Patents by Inventor Mark Allen Lippman

Mark Allen Lippman 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).

  • Vehicle and system having trailer coupler connection detection
    Patent number: 11040588
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a trailer hitch, a camera oriented to capture images of the trailer hitch, and a controller processing the captured images, detecting a trailer coupler coupled to the trailer hitch, determining a locked or unlocked state of the hitch coupler by comparing the captured images to known trailer coupler images, and generating an output indicative of the determined state of the trailer coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Niewiadomski, Jacek Brauner, Mark Allen Lippman, Lihui Chen
  • VEHICLE AND SYSTEM HAVING TRAILER COUPLER CONNECTION DETECTION
    Publication number: 20200353782
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a trailer hitch, a camera oriented to capture images of the trailer hitch, and a controller processing the captured images, detecting a trailer coupler coupled to the trailer hitch, determining a locked or unlocked state of the hitch coupler by comparing the captured images to known trailer coupler images, and generating an output indicative of the determined state of the trailer coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Niewiadomski, Jacek Brauner, Mark Allen Lippman, Lihui Chen