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Brendan F Diamond

Keith Weston

Stuart C Salter

Andrew Denis Lewandowski

Jordan Barrett

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Michael Alan Mcnees

Erik J Christen

Jonathan Hair

Ryan J O'Gorman

Paul Kenneth Dellock

David Brian Glickman

Pietro Buttolo

David Celinske

Matthew Johnson

Annette Lynn Huebner

Anthony J Maraldo

Kevin James Rhodes

Lars Niklas Pettersson

Lorne Forsythe

Shehan Haputhanthri

Hussein H Berry

Christopher Charles Hunt

Todd Ansbacher

Joshua Sharpe

Matthew Joseph

Seth Loveall

Lucretia Williams

Vyas Shenoy

Ryan O'Rourke

Victor Martinez

David Guglielmo

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam

Aaron Bradley Johnson

Michael John Harmon

Aaron Lewis Mills

Ryan Edwin Hanson

Joshua R Wheeler

Peter Phung

David Michael Russell

Tarik Safir

Jeffrey Robert Seaman

Arnav Wagh

Jeff Robert Seaman

Jim Stevens

Mohammad Sameer Khan

Solomon Lin

Vivekanandh Elangovan

Andrew D Niedert

Benjamin Yilma

Adil Nizam Siddiqui

Jonathan Andrew Butcher

Shunsuke Okubo

Michael Hrecznyj

Scott Alan Watkins

James Robert Chascsa, Ii

William H Wurz

Sam Harris

Samir Datta

Mark Larry

Peter Douglas Kuechler

Kendra White

Filip Tomik

Andrew Arthur Brown

Erik William Soderlind

David Kennedy

Marguerite Kimball

Ryan Joseph Gorski

Chad Hoover

Eugene Karpinsky

James Trent

Toussaint Carpenter

Andrew Monticello

Matthew Cramer Mullen

Taras Palczynski

Michael J Kipley

Lawrence Chikeziri Amadi

David G Hagner

David Michael Diamond

Kenneth J Boyd

Matthew Penne

Robert Vitali

Brent Alan Hall

Kenneth Patrick McHugh

Jessica Smith

Grant Patrick Mayer

Rudi Todd Ansbacher

Jon Holt

Alexander Ferencz

Erick Mogollon

Timothy John Zuraw

David Pericak

Stuart Easson

Kenneth Mchugh

Andrew Brown

Dominic Gelfuso

Leann Kridner

Matthew Blake Tranter

Derek Bier

Adam Wint

A server includes an interface configured to communicate with a vehicle and a charger, and a processor configured to responsive to receiving, from the vehicle, vehicle data indicative of an energy transfer amount from the vehicle to one or more receiving entities above a transfer threshold, impose a limitation on the charger to charge the vehicle by sending a message to the charger.

Electric vehicle energy management system

A vehicle determines that a vehicle enhanced driving mode has been requested. The vehicle determines whether a condition for engaging such a mode has been met. Additionally, the vehicle offers a user-override, when the condition has not been met and the condition is a condition defined as over-rideable and responsive to override acceptance, engaging the requested driving mode. In other instances, the vehicle monitors mode usage against predefined maximum usage constraints, and may facilitate excess mode usage if constraints are exceeded.

Track / off road mode UX emissions and fuel label compliant using geofencing

A vehicle is configured to be connected to a trailer. The vehicle is configured to detect connections of the trailer to utility infrastructure. Movement of the vehicle is moderated if physical utility connections are present.

Pre-departure trailer based attachment detection system

A security token for accessing an automotive vehicle, such as an NFC access card or NFC-capable mobile phone, is monitored to help prevent it being left in the vehicle when the user exits the vehicle. An NFC reader in the passenger compartment communicates with the token to authorize access to predetermined functions of the vehicle. An image sensor captures images within the passenger compartment using an image sensor after the security token is presented to the NFC reader. A location of the token is tracked in the captured images. One or more predetermined carrier locations are identified which are associated with the user and which can remain with the user when the user exits the vehicle (e.g., a pocket or purse). A message to the user is generated as a reminder when the security token has not been detected to have been returned to an identified predetermined carrier location.

Security card tracking and advisory system for motor vehicle

Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine threshold speed for a vehicle and trailer are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, instructions, and programmable circuitry to execute the instructions to access information associated with at least one of a vehicle or a trailer coupled to the vehicle, determine, by executing a model based on the information, a threshold speed for the vehicle and the trailer, and prevent, by activating at least one vehicle control, the vehicle and the trailer from travelling at or above the threshold speed.

Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine threshold speed for a vehicle and trailer

A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a wakeup time for an occupant of a vehicle based on a destination and an object in an interior of the vehicle, and actuate a vehicle component to awaken the occupant.

Vehicle HMI actuation

A climate management system for a compartment of a vehicle includes a divider selectively disposed in the compartment to divide the compartment into two zones in response to connection with a wall of the compartment. The system further includes a sensor monitoring the compartment and configured to detect the divider in the compartment. The system further includes at least one fluid connection in the compartment. The system further includes at least one actuator configured to control fluid flow through the at least one fluid connection. The system further includes control circuitry in communication with the sensor and the at least one actuator and is configured to communicate a signal to adjust the at least one actuator based on the detection of the divider.

Climate management system for a compartment of a vehicle

A hitch receiver for an automotive vehicle includes a receiver tube defining an open end and a cavity therein. The hitch receiver also includes an electrical connector, having a plurality of electrical contacts on a spring-loaded face thereof, disposed within the receiver tube at an end thereof opposite the open end such that the electrical contacts are adjacent to the cavity.

Vehicle hitch integrated electrical connector

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable to actuate a cleaning system to spray a sensor in accordance with a cleaning plan stored in the memory, actuate the cleaning system to spray the sensor in response to an input from an operator, and adjust the cleaning plan based on the input from the operator to actuate the cleaning system.

Vehicle sensor cleaning

A vehicle includes a front axle having left and right front wheels and a rear axle having left and right rear wheels. A steering-wheel assembly is used to control at least the front wheels. Left and right driver-actuatable inputs are supported by the steering wheel assembly. A vehicle controller is programmed to, responsive to actuation of the driver-actuatable inputs, place the vehicle in one or more operating modes such as tank turn, trail turn assist, or diagonal driving mode.

Limited use driving operations for vehicles

A vehicle control system may include a sensor network sensing vehicle attitude information and a controller operably coupled to the sensor network to determine, based on the vehicle attitude information, movement of a center of gravity of the vehicle relative to an axis of rotation of the vehicle. The controller may further determine a modification to a torque application of the vehicle based on the movement of the center of gravity of the vehicle relative to the axis of rotation of the vehicle.

BEV powertrain/steering controls for enhanced stability on inclined surfaces

A vehicle having an air compressor, an air storage tank and a sensor is disclosed. The air compressor may supply compressed air to the air storage tank, and the air storage tank may supply the compressed air to an external tool. The sensor may be configured to receive information associated with the external tool and send the information to a vehicle processor. The processor may determine tool specification and expected tool usage characteristics based on the information associated with the external tool. The processor may further calculate a target pressure of compressed air in the air storage tank based on the tool specification and the expected tool usage characteristics. Furthermore, the processor may cause air compressor operation to fill the air storage tank with the compressed air at the target pressure.

Systems and methods for controlling vehicle air compressor

Systems and methods for operating an electric drive system for an electric or hybrid vehicle is described. In one example, the drive system is operated to provide extra losses during select vehicle operating conditions so that greater amounts of regenerative braking may be generated without having to store larger amounts of electric energy in an electric energy storage device.

Methods and system for controlling loss mode for an electric machine

A vehicle flow control system includes an active grille shutter assembly of a vehicle. The active grille shutter assembly has shutters and a lighting assembly configured to emit light that passes between the shutters. A vehicle lighting method includes emitting light from a lighting assembly through a plurality of shutters of an active grille shutter assembly.

Vehicle flow control system with lighting assembly

A vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data; and a controller programmed to: responsive to receiving the sensor data indicative of rocks being propelled off the ground, perform a vehicle operation to protect the vehicle from the propelled rocks.

Rock kick up recognition system

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Brendan F Diamond