Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Current reference circuit with process, voltage, and wide-range temperature compensation
    Patent number: 12271217
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a stable reference current that has low sensitivity to operating temperature and supply voltage variations and is stable across process corners. In an example implementation, an improved reference current generator circuit is provided that includes a first circuit generating a first current that is proportional to absolute temperature and a second circuit generating a second current that is complementary to absolute temperature based on first transistors operating in respective triode regions. The second current compensates for process, voltage, and temperature variations in the first current at a node. According to some examples, the second current is also generated based on second transistors operating in respective saturation regions. The first current may be generated using a forward biased PN junction diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Reza Mahmoodi, Martin Lueker-Boden
  • Microchannel plate and method of making the microchannel plate with an electron backscatter layer to amplify first strike electrons
    Patent number: 12272515
    Abstract: A night vision system along with an image intensifier tube having a microchannel plate and method of forming the microchannel plate are provided. The microchannel plate comprises a plurality of spaced channels extending through the microchannel plate, wherein each channel sidewall surface near the input face of the microchannel plate comprises a series of layers formed thereon. The input face of the microchannel plate, as well as the sidewall surfaces of each channel near the input surfaces, are configured with an electron backscatter layer arranged between a contact metal layer and a secondary electron booster layer. When formed partially into the channel openings near the input face, the electron backscatter layer and overlying secondary electron booster layer are configured circumferentially around the sidewall surfaces and extend radially inward toward a central axis of each channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Elbit Systems of America, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Carroll, Arlynn W. Smith, Todd A. Smith
  • Syringe plunger finger ring structures
    Patent number: 12268849
    Abstract: A syringe finger ring and finger ring inserts, that in various embodiments, provides or connects to a syringe that comprises a syringe body capable of having a volume of material therein and a plunger disposed to enter the syringe body and dispense material from the syringe body by movement of plunger, and a novel a finger ring related structures having an open area and connected, by various structures, to the plunger adapted to receive a finger within the finger ring open area, including a spacer of various embodiments inserted within the open area to selectively reduce the open area and provide more controllable engagement of the syringe plunger by the operator finger in distal and proximal strokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Alger & Klemer, LLC
    Inventors: Gennady I Kleyman, Alexander Merson
  • Cannabis concentrate dispensing system and method
    Patent number: 12269730
    Abstract: A method and system for dispensing metered shots of cannabis-containing or hemp-containing concentrate into a receiving vessel. The method comprises the steps of (a) providing a control module that includes a touch screen; (b) communicating the control module with an endless piston pump or progressive cavity pump; (c) deploying a disposable plastic tube and plunger to dispense bulk concentrate into the pump; (d) positioning an empty receiving vessel into a position in relation to the dispenser using a conveyor, or a turntable, or by manually placing the receiving vessel into position; (e) dispensing a metered shot of the concentrate into the empty receiving vessel to prepare a filled vessel; and (f) re-positioning the filled vessel in registration with the conveyor or turntable so that the dispenser becomes engaged with a subsequent empty receiving vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DETROIT DISPENSING SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Anthony Joseph, Jack Forbes Burnie
  • Optical scanning for industrial metrology
    Patent number: 12269206
    Abstract: An approach to improving optical scanning increases the strength of optical reflection from the build material during fabrication. In some examples, the approach makes use of an additive (or a combination of multiple additives) that increases the received signal strength and/or improves the received signal-to-noise ratio in optical scanning for industrial metrology. Elements not naturally present in the material are introduced in the additives in order to increase fluorescence, scattering or luminescence. Such additives may include one or more of: small molecules, polymers, peptides, proteins, metal or semiconductive nanoparticles, and silicate nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Inkbit, LLC
    Inventors: Wojciech Matusik, Gregory Ellson, Desai Chen, Javier Ramos, Davide Marini, Aaron Weber
  • Motorized latch retraction with return boost
    Patent number: 12270231
    Abstract: An exemplary electronic actuator assembly is configured for use with a pushbar assembly having a drive assembly operable to retract a latchbolt, and includes an input shaft, a motor, and a boost spring. The motor has a retracting state in which the motor drives the input shaft from a proximal position to a distal position, a holding state in which the motor exerts a holding force to retain the input shaft in the distal position, and a releasing state in which the motor exerts a residual force that resists movement of the input shaft. The boost spring exerts a boost force urging the input shaft in the proximal direction to at least partially counteract the residual force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Paul R. Arlinghaus, Evan Ballard, Suresha Chandrasekhara, Eric Hoiland
  • Devices for removing treads from wheels, and related methods
    Patent number: 12269144
    Abstract: A device for removing a tread from a wheel (e.g., a closing wheel of a planter, a gauge wheel of a planter, a gauge wheel of a cultivator, a gauge wheel of seed drill etc.) includes a body configured to support the wheel, and a fastener coupled to the body. The fastener is configured to engage the wheel when the wheel is supported by the body, and position the wheel on the body, and then compress the wheel against the body to thereby allow removal of a tread from the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sullivan Ag Services LLC
    Inventor: Sam Sullivan
  • Automated provision of a listing of events related and corresponding attributes related to a selected event through generation of graph-based dense representations of events of a nodal graph
    Patent number: 12271423
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of receiving incoming data including event data, extracting entities from the event data based on a graph ontology, generating a graph-based dense representation of each graph entity according to the graph ontology, wherein the graph-dense representations are stored in a vector database, computing relatedness scores between each of the entities, generating a listing of events related to a selected event, wherein the listing of events is ordered by corresponding relatedness scores, generating a graphical user interface illustrating the listing of events related to the selected event, and causing rendering of the graphical user interface on a display screen of a network device. Generating the graph-based dense representations may include training a graph neural network model on a corpus of metapaths to produce node embeddings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Splunk LLC
    Inventors: Julien Didier Jean Veron Vialard, Subhabrata Majumdar, Joseph Ari Ross
  • Pest detection
    Patent number: 12268201
    Abstract: An assembly includes a device and a trap. The device includes a housing having an opening to an external environment and a microwave sensor disposed within the device that detects a pest within the housing. The device includes a camera disposed within the device that identifies a pest within the housing and a fan disposed within the device that directs air out of the opening to the external environment. The trap is insertable into the opening of the housing. The trap includes a screen positioned at a lateral wall of the trap to separate the trap from the fan of the device. The trap includes a base at the bottom wall of the trap. The base includes an adhesive that catches a pest and an attractant positioned adjacent to or in contact with the screen that attracts a pest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Pest Memo, LLC
    Inventor: Stacy Hawkins
  • Failover handling in autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 12269489
    Abstract: Systems and methods for failover handling at a vehicle in response to a degraded state of operation are provided. For example, a method includes receiving, from a fallback vehicle path planner of a vehicle, data indicative of a fallback path; storing, at a memory of the vehicle, the data indicative of the fallback path; receiving, from a primary vehicle path planner of the vehicle, data indicative of a primary path; receiving an event trigger indicative of a degraded operating condition associated with the primary vehicle path planner; selecting, in response to the event trigger, the fallback path over the primary path; and sending, to a control system of the vehicle in response to the selecting, the stored data indicative of the fallback path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Shad Laws, Spyros Maniatopoulos
  • Collapsible fuel cells for aircraft
    Patent number: 12269607
    Abstract: A collapsible fuel cell for an aircraft includes an inner textile support substrate having an outer surface including one or more textile crease lines forming a fold pattern and an outer shell layer conforming to the outer surface of the textile support substrate to form the fuel cell. The fuel cell is collapsible along the fold pattern formed by the one or more textile crease lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Response Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Allen Pettey
  • Use of word embeddings to locate sensitive text in computer programming scripts
    Patent number: 12271489
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments may use word embeddings to enhance scanning of programming code scripts for sensitive subject matter, such as confidential subject matter. The scanning may be performed by a neural network in some exemplary embodiments. The neural network initially may be trained on a corpus of programming code scripts to identify keywords relating to sensitive subject matter, such as passwords, tokens or credentials. The neural network may not only identify instances of the keywords but also may identify related terms as well. The output of the scan may be a ranked list of terms in the programming code script that may relate to sensitive subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Pham, Kenneth Taylor, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Austin Grant Walters, Reza Farivar, Anh Truong, Mark Louis Watson
  • Systems and methods for integrated condition monitoring for power system asset health scoring
    Patent number: 12271171
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for asset health assessment and fleet management. An example method may include classifying a first power system asset into a first sub-system and a second sub-system. The example method may also include measuring, by a processor of a protection relay and from a first power system asset, electrical, thermal, and/or mechanical data associated with the first power system asset. The example method may also include identifying a first fault feature for the first sub-system, wherein the first fault feature is influenced by load oscillations in the first power system asset. The example method may also include comparing the first fault feature to a second fault feature of a third sub-system in a second power system asset, wherein the second fault feature is the same as the first fault feature, and wherein the second fault feature is not associated with load oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Balakrishna Pamulaparthy, Mitalkumar Kanabar, Austin Byrne, Umar Naseem Khan
  • Adaptive noise suppression for virtual meeting/remote education
    Patent number: 12272368
    Abstract: One example method includes performing sound quality operations. Microphone arrays are used to cancel background noise and to enhance speech. With arrays at each environment of each user participating in a call, a first microphone array can cancel or suppress background noise and a second array can generate enhanced speech for transmission to other users. Thus, for user, the audio signal output by the user's device includes an anti-noise signal to cancel background noise present in the user's environment and enhanced speech from other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Danqing Sha, Amy N. Seibel, Eric Bruno, Zhen Jia
  • Techniques for managing cores for storage
    Patent number: 12271752
    Abstract: A method of managing CPU cores in a data storage apparatus (DSA) configured to perform both host I/O (Input/Output) processing and background storage processing is provided. The method includes (a) selectively classifying background storage tasks in one of a first classification for longer-running tasks and a second classification for shorter-running tasks; (b) selecting CPU cores that are running fewer than a threshold number of first-classification background tasks to process host I/O requests; and (c) processing the host I/O requests on their selected CPU cores. An apparatus, system, and computer program product for performing a similar method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: John Gillono, Philippe Armangau, Vamsi K. Vankamamidi, Ashok Tamilarasan
  • Systems and methods for wildfire smoke generation and electronics testing
    Patent number: 12270751
    Abstract: A first chamber is configured to generate smoke from combustion of a combustible material within the first chamber. A second chamber is configured to house an electronic device. The first chamber and the second chamber are fluidly connected. The apparatus further includes an air pump configured to move the smoke generated in the first chamber into the second chamber. While the air pump is in operation, the electronic device in the second chamber is exposed to the smoke generated in the first chamber. The second chamber is further configured with an exhaust such that the smoke generated in the first chamber moves through the second chamber and out of the second chamber via the exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: UL LLC
    Inventors: Veronica Kimmerly, Gregory Sutter
  • Devices and methods for extending aircraft cargo bays with replacement tailcones
    Patent number: 12269575
    Abstract: Systems and methods for extending the interior cargo bay of fixed-wing cargo aircraft into a replaceable tailcone bay are disclosed. The system includes an aircraft and a removable tailcone configured couple to the aft end of the fuselage. The aircraft fuselage includes a cargo bay and an aft end opening into the cargo bay. The tailcone, when attached, encloses the aft end opening the cargo bay. The tailcone can include an interior volume configured to extend the fuselage cargo bay such that the interior volume defines an aft end of a cargo bay of the cargo aircraft. In some examples, the tailcone includes a plurality of segments, which can be configured to extend from the aft end of the aircraft to adjust a length of the cargo extension provided by the tailcone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZSM Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Poe, Mathew James Isler
  • Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1069827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Norman
  • Drain grate
    Patent number: D1070027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Zurn Water, LLC
    Inventors: Karam Ghazalah, Christopher J. Say
  • Brick
    Patent number: D1070121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GPRE IP, LLC
    Inventor: Frederick Maurice Cornell