Remote Control System Patents (Class 701/2)
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Patent number: 12365375Abstract: A system is provided that may include a controller having one or more processors. The one or more processors may control movement of a vehicle system along a route, and determine a restriction in speed of the vehicle system at a switch point. The one or more processors may determine a direction of movement of the vehicle system based on the restriction in the speed at the switch point.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventor: Matthew Vrba
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Patent number: 12360526Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating an AV includes receiving, by a computer located in the AV, sensor data that indicates a condition of one or more devices in the AV or of a roadway on which the autonomous vehicle is operating; and causing, by the computer and based on the sensor data, the autonomous vehicle to operate in accordance with a maneuver by sending instructions to one or more devices in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the maneuver is configured to bring the autonomous vehicle to a complete stop. In some embodiments, the maneuver may be selected from a plurality of maneuvers in response to determining an occurrence of a fault condition based on the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.Inventors: Scott Douglas Foster, Erik Orlando Portillo, Zhujia Shi, Joyce Tam
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Patent number: 12360524Abstract: A mowing system including a base station disposed at a work area; and a plurality of robotic lawn mowers disposed at the work area, the plurality of robotic lawn mowers including a first robotic lawn mower and a second robotic lawn mower, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with the second robotic lawn mower through the first robotic lawn mower.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GPInventors: Man Ho Choi, Hei Man Lee, Shing Hin Li
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Patent number: 12361328Abstract: An iterative attention-based neural network training and processing method and system iteratively applies a focus of attention of a trained neural network on syntactical elements and generates probabilities associated with representations of the syntactical elements, which in turn inform a subsequent focus of attention of the neural network, resulting in updated probabilities. The updated probabilities are then applied to generate syntactical elements for delivery to a user. The user may respond to the delivered syntactical elements, providing additional training information to the trained neural network.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventor: Steven D. Flinn
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Patent number: 12345018Abstract: Provided are a work machine and a work machine system that reduce risk that a vehicle body comes into contact with an obstacle nearby in a case wherein abnormality arises in the work machine. The work machine comprises: a traveling body; a rotary body rotatably mounted onto the traveling body; a work machinery of an articulated type mounted to the rotary body and including a boom, an arm and a work tool; and a control device. The control device comprises a control instruction calculation section, a machine control section, an abnormality detection section, an avoiding movement necessity determination section and an avoidance control instruction section. The machine control section controls the traveling body, the rotary body and the work machinery putting priority on the avoidance control instruction over the operation control instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuchie
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Patent number: 12342240Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of systems and methods for monitoring for and lowering the risk of addiction-related or restriction violation-related behavior(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Conquer Your Addiction LLCInventor: David H. Williams
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Patent number: 12340634Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and using dual vehicle digital twins for model-based learning and remotely-operated vehicles. An example method may include receiving, by a processor associated with a first digital twin stored locally on a computing system of a vehicle or a second digital twin stored remotely on a first remote system, data relating to a first sub-system of the vehicle and a second sub-system of the vehicle. The example method may also include sending the data to the first digital twin or the second digital twin, wherein sending the data includes synchronizing with the first digital twin or the second digital twin.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Inventors: Laleh Ghalami, James Wilhelm Heaton, Praveen Kumar Yalavarty, Sajit Janardhanan, Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi
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Patent number: 12337794Abstract: The invention relates to a method for activating a function of a motor vehicle by means of an activation device comprising at least four ultra-wide-band communication external antenna modules and an ultra-high-frequency communication module, from an item of “hands-free” portable access equipment (SD) carried by a user, comprising an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a magnetometer, the activation of the function being triggered by detection of the presence of the user in a predetermined zone around the vehicle, and depending on an authentication result, the method comprising the following steps: s) determining an initial position of the item of access equipment with respect to the vehicle, t) measuring the values from the gyroscope, from the magnetometer and from the accelerometer, u) obtaining a value of the probability of the intention to activate a vehicle function, v) comparing the probability value with at least one predetermined threshold, w) transmitting, at ultra-high frequency from said item of equipType: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventor: Mohamed Cheikh
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Patent number: 12333785Abstract: A learning data generation device for generating learning data for learning a recognizer capable of estimating a contour of a sphere making spinning motion, with high accuracy, the sphere being recorded in a single camera video image, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Dan Mikami, Mariko Isogawa, Hiroko Yabushita, Yoshinori Kusachi
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Patent number: 12330812Abstract: A method of aligning an aircraft with a landing platform in motion comprises measuring a GPS heading with at least one GPS sensor positioned at a known location relative to the landing platform while the landing platform is in motion, measuring an orientation of the aircraft with an orientation sensor fixed relative to the aircraft, calculating an orientation of the landing platform from the GPS heading, calculating an orientation offset between the measured orientation of the aircraft and the calculated orientation of the landing platform, and changing an orientation of the aircraft or the landing platform to reduce the orientation offset. A system for landing and securing an aircraft in an enclosure, a system for disconnecting a tether from an aircraft, and a system for landing an aircraft in an enclosure are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Dragonfly Pictures, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Pawelczyk, Kris Auker, Trevor Stephens, Jeffrey Field, James Megariotis
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Patent number: 12311562Abstract: A robotic firefighting system includes: sensors that detect where a fire is located; a base having a movement mechanism; LIDAR and RGB camera positioned on the base for navigation; a fire extinguisher having a nozzle and a fire extinguisher ball launcher positioned on the base to extinguish the fire; a thermal camera to locate the fire; and a robotic arm attached to the nozzle of the fire extinguisher to direct the nozzle toward the fire. The sensors can be remotely located or located on the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITYInventors: Mohamed Amine Mekhtiche, Mansour Mohammed Al-Sulaiman, Osama Mansour Alsulaiman, Mohamed Abdelkader Bencherif, Mohammed Mahdi Algabri, Bader Khaled Alkharashi, Jaber Mohammed Alkhaldi, Assim Omar Alsagaby
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Patent number: 12297966Abstract: A method and system for safe maintenance of an underground pipeline corridor based on a smart gas regulatory IoT. The method is executed by a gas company management platform of a system for safe maintenance of the underground pipeline corridor based on the smart gas regulatory IoT, and the method includes: determining, based on a safety factor of an inspection region, a mandatory machine inspection region; generating regional planning data based on the mandatory machine inspection region, and the region inspection type of the remaining region; determining a target pipeline corridor region and an inspection instruction based on the regional planning data; determining, based on the safety factor and/or a regional importance degree of the inspection region, a monitoring frequency of an environmental monitoring device and a supervisory equipment in the inspection region, and adjusting the monitoring frequency based on a corresponding control instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2024Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Bin Liu, Yuefei Wu, Yongzeng Liang
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Patent number: 12296827Abstract: An electronic control unit of a vehicle having an automatic park-range switching function for automatically turning off a power supply after switching to a P range when a power-off operation is performed, wherein when a power-off operation is performed in a state where the automatic park-range switching function is disabled by a predetermined special operation, the vehicle is turned off in a state where the vehicle is in a neutral range and the power supply is turned off in a state where power supply to the electrical components is interrupted. As a result, the vehicle is parked in a movable state, and battery exhaustion of the power supply is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2024Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazutaka Sayo
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Patent number: 12291199Abstract: A system includes a first device that controls a moving body and a second device that remotely controls the moving body. The first device obtains information around the moving body, movement information of the moving body, and remote control information. The first device calculates a control amount for controlling movement of the moving body based on one of the information and the movement information, switches autonomous movement and remote control of the moving body based on the remote-control information, and transmits one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount to the second device. The second device receives one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount, transmits the remote-control information to the first device, determines autonomous mobility of the moving body based on second information stored remotely, and generates the remote-control information including a determination result.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Maeda, Junya Takahashi
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Patent number: 12280899Abstract: The invention provides an aircraft attitude tracking control method, system and computer equipment, which belongs to the field of aircraft attitude control, comprising: obtaining aircraft operating parameters and establishing a kinematic model of the attitude tracking error of the aircraft. A specified time performance constraint function and attitude error boundary based on the hyperbolic cosecant composite function are then constructed. A constrained attitude error conversion function and its inverse function are utilized to obtain an unconstrained attitude tracking conversion error. Virtual control instructions are solved in kinematics using a sigmoid tracking differentiator to obtain a numerical derivative. The control moment in the dynamics is solved and the complete form of the attitude tracking algorithm is given for the aircraft attitude tracking system. This method provides a computationally efficient means of controlling aircraft to ensure that error convergence is achieved within a preset time.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventors: Xuan Peng, Shan Lu, Zhijiang Lou, Sen Xie, Fengli Dai
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Patent number: 12282888Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for autonomous delivery to a dynamic location. A user requests delivery of an item. An autonomous vehicle carrying the item navigates to a delivery location associated with the request. While navigating the autonomous vehicle toward the delivery location, the autonomous vehicle receives one or more estimates of a current location of a wireless device of the user. In response to receiving a respective estimate, the autonomous vehicle updates the delivery location to match the respective estimate of the current location of the wireless device. In this way, the delivery location can be dynamically updated as the user changes location. Once the autonomous vehicle reaches the delivery location, the item can be delivered to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Dharmendra Adsule, Sathyaraj Kolandasamy
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Patent number: 12280863Abstract: Methods and systems described herein can assist a user when loading a watercraft onto a trailer (e.g., at a boat ramp). For example, position data generated by sensor(s) coupled to the watercraft and/or trailer can cause one or more propulsion devices associated with the watercraft to automatically (e.g., without user intervention) position the watercraft onto the trailer, for example, by controlling the power and/or thrust direction of the propulsion device(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Navico, Inc.Inventors: Ryan R. Rezac, Kristopher C. Snyder, Jeremiah D. Clark
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Patent number: 12280661Abstract: A vehicle control system includes at least one processor and a storage medium configured to store a program to be executed by the at least one processor. The program includes at least one command. The at least one command causes the at least one processor to execute a key lock-out prevention process of controlling a lock mechanism of a door of a vehicle into an unlocked state in a case where a key that operates the lock mechanism is positioned inside the vehicle, and a vehicle protection process of controlling the lock mechanism into a locked state without executing the key lock-out prevention process in a case where, after automatic stop of the vehicle, an occupant present inside the vehicle is not detected and the key is positioned inside the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Homma
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Patent number: 12275410Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control device and a center device. When inappropriate information is received, the vehicle control device is configured to set a second stop position for stopping an autonomous driving vehicle as a target vehicle. The vehicle control device is configured to transmit at least position information of the target vehicle to the center device and acquire a first stop position.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kosuke Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12273939Abstract: A method for pairing a robotic device with an application of a communication device, including: receiving, with the application, login information of a user; logging, with the application, into a user account using the login information; receiving, with the application, a password for a wireless network for connecting the robotic device to the wireless network; initiating, with the robotic device, pairing of the robotic device with the application upon the user pressing a button on a user interface of the robotic device; displaying, with the application, a map and a status of the robotic device; and transmitting, with the application, each of: an adjustment to the map; an instruction to perform a function; a cleaning setting; scheduling information; a cleaning intensity or a cleaning frequency setting; and an area within the map which the robotic device is to avoid to the robotic device.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: AI IncorporatedInventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Andrew Francis Fitzgerald, Chin Pang Alfred Kwan
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Patent number: 12270515Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for safety monitoring of durability of a gas pipeline corridor based on a monitoring Internet of Things system, comprising obtaining durability monitoring data and traffic vibration data of the pipeline corridor through a gas company sensor network platform, and obtaining road traffic data through a government safety monitoring management platform via a government safety monitoring sensor network platform; determining a traffic correlation based on at least one of the durability monitoring data, the traffic vibration data, or the road traffic data; determining a traffic-affected pipeline corridor based on at least one of the traffic vibration data or the traffic correlation, and reporting the traffic-affected pipeline corridor to a government safety monitoring service platform via the government safety monitoring sensor network platform and the government safety monitoring management platform, and determining whether to carry out traffic control via the government safeType: GrantFiled: June 6, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yaqiang Quan, Lei He, Xiaojun Wei
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Patent number: 12272247Abstract: An embodiment method for allocating a moving object for a fleet system includes receiving a use request for the moving object from a user device belonging to a user group, presenting an available moving object list in compliance with the use request, among moving objects belonging to a moving object level corresponding to the user group, and allocating the moving object to the user device according to information of the moving object that is selected by the user device from the available moving object list.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Jae Jun Ha, Young Jun Moon
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Patent number: 12262659Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a crop processor, a grain tank, an unload conveyor, and an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module positioned at or above a top of the grain tank for detecting a fill level of the grain tank and the location of a receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester. One or more computing devices receive data from the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module, the data indicating the fill level of the grain tank and the location of the receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester, and use the data to generate graphic data defining a graphical representation illustrating the relative positions of the unload conveyor and a grain bin of the receiving vehicle. An electronic device including a graphical user interface presents the graphical representation on the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Martin Peter Christiansen, Ramon Buchaca Tarragona
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Patent number: 12263970Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands. The agricultural machine includes a protector to protect an operator's seat. The takeoff/landing station is provided on the protector. The takeoff/landing station is attached to the protector and includes an arm extending in a horizontal direction when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Kinoshita, Takanori Morimoto, Susumu Umemoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12257897Abstract: A vehicle access system is disclosed having the plurality of system nodes for localizing a target portable device. In addition to Passive Entry/Passive Start (PEPS) features, the vehicle access system is configured to provide a variety of additional intelligent features depending on which zone of the vehicle the target portable device is located, depending on an identity of the person carrying the target portable device, and depending on other parameters or conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Tucci, Christopher Cundiff, Paul Edward Tunnecliffe, Julien Fritz, David Coleman, Aimee Williams, Christopher Prediger, Srikanth Basa, Jack Murfett
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Patent number: 12260371Abstract: The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Dana Geislinger, Travis Gaddie, Margaret Alden Tinsley, Muneeb Alam, Steven Chad Richardson, Akaash Sanyal, Raquel Crossman, Tianfang Ni, Cory A. Demieville, Luke Gerdes, Robyn Freeman, Oleksandr Klesov, Luciano Kiniti Issoe
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Patent number: 12258023Abstract: A method for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking includes obtaining gaze directions of drivers of a plurality of connected vehicles in a region of a road. The method also includes determining whether an average speed of the plurality of connected vehicles in the region is less than a predetermined speed. The method further includes controlling mobility of one or more of the plurality of connected vehicles in response to determining that the gaze directions of one or more drivers of the plurality of connected vehicles deviate from the moving direction of the connected vehicles and determining that the average speed of the connected vehicles is less than the predetermined speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., MCMASTER UNIVERSITYInventors: Baik Hoh, Seyhan Ucar, Kentaro Oguchi, Hao Yang
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Patent number: 12252036Abstract: A system for heating a battery in a vehicle supplying driving power by a motor as a vehicle-driving source is provided. The system includes a big-data server configured to receive driving information of the vehicle and to determine an estimated driving start time of the vehicle and required output required at an initial driving stage of the vehicle based on the received driving information, and a controller, installed in the vehicle and configured to provide the driving information to the big-data server, to receive the estimated driving start time and the required output provided from the big-data server, and to derive a heating time of the battery, required to ensure the required output, based on the a temperature and an SoC of the battery installed in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hyun Soo Park
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Patent number: 12252171Abstract: A portable information terminal for a user of a moving object includes: a display configured to perform a position instruction operation on a display image, and a controller configured to perform movement control of the moving object based on a specific operation from the user on the display. The controller is configured to cause the display to display a guidance image that prompts the specific operation when waiting for receiving the specific operation, store position information of the specific operation performed by the user based on the guidance image, and display the guidance image that prompts the specific operation based on the position information on the display in a case of storing the position information when waiting for receiving the specific operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jumpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
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Patent number: 12253853Abstract: A method for remotely controlled driving of a motor vehicle, characterized in that by the motor vehicle a transport travel with at least one passenger in the motor vehicle is performed. The driving of the motor vehicle during the transport drive, at least in phases, is performed in teleoperated manner by an external teleoperator from an operator location. During the teleoperated driving environmental information of the motor vehicle is transmitted to the operator location and displayed at least on one display unit for the teleoperator. During the teleoperated driving a viewing direction of the teleoperator on the display unit is determined, and is displayed on the display unit where the teleoperator gazes. This image region, at which the teleoperator gazes, is visually marked on a display unit in the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventor: Antonyo Musabini
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Patent number: 12256172Abstract: A vehicle can be configured to include a body having a body bottom conjoined with a body sidewall and a body top forming a body cavity. The body top includes a body top opening and the body sidewall includes a body sidewall opening. The vehicle can include a payload housing having a payload bottom conjoined with a payload housing sidewall and a payload housing top forming a payload housing cavity, wherein the payload housing cavity is configured to hold at least one operating module for the vehicle. The vehicle can include at least one arm. The vehicle can include at least one interlocking arrangement of the body top opening or body side wall configured to removably secure the payload housing and the at least one arm to the body. Each of the body, the payload housing, and the at least one arm can be structured with additive manufactured material.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.Inventors: Jason Sebastian, Robyn Kincade, Catherine Henderson, Bradley Evans, Jacques Davignon, Ryan Fernandez, Jeff Dowell
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Patent number: 12252867Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and apparatus for controlling a wheel loader, and a wheel loader and a storage medium, wherein an original trigger condition for KickDown is preset in the wheel loader. The method for controlling a wheel loader comprises: acquiring a way for releasing KickDown of a wheel loader; determining the current state of the wheel loader on the basis of the way for releasing KickDown; and when the current state of the wheel loader is working state, adjusting an original trigger condition to a first trigger condition, wherein the first trigger condition is easier to trigger than the original trigger condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SUOTE TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Huang, Fuwen Li, Zhenbei Zhang
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Patent number: 12253859Abstract: Disclosed is a disinfection robot capable of autonomous driving and recognition of a disinfection target. The disinfection robot includes: a recognition unit configured to generate recognition information by recognizing a surrounding environment of the disinfection robot; a movement unit configured to move a position of the disinfection robot; a light source unit configured to emit a light of a predetermined wavelength area for disinfection; an injection unit configured to inject a fluid for disinfection; and a control unit configured to move the disinfection robot through the movement unit based on the recognition information, wherein the control unit is configured to identify a disinfection target from the recognition information and control at least one of the light source unit and the injection unit to perform disinfection to at least one of the surrounding environment of the disinfection robot and the disinfection target.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kanggeon Kim, Jongsuk Choi, Woosub Lee, Jun-Sik Kim, Soonkyum Kim, Sona Kwak
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Patent number: 12248314Abstract: A method for activating an automated parking maneuver to be carried out via a parking assistance system with a motor vehicle is provided. The parking assistance system can be operated remotely from outside the motor vehicle by way of a mobile communications device. The method includes outputting an instruction via the mobile communications device for the user-side execution of a predefined activation movement of the mobile communications device; determining first sensor information relating to the activation movement of the communications device by way of a communications-device-side sensor system; detecting an activation movement of the mobile communications device carried out by the mobile communications device based on the first sensor information; and activating the parking maneuver according to the detection of the activation movement of the mobile communications device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sophie Boehm, Rolf Brenndoerfer, Patrick Heinrich, Yordan Mihaylov, Jordi Sabater, Konstantin Zhukov, Andreas Von Eichhorn
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Patent number: 12248318Abstract: Disclosed herein is a remotely situated vehicle control device in data communication with a vehicle and operable by a user situated outside of the vehicle to enable the user to remotely control the vehicle. The remotely situated vehicle control device includes a device data transceiver for receiving first-person view (FPV) image data from an FPV camera carried by the vehicle, a device display to display FPV images to the user based on the FPV image data received from the FPV camera while also displaying virtual reality or augmented reality representations of vehicle controls to enable the user to remotely control the vehicle by interacting with the virtual reality or augmented reality representations of the vehicle controls, and a user input device configured to receive user input to interact with the virtual reality or augmented reality representations of the vehicle controls.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventor: Matthew Roy
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Patent number: 12242266Abstract: According to the remote assistance method of the present disclosure, first, a positional relationship between the vehicle having an autonomous traveling function and an object present around the vehicle at a future time beyond a current time is displayed spatially on a display device, the positional relationship being predicted based on a path plan for autonomous traveling created by the vehicle and information on the object. Next, assistance content input from a remote operator is transmitted to the vehicle. Then, remote assistance corresponding to the assistance content is executed in the vehicle in response to confirmation that the positional relationship between the vehicle and the object displayed on the display device when the assistance content is input is realized after the vehicle receives the assistance content.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Maiko Hirano, Yoshitaka Adachi, Kentaro Ichikawa, Koji Taguchi, Narihito Yamazato
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Patent number: 12240602Abstract: A logistics system includes an energy remaining amount identifying unit configured to obtain or estimate an energy remaining amount of an unmanned vehicle subsequent to delivery of an item to a delivery address, the unmanned vehicle being driven by energy supplied from an energy source, a range setting unit configured to set a pickup possible range according to the energy remaining amount, the pickup possible range being used to select pickup location candidates where the unmanned vehicle is able to pick up an item and return to a station of the unmanned vehicle on a return path, the return path including the delivery address as a start point and including the station as an end point, and a pickup location determining unit configured to determine a pickup location from the pickup location candidates located in the pickup possible range.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
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Patent number: 12243187Abstract: Eyewear configured to capture a video image of an object, and to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to capture a video image of the object to produce stitched video images. The eyewear has an eyewear camera generating the eyewear video image, and the UAV has a UAV camera generating the UAV video image, wherein a processor timestamps frames of each of the video images. When the eyewear begins recording of the object, the eyewear controls the UAV camera to also begin recording the object. The stitched video images are synchronized to each other using the timestamps, wherein the stitched video images can be displayed on an eyewear display or a remote display. The processor compensates for any latency between when the eyewear begins recording and when the UAV begins recording.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Terek Judi, Rajan Vaish
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Patent number: 12235639Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle flight for performing an inspection of land, property, structures or other objects. Automated aerial surveys allow a UAV to obtain aerial data without human manual control of a UAV. For certain aerial surveys, a UAV is not capable of completing the survey without refueling, or exchanging out used batteries for fresh batteries. For such aerial surveys, a method and system is needed to allow an operator to automatically perform an aerial survey while determining battery usage and replacement. Also, in circumstances where manual control of the UAV is needed, contingency-based software controls may be needed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Downey, Mark Patrick Bauer, Edward Dale Steakley, Brian Richman, Bernard J. Michini
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Patent number: 12236726Abstract: An incident management system for managing an incident response may be provided. The incident management system may include an incident management (IM) computing device and a vehicle. The IM computing device may include a processor and memory, the processor may be programmed to receive a notification that an incident has occurred, the notification including sensor data and sub-system data. The processor may analyze the data to determine an incident response, the determination including categorizing the incident based on damage determined from the data. The processor may also identify a responding party based on the incident response and the category of the incident. The processor may further parse the data to generate a set of critical data. The critical data may be based on the responding party. The processor may transmit a message to the responding party including the critical data and the location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Jennifer Criswell Kellett, An Ho, Jerome Scott Trayer, Jacob Thomas Simonson, Jeremy Myers, Kip Wilson
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Patent number: 12235643Abstract: A system of determining a flight path for an aerial vehicle, includes a memory storing a program code, and a processor configured to execute the program code to identify, during a flight, an abnormal state occurring at a first location, in response to the abnormal state, control the aerial vehicle to fly along a first flight path from the first location to a first destination, after the aerial vehicle arrives at the first destination, evaluate a status of the aerial vehicle at the first destination to obtain an evaluation result, and based on the evaluation result, determine a second flight path of the aerial vehicle to a second destination. The first flight path is a reverse of a last flight path of the aerial vehicle before the aerial vehicle reaches the first location.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Litian Zhang, Xiao Hu, Ang Liu
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Patent number: 12236789Abstract: A method for controlling rights of an autonomous vehicle includes acquiring, via a network, identification information for identifying a user or a terminal of the user, and dispatching request information that indicates a dispatch request for the autonomous vehicle issued by the user. The method further includes selecting the autonomous vehicle to be dispatched to the user from among multiple autonomous vehicles based on the dispatch request information, and assigning a control right for the selected autonomous vehicle, to the user or the terminal, based on the identification information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 12235640Abstract: A resource comparison unit compares a resource list to be used by a control center to remotely operate a remotely driven vehicle with a resource list to be used by a vehicle control unit to control the remotely driven vehicle in accordance with the remote operation from the control center. An alternative resource storage unit stores information on an alternative resource for a resource of the remotely driven vehicle. A resource switching unit switches a resource which is not a commonality and is detected by the resource comparison unit to an alternative resource stored in the alternative resource storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Takuya Kono, Ryo Mizobe
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Patent number: 12230135Abstract: A control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles automatically traveling to follow an operation schedule includes judging, by a server, whether a first vehicle is delayed relative to the operation schedule, judging, by the server, whether passing of the first vehicle by a second vehicle has occurred when the first vehicle is judged to be delayed relative to the operation schedule, and setting, by the server, a limit on a vehicle speed of the first vehicle when the passing is judged to have occurred.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Higashide, Keiichi Uno
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Patent number: 12228933Abstract: An autonomous work machine that works in a work area, the autonomous work machine comprising: a storage unit that stores past captured images including one or more markers arranged to define the work area; a specifying unit that specifies a past captured image stored in the storage unit and similar to a current captured image captured by an image capturing unit; and a control unit that controls the autonomous work machine based on the past captured image specified by the specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Udagawa, Makoto Yamamura, Hiroto Takahashi, Masaya Honji
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Patent number: 12230070Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: detect that shutdown operation that is operation of stopping a traveling system is performed for a predetermined vehicle; and determine an operation mode after the shutdown operation for at least one of a plurality of electronic control units provided at the vehicle based on a first location that is a location at which the shutdown operation is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaya Hizaki
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Patent number: 12229938Abstract: A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Ryan Knuffman, Bradley A. Sliz, Lucas Allen
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Patent number: 12228406Abstract: Example computer-implemented methods and systems for anomaly-sensing based multi-agent navigation are disclosed. One example computer-implemented method includes: receiving relative distance data specifying distance between at least one pair of agents of a plurality of agents, each of a subset of the plurality of agents having an anomaly sensor subsystem; receiving anomaly data from at least one anomaly sensor subsystem of one of the plurality of agents; obtaining pre-surveyed map data; and determining global pose data of the plurality of agents based on the relative distance data and based on comparing the anomaly data to the pre-surveyed map data.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SB Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Jesse Pratt, Kyle Austin Palko
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Patent number: 12226914Abstract: A robot control system includes circuitry configured to: generate a command to a robot; receive a frame image in which a capture position changes according to a motion of the robot based on the command; extract a partial region from the frame image according to the command; superimpose a delay mark on the partial region to generate an operation image; and display the operation image on a display device, so as to represent a delay of the motion of the robot with respect to the command.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Inventors: Keita Shimamoto, Koji Sokabe, Ryokichi Hirata, Masaru Adachi
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Patent number: 12228949Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods for redundant communication in an aircraft. The system may include a primary connection, a secondary connection, and a tertiary connection. The system may include a computing device configured to receive at least a state datum and transmit the at least a state datum using at least a data connection of the plurality of data connections. The at least a network switch may be communicatively connected to the plurality of data connections and configured to select the at least a data connection from the plurality of data connections as a function of the at least a state datum.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: BETA AIR LLCInventor: Vincent Moeykens