Patents Assigned to In-Development, LLC
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Publication number: 20240124106Abstract: A boat hull protection system for protecting boats from algae and other marine organisms while the boat is tied to a dock, wherein the boat hull protection system may comprise a frame, cable, and an adjustable liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BNR Technology Development, LLCInventor: Jeffrey B. Norris
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Publication number: 20240125999Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards a luminaire having an optical waveguide and a light source. The optical waveguide has a hollow cylindrical structure with a first surface and a second surface at the opposite ends of the cylindrical structure and an external surface and an inner surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The light source illuminates the first surface of the optical waveguide. The external surface of the optical waveguide is constructed such that the light from the light source exits from the inner surface. The luminaire directs the light from the light source towards the nadir and prevents glare to the eyes of the people in the surrounding space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Eran New Product Development, LLCInventors: Edward R. McCracken, Jr., Eric Martin Frydendall
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Patent number: 11957412Abstract: An imaging system for an ophthalmic laser system includes a prism cone made of a transparent optical material and disposed downstream of the focusing objective lens of the ophthalmic laser system, the prism cone having an upper surface, a lower surface parallel to the upper surface, a tapered side surface between the upper and lower surfaces, and a beveled surface formed at an upper edge of the prism cone and intersecting the upper surface and the side surface, and a camera disposed adjacent to the prism cone and facing the beveled surface. The camera is disposed to directly receive light that enters the lower surface of the prism cone and exits the beveled surface without having been reflected by any surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Zenon Witowski, Mohammad Saidur Rahaman, Daryl Wong
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Patent number: 11962351Abstract: A multilayer photonic device is described, including an input region configured to receive an input signal, a multilayer stack optically coupled with the input region to receive the input signal, and an output region optically coupled with the multilayer stack to output an output signal. The multilayer stack can include a first metastructured dispersive region disposed in a first patterned layer of the multilayer stack and a second metastructured dispersive region disposed in a second patterned layer of the multilayer stack and optically coupled with the first metastructured dispersive region. The first metastructured dispersive region and the second metastructured dispersive region can together structure the multilayer stack to generate the output signal in response to the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Ian Alexander Durant Williamson, Martin Schubert, Alfred Ka Chun Cheung
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Publication number: 20240120037Abstract: Methods of designing a hybrid clinical trial including an external control arm (ECA) study located in at least one site, to support a randomized clinical trial (RCT) study for a treatment of a condition are disclosed. A Mahalanobis distance value is calculated based on a point comprising a set of values corresponding to a first plurality of feature variables corresponding to at least one ECA candidate; and a distribution of points comprising a set of values corresponding to the first plurality of feature variables of each of a plurality of RCT participants that have received the treatment. ECA candidates may be excluded as ECA participants if they are deemed outliers based on the Mahalanobis distance value. Recruitment is dynamically adjusted into at least one ECA participant site database by comparing sets of feature variables in at least one ECA participant site database to corresponding sets of feature variables in the RCT participant database.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Janssen Research & Development, LLC.Inventor: Levon Demirdjian
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Patent number: 11956380Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from one of two or more sensors of a device that independently determine whether an aircraft takeoff has likely occurred, an indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred; activating, based on receiving the indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred, an airplane mode of the device; receiving, while the device is in the airplane mode and from one of two or more other sensors of the device that independently determine that an aircraft flight is likely not occurring, an indication that the aircraft flight is likely not occurring; and deactivating, based on receiving the indication that the aircraft flight is likely not occurring, the airplane mode of the device. The indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred may include acceleration data indicating an acceleration of the device in three dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Erich Karl Nachbar, Grant Alexander Uy, Carl Turner
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Patent number: 11954907Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for electric grid modeling using surfel data are enclosed. An electric grid wire identification method includes: obtaining a set of surface elements (surfels), wherein each surfel of the set of surfels represents a portion of a surface of an object in a geographic region; selecting, based on one or more surfel attributes, one or more surfels of the set of surfels that each represent a portion of a surface of an electric grid wire; generating a representation of the electric grid wire from the selected one or more surfels; and adding the representation of the electric grid wire to a virtual model of the electric grid. Obtaining the set of surfels can include obtaining ranging data of the geographic region; and generating the set of surfels from the ranging data.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Ananya Gupta, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
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Patent number: 11952072Abstract: A system and method of stabilizing a vehicle are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect, a self-stabilizing vehicle having an articulated frame may generally comprise: a base frame portion coupled to one or more wheels; an operator frame portion to support an operator of the vehicle; a hinge assembly operably coupling the base frame portion and the operator frame portion; and a control unit to drive the hinge assembly causing the operator frame portion to rotate (relative to the base frame portion) about one or more hinge axes as a function of inertial data and speed data, and optionally steering control input signals. In some two-wheeled applications, both wheels are steerable; additionally, both wheels may be driven. Alternative vehicles are disclosed having one wheel and three wheels.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Bryant Engineering & Development, LLCInventor: Robert H. Bryant
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Publication number: 20240110964Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for developing electrical grid mapping. One of the methods includes obtaining a computer model of an electric power grid; generating a network graph representation of the computer model, wherein nodes of the network graph represent grid assets of the computer model and edges of the network graph represent wires connecting the grid assets; generating an initial prediction of links between nodes in the network graph by adding at least one edge to the network graph to obtain an over-connected graph; applying the over-connected network graph as input to a machine learning model to obtain an annotated network graph, the machine learning model configured to identify edges as positive links and negative links, and apply annotations to the edges indicating whether each edge is a positive or negative link; and updating the model based on the annotated network graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: X Development LLCInventors: Ananya Gupta, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
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Patent number: 11948419Abstract: A computing device for gaming by patrons. An identification acceptor may scan an identification document into digital form. A biological sensor such as a camera may obtain biological data describing a human patron. A currency acceptor and dispenser may accept money. The computing device may obtain biological data describing the patron. The computing device may verify the identity of the patron and acceptability of the patron for gaming based at least in part on the digital form of the patron's identification and the biological data. The computing device may accept currency for deposit into a wagering account. Once the patron is verified and the account is funded, the computing device may offer gaming activities to the verified patron out of the wagering account, and pay out gaming winnings at the currency dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Paul Williams, Phillip L. Flaherty, Quinton Singleton, Kathleen Tam, Matthew Morrissette
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Patent number: 11944575Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for lenticular laser incisions to form a top lenticular incision, a bottom lenticular incision of a lens in the subject's eye, an added shape between the top and bottom incisions where the added shape has no corrective power and a transition ring bisecting both the top and bottom lenticular incisions.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Alireza Malek Tabrizi, Hong Fu, James E. Hill
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Patent number: 11946108Abstract: Foundry coke products, and associated methods and systems for melting iron in a cupola furnace with the coke products are disclosed herein. A representative method can include receiving a population of coke products and iron in a cupola furnace, and melting the iron in the cupola furnace to form molten iron having a carbon content higher than a carbon content of the received iron. The coke products can comprise (i) an elongate shape including a length:width dimension of at least 1.5:1, (ii) an ash fusion temperature of no more than 2400° F., and/or (iii) a coke reactivity index (CRI) of at least 30%.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: John Francis Quanci, John Michael Richardson, Jonathan Hale Perkins
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Patent number: 11939392Abstract: The present disclosure relates to protein molecules that specifically bind to CD123, which may have at least one humanized or human CD123-binding domain. Such molecules are useful for the treatment of cancer. The protein molecule binding to CD123 may have a second binding domain that binds to another target. In one embodiment, multi-specific polypeptide molecules bind both CD123-expressing cells and the T-cell receptor complex on T-cells to induce target-dependent T-cell cytotoxicity, activation, and proliferation. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the CD123-binding polypeptide molecules, nucleic acid molecules encoding these polypeptides and methods of making these molecules.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Aptevo Research and Development LLCInventors: Gabriela Hernandez-Hoyos, Elaine T. Sewell, Catherine J. McMahan, David Bienvenue, John W. Blankenship, Danielle Mitchell, Peter Pavlik
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Patent number: 11939526Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to vent stack lids and associated systems and methods. In particular, several embodiments are directed to vent stack lids having improved sealing properties in a coke processing system. In a particular embodiment, a vent stack lid comprises a first lid portion proximate to and at least partially spaced apart from a second lid portion. The vent stack lid further comprises a first sealing portion coupled to the first lid portion and a second sealing portion coupled to the second lid portion. In several embodiments, the second sealing portion at least partially overlaps the first sealing portion over the space between the first and second lid portions. In further embodiments, at least one of the first or second sealing portions includes layers of tadpole seals, spring seals, rigid refractory material, and/or flexible refractory blanket.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: Gary Dean West, Chun Wai Choi, Thomas James Hirt
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Patent number: 11934761Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques for creating fabricable segmented designs for physical devices are provided. A proposed segmented design is determined based on a design specification. The proposed segmented design includes a plurality of segments that each includes an indication of a material for the segment. The proposed segmented design also includes lattice members and lattice voids. A size of the lattice members and a size of the lattice voids are greater than a size of the segments and are greater than or equal to at least one of a minimum feature width and a minimum feature spacing of a fabrication system Performance of the proposed segmented design is simulated. One or more lattice members and lattice voids are chosen to change to improve the performance of the proposed segmented design.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Jaspreet Singh Jhoja, Brian Adolf
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Patent number: 11935365Abstract: Techniques for creating and managing wagers on possible states within a live event, such as possible outcomes of subparts of a sporting event or other possible occurrences within the event. An initial state and multiple possible future states of a performance parameter of the event are determined based on state information of the event. A betting market may be created by determining probabilities and odds for the possible future states. Bets may be made on the possible future states via a touch-sensitive display. A payout may be made to a winner who selects a possible future state that actually occurs.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood, Mike Colbert, Heather Parks, Anthony Storm, Foster Barton, Thomas D. Bradshaw
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Patent number: 11931243Abstract: A system and method of treating target tissue in a patient's eye, which includes generating a light beam, deflecting the light beam using a scanner to form first and second treatment patterns, delivering the first treatment pattern to the target tissue to form an incision that provides access to an eye chamber of the patient's eye, and delivering the second treatment pattern to the target tissue to form a relaxation incision along or near limbus tissue or along corneal tissue anterior to the limbus tissue of the patient's eye to reduce astigmatism thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: William Culbertson, David Angeley, George R. Marcellino, Dan Andersen
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Publication number: 20240086423Abstract: Some techniques relate to projecting aptamer representations into an embedding space and clustering the representations. A cluster-specific binding metric can be defined for each cluster based on aptamer-specific binding metrics of aptamers associated with the cluster. A subset of the clusters can be selected based on the cluster-specific binding metrics. Identifications of aptamers assigned to the subset of clusters can then be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: X Development LLCInventors: Lance Co Ting Keh, Ivan Grubisic, Ryan Poplin, Jon Deaton, Hayley Weir
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Patent number: D1022233Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: WH ORTHOPAEDIC PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: William Whiteside, Clarence Ralph Hooper, Jr.
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Patent number: D1022603Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Leapfrog Product Development LLCInventors: Brian M. Clemens, Steven N. Pinelli