Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Tail sweep spray diffuser for pool cleaner
    Patent number: 11879263
    Abstract: A spray diffuser for a pool cleaner is coupled to the end of the tail sweep hose which expels pressurized water out of the end of the hose. The diffuser includes a flow shaping nozzle configured to form a diverging pressurized water stream. The shaping nozzle can be attached directly to the end of the hose with a flow obstruction of the shaping nozzle immediately adjacent the flow discharge. A dissipating portion dissipates the pressurized water stream when the spray diffuser is positioned above the surface of the water to prevent water spraying out of the pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ERUPTECH LLC
    Inventor: John Irvine
  • Leak detection device
    Patent number: 11879813
    Abstract: A leak detection device includes a body having at least one fluid input that receives a fluid leak, at least one drain fluidly coupled with a container, and at least one sensor conduit input fluidly coupled with at least one sensor. The fluid input is located above the drain but below the sensor conduit input. The body includes an internal conduit that is fluidly coupled with and extends between the fluid input, the drain, and the sensor conduit input. The internal conduit includes a lower branch that extends below the fluid input to the drain. The internal conduit includes an upper branch that separately extends in the body above the sensor conduit input to the drain. The lower branch includes a reduced flow portion below the fluid input and the sensor conduit input but above the drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Gallagher, Pisey Leute, Manuel Licon Flores, Jesse Brigden, Sudheer Khanapure
  • Labels with liner separation feature
    Patent number: 11881125
    Abstract: A liner in a label-liner combination is provided with a die cut portion made in the liner. The die cut portion is aligned with at least one edge in a label and a front side of the liner is attached to a backside of the label. The die cut portion of the liner is adapted to be removed from the liner when the label is removed from the label-liner combination. Dimensions, and orientation, and a location of the die cut portion in the liner are adapted to allow the label to be removed from the label-liner combination and applied to a surface by digits of a hand without touching an adhesive coating on the backside of the label and adapted to maintain proper printer waste liner spool operations when the liner is wound after application of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Iconex LLC
    Inventors: Shane Lamb, Timothy Darren Livingston
  • Method of resetting a digital counter for a personal care appliance
    Patent number: 11881856
    Abstract: A method of resetting a digital counter for a personal care appliance by sending an electrical output signal from an optical sensor to a control circuit. The electrical output signal is compared to a predetermined value with the control circuit or a change in the electrical output signal from the optical sensor is detected over time. A signal is sent to a consumer user interface by the control circuit based on the electrical output signal and the predetermined value or based on the change in the electrical output signal from the optical sensor. The digital counter is reset based on an input signal from the consumer user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Judith Von Dahlen, Alexander Tessmann, Alexander Hiller, Dominik Jueling, Viktor Kraft
  • Multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and use thereof
    Patent number: 11879009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and a targeting polypeptide such as an antibody and methods of their production and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory T. Bleck
  • Devices transferring cache lines, including metadata on external links
    Patent number: 11880686
    Abstract: In a processing system, a conversion circuit coupled to a system bus generates a flow control unit (FLIT) and provides the FLIT to a link interface circuit for transmission over an external link. The external link may be a peripheral component interface (PCI) express (PCIe) link coupled to an external device comprising a cache or memory. The conversion circuit generates the FLIT, including write information based on the write instruction, metadata associated with at least one cache line, and cache line chunks, including bytes of a cache line. The cache line chunks may be chunks of one of the at least one cache line. Including the metadata in the FLIT avoids separately transmitting the at least one cache line and the metadata over the external link, which improves performance compared to generating separate transmissions. In some examples, the FLIT corresponds to a compute express link (CXL) protocol FLIT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ampere Computing LLC
    Inventor: Robert James Safranek
  • Cable to reduce optical fiber movement and methods to fabricate
    Patent number: 11880084
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for making armored cables. An example method for making an armored cable includes forming a strip stock into an armor tubing; welding a seam of the armor tubing in a welding zone; inserting at least one of a first optical fiber or a first wire into a first end of a first guide tube, wherein: the first guide tube extends through the welding zone; the first guide tube protects the at least one of the first optical fiber or the first wire during the welding of the seam; and the first guide tube is not part of the armored cable after the making of the armored cable; and supporting the first guide tube within the armor tubing by a plurality of support legs such that the first guide tube does not contact the armor tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Edward M. Dowd, Domino Taverner, John J. Grunbeck
  • Methods and system for predicting trajectories of uncertain road users by semantic segmentation of drivable area boundaries
    Patent number: 11880203
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling navigation of an autonomous vehicle for traversing a drivable area are disclosed. The methods include receiving information relating to a drivable area that includes a plurality of polygons, identifying a plurality of logical edges that form a boundary of the drivable area, sequentially and repeatedly analyzing concavities of each the plurality of logical edges until identification of a first logical edge that has a concavity greater than a threshold, creating a first logical segment of the boundary of the drivable area. This segmentation may be repeated until each of the plurality of logical edges has been classified. The method may include creating and adding (to a map) a data representation of the drivable area that comprises an indication of the plurality of logical segments, and adding the data representation to a road network map comprising the drivable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Argo AI, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory Boyd Nichols
  • Systems, methods, and devices for optimizing advertisement placement
    Patent number: 11880865
    Abstract: A computing system is configured to analyze historic data generated by an optimization system to provide recommended weightings for placement of creatives on publisher's pages. The weightings may be generated by providing forecasting the likelihood that a particular creative will lead to greater conversion or revenue compared to other creatives. The creatives may be grouped into one or more phases based on the amount of statistical data available for analyzing the particular creatives such that new creatives are given sufficient weighting to receive impressions despite the lack of historical data for a creative. Performance of placed creatives may be tracked by the passing of URLs with information attached to identify the particular creative and placement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CPL ASSETS, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Frederick Ripper, Steven Ostrover, Henry H. Varbedian
  • Dual check valve system for oxygenating water
    Patent number: 11877564
    Abstract: A system for a live well fill pump fulfills the dual goals of keeping the intermittently operating fill pump primed and dissolving gasses in water sourced by the fill pump. A check valve in a water intake assembly cooperates with a check valve in a pump output assembly to keep the fill pump primed in between intermittent pumping operations. Water flowing out of the fill pump through the second check valve undergoes a pressure differential and turbulence. A gas delivery system directs the turbulent water through the output conduit or chamber to dissolve the gas in the water. The gas-saturated water is released through the water outlet into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JMF Watercraft Design LLC
    Inventor: Jeff M. Falcone
  • Hole punch
    Patent number: 11878439
    Abstract: A hole punch for forming a hole in metal or other material is provided. In some embodiments, the punch comprises a first assembly that is positioned on one side of the device to be punched and a second assembly is positioned on the other side. One of the assemblies comprises a male punch and the other comprises a female die plate. In some embodiments, rotation of a bolt causes the male punch to move through the device to be punched and into the female die plate. In some embodiments, the device to be punched is a rain gutter. In some embodiments, one or both of the first and second assemblies have magnets so that the punch can be releasably assembled with the assemblies on either side of the device to be punched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mayer Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: James A Finstrom, Todd M. Mayer
  • Environment simulations
    Patent number: 11880292
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to simulating an environment. For example, a system for environment simulation may include a simulation engine to build an environment simulation to mimic portions of a real environment relevant to a detected anomaly trend, an acceleration engine to simulate, within the environment simulation, a scenario associated with the detected anomaly at a rate faster than the scenario occurs in the real environment, a abnormal behavior engine to detect a abnormal behavior associated with the scenario, and an adaptation engine to modify a device within the real environment to be adaptive to the scenario, based on the detected abnormal behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: Amitay Korn, Avivi Siman-Tov, Olga Kogan
  • System, method, and computer-accessible medium for geo-fenced zones
    Patent number: 11880843
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and computer-accessible mediums can include, for example, receiving a first location of a user(s) and time information associated with that location, initiating a record for the user(s) based on the location and the time information, receiving a second location of the user(s), where the second location can be in a second bounded area, storing in record, a transaction(s) associated with the user(s) based on the second location, and automatically initiating a single payment for the transaction(s) when the user(s) leaves the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader Benkreira, Michael Mossoba, William Carroll
  • UE-controlled selection between inter-RAT handover and inter-RAT dual connectivity
    Patent number: 11882491
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamically controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE) when the UE has standalone connectivity with a first access node under a first radio access technology (RAT). An example method includes the UE detecting that the UE is within threshold strong coverage of a second access node under a second RAT, and the UE making a selection between (i) responsively handing over from the first access node to the second access node and (ii) having dual-connectivity with the first access node and the second access node. Further, the example method includes the UE informing the first access node of the UE's selection, perhaps together with an inter-RAT measurement report reporting that the UE is within threshold strong coverage of the second access node, and the first access node responsively taking action in accordance with the UE's selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SPRINT SPECTRUM LLC
    Inventors: Atul Kulkarni, Sreekar Marupaduga, Sougata Saha, Anurag Thantharate
  • Methods and systems for utilizing histogram views for improved visualization of three-dimensional (3D) medical images
    Patent number: 11881301
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for utilizing histogram views for improved visualization of three-dimensional (3D) medical images. Imaging data obtained during medical imaging examination of a patient may be processed, with the imaging data corresponding to a particular medical imaging technique. At least one medical image may be generated based on processing of the imaging data. Histogram data may be generated based on the at least one medical image. At least one histogram may be displayed along with the at least one medical image or a projection of the at least one medical image, with the at least one histogram including or being is based on the histogram data, and with the at least one histogram being displayed next to and aligned with the at least one medical image or the projection of the at least one medical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Gogin, Jerome Knoplioch
  • Container
    Patent number: D1011895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Turn 3 Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen Burns, Jr., Mary Alice Tomerlin Brittain, Michael Thomas Benson
  • Dispenser for essential oil
    Patent number: D1011914
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TYNC, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew S. Goldfarb, Joshua Goldfarb, Pepin Gelardi, Joseph Antonio Gonzalez, Emma Pearl Willmer-Shiles, Garret McGregor
  • Tire tread
    Patent number: D1012007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AMERICAN OMNI TRADING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: James Robert Fleckner, III, Huakao Dang
  • Pistol frame
    Patent number: D1012221
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AEONIC ARMS LLC
    Inventor: Denton Randolph
  • Console
    Patent number: D1012291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Garwood Medical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy M. Kopera, Brian R. Peterson