Inventor

Michael R. James

Inventor
Northville, MI, US

Overview

31→
Patents
1989–2020
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 31 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Vprimary
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding12%
G01SRadio direction-finding9%
G05DSystems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables9%
B60WConjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function8%
G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings7%
G06FElectric digital data processing7%
G06KGraphical data reading5%
G08GTraffic control systems5%
B60QArrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general4%
B60RVehicles, vehicle fittings, or vehicle parts, not otherwise provided for4%
PatentTitleYear
10,838,417Systems for implementing fallback behaviors for autonomous vehicles202010,663,584Publishing LIDAR cluster data202010,600,199Extending object detection and identification capability for an object sensor device202010,556,600Assessment of human driving performance using autonomous vehicles202010,489,663Systems and methods for identifying changes within a mapped environment201910,466,361Systems and methods for multi-sensor fusion using permutation matrix track association201910,467,577Electronic and physical storage for shared vehicles201910,460,053Systems and methods for surface property identification using waveform classification201910,210,672Systems and methods for remotely controlling data collection by a vehicle201910,173,723Steering wheel recoupling mechanism for autonomous vehicle201910,013,508Joint probabilistic modeling and inference of intersection structure20189,884,631'Transitioning between operational modes of an autonomous vehicle'20189,855,890'Autonomous vehicle interaction with external environment'20189,829,885Personal storage for shared vehicles20179,726,577'Vehicle mission capability prediction system and method'20179,573,522'Vehicle seat haptic indication of future planned driving maneuvers'20179,511,767'Autonomous vehicle action planning using behavior prediction'20169,384,394'Method for generating accurate lane level maps'20169,255,989'Tracking on-road vehicles with sensors of different modalities'20169,170,116'Method for generating accurate lane level maps'20159,046,600'Method and apparatus for intensity calibration of multi-beam lidar sensors'20158,799,201'Method and system for tracking objects'20148,705,792'Object tracking using linear features'20148,687,898'System and method for object recognition based on three-dimensional adaptive feature detectors'20148,605,998'Real-time 3D point cloud obstacle discriminator apparatus and associated methodology for training a classifier via bootstrapping'20138,571,722'Method for safely parking vehicle near obstacles'20138,384,534'Combining driver and environment sensing for vehicular safety systems'20138,126,605'Computing platform for multiple intelligent transportation systems in an automotive vehicle'20128,108,148'Method and system for mapping environments containing dynamic obstacles'20127,855,997'Long range scheduling for directional antenna manet networks'20104,823,134'Shipboard antenna pointing and alignment system'1989

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1989Based in Palm Bay, FL, US· patent location history
2010Based in West Melbourne, FL, US· patent location history
2012–2020Patents assigned to TOYOTA ENG & MFG NORTH AMERICA (19)· patent assignee history
2012–2014Patents assigned to JAMES MICHAEL ROBERT (6)· patent assignee history
2012–2016Patents assigned to JAMES MICHAEL R (3)· patent assignee history
2012–2020Based in Northville, MI, US· patent location history
2012Based in Dearborn, MI, US· patent location history
2013–2014Patents assigned to SAMPLES MICHAEL EDWARD (4)· patent assignee history
2017Based in Phoenix, AZ, US· patent location history
2019–2020Patents assigned to TOYOTA RES INST INC (6)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
TOYOTA ENG & MFG NORTH AMERICA192012–2020
JAMES MICHAEL ROBERTself62012–2014
TOYOTA RES INST INC62019–2020
SAMPLES MICHAEL EDWARD42013–2014
JAMES MICHAEL Rself32012–2016
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Northville, MI, US272012–2020
Phoenix, AZ, US12017
Dearborn, MI, US12012
West Melbourne, Florida, US12010
Palm Bay, Florida, US11989