Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Photovoltaic cells arranged in a pattern
    Patent number: 10941612
    Abstract: As described herein, a photovoltaic film may include a plurality of photovoltaic cells arranged to form a frit pattern. The photovoltaic film may be affixed to a transparent substrate to form a film-treated panel. The transparent substrate may be glass, such as a windowpane. The photovoltaic cells may be configured to convert sunlight into electrical energy. The electrical energy may be stored and used to power an electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: David A. Kirby
  • Air turbine starter with spark mitigation screen
    Patent number: 10941710
    Abstract: An air turbine starter for starting an engine, comprising a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet for communicating a flow of gas there through. A turbine member is journaled within the housing and disposed within the flow path for rotatably extracting mechanical power from the flow of gas. A gear train is drivingly coupled with the turbine member, a drive shaft is operably coupled with the gear train, and an output shaft is selectively operably coupled to rotate with the engine. A screen is located within the interior between the at least one turbine member and the set of outlets and adapted to mitigate ejection of ignited particles from within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Magee, Luis Angel Martinez
  • Systems, components and related methods
    Patent number: 10939773
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to systems related to sleeping, playing and provision of non-toxic environments, components related to those systems, and methods involving the systems or components. It is more particularly directed to systems, components and methods that aid early infant cognitive development, improve ventilation inside a crib, promote fresh and/or odor free air, promote thermoregulation and homeostasis, protect the person using the systems, components and methods from biological toxins, and create healthy sleeping environments for infants, toddlers, children and adults. One sleep system according to the present invention includes a cover, a core, and a bottom. The cover includes at least two raised areas. The raised areas have one or more heights ranging from 0.125 inch to 5.0 inches and diameters ranging of 0.25 to 10.0 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nook Sleep Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Svensrud
  • System and method for transaction authentication
    Patent number: 10943233
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
  • Cannabis vaporization temperature control
    Patent number: 10940275
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to reduce the disadvantages in currently available Vaporizers by providing a method and system of controlling the output voltage of the Battery such that the electrical current within and the temperature of the heating element and Extract are controllable. The present invention discloses the Battery that operates by supplying voltage that varies with time and provides various automatically or manually selectable voltage-time profiles. The voltage is controlled by an integrated controller that is able to vary the battery output voltage via voltage modulation and is able to continuously vary the output voltage. The voltage is modulated using pulse width modulation. The integrated controller is capable of storing and executing an embedded program for voltage modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Vuber Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Crowe
  • Method for filtering documents and electronic device
    Patent number: 10943023
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for document retrieval. The method comprises: determining, in response to receiving a request to retrieve a document from a user, information for the user; obtaining, based on the determined information, ACL information for the user from an ACL index, the ACL index indicating access right of at least one user to the document; and determining, based on the ACL information of the user, a document to be provided to the user from retrieved documents in response to the request. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the retrieval efficiency may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Zed Minhong Zhou, Wei William Zhou, Dingmeng Xue, Jason Muhua Chen
  • Deep neural network workload scheduling
    Patent number: 10942767
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for scheduling neural network workloads on an edge device. A performance model for each neural network model is received. Parameters for each neural network workload is determined based on an associated performance model. Processing core assignments are determined from a plurality of processing cores for each neural network workload based on the corresponding performance model and processing core utilization. Image streams are received and associated with a neural network workload. Each neural network workload is scheduled to run on the processing cores based on the processing core assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ranveer Chandra, Rahul Anand Sharma
  • Soybean variety 01072350
    Patent number: 10939652
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072350. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072350. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072350 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072350 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Philip A. Owen
  • Data processing device and data processing method for improving data transmission quality using a low density parity check code
    Patent number: 10944431
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Compounds that interact with the Ras superfamily for the treatment of cancers, inflammatory diseases, rasopathies, and fibrotic disease
    Patent number: 10940139
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating cancers, inflammatory diseases, rasopathies, and fibrotic disease involving aberrant Ras superfamily signaling through the binding of compounds to the GTP binding domain of Ras superfamily proteins including, in certain cases, K-Ras and mutants thereof, and a novel method for assaying such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Shy Therapeutics LLC
    Inventors: Yaron R. Hadari, Luca Carta, Michael Schmertzler, Theresa M. Williams, Charles H. Reynolds, Rebecca Hutcheson
  • Fiber indexing systems
    Patent number: 10942325
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and method for deploying a fiber optic network. Distribution devices are used to index fibers within the system to ensure that live fibers are provided at output locations throughout the system. In an example, fibers can be indexed in multiple directions within the system. In an example, spare ports can be providing in a forward direction and reverse direction ports can also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Erik J. Gronvall, Olivier Hubert Daniel Yves Rousseaux, Trevor D. Smith, James J. Solheid, Matthew J. Holmberg
  • Seatback recliner system for a vehicle seat of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10940781
    Abstract: A seatback recliner system for a vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seatback is provided. The system includes a latch mechanism movable between a latched state where the latch mechanism holds the seatback in a fixed angular position relative to the seat bottom and an unlatched state where the seatback is angularly movable relative to the seat bottom. A handle is movable between a rest position where the latch mechanism is disposed in the latched state and an actuated position where the latch mechanism is disposed in the unlatched state, in response to the handle receiving an actuation load from a user. A handle extension member is releasably mounted to the handle by a coupler that disengages the handle extension member from the handle such that the handle remains disposed in the rest position relative to the latch mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Arico
  • Portable sensor calibration target for autonomous vehicle
    Patent number: 10942045
    Abstract: A portable sensor calibration target includes a frame assembly, a first panel, and a second panel. The frame assembly may include three legs and a plurality of frame edges that is configured to form a first frame and a second frame and is configured to be held at a pre-selected height above ground by the legs. The first panel is removably attached to the first frame in an unfolded position, and includes a plurality of boards and a plurality of hinges connecting the plurality of boards. The first panel is configured to fold at the plurality of hinges into a folded position. The second panel is removably attached to the second frame adjacent to the first frame. The first panel and the second panel meet to form an edge, which is detectable by a detection system of a vehicle for calibrating the detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Crawford, Rikard Grunnan
  • Packaging scheme for a plurality of consumer goods
    Patent number: 10940973
    Abstract: A packaging scheme for identifying consumer goods affiliated with, made and/or sold by a company and/or brand. The packaging scheme provides for a first product and a second product where the first product and the second product are different products, and a first package containing the first product and a second package containing both the first product and the second product. A first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue are associated with the first product. A second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue are associated with the second product, such that the first package has a first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, while the second package has both a (i) first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, and (ii) a second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Ilona Bergquist, Sezen Buell, Ricardo de Oliveira, Anna Dietrich, Danielle Kay Gerlach, Adebimpe Ogunade, Richard Timmers, Pankaj Nigam, Kyle Hillegass, Robert F. Rosasco, III
  • Tank system for liquid desiccant air conditioning system
    Patent number: 10941948
    Abstract: A liquid desiccant air conditioning system includes one or more liquid desiccant tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: 7AC Technologies, Inc., Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Peter F. Vandermeulen, Eric Kozubal, Mark A. Allen, Scott N. Rowe
  • Method of controlling hard disk and electronic device
    Patent number: 10942560
    Abstract: A method of controlling a hard disk and an electronic device, comprising: determining a number of power cycles that have been completed by the hard disk at a time point within a predetermined period of time, a power cycle including a total duration of the hard disk in a spin-on mode and an immediately neighboring spin-off mode; and in response to the number of power cycles that have been completed being below an upper limit number for the power cycles of the hard disk in the predetermined period of time, determining remaining time of the predetermined period of time starting from the time point, and determining, based on the remaining time, the number of power cycles that have been completed, and the upper limit number, a threshold idle duration for controlling the hard disk to enter the spin-off mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Ao Sun, Gary Jialei Wu, Lu Lei, Peter Jie Song
  • Systems and methods for performing erasures within a graphical user interface
    Patent number: 10942642
    Abstract: Examples described herein include improved systems and methods for performing erasures and edits within a graphical user interface. A computing device can include a processor that detects skin contact with a touch-screen display of the computing device. The processor can also detect, based on the skin contact, a gesture that indicates an erasure function. Based on that determination, the processor executes the erasure function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: AirWatch LLC
    Inventor: Alok Piyush Desai
  • Method and apparatus for assessing respiratory distress
    Patent number: 10939848
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for assessing a respiratory function from plethysmography data obtainable, for example, from a pulse oximeter. A pulsatile waveform obtained from pleth data is processed to obtain a second waveform extending over a over multiple respiratory cycles and representing respiration-related variations in a pulse-beat area defined by the pulsatile waveform. The second waveform is analyzed to obtain information indicative of respiratory distress. A respiratory index that provides a good indicator of respiratory distress may be computed based on a magnitude of respiratory peaks in the second waveform. Applications to asthma and sleep apnea are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: S & V SIU ASSOCIATES, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Chan Siu, Jusson Koo, Zachary Andrew Siu
  • Convertible infant carrier backpack system
    Patent number: 10939744
    Abstract: A convertible baby carrier backpack system enables using a backpack portion as a backpack alone, a baby carrier portion as a baby carrier alone, or coupling the two portions together to form an integrated baby carrier backpack. A baby carrier has a carrier opening between a back panel and a carrier panel. A back panel is opposite the shoulder straps and configured away from a carrier when used as a baby carrier, while the carrier panel is configured proximal to the carrier when used as a baby carrier. An exemplary baby carrier portion has a carrier attachment feature configured on the back panel that enables detachable attachment of a backpack. An exemplary backpack portion has a backpack attachment feature that is configured to couple with the carrier attachment feature to enable detachable attachment of the backpack portion to the baby carrier portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAK LABS LLC
    Inventors: Lance Robinson, Vanel Marc, Geovanni Suplee, Jeremy Losaw
  • Device pairing and authentication
    Patent number: 10944579
    Abstract: Methods for system component pairing and authentication are described. A first system component may pair with a second system component in response to receiving a unique identifier from the second system component. The first system component may store the received unique identifier and, thereafter, may authenticate that it is, in fact, communicating with the second system component. The first component may communicate a challenge message directed to the second system component and if the contents of the reply message and the time taken to receive the reply message do not correspond to expected values, the first component may determine that it may not be communicating with the intended second component and may cease communications with the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Combined Conditional Access Development and Support, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Tang, Douglas M. Petty