Patents Examined by Mohamed Barakat
  • Patent number: 11995491
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine that a door of a vehicle is attached to the vehicle based on data from at least one of a camera of the vehicle or a radio receiver of the vehicle; upon determining that the door is attached to the vehicle, actuate a component of the vehicle based on data from a door sensor of the vehicle, the door sensor indicating whether the door is open or closed; determine that the door is detached from the vehicle based on the data from the at least one of the camera or the radio receiver; and upon determining that the door is detached from the vehicle, actuate the component without relying on the data from the door sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Weston, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Brendan Francis Diamond, Victor Martinez
  • Patent number: 11992333
    Abstract: A method for monitoring intoxication of a user, the method including: receiving a set of samples from a body region of a user; generating an intoxication metric based on the set of samples; and providing a notification to the user based on the intoxication metric. The method can additionally or alternatively include: modifying operation of the transdermal alcohol sensing device based on the intoxication metric; determining contextual data; maintaining a hydration level of the transdermal alcohol sensing device; and any other suitable processes. A system for monitoring intoxication of a user including a sensor and a housing. The system can additionally or alternatively include any or all of: an inlet, a fastener, an electronics subsystem, a user device, and/or any other suitable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KHN Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Harry Nothacker, William Tammen, Raymond Kampmeier
  • Patent number: 11993277
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for intelligent driving monitoring systems, advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems, and providing alerts to the driver of a vehicle, based on anomalies detected between driver behavior and environment captured by the outward facing camera. Various aspects of the driver, which may include his direction of sight, point of focus, posture, gaze, is determined by image processing of the upper visible body of the driver, by a driver facing camera in the vehicle. Other aspects of environment around the vehicle captured by the multitude of cameras in the vehicle are used to correlate driver behavior and actions with what is happening outside to detect and warn on anomalies, prevent accidents, provide feedback to the driver, and in general provide a safer driver experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NETRADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: David Jonathan Julian, Venkata Sreekanta Reddy Annapureddy, Sandeep Pandya, Arvind Yedla, Dale Alan Willis, Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman, Suresh Babu Yanamala, Avneesh Agrawal, Veeresh Taranalli, Jaeyoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11990037
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein address the foregoing by providing systems and methods for driving notification. In one implementation, a method may include the operations of receiving an indication of a speed of a trailer, determining whether a parameter associated with the speed of the trailer meets a threshold, and activating a notification device based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Peterson Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Rhett Andrew Peterson
  • Patent number: 11989952
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting a location of a target vehicle are disclosed. A processor receives trajectory information for the target vehicle and determines a trajectory feature based on the trajectory information. The processor further determines a lane feature of a lane within a threshold vicinity of the target vehicle, and determines a probability associated with the lane based on the trajectory feature and the lane feature. The lane that the vehicle may enter is identified based on the probability. The processor may also generate interactive features of interactions between the target vehicle and other vehicles. The processor predicts a location of the target vehicle in an upcoming time period based on the lane feature and the trajectory feature. In some embodiments, the interactive features are also used for the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Sun, Chenxu Luo, Dariush Dabiri
  • Patent number: 11990018
    Abstract: A monitoring device, including an encasement having an upper part and a lower part; wherein the lower part is attached by a hinge at a first side of the encasement to the upper part; wherein at an opposite side the upper part can be lowered onto the lower part to close the encasement or lifted up to open the encasement; an elongated strap with a first end and a second end wherein the first end of the strap is attached to the first side of the encasement and configured to enable coupling the monitoring device to a person by wrapping the strap around a limb of a person, and inserting the second end of the strap into the opposite side of the encasement onto the lower part and covering it with the upper part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ATTENTI ELECTRONIC MONITORING LTD
    Inventors: Tsach Shwartz, Ofer Friedman, Yair Laster
  • Patent number: 11987260
    Abstract: A method for providing proactive driving alerts includes determining a road segment of interest, receiving GPS data and contextual data, and identifying a triggering condition in a vicinity of the segment of interest. The method also includes determining an applicability of the triggering condition to the segment of interest, retrieving an alert threshold corresponding to the triggering condition, and obtaining an action factor correlating to a user's driving behavior. The method further includes determining whether the action factor exceeds the alert threshold and providing a proactive alert related to the triggering condition to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Hadapanah, Hari Balakrishnan, Rafi Finegold, Samuel Madden, Robert S. Kobetis, Brian Sachetta, Sanujit Sahoo, Gábor Tyukász
  • Patent number: 11981346
    Abstract: A driveway departure system for a vehicle is disclosed and includes a processing device configured to define a path for backing the vehicle along a drivable surface of the driveway that maintains the vehicle on the drivable surface of the driveway and to operate a vehicle system to back the vehicle along the defined path and on the detected drivable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
    Inventors: Sina Davani, Joseph Burtch, Nizar Ahamed
  • Patent number: 11981333
    Abstract: Presented in the present disclosure is a method by which a driver situation monitoring device or adjacent vehicles detect the situation of a driver and/or a vehicle in which an abnormality occurs while driving, and provide, through a V2X communication device, the information to the vehicle in which the abnormality has occurred and adjacent vehicles, networks or related organizations, and thus accidents can be prevented or a vehicle in which an abnormality occurs can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myoungseob Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Jaeho Hwang
  • Patent number: 11970125
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a seat misuse alarm device (100). The seat misuse alarm device (100) includes a base (1), a seat (2), an alarm mechanism (3), and a switch triggering device (4). The seat (2) has a forward facing position and a rearward facing position relative the base (1). The alarm mechanism (3) has a switch (31). The switch triggering device (4) triggers the switch (31) to close for making the alarm mechanism (3) send out an alarm when the seat (2) is located at the forward facing position relative to the base (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BAMBINO PREZIOSO SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Zu Jian Liu, Zhengwen Guo
  • Patent number: 11963801
    Abstract: A system and method provides a glucose report for determining glycemic risk based on an ambulatory glucose profile of glucose data over a time period, a glucose control assessment based on median and variability of glucose, and indicators of high glucose variability. Time of day periods are shown at which glucose levels can be seen. A median glucose goal and a low glucose line provide coupled with glucose variability provide a view into effects that raising or lowering the median goal would have. Likelihood of low glucose, median glucose compared to goal, and variability of glucose below median provide probabilities based on glucose data. Patterns can be seen and provide guidance for treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Erwin S. Budiman, Kenneth J. Doniger, Timothy C. Dunn, Nathan C. Crouther, Glenn Berman, Howard A. Wolpert
  • Patent number: 11961397
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for generating customized driving assistance outputs are provided. The system may collect initial sensor data from a rotating mobile device. The system may analyze the initial sensor data to determine whether to collect additional sensor data. Based on analysis of the initial sensor data and the additional sensor data, the system may determine a customized driving assistance output. The system may determine one or more notification outputs and one or more instruction outputs for the driver based on the customized driving assistance output. The system may update an aggregate driving output based on whether or not the instruction output was completed, as determined from subsequent sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Howard Hayes, Sunil Chintakindi
  • Patent number: 11960956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an assembly for writing software and/or firmware onto at least one programmable integrated circuit. According to the invention, the software and/or firmware is written wirelessly by means of RFID data transmission, the at least one programmable integrated circuit being coupled to an RFID front end by means of a wired near-field interface, the RFID front end having an RFID antenna device, and the software and/or firmware to be written being sent wirelessly from an external RFID unit to the RFID antenna device and being written onto the programmable integrated circuit by means of the RFID front end and the near-field interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: GERA-IDENT GMBH, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Weder, Andreas Heinig, Peter Steinbach, Sören Göhler, Ramin Hassan
  • Patent number: 11951995
    Abstract: The system assigns a plurality of drivers to one or more identified routes. An onboard computing system of a vehicle collects or generates a plurality of vehicle events, which are received at a server via a network. The onboard computing system includes a plurality of sensors and subsystems that are connected to monitor various vehicle components, such as braking, steering, and radar, as well as one or more cameras. A difficulty of each of the identified routes is characterized based on the plurality of vehicle events. A performance of each driver is characterized based on a subset of the plurality of vehicle events collected or received from the vehicle of each driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Shaun M. Howard
  • Patent number: 11945435
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a first camera configured to view an environment outside a vehicle; a second camera configured to view a driver of the vehicle; and a processing unit configured to receive a first image from the first camera, and a second image from the second camera; wherein the processing unit is configured to determine first information indicating a risk of collision with the vehicle based at least partly on the first image; wherein the processing unit is configured to determine second information indicating a state of the driver based at least partly on the second image; and wherein the processing unit is configured to determine whether to provide a control signal for operating a device or not based on (1) the first information indicating the risk of collision with the vehicle, and (2) the second information indicating the state of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Oren Alpert, Tahmida Binte Mahmud, Alexander Dion Wu, Piyush Chandra, Jeremy Marschke, Gary Kwan, Stefan Heck, Ruslan Belkin, Ilan Hornstein
  • Patent number: 11945366
    Abstract: A vehicle control system may include one or more processors and a memory comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising detecting a signal to activate vehicle lamps in a delivery lighting pattern. In some embodiments, the processors may be further operable to execute the instructions to perform operations including activating the vehicle lamps in the delivery lighting pattern, wherein a flashing frequency of the delivery lighting pattern differs from a flashing frequency of a hazard lighting pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Simon Baker, Vijay Jayaraman, Nicholas Paul Tokarz, Srikanth Amruthur, Emily Wilson, Thomas French, Stuart Brown
  • Patent number: 11948456
    Abstract: A method of controlling a traffic system having a plurality of intersections with switchable traffic lights and road sections located between the intersections includes detecting traffic loads of multiple relevant road sections, determining a local stress function for each relevant road section depending on the detected traffic load of the respective relevant road section, determining a global stress function for the entire traffic system based on the local stress functions, determining, using a quantum concept processor, improved switching times for the traffic lights of the intersections adjacent to the relevant road sections, wherein the improved switching times are determined such that the global stress function reaches a smallest detectable value, and switching the traffic lights according to a switching model based on the improved switching times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Schinkel, Markus Kirsch
  • Patent number: 11945667
    Abstract: An accident prevention system for a doorway of a loading dock is provided. The system includes a first sensor configured to detect an object in a first predetermined location and having a height that is greater than a predetermined height. A second sensor is configured to activate responsive to detection by the first sensor of an object having a height that is greater than the predetermined height. The second sensor is also configured to detect an object in a second predetermined location after activation of the second sensor. An alert system is configured to generate a humanly-perceivable alert responsive to detection of the object in the second predetermined location after the activation of the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rommel B. Ceniza, Eddie Estanqueiro
  • Patent number: 11938959
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory operable to determine at least one surrounding vehicle based on location information of the at least one surrounding vehicle, wherein the at least one surrounding vehicle is configured to receive at least one vehicle signal from a host vehicle. The processor is further configured to determine a line of sight (LOS) of the at least one surrounding vehicle based on the at least one vehicle signal, wherein the line of sight is defined by a perceivability of a driver of the at least one surrounding vehicle to view the at least one vehicle signal. The processor is further configured to determine a confidence level of the at least one surrounding vehicle based on the determined LOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Priyank Sameer
  • Patent number: 11941922
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a computer-based system and/or method which automatically, e.g. with minimal, or entirely without, human intervention, identifies, distinguishes, disambiguates or otherwise differentiates among multiple configurable bicycles based on the data reported to the system from the bicycle's data-reporting components, such that the data reported by those components may be associated with a particular bicycle for real-time and/or later review, analysis, etc. More particularly, where one or more data reporting components of a bicycle may change, the disclosed embodiments enable a data gathering system/service to identify, distinguish, disambiguate or otherwise differentiate among multiple bicycles which may use, or have used, one or more of the same components so as to associate the reported data, such as from a particular ride, with the correct bicycle configuration for real-time and/or later review and/or analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SRAM, LLC
    Inventors: James Meyer, Alan Christianson, Alan Fischer, Andrew Fischer, Ben Jasinski, Kevin Duellman