Patents by Inventor Tracie Renea Conn

Tracie Renea Conn 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).

  • Publication number: 20220363415
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling orbital trajectories of a plurality of spacecraft in a multi-spacecraft swarm. In one aspect, the method includes deploying a DRL agent including a plurality of trajectory control models to the multi-spacecraft swarm, the trajectory control models corresponding to swarm configurations of the multi-spacecraft swarm; determining a state vector of said plurality of spacecraft in the multi-spacecraft swarm; transmitting a collective command to the multi-spacecraft swarm, such that said plurality of spacecraft in the multi-spacecraft swarm are to be distributed in one of the swarm configurations; determining actions of said plurality of spacecraft based on the state vector and the collective command; and maneuvering the multi-spacecraft swarm in accordance with the actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Orbital AI LLC
    Inventor: Tracie Renea Conn
  • Publication number: 20220204016
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive operating data including occupant data indicating one or more occupant actions to operate a vehicle and location data specifying a location of a vehicle during collection of the occupant data, assign the operating data to a respective set in a plurality of sets, each set including operating data collected during a different specified period of time from other sets, input the plurality of sets to a machine learning program trained to output an identification of a hazard at a specified location, the hazard being a roadway condition or an obstacle that changes operation of the vehicle from a default operation, output the hazard at the specified location from the machine learning program, and send a message to a vehicle including the hazard at the specified location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Lerner, Tracie Renea Conn, Scott Huggins
  • Patent number: 11091280
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a system (and concomitant methods and computer software embodied in non-transitory computer readable media) providing formations of satellites and a method of modeling and analyzing inter-satellite relative motion of more than one satellites. These extensions include factoring in spacecraft flight dynamics for achieving real-life and/or simulated objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Tracie Renea Conn, Laura Plice