Patents by Inventor Justin Holwell
Justin Holwell 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).
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Patent number: 11769104Abstract: An example system includes a computing system having computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data. Bins are configured to hold the good represented by the information. The bins are climate-controllable to accommodate the goods. An autonomous vehicle is configured to transport the bins. The autonomous vehicle is configured to navigate from a loading station where at least some of the goods are received in the bins to a pick-up station where the goods are released from the bins.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: AUTOGUIDE, LLCInventors: Jeremy Rockman, Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
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Patent number: 11727698Abstract: An example method of detecting an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: using a sensor on the autonomous vehicle to capture image data in a region of interest containing the element, where the image data represents components of the element; filtering the image data to produce filtered data having less of an amount of data than the image data; identifying the components of the element by analyzing the filtered data using a deterministic process; and detecting the element based on the components.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: AUTOGUIDE, LLCInventors: Syed Mohammed Jerrar Bukhari, Tyler Barron, Justin Holwell
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Patent number: 11459221Abstract: An example autonomous vehicle includes a body configured for movement along a surface and an end-effector to hold a first element having first and second features that mate to complementary third and fourth features on a second element. At least one of the end-effector or the body is controllable to move in at least four degrees of freedom. The autonomous device includes one or more sensors to detect the second element and to obtain information for locating the third and fourth features of the second element or other compatible device. The autonomous device also includes a control system to control at least one of the end-effector or the body to move in the at least four degrees of freedom to stack the first element on top of the second element.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: AUTOGUIDE, LLCInventors: David Levasseur, Justin Holwell
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Patent number: 11402830Abstract: A collaborative logistic facility management system for a logistic facility includes multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles and a system controller. The vehicles transport logistics goods or pallets between truck portals and storage locations and are configured for autonomous guidance travel, in autonomous mode and include a collaborating operator input for collaborative autonomous guided vehicle navigation and guidance. The system controller commands each vehicle to transfer the logistic goods or pallets between the truck portals and the storage locations, identifies a predetermined truck portal of a corresponding truck to be loaded or to be unloaded, and generates a collaborative zone. The controller generates a queue of robot autonomous guided vehicles on a side of the collaborative zone and commands the multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles disposed to load or unload the corresponding truck to move in autonomous mode into the queue.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
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Patent number: 11345577Abstract: A mobile automated guided vehicle pallet stacker and destacker system including an automated guided vehicle having a pallet pick that moves to pick a pallet and stably hold the picked pallet on the pick. A sensor is connected to the vehicle and configured to detect a predetermined characteristic of at least one pallet located in a stack of one or more pallets. A sensing element of the sensor is mounted to the vehicle so as to define a predetermined relation between the sensing element and a pallet pick interface. Actuation of the pick effects scanning of the stack and detection, with the sensing element, of the predetermined characteristic. A controller determines from the predetermined characteristic the at least one pallet is in a topmost pallet position of the stack, and positions the pallet pick interface of the pick to interface the stack based on the determined topmost pallet position.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.Inventors: Justin Holwell, David Levasseur, Tyler Barron
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Patent number: 11305936Abstract: A configurable modular robotic autonomous guided vehicle having an engine module and multiple different ones of selectably interchangeable logistic or material handling accessory modules. The engine module has motors, sensors and a control system integrated with each other for autonomous navigation freely throughout a travel area forming a logistic space. A module interface is located at one end of the engine module for modular coupling of the engine module with a handling accessory module of the vehicle. Each of the handling accessory modules has a different predetermined logistic or material handling characteristic that on integral coupling with the engine module define a different logistic or material handling autonomous guided vehicle type. Selectable coupling of the handling accessory module with the engine module configures the vehicle so as to change the vehicle type from a first vehicle type to a second vehicle type different than the first vehicle type.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Autoguide, LLCInventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell, Paul Perry, William Fannin
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Publication number: 20210398070Abstract: An example system includes a computing system having computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data. Bins are configured to hold the good represented by the information. The bins are climate-controllable to accommodate the goods. An autonomous vehicle is configured to transport the bins. The autonomous vehicle is configured to navigate from a loading station where at least some of the goods are received in the bins to a pick-up station where the goods are released from the bins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Jeremy Rockman, Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20210349468Abstract: An example method of detecting an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: using a sensor on the autonomous vehicle to capture image data in a region of interest containing the element, where the image data represents components of the element; filtering the image data to produce filtered data having less of an amount of data than the image data; identifying the components of the element by analyzing the filtered data using a deterministic process; and detecting the element based on the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Jerrar Bukhari, Tyler Barron, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20210347617Abstract: An example method of manipulating an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: following engagement with the element and during movement of the autonomous vehicle, detecting relative movement between the autonomous vehicle and the element; in response to detecting the relative movement, making a determination that the engagement is inadequate for the autonomous vehicle to continue manipulating the element; and controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Jerrar Bukhari, Tyler Barron, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20210331905Abstract: An example autonomous vehicle includes a body configured for movement along a surface and an end-effector to hold a first element having first and second features that mate to complementary third and fourth features on a second element. At least one of the end-effector or the body is controllable to move in at least four degrees of freedom. The autonomous device includes one or more sensors to detect the second element and to obtain information for locating the third and fourth features of the second element or other compatible device. The autonomous device also includes a control system to control at least one of the end-effector or the body to move in the at least four degrees of freedom to stack the first element on top of the second element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: David Levasseur, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20210141368Abstract: A mobile automated guided vehicle pallet stacker and destacker system including an automated guided vehicle having a pallet pick that moves to pick a pallet and stably hold the picked pallet on the pick. A sensor is connected to the vehicle and configured to detect a predetermined characteristic of at least one pallet located in a stack of one or more pallets. A sensing element of the sensor is mounted to the vehicle so as to define a predetermined relation between the sensing element and a pallet pick interface. Actuation of the pick effects scanning of the stack and detection, with the sensing element, of the predetermined characteristic. A controller determines from the predetermined characteristic the at least one pallet is in a topmost pallet position of the stack, and positions the pallet pick interface of the pick to interface the stack based on the determined topmost pallet position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Justin Holwell, David Levasseur, Tyler Barron
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Publication number: 20200102147Abstract: A configurable modular robotic autonomous guided vehicle having an engine module and multiple different ones of selectably interchangeable logistic or material handling accessory modules. The engine module has motors, sensors and a control system integrated with each other for autonomous navigation freely throughout a travel area forming a logistic space. A module interface is located at one end of the engine module for modular coupling of the engine module with a handling accessory module of the vehicle. Each of the handling accessory modules has a different predetermined logistic or material handling characteristic that on integral coupling with the engine module define a different logistic or material handling autonomous guided vehicle type. Selectable coupling of the handling accessory module with the engine module configures the vehicle so as to change the vehicle type from a first vehicle type to a second vehicle type different than the first vehicle type.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell, Paul Perry, William Fannin
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Publication number: 20200103882Abstract: A collaborative logistic facility management system for a logistic facility includes multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles and a system controller. The vehicles transport logistics goods or pallets between truck portals and storage locations and are configured for autonomous guidance travel, in autonomous mode and include a collaborating operator input for collaborative autonomous guided vehicle navigation and guidance. The system controller commands each vehicle to transfer the logistic goods or pallets between the truck portals and the storage locations, identifies a predetermined truck portal of a corresponding truck to be loaded or to be unloaded, and generates a collaborative zone. The controller generates a queue of robot autonomous guided vehicles on a side of the collaborative zone and commands the multiple robot autonomous guided vehicles disposed to load or unload the corresponding truck to move in autonomous mode into the queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
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Patent number: 10414586Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle including a frame having a longitudinal axis extending from a front of the frame to a back of the frame, at least one first guide member mounted on one side of the frame and having a first guide member frame of reference, and at least one second guide member mounted to an opposite side of the frame than the at least one first guide member and having a second guide member frame of reference, wherein the first and second guide members are asymmetrically compliant guide members so that a stiffness of the at least one first guide member in response to a force in a predetermined direction relative to the first guide member frame of reference is different than a stiffness of the at least second guide member in response to the force in the predetermined direction relative to the second guide member frame of reference.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Symbotic, LLCInventors: Justin Holwell, Stephen C. Toebes
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Publication number: 20170210563Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle including a frame having a longitudinal axis extending from a front of the frame to a back of the frame, at least one first guide member mounted on one side of the frame and having a first guide member frame of reference, and at least one second guide member mounted to an opposite side of the frame than the at least one first guide member and having a second guide member frame of reference, wherein the first and second guide members are asymmetrically compliant guide members so that a stiffness of the at least one first guide member in response to a force in a predetermined direction relative to the first guide member frame of reference is different than a stiffness of the at least second guide member in response to the force in the predetermined direction relative to the second guide member frame of reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Justin Holwell, Stephen C. Toebes
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Patent number: 9561905Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle including a frame having a longitudinal axis extending from a front of the frame to a back of the frame, at least one first guide member mounted on one side of the frame and having a first guide member frame of reference, and at least one second guide member mounted to an opposite side of the frame than the at least one first guide member and having a second guide member frame of reference, wherein the first and second guide members are asymmetrically compliant guide members so that a stiffness of the at least one first guide member in response to a force in a predetermined direction relative to the first guide member frame of reference is different than a stiffness of the at least second guide member in response to the force in the predetermined direction relative to the second guide member frame of reference.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLCInventors: Stephen C. Toebes, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20120189409Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle including a frame having a longitudinal axis extending from a front of the frame to a back of the frame, at least one first guide member mounted on one side of the frame and having a first guide member frame of reference, and at least one second guide member mounted to an opposite side of the frame than the at least one first guide member and having a second guide member frame of reference, wherein the first and second guide members are asymmetrically compliant guide members so that a stiffness of the at least one first guide member in response to a force in a predetermined direction relative to the first guide member frame of reference is different than a stiffness of the at least second guide member in response to the force in the predetermined direction relative to the second guide member frame of reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: CasePick Systems, LLC.Inventors: Stephen C. Toebes, Justin Holwell
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Publication number: 20070143054Abstract: A method for dynamic electrical testing of head gimbal assemblies may include initiating an automated continuous process that includes selecting an unmounted head gimbal assembly; aligning the unmounted head gimbal assembly; loading the unmounted head gimbal assembly to a disc; and testing the unmounted head gimbal assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Ronald Anderson, Andrew Blair, Dale Blomgren, Kermit Harmon, Brett Herdendorf, Justin Holwell, Philip Johnson, Mujahid Khan, Klaus Obergfell, Steven Palks, Michael Quam, David Reints, Michael Roe, Steven Wheeler
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Publication number: 20070143055Abstract: A method for dynamic electrical testing of head gimbal assemblies may include initiating an automated continuous process that includes selecting an unmounted head gimbal assembly; aligning the unmounted head gimbal assembly; loading the unmounted head gimbal assembly to a disc; and testing the unmounted head gimbal assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Ronald Anderson, Andrew Blair, Dale Blomgren, Kermit Harmon, Brett Herdendorf, Justin Holwell, Philip Johnson, Mujahid Khan, Klaus Obergfell, Steven Palks, Michael Quam, David Reints, Michael Roe, Steven Wheeler
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Publication number: 20070143053Abstract: A method for dynamic electrical testing of head gimbal assemblies may include initiating an automated continuous process that includes selecting an unmounted head gimbal assembly; aligning the unmounted head gimbal assembly; loading the unmounted head gimbal assembly to a disc; and testing the unmounted head gimbal assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Justin Holwell, Mujahid Khan, Andrew Blair, Brett Herdendorf, Steven Wheeler