Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Snap-on dust cap for fiber optic connector
    Patent number: 11209600
    Abstract: A dust cap includes a cap body and a pair of opposing latches. The cap body is adapted to cover a connectorized end of a fiber optic connector and cable assembly when the connectorized end is inserted through an opening of an interior of the cap body. The cap body further includes an opposing pair of resilient walls. The pair of opposing latches each include latching features that extend outside of the interior of the cap body. The pair of opposing latches each further include a mounting portion mounted to a respective one of the opposing pair of resilient walls. The dust cap may further include a pulling interface. The pulling interface may be adapted to attach to a pulling member and may be positioned at a tapered nose of the cap body. The dust cap may thereby be a cable pulling cap and may pull a fiber optic connector and cable assembly through conduits and other narrow passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Cyle D. Petersen
  • Process for producing protein concentrate or isolate and cellulosic thermochemical feedstock from brewers spent grains
    Patent number: 11206851
    Abstract: A process for treating brewers spent grains for producing a high value protein product and a cellulosic residue, both from brewers spent grains that have not gone through fermentation. The high value protein product is useful as a protein supplement, or feed for livestock and poultry, and the cellulosic residue has value as a feedstock for a thermochemical process unit, such as for the production of a biofuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Zea 10, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Mackay, Karl Greden
  • Bi-directional gender changing rotary connection for luminaire
    Patent number: 11209153
    Abstract: An elongated lighting module having an asymmetric illumination source formed from at least two rows of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that extend along the long axis of the module and are independently controllable. The illumination source is rectangular and oriented so that the rows of LEDs extend along the long axis of the module. The module has couplings at each end that allow additional modules to be interconnected to each other and to a central mount, thereby avoiding the need for a support pole having cross-arms. The lighting modules are powered via a wiring harness that extends down a support pole to a power converter stack having LED drivers to control the modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: M3 Innovation, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Douglas C Nolan, Joseph J. Witkowski, Jr.
  • Method and apparatus for managing advertisements
    Patent number: 11210700
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving advertisements from a remote advertising content provider and pre-loading the advertisements at a communication device. An advertisement is selected for presentation at a presentation device, based on a user's advertising viewing history, the duration of the advertisement, the device location, the device environment, the user's demographic profile, or the user's activities. The presentation device presents the advertisement responsive to the trigger message. The effectiveness of the advertisement is determined, and the advertisement viewing history is updated; the advertisement is selected based in part on the effectiveness of a past presentation of the advertisement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: James G. Beattie, Jr., Jeffrey A. Krinsky
  • Robotic workspace layout planning
    Patent number: 11209798
    Abstract: This specification describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for planning workspaces for automated fabrication processes. A computing system facilitates planning by receiving a set of parameters for planning a layout of a workspace for an automated fabrication process, and generating a plurality of candidate workspace layouts, including selecting, for each candidate workspace layout, (i) one or more robots for performing tasks in the automated fabrication process and (ii) corresponding locations for the one or more robots within the workspace. The system determines an optimal workspace layout based on the plurality of candidate workspace layouts, generates a workspace layout specification for the optimal workspace layout, and provides the workspace layout specification to one or more second computing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Marek Michalowski, Michael Beardsworth
  • Heart signal waveform processing system and method
    Patent number: 11207031
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for receiving a single-lead heartbeat waveform for a user; associating a heart health indicator with the single-lead heartbeat waveform; and providing the heart health indicator to a recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CARDIONOMOUS LLC
    Inventors: Sameer Mehta, Francisco J. Fernandez
  • Crash structure for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 11207957
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a crash structure for a motor vehicle, the crash structure being, in a starting state, at a minimum spacing of greater than zero from a door hinge of a vehicle door of the motor vehicle, and the crash structure being in contact with at least one contact region which is assigned to the door hinge in a crash state after a partial overlap crash by way of passing into an operative connection with a wheel of the motor vehicle, and forming a deflector surface for the deflection of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Marius Sawatzki, Daniel Meckenstock, Stefan Schneider, Dominik Mueller, Joergen Hilmann
  • Tailgate assembly with cargo bed access opening and method of providing access to a cargo bed of a vehicle
    Patent number: 11208157
    Abstract: A tailgate assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a primary tailgate having a cargo bed access opening. The primary tailgate moveable between a closed position and a fully open position relative to a cargo bed of a vehicle. The tailgate assembly further including a secondary tailgate that can move between a blocking position where the secondary tailgate extends into the cargo bed access opening and an accessing position where the secondary tailgate is retracted away from the cargo bed access opening. The secondary tailgate in the accessing position at least partially retracted into a portion of the primary tailgate that is vertically beneath the cargo bed access opening when the primary tailgate is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Amol Borkar, Adrian Nania
  • System, method, and for improving oilfield operations
    Patent number: 11209567
    Abstract: A system includes a ground based area, an electromagnetic (EM) interrogation device having an EM emitter that directs an EM beam at the ground based area. The EM interrogation device includes a detector array that receives reflected EM radiation from the EM beam, and a controller having a ground movement description module that determines a movement profile of the ground based area in response to the reflected EM radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Exciting Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Paul F. McManamon, J. Stephen Wills
  • Clock frequency adjustment for workload changes in integrated circuit devices
    Patent number: 11209886
    Abstract: Clock control arrangements for integrated circuit devices are discussed herein. In one example, a method of operating an integrated circuit device includes monitoring indications of pending operations for a processing core of an integrated circuit, and determining a predicted change in workload for the processing core based at least on a portion of the indications of the pending operations. The method also includes altering a clock frequency of a clock signal provided to the processing core based at least on the predicted change in the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: William Paul Hovis, Andrew Benson Maki, Francine Mary Shammami
  • Augmented reality head-mounted display with beam shifter for pupil steering
    Patent number: 11209659
    Abstract: A method for providing images to a wearer using a head-mounted display device that includes a light projector and a beam shifter includes projecting, with the light projector, light for rendering images based at least on virtual reality contents and/or augmented reality contents. The method also includes changing, with a beam shifter, a path of the light projected from the light projector based on a position of a pupil of an eye of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Robert Lanman, Ryan Michael Ebert
  • Small form factor power conversion system
    Patent number: 11211724
    Abstract: An apparatus including a substrate, a power conversion circuit coupled to the substrate, a power prong coupled to the power conversion circuit, a device connector to couple to a device, and a device connector cable to couple the device connector to the power conversion circuit is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CORE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Reiter, Ernest Wittenbreder
  • Food products with shells that are dissolved or melted to release ingredients and form heated beverages
    Patent number: 11206849
    Abstract: A food product includes first and second shells containing multiple ingredients. The first and second shells are attached to each other by an edible bonding agent. The shells are configured to be dissolved or melted into a heated liquid to release the multiple ingredients and the edible bonding agent is configured to be dissolved or melted into the heated liquid in order to form a heated beverage. The multiple ingredients include a first ingredient that dissolves into the heated liquid and a second ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Chocolate House Incubator Retail, LLC
    Inventor: Katherine T. Weiser
  • Devices and methods for a sensor platform of a vehicle
    Patent number: 11209276
    Abstract: In one example, a vehicle includes a platform and a yaw sensor mounted on the platform. The yaw sensor provides an indication of a yaw rate of rotation of the yaw sensor. The vehicle also includes an actuator that rotates the platform. The vehicle also includes a controller coupled to the yaw sensor and the actuator. The controller receives the indication of the yaw rate from the yaw sensor. The controller also causes the actuator to rotate the platform (i) along a direction of rotation opposite to a direction of the rotation of the yaw sensor and (ii) at a rate of rotation based on the yaw rate of the yaw sensor. The controller also estimates a direction of motion of the vehicle in an environment of the vehicle based on at least the rate of rotation of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Craig Robinson, John Tisdale, Seth LaForge, Paul Karplus
  • Illuminating unit and display apparatus
    Patent number: 11209585
    Abstract: An illuminating unit includes a light-guiding section including a plurality of light-guiding plates, in which the light-guiding plates are stacked in a thickness direction and each have a light entrance section and a light output surface, a plurality of light sources that output light toward the light entrance sections of the respective light-guiding plates of the light-guiding section, and a substrate that supports the plurality of light sources and on which a circuit section is disposed, in which the circuit section drives each of the light sources. A first portion, on which the circuit section is disposed, of the substrate is disposed in opposition to a back surface of the light-guiding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Takeaki Hirasawa
  • Cross access login controller
    Patent number: 11212678
    Abstract: Systems and methods here may be used for authorizing network access including using by a server computer with a processor and memory, for receiving, through the gateway support node, a request to access the first network associated with the gateway support node from a client device, wherein the request includes a client device identifier, sending a validation request of the client device identifier to the data storage server, receiving a validation response based on previously registered client device identifier information and previously registered credential information from a second network, from the data storage server and sending authorization approval to the gateway support node for the client device access request to the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Doron Givoni, Oleg Pogorelik
  • Remotely adjustable captive beam system
    Patent number: 11208028
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically and remotely adjusting the position of a captive beam is provided. The system includes a motor that moves a bracket along a vertical track, with the bracket supporting an end of the captive beam. The bracket rotatably supports a latch that engages an aperture in a track when aligned therewith to allow track to support the load of the captive beam and the load supported by the captive beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ancra International LLC
    Inventors: Joaquim Carlos da Rosa, Jerome T. Jones, Lawrence C. Bethel, Gregory A. Kauffman
  • Carrying case
    Patent number: D939210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Allie Glines, LLC
    Inventors: Alexandra Glines, Tylan Glines
  • Internal winding spool
    Patent number: D939329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SBCD Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: David Svengalis
  • Tubular exercise device
    Patent number: D939642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ViPR PRO, LLC
    Inventor: Michol Dalcourt