Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12084334
    Abstract: Ingredient containers for use in a beverage carbonation system are provided. The ingredient container includes a container body defining an interior hollow chamber, and a cap coupled to the opening of the container body. The container body has an opening leading to the interior hollow chamber and a cross-section with a major axis defining a width that is greater than a minor axis defining a depth. The cap has an inlet that is sealed to retain fluid within the container and that is configured to open to allow gas to be injected into the interior hollow chamber. The cap has an outlet that is sealed to retain fluid within the container and that is configured to open to allow fluid within the container to flow out through the outlet valve. The inlet and the outlet are aligned along a first axis that extends parallel to the minor axis of the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Andrew David Zdeblick, Joshua David Anthony, Joyce Chien Tu
  • Patent number: 12084494
    Abstract: A monoclonal antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof is provided that specifically binds to a region on a mammalian IL-31 protein involved with interaction of the IL-31 protein with its co-receptor, wherein the binding of said antibody to said region is impacted by mutations in a 15H05 epitope binding region selected from: a region between about amino acid residues 124 and 135 of a feline IL-31 sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 157 (Feline_IL31_wildtype); a region between about amino acid residues 124 and 135 of a canine IL-31 sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 155 (Canine_IL31); and a region between about amino acid residues 118 and 129 of an equine IL-31 sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 165 (Equine_IL31). Such antibodies can be in the form of veterinary compositions useful for treating IL-31-mediated disorders in cats, dogs, or horses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Zoetis Services LLC
    Inventors: Gary Francis Bammert, Steven Alan Dunham, Sebastian C. J. Steiniger
  • Patent number: 12086551
    Abstract: A computer implemented method determines differences between documents. The method includes parsing a first document and a second document into respective distinct instances of content. The distinct instances of content are classified into different categories. Category specific matching algorithms are applied to each of the respective instances of content to determine a similarity score for each of the respective instances of content. Semantic differences between the first document and the second document are analyzed as a function of the similarity scores. A characterization of the semantic differences is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Abraham, J Brandon Smock, Owen Stephenson Whiting, Henry Hun-Li Reid Pan
  • Patent number: 12087313
    Abstract: A method for encoding a high frequency signal includes determining a signal type of a high frequency signal of a current frame, smoothing and scaling time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame and obtaining time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded when the high frequency signal of the current frame is a non-transient signal and a high frequency signal of the previous frame is a transient signal, and quantizing and encoding the time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded, and frequency information and signal type information of the high frequency signal of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Crystal Clear Codec, LLC
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 12086258
    Abstract: Technologies are described for performing firmware attestation on system reset. When a managed computing system is reset, a baseboard management controller (“BMC”) generates a notification that the managed computing system has been reset and transmits the notification to an event listener executing in a management system by way of an out-of-band (“OOB”) network. The event listener receives the notification that the managed computing system has been reset and, in turn, causes a security manager executing in the management system to transmit a request for firmware attestation data to a platform security agent executing on the managed computing system. The security manager receives the firmware attestation data from the platform security agent by way of an in-band network and stores the firmware attestation data in a database for exposure to other program components for use in evaluating the trustworthiness of the firmware executing on the managed computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Stefano Righi, Muthukkumaran Ramalingam, Joseprabu Inbaraj, Madhan B. Santharam
  • Patent number: 12086295
    Abstract: A lock node for storing data and a protected storage unit. The lock node includes an input section which provides a plurality of key maps, each corresponding to one of a plurality of primary keys, respectively, applied to the input section, each key map including at least one main key, a variable lock section producing a derived key from a logical operation on the main keys corresponding to the primary keys applied to the input section, and an output section producing the data in response to the derived key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NUTS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Yoon Ho Auh
  • Patent number: 12086720
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media related to information retrieval. Some implementations are related to training and/or using a relevance model for information retrieval. The relevance model includes an input neural network model and a subsequent content neural network model. The input neural network model and the subsequent content neural network model can be separate, but trained and/or used cooperatively. The input neural network model and the subsequent content neural network model can be “separate” in that separate inputs are applied to the neural network models, and each of the neural network models is used to generate its own feature vector based on its applied input. A comparison of the feature vectors generated based on the separate network models can then be performed, where the comparison indicates relevance of the input applied to the input neural network model to the separate input applied to the subsequent content neural network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Strope, Yun-hsuan Sung, Matthew Henderson, Rami Al-Rfou', Raymond Kurzweil
  • Patent number: 12088050
    Abstract: A connector system for a pluggable IO connector is disclosed that includes a plug with two rows of pads on two sides of a mating blade and a receptacle with two connection regions that is configured to engage the two rows of pads. In an embodiment the connector system can support double the data bandwidth of a typical connector, such as a QSFP connector, while allowing for backward compatibility with convention plug assemblies that have a single row of pads on each side the mating blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Kent E. Regnier
  • Patent number: 12083160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to C5 binding polypeptides, comprising a C5 binding motif, BM, which motif consists of an amino acid sequence selected from i) EX2X3X4A X6 X7EID X11LPNL X16X17X18QW X21AFIX25X26LX28D, and ii) an amino acid sequence which has at least 86% identity to the sequence defined in i), wherein the polypeptide binds to C5. The present invention moreover relates to C5 binding polypeptides for use in therapy, such as for use in treatment of a C5 related condition, and to methods of treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: IPC Research, LLC
    Inventors: Charlotta Berghard, Magnus Berglund, Patrik Strömberg, Malin Lindborg, Elin Gunneriusson, Joachim Feldwisch
  • Patent number: 12086588
    Abstract: Versions of an application are managed by receiving a request for a version of an application, retrieving, responsive to the received request, a version of a master application component based at least in part on version data that associates a version of the master application component with the version of the application, retrieving a relationship operable to relate the version of the master application component with a corresponding version of a first component on which the master application component depends for a function of the application, retrieving the corresponding version of the first component, responsive to the retrieving of the relationship, assembling the version of the application based at least in part on the retrieved version of the master component, the retrieved relationship, and the retrieved first component, and providing for an execution of the assembled version of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Akhil Gupta, Abhinav Jha, Prabhat Kumar Pandey, Abhishek Agarwal, Yasser Shaaban
  • Patent number: 12083446
    Abstract: A toy simulating a selectable beverage container may include a rotatable spindle having an axis of rotation arranged horizontally, a band connected with the spindle and arranged to wind onto and off the spindle, and a spigot arranged around at least a portion of the spindle, wherein the spigot comprises one or more openings arranged to allow the band to extend downward from the spindle. Rotation of the spindle in a first direction causes the band to unwind from the spindle and to extend from the spigot. A second band may be attached to another side of the spindle such that rotation of the spindle in a second direction causes the second band to extend down from the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Melissa & Doug, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Almstead, George Lemoine, Matt Burtonwood, Wingo Siu, Eugene Wang
  • Patent number: 12089235
    Abstract: A method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), for Uplink (UL) transmission management includes the UE determining a default spatial domain transmission filter for an UL resource according to at least one Quasi Co-Location (QCL) parameter of a Control Resource Set (CORESET) after determining that the UL resource is not configured with a spatial domain transmission filter and a pathloss reference Reference Signal (RS) resource, and transmitting the UL resource by applying the default spatial domain transmission filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Yu, Yu-Hsin Cheng
  • Patent number: 12087881
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for transforming a layout of a densely packed grid of micro-LED light emitters to a layout of a square rectilinear pixel grid to achieve compatibility with hardware and software used in imaging and display technologies. In particular, a pattern of regular hexagonal emitter cells for fabrication on a III-nitride substrate can be transformed to a square pixel array of irregular hexagonal trichrome pixels that are readily addressable. Separation between adjacent trichrome pixels, and between their constituent emitters, can be established for overlay tolerance, while maintaining a cell packing density of about 70% and a pixel pitch of about 4.0 ?m. Wavelength and quantum efficiency properties are shown to depend on optical current density, which can be determined by the emitter area specified in the grid layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gang He, Aurelien Jean Francois David
  • Patent number: 12088866
    Abstract: Methods and systems for linking content are provided. An example method can comprise a first device receiving first content via a non-packetized network from a content provider, wherein the first content comprises one or more trigger elements. A user of the first device can select one or more trigger elements in the first content and a trigger signal can be transmitted from the first device to a linking system. The linking system can receive a request for information from a second device. The linking system can associate the request for information with the trigger signal and transmit a request for second content to the content provider, wherein the second content relates to one or more trigger elements of the first content. Upon receiving the request for second content, the content provider can transmit the second content to the second device via a packetized network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Jianju Liu
  • Patent number: 12089011
    Abstract: A mobile communication environment (100) can include a mobile device (160) to measure and send sound pressure level data. The mobile device (160) can initiate the collection of audio information responsive to detecting a trigger event. Mobile device (160) can measure or calculate the sound pressure level from the audio information. Metadata including time information and geographic location information can be captured with the collected audio information. Mobile device (160) can send the sound pressure level data and metadata through a wired or wireless communication path to a database (614).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ST FamTech, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, Marc Boillot, Jason McIntosh, John P. Keady
  • Patent number: 12083829
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a tire having a three-dimensional tire sipe are disclosed. In one embodiment, a tire sipe used in a tire is provided, the tire sipe comprising: a radially inner sipe taper portion having a radially inner sipe width W3 and a radially inner sipe transition width W4, wherein the radially inner sipe width W3 is greater than the radially inner sipe transition width W4; a radially outer sipe taper portion having a radially outer sipe width W1 and a radially outer sipe transition width W2, wherein the radially outer sipe width W1 is greater than the radially outer sipe transition width W2; and a sipe radially central portion having a plurality of individual sipe radially angled portions oriented in a zig-zag pattern, wherein the sipe radially central portion is oriented radially between the radially inner sipe taper portion and the radially outer sipe taper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Jean Y. Chen, Justin M. Gehres, Domenic Giampaolo, Neel K. Mani
  • Patent number: 12086052
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for generating compliance indicators on a user interface corresponding to maturity levels of a continuous integration/continuous deployment system. A server captures compliance data corresponding to development status associated with a software application comprising newly-added source code. The server determines whether a plurality of maturity levels of a continuous integration system are completed for the software application based upon the captured compliance data. The server generates a plurality of compliance indicators, each of the compliance indicators corresponding to one of the maturity levels that is completed. The server generates for display the generated compliance indicators on a user interface of a user device communicatively coupled to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Anila Kumar Choudhury, Christopher Michael Allardice, Charlet Celina, James Brandon Gilbert Smith, Karl Hugo Ulrich
  • Patent number: 12088243
    Abstract: A solar panel array system is disclosed. The system comprises a base structure, a slider assembly, one or more hinges, one or more stands, a primary set of solar panels coupled to a primary set of slider panels slidably extendable and slidably retractable along a first direction, a secondary set of solar panels coupled to a secondary set of slider panels slidably extendable and slidably retractable along a second direction opposite from the first direction, and telescoping legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SOLXX SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Dale Leuck
  • Patent number: 12086049
    Abstract: Techniques for capacity management in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing data representing a number of enabled users or a number of provisioned users to determine whether the analyzed data represents an anomaly based on historical data. The method can also include upon determining that the data represents an anomaly, determining a conversion rate between a change in the number of enabled users or the number of provisioned users and a change in a number of active users of the computing service and deriving a future value of the number of active users of the computing service based on both the detected anomaly and the determined conversion rate. The method can further include allocating and provisioning an amount of the computing resource in the distributed computing system in accordance with the determined future value of the active users of the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jieqiu Chen, Yow-Gwo Wang, Qizhi Xu, Feiyue Jiang, Harsh Mahendra Mehta, Boon Yeap, Dimple Kaul
  • Patent number: 12088698
    Abstract: A cloud-based system and method for encrypting media content is disclosed. The system comprises a key server microservice, for receiving control word requests and for generating encoded control words and a software encryption microservice, communicatively coupled to the key server microservices, the encryption microservice for receiving the media content, for generating the control word requests, for receiving the encoded control words, and for white-box encrypting the media content according to the generated encoded control words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Rafie Shamsaasef, Lawrence Cook