Patents by Inventor Jayanthi Rao

Jayanthi Rao 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: 20250150782
    Abstract: Filtering of V2X messages is performed by an ego vehicle. A velocity of travel of the ego vehicle is identified. One or more distance thresholds of dynamic filter criteria are adjusted according to the identified velocity. Via a transceiver of the ego vehicle, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message is received. From the V2X message, a location of a remote road entity of the V2X message is identified. The V2X message is filtered based on whether the location of the remote road entity is within the one or more distance thresholds. The V2X message is only processed if the V2X message is not filtered out, thereby reducing resource usage due to the filtered out V2X messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Niraj Altekar, Jayanthi Rao, Syed Amaar Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20250130566
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of vehicles and at least one first processor in a first vehicle and at least one second processor in each other of the plurality of vehicles. The first vehicle wirelessly receives remote driving commands, from a remote computing system, instructing control of the first vehicle and executes the remote driving commands to control the first vehicle in accordance with the remote driving commands. The first vehicle wirelessly broadcasts the remote driving commands, including a location of the first vehicle where a given of the driving commands was executed. The second vehicle wirelessly receives the broadcast remote driving commands, stores the received remote driving commands in sequence, and executes the given of the driving commands when a location of the second vehicle corresponds to the location of the first vehicle where the given of the driving commands was executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Somak Datta Gupta, Vladyslav Slyusar, Arpita Chand, Jayanthi Rao
  • Publication number: 20250126232
    Abstract: Data fusion of radio frequency (RF) and visual data is provided. Via a transceiver of a vehicle, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message is received from a remote road entity, the V2X message including one or more V2X data elements descriptive of the remote road entity. Using a camera of the vehicle, modulated light data is captured within a sensing area surrounding an ego road entity, the modulated light data being sent from the remote road entity. A modulated light transmission in the modulated light data is decoded to identify one or more light data elements in the modulated light data descriptive of the road entity. An association of the one or more V2X data elements is performed with the one or more light data elements to identify associated V2X camera objects where the V2X message and the modulated light data are fused into a combined representation of the remote road entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Jayanthi RAO, Arpita Chand, Niraj Altekar, Mike Ryan
  • Publication number: 20250108818
    Abstract: A vehicle including a human machine interface (HMI); a light sensor configured to receive a light pulse emitted from an illumination device, wherein the light pulse includes an original message in a modulated format; and one or more controllers programmed to demodulate the light pulse to obtain the original message, wherein the original message identifies an object on which the illumination device is attached, convert the original message into a processed message, and output the processed message via the HMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Niraj ALTEKAR, Michael RYAN, Jayanthi RAO
  • Publication number: 20250085958
    Abstract: In a first iteration, an OTA update is initiated as a background data transfer over a communications network to a plurality of vehicles. Delivery statuses for the OTA update are received from the plurality of vehicles. A vehicle list is updated to remove the vehicles with a completed OTA update based on the delivery statuses and to set a low priority to the vehicles having poor RF status. In a subsequent iteration, a first background data transfer is initiated to send the OTA update to the vehicles on the vehicle list having high priority and then a second background data transfer is initiated to send the OTA update to the vehicles on the vehicle list having the low priority. The receiving, updating, and subsequent iteration operations are repeated until all of the vehicles have received the OTA update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Yun Ho Lee, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 12240482
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for preventing doored interactions between a vehicle and moving object. According to one or more embodiments, a method for a vehicle includes detecting that a moving object is approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary, detect that a moving object is approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary, provide an alert within the vehicle of the approaching moving object, prevent an actuation of a door latch from opening a door of the vehicle, and provide a visual alert to notify an operator of the moving object that an occupant of the vehicle is attempting to open the door of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Subharthi Banerjee, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 12192868
    Abstract: Managing vehicle application usage of computing resources is provided. A request for computing resources of a communications network is received from a vehicle application installed to a vehicle. An access point name (APN) is assigned to the vehicle application based on an application identifier corresponding to the vehicle application by accessing stored APN information including a mapping of application identifiers to corresponding APNs. The computing resources are accessed by the vehicle application connecting to the communications network using the APN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Somak Datta Gupta, Arpita Chand, Jayanthi Rao, Vladyslav Slyusar
  • Patent number: 12181869
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of vehicles and at least one first processor in a first vehicle and at least one second processor in each other of the plurality of vehicles. The first vehicle wirelessly receives remote driving commands, from a remote computing system, instructing control of the first vehicle and executes the remote driving commands to control the first vehicle in accordance with the remote driving commands. The first vehicle wirelessly broadcasts the remote driving commands, including a location of the first vehicle where a given of the driving commands was executed. The second vehicle wirelessly receives the broadcast remote driving commands, stores the received remote driving commands in sequence, and executes the given of the driving commands when a location of the second vehicle corresponds to the location of the first vehicle where the given of the driving commands was executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Somak Datta Gupta, Vladyslav Slyusar, Arpita Chand, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 12185204
    Abstract: A system broadcasts a vehicle state query to a plurality of vehicles within an ATSC broadcast radius at a plurality of different time windows. The system receives responses to the state query indicating at least vehicle motion data. The system aggregates the data to determine time windows when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are not stationary when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are stationary. Further, the system determines time windows projected to result in completed delivery above a predefined threshold percentage of a vehicle software update designated for broadcast, chosen for delivering the update to the threshold percentage as quickly as possible with higher data rate transmission relative to other time windows. The system automatically instructs an ATSC transmission point to broadcast the vehicle software update during the determined time windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Jayanthi Rao
  • Publication number: 20240422770
    Abstract: Scheduling communications using a plurality of wireless interfaces is provided. Signals are monitored that are received from a first antenna configured to send and/or receive first messages over a first message protocol. Using the signals, time slot information is updated that is indicative of which equally-sized consecutive future time slots the first antenna is predicted to transmit and/or receive the first messages. A transmission is scheduled of a second message over a second antenna configured to send and/or receive second messages over a second message protocol using the time slot information to avoid out-of-band emission (OOBE) interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Syed Amaar AHMAD, Ivan VUKOVIC, Jayanthi RAO, Azin NEISHABOORI
  • Publication number: 20240412630
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing edge computing assisted vehicle alerts. A multi-access edge computing (MEC) server may be configured to obtain a plurality of messages from one or more vehicles, determine formation of a traffic queue based on the plurality of messages, determine a plurality of zone-based speed limits, determine when a vehicle approaching the traffic queue may be traveling faster than desired based on its location relative to an applicable zone-based speed limit, and generate one or more alerts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Michael Ryan, Jayanthi Rao, Niraj Altekar, Arpita Chand, Somak Datta Gupta, Vladyslav Slyusar
  • Publication number: 20240348287
    Abstract: A near-field communication (NFC) reader is integrated with a display panel in a passenger cabin of a vehicle by constructing a hidden antenna of the reader into a portion of the display panel. The display comprises a touchscreen display providing a display surface coincident with a touch-sensitive input detector. A trigger monitor is configured to detect a user activity by a user which is indicative of a potential for the user to attempt pairing of a mobile NFC device with the hidden antenna. A positioning messenger is configured to generate a depiction on the display surface indicating a region to be covered on the display surface by the mobile NFC device to align a mobile antenna on the mobile NFC device with the hidden antenna. The NFC device may be a smartphone, a key fob, or an NFC transponder card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: John R. Van Wiemeersch, Jayanthi Rao, Mark W. Larry, Eugene Karpinsky
  • Patent number: 12101755
    Abstract: Scheduling communications using a plurality of wireless interfaces is provided. Signals are monitored that are received from a first antenna configured to send and/or receive first messages over a first message protocol. Using the signals, time slot information is updated that is indicative of which equally-sized consecutive future time slots the first antenna is predicted to transmit and/or receive the first messages. A transmission is scheduled of a second message over a second antenna configured to send and/or receive second messages over a second message protocol using the time slot information to avoid out-of-band emission (OOBE) interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Syed Amaar Ahmad, Ivan Vukovic, Jayanthi Rao, Azin Neishaboori
  • Publication number: 20240244409
    Abstract: A first connected message is received, by a controller of a host vehicle, from a remote vehicle via a transceiver of the host vehicle. The first connected message indicates a first object along a roadway detected by the remote vehicle. Presence of a second object along the roadway is identified using sensors of the host vehicle. A probability function is utilized to determine a result indicative of whether to send a second connected message indicating the second object. The second connected message is sent responsive to the result indicating to send the second connected message. The second connected message is suppressed responsive to the result indicating not to send the second connected message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Syed Amaar AHMAD, Jayanthi RAO
  • Publication number: 20240239365
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for preventing doored interactions between a vehicle and moving object. According to one or more embodiments, a method for a vehicle includes detecting that a moving object is approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary, detect that a moving object is approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary, provide an alert within the vehicle of the approaching moving object, prevent an actuation of a door latch from opening a door of the vehicle, and provide a visual alert to notify an operator of the moving object that an occupant of the vehicle is attempting to open the door of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Subharthi Banerjee, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 12037021
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle may determine that it has an amount of power remaining projected to be needed to reach a recharging point by autonomously traveling with predefined systems disabled. The vehicle may disable the predefined systems and travel towards the recharging point. Subsequent to the disabling, the autonomous vehicle may determine that it no longer has the amount of power remaining projected to be needed to reach the recharging point. The vehicle may then communicate with a server and request assistance. The vehicle may then travel to an instructed rendezvous point with a second autonomous vehicle, the rendezvous received from the server. The two vehicles may then communicate to allow the first vehicle to leverage a capability of the second autonomous vehicle, responsive to the first and second autonomous vehicles being within communication range, allowing the first vehicle to reach the recharging point via the leveraging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Arpita Chand, Somak Datta Gupta, Vladyslav Slyusar, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 12020526
    Abstract: A system includes a computer programmed to, in response to receiving a parking transmission from a parked vehicle, transmit a parking authorization credential to the parked vehicle for rebroadcast from the parked vehicle, the parking authorization credential confirming that the parked vehicle is authorized for a parking location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shiqi Qiu, Jayanthi Rao, Eric Marsman
  • Publication number: 20240022883
    Abstract: A system broadcasts a vehicle state query to a plurality of vehicles within an ATSC broadcast radius at a plurality of different time windows. The system receives responses to the state query indicating at least vehicle motion data. The system aggregates the data to determine time windows when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are not stationary when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are stationary. Further, the system determines time windows projected to result in completed delivery above a predefined threshold percentage of a vehicle software update designated for broadcast, chosen for delivering the update to the threshold percentage as quickly as possible with higher data rate transmission relative to other time windows. The system automatically instructs an ATSC transmission point to broadcast the vehicle software update during the determined time windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Jayanthi Rao
  • Patent number: 11827274
    Abstract: Sensor data and data from V2V messages are used to detect obstacles. Additional obstacles are identified in map data according to a vehicle's position. In response to detecting a turn intent, a controller calculates a turn path according to the detected obstacles and properties of the vehicle. The turn path is presented to a user, such as by display on a HUD or superimposing the turn path on an image from a forward facing camera. A desired steering angle to traverse the turn path may be displayed, such as relative to the current steering angle of the vehicle. Notifications regarding the path and turning intent of other vehicle may be displayed along with the turn path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Michael Ferrer, Jayanthi Rao, Victoria Schein
  • Publication number: 20230370822
    Abstract: Managing vehicle application usage of computing resources is provided. A request for computing resources of a communications network is received from a vehicle application installed to a vehicle. An access point name (APN) is assigned to the vehicle application based on an application identifier corresponding to the vehicle application by accessing stored APN information including a mapping of application identifiers to corresponding APNs. The computing resources are accessed by the vehicle application connecting to the communications network using the APN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver LEI, Somak DATTA GUPTA, Arpita CHAND, Jayanthi RAO, Vladyslav SLYUSAR