Patents by Inventor Michael Feller

Michael Feller 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: 12211292
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine an estimated pose of a vehicle in a global reference frame having a first error and to determine an estimated second error based on a combination of the first error and a map error, in which the map error represents a difference between the estimated pose of the vehicle in the global reference frame and a corresponding estimated pose in a map-referenced frame. The stored instructions being additionally to predict a third error in a future map-referenced measurement frame based on the estimated second error and a motion model and to compute an update to the third error by combining the predicted third error with an accumulation of instantaneous vehicle position and heading errors obtained via a comparison between a camera-observed feature and a corresponding feature from a digital map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian George Buss, Sharnam Shah, Md Nahid Pervez, Ganesh Kumar, Michael Feller, Syed Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20240362927
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine an estimated pose of a vehicle in a global reference frame having a first error and to determine an estimated second error based on a combination of the first error and a map error, in which the map error represents a difference between the estimated pose of the vehicle in the global reference frame and a corresponding estimated pose in a map-referenced frame. The stored instructions being additionally to predict a third error in a future map-referenced measurement frame based on the estimated second error and a motion model and to compute an update to the third error by combining the predicted third error with an accumulation of instantaneous vehicle position and heading errors obtained via a comparison between a camera-observed feature and a corresponding feature from a digital map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian George Buss, Sharnam Shah, MD NAHID Pervez, Ganesh Kumar, Michael Feller, Syed Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20170325912
    Abstract: A method of aligning teeth and an orthodontic appliance are provided. The orthodontic appliance is configured to be adhered to a surface of a tooth and configured to receive a plurality of differently sized archwires. The orthodontic appliance includes a bonding surface configured to be adhered to the surface of the tooth, an opposing outside surface, a plurality of sidewalls extending between the bonding surface and the opposing outside surface, and an archwire groove extending from a sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls parallelly between the bonding surface and the opposing outside surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Jedediah Michael Feller
  • Publication number: 20170208289
    Abstract: A personal media device includes a source of at least one of audio content and visual content, a respective audio phone and visual display device communicatively coupled to the source of at least one of audio content and visual content, the visual display device coupled to eyewear of a user, the visual content visible at least one of directly on the visual display device and indirectly projected onto a lens of the eyewear, and an eyewear interface device including at least one receptacle configured to receive a temple arm of eyewear; a branch configured to support the visual display device in a substantially constant relative position with respect to the eyewear, the branch further configured to support the audio phone proximate an audio receiving portion of a body of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jedediah Michael Feller, Logan James Hutchison
  • Patent number: 9462105
    Abstract: A method and system for managing incoming phone calls to a user device using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes storing in a memory, a plurality of category rules, the category rules associated with parameters of a phone call incoming to a user device, receiving an incoming phone call, comparing parameters of the incoming phone call with at least some of the category rules, assigning each incoming phone call to a category associated with one of the plurality category rules based on the comparison, and automatically, responding to the phone call based on an action specified by the category rules of the assigned category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Jedediah Michael Feller
  • Publication number: 20150350399
    Abstract: A method and system for managing incoming phone calls to a user device using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes storing in a memory, a plurality of category rules, the category rules associated with parameters of a phone call incoming to a user device, receiving an incoming phone call, comparing parameters of the incoming phone call with at least some of the category rules, assigning each incoming phone call to a category associated with one of the plurality category rules based on the comparison, and automatically, responding to the phone call based on an action specified by the category rules of the assigned category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Jedediah Michael Feller
  • Publication number: 20140122621
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for organizing electronic messages are provided. The method includes receiving a first electronic message having a first electronic object, determining, using a processor, an electronic object store based on the first electronic object, and storing the first electronic object in the electronic object store such that the first electronic message is associated with the first electronic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Jedediah Michael Feller
  • Publication number: 20130100610
    Abstract: An air duct arrangement for cooling a group (1) of at least two heat producing modules is provided, said modules (2, 3) being arranged one after the other in the direction of an air flow through said group (1), said air duct arrangement comprising an air path (5, 6) for each module (2, 3). The cooling of modules of a group of modules with cooling air should be enabled with only small space requirements. To this end said air paths (5, 6) are arranged in parallel along a lengthwise direction from a first side of said group (1) to a second side of said group (1), said second side being opposite to the first side, said air path (5, 6) changing their order in a direction perpendicular to said lengthwise direction in a region (13) between said two modules (2, 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Gary Schneider, Bryan Kranyik, Michael Feller