Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Conveyor ride system
    Patent number: 10807010
    Abstract: Provided herein is a conveyor ride system that includes a conveyor structure having a plurality of conveyor beams and a plurality of conveyor grooves. The plurality of conveyor beams and the plurality of conveyor grooves are configured to direct a ride vehicle along a surface of the conveyor structure. The surface of the conveyor structure defines at least a portion of a ride path of the conveyor ride system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Gregory S. Hall, Keith Michael McVeen, Michael Joseph Tresaugue
  • Anti reverse ratchet mechanism for a grounded slack
    Patent number: 10808779
    Abstract: A ratchet device for providing anti-reverse locking for a grounded slack comprises a pinwheel having flexible angled spokes circumferentially protruding therefrom and a pinion ring into which the pinwheel fits includes a plurality of angled teeth with which the angled spokes mate. The spokes flex and slide over the pinion ring teeth when the ratchet is advanced in a forward direction, and lock against the teeth when the ratchet is not being advanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: BENDIX COMMERICAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Howe, Lawrence F. Gilboy
  • Separator system and method
    Patent number: 10807022
    Abstract: A separator system and method may provide a four-way separator that may separate a material and remove a hazardous material. The hazardous material may include gas and sand that may be removed by the four-way separator. The separator system and method may further provide a main unit that may include three chambers or recirculation hoppers, an auger sand extractor, and a strap tank. The separator system and method may provide a faster rig-up time and may be exclusively driven by hydraulics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CP ENERGY SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Troy Bollom, Jon Paul Rountree, Joe Don Selman
  • Dynamic non-piercing tactile and manipulable suspension system
    Patent number: 10806277
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic non-piercing tactile and manipulable suspension system for suspending target items such as fruit including but not limited to bananas both in hands and individually. An integration housing comprises one or more suspension strands coupled to the integration housing on one end and one or more suspension contacts on the other end, the suspension strand and coupled suspension contact being capable of suspending (without piercing) a hand of bananas and/or a single banana.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: THE BANANA BUNGEE LLC
    Inventor: Trevor A. Chargois
  • Upset protrusion joining and forging gun therefor
    Patent number: 10807148
    Abstract: An upset protrusion joining gun for joining two parts together by forging a protrusion of one part that extends through an opening in the other part to form a boss that extends over a portion of the other part surrounding the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Kurt P Damphousse, Stephen D Logan, John Macdonald, Kenneth Martz
  • Pickup box D-pillar assembly
    Patent number: 10807653
    Abstract: A pickup truck box assembly includes a truck bed, an inner side panel, and a D-pillar. The truck bed is secured on a rear edge to a rear cross-member. The inner side panel is mounted to the truck bed. The D-pillar includes an inner part secured to the cross-member and inner side panel, and an outer part secured to the inner part and disposed between an outer side panel and the inner part. The D-pillar inner part includes a U-shaped portion and a first flange extending rearward substantially ninety degrees from the U-shaped portion in a plane substantially parallel to the side panel and a second flange extending from the U-shaped portion outboard of the inner side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jack Marchlewski, Robert Reiners, Dragan B. Stojkovic, Joshua R. Hemphill
  • Container with a child-resistant lid
    Patent number: 10807774
    Abstract: A lid opens and closes a container which has first walls forming an interior. The lid includes a lower member and an upper member. The lower member has a plurality of edges forming an aperture for accessing the interior of the container when the lid is in an open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Assurpack LLC
    Inventors: Nancy Warner, Jeremiah Buck
  • Titanium alloy
    Patent number: 10808298
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an alpha-beta titanium alloy comprises, in weight percentages: an aluminum equivalency in the range of about 6.7 to 10.0; a molybdenum equivalency in the range of 0 to 5.0; at least 2.1 vanadium; 0.3 to 5.0 cobalt; titanium; and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ATI Properties LLC
    Inventor: John W. Foltz, IV
  • Configuring a device using an automated manual process bridge
    Patent number: 10810020
    Abstract: A method is used in configuring a device in computing environments. A configuration system retrieves device information from the device. The configuration system creates a configuration script for the device using the device information. The configuration system executes the configuration script to direct a peripheral device to transmit Human Interface Device (HID) events to the device, where the device performs the device configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Walter Kemp, Juan M. Martinez
  • Clavicle fracture infant brace
    Patent number: 10806621
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an infant brace for treating an infant with a fractured clavicle. The infant brace includes a torso portion for receiving the donning infant's torso, and an arm portion for receiving the donning infant's arm on the side coinciding with the fractured clavicle. The infant brace is formed from an elastic netting material. The infant brace provides effective immobilization of the infant's affected upper arm while minimizing risks of over-heating or causing pressure sores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SPROSSENTECH, LLC
    Inventor: Kirsten Quist
  • (Co)polyamides obtainable from 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid and a diamine of formula HN-(CH)-O-(CH)-O-(CH)-NH
    Patent number: 10808077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (co)polyamides comprising at least 60 mol. % of recurring units of formula (I): (I). The present invention also relates to polymer compositions comprising such (co)polyamides, as well as articles comprising the same and methods of using said articles in high temperature applications requiring sufficient swelling or deformation upon exposure to moisture, such as for example oil and gas extraction processes (e.g. fracturing balls), or as support materials used to print three-dimensional (3D) parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS USA, LLC
    Inventors: Stéphane Jeol, Nancy J. Singletary
  • Lighted cup holder for seating arrangements
    Patent number: 10806265
    Abstract: A method and apparatus include attaching a lighted cup holder to a seating arrangement. The lighted cup holder includes a cup holder body and a light-producing light source, with the cup holder body being attached to the seating arrangement and having a cup receptacle therein, the light-producing source being disposed within the cup receptacle for illuminating the receptacle. A light-sensitive element operatively connected to the light source selectively controls production of light by the light source in such a manner that illumination of the cup holder is provided only under conditions where visibility is reduced to the point that it becomes difficult to locate the cup holder. The light-sensitive element is mounted on a master lighted cup holder and controls illumination of the master lighted cup holder and one or more slave lighted cup holders operatively connected to the master lighted cup holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: RAFFEL SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Ken Seidl
  • Anti-phishing protection
    Patent number: 10812528
    Abstract: Anti-Phishing protection assists in protecting against phishing attacks. Any links that are contained within a message that has been identified as a phishing message are disabled. A warning message is shown when the phishing message is accessed. The first time a disabled link within the phishing message is selected a dismissible dialog box is displayed containing information about how to enable links in the message. After the user dismisses the dialog, clicking on a disabled link causes the warning message to flash drawing the user's attention to the potential severity of the problem. The links may be enabled by the user by selecting the warning message and choosing the appropriate option. Once the user enables the links, future displays of the message show the links as enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Xavier, Aime M. Mitchell, Brian J. Tsang, George A. Herbert, Hernan I. Savastano, Lubdha Khandelwal, Robert C. J. Pengelly, Robert Novitskey, Stanley Grant
  • System and method for automating proactive communication
    Patent number: 10810498
    Abstract: A system and method for automating proactive communication. The information for the desired contacts may be accepted from a user. A selection of contact communication frequency preferences may be received from a user. An automatic communication to one of the desired contacts may be initiated. The user may be allowed to cancel the automatic communication, in response to receiving a notification that the communication is about to begin. A response indicative of the communication status may be received. Rules and preferences may be optimized based upon the received response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Stafford, Jeffrey Michael Sweeney, Kelsyn D. S. Rooks
  • Feature erasure
    Patent number: 10810777
    Abstract: A GPU receives an image comprising an array of pixels. The image depicts features in a field of an object on a background. The features and the background contrasting with the object field, and at least a portion of the object is at the center of the image. In parallel for each particular pixel of a first plurality of the pixels, the GPU sets the color value of the particular pixel to the lightest color value of a second plurality of the pixels substantially along a line outward from the particular pixel toward an edge of the image. The line can be defined by the particular pixel and the image center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: John Day-Richter
  • Rotary actuator with angled housing connection
    Patent number: 10811932
    Abstract: In at least some implementations, an actuator includes a motor, an output rotated by the motor about an axis, and a housing having an interior in which the motor and electrical component are received. The housing includes a first housing part and a second housing part coupled to the first housing part to define at least part of the interior. The first housing part has a first mounting surface and the second housing part having a second mounting surface arranged to overlap the first mounting surface when the second housing part and first housing part are coupled together and wherein the first mounting surface and second mounting surface are both arranged at an acute angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Dura Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Jinseok Jeon
  • Obfuscation of information obtained by a card reader
    Patent number: 10810386
    Abstract: An example method may include transmitting a noise signal through a reader connection of a magnetic reader element. The control component and the magnetic reader element may be associated with a card reader device of a transaction device, and the magnetic reader element may be configured to read a magnetic strip of a transaction card. The method may include receiving, from the magnetic reader element, a reader connection signal from the reader connection. The reader connection signal may include the noise signal. The method may include extracting, from the reader connection signal, a card information signal associated with the transaction card from the magnetic strip. The card information signal may be extracted based on the noise signal. The method may include performing an action associated with the card information signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Post, Nathaniel McKinnon
  • Systems and methods for real-time data processing, monitoring, and alerting
    Patent number: 10810595
    Abstract: Large quantities of stored data from a plurality of sources, as well as large quantities of incoming real-time data that may also be coming from a plurality of sources, can be compared by pre-modeling, indexing, and aggregating data prior to conducting the comparison. A system can include a monitoring and alerting agent, an interactive visualization agent, and a machine learning agent to provide up-to-date transaction-level, store-level, and customer-level alerting and attribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Georgi D. Gospodinov
  • Wristwatch-type electronic device with contactless control interface, and control method for such a device
    Patent number: 10809856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device intended to be worn secured to a part of the human body, comprising a case (11) provided with a display zone (13), a wristband (12), and a control interface with capacitive measuring electrodes (14, 15, 16) arranged to detect control objects, said control interface being arranged so as to allow the detection of control objects (21) in contact with or across from (i) a detection zone superimposed on the display zone (13), (ii) at least one other detection zone (17, 18, 23) outside said display zone (13). The invention also relates to a method implemented in this device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: QuickStep Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Blondin, Didier Roziere
  • Torque converter assembly and single face torque converter clutch
    Patent number: 10808819
    Abstract: A torque converter assembly configured to be connected between an engine and a transmission in a vehicle. The torque converter assembly comprises a cover plate having a cover plate pilot portion, a pump, a turbine, a stator, and a clutch assembly operably connected between the cover plate and the turbine. The clutch assembly comprises a piston plate having a single clutch face and a piston pilot portion. The cover plate pilot portion and the piston pilot portion are both configured to be piloted by the engine. A pilot plate located between the cover plate and clutch assembly can help control the amount and/or velocity of fluid that hydrodynamically connects various portions of the torque converter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Victor M. Roses, Ted R. Skrzycke