Patents Assigned to AND, LLC
  • Image decoder, image decoding method, image encoder, and image encode method
    Patent number: 11109037
    Abstract: A prediction set determining section selects a prediction set from a prediction set group including a plurality of prediction sets having different combinations of prediction modes corresponding to different prediction directions. Further, a prediction mode determining section selects a prediction mode from the prediction set thus selected. An entropy encoding section encodes the prediction set thus selected, the prediction mode thus selected, and residual data between an input image and a predicted image formed on the basis of the prediction set and the prediction mode. This allows an image encoding device to carry out predictions from more various angles, thereby improving prediction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsukuba, Yasuaki Tokumo
  • Synchronized safety lighting
    Patent number: 11103022
    Abstract: Under poor lighting conditions, it is difficult to distinguish whether multiple lights are attached to the same object or multiple objects, particularly when they are flashing. In some circumstances, lights flashing at different frequencies and/or with different periods may be presumed by other road users to be associated with different objects, thereby diminishing the value of multiple individual lights on a bicycle. Synchronized safety lighting enables a cyclist to synchronize multiple individual lights so that they may flash in unison with the same repeating pattern. This provides a stronger visual impression of a cyclist and their bicycle to other road users by visually tying the cyclist's lights together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ARSENAL CYCLING LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Prehn
  • Systems and methods for verified biomeasurements
    Patent number: 11103160
    Abstract: A method includes generating, via a camera, image data that is reproducible as an image of at least a portion of a subject. The method also includes receiving, via a sensor, first biomeasurement data associated with the subject, the first biomeasurement data including a first biomeasurement of the subject. The method also includes verifying the first biomeasurement of the subject based at least in part on a comparison between at least a portion of the image data and at least a portion of the first biomeasurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MEDF LLC
    Inventor: Michael Evan Emalfarb
  • High fragmentation mortar shells
    Patent number: 11105595
    Abstract: A mortar shell including: a polymer outer layer, the polymer outer layer having reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and a metallic inner layer defining an interior of the mortar, the metallic inner layer having a plurality of metallic fragments, each of the plurality of metallic fragments having a shape to interlock to each of the other of the plurality of metallic fragments, the plurality of metallic fragments being assembled together into the metallic inner layer; wherein a first metallic fragment of the plurality of metallic fragments having a characteristic different than second metallic fragments surrounding and contacting the first metallic fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: OMNITEK PARTNERS LLC
    Inventor: Jahangir S Rastegar
  • Managed real-time communications between user devices
    Patent number: 11108825
    Abstract: Managed real-time communications between user devices may be provided. Upon receiving a request to instantiate a communication connection from an application, a secure session may be established between the application and a remote application. Input from a user of the application may be received, subjected to at least one management policy, and transmitted to the remote application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AirWatch LLC
    Inventors: Erich Stuntebeck, Evan Hurst
  • Control system for tire injection filling mixing machine
    Patent number: 11104090
    Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a tire filling mixing machine, by: (a) mixing a rubber/polyurethane and a catalyst in a first mixer to form a virgin polyurethane; (b) grinding cured polyurethane core bits in a grinder; (c) mixing the virgin material and the ground material in a second mixer thereby forming a mixed flatproofing material; (d) injecting the mixed flatproofing material into a tire; (e) measuring the ratio of ground material to virgin material in the mixed flatproofing material; (f) comparing the measured ratio of ground material to virgin material to a pre-stored preferred ratio of ground material to virgin material; and (g) increasing or decreasing the relative percentages of virgin material and ground material entering the second mixer by an amount that is a fraction of the difference between the measured ratio and the pre-stored preferred ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CARLISLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Little, John Bishop
  • LED lighting system
    Patent number: 11109466
    Abstract: A system and method involving lighting fixtures, a control network, a controller and other devices such as light sensors, input devices and network adapters for coordinating precise brightness and color schedules among the lighting fixtures while maintaining a high color reliability including provisions for managing a plurality of lighting fixtures. The lighting fixtures contain lighting elements selected such that when controlled properly, operating along a daytime locus, the resultant light output closely resembles sunlight on a cloudless day in spectral characteristics, and wherein the total flux of blue light can be adjusted from a relative level of 1-100% the maximum blue flux of the lighting fixture by controlling individual lighting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Delos Living LLC
    Inventors: Eric Jon Eisele, Adam K. Fontecchio, Donald Sheldon
  • Ionic liquid electrolyte and method to electrodeposit metals
    Patent number: 11105013
    Abstract: An electrolyte and a method to electroplate a metal on a substrate using the electrolyte are described. The electrolyte includes an imidazolium compound, a metal salt, and water. The imidazolium compound has formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently selected from an H atom and an organic radical. L? is a compatible anion. The metal salt can include but is not limited to salts of the metals Li, Mg, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Bi, La, Ce, Al, Ag, Au, Ga, V, In, Nb, Mo, and W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: Neo Industries LLC, University of Notre Dame Du Lac, Ionic Research Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Benaben, Joan Brennecke, Edward Maginn, Mauricio Quiroz-Guzman
  • Method and system of managing the acquisition of food in a commercial environment
    Patent number: 11105674
    Abstract: A method and system of managing the acquisition of food in a commercial environment. An example method includes receiving, from a first scale, a container weight of a container when food is removed from the container. The method also includes determining a removed weight of the food from the container based on the container weight relative to an initial container weight, receiving, from a second scale, a plate weight of a plate when the food is added to the plate. The method also includes determining an added weight of the food to the plate based on the plate weight relative to an initial plate weight, determining whether the removed weight and the added weight match, and responsive to determining that the removed weight and the added weight match, providing information related to the food to be presented on a user interface at the food station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Gregory Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Norman Scott Gregory
  • Conduit offset bender
    Patent number: 11103910
    Abstract: A conduit offset bender preferably includes an upper die, a lower die, a first guide plate, a second guide plate, a force transfer plate, two compression springs and an actuation device. The upper die includes an upper die base, a first pair of lugs, a second pair of lugs, a first boss flange and a second boss flange. The lower die includes a lower die base, two first lower boss flanges and two second lower boss flanges. Larger and smaller offset grooves are formed in the upper and lower dies. The two compression springs are retained in spring counterbores formed in the upper and lower boss flanges. A bottom of the first and second guide plates are attached to the lower die base. The actuation device includes a first handle plate, a second handle plate, a pressure roller, a cam roller, a pivot pin and a retention pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TEMCO INDUSTRIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Leber, Justin Harvey
  • Real-time in-venue betting system
    Patent number: 11107327
    Abstract: A system and method of placing a location-based bet is presented in embodiments herein. Bets, offers, and incentives, may be presented to a user via a mobile device based on a location of the mobile device relative to a geographic region. The geographic region may be associated with a sporting event or a sporting venue such as a sport arena. Different bets, offers, and incentives may be presented inside the geographic region than outside the geographic region based on the different experiences for the fans in each geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FanThreeSixty, LLC
    Inventors: Nic Kline, Bart Hampton, Jason Houseworth
  • Compact omnidirectional antennas having stacked reflector structures
    Patent number: 11108137
    Abstract: A base station antenna includes a first reflector structure that extends along a first longitudinal axis, the first reflector structure having a first transverse cross-section, a second reflector structure that extends along a second longitudinal axis, the second reflector structure having a second transverse cross-section that is different from the first transverse cross-section, and the second reflector structure extending above the first reflector structure, a first array of first frequency band radiating elements that are mounted to extend outwardly from the first reflector structure, a second array of second frequency band radiating elements that are mounted to extend outwardly from the second reflector structure, the first frequency band being non-overlapping with the second frequency band, and a radome that extends around the first reflector structure and the second reflector structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Maosheng Liu, Rui An, Martin L. Zimmerman, Peter J. Bisiules, ZhaoHui Liu, Ruixin Su, PuLiang Tang
  • Bottle crown with opener assembly
    Patent number: 11104492
    Abstract: A pull tab crown for a bottle or other container provides an opener secured to the top of the crown. The crown has an annular skirt with an annular edge. Score lines extend from the opener assembly to the skirt. One of the score lines is curvilinear and terminates at the annular edge. A second score line has a segment that extends from the opener assembly to an endpoint substantially spaced from the bottom annular edge of the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: World Bottling Cap, LLC
    Inventor: Abe Frishman
  • Valve assembly
    Patent number: 11105440
    Abstract: A water control device includes a valve, the valve including a valve body, the valve body including a first end and a second end, the valve body defining a transmission cavity allowing fluid communication between the first end and the second; a control mechanism located within the transmission cavity, the control mechanism arranged to provide modifiable fluid control within the valve; at least one sensor, the at least one sensor being in fluid communication with the transmission cavity; and at least one remote transmission unit in electronic communication with the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Magda, Harold Thomas Mosley
  • Federating mote-associated index data
    Patent number: 11106749
    Abstract: Methods and/or systems relating to mote networks having one or more indexes. A sensing function or a control function is determined at a mote in the network. In response, one or more sensing, control, and routing/spatial indexes are created. A federated index is created for different sets of motes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: JTT INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cohen, Edward K. Y. Jung
  • Keel strip removal apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11102990
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to remove a keel strip that is centrally attached to a poultry butterfly. The butterfly has first and second poultry breasts on opposite sides of the keel strip. An elongated, longitudinally-oriented spine defines a butterfly travel path and is disposed above a longitudinally-driven conveyor. A scoring blade is disposed above, and spaced a predetermined distance from, the spine. First and second severing blades are disposed along the butterfly travel path downstream of the scoring blade with the first and second severing blades disposed on opposing first and second lateral sides of the spine. A second longitudinally-driven conveyor is disposed above the spine and ex tends from a first position downstream of the scoring blade to at least a second position between the first and second severing blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: PRIME EQUIPMENT GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Kirk Reis, Stephen Cribb, Barry Jones
  • Apparatus for consuming a freezable substance
    Patent number: D929071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: BLUH2O LLC
    Inventors: Tracy Reinhardt, William Robert Reinhardt, Jr., Dale Constuble, Renato Valz-Brenta, Tony Balmforth, Doug Bjork
  • Chaise lounge
    Patent number: D929139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Loungera IP LLC
    Inventor: Michael Edelman
  • Battery box
    Patent number: D929333
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Seasonal Specialties, LLC
    Inventors: Narong Benjakachorndech, Christine Werner, Steven Altamura
  • Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface
    Patent number: D929453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Leon Bayliss, Shinji Kimura, Maxence Parache, Eric Kabisch, Alison Reichenthal