Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Rapid adjust buckle with integral flexible pull loop
    Patent number: 10982930
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a rapid adjust buckle for a rifle sling. The buckle can include a main buckle portion with a pair of side portions and a handle portion extending between the pair of side portions and over the main buckle portion to define a handle aperture. In various embodiments the handle portion and the main buckle portion are a unitary piece composed of a polymer material with the handle portion being flexibly biased towards an uncompressed open shape such that the handle portion is configured to compress against the main buckle portion in response to a compressing force but return to the uncompressed open shape when the compressing force is relieved. In one or more embodiments the handle portion includes a plurality of jointed connection points configured to flatten the profile of the handle portion when the handle portion is exposed to the compressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLC
    Inventors: Troy E. Lance, Robert J. Meinert, Paul N. Smith, Clif Hampel
  • Pyrolytic carbon black composite and method of making the same
    Patent number: 10985372
    Abstract: A method of recovering carbon black includes the step of providing a carbonaceous source material containing carbon black. The carbonaceous source material is contacted with a sulfonation bath to produce a sulfonated material. The sulfonated material is pyrolyzed to produce a carbon black containing product comprising a glassy carbon matrix phase having carbon black dispersed therein. The pyrolysis can be conducted at a temperature from 1100° C. to 1490° C. A method of making a battery electrode and a lithium ion or sodium ion battery is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Amit K. Naskar, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman
  • Light emitting device with phase changing off state white material and methods of manufacture
    Patent number: 10985299
    Abstract: Light emitting devices (LEDs) are described herein. An LED includes a light emitting semiconductor structure, a wavelength converting material and an off state white material. The light emitting semiconductor structure includes a light-emitting active layer disposed between an n-layer and a p-layer. The wavelength converting material has a first surface adjacent the light emitting semiconductor structure and a second surface opposite the first surface. The off state white material is in direct contact with the second surface of the wavelength converting material and includes multiple core-shell particles disposed in an optically functional material. Each of the core-shell particles includes a core material encased in a polymer or inorganic shell. The core material includes a phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Estrada, Kentaro Shimizu, Daniel Roitman, Marcel Rene Bohmer, Edward Kang
  • Systems and methods for out-of-band authenticity verification of mobile applications
    Patent number: 10985921
    Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for application verification are provided. An application may generate a cryptographic key, and encrypt the cryptographic key with a predefined public key. A server, in data communication with the application, may include a predefined private key. The application may transmit the cryptographic key to the server. The server may receive, from the application, the cryptographic key; decrypt the cryptographic key using the predefined private key; encrypt an authorization token using the decrypted key; and transmit, to the client application, the authorization token via an out-of-band channel. The application may receive, from the server, the authorization token via the out-of-band channel; and decrypt the authorization token to obtain access to one or more services associated with the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Panayiotis Varvarezis, Mausam Gautam, Reza Jaberi, Edward Lee, Chad Landis
  • Method of forming a self-cleaning film system
    Patent number: 10981195
    Abstract: A method of forming a self-cleaning film system includes ink jet printing a composition onto a substrate. The composition includes an oleophobic material and a photocatalytic material. The method further includes curing the composition to form a self-cleaning film disposed on the substrate and thereby form the self-cleaning film system. The self-cleaning film includes a first plurality of regions including the photocatalytic material and disposed within the oleophobic material such that each of the first plurality of regions abuts and is surrounded by the oleophobic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gayatri V. Dadheech, Thomas A. Seder, James A. Carpenter
  • Processed slabs, and systems and methods related thereto
    Patent number: 10981346
    Abstract: This document describes systems and processes for forming improved synthetic molded slabs suitable for use in living or working spaces (e.g., along a countertop, table, floor, or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cambria Company LLC
    Inventors: Jon Louis Grzeskowiak, II, Martin E. Davis
  • Decoded picture buffer management for video coding
    Patent number: 10986353
    Abstract: Methods and devices for decoding a video stream are provided, a method includes storing previously decoded pictures of the video stream in a picture buffer, including a first plurality of pictures of a same temporal sub-layer, the first plurality of pictures including at least one sub-layer reference picture for predicting a current picture of the video stream; determining whether a picture of the first plurality of pictures is a sublayer non-reference (“SLNR”) picture based on an indicator presented in at least one from among a slice header and a picture header; removing, based on the picture being determined as the SLNR picture, the SLNR picture from the picture buffer; and predicting the current picture using one or more of the at least one sub-layer reference picture that is stored within the picture buffer after removing the SLNR picture from the picture buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Shan Liu, Stephan Wenger
  • Direct look ahead mode for memory apparatus programmed with reverse order programming
    Patent number: 10984867
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes first memory cells coupled to control circuit and a particular word line and storing a first cell data. The apparatus also includes second memory cells coupled to a source side neighbor word line disposed on a source side of the particular word line and storing second cell threshold voltages programmed after the first cell data. The control circuit senses the second cell threshold voltages at a first time while applying a predetermined initial read voltage to the source side neighbor word line. The control circuit senses the first cell data at a second time while iteratively applying one of a plurality of particular read voltages to the particular word line and simultaneously and iteratively applying one of a plurality of neighbor pass voltages to the source side neighbor word line based on the second cell threshold voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SanDiskTechnologies LLC
    Inventors: Zhiping Zhang, Sarath Chandran Puthen Thermadam, Huai-Yuan Tseng, Deepanshu Dutta
  • Deposition of integrated protective material into zirconium cladding for nuclear reactors by high-velocity thermal application
    Patent number: 10984919
    Abstract: A zirconium alloy nuclear reactor cylindrical cladding has an inner Zr substrate surface, an outer volume of protective material, and an integrated middle volume of zirconium oxide, zirconium and protective material, where the protective material is applied by impaction at a velocity greater than 340 meters/second to provide the integrated middle volume resulting in structural integrity for the cladding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason P. Mazzoccoli, Edward J. Lahoda, Peng Xu
  • Hand exerciser
    Patent number: 10981027
    Abstract: A hand exercising device with selectively adjustable strength includes a first and second handle pivotably coupled with a spring biased between them, the spring pivotably coupled to the first handle, and a spring positioner coupled to an end of the spring configured to be selectively positioned among a plurality of grooves within the second handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: YUNGA TART LLC
    Inventor: Kareem Reda
  • Gear pump and gear assembly
    Patent number: 10982670
    Abstract: A gear pump that is used to pump fluid, such as oil, in a vehicle. The gear pump comprises a gear assembly having a drive shaft including a drive shaft key; a set of drive gears mounted on the drive shaft, with a drive gear of the set of drive gears being keyed with the drive shaft key; a driven shaft including a driven shaft key; a set of driven gears mounted on the driven shaft, with a driven gear of the driven gear set being keyed with the driven shaft key; and a torque drive feature associated with the drive shaft or the driven shaft, wherein the torque drive feature is configured to check keying with the driven shaft key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mark R. Claywell, Sean M. McGowan
  • Systems and methods for an improved tag counting process
    Patent number: 10984379
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a tag reader. The methods comprise: performing tag read operations by the tag reader to read tags; processing first information received from the read tags to identify which tags are newly detected tags; adding entries for the newly detected tags in a local list stored in a local memory of the tag reader; communicating second information at least identifying the newly detected tags from the tag reader to a remote computing device; receiving, by the tag reader, feedback information generated by the remote computing device which specifies at least a count of entries added to a remote list stored in a remote datastore based on the second information; and selectively outputting a notification from the tag reader based on the value of the count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Craig E. Trivelpiece, Steve E. Trivelpiece
  • Bi-directional integration and control of managed and unmanaged devices
    Patent number: 10986470
    Abstract: A communications system is provided employing two-way integration approach providing access to notifications and actions occurring on unmanaged communication devices through the use of TV. The system includes installation of an application on unmanaged devices providing the ability to access all notifications and actions occurring on the unmanaged devices using TV. The unmanaged device obtains an input directly from TV from an application server which in turn obtains its input primarily from a TV. The input is not limited to the TV only, and can come from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZODIAC SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Rivkin
  • Eye rank
    Patent number: 10983591
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a region within a user's eye gaze and calculating a ranking for the identified region within the user's eye gaze. The ranking may indicate the user's level of interest in the identified region. The method may then determine how the identified region is to be presented according to the calculated ranking and present the identified region in the determined manner according to the calculated ranking. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Neeraj Choubey, Andre Golard, Bo Asp Andersen, Immo Andreas Schuetz, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Kelly Ingham, Martin Henrik Tall, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Robert Dale Cavin, Thomas Scott Murdison
  • Vehicle front alert system
    Patent number: 10981496
    Abstract: A visual deceleration indicator signals to pedestrians and other vehicles that a vehicle is slowing down or coming to a stop. Illuminating devices, such as LEDs, contained in a license plate frame located in the front of the car or otherwise, are activated when the vehicle decelerates. An accelerometer or other sensory device detects deceleration and sends a signal to illuminate the LEDs, thereby letting others know the vehicle is slowing down. The license plate frame may be connected directly to a rear brake light component without the use of accelerometers or other sensors. When the brake is applied, the LEDs in the license plate frame are illuminated. The LEDs may be contained in other forms and located in different positions on the front or side of the car. The indicator might be one color to indicate braking and another color to indicate it is on, but not braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PEDESTRIAN SAFETY SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Paul L. Schaye
  • Methods, systems, and media for processing queries relating to presented media content
    Patent number: 10984038
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for processing queries relating to presented media content are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Taboriskiy, Emmanuel Mogenet, Oliver Heckmann, Matsvei Zhdanovich, Gokhan Hasan Bakir, Behshad Behzadi, Karoly Csalogany
  • Compact video representation for video event retrieval and recognition
    Patent number: 10986400
    Abstract: Comprehensive, compact, and discriminative representations of videos can be obtained using a counting grid representation of the video and aggregating features associated with active locations of the counting grid to obtain a feature representation of the video. The feature representation can be used for video retrieval and/or recognition. In some examples, the techniques may include conducting normalization and dimension reduction on the aggregated features to obtain a further compact and discriminative feature representation. In some examples, the counting grid representation of the video is generated using a pre-trained counting grid model in order to provide spatially consistent feature representations of the videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing. LLC
    Inventors: Gang Hua, Dongqing Zhang, Zhanning Gao
  • Interface for fault prediction and detection using time-based distributed data
    Patent number: 10983855
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating and utilizing a time-based distribution of I/O latency and other performance characteristics to identify potential device failures in a system that includes storage devices, such as a distributed software-defined storage system. A user interface is implemented that allows users to request and selectively view I/O latency and other data over a configurable time-based or histogram-based distribution. The user interface further enables comparison of the I/O latency distribution to data from other devices in the same class to identify potential failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cosmos Darwin, Bryan S. Matthew, Donald MacGregor, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee
  • Pillar airbag assembly
    Patent number: 10981531
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a floor, a roof, and a pair of body sides spaced from each other. A pillar is spaced from both of the body sides. The pillar has a first end at the roof and a second end at the floor. An airbag is supported on the pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
  • Aqueous polymer composition
    Patent number: 10982030
    Abstract: A method of producing an aqueous polymer composition and a method of reducing yellowing of an aqueous polymer composition and a coating made therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Xiangting Dong, Han Liu, Junyu Chen, Qingwei Zhang, Ling Li, Alvin M. Maurice, Jintao Liu