Patents by Inventor Norman Lu

Norman Lu 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: 11975626
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of providing to a charging station a distance desired to be driven by a transport and determining, by the charging station, an amount of energy to retrieve from the transport such that a residual amount of energy in the transport is equivalent to the distance desired to be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Norman Lu
  • Publication number: 20240141388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variant polypeptides, methods of preparing the variant polypeptides, processes for characterizing the variant polypeptides, compositions and cells comprising the variant polypeptides, and methods of using the variant polypeptides. The invention further relates to complexes comprising the variant polypeptides, methods of producing the complexes, processes for characterizing the complexes, cells comprising the complexes, and methods of using the complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shaorong Chong, Wei-Cheng Lu, Brendan Jay Hilbert, Quinton Norman Wessells, Lauren E. Alfonse, Anthony James Garrity
  • Publication number: 20240144261
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a behavior of electricity consumption of an electric vehicle and an entity, adjusting a carbon credit associated with the entity based on an amount of the electricity consumption that is carbon-based and the behavior of the electricity consumption preserving a charge of the electric vehicle, and applying the adjusted carbon credit in a transaction related to the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 11973868
    Abstract: Methods, machine readable media and systems for near-field electromagnetic simulation for side-channel emission analysis of an integrated circuit (IC) are described. In one embodiment, a method can include the following operations: simulating EM field strengths for a plurality of grid partitions of a circuit area of the IC based on a cryptographic work load applied to a model of the IC; identifying one or more of the grid partitions as a security sensitive region for the IC based on the EM field strengths, wherein one or more grid partitions outside of the security sensitive region are identified as non-security sensitive regions for the IC; and simulating EM fields for the IC to perform the EM side-channel emission analysis, wherein contributions of the EM fields from the non-security sensitive regions for the EM side-channel emission analysis are based on a linear superposition of wire currents in the non-security sensitive regions of the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ANSYS, INC.
    Inventors: Deqi Zhu, Norman Chang, Lang Lin, Dinesh Kumar Selvakumaran, Yu Lu
  • Publication number: 20240109449
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a plurality of vehicles and a first charge level of the vehicles utilizing a first charging location, determining a portion of the plurality of vehicles and a second charge level of the portion of the plurality of vehicles utilizing a second charging location, and determining a new charging location based on the plurality of vehicles, the first charge level, the portion of the plurality of vehicles, and the second charge level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 11946045
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variant polypeptides, methods of preparing the variant polypeptides, processes for characterizing the variant polypeptides, compositions and cells comprising the variant polypeptides, and methods of using the variant polypeptides. The invention further relates to complexes comprising the variant polypeptides, methods of producing the complexes, processes for characterizing the complexes, cells comprising the complexes, and methods of using the complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaorong Chong, Wei-Cheng Lu, Brendan Jay Hilbert, Quinton Norman Wessells, Lauren E. Alfonse, Anthony James Garrity
  • Publication number: 20240083284
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a station, a first group of transports in need of charge and a second group of transports capable of providing charge, prioritizing, by the station, at least one transport of the second group to come to the station at a time prior to when at least one transport of the first group comes to the station, receiving, at the station, a first amount of charge from the at least one transport of the second group, and providing, from the station, a second amount of charge to the at least one transport of the first group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20240059184
    Abstract: An example operation includes determining a portion of a group of vehicles, the portion comprising at least one vehicle in the group with a battery capacity below a first threshold, where the first threshold is a battery capacity of one or more vehicles in a remaining portion of the group of vehicles; and halting a use of the portion of the group of vehicles until the battery capacity of the at least one vehicle in the halted portion of the group is around the battery capacity of the one or more vehicles in the remaining portion of the group of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20240054823
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a usage of an internal combustible engine (ICE) vehicle and a usage of an electric vehicle over a period of time, where the vehicles are associated with an entity, determining an impact of carbon output, based on the usage determination, determining a usage amount of the electric vehicle to offset the impact, when the impact is greater than a first threshold, and sending a notification to a device associated with the entity, where the notification includes the amount of usage of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20240046797
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining an issue exists with a resource delivery to an electricity provider, determining an electric impact, based on the issue, determining an area that will be affected by the electric impact, and dispatching vehicles to provide electricity to locations within the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 11890952
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of maneuvering, by a Mobile Energy Storage Unit (MESU), to a transport that is stationary for an amount of time, that is not currently being charged, that is at a distance between the transport and the MESU and that is within a timeframe for the MESU to reach the transport, and retrieving, by MESU, a minimum amount of energy from the transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOT MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Norman Lu
  • Patent number: 11885627
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a transport, in a group of transports associated with a date of disposition, is operating below an efficiency threshold of the group of transports, and limiting transports, in the group of transports, that are operating most above the efficiency threshold, from performing functionality until the group of transports is at the efficiency threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20240025293
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of sensing that a transport in a group is performing at an efficiency below a threshold and modifying at least one other transport in the group to perform at an efficiency above the threshold, wherein the efficiency above the threshold is similar to efficiency below the threshold, wherein the modification occurs at a final portion of a route of the at least one other transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20240025299
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport are wirelessly connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Norman Lu
  • Publication number: 20240014660
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, an amount of energy to provide to a location, the energy located in one or more energy sources including the vehicle, an energy storage device, and an electric grid, the determining based on an ambient temperature of the vehicle, an ambient temperature of the energy storage device, a capacity of a battery in the vehicle, a capacity of the energy storage device, a demand of the electric grid, and an internal temperature of the location; and directing, by the vehicle, at least one of the energy sources to provide the amount of energy, based on determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 11865939
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a station, a first group of transports in need of charge and a second group of transports capable of providing charge, prioritizing, by the station, at least one transport of the second group to come to the station at a time prior to when at least one transport of the first group comes to the station, receiving, at the station, a first amount of charge from the at least one transport of the second group, and providing, from the station, a second amount of charge to the at least one transport of the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 11866038
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a transport, an environment via a first sensor, determining, by the transport, an event related to the environment is imminent, powering, by the transport, a second sensor associated with the imminent event, and detecting, by the transport, the event as it is occurring via the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20230419234
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining objects to be delivered by a group of vehicles, and choosing a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a most degraded battery to transport a heaviest object of the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20230415609
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: determining an event of a vehicle consuming a required amount of energy greater than a first threshold; providing, by a removable auxiliary battery of the vehicle, at least a portion of the required amount of energy during the event; and providing, by a core battery of the vehicle, a second amount of energy upon completion of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20230419825
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of merging at least one vehicle from a first group of vehicles and at least one vehicle from a second group of vehicles, where the merged vehicles communicate with one another, and where a main vehicle in the second group is notified of the merging by the at least one vehicle in the second group after the merging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness