Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Fertilizers containing animal nutrient core packet
    Patent number: 10550043
    Abstract: A fertilizer supplying animal nutrients including a core particle having an outer surface and comprising compounds containing animal nutrients, and a coating of urea on the outer surface of the core particle, and further a process of making the fertilizer including the steps of: screening animal nutrient core particles comprising a powdered substance containing an animal nutrient, to a preselected particle size; spraying melted urea onto the surface of the nutrient core particles to produce a coating on the nutrient core particles; granulating the nutrient core particles with sprayed melted urea to produce nutrient core granules; and cooling the nutrient core granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: PURSELL AGRI-TECH, LLC
    Inventors: Taylor Pursell, Arthur R. Shirley, Jr., Keith D. Cochran, Joseph M. Miller, Timothy G. Holt, Gregory S. Peeden
  • JAK inhibitors containing a 4-membered heterocyclic amide
    Patent number: 10550118
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): which contain a 4-membered heterocyclic amide, where the variables are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, that are useful as JAK kinase inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat respiratory diseases, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Theravance Biopharma R&D IP, LLC
    Inventors: Paul R. Fatheree, Gary E. L. Brandt, Cameron Smith, Steven D. E. Sullivan, Lori Jean Van Orden, Melanie A. Kleinschek, Glenn D. Crater
  • Post collision analysis-based vehicle action optimization for autonomous driving vehicles
    Patent number: 10549749
    Abstract: It is determined an ADV is inevitable to collide with at least one of the objects surrounding the ADV based on the relative positions and speeds between the ADV and the objects in view of the physical dimensions of the ADV. An object may be another vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicycle, a static obstacle. For each of the objects, a collision cost between the ADV and the object is calculated using a set of one or more cost functions or cost algorithms. A collision cost represents an amount of potential damage if the collision is to occur. One of the objects is selected whose collision cost is the least amongst the objects. A path or trajectory is planned for the ADV leading or towards to the selected object to minimize the potential damage when the ADV potentially collide with the selected object compared to the remaining objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Zhu, Qi Kong, Hui Jiang
  • Automated dosing system and method with light profiling for wastewater filtration system
    Patent number: 10550019
    Abstract: A surface sensing assembly is in communication with an open channel having a material moveable relative to the open channel. The surface sensing assembly includes a light source directing a light beam toward the material, a photo-detector capturing an image of the light beam interacting with the material, and a controller coupled to the light source, the photo-detector, and at least one actuator. The controller is configured to determine an indication of surface topography of the material based on the image. The controller is also configured to control the at least one actuator to adjust a characteristic of the material based on the indication of surface topography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OptikTechnik LLC
    Inventors: Jose Antonio Ramirez, Johann Rudi Strickler
  • Customer premises network access device for displaying data usage
    Patent number: 10554515
    Abstract: A customer premises network access device includes a housing and a network interface unit at least partially disposed therein, for communicating with a data network and providing access to the data network to a user. The customer premises network access device also includes a processing unit disposed in the housing and connected to the network interface unit. The processing unit is configured to determine an aggregate amount of data associated with the network interface unit over a predetermined time period, and to determine a data value based on the determined aggregate amount of data. An exterior-facing display viewable to the user from outside the housing receives the data value from the processing unit, and displays an indicium based on the display value to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Bright House Networks, LLC
    Inventor: Yixin Jeff Chen
  • Imaging system with ancillary image detector for sample location
    Patent number: 10551608
    Abstract: Imaging systems and methods using an ancillary image detector for sample location. An exemplary system may comprise a light source to irradiate a sample on an irradiation axis, a first image detector on an optical axis oblique to the irradiation axis, and a stage. The system also may comprise a second image detector disposed on an imaging axis, and a drive mechanism configured to move the stage and the imaging axis relative to one another. The system further may comprise a processor configured to (a) receive an image of the sample detected by the first image detector, (b) determine a physical location for a region of contrast produced by the sample within the image, and (c) send a signal to the drive mechanism based on the physical location, to dispose at least part of the sample in a field of view of the second image detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Chan, Avrum Isaac Cohen
  • Programmable integrated measurement while drilling directional controller
    Patent number: 10550682
    Abstract: A programmable integrated measurement while drilling (MWD) system is an integrated, ruggedized, and condensed MWD system configured to enable end-user customizable applications for downhole exploration and drilling. The integrated MWD system integrates a co-processor with a directional controller enabling execution of the end-user customizable applications without interrupting the real-time operations of the directional controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MicroPulse, LLC.
    Inventors: David Erdos, Abraham C. Erdos, Kenneth C. Miller
  • Systems and methods for a split exhaust engine system
    Patent number: 10550773
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, one or more valves of a set of first exhaust valves coupled to the second exhaust manifold may be deactivated in response to select engine operating conditions, while maintaining active all valves of a set of second exhaust valves coupled to the first exhaust manifold. The select engine operating conditions may include one or more of a deceleration fuel shut-off condition, a part throttle condition, and a cold start condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Norman Ulrey, Gregory Patrick McConville, Brad Alan Boyer
  • Verification system
    Patent number: 10552594
    Abstract: A device includes memory and a processor. The device receives biometric information. The device receives location information. The device analyzes the received biometric information with stored biometric information. The device analyzes the received location information with stored location information. The device determines whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information. The device determines whether the received location information matches the stored location information. The device sends an electronic communication that indicates whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information and whether the received local information matches the stored location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: VISITLOCK LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Robert Phillips
  • System and method for configuration and selection of an evolved packet data gateway
    Patent number: 10555252
    Abstract: User equipment receives and stores configuration information for selection of an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG). The ePDG configuration information includes one or more parameters relating to identification and functions of ePDGs in an HPLMN and/or in one or more VPLMNs. When the UE performs ePDG selection, the UE accesses the ePDG configuration information and then selects an ePDG for access to a core packet network using the ePDG configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: PROVENANCE ASSET GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Liu, Alessio Casati, Bruno Landais
  • Message management and conversation processing application
    Patent number: 10554589
    Abstract: Identifying user input data on a mobile user device may provide a way to predict the types of questions and actions a user will take and offer information contemporaneously with such actions. One example method of operation includes identifying a computer hosted conversation with at least one user submitting conversational statements, parsing the conversational statements to identify at least one item of interest, retrieving a source of information corresponding to the item of interest and automatically creating a response statement including the item of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Personalized automated agent
    Patent number: 10554590
    Abstract: Generating an automated agent enabled to engage in a multi-turn discussion with a user in response to a received request. For example, the automated agent is operative to provide a response on behalf of an agent owner. A knowledge database is generated based on the agent owner's context (e.g., email conversations, calendar data, organizational chart, document database). A request for information is received and analyzed for understanding the request and for gauging a level of frustration of the requesting user. An urgency level of the request is determined based at least in part on the level of frustration of the requesting user. A query of the knowledge database is made for determining a response to the request, wherein the determined response is based at least in part on the urgency level of the request. A response is generated and provided to the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Eduardo Cabrera-Cordon, Vesselin Atanassov Diev, Giampaolo Battaglia, Daniel Anvar
  • Method and system for engine cold-start
    Patent number: 10550783
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting engine cranking speed, fueling, and spark initiation to increase fuel vaporization during cold-start conditions. In one example, a method may include, during engine cold-start, cranking the engine at a lower speed relative to a nominal cranking speed while injecting fuel and disabling spark for a number of engine cycles, and after the completion of the number of engine cycle increasing the cranking speed and initiating spark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Alan Coulson, Steven Wooldridge, Gopichandra Surnilla
  • Display system for recreational vehicle trailers
    Patent number: 10549799
    Abstract: A display system for a recreational vehicle connector is provided and includes a retention section, a display section and a plurality of display poles. The retention section includes a retention body, a flange receiving opening extending through the retention body and into a flange receiving section, and a shank receiving passageway positioned above and extending transverse into the flange receiving section. The display section includes a display body connected to the retention system and a plurality of pole receiving passageways extending there though. The plurality of display poles are positioned in the plurality of pole receiving passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Triple S Machining LLC
    Inventor: Chad Stahl
  • Fan orifice dispensing closure
    Patent number: 10549289
    Abstract: A dispensing closure for a squeeze-type container produces a fan-type spray in a low pressure environment. The dispensing closure includes a closure body having an upper deck and a skirt depending from the upper deck. The skirt is configured and arranged to attach to a product container, such as a squeeze-type container. A flow conduit extends from an interior of the closure body and through the upper deck to provide a flow path from an interior of the closure to an exterior of the closure. The flow conduit has an entrance orifice and an exit orifice. The flow conduit and the closure body are integrally formed. The flow conduit includes a tip portion with an exit orifice defining a shape to provide a fan-type spray in a low pressure environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SILGAN DISPENSING SYSTEMS SLATERSVILLE, LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Romanov, Clifford W. Skillin, Patrick J. Brannon
  • Method and apparatus for managing and reusing mobile subscriber identification information to multiple devices
    Patent number: 10555164
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages reuse of mobile subscriber identity information. The use of a same generic mobile subscriber identity information by multiple devices can be based on the mobility and/or device location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Cooling system for a work vehicle
    Patent number: 10550758
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a charge air cooler system that includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage receives charge air via a charge air flow path. The first stage receives coolant fluid via a first coolant fluid flow path. The second stage receives the charge air from the first stage via the charge air flow path, such the second stage of the charge air cooler system outputs the charge air and receives the coolant fluid via a second coolant fluid flow path. The cooling system includes a low temperature radiator system that includes a low-temperature radiator that directs the coolant fluid toward the second coolant fluid flow path and a third coolant fluid flow path. The cooling system includes a high temperature radiator system that directs the coolant fluid toward the first stage via the first coolant fluid flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Samrendra Kumar Singh, Kaushal Ghorpade, Hesam Abbassi, Panos Tamamidis
  • System and method for starting an engine
    Patent number: 10550784
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating an engine with an electrically driven compressor are described. In one example, output of the electrically driven compressor is adjusted to increase a temperature of an engine so that the engine may be started without glow plugs or with glow plugs that have a lower heat capacity output. Additionally, a position of a recirculation valve may be adjusted to increase the temperature of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brien Fulton, Michiel Van Nieuwstadt, Claus Maerschank, Daniel Roettger
  • Detecting positions of a device based on magnetic fields generated by magnetic field generators at different positions of the device
    Patent number: 10551916
    Abstract: A wearable device (such as a glove or other control adapted to be worn on a portion of a body) includes multiple magnetic field generators at various locations on the wearable device and a magnetic flux sensor at a predetermined position relative to the wearable device. A position determines spatial positions of locations of the wearable device based on magnetic fields generated by various magnetic field generators and detected by the magnetic flux sensor. In some embodiments, the magnetic field generators have known positions relative to each other. Additionally, each magnetic field generator may generate a magnetic field in response to an input signal having a particular attribute, allowing the magnetic flux sensor to identify magnetic fields generated by different magnetic field generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ke-Yu Chen, Sean Jason Keller, David R. Perek, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Bruce A. Cleary, III
  • Automated clinical indicator recognition with natural language processing
    Patent number: 10552931
    Abstract: Computer-based, natural language processing systems and methods are provided for review of clinical documentation and other medical records, and for clinical documentation improvement. The systems and methods are configured to review documents in the record using a natural language processor and to identify clinical indicators with associated contextual information. The clinical indicators are compared to scenarios to generate markers based on an information model. The markers used to generate physician queries and other informational requests with supporting evidence for each query based on indicators identified in the record. In additional examples, pragmatic guidelines including business-based rules can also be utilized, either in combination with, or as part of, the scenarios in the information model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OPTUM360, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Sheffer, Mark Morsch, Michelle Wieczorek