Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10981038
    Abstract: Examples of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a body portion of a golf club head may include a front portion. A face portion may be coupled to the front portion. The face portion may include a central strike portion and a perimeter. A plurality of projections may extend from the face portion to provide a ball striking surface for impacting a golf ball. The plurality of projections may be aligned in one or more directions across the face portion and may progressively increase in size in any direction from the central strike portion to the perimeter of the face portion. Other examples and examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael Nicolette
  • Patent number: 10981433
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for personalized controlling of an air temperature in a vehicle. A computer implemented method for personalized controlling of an air temperature in a vehicle comprises determining, by a processor, a current temperature condition in the vehicle, wherein the current temperature condition in the vehicle is determined based on at least a temperature value that is representative for a current thermal environment in a compartment of the vehicle. The processor further determines a basal metabolic rate that is associated with a person located in the compartment of the vehicle and controlling, by the processor, a desired air temperature in the vehicle, wherein the desired air temperature is controlled based on the determined current temperature condition in the vehicle and the determined basal metabolic rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Shailendra Kaushik, Taeyoung Han, Bahram Khalighi
  • Patent number: 10981556
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject matter disclosed herein relate to controlling engine operating points and power for full throttle command in an off-highway vehicle, such as a diesel electric haul truck, to increase fuel efficiency. In one example, a system includes an engine and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a target engine horsepower and associated target engine speed, command the engine to operate at a first engine speed above the target engine speed, adjust a load placed on the engine to reach the target engine speed, and command the engine to operate at a second engine speed to reach the target engine horsepower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Henry Todd Young, Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler, Jeffrey John Wolff, Aaron Craig Mellinger
  • Patent number: 10981578
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes at least one sensor configured to detect features in a region proximate the exterior of the vehicle, at least one actuator configured to control vehicle steering, propulsion, shifting, or braking, and an automated driving system selectively operable in a nominal mode and in a degraded mode. The automated driving system is configured to generate an actuator control signal for the at least one actuator in response to sensor signals from the at least one sensor. The automated driving system includes a computational accelerator processor. The vehicle further includes a monitor processor in communication with the automated driving system. The monitor processor is configured to provide a test input for processing by the computational accelerator processor, receive a test output from the computational accelerator processor, and in response to the test output not satisfying a validation criterion, control the automated driving system in the degraded mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Berlinda Q. Bai, Dean C. Degazio, Esayas Naizghi, Gurmitsingh M. Banvait, Sidharth Nakra
  • Patent number: 10983026
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for updating data descriptive of procedure within a structure to generate a user interface with a representation of the structure from a vantage point and according to a direction of interest. Data is generated by a sensor that records aspects of a procedure and a position of the condition is determined via wireless communications with multiple reference point transceivers. An augmented virtual model viewing interface is generated with positional coordinates and conditions related to the procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Santarone, Jason E. Duff, Michael Wodrich
  • Patent number: 10980658
    Abstract: A nasal support device includes a device body. The device body defines a perimeter shape of the nasal support device and also can include a nasal support structure. The nasal support device also includes adhesive carried with the device body. The nasal support device further includes a peelable backing that covers the adhesive and includes at least one peelable backing piece that is divided into a first section and a second section by a pre-defined fold location. The pre-defined fold location is configured such that the first and second sections of the peelable backing piece remain coupled together at the pre-defined fold location after folding at the pre-defined fold location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Flair, LLC
    Inventor: James R. Chiapetta
  • Patent number: 10986143
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting call data, feeding call data to applications, and providing advanced call features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Tevnos LLC
    Inventor: Stuart Alexander Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10980539
    Abstract: A staple cartridge assembly comprising an implantable adjunct or layer assembly is disclosed. The implantable adjunct comprises a plurality of layers, wherein at least one of the layers has been melted to bond with one or more of the other layers of the implantable adjunct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Michael J. Vendely, Jerome R. Morgan, Dennis D. Jamiolkowski, Mark S. Zeiner
  • Patent number: 10983058
    Abstract: A device and method are described for the naked eye visualization of fluorophores. The device has a light source capable of exciting fluorophores, a rack to receive one or more fluorophores and a window through which test tubes can be observed. The method provides a means for inferring the conformational state of molecules from the amount of fluorescence emitted by the fluorophores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AMPLYUS LLC
    Inventors: Ezequiel Alvarez Saavedra, Sebastian Kraves
  • Patent number: 10981106
    Abstract: The invention pertains to processes for separating gases, acid gas, hydrocarbons, air gases, or combinations thereof. The processes may employ using a liquid phase cloud point with or without subsequent liquid-liquid separation. In some embodiments membranes can be employed with reverse osmosis to regenerate a solvent and/or an antisolvent. In some embodiments thermal switching phase changes may be employed during absorption or desorption to facilitate separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Innovator Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Ethan J. Novek
  • Patent number: 10982446
    Abstract: Disclosed is impact resistant roofing that utilizes a heavy glass mat substrate having a weight of at least 3.0 lbs/csf that meets high impact resistance roofing standards. The impact resistant roofing utilizes a heavy glass mat that is embedded between two layers of asphalt. The impact resistant roofing can be manufactured on standard, existing roofing lines without modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TAMKO Building Products, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Swayne, Jason Hance
  • Patent number: 10983889
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a management console enabling monitoring of distributed components of a process control application. The management console includes a management console window that can be customized according to one or more user-defined software code modules that interface to data sources to populate views supported by the console window. The invention further includes a language and method of composing blocks of executable code within the management console that provide the capability to run many analyses simultaneously. The console window includes a set of view templates including controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components, and an interface for exchanging requests and data with an extensible set of software modules that provide data links to one or more distributed data-linked components. The set of software modules also define the customizable portions of the view rendered by the console window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AVEVA SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Kenneth Erickson, Greg C. Clinton, Vinay T. Kamath, Abhijit Manushree
  • Patent number: 10986214
    Abstract: Data associated with a selectively offline capable voice action is locally persisted in a voice-enabled electronic device whenever such an action cannot be competed locally due to the device being offline to enable the action to later be completed after online connectivity has been restored. Synchronization with an online service and/or another electronic device, and/or retrieval of context sensitive data from an online service may be performed after online connectivity has been restored to enable the voice action to thereafter be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sangsoo Sung, Yuli Gao, Prathab Murugesan
  • Patent number: 10986397
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, and a data processing method that permit sharing of a resource that is reused among a plurality of services. The reception apparatus receives content and controls, on the basis of control information that is transported together with the content and that includes resource sharing information indicating whether a resource of the content is shared among a plurality of services, storage of the resource in a storage apparatus such that the resource is shared among the plurality of services. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a television receiver that supports ATSC 3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Tatsuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10983761
    Abstract: A code completion tool uses a deep learning model to predict the likelihood of a method completing a method invocation. In one aspect, the deep learning model is a LSTM trained on features that represent the syntactic context of a method invocation derived from an abstract tree representation of the code fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Shengyu Fu, Neelakantan Sundaresan, Ying Zhao
  • Patent number: 10985789
    Abstract: A system and method for improving radio performance through automatic channel selection utilizing a closed-channel model is disclosed. A measurement engine records maximum user throughput on a per station basis during normal traffic operation. The measurement engine further records throughput metrics based on test traffic sent to all associated stations during idle operation. A policy logic engine utilizes the measurements to determine an optimal transmission channel for transmission and receipt of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: William S. Kish
  • Patent number: 10981942
    Abstract: Provided are crystalline forms of a compound having an inhibitory effect on sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter SGLT2. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing the crystalline compound, and methods of using the crystalline compound, independently or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for treating diseases and conditions which are affected by SGLT or SGLT2 inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: THERACOS SUB, LLC
    Inventors: Mengzhuang Cai, Qian Liu, Ge Xu, Binhua Lv, Brian Seed, Jacques Roberge
  • Patent number: 10982632
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to vehicle fuel systems capable of isolating the energy within a fuel tank from the vehicle user. An exemplary fuel system may include a first valve located within a fuel inlet conduit and a second valve located within a vapor recovery recirculation line of the fuel system. The first and second valves may be controlled based on the pressure inside a fuel tank of the fuel system. Fuel may only be transferred into the fuel tank when the fuel tank is within a predefined threshold pressure range. A depressurization sequence of the fuel tank may be automatically initiated when a fuel door of the fuel system is moved to an open position. The positioning of the fuel door may be monitored by a fuel door position monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Scott Martin, Roshini Venkatesh, Brent Edward Sealy, Alan Robert Dona, Dennis Seung-Man Yang
  • 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
  • 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