Patents by Inventor Steven Willits

Steven Willits 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).

  • Vehicle operator workload estimation system and method
    Patent number: 12504820
    Abstract: An estimation system includes a plurality of sensors that generate a multimodal signal, where the multimodal signal indicates a state of a user. The estimation system also includes at least one processor that receives the multimodal signal from the plurality of sensors, and determines a workload experienced by the user based on the multimodal signal and a workload model, wherein the workload model relates multimodal signal data to an experienced workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Jong Hoon Park, Lawrence Chen, Ian Higgins, Zhaobo Zheng, Shashank Kumar Mehrotra, Kevin Salubre, Mohammadreza Mousaei, Steven Willits, Blaine Levedahl, Timothy Buker, Eliot Xing, Teruhisa Misu, Sebastian Scherer, Jean Oh, Kumar Akash
  • Apparatus and method for making articles from flat stock material
    Publication number: 20050235796
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for making articles using a pair of flat, mirror imaged, cutting dies formed by etching, machining, welding or a combination thereof, disposed opposite each other and having cutting knives facing each other. The dies are mounted in a flat die set and driven by a reciprocating flat-bed press which controls their spatial relationship to cut and score articles from flat stock sheets or other material adaptable to be paid out from cylindrical storage rolls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Steven Willits, Samuel Willits