Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 12133618Abstract: Mop buckets and methods of using the same are provided. A mop bucket includes a liquid-retaining portion that permits retained liquid to move in a liquid-movement direction extending from the first sidewall portion toward the second sidewall portion within a higher-momentum region and an energy-dissipation device disposed within the liquid-retaining portion and extending into the higher-momentum region, the energy-dissipation device being configured to inhibit buildup of momentum of liquid in the higher-momentum region along at least a portion of the liquid-movement direction by breaking surface tension of the liquid. The energy-dissipation device includes at least three baffles.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLCInventors: Adam Luedke, Russell Arthur Banks
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Patent number: 12136207Abstract: A system for inspecting a stator stack includes a rotary table, an imaging device configured to take a plurality of images of a portion of the stator stack including a stator slot, an illuminator configured to apply illumination through the stator slot, and an alignment and monitoring system configured to monitor and orient the stator slot relative to the imaging axis. The alignment and monitoring system includes a tilting system configured to move the stator slot between a plurality of orientations relative to an imaging axis, the imaging device configured to take a respective image at each of the plurality of orientations, a controller configured to control the tilting system based on one or more measurements of each image, and a processor configured to analyze each image and select an orientation of the stator slot as an optimal orientation for inspection of the stator slot.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: John S. Agapiou, Sean Robert Wagner
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Patent number: 12136849Abstract: An emergency LED lighting system maintains power to an LED lighting source based on measured voltages and currents provided to the LED lighting source; rolls back or decreases power provided to an LED lighting source over time in order to increase the amount of time the battery can power the LED lighting source; executes a soft start procedure, such that the power provided to the LED lighting source is gradually ramped up during activation of the LED lighting sources; identifies a type of battery coupled to the emergency LED lighting system; cycles the emergency LED lighting system between charging mode and standby mode to reduce power consumption over a window of time; detects AC power or an absence of AC power; and/or uses a status LED to communicate information about the emergency LED lighting system with a remote device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Ray Altenburger, Dean W. Mavis, Gunjan P. Patel
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Patent number: 12133806Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spinal implant with a solid frame and a porous inner layer. The implant may have a cavity defined by the porous inner layer. The solid frame may have one or more ribs extending from a medial wall to a lateral wall. The thickness of the porous layer may vary relative the thickness of the solid frame at various locations. An inserter to place a spinal implant and a method to perform same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Bryan D. Milz, Thomas A. Alheidt, Jessica Cetrangol, Christian Karl Schultz, Jason H. Steinke, Steven Willis, Robert Cipoletti, Charles L. Bush, Jr., Brad Juchno
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Patent number: 12136093Abstract: Techniques to improve fraud detection for financial institutions maintaining a network of financial terminals. These techniques are applicable towards identifying instances of multiple account usage with at least one of the financial terminals. Example financial terminals known as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) capture image data whenever a visitor initiates a financial service (and/or receives something of value) and leverage the techniques described herein to determine whether the visitor is engaged in multiple account usage. Such multiple account usage may occur when the visitor withdraws cash against two different accounts. These techniques are further applicable towards securing the two different accounts from misappropriation.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Vincent Pham, Austin Grant Walters, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Anh Truong
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Patent number: 12137237Abstract: This disclosure relates to improved video coding scheme for zero residual or zero coefficient flags. For example, a method for decoding a current block in a video stream is disclosed. The method may include determining a zero-skip flag of at least one neighboring block of the current block as a reference zero-skip flag; determining a prediction mode for the current block as being either an intra prediction mode or inter prediction mode; deriving at least one context for decoding the zero-skip flag of the current block based on the reference zero-skip flag and the current prediction mode; and decoding the zero-skip flag of the current block according to the at least one context.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Liang Zhao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12135895Abstract: A data storage system may store a first data block having a first data configuration generated by a host in a non-volatile memory that is connected to a data module. A data strategy may be generated with the data module in response to the storage of data with the data strategy consisting of at least one trigger associated with identifying the first data block as hot. The first data block can be replicated to a different memory location with a second data configuration as directed by the data strategy with the first data configuration being different than the second data configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Jack Vincent Anderson, Jonathan Henze, Ryan James Goss, Charles McJilton, Jeremy Blair Goolsby
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Patent number: 12134199Abstract: Training and/or using a machine learning model for performing robotic tasks is disclosed herein. In many implementations, an environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model is used to determine a set of actions as well as a corresponding particular order for the actions for the robot to perform to complete the task. In many implementations, each action in the set of actions has a corresponding action network used to control the robot in performing the action.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Soeren Pirk, Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh, Karol Hausman, Alexander Toshev
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Patent number: 12135357Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive a notification related to a battery life of a battery of a user device. The system may determine, based on the notification, a battery level of the battery of the user device. The system may select based on the battery level of the battery of the user device, a particular communication scheme, of a plurality of communication schemes, for communicating with a user of the user device. The system may transmit at least one message according to the particular communication scheme.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Joshua Edwards, Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba
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Patent number: 12133496Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV513192. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV513192, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV513192 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV513192 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV513192.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Francis Beecher
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Patent number: 12134016Abstract: Disclosed herein is a basketball backboard system and methods of assembly. The backboard system reduces and simplifies the number of steps for a user to take in assembling the system for play. The basketball system comprises a base, a vertical support assembly including a pole, a backboard extension arm, a backboard, and a rim. In some embodiments, the user only has to complete five attachments to fully assemble the system, including securing the vertical support assembly to the base, securing the backboard extension arm to the pole, mounting the backboard to the extension arm, and mounting the rim to the backboard. It is further contemplated that the system will be convenient to package, as the vertical support assembly may be designed to fully nest within the base to reduce product volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Russell Brands, LLCInventors: Jason Hall, Randy C Peterson, Louis Polk, Louis Polk, IV, Benjamin Simms, Ronald White
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Patent number: 12136104Abstract: A method including training a logistic regression model to create a trained model to provide probabilities of users clicking on emails of one or more email campaigns within each of multiple different time periods. Input predictor variables of the logistic regression model include (i) user feature data including personal user features and online activity history for users in the multiple different time periods and (ii) email feature data including sent times and item category data for multiple different emails in the one or more email campaigns. Output dependent variables of the logistic regression model include responses by the users to the one or more email campaigns. The method also includes triggering sending a first email of the one or more email campaigns to a first user of the users at a selected time period based at least in part on the trained model. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Kannan Achan, Sushant Kumar, Kaushiki Nag, Venkata Syam Prakash Rapaka
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Patent number: 12133764Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting user guidance based on a user's proficiency by tracking the same. In one example, a proficiency score for a user may be tracked over time and practice based on a pre-defined rubric for a given anatomical region and a given anatomical target within the anatomical region. During medical imaging, based on the proficiency score of the user, an amount of user guidance that is provided to the user may be adjusted. For example, user guidance may be automatically activated to guide the user during the imaging procedure when the proficiency score of the user is less than a threshold score.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Mahendra Madhukar Patil, Ashish Handa, Raveesh Reddy Sreenivasaiah
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Patent number: 12133643Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for accessing the spine to place implants. In one embodiment, a system includes an adjustable rod structure having four rods radially surrounding a probe, a ring and a retractor. The adjustable rod structure is configured to have a closed and open profile controlled by the retractor such that the open profile creates a space between rods of the structure. The ring is configured to be placed within retracted rods to maintain the open profile after retraction. In a method embodiment, the adjustable rod structure is inserted through a percutaneous incision in the closed position until it reaches a target site. The retractor is then attached to the rods and used to retract the rods. The probe is then removed from within an opening created and a ring is advanced into the opening to hold the rods in place.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventor: Charles L. Bush, Jr.
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Patent number: 12137074Abstract: A method performed by a mobile device includes causing display of graphical tiles on a display of the mobile device and detecting a gesture while displaying the graphical tiles. The gesture includes an indication to move a particular graphical tile among the graphical tiles. In response to the gesture, the mobile device can automatically move another graphical tile to accommodate the new location of the particular graphical tile and cause display of the graphical tiles arranged in a new order that includes the particular graphical tile in the new location.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignees: Whitehead Investments, LLCInventors: Erik N. Lukas, Gregory O. Peet
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Patent number: 12137173Abstract: A device can (i) store public keys Ss and Sn for a network and (ii) record private key sd. A network can record a corresponding private keys ss and sn. The device can (i) generate a device ephemeral PKI key pair (Ed, ed) and (ii) send public key Ed to the network. The device can receive an ephemeral public key Es from the network. The device can calculate values for A: an elliptic curve point addition over Ss, Sn, and Es, and B: (sd+ed)mod n. The device can input values for X and Y into an elliptic curve Diffie Hellman key exchange (ECDH) in order to determine a mutually derived shared secret X5, where the network can also derive shared secret X5. The device can (i) use X5 to derive a key K2 and (ii) decrypt a ciphertext from the network using key K2.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: IoT and M2M Technologies, LLCInventor: John A Nix
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Patent number: 12137102Abstract: An authentication method includes assigning a risk status to a request received from a remote interaction system, transmitting a notification communication to a device associated with the request, monitoring interaction data from an interaction network, and identifying, from the monitored interaction data, authentication interaction information, the authentication interaction information including a coded sequence and a predetermined authentication identifier. The authentication method also includes comparing the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information to an expected coded sequence and transmitting a verification communication after determining the coded sequence in the authentication interaction information matches the expected coded sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Nathaniel McKinnon, Jeremy Phillips
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Patent number: 12135998Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for optimizing resource allocation on a computing zone based on bursting data and in accordance with an allocation policy. For example, systems disclosed herein may implement a lifetime-aware allocation of computing resources to facilitate computational bursting on respective server nodes to prioritize different aspects of performance on the server nodes of a cloud computing system. The systems described herein provide a number of benefits, including, by way of example, facilitating an allocation policy that enables more densely packing virtual machines on respective server nodes, boosting individual virtual machine performance, and reducing a buffer of empty nodes that need to be maintained on one or more node clusters. This may include more densely packing virtual machines on respective server nodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ioannis Manousakis, Husam Alissa, Ashish Raniwala, Ricardo Gouvêa Bianchini, Pulkit Ambikanandan Misra, Inigo Goiri Presa, Majid Jalili
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Patent number: D1049952Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Dillon R. Blanski, Hoon S. Kim
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Patent number: D1050308Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: YES4ALL IP HOLDINGS LLCInventor: My Chi Nguyen
