Patents by Inventor Frank Reinaldo Ramirez
Frank Reinaldo Ramirez 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: 20240142991Abstract: Techniques for providing a user interface for remote vehicle monitoring and/or control include presenting a digital representation of an environment and a vehicle as it traverses the environment on a first portion of a display and presenting on a second portion of the display a communication interface that is configured to provide communication with multiple people. The communication interface may enable communications between a remote operator and any number of occupants of the vehicle, other operators (e.g., other remote operators or in-vehicle operators), and/or people in an environment around the vehicle. The user interface may additionally include controls to adjust components of the vehicle, and the controls may be presented on a third portion of the display. Furthermore, the user interface may include a vehicle status interface that provides information associated with a current state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Jannie Wing Sze Lai, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Dennis Schaefer
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Publication number: 20240012419Abstract: A vehicle computing system may identify an obstruction along a route of travel and may connect to a service computing device for guidance. The service computing device may include a guidance system configured to receive waypoint and/or orientation input from an operator. The operator may evaluate the scenario and determine one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate the scenario. In some examples, the guidance system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s). The service computing device may send the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) to the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computing system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) and, based on the validation, control the vehicle according to the input. Based on a determination that the vehicle has navigated the scenario, the guidance system may release vehicle guidance back to the vehicle computing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Matthew Miller Young, Rick Zhang
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Patent number: 11768493Abstract: A vehicle computing system may identify an obstruction along a route of travel and may connect to a service computing device for guidance. The service computing device may include a guidance system configured to receive waypoint and/or orientation input from an operator. The operator may evaluate the scenario and determine one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate the scenario. In some examples, the guidance system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s). The service computing device may send the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) to the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computing system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) and, based on the validation, control the vehicle according to the input. Based on a determination that the vehicle has navigated the scenario, the guidance system may release vehicle guidance back to the vehicle computing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Matthew Miller Young, Rick Zhang
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Patent number: 11726473Abstract: A vehicle may include an authority tracker to grant and/or limit authority to provide guidance to the vehicle. The authority tracker may store a state in a memory identifying an actor that currently has the authority. An actor requesting to have authority to provide guidance to the vehicle may transmit a control message to the authority tracker which may, in turn, authorize or deny the request based on a policy. The authority tracker may periodically, and/or in response to a request, broadcast a state message identifying the actor that currently has authority, as recorded in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez
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Patent number: 11675349Abstract: Techniques for providing a user interface for remote vehicle monitoring and/or control include presenting a digital representation of an environment and a vehicle as it traverses the environment on a first portion of a display and presenting on a second portion of the display a communication interface that is configured to provide communication with multiple people. The communication interface may enable communications between a remote operator and any number of occupants of the vehicle, other operators (e.g., other remote operators or in-vehicle operators), and/or people in an environment around the vehicle. The user interface may additionally include controls to adjust components of the vehicle, and the controls may be presented on a third portion of the display. Furthermore, the user interface may include a vehicle status interface that provides information associated with a current state of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Jannie Wing Sze Lai, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Dennis Schaefer
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Patent number: 11467573Abstract: A vehicle computing system may identify a scenario in an environment that violates an operating constraint. The vehicle computing system may request remote guidance from a guidance system of a service computing device. The vehicle computing system may receive input from the guidance system including one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate through the scenario. The vehicle computing system may be configured to validate the input. A validation may include processing the input to determine whether the waypoint(s) and/or orientation(s) associated therewith may cause the vehicle to violate a safety protocol. Based on a determination that the input will not cause the vehicle to violate the safety protocol, the vehicle computing system may control the vehicle according to the input, such as by causing a drive system to operate the vehicle to each waypoint at the associated orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Matthew Miller Young, Rick Zhang
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Patent number: 11353877Abstract: Techniques to provide guidance to a vehicle operating in an environment may include determining a suggested region to block in the environment along a path of the vehicle and causing presentation of the suggested region to block in a user interface of the computer device. Information about the blocked region may be transmitted to one or more vehicles in the environment. Based on the information about the blocked region, at least one of the computer device or a vehicle computer system of the vehicle may control operation of the vehicle to avoid the blocked region.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Edward William O'Donnell, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Dennis Schaefer, Wenhao Sheng, Matthew Miller Young
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Publication number: 20220171382Abstract: Techniques for providing a user interface for remote vehicle monitoring and/or control include presenting a digital representation of an environment and a vehicle as it traverses the environment on a first portion of a display and presenting on a second portion of the display a communication interface that is configured to provide communication with multiple people. The communication interface may enable communications between a remote operator and any number of occupants of the vehicle, other operators (e.g., other remote operators or in-vehicle operators), and/or people in an environment around the vehicle. The user interface may additionally include controls to adjust components of the vehicle, and the controls may be presented on a third portion of the display. Furthermore, the user interface may include a vehicle status interface that provides information associated with a current state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Jannie Wing Sze Lai, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Dennis Schaefer
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Publication number: 20210181750Abstract: Techniques to provide guidance to a vehicle operating in an environment may include determining a suggested region to block in the environment along a path of the vehicle and causing presentation of the suggested region to block in a user interface of the computer device. Information about the blocked region may be transmitted to one or more vehicles in the environment. Based on the information about the blocked region, at least one of the computer device or a vehicle computer system of the vehicle may control operation of the vehicle to avoid the blocked region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Edward William O'Donnell, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Dennis Schafer, Wenhao Sheng, Matthew Miller Young
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Publication number: 20200409368Abstract: A vehicle computing system may identify an obstruction along a route of travel and may connect to a service computing device for guidance. The service computing device may include a guidance system configured to receive waypoint and/or orientation input from an operator. The operator may evaluate the scenario and determine one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate the scenario. In some examples, the guidance system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s). The service computing device may send the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) to the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computing system may validate the waypoint(s) and/or associated orientation(s) and, based on the validation, control the vehicle according to the input. Based on a determination that the vehicle has navigated the scenario, the guidance system may release vehicle guidance back to the vehicle computing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Matthew Miller Young, Rick Zhang
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Publication number: 20200409352Abstract: A vehicle computing system may identify a scenario in an environment that violates an operating constraint. The vehicle computing system may request remote guidance from a guidance system of a service computing device. The vehicle computing system may receive input from the guidance system including one or more waypoints and/or associated orientations for the vehicle to navigate through the scenario. The vehicle computing system may be configured to validate the input. A validation may include processing the input to determine whether the waypoint(s) and/or orientation(s) associated therewith may cause the vehicle to violate a safety protocol. Based on a determination that the input will not cause the vehicle to violate the safety protocol, the vehicle computing system may control the vehicle according to the input, such as by causing a drive system to operate the vehicle to each waypoint at the associated orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Timothy Caldwell, Ravi Gogna, Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, Matthew Miller Young, Rick Zhang
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Publication number: 20200150653Abstract: A vehicle may include an authority tracker to grant and/or limit authority to provide guidance to the vehicle. The authority tracker may store a state in a memory identifying an actor that currently has the authority. An actor requesting to have authority to provide guidance to the vehicle may transmit a control message to the authority tracker which may, in turn, authorize or deny the request based on a policy. The authority tracker may periodically, and/or in response to a request, broadcast a state message identifying the actor that currently has authority, as recorded in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Meredith James Goldman, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez
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Patent number: D960901Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Schaefer, Auver Cedric Austria, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez
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Patent number: D1019702Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ZOOX, INC.Inventors: Dennis Schaefer, Auver Cedric Austria, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Jannie Wing Sze Lai, Frank Reinaldo Ramirez