Patents by Inventor Frederick J. Vondrak

Frederick J. Vondrak 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: 20230415523
    Abstract: A tire pressure and location monitoring system includes N tire pressure sensors associated with N tires of a vehicle, where N is an integer greater than one. A tire pressure and location monitoring system is configured to communicate with the N tire pressure sensors, store a tire rotation map, and determine whether new locations of the N tires, including the N tire pressure sensors, on the vehicle are correct after a tire rotation is performed based on the tire rotation map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Richard P. DANIELS, Robert Kosi TETTE, Frederick J. VONDRAK
  • Patent number: 8924363
    Abstract: A method for correcting service manual textual inconsistencies. Extracting textual procedures from service documents stored in a memory of a service document storage device. Each term of an extracted textual procedure terminology is compared to a correlating target name terminology for identifying any matching terms by a processor. An overlap similarity is computed as a function of the identified matching terms from the extracted textual procedure terminology and the correlating target name terminology. A determination is made whether the overlap similarity is greater than a predetermined similarity threshold. The service documents are modified to change the extracted textual procedure terminology to the correlating target name terminology in response to the overlap similarity being greater than the predetermined similarity threshold and the extracted textual procedure terminology not exactly matching the correlating target name terminology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Satnam Singh, Sachin Raviram, Keith D. Armitage, Steven W. Holland, Frederick J. Vondrak, David N. Nowak, David B. Miller
  • Publication number: 20140129528
    Abstract: A method for correcting service manual textual inconsistencies. Extracting textual procedures from service documents stored in a memory of a service document storage device. Each term of an extracted textual procedure terminology is compared to a correlating target name terminology for identifying any matching terms by a processor. An overlap similarity is computed as a function of the identified matching terms from the extracted textual procedure terminology and the correlating target name terminology. A determination is made whether the overlap similarity is greater than a predetermined similarity threshold. The service documents are modified to change the extracted textual procedure terminology to the correlating target name terminology in response to the overlap similarity being greater than the predetermined similarity threshold and the extracted textual procedure terminology not exactly matching the correlating target name terminology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Satnam Singh, Sachin Raviram, Keith D. Armitage, Steven W. Holland, Frederick J. Vondrak, David N. Nowak, David B. Miller
  • Patent number: 7092937
    Abstract: A method for vehicle diagnostic knowledge delivery comprising receiving a search request from a user system and accessing a database of case records in response to the search request. Each of the case records includes a case-record number attribute, a set of vehicle-description attributes, a set of bookkeeping attributes, a set of system attributes, a set of symptom attributes, and a set of action attributes. The method further comprises searching the database of case records for a case record responsive to the search request. If a case record responsive to the search request is located, it is transmitted to the user system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander P. Morgan, Lawrence M. Quinn, Gulcin Sengir, Diane I. Gibbons, Michael A. Sowa, Stephen L. Falko, Frederick J. Vondrak, Thorsten W. Rommel
  • Publication number: 20040199542
    Abstract: A method for vehicle diagnostic knowledge delivery comprising receiving a search request from a user system and accessing a database of case records in response to the search request. Each of the case records includes a case-record number attribute, a set of vehicle-description attributes, a set of bookkeeping attributes, a set of system attributes, a set of symptom attributes, and a set of action attributes. The method further comprises searching the database of case records for a case record responsive to the search request. If a case record responsive to the search request is located, it is transmitted to the user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Alexander P. Morgan, Lawrence M. Quinn, Gulcin Sengir, Diane I. Gibbons, Michael A. Sowa, Stephen L. Falko, Frederick J. Vondrak, Thorsten W. Rommel
  • Patent number: 6768935
    Abstract: A method for vehicle diagnostic record mapping comprising receiving a vehicle service record. A target record is created in response to receiving the vehicle service record. The target record includes a target-record number attribute, a set of vehicle-description attributes, a set of bookkeeping attributes, a set of system attributes, a set of symptom attributes, and a set of action attributes. Vehicle description data is mapped into the set of vehicle-description attributes in response to locating the vehicle description data in the vehicle service record. Bookkeeping data is mapped into the set of bookkeeping attributes in response to locating the bookkeeping data in the vehicle service record. Vehicle system data is mapped into the set of system attributes in response to locating the system data in the vehicle service record. Symptom data is mapped into the set of symptom attributes in response to locating the symptom data in the vehicle service record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander P. Morgan, Lawrence M. Quinn, Gulcin Sengir, Diane I. Gibbons, Michael A. Sowa, Stephen L. Falko, Frederick J. Vondrak, Thorsten W. Rommel