30 U.S. patent filings: 1 issued and 29 pending. Ross D. Blankenship is the sole inventor on all filings. The 26 provisional applications below were filed April–October 2026 and remain pending.
1 issued U.S. patent
30 U.S. filings
26 provisional applications (Apr–Oct 2026)
5 themes
A system to cut backing collisions in parking lots, yards and other operating environments.
Filed January 28, 2024 · Application 18/424,812Issued September 22, 2026 · Sole inventor Ross D. Blankenship
A system for identifying tire condition and warning when safety thresholds are crossed.
Filed February 7, 2024 · Application 18/435,952A method for clearer, safety-oriented communication between drivers in active environments.
Filed March 11, 2024 · Application 18/600,970A system for capturing useful feedback while preserving anonymity and supporting categorization at scale.
Filed April 29, 2024 · Application 18/649,573Reservation infrastructure that allows autonomous software agents to reserve and physically access parking, charging, and inventory units using verifiable credentials and offline-capable access controllers.
Why it matters: A reservation needs to work at the physical entrance, not just on a screen.
Filed April 28, 2026Used in: Park Graph
A closed-loop UAV landing-safety system that projects directional warnings to detected bystanders, verifies the projection actually emitted, and binds the event to a tamper-evident hash-chain.
Why it matters: People near a landing drone need a warning that reaches them where they are.
Filed April 28, 2026Sensor-verified mission credentials for coordinating autonomous vehicle access, dwell, and charging at private property slots.
Why it matters: Reaching a property does not by itself give a vehicle permission to occupy a space.
Filed April 29, 2026Used in: Wins Parking
Cargo handoff protocol with cryptographic chain-of-custody records bound to physical compartment access events.
Why it matters: A delivery record is more useful when it is tied to the compartment being opened.
Filed April 29, 2026Four-dimensional protected corridors that follow specific crewed aircraft along approach and departure procedures, with cryptographically signed deconfliction commands issued to cooperative unmanned aircraft.
Why it matters: Drone coordination needs to account for where a crewed aircraft is moving, not only a fixed boundary.
Filed April 30, 2026Cryptographically authenticated cooperative commands directed to enrolled drones to safely deconflict near crewed aircraft.
Why it matters: A drone needs to distinguish an authorized safety command from an untrusted instruction.
Filed April 30, 2026Detection, classification, and threat-scoring of unmanned aircraft within active airport corridors.
Why it matters: Spotting a drone and judging its threat to aircraft are different tasks.
Filed April 30, 2026Tamper-evident recording of drone-aircraft near-miss and strike events for regulatory, insurance, and dispute review.
Why it matters: A near miss needs a record that can be examined after the immediate danger has passed.
Filed April 30, 2026Real-time advisories delivered to pilots and ATC for cooperative deconfliction of drone-aircraft conflicts.
Why it matters: Conflict information needs to reach the pilots and controllers who are handling the aircraft.
Filed April 30, 2026Cryptographic evidence chains binding mission credentials, sensor data, property-rule versioning, and physical actuation outcomes for autonomous vehicle parking, charging, and delivery operations.
Why it matters: A later review needs to connect a vehicle's permission, observed conditions and physical actions.
Filed April 29, 2026A versioned digital twin that coordinates ground autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, robots, and pedestrians at shared private facilities, with cryptographically signed multi-modal safety records.
Why it matters: Shared facilities need to account for people and several kinds of moving machines together.
Filed April 29, 2026Assigns every printed parking and EV-charger QR code its own identifier and checks its payments against independent proof that vehicles are present, such as plate reads and charger states. Silent codes are flagged as counterfeit, and enforcement spares drivers who paid a scammer.
Why it matters: A driver can pay a scammer while the real parking or charging system sees no payment.
Filed October 20, 2026Sole inventor: Ross D. Blankenship. No Wins Parking assignment.
Used in: Park Graph · ChargingNear.me
Joint-feasibility scheduling that binds an autonomous vehicle's mission window to charging-station availability via signed dwell-and-charge credentials, ensuring the vehicle arrives, charges, and departs within mission-critical timing without overrunning the next vehicle's slot.
Why it matters: A charging stop must fit both the vehicle's next job and the station's available time.
Filed April 30, 2026Used in: Wins Parking EV and robotaxi charging · Recharged
Roaming protocol that lets an autonomous EV authenticate, charge, and settle at any participating charging network using a portable signed credential, with cryptographic settlement records exchanged across provider boundaries.
Why it matters: A vehicle crossing provider boundaries needs a way to authenticate, charge and settle with participating networks.
Filed April 30, 2026Used in: Wins Parking EV and robotaxi charging · Recharged
Robotic charging arm that physically couples to an autonomous EV only after multi-sensor verification of vehicle identity, port alignment, and safe-state, producing a signed coupling-event record bound to the charging session.
Why it matters: Automatic charging needs to verify the vehicle and physical connection, not just authorize a payment.
Filed May 1, 2026Used in: Wins Parking EV and robotaxi charging · Recharged
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-anything (V2X) dispatch governed by a mission-safety predicate so a fleet vehicle never exports power if doing so would violate its next-mission state-of-charge commitment, with signed allocation records for settlement.
Why it matters: Exporting battery power must be considered alongside the energy needed for the vehicle's next mission.
Filed May 4, 2026Used in: Wins Parking EV and robotaxi charging · Recharged
Switch-matrix architecture that dynamically routes converter capacity through any port under signed multi-vehicle service-level commitments, allocating power only when joint-feasibility, site-power envelope, connector compatibility, and isolation/thermal limits are satisfied simultaneously.
Why it matters: Several charging promises have to fit within the site's power and equipment limits at the same time.
Filed May 4, 2026Used in: Wins Parking EV and robotaxi charging · Recharged
Per-segment energization of in-road wireless coil arrays gated by a signed charging-corridor credential, with each coil segment activating only on concurrent satisfaction of credential validity, vehicle-identity match, alignment tolerance, and safety-state clearance.
Why it matters: A charging lane needs to decide which road segments may energize for the vehicle above them.
Filed May 3, 2026Used in: Recharged
Visual markers on roadway, parking, curb, charging, and gate infrastructure that carry a cryptographically authenticated payload an autonomous vehicle reads, verifies, contextually cross-checks, classifies, and uses to gate motion-control, parking, charging, routing, access, and settlement actions.
Why it matters: Reading a sign is different from verifying that its instruction can be trusted.
Filed May 5, 2026Used in: Park Graph
Infrastructure markers that layer a signed visible code over a retroreflective pattern that a vehicle's LiDAR reads through the ink. The vehicle acts on a parking, curb or charging instruction only when both layers verify under one signature and align on one marker.
Why it matters: A visible code and a LiDAR-readable pattern can be checked as parts of the same marker.
Filed October 20, 2026Used in: Park Graph
Authenticated reservation, authorization, exclusivity, dwell-enforcement, conflict-resolution, and settlement of designated parking, curb, loading, pickup, charging, valet, and service spaces — binding operational entitlement to a physical space, a specific vehicle or mission, and a settleable transaction record.
Why it matters: An open space and a vehicle's right to use that space are not the same thing.
Filed May 6, 2026Used in: Park Graph
Signed service-readiness certificate generated from robotic or automated service evidence (charging, cleaning, inspection, sensor calibration, cabin checks, lost-item handling) and used to authorize, block, reroute, downgrade, or reschedule a vehicle's next autonomous mission — turning fleet operational state into a cryptographically verifiable artifact.
Why it matters: Finishing a service task and authorizing the next vehicle mission need a clear connection.
Filed May 13, 2026Used in: Wins Parking
An AI assistant can place a short hold on a parking space for a driver. The price is fixed when the hold is placed. The space count is checked in one atomic step, so two assistants cannot sell the last space twice. The driver gets a signed link. One tap confirms and pays exactly the held price; no account is needed. When a lot passes an occupancy threshold, the system sends assistants to the nearest lot that still has room.
Why it matters: Assistants can hold spaces without double-booking, while drivers control payment at the held price.
Filed October 25, 2026 · Application 64/183,842Used in: Park Graph
A parking attendant can leave a payment notice on an unpaid car without enforcement cameras. Before any notice issues, the system checks a photo of the lot's posted pay sign against the code the platform issued for that lot. A counterfeit or swapped QR sticker blocks the notice. Notices also issue only where a jurisdiction-specific release record approves the notice wording and fee limit.
Why it matters: A fake sign blocks a payment notice, and local approval controls its wording and fee limit.
Filed October 25, 2026 · Application 64/183,864Used in: Park Graph
A lot owner texts a photo of the lot. The system estimates the number of spaces and creates a draft listing. It replies with a link, and after sign-up the draft is claimed by the owner's new account in one atomic step. The system then issues pay signage with a tokenized QR code. Each sign file is released only after two independent decoders read back the exact payment URL.
Why it matters: Owners can start with a phone photo, and every sign's payment URL is checked before release.
Filed October 25, 2026 · Application 64/183,869Used in: Park Graph
A fleet operator reserves many spaces across lots owned by different operators in one request. Either every space is secured or none are. Each space is bound to a specific vehicle credential. The fleet gets one consolidated invoice, and each lot owner is paid separately. Spaces left unused after a grace period return to public inventory with a credit.
Why it matters: Fleets secure all requested spaces or none, with one invoice and separate payments to lot owners.
Filed October 25, 2026 · Application 64/183,871Used in: Park Graph
All April–October 2026 applications are U.S. provisional patent applications filed under 35 U.S.C. § 111(b) and remain Patent Pending. Provisional applications establish priority date but are not examined; corresponding nonprovisional applications must be filed within 12 months to preserve priority rights. Application numbers for the four October 25 Park Graph filings are listed above. Earlier provisional application numbers and detailed filing receipts remain private.
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