Patents by Inventor Mark Fryer
Mark Fryer 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: 11667456Abstract: The present disclosure relates to stacked, grid storage systems such as densely packed storage systems, and methods of adjusting, regulating, controlling and maintaining the temperature of storage systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Lars Sverker Ture Lindbo, Mark Fryer, Martyn Lee Bates, Kevin Faux, Timothy Deighton Steiner, Siddique Shaihk
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Patent number: 11466996Abstract: A route planning platform can find a path through a road network that has turn complexities. The route planning platform can identify, in the road network, multiple paths from an origin node to a destination node, including at least one path having a turn complexity (e.g., a turn cost, a turn restriction, and/or the like). The route planning platform can compute a respective cost for each respective path from the origin node to the destination node based on a total cost associated with a set of road segments in the respective path, and the cost for the at least one path having the turn complexity can be further based on the turn cost or the turn restriction along the at least one path. The route planning platform can select, among the multiple paths, a shortest path based on the respective cost for each path.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Mykhaylo Tyuryutikov, Hughan Jay Ross, Mark A Fryer
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Publication number: 20210101743Abstract: A robotic service device is described for use on a robotic picking system grid. The robotic service device is capable of driving to any location on the grid order to perform maintenance operations or cleaning. Additionally, the service device may be used to rescue robotic load handling devices operational in the picking system. The robotic service device may include a releasable docking mechanism to enable it to dock and latch on to malfunctioning load handling devices. The service device may also be provided with cleaning capability and a camera to enable the condition of the grid and other robotic devices to be monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Mark FRYER, Andy INGRAM-TEDD, Siddique SHAIKH, Sverker LINDBO
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Patent number: 10836577Abstract: A robotic service device is described for use on a robotic picking system grid. The robotic service device is capable of driving to any location on the grid order to perform maintenance operations or cleaning. Additionally, the service device may be used to rescue robotic load handling devices operational in the picking system. The robotic service device may include a releasable docking mechanism to enable it to dock and latch on to malfunctioning load handling devices. The service device may also be provided with cleaning capability and a camera to enable the condition of the grid and other robotic devices to be monitored.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Mark Fryer, Andy Ingram-Tedd, Siddique Shaikh, Sverker Lindbo
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Publication number: 20200318981Abstract: A route planning platform can find a path through a road network that has turn complexities. The route planning platform can identify, in the road network, multiple paths from an origin node to a destination node, including at least one path having a turn complexity (e.g., a turn cost, a turn restriction, and/or the like). The route planning platform can compute a respective cost for each respective path from the origin node to the destination node based on a total cost associated with a set of road segments in the respective path, and the cost for the at least one path having the turn complexity can be further based on the turn cost or the turn restriction along the at least one path. The route planning platform can select, among the multiple paths, a shortest path based on the respective cost for each path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Mykhaylo TYURYUTIKOV, Hughan Jay ROSS, Mark A. FRYER
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Patent number: 10739152Abstract: A device receives historical map data, and receives, during a time period, location data associated with a location of a vehicle. The device processes the location data, with a fitted history model, to generate a vehicle path, and processes a portion of the location data, with the fitted history model, to generate a fitted history path, based on the historical map data. The device compares the vehicle path and the fitted history path, and determines whether the vehicle path and the fitted history path match based on comparing the vehicle path and the fitted history path. The device provides the portion of the location data when the vehicle path and the fitted history path match, or adds location data to the portion of the location data and provides the portion of the location data and the added location data, when the vehicle path and the fitted history path do not match.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.Inventor: Mark A. Fryer
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Publication number: 20190301876Abstract: A device receives historical map data, and receives, during a time period, location data associated with a location of a vehicle. The device processes the location data, with a fitted history model, to generate a vehicle path, and processes a portion of the location data, with the fitted history model, to generate a fitted history path, based on the historical map data. The device compares the vehicle path and the fitted history path, and determines whether the vehicle path and the fitted history path match based on comparing the vehicle path and the fitted history path. The device provides the portion of the location data when the vehicle path and the fitted history path match, or adds location data to the portion of the location data and provides the portion of the location data and the added location data, when the vehicle path and the fitted history path do not match.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventor: Mark A. FRYER
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Publication number: 20180194571Abstract: A robotic service device is described for use on a robotic picking system grid. The robotic service device is capable of driving to any location on the grid order to perform maintenance operations or cleaning. Additionally, the service device may be used to rescue robotic load handling devices operational in the picking system. The robotic service device may include a releasable docking mechanism to enable it to dock and latch on to malfunctioning load handling devices. The service device may also be provided with cleaning capability and a camera to enable the condition of the grid and other robotic devices to be monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2015Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Mark FRYER, Andy INGRAM-TEDD, Siddique SHAIKH, Sverker LINDBO
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Publication number: 20180170650Abstract: The present disclosure relates to stacked, grid storage systems such as densely packed storage systems, and methods of adjusting, regulating, controlling and maintaining the temperature of storage systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITEDInventors: Lars Sverker Ture LINDBO, Mark FRYER, Martyn Lee BATES, Kevin FAUX, Timothy Deighton STEINER, Siddique SHAIHK
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Patent number: 9857191Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Publication number: 20160334236Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Publication number: 20150338226Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Patent number: 9140567Abstract: This disclosure describes vehicle route calculation methods including “fitting” route segments between locations reported by a vehicle at different times along a route to create an overall “fitted” route. In certain embodiments, a vehicle management system generates a vehicle management user interface that displays the “fitted” route overlaid on a map. The “fitted” route can provide more useful tracking information to an administrator compared to simply displaying direct routes between known route stops.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Mark Fryer, Ralph James Mason, William Elliot
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Patent number: 9068852Abstract: A vehicle management system is described herein that can perform a variety of features related to managing fleets of vehicles. For example, the vehicle management system includes a routing module that can perform a variety of functions. Some of these functions can include determining a first route between locations using a simplified routing network and then determining a second route between the locations using a more exhaustive routing network. Further, the routing module can store information about the natural flow through intersections, improving control of routes through intersections. Some or all of these features may be used together, or any of these features may be omitted in any given embodiment.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Ralph James Mason, Mark Fryer, David John Mitchell
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Patent number: 9020760Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can determine and consider street classifications when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. In one embodiment, a system for calculating routes for a plurality of vehicles in a vehicle fleet includes a computer system. The computer system is configured to receive custom data to classify streets of a network of streets in a geographic region for use in calculating routes. Based at least in part on the received custom data, the computer system can calculate custom routes on the network of streets between waypoint locations. In addition, the computer system can determine a classification for each street of the network of streets based at least in part on the calculated custom routes. The classification can include a score indicative of a hierarchical ranking of each street for calculating routes for the fleet vehicles on the network of streets in the geographic region.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Mark Fryer, Sebastien Sydney Robert Bigot
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Publication number: 20130297207Abstract: A vehicle management system is described herein that can perform a variety of features related to managing fleets of vehicles. For example, the vehicle management system includes a routing module that can perform a variety of functions. Some of these functions can include determining a first route between locations using a simplified routing network and then determining a second route between the locations using a more exhaustive routing network. Further, the routing module can store information about the natural flow through intersections, improving control of routes through intersections. Some or all of these features may be used together, or any of these features may be omitted in any given embodiment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Ralph James Mason, Mark Fryer, David John Mitchell
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Publication number: 20130204524Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can determine and consider street classifications when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. In one embodiment, a system for calculating routes for a plurality of vehicles in a vehicle fleet includes a computer system. The computer system is configured to receive custom data to classify streets of a network of streets in a geographic region for use in calculating routes. Based at least in part on the received custom data, the computer system can calculate custom routes on the network of streets between waypoint locations. In addition, the computer system can determine a classification for each street of the network of streets based at least in part on the calculated custom routes. The classification can include a score indicative of a hierarchical ranking of each street for calculating routes for the fleet vehicles on the network of streets in the geographic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Mark Fryer, Sebastien Sydney Robert Bigot
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Publication number: 20120226391Abstract: This disclosure describes vehicle route calculation methods including “fitting” route segments between locations reported by a vehicle at different times along a route to create an overall “fitted” route. In certain embodiments, a vehicle management system generates a vehicle management user interface that displays the “fitted” route overlaid on a map. The “fitted” route can provide more useful tracking information to an administrator compared to simply displaying direct routes between known route stops.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Mark Fryer, Ralph James Mason, William Elliot