Patents Examined by Wayne An
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Patent number: 11970428Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods of making a liquid fertilizer additive of biodegradable polymeric and/or oligomeric nitrification inhibitors comprised of utilizing a non-aqueous polar, aprotic organo liquid (NAPAOL) as the reaction medium for the reaction of aldehyde(s) with cyano-containing nitrification inhibitors that have one or more aldehyde reactive groups selected from the group consisting of a) primary, b) secondary amines, c) amides, d) thiols, e) hydroxyls and f) phenols.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SOILGENIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Gary David McKnight, Randall Linwood Rayborn
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Patent number: 11974220Abstract: A network node is a first network node in a VPLMN (Visited Public land mobile network), the network node including a receiving unit configured to receive information relating to network selection, from a second network node in an HPLMN (Home Public land mobile network); a transmitting unit configured to transmit the information relating to network selection, to a user equipment; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the second network node, a response indicating that the user equipment was unable to receive the information relating to network selection, when a response, with respect to the information relating to network selection transmitted to the user equipment, is not received from the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shinya Takeda, Maoki Hikosaka, Atsushi Minokuchi, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Ban Al-Bakri
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Patent number: 11970953Abstract: A component includes a diffusion coating comprising an inter-diffusion zone between the diffusion coating and a substrate and a non-metallic inclusions zone adjacent to an outer surface of the diffusion coating. A method of coating a component includes applying an aluminizing slurry to a localized area of a component and applying a chromizing slurry to the localized area of the component subsequent to heat treating the aluminizing slurry.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: RTX CorporationInventor: Michael N. Task
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Patent number: 11974219Abstract: A method comprising: detecting at a device associated with a first public land mobile network, a cell; receiving, for each of a plurality of public land mobile networks supported by the cell, an indication as to whether or not the cell is available for standalone access for that public land mobile network; and determining, in dependence upon the indications and based on the first public land mobile network, whether to request standalone access of the cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Dawid Koziol, Hakon Helmers
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Patent number: 11973641Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate edge computing in connection with a variety of deployment scenarios. Various embodiments can facilitate one or more of: deploying UPF(s) (User Plane Function(s)) to support edge computing; removing UPF(s) not needed for edge computing; deploying local DN(s) (Data Network(s)); E2E (Edge-to-Edge) OSS (Operations Support System) deployment scenarios; and providing RAN (Radio Access Network) condition data to support various applications (e.g., autonomous driving).Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Joey Chou, Yizhi Yao
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Patent number: 11969927Abstract: An injection arrangement for a moulding machine includes a moulding compound reservoir and an injection unit. The moulding compound reservoir is configured to provide a plasticized mass and to push out the plasticized mass through a discharge opening, and a connecting device is coupled to the discharge opening of the moulding compound reservoir and a feed opening of the injection unit, and is configured to direct the plasticized mass from the moulding compound reservoir to the injection unit. The connecting device includes an articulated element, and a relative movement between the moulding compound reservoir and the injection unit can be performed with the articulated element.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Christoph Balka, Friedrich Pernkopf
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Patent number: 11971043Abstract: A diffuser system for a centrifugal compressor is provided. The diffuser system includes a nozzle base plate that defines a diffuser gap, support blocks, and a drive ring rotatable relative to the support blocks. The drive ring includes cam tracks and bearing assemblies positioned proximate an outer circumference of the drive ring. The diffuser system further includes drive pins extending through the support blocks and the nozzle base plate. The first end of each drive pin includes a cam follower mounted into a cam track on the drive ring. The second end of each drive pin is coupled to a diffuser ring. Rotation of the drive ring causes axial movement of the drive pins by movement of the cam followers in the cam tracks. This results in movement of the diffuser ring to control fluid flow through the diffuser gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GmbHInventors: Jordan Q. Steiner, Paul W. Snell
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Patent number: 11972685Abstract: A pollution management method is provided. The method comprises determining a target relating to a level of pollution in an area associated with one or more parking spaces; monitoring a level of pollution in the area; adjusting a parking policy of the one or more parking spaces based on a comparison between the target and the level of pollution, in order to incentivise or disincentivise parking in the area; monitoring vehicles parking in the area; and re-adjusting the parking policy according to the vehicles parking in the area in order to adjust the incentivise or disincentivise to parking in the area and thereby achieve the target relating to the level of pollution in the area.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Malczyk, Emily Jackson, Adrian Raisin
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Patent number: 11964923Abstract: A granulated organic and organomineral fertilizer supplemented with biological additive and process for the production of granulated organic and organomineral fertilizer supplemented with biological additive is physically presented in the form of granules (G), having its formulation defined by the combination of organic and mineral matter (N,P,K), to which it is added, in addition, a bioburden in the form of bacteria, fungus and yeast that are selected to crops of interest, whether grasses, legumes, monocotyledons and dicotyledons, the granules (G) receive the bioburden at the time of its granulation; the selection of bioburden to be included in granules (G) is established according to the soil and crop analysis to be cultivated.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SUPERBAC BIOTECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS S.A.Inventor: Luiz Augusto Chacon De Freitas Filho
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Patent number: 11968544Abstract: A control device acquires quality information indicating a correspondence relationship between a position and communication quality related to wireless communication at the position, and route information indicating a movement route of a mobile base station, specifies an area in which the communication quality is determined to be lower than a predetermined communication quality based on the quality information, and executes control for moving the mobile base station to a position at which a wireless communication service can be provided in at least a part of the area in a case where the position is included in the movement route based on the route information.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Toshiaki Takano
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Patent number: 11966968Abstract: A server according to the present disclosure determines a vehicle dispatch schedule of a vehicle for delivery of a rental article to a user and/or for collection of a rental article rented out to a user from the user. The server includes a communication interface for acquiring, from a terminal apparatus used by the user, first information regarding the rental article, and at least one of second information regarding a rental date/time and a rental location and third information regarding a return date/time and a return location; and a controller for determining, according to the second information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for delivering the rental article indicated by the first information to the user by the vehicle, and/or for determining, according to the third information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for collecting the rental article rented out to the user from the user by the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yukari Suzuki, Naoki Yamada, Toshihiro Arai, Kuniaki Jinnai, Keiichi Uno
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Patent number: 11963508Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PVAN09 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PVAN09, cells from soybean variety 5PVAN09, plants of soybean 5PVAN09, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PVAN09. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PVAN09 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PVAN09, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PVAN09, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PVAN09. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PVAN09 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Brian Allen Carden, Landon Linn Ries
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Patent number: 11963507Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PJWA71 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PJWA71, cells from soybean variety 5PJWA71, plants of soybean 5PJWA71, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PJWA71. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PJWA71 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PJWA71, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PJWA71, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PJWA71. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PJWA71 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Zachary Phillip Shearin
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Patent number: 11963492Abstract: The objective of the invention is to provide an agent for increasing a plant functional component content, which is capable of increasing a content of the plant functional component by being adequately sprayed to the plant or injected into the soil without using stress cultivation conditions or plants with high content of functional component, and a method for manufacturing the same. An agent for increasing a plant functional component content comprising a fatty acid metabolite obtainable by a metabolism of a fatty acid with 4-30 carbon atoms by proteobacteria under a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.1-8 mg/L, and a method for manufacturing an agent for increasing a plant functional component content comprising a fatty acid metabolite, comprising a step for a fatty acid metabolism wherein a fatty acid with 4-30 carbon atoms is subjected to a proteobacterial metabolization under a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.1-8 mg/L.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Ohno, Tomohiro Nohara
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Patent number: 11957079Abstract: A stand-on blower is provided that allows for fully powered nozzle angle adjustment. The blower may deliver an airflow for pneumatic cleanup tasks in different directions, including horizontal or left-right and vertical or up-down direction variability of the airflow. Position or angle of the blower's nozzle may be automatically reversed or driven to a rotational or angle limit upon demand.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc.Inventors: James Hall, Craig Antonioni
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Patent number: 11950553Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for producing an inbred plant comprising a first and second trait of interest in the L1-shoot meristem layer for use in producing a periclinal chimera plant, the inbred plant thus obtained, the use of said inbred plant for producing said periclinal chimera plant, a method for producing a periclinal chimera plant using said inbred plant, a periclinal chimera plant thus obtained, the use of said periclinal chimera plant in producing plant product and the plant product thus obtained.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Keygene N.V.Inventor: Jeroen Stuurman
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Patent number: 11950562Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04230926 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04230926, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04230926, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04230926, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04230926. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04230926. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04230926, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04230926 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.Inventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 11953825Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus that presses a fine pattern of an original plate against a photo-curable resin dropped onto a substrate, and transfers the fine pattern to the photo-curable resin by applying light, includes a dropping unit that drops the photo-curable resin onto a shot region obtained by dividing the substrate into a plurality of sections, an original plate supporting unit that stamps the original plate on the photo-curable resin on the substrate, the original plate being supported the fine pattern towards the substrate side, and a substrate supporting unit that supports the substrate and moves the substrate such that a position of a predetermined shot region of the substrate is a dropping position of the dropping unit or a stamping position of the original plate, in which the dropping unit is controlled such that the photo-curable resin is sequentially dropped onto the plurality of shot regions of the substrate, and the original plate supporting unit is controlled such thatType: GrantFiled: January 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masayuki Hatano, Kei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Nakasugi
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Patent number: 11956194Abstract: A text communication management system is provided that receives, analyzes, and enforces recipient actions regarding phone-based text communications. The text communication management system can obtain recipient action data regarding a recipient's action with respect to a particular text communication, and enforce the recipient action with respect to future text communications. The management system can also or alternatively analyze the recipient action data in connection with recipient action data from multiple other recipients to generate a model for use in determining whether future phone-based text communications should be permitted, determining the likelihood that such communications will cause recipients to opt-out, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Callfire, Inc.Inventors: Shannon Elizabeth Donohue, Vijesh Rajnikant Mehta, Norman William Happ, Aaron Horvath
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Patent number: 11956714Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a network node in a VPLMN (Visited Public land mobile network), information indicating a PLMN to be prioritized and information indicating a trigger of PLMN selection; and a control unit configured to execute the PLMN selection, based on the information indicating the PLMN to be prioritized and the information indicating the trigger of the PLMN selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shinya Takeda, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Maoki Hikosaka, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Atsushi Minokuchi, Ban Al-Bakri