Patents by Inventor Mitchell Goepel

Mitchell Goepel 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: 12643242
    Abstract: A method including the receipt of a set of data associated with a surface condition of a vehicle, a determination of an extent of an instance of one or more imperfections upon a surface of the vehicle made by an artificial intelligence system, and an update to a pathway followed by one or more robots based on the determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections. The determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections causes the one or more robots to initiate a remediation action to a targeted portion of the surface of the vehicle to resolve the instance of the one or more imperfections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gary David Farquhar, Mitchell Goepel
  • Patent number: 12552478
    Abstract: A method of directing a vehicle body through a paint process includes obtaining, by a vehicle manufacturing system, process operation data from a vehicle body process. The process operation data is indicative of an operation state of an identified machine performing a selected body operation as part of the vehicle body process. The method includes determining, by the vehicle manufacturing system, whether a recognized fault has occurred based on the process operation data, identifying a potential vehicle body imperfection based on a paint process model and the recognized fault, and providing, by the vehicle manufacturing system, a notification to the paint process of the potential vehicle body imperfection for the vehicle body, where the notification includes location information of the potential vehicle body imperfection, a remedial action for addressing the potential vehicle body imperfection, a recommended resource allocation, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Gary David Farquhar, Marc Tornero Soria, Brian Lucatch, Mitchell Goepel
  • Publication number: 20250326133
    Abstract: A method including the receipt of a set of data associated with a surface condition of a vehicle, a determination of an extent of an instance of one or more imperfections upon a surface of the vehicle made by an artificial intelligence system, and an update to a pathway followed by one or more robots based on the determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections. The determination of the extent of the instance of the one or more imperfections causes the one or more robots to initiate a remediation action to a targeted portion of the surface of the vehicle to resolve the instance of the one or more imperfections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gary David Farquhar, Mitchell Goepel
  • Publication number: 20240124079
    Abstract: A method of directing a vehicle body through a paint process includes obtaining, by a vehicle manufacturing system, process operation data from a vehicle body process. The process operation data is indicative of an operation state of an identified machine performing a selected body operation as part of the vehicle body process. The method includes determining, by the vehicle manufacturing system, whether a recognized fault has occurred based on the process operation data, identifying a potential vehicle body imperfection based on a paint process model and the recognized fault, and providing, by the vehicle manufacturing system, a notification to the paint process of the potential vehicle body imperfection for the vehicle body, where the notification includes location information of the potential vehicle body imperfection, a remedial action for addressing the potential vehicle body imperfection, a recommended resource allocation, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Gary David Farquhar, Marc Tornero Soria, Brian Lucatch, Mitchell Goepel