Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Patent number: 11880702
    Abstract: Hot restart of a hypervisor by replacing a running first hypervisor by a second hypervisor with minimally perceptible downtime to guest partitions. A first hypervisor is executed on a computing system. The first hypervisor is configured to create one or more guest partitions. During the hot restart, a service partition is generated and initialized with a second hypervisor. At least a portion of runtime state of the first hypervisor is migrated and synchronized to the second hypervisor using inverse hypercalls. After the synchronization, the second hypervisor is devirtualized from the service partition to replace the first hypervisor. Devirtualizing includes transferring control of hardware resources from the first hypervisor to the second hypervisor, using the previously migrated and synchronized runtime state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Tech nology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce J. Sherwin, Jr., Sai Ganesh Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 11880663
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for assisting users with unknown topics by automatically presenting information associated with the unknown topics to the users. In an example embodiment, an unknown topic is referred to or discussed during a conversation between multiple users. A candidate definition for the topic is determined, where the candidate definition is known by the user that used the topic. Based on a determination that the topic and the candidate definition are unknown to a second user in the conversation, the topic and the candidate definition are provided to one or more output devices for presentation to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Torbjørn Helvik
  • Patent number: 11882636
    Abstract: A load control system for controlling an electrical load may include a sensor, a remote control, and a load control device. The remote control may comprise a button and may be configured to wirelessly transmit a digital message in response to an actuation of the button. The load control device may be configured to control the electrical load, be responsive to the sensor, and/or be configured to be associated with the remote control. The load control device may be responsive to the digital message transmitted by the remote control if the remote control is associated with the load control device. The load control device may be configured to automatically operate in a first mode of operation if the remote control is not associated with the load control device, and automatically operate in a second mode of operation if the remote control is associated with the load control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: David T. Saveri, III, Andrew Peter Schmalz, Akshay Bhat
  • Patent number: 11880988
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image registration method and a model training method thereof. The image registration method comprises obtaining a reference image and a floating image to be registered, performing image preprocessing on the reference image and the floating image, performing non-rigid registration on the preprocessed reference image and floating image to obtain a registration result image, and outputting the registration result image. The image preprocessing comprises performing, on the reference image and the floating image, coarse-to-fine rigid registration based on iterative closest point registration and mutual information registration. The non-rigid registration uses a combination of a correlation coefficient and a mean squared error between the reference image and the registration result image as a loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Chen Zhang, Zhoushe Zhao, Yingbin Nie
  • Patent number: 11879727
    Abstract: A workstation for measuring dimensions includes an operator zone, a first fixture, a second fixture, a component delivery device, a gauge, and a collaborative robot. The second fixture is accessible to an operator in the operator zone. A component delivery device deposits a first component onto the first fixture. The envelope of the component delivery device is not accessible by the operator in the operator zone. The collaborative robot supports the gauge tool and has a range of motion capable of measuring the first component on the first fixture and a second component on the second fixture. A control module is in communication with the gauge and the collaborative robot and operates the collaborative robot to measure the first component on the first fixture and the second component on the second fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Calvano, Nicholas Zieske, Terry Hochthanner
  • Patent number: 11878669
    Abstract: A military vehicle includes a front axle, a rear axle, a front differential coupled to the front axle, and a transaxle coupled to the rear axle and the front differential. The transaxle includes an internal mechanical disconnect that facilitates mechanically decoupling the transaxle from the front differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Defense, LLC
    Inventors: Don Verhoff, Gary Schmiedel, Chris Yakes, Rob Messina, Brian Wilkins, Kent Schulte, Daniel R. Seffernick, Joseph Holda, Michael Peotter, David McGraw, Anthony Seefeldt, Dave Pelko, Jesse Gander, Jerry Reineking, Jesse Steinke
  • Patent number: 11880882
    Abstract: A marketplace network for facilitating transactions among a plurality of marketplace participants. The marketplace network includes a plurality of service provider systems associated with respective service provider participants. Each of the plurality of service provider systems are communicatively coupled to a respective merchant server. The marketplace network includes a plurality of user systems associated with respective user participants configured to generate a service request to one of the plurality of service provider systems. The marketplace server facilitates transactions digitally by executing a set of computer-executable tasks for securely processing transactional exchanges among the marketplace participants. The transactional exchanges include at least exchanges of ownership rights for digitally stored data at least in part owned originally by the user participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intellectual Frontiers LLC
    Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
  • Patent number: 11877527
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for controlling the operation of an agricultural implement may include a ground-engaging tool configured to engage soil within a field such that the tool creates a field material cloud aft of the tool as the implement is moved across the field. Furthermore, the system may include an imaging device configured to capture image data associated with the field material cloud created by the ground-engaging tool. Moreover, a controller of the disclosed system may be configured to identify a plurality of field material units within the field material cloud based on the image data captured by the imaging device. Additionally, the controller may be configured to determine a characteristic associated with the identified plurality of field material units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Douglas James Rylander, Trevor Stanhope
  • Patent number: 11878296
    Abstract: A process for separating a catalyst component from a catalyst-containing slurry by centrifugation including separating the catalyst component from the mother liquor of the catalyst-containing slurry using a stacked disc centrifuge equipped with an auto-discharging functionality. The solids discharge from the stacked disc centrifuge is enhanced by adding a washing solution to the bowl and the solids discharge chute of the stacked disc centrifuge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mrunmayi Kumbhalkar, Wu Chen, Brian Murdoch, Haifeng Shi, Lin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11879315
    Abstract: A device for controlling injection of treatment fluids in plunger lift systems includes a lubricator cap coupleable to a lubricator. The lubricator cap defines a fluid inlet coupleable to a fluid injection system. A sensor coupled to the lubricator cap detects arrival of a plunger within the lubricator a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor transmits an indicator corresponding to arrival of plunger to a fluid injection control system. In response, the fluid injection system injects fluid into the fluid inlet to recharge the plunger. In certain implementations, the sensor detects arrival of the plunger at the lubricator by detecting movement of a lubricator spring or a component of a lubricator spring, such as a spring follower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Antelope Developments, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Jyoti Rollins
  • Patent number: 11880737
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic portal modulation. A method of dynamic radio frequency identification (RFID) modulation comprises identifying in a structure a plurality of different assets to be loaded or unloaded; wherein each asset of the plurality of different assets is of a known identification and includes a passive RFID tag, and all passive RFID tags of the plurality of different assets are not the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Surgere, LLC
    Inventors: William John Wappler, Robert William Fink, Charles Edwin Dressler
  • Patent number: 11877693
    Abstract: Embodiments of an outdoor cooking station having a main body and a griddle with a hood pivotably coupled to the griddle are provided. For safety purposes, the griddle is removably secured to an upper portion of the main body with the legs of the griddle positioned within apertures defined in an upward facing surface of the upper portion of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: North Atlantic Imports, LLC
    Inventors: James C. Bush, III, Gary E. Graham, Steve L. Puertas, Michael R. Giebel
  • Patent number: 11877808
    Abstract: A system for performing image-guided surgery includes an instrument having a first portion configured to define a trajectory into the body of a patient, a marker device and a user-interface component. A sensing device receives electromagnetic signals that are reflected or emitted from the marker device, and a processing system, coupled to the sensing device, includes at least one processor configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations that include tracking the position and orientation of the instrument relative to the patient based on the signals received at the sensing device, receiving a signal from the user-interface component of the instrument indicating a user-input event, and saving the trajectory into the body of the patient defined by the first portion of the instrument in response to receiving the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mobius Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Syverson, Michael Harboun, Carlos Torres, David Vondle, Chris Gold, Todd Furlong, Scott Coppen, Anders Eriksson
  • Patent number: 11880858
    Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods to predict a vehicle preference of a customer of a rental vehicle agency. An example method to do so involves a computer executing a prediction procedure to obtain and evaluate information associated with a customer. The information can include vehicle ownership history and/or monitoring data obtained from vehicles used by the customer (a personal vehicle, a taxi, and/or a ride share service vehicle, for example). The information may be evaluated by the computer to determine a personal profile of the customer. The personal profile can include items such as physical attributes of the customer, family size, driving characteristics, and/or past vehicle ownership. The personal profile of the customer may then be used by the computer to predict a type of vehicle preferred by the customer and to select, from a vehicle fleet, a vehicle that matches the preferred type of vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Lerner, Paige Wong, Scott Huggins, Xingping Chen, Taylor Hawley
  • Patent number: 11882339
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to providing notifications regarding events that may interrupt content being rendered at an interface. The notifications can be preemptive and/or can indicate a predicted time and/or source for the events. The event can be, for example, a person attempting to contact a user who is viewing content at a display interface. The person can be associated with a food delivery that has been ordered by the user via a delivery application. An application, such an automated assistant application, can predict when the person is expected to arrive with the food delivery, and generate a notification ahead of the person arriving. In some implementations, the notification can be rendered at a scrubber user interface (UI) at a location corresponding to the time that the food delivery is expected to arrive, thereby putting the user on notice of when the streaming content may be interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Kuang, Jesse Kaczmarek, Andy Gugel, Jonathan Lee
  • Patent number: 11880412
    Abstract: A system includes a controller, a database controlled by the controller, and a memory including an end-user executable code and a business software management code. The controller receives a user update to modify the end-user executable code, converts the user update to a machine language input, and, in response to the machine language input, modifies one or more of the end-user executable code, the database structure, and a documentation of the end-user executable code. In response to executing the program instructions associated with the modified end-user executable code on the end-user device, the controller generates a data collection GUI according to the modified end-user executable code and stores data in the database structure according to the modified end-user executable code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Elumus, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew M. Kelly
  • Patent number: 11880879
    Abstract: A system for enabling in store routing of a user generated shopping list using existing store cameras and artificial intelligence and machine learning is provided. The system uses a pixelbuffer comparison of items imaged in real time to compared to a database of machine learned images. The system further provides item recognition and detection through machine learning so as to improve a shoppers experiences. The system and method further includes drone assistance means and radio signal item and biological detection so as to improve accuracy. Other features to improve guidance and accuracy include landmark navigation and masking to improve accuracy of item recognition and detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ghost House Technology, LLC
    Inventors: David Paul Stout, Ethan Michael Baird
  • Patent number: 11878005
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for improved pharmaceutical compositions containing deferasirox (DFX) and methods of manufacturing the same. In particular, the compositions are prepared using thermokinetic compounding and provide improved properties as well as more efficient methods of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AustinPx, LLC
    Inventors: Dave A. Miller, Justin M. Keen, Sandra U. Kucera
  • Patent number: 11880411
    Abstract: Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a user search query in a real-time search engine may be achieved by training a machine learning algorithm to create a trained model. The trained model may be configured to receive a user search query as input and to recognize and output zero or more named entities in the search query. The training may include an iterative training process in which further training data is added at each iteration, in some embodiments. The training may be based on three training data sets, in some embodiments. A first training data set may be based on user search and engagement activity. A second training data set may be artificially generated based on a catalog of named entity values. A third training data set may be based on optimized and supplemented data pairs sampled from the first training data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Cheng, Mitchell Bowden, Priyanka Goyal, Bhushan Ramesh Bhange
  • Patent number: D1012326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CONDE GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: Crisanto Pedro Garcia