Patents by Inventor Mark Poll
Mark Poll 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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Publication number: 20240253510Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to a method and system for charge station management including collecting data related to a plurality of charge stations, the data identifying location data, an operator, and a data provider for each of the plurality of charge stations; collating the data to match the location data with the operators of each of the plurality of charge stations; and sequentially merging the location data based on a set of criteria including the data from each of the data providers within a predetermined configurable radius defining a perimeter surrounding each data provider-identified location. Collecting raw data includes receiving the raw data from crowd-sourced data providers; receiving the raw data from the operators of the plurality of charge stations; and organizing the raw data as batch data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahesh Bhannur, Micah J Kaiser, Nitin Singh, Jagannat Chengavalli Lakshminarayanan, Divya Siva Madhuri Malineni, Gayatri Mehta, Mark Poll
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Patent number: 11814032Abstract: An electrified vehicle having an electric machine coupled to a traction battery to selectively propel the vehicle and associated method for the electrified vehicle include receiving trip data from an external server, the trip data including a plurality of road segments of a selected route from a starting location to a destination, each road segment having an associated energy consumption and distance, calculating a distance-to-empty (DTE) based on a remaining trip distance to the destination, available energy of the traction battery, an estimated traction battery energy required for the remaining trip distance, and an overall vehicle efficiency, the estimated traction battery energy being based on a combination of the received segment energy consumption and distance of each remaining segment in the trip, and communicating the DTE to a display within the electrified vehicle to reduce fluctuations in displayed DTE during travel along routes with nonlinear energy consumption (changing energy efficiency).Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mark Poll, Erik Biberstein, Ryan Hunt, Jacob Doan, John William Schmotzer
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Patent number: 11756341Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing predictive distance-to-empty (DTE) assessments for vehicles that can include electric, gas, or hybrid vehicles. An example method includes determining a plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation of a vehicle based on a plurality of energy consumption parameters of the vehicle; determining a plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle selected from any combination of weather data or navigation data, the navigation data being determined relative to a planned route and applying a DTE function for the energy source, the DTE function utilizing the plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation, and the plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle, based on a current capacity of the energy source to determine a DTE for the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiangrui Zeng, John Schmotzer, Mark Poll, Suhag Raval, Praveen Bandi
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Publication number: 20220383664Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing predictive distance-to-empty (DTE) assessments for vehicles that can include electric, gas, or hybrid vehicles. An example method includes determining a plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation of a vehicle based on a plurality of energy consumption parameters of the vehicle; determining a plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle selected from any combination of weather data or navigation data, the navigation data being determined relative to a planned route and applying a DTE function for the energy source, the DTE function utilizing the plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation, and the plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle, based on a current capacity of the energy source to determine a DTE for the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiangrui Zeng, John Schmotzer, Mark Poll, Suhag Raval, Praveen Bandi
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Patent number: 11361595Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing predictive distance-to-empty (DTE) assessments for vehicles that can include electric, gas, or hybrid vehicles. An example method includes determining a plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation of a vehicle based on a plurality of energy consumption parameters of the vehicle; determining a plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle selected from any combination of weather data or navigation data, the navigation data being determined relative to a planned route and applying a DTE function for the energy source, the DTE function utilizing the plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation, and the plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle, based on a current capacity of the energy source to determine a DTE for the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiangrui Zeng, John Schmotzer, Mark Poll, Suhag Raval, Praveen Bandi
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Publication number: 20220176939Abstract: An electrified vehicle having an electric machine coupled to a traction battery to selectively propel the vehicle and associated method for the electrified vehicle include receiving trip data from an external server, the trip data including a plurality of road segments of a selected route from a starting location to a destination, each road segment having an associated energy consumption and distance, calculating a distance-to-empty (DTE) based on a remaining trip distance to the destination, available energy of the traction battery, an estimated traction battery energy required for the remaining trip distance, and an overall vehicle efficiency, the estimated traction battery energy being based on a combination of the received segment energy consumption and distance of each remaining segment in the trip, and communicating the DTE to a display within the electrified vehicle to reduce fluctuations in displayed DTE during travel along routes with nonlinear energy consumption (changing energy efficiency).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mark POLL, Erik BIBERSTEIN, Ryan HUNT, Jacob DOAN, John William SCHMOTZER
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Publication number: 20200294323Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing predictive distance-to-empty (DTE) assessments for vehicles that can include electric, gas, or hybrid vehicles. An example method includes determining a plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation of a vehicle based on a plurality of energy consumption parameters of the vehicle; determining a plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle selected from any combination of weather data or navigation data, the navigation data being determined relative to a planned route and applying a DTE function for the energy source, the DTE function utilizing the plurality of learned parameters of vehicle operation, and the plurality of predictive parameters of vehicle operation of the vehicle, based on a current capacity of the energy source to determine a DTE for the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiangrui Zeng, John Schmotzer, Mark Poll, Suhag Raval, Praveen Bandi