With Indication Of Fuel Consumption Rate Or Economy Of Usage Patents (Class 701/123)
  • Patent number: 12340638
    Abstract: Aspects of the embodiments include receiving, from one or more telematics sensors in a vehicle and by the one or more data processing systems, a plurality of telematics data items that are sampled at a plurality of sample times. For a given sample time, accessing a given telematics data item that satisfies the one or more conditions, computing a fuel consumption amount at the given sample time, and determining a distance traveled by the vehicle from a previous sample time that is prior to the given sample time, to the given sample time. For each telematics data items that satisfies the conditions, computing a total distance and a total fuel consumption amount, with the computing based on distances traveled and fuel consumption amounts for the plurality of telematics data items; and determining a fuel efficiency score the total fuel consumption amount and the total distance or a total time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa Pinals, Samuel Madden, Arash Hadipanah, Brian Sachetta, Robert Scott Kobetis
  • Patent number: 12340602
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating a vehicle driver signature. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating a vehicle driver signature based on current image data, previously classified image data, and vehicle dynamics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez, Scott Thomas Christensen, Taylor Michael Thiel, Anuj Dahiya
  • Patent number: 12282868
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of assessing driving performance using route scoring, driving data indicative of operation of a vehicle while the vehicle was driven on a driving route may be received. Road infrastructure data indicative of one or more features of the driving route may also be received. A route score for the driving route may be calculated using the road infrastructure data, and a driving performance score for a driver of the vehicle may be calculated using the driving data and the route score for the driving route. Data may be sent to a client device via a network to cause the client device to display the driving performance score and/or a ranking based on the driving performance score, and/or the driving performance score may be used to determine a risk rating for the driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Mark Fields, J. Lynn Wilson
  • Patent number: 12275413
    Abstract: The system comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive vehicle data, comprising data associated with a vehicle over a period of time; and receive driver location data, comprising location data associated with one or more drivers of a roster of drivers. The processor is configured to determine a likely pool of drivers based at least in part on the driver location data and the vehicle data; and process the vehicle data and the likely pool of drivers using a model to determine a most likely driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12270667
    Abstract: A control system is arranged to: receive energy information for a vehicle; divide route data into a plurality of route segments comprising first and second route segments; wherein each route segment is indicative of a portion of the route, a first route segment precedes a second route segment along the route, and the length of the first portion is smaller than the length of the second portion of the route; determine an energy requirement for each route segment in dependence on the energy information; and output the energy requirement for the plurality of route segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Graham Berney-Dale, Andrew Bradley, Nigel Johnson, Viorel Radu, Simon Hegarty, Matthew Hancock, Minsuk Shin
  • Patent number: 12264928
    Abstract: There is provided a decentralized system and method for distributed traffic management comprising: a plurality of intersection computing agents connected across a communication network, each intersection computing agent located at a particular intersection communicating with a plurality of corresponding local link computing agents comprising sensors located on each respective road link directly connected to the particular intersection, to receive a link status report comprising speed and number of vehicles on said each respective road link; and said each intersection computing agent calculating an estimated travel time for said each respective road link from said link status report and receiving link information packet comprising the estimated travel time for said each respective road link from a first plurality of intersection computing agents located at a first plurality of intersections physically located downstream to create a network travel time matrix for routing vehicles at said particular intersection
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventors: Bilal Farooq, Shadi Djavadian
  • Patent number: 12259251
    Abstract: A method for estimating energy consumption of a vehicle includes receiving, from a remotely located computing device, standardized energy consumption data corresponding to at least one other vehicle, the standardized energy consumption data corresponding to energy consumption of the at least one other vehicle as a function of speed. The method further includes generating a scaling factor by comparing the energy consumption data corresponding to the energy consumption of the vehicle as a function of speed with the standardized energy consumption data. The method further includes scaling the standardized energy consumption data to generate a profile of the energy consumption efficiency of the vehicle. The method further includes generating a signal to selectively adjust at least one of a speed of the vehicle, at least one route characteristic of a portion of a route being traversed by the vehicle, and a torque demand of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BorgWarner US Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Karim Aggoune, Gerard W. Malaczynski, Claude P. Poull
  • Patent number: 12252122
    Abstract: A traveling-speed control device restricts a traveling speed such that the traveling speed falls within an allowable range from a spot reference speed for a current spot, the spot reference speed being acquired from a spot reference speed storage area in which spot reference speeds at respective spots are stored, the spot reference speeds being set based on respective pieces of traveling speed data at the respective spots. Hereby, a vehicle can travel at a more appropriate traveling speed at each spot regardless of whether the each spot is on a road on map data or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12250237
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes: an obtainer that obtains vehicle information related to the status of a vehicle and including location data indicating the location of the vehicle; a model storage that stores, for each of a plurality of cells of a grid imposed on a map, an evaluation model for evaluating the vehicle information of the vehicle located at the cell; and a determiner that calculates, based on the vehicle information and evaluation models each being the evaluation model and corresponding to evaluation cells including a first cell including the location of the vehicle indicated in the location data and one or more second cells each having a predetermined positional relationship with the first cell, an anomaly level indicating a degree of anomaly of the vehicle information, determines, based on the anomaly level, whether the vehicle information is anomalous, and outputs a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hajime Tasaki, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12249242
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for providing real-time holding and diversion information to a pilot of an aircraft. In one aspect, the pilot uses an electronic flight bag (EFB) or a flight management computer (FMC) to display in a GUI the holding and diversion information. For example, the EFB can receive ADS-B data that can be used to determine the location of the aircraft in the holding queue (i.e., the aircraft's queue position) and predict the amount of time before the aircraft will be able to land. The EFB or FMC can also display diversion information regarding one or more alternate locations (e.g., alternate airports) in the GUI. In one aspect, the EFB or FMC calculate a bingo fuel and the time until reaching the bingo fuel and the pilot must divert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Samantha A. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12247840
    Abstract: Implementations claimed and described herein provide systems and methods for determining fuel efficiency based on sensor data from a mobile device. In one implementation, sensor data from a mobile device is collected. The sensor data includes a dataset that reflects a last trip on a vehicle by the mobile device, wherein the sensor data is collected from at least one of global position system (GPS) data and micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensor data of the mobile device. Driving events comprising at least one of one or more braking events, one or more speeding events, and one or more acceleration events are determined based on the sensor data. A fuel consumption prediction is predicted via a trained prediction model based on the driving events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Satoru Inoue, Jordan Nelson, Jacob Kruse
  • Patent number: 12240346
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example, one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon machine-executable instructions to: receive battery data from at least one sensor connected to a battery bank of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, wherein the battery bank comprises a plurality of batteries; compute from the battery data an available flight time remaining for the eVTOL aircraft; compute a nominal flight time remaining, wherein the nominal flight time remaining excludes a reserve flight time; and display the nominal flight time remaining to a pilot in a human-readable format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Mazzei, Michael R. Hull, Yue Fan
  • Patent number: 12233865
    Abstract: The preceding vehicle selection device includes a processor configured to estimate a continuous running distance from a present time of a surrounding vehicle based on information relating to the surrounding vehicle for each of a plurality of surrounding vehicles, estimate a followable distance when the host vehicle follows the surrounding vehicle based on the continuous running distance from the present time of the surrounding vehicle for each of the plurality of surrounding vehicles, and select the preceding vehicle from among the plurality of surrounding vehicles based on the followable distance. The information relating to the surrounding vehicle includes at least one of an SOC or an amount of remaining fuel of the surrounding vehicle, and a continuous running time or a continuous running distance up to the present time of the surrounding vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sui Kurihashi
  • Patent number: 12199998
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes: an obtainer that obtains vehicle information related to the status of a vehicle and including location data indicating the location of the vehicle; a model storage that stores, for each of a plurality of cells of a grid imposed on a map, an evaluation model for evaluating the vehicle information of the vehicle located at the cell; and a determiner that calculates, based on the vehicle information and evaluation models each being the evaluation model and corresponding to evaluation cells including a first cell including the location of the vehicle indicated in the location data and one or more second cells each having a predetermined positional relationship with the first cell, an anomaly level indicating a degree of anomaly of the vehicle information, determines, based on the anomaly level, whether the vehicle information is anomalous, and outputs a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hajime Tasaki, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12172651
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for evaluating a driving behavior, wherein detected driving data of at least one human driver, or detected driving data of at least one automated driving vehicle are obtained, wherein a key performance indicator is determined based on the obtained driving data, wherein both a travel time as well as an energy efficiency and/or emissions efficiency are taken into account in determining the key performance indicator, wherein the determined key performance indicator is provided as an evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Gläser, Stephan Sorgatz, Holger Poppe, Hannes Rewald, Julia Kwasny
  • Patent number: 12172665
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a traveling state detector, an emotion determination processor, and a driving assistance processor. The traveling state detector is configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle. The emotion determination processor is configured to determine an emotion of an occupant of the vehicle. The driving assistance processor is configured to perform driving assistance control including one or both of information presentation to the occupant and traveling assistance control on the vehicle, in accordance with an output of one or both of the traveling state detector and the emotion determination processor. The emotion determination processor is configured to determine a driving unsuitable emotion by comparing, with a predetermined threshold, a difference between a reference value and a current value of a parameter indicating a physical state of the occupant, and to update the reference value at each driving cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isamu Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 12153586
    Abstract: Computer-implemented older driver/certified driver evaluation and certification methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Alfred R. Barber
  • Patent number: 12153451
    Abstract: A system and method for herding animals by a formation of autonomous vehicles, representing an improvement on U.S. application Ser. No. 18/608,136, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING STRAYS AND MANAGING HERDS. A plurality of herding vehicles use models derived from research and experience in animal husbandry to direct specific vehicles to specific positions with respect to a herd and to move and to emit sounds and light signals so as to induce the herd to stay together and to move in the desired direction at the desired speed. The system detects animals straying from the herd and deploys herding vehicles to drive them back into the herd. It periodically sends herding vehicles to a battery replacement station to receive fully charged batteries. The system operates in two modes: a roundup mode and a herding mode after a herd is fully assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Henry Hardy Perritt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12128793
    Abstract: A device and method determines available regenerative braking energy in a route for a target vehicle. The device is in communication with a navigation unit and is configured to split the at least one route between a source and a destination into multiple segments followed by determining vehicular data of the target vehicle. The device determines available/recoverable regenerative braking energy in the at least one route for the target vehicle based on selective vehicular data of other vehicles similar to the target vehicle, which have travelled through the at least one route. The device is configured to dynamically predict the available regenerative braking energy originating from random longitudinal deceleration maneuvers for the chosen route from source location to the chosen destination location for any hybrid or electric vehicle. The device improves fuel efficiency and reduces emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited
    Inventors: Ranganathan Venkatasubramanian, Selvam Gokul Prasanth
  • Patent number: 12122451
    Abstract: A driver assistance system aids a driver in charging one or more trailer-mounted batteries in a trailer being towed by an electrified passenger vehicle. Many existing charging facilities for electric vehicles have charging stalls with a layout configured to accommodate single vehicles. Charging facilities having drive-through or elongated charging stalls able to accommodate larger vehicles which are towing an electrified trailer are much scarcer. When attempting to charge a trailer-mounted battery in a charging stall meant for a single vehicle, it may be necessary to unhitch (i.e., decouple) the trailer while in the charging stall so that the passenger vehicle does not block the aisles of a charging station. Sensors in the vehicle perform a sensor sweep of a selected charging stall, and after unhitching, the trailer uses an independent drive system to park itself in the selected charging stall using driving commands which are calculated from the sensor sweep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Ryan O'Gorman, Lorne M. Forsythe, Darrel A. Recker, Peter Phung, John R. Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 12112625
    Abstract: An intersection control system includes: a storage storing multiple pieces of intersection control information that are different from each other, each piece of the intersection control information including multiple pieces of permitted trajectory information each of which indicates a permitted travel trajectory that a vehicle is permitted to follow, and a plurality of the travel trajectories not interfering with each other; and one or more processors configured to acquire multiple pieces of travel trajectory information each of which indicates a travel trajectory that each of a plurality of the vehicles located near the intersection follows when passing through the intersection, select a piece of the intersection control information that matches the pieces of the travel trajectory information from among the pieces of the intersection control information, and send the selected piece of the intersection control information to the vehicles located near the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Nagai, Daisaku Honda, Suguru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12102060
    Abstract: An autonomous herding system designed to manage and retrieve stray animals using an autonomous herding vehicle, each equipped with advanced navigation, propulsion, and sensory technology. The system utilizes a combination of optical-LiDAR sensors, global navigation satellite systems, machine-learning-derived image templates to detect and locate stray animals with respect to a herd and to guide them back. The system's modules collaborate to create an efficient, automated process that identifies stray animals, calculates the necessary approach vectors, and uses strategic movements and noises to encourage strays to rejoin their herd. This streamlines the herding process, reducing labor costs and improving the safety of both animals and human operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Henry Hardy Perritt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097747
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes an input signal detector and a processor. The input signal detector detects an input signal that is based on a predetermined switch operation of a switch in the vehicle. The processor controls a defroster of the vehicle and an idle reduction, on the basis of the detection of the input signal performed by the input signal detector. The input signal detector includes a first detector that detects rising of the input signal that is based on the switch operation, and a second detector that detects falling of the input signal that is based on the switch operation. The processor drives the defroster on the basis of the detection of the input signal performed by the first detector, and prohibits the idle reduction on the basis of the detection of the input signal performed by the second detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Inoue, Yuki Ohara, Ayaka Mino
  • Patent number: 12078498
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for implementing Personalized Mobility as a Service (PMaaS) to improve transportation services delivery. One storage medium includes instructions for detecting, by a mobility as a service (MaaS) system, a request for a trip from a user device of a user. The storage medium further includes instructions for mapping, using a model executing on the machine, the user to a persona from a plurality of persona models. Each persona model has one or more characteristics associated with users of the MaaS system. Further yet, the storage medium includes instructions for determining trip parameters for the trip based on the persona mapped to the user, the trip parameters defining one or more trip segments for the trip, and instructions for providing trip parameters to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Hesham Mostafa, Giuseppe Raffa, Nageen Himayat
  • Patent number: 12078091
    Abstract: A system and method for filtering exhaust gases of a vehicle is disclosed, that are based on an exhaust filter assembly includes an enclosure having an inlet coupled with an end of an exhaust pipe to allow exhaust gases of the vehicle into the enclosure, a filter element fitted with the enclosure to adsorb gaseous particles, moisture, and unburned fuel mist particles of the exhaust gases, sensors to sense gaseous particles adsorbed on the filter element, and generate first signals based on the sensed gaseous particles; a control unit; and a communication unit. The control unit includes processors to: receive the generated first signals, and generate second signals based on the received first signals. The communication is configured to transmit the second signals to computing devices of users to notify the users. Thermoelectric generator is adapted to convert heat energy of the exhaust gases into electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Rishi Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 12061092
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processing unit which creates a power-supply plan that ensures a first amount of electric power needed for the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the current location along a travel route. The travel route includes a specified section on which wireless power-supply equipment, among a plurality of power-supply equipment, is disposed. Using weather information including the specified section, the processing unit creates the power-supply plan in which a ratio of a second amount of electric power, which is supplied from the at least one wireless power-supply equipment to the vehicle, to the first amount of electric power is less in a first case in which deposition is determined to be present on the specified section than in a second case in which deposition is determined to be not present on the at least one specified section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12060062
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for analyzing historical accident information to adjust driving actions of an autonomous vehicle over a travel route in order to avoid accidents which have occurred over the travel route. Historical accident information for the travel route can be analyzed to, for example, determine accident types which occurred over the travel route and determine causes and/or probable causes of the accident types. In response to determining accident types and causes/probable causes of the accident types over the travel route, adjustments can be made to the driving actions planned for the autonomous vehicle over the travel route. In addition, in an embodiment, historical accident information can be used to analyze available travel routes and select a route which presents less risk of accident than others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: ARITY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark V. Slusar, Jason Brian Bogovich, Julie A. Jordan Peters
  • Patent number: 12044537
    Abstract: The concepts described herein relate to methods, systems, and analytical techniques to achieve a cloud-based electrified vehicle energy usage system that includes a cloud-based server that is operative to receive vehicle-specific electric energy-related data from a plurality of connected electrified vehicles, and correlate the vehicle-specific electric energy-related data to a road segment. A data analysis is executed for the vehicle-specific electric energy-related data for the plurality of connected electrified vehicles for the road segment, and a crowd-sourced electrified vehicle energy usage report is generated for the road segment based upon the data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Klaus Trangbaek, Daniel Urieli, Vladimir Suplin, Jeremie Benichou
  • Patent number: 12007779
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the motion of an autonomous are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data associated with one or more objects that are proximate to the autonomous vehicle. The data includes a predicted path of each respective object. The method includes identifying at least one object as an object of interest based at least in part on the data associated with the object of interest. The method includes generating cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes determining a motion plan for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes providing data indicative of the motion plan to one or more vehicle control systems to implement the motion plan for the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Albert Costa, Michael L. Phillips, Michael Bode
  • Patent number: 12002309
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for managing autonomous vehicle data. The method may comprise: (a) collecting said autonomous vehicle data from the autonomous vehicle, wherein the autonomous vehicle data has a size of at least 1 terabyte; (b) processing the autonomous vehicle data to generate metadata corresponding to the autonomous vehicle data, wherein the autonomous vehicle data is stored in a database; (c) using at least a portion of the metadata to retrieve a subset of the autonomous vehicle data from the database, which subset of the autonomous vehicle data has a size less than the autonomous vehicle data; and (d) storing or transmitting the subset of the autonomous vehicle data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Synapse Partners, LLC
    Inventor: Evangelos Simoudis
  • Patent number: 11994404
    Abstract: A computational system estimating an energy consumption of a vehicle operated by a driver, the computational system includes a job progress calculator configured to calculate a job progress that is a delay time from a scheduled time on a simulation, an operation tendency storage configured to store tendency information that is a combination of a driver ID that is an identifier of the driver, the job progress, and an operation tendency of the vehicle, an operation tendency reader configured to read the operation tendency of the driver from the tendency information, using the job progress calculated by the job progress calculator, and the driver ID of the driver who is an computation target and a simulation computer configured to calculate the energy consumption of the vehicle, based on the operation tendency read by the operation tendency reader, with respect to each driver who is the computation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Shibuya, Akihito Akai, Yuji Chiba
  • Patent number: 11987270
    Abstract: In a vehicle dispatch management system which manages a plurality of shared vehicles (2) and dispatches the shared vehicles in response to a dispatch request from a user, the vehicle dispatch management system includes: an individual cruising distance calculation device (22) configured to calculate a cruising distance of each of the shared vehicles; a total cruising distance calculation device (17) configured to calculate a total cruising distance of all of the shared vehicles; an energy supply determination device (18) configured to determine a necessity of traveling energy supply of the shared vehicle when the total cruising distance is equal to or less than a first predetermined value; and a supply instruction device (19) configured to instruct a supply instruction to the shared vehicle determined to be supplied on the basis of determining the necessity of traveling energy supply of the shared vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventor: Naoki Kojo
  • Patent number: 11975732
    Abstract: An acquisition unit of in-vehicle notification device mounted on electric vehicle acquires a discharge current value discharged from secondary battery in electric vehicle to motor for running in electric vehicle. According to the acquired discharge current value, a notification unit notifies the driver of information indicating an impact of a current driving condition by the driver of electric vehicle on degradation of secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Changhui Yang, Takashi Iida
  • Patent number: 11971268
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking and evaluating fuel consumptions of vehicles are provided. The method can involve operating a telematics device installed in the vehicle to: collect fuel data from at least one fuel data source of the vehicle; track, for each fuel data source, a cumulative amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle; determine a confidence level of each fuel data source; identify an initial fuel data source; generate a plurality of mid-trip fuel records; identify a final fuel data source based on a priority of each fuel data source and each confidence level of each fuel data source; determine whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid; and transmit the plurality of mid-trip fuel records and an indication of whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid to a fleet management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Meghan Frances Fotak, Weinan Sun, Michael Angelo David Santorelli, James David Johnston, Ian Grzegorczyk
  • Patent number: 11958366
    Abstract: A device operates an electrical energy store for supplying components of an electrically operable motor vehicle, wherein operating limits are defined in each case for one or more characteristic variables of the energy store. A control unit prevents the operating limits from being exceeded during normal operation of the energy store. The device has an interface for receiving a user-side request message from an apparatus, the request message including change information about an intended shift in the operating limit of at least one of the characteristic variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Philipp Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11945335
    Abstract: A method and system for characterizing an energy consumption indicator of an electric vehicle (EV) is provided. The method includes performing a cyclic energy consumption test on the EV to acquire a time-speed curve, a time-direct current (DC) energy consumption curve, and a total alternating current (AC) energy consumption in the test cycle. A DC energy consumption rate and an AC energy consumption rate of the EV is determined in each of test sub-cycles. A driving feature is determined in each of the test sub-cycles and a normalized driving feature is determined in each of the test sub-cycles according to the driving feature in each of the test sub-cycles and a base driving feature. A DC energy consumption indicator and an AC energy consumption indicator of the EV are extracted according to DC energy consumption rates, AC energy consumption rates and normalized driving features of the EV in all test sub-cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JILIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xinmei Yuan, Bo Bao, Dongyu Zhang, Jingfei Jiang, Fanzhuo Meng
  • Patent number: 11940278
    Abstract: Systems and methods for indicating a navigable area that is reachable by a watercraft with a current amount of energy is provided. The system comprises a display, a processor and a memory, including a computer code configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the system to receive position data indicating a current geographic location of a watercraft; receive tidal data for the current geographic location of the watercraft; determine, based on energy remaining data, an estimated available travel distance for operating a motor of the watercraft before the watercraft runs out of energy; and generate an overlay for a chart. The overlay comprises a boundary area corresponding to the estimated available travel distance and the effect of the tide on the watercraft. The computer code further presents the overlay on the chart to visually indicate travel options from the current geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Navico, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan P. Davis
  • Patent number: 11914384
    Abstract: An energy consumption estimation device includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a user, request information including a departure point and a destination, a route derivation unit configured to derive a plurality of travel routes based on the departure point and the destination included in the request information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire section energy consumption in a case where a vehicle travels on a road section, which is derived based on information on vehicle speed and information on road undulations, and an estimation unit configured to respectively estimate energy consumption of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle travels on the derived travel routes by adding section energy consumption for road sections included in the travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11900281
    Abstract: In an example, a method for optimizing energy loading in airline operations is described. The method includes receiving a flight plan of an aircraft indicative of a plurality of landing sites and a corresponding plurality of flight legs. The method includes determining an energy load of the aircraft associated with each flight leg. The energy load corresponds to an amount of fuel used during the flight leg. The method includes calculating a fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at a landing site of each flight leg. The fuel value score relates to a refueling estimate at the landing site and a time for refueling at the landing site. The method includes determining a fueling plan based at least on the energy load of the aircraft at each flight leg and the fuel value score for refueling the aircraft at the landing site of each flight leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Italo Romani de Oliveira, Francisco A. Navarro, Onofre Andrade
  • Patent number: 11891045
    Abstract: A power transmission device of the present invention is a power transmission device for a vehicle, including: a generator configured to be driven by power of an internal combustion engine; a travel motor configured to be driven by electric power generated by the generator and to drive a drive wheels; and the drive wheels configured to be driven by the power of the internal combustion engine or power of the travel motor. The power transmission device includes: a first power transmission path configured to transmit power between the travel motor and the drive wheels; and a first clutch mechanism configured to allow or interrupt power transmission through the first power transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miura, Masato Koga, Takayuki Kagaya, Yuuki Nakajima, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11871313
    Abstract: A method for monitoring vehicle motion using a mobile device associated with a user including collecting activity data at a mobile device associated with the user; determining a user activity state based on the activity data; determining motion data collection parameters associated with an operating state of the mobile device, based on the user activity state; and collecting motion data at the mobile device based on the motion data collection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zendrive, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Matus, Pankaj Risbood
  • Patent number: 11851070
    Abstract: The system comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive vehicle data, comprising data associated with a vehicle over a period of time; and receive driver location data, comprising location data associated with one or more drivers of a roster of drivers. The processor is configured to determine a likely pool of drivers based at least in part on the driver location data and the vehicle data; and process the vehicle data and the likely pool of drivers using a model to determine a most likely driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11836627
    Abstract: Determining that a motor vehicle driver is using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple images of a driver of a motor vehicle are captured through a side window of the motor vehicle. Positive images show a driver using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Negative images show a driver not using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple training images are selected from both the positive images and the negative images. The selected training images and respective labels, indicating that the selected training images are positive images or negative images, are input to a machine (e.g. Convolutional Neural Network, (CNN)). The CNN is trained to classify that a test image, captured through a side window of a motor vehicle, shows a driver using a mobile device while driving the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: REDFLEX TRAFFIC SYSTEMS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Jonathan Devor, Moshe Mikhael Frolov, Igal Muchnik, Herbert Zlotogorski
  • Patent number: 11807106
    Abstract: A control device is a control device of a moving body that includes a first accumulation unit configured to accumulate first energy, a second accumulation unit configured to accumulate second energy different from the first energy, and an electric motor configured to generate power to move using any one or both of second energy obtained by converting first energy accumulated in the first accumulation unit and second energy accumulated in the second accumulation unit, in which a required amount, which is an amount of the second energy required to move from a current place to a supply point that is a point where supply of the first energy is received, is acquired when the second energy is accumulated in the second accumulation unit and, if the required amount has been supplied to the second accumulation unit, a termination-related operation related to termination of the supply is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Sakai
  • Patent number: 11780459
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support device issues an alert to notify a driver of a vehicle that there is a possibility of occurrence of a situation in which the vehicle is not able to travel along a lane. The vehicle driving support device issues an alert when an alert condition that a rate of increase in a lateral acceleration of the vehicle is equal to or larger than a predetermined rate of increase is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Honda
  • Patent number: 11769400
    Abstract: A traffic analysis system analyzes location data from a plurality of vehicles to determine journeys made by the vehicles. Vehicles may make one or more rest stops during a journey. The traffic analysis system compares rest periods to journey criteria to determine whether a rest period delineates the end of a journey, or whether a rest period is still within the journey. In this way, a plurality of trips can be chained together into a journey to provide more accurate analysis of traffic patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Shweta Pravinchandra Shah, Daniel J. Lewis, Jean Pilon-Bignell, Pooria Poorsarvi Tehrani, Chien An Liu, Robert Bradley, Terence Michael Branch
  • Patent number: 11735045
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to allocating unused or otherwise under-utilized computing resources of autonomous vehicles. In one example, a computer-implemented method obtaining, by a computing system, data describing a computational status of each autonomous vehicle of one or more autonomous vehicles describing a current or forecasted computational load. The method includes determining, by the computing system, an amount of excess computational capacity of each autonomous vehicle of the one or more autonomous vehicles, the amount of excess computational capacity for each autonomous vehicle of the one or more autonomous vehicles based at least in part on the computational status of the autonomous vehicle and a total computational capacity of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes allocating, by the computing system, at least a portion of the amount of excess computational capacity of each autonomous vehicle to processing operations associated with participation in a distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Nigel Wright, Kailash Sethuraman
  • Patent number: 11715136
    Abstract: A method for controlling a charge transfer of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, at a mobile device, a message for an electric vehicle of a user from the electric vehicle charging station, wherein a user of the mobile device is associated with the electric vehicle to be charged; sending, from the mobile device, the message for the electric vehicle of the user to the cloud server, wherein the charge transfer request relayed from the mobile device includes identification information; in response to a charging control signal being authorized using identification information received from the mobile device, receiving the charging control signal from the cloud server at the mobile device to be forwarded to the electric vehicle charging station, wherein the charging control signal is configured to adjust a charging parameter at the electric vehicle charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Zeco Systems Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin-Zhuang Khoo, Ron Mahabir, Terence Siew, Renaldo Noma, Neeraj Jhanji
  • Patent number: 11702998
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle engine to reduce engine knock and increase fuel efficiency by reducing hydrocarbon breakthrough. In one example, a method may include adjusting a compression ratio of a variable compression engine in response to hydrocarbon breakthrough above a threshold from a fuel vapor canister of an evaporative emissions system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aed Dudar, Kenneth Pifher
  • Patent number: 11697359
    Abstract: A distance-to-empty presentation apparatus of a fuel cell vehicle includes: a traveling speed acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling speed of the fuel cell vehicle; a traveling distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling distance of the fuel cell vehicle in a fuel filling period, the fuel filling period is a period from the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle previously to the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle this time; a fuel residual amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel residual amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel consumption amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel consumption amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel efficiency calculation unit configured to calculate fuel filling period fuel efficiency by using the traveling distance in the fuel filling period and a traveling period fuel consumption amount that is the fuel consumption amount during traveling preparation and during traveling in the fuel fillin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Shimakami