Patents by Inventor John Lepird

John Lepird 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: 12371010
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for enabling an autonomous vehicle (AV) to react to objects posing a risk to the AV. The system can monitor an object within a vicinity of the AV. A plurality of trajectories predicting paths the object will take can be generated, the plurality of trajectories being based on a plurality of inputs indicating current and past characteristics of the object. Using a learned model, a forecasted position of the object at an instance in time can be generated. An error value representing how accurate the forecasted position is versus an observed position of the object can be stored. Error values can be accumulated over a period of time. A risk factor can be assigned for the object based on the accumulated error values. A maneuver for the AV can be performed based on the risk factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Lepird, Pragati Satpute, Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri
  • Patent number: 11977440
    Abstract: A system includes an on-board electronic device of an autonomous vehicle, and a computer-readable medium having one or more programming instructions. The system receives one or more forecast messages pertaining to a track, where each of the forecast messages includes a unique identifier associated with the track, and receives one or more inference messages pertaining to the track, where each of the inference messages includes the unique identifier. The system aggregates the one or more forecast messages and the one or more inference messages to generate a message set, and applies a set of processing operations to the message set to generate a feedback message. The system identifies one or more events from the feedback message, automatically generates an annotation for one or more of the events that is identified, and embeds the generated annotations in an event log for the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Lepird, Lorenzo Nardi, Andrew T. Hartnett
  • Publication number: 20230202470
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for enabling an autonomous vehicle (AV) to react to objects posing a risk to the AV. The system can monitor an object within a vicinity of the AV. A plurality of trajectories predicting paths the object will take can be generated, the plurality of trajectories being based on a plurality of inputs indicating current and past characteristics of the object. Using a learned model, a forecasted position of the object at an instance in time can be generated. An error value representing how accurate the forecasted position is versus an observed position of the object can be stored. Error values can be accumulated over a period of time. A risk factor can be assigned for the object based on the accumulated error values. A maneuver for the AV can be performed based on the risk factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: ARGO AI, LLC
    Inventors: John LEPIRD, Pragati SATPUTE, Ramadev Burigsay HUKKERI
  • Publication number: 20220164245
    Abstract: A system includes an on-board electronic device of an autonomous vehicle, and a computer-readable medium having one or more programming instructions. The system receives one or more forecast messages pertaining to a track, where each of the forecast messages includes a unique identifier associated with the track, and receives one or more inference messages pertaining to the track, where each of the inference messages includes the unique identifier. The system aggregates the one or more forecast messages and the one or more inference messages to generate a message set, and applies a set of processing operations to the message set to generate a feedback message. The system identifies one or more events from the feedback message, automatically generates an annotation for one or more of the events that is identified, and embeds the generated annotations in an event log for the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: John Lepird, Lorenzo Nardi, Andrew T. Hartnett