Patents Assigned to Conversant, LLC
  • Patent number: 12318265
    Abstract: A temporary alignment system and method for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using the same threads in the abutment that are used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a closed-tray impression process without unscrewing the temporary fastener. Embodiments include threaded posts that release copings from the abutment through axial forces. Some embodiments include a threaded post with separable cap that is picked-up with the coping. Methods for converting an existing prosthesis for screw attachment to implants in a single visit and digital capture of the converted prosthesis are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Smart Denture Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Dale Kofford, Charles Albert Rudisill
  • Patent number: 12318266
    Abstract: A temporary alignment system and method for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using the same threads in the abutment that are used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a closed-tray impression process without unscrewing the temporary fastener. Embodiments include threaded posts that release copings from the abutment through axial forces. Some embodiments include a threaded post with separable cap that is picked-up with the coping. Methods for converting an existing prosthesis for screw attachment to implants in a single visit and digital capture of the converted prosthesis are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Smart Denture Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Dale Kofford, Charles Albert Rudisill
  • Patent number: 12224343
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a plurality of active regions disposed over the substrate. The plurality of active regions have a first total area. One or more inactive regions are also disposed over the substrate. The one or more inactive regions have a second total area. The second total area is greater than or equal to 1.5 times the first total area. The active regions may be formed in an epitaxial layer formed over the substrate. A plurality of cells of an active device may be disposed in the plurality of active regions. The inactive regions may include only structures that do not dissipate substantial power when the semiconductor device is functioning as it is designed to function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Analog Power Conversion LLC
    Inventors: Amaury Gendron-Hansen, Dumitru Gheorge Sdrulla, Leslie Louis Szepesi
  • Patent number: 12156781
    Abstract: A temporary alignment system and method for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using the same threads in the abutment that are used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a closed-tray impression process without unscrewing the temporary fastener. Embodiments include threaded posts that release copings from the abutment through axial forces. Some embodiments include a threaded post with separable cap that is picked-up with the coping. Methods for converting an existing prosthesis for screw attachment to implants in a single visit and digital capture of the converted prosthesis are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Denture Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Dale Kofford, Charles Albert Rudisill
  • Patent number: 12081177
    Abstract: A full-bridge class-D amplifier circuit comprises first through fourth power devices. First conduction terminals of the first and third power devices are coupled to a first power supply voltage, and second conduction terminals of the second and fourth power devices are coupled to a second power supply voltage. A second conduction terminal of the first power device and a first conduction terminal of the second power device are coupled to a first amplifier output. A second conduction terminal of the third power device and a first conduction terminal of the fourth power device are coupled to a second amplifier output. Left and right driver devices respectively disposed adjacent to left and right sides of the first power device have outputs respectively coupled to left and right control terminals respectively disposed on the left and right sides of the first power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Analog Power Conversion LLC, Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sam Seiichiro Ochi, Dumitru Gheorge Sdrulla, W. Albert Gu, Tetsuya Takata, Itsuo Yuzurihara, Tomohiro Yoneyama, Yu Hosoyamada
  • Patent number: 12074226
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor die having a first region and a second region, wherein an operating temperature of the second region is lower than an operating temperature of the first region. A plurality of first tubs are respectively disposed in the first region, the second region, or both. The semiconductor device further comprises a power device comprising a plurality of power device cells, and a diode having a plurality of diode cells. The power devices cells are disposed within tubs or portions of tubs that are in the first region, and the diode cells are disposed within tubs or portions of tubs that are in the second region. The power device may comprise a vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), and the diode may comprise a vertical Schottky barrier diode (SBD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: Analog Power Conversion LLC, Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amaury Gendron-Hansen, Dumitru Gheorge Sdrulla, Leslie Louis Szepesi, Tetsuya Takata, Itsuo Yuzurihara, Tomohiro Yoneyama, Yu Hosoyamada
  • Patent number: 12074198
    Abstract: A tub of a semiconductor device includes a cool zone with a first projected operating temperature and a hot zone with a second projected operating temperature greater than the first projected operating temperature. A design parameter has a first value in the cool zone and a second value different from the first value in the hot zone. The difference configures the tub to dissipate less heat in the hot zone during operation of the semiconductor device than would be dissipated if the first and second values were equal. The design parameter may be, for example, a tub width, a source structure width, a JFET region width, a channel length, a channel width, a length of a gate, a displacement of a center of the gate relative to a center of a JFET region, a dopant concentration, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Power Conversion LLC
    Inventors: Amaury Gendron-Hansen, Dumitru Gheorge Sdrulla, Leslie Louis Szepesi
  • Patent number: 11957538
    Abstract: A temporary alignment system, methods, and accessories for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using a separable fastener using the same threads in the implant abutment used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an implant abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a closed-tray impression process without unscrewing the temporary fastener. Embodiments include threaded posts that release copings from the implant abutment through axial forces. Some embodiments include a threaded post with separable cap that is picked-up with the coping. Methods and accessories for using the separable fastener assembly or portions of it during conversion of an existing prosthesis for screw attachment or fabrication and fitting of a new prosthesis are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Denture Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Dale Kofford, Charles Albert Rudisill
  • Patent number: 11937992
    Abstract: A temporary alignment system and method for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using the same threads in the abutment that are used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a closed-tray impression process without unscrewing the temporary fastener. Embodiments include threaded posts that release copings from the abutment through axial forces. Some embodiments include a threaded post with separable cap that is picked-up with the coping. Methods for converting an existing prosthesis for screw attachment to implants in a single visit and digital capture of the converted prosthesis are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Denture Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Dale Kofford, Charles Albert Rudisill
  • Patent number: 11901406
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; and a high-voltage termination. The high-voltage termination includes a plurality of floating field rings, a deep trench and a dielectric material is disposed within the deep trench. The plurality of floating field rings are formed in the semiconductor layer and respectively disposed around a region of the semiconductor layer. The deep trench is formed in the semiconductor layer and concentrically disposed around an outermost floating field ring of the plurality of floating field rings. The high-voltage termination may also include a field plate disposed over the floating field rings, the deep trench, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Power Conversion LLC
    Inventors: Amaury Gendron-Hansen, Dumitru Gheorge Sdrulla
  • Patent number: 11689170
    Abstract: A transient noise reduction filter comprises a cable including one or more twisted pairs of conductors and one or more common mode chokes (CMCs). The one or more CMCs a formed from respective pluralities of turns of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Power Conversion LLC
    Inventor: Sam Seiichiro Ochi
  • Patent number: 11362649
    Abstract: A control signal may be produced in response to an assertion of a switch signal by asserting the control signal, waiting an adaptive delay after the assertion of the switch signal, de-asserting the control signal in response to the expiration of the adaptive delay, and re-asserting the control signal in response to a current generated according to the control signal becoming zero. The adaptive delay may be adjusted according to a voltage generated using the current. A circuit may include an XOR gate producing the control signal from a switch signal and an output of a Set-Reset Flip-Flop (SRFF), a zero-detect circuit that resets the SRFF when a current generated using the control circuit becomes zero, and a delay circuit to set the SRFF an adaptive delay after assertion of the switch signal and to adjust the adaptive delay according to a voltage generated by the current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: Analog Power Conversion LLC, Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sam Seiichiro Ochi, Tetsuya Takata, Itsuo Yuzurihara, Tomohiro Yoneyama, Yu Hosoyamada
  • Publication number: 20200304570
    Abstract: A system of synchronized computing devices, connected via a common network and configured to operate one or more common computing tasks across the system, includes a plurality of subcomponent computing devices, each including, at least, a non-transitory, machine readable storage medium, storing instructions associated with the one or more common computing tasks. The system further includes one or more processors, each of the processors configured to output a plurality of events occurring throughout the system. The system further includes a synchronization controller configured to determine a continually updating value of interest, based on a symmetric function of the one or more events, provide the continually updating value of interest, subject to a time delay, wherein the time delay is a time period having a length substantially longer than an average time interval between two consecutive members of the plurality of events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Conversant LLC
    Inventors: Zhihao Lou, Lifeng Jia, Michael North, Steve Nowlan
  • Patent number: 10764237
    Abstract: Network address date groups are defined that are associated with a group of electronic objects. Where network address date groups appear to relate to the same person or group, they are assigned an entity group identifier that allows tracking the electronic objects across network address changes. The entity group identifier may then be used by an advertiser or other service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Conversant LLC
    Inventors: Glenn L. Strycker, Lochlan H. Rose, Maria de las Nieves Herranz, David K. Knutson, Danny Avni
  • Patent number: 10555844
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a system that combines together a wheelchair ramp and lift. The system starts inside the vehicle interior so that the ramp, when deployed, only protrudes several inches from the edge of the vehicle rather than several feet. This increases flexibility in the entry and egress of a wheelchair to and from a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: All-Terrain Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Kitchin, Trent L. Bradburn, Kraig James Schlosser
  • Patent number: 10470951
    Abstract: A wheelchair lift for a vehicle having a cab with a rear seat. The wheelchair lift includes a lift tray dimensioned to support a wheelchair. An articulating assembly is provided that is configured to move the lift tray transversely between an extended position outside a cab of a vehicle and a retracted position fully within the cab of the vehicle. The wheelchair lift includes a vertical lift assembly configured to raise and lower the lift tray. In some cases, the articulating assembly is mounted to a vertical wall of a vehicle cab between a rear seat and a vehicle door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: All-Terrian Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Kitchin, Trent L. Bradburn, Kraig James Schlosser
  • Publication number: 20190333093
    Abstract: A method for generating text explanations for the results of linearly constrained optimizations of a linear program includes determining, based on one or more constraints, bounds, and variable values of the linear program, if optimization based on the one or more constraints is feasible. The method further includes if optimization based on the one or more constraints is feasible, analyzing, the one or more constraints, bounds, and variable values of the linear program, in relation to one another, to determine one or more pairs of solutions to the linear program and associated shadow prices. The method further includes determining textual explanations for each of the pairs of solutions to the linear program and the associated shadow prices and presenting, via an output display, the user with at least one of the textual explanations for each of the pairs of solutions to the linear program and the associated shadow prices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Conversant LLC
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Michael North, Steven Nowlan
  • Patent number: 10406776
    Abstract: A thermoplastic bonded preform and method of manufacturing the preform are disclosed. The preform comprises a primary fiber comprising little or no sizing; a mechanical fiber; and a thermoplastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Carbon Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Janney, Mark Mauhar
  • Patent number: 10010461
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a system that combines together a wheelchair ramp and lift. The system starts inside the vehicle interior so that the ramp, when deployed, only protrudes several inches from the edge of the vehicle rather than several feet. This increases flexibility in the entry and egress of a wheelchair to and from a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: All-Terrain Conversions, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Kitchin, Trent L. Bradburn, Kraig James Schlosser
  • Publication number: 20180009133
    Abstract: An improved process is provided for reducing cellulosic biomass into air suspendable micropowder. Although the process is particularly suitable for processing empty fruit bunches of oil palms, it is adaptable to most cellulosic biomass. The incoming biomass has a water content of around 50% and is reduced to centimeter scale pieces by a chipper or similar device. These pieces are then processed by a tandem line of four pairs of grooved rollers each successive roller having a larger number of grooves. This process squeezes moisture from the biomass and reduces the material into millimeter scale pieces. After an optional drying stage, the material is fed into a terrace line of three or four essentially smooth rollers which squash the material and reduce the particle size into a micrometer scale. Finally, the material is suspended in an air stream and fractionated by a cyclone and bag filter system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Biomass Conversions, LLC
    Inventor: Seiji Hata