Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Compositions and methods for controlling insect pests
    Patent number: 10975387
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for controlling invertebrate pest infestations, particularly in plants; compositions and insecticidal polynucleotides useful in such methods; and plants having improved resistance to the invertebrate pests. More specifically, insecticidal polynucleotides and methods of use thereof for modifying the expression of genes in an insect pest, particularly through RNA interference are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jodi Beattie, Michael John Crawford, Brian Donovan Eads
  • Convolutional gated recurrent neural networks
    Patent number: 10977547
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a convolutional gated recurrent neural network (CGRN). In one of the systems, the CGRN is configured to maintain a state that is a tensor having dimensions x by y by m, wherein x, y, and m are each greater than one, and for each of a plurality of time steps, update a currently maintained state by processing the currently maintained state through a plurality of convolutional gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Ilya Sutskever
  • Systems and method for data exchange and processing in a network system
    Patent number: 10977720
    Abstract: An augmented reality commercial platform is provided to simulate a product in an environment. The augmented reality commercial platform may include a merchant component, consumer component, augmentation engine, illustrator component, and monetization component. A method to simulate a product in an environment using the augmented reality commercial platform is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: 3View Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Miguel D. Ramos, Mark D. Polson
  • Magnetic field measurement system and method of using variable dynamic range optical magnetometers
    Patent number: 10976386
    Abstract: A magnetic field measurement system includes an array of magnetometers; at least one magnetic field generator configured to generate a compensation field across the array of magnetometers; and a controller coupled to the magnetometers and the at least one magnetic field generator and configured for adjusting a dynamic range and sensitivity of the array by adjusting a spatial variation of the compensation field to alter which of the magnetometers of the array operate in a measurement mode. Another magnetic field measurement system utilizes at least one magnetometer instead of the array. The controller is configured for adjusting a dynamic range and sensitivity of the array by adjusting a spatial variation of the compensation field to alter which of multiple domains within the at least one magnetometer operate in the measurement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Jamu Alford, Ricardo Jiménez-Martinez
  • Method and system for torque reserve estimation
    Patent number: 10974714
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for estimating a maximum available torque reserve prior to a gear upshift and then during the upshift, generating the torque reserve to fill a torque hole. In one example, a method may include estimating a maximum torque reserve based on each of a driver torque demand, an auxiliary system demand, and a maximum generable engine torque and then opportunistically generating the torque reserve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rajit Johri, Christopher John Teslak
  • System and method for high efficiency power generation using a carbon dioxide circulating working fluid
    Patent number: 10975766
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and system for power generation using a high efficiency combustor in combination with a CO2 circulating fluid. The methods and systems advantageously can make use of a low pressure ratio power turbine and an economizer heat exchanger in specific embodiments. Additional low grade heat from an external source can be used to provide part of an amount of heat needed for heating the recycle CO2 circulating fluid. Fuel derived CO2 can be captured and delivered at pipeline pressure. Other impurities can be captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Rodney John Allam, Miles R. Palmer, Glenn William Brown, Jr., Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Brock Alan Forrest
  • Method and system for deactivating an acousto-magnetic label
    Patent number: 10978231
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatus, and systems for deactivating an AM tag including receiving a deactivation signal via a first inductive coil, storing electrical charges generated from the deactivation signal in a capacitor, and discharging the electrical charges through a second inductive coil, wherein: a first bias strip in the demagnetized state and a second bias strip cause a resonator to vibrate at a first resonant frequency corresponding to an activated state of the AM tag, the discharging magnetizes the first bias strip from a demagnetized state to a magnetized state, and the first bias strip in the magnetized state and the second bias strip cause the resonator to vibrate at a second resonant frequency different than the first resonant frequency, wherein the resonator vibrating at the second resonant frequency corresponds to a deactivated state of the AM tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald B. Easter, Guillermo H. Padula, Thomas Patrick Solaski, Mohammad Mohiuddin
  • Automatic adaptive climate controls
    Patent number: 10974567
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an automatic climate control system of a vehicle include, by one or more onboard processors in operative communication with one or more sensors, initiating the automatic climate control system. The processors receive from the one or more sensors at least a vehicle input and a user identifier input. A unique user climate control system actuation action is implemented according to the received vehicle input and user identifier input provided by applying at least one predictive model to a stored set of climate control system operating parameters. A unique user climate control system operating pattern is implemented according to the received vehicle input and user identifier input provided by applying at least one different predictive model to the stored set of climate control system operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Elizabeth Anne Manwell, William Gordon Herbert, Mohan John
  • Systems and methods for splitting a bill associated with a receipt
    Patent number: 10977633
    Abstract: Systems and processes are disclosed for providing bill splitting processes for splitting a bill amount among a set of purchasers. In one example, the disclosed embodiments may receive receipt information reflecting a bill to be split among a group of purchasers. The disclosed embodiments may parse the receipt information to extract one or more items or services having monetary value and generate a list of the items or services included in the receipt. The disclosed embodiments may also identify the group of purchasers that will participate in paying a proportion of the bill associated with the receipt. Further, disclosed embodiments may be configured to determine a proportion of payment of the total amount of the bill for each purchaser in the group of purchasers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Ben M. Coffman, Dennis S. Brennan, Richard S. Just, Joseph O'Brien, Katharine Anne Shea, Bryan Fearson, Timothy J. Austen, Shaun Webb, Nicholas Sheehan
  • Use of offline algorithm to determine location from previous sensor data when location is requested
    Patent number: 10976161
    Abstract: Examples describe systems and methods for iteratively determining a signal strength map for a wireless access point (AP) aligned to position coordinates. An example method includes receiving logs of data from devices. For a plurality of iterations, the method includes selecting a set of logs of data having an amount of GPS being less than a given amount of GPS in a previously selected set, determining estimates of signal strength maps for the wireless AP aligned to position coordinates based on the selected set and on given signal strength maps due to a previous iteration, and performing a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) optimization of the possible locations of the wireless AP based on the given signal strength maps and the estimates of the signal strength maps. Based on the iterative optimizations, an output signal strength map is provided for the wireless AP aligned to position coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Etienne Le Grand
  • Instrumentation of user actions in software applications
    Patent number: 10977159
    Abstract: A method may include receiving user instrumentation data and code instrumentation data from at least one user computing device such that the user and code instrumentation data is associated with performance of a user action of an application. The user instrumentation data may include a name identification of the user action and an input type identification of the initiation of the user action. The method may include storing the user and code instrumentation data in a database. The method may include receiving a search query associated with a past user action made in the application. The method may include retrieving, from the database, a set of one or more user actions based on the search query. The method may include presenting a user interface that includes an abstracted representation of the retrieved set of user actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Baer, Anand Balachandran, Dolly Sobhani, Yijin Wu
  • Flexible touch sensing assembly for detecting proximity of user to a controller device
    Patent number: 10976855
    Abstract: A touch sensing assembly includes a touch sensing layer that is configured to couple to an interface. The interface is configured to receive contact with skin of a user on a first surface. A first touch sensing layer is coupled to interface. The first touch sensing layer includes a plurality of touch sensors and a plurality of electrodes. The touch sensors are of a first touch sensing type, configured to detect proximity of the user's skin to the interface. The electrodes provide a plurality of electrical signals corresponding to the proximity of the user's skin to the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Raymond Louis Nicoli
  • Method and system to efficiently recovering a consistent view of a file system image from an asynchronously remote system
    Patent number: 10977217
    Abstract: A method for managing storage devices includes, in response to a first determination that a first cloud storage device is inaccessible to a local storage device, obtaining metadata objects from a second cloud storage device, identifying, based on a sync time analysis, at least one metadata object of the metadata objects to be deleted, initiating the deletion of the at least one metadata object on a second cloud storage device, wherein the second cloud storage device is accessible to the local storage device, and updating, after initiating the deletion of the at least one metadata object, a namespace on a local storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Neeraj Bhutani, Kalyan Chakravarthy Gunda, Nitin Madan, Jayasekhar Konduru
  • Seismic conduit joint connector
    Patent number: 10975991
    Abstract: A gripping element includes a body extending lengthwise from a first end to a second end. The body includes a first wall, a second wall extending from the first wall, and a third wall extending between the first wall and the second wall. The first wall, the second wall, and the third wall collectively define a hollow interior of the body. The body also defines an opening at each of its first and second ends. The opening at each of the first and second ends is in communication with the hollow interior of the body to permit an elastomeric material to be received within the opening at the first end of the body, within the hollow interior of the body, and within the opening at the second end of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: REVELATION CONNECTION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jim Jones
  • Adjustable ballistic garment
    Patent number: 10976137
    Abstract: An adjustable ballistic garment includes a first panel, an opposing second panel, and a connection assembly configured to releasably and adjustably couple the first panel to the second panel. The first panel has a first end of a strap attached thereto, while a second end of the strap is free-hanging. The second panel includes an adjustable tensioning loop and a rotary tensioning knob configured to adjust a length of the tensioning loop. A first coupling member is attached to a second end of the strap and includes a pin extending therefrom. A second coupling member is formed separately from the tensioning loop and the first coupling member and includes a cavity configured to receive the pin of the first coupling member and channel configured to receive the tensioning loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: United Shield International LLC
    Inventor: Paul Banducci
  • Mobile storage arrangement
    Patent number: D915797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AMQ Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Ding Yik Ming, Kin Fui Chong, Jiwon Shin, Bin Zhang
  • Table
    Patent number: D915805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: RH US, LLC
    Inventors: Rudolph F. T. van Thiel, Julie Lawrence
  • Sport lid for container
    Patent number: D915821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Jordane Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Dane Ludolph
  • Compression limiter
    Patent number: D916152
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: APQ Development, LLC
    Inventors: Lee McLain, Justin Joughin
  • Lateral c-arm drape
    Patent number: D916293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TIDI Products, LLC
    Inventor: Samba Toure