Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11962555
    Abstract: A method to keep selected messages in a networked conversation thread includes receiving, from a first participant in a networked conversation, a selection of a first message to keep from a sequence of messages in the networked conversation. The method includes verifying that the networked conversation is slated for deletion at a selected time after the selection of the first message, storing the first message in a folder accessible to multiple participants in the networked conversation, and notifying a second participant authoring the first message that the first message has been stored in the folder and is accessible to the participants in the networked conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventors: Isabel Tewes, Steven Zimmerman, Sudheer Kumar Peddireddy, Bruno Soares
  • Patent number: 11962650
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for distributed ambient computing within an environment. A first version of an ambient computing library running on a device may check a manifest in the storage of the device to identify a second device that provides a service. The first version of the ambient computing library may send data to be processed using the service to the second device through a second version of the ambient computing library running on the second device. The first device and the second device may include different computing hardware. The first version of the ambient computing library may receive data including results from the second device through the second version of the ambient computing library. The data including the results may be generated by the second device based on processing the data sent from the device by the first version of the ambient computing library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Mixter, Ken MacKay, Byungchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11958205
    Abstract: A score die including a body with a generally planar first surface. The first surface includes a score blade. The score blade has a number of cutting portions, and, each cutting portion has a substantially uniform cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: STOLLE MACHINERY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathon D. Ledford
  • Patent number: 11963153
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device in User Equipment (UE) and a base station for dynamic scheduling. The UE first receives first information; and then receives second information; and operates a first radio signal. Wherein the first information comprises Q field(s), a first field is used to determine a first antenna port set, the first field is one field of the Q field(s). The first antenna port set comprises a positive integer of antenna port(s), the second information is transmitted by an antenna port within the first antenna port set. The first information and the second information are both dynamically configured. The operating refers to receiving, or the operating refers to transmitting. The second information is used to determine scheduling information of the first radio signal. The present disclosure ensures the robustness of scheduling signaling reception in multi-antenna scenarios, and also avoids excessive overhead, hence improving transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APEX BEAM TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11957830
    Abstract: A method for supplying insufflation fluid to a patient cavity includes positioning a secondary trocar at least partially within a primary trocar, the secondary trocar being configured to facilitate delivery of insufflation fluid to a patient cavity. The method further includes, upon positioning the secondary trocar at least partially within the primary trocar, coupling the secondary trocar to the primary trocar thereby forming a trocar assembly. The method further includes coupling the primary trocar to a surgical robot and delivering the insufflation fluid to the patient cavity using the trocar assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LEXION MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Carl M. Geisz, Rochelle M. Amann
  • Patent number: 11960342
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to sustainability-aware computing device behavior management. In examples, a sustainability platform obtains sustainability information associated with an energy grid, as may be provided by a data provider. The sustainability platform may provide a sustainability forecast, which may be received and cached by a computing device. The computing device may use the sustainability forecast to manage various device functionality, such that functionality may be performed during one or more times that are identified to have a comparatively lower environmental impact, thereby deferring device energy consumption during a time forecasted to have a higher environmental impact. The sustainability forecast cached by the computing device may be updated on a periodic basis or in response to determining that the location of the computing device (and, potentially, the associated energy grid) has changed, among other examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Chamberlin, Malav Mukeshbhai Shah, Devin Nathaniel Roberts, Scott Rosoff
  • Patent number: 11959827
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for estimating tread depth remaining on a tire mounted on a vehicle. One or more sensors are provided for detecting operational data associated with the vehicle and tire measurements corresponding to ambient temperature and contained air temperature, which may be directly measured or derived from measured tire pressure. A thermal mass of the tire is estimated based on at least the detected operational data and tire conditions, and a current tread depth of the tire is estimated based at least in part on the respective estimated thermal mass. In certain embodiments, the thermal mass estimation may be performed using heat transfer models limited to measurements captured during a cooling down phase of the tire while the vehicle is not moving, thereby simplifying calculation of a corresponding time constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Hans R. Dorfi, Thomas A. Sams
  • Patent number: 11962602
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes by using physical environment information. A computing device may receive video depicting a physical environment and process that video to identify one or more first objects. The computing device may receive a request for access to an account. The computing device may send a prompt for a physical environment description and receive, in response, an indication of one or more second objects. The indication of the one or more second objects may comprise video of the physical environment, a verbal description of the physical environment, and/or text describing the physical environment. The computing device may grant the user device access to the account based on comparing the one or more first objects to the one or more second objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Viraj Chaudhary, Jenny Melendez, Tyler Maiman, Samuel Rapowitz, Joshua Edwards, David Septimus
  • Patent number: 11962530
    Abstract: A wireless device transmits a frame by determining a plurality of Resource Units (RUs) of the frame, providing pilots in a first RU of the frame at a first set of positions, providing pilots in a second RU of the frame at a second set of positions, and transmitting the frame. The first set of positions is different from the second set of positions. A wireless device receives a frame including an RU including pilots and processes the pilots. When an RU for the data symbol includes an odd-numbered lowest subcarrier, the pilots are included at a first set of positions in the resource unit. When the RU includes an even-numbered lowest subcarrier, the pilots are included at a second set of positions in the resource unit. The second set of positions is different from the first set of positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Young Hoon Kwon, Sungho Moon, Yujin Noh
  • Patent number: 11957589
    Abstract: A non-patient specific implant for neuroplastic surgery is provided. The non-patient specific implant includes a three-dimensional mesh. The three-dimensional mesh comprises titanium. The three-dimensional mesh is pre-folded. The three-dimensional mesh is configured to replace a space for a hard tissue and/or a space for a soft tissue. The three-dimensional mesh has a three-dimensional triangular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Acumed LLC
    Inventor: Chad Gordon
  • Patent number: 11960347
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for testing failover may include: determining one or more cross-regional dependencies and traffic flow of an application in a first region of a cloud environment, wherein the one or more cross-regional dependencies include a dependency of the application in the first region of the cloud environment to one or more applications in at least one other region of the cloud environment; determining a risk score associated with performing failover of the application to a second region of the cloud environment at least based on the determined one or more cross-regional dependencies and traffic flow of the application; comparing the determined risk score with a predetermined risk score; in response to determining that the determined risk score is lower than the predetermined risk score, performing failover of the application to the second region of the cloud environment; isolating the second region of the cloud environment from the first region of the cloud environment for a predetermined
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Kothari, Ann Hawkins, John Samos
  • Patent number: 11960502
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method sends first messages that request first information for a set of blocks of the blockchain to the N replicas. Each replica maintains a respective instance of the blockchain. Second messages is received from at least a portion of the N replicas. The second messages include the first information for the set of blocks from each respective instance of the blockchain that is maintained by the N replicas. The method analyzes the first information to determine whether a consensus on the first information is reached by a number of replicas. When consensus is reached, a request is sent to a replica for one or more blocks to back up to a backup blockchain and second information is received for the one or more blocks from the replica. The method uses the second information to back up the one or more blocks in the backup blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Ittai Abraham, Guy Gueta, Igor Golikov, Toly Kournik, Tsvetomir Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 11960336
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to methods of increasing a temperature of a computer module to start the computer at environmental temperatures below a threshold temperature. An example embodiment includes receiving, at one or more computing components thermally coupled to a main computer via a liquid-cooled plate, a set of program instructions. The method can also include running the set of program instructions on at least one computing component. Running the set of program instructions on the computing component can generate heat that flows to the main computer via the liquid-cooled plate. The method can additionally include detecting, from at least one thermal sensor coupled to the liquid-cooled plate, a temperature reading indicative of a temperature of the main computer. The method can further include determining that the temperature reading has reached a predetermined temperature threshold and based on the temperature reading reaching the predetermined temperature threshold, powering on the main computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Darren Chen, Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar
  • Patent number: 11960700
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content previews are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bryce Reid, David Worsham, Andrey Doronichev, Joshua Austin
  • Patent number: 11961267
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments may provide an approach to converting multidimensional color data for an image encoded in a first color space into an intermediate form that is a single dimensional value. The exemplary embodiments may then decode the intermediate form value to produce an encoding of the color data that is encoded in a second color space that differs from the first color space. In this manner, the data for the image may be efficiently converted from an encoding in the first color space into an encoding in the second color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Grant Walters, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt, Vincent Pham
  • Patent number: 11958356
    Abstract: A method includes receiving criteria data regarding a first control requirement frame for a first jurisdiction, a second control requirement frame for a second jurisdiction, and a third control requirement frame for a third jurisdiction. The criteria data for each control requirement frame includes at least: i. criteria data for an intoxicant concentration limit data subframe; ii. criteria data for a calibration requirement data subframe; and iii. criteria data for a reporting subframe. The method further includes storing the criteria data in a stringency database; sorting the first, second and third control requirement frames based on the relative stringency of criteria data. receiving a request for a compliance device according to the requirements of the first jurisdiction and the second jurisdiction; accessing the sorted control frames of the first and second jurisdictions to determine an operational control frame based on the sorted control frames; and providing the operation control frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Consumer Safety Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Gretchen T. Vahle, Melissa Cole Ray, Amanda Renee Mallinger
  • Patent number: 11959143
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for miRNA profiling for the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of melanoma and differentiation of melanoma from nevi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Qu, Anthony Sferruzza, Ke Zhang, Yan Liu, Renius Owen
  • Patent number: 11958667
    Abstract: A container including a lid, a first body, a second body and a latch is provided. The first body connects to the lid by a first hinge for pivoting between a lid closed position and a lid open position. The first body defines a storage cavity. The second body connects to the first body by a second hinge for pivoting the first body relative to the second body between a first body closed position and a first body open position. The second body defines a storage cavity. The latch is attached to the second body. The latch is transitionable between a latched position in which the latch engages the lid and prevents transitioning either the lid or the first body to the corresponding open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: J.L. Clark LLC
    Inventor: Jason W. Ludewig
  • Patent number: 11958854
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods are described for inhibiting the TRPC5 ion channel and disorders related to TRPC5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hydra Biosciences, LLC
    Inventors: Bertrand L. Chenard, Randall J. Gallaschun
  • Patent number: 11960264
    Abstract: A load control system may control an electrical load in a space of a building based on one or more parameters regarding the physical condition of an occupant. The parameters may be gathered by one or more sensing devices. The sensing devices may be included in a mobile device. A system controller may receive the parameters and may automatically control the electrical loads in response to the parameters. The system controller may control the electrical load to attempt to adjust the physical condition of the occupant in response to the sensed parameters. The system controller may control the electrical load to provide an alert, an alarm, and/or a warning in response to the sensed parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Rhodes B. Baker, Jason C. Killo, Galen Edgar Knode, Sanjeev Kumar, Brent Protzman, Daniel Curtis Raneri, Greg Edward Sloan