Patents by Inventor Louis Brugman
Louis Brugman 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: 12181292Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20240427927Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining that data stored on a vehicle is sensitive, removing the sensitive data from the vehicle, based on an amount of time until the data is needed to be accessed by the vehicle, and accessing the removed sensitive data, by the vehicle, at a time prior to an end of the amount of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman, Imad Zahid
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Publication number: 20240416921Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining if a user of a vehicle is an authorized user, determining data received by the vehicle is sensitive, and responsive to the user being authorized, storing the received sensitive data in the vehicle and purging other sensitive data stored in the vehicle similar to the stored sensitive data. A time of storage of the other sensitive data precedes a time of storage of the sensitive data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman
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Patent number: 12154396Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a diagnostic center, malfunction information related to a transport, acquiring, by a diagnostic center, agreements on a threshold for the malfunction information from a plurality of diagnostic centers, in response to the malfunction information exceeding the threshold, storing the malfunction information on a remote storage, and deleting the malfunction information from the transport.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman
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Publication number: 20240345831Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport, performing a first validation of the software update in a first environment, wherein the first environment includes a least amount of potential interactions, and performing a further validation of the software update when the first validation is successful, in a further environment, wherein the further environment includes an amount of potential interactions greater than the first environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 12056484Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport, performing a first validation of the software update in a first environment, wherein the first environment includes a least amount of potential interactions, and performing a further validation of the software update when the first validation is successful, in a further environment, wherein the further environment includes an amount of potential interactions greater than the first environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 11961401Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20240111517Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validating, to a further subset of transports, wherein the further subset of the transports is larger than the subset of the transports.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 11868764Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of sending, by a master transport, a first portion of a software update to a transport of a first subset of transports, sending, by a master transport, a second portion of the software update to a transport of a further subset of transports, when a first transport of the subset of the transports and a second transport of the further subset of the transports are in proximity, causing the first transport to send the first portion of the software update to the second transport, and causing the second transport to send the second portion of the software update to the first transport.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 11868757Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validating, to a further subset of transports, wherein the further subset of the transports is larger than the subset of the transports.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Publication number: 20240001911Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a parking processing node, a parking of a transport at an event location, accessing, by the parking processing node, a device of a transport occupant to determine a transport pickup location and a pickup time based on a conclusion of an event, detecting, by the parking processing node, from the device of the transport occupant at least one modification of the pickup location and the pickup time made based on an updated conclusion of the event, and sending a command to move the transport to a location proximate to the event based on the modified pickup location and the modified pickup time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Aghyad Saleh, Joshua C. Batie, Devang H. Parekh, Louis Brugman
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Patent number: 11847919Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a server, a target transport operating in an unsafe manner, locating, the by the server, at least one autonomous transport in front of the target transport, and maneuvering the at least one autonomous transport to affect the target transport.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Publication number: 20230393844Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport, performing a first validation of the software update in a first environment, wherein the first environment includes a least amount of potential interactions, and performing a further validation of the software update when the first validation is successful, in a further environment, wherein the further environment includes an amount of potential interactions greater than the first environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Patent number: 11801832Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a parking processing node, a parking of a transport at an event location, accessing, by the parking processing node, a device of a transport occupant to determine a transport pickup location and a pickup time based on a conclusion of an event, detecting, by the parking processing node, from the device of the transport occupant at least one modification of the pickup location and the pickup time made based on an updated conclusion of the event, and sending a command to move the transport to a location proximate to the event based on the modified pickup location and the modified pickup time.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Aghyad Saleh, Joshua C. Batie, Devang H. Parekh, Louis Brugman
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Patent number: 11792873Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of determining an amount of time a transport will lose a data network connection when the transport is predicted to enter an area associated with the loss of the data network connection, and sending an emergency signal to a third party when the amount of time has passed since the transport has entered the area and there is no alternate path out of the area.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Louis Brugman
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Publication number: 20230290195Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a diagnostic center, malfunction information related to a transport, acquiring, by a diagnostic center, agreements on a threshold for the malfunction information from a plurality of diagnostic centers, in response to the malfunction information exceeding the threshold, storing the malfunction information on a remote storage, and deleting the malfunction information from the transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman
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Patent number: 11755314Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport, performing a first validation of the software update in a first environment, wherein the first environment includes a least amount of potential interactions, and performing a further validation of the software update when the first validation is successful, in a further environment, wherein the further environment includes an amount of potential interactions greater than the first environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
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Publication number: 20230243659Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
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Patent number: 11710406Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya Parker
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Patent number: 11699308Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a diagnostic center, malfunction information related to a transport, acquiring, by a diagnostic center, agreements on a threshold for the malfunction information from a plurality of diagnostic centers, in response to the malfunction information exceeding the threshold, storing the malfunction information on a remote storage, and deleting the malfunction information from the transport.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua C. Batie, Louis Brugman