Patents by Inventor Thomas Prevot
Thomas Prevot 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).
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Patent number: 11955017Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each path of the source network and aggregates the cost for traversing each edge of each path to obtain a cost for each path of the source network. Based on the cost for each path, the network system identifies a path having the lowest cost, whereby the path having the lowest cost is the optimized route between the two locations. The network system then generates an operations volume for the optimized route. The operations volume represents airspace surrounding the optimized route. The operations volume is transmitted to a further system for use.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Eric Mueller, Christabelle Bosson, Thomas Prevot
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Publication number: 20220208010Abstract: A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. A transportation system determines a first and a second hub for a leg of the transport request serviced by the VTOL aircraft and calculates a set of candidate routes from the first hub to the second hub. A provisioned route is selected from among the set of candidate routes based on network and environmental parameters and objectives including pre-determined acceptable noise levels, weather, and the presence and planned routes of other VTOL aircrafts along each of the candidate routes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Thomas Prevot, John Conway Badalamenti, Mark Moore
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Publication number: 20220122468Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each path of the source network and aggregates the cost for traversing each edge of each path to obtain a cost for each path of the source network. Based on the cost for each path, the network system identifies a path having the lowest cost, whereby the path having the lowest cost is the optimized route between the two locations. The network system then generates an operations volume for the optimized route. The operations volume represents airspace surrounding the optimized route. The operations volume is transmitted to a further system for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Eric Mueller, Christabelle Bosson, Thomas Prevot
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Patent number: 11244572Abstract: A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. A transportation system determines a first and a second hub for a leg of the transport request serviced by the VTOL aircraft and calculates a set of candidate routes from the first hub to the second hub. A provisioned route is selected from among the set of candidate routes based on network and environmental parameters and objectives including pre-determined acceptable noise levels, weather, and the presence and planned routes of other VTOL aircrafts along each of the candidate routes.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Thomas Prevot, John Conway Badalamenti, Mark Moore
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Patent number: 11238745Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each path of the source network and aggregates the cost for traversing each edge of each path to obtain a cost for each path of the source network. Based on the cost for each path, the network system identifies a path having the lowest cost, whereby the path having the lowest cost is the optimized route between the two locations. The network system then generates an operations volume for the optimized route. The operations volume represents airspace surrounding the optimized route. The operations volume is transmitted to a further system for use.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Eric Mueller, Christabelle Bosson, Thomas Prevot
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Publication number: 20190340934Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each path of the source network and aggregates the cost for traversing each edge of each path to obtain a cost for each path of the source network. Based on the cost for each path, the network system identifies a path having the lowest cost, whereby the path having the lowest cost is the optimized route between the two locations. The network system then generates an operations volume for the optimized route. The operations volume represents airspace surrounding the optimized route. The operations volume is transmitted to a further system for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Eric Mueller, Christabelle Bosson, Thomas Prevot
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Patent number: 6163744Abstract: Modern flight control systems should be largely automated because of their complexity. A process is disclosed to automatically correct an originally planned aircraft flight after flight-relevant parameters are changed. The process has the following steps: (a) the values of the flight-influencing parameters which determine the planned flight are supplied to a computer and stored therein; (b) when a change occurs, the changed values are also supplied to the computer and compared therein to the stored values; (c) depending on the results of the comparison and on predetermined checking and selection criteria, it is first checked whether the change requires a flight correction, and if that is the case new parameter values for a corrected flight are determined and stored in the computer instead of the previously stored parameter values; (d) the flight correction determined by the new parameter values is initiated; (e) these process steps are repeated whenever necessary every time the parameter values are changed.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Euro Telematic GmbHInventors: Reiner Onken, Thomas Prevot