Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Cleaning tool
    Patent number: 10806321
    Abstract: A cleaning tool comprising a handle assembly and a pad assembly. The pad assembly is coupled to the handle assembly such that the handle assembly extends distally beyond a first end of the pad assembly. The pad assembly includes a pad securing surface having a plurality of pad securing members extending substantially perpendicularly from the pad securing surface, and a slotted member located at a second end of the pad assembly, the second end being opposite the first end. The slotted member defines a slot configured to accept a cleaning pad, and the slotted member extends at an angle from the pad securing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Golden Ventures, Inc., Models, LLC
    Inventors: Larry R. McMann, Jr., Gerard W. Golden, Christopher D. I. Miller, Jerry J. Cason
  • Surgical stapler with cooperating distal tip features on anvil and staple cartridge
    Patent number: 10806451
    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a body portion, a shaft, and an end effector that is operable to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The end effector includes and anvil and a staple cartridge. The anvil has a body and a modular releasable curved tip that connects with the body. The curved tip may be elastically deformable. The curved anvil tip and the tip of the cartridge include cooperating features that assist in gripping tissue during clamping. A separate cartridge may be provided that retains a replacement anvil tip and a replacement staple cartridge, where the replacement anvil tip and staple cartridge include the cooperating features. The separate cartridge may also include anvil tip and staple cartridge removal features to assist in removal of previously installed anvil tips and staple cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
  • Cutting device with tapered cutting element
    Patent number: 10808531
    Abstract: A cutting device for cutting rock includes a disc and a plurality of cutting elements secured to the disc. The disc is supported for rotation about an axis of rotation, and the disc includes a peripheral edge extending around the axis of rotation. The plurality of cutting elements are spaced apart along the peripheral edge of the disc and positioned in a cutting plane. Each of the cutting elements includes a base portion and a cutting portion including a cutting edge, and the cutting portion has a width that is larger than a width of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: JOY GLOBAL UNDERGROUND MINING LLC
    Inventors: Joaquim Antonio Soares de Sousa, Michael Laing
  • Luminaire having an asymmetrical light distribution pattern
    Patent number: 10809447
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed including a light guide and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The light guide includes a rear portion including a first edge, a second edge, and a rear edge. The first edge meets the rear edge at a first obtuse angle, and the second edge meets the rear edge at a second obtuse angle. The plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed on the first edge, the second edge, and the rear edge, and it is arranged to produce an asymmetric light distribution pattern including a rear light emission and a forward light emission having a greater peak intensity than the rear light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Jeroen Den Breejen, Frederic S. Diana
  • Optical device having multiplexed electrodes
    Patent number: 10809529
    Abstract: An optical device comprises a pixel array including one or more pixels. Two or more independently controllable electrodes are electrically coupled to each pixel. A common ground reference electrode is electrically coupled to all pixels of the pixel array. Each pixel includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal molecules may be oriented in a first direction based on a first function of voltages applied by the two or more independently controllable electrodes for the pixel, and oriented in a second direction based on a second function of the voltages applied by the two or more independently controllable electrodes for the pixel. In this way, both phase modulation and polarization modulation may be introduced to light illuminating the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven John Robbins, Joel Steven Kollin, Andreas Georgiou, Adrian Robert Leigh Travis
  • BAW sensor with enhanced surface area active region
    Patent number: 10812045
    Abstract: A bulk acoustic wave MEMS resonator device includes at least one functionalization (e.g., specific binding or non-specific binding) material arranged over a top side electrode, with at least one patterned enhanced surface area element arranged between a lower surface of the top side electrode and the functionalization material. The at least one patterned enhanced surface area element increases non-planarity of the at least one functionalization material, thereby providing a three-dimensional structure configured to increase sensor surface area and reduce analyte diffusion distance, and may also promote fluid mixing. Methods for biological and chemical sensing, and methods for forming MEMS resonator devices and fluidic devices are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rio Rivas, Craig Andrus
  • Cycloidal reluctance motor with rotor permanent magnets
    Patent number: 10811946
    Abstract: An electrical system includes a power inverter connected to a battery and outputting a polyphase voltage, and a cycloidal reluctance machine. A machine rotor provides output torque, and is surrounded and separated from the stator by an airgap. The rotor includes permanent magnets providing a fixed-orientation rotor field. The stator includes windings proximate the permanent magnets and electrically connected to the inverter to form stator electromagnets. The rotor field augments the stator field to boost output torque. The rotor is eccentrically positioned with respect to the stator to move with two degrees of freedom (2DOF), including rotating motion and orbiting motion about a center axis of the stator. A rotor constraint mechanism constrains motion of the rotor, such that the rotor is able to generate and transmit the output torque to a coupled load in at least one of the 2DOF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Derek F. Lahr
  • Distributed transaction management in a network service layer
    Patent number: 10812571
    Abstract: Distributed Service Layer Transactions (DSLTs) may be supported by a DSLT service at a service layer of a communications network to offload applications from the burden of managing the processing of DSLTs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Dale N. Seed, Zhuo Chen, Shoshana Loeb, Quang Ly, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, William Robert Flynn, IV, Rocco Di Girolamo
  • Method and apparatus for utilizing NFC to establish a secure connection
    Patent number: 10812592
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to approve an application vehicular-system-access request based on a temporary key and device ID transmitted with the access request matching a stored temporary key and device ID pair previously stored by the processor. This can assist in ensuring that only validated devices and/or applications are requesting access to a vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Makke, Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin
  • Swivel seat system
    Patent number: 10807504
    Abstract: A seating system comprises a plurality of seating assemblies having first and second-row seating assemblies. Each seating assembly includes a cradle pivotally coupled to a seat base and to a seatback. The seat base is movable between first and second positions. The seating assembly includes a base having first and second supports and a swivel plate assembly including first and second frames. The first frame is coupled to the cradle, and the second frame is coupled to the base. The swivel plate assembly includes first and second swivel plates, the first swivel plate coupled to the first frame and the second swivel plate coupled to the second frame. The first swivel plate is configured to allow the cradle to rotate between first and second positions relative to the base. The seating system includes a track assembly. The first and second supports of the base are slidably coupled to the track assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Spencer Robert Hoernke, Daniel Ferretti, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Jerry R. Brown, Joseph Michael Kish, Macit Aktas
  • Vehicle having roof bow
    Patent number: 10807540
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a roof and a roof bow. The roof bow is removably coupled to the roof of the vehicle body and includes a cross member and end brackets pivotably attached to opposing ends of the cross member. The end brackets are pivotable between a deployed position in which the end brackets extend outwardly from the cross member and a stowed position in which the end brackets are positioned substantially between opposing ends of the cross member. A length of the roof bow is greater when the end brackets are in the deployed position then when the end brackets are in the stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Dorinel Neag, Carl Mather
  • Systems and methods of controlling an autonomous vehicle using an enhanced trajectory following configuration
    Patent number: 10809719
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data representing a first trajectory including one or more states corresponding to a motion path. The method includes determining a second trajectory based at least in part on the first trajectory, the second trajectory including a first state corresponding to the motion path, and one or more secondary states corresponding to the motion path, the one or more secondary states indicating a state of the autonomous vehicle relative to the first state. The method includes determining one or more control signals based at least in part on the second trajectory. The method includes controlling a motion of the autonomous vehicle according to the motion path, based at least in part on the one or more control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Guillaume Binet, Diana Yanakiev, Dillon Collins, David McAllister Bradley, Frederic Tschanz
  • Simplified feature management
    Patent number: 10809868
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a view state for a user interface element are described. A first value for a feature key associated with the user interface element is determined in accordance with feature level criteria and a current context. The first value denotes a first view state for the user interface element. A second value for a second view state for the user interface element is determined in accordance with user interface element level criteria and the current context. A final view state for the user interface element is determined in accordance with the first view state and the second view state. The user interface element is rendered in a user interface in accordance with the final view state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Scott E. Joyce, Timothy J. Cox, Norman M. Miles, Donald E. Labaj, Nancy Welch
  • Ferroelectric memory device containing word lines and pass gates and method of forming the same
    Patent number: 10811431
    Abstract: A memory device includes a semiconductor channel extending between a source region and a drain region, a plurality of pass gate electrodes, a plurality of word lines, a gate dielectric located between the semiconductor channel and the plurality of pass gate electrodes, and ferroelectric material portions located between the semiconductor channel and the plurality of word lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Raghuveer S. Makala, Yanli Zhang
  • Providing dermatology-specific training to primary care providers
    Patent number: 10810906
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing dermatology-specific training to primary care providers. Primary care providers may register on the system and request access to various dermatology training materials. The primary care provider may be provided with the requested dermatology training materials when the primary care provider has a valid account. Payment may be required before a primary care provider can access the dermatology training materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: DERMATOLOGY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS, LLC
    Inventor: David E. Kent
  • Crank handle drive device
    Patent number: 10809756
    Abstract: Various implementations include a handle attachment device. The device includes a body and a drive shaft. The body has a first portion and a second portion. Each of the first portion and second portion defines at least one fastener opening. Each of the at least one fastener opening defined by the first portion is alignable with one of the at least one fastener opening defined by the second portion. The first portion and the second portion are clampable on a crank when the device is in a mounted position. The crank has a crank rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: EZ Jack LLC
    Inventors: Joe R. Palermo, Jr., Trevor W. Richard
  • Inter-plane prediction
    Patent number: 10812802
    Abstract: A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Winken, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations
    Patent number: 10810607
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes collecting demographic information from a user, transmitting the demographic information to a central facility, generating a panelist identifier identifying the user, and hosting a web server to serve the panelist identifier to media that is instrumented with monitoring instructions executing on the media device, the monitoring instructions, when executed, to collect monitoring information and transmit the monitoring information along with the panelist identifier to the central facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert Peter Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Wedge-style line clamp
    Patent number: 10807842
    Abstract: A device and method for retaining a line on a drum is disclosed. The drum has a slot which extends from a point along the periphery and into the drum in a first direction and at an acute angle relative to a tangent at the point. A clamp is provided with a slot portion and a line retaining portion. The slot portion is engaged with the slot such that relative movement between the clamp and the drum causes the slot portion to move in the first direction. As tension is applied to the line, a first force is created on the slot member in the first direction, resulting in a second force being applied by the line retaining portion in the first direction, clamping the portion of the line against the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Daniel Madsen, Nathan Davis
  • Reduced volume electrochlorination cells and methods of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 10808327
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a cathode and an anode disposed in a housing. Each of the cathode and anode portions extending radially outward from a region proximate a central axis of the housing. A surface area of an active surface of the anode is greater than a surface area of an internal surface of the housing. A surface area of an active surface of the cathode is greater than a surface area of an internal surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joshua W. Griffis, Li-Shiang Liang, Paul Beddoes, Andrew Green, Simon P. Dukes, Jacob Telepciak