Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12271195
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to limiting the use of an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle by particular occupants based on permission data. More specifically, permission data may include destinations, routes, and/or other information that is predefined or set by a third party. The vehicle may then access the permission data in order to transport the particular occupant to the predefined destination, for example, without deviation from the predefined route. The vehicle may drop the particular occupant off at the destination and may wait until the passenger is ready to move to another predefined destination. The permission data may be used to limit the ability of the particular occupant to change the route of the vehicle completely or by some maximum deviation value. For example, the vehicle may be able to deviate from the route up to a particular distance from or along the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Scott Levandowski
  • Patent number: 12268169
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 14010604 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 14010604, to the plants of soybean cultivar 14010604, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 14010604, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 14010604. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 14010604. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 14010604, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 14010604 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Mertec, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Aaron Long
  • Patent number: 12271884
    Abstract: A payment terminal, including: a display, an input device configured to generate input signals indicative of a user input, a payment instrument reader configured to receive payment instrument data from a financial payment instrument, a secure processor connected to the payment instrument reader, a main processor connected to the display, the main processor separate and distinct from the secure processor, a secure input processor connected to the input device and the secure processor, wherein the secure processor is operable between an unsecured mode, wherein the secure processor sends input coordinates based on the input signals received from the secure input processor to the main processor; and a secured mode, wherein the secure input processor ceases input coordinate forwarding to the main processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Poynt LLC
    Inventors: Osama Bedier, Ray Tanaka, Robert Hernandez
  • Patent number: 12271777
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an RFID system for product identification may include a compartment having a first wall and a second wall that extend toward each other and that together define at least part of a cavity and a channel. The cavity may extend laterally along a first direction and may be configured to contain a suspended package and having a first width may extend along a second direction. The channel may extend laterally along the first direction and having a second width may extend along a second direction, the channel being in fluid communication with the cavity, the channel may be configured to limit movement along the second direction of a support that extends downward through the channel and into the cavity to support the suspended package, the second width of the channel being narrower than the first width of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Mark W. Roth
  • Patent number: 12271748
    Abstract: A computer system is configured to override an original behavior of a function at runtime. Overriding the original behavior of the function at runtime includes identifying an override behavior for overriding the original behavior of the function, and encoding replacement code based on the override behavior. Further, a size of the replacement code is identified, and a first memory address of the function where code of the function is stored is also identified. The computer system then copies a block of code having the size of the replacement code from the first memory address to a second memory address, and copies the replacement code to the first memory address. After the replacement code is executed, copying the block of code stored at the second memory address back to the first memory address, restoring the code of the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jingyu Ma, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 12271445
    Abstract: Techniques for automatic intelligent information extraction from an electronic document are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized method is disclosed comprising training a label prediction model to generate a set of label predictions, obtaining an electronic document, analyzing the electronic document and determining a set of features for each of a set of information items identified in the electronic document, obtaining model output from the label prediction model for each information item, the model output comprising, for a respective information item, a set of probabilities corresponding to a set of information classes, and generating an information extraction comprising a set of labels corresponding to the set of information items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Sanika Shirwadkar, Nicolas Torzec, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis
  • Patent number: 12269564
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • Patent number: 12271449
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit unidentified media are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a database updater to store a first group of signatures representative of unidentified media in a database, the first group of signatures obtained from a first media meter to monitor a first media presentation device, the first group of signatures associated with a first media exposure category based on media source information reported by the first media meter. Disclosed example apparatus also include a media comparator to compare a second group of signatures with the first group of signatures, the second group of signatures obtained from a second media meter to monitor a second media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus further include a reporter to credit media exposure represented by the second group of signatures to the first media exposure category when the second group of signatures matches the first group of signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: James Petro, Daniel Nelson, Raghuram Ranganathan, Sandeep Tapse
  • Patent number: 12271412
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextually relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method includes: receiving information associated with a user of a user device from multiple data sources, where the user device comprises a display; identifying, without user intervention, a relevant document based on the received information associated with the user of the user device; determining that a new browser window or a new browser tab has been opened by a browser application being executed by the user device; and causing, without user intervention, the relevant document to be presented using the new browser window or new browser tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Eric HC Liu
  • Patent number: 12272566
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the disclosed embodiments include reducing defects in a semiconductor layer. The defects may be reduced by forming the semiconductor layer on a substrate, removing at least a portion the substrate from an underside of the semiconductor layer, and annealing the semiconductor layer to reduce the defects in the layer. The annealing includes focusing energy at the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Ali Salih
  • Patent number: 12270571
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an exhaust vent assembly including a clamp, a sleeve, a neck, a damper in the neck, a cap attached to the neck and a collar. The exhaust vent assembly may be configured without any penetrative fasteners. The invention is further directed to a clamp for attachment to round duct and a building surface to provide strength, rigidity and support to the round duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Roof Goose Vent LLC
    Inventor: Jack F. King, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12272131
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes a processor (1) applying a feature map network to an image to create a feature map comprising a grid of vectors characterizing at least one feature in the image and (2) applying a probability map network to the feature map to create a probability map assigning a probability to the at least one feature in the image, where the assigned probability corresponds to a likelihood that the at least one feature is an overlay. The method further includes the processor determining that the probability exceeds a threshold, and responsive to the processor determining that the probability exceeds the threshold, performing a processing action associated with the at least one feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Wilson Harron, Irene Zhu
  • Patent number: 12272210
    Abstract: A transaction facilitation system is disclosed that is configured to affect crediting and debiting of gaming accounts for two or more gaming environments and structured to communicate with an issuing financial institution of a stored value account to affect crediting and debiting of the stored value accounts. The two or more gaming environments can be members of an alliance of gaming environments that are associated with the stored value account. Financial transactions using the stored value account can be used for customer relationship purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sightline Payments LLC
    Inventors: Kirk E. Sanford, Thomas M. Sears, Omer Sattar
  • Patent number: 12270869
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a magnetic field sensor includes: one or more magnetic field sensing elements; and a magnet structure to provide a bias magnetic field about the one or more magnetic field sensing elements, the magnet structure includes alternating magnetic layers and non-magnetic layers with at least three magnetic layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Rémy Lassalle-Balier, Jeffrey Eagen, Damien Dehu
  • Patent number: 12271992
    Abstract: A method including receiving (S605) a request for a depth map, generating (S625) a hybrid depth map based on a device depth map (110) and downloaded depth information (105), and responding (S630) to the request for the depth map with the hybrid depth map (415). The device depth map (110) can be depth data captured on a user device (515) using sensors and/or software. The downloaded depth information (105) can be associated with depth data, map data, image data, and/or the like stored on a remote (to the user device) server (505).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Eric Turner, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Bicheng Luo, Juan David Hincapie Ramos
  • Patent number: D1069451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Jasco Products Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Egbert, Phil Cascia, Will Hutchinson
  • Patent number: D1069589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: G45 LLC
    Inventors: James Gorman, Jonathan Gorman
  • Patent number: D1069958
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: CobraTec Knives, LLC
    Inventor: Riley Chad Cochran
  • Patent number: D1070026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Zurn Water, LLC
    Inventors: Karam Ghazalah, Christopher J. Say
  • Patent number: D1070075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sage Products, LLC
    Inventors: Brian J. Ecklund, Kristin M. Sexton, Alex D. Kea, Daniel R. Ulreich