Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12099893
    Abstract: A tag assignment system, comprising a processing circuitry and being communicatively connected to a data repository comprising records, each of which (i) being associated with a respective distinct animal of a plurality of animals, and (ii) including a Unique Animal Identifier (UAI) associated with the respective distinct animal; the processing circuitry is configured to: substantially simultaneously: (i) obtain an ID reading of an animal identification tag attached to a given animal of the animals from a first tag reading device, wherein the ID reading including the UAI uniquely identifying the given animal, and (ii) obtain a tag reading of a second tag attached to the given animal from a second tag reading device, the tag reading including tag identification information uniquely identifying the second tag; and cause update of the data repository to assign the tag identification information to a given record of the records associated with the UAI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) LIMITED, ALLFLEX USA LLC
    Inventors: Brandt Kreuscher, Amir Cohen, Guy Fridkovski, Tzvi Shterenberg, Alon Fichman, Arthur Rabinovitz
  • Patent number: 12097784
    Abstract: Fuse configurations for a distributed power architecture of a vehicle is provided. The distributed power architecture includes a high-voltage battery pack having a plurality of batteries and a plurality of converters, each of the plurality of converters being configured to receive high-voltage power from one of the plurality of batteries and to provide low-voltage power to a low-voltage bus. The distributed power architecture also includes a plurality of fuses disposed on one or more of an input side and an output side of each of the plurality of converters and a vehicle controller with at least one communication link to each of the plurality of power converters. Each of the plurality of fuses are configured to selectively prevent current flow through one of the plurality of converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Kamel, Chandra S. Namuduri, Rashmi Prasad, Jun-mo Kang, Muhammad Hussain Alvi
  • Patent number: 12097041
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for evaluating tissue damage and the use of spatial variation in Sub-Epidermal Moisture (SEM) values to determine damaged tissue for clinical intervention. The present disclosure provides methods of identifying deep and early-stage pressure-induced injuries or ulcers (PI/PU). The present disclosure provides algorithm for computing SEM delta values which inform clinical decision-making for developing intact skin PI/PUs including suspected deep tissue injury (sDTI) and Stage I PI/PUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BRUIN BIOMETRICS, LLC
    Inventors: Martin F. Burns, Vignesh Mani Iyer
  • Patent number: 12098012
    Abstract: Food products can be stored and sold in packaging. For example, a perishable food product can be stored in a first compartment of a packaging, and a second food product can be stored in a second compartment. The first compartment can include a modified atmosphere to increase the shelf life of the food product in the first compartment. The second compartment can be under normal atmosphere. This allows a more perishable food product to be stored in the first compartment, and a prepackaged, or otherwise less perishable food product to be separately stored in the second compartment, while extending the shelf life of the food products. The first product could be a sandwich, and the second product be one or more condiments for the sandwich.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: West Liberty Foods, LLC
    Inventors: Brian White, Jeff Farver, Gerald Lessard
  • Patent number: 12096928
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes retraction of the soft tissue implant into the femoral tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan A. Kaiser, Gregory J. Denham, Kevin T. Stone
  • Patent number: 12099635
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system executes an application defining a bound variable that references a bound value. The bound value references computation instructions to derive a corresponding current value of the bound variable and the application lacks access permission to the current value of the bound variable. An operating system of the computing system receives a request to perform an operation that references the bound variable. The operating system identifies, based on computation instructions, one or more services separate from a process running the application to process the computation instructions referenced by the bound value. At least one of the one or more services has access permission to the current value of the bound variable. The operating system computes, using the one or more identified services, the current value of the bound variable according to the computation instructions of the bound value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Zwiegincew
  • Patent number: 12097976
    Abstract: A representative system includes an alignment tool for aligning attachment interfaces of horizontally-oriented launch vehicle portions. The tool can include a receiver assembly for connecting to a first launch vehicle portion and an actuation assembly for connecting to a second launch vehicle portion. When a first connecting element of the receiver assembly is engaged with a second connecting element of the actuation assembly, the second connecting element can apply force to the receiver assembly, and the actuator assembly applies an opposite force to the second launch vehicle portion, to align fastening features in the launch vehicle portions and/or to reshape the launch vehicle portions. A representative method includes connecting the alignment tool to the launch vehicle portions and operating the tool to apply oppositely-directed forces to align the launch vehicle portions for installing fasteners to connect the launch vehicle portions. One or more bracing beams can connect two tools together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Origin, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Johnson
  • Patent number: 12098618
    Abstract: A pack system for a downhole assembly is provided. One end of the pack system is connected to a drill bit for drilling a wellbore, the other end of the pack system interfaces with a motor to receive torque. The pack system described herein has a simple design that reduces the number of parts, eliminates some seals and shims, and relies on a portion of drilling mud for lubrication. As a result, wear on parts of the system is greatly reduced and the longevity of the system is greatly increased. The hardness of various components of the system in key areas is increased, for example, with carbide, to further reduce wear and increase longevity. In addition, the simpler, more balanced arrangement of components allows for reduced vibration and high rotational speeds, which improves the performance of the overall downhole assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Prime Downhole Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Joe Ficken
  • Patent number: 12097297
    Abstract: Antimicrobial system that includes distributed disinfection programming that implements a safe lockout protocol. The safe lockout protocol includes in response to a control station producing an arming initiation signal that is ON based on a first input from an operator, tracking a visual inspection signal produced by an arming switch based on a second input. The safe lockout protocol further includes in response to determining that the tracked visual inspection signal is ON and the control station producing an arming completion signal that is ON based on a third input, receiving a disinfection commencement signal that is ON based on a fourth input from the control station. The safe lockout protocol further includes in response to receiving the disinfection commencement signal that is ON based on the fourth input from the control station, controlling power to a luminaire to emit a disinfection light via a primary relay pack regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventor: Richard L. Westrick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097425
    Abstract: The description relates to input devices that can be secured to and used to control various devices. One example input device can include a housing defining a top surface that includes controls. The housing can define a recess that includes generally opposing upper and lower surfaces that extends at least partially under and parallel to the top surface. A self-adjusting gripping mechanism can extend into the recess through the lower surface and can be biased toward the upper surface. The self-adjusting gripping mechanism can be configured to be contacted by devices having a range of thicknesses and configured to grip individual devices within the range of thicknesses between the self-adjusting gripping mechanism and the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Trzaskos, Ryan Whitaker, Brian Claire, Casey Cook Zelig
  • Patent number: 12100580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a He-3 detector arrangement that generally comprises a mass spectrometer that has an intake funnel configured to receive (sniff out) He-3 through an intake port directly from an open environment. The intake funnel is configured to direct the He-3 into the mass spectrometer. The arrangement further comprises a heating element configured to liberate the He-3 from regolith via heat. A mobile carrier is configured to position the intake port the regolith to obtain samples of the He-3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Salvino, Andrew Dummer
  • Patent number: 12101829
    Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) transmits a ready-to-send (RTS) frame. In response to the transmitted RTS frame and during a transmission opportunity (TXOP), a clear-to-send (CTS) frame from a first station is received. The WLAN AP further transmits at least one data frame in response to the received CTS frame and in response to the transmitted at least one data frame, an acknowledgement from the first station. The WLAN AP further transmits, in response to the received acknowledgement signal, a first medium access control (MAC) frame which is received by a second station, and the WLAN AP receives, in response to the transmitted first MAC frame and during the TXOP, a second MAC frame from the second station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC
    Inventor: Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 12097416
    Abstract: An indoor golf tee includes a tee base and a tee shaft. The tee base has a base top portion and a base bottom portion. The base top portion has a connecting hole therethrough. The tee shaft has a shaft top portion, a shaft bottom portion, and a shaft body. The shaft body is connected between the shaft bottom portion and the shaft top portion. The shaft top portion is configured to hold a golf ball thereon. The shaft bottom portion is removably connected in the connecting hole of the tee base in a perpendicular orientation to the tee base. When the base bottom portion of the tee base is positioned on a surface, and the shaft bottom portion is connected in the connecting hole of the base top portion, the tee base orients the tee shaft in the perpendicular orientation to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: K2 Golf, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Richard Kreppein
  • Patent number: 12098291
    Abstract: The present application provides high solids film coating compositions comprising a water-soluble cellulose ether, hydroxy propyl cellulose (HPC), a poly (N-vinyl pyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate) copolymer, a film-forming agent based on D-glucose, plasticizer, medium chain triglycerides (MCT) and an anti-tack agent. The invention further provides a process for preparing the above described film coating compositions and method of coating solid substrate with such coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ISP INVESTMENTS LLC
    Inventors: Kapish Karan, Ronald Hach, Stuart C. Porter
  • Patent number: 12098704
    Abstract: A method for mitigating loads acting on a rotor blade of a wind turbine includes determining, via a state estimator of a controller, a blade state estimation of the rotor blade. The method also includes reconstructing, via the controller, one or more loading signals of the rotor blade from the blade state estimation using modal analysis such that the loading signal(s) include a lead time. Further, the method includes comparing the loading signal(s) of the rotor blade to a loading threshold. Moreover, the method includes implementing a control action based on the comparison such that the lead time provided by the loading signal(s) allows the control action to take effect before a damaging load occurs on the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ameet Shridhar Deshpande, Shuang Gu, Pranav Agarwal, Prashanth Kumar Reddy Vaddi, Bernard Landa, Arne Koerber
  • Patent number: 12100399
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for isolating at least one device, from multiple devices in an environment, for being responsive to assistant invocations (e.g., spoken assistant invocations). A process for isolating a device can be initialized in response to a single instance of a spoken utterance, of a user, that is detected by multiple devices. One or more of the multiple devices can be caused to query the user regarding identifying a device to be isolated for receiving subsequent commands. The user can identify the device to be isolated by, for example, describing a unique identifier for the device. Unique identifiers can be generated by each device of the multiple devices and/or by a remote server device. The unique identifiers can be presented graphically and/or audibly to the user, and user interface input. Any device that is not identified can become temporarily unresponsive to certain commands, such as spoken invocation commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
  • Patent number: 12100491
    Abstract: Healthcare transaction validation systems and methods are presented. Healthcare transactions associated with a stakeholder are compiled into a chain of healthcare transaction blocks. The chain can be considered a chronicle of person's healthcare path through life. When a transaction is conducted, the corresponding healthcare parameters (e.g., inputs, outputs, clinical evidence, outcomes, etc.) are sent to one or more validation devices. The devices establish a validity of the transaction and generate a new block via a proof-of-work principle. Once the new block has been calculated it can be appended to the stakeholder's health care blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 12100243
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic measurements for a head mounted wearable computing device including a display device is provided. The system and method may include capturing image data including a face of a user to be fitted for the head mounted wearable computing device. A three-dimensional head pose and gaze measurements may be extracted and a three-dimensional model may be developed from the captured image data. The system may detect display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic fit measurements from the three-dimensional model, and may provide one or more head mounted wearable computing devices that meet the display fit and/or ophthalmic fit requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Idris Syed Aleem, Daniel David Albin Balzerson
  • Patent number: D1044023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
    Inventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, Rodger Darin Osborne, Sandor Kovacs, Aaron Leimkuehler, Cecilia Zimmerman, Jules VanDersarl
  • Patent number: D1044048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Cambria Company LLC
    Inventors: Jon Louis Grzeskowiak, II, Summer Lane Kath, Martin E. Davis