Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12089300
    Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The liquid storage portion includes one or more flexible walls and is configured to change at least one of the shape and the size of the liquid storage portion upon a change of the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion. The cartridge includes a sensor configured to detect data of a physical property. The data relates to at least one of a corresponding shape and a corresponding size of the liquid storage portion so that the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion is determinable from the measured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Tony Reevell
  • Patent number: 12083304
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using topical, isotonic compositions comprising a prebiotic oligosaccharide, a metal co-factor, and an essential oil comprising bornyl acetate. The compositions support the genital microbiota and are useful for, for example, hydrating, lubricating, cleaning, and/or decreasing irritation or inflammation of the urogenital and/or anogenital region of a subject, and/or enhancing the beneficial genital microbiota of a subject. Such compositions are useful before, during, and/or after sexual and/or reproductive activity. Kits for gel compositions including these compositions are also provided which may be used to aid delivery to and administration in low-resource settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GLYCIOME, LLC
    Inventors: Joanna E. Ellington, G. D. Clifton, Rayne Ellington-Lawrence
  • Patent number: 12086635
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving historical usage data associated with computing services provided by distributed servers and an inference model. The inference model is configured to receive a request and make an inference based on the request. The method further includes training a machine learning model to determine a correlation between usage of a first computing service of the and usage of the inference model. The correlation indicates that a first spike in usage of the first computing service precedes a second spike in usage of the inference model. The method further includes receiving, in real-time, current usage data associated with the first computing service. The method further includes determining, based on the current usage data and the correlation, that the current usage data is indicative of the first spike in usage of the first computing service that precedes the second spike in usage of the inference model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Rafferty, Reza Farivar, Anh Truong, Mark Watson, Vincent Pham, Austin Walters, Jeremy Goodsitt
  • Patent number: 12086689
    Abstract: A device includes: a first chip including a plurality of qubits arranged in an array on a first side of the first chip, in which the array includes a plurality of qubit rows and a plurality of qubit columns, in which the plurality of qubits includes a first qubit row including two or more qubits and a second qubit row including two or more qubits, and in which the second qubit row is directly adjacent to the first qubit row; a second chip bonded to the first chip, in which the second chip has a first side that faces the first side of the first chip; a plurality of qubit control elements; a plurality of qubit readout resonators; and a plurality of qubit readout transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julian Shaw Kelly, Evan Jeffrey
  • Patent number: 12085255
    Abstract: A lamp includes a light source and a light pipe including a light transmissive medium with an elongated body extending along an axial axis. The light pipe has an input for receiving light from the light source and a plurality of prism optics extending into an outside surface of the elongated body in a direction of the axial axis, wherein the plurality of prism optics each has an angle in the range of about 115° (degrees) to 145° (degrees).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Linsheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12084880
    Abstract: A modular flexible fencing system, configured for installation by a novice without special tools, equipped with a novel flexible fencing material retention system which employs caged receivers that interface with spring-equipped auto-tensioning inserts disposed on the termini of each instance of flexible fencing material. The auto-tensioning inserts ensure that adequate tension is applied to the flexible fencing material with minimal adjustment. U-shaped posts are equipped with a slot that ensures the caged receivers are secured within the posts at the desired positions. Screws further ensure that the caged receivers are mounted in place securely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: RRM Composites LLC
    Inventor: Roberto Lebrija
  • Patent number: 12085789
    Abstract: An exemplary optical measurement system described herein includes a control circuit configured to output a global bias voltage and a module communicatively coupled to the control circuit. The module includes a light source configured to emit light directed at a target. The module further includes a plurality of detectors configured to detect arrival times for photons of the light after the light is scattered by the target. The module further includes a module control circuit configured to receive the global bias voltage and output a plurality of detector bias voltages based on the global bias voltage. The plurality of detector bias voltages include a respective detector bias voltage for each detector of the plurality of detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Field, Jacob Dahle, Rong Jin, Alex Borisevich, Sebastian Sorgenfrei, Bruno Do Valle
  • Patent number: 12087998
    Abstract: An intelligent electronic device (IED) is provided. The IED includes a metering sub-assembly and an input base module sub-assembly. The metering sub-assembly is hinged to the input base module sub-assembly, where when in an open position, various cables, connectors, and input/output cards/modules are accessible. Various input/output cards/modules are interchangeable to add/change functionality and/or communication capabilities to the IED In one embodiment, a communication card is provided with at least one antenna disposed internal or external to a housing of the IED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: EI ELECTRONICS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Spanier, Tibor Banhegyesi, Edward Martinez
  • Patent number: 12087287
    Abstract: Structure of conversations between users and agents and/or systems is discovered and interactively displayed to analysts, thereby better supporting development of automated conversation handling systems for different domains. A corpus of prior dialogs of users with agents (without preexisting semantic labels indicating purposes for different parts of the dialogs) is taken as input, and embeddings are generated for textual units (e.g., rounds) of the dialogs. The embeddings are used to cluster the textual units, and the clusters and their relationships are visualized within a user interface that analysts may use to explore and fine-tune the structure of the conversations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Interactions LLC
    Inventors: Michael Johnston, Minhua Chen, Seyed Eman Mahmoodi, Badrinath Jayakumar
  • Patent number: 12083942
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes, among other things, a vehicle hammock and a thermal energy adjustment device of the vehicle hammock. A method of controlling thermal energy within a hammock includes, among other things, providing a vehicle hammock having a thermal energy adjustment device, and adjusting the thermal energy level of the vehicle hammock based, at least in part, on a thermal energy level outside the vehicle hammock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Annette Lynn Huebner, Jeffrey Robert Seaman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
  • Patent number: 12083595
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing apparatus is operated to compensate for surface deviations of overhanging features differently than for non-overhanging features. The compensation technique used for the overhanging features depends on whether an edge of the overhanging feature being formed in a next layer has curved or sharp corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Additive Technologies LLC
    Inventors: PriyaankaDevi Guggilapu, Benjamin Paulson, Dinesh Krishna Kumar Jayabal, Collin A. Ladd, Stuart A. Schweid
  • Patent number: 12084618
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for the biological processing of hydrocarbon-containing substances. In particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein relate to pre-digestion of hydrocarbon containing substances and further processing of the same to produce hydrocarbon fuels, fertilizer, and other products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: McFinney, LLC
    Inventor: Jerry Wayne Finney
  • Patent number: 12087070
    Abstract: A computer system is provided that includes one or more processors configured to receive user input for inked content to a digital canvas, and process the inked content to determine one or more writing regions. Each writing region includes recognized text and one or more document layout features associated with that writing region. The one or more processors are further configured to tokenize a target writing region of the one or more writing regions into a sequence of tokens, process the sequence of tokens of the target writing region using a task extraction subsystem that operates on tokens representing both the recognized text and the one or more document layout features of the target writing region, segment the target writing region into one or more sentence segments, and classify each of the one or more sentence segments as a task sentence or a non-task sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jenna Hong, Apurva Sandeep Gandhi, Gilbert Antonius, Tra My Nguyen, Ryan Serrao, Biyi Fang, Sheng Yi
  • Patent number: 12088674
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data processing. The method for data processing includes: generating, based on a category of a target data content segment, a target tag for the target data content segment; acquiring a reference tag set, a reference tag in the reference tag set being generated based on a category of a historical data content segment; and determining redundancy of the target data content segment based on comparison between the target tag and the reference tag set. In this way, the distribution of a large amount of redundant data from an edge server to a terminal device can be avoided, thereby saving bandwidth, improving delay, and further providing a better user experience for AR/VR content experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Jia, Anzhou Hou, Danqing Sha, Bin He
  • Patent number: 12088805
    Abstract: Systems and methods for coding and decoding of a coded bitstream is provided. A method includes encoding a block of a picture. The encoding includes selecting a transform set based on at least one neighboring sample from one or more previously encoded neighboring blocks or from a previously encoded picture and transforming coefficients of the block using a transform from the transform set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12086198
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving image search results using embedding neural network models. In one aspect, an image search query is received. A respective pair numeric embedding for each of a plurality of image-landing page pairs is determined. Each pair numeric embedding is a numeric representation in an embedding space. An image search query embedding neural network processes features of the image search query and generates a query numeric embedding. The query numeric embedding is a numeric representation of the image search query in the same embedding space. A subset of the image-landing page pairs having pair numeric embeddings that are closest to the query numeric embedding of the image search query in the embedding space are identified as first candidate image search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Suddha Kalyan Basu, Wei Fan, Daniel Glasner, Sushrut Suresh Karanjkar, Thomas Richard Strohmann, Shubhang Verma, Manas Ashok Pathak, Wenyuan Yin, Sundeep Tirumalareddy
  • Patent number: 12088588
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for managing voice-driven application. In one embodiment, among others, a system includes a computing device and program instructions. The program instructions can cause the computing device to initiate a management session between a voice application service and a management service based on receiving a first request from the voice application service. The program instructions can cause the computing device to initiate an application session between a voice-driven application and the management service based at least in part on a second request received from the voice application service. The program instructions can cause the computing device to enforce a compliance policy on a data request for the voice-driven application. The data response can be transmitted to the voice application. The voice application service can provide the data response to the client device for playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Omnissa, LLC
    Inventors: Chaoting Xuan, Kar-Fai Tse, Suyu Pan
  • Patent number: 12089036
    Abstract: Hardware and/or software systems, devices, networks, and methods for managing for access authentication, and verification to devices, networks, and systems based on a wireless signal identity developed for wireless-enabled devices based on wireless signal information associated with wireless signals previously detected by the wireless-enabled devices. The system may be used to authenticate access requests, transactions, etc. based on comparison between wireless signal information associated with wireless signals presently detected by the WED and its wireless signal identity via a management platform and/or the WED itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PwC Product Sales LLC
    Inventors: Srdjan Marinovic, Stillman Bradish, Rebecca E. Cohen, Tanner Payne
  • Patent number: 12085946
    Abstract: Methods and systems for assessing driving autonomous system (DAS) performance based on the telematics data, vehicle type, and/or driving environment. The methods and/or systems may receive driving data indicative of vehicle performance based on DAS operation of the vehicle during a time period; select a portion of the driving data related to at least one performance metric of the DAS operated vehicle during the time period; receive historical DAS performance data that includes at least one performance metric of a vehicle-type of DAS operated vehicle that includes the vehicle; analyze the selected portion of the driving data during the time period with the historical DAS performance data; calculate a DAS score for the vehicle based on the analysis of the selected portion of the driving data during the time period with the historical DAS performance data of the vehicle type; and adjust DAS operation of the vehicle based on the calculated DAS score for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventors: Theobolt N. Leung, Eric Dahl
  • Patent number: 12086875
    Abstract: Multifactor authentication techniques described herein may allow a user to submit a recent proof of purchase as a part of a multifactor authentication process to access an account associated with a financial institution. As part of the login process, the user may submit a proof of purchase associated with a transaction. The financial institution may determine information associated with the transaction, such as a merchant associated with the proof of purchase, a time of the transaction, the last four numbers of the transaction card used, a dollar amount, or any combination thereof. If the information matches one or more records in the transaction history of the user's account, the financial institution may authenticate the user and provide access to the account. In this way, the financial institution may leverage transaction history known to the financial institution and the user to authenticate the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards