from the at least one sensor, identify, from the sensor data, at least one measurement from the plurality of measurements that is outside a threshold measurement for the at least one sensor and is indicative of an impact incident, send the sensor data to a remote computing system, and receive, in response to the sending of the sensor data that is indicative of the impact incident, routing instructions from the remote computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20230183669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants and methods for obtaining protease variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Pernille Hede, Esben Peter Friis
  • Publication number: 20230145736
    Abstract: The present invention relates to xanthan lyase variants and methods for obtaining xanthan lyase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Allan Svendsen, Lars Anderson, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan, Pernille F. Jensen, Kasper D. Rand, Geetha Hiremath Mendez, Sohel Dalal, Shilpi Agarwal
  • Publication number: 20230098889
    Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20230089243
    Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11541778
    Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11535837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mannanase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Rakhi Saikia, Naveen Shivanand Raikar, Padmavathi Balumuri, Jens Erik Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20220392282
    Abstract: A light inspection system positions an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a field of view of a camera such that the camera captures an image of a light of the AV. The light inspection system instructs a camera to capture an image of the light while the light is switched on. The light inspection system receives the captured image, determines a luminance of the light based on the image, and determines to service the light in response to the luminance of the light being below a threshold luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Jeffrey Brandon, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11512300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to xanthan lyase variants and methods for obtaining xanthan lyase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Allan Svendsen, Lars Anderson, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan, Pernille F. Jensen, Kasper D. Rand, Geetha Hiremath Mendez, Sohel Dalal, Shilpi Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11492605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mannanase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Vivek Srivastava, Markus Klinger, Rakhi Saikia, Vijaya Shankar Nataraj, Sohel Dalal, Jens Erik Nielsen, Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan
  • Patent number: 11455849
    Abstract: A light inspection system positions an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a field of view of a camera such that the camera captures an image of a light of the AV. The light inspection system instructs a camera to capture an image of the light while the light is switched on. The light inspection system receives the captured image, determines a luminance of the light based on the image, and determines to service the light in response to the luminance of the light being below a threshold luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Frank Schmidt, Jeffrey Brandon, Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20220090041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants, having improved properties compared to the parent protease, in particular variants of a serine protease belonging to family 53 derived from a strain of Meripilus giganteus. The variants according to the invention have in particular increased thermo-stability, e.g., increased residual activity after 30 min at a temperature in the range from 55 to 60° C. and/or increased thermal denaturation temperature, compared to the parent Meripilus giganteus protease. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Keiichi Ayabe, Tomoko Matsui, Aki Tomiki-Hashizume, Yuma Kurakata, Esben Peter Friis, Jens Erik Nielsen, Roland Alexander Pache
  • Publication number: 20220089979
    Abstract: The present invention relates to endoglucanase variants and methods for obtaining endoglucanase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Lars Anderson, Allan Svendsen, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Lars Giger, Vasudeva Prahlada Rao, Sohel Dalal, Santhosh Vasu Mepadam, Marie Thrysoe Kruse, Kasper D. Rand, Pernille F. Jensen
  • Publication number: 20220025300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising protease variants suitable for use in cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Peter Kamp HANSEN, Esben Peter FRIIS, Torben Vedel BORCHERT, Lars Lehmann Hylling CHRISTENSEN, Jens Erik NIELSEN, Maria Berggaard SILOW
  • Publication number: 20210375078
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to detecting cosmetic damage on a vehicle. The disclosed technology can have one or more processors, a projector system in communication with the one or more processors, the projector system configured to project electromagnetic radiation onto at least one surface of a vehicle and receive, via one or more sensors, sensor data containing at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation reflected off of the at least one surface of the vehicle, memory storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions effective to cause the one or more processors to receive the sensor data from the projector system, analyze the sensor data based on the reflected electromagnetic radiation and an expected pattern of reflected electromagnetic radiation, and determine if the vehicle has cosmetic damage on the at least one surface of the vehicle based on the analysis of the sensor data. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11174452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising protease variants suitable for use in cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Peter Kamp Hansen, Esben Peter Friis, Torben Vedel Borchert, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Jens Erik Nielsen, Maria Berggaard Silow
  • Publication number: 20210304609
    Abstract: The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to collect sensor data from at least one sensor on an autonomous vehicle, wherein the sensor data includes a plurality of measurements from the at least one sensor, identify, from the sensor data, at least one measurement from the plurality of measurements that is outside a threshold measurement for the at least one sensor and is indicative of an impact incident, send the sensor data to a remote computing system, and receive, in response to the sending of the sensor data that is indicative of the impact incident, routing instructions from the remote computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Erik Nielsen, Chase Kaufman