Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Inertia-actuated valve assemblies as well as gas spring and gas damper assemblies, suspension systems and methods including same
    Patent number: 11204076
    Abstract: An inertia-actuated valve assembly includes a valve housing, a valve body and a biasing element. The valve housing includes a groove that has an open end fluidically accessible from along one side thereof. The valve housing includes a flow channel extending therethrough in fluid communication with the groove from along an opposing side of the valve housing. The valve body is positioned within the groove of the valve housing such that the valve body and the valve housing are axially co-extensive along at least a portion thereof. The biasing element operatively engages the valve body and generates a biasing force urging the valve body in a first axial direction. The biasing force is greater than a predetermined dynamic gas pressure threshold value multiplied by a pressure area and is less than or approximately equal to a valve body mass multiplied by 2.5 times the nominal acceleration due to gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC
    Inventor: Joshua R. Leonard
  • Support for drilling and bolting tool
    Patent number: 11203933
    Abstract: A boom for supporting a drilling and bolting tool includes a first portion including a first end and a second end, a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end; a second portion including a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end supported for translational movement relative to the first portion in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the distal end configured to support the drilling and bolting tool; an actuator for moving the second portion relative to the first portion parallel to the longitudinal axis; and a fluid passage for conveying pressurized fluid between the first end of the first portion and the drilling and bolting tool adjacent the distal end of the second portion, the fluid passage positioned within the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Joy Global Underground Mining LLC
    Inventors: Peter Hanna, Callum Tyler, Brad Neilson
  • Techniques for determining and using caching scores for cached data
    Patent number: 11204870
    Abstract: Techniques for cache management may include: receiving pages of data having page scores, wherein each of the pages of data is associated with a corresponding one of the page scores, wherein the corresponding page score associated with a page of data is determined in accordance with one or more criteria including one or more of a deduplication score, a compression score, and a neighbor score that uses a popularity metric based on deduplication related criteria of neighboring pages of data; and storing the page of data in a cache in accordance with the plurality of page scores. The cache may include buckets of pages where each bucket is associated with a different page size and all pages in the bucket are the different page size. The one or more criteria may also include an access score. The page scores may be based on multiple criteria that is weighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Anton Kucherov, David Meiri
  • Medical services tracking system and method
    Patent number: 11205505
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a system and computer-implemented method for aggregating and tracking medical delivery to a patient including a non-transitory computer-readable medium in data communication with at least one processor, where the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes software instructions for a medical services tracking system and method. Upon execution of the software instructions, information from a patient database or server can be received and displayed a medical record dashboard. A user can view and edit access to the information, and a user selectable link can display medical record information. The system and method enable auto-population of medical data entry fields based at least one part on at least one claim made or billing signed off by a physician for at least one medical service or procedure previously provided to or performed on at least one patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: EHR COMMAND CENTER, LLC
    Inventor: Leonard Ginsburg
  • Method and apparatus for video coding
    Patent number: 11206417
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes, from a coded video bitstream, a flag that is indicative of whether applying a lossless coding mode. In response the flag being indicative of applying the lossless coding mode, the processing circuitry partitions a block into multiple blocks based on the block having at least one side that is equal to or greater than a threshold size for zeroing out a portion of the block. Thus, video quality loss due to zero out can be avoided. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs the multiple blocks respectively from the coded video bitstream based on the lossless coding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Beam skew mitigation using non-linear frequency modulation signals
    Patent number: 11205844
    Abstract: An on-vehicle radar system is described, and includes a phased array antenna including a plurality of transmit antennas, and a corresponding plurality of transmitters, wherein each of the transmitters is in communication with a respective one of the transmit antennas. A controller is operatively connected to each of the plurality of transmitters. The controller includes an instruction set that is executable to generate a plurality of Non-Linear Frequency Modulated (NLFM) radar signals corresponding to individual ones of the plurality of transmitters. Each of the NLFM radar signals that is generated for a respective one of the transmitters is determined based upon a desired beam steering angle and a position of the respective one of the transmit antennas of the phased array antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Oren Longman, Igal Bilik
  • Methods and system for cranking an engine via output of a DC/DC converter
    Patent number: 11204010
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle that includes a DC/DC converter is described. In one example, the method includes adjusting an output voltage of the DC/DC converter after the DC/DC converter is used to crank an engine. The output voltage of the DC/DC converter may be adjusted responsive to a state of charge of an ultra-capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander O'Connor Gibson, John Eric Rollinger, David Hancock, William Taylor, Mark E. Shields
  • Method and system for assembling content streams with advertisements from multiple advertisement vendors
    Patent number: 11205201
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying an advertisement at a user device comprising receiving a content stream at the user device comprising an advertisement queuing point, monitoring the content stream for the advertisement queuing point at a client stream assembler module of the user device, communicating an advertisement query signal comprising client metadata from the client stream assembler module to a decision proxy, receiving an advertisement decision signal comprising an advertisement location identifier at the client stream assembler module, requesting an advertisement based on the advertisement location identifier and receiving and displaying the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement location identifier on a display associated with the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Xie, Susan B. Chuck, Parag Agarwal, Atanu Basak, Luan Le-Chau, Connie C. He, Mark T. Takamoto
  • Hydraulic actuator control system
    Patent number: 11204044
    Abstract: A hydraulic actuator control system that includes an actuator. A pump pumps a hydraulic fluid to move the actuator. A first control valve fluidly couples to the pump. The first control valve provides a first hydraulic fluid flow to the actuator. A maximum first hydraulic fluid flow through the first control valve is less than a maximum required hydraulic fluid flow of the actuator. A second control valve fluidly couples to the pump. The second control valve provides a second hydraulic fluid flow to the actuator. A maximum second hydraulic fluid flow through the second control valve is less than the maximum required hydraulic fluid flow of the actuator. A controller controls the first control valve and the second control valve to provide the hydraulic fluid to the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Zimmerman, Navneet Gulati
  • Two-stage training with non-randomized and randomized data
    Patent number: 11204973
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, position bias and other types of bias may be compensated for by using two-phase training of a machine-learned model. In a first phase, the machine-learned model is trained using non-randomized training data. Since certain types of machine-learned models, such as those involving deep learning (e.g., neural networks) require a lot of training data, this allows the bulk of the training to be devoted to training using non-randomized training data. However, since this non-randomized training data may be biased, a second training phase is then used to revise the machine-learned model based on randomized training data to remove the bias from the machine-learned model. Since this randomized training data may be less plentiful, this allows the deep learning machine-learned model to be trained to operate in an unbiased manner without the need to generate additional randomized training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Sairom Krishnan Hewlett, Dan Liu, Qi Guo, Wenxiang Chen, Xiaoyi Zhang, Lester Gilbert Cottle, III, Xuebin Yan, Yu Gong, Haitong Tian, Siyao Sun, Pei-Lun Liao
  • Real time progressive examination preparation platform system and method
    Patent number: 11205352
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for providing dynamic examination preparation course content to users wherein a progressive content module in real time assigns difficulty values to questions according to previous users' answer and selects future questions for an individual user according to previous answers received from the user and pass prediction values assigned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TazKai, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Reeves Jones, Jonathan Weeks Haws
  • Image transformation by fusion
    Patent number: 11205256
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to processing images in image transformation by fusion. More particularly, an image of an object of an original picture may be transferred onto an image of a corresponding object in a template picture by fusion. During the transformation by fusion, the processing of fusion may be done on each pixel by using a pixel weight graph, so that the image of the object in the original picture may be better integrated into the template picture with the features of the object in the original picture maintained well in the picture processed by fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technologv Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chengcheng Liu, Peng Chen, Shuo Wang, Ting Sun, Yuwei Cao, Yueyang Chen
  • Conversion of nitrogen dioxide (NO) to nitric oxide (NO)
    Patent number: 11202880
    Abstract: Inhalation of low levels of nitric oxide can rapidly and safely decrease pulmonary hypertension in mammals. A nitric oxide delivery system that converts nitrogen dioxide to nitric oxide employs a surface-active material, such as silica gel, coated with an aqueous solution of antioxidant, such as ascorbic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: VERO Biotech LLC
    Inventors: David P. Rounbehler, David H. Fine
  • Machine learning architecture for lifelong learning
    Patent number: 11205122
    Abstract: Some embodiments described herein cover a machine learning architecture with a separated perception subsystem and application subsystem. These subsystems can be co-trained. In one example embodiment, a data item is received and information from the data item is processed by a first node to generate a sparse feature vector. A second node processes the sparse feature vector to determine an output. A relevancy rating associated with the output is determined. A determination is made as to whether to update the first node based on update criteria associated with the first node, wherein the update criteria comprise a relevancy criterion and a novelty criterion. The second node is updated based on the relevancy rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Apprente LLC
    Inventors: Itamar Arel, Joshua Benjamin Looks
  • Adaptive resolution change in video streams
    Patent number: 11206404
    Abstract: A video coding system in which video images of a video bitstream are rescaled prior to encoding, and again at the decoder upon reception. When encoding a given video frame, the video encoder deduces a level of resampling to apply to a reference frame in order to properly predict blocks in the given video frame or the full given video frame, and carries out one or more predictions by first applying a resampling process on the reference frame data at the deduced level. To decode the given video frame of the bitstream, a video decoder compares a size of the given video frame to sizes of a reference frame to determine a level of resampling for the reference frame data, and carries out predictions to generate predicted data by first applying the determined level of resampling to the reference frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FastVDO LLC
    Inventors: Pankaj N. Topiwala, Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Wei Dai
  • Basket
    Patent number: D938727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SPECTRUM DIVERSIFIED DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventor: Megan Dittrich
  • Vehicle spoiler
    Patent number: D938874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Kirk D. Bennion
  • Display screen with transitional graphical user interface
    Patent number: D938976
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Yameng Lee Thorp
  • Volleyball
    Patent number: D939035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Coach 'Em Up, LLC
    Inventor: Deborah Newkirk
  • Pedicle screw removal tool
    Patent number: D939082
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: ORTHOPEDIC RENOVATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Rene Ortiz, Alejandro Rene Ortiz