Patents by Inventor Lenne Ahrens

Lenne Ahrens 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: 20230219593
    Abstract: A method for assisting a user in an interaction with an apparatus including at least one automated and/or partially automated and/or manual operating state by way of a control device. A possible change or a compulsory change of operating state of the apparatus is ascertained, an escalation level for the change of operating state of the apparatus is ascertained, the ascertained change of operating state and the escalation level are signaled to the user by a dynamic indicator. A control device, a computer program, a machine-readable storage medium, and an indicator are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Achim Pruksch, Hanna Otto, Javier Riel Rosales, Lenne Ahrens, Liza Christine Dixon, Lu Wang, Norbert Schneider, Yao Pan
  • Patent number: 10981579
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle having a driver assistance system intervening in a transverse dynamics of the vehicle, comprising the steps: detecting a driver intervention in a driving behavior of the vehicle due to an intervention of at least one actuator triggered by the driver assistance system; interpreting the driver intervention as an override of the intervention of the actuator; and reducing in a defined manner the intervention of the actuator as a function of the interpretation of the driver intervention in such a way that a driving task is returned to the driver in a controlled and defined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schulz, Christian Loeffler, Lenne Ahrens
  • Publication number: 20190210614
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle having a driver assistance system intervening in a transverse dynamics of the vehicle, comprising the steps: detecting a driver intervention in a driving behavior of the vehicle due to an intervention of at least one actuator triggered by the driver assistance system; interpreting the driver intervention as an override of the intervention of the actuator; and reducing in a defined manner the intervention of the actuator as a function of the interpretation of the driver intervention in such a way that a driving task is returned to the driver in a controlled and defined manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Schulz, Christian Loeffler, Lenne Ahrens
  • Publication number: 20190016250
    Abstract: A method and a device for adapting a front light of a vehicle, the front light illuminating a region in front of the vehicle, having a step of detecting at least one further vehicle which carries out a passing maneuver for passing the vehicle, and a step of adapting the front light in such a way that the at least one further vehicle is not blinded by the front light following the passing maneuver and the front light continues to illuminate the region in front of the vehicle in an at least partially unchanged manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Lenne Ahrens