Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10975499
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to surface enhanced pulp fibers, various products incorporating surface enhanced pulp fibers, and methods and systems for producing surface enhanced pulp fibers. Various embodiments of surface enhanced pulp fibers have significantly increased surface areas compared to conventional refined fibers while advantageously minimizing reductions in length following refinement. The surface enhanced pulp fibers can be incorporated into a number of products that might benefit from such properties including, for example, paper products, paperboard products, fiber cement boards, fiber reinforced plastics, fluff pulps, hydrogels, cellulose acetate products, and carboxymethyl cellulose products. In some embodiments, a plurality of surface enhanced pulp fibers have a length weighted average fiber length of at least about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DOMTAR PAPER COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Harshad Pande, Bruno Marcoccia
  • Patent number: 10978482
    Abstract: A memory cell includes a ferroelectric memory transistor, and a select gate transistor which shares a common semiconductor channel, a common source region and a common drain region with the ferroelectric memory transistor. The select gate transistor controls access between the common source region and the common semiconductor channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Johann Alsmeier, Yanli Zhang
  • Patent number: 10976807
    Abstract: A system includes an eyewear device configured to present content to a user. A processor is communicatively coupled to the eyewear device. A bracelet device is communicatively coupled to the processor, and includes at least one sensor configured to determine a position signal in response to movement of a user's hand. A depth camera assembly is communicatively coupled to the processor, and configured to emit a waveform into an environment of the user, and capture a plurality of optical signals from the waveform reflected off of at least one object in the environment. The processor is configured to determine a position of the user's hand in relation to the environment based in part on the position signal and the plurality of optical signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Renzo De Nardi, Richard Andrew Newcombe
  • Patent number: 10975789
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for expediting heating of an engine and an emissions device upon cold startup of the engine. In one example, a method may include prior to cold startup of an engine, operating an e-compressor and opening a recirculation valve of a recirculation passage coupled across the e-compressor to flow compressed intake air from an outlet of the e-compressor through the recirculation passage to an inlet of the e-compressor and starting the engine upon a temperature at the outlet of the e-compressor reaching a threshold and continuing to operate the e-compressor while the engine is on. The heated intake air resulting from the flow of compressed intake air through the recirculation passage raises a temperature of combustion and a temperature of exhaust gas, which may decrease catalyst light-off time of the emissions device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Martz, Eric Matthew Kurtz, David Hanna, Daniel Joseph Styles, Eric Curtis
  • Patent number: 10979377
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes a system for generating customizable summaries of multi-message conversations in email threads and other multi-message and multi-participant messaging applications. A summary icon is displayed if the number of messages in a thread exceeds a threshold number. Message data is cleaned and analyzed by ML models to generate feature vectors representing the messages content. Multiple loglinear regression models compute similarity between message sentences. Clustering algorithm(s) to generate a multi-message conversation thread summary based on the values. If the user selects the summary icon, the multi-message conversation thread summary is displayed. The summary includes summary sentences and/or annotations describing content of the messages in the thread, participants contributing to the messages in the thread, links back to the original messages in the thread and/or a count of the number of messages contributed by each participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vipul Gupta, Aparajita, Arun K. Dixit, Supriya A. Supugade, Manish Sharma
  • Patent number: 10979911
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a wireless communication system includes antenna hardware, radio communication hardware, and a controller. The controller defines wireless sectors of coverage and configures them dynamically depending on network conditions. The radio communication hardware is coupled to the antenna hardware. The antenna hardware includes multiple antenna elements to wirelessly communicate in a network environment. During operation, the controller generates configuration settings to control a configuration of the radio communication hardware and the antenna hardware. The controller applies the configuration settings to the radio communication hardware to define corresponding wireless coverage provided by one or more software defined sectors in multiple base stations in a network environment. The one or more instantiated base stations (as indicated by the configuration settings) provide multiple communication devices in the network environment access to a remote network such as the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Hossam H. Hmimy
  • Patent number: 10977055
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for managing data. The method includes obtaining, by a local data manager, a first data confidence fabric (DCF) configuration file, where the first DCF configuration file is associated with a first DCF pipeline and a first workload. The method further includes registering the first DCF pipeline in a DCF pipeline registry, obtaining a data set, identifying the first DCF pipeline using the DCF pipeline registry, and processing the data set based on the first DCF pipeline to obtain first processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen James Todd, Jason A. Shepherd
  • Patent number: 10973815
    Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions and methods for the treatment of Parkinson's disease comprising a compound of formula (i): or a pharmaceutically effective salt or ester thereof alone or in combination with L-DOPA to provide a synergistic effect, thereby providing methods of (1) treating patients with Parkinson's Disease for whom L-DOPA is no longer effective, (2) treating patients with Parkinson's Disease who developed dyskinesia due to L-DOPA, (3) treating patients with Parkinson's Disease who have are receiving deep brain stimulation and (4) treating patients with Parkinson's Disease whose symptoms interfere with activities of daily living.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: VERSI GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Ebrahim Versi, Bruce Reidenberg
  • Patent number: 10973475
    Abstract: A holding device for use with a patient during an X-ray procedure includes an elongated arm having a proximal end and a distal end, a handle at the proximal end, and a retainer mounted on the distal end of the elongated arm for retaining something that is to be used adjacent to the patient during the X-ray procedure. An X-ray shield may be mounted on the arm between the retainer and the handle. There may be hinged joints between the retainer and the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: JNS Dental Products LLC
    Inventors: Justin Raybould, Arnessa Craft
  • Patent number: 10977131
    Abstract: A composite layout including a plurality of ranked sub-layouts may be used to provide various functionality for data object look-up and file system activities. Each sub-layout may include mapping information linking one or more extents of a data object to one or more locations on one or more storage apparatuses. Generally, mapping information in the highest priority sub-layout including mapped extents may be used during “reads” while the highest priority sub-layout may be used for “writes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Nikita Danilov, Nathaniel Rutman
  • Patent number: 10974731
    Abstract: A system includes a first sensor configured to detect a rotational position of a first wheel. The system includes a second sensor configured to detect a rotational position of a second wheel. The system includes a third sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of a driveline operatively coupled to the first wheel and the second wheel. The system includes a computer in communication with the first sensor, the second sensor, and the third sensor. The computer is programmed to detect a fault associated with the first wheel or the second wheel based on a correlation between an oscillation in the rotational speeds of the driveline and the rotational positions of the first wheel or the rotational positions of the second wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Adam J. Richards
  • Patent number: D915778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: 3FORM, LLC
    Inventors: Guillaume Martin, Danielle Hadley, Brandon Martin
  • Patent number: D915807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: WEWORK COMPANIES LLC
    Inventor: Adam Kimmel
  • Patent number: D915859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DH Cubed, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Francisco Washburn, Deborah McGlynn
  • Patent number: D915913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: YooJung Ahn, Joshua Newby, Albert Shane
  • Patent number: D915915
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Orbit Irrigation Products, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Johnson, Brad J. Wardle
  • Patent number: D915965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: YooJung Ahn, Philipp Haban, Jennifer Arden
  • Patent number: D916184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Maiman, Daniel Herrington, Stephen Schneider
  • Patent number: D916238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Masterspas, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Coelho, Michael Davenport
  • Patent number: D916361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Griscik, Carl Kite, Thien Nguyen, David Alvarez, Terrance Bache, Zack Blackmon, Patrick Good, Raymond Lau, Eric Hawes, Cristian Popa