Patents by Inventor Matthew Paul Harrison

Matthew Paul Harrison 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).

  • Patent number: 12371064
    Abstract: A perception engine incorporating place information for a vehicular sensor. The system uses place information to trigger responses in a perception engine. In some examples the system implements a mirroring process in response to other vehicle actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventors: Sandra Lynn Godsey, Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 12334646
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a node in a fixed wireless network. A controller determines optimal paths between nodes through relational calculations. Phase shifts are made to signals generated from one node to another according to the optimal path direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Pivotal Commware, Inc.
    Inventors: Maha Achour, Matthew Paul Harrison, Bernard Casse
  • Patent number: 12283024
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in a vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20240413527
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a node in a fixed wireless network. A controller determines optimal paths between nodes through relational calculations. Phase shifts are made to signals generated from one node to another according to the optimal path direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Maha Achour, Matthew Paul Harrison, Bernard Casse
  • Patent number: 12066518
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a method for semi-supervised training of a radar system. The method includes training a first radar network of the radar system with a first set of radar object detection labels corresponding to a first set of radar data, training a generative adversarial network (GAN) with the trained first radar network, synthesizing a training data set for a second radar network of the radar system with the trained GAN, training a second radar network with the synthesized training data set, and generating a second set of radar object detection labels based on the training of the second radar network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 12000958
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in a vehicle, including a radar system with a reinforcement learning engine to control a beam steering antenna and identity targets in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and a sensor fusion module to receive information from the radar system on the identified targets and compare the information received from the radar system to information received from at least one sensor in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11994579
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for hybrid radar and camera edge sensors are disclosed. Examples disclosed herein relate to a hybrid sensor system having a plurality of edge sensors positioned on the perimeter of a vehicle. The hybrid sensor system processes signals received from the various sensors to identify a target located within the vicinity of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventors: Maha Achour, Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11923613
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a node in a fixed wireless network. A controller determines optimal paths between nodes through relational calculations. Phase shifts are made to signals generated from one node to another according to the optimal path direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Pivotal Commware, Inc.
    Inventors: Maha Achour, Matthew Paul Harrison, Bernard Casse
  • Patent number: 11867829
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to generating continuous visualizations of beam steering vehicle radar scans by acquiring data for a beam steering radar scan, generating a Range Doppler Map (“RDM”) corresponding to the acquired radar data, displaying a visualization of the RDM showing a plurality of identified objects, shifting each identified object by its velocity to generate a shifted RDM, and updating the visualization at a display rate that is higher than a radar scan rate to display continuous movement. The display may be part of an augmented reality system presented to a driver on a windshield or dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Metawave Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11852746
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a multi-sensor fusion platform for use in autonomous vehicles, the multi-sensor fusion platform including a camera perception engine having a camera neural network to detect and identify objects in camera data, a lidar perception engine having a lidar neural network to detect and identify objects in lidar data, and a radar perception engine having a radar neural network to detect and identify objects in radar data, such that training of the radar neural network is bootstrapped with the camera and lidar neural networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Metawave Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11785476
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a sensor fusion scanning system for wireless network planning. The system includes a sensor scanning mobile platform comprising a beam steering radar sensor and one or more auxiliary sensors, the sensor scanning mobile platform configured to scan a wireless environment, a reflectivity engine configured to generate a reflectivity representation of the wireless environment based on radar data from the beam steering radar sensor, a sensor fusion processing engine configured to generate a Three-Dimensional (“3D”) representation of the wireless environment based on the radar data and sensor data from the one or more auxiliary sensors, and a reflectarray planning engine configured to design a plurality of reflectarrays and determine locations for the plurality of reflectarrays in the wireless environment based on the reflectivity representation and the 3D representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Metawave Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20230204722
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a radar system in an autonomous vehicle for object detection and classification. The radar system has a radar module having a dynamically controllable beam steering antenna and a perception module. The perception module includes a machine learning module trained on a first set of data and retrained on a second set of data to generate a set of object locations and classifications, and a classifier to use velocity information combined with the set of object locations and classifications to output a set of classified data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20230196510
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20230070285
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in a vehicle, including a radar system with a reinforcement learning engine to control a beam steering antenna and identity targets in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and a sensor fusion module to receive information from the radar system on the identified targets and compare the information received from the radar system to information received from at least one sensor in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew Paul HARRISON
  • Patent number: 11587204
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: METAWAVE Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11585896
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a radar system in an autonomous vehicle for object detection and classification. The radar system has a radar module having a dynamically controllable beam steering antenna and a perception module. The perception module includes a machine learning module trained on a first set of data and retrained on a second set of data to generate a set of object locations and classifications, and a classifier to use velocity information combined with the set of object locations and classifications to output a set of classified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: METAWAVE Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20230052240
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an ego vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect and identify a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the ego vehicle. The autonomous driving system also includes a sensor fusion module configured to receive radar data on the identified target from the radar system and compare the identified target with one or more targets identified by a plurality of perception sensors that are geographically disparate from the radar system. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20220373686
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a scanning system for determining enhanced placement of an antenna within an environment. The scanning system includes a sensor system configured to emit an optical signal pulse to a surrounding environment of the scanning system and receive one or more returning optical signal pulses reflected from one or more reflective objects in the surrounding environment. The sensor system obtains a plurality of sensor data slices along a first direction from the one or more returning optical signal pulses. Each of the sensor data slices corresponds to a different position of the scanning system along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The scanning system also includes a perception module communicably coupled to the sensor system and configured to generate mapping information of the identified one or more reflective objects in the scene with one or more trained neural networks in the perception module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Edmond Kia Megerdichian, Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 11479262
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an ego vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect and identify a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the ego vehicle. The autonomous driving system also includes a sensor fusion module configured to receive radar data on the identified target from the radar system and compare the identified target with one or more targets identified by a plurality of perception sensors that are geographically disparate from the radar system. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: METAWAVE Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Publication number: 20220215508
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Matthew Paul HARRISON