Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Biometric authentication of individuals utilizing characteristics of bone and blood vessel structures
    Patent number: 10547611
    Abstract: Biometric authentication of a subject utilizing bone and/or blood vessel (vein or artery) structures is provided. A vertice profile is generated from a non-invasive, multi-dimensional image scan of a subject or a portion thereof. The vertice profile is generated by identifying relative locations of divots and peaks on a surface of a bone structure or by identifying branch intersections and traversals of blood vessels. Additional verification techniques can be used for proof of life (verification of human subject). If authenticated, access to physical or digital/virtual assets is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: YouaretheID, LLC
    Inventor: Robert M. Adams, Jr.
  • Microphone package for fully encapsulated ASIC and wires
    Patent number: 10547955
    Abstract: A microphone device includes a housing including a substrate having a first surface and a cover disposed over the substrate, the housing including a sound port between the interior of the housing and the exterior of the housing. The device also includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducer mounted on the substrate and an integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the substrate. The MEMS transducer of the device is electrically connected to the IC, and the IC of the device is electrically connected to a conductor on the substrate. An encapsulating material covers the IC. And an encapsulating material confinement structure is disposed between the MEMS transducer and the IC, wherein the encapsulating material confinement structure at least partially confines the encapsulating material around the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Tony K. Lim, John Szczech, Joshua Watson
  • Liquid capture valve
    Patent number: 10544872
    Abstract: A liquid capture valve may have a housing that physically contacts a lid and contains a floating member. The lid can have an inlet and an outlet with the outlet positioned at an apex of a sealing surface. The floating member can be configured to seal the outlet by contacting an outlet edge in response to the housing containing a predetermined volume of liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: IBALL INSTRUMENTS LLC
    Inventor: Carl Bright
  • Systems and methods for implementing auctions associated with live events
    Patent number: 10546345
    Abstract: A mobile auction and engagement system, and method of use, for conducting auctions, advertising activities, promotions, and other engagement activities during various live events. Access to the mobile auction and engagement system can be limited to users within a geographic region, such as a sport stadium. The system includes a user tool that enables a user within the permissible geographic area to bid on auction items and participate in engagement activities, such as trivia contests. The system further includes an administrative tool that allows the system to be customized for various customers, allows input about auction items and rules, and determines how advertisements are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SCOREMORE LLC
    Inventor: Pamela J. Furey
  • Method and system for near real-time IP user mapping
    Patent number: 10547587
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for near real-time IP user mapping. Such methods may include obtaining IP address assignment data points from different sources including an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server of a private network, a service provider that provides a computer-based service within the private network, and user devices that have access to the private network. The methods may also include applying an IP mapping rule to the obtained IP address assignment data points to generate IP address mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: DiDi Research America, LLC
    Inventors: Dong Li, Deyu Hu, Jing Chen
  • Firearm delay mechanism
    Patent number: 10545005
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a firearm comprises a lower receiver, a bolt carrier and a weight. The lower receiver is arranged to support a hammer and an auto-sear. The bolt carrier comprises a body and a striker moveable with respect to the body between a first position and a second position. The body defines a first cavity adjacent the striker. A weight is positioned in the first cavity and arranged to move the striker to the second position, wherein the striker is arranged to operate the auto-sear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: In Ovation LLC
    Inventor: Terrence Dwight Bender
  • Layered content delivery for virtual and augmented reality experiences
    Patent number: 10546424
    Abstract: A virtual reality or augmented reality experience of a scene may be presented to a viewer using layered data retrieval and/or processing. A first layer of a video stream may be retrieved, and a first viewer position and/or orientation may be received. The first layer may be processed to generate first viewpoint video of the scene from a first virtual viewpoint corresponding to the first viewer position and/or orientation. The first viewpoint video may be displayed for the viewer. Then, a second layer of the video stream may be retrieved, and a second viewer position and/or orientation may be received. The second layer may be processed to generate second viewpoint video of the scene from a second virtual viewpoint corresponding to the second viewer position and/or orientation, with higher quality than the first viewpoint video. The second viewpoint video may be displayed for the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Derek Pang, Colvin Pitts, Kurt Akeley
  • Dose estimation service system configured to support multiple computerized medical imaging scan providers
    Patent number: 10546376
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for estimating patient radiation exposure during computerized tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide efficient approaches for generating a suitable patient model used to make such an estimate, to approaches for estimating patient dose by interpolating the results of multiple simulations, and to approaches for a service provider to host a dose estimation service made available to multiple CT scan providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Couch, James Couch
  • Identifying shortest paths
    Patent number: 10547536
    Abstract: Examples relate to identifying shortest paths. In one example, a computing device may: access an edge table that specifies, for each edge of a graph, an edge source, an edge destination, and an edge distance value; access a current path table that specifies paths between nodes of the graph and, for each path, a source node, a destination node, a distance, and a node path; identify each path included in the current path table as a shortest known path; and for each path having a destination node that matches an edge source node, add a new path to the current path table, the new path specifying: the source node as a new source; the edge destination as a new destination; a sum of the edge value and the path distance as a new distance; and the edge destination appended to the node path as a new node path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Qiming Chen, Rui Liu, Meichun Hsu
  • Frequency independent isolation of duplexed ports in distributed antenna systems (DASS), and related devices and methods
    Patent number: 10547400
    Abstract: Frequency independent isolation of duplexed ports in distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. Instead of providing a duplexer in a DAS that provides frequency dependent separation between downlink and uplink communications signals, an isolation circuit is provided. The isolation circuit is coupled to a duplexed port that provides downlink communications signals to the DAS and receives uplink communications signals from the DAS. To isolate uplink communications signals from the downlink communications path, the isolation circuit includes a directional coupler. The directional coupler provides frequency independent isolation between uplink communications signals and a downlink communications path in the DAS. Further, to isolate downlink communications signals from the uplink communications path, the isolation circuit includes at least one circulator isolator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Yury Abramov, Motti Vahedy
  • Public-private computing system
    Patent number: 10547645
    Abstract: A public-private computing system includes: a public computing portion accessible to a computing device associated with a user, the public computing portion including a Platform-as-a-Service portion, the Platform-as-a-Service portion including a cloud computing platform; a private computing portion; and an Application Program Interface (API) gateway configured to couple the public computing portion and the private computing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Muzhar Khokhar, Shyam Reddy, Vamshi Challa, Bhaswati Neog
  • Self-driving building energy engine
    Patent number: 10545525
    Abstract: Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MelRok, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Roger Kamel, Paul W. Donahue
  • Shade and wavelength converter for solid state luminaires
    Patent number: 10544917
    Abstract: Shades and/or reflectors for luminaires. The luminaires may be retrofitted with the shades and/or reflectors to selectively control the direction and/or spectrum of light emitted by the luminaires. In particular, the efficiency and/or color contrast of a luminaire may be improved by using wavelength shifting material, such as a phosphor, to absorb less desired wavelengths and transmit more desired wavelengths. The shade may provide a transmissive filter which reflects desired wavelengths such as red and green, while passing less desired wavelengths (e.g., blue) toward the wavelength shifting material which emits such as light of more desirable wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: EXPRESS IMAGING SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: John O. Renn, Clare Joyce Robinson, William G. Reed
  • Patent mapping
    Patent number: 10546273
    Abstract: System and method permit patent mapping. A method may comprise maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents with each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios. A search query may be received associated with a first patent portfolio and the first portfolio may be searched as a function of the search query. Search results may be generate which include one or more patent claims associated with the search query. The one or more patent claims may be mapped to a patent concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Steven W. Lundberg, Thomas G. Marlow
  • Systems, methods and computer program products for reducing the risk of persons housed within a facility being sexual predators or victims
    Patent number: 10546657
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for reducing the risk of sexual assault in a facility. Objective, clinical, and subjective information is obtained about a person housed within the facility. The obtained information is converted into respective groups of variables and weighted coefficients are assigned to selected ones of the variables. The respective groups of variables are processed via an algorithm to derive a risk number for the person. The risk number represents a risk of the person being vulnerable to rape within the facility or a risk of the person being a sexual predator within the facility. One or more other persons within the facility are identified that may be a potential sexual victim of the person and/or that may be a potential sexual abuser of the person based upon the risk number and respective risk numbers of each of the one or more other persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CENTINAL GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Gary G. Leonhardt, Mark R. Cervi, Peter Romary
  • Optical analog numeric computation device
    Patent number: 10545529
    Abstract: An optical numerical computation device relates light from a plurality of light sources to calculate an arithmetic solution. The optical numerical computation device includes input circuitry, pre-calculation circuitry, calculation circuitry, a light collection cavity, and a plurality of light computation components. The pre-calculation circuitry and calculation circuitry cause light sources to emit light representing the values of input operands, which is subsequently related within the light collection cavity. Sensors then generate resultant outputs at values indicative of the sensed light value. The respective wavelength of light emitted from or sensed by each light computation component may be associated with an operand arithmetic sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OPē, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum
  • Arms padded men's shirt
    Patent number: D873537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Rounderbum, LLC.
    Inventor: Jamil Nacif Benavides
  • Front bumper cover
    Patent number: D873732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Michael C. Gillam, Deyan Ninov, Joseph S Dehner
  • Vehicle front lower bumper
    Patent number: D873733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Timothy P. Kozub
  • Storage device
    Patent number: D873819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Douglas Harsacky