Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Winch
    Patent number: 11884524
    Abstract: A non-limiting exemplary embodiment of a winch includes a bearing housing, a one way bearing having an outer ring attached to the bearing housing, a bearing hub having a cylindrical section attached to an inner ring of the one way bearing, a friction disk having a first surface adjacent a disc of the bearing hub, a crank spool having a first disk adjacent a second surface of the friction disk, a crank housing configured for rotatably retaining the crank spool, a crank shaft extending through the bearing hub, through the friction disk, and into the crank spool, wherein a first end of the crank shaft is coupled to the crank spool, and a crank mechanism coupled to a second end of the crank shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Blosser
  • Voice application platform
    Patent number: 11887597
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon
  • Magnetic component and method of forming
    Patent number: 11887766
    Abstract: A component includes a magnetic core having a body formed of a first material, defining a first opening and a second opening thereon. A duct formed of a second material extends at least partially through the body between the first opening and the second opening. The first opening and the second opening are in fluid communication by way of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Ramanujam Ramabhadran, Ruxi Wang, Juan Manuel Rivas Davila, Jiale Xu
  • Heating element and heater assemblies, cartridges, and e-vapor devices including a heating element
    Patent number: 11882878
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a heater assembly for an electronic heating device includes a heating element and a support. The heating element includes a planar portion, a first lead, and a second lead. The planar portion includes a filament. The filament defines an air channel through the planar portion. The filament includes a plurality of curves. At least one of the curves has a tip thereon. At least one of the first lead portion, the second lead portion, or both the first lead portion and the second lead portion are generally coplanar with the planar portion of the heating element. The heating element is in contact with the support such that the tip of the at least one of the curves rests thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Arie Holtz, Isaac Weigensberg
  • Active cover plates
    Patent number: 11888301
    Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SnapRays, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson, Darren C Knight, Martin Johnson
  • System and method for hospitality water cleansing and monitoring
    Patent number: 11882981
    Abstract: An operating assembly for use with a sink or bathtub having at least one fluid-holding basin and a basin drain includes an actuator and a housing. The housing includes a plug structure at, or near, a bottom portion of the housing for selectively blocking the basin drain and a drain valve comprising an inlet adjacent a bottom portion of the housing controlled by the actuator to be in an open position or a closed position. The inlet of the drain valve is provided on a first side of the housing, and the outlet of the drain valve is provided on a second side of the housing opposite the first side and directs fluid into the plug structure. The plug structure mates with the basin drain to prevent fluid in the basin from escaping into the drain other than through the drain valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sink Tech, LLC
    Inventor: Declan Morgan
  • Peritoneal dialysis intracycle osmotic agent adjustment
    Patent number: 11883576
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for making intracycle adjustments to an osmotic agent concentration of peritoneal dialysate inside the peritoneal cavity of a patient. The systems and methods include osmotic agent sources, flow paths, and processors to adjust the osmotic agent concentration of dialysate in the peritoneal cavity of the patient. The method can include infusing peritoneal dialysate containing an osmotic agent into the peritoneal cavity of a patient; monitoring one or more patient parameters; and adjusting the osmotic agent concentration of the peritoneal dialysate in the peritoneal cavity of the patient by infusing a concentrated osmotic agent solution or by infusing sterile fluid into the peritoneal cavity of the patient using an on-line peritoneal dialysis machine. The system can include a peritoneal dialysis cycler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mozarc Medical US LLC
    Inventors: Martin T. Gerber, Christopher M. Hobot
  • Predictively presenting search capabilities
    Patent number: 11886495
    Abstract: Example techniques and systems may obtain one or more search types associated with a geographic location of a computing device. In one example, a technique may include determining, by a mobile computing device, a geographic location of the mobile computing device and obtaining one or more search types associated with the geographic location. Responsive to obtaining the one or more search types, the technique may also include outputting, by the mobile computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising at least an indication of the one or more search types associated with the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Jenkins
  • Biological indicator for determining the efficacy of a steam or heat sterilization process and its method of use
    Patent number: 11884960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a biological indicator for determining the efficacy of a steam or heat sterilization process, and its method. The biological indicator comprises microbial spores (a), at least one sensor protein exogenous to the microbial spores (b), one fluorophore (c), and a culture medium (d). The invention also refers to the method of use of this biological indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Terragene LLC, Terragene SA
    Inventors: Adrian Jesus Rovetto, Esteban Lombardia, Pablo Ravasi
  • Proactive incorporation of unsolicited content into human-to-computer dialogs
    Patent number: 11887594
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are described related to automated assistants that proactively incorporate, into human-to-computer dialog sessions, unsolicited content of potential interest to a user. In various implementations, in an existing human-to-computer dialog session between a user and an automated assistant, it may be determined that the automated assistant has responded to all natural language input received from the user. Based on characteristic(s) of the user, information of potential interest to the user or action(s) of potential interest to the user may be identified. Unsolicited content indicative of the information of potential interest to the user or the action(s) may be generated and incorporated by the automated assistant into the existing human-to-computer dialog session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ibrahim Badr, Zaheed Sabur, Vladimir Vuskovic, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Lucas Mirelmann
  • Partial discharge suppression in high voltage solid-state devices
    Patent number: 11888023
    Abstract: Devices, methods and techniques are disclosed to suppress electrical discharge and breakdown in insulating or encapsulation material(s) applied to solid-state devices. In one example aspect, a multi-layer encapsulation film includes a first layer of a first dielectric material and a second layer of a second dielectric material. An interface between the first layer and the second layer is configured to include molecular bonds to prevent charge carriers from crossing between the first layer and the second layer. The multi-layer encapsulation configuration is structured to allow an electrical contact and a substrate of the solid-state device to be at least partially surrounded by the multi-layer encapsulation configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Opcondys, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Sampayan, Kristin Cortella Sampayan
  • Vehicle including a moveable console with airbag
    Patent number: 11884229
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a dash. A first seat and a second seat are spaced from the dash. A console is adjacent to the dash with the console being movable from a stowed position disposed in the dash to a deployed position extending from the dash between the first seat and the second seat. An airbag is supported by the console with the airbag being inflatable to an inflated position when the console is in the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq
  • Vacuum nozzle system
    Patent number: 11882983
    Abstract: A vacuum nozzle system has a vacuum nozzle with an inlet opening for engaging a surface to be vacuumed and an outlet opening for connection to a vacuum supply hose. The inlet opening is delimited by a circumferential end face. The nozzle defining a vacuum flow direction from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. A holder bracket has a holder for holding the nozzle. The holder is disposed downstream of the end face in a vacuum flow in the vacuum flow direction when the nozzle is in a retained position on the holder bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sonny's Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Fazio, Anthony Analetto, David Guzman, Michael Doty
  • Testers, testing systems and methods of testing electrical components
    Patent number: 11885854
    Abstract: A tester for testing an electrical component. The tester includes a database of testing specifications for electrical components, a tester connector for physically and electrically connecting to different electrical components, and an output device. The tester identifies an electrical component connected to the tester connector and provide corresponding identification data, retrieves a testing specification from the database using the identification data, commands a test of the electrical component according to the testing specification, and outputs an indication of a result of the test through the output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael H. Shaffer, Gustavo Sanchez Taccone, Aaron Cullen, Ronan Conneely, Stonewall Jackson Craig, III, Jimmy D Hart, Charles Wallace Thompson
  • System and method for content selection
    Patent number: 11886690
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and software are described herein for providing a user interface that, in one example, indicates the current point in progress for various items that are available for selection. Upon selection of one of the items of content and/or services that present the items of content, the item of content may be accessed (e.g., for display, recording, or other type of consumption) at the point in progress or at another location within the item of content that may correspond to or otherwise depend upon the point in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Y. Fong
  • Methods and systems for adaptive cropping
    Patent number: 11889090
    Abstract: A video decoder is configured to receive a bitstream including a first coded picture having a first resolution and a second coded picture having a second resolution, wherein the first coded picture is an intra-coded picture, parameters defining a cropping window. The decoder decodes the first coded picture and stores the first picture as a reference picture, determines a scaling factor from at least one parameter in the bitstream defining the first cropping window, determines a predictor for the second picture from the reference picture and the scaling factor, decodes the second coded picture using the predictor, and outputs for display the first picture as cropped in accordance with the parameters defining the cropping window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OP Solultions, LLC
    Inventors: Hari Kalva, Borivoje Furht, Velibor Adzic
  • System and method for cryogenic separation of plant material
    Patent number: 11883829
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cryogenic separation of plant material are provided. A method of cryogenic separation of plant material, includes placing a sieve into a vessel. Plant material is placed in the sieve. Cryogenic fluid is provided at or below ?150 degrees Celsius to the sieve. The plant material is agitated within the sieve and the vessel to separate plant particulates solidified by the cryogenic fluid from the remainder of the plant material. The cryogenic fluid and plant particulates are removed from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CRYOMASS LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Barone, Matt Armstrong
  • Assembled carton for frozen dessert
    Patent number: D1012692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Andy's Frozen Custard Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Kish, Andy Kuntz, Todd Arth
  • Drive housing cover
    Patent number: D1012785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LiveWire EV, LLC
    Inventors: Eric John Konkel, Jared P. Thede, Ben McGinley, Casey Ketterhagen, Nathan Abplanalp, Samuel Nicholas Reitinger
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D1012920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SpotOn Transact, LLC
    Inventors: Carol Marie Oles, Doron Friedman, Jeffrey Haller, Zachary Alan Hyman, Kenneth John North