Patents by Inventor Neil DUTTA

Neil DUTTA 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: 11386722
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of requesting, by a processor of a device, permissions to provide access to a transport to a diagnostic location from a network of a plurality of diagnostic locations, in response to receiving the permissions from the network of the plurality of the diagnostic locations, authenticating the diagnostic location, by the device, providing a pre-stored one-time access key to the transport to the diagnostic location, and receiving, by the device, diagnostics from the diagnostic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Shingo Sugimoto, Andrew L. Wells, Shintaro Iwaasa, Felipe G. Salles, Robert D. Slater, Joshua V. Marasigan, Joshua C. Batie, Ryan T. Oehler
  • Patent number: 11328592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for roadway obstruction detection are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives information pertaining to a potential roadway obstruction; determines that additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction is needed to identify the potential roadway obstruction; selects one or more vehicles from a plurality of vehicles based, at least in part, on their proximity to the potential roadway obstruction and their sensor capabilities; and determines that the potential roadway obstruction is a specific type of roadway obstruction based, at least in part, on additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction received from at least one of the selected one or more vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Aghyad Saleh, Jason Schell, Neil Dutta
  • Publication number: 20220139210
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a new condition of a transport during a transport event based on sensor data, retrieving a transport condition profile, comparing the new condition to an initial condition of the transport, stored prior to the transport event, in the transport condition profile, and determining the transport is damaged based on the comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11227490
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a new condition of a transport during a transport event based on sensor data, retrieving a transport condition profile, comparing the new condition to an initial condition of the transport, stored prior to the transport event, in the transport condition profile, and determining the transport is damaged based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210319129
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of querying, by a transport, a plurality of transports within a range of an accident location, receiving, by the transport, agreements to access profiles of the plurality of transports on a storage, and responsive to the profiles containing video data associated with the accident location, linking the video data to a profile of the transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210319202
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by an accident processing node, an accident report generated by a transport, retrieving, by the accident processing node, a time and a location of the accident from the accident report, querying, by the accident processing node, a plurality of transport profiles on a storage based on the time and the location of the accident, and retrieving video data associated with the time and the location of the accident from the plurality of the transport profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210319632
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by an accident processing node, an accident report from a transport, determining, by an accident processing node, a time and location parameters of the accident based on the report, querying, by an accident processing node, transport profiles on a storage based on the time and location parameters, and responsive to the transport profiles containing data corresponding to the time and location parameters, sending a request to access the transport profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11140748
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for improving cellular network coverage using a vehicle-based data transmission extender. One such generalized method includes establishing communication between a fixed base station of a cellular network and a first wireless device, which includes a data transmission module that is part of a first vehicle. Data is relayed between the fixed base station and a second wireless device using the first wireless device to extend geographic coverage of the cellular network to the second wireless device. The method also includes at least one of: detecting, using a signal detector, a signal emitted from the second wireless device, the signal detector being part of the first vehicle; and tracking, using a data meter, an amount of data relayed via the first wireless device between the fixed base station and the second wireless device over the cellular network, the data meter being part of the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael C. Edwards, Gopal Kalaimani Senthilkumar, Neil Dutta
  • Patent number: 11014534
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a processor of a transport, to a network comprised of a plurality of transports, receiving, by the processor of the transport, an access key request to the transport from a device, broadcasting, by the processor of the transport, the request to the network, collecting, by the processor of the transport, authorizations from a subset of the plurality of the transports, and sending a one-time access key to the device, if the authorizations are received from a minimal required number of the transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Shingo Sugimoto, Andrew L. Wells, Shintaro Iwaasa, Felipe G. Salles, Robert D. Slater, Joshua V. Marasigan, Joshua C. Batie, Ryan T. Oehler
  • Patent number: 10977876
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improving vehicle design. The system includes a plurality of first version vehicles, each first version vehicle of the plurality of first version vehicles having a first version vehicle design, and including one or more sensors for detecting sensor data, and a vehicle transceiver configured to communicate the sensor data. The system also includes a remote data server configured to receive the sensor data from the plurality of first version vehicles and determine one or more improvements to the first version vehicle design based on the received sensor data. The system also includes a computing device coupled to the remote data server and configured to execute vehicle design software for designing a second version vehicle design, the second version vehicle design including the one or more improvements to the first version vehicle design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Neil Dutta
  • Publication number: 20210065306
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a potential damage event, recording, by the transport, a first media file via at least one sensor on the transport, accessing, by the transport, a second media file on at least one other transport within a predefined distance of the transport, analyzing, by the transport, the first media file and the second media file to identify portions that correlate to the potential damage event, and determining an actual damage event has occurred based on the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210065307
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a server, a video file from a transport, the video file reflecting an accident, requesting a permission to access video files from a plurality of transports within a pre-defined range from the transport, analyzing the video file from the transport and the video files from the plurality of the transports to determine a damage to the transport, and storing the video files from the plurality of the transports that correlate with the video file from the transport on a remote storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210065469
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a server, an accident report from a transport, accessing, by a server, at least one media file associated with the report on a remote storage, analyzing, by the server, the media file to assess a damage to the transport, and storing the damage assessment onto the remote storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20210049906
    Abstract: Systems and methods for roadway obstruction detection are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives information pertaining to a potential roadway obstruction; determines that additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction is needed to identify the potential roadway obstruction; selects one or more vehicles from a plurality of vehicles based, at least in part, on their proximity to the potential roadway obstruction and their sensor capabilities; and determines that the potential roadway obstruction is a specific type of roadway obstruction based, at least in part, on additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction received from at least one of the selected one or more vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Aghyad Saleh, Jason Schell, Neil Dutta
  • Publication number: 20210009078
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a processor of a transport, to a network comprised of a plurality of transports, receiving, by the processor of the transport, an access key request to the transport from a device, broadcasting, by the processor of the transport, the request to the network, collecting, by the processor of the transport, authorizations from a subset of the plurality of the transports, and sending a one-time access key to the device, if the authorizations are received from a minimal required number of the transports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Shingo Sugimoto, Andrew L. Wells, Shintaro Iwaasa, Felipe G. Salles, Robert D. Slater, Joshua V. Marasigan, Joshua C. Batie, Ryan T. Oehler
  • Publication number: 20210012586
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of requesting, by a processor of a device, permissions to provide access to a transport to a diagnostic location from a network of a plurality of diagnostic locations, in response to receiving the permissions from the network of the plurality of the diagnostic locations, authenticating the diagnostic location, by the device, providing a pre-stored one-time access key to the transport to the diagnostic location, and receiving, by the device, diagnostics from the diagnostic location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Shingo Sugimoto, Andrew L. Wells, Shintaro Iwaasa, Felipe G. Salles, Robert D. Slater, Joshua V. Marasigan, Joshua C. Batie, Ryan T. Oehler
  • Publication number: 20200402391
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a new condition of a transport during a transport event based on sensor data, retrieving a transport condition profile, comparing the new condition to an initial condition of the transport, stored prior to the transport event, in the transport condition profile, and determining the transport is damaged based on the comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20200402149
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, at a server, first data from at least one sensor associated with a transport wherein the first data contains at least one condition of the transport, receiving a second data from the server and the second data contains at least one review of a user, determining a rating of the user based on the first data and the second data, receiving a query from another server relating to the rating of the user, sending a response containing the rating, and performing an action, by the another server, based on the rating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20200344845
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for improving cellular network coverage using a vehicle-based data transmission extender. One such generalized method includes establishing communication between a fixed base station of a cellular network and a first wireless device, which includes a data transmission module that is part of a first vehicle. Data is relayed between the fixed base station and a second wireless device using the first wireless device to extend geographic coverage of the cellular network to the second wireless device. The method also includes at least one of: detecting, using a signal detector, a signal emitted from the second wireless device, the signal detector being part of the first vehicle; and tracking, using a data meter, an amount of data relayed via the first wireless device between the fixed base station and the second wireless device over the cellular network, the data meter being part of the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Michael C. Edwards, Gopal Kalaimani Senthilkumar, Neil Dutta
  • Publication number: 20200296559
    Abstract: Methods and systems for maintaining telematics data. The system includes a standard vehicle. The standard vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to detect telematics data, a memory configured to store a blockchain associated with the standard vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to update the blockchain associated with the standard vehicle with the detected telematics data, and a transceiver configured to communicate the blockchain to one or more other vehicles. The system also includes a collection vehicle. The collection vehicle includes a transceiver configured to receive the blockchain from the standard vehicle, and communicate the blockchain from the standard vehicle to a network to update a distributed record of the blockchain associated with the standard vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Hazem Ahmed, David M. Goemer, Walter Accessor, Andrew L. Wells, Ryan Wheeler, Anil R. Nair, Senthilkumar Gopal Kalaimani, Neil Dutta, Michael C. Edwards