Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10978581
    Abstract: Implementations of semiconductor devices may include: a plurality of drain fingers and a plurality of source fingers interdigitated with one another; at least one gate; and at gate bus formed to completely surround the plurality of drain fingers and the plurality of source fingers; wherein the gate bus is mechanically and electrically coupled to the at least one gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Woochul Jeon, Chun-Li Liu, Ali Salih
  • Patent number: 10979747
    Abstract: A statistical multiplexer (statmux) system for encoding multiple channels of digital television data is provided with improved algorithms for determining bitrate for encoding and decoding to account for signal complexity. The variable bit rate (VBR) encoders and encoding are provided in a statmux system by employing a CBR (constant bit rate) adapter. A CBR adapter can provide correcting state updates on a per-frame basis to a CBR encoder element, thereby enabling VBR capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Brenda Van Veldhuisen
  • Patent number: 10973432
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed that detect and/or prevent intraoperative full thickness penetration of anatomic walls and provide delineation of anatomic structures during surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Rosenblatt Associates, LLC
    Inventor: Peter L. Rosenblatt
  • Patent number: 10979715
    Abstract: Methods of encoding and decoding video in a low-fidelity mode are described. A coding unit level low-fidelity flag is present in the bitstream to signal whether low-fidelity mode is enabled for a particular coding unit or not. If enabled, then, for that coding unit, the chroma quantization parameter is determined using the luma quantization parameter adjusted by a low-fidelity-mode offset. If not enabled, then, for that coding unit, the chroma quantization parameter is determined using the luma quantization parameter without adjustment by the low-fidelity-mode offset. The chroma quantization parameter is then used in the scaling of quantized chroma transform domain coefficients. Use with luma or other video components is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Nguyen Nguyen, Dake He, David Flynn
  • Patent number: 10979838
    Abstract: A system reduces power consumption by optimizing a selection of acoustic sensors of a sensor array based on environmental parameters of a local area. The system includes the sensor array including the acoustic sensors configured to detect sound in a local area, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: determine an environmental parameter of the local area; determine a performance metric for the sensor array; determine a selection of a subset of acoustic sensors from the acoustic sensors of the sensor array that satisfies the performance metric based on the environmental parameter of the local area; and process audio data from the subset of the acoustic sensors of the sensor array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Ryan Donley, Andrew Lovitt
  • Patent number: 10975655
    Abstract: A downhole apparatus for use in a tubular include a mandrel, a first slip, a cone, and a seal element. The mandrel, which can be permanent or temporary, has a first end shoulder. The first slip is disposed on the mandrel adjacent the first end shoulder, and the cone is disposed on the mandrel adjacent the first slip. The cone is movable relative to the first end shoulder to engage the first slip toward the tubular. The seal element is disposed on the mandrel adjacent the cone. At least a portion of the seal element is composed of a dissolvable metallic material and is expandable outward from the mandrel. The expanded portion of the seal element forms a metal seal against the tubular and seals off fluid communication in the annular space between the seal element and the tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Rochen, Nauman H. Mhaskar, John R. Setterberg, Jr., Matthew A. Crump
  • Patent number: 10975785
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine that includes one or more fuel injectors are described. The systems and methods may characterize fuel injector operation during a time when injecting fuel may be useful to maintain balance of a catalyst to reduce engine emissions. Further, large or small amounts of fuel may be injected without affecting engine combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael James Uhrich, Joseph Norman Ulrey, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 10973942
    Abstract: An automatic dispensing device for volatile fluid operable to apply one or more agent to a local environment for more than 14 days. Preferred devices dispense a first agent for air freshening, and may optionally dispense a second agent, such as a drain cleaner. A workable drain cleaner is structured to permit a slow release of drain cleaning agent. A dispensing device may nonexclusively operate by evaporation of volatile fluid from a carrier material that is infused with the volatile fluid; gravity-induced drip from a bulk supply of volatile fluid through a small orifice onto an emanator; osmotic transfer of volatile fluid from a bulk supply; gas-pump drive of volatile fluid at controlled pressure; or diffusion of volatile fluid through a wall of a container of bulk volatile fluid; and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microlin, LLC
    Inventor: Ashok V. Joshi
  • Patent number: 10977428
    Abstract: A facility for authoring a document is described. The facility receives first user input that identifies content to be included in the document. The identified content is in a first form. The facility also receives second user input that specifies a transformation operation to be performed on the identified content in order to transform the identified content from the first form into a second form. The facility applies the specified transformation operation to transform the identified content from the first form into the second form for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Mullins, Jonathan Edgar Fay
  • Patent number: 10976513
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to grounding assemblies for cables entering telecommunications enclosures. The grounding assemblies include a grounding attachment interface, a strength member fixation mount, and first and second cable fixation mounts that are electrically coupled together to ground strength members and a conductive shield of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Barry Wayne Allen, Thomas Ross Marmon
  • Patent number: 10977052
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems allow for bootstrapping of a machine-to-machine device. In an embodiment, a bootstrap erase architecture allows the machine-to-machine server to manage bootstrap erase policies, detect access network specific events, initiate a bootstrap erase based on these policies and events, and allow for machine-to-machine server handover. A device or gateway service capability layer (182) requests its network service capability layer to fetch data that the device or gateway previously stored on a different network service capability layer (196, 197). In an embodiment, when bootstrap erase is performed because the network service capability layer can no longer provide service to the device or gateway, the network service capability layer may recommend other NSCLs to the device or gateway. In another embodiment, a bootstrap erase procedure may be modified so that temporary identifiers may be assigned for a next bootstrapping event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventor: Michael F. Starsinic
  • Patent number: 10977815
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by an illumination source, an optical beam and coupling the optical beam into an acousto-optic device. The acousto-optic device generates structured light from the coupled optical beam by diffracting the optical beam into at least two interfering optical beams. The interfering optical beams are then used to illuminate a surface of an eye of a user of a display for use in eye-tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Qing Chao, Michael Hall
  • Patent number: 10975436
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for diagnosis and monitoring of Rett syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders by quantitative analysis of miRNAs in bodily fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DIAMIR, LLC
    Inventors: Samuil R. Umansky, Kira S. Sheinerman, Vladimir G. Tsivinsky
  • Patent number: 10976557
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for optical waveguides that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays (WHUDs) are described. An optical waveguide includes a volume of optically transparent material, a first holographic optical element (HOE) and a second holographic optical element, wherein the first HOE and the second HOE are carried by the volume of optically transparent material, and the first HOE is positioned across a width of the volume of optically transparent material from the second HOE. Light enters the optical waveguide and is propagated down a length of the waveguide by reflection between the first HOE and the second HOE. Propagation of the light within the optical waveguide does not require total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may include means to in-couple the light into the waveguide and means to out-couple the light from the waveguide. WHUDs that employ such optical waveguides are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Alexander, Douglas Raymond Dykaar, John Otto Vieth, Timothy Paul Bodiya
  • Patent number: 10978979
    Abstract: In this work, it is shown for the first time that the power and the impedance in a transformer circuit depend on the phase of the flux, hence the phase of the current. There is a phase change when the flux travels the magnetic core, and formulas for the effect of the phase change in the power and the impedance are derived. Therefore, the power factor can be adjusted so that the power is delivered more at the load than that, at the primary supplied by the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: PHASETOWN, LLC
    Inventors: Won Don Lee, Hijung Chai, Aquila Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 10974676
    Abstract: A life and property protection system including a monitoring member having a plurality of sensors and devices for monitoring the interior of the vehicle and communicating with phone devices of designated individuals and 911 dispatch. The system has an activation mode that is triggered when motion is detected, a pre-alarm mode triggered when preset criteria is met, and an alarm mode when the system is not manually reset after a preset time period following a text to designated phone devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Proof of Life Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Erik C. Hatfield, Michael D. White
  • Patent number: 10975669
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for optimizing operations for a fracturing injection waste disposal well especially where the formation is damaged or tight such that pressure fall-off tests are impractical due to extended leak-off rate times. Formation closure pressure and formation stress are calculated using Instantaneous Shut-in Pressure rather than traditional methods requiring actual fracture closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Advantek Waste Management Services, LLC
    Inventors: Sherif M. El Kholy, Omar Abou-Sayed, Ibrahim M. Mohamed, Ahmed Abou-Sayed
  • Patent number: 10977749
    Abstract: A method of tracking a box and correlating a quality characteristic of the box to an overall equipment effectiveness of a packaging line that manipulates the box during a product packaging process includes: at a location, associating a unique identifier with a pre-erected form of the box, capturing at least one quality characteristic of the box, and storing the at least one quality characteristic and the associated unique identifier in a database; moving the pre-erected form of the box to another location; at the another location, converting the pre-erected form of the box into an erected box, manipulating the erected box through the packaging line, and in an event where the erected box is involved in a disruption in the packaging line correlating the unique identifier of the associated erected box with the associated disruption and saving a record of the disruption and the unique identifier in a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corrugated LLC
    Inventors: Ernest Barfield Widner, Michael T. Payne
  • Patent number: 10977320
    Abstract: Systems and methods for querying a database are disclosed. A server computing device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server computing device to: receive a query input from a client device over a network connection; establish a non-blocking socket between the client computing device and the server computing device; generate a database query based on the query input; cause the database query to begin executing against one or more databases; perform a read request on the non-blocking socket; receive a code in response to the read request on the non-blocking socket; determine whether the network connection exists between the client device and the server device based on the received code; and cause the database query to be cancelled when the server determines that the network connection does not exist between the client device and the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Porterfield
  • Patent number: 10979730
    Abstract: A method of point cloud attribute coding includes calculating a motion-estimating uncertainty value based on geometry data associated with a point cloud; identifying one or more inter-frame nearest neighbor point cloud samples corresponding to the point cloud in response to a determination that the motion-estimating uncertainty value is less than a threshold value; ranking one or more temporal candidate points associated with the one or more identified inter-frame nearest neighbor point cloud samples based on the motion-estimation uncertainty value; and extracting one or more sample attribute values from the one or more temporal candidate points, whereby the one or more sample attribute values correspond to the geometry data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sehoon Yea, Arash Vosoughi, Shan Liu