Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12133486
    Abstract: Methods of propagating Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) are described that do not require the addition of, or presence of, any detectable live host plant material or live plant root material. The method comprises addition of water and optionally exposure to sunlight. It was surprisingly found that soil devoid of any detectable live host plant material, including host plant roots, is capable of supporting AMF reproduction, though it is widely believed that AMF are obligate symbionts requiring live plant roots for colonization to reproduce. Described methods optionally include active removal of living host plant material from the soil prior to AMF inoculation. Optionally, phosphorous compounds are added to the soil prior to inoculation. It was found that addition of phosphorous compounds, such as phosphite, to the soil enhances the growth of AMF spores by as much as three-fold over controls having no added phosphorous compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Terra Microbes, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Earl Williams
  • Patent number: 12135180
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and apparatuses related to a firearm suppressor are provided. An example suppressor for a firearm may define a distal end and a proximal end. The suppressor may include an inner body and an external shroud. The inner body may include a muzzle attachment portion defined at or proximate the proximal end of the suppressor and a plurality of baffles each defining an opening. An expansion chamber may be defined between the muzzle attachment portion and one of the plurality of baffles. The external shroud may be configured to at least partially cover the inner body. The external shroud may be configured to permit at least a portion of propellent gas within the inner body to exit the suppressor via a secondary opening disposed at a location between one of the plurality of baffles and the proximal end of the suppressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: WHG PROPERTIES, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Eric Robinson, William H. Geissele
  • Patent number: 12134510
    Abstract: An insulating device can include a body assembly and a lid assembly where an insulating layer is connected to both the body assembly and the lid assembly. An aperture with a closure is formed between the body assembly and lid assembly to form a storage compartment. An insulating tab may be formed from a portion of the insulating layer and an inner liner of the body assembly to help insulate the closure region. In addition, a first magnetic element may be secured within the insulating tab that may engage a second magnetic element secured within the lid assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Edward Rogers, Jeffrey Charles Munie, John Loudenslager
  • Patent number: 12136104
    Abstract: A method including training a logistic regression model to create a trained model to provide probabilities of users clicking on emails of one or more email campaigns within each of multiple different time periods. Input predictor variables of the logistic regression model include (i) user feature data including personal user features and online activity history for users in the multiple different time periods and (ii) email feature data including sent times and item category data for multiple different emails in the one or more email campaigns. Output dependent variables of the logistic regression model include responses by the users to the one or more email campaigns. The method also includes triggering sending a first email of the one or more email campaigns to a first user of the users at a selected time period based at least in part on the trained model. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Achan, Sushant Kumar, Kaushiki Nag, Venkata Syam Prakash Rapaka
  • Patent number: 12136767
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna assembly, which comprises: a feeder panel; an array of radiating elements mounted on the feeder panel; an array of parasitic elements mounted on the feeder panel, in which, at least a portion of the radiating elements in the array of radiating elements are surrounded by a plurality of spaced-apart parasitic elements, respectively, and at least a portion of the parasitic elements in the array of parasitic elements each comprise a first parasitic subcomponent extending in a first direction and a second parasitic subcomponent extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a base station antenna comprising the antenna assembly. This is capable of effectively improving the cross-polarization performance of the base station antenna and improving the radiation boundary of the base station antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Xue, Bo Wu, Jian Zhang, Bin Sun, Chuande Zheng
  • Patent number: 12135852
    Abstract: A method for execution by a touch screen computing device includes obtaining a touch signal associated with a row electrode of a touch screen display that is operable to render frames of data into visible images, where the touch screen display includes rows of electrodes oriented with columns of electrodes. The method further includes spatial filtering the touch signal in a first direction of the row electrode with respect to columns of the electrodes that form intersections with the row electrode to produce first direction touch signal data. The method further includes spatial filtering the touch signal in a second direction of the row electrode with respect to the intersections to produce second direction touch signal data. The method further includes combining the first and second direction touch signal data to produce a filtered touch signal. The method further includes processing the filtered touch signal to determine touch data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Tyler Scott Harris, John Christopher Price, Grant Howard McGibney, Timothy W. Markison, Timothy D. Taylor
  • Patent number: 12133870
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions comprising fibroblasts and/or products derived thereof for the inhibition and/or treatment of addiction of any kind, such as opioid addiction. In some embodiments, methods comprise treating a patient addicted to opioids by administering a fibroblast population at a concentration sufficient for suppression of addiction-associated brain damage. In some embodiments, the fibroblasts express CD31 and/or CD73 markers. In some embodiments, fibroblasts are used to endow neuronal regeneration in order to overcome changes in the brain associated with addiction. Some embodiments relate to the stimulation of hippocampal regeneration subsequent to addiction induced damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SPINALCYTE LLC
    Inventors: Pete O'Heeron, Thomas Ichim
  • Patent number: 12136689
    Abstract: A lens for distribution of light predominantly toward a preferential side from a light emitter having an emitter axis. The lens has a faceted output region, a smooth output surface and at least one reflective surface which reflects light through total-internal-reflection (TIR) toward the faceted output region. The faceted output region is formed by pairs of transverse surfaces each surface of which redirects the received light to provide a composite illuminance pattern. The lens may further have faceted input surfaces at least partially defining a light-input cavity about the emitter axis. The faceted input region are formed by pairs of transverse surfaces each surface of which redirects the received light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CREE LIGHTING USA LLC
    Inventors: Eric Tarsa, Kurt Wilcox, Bin Hou, Ted Lowes
  • Patent number: 12136405
    Abstract: A spinner assembly for an instrument having valves and/or slides. A clamp sub-assembly attaches to the instrument while a hand strap sub-assembly encircles a player's conjoined hand. A bearing rotatably connects the clamp sub-assembly to the hand strap sub-assembly about a drive axis (D) that is offset from the natural balance axis of the instrument (X). The clamp sub-assembly includes a mounting plate fashioned with three side-by-side cradles that nest against the horn valves. A lashing holds the cradles in position. The hand strap sub-assembly includes a generally rigid palm plate that fits in the player's palm. The palm plate has a hypothenar end, a web end and a distal edge. The distal edge has a ring finger relief adjacent the hypothenar end. A driver boss is affixed to the backside of the palm plate adjacent the web end. A flexible belt secures the player's hand to the palm plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Voda, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Robert Ceccolini, Gary Ceccolini
  • Patent number: 12133836
    Abstract: Described herein, inter alia, are compositions, formulations, methods, and systems for reducing regional fat deposits and treating fat-related conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: 10XBIO, LLC
    Inventor: John Daniel Dobak, III
  • Patent number: 12134715
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a two-component solvent-less adhesive composition. The two-component solvent-less adhesive composition contains the reaction product of (A) an isocyanate component; and (B) a polyol component containing (i) a polyester-polycarbonate polyol and (ii) a phosphate-terminated polyol. The present disclosure also provides a method of forming the two-component solvent-less adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Tuoqi Li, Joseph J. Zupancic, Matthew M. Yonkey, Paul G. Clark, Thorsten Schmidt, Wenwen Li
  • Patent number: 12133497
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV521661. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV521661, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV521661 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV521661 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV521661.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Khusi R. Tiwari
  • Patent number: 12134376
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for electrical power conservation during braking for autonomous or assisted driving vehicles, such as when electrical currents are continuously supplied to the brake system when the vehicle is temporarily halted at a slope. Braking hysteresis is the relationship between the input (e.g., operating pressure, caused by an electrical motor to increase the fluid pressures in the brake system) and the output (e.g., braking pressure applied by the brake pads on the rotors), in which the change of the output is different during the increase of the input and during the decrease of the input. The present disclosure provides techniques for conserving electrical power consumption by using the brake hysteresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Baoping Yuan, Yaoming Shen
  • Patent number: 12135167
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a grain drying apparatus may include a drum with a grain auger including a flighting with air holes. The drum may be surrounded by an outer drum, the inner drum including a plurality of drum air holes. A volume of dehydrated air may pass around a helical air diverter, located in an annulus between the inner drum and the outer drum, and through the grain, thereby drying the grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DRYAIR LLC
    Inventors: David Hulbert, Devon John McDonald
  • Patent number: 12135177
    Abstract: A tube transition fitting is formed having a first end, a second end, a head, a body, a weld area, and a first wall thickness and second wall thickness. A tube seat is formed on a surface connected to the body, the surface being adjacent a transition from the first wall thickness to the second wall thickness. A tube transition assembly includes a header portion, the tube transition fitting, and a heat exchange tube, each being connected using one or more simplified and/or heat-optimized connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Viking Vessel Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Marshall R. Hicks, II, John Null
  • Patent number: 12135755
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indexing actions for resources. In an aspect, a method receiving, for each resource a plurality of resources that are each accessible by a user device, action data describing actions supported by each resource, each action being an action that can be performed by the user device processing the resource; for each resource: determining, from the action data, an action type for each action supported by the resource, determining, from the action data, action parameters for each action supported by the resource, and indexing the action data, action types and action parameters for the resource in an index that is searchable by a search engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Jason B. Douglas, Samuel Shoji Fukujima Goto
  • Patent number: 12133583
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for a luggage wheel assembly are disclosed and described. An example luggage wheel assembly includes: a first portion formed to affix to luggage; a cylindrical member to movably position a wheel with respect to the first portion; and a second portion formed to secure the wheel with respect to the first portion, the second portion attached to the first portion by the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: JJEM, LLC—IP
    Inventors: Ethan Fisher, Patrick Harris, Vern Thomas Hammett, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12135199
    Abstract: A breaching device includes a body having a tamping material. The body has a target surface that is configured to face a target to be breached and a backing surface that is opposite the target surface. The tamping material is formed of gel and is configured to reflect an explosive force directed way from the target surface towards the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Esoteric, LLC
    Inventor: Yousef Sansour
  • Patent number: 12134882
    Abstract: A wear assembly for earth working equipment includes a base, a wear member and a lock. The lock includes a retainer and a lock body. The retainer is seated in a recess in the base. A key of the retainer is received in the keyway of the wear member as the cavity receives the base. A lock body passes through aligned openings of the base, retainer and wear member to engage the retainer and secure the wear member to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: ESCO GROUP LLC
    Inventor: Christopher D. Snyder
  • Patent number: 12136861
    Abstract: A motor stator for a motor is disclosed. The motor stator includes a stator body and a plurality of windings. The stator body includes a weld end, a crown end, and a plurality of slots arranged circumferentially and extending axially therethrough between the weld end and the crown end. Each winding including a phase lead, a neutral lead, and a plurality of coils. The plurality of coils include a same-layer lead coil including two legs that spans across multiple slots of the plurality of slots and that are inserted into respective slots at a same layer thereof. The same-layer lead coil positions the phase lead at the weld end. The neutral lead and welds joining the plurality of coils are all positioned at the weld end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Dang Dinh Dang, Logan Noel Balliett