Systems and methods for vehicle-occupancy-based and user-preference-based smart routing and autonomous volumetric-occupancy measurement

US12259254B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Francesc Guim Bernat · Barcelona, ES
• Marcos Carranza · Portland, US
• Satish Chandra Jha · Hillsboro, US
• Sindhu Pandian · Hillsboro, US
• Lakshmi Talluru · Chandler, US
• Cesar Martinez-Spessot · Córdoba, AR
• Mateo Guzman · Beaverton, US
• Dario Oliver · Hillsboro, US
• Ignacio Alvarez · Portland, US
• David Gonzalez Aguirre · Hillsboro, US
• Javier Felip Leon · Hillsboro, US
• S M Iftekharul Alam · Hillsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 26, 2020
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2025
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/09
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for vehicle-occupancy-based and user-preference-based smart routing, and autonomous volumetric-occupancy measurement. In an embodiment, a system is configured to receive from a user device associated with a user, a routing-options request for routing options between two locations, and to responsively identify one or more routing options between the two locations based at least in part on occupancy data for a vehicle that would be utilized for at least a portion of at least one of the identified routing options. The occupancy data is based on an output of an automated occupancy-measurement system onboard the vehicle. The system is also configured to provide the one or more identified routing options to the user device. In some embodiments, the occupancy data is obtained using volumetric-occupancy measurement. Some embodiments relate to volumetric-occupancy measurement conducted by autonomous mesh nodes.