Patents by Inventor Jason Meyer

Jason Meyer 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING DRIVER DEMAND TORQUE
    Publication number: 20210245727
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting driver demand wheel torque of a vehicle. The driver demand wheel torque may be adjusted as a function of accelerator pedal position. In particular, at low accelerator pedal positions, a lead-in region of an accelerator pedal position to driver demand wheel torque relationship is adjustable responsive to vehicle operation conditions so that “dead pedal” feel may be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Roy S. Schafer, Judhajit Roy
  • Gaming device and method for operating a gaming device
    Patent number: 11087585
    Abstract: A method of operating a gaming device, comprising: displaying an arrangement of a predetermined number of symbol windows; receiving a selection of a number of the windows equal to the unique selection number and causing the display to present a graphical indication of the selected windows; undertaking play of a game, wherein as a result of the base game, each window is associated with a symbol, and wherein each symbol is displayed on the touchscreen display within its associated window, and wherein each symbol is randomly selected from a set comprising one or more first symbols and one or more second symbols; determining that one or more of the selected windows comprises a first symbol as a result of play of the base game; and awarding an award in accordance with the number of selected windows comprising first symbols and an award rule associated with the selected number of windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Jason Meyer
  • Gaming machine having a changeable number of held wild reels and special symbols
    Patent number: 11074785
    Abstract: A gaming machine having a number of reels. Each of the reels includes at least one special symbol that in either in an active state or a normal state. Each of the reels is in either a held state or a symbol collection state indicative of a number of special symbols currently collected. During a game, when the number of special symbols of a reel reaches a predetermined number, the special symbols on the reel are in an active state for a next play of the game. While in the active state, when a special symbol is selected for the reel, the reel is in a held state a subsequent play of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Jason Meyer
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TORQUE SHAPING
    Publication number: 20210215211
    Abstract: A vehicle includes controller programmed to receive a driver-demanded wheel torque command and calculate a shaped wheel torque command based on the driver-demanded wheel torque command. The controller is further programmed to, in response to the driver-demanded wheel torque command changing from a first magnitude that is greater than an estimated wheel torque at a last time step to a second magnitude that is less than the estimated wheel torque at a current time step, set the shaped wheel torque to a minimum of a magnitude of the shaped wheel torque at the last time step and an estimated wheel torque at the current time step. The controller is also programmed to command the first and second actuators to produce the shaped wheel torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Maruthi Thiruninravur Ravichandran, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • Method and apparatus for navigation instructions including enhanced lane guidance
    Patent number: 11060881
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine relative suitability of each lane on a current route for completing a maneuver on the route. The processor is also configured to display an ordered series of maneuver instructions, in conjunction with a route map, the instructions including arrows corresponding to each lane on a next-segment of the route and color coded in accordance with the determined suitability of each lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Meyer Quint
  • Methods and system for operating a four wheel drive electric vehicle
    Patent number: 11046299
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a driveline of a four wheel drive vehicle that includes a high gear ratio and a low gear ratio. The driveline may be operated to shift between the high gear ratio and the low gear ratio while the four wheel drive vehicle is moving. In one example, a clutch is opened during shifting from the high gear ratio to the low gear ratio, which allows the vehicle to continue traveling during the gear ratio change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Meyer, Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Rajit Johri, Kevin Ruybal, Dushyant K. Palejiya, Walter Joseph Ortmann
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COORDINATED SHAPING OF HEV BASE TORQUE
    Publication number: 20210171012
    Abstract: A vehicle operating method comprising generating a base torque reserve for an engine based on a position of an accelerator pedal and a position rate of change of the accelerator pedal, where the base torque reserve is an air reserve of the engine generated by the engine. The base torque reserve may further be generated based on one or more of a drive mode, a vehicle altitude, a battery state of charge (SOC), and a transmission gear, in at least one example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Maruthi Thiruninravur Ravichandran, Jason Meyer, Bhavesh Ravindra Paradkar, Rajit Johri, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210166521
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing reel-strip-based wagering games in which the reel strips include one or more feature symbols and one or more configurable symbols. Each time a feature symbol of a reel strip is displayed in a window of the wagering game associated with that reel strip, one or more “hot spot windows” associated with that window may be determined. Hot spot windows may have a modified status applied to them that may last for a predetermined number of gameplay instances. Awards associated with the configurable symbols may, if a configurable symbol is selected for display in a window with one or more modified statuses currently applied, be modified by a modifier that is based on the applied one or more modified statuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Sanchit Jain, Jason Meyer
  • GAMING DEVICE WITH DYNAMICALLY CHANGING REEL STRIPS
    Publication number: 20210150849
    Abstract: A gaming device, a method of operating a gaming device, and a gaming system, in which a game includes multiple reels of symbols, and in which symbols of one of the reels are dynamically selected depending on the outcome of symbol selection on other reels. In embodiments, symbols of a third reel may be selected in response to a triggering combination on first and second reels. In an example, the third reel strip is changed from a default reel strip of symbols to a guaranteed win reel strip if symbols from the first and second reel strips include one of multiple possible triggering combinations of symbols. In an example, the third to fifth reel strips may have configurable symbols (e.g. cash on reels symbols) and each triggering combination of symbols corresponds the configurable symbols for later reels being configured differently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Meyer
  • SINGLE-PIECE FASTENER
    Publication number: 20210140457
    Abstract: Aperture retention arms can extend outwardly away from an aperture shaft. An insertion end can be positioned below the aperture retention arms and can have an overall conical shape. The insertion end can include an opening having a closed interior terminal end separating a portion of a first lateral half of the insertion end and leaving another portion of the first lateral half as a connecting bridge below one of the aperture retention arms. The opening can include a channel extending from the closed interior terminal end to an open exterior terminal end to separate a second lateral half of the insertion end below another of the aperture retention arms. The insertion end below the open exterior terminal end of the channel can extend laterally outwardly beyond a straight exterior line defined by laterally outermost points of an outer longitudinal side of the second aperture retention arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Najwan RASSAM, Tien T. DIEP, Roger PILON, Andrew C. HEIDACKER, Oday Amer SAFRY, Jason A. MEYERS, Ryan OSTACH, Steven M. BENEDETTI
  • Engine and motor control during wheel torque reversal in a hybrid vehicle
    Patent number: 10994721
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an engine selectively coupled by an upstream clutch to an electric machine, which is selectively coupled by a downstream clutch to a step-ratio transmission, include at least one controller programmed to control the engine and the electric machine in response to entering a lash zone in anticipation of a wheel torque reversal to adjust a gain applied to an active motor damping torque controller to reduce driveline oscillations and backlash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Steven Yamazaki, Jason Meyer, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Bernard D. Nefcy
  • SPINNING REEL GAME WITH A SYNCHRONIZED SPINNING PRIZE REEL
    Publication number: 20210125455
    Abstract: A gaming machine having a first reel, and a set of second reels. The first reel has a plurality of prizes displayed at respective first display positions, and spins in a first direction. Each of the second reels is aligned with one of the first display positions, and spins in a second direction to identify one of the prizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Meyer
  • Two-piece fastener assembly
    Patent number: 10989239
    Abstract: An aperture fastener piece has an intermediate head and an aperture shaft, including aperture retention arms extending from a side of the intermediate head. A receiver includes an annular wall extending from a base, and a plurality of plate retention surfaces supported by and positioned inwardly of the annular wall. A coupling plate can be engaged and retained by the plurality of plate retention surfaces within the receiver to couple the doghouse fastener piece and the aperture fastener piece together. Each of the receiver and the coupling plate extends from different ones of the intermediate head as part of the aperture fastener piece and the doghouse shaft as part of the doghouse fastener piece. The coupling plate can extend from a second of the opposite side of the intermediate head as part of the aperture fastener piece, and the doghouse shaft as part of the doghouse fastener piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Najwan Rassam, Tien T. Diep, Roger E. Pilon, Andrew C. Heidacker, Oday Amer Safry, Jason A. Meyers
  • Methods and systems for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle powertrain
    Patent number: 10967848
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle powertrain, where the driveline includes an electric machine downstream of a dual clutch transmission, which is downstream of an engine. In one example, a method comprises communicating from a transmission, a torque to accelerate transmission components from a first speed to a second speed with first and second clutches of a dual transmission open, the communicating performed while an electric machine coupled to the dual clutch transmission at a location downstream of the dual clutch transmission is providing torque to propel a vehicle. In this way, wheel speed may remain substantially constant while the transmission is shifted and the engine is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Ray Ruybal, Jason Meyer
  • Methods and system for managing wheel creep torque of a vehicle
    Patent number: 10967865
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes an engine and an electric machine are described. In one example, electric machine torque is adjusted according to a wheel torque in a wheel torque creep mode where an engine provides torque to vehicle wheels. Operating the electric machine in this way may allow the electric machine to emulate wheel creep torque that is generated via an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • Methods and system for switching driveline operating modes
    Patent number: 10960875
    Abstract: Systems and methods changing between driveline operating modes of a hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, electrical output to electric power consumers is maintained during closing of a driveline disconnect clutch. Further, engine speed is controlled via a first electric machine to a speed of a second electric machine to provide smooth closing of a driveline disconnect clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant K. Palejiya, Rajit Johri, Jason Meyer
  • Methods and system for determining driver demand
    Patent number: 10960872
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, and a transmission are described. In one example, accelerator pedal position provides a basis for requesting vehicle acceleration and vehicle wheel torque is determined from the requested vehicle acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Doering, Jason Meyer, Yanan Zhao, David H. Schmitt, Xiaoyong Wang, Bradley Dean Riedle
  • METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR CREEP TORQUE AND TIP IN CONTROL FOR VEHICLES WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20210078578
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a distribution between engine and motor torques for a hybrid electric vehicle operating in a creep mode of operation in response to an engine start request. In one example, responsive to a request to start an engine while a vehicle is being propelled at a predetermined wheel creep torque via an electric motor positioned downstream of a transmission and a torque converter, coordinating an electric motor torque and an engine torque in one of a first mode, second mode, or a third mode depending on whether the electric motor can continue to provide the predetermined wheel creep torque. In this way, engine idle speed may be minimized depending on vehicle operating conditions, which may improve fuel economy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Meyer, Yanan Zhao, Rajit Johri, Jeffrey Allen Doering
  • METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR ENGINE CONTROL DURING GEAR SHIFTING IN A HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210080004
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling engine operation in response to a request to shift a transmission gear. In one example, a method may include maintaining operating conditions of an engine and redirecting electric power generated via the engine from a traction motor to a battery in response to a request to shift a transmission while the driveline is operating in a series mode. In this way engine efficiency may be improved and a time frame for shifting a transmission gear may be reduced responsive to a gear shift request while the powertrain is operating in series mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Dushyant K. Palejiya, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri
  • Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface
    Patent number: D918243
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Igor Suslik, Christian Salmon, Jason Meyer