Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10542700
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH883654. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH883654, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH883654 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH883654.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Bhatnagar, Gregory J. Holland, Duane A. Potrzeba, Gary R. Stangland
  • Patent number: 10546523
    Abstract: Display systems with a single plate optical waveguide and independently adjustable micro display arrays and related methods are provided. A method includes coupling: a first light portion received from the first micro display array to a first input grating region of the optical waveguide, a second light portion received from the second micro display array to a second input grating region of the optical waveguide, and a third light portion received from the third micro display array to a third input grating region of the optical waveguide. The method further includes directing: a first diffracted portion of the first light portion to a first expansion grating, a second diffracted portion of the second light portion to a second expansion grating, and a third diffracted portion of the third light portion to a third expansion grating. The method further includes using a single output grating outputting combined light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 10548139
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for the display of a multi-screen virtual billboard. The virtual billboard utilizes individual mobile devices as portions of a display screen (e.g., as individual pixels or groups of pixels). Each mobile device is configured to display a portion of the virtual billboard corresponding to a location of the mobile device. The mobile devices forming the virtual billboard are triggered in order to display a graphic or other visual information in synchronization with the other mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CSC Holdings LLC
    Inventors: James Dolan, Wilton J. Hildenbrand, Patrick J. Donoghue
  • Patent number: 10546495
    Abstract: A system and method for offering customer priority parking reservations. Motor vehicle parking spaces are provided through a server. The server respectively interfaces with smart parking devices, vehicle occupancy sensors, and parking availability indicators that are each associated with the parking spaces. The parking spaces are reserved by accepting a request for a customer priority parking reservation from a merchant for a reservation period. Use of the parking space is managed through the server by activating the parking availability indicators associated with the reserved parking spaces, sensing occupancy of the parking spaces by a motor vehicle through the vehicle occupancy sensor, and retrieving and providing an identity of the driver of the motor vehicle through the nearest smart parking device to the server. The use of the parking space is validated from the merchant through the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Jeffrey Stefik, Alan G. Bell, Craig Eldershaw, Lance E. Good, Daniel H. Greene, Francisco Eduardo Torres, Serdar Uckun, David Preston Cummins
  • Patent number: 10543000
    Abstract: A reciprocating surgical saw blade includes a distal portion, a proximal portion, and a main body extending between the distal portion and the proximal portion. The main body includes an upper surface and a lower surface, and a first outer edge extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the main body, and a second outer a second outer edge extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the main body. A biocompatible polymer is provided along at least one of the upper surface, the lower surface, the first outer edge, or the second outer edge of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: AOD HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Ferro
  • Patent number: 10546382
    Abstract: Continuing a sequence of lensless light-field imaging camera patents beginning 1999, the present invention adds light-use efficiency, predictive-model design, distance-parameterized interpolation, computational efficiency, arbitrary shaped surface-of-focus, angular diversity/redundancy, distributed image sensing, plasmon surface propagation, and other fundamentally enabling features. Embodiments can be fabricated entirely by printing, transparent/semi-transparent, layered, of arbitrary size/curvature, flexible/bendable, emit light, focus and self-illuminate at zero-separation distance between (planar or curved) sensing and observed surfaces, robust against damage/occultation, implement color sensing without use of filters or diffraction, overlay on provided surfaces, provided color and enhanced multi-wavelength color sensing, wavelength-selective imaging of near-infrared/near-ultraviolet, and comprise many other fundamentally enabling features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: NRI R&D Patent Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 10547046
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method includes forming a nickel oxide/hydroxide active film onto a substrate from a solution including a nickelous salt and an electrolyte, where the nickel oxide/hydroxide active film has a physical characteristic of maintaining greater than about 80% charge over greater than 500 charge/discharge cycles, and wherein the nickel oxide/hydroxide active film has a physical characteristic of storing electrons at greater than about 0.5 electron per nickel atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Merrill, Michael Stadermann
  • Patent number: 10546798
    Abstract: A power semiconductor package includes a first direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate having a plurality of connection traces on a first face of the first DBC substrate. A plurality of die are coupled to the connection traces, each die coupled to one of the connection traces at a first face of the die. A second DBC substrate includes connection traces on a first face of the second DBC substrate. A second face of each die is coupled to one of the connection traces of the first face of the second DBC substrate. A cavity between the first face of the first DBC substrate and the first face of the second DBC substrate is filled with an encapsulating compound. Terminal pins may be coupled to connection traces on the first face of the first DBC substrate. More than two DBC substrates may be stacked to form a stacked power semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Nino Tolentino, Vernal Raja Manikam, Azhar Aripin
  • Patent number: 10546233
    Abstract: Described is a system for explaining how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge. A semantic model is developed, and a behavioral exam is performed to assess a calibration subject into a cohort and reveal semantic relationships to modify a personalized semantic space developed by the semantic model. Semantic features are extracted from the personalized semantic space. Neural features are extracted from neuroimaging of the human subject. A neuroceptual lattice is created having nodes representing attributes by aligning the semantic features and the neural features. Structures in the neuroceptual lattice are identified to quantify an extent to which the set of neural features represents a target concept. The identified structures are used to interpret conceptual knowledge in the brain of a test subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Rajan Bhattacharyya, James Benvenuto, Matthew E. Phillips, Matthias Ziegler, Michael D. Howard, Suhas E. Chelian, Rashmi N. Sundareswara, Vincent De Sapio, David L. Allen
  • Patent number: 10547534
    Abstract: Apparatus to predict end of streaming media using a prediction model are disclosed herein. Examples disclosed herein comprise a predictor to determine a bandwidth rate associated with presentation of streaming media based on monitored traffic between a user device and the streaming media, a modeler to generate a prediction model based on characteristics of the bandwidth rate, and a forecaster to determine that a time when an output of the prediction model is below a minimum bandwidth threshold is a session end time for a streaming media session, the session end time corresponding to when the user device stops receiving the streaming media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 10545855
    Abstract: Tools and techniques are described to detect possible holes in automated testing of software under development. Full line coverage by tests does not necessarily indicate actual coverage of execution scenarios, e.g., condition coverage, decision coverage, and other kinds of execution scenario coverage may be lacking even when all source code statements are nominally covered. When source code changes are submitted, and corresponding test-sets remain unchanged, users are notified that adequate testing is not assured by the current test-set. Testing assurance code in a development tool chain may flag a pull request, test-set, or source code submission to indicate a lack of testing assurance. In some cases, an assurance-enhanced tool may require that new or different tests be provided with updated source code as a prerequisite for that source code to be accepted for inclusion in a repository or a build, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Manish Kumar Jayaswal
  • Patent number: 10546412
    Abstract: Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer system include a graphical processing unit (GPU) with a flexible, dynamic, application-directed mechanism for varying the rate at which fragment shading is performed for rendering an image to a display. In particular, the described aspects allow different shading rates to be used for different regions of a primitive based on a new, interpolated shading rate parameter. In other words, the described aspects enable the GPU to change shading rates on-the-fly between different fragments of each primitive. Additionally, or independently, the GPU utilizes each respective shading rate parameter to determine how many sample positions to consider to be covered by the computed shaded output, e.g., the fragment color, thereby allowing the color sample to be shared across two or more pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Grossman, Jason Matthew Gould, Alexander Nankervis, Charles Neill Boyd
  • Patent number: 10546462
    Abstract: A pseudo anonymous account interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including a point of sale device constructed to: communicate request data for RC code; receive requested RC code data; automatically print RC code; receive redemption code data; automatically communicate redemption code verification request and redemption code data; receive fund data; the interactive processing device constructed to: communicate RC code and RC verification request data; communicate application telemetry data; receive and communicate redemption code data; the process controller constructed to: receive application telemetry data; determine to trigger a wager request; automatically generate and communicate wager request data; receive wager outcome data; automatically communicate win data; the fund management controller constructed to: receive request data; communicate, receive, and verify RC code data; communicate fund data; receive win data; automatically communicate fund data; generate, communicate, receive, and verify redemp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Dwight Kim, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10546308
    Abstract: The disclosure includes use of a feature-aware propagation model to identify one or more features of a product and one or more person(s), or members of a social network, to target, or user, for marketing the product having the identified features. The one or more person(s) identified using the model may be the person(s), or member(s), of a social network determined to have a maximum capability, relative to other members of the social network, for influencing the members of the social network in adopting, e.g., purchasing, a product having the identified features. In addition, parameters of the model may be determined using information about the social network, user preferences, and the products and features of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicola Barbieri, Francesco Bonchi
  • Patent number: 10546341
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for managing operations, for instance making orders and fulfilling orders, using one or more computing devices. In accordance with an example embodiment, an operations management system can include a self-order system, a self-payment system, and an order-fulfillment system. The self-order system, the self-payment system, and the order-fulfillment system can communicate with each other via a communication system that connects the systems, such as a wireless network for example. Using the operation management system, orders can be placed and fulfilled efficiently and with minimal personal interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Flo Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Blatstein, Albert C. Lee, Michael Palamara, John Saya, Neville Kadwa, Nicholas Haurus, Matthew Quirk
  • Patent number: 10544379
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for creating a fire in normal and adverse conditions using fire starting tinder housed in lightweight containers and multipurpose cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Live Fire Gear, LLC
    Inventors: Roger J. Fandrich, Dayna Fandrich, Adam B. Francis
  • Patent number: 10544912
    Abstract: A loadable cassette holds a planar light source, such as a flat OLED panel, along with a companion driver board in a manner that allows both the light source and driver board to be operatively and replaceably connected to a luminaire or lighting system. The cassette maintains an air gap between the light source and driver board so as to prevent heat produced by the driver board from damaging the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding, LLC
    Inventors: Min-Hao Michael Lu, Jonathon Wickus
  • Patent number: 10546518
    Abstract: A near-eye display system includes a display panel to display a near-eye lightfield frame comprising an array of elemental images and an eye tracking component to track a pose of a user's eye. The system further includes a rendering component to position the array of elemental images within the near-eye lightfield frame based on the pose of the user's eye. A method of operation of the near-eye display system includes determining, using the eye tracking component, a first pose of the user's eye and determining a shift vector for an array of elemental images forming a near-eye lightfield frame based on the first pose of the user's eye. The method further includes rendering the array of elemental images at a position within the near-eye lightfield frame that is based on the shift vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: John D. Perreault, Patrick Llull
  • Patent number: 10546364
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing foveated rendering are provided. An example system and method may warp a 3D scene based on a fixation point. The system and method may also render the warped 3D scene to generate a first image. The system and method may also unwarp the first image to generate a second image. For example, the first image may have fewer pixels than the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Behnam Bastani, Brian Funt, Sylvain Vignaud, Haomiao Jiang
  • Patent number: 10546983
    Abstract: A lighting device includes (1) one or more solid-state lighting (SSL) devices, (2) a thick, for example prism- or cylinder- or spherical- or dome-shaped scattering element, and (3) an optical extractor with a convex output surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Roland H. Haitz, Ferdinand Schinagl