Patents by Inventor Ian Michael Wilkes

Ian Michael Wilkes 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).

  • Asynchronous execution graphs for autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 11709059
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for executing the operations represented by an asynchronous execution graph. One of the methods includes receiving data characterizing an asynchronous execution graph comprising one or more subgraphs, wherein each subgraph comprises a plurality of nodes connected by edges, the plurality of nodes comprising a source node, one or more processor nodes, and one or more sink nodes; receiving source data from an external system that corresponds to the source node of a first subgraph in the graph; in response, executing the operations represented by the processor nodes in the first subgraph; and executing the operations represented by each sink node in the first subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Ouais Alsharif, Ian Michael Wilkes
  • ASYNCHRONOUS EXECUTION GRAPHS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20210190508
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for executing the operations represented by an asynchronous execution graph. One of the methods includes receiving data characterizing an asynchronous execution graph comprising one or more subgraphs, wherein each subgraph comprises a plurality of nodes connected by edges, the plurality of nodes comprising a source node, one or more processor nodes, and one or more sink nodes; receiving source data from an external system that corresponds to the source node of a first subgraph in the graph; in response, executing the operations represented by the processor nodes in the first subgraph; and executing the operations represented by each sink node in the first subgraph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Ouais Alsharif, Ian Michael Wilkes