Patents by Inventor Mathew D. Gardner
Mathew D. Gardner 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: 20240046781Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle using dynamic speed limits. A vehicle can monitor current road conditions by capturing real-time data that is indicative of a driving environment associated with a roadway being traversed by the vehicle. Using the captured real-time data, the vehicle can predict a dynamic speed limit, wherein the dynamic speed limit is a driving speed for the vehicle that is adapted for the monitored current road conditions. Additionally, the vehicle can automatically perform a driving operation for the vehicle in accordance with the dynamic speed limit, wherein the driving operation causes the vehicle to move at a driving speed that is approximately equal to the predicted dynamic speed limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: EMILY LERNER, Mathew D. Gardner, Shravanthi Denthumdas
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Patent number: 11823568Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle using dynamic speed limits. A vehicle can monitor current road conditions by capturing real-time data that is indicative of a driving environment associated with a roadway being traversed by the vehicle. Using the captured real-time data, the vehicle can predict a dynamic speed limit, wherein the dynamic speed limit is a driving speed for the vehicle that is adapted for the monitored current road conditions. Additionally, the vehicle can automatically perform a driving operation for the vehicle in accordance with the dynamic speed limit, wherein the driving operation causes the vehicle to move at a driving speed that is approximately equal to the predicted dynamic speed limit.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Emily Lerner, Mathew D. Gardner, Shravanthi Denthumdas
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Patent number: 11650067Abstract: Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle. The system includes an input/output device of the vehicle configured to receive a destination from a user of the vehicle. The system also includes a transceiver of the vehicle configured to receive traffic data and traffic light timing data of traffic lights between a current location of the vehicle and the destination. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle configured to determine one or more routes from the current location to the destination based on the traffic data and the traffic light timing data.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Fanuel Zekiros, Gagandeep Singh Saini, Katherine L. Naiser, Mathew D. Gardner
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Patent number: 11490843Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for methods for monitoring the health status of a vehicle occupant by detecting when a triggering physiological condition is met, confirming the triggering physiological condition is real by identifying a separate vehicle triggering event, and automatically responding to minimize the potential impact of the triggering event.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Robert D. Slater, Mathew D. Gardner, Shingo Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11288641Abstract: A system and method for tracking and validating value of a vehicle, includes a memory device, a wireless communication device, authentication processor that authenticates the vehicle and generates one or more security keys, and a processor maintaining a token linked to the vehicle that designates the vehicle as a stake. The processor executes instructions to when a condition change event of the vehicle occurs, receive information of a change of state from the vehicle, generate a message including the change of state information, sign the message with a private key, transmit the signed message using the wireless communication device, choosing a node of a blockchain distributed network, evaluating, via the chosen node, the signed message in accordance with distributed contract rules to determine an updated token value and a residual token, and receive and maintain the updated token value and the residual token.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Mathew D. Gardner, Shravanthi Denthumdas
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Patent number: 11247698Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules. The machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to: receive one or more images from one or more imaging sensors in the vehicle; identify a first object in a rear seat of the vehicle based on the one or more images; identify a second object attached to the first object based on the one or more images; determine whether the second object is in a set of objects; and output an alert in response to determining that the second object is in the set of objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Shravanthi Denthumdas, Mathew D. Gardner
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Patent number: 11170652Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle routing for a mobility service. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a routing request for the mobility service, determining candidate vehicles and candidate routes for the candidate vehicles to fulfill the routing request. The method includes evaluating the candidate routes using a meta-heuristic that modifies and assesses the candidate routes according to at least a fitness function defines attributes for constraining the candidate routes. The method includes providing a solution route from the candidate routes upon the solution route satisfying at least one solution condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Toyota Connected North America, Inc.Inventors: Mathew D. Gardner, Taylor G. Smith
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Publication number: 20210061301Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules. The machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to: receive one or more images from one or more imaging sensors in the vehicle; identify a first object in a rear seat of the vehicle based on the one or more images; identify a second object attached to the first object based on the one or more images; determine whether the second object is in a set of objects; and output an alert in response to determining that the second object is in the set of objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Shravanthi Denthumdas, Mathew D. Gardner
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Publication number: 20210010820Abstract: Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle. The system includes an input/output device of the vehicle configured to receive a destination from a user of the vehicle. The system also includes a transceiver of the vehicle configured to receive traffic data and traffic light timing data of traffic lights between a current location of the vehicle and the destination. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle configured to determine one or more routes from the current location to the destination based on the traffic data and the traffic light timing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Fanuel Zekiros, Gagandeep Singh Saini, Katherine L. Naiser, Mathew D. Gardner
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Publication number: 20200394922Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle routing for a mobility service. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a routing request for the mobility service, determining candidate vehicles and candidate routes for the candidate vehicles to fulfill the routing request. The method includes evaluating the candidate routes using a meta-heuristic that modifies and assesses the candidate routes according to at least a fitness function defines attributes for constraining the candidate routes. The method includes providing a solution route from the candidate routes upon the solution route satisfying at least one solution condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Mathew D. Gardner, Taylor G. Smith
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Publication number: 20200349833Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle using dynamic speed limits. A vehicle can monitor current road conditions by capturing real-time data that is indicative of a driving environment associated with a roadway being traversed by the vehicle. Using the captured real-time data, the vehicle can predict a dynamic speed limit, wherein the dynamic speed limit is a driving speed for the vehicle that is adapted for the monitored current road conditions. Additionally, the vehicle can automatically perform a driving operation for the vehicle in accordance with the dynamic speed limit, wherein the driving operation causes the vehicle to move at a driving speed that is approximately equal to the predicted dynamic speed limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: EMILY LERNER, MATHEW D. GARDNER, SHRAVANTHI DENTHUMDAS
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Publication number: 20200311698Abstract: A system and method for tracking and validating value of a vehicle, includes a memory device, a wireless communication device, authentication processor that authenticates the vehicle and generates one or more security keys, and a processor maintaining a token linked to the vehicle that designates the vehicle as a stake. The processor executes instructions to when a condition change event of the vehicle occurs, receive information of a change of state from the vehicle, generate a message including the change of state information, sign the message with a private key, transmit the signed message using the wireless communication device, choosing a node of a blockchain distributed network, evaluating, via the chosen node, the signed message in accordance with distributed contract rules to determine an updated token value and a residual token, and receive and maintain the updated token value and the residual token.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Mathew D. Gardner, Shravanthi Denthumdas
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Publication number: 20200155054Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for methods for monitoring the health status of a vehicle occupant by detecting when a triggering physiological condition is met, confirming the triggering physiological condition is real by identifying a separate vehicle triggering event, and automatically responding to minimize the potential impact of the triggering event.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Robert D. Slater, Mathew D. Gardner, Shingo Sugimoto