Patents by Inventor John Howard Schneider

John Howard Schneider 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).

  • Patent number: 11720398
    Abstract: Harvesting the high performance computing capabilities of vehicle processors while the vehicles are parked and/or charging may provide use to otherwise unused resources as well as offer a way to discount parking and/or charging costs for the vehicle owner/driver. To harvest the computing capabilities, a dispatcher is utilized that receives incoming complex processing requests and parses the requests into tasks. The dispatcher dispatches the tasks to vehicle processors that are within, for example, a parking garage to which the dispatcher has access. The dispatcher may prioritize requests and/or prioritize the vehicle processors to distribute the tasks to optimize the power consumption, time, and processing capabilities used. When the vehicle processors complete the tasks and return results to the dispatcher, the dispatcher finalizes the job results and provides the results to the requestor. The dispatcher may discount the parking and/or charging costs for the vehicles that performed the computational tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Omar Makke, John Howard Schneider
  • Patent number: 11511801
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to determine if a trailer backup assist system is needed to assist a driver with a procedure to backup a trailer that is connected to a vehicle. The estimation of need for assistance may be determined by an assistance model. If assistance is needed, the systems and methods provide an input to initiate a process to enable the trailer backup assist system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, Hamid M. Golgiri, John Howard Schneider
  • Publication number: 20220250681
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to determine if a trailer backup assist system is needed to assist a driver with a procedure to backup a trailer that is connected to a vehicle. The estimation of need for assistance may be determined by an assistance model. If assistance is needed, the systems and methods provide an input to initiate a process to enable the trailer backup assist system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, Hamid M. Golgiri, John Howard Schneider
  • Publication number: 20210303343
    Abstract: Harvesting the high performance computing capabilities of vehicle processors while the vehicles are parked and/or charging may provide use to otherwise unused resources as well as offer a way to discount parking and/or charging costs for the vehicle owner/driver. To harvest the computing capabilities, a dispatcher is utilized that receives incoming complex processing requests and parses the requests into tasks. The dispatcher dispatches the tasks to vehicle processors that are within, for example, a parking garage to which the dispatcher has access. The dispatcher may prioritize requests and/or prioritize the vehicle processors to distribute the tasks to optimize the power consumption, time, and processing capabilities used. When the vehicle processors complete the tasks and return results to the dispatcher, the dispatcher finalizes the job results and provides the results to the requestor. The dispatcher may discount the parking and/or charging costs for the vehicles that performed the computational tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Omar Makke, John Howard Schneider