Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12146917
    Abstract: A battery system includes a multi-cell rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and an electronic controller configured to process RESS cell data. The controller is programmed with a battery cell open circuit voltage (OCV) versus state of charge (SOC) data table used to calculate a peak OCV movement for a representative battery cell at predetermined capacity and maximum discharge/charge rate. The controller is configured to acquire voltage data for one of the cells during active RESS cycling. The controller is also configured to pass the acquired voltage data through a first-order lag filter algorithm to generate an overpredicted OCV for the subject cell. The controller is additionally configured to determine an overpredicted SOC value for the subject cell in the data table using an OCV value from the overpredicted OCV. Furthermore, the controller is configured to regulate the RESS using the determined overpredicted SOC value for the subject cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bednar, Justin Bunnell, Xavier Camacho Tardi
  • Patent number: 12150268
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a containment system for an electronics rack that includes a top structure that is movably coupled on top of the electronics rack, a first side structure that is movably coupled to a first side of the electronics rack, and a second side structure that is movably coupled to a second side of the electronics rack that is opposite to the first side, each of the structures is arranged to move along an axis and at least partially beyond either a front end or a back end of the electronics rack creating a containment region that is at least partially surrounded by the top structure, the first side structure, and the second side structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 12148707
    Abstract: Homogeneous chiplets configurable both as a two-dimensional system or a three-dimensional system are described. An example chiplet system has a first homogeneous chiplet (HC) including a first integrated circuit (IC) die having a first logic block and a first memory that are interconnected via a first path for transfer of data signals between the first logic block and the first memory block. A second HC including a second IC die having a second logic block and a second memory block, interconnected via a second path for transfer of data signals between the second logic block and the second memory block, is stacked vertically on top of the first HC to provide a third path for transfer of data signals between the first logic block and the second memory block and a fourth path for transfer of data signals between the second logic block and the first memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haohua Zhou, Xiaoling Xu
  • Patent number: 12146708
    Abstract: A cosmetic sponge drying and storage container has a plurality of components, including at least a first component and a second component, the first component being moveable with respect to the second component to position the container in at least an open condition and a closed condition. At least one of the first component or said second component is perforated with perforations. A cosmetic sponge may be placed within the container when in the open condition and the perforations provide at least 10% ventilation when the container is in the closed condition. Preferably, both the first and second components are perforated to provide for cross-ventilation. In addition, a base may be provided to support the first and second components, and most preferably the base may be perforated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NYC Designed Inspirations LLC
    Inventor: Samantha Palmer
  • Patent number: 12149904
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for identifying a plurality of sets of coordinates for a plurality of devices are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying each device in a plurality of devices associated with a user account; instructing the plurality of devices to perform an audio sequence; receiving a plurality of transit times from the plurality of devices; determining a plurality of distances based on the plurality of transit times; determining a plurality of sets of coordinates based on the plurality of distances; associating to each of the plurality of devices a corresponding unique one of the plurality of sets of coordinates; and causing at least one of the plurality of devices to play spatial audio determined from the plurality of sets of coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Gabriel Slotnick
  • Patent number: 12147466
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing electronic content, such as text, videos, and images. According to certain embodiments, user interactions with electronic content may be tracked over a plurality of modalities, such as web pages, email, mobile applications, and social media. The tracked user interactions may include copy/paste events, explicit user highlighting, social sharing, and user voting. Key passages of electronic content may be identified based on the tracked user interactions and ranked against one another. Ranking of passages may be based, for example, on a raw or normalized score for the identified key passages. Alternatively, the ranking of a passage may be based on a ratio of user interactions with the passage to total views of the electronic text containing the passage. One or more of the identified key passages (e.g., the highest ranked passages) may be published to one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Conor F. White-Sullivan, Brandon T. Diamond, Michael J. Discala, Matthew Conlen, Andrew P. Sass
  • Patent number: 12147039
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device and method of manufacturing the same. The HMD includes a frame housing a micro-display to project display light, a lightguide configured to receive the display light from the micro-display, and a corrective layer having a world-side surface coupled to the eye-side surface of the lightguide. The lightguide is further configured to have a world-side surface with a radius of curvature based on an ophthalmic corrective prescription and an eye-side surface having an outcoupler feature formed thereon such that the coupled lightguide and corrective layer form a lens configured to fit within the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Omar David Negrete, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 12148222
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a camera configured to capture image data depicting a field of view proximate the vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle control system further includes a plurality of light sources in connection with the vehicle and a controller. The controller is configured to activate a plurality of lights in an alternating pattern and capture light reflected from at least one object with the camera at a time and corresponding to the alternating pattern of the plurality of lights. In response to variations in the light impinging upon the at least one object from the alternating pattern, the controller is configured to identify a distance of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Herman, Akshay Vaidya, Larry Sanders, Binduhasini Sairamesh
  • Patent number: 12148478
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory system comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells divided into three or more tiers. The memory cells can be programmed, erased and read. In order to achieve uniform erase speed for the three or more tiers, the erase process comprises applying a larger voltage bias to control gates of non-volatile memory cells in the outer tiers than the voltage bias applied to control gates of non-volatile memory cells in one or more inner tiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Yang, Masaaki Higashitani, Abhijith Prakash, Dengtao Zhao
  • Patent number: 12146121
    Abstract: A fabric care composition is provided, comprising: a fabric care benefit agent; and a deposition aid polymer is provided, comprising >50 to 99 wt % of structural units of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from hydrogen, —C1-4 alkyl and —CH2OR3; wherein R3 is selected from —C1-12 alkyl and phenyl; and 1 to <50 wt % of structural units of formula (II) wherein R2 is selected from Formula (III), Formula (IV) and Formula (V) wherein A? is a counter anion; wherein R4 is selected from a hydrogen, a —C1-12 alkyl group and a phenyl group; and wherein R5 is selected from a hydrogen and a —C1-8 alkyl group; wherein the deposition aid polymer has a weight average molecular weight of <100,000 Daltons; and with the proviso that the deposition aid polymer has an average of ?two structural units of formula (II) per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Matthew E. Belowich, David S. Laitar, Randara Pulukkody, Eric Wasserman
  • Patent number: 12146203
    Abstract: A method of making a forged, martensitic, stainless steel alloy is provided. The alloy is a forged preform of martensitic, pitting corrosion resistant stainless steel alloy comprising, by weight: 12.0 to 16.0 percent chromium; greater than 16.0 to 20.0 percent cobalt, 6.0 to 8.0 percent molybdenum, 1.0 to 3.0 percent nickel, 0.02 to 0.04 percent carbon; and the balance iron and incidental impurities. The alloy has a microstructure that comprises a retained austenite phase less than or equal to 2 percent by volume of the microstructure. The method heats the preform to a solutionizing temperature to form a solutionized microstructure. The preform is cooled with a liquid to room temperature at a rate of no less than 0.25° C./sec. to prevent formation of sigma phase. The preform is immersed in a cryo-liquid to transform the retained austenite phase in the microstructure to martensite. The preform is heated to a temperature of less than 600° F. for a time sufficient to form a tempered forged preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventor: Theodore Francis Majka
  • Patent number: 12149565
    Abstract: A distributed computing cluster includes first, second, and third pluralities of computer systems. A first computer of the first plurality applies a first transformation pipeline to a stream of data to generate a output data, and transmits the output data to a computer of the second plurality, which is distinct from the first plurality. A second computer of the second plurality applies a second transformation pipeline. The second transformation pipeline includes a first storage transformation. A third computer of the third plurality stores a representation of a distributed computational graph (DCG), which includes a representation of a portion of the second transformation pipeline. The third computer processes the representation of the DCG, and determines whether the second transformation pipeline includes a storage transformation. The third computer monitors the second transformation pipeline, and in response, causes a fourth computer of the third plurality to apply a second storage transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QOMPLX LLC
    Inventors: Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers
  • Patent number: 12146399
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method include connecting an inner end of a base of a fluid coupling assembly to an outer surface of a manifold of a hydraulic fracturing system. The base includes an outer end opposite the inner end and a through-passage extending from the outer end to the inner end. In addition, the method includes inserting a coupling adapter into the through-passage from the outer end to compress the coupling adapter into the through-passage and to position a connection device of the coupling adapter outside of the through-passage at the outer end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Scout Surface Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Michael James Cornelssen, Christopher Mark Koch
  • Patent number: 12149085
    Abstract: A bipole power transmission scheme includes at least a first converter station that is positioned in-use separate from at least a second converter station. The bipole power transmission scheme also includes at least first and second transmission conduits and a first return conduit to in-use interconnect the first converter station with the second converter station and thereby permit the transfer of power between the first and second converter stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Markus Andre Offergeld, Ajay Koliwad, Madhusudan Nandula, Neil Cuthbert
  • Patent number: 12146566
    Abstract: Grade based transmission park pawl unloading techniques include in response to detecting a request to shift a transmission of a vehicle out of a park state, determining a set of load parameters using a set of sensors configured to monitor the set of load parameters of the vehicle, the set of load parameters including at least a grade of a surface that the vehicle is on and a weight of the vehicle, based on the set of load parameters, activating a series of a plurality of clutches of the transmission to cause the transmission to transfer or output a desired amount of drive torque in a desired direction to unload the park pawl, and when the park pawl is unloaded, shifting the transmission out of the park state without any noise/vibration/harshness (NVH) associated with the previous loading of the park pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventor: Corey Allard
  • Patent number: 12146074
    Abstract: A polymeric dispersant and a stable two-component epoxy coating composition comprising an epoxy component A comprising: a waterborne epoxy resin, the polymeric dispersant, and pigments and/or extenders; and a component B comprising a curing agent; providing coatings made therefrom with improved anti-corrosion properties; and a method of preparing the coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Weijun Yang, Hu Li, Longlan Cui
  • Patent number: 12146965
    Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) includes a direct time of flight system for determining depth information for a local area. The DCA includes an illumination source, a camera, and a controller. The illumination source projects light (e.g., pulse of light) into the local area. The camera detects reflections of the projected light from objects in the local area. Using an internal gating selection procedure, the controller selects a gate window that is likely to be associated with reflection of a pulse of light from an object. The selected gate may be used for depth determination. The internal gating selection procedures may be achieved through external target location and selection or through internal self-selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Augusto Ronchini Ximenes, Michael Hall
  • Patent number: 12150192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing a routing of audio data, the method being performed by an audio data routing device (M), the method comprising the steps of: —transmitting (100), in a Bluetooth network, a list of audio transmitting devices (SPK1, SPK2, SPK3), —receiving (200) a communication request (RQ1, RQ2) from a Bluetooth enabled device (S1, S2), —in response to said communication request, establishing (300) a communication link with the Bluetooth enabled device, —managing (400) the audio data routing between the Bluetooth enabled device and a selected audio data transmitting device from the list of audio data transmitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Nallatamby, Thomas Girardier
  • Patent number: 12147932
    Abstract: A traceability system for a bulk commodity supply chain is provided. The system includes a tracking device, a location determination subsystem, and at least one computing device having at least one processor. The location determination subsystem is configured to determine positional information of the tracking device while placed in a bulk commodity traveling along the bulk commodity supply chain. The processor receives the positional information from the location subsystem, extracts positional values from the positional information, and processes the positional values to identify motion primitives. A modeling tool is applied to the identified motion primitives to produce a positional path of the tracking device, which is output, for example, via a user interface. The positional path represents travel of the bulk commodity along the supply chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan, Upinder Kaur, Peeyush Kumar, Ranveer Chandra, Michael McNab Bassani, Vishal Jain
  • Patent number: D1052117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jinho Seo, Hungil Lee